by Chris SelogyOn this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk the bad and good stuff happening at the end of 2021, how NASA has touched the Sun, and the latest Nic Cage movie.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- F: Wheel of Time, The Expanse, Power On, PCBS, and random retro things.
- C: Spider-Man, The Witcher S2, Hawkeye, The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Gunk, Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5
- B: Frostpunk, assorted PSN nonsense, shit ton of rain.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Tornadoes decimated large parts of the midwest from Missouri to Kentucky with 92 dead as of today
- Amazon were particular assholes as they refused to let workers get to safety until it was too late
- US Navy base in Hawaii had a petroleum leak that contaminated Honolulu’s drinking water supply, forcing 3k military members and family to be relocated
- Capitol insurrectionist gets biggest sentence yet with over 5 years for attacking police
- Kellog’s reached a tentative agreement with strikers, then email leaked revealing there’s no real change and mocks them
- House votes to hold Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with January 6 committee
- Heroes of the Week: FDA relaxes restrictions on abortion pills so that they can be mailed to approved patients instead of having to pick it up in person
- Claudette Colvin’s segregated bus arrest that happened before Rosa Park’s arrest has finally been expunged from her record
- Judge rejects Purdue Pharma’s opioid settlement that would protect the Sackler family
- Judge allows Dominion’s defamation case against Fox News to continue after declining to dismiss the case
- US Military moves to start dismissing members for refusing to get vaccinated
- NYC’s new mayor elect picks NYPD’s first woman to lead as commissioner
- RIP Anne Rice
- CA Gov. Newsom uses Texas abortion law as framework to craft assault weapons ban
- Fox News host Chris Wallace left to join CNN’s streaming service
- Log4j exploit found that affects nearly everything written in Java
- Kraft is willing to pay people $20 to not buy cream cheese for their desserts
- New world record millipede found in Australia with over 1300 legs
- NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is the first known spacecraft to enter the Sun’s atmosphere
- Bob’s Burgers’ Jay Johnston fired for attending the Capitol Insurrection
- We got a trailer for Everything Everywhere All At Once
- We got first trailer of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
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