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  • Let’s Weekend #446 – New Year, Same Crap

    In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the awful attacks across the US on New Year's Day, the death of Jimmy Carter, and the big new Surgeon General warning about alcohol.

    • Intro
    • What Are We Up To?
      • C: Squid Game S2, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, One Piece, Cunk on Life, Christmas Vacation, Madden 25, College Football 25
      • B: Nine Sols, Nioh, modding Skyrim, new computer, freezing my ass off.
      • Brandon’s Random Factoid
      • Assholes of the Week: Man drove through a crowd early on New Year’s Day in the French Quarter in New Orleans to kill 15 people and dozens more injured, FBI confirms that he acted alone
        • A man set a Cybertruck to explode out front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas with himself as the only person that died
        • Woman who was hit by a car and shot in the foot during the NO killings was denied a leave of absence from her Amazon job before reversing the decision when the story went viral
        • Trump will finally be sentenced in his NY hush money case on January 10, but it won’t include incarceration
        • Heroes of the Week: Biden is awarding the Medal of Honor to seven US Army soldiers who served in the Korean and Vietnam wars
          • He’s awarding the Presidential Citizens Medal to former Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Bennie Thompson for leading the congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection
          • NC Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of murder to life in prison without parole as one of his final acts in office
          • RIP President Jimmy Carter
          • House Speaker Mike Johnson was reelected as Speaker despite some early holdouts
          • Biden is blocking the $14.9 billion takeover of US Steel by Japan’s Nippon
          • US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy calls on Congress to require health warning labels on alcohol
          • A plane crashed on the runaway at a South Korean airport and burst into flames, killing 179 people
          • Squid Game Season 2 had 68 million views to make it Netflix’s best debut week ever
          • The Batman 2 was delayed to 2027
          • We got an official trailer for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
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          • 1 hr 18 min
          • Let’s Weekend #445 – The Only Krypto We Love

            In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about a rare kind of school shooting, the charges being levied at Luigi Mangione, and what's going on with bird flu.

            • Intro
            • What Are We Up To?
              • C: Nonsense Christmas, The Dead Don’t Die, Triumph 2016, Indiana Jones, Wilmot Works It Out
              • B: Demon’s Souls remake, Sonic Frontiers, Rifftrax, Christmas preparations
              • Brandon’s Random Factoid
              • Assholes of the Week: Three people are dead after school shooting at a christian school in Wisconsin
                • Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu, and mpox vaccine shots
                • The US government nearly had a shutdown as Trump and Elon made threats and demands that lead to funding bills failing until a 3 month stopgap bill was passed without their crap
                • Heroes of the Week: Amazon workers associated with the Teamsters are striking
                • New York judge says Trump is not immune from his hush money case conviction
                • Georgia court blocks Fulton County DA Fani Willis from prosecuting Trump’s interference case
                • ABC News settled defamation lawsuit from Trump for $15 million that stunned their journalists
                • Luigi Mangione is charged with murder as an act of terrorism in the UHC CEO’s death
                  • He also got a federal murder charge that could mean he gets the death penalty
                  • SCOTUS will review the TikTok ban or sale law, they’ll also review S. Carolina’s defunding of PP
                  • US has their 1st severe case of Bird Flu in Louisiana & CA declares emergency over cow outbreak
                  • Germany will get new elections as Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote
                    • Elon endorsed the AfD as he goes full Nazi
                    • The FBI is warning Americans to keep their texts secure as Chinese hackers infiltrate telecoms
                    • Party City is shutting down abruptly and laying off all of their employees with no severance
                    • 25 more films have been added to the National Film Registry
                    • Disney cut a trans storyline from Pixar’s “Win or Lose” series
                    • Amazon Prime Video renewed Secret Level for Season 2
                    • Netflix renewed Man on the Inside for Season 2
                    • Netflix gets the exclusive US rights to the FIFA Women’s World Cup for 2027 and 2031
                    • We got a teaser trailer for Superman
                    • We got an official trailer for Death Of A Unicorn
                    • We got an official trailer for Karate Kid: Legends
                    • Contact us at [email protected]
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                    • 1 hr 30 min
                    • Let’s Weekend #444 – Caught in Altoona

                      In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about South Korea's president finally getting impeached, the weird drones flying above New Jersey, and the wild things we've learned about the UnitedHealthcare CEO's killer.

