Let’s Weekend #244 – Vote or Die

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk more about the election next week, the stolen Supreme Court seat, and the upcoming reboots coming to Hulu and Peacock.

• Intro
• What Are We Up To?
  • C: PS5 prep, Rocket League, Ghost of Tsushima, AC Odyssey
  • T: Bloons TD 6, Hades, Civ6, Bob’s Burgers, Archer, ST:Discovery
  • B: Cold Steel IV, Kaissereich, books, Survived a storm.
• Brandon’s Random Factoid
• Assholes of the Week: NXIVM leader gets 120 years in prison in sex slave case
  • Dodgers’ Justin Turner left game with positive COVID-19 test, but came back onto field with teammates after they won the World Series without mask
  • Trump held a rally in Omaha airfield, stranded his attendees about 4 miles away from parking lot without buses and several going to hospital with hypothermia
  • Kyle Rittenhouse extradited to Wisconsin to stand trial for homicide charges
• Heroes of the Week: Arizona Coyotes renounce draft rights to Mitchell Miller after history of assault, racism surfaced
• COVID-19 Dump Truck
  • 45.5 million cases WW, 1.2 million deaths, 9 million cases US, 229.5k deaths
  • 5 of Pence’s aides tested positive
  • Jared & Ivanka threaten to sue Lincoln Project over billboards featuring them
  • Wisconsin football program cancels next game after getting 16 active cases
• 2020 US Election Watch
  • Senate votes to confirm Amy Coney Barrett for SCOTUS, sworn in shortly after
  • SCOTUS votes that Wisconsin can block votes arriving after Election Day
    • Appeals court backed them up
    • SCOTUS refused to block NC’s extension of arrival deadline
  • Texas has already surpassed 2016’s voter totals in early voting so far
  • Trump’s had over $270 million in debt forgiven after failing to repay lenders
  • Tucker Carlson’s supposed damning docs on Bidens lost in mail
    • UPS found it and returned it to him, but now he wants to drop the story
  • Tenacious D does a Time Warp cover with many cameos
  • Nickelodeon’s Kids Pick the President vote affected by bots, Biden wins anyway
• NASA’s SOFIA confirms that there is water on the sunlit surface of the Moon
• NASA’s Juno mission discovers “sprites” in Jupiter atmosphere
• Kim Kardashian’s birthday getaway tweet prompts memes all over Twitter
  • Same for the hologram gift from Kanye
• We got a trailer for Michael Bay’s lockdown thriller Songbird
• Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina final season premieres December 31
• Netflix is working on a live-action Assassin’s Creed series
• We got a trailer for Peacock’s Saved by the Bell series
• We got a trailer for Hulu’s Animaniacs reboot
• Tiny Toons Adventures reboot in the works at HBO Max, Cartoon Network
• Sony To Buy Crunchyroll For Over $957 Million
• Contact us at letsweekenders@gmail.com 

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