Let’s Weekend #389 – Cocaine Hippos

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about SBF's trial results, the bad stuff happening in the House of Reps, and the big threat Colombia is dealing with before it's too late.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: MHA, Spider-Man 2, Rocket League, Suika Game, ETS2

T: Snow on Halloween, Suika Game, Kingdom 2 Crowns, FNAF @ the theater, Lower Decks season finale

B: Shovel Knight TT, Jusant, books, weather needs to make it up its mind.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Israel attacked Gaza’s largest refugee camp

Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on all seven charges in his FTX case

The Illinois man that stabbed a boy to death and his mom was charged with a hate crime

Heroes of the Week: The UAW reached a tentative deal with GM to mark the potential end of their strike against the Big 3

House Rep George Santos barely survived a vote to expel him thanks to 31 Dems voting against it

The House voted for Israel aid bill that would be paid with massive IRS cuts and no Ukraine aid

Three new military officers confirmed by the Senate as Tommy Tuberville’s blockade continues

Cedar Fair and Six Flags are merging in a major amusement park deal

Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos are going to be culled by the Colombian government

Hockey player Adam Johnson died after a skate cut his neck during a game in an England league

Kimberly Garcia thought she set the world record in 20km walk race, but the course was too short

HBO exec used fake Twitter accounts to troll and harass TV critics

Max’s standard ad-free plan is losing 4K as it becomes the $19.99 ultimate plan’s main feature

Production workers at Walt Disney Animation Studios have voted to unionize with IATSE

Hulu renews Futurama for two more seasons

Hulu’s working on a new Prison Break series

We got an official trailer for Disney+’s Echo

We got an official trailer for The Fall Guy

We got an official trailer for FX’s Shogun

We got a teaser trailer for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

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