by Chris SelogyOn this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the awful sexual abuse claims filed in the Boy Scouts bankruptcy, some good news on the COVID-19 vaccine front, and what’s next for Conan O’Brien.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special, Animaniacs, Supermarket Sweep, Rocket League, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, The Pathless, Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- T: Animaniacs 2020, Mandalorian, Bob’s Burgers, The Crown, ACNH a whole lot
- B: Cold Steel IV, Kaissereich, books, Reds! stuff.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Almost 90k sex abuse claims have been filed in Boy Scouts bankruptcy
- Louisville Police Department accused of concealing at least 738,000 documents pertaining to sexual abuse of teenagers by two former officers
- SC Sen. Lindsey Graham called GA Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger to urge him to remove ballots in the recount
- Treasury Sec. Steven Mnuchin is pulling the plug on emergency Fed. Reserve lending programs
- Trump fired the DHS official spearheading group that announced that the election was the most secure in US history
- Heroes of the Week: Tiny owl that was found in the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is being nursed back to health and will be released into the wild soon
- COVID-19 Dump Truck
- 57.4 million cases WW, 1.4 million deaths, 11.9 million cases US, 254k deaths
- FDA allows emergency use of first at home rapid virus test
- Moderna claims their vaccine has 94.5% efficacy with better temperature stability
- Pfizer says their vaccine now has 95% efficacy with high rates for older patients
- The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is also showing promising results
- Sen. Rick Scott tested positive
- Donald Trump Jr. tested positive
- 2020 US Election Clean-Up
- SpaceX has successful launch carrying four NASA astronauts to the ISS
- NASA scientists find out space isn’t as dark as we thought after all
- Conan O’Brien is ending his TBS late-night show in 2021, doing weekly HBO Max show
- Deadpool 3 is being written by Bob’s Burgers’ Molyneux sisters
- Wonder Woman 1984 is debuting on Christmas Day in theaters and on HBO Max
- Coming 2 America is releasing March 5, 2021 on Amazon Prime Video
- Judd Appatow is working on a pandemic comedy for Netflix
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