Really, there’s no way we could avoid talking about the events that happened this week in Charlottesville. We’ve alo got some other fun stuff though to balance things out. Oh, and Daniel Craig got enough money to play Bond again. That and a lot more on this episode of Let’s Weekend!
8/18/2017 Show Notes – Charlottesville Ed.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- F: Music, TV, getting holes poked in my eyeballs.
- P: Pretty uneventful week for me, actually.
- B: FFxiv, reading, trolling neo-nazis, annoying people at guitar world.
- T: Grimm Adventures of Billy & Mandy, FFXIV overload, some Sonic, family stuff
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: The Nazis and their biggest supporter, Trump (pt 1, 2, 3)
- Hero of the Week: Heather Heyer, who was killed by Nazis for protesting them
- From the SPLC: The People, Groups and Symbols at Charlottesville
- Karl Popper and the Paradox of Tolerance.
- Down goes Bannon! Down goes Bannon!
- GoDaddy, Google boots The Daily Stormer from domain services
- No better luck was had with a Russian service once they knew what it was about.
- Wave of statues and various other Confederate memorials to be taken down
- CEOs disband Trump councils hours before he claims to shut them down himself
- Juggalo and Trump supporter rallies happening in DC on 9/16
- ESPN held fantasy football auction segment that looked like slave auction
- Transcript of why many potential jurors of Shkreli trial were dismissed is amazing
- The new Atlanta Falcons stadium has a Chick-fil-A that won’t be open for most games
- NASA’s Cassini probe beginning final dives into Saturn’s atmosphere
- Chilesaurus could be missing link between meat and plant eater dinos
- Daniel Craig to reprise role as James Bond one more time
- ABC orders pilot for live-action Jetsons series
- HBO Spain accidentally airs sixth episode of Game of Thrones a week early
- Netflix signs big deal with Shondaland (Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal) for new series
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