On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about Trump and Alex Jones' continued legal trouble, the House of Representatives continued messy Speaker search, and the Pepper X saga.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Columbo, Honkai: Star Rail, Rocket League, Euro Truck Sim 2

P: Little Akiba Games (and indulging all my childhood import gaming dreams as a result)

B: Omori, books, music, The Amazing Digital Circus

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Illinois landlord stabbed a Palestinian American boy and his mother dozens of times, killing the boy and leaving his mother in serious condition

Al Ahili Arab Hospital in north Gaza was rocked by an explosion, killing hundreds as people try to figure out who or what caused the explosion, Biden backs Israel

Heroes of the Week: Judge in NY Trump fraud trial fines him $5k for violating gag order and warned him twice about possible imprisonment

Judge rules Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy to avoid paying his $1.1 billion bills to Sandy Hook families

House Speaker Mess Part II

Jim Jordan keeps losing votes to become the Speaker

Jim’s no longer the nominee after three failed votes as the House is off for the weekend

House GOP considered a resolution to keep interim Speaker McHenry for a while longer

Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell pleads guilty in the Georgia election interference case

Kenneth Chesebro also pleads guilty

SCOTUS tells the 5th Circuit to stop defying its orders on allowing the ATF’s ghost gun regulations

The Army private that fled to North Korea was charged with desertion and possession of child porn

Five sports have been added for the 2028 LA Olympics

There’s a new world’s hottest pepper called Pepper X that is 3 times spicier than its predecessor

Scientists discovered what happened to the billions of crabs that went missing around Alaska

Elon Musk is testing a new program to charge new Twitter users $1 to create account and post

Netflix is raising prices for its basic and premium tiers

Spider-Man: Across the Universe will debut on Netflix October 31

The Boy and the Heron has a stacked English voice cast

Jon Stewart’s Apple TV+ show is not returning for a new season

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

We got an official trailer for American Fiction

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