Let's Weekend

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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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about scams Bank of America were doing, the scams that movie studios have been trying to pull on actors and writers to cause the actors to strike, and the scam that Elon Musk has pulled to get himself sued.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Nimona, Brooklyn 99, Futurama, Diablo IV, American Truck Sim

B: Octopath Traveler II, SF6, music, still melting.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: The alleged man that committed the Gilgo Beach serial killings has been arrested 12 years after the last killing

Bank of America has been ordered by the CFPB to pay $250 million in fines over making tons of fake accounts and illegal fees

Senator Tommy Tuberville is holding up military officer nominations that has left the Marine Corps without a Senate-confirmed commandant for the first time in 150 years

Heroes of the Week: The FDA has approved Opill, the first over the counter daily birth control

Over 800k borrower will have their student loans forgiven due to mismanagement of income-driven repayment plans

Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten has been released on parole after 53 years in prison

The House passed a defense authorization bill with all of their culture war nonsense in it

The IOC says they will not invite Russia or Belarus to the 2024 Olympics in Paris

Northwestern has fired their football coach Pat Fitzgerald amid allegations of widespread hazing

They also fired their baseball coach for bullying allegations

Elon Musk and Twitter have been sued over not paying their promised severance packages

Fox News is facing a defamation lawsuit for alleging he staged the January 6 as an FBI agent

SAG-AFTRA has declared that they’re on strike alongside the WGA

Bob Iger, from a billionaire retreat, says they’re not being “realistic” with their demands

AMPTP asks for federal mediation after failing to get actors union deal done

We got an official trailer for Wonka

We got a teaser trailer for Godzilla Minus One

We got a trailer for Napoleon

We got a trailer for Command Z

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the fun spat between MGT and the House Freedom Caucus, the genius line veto by Tony Evers, and why the movie studios' streaming services suck these days.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Futurama, Dead Cells, Fallout Shelter, Kingdom Eighties

B: Trails Into Reverie, SF6, Nadia, I hate summer so much.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: The El Paso Walmart shooter has been sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms

Attorney disciplinary committee recommends Rudy Giuliani be disbarred for his 2020 election legal work

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been voted out of the House Freedom Caucus for insulting Lauren Boebert

Heroes of the Week: The world is officially free of chemical weapons after the US destroyed its last rocket of sarin nerve agent

Civil rights group has sued Harvard over its legacy admissions

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers uses line item veto to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years

The FDA has given full approval to the first drug to slow down Alzheimer’s disease

A new study suggests at least 45% of tap water in the US could be contaminated with PFAS

New Zealand is the first country in the world to ban single-use produce bags at grocery stores

Cocaine was found in the West Wing lobby of the White House

Texas man that was reported missing eight years ago as a teen returned home a day later

The latest dumb Eric Adams controversy involves a supposed photo of a slain cop in his wallet

30 million people have signed up for Meta’s Twitter-style app “Threads”

Twitter’s threatening to sue them for supposedly stealing its trade secrets

G/O Media followed through with its threat to put AI articles on its sites with a bad Star Wars article

Disney’s removing Crater from Disney+ less than two months after it released on Disney+

Insecure is the first HBO show on Netflix after a recent deal was signed

The Super Mario Bros. Movie will be available on Peacock August 3

We got an official trailer for Killers of the Flower Moon

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the awful SCOTUS rulings, the big gravitional waves news, and which disease is spreading in the US.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Indiana Jones, Brooklyn 99, PowerWash Sim, Picross S9

B: Trails Into Reverie, Street Fighter 6, books, melting.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: The SCOTUS’s new rulings (Affirmative Action, Student Debt Relief, allowing a web designer to refuse to serve same sex couples, and Independent State Legislature theory)

Gov. DeSantis has signed that bill allowing the use of radioactive materials in road paving materials

Bud Light did jack shit to help Dylan Mulvaney in the controversy it created in hiring her to advertise a March Madness contest

Heroes of the Week: Judge blocks a Florida law punishing venues where kids can attend drag shows 

The French are holding massive protests in the wake of a police shooting of a teenager

Brazil court has banned former President Jair Bolsonaro from running for election until 2030

Russia has detained General Sergei Surovikin for his alleged role in the mutiny

Geraldo Rivera has left Fox News

More Canadian wildfire smoke blanketed much of the US midwest and south this week

Malaria is spreading slowly in the US for the first time since 2003

Astronomers finally hear the celestial hum of gravitational waves for the first time

Disney’s National Geographic has laid off the last of its staff writers

SAG-AFTRA and the Studios are extending talks to July 12 as a deal nears

People got mad that Titanic showed up on Netflix right after the submersible implosion

Ryan Seacrest will be the new host of Wheel of Fortune

We got an official trailer for Hulu’s Futurama

We got an official trailer for Dune: Part Two

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the big thing that everybody talked about, the latest dumb Elon Musk news, and Netflix's many announcements.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: The Flash, Extraction 2, Cocaine Bear, Star Ocean FDR, Pikmin 1/2

B: Ultrakill, secret game, LitRPG stuff, Summer rain.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: OceanGate’s Titanic submersible had a catastrophic implosion after the company ignored safety warnings

Andrew Tate was indicted on human trafficking and rape charges in Romania

Samuel Alito wrote a preemptive op-ed in WSJ to counter ProPublica’s report on his trips that were paid by a GOP billionaire

The House GOP voted to censure Adam Schiff for initiating Trump investigations as chair of the House Intelligence Committee

Elon Musk and Joe Rogan spent the past week using GamerGate moves to challenge a vaccine expert into a debate and inciting their fans to harass him

Heroes of the Week: Federal Judge has permanently blocked Arkansas’ law banning gender-affirming care for minors

