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- Let’s Weekend #436 – The Beatles 64
In this episode of Let's Weekend: We talk about the cool Europa Clipper spacecraft, what's going on between US/Canada and India, and how much of a bomb the second Joker movie turned out to be. All this and more, up next!
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Halloweentown, Dragon Ball Daima, Steven Universe, Dino Crisis, Siren
- B: Metaphor ReFantazio, books, music, job interview.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Israel claims it has killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza
- Father and son are indicted on murder charges in the Georgia high school shooting
- There are new lawsuits against Sean Combs
- The Archdiocese of LA agrees to pay $880 million to settle sexual abuse claims
- The judge in Elon Musk’s suit against Media Matters has Tesla stock and refuses to recuse himself
- Heroes of the Week: More than 800 military personnel have been given honorable discharges after reversals of “don’t ask, don’t tell” punishments
- FTC’s new rule requires services to make canceling subs as easy as signing up for them
- There’s a wild international situation going on with Indian nationals murdering Sikhs in US/Canada
- There was another weird potential Trump shooter situation near his rally at Coachella
- Trump had a weird town hall where he stopped the Q&A early to listen to music
- Nebraska’s Supreme Court has cleared the way for former felons to get back their right to vote
- NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is on its way to study Jupiter’s icy moon
- Disney+ is getting a new Beatles documentary on November 29
- DIsney’s making a Prince Charming movie
- It looks like Joker: Folie a Deux will end up as a big bomb with its theatrical run
- We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s The Electric State
- We got a teaser trailer for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- We got an official trailer for Wolf Man
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 36 min - Let’s Weekend #435 – Temporary Home
In this episode of Let's Weekend: We talk about the big lawsuit against TikTok, Hurricane Milton's effects, and what Al Pacino saw as he nearly died. All this and more, up next!
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Shreks, Prison Break S3, Halls of Torment
- T: Finished Rings of Power, Deuce Bigalow 1, DB Resurrection F, Kingdom Two Crowns: Heroes of Olympus DLC, ready for Super Mario Jamboree, Covid booster, The Thing I Did
- B: Metaphor ReFantazio, Reynatis review, The Name of the Rose, music, grandma’s stuff
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Bob Woodward’s new book reports that Trump sent the really good COVID-19 tests to Putin while the US was in an extreme shortage of tests
- Heroes of the Week: 13 states and DC are suing TikTok, alleging it harms kids and is designed for addiction
- Biden sets a new 10-year deadline for US cities to replace lead pipes in water systems nationwide
- Hurricane Milton
- It wasn’t expected to be much initially, but intensified into a Category 5 storm very quickly
- It made landfall as a Category 3 storm before being downgraded to Category 2 hours later
- Milton caused 126 tornado warnings and at least 38 tornadoes on Wednesday
- The death toll is currently at 17 people from the hurricane and preceding tornadoes
- The major cases for the upcoming SCOTUS term concern transgender rights, guns, and porn
- The cases they’ve declined to intervene in are pretty interesting
- The FBI arrested an Afghan man who they say was plotting an Election Day attack
- The DOJ is calling for sanctions against Google in its landmark antitrust case
- The suspension of X in Brazil has ended as Elon complied with all of the judge’s demands
- Al Pacino revealed that he had a near death experience with COVID and saw nothing
- Velma has been canceled at Max after two seasons
- Max’s Lanterns show casts Aaron Pierre as John Stewart
- Henry Cavill is set to star in a live-action Voltron movie for Amazon MGM Studios
- Will Smith and Michael Bay are reuniting for a Netflix action movie called “Fast and Loose”
- Netflix is ordering John Mulaney’s live weekly talk show for 2025
- Sega’s Shinobi will supposedly be getting a movie adaptation from the direction of Extraction
- We got an official trailer for A Complete Unknown
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 24 min - Let’s Weekend #434 – Caesar’s Branching Out
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, the good news preventing a huge port strike, and a suite of celebrity deaths.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: MHA S7, Lost, Prison Break, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, UFO 50
- B: Reynatis, Metaphor ReFantazio demo, Dark Side of the Ring, job interviews.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Judge Chutkan unsealed special investigator Jack Smith’s new evidence in Trump’s January 6 election interference case
- Israel’s continued attacks on Hezbollah results in its top leader’s death, An Israeli airstrike hit a Beirut residential building, The IDF is invading southern Lebanon as two more Hezbollah leaders are presumed dead, Iran gets involved with a massive missile attack on Israel
- Garth Brooks is being sued by a makeup artist for alleged rape and sexual assault
