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- Let’s Weekend #416 – 34 Felony Convictions
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about Trump's very bad week as he got booed relentlessly at the Libertarian Party National Convention and was found guilty on 34 felony charges in his hush money trial.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Columbo, Oppenheimer, Sweet Tooth, Rocket League, Hitman 3, MLB The Show 24
- B: Apollo Justice Ace Attorney trilogy, Selaco, books, X-Men 97.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony charges in his hush money trial
- Chief Justice John Roberts declined an invitation to meet with top Senate Dems over judicial ethics
- Justice Samuel Alito refuses to recuse himself in January 6-related cases after more flags were found flying at his vacation home
- Heroes of the Week: Vermont is the first state to require oil companies help pay for climate change damages
- The MLB has officially incorporated Negro League stats into its record books, creating new leaders in various categories
- Trump got a taste of dissent as he spoke at the Libertarian Party National Convention
- The media company behind the book/film 2,000 Mules apologized and will halt all distribution
- The Wall Street Journal laid off a bunch of writers after lucrative OpenAI deal and record profits
- OpenAI also inked deals with Vox Media and The Atlantic to get their content on ChatGPT
- Ticketmaster has been hacked with info stolen on more than 500 million customers
- South Korea says that North Korea is flying balloons full of trash over the border
- Ryan Reynolds revealed the most sexual popcorn bucket yet for Deadpool and Wolverine
- Godzilla Minus One is on Netflix now
- Netflix’s Tomb Raider animated series will premiere October 10
- Netflix is developing an animated Minecraft series
- WB Discovery is bringing back Dinner & A Movie for TBS
- WB Discovery is developing a 300 TV series
- We got a teaser trailer for Moana 2
- We got an official trailer for Wolfs
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 20 min - Let’s Weekend #415 – Red Lobster’s Rent Problems
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the federal lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, a new malaria vaccine, and the unfortunate reasons for Red Lobster's bankruptcy.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Columbo, Rocket League, Little Kitty Big City, Hitman
- B: Read Only Memories, Another Crab’s Treasure, books.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Trump’s latest social media campaign video calls for a “Unified Reich”
- Heroes of the Week: The DOJ and 30 state/district attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster
- A new malaria vaccine has been delivered to the Central African Republic
- The ICC is seeking warrants for Israel’s and Hamas’ leaders
- Norway, Ireland, and Spain say they will recognize a Palestinian state
- Nikki Haley announced that she’s voting for Trump because she has no morals
- Iran’s president died in a helicopter crash
- Michigan farmworker is the second US bird flu case tied to dairy cows
- Red Lobster is filing for bankruptcy
- Scarlett Johansson put out a statement about her anger that OpenAI’s Sky voice sounds like her
- Study finds microplastics in the testicles of all of its human and dog subjects
- Google’s search AI has been providing a lot of wrong facts and answers this week
- Disney Pixar laid off 175 people
- Yorgos Lanthimos is working with Emma Stone on a third movie called Bugonia
- Universal’s looking to reboot The Munsters
- Netflix confirms the third Knives Out movie for 2025 release
- We got an official trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Sweet Tooth Final Season
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Trigger Warning
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 7 min - Let’s Weekend #414 – Stupid Mayor Rudy
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about how much of South Dakota that the Governor is not allowed to visit, the most metal painting in British Royal history, and how dumb Rudy Giuliani was while avoiding being served an indictment by Arizona.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Planet of the Apes, Everybody’s in LA, WarioWare, The Bible Game
- B: Stellar Blade, Fear and Hunger Termina, Signalis, books.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker gave the commencement speech at Benedictine College that told women they will be happier as moms and wives
- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardons the man convicted of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester
- It seems that Justice Alito flew an upside-down American flag at his house after January 6, then blamed his wife for it
- AZ’s AG had been searching for Rudy Giuliani before Rudy taunted him on Twitter and got served his indictment at his birthday party in Florida
- Heroes of the Week: The Supreme Court has upheld the funding structure of the CFPB
- RIP Roger Corman
- RIP Dabney Coleman
- Biden and Trump will be debating in June and September