Another federal judge issued an order stopping parts of Indiana’s ban on trans medical care

Russian PMC nearly toppled the Putin regime until they came to a deal to stop them

Hunter Biden has agreed to plea deal for tax charges and avoid prosecution on a gun charge

The FTC is suing Amazon over its deceptive practices to lock people into recurring Prime subs

Florida has major issues with an invasion of giant African land snails

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are supposedly going to hold a cage fight

Reddit’s desire to charge for API access has backfired big time, though they’re not backing down

HBO, Marvel, Netflix, Sony, and Universal are skipping San Diego Comic Con

Four showing including Star Trek: Prodigy have been canceled and will be pulled from Paramount+

WB Discovery is in talks to license its older shows to Netflix

Netflix Tudum announcements

FUBAR was renewed for Season 2

Linda Hamilton is joining the cast of Stranger Things Season 5

We got an official teaser trailer for 3 Body Problem

We got an official teaser trailer for One Piece

We got an official trailer for Kraven the Hunter

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about indictments, the weird upcoming Beatles album, and the addition of the real first MCU movie to Disney+.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: FUBAR, Renfield, Brooklyn 99, Grindstone, Fallout Shelter

B: Zelda TOTK, secret game, Sacred and Terrible Air, I hate Summer.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Trump showed up to a Miami federal courthouse and plead not guilty to all 37 charges in his classified documents case

The Mississippi cop that shot an 11-year-old boy in his home has been suspended without pay

Grand jury has indicted Daniel Penny for his chokehold death of Jordan Neely on the subway

Federal grand jury has indicted Jack Teixeria over his alleged leaking of classified documents to his Discord

Heroes of the Week: Germany will pay more than $1.4 billion in 2024 to Holocaust survivors

Epstein survivors secure a $290 million settlement with JPMorgan Chase

RIP Cormac McCarthy

Arizona House GOP tried to expel a Democrat over a Bible prank, but failed to get the votes

Ticketmaster and other ticketing companies have pledged to give US customers prices upfront

There will be a final Beatles record that used AI to pull John Lennon’s voice from an old demo

Pat Sajak is retiring from Wheel of Fortune

Disney announced a bunch of dates for its movies along with moving Avatar 5 to 2031

Hocus Pocus 3 is officially in development

Incredible Hulk is finally coming to Disney+ as the first movie of the MCU

Star Wars: Ahsoka will premiere August 23 on Disney+

Velma has been renewed for Season 2 at Max

The director of The Flash is working on Batman: The Brave and the Bold live-action movie

Physical 100 is getting a second season at Netflix

We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Nimona

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s The Cloned Tyrone

We got a teaser trailer for Pixar’s Elio

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about Trump's federal charges, the shocking PGA Tour news, and how happy we are that Pat Robertson is dead during Pride Month.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Manifest, PowerWash Sim, Diablo IV

B: Zelda TOTK, finished Blood Meridian, it’s too fucking hot!

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Trump will face 37 federal charges in the classified documents probe that has been unsealed

The PGA Tour stunned everybody by merging with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour

Chris Licht, now former CEO of CNN, was let go after all of the stupid shit he’s been doing and saying for the past few months

Heroes of the Week: Pat Robertson is dead. Happy Pride Month

Ted Kaczynski died in prison

RIP The Iron Sheik

The SEC is suing Binance with 13 charges against the crypto exchange

The House Freedom Caucus is retaliating against Speaker McCarthy over his debt ceiling bill

SCOTUS justices Thomas and Alito were the only ones not able to file financial disclosure forms

SCOTUS barely vote in favor of the Voting Rights Act in Alabama gerrymandering case

SCOTUS sides with Jack Daniels in trademark dispute with parody dog toy maker

Moms for Liberty is among a dozen “parental rights” groups that the SPLC are labeling hate groups

Bob’s Burger and Arrested Development actor Jay Johnston has been charged for January 6 role

The Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine has collapsed under mysterious circumstances

Most of the north eastern US is blanketed with smoke from wildfires in Quebec

We got an official trailer for The Witcher: Season 3 from Summer Game Fest

We got an official trailer for The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart

We got an official trailer for Bottoms

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about Ken Paxton's impeachment, the end of the debt ceiling crisis, and why Republicans are lining up to start failing presidential campaign bids.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Spider-verse 2, I Think You Should Leave, Futurama, Tears of the Kingdom, Garden Simulator

B: Zelda TOTK, still reading Blood Meridian and Karl May, work stuff.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Two more Oath Keepers have been sentenced to prison terms

Texas AG Ken Paxton has been impeached by the Texas House

Scientologist Danny Masterson has been found guilty of 2 out of 3 counts of rape in retrial

The three leaders of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund have been charged with money laundering and charity fraud for helping protesters against “Cop City”

YouTube will no longer take down videos falsely claiming stolen US elections

Heroes of the Week: The House and Senate have voted to approve the debt ceiling bill on somewhat bipartisan support

The family of Aderrien Murry is suing the city and at least two police officials over their son’s shooting

Utah school district has removed the Bible from middle and elementary schools

Federal judge has rejected Tennessee’s anti-drag law for being too broad and vague

Turkey president Erdogan wins his runoff election

Chris Christie is running for President for some reason

Biden will veto the bill that the Senate barely passed to repeal his admin’s student loan relief plan

The FTC is requiring Amazon to pay over $30 million over privacy claims with Ring and Alexa

Tourist has plead guilty for handling a Yellowstone bison calf that had to be euthanized

The ESA held the first livestream from Mars

Disney+ now has the first four Indiana Jones movies and the Young Indiana Jones series

Dwayne Johnson’s returning to his role of Luke Hobbs in Fast & Furious standalone movie

We got an official trailer for TMNT Mutant Mayhem

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