Let’s Weekend #246 – We Love You Alex

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we dive into the aftermath of the US election, some good vaccine news, and a classic Disney cartoon that might be returning.

• Intro
• What Are We Up To?
  • C: Fuck Amazon, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, The Pathless, Rocket League
  • T: ACNH. Full stop.Well, ok, a movie too. And Bob’s Burgers. Laptop replacement experiment is proceeding.
  • B: Cold Steel IV, Kaissereich, books, fruit flies and mice.
• Brandon’s Random Factoid
• Assholes of the Week: 
  • Trump has been firing a number of senior defense officials this past week
  • Trump’s various suits across the country regarding the election have largely all failed
  • That postal worker in Erie that claimed fraud admitted that he was lying, affidavit was written by Project Veritas
• Heroes of the Week: The head of DoJ’s election crimes branch resigned after Barr released memo authorizing federal prosecutors to pursue voting irregularities
  • The Navajo Nation helped push Biden over the edge in Arizona
  • Trump shuts down Voter Fraud Hotline after people fill up the lines with prank calls
  • Miami Marlins hired the first female general manager in the MLB in Kim Ng
• RIP Alex Trebek
• COVID-19 Dump Truck
  • 53.3 million cases WW, 1.3 million deaths, 10.7 million cases US, 244k deaths
  • FDA allows first emergency use of antibody drug
  • Pfizer announced that their vaccine may have 90% efficacy
    • What that means
  • Ben Carson tested positive
    • WH chief of staff Mark Meadows also tested positive
    • Corey Lewandowski also tested positive
• 2020 US Election Clean-up
  • DHS officials called this election “the most secure in American history”
  • Biden won election by same margin as Trump in 2016
  • Jill Biden will continue teaching after becoming FLOTUS
  • The Bidens’ dog Major will be the first WH dog adopted from a shelter
  • Doug Emhoff will become the first second gentleman in US history
  • Biden’s COVID-19 task force features whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright
• Jeffrey Toobin has been fired by The New Yorker after Zoom call incident
• Statue restoration in Spain did not go as well as planned
• Darkwing Duck reboot is in the works at Disney+
• WandaVision will debut January 15, 2021 on Disney+
• Jon M. Chu is in talks to direct live-action Lilo & Stitch
• David Fincher signs 4 year exclusive deal with Netflix
• WB’s not sure whether to put Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max or delay it
• HBO Max will air some of their shows and movies on TNT, TBS, TruTV
• Contact us at letsweekenders@gmail.com 
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