- DOJ says Boeing violated the terms of a deal they made to avoid prosecution over prior crashes
- Autoworkers at the Mercedes Benz plant in Alabama voted against unionizing
- Most of South Dakota’s tribes have banned Kristi Noem from their land
- The DOW Jones has hit 40,000 for the first time
- Target has scaled back on its LGBTQ+ merchandise ahead of Pride Month 2024
- The first person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died
- King Charles revealed his official portrait that looks like he’s in hell
- The Silk: Spider Society live-action series is no longer happening at Amazon
- Nic Cage is starring in a Spider-Man Noir live-action series at Amazon Prime Video
- Amazon has greenlit a Tomb Raider series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge
- Netflix renewed 3 Body Problem for more episodes for its finale
- Katheryn Bigelow’s next feature film will be at Netflix
- MCU show Agatha All Along will debut on Disney+ on September 18
- We got an official trailer for Wicked
- We got a teaser trailer for Max’s Dune: Prophecy
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 27 min - Let’s Weekend #413 – Brain Worms
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the bad news about two of Trump's trials, that weird Apple iPad commercial, and the weird story about RFK Jr's brain worm.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Planet of the Apes, More GBA on Analogue Pocket
- B: Stellar Blade, Fear and Hunger Termina, books, Gunbuster
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: University of Mississippi has opened a probe into the hostile anti-protest that involved racists taunts of black protestors
- Judge Aileen Cannon has delayed Trump’s classified documents trial indefinitely as it seems unlikely to happen before the election
- Trump’s trial in Georgia has also been delayed as an appeals court will review decision on the DA Fani Willis
- Tennessee’s legislature passed a bill allowing teachers to be armed in school
- Heroes of the Week: Activists flooded a Utah tip line for violations of their new bathroom law to shield trans residents from complaints
- RFK Jr. apparently had a brain worm in 2012 that ate a portion of his brain and died
- Steve Bannon lost his appeal of his contempt of Congress conviction
- Barron Trump may be a delegate at the RNC this summer
- TikTok is challenging the US ban in court as unconstitutional
- The Boy Scouts of America are changing their name to Scouting America
- Panera Bread is discontinuing its Charged Sips drinks after two wrongful death lawsuits
- Apple put out a weird iPad Pro ad about crushing creative instruments to make it
- Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery announced a bundle of Disney+, Hulu, and Max
- Warner Bros. Discovery is doing another Lord of the Rings movie
- Peacock is getting a new The Office series centered around a midwestern newspaper
- Netflix is getting the former Max series Scavengers Reign on May 31
- Prime Video’s Batman: Caped Crusader animated series will premiere August 1
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Exploding Kittens
- We got a teaser trailer for Megalopolis
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 24 min - Let’s Weekend #412 – JLo’s Titanfall
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the continued campus protests, Trump's horrifying 2025 plan, and the mysterious death of another Boeing whistleblower.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Goodbye Earth, Everybody’s in LA, Poker Face, Yesterday, Fallout 4, Analogue Pocket
- B: Helldivers II, Fear and Hunger Termina, books, the cicadas are driving me INSANE.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Nearly 300 people were arrested at campus protests last weekend, Agitators attacked protestors on UCLA’s campus while the LAPD watched, NYPD arrested 300 people after clearing out Hamilton Hall at Columbia
- The House passed a bill claiming to combat antisemitism, but it classifies criticism of Israel as antisemitism
- Heroes of the Week: The Biden admin is looking to reclassify marijuana with a lower classification
- Trump’s plans for 2025 should he win are wild and scary
- Trump was ordered to pay $9k for violating the gag order in his criminal hush money trial in NYC
- The last sentence was handed down for the officers & paramedics in Elijah McClain’s death
- Another Boeing whistleblower has died
- Eight newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
- Dan Schneider is suing producers of Quiet on Set documentary about his abuses of children
- Peacock’s raising their prices after doing so last year
- Cobra Kai Season 6 is being split up into three parts with the first debuting July 18
- We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Atlas
- We got an official trailer for Mufasa: The Lion King
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 11 min - Let’s Weekend #411 – Cops Gone Wild
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the oversized response to protests around the country, the good news out of the FTC and FCC, and another reason to avoid raw milk.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Goodbye Earth, Anyone But You, Fallout 4, Army of Ruin, Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
