On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the murder of Jordan Neely, the start of the WGA strike, and the absurd announcement of a Vampire Survivors show.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Phineas & Ferb, Breath of the Wild, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Rocket League

B: Deathloop, Paradise Killer, books, Chili Crisp

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: The Texas man that killed five people and ran off has been caught, Gov. Abbott decided to call the killer and the victims “illegal immigrants” while asking for helpful info

Jordan Neely was murdered on a subway by a white ex-Marine for being loud and obnoxious on the train with the NYPD and Eric Adams not giving a shit

Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio and three other members have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy

Three McDonald’s franchisees are being fined over $200k for breaking federal child labor laws

Man gets the longest sentencing yet for a January 6 insurrection defendant

Former Boston high school dean got 18 years for racketeering as he used students to sell drugs for his gang

Heroes of the Week: The Writers Guild of America has gone on strike

First Republic Bank has been bought by JPMorgan Chase

The Fed’s Janet Yellen says that the US could run out of cash to pay its bills by June 1

Montana State Rep. Zooey Zephyr is suing to get her back on the House floor after being censured

Nearly 300 people were arrested by the DOJ in the biggest international fentanyl operation sting

Eli Lilly announced that its experimental Alzheimer’s drug appears to slow its effects after a trial

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft is tapping into backup power to keep it going for another three years

Norway has unveiled a life-size sculpture of the ship-wrecking walrus Freya

Vice is preparing to file for bankruptcy

We got the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class

House of the Dragon is moving forward with S2 production with scripts already being done

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will move forward with S2 production

Marvel’s Blade has been delayed due to the writer’s strike

SNL is going dark

Sweet Tooth will end with Season 3

Vampire Survivors has an animated show in the works

We got an official trailer for Dune: Part Two

We got an official trailer for Gran Turismo

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the firing of Tucker Carlson, the Bud Light controversy, and Wizards of the Coast's latest stupid action.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Baby J, Sweet Tooth S2, Power Rangers Once & Always, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Breath of the Wild, Rocket League

T: Animal Crossing, Vampire Survivors, finished Picard & Mando, Hot Fuzz

B: Paradise Killer, Outer Wilds, books, It’s getting warmer.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Montana’s House of Reps voted to censure Dem. Rep Zooey Zephyr for wanting to speak against their terrible anti-trans healthcare bill, then Montana banned gender-affirming care for trans minors

The House GOP barely passed a debt ceiling bill to cut a bunch of stuff

Five people were fatally shot in their home after asking the neighbor to stop shooting while their baby was sleeping

Wizards of the Coast hired Pinkerton agents to recover an MTG expansion a YouTuber purchased by accident with claims he’d get big fines and jail time

Heroes of the Week: Strict abortion bans failed in South Carolina and Nebraska

Colorado’s Gov. signed 4 gun control bills into law after the LGBTQ club shooting

Fox News fired Tucker Carlson

CNN fired Don Lemon

The Texas Dept. of Agriculture instituted new dress code rules based on “biological gender”

First Republic Bank is back in financial trouble once again

Bed Bath & Beyond filed for bankruptcy protection

Founder of the We Build The Wall group has been sentenced to 4 years in prison

The Bud Light/Dylan Mulvaney controversy is very stupid

Japanese company lost contact with its lunar spacecraft just as it was about to land on the Moon

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will appear on Disney+ May 17

Season 3 of The Witcher will be split up into two parts releasing June 29 and July 27

Black Mirror returns for Season 6 on Netflix  in June

We got a teaser for Peacock’s Twisted Metal

We got a trailer for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

We got a trailer for Next Goal Wins

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the spate of selfish shootings, how to get some of Facebook's money, and Elon's ecological disaster of a SpaceX Starship rocket launch.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Mandalorian, Phineas & Ferb, Dredge, PowerWash Simulator, MLB The Show 23

B: Immortals Fenyx Rising, Kena Bridge of Spirits, books, new job

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Oklahoma county commissioner has resigned after being recorded making violent and racist remarks

A woman was fatally shot by a New York homeowner for pulling into the wrong driveway

A black teenager in Kansas City survived a shooting when he accidentally came to the wrong house to pick up his younger siblings

Two Texas cheerleaders were shot after one of them tried to get into the wrong car after practice

A kindergartner and three others were shot in North Carolina because a ball into a man’s yard

Shooting in Dadeville, Alabama left four dead and 32 injured as six have been arrested and charged

Heroes of the Week: SCOTUS blocks lower court decision to invalidate FDA approval of abortion pill

