by Chris SelogyOn this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the ongoing antics of Elon Musk, Trump’s new grift, and how Ash Ketchum got to retire before you did.
- Editor’s Note: Last week’s show notes are included below this week’s show notes so you can read up on the news we couldn’t cover due to not being able to record the show last weekend.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Alice in Borderland, The Muppets Christmas Carol, Vampire Survivors, Rocket League
- B: Chained Echoes, Soccer Story, books, holiday shit.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Elon Musk banned a bunch of journalists and other Twitter accounts that criticized him, also barred accounts tracking flights and banned the Elon Jet account
- Peru’s President announced he was dissolving Congress, so Congress voted him out for violating their constitution, Judge orders him to be detained for 18 months
- Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas as he’s been indicted on federal charges
- The Trump Organization was found guilty of tax fraud and falsifying business records
- Heroes of the Week: NY bans pet stores from selling cats, dogs, and rabbits
- Ralph Warnock wins the GA runoff to give Dems 51 seats in the US Senate
- Congress voted to remove a bust of the Chief Justice that upheld slavery from the US Capitol
- Drug maker is seeking FDA approval to sell OTC overdose-reversal nasal spray
- Scientists in a lab managed to produce more energy via fusion than it put in
- Trump hyped up a huge announcement, which was $99 NFT Trump trading cards
- 25 more movies have been added to the National Film Registry, including Carrie and Iron Man
- Netflix landed the live-action My Hero Academia movie
- Netflix’s Old Enough is getting a second season on January 1
- Ash Ketchum will no longer be in the Pokemon anime starting with the next season
- HBO Max pulled Westworld and The Nevers in its latest batch of removals
- Henry Cavill will not be in the next Superman as James Gunn is working on a new Superman film
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Kaleidoscope
- We got a trailer for Hulu’s Extraordinary
- We got an official trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
- We got a teaser trailer for Barbie
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Last Week’s Show Notes for the news we couldn’t cover last week
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: The Club Q shooter is being charged with hate crimes
- The Trump Organization was found guilty of tax fraud and falsifying business records
- Tampa police chief resigned after flashing her badge to get out of a traffic stop
- Hertz will pay $168 million to customers after falsely accusing them of stealing their cars
- Terrorists shot up two electric substations in North Carolina to shut down a drag show, taking down power for a few days in Moore County
- Peru’s President announced he was dissolving Congress, so Congress voted him out for violating their constitution
- Heroes of the Week: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Time’s Person of the Year
- Ralph Warnock wins the GA runoff to give Dems 51 seats in the US Senate
- Former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani sentenced to 13 years in prison for fraud
- Indonesia is banning sex outside of marriage and insulting the president and state institutions
- Germany foiled a coup plot
- Madison Cawthorn is being ordered to pay $14,000 to charity due to House ethics violations
- The pirarucu fish are thriving in the Amazon River once again
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s The Witcher: Blood Origin
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s You People
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Treason
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye
- We got an official trailer for HBO Max’s The Last of Us
- Contact us at letsweekenders@gmail.com
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