- B: Helldivers 2, Tales of Kenzera Zau, music, Starship Trooper sequels.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: 11 fake electors and seven others have been indicted in Arizona over their fake elector scheme
- Cops have gone wild in arresting many college students as pro-Palestine protests expand across many colleges across the country, Netanyahu got involved to call them antisemitic
- Kristi Noem wrote in her memoir about how she killed a 14 month old hunting dog named Cricket because it was “untrainable”
- Heroes of the Week: The FTC has voted to ban noncompete clause agreements
- The FCC has voted to restore net neutrality
- The Senate overwhelmingly passed aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan
- Biden signed the TikTok ban law that was a part of the aid package
- NY Court of Appeals ordered a new trial for Harvey Weinstein after overturned 2020 conviction
- Arizona’s House of Reps voted to repeal the 1864 abortion ban
- Traces of the current bird flu affecting cows has been found in commercially available milk
- Voyager 1 finally started sending coherent messages again after issues popped up last November
- G/O Media has sold The Onion to an independent group of rich guys
- Sesame Street writers get new contracts to avoid strike
- Studio Ponoc anime film The Imaginary will debut on Netflix July 5
- We got an official trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine
- We got an official trailer for The Glassworker
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 16 min - Let’s Weekend #410 – Keanu the Hedgehog
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about Keanu Reeves' role in Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the wild stuff going on at Columbia University, and the great union news out of Tennessee.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Columbo, MLB The Show 24, Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, Analogue Pocket
- B: Helldivers II, Freedom Planet 2, Starship Troopers, weird April weather
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Iran fired a bunch of drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation for their attack on Iran’s consulate in Syria, Israel launched missile strikes into Iran in retaliation of those attacks
- Columbia University sends the NYPD to arrest pro-Palestinian protestors for criminal trespassing at the behest of its President
- Google laid off several employees that protested its Project Nimbus cloud initiative with Israel
- Heroes of the Week: The US Justice Department agreed to pay $100 million to about 100 of Larry Nassar’s sexual assault victims in a big settlement
- Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, TN voted to unionize with the UAW to be their first union in the South
- Trump’s hush money trial will start on Monday with opening statements after the jury’s been seated
- House Dems helped the House Speaker get aid bills for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan passed
- Senate Dems kill the articles of impeachment that House GOP passed against HS Sec Mayorkas
- Smartmatic settled its defamation lawsuit against OAN over its conspiracies after the 2020 election
- The Kennedys have endorsed Biden, not RFK Jr
- The Rust movie’s armorer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison
- The NBA has banned Toronto Raptors player Johntay Porter for life over gambling violations
- Paramount Global is potentially in talks to be acquired by Skydance or Sony Pictures
- Keanu Reeves is voicing Shadow in Sonic the Hedgehog 3
- Amazon Prime Video renewed Fallout for a second season
- Netflix’s The Witcher has been renewed for a final, fifth season
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s A Man in Full
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Hit Man
- We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude
- We got an official trailer for Transformers One
- We got an official trailer for Trap
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 22 min - Let’s Weekend #409 – The Juice is Loose in Hell
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the death of OJ, the wild Supreme Court ruling in Arizona, and the total solar eclipse.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, Resistance Retribution, Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier
- B: Dragon’s Dogma 2, Ion Fury, Fallout tv, A-pollen-ocallypse 3: the Reckoning.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid (OJ Edition)
- Assholes of the Week: Arizona’s Supreme Court allows an 1864 abortion law from before it became a state to be enforced that is a near total ban
- The parents of the Oxford High School shooter were sentenced to 10-15 years in prison
- Rogue health insurance brokers are making unauthorized policy switches for ACA policyholders
- A Southwest Boeing plane flying to Houston lost its engine cover and returned to Denver, which means there’s another FAA investigation, Whistleblower alleged that Boeing routinely ignored complaints about issues in the manufacturing process
