On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the latest case of corruption by Clarence Thomas, the "controversy" of the new dress code in the US Senate, and what new Troll sequel is on the way.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Columbo, Fast & Furious series, Starfield, Super Mario RPG

B: Baldur’s Gate 3, books, welcome to Autumn!

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone magazine, is being criticized over his new book not featuring black and female musicians because they weren’t articulate enough

Birmingham PD tased a high school band director for not stopping his band’s performance after a football game

Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has close ties to the Koch network that had him speak at two fundraising events for the influential conservative organization

Democratic Senator Robert Menendez has been indicted on federal corruption charges

Heroes of the Week: The Senate managed to promote General Charles Q. Brown to chairman of the Joint Chiefs as they managed to get around Tommy Tuberville’s blocking of promotions

The Federal gov’t is resuming it’s free mail order COVID test program starting on Monday

The Biden admin announced plans for new regulations to bar medical debt from affecting your credit score

Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as chair of Fox and News Corp, letting Lachlan lead all of it

Chuck Schumer has relaxed the Senate’s dress code in the latest dumb controversy in Congress

The Southern Baptists Convention has ousted an Oklahoma church whose priest did blackface

Clorox products may be hard to get right now due to a cyberattack in August

A Danish artist has been ordered to repay a museum after delivering two blank canvases

Drew Barrymore did the right thing and delayed her show’s return until the strikes are over

Blink-182 announced their new album “One More Time” will be out October 20

Disney announced a $1500 set of 100 Disney & Pixar movies for their 100th Anniversary

Studio Ghibli is selling a controlling stake to Nippon Television

Amazon is planning an ad tier for Prime Video

The Meg 2: The Trench will be on Max September 29

Netflix has ordered a sequel to Troll

We got an official trailer for Dream Scenario

We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Griselda

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the Wisconsin GOP's evil plans to steal elections, the big autoworkers strike, and the eventful evening Lauren Boebert had at the theatre.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Columbo, Starfield, Hack and Shoot Heroes, Spirit Hunters, Grindstone

B: BG3, books, music, enjoying cooler weather.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Michigan State University football coach Mel Tucker has been suspended over sexual harassment allegations

The Wisconsin GOP has two plans to rig future elections that are evil

Kim Davis has been ordered to pay $100k to the same-sex couple she denied a marriage license to when SCOTUS made it legal

At least 11,300 people have died in the massive flooding in Libya’s coastal city of Derna

Exxon execs continued to internally push doubts about climate change until 2016 despite scientists at the company having evidence suggesting otherwise

Heroes of the Week: The UAW is striking against all Big Three automakers at once, Ford and GM announced hundreds of temporary layoffs with no compensation due to the strike

New COVID vaccines have been approved by the FDA

House Speaker McCarthy says the House will start in impeachment inquiry into President Biden

This is with the looming government shutdown on September 29

Mitt Romney says he won’t be running for re-election

Hunter Biden has been indicted on firearms charges

Lauren Boebert was kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical performance for being loud and obnoxious

Ufologist claimed to show two alien corpses to Mexico’s Congress

More Strike News

“Real Time with Bill Maher” is returning in spite of the writer’s strike

“The Drew Barrymore Show” is also returning in spite of the writer’s strike

California’s Senate voted to approve unemployment benefits for striking workers

WB Discovery’s lost $500 million in earnings due to the strike

Netflix renewed One Piece for Season 2

We got a teaser trailer for Max’s Kite Man: Hell Yeah!

We got an official trailer for DC’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

We got an official trailer for Journey to Bethlehem

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about Danny Masterson and Enrique Tarrio finally going to prison for a long time, the good news about abortions in Mexico, and the disaster of Burning Man.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

Brandon’s Random Factoid

C: One Piece, Columbo, Kingdom Eighties, PowerWash Simulator

B: BG3, death metal, books, more BG3.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Danny Masterson has finally been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for raping two women

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in January 6 insurrection

Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro has been found guilty of criminal contempt of Congress for denying the subpoena from the January 6 Committee

Georgia’s AG charged 61 Cop City protestors with RICO charges along with domestic terrorism, attempted arson, and money laundering

Heroes of the Week: Mexico’s Supreme Court has thrown out all federal criminal penalties for abortion to make it legal in the country

Federal judge ruled that the floating border barriers in the Rio Grande River violates federal law and must be removed

