Great news for fans of ‘Home Alone,’ you can rent out the famous house the McCallister’s left their child in through Airbnb this holiday season and Buzz will host you ([00:19:29]). Also the CEO of Better.com fired over 900 employees callously in a zoom meeting this week ([00:21:15]).

([00:00:00]) – Timestamps

Cup of Coffee in the Big Time

([00:09:01]) – Fun Fact: Beatles’ song Michelle was inspired by Paul McCartney’s favorite technique for hitting on women

([00:10:49]) – Holidays: National Brownie Day, Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day, Feast of the Immaculate Conception Day

([00:13:05]) – This Day in History: 1969 – Nixon announces the Vietnam War ended; 1980 – John Lennon was shot and killed

([00:16:31]) – Honorable Mentions: Very sad news as Nick Cannon announces his five month old son passed away

([00:19:29]) – #3 – The ‘Home Alone’ house is available for rent on Airbnb, sort of

([00:21:15]) – #2 – The CEO of Better.com fired 900 employees on a zoom call during the holiday season

([00:28:20]) – #1 – Amazon had major outages across all sorts of Amazon services

([00:34:54]) – A Turkish chef cut off the head of one of his new employees calling him the antichrist

([00:39:50]) – Several big food providers are making a big move to insect protein to mimic popular foods like tuna and burgers

TikTok International Moment

([00:49:41]) – UK – An englishman traveled from tip to tip in the UK in the smallest car in the world and it took him 19 days

([00:53:21]) – France – A treasure hunter found hundred of thousands worth of emeralds in a plane that crashed into Mont Blanc in the 1960s

([00:55:55]) – Russia – Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden meet on tense two hour long zoom call

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