by Chris SelogyOn this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the 180 that the GOP did to block a bill helping Veterans, the great fundraising that a teen has done for abortion funds off of Matt Gaetz’s mocking of her, and the many, many shows and movies coming to the MCU over the next few years.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: The Gray Man, TMNT, One Piece, Westworld, PowerWash Simulator, Rocket League
- B: PowerWash Simulator, The Evil Within, anime, J-rock
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: The Senate passed a bill to help vets with health care until 25 Republicans reversed their votes the second time around
- Heroes of the Week: An Amelia Earhart statue was revealed for the US Capitol’s Statuary Hall
- Biden has COVID-19 again as a rebound positive after taking Paxlovid
- FDA shelves plan to get a 2nd booster for younger people in favor of boosters for Omicron variants
- WHO declares monkeypox a public health emergency
- Sens. Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin come to agreement on Inflation Reduction Act
- The House passed legislation to revive a ban on certain semi-automatic guns
- The CHIPS bill for boosting US semiconductor production was signed into law
- The Pope went on an apology tour in Canada over Catholic Church’s role in residential schools
- A new dictionary will document the lexicon of African American English
- Russia announced it will pull out of the ISS after 2024 and build its own orbiting outpost
- Saudi Arabia’s leaders announced plan for a huge walled city called The Line
- Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik will be the permanent hosts of Jeopardy going forward
- MGM’s working on another Rocky spinoff called “Drago”
- Daredevil: Born Again series announced for Spring 2024 release
- We got a teaser trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- We got an idea of what the MCU’s Phases 5 & 6 will look like at Comic-Con
- We got a new trailer for Netflix’s Blonde
- We got a trailer for Till
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