- Heroes of the Week: Three former Memphis cops were convicted on some charges in the death of Tyre Nichols
- RIP Dikembe Mutombo
- RIP Pete Rose
- RIP John Amos
- RIP Ken Page
- Hurricane Helene’s aftermath
- Factory that is one of the largest suppliers of IV fluids in the country is shut down
- At least 215 people have died so far as a result of the hurricane
- Trump tried to claim Biden’s admin was refusing to help Georgia Gov. Kemp
- A downed power line is officially the cause of the Maui wildfire that destroyed the town of Lahaina
- The potential port strike ends for now with a delay to early next year before talks resume
- The doctor accused of giving ketamine to Matthew Perry has pleaded guilty to conspiracy count
- Netflix canceled That 90s Show after two seasons
- AEW will be streaming on Max after signing a new multi-year rights deal with WB Discovery
- We got a teaser trailer for Better Man
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 27 min - Let’s Weekend #433 – The Eric Adams Train Wreck
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the big indictments of Eric Adams, the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, and the wild story of how and where the source of lead poisoning was discovered in Bangladeshi kids and women.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Mr. McMahon, Lost, UFO 50, American Truck Simulator
- B: Night In The Woods, The Plucky Squire, Horatio Hornblower, Asshole Summer was VERY Assholish.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: NYC Mayor Eric Adams is facing 5 federal charges of corruption
- Israel’s small attacks on Hezbollah expand to larger front as 500 are killed and over 1,600 wounded, US and allies call for an immediate 21-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Over 90k people have had to flee their homes to avoid Israel attacks, Israel says it struck Hezbollah’s HQ in Beirut
- Heroes of the Week: Confederate general statue in the US Capitol has been replaced by a Johnny Cash statue
- RIP Dame Maggie Smith
- Hurricane Helene made landfall in northwestern Florida as a Category 4 hurricane
- Congress approves a short-term funding bill to avoid a shutdown
- DOJ is suing Alabama for purging voters from rolls too close to the election
- Ryan Routh was charged with attempted assassination of Donald Trump
- While searching his son’s home as a part of the investigation, they found child porn images
- Federal bankruptcy judge rules that a plan to sell of Alex Jones’ media assets can move ahead
- The wild story of how Bangladeshi kids and pregnant woman were getting poisoned with lead
- The earth is getting a mini-moon for a couple of months
- Netflix acquired the biblical epic Mary to release later this year
- Two Pixar series are coming to Disney+ over the next few months
- We got a teaser trailer for The Last of Us Season 2
- We got a teaser trailer for Thunderbolts
- We got an official trailer for From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 27 min - Let’s Weekend #432 – Good Luck With That, North Carolina
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the big Sean Combs arrest, the wild backstory of North Carolina's Mark Robinson being revealed so close to the election, and the new wild RFK Jr story.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Agatha All Along, Satisfactory, Secret Agent Clank, Mister Mosquito, SkyGunner
- B: Astro Bot, Night In The Woods, Ape Escape, books, funeral stuff.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Sean Combs was arrested on federal charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution and denied bail by a federal judge
- Israel has triggered thousands of pagers in Lebanon to explode to take out Hezbollah members, which killed 9 people and wounded around 2,800 others and harmed civilians, Another wave of device explosions happened the next day and killed 14 people and wounded 450 more people
- NC GOP Governor candidate Mark Robinson was found to have made some wild statements on porn sites in the past, like proclaiming himself as a Black Nazi
- Heroes of the Week: NASA’s Hidden Figures women were honored with Congressional Gold Medals
- There was a weird situation on Trump’s golf course in Florida involving a potential shooter
- Senate Republicans block IVF bill to give Democrats an easy issue to run on
- Georgia’s election board approved a last-minute rule to require hand-counting of ballots
- Things are getting bad enough for NYC Mayor Eric Adams that his top legal adviser quit
- NY magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi has been placed on leave after disclosing her RFK Jr. relationship
- The US is suing the Dali ship owner and operator for $100 million over Baltimore bridge collapse
- Rupert Murdoch is facing a big court battle as his kids fight for control of his media empire
- Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy
- Theater owners planning to spend $2.2 billion to modernize and upgrade the theater experience
- We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Devil May Cry
- We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
- We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Squid Game: Season 2
- We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s The Eternaut
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft
- We got an official trailer for Mickey 17
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 27 min - Let’s Weekend #431 – The Springfield Conspiracy