The UN says this summer was the hottest on record across the Northern Hemisphere

The First Lady has tested positive for COVID, but the President has tested negative so far

Elon Musk has threatened to sue the ADL for defamation for saying Twitter loves hate speech

The Coast Guard arrested a Florida man for trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic

Burning Man got wrecked with a big rainstorm that stranded people there with some dying

JAXA launched a rocket carrying an X-ray telescope to explore the origins of the universe

India’s moon rover has successfully completed its walk on the lunar surface to look for water

Smash Mouth’s former lead singer and founder Steve Harwell passed away at 56 to liver failure

Comcast and Disney have moved up Hulu sale date to September 30

Pixar’s Elemental will debut on Disney+ on September 13

The producers of Netflix’s One Piece say they have season 2 scripts ready when the strike ends

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

We got an official trailer for The Boy and the Heron

We got a teaser trailer for Apple TV+’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the death of Jimmy Buffet, the Proud Boys going to prison for a long time, and why Adam Driver is great.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: One Piece, Ahsoka, Columbo, Baldur’s Gate 3, PowerWash Simulator

B: Finished Blasphemous II, getting ready to play BG3 (for real), books, weathered the storm.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Senator Tommy Tuberville’s hold on military promotions may put up to 650 officers in limbo by the end of 2023

Alabama wants to try out their new execution technique on a death row inmate with nitrogen 

A judge rules that Rudy Giuliani is liable for defaming two Georgia election workers

Two of the former leaders of the Proud Boys were sentenced to a combined 32 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other crimes during the January 6 insurrection, another Proud Boy got 10 years in prison

Heroes of the Week: Court has ruled in Pornhub’s favor on the Texas age verification law as it violates the 1st amendment

RIP Jimmy Buffett

Trump’s DC trial has been set for March 4, 2024 right before Super Tuesday

The 2008 presidential election cycle star called “Joe the Plumber” has died of pancreatic cancer

House majority leader Steve Scalise was diagnosed with a treatable form of blood cancer

Hurricane Idalia caused a lot of destruction as it hit the south, but luckily not many deaths

Canada updated its travel advisory to the US to warm LGBTQ+ members of some states’ laws

Archaeologists in Turkey have identified massive structures below a Roman-era castle

Nebraska women’s volleyball game set the world record for women’s sports attendance

Fans unable to get tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour shows can see it in theaters October 13

Despite finishing the series based on The Spiderwick Chronicles, Disney’s refusing to air it

Peacock is getting an animated Jurassic Park LEGO special

Adam Driver calls out the AMPTP for refusing to meet the actors’ demands to stop the strike

We got a teaser trailer for Ferrari from Michael Mann

We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s The Killer

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the three big deaths of last week, the "mysterious" death of the man that stormed Russia with his PMC, and how the studios' CEOs were so offended that their dumb plan to trick the WGA into a deal didn't work.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: What We Do in the Shadows, Columbo, Grindstone, Pikmin 4, Oblivion

B: Blasphemous II, Legend of Vox Machina, books, I now live on the surface of the sun.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Trump and his cohorts turned themselves in to the Fulton County Jail to get booked and get their mugshots taken

Man who shot a woman that was running a store with a pride flag displayed was killed in a shootout by police

The Ohio GOP Secretary of State is rewriting the language that’ll appear on the ballot for the abortion rights to mislead voters at the booths

Heroes of the Week: The Biden administration announced that their new SAVE program for college loan repayment options is now live

Texas state rep got an abortion healthcare bill passed and signed by Gov. Abbott by not including the term “abortion” in the text

RIP WWE wrestler Bray Wyatt

RIP WWE/ECW wrestler Terry Funk

RIP Bob Barker

Maui County is suing Hawaiian Electric Company for damages from disastrous fires

Yevgeny Prigozhin has “mysteriously” died in a plane crash in Russia

The GOP primary debate sure was a thing that happened

The British Museum’s director resigned after not taking warnings of possible thefts seriously

UPS workers approve their 5-year contract agreement from last month

The Russian space agency announced that their Luna-25 spacecraft crashed into the moon

The AMPTP finally set up a meeting with the WGA, but only lectured them about their last offer

Dune: Part Two has been delayed to 2024 due to the ongoing strikes the studios caused