- Heroes of the Week: 3 men were stranded on a Pacific island for nearly a week before being rescued after their HELP sign on the shore was spotted
- The EPA has put limits on PFAS in drinking water
- Good Riddance OJ Simpson
- The solar eclipse was the biggest event of the week
- Trump & Mike Johnson’s big election plan is to stop noncitizens from voting, which is already illegal
- Norfolk Southern has settled a $600 million lawsuit from residents of East Palestine, OH
- The Women’s NCAA basketball championship game beat the Men’s game in the ratings
- NASA has been asked to create a time zone for the Moon
- There’s going to be a live-action film adaptation of the TMNT story The Last Ronin
- Paramount’s rebooting the Scary Movie franchise
- Heroes is also getting a reboot with its original creator at the helm
- Netflix has a six-episode comedy series from John Mulaney debuting May 3
- Max’s second season of Velma debuts April 25
- Apple renews Monarch: Legacy of Monsters for a Season 2 along with plans for spinoff series
- We got a teaser trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux
- We got an official trailer for Fly Me To The Moon
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 28 min - Let’s Weekend #408 – Breaching The South
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the surprisingly failure of the No Labels party, the UAW trying to get union support in the South, and the amazing $30 million heist on Easter in LA.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Physical 100 S2, MLB The Show 24, Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, Balatro
- B: Freedom Planet II, Dragon’s Dogma 2, anticipating Fallout on Prime.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Israel attacked a World Central Kitchen convoy bringing food to Palestinians, claiming it was a mistake and fired officials responsible for the attack
- Israel also attacked the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing two of its generals and several others
- Heroes of the Week: The Iowa/UConn game between Caitlyn Clark and Paige Bueckers set a record for the most watched women’s college basketball game ever
- California’s $20 minimum wage for fast food workers has started
- Florida voters get an abortion amendment on the ballot for this fall
- Shocking no one, No Labels will have no third-party presidential candidate this year
- The UAW is hoping to breach the South with two plants that have upcoming union elections
- Theives got away with $30 million in cash during an Easter heist on an LA storage facility’s safe
- Amazon’s removing their Just Walk Out technology from its Amazon Fresh stores
- Smart grocery carts might be their next plan for its grocery stores
- As a result, they’re laying off hundreds of people from their AWS
- Amazon Prime Video extends WNBA exclusive streaming pact for two more years
- Denis Villeneuve and Legendary make deal to work on Dune 3 and Nuclear War: A Scenario films
- Matrix 5 is in the works as WB ignores the last movie’s point
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Bodkin
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS
1 hr 18 min - Let’s Weekend #407 – $300k for Nothing
On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the awful bridge collapse in Baltimore, how the former RNC chair got paid to do nothing, and the new grift from Trump.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Poor Things, Balatro, MLB The Show 24
- P: Achieved Master rank on SF6 and taking the opportunity to improve as a video editor, treading lightly with Little Akiba Games as a new gaming culture war flares up, Smashpad’s relaxation of review formats may bring me back to writing those.
- B: Dragon’s Dogma II, Stellar Blade Demo, books, Easter stuff
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: The Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a giant container ship crashed into it, clearing the channel of debris will take weeks
- Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud charges
- NBC hired former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, then said she wouldn’t be on air after employees complained, and then dropped her entirely after outcry succeeds
- Trump is selling $60 “God Bless The USA” Bibles
- Heroes of the Week: The next US Census will have new race/ethnicity options for MENA and Hispanic/Latino
- Cheeseburger Doritos are back!
- Good riddance to Senator Joe Lieberman
- RIP Louis Gossett Jr
- RFK Jr’s VP pick is Nicole Shanahan
- Boeing’s CEO Dave Calhoun has stepped down
- Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate has been dismissed
- Two of Sean Combs’ homes were raided by the Feds
- Hulu on Disney+ is now officially available
- We got an official trailer for Hulu’s Under the Bridge
- We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Unfrosted
- We got an official trailer for Bad Boys: Ride or Die
- We got a teaser trailer for Kinds of Kindness
- 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.