Sign up for your portion of $725 million Facebook lawsuit settlement over Cambridge Analytica

Mike Lindell has been ordered to pay $5 million over his election claims dispute challenge

Fox News settled its lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems

The Boy Scouts of America are back and will establish a $2.4 billion fund for sexual abuse victims

Former wrestler Ted DiBiase Jr is another big name tied to the Mississippi welfare fraud scandal

It looks like the MLB’s Oakland Athletics are moving to Las Vegas

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket exploded four minutes after liftoff

National Treasure: Edge of History has been canceled at Disney+

Sony’s Spider-Man movies are starting to arrive on Disney+

Star Trek: Section 31 movie is happening at Paramount+ with Michelle Yeoh

Galaxy Quest series is in development at Paramount+

Knuckles series for Paramount+ was announced

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s FUBAR

We got an official teaser for Netflix’s All the Light We Cannot See

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the leaker of military documents and the dumb reasons it happened, the end of Parler, and how nice Uranus looks these days.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Fresh Prince, Mandalorian, Simpsons, Ghostwire: Tokyo, MLB The Show 23, Rocket League

B: Immortals Fenyx Rising, Suzurein, books, regular hours

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: The leaker of secret military docs to a Discord has been arrested

GOP Billionaire Harlan Crow bought property from Justice Clarence Thomas several times and he never disclosed it

Heroes of the Week: Tennessee House Rep. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson have returned to the Capitol

SCOTUS placed a temporary hold on lower court’s ruling that restricted access to mifepristone

An Arizona House Rep. was expelled from the state House of Reps for role in baseless testimony

NY DA Alvin Bragg is suing Jim Jordan over his attempts to undermine the Trump case

Montana is the first state to fully ban TikTok

The Navy has renamed its last two ships with names honoring the Confederacy

Parler has been shut down by its new owner

NASA’s Webb Telescope captures Uranus’ rings in a new image

The Super Mario Bros. theme is one of 25 songs being archived in the National Recording Registry

HBO Max’s merger with Discovery+ will be called Max when it launches May 23

Harry Potter is officially being adapted for a series

The Game of Thrones prequel series “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight”

True Detective: Night Country was announced

Shazam! Fury of the Gods is coming to Max on May 23

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai animated series debuts May 23

We got a teaser for The Penguin

We got a trailer for The Sympathizer series coming in 2024

Stranger Things is getting an animated series at Netflix

We got a trailer for Star Wars: Visions Season 2

We got a teaser trailer for The Marvels

We got a teaser trailer for The Continental: From the World of John Wick

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s The Mother

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the Trump mess in NYC, the situation in Tennessee, and the good news out of Wisconsin and Chicago.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Beef, MLB The Show 23, Tchia, Rocket League

B: Immortals Fenyx Rising, Lackadaisy, books, job going well.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Trump has officially been charged with 34 felony counts in NYC

Maryland’s AG has released a report detailing sex abuse allegations against more than 150 Catholic priests involving more than 600 victims over the past 80 years

Tennessee’s House voted to expel the two black Democrat members that protested for gun control legislation while not expecting the white woman Democrat

Justice Clarence Thomas failed to report trips he’s taken that were paid by a major conservative billionaire for many years

Heroes of the Week: Democrat Janet Protasiewicz wins Wisconsin Supreme Court seat to give liberals control of the court for the first time in 15 years

Brandon Johnson wins the Chicago mayor’s election

The DOJ and Pentagon are investigating secret military docs that have appeared online

Finland has joined NATO in spite of Russia’s protest

Saudi Arabia and other major oil producers are cutting production for the rest of the year

Judges in Texas/WA issue dueling decisions telling FDA to remove/keep abortion drug on shelves

Diabetes medicine has become harder to come by because its also a huge weight loss drug 

UFC’s owner Endeavor is acquiring the WWE to combine them into one company

Manifest Season 4 Part 2 will be out June 2 on Netflix

Warner Bros. Discovery is looking to do a Harry Potter series covering the events of the books

Disney’s working on a live-action Moana remake

Star Wars Celebration featured a few new movie announcements along with a new show

We got a teaser trailer for Ahsoka

We got an official trailer for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

We got an official trailer for Secret Invasion

We got an official trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

We got an official trailer for Blue Beetle

We got a teaser trailer for Barbie

We got a teaser trailer for Extraction 2

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the awful shooting in Tennessee, Trump's many indictments, and the old Walt Disney reacharound.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Naruto Shippuden, MLB The Show 23, Far Cry 5, Rocket League