                      • Intro
                      • What Are We Up To?
                        • C: Carry-On, Hot Frosty, Breaking Bad, Tales of Kenzera: ZAU, Wilmot Works It Out
                        • B: Demon’s Souls remake, Astro Bot, Akira, Tetsuya Komuro.
                        • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                        • Assholes of the Week: South Korea’s parliament held another impeachment vote for their President and finally voted to impeach him for his emergency martial law stunt
                          • Assad fled Syria to asylum in Russia as rebels seize control of the capital
                          • Daniel Penny was acquitted on all charges in his chokehold killing of Jordan Neely
                          • Bankruptcy judge rejected The Onion’s bid for Alex Jones’ Infowars company
                          • The billionaires are donating to Trump’s inauguration fund to get on his good side
                          • Heroes of the Week: Florida prosecutor is seeking to overturn about 2,600 convictions of people who bought crack cocaine that was made by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office around 1990
                            • Biden has commuted sentences for 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others
                            • The UH CEO Killer was caught in Altoona, PA by a tip from a McDonald’s worker
                              • He was not the Marxist hero that people hoped, but was a health insurance victim
                              • FBI Director Christopher Wray is planning to resign at the end of the Biden admin
                              • Rupert Murdoch lost bid to change family trust to give Lachlan full control
                              • Federal and state courts halt the Kroger and Albertsons merger of big grocery store chains
                                • Albertsons is suing Kroger as the deal has ended
                                • There have been a weird amount of drones flying over New Jersey that has the gov’t investigating
                                • Sesame Street is looking for a new deal as Max cancels them
                                • DC’s working on a Clayface movie
                                • Malcolm in the Middle revival is in the works at Disney+
                                • Prison Break reboot got a pilot order at Hulu
                                • Pokemon and Aardman are teaming up for a special project
                                • Contact us at [email protected]
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                                • 1 hr 14 min
                                • Let’s Weekend #443 – Rage Against The Insurance Machine

                                  In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the CEO shooting heard around the internet, the wild stuff going on in South Korea, and the new disease to be concerned about.

                                  • Intro
                                  • What Are We Up To?
                                    • C: Home Alone 1 & 2, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Wilmot Works It Out
                                    • T: Krapopolis, rewatch of Archer, lots of Vampire Survivor (new dlc), kittens are psycho, yeah it’s super cold super quick
                                    • B: Demon’s Souls remake, Metal Max Returns, Creature Commandos, fuck it’s cold.
                                    • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                                    • Assholes of the Week: South Korea’s President declared emergency martial law in the middle of the night and had to lift it after an embarrassing defeat from the National Assembly to vote it down, he faced an impeachment vote that failed
                                      • France’s parliament has ousted the Prime Minister Michel Barnier after 91 days
                                      • Heroes of the Week: Belgium’s the first country to give sex workers robust labor rights and protections
                                        • Some Republicans in Montana joined the Democrats to block a trans bathroom ban in the state capitol
                                        • The USDA orders testing across the nation’s milk supply to test for the rising bird flu
                                        • President Biden pardoned his son Hunter
                                        • UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside of a hotel, he’s likely gone
                                          • It caused a lot of people to not be that upset as the news due to the insurers’ wrath of pain
                                          • Anthem reversed their plan to put time limits on anesthesia coverage in the wake of that shooting
                                          • Trump Nominees Train
                                            • Trump nominated a billionaire with ties to SpaceX to run NASA
                                            • Trump nominated a crypto supporter for SEC chair
                                            • He nominated former Georgia Senator David Perdue to be ambassador to China
                                            • Federal appeals court has upheld the TikTok ban in the US unless they sell by January
                                            • A judge has again rejected the more than $50 billion compensation package for Tesla’s Elon Musk
                                            • Hoping Disease X isn’t a big deal
                                            • Netflix has been ordered to pay $385k to woman outed in documentary about fertility doctor
                                            • Bill Maher says he might quit his HBO show because he doesn’t want to do more Trump coverage
                                            • Moana 2 broke the Thanksgiving BO record with over $225 million & is over $380 million worldwide
                                            • We got an official trailer for Disney’s Snow White
                                            • Contact us at [email protected]
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                                            • 1 hr 16 min
                                            • Let’s Weekend #442 – Tariffs For Everyone

                                              In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the latest corrupt Trump nomination, the wild story of a Macy's employee stealing money, and an update on that story about finding Amelia Earhart's plane in the ocean.