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the ridiculous fearmongering by the GOP of immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, Taylor Swift's endorsement of Kamala Harris, and the death of James Earl Jones.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Prison Break, Vampire Survivors, Theatrhythm: Final Bar Line, PowerWash Simulator
- T: Lots of Balatro, missing Unicorn Overlord, reading Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Rings of Power, finished Beerus story in DB Super
- B: Astro Bot is AMAZING, books, asshole summer is fast approaching
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: JD Vance and others in the GOP have been spreading conspiracies about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio that even Trump yelled about during the debate, The result has been bomb threats to City Hall and schools
- The Fearless Fund for supporting Black women business owners is shutting down after a discrimination lawsuit ended with a settlement
- Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on more sex crimes charges ahead of his New York retrial, He also had emergency heart surgery
- Heroes of the Week: The CFPB reached a $120 million settlement with Navient over it misleading borrowers, which results in the company being permanently banned from servicing federal student loans
- RIP James Earl Jones
- Taylor Swift posted her endorsement of Kamala Harris right after the end of the debate
- Three more counts from the Georgia/Trump election interference case have been dismissed
- Elon Musk’s xAI company is building a supercomputer that is under scrutiny for its power reqs
- The Campbell Soup Company is dropping the “Soup” from their company name
- Inside Out 2 will be available on Disney+ September 25
- We got an official trailer for Salem’s Lot
- We got an official trailer for The Apprentice
- We got an official trailer for Devara Part 1
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 8 min - Let’s Weekend #430 – Tricky Dick’s Voting Record
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the awful shooting in Georgia, the scandal of Russian-paid influencers in US media, and the surprising change of heart for Dick Cheney's voting plans.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Lost, Prison Break, Rocket League, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
- B: Kingdom Hearts collection, CrossCode, books, family bullshit
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: 14 year old in Georgia killed four people and injured nine others in a school shooting and has been charged with four counts of felony murder along with his dad being charged for several charges of his own. He was investigated last year by the FBI over school shooting threats and was no action taken
- Heroes of the Week: The IRS has collection $1.3 billion from wealthy taxpayers by ramping up enforcement
- The US Gov’t has accused Russia of a sophisticated influence campaign against the election
- The first unsealed groups from the indictment are RT employees and Tenet Media
- Conservative Michel Barnier was named as France’s new PM, but he may not get approved
- The US has seized Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro’s plane that he smuggled out of the US
- Judge Merchan has delayed Trump’s sentencing in the NYC hush money case to late November
- Dick Cheney made a public show of him switching to vote for Kamala Harris
- About 17k AT&T workers have been on strike for three weeks as they await a new contract
- The Russian spy whale was found dead under mysterious circumstances
- Study by scientists suggest an asteroid 20x the dinosaur killer hit Jupiter’s moon 4 billion years ago
- LInkin Park is back with Emily Armstrong as lead singer, who is a Scientologist and rape apologist
- Netflix is getting a Twilight animated series
- Netflix has a roadtrip documentary about Will Ferrell and his best friend, who came out as trans
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Mr. McMahon documentary
- We got an official trailer for Nightbitch
- We got a teaser trailer for A Minecraft Movie
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 15 min - Let’s Weekend #429 – Columbo’s AirTag
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about Trump's bad trip to Arlington National Cemetary, the return of Oasis, and an ingenius use of an Apple AirTag to find the jerks that had been stealing a woman's mail.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Rising Impact S2, Venture Bros, Vampire Survivors, PowerWash Simulator, Hollow Knight
- B: CrossCode, AA Investigations demo, books, relief is in sight.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Trump’s campaign staff got into an altercation with an official at Arlington National Cemetery after being caught breaking the law by filming/photographing stuff for ads, The Army put out a rare statement to defend their ANC official and to rebuke Trump’s team for their abhorrent behavior
- Heroes of the Week: A woman got fed up with her mail constantly being stolen and mailed herself an Apple AirTag to catch them
- RIP Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau
- Jack Smith filed a superceding indictment against Trump in his January 6 case
- RFK Jr is unable to withdraw his name from the ballots of some swing states
