by Chris SelogyOn this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the many terrible things that happened this week, the latest on the Omicron variant of COVID-19, and what Nic Cage will be up to soon.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Hawkeye, Get Back, Rocket League, Golf Club Wasteland
- B: Dishonored 2, Final Fantasy IX, Arcane, Mickey has returned…
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Rep. Lauren Boebert made jokes about Rep. Ilhan Omar being a terrorist, Boebert called Omar to apologize and it went poorly
- High school student went on shooting spree at school, killing four students, injuring seven others in Michigan, His parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter after being caught running away
- CNN fired Chris Cuomo after it was revealed that he aided his brother during his sexual harassment scandal
- MLB team owners vote to lockout players 26 years after their last lockout
- Heroes of the Week: Man exonerated of rape of author Alice Sebold, whose publisher will stop distributing her 1999 memoir about it. She’s also apologized.
- COVID Dump Truck
- New research suggests Omicron variant spreads twice as fast as Delta
- Omicron was in Europe a week before South Africa reported on it
- Nigeria sample collected in October was its first case of Omicron
- Five US states have already reported cases of Omicron, 24 countries
- FDA panel voted in favor of recommending approval of Merck’s pill
- Merriam-Webster’s 2021 word of the year is “vaccine”
- SCOTUS is considering Mississippi abortion case that could reverse Roe v. Wade
- Dr. Oz is entering race for Pennsylvania Senate seat on GOP side
- Jack Dorsey steps down as Twitter CEO to become a cryptobro
- Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama get a redo for their union vote
- Kellogg’s workers reach tentative deal to end two month strike
- Ancient footprints attributed to bears were found to actually be made by early humans
- Scientists find a exoplanet that is mostly made of iron
- The FTC is suing to block Nvidia merger with Arm
- Nic Cage will star as Dracula in Universal monster movie Renfield
- We got a trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part One
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