                                              • Intro
                                              • What Are We Up To?
                                                • C: A Man on the Inside, One Piece, RoboCop: Rogue City, The Crew Motorfest, Euro Truck Sim 2
                                                • B: Demon’s Souls, TLOU, reading The Book Of The New Sun, estate sale.
                                                • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                                                • Assholes of the Week: Walmart’s rolling back its DEI policies
                                                  • 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals rules in Texas’ favor over CBP cutting razor wire it installed on the border
                                                  • Trump nominated Charles Kushner for Ambassador to France
                                                  • Heroes of the Week: The Notre Dame cathedral is unveiled ahead of its official reopening five years after the big fire
                                                  • There’s a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah militants
                                                    • Lebanon claims Israel fired on it after ceasefire agreement
                                                    • Trump cabinet picks and appointees were targeted with bomb threats and swatting attacks
                                                    • Trump has threatened Canada, Mexico, and China with tariffs
                                                    • The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season was the worst in nearly two decades
                                                    • Macy’s caught an employee that hid as much as $154 million in “accounting errors”
                                                    • That potential shot of Amelia Earhart’s plane in the ocean was just a plane-shaped rock
                                                    • Dictionary.com’s word of the year is Demure
                                                    • Star Wars: Skeleton Crew debuts a day earlier on December 2
                                                    • We got a teaser trailer for Lilo & Stitch
                                                    • Contact us at [email protected]
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                                                    • 1 hr 9 min
                                                    • Let’s Weekend #441 – One Predator Down

                                                      In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about Trump's first nominee failure, the awesome protest in New Zealand, and the retirement of one of The Simpsons' biggest talents.

                                                      • Intro
                                                      • What Are We Up To?
                                                        • C: One Piece, What We Do In The Shadows, Blood Omen, Blood Omen 2, AC Syndicate
                                                        • B: The Last Of Us Part I, Legacy of Kain, reading The Passage, The Expanse.
                                                        • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                                                        • Assholes of the Week: Matt Gaetz withdrew his nomination for AG after a second woman stepped forward about being paid by him for sex while she was a minor, so he’s out of Congress now
                                                          • Defense Sec. nominee Pete Hegseth had a police report about him sexually assaulting a woman come out to the public
                                                          • Florida AG Pam Bondi is Trump’s new AG nominee, Dr. Oz was picked to lead Medicare and Medicaid, Linda McMahon for Dept. of Education, Howard Lutnick for Commerce Sec
                                                          • House Rep. Nancy Mace greets incoming member Sarah McBride with a bathroom ban bill for the Capitol
                                                          • Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and several others have been indicted for attempting to overthrow the government
                                                          • Heroes of the Week: Federal judge strikes down Wyoming’s abortion laws
                                                            • New Zealanders and Maori are protesting to stop a bill that would alter the treaty signed between Maori natives and its colonizers to erode their rights
                                                            • Judge Juan Merchan has delayed sentencing on Trump’s NY hush money case
                                                            • The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
                                                            • Alex Jones is suing to stop The Onion from being the winning bidder in his bankruptcy auction
                                                            • E. coli outbreaks linked to organic carrots and ground beef
                                                            • Scientists found a 35k year old saber-toothed kitten in Siberian permafrost
                                                            • Pamela Hayden’s retiring from The Simpsons after 35 years on the show
                                                            • Max extended their Criterion Collection deal and added three Godzilla movies
                                                            • Sony has made an intent to acquire Kadokawa, a big Japanese media powerhouse
                                                            • We got a teaser trailer for Apple TV+’s The Studio
                                                            • We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
                                                            • We got an official trailer for Netflix’s The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga
                                                            • Contact us at [email protected]
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                                                            • 1 hr 27 min
                                                            • Let’s Weekend #440 – The Onion Rocks

                                                              In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about Trump's abysmal cabinet picks, the big issue with the new Wicked dolls, and The Onion's big win. All this and more, up next!

