Let's Weekend

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the continued events going on in Israel and Palestine, Best Buy's big news, and the mess of the House GOP's Speaker search.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: MHA, Castlevania, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Starfield

B: Cyberpunk 2077, Starfield, music, vtuber rabbit hole

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Israel escalates their attacks on Palestinians by telling the UN that northern Gaza’s 1.1 million people need to be escalated or face attacks, US &European leaders support this genocide, US Intelligence warned Israel about potential attacks from Hamas a week before

George Santos is facing 10 new charges in his fraud case to make it 23 total charges

The NHL banned Pride Tape to go against the tide of sports leagues supporting the LGBTQ community

Heroes of the Week: Kaiser Permanente striking workers got a new deal with a 21% raise over 4 years

House Speaker Mess

Steve Scalise won the nomination after a closed-door election

Steve Scalise steps down from the race less than a day later

Jim Jordan stepped up as the next favorite, but he still doesn’t have the votes to win

Election denier Kari Lake is running for Kyrsten Sinema’s Senate seat

Japan’s gov’t is seeking the revocation of the legal status of the Unification Church in Japan

The UAW’s strike has escalated with 8700 workers walking out of a Ford Kentucky plant

A bear named Grazer won Fat Bear Week

NASA’s next asteroid mission is targeting a metal asteroid

The WGA voted to ratify the new contract

Hollywood unions call on the AMPTP to get back to the table with SAG-AFTRA

It seems like Best Buy will stop selling DVDs and Blu-rays in store and online

Crunchyroll is launch a 24-hour free, ad supported channel in the US for anime newbies

Disney+ is getting a restored 4K version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

After being canceled on Paramount+, Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 moves to Netflix

We got a teaser trailer for Dragon Ball Daima

We got another teaser trailer for A24’s Hazbin Hotel

We got an official trailer for Wonka

We got an official trailer for The Iron Claw

We got an official trailer for Peacock’s Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Leo

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the events going on in Israel and Palestine, the disasterous week in the House, and Netflix's latest slate of anime and gaming anime.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Columbo, Castlevania, MHA, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Time Wasters

B: Phantom Liberty, Starfield, books, vtubers.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Explosions rock Israel as Hamas attacked them with rockets and kidnapping & killing civilians with PM Netanyahu promising retaliation

Judge Engoron issued a gag order on Trump after he attacked the judge’s staff on social media

Former campaign treasurer for House Rep. George Santos has plead guilty to federal charges

An armed man who demanded to talk to Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers was arrested twice in one day

Heroes of the Week: Two scientists won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their research leading to the development of mRNA vaccines

Simone Biles has won the women’s all-around final to secure her record 21st championship gold

Congress passed a short-term spending bill to fund the government at the last minute

The GOP wants Rep. Jamaal Bowman to be expelled after pulling a fire alarm

Speaker Kevin McCarthy was removed through a motion to “vacate the chair”

Nancy Pelosi was asked to vacate her Capitol office by the interim House Speaker

The House GOP is a complete mess now as they try to figure out who will be the Speaker

Kevin McCarthy’s expected to step down from Congress before the end of his term

Laphonza Butler has been sworn in as California’s newest US Senator

The police chief in Kansas who led the raid on the Marion County Record has resigned

The new SCOTUS term will include cases covering the CFPB, social media, abortion pills, & more

Walt Disney Pictures VFX workers voted to unionize with IATSE

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concert film has surpassed $100 million in advance ticket sales

The head writers of the Drew Barrymore Show declined to return after her controversial stunt

Disney+ will be cracking down on password-sharing in November

Netflix reportedly plans to increase prices for Ad-free plans after the actors strike is over

Netflix has renewed Castlevania: Nocturne for Season 2

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

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Pluto

We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Devil May Cry

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix

We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai

We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft

We got an official trailer for Peacock’s LEGO Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling

We got an official trailer for A24’s Priscilla

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the death of Dianne Feinstein, Trump's big loss before his New York trial begins, and the end of the WGA strike.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Columbo, Paper Mario, Rocket League

T: Fae Farm, ST: Lower Decks, Hakumei and Mikochi, The Storyteller Greek Myths, heart MRI (science is cool!)

B: Phantom Liberty, Starfield, books, music, enjoying cool weather.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: The US soldier that defected to North Korea has been returned to the US

Nevada grand jury has indicted a witness in the killing of Tupac Shakur

Canada’s House speaker has resigned after inviting a WWII veteran to the floor that was found to later joined the Nazis

The US and 17 states have sued Amazon in a sweeping antitrust lawsuit

Heroes of the Week: NY Supreme Court judge issues summary judgment that concludes that Trump and his associates systematically overvalued corporate assets over many years

The WGA strike is finally over

The Supreme Court rejected Alabama’s defiance and delays in their GOP-drawn congressional maps only featuring one black majority district

Senator Dianne Feinstein has died at 90

The Senate has codified a new dress code shortly after doing away with it

A judge has ordered the end of the conservatorship between Michael Oher and the Tuohys

16 year old boy was arrested in northern England for cutting down the famous Sycamore Gap tree

The capsule with the sample of an asteroid’s rocks landed safely in Utah after a 7-year mission

The big streamers formed a Streaming Innovation Alliance lobbying group

Netflix has greenlit Season 3 of Alice in Borderland

We got a teaser trailer for Prime’s Hazbin Hotel

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Obliterated

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s May December

We got an official trailer for Apple TV’s Argylle

We got an official trailer for Disney’s Wish

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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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