by Chris SelogyIn this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the one notable event from the State of the Union address, SpaceX’s latest mishap, and which company will be the next victim of private equity firms.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Daredevil: Born Again, Avowed, Balatro
- B: Trails Into Daybreak II, Lost Records Bloom & Rage, The Secret History, Grandma’s estate
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: After firing hundreds of CDC employees, some received emails rescinding their firings, Nearly 6k USDA workers that were fired have been ordered back to work
- Trump’s working on an executive order to call on new DOE Sec. Linda McMahon to close the DOE
- DOD’s DEI purge featured a blanket removal of items with “gay” in the title, like information on the Enola Gay plane and service members with the last name Gay
- SpaceX had another rocket launch explode, causing flights in its debris path in Florida to be delayed
- Heroes of the Week: Australian James Harrison, who had a rare antibody in his blood and donated blood over 1k times to save over potentially 2 million babies, has died
- Trump’s Tariff Toilet
- Trump implemented last minute 25% tariffs on Canada/Mexico, plus an increase on China
- The US stock markets plunged quickly, wiping out any gains since November
- China imposed tariffs of up to 15% on US farm imports
- Trump gave automakers a one month reprieve from his tariffs
- Trump then signed an executive order to exempt goods covered by the USMCA
- Trump signed an executive order to establish a government bitcoin reserve
- EU is proposing a big defense spending package after Trump’s denied support for EU allies
- Walgreens has been acquired for a private equity firm for nearly $10 billion
- California man was charged after stealing $25k in LEGO
- Scientists start their journey to bring back the Woolly Mammoth by making woolly mice
- Investigators figured out the causes of Gene Hackman and his wife’s deaths
- Disney laid off under 200 people from its TV & ABC News operations, plus shutting down 538
- Sony’s working on a new Resident Evil reboot movie for 2026
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