- DOJ’s internal watchdog found the FBI is still mishandling child sex crimes after the Nassar case
- X is shutting down in Brazil after Elon Musk refused an order to establish a representative there
- Customs officers found $5 million worth of meth disguised as watermelons at the Mexico border
- Oasis is reforming after a 15 year feud between the Gallagher brothers to tour
- Inside Out 2 is the first animated movie ever to hit $1 billion at the international box office
- Francis Ford Coppola hired canceled actors so Megalopolis wasn’t a woke Hollywood production
- Netflix canceled Dead Boy Detectives after the first season
- Netflix has a Vince McMahon documentary premiering September 25
- We got an official trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog 3
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 19 min - Let’s Weekend #428 – Everybody Hates The Godfather
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the end of RFK Jr's presidential campaign, the fake review quotes in the new Megalopolis trailer, and how much we're looking forward to Chick-fil-A's new streaming service.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: That 90’s Show, Alien Quadrilogy, Rocket League, Hollow Knight
- B: Cross Code, LAD Infinite Wealth, books, boy what a week.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: RFK Jr has ended his presidential campaign and endorsed Trump
- DOJ has filed suit against RealPage for using an algorithm and landlords’ own data to collude and fix rent prices above market rate
- Federal judge has thrown out the FTC’s ban on noncompetes
- Heroes of the Week: Georgia will put up a statue of civil rights icon John Lewis to replace a Confederate monument
- House GOP is trying to impeach Biden again, but it’s likely going nowhere
- SCOTUS grants Arizona GOP’s bid to require citizenship proof for some voters
- Hurricane Debby washed up $1 million worth of cocaine onto two Florida beaches
- Scientists figured out what’s up with the invasive new species of ant in NYC called “ManhattAnt”
- Lionsgate put out a new trailer for Megalopolis
- They pulled it after the critic quotes shitting on Coppola’s other movies were fake
- They also dropped the firm that used AI to generate those fake quotes
- Chick-fil-A is launching a streaming service for some reason
- Disney canceled The Acolyte after its first season
- Netflix announced their cast for One Piece Season 2 and it looks to stop before the Alabasta Arc
- We got a teaser trailer for Amazon Prime Video’s Secret Level
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Tomb Raider the Legend of Lara Croft
- We got an official trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
- We got an official trailer for Y2K
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 28 min - Let’s Weekend #427 – Enemies of Glory
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the UAW's great ad about Trump being a scab, the WHO's mpox public health emergency, and the surprising treat that New Zealand's food bank gave out to some people.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Twisters, Lost, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team
- B: Cross Code, Bendy and the Ink Machine, books, help me I’m drowning in humidity
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Meta’s shutting down its CrowdTangle tool that’s used to fight disinformation
- After Trump and Elon admitted to firing striking workers, the UAW filed federal labor charges against both of them
- Disney’s trying to fight a wrongful death lawsuit by using the victim’s use of a Disney+ trial
- Heroes of the Week: Medicare negotiated lower prices on 10 major drugs that are a huge savings
- The UAW put out an amazing ad calling Trump a scab and endorsing Kamala Harris
- Algerian gold medal boxer Imane Khelif filed a cyberbullying lawsuit against JK Rowling and Elon Musk
- WHO declares the 2024 mpox surge a public health emergency of international concern
- Arizona certifies an abortion access measure for their November ballot
- The Trump campaign is claiming they were hacked, so the FBI is investigating
- The VFW calls Trump’s comments dismissing the Congressional Medal of Honor “asinine”
- Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar won her primary
- New York judge ruled against RFK Jr being on their November ballot due to an illegitimate address
- Former Marion police chief has been charged with a felony over their raid of a Kansas newspaper
- Texas AG threatens to sue the State Fair of Texas over them banning guns
- Two doctors and three others are charged in connection to Matthew Perry’s ketamine death
- New Zealand’s food bank unknowingly distributed meth in candy
- Eugene and Dan Levy will be hosting the Emmys on September 15
- Marvel responds to X-Men 97 creator’s claims of his firing over a gay pride post
- Deadpool & Wolverine overtook Joker as the highest-grossing R-rated film in history
- Netflix has greenlit a Ghostbusters animated series
- We got a new trailer for Kraven
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
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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…
podcast, topics on Let's Weekend! include but are by no means limited to gaming, allowing the hosts to discuss their other major interests from literature to sports, from superheroes to music, and all points in between. Just remember, sobriety is optional.