by Chris SelogyIn this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about reaching 500 episodes with some familiar faces, the awful stuff still happening in Minnesota, and how bad things have gotten with Twitter’s Grok AI.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Nolan Batman trilogy, The Batman, European Truck Simulator 2, AC New Horizons
- T: Super Mario 3D World, Animal Crossing update, Cozy Caravan, Ghosts season 2
- P: Spent the last year becoming a vampire, no I will not elaborate. Dragon Quest remakes are good. Glad we’re getting more of them.
- B: Splatoon 3, Mortal Kombat 1, books, even more hospital stuff
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Twitter is blocking Grok’s ability to generate undressing images in places where it’s illegal, Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked Grok, Malaysia is taking legal action against X and xAI, UK is making legal changes to criminalize those who use or supply “nudification” tools
- Trump’s threatening to use the Insurrection Act to send military to Minnesota to end the anti-ICE protests, ICE flooded a family’s SUV with tear gas to send them and their six kids to the hospital
- Trump is threatening tariffs on countries that don’t back the US controlling Greenland, Eight EU countries will get 10% tariffs on February 1
- 2 Senate GOP members flip to stop Venezuela war powers bill so that Vance could break the tie to shut it down
- Disgraced former House rep Duncan Hunter got a pardon from Trump and is now pushing for a pardon of a disgraced San Diego lawyer
- Heroes of the Week: MacKenzie Scott donated $45 million to The Trevor Project at the end of 2025
- RIP Claudette Colvin
- Good Riddance to Scott Adams
- The Clintons are refusing to testify in the House’s Epstein probe as they face contempt charges
- Trump admin is threatening a criminal indictment for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell
- NASA has brought home an ailing astronaut and three others a month early due to health issues
- Wikipedia has signed AI deals with Microsoft, Meta, and others to get paid for their data scraping
- Kathleen Kennedy has stepped down from Lucasfilm with Dave Filoni taking over as CEO
- After trying to steal the WB Discovery deal from Netflix, Paramount goes to the EU to stop the deal
- Netflix and Sony Pictures has signed a new deal to keep the exclusive streaming rights for movies
- HBO Max and A24 have signed a new deal for their streaming rights for their movies
- KPop Demon Hunters won the Golden Globe for best original song and best animated feature
- Amazon Prime’s working on a competition series called Fallout Shelter
- The Running Man is available to stream on Paramount+ now
- Zoe Saldana has become the highest-grossing actor of all time
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