                                                              • Intro
                                                              • What Are We Up To?
                                                                • C: One Piece, Cobra Kai, Playdate
                                                                • P: RetroAchievements, streaming again, resituating my own mind for YouTube
                                                                • B: Tren, A Hat In Time, The Expanse, estate stuff.
                                                                • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                                                                • Assholes of the Week: Trump’s cabinet picks are full of the worst people possible, Senate Republicans want access to the House ethics probe on Matt Gaetz
                                                                  • Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira is sentenced to 15 years in prison
                                                                  • Federal judge blocked Biden admin’s rule to expand overtime pay to millions more salaried workers
                                                                  • 4 LA residents were arrested after they used a life-sized bear costume to stage attacks on their cars to commit insurance fraud
                                                                  • Heroes of the Week: The Onion won the auction for Free Speech Systems, Alex Jones’ company, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, which is under review by the bankruptcy judge now
                                                                  • Federal judge blocked Louisiana law that required classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
                                                                  • The GOP retains control of the House to give them full control of Congress
                                                                    • Senate GOP picks John Thune to be their Majority Leader in January
                                                                    • SCOTUS refused to give Mark Meadows a legal lifeline with his Georgia election interference case
                                                                    • Malcolm X’s daughters sue the CIA, FBI, and NYPD over the civil rights leader’s assassination
                                                                    • Harriet Tubman was posthumously named a one-star general in Veterans Day ceremony
                                                                    • A human bird flu case is thought to be found in Canada for the first time
                                                                    • Transformers, My Little Pony, and Phase 10 join the National Toy Hall of Fame
                                                                    • Mattel accidentally printed the URL of a porn site on the back of their Wicked Fashion Dolls
                                                                    • Conan O’Brien will host the Oscars
                                                                    • We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Back in Action
                                                                    • We got a teaser trailer for The Last Showgirl
                                                                    • We got a teaser trailer for Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning
                                                                    • We got an official trailer for Netflix’s The Madness
                                                                    • Contact us at [email protected]
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                                                                    • 1 hr 28 min
                                                                    • Let’s Weekend #439 – Four Years of Garbage

                                                                      In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the bad election results an the few bits of good news, a potential Mass Effect show, and the good and bad of Marlon Brando. All this and more, up next!

                                                                      • Intro
                                                                      • What Are We Up To?
                                                                        • C: One Piece, Vampire Survivors, American Truck Sim, Wilmot Works It Out
                                                                        • B: God of War, Art’s Dream, Metal Max Returns, Dark Side Of The Ring, political work.
                                                                        • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                                                                        • Assholes of the Week: Trump will be returning to the White House for his second term
                                                                          • A lot of bomb threats were sent to polling places from Russia
                                                                          • RFK Jr says Trump will recommend removing fluoride from the country’s drinking water
                                                                          • A bunch of black people and kids got texts about their appointment to slave labor in the near future from a hacked spam text source
                                                                          • Looks like Special counsel Jack Smith is wrapping up both federal cases against Trump before he takes office
                                                                          • Federal judge struck down a Biden admin policy shielding immigrant spouses from deportation
                                                                          • Heroes of the Week: Delaware’s Sarah McBride is the first openly transgender person elected to Congress
                                                                            • Two black women will serve in the US Senate at the same time for the first time
                                                                            • RIP Tony Todd
                                                                            • RIP Quincy Jones
                                                                            • Election Dump Truck
                                                                              • Several seats are still yet to be called, but it looks like the GOP has the House and Senate
                                                                              • Florida’s abortion amendment got 57% support, but fails to reach 60% threshold
                                                                              • Florida’s recreational marijuana amendment also failed despite getting 56% support
                                                                              • Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, New York voted for enshrining abortion rights to their constitution
                                                                              • South Dakota voted against their abortion amendment
                                                                              • Nebraska voted to keep their 12 week abortion ban & defeated extending it to fetal viability
                                                                              • Massachusetts voted against legalizing natural psychedelic drugs
                                                                              • Amazon’s working on a Mass Effect series from the writer of Fast & Furious 9
                                                                              • There’s a new Star Wars trilogy in the works
                                                                              • Mickey 17 is being moved to April theater release
                                                                              • We got a trailer for Waltzing with Brando
                                                                              • Contact us at [email protected]
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                                                                              • 1 hr 31 min
                                                                              • Let’s Weekend #438 – Garbage Week

                                                                                In this episode of Let's Weekend: We talk about the week's worth of garbage news as the election is nearly here, the new Godzilla movie that's been greenlit, and the major cheddar heist take the UK by storm last week. All this and more, up next!