Barbie has overtaken The Super Mario Bros. Movie as the highest-grossing film of 2023 in NA

We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Rebel Moon

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about Trump and his 18 friends getting charged with 40 crimes in Georgia, the big hurricane that's hitting California, and the big revelations about the events of The Blind Side.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Tower of Fantasy, Pikmin 4, Truck Driver

B: Tren, secret game, books, I think August is trying to kill me.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Trump and 18 other associates were indicted for RICO and 40 other charges for their attempts to get Georgia officials to overturn the 2020 election, Trump tried to hold a press conference to reveal new evidence of fraud in GA, but his lawyers got him to stop

Marion County police executed a raid on the Marion County Record and took equipment with a faulty warrant, so they had to return it and now faces investigations

Another giant asian hornet species was found in the US in Georgia that threatens local honeybee populations

Heroes of the Week: Massachusetts will provide free school lunches to K-12 students thanks to an additional 4% income tax on millionaire residents

A Montana judge sided with young environmental activists in suit over rights to clean environment 

Southern California is looking to get hit by its first hurricane in 165 years with Hurricane Hilary

The death toll for the Maul fires has surpassed 100

Microsoft’s AI-generated article on MSN suggested tourists visit a “can’t miss” food bank in Ottawa

Michael Oher, the subject of the movie The Blind Side, reveals the family took advantage of him

Elon Musk announced that people won’t be able to block other users on Twitter/X at some point

Mark Zuckerberg gives up on Elon Musk fight after delays

Netflix is ending their DVD rental business with one last shipment of 10 discs to each subscriber

Percy Jackson and the Olympians will debut December 20 on Disney+

We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about Ohio rejecting a very dumb state constitutional amendment, the report showing more trips that Clarence Thomas got from rich friends, and the amazing story from Montgomery, Alabama of a group of while people that thought they could get away with beating up a dock security guard.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Earthquake, What We Do in the Shadows S5, Pikmin 4, Spider-Man Miles Morales

B: Yggdra Union, secret game, books, It’s too hot help me

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Justice Clarence Thomas’ extensive history of vacations and trips paid by rich people has expanded greatly with the new ProPublica report

Utah man that threatened President Biden and NY DA Alvin Bragg died in a firefight with the FBI

Sam Bankman-Fried has been ordered to jail as his bail was revoked for alleged witness tampering

The historic town of Lahaina on Maui has mostly been destroyed by wildfires as death toll reaches 80

Heroes of the Week: White boaters tried to jump a black security guard doing his job and promptly got their asses whooped by nearby black people jumped to his defense, and Black Twitter’s reaction gave us all hope for humanity yet again

President Biden has designated a new national monument near the Grand Canyon

Ohio voters rejected the new GOP constitutional change to make amendment proposals harder

Attorney David Weiss has been named special attorney on the Hunter Biden investigation

The DOJ’s protective order on Trump was granted only for sensitive information in his federal case

SCOTUS has temporarily blocked the $6 billion Purdue Pharma-Sackler bankruptcy deal

Judge has thrown out Trump’s countersuit against E. Jean Carroll

Hank the Tank, the bear behind 21 home invasions has been captured near Lake Tahoe

Barbie is the first billion dollar blockbuster movie solely directed by a woman

The Emmy Awards have been rescheduled for January 15 due to the strikes

Johnny Hardwick, King of the Hill writer and voice actor for Dale, has passed away at 64

Disney+ and Hulu premium plans are going up in price again for the second time in the past year

They also want to crackdown on password-sharing

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk Trump's new federal charges, the amazing story of a worm that survived being frozen for 46,000 years, and the death of Paul Reubens.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Barbie, TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, Super Mario Bros. Movie, Spider-Man Miles Morales, Arcade Paradise

B: Tren, Octopath II, secret game, books, REALLY wanna play BG3.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Trump was indicted on four counts by a federal grand jury related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, DOJ has asked the judge to issue a protective order after Trump sends out a threat

Six former Mississippi cops have plead guilty to a racist assault on two black men

The Orlando Magic donated $50k to Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign

Heroes of the Week: The two expelled members of the Tennessee 3 won back their state House seats in a special election

RIP Paul Reubens

Federal judge dismissed Trump’s defamation suit against CNN over the term “the Big Lie”

The big X sign on the Twitter building has been taken down after neighbors filed 24 complaints