T: Lawnmower Sim, Picross, Shin-chan game, Octopath 2, The Great North, Mandalorian, Picard, Airheads

B: GrimGrimoire Once More, Uncharted Thieves Collection, books, new job.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: 3 kids and 3 adults along with the shooter died at a private Christian school in Nashville

Trump has been indicted for more than 30 counts related to business fraud in New York City

Federal judge in Texas struck down a key part of the ACA that required insurers cover preventative care

Idaho passed a bill to make it illegal for minors to leave the state for an abortion without parental consent

Heroes of the Week: Disney’s Reedy Creek board used its final meeting to sign an agreement to remove the power from Gov. Ron DeSantis’ incoming board

The FDA approved the overdose-reversing Narcan for over-the-counter sales

The Senate has voted to repeal the Iraq War authorizations

The Dominion lawsuit against Fox News has been cleared to go to trial

Federal judge has ruled in favor of book publishers in case on the Internet Archive’s book lending

The RESTRICT Act seems potentially concerning with its broad language

A barge carrying methanol and other materials broke loose from a tugboat on the Ohio River

The QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley has been released early from federal prison

Panera Bread is looking to roll out hand scanners to let customers access loyalty & payment info

Australian food firm has created a meatball with mammoth meat created from cells in a lab

Twitter’s removing legacy verified checkmarks starting April 1

Jonathan Majors has been charged with assault and harassment

Netflix is working on anime adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs the World featuring the movie’s cast

Star Trek’s Strange New Worlds & Lower Decks shows have been renewed for new seasons

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series has been ordered at Paramount+

Ryan Coogler is developing a new X-Files reboot

We got an official trailer for Wes Anderson’s new movie Asteroid City

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk the continued legal attacks on trans people's rights, the phony Parents Bill of Rights, and the ludicrous Jack Daniels lawsuit.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Naruto Shippuden, Theatrhythm, Rocket League

P: Finally got another video out, Fightcade

T: Octopath Traveler 2, Picard, Mandalorian, This is Spinal Tap, sickies

B: Trails to Azure, secret game, books, new job starting.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Former Florida lawmaker behind the “Don’t Say Gay” law has pleaded guilty to COVID-19 relief fund fraud

Georgia Gov. Kemp signed a new bill into law to ban most gender-affirming care for trans children

The World Athletics Council has barred transgender women athletes from international track and field competitions

The House GOP is trying to force phony “Parents Bill of Rights” legislation into effect

Heroes of the Week: Over 1 million people in France are demonstrating against the proposed pension reforms by President Macron

Somebody in Utah has used their book banning law to challenge the Bible for one school district

Bank Failures

Swiss government brokers deal for banking giant UBS to acquire Credit Suisse

NY Community Bank has agreed to buy big chunk of Signature Bank

Shares in Deutsche Bank are falling as fears are affecting the global bank market

The fungus Candida auris is becoming a more dangerous public health care threat

California signed a deal to make its own affordable insulin

Charges against Justin Roiland have been dropped due to lack of evidence

Jack Daniels argued a case to the Supreme Court over the issue of parody by a dog toy company

Arrested Development has returned to Netflix

Netflix announced anime series adaptation of Ooku: The Inner Chronicles manga

Flamin’ Hot movie will be the first to debut on both Hulu and Disney+ at the same time

We got an official trailer for Big Shark, Tommy Wiseau’s first movie since The Room

We got a teaser trailer for Sweet Tooth Season 2

We got an official trailer for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the threat of a nationwide ban on abortion pills, the domination of Everything Everywhere All At Once, and Ticketmaster incurring the wrath of Robert Smith.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Andor, The Mandalorian, Naruto Shippuden, Theatrhythm, Dead Cells, Rocket League

P: Fightcade (ST, CvS2, VF4FT, other fighting game stuff (SoulCalibur III CE)

B: Trails to Azure, secret game, books, new job.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: A federal judge in Texas is on the verge of banning mifepristone from the entire country

The Biden admin has approved the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska

Heroes of the Week: The EPA proposed limiting the amount of forever chemicals in drinking water to the lowest level that can be detected

Newark, NJ has replaced a Christopher Columbus statue with a monument honoring Harriet Tubman

Everything Everywhere All At Once dominated the Oscars

RIP Lance Reddick

The third mid-size bank to collapse is First Republic, but they got rescued by the bigger banks

Novo Nordisk will slash prices on its US insulin pens and vials by up to 75% starting in 2024

The Justice Department has opened a probe into the Silicon Valley Bank after its collapse

