Let’s Weekend #299 – Snorlax Hates The Police

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the huge bill PharmaBro has to pay, more examples of the cops being awful, and what the new prices for Netflix subscriptions will be.

• Intro
• What Are We Up To?
  • C: Cold, Peacemaker, The Witcher S2, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Jurassic World Evolution
  • T: So much Civ VI, rewatched The Hobbit, didn’t finish The Expanse yet, Boba Fett, ST Prodigy, recap where I’ve been
  • B: Xbox Series S (Halo, Hades, etc.), A Canticle for Leibowitz, recertification
• Brandon’s Random Factoid
• Assholes of the Week: Martin Shkreli is ordered to return $64 million in profits and is barred from the pharma industry for life
  • Court upholds 2017 firing of two LAPD officers were fired for ignoring a robbery call to catch a Snorlax in Pokemon Go
  • Virginia Beach Police found to have used forged docs with fake DNA evidence in interrogations to get confessions in at least five occasions
• Heroes of the Week: Navient has agreed to cancel $1.7 billion in student loan debts owed by roughly 66k borrowers as part of a settlement with 39 state attorneys general
  • The Justice Dept. has arrested the leader of the Oath Keepers and 10 others over their insurrection plan at the US Capitol on January 6
  • DirecTV is dropping OAN
• RIP Bob Saget
• COVID Dump Truck
  • SCOTUS halts Biden’s mandate for big businesses, but not healthcare workers
  • Number of US cops that died in 2021 is highest since 1930, but there’s a catch
  • Omicron is decimating the ranks of teachers for in-school teaching
• The US Navy will drain its fuel tank system that leaked into Hawaii drinking water
• The RNC is threatening to bar candidates from participating in presidential debates
• Underwater volcano eruption near Tonga sends tsunami warnings around the Pacific
  • Here’s the video of somebody from Tonga when the sonic boom hit
• The FDA has dropped its regulation of French Dressing for the first time in 72 years
• Team of scientists in Israel taught goldfish how to drive a motorized fish tank
• We got a trailer for Peacock’s Bel-Air series that starts February 13
• We got a trailer for The Bob’s Burgers Movie
• Disney Plus is getting a Santa Clause series starring Tim Allen
• Netflix is raising prices for most of its subscription plans in the US and Canada
• Contact us at letsweekenders@gmail.com
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