Elon’s suing the Center for Countering Digital Hate over driving away advertisers

Phoenix’s streak of 110+ degree days ended at 31 days with a meager 108

A worm survived being frozen in Siberian permafrost for 46,000 years

NASA sent the equivalent of an interstellar shout to the Voyager 2 satellite to get in contact with it

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s adapting The Warriors as a stage musical

WB Discovery lost 1.8 million subscribers during the Max launch quarter

Matt Groening’s Disenchantment will end with Part 5, which debuts September 1

Donald Glover and his brother Stephen are writing the Lando series for Disney+

We got an official trailer for Loki Season 2

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the stupid changeover from Twitter to X, the one union that signed a big deal to avoid a strike, and the unfortunate climate news of the week.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Twisted Metal, Komi Can’t Communicate, Diablo IV, Remedium: Sentinels, American Truck Sim

B: Inscryption, Octopath Traveler II, manga, REALLY wanna play Baldur’s Gate 3.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: DOJ is suing Texas over its floating barriers in the Rio Grande after Gov. Greg Abbott refused to have them removed

A Texas A&M professor was suspended and nearly lost her job for criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in a talk at University of Texas Medical Branch in March

Trump has received a new charge in his Mar-a-Lago suit for willful retention of National Defense Information and new obstruction counts added for trying to have footage deleted

Carlee Russell has been charged with two misdemeanors in kidnapping hoax

Heroes of the Week: Biden designated a national monument for Emmett Till in Illinois and Mississippi

UPS averts drivers strike by signing a tentative deal with the Teamsters union

RIP Sinead O’Connor

Mitch McConnell had a weird freeze while talking at a press conference

Air Force intelligence officer claimed under oath that the US has recovered non-human “biologics”

Seven carmakers have united to build a huge charging network to ease EV buyers’ tensions

Buoys off the coast of Florida have been recording hot tub-level heat levels with a 101.1 F max

UN Chief says the era of global warming is over and the era of global boiling has arrived

Elon Musk overhauled the branding of Twitter to change its name to X

LeBron James’ son Bronny suffered cardiac arrest during practice, but is out of the hospital now

A Florida community is overrun with invasive rabbits

WGA & SAG-AFTRA Strike Delays

Beyond the Spider-Verse and other Sony movies have been delayed

The 75th Primetime Emmys show has been delayed

TMNT: Mutant Mayhem is already getting a sequel and a Paramount+ series

Eiichiro Oda’s early one-shot manga Monsters is getting an anime adaptation

We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Castlevania: Nocturne

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s One Piece

We got an official trailer for Adult Swim’s Lazarus

We got an official trailer for The Marvels

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the wild story of a mayor in Alabama that has been blocked from taking office for three years, the revelations of a fossil showing a mammal and dinosaur in battle, and Jason Aldean's new music video that has gotten him into trouble.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: They Cloned Tyrone, Futurama, Heroes, Diablo IV, Kingdom Classic

B: SF6, Octopath Traveler II, books, No joke I might actually be melting please send help

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Patrick Braxton became Newbern, Alabama’s first black mayor in history, but the white former mayor and city council have harassed him to keep him from taking office

Texas troopers were told to push back migrants into the Rio Grande and ordered not to give them water during the heat wave

Heroes of the Week: Michigan AG announced charges against 16 people for their involvement in a 2020 election fake elector scheme

Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida will begin May 20, 2024

Trump’s been whining about being informed that he’s a target of the DOJ’s January 6 investigation

RFK Jr. got roasted by Democrats at a House hearing on censorship for his past comments

Las Vegas police executed a search warrant related to the shooting of Tupac Shakur

Scientists have identified a fossil that shows a mammal and herbivore dinosaur fighting

Jason Aldean put himself on the pop culture outrage map with his gun shooting anthem song

AMC dropped their controversial plan to charge more or less money based on seat location

WGA and SAG-AFTRA file labor complaints against NBCUniversal over tree-trimming controversy

Nickelodeon has acquired global rights to the 1987 TMNT series to air on its channels

Disney+ is getting Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 on August 2

Adult Swim has ordered “Lazarus,” the new anime series from Shinichiro Watanabe

Netflix is getting rid of its cheapest ad-free tier to lure people to its ad-supported tiers

Peacock is hiking prices for the first time to get some attention

We got an official trailer for Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

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