Ohio has filed a lawsuit against Norfolk Southern to make them pay for cleanup & monitoring costs

T-Mobile has paid $1.35 billion for Mint Mobile, partly owned by Ryan Reynolds

French Bulldogs are the most popular purebred dog breed in the US in 2022

There’s a class-action lawsuit against Buffalo Wild Wings alleging its boneless wings aren’t wings

There’s a 5,000 mile long snake of seaweed circling around Florida

Scientists have spotted evidence of volcanic activity on Venus

Sam Neill’s has been treated for stage 3 blood cancer

Ticketmaster has angered Robert Smith of The Cure over exorbitant fees for cheap ticket prices

There’s supposed to be a Good Burger 2 movie set for Paramount+

We got an official trailer for Joy Ride

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Beef

We got a teaser trailer for Disney+’s American Born Chinese

We got an official trailer for The Little Mermaid

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the return of child labor, Elon Musk's new embarassing asshole move, and one bank that we're not sad to see crash and burn.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: The History of the World Pt. 2, Naruto Shippuden, Minecraft Dungeons, Theatrhythm FBL

B: Atomic Heart, Secret Game, books, MORE tree bukkake.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Arkansas Gov. Sanders signed a bill into law to roll back verification requirements for the ages of child workers

Tennessee Lt. Gov. Randy McNally apologized for repeatedly posting and liking pictures of a scantily clad gay man on Instagram while supporting anti-LGBTQ legislation

Mexican cartel apologizes after kidnapping four Americans and killing two in mistaken identity chaos by leaving the five men responsible behind and tied up

Elon Musk mocked a disabled Icelandic Twitter employee for asking if he still had a job at Twitter before apologizing after learning who he had been attacking

Heroes of the Week: Canadian judge rules that giving the middle finger is a “God-given right”

Bindi Irwin revealed her decade-long fight with endometriosis that often goes underdiagnosed by doctors

Silicon Valley Bank for tech firms and investors has collapsed with nobody feeling bad for them

Another Norfolk Southern train has derailed in Ohio, but luckily did not have hazmat on board

Ron DeSantis has filled his new Disney World special district board with his supporters

California’s cutting ties with Walgreens over its decision to cower to the GOP’s threats

Ben Savage, aka Cory Matthews, is running for Adam Schiff’s Congressional seat

Toblerone is dropping its Matterhorn and Swiss flag from its packaging for some of its bars

Vinyl records have outsold CDs for the first time since 1987

Bob Odenkirk is working on a remake of The Room for charity

Batman: Caped Crusader is moving to Amazon after Warner Discovery dropped it

Beavis and Butt-Head returns for Season 2 on April 20

I Think You Should Leave will be out on Netflix May 30

We got an official trailer for Apple TV+’s Ghosted

We got an official trailer for Amazon’s Citadel

We got a teaser trailer for TMNT Mutant Mayhem

We got an official trailer for No Hard Feelings

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the complete teardown of Dilbert, the good insulin news, and Arnold Schwarzenegger doing a first with his new project.

Intro

What Are We Up To?:

C: We Have a Ghost, Naruto/Shippuden, The Mandalorian S3, Theatrhythm FBL, Rocket League

B: Scarlet Nexus, Hi-Fi Rush, books, tree bukake.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signs the first statewide bill to ban public drag shows

Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to two life terms for the double murder of his wife and son

The syndication company behind the publishing of Dilbert and all of its merch drops Scott Adams for good

The mayor of College Park, Maryland has been arrested on more than 50 counts of child pornography

Heroes of the Week: A24 auctioned off dozens of props from Everything Everywhere All at Once to raise over $555k for three charities

The rights to the iconic PSA of a crying Native American (who wasn’t actually a Native American) has been transferred to an Indigenous group

Kobe Bryant’s family has agreed to a $28.5 million settlement with LA county over cops and firefighters sharing pictures of those that died in the helicopter crash

Eli Lilly has cut the price of their insulin to cap it at $35 per month out of pocket

FDA has authorized the first at-home test for COVID-19 and the Flu

Walgreens will not distribute abortion pill in states where GOP AGs have threatened them

US int. community has concluded that Havana Syndrome wasn’t caused by foreign country

Egyptian antiquities authorities revealed a newly discovered sealed-off chamber inside a pyramid

Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Fubar, his first TV series that will be on Netflix

Pokemon Concierge is a stop-motion animated series for Netflix

We got a teaser trailer for Haunted Mansion

We got an official trailer for Peter Pan & Wendy

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Unstable

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