                                                                                • Intro
                                                                                • What Are We Up To?
                                                                                  • C: Agatha All Along, Pokemon, Dragon Ball Daima, Rocket League, Vampire Survivors
                                                                                  • T:  Halloween themed tv & movies, also Daima & Super, What we Do…, my 3-pack game routine & S Mario Party Jamboree, kittens
                                                                                  • B: Dead Space, Tearaway Unfolded, Longlegs, election stuff.
                                                                                  • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                                                                                  • Assholes of the Week: Trump had a roast comedian on stage at his MSG rally that talked shit about Puerto Rico and othersthat caused Bad Bunny, JLo, and Ricky Martin to endorse Kamala Harris
                                                                                    • Ryan Girdusky tells CNN host Mehdi Hasan “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off” during panel discussion and gets banned from future CNN appearances
                                                                                    • Ballot boxes in three states were set on fire, man who did it may attack boxes again soon
                                                                                    • Bob’s Burgers actor Jay Johnston has been sentenced to 1 year in prison for role in January 6 insurrection
                                                                                    • The man that attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband gets life in prison without the possibility of parole in a state trial
                                                                                    • Heroes of the Week: Rapper Young Thug is a free man after the longest-running criminal trial in Georgia history ends with mostly probation and some weird conditions that have to be met
                                                                                    • There’s weird outrage over Biden’s “garbage” comment in response to Tony’s Puerto Rico joke
                                                                                    • Over 200k subscribers have canceled their Washington Post subscriptions
                                                                                    • Impostors stole thousands of pounds worth of posh cheddar cheese in the UK
                                                                                    • Toho has greenlit a new Godzilla movie from the director of Godzilla Minus One
                                                                                    • Deadpool & Wolverine will be available on Disney+ November 12
                                                                                    • We got an official trailer for Netflix’s A Man on the Inside
                                                                                    • We got an official trailer for Netflix’s That Christmas
                                                                                    • We got an official trailer for Queer
                                                                                    • We got a teaser trailer for Squid Game: Season 2
                                                                                    • Contact us at [email protected]
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                                                                                    • 1 hr 11 min
                                                                                    • Let’s Weekend #437 – Marvel’s Ice Skating Uphill

                                                                                      In this episode of Let's Weekend: We talk about the rich owners of the LA Times and Washington Post blocking endorsements, Boeing's bad week, and the bad outbreak of E. coli at McDonald's across the country. All this and more, up next!

                                                                                      • Intro
                                                                                      • What Are We Up To?
                                                                                        • C: Agatha All Along, Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, Steven Universe, Alan Wake II, PowerWash Simulator
                                                                                        • B: Metaphor ReFantazio, Dead Space, visual kei, warm october week.
                                                                                        • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                                                                                        • Assholes of the Week: Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to turn over his NYC apartment and 26 watches to the Georgia election workers that he owes $148 million for defamation
                                                                                          • LA Times editor resigns after the paper’s rich owner blocked their Kamala Harris presidential endorsement article, Washington Post suffers the same issue as Jeff Bezos blocks their endorsement of Kamala Harris
                                                                                          • Couple that ran a disgraceful funeral home that had 190 decaying corpses in it has been indicted on 15 federal counts related to wire fraud and conspiracy charges
                                                                                          • Russia is getting help from North Korean troops in its war on Ukraine
                                                                                          • Israel conducted a retaliatory airstrike against Iranian military targets
                                                                                          • Heroes of the Week: After its historic season, the WNBA players’ union has opted out of its collective bargaining agreement to aim at securing higher salaries for players
                                                                                            • Biden made a public apology for the US government’s running Native American boarding schools
                                                                                            • The Biden Admin is proposing a new rule requiring insurance to covering cost of contraceptives
                                                                                            • DOJ attorneys are calling out the hypocrisy for the AG’s handling of crimes committed by Israel
                                                                                            • Boeing posted a big $6 billion loss as their striking workers want a new contract
                                                                                            • American Airlines has been fined $50 million for its treatment of passengers with disabilities
                                                                                            • Olivia Nuzzi has left New York Magazine after her relationship with RFK Jr became public
                                                                                            • There’s been a big outbreak of E. coli at McDonald’s across the country due to its raw onions
                                                                                            • Harvey Weinstein has been diagnosed with bone marrow cancer
                                                                                            • Cable industry trade group has sued the FTC to block their “Click to Cancel” rule
                                                                                            • Spider-Man will be back with Spider-Man 4 after Tom Holland agrees to return
                                                                                            • Marvel’s Blade has been removed from their release calendar
                                                                                            • Netflix renewed Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft for Season 2
                                                                                            • We got an official trailer for Creature Commandos
                                                                                            • We got an official trailer for Hot Frosty
                                                                                            • Contact us at [email protected]
                                                                                            • Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
                                                                                            • 1 hr 26 min

                                                                                            About Let's Weekend

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                                                                                            The opposite side of the Day 0 Update coin, Let's Weekend! is an informal hangout for various SmashPad staff, typically recorded on Friday night and posted Saturday. In contrast to SmashPad's flagship…