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  • Let’s Weekend #365 – Don’t Listen to Marco Rubio
    On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk the latest terrible actions of the GOP, the LA Dodgers' big mistake, and Disney's latest attack on Ron DeSantis.
    Intro
    What Are We Up To?
    C: Fast X, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Tears of the Kingdom, Rocket League
    B: Zelda TOTK, reading Blood Meridian, truck shenanigans.
    Brandon’s Random Factoid
    Assholes of the Week: North Carolina GOP House Reps overrode the Governor’s veto of their 12-week abortion bill thanks to an attention-seeking Democrat that switched parties last month
    Nebraska GOP couldn’t get a trans healthcare ban passed, so they tacked on an abortion ban to get it passed
    10 Oregon GOP Reps will not be able to run for reelection because they’ve reached their 10th unexcused absence to block pro-abortion, gun control, and trans healthcare bills
    The LA Dodgers canceled invite of a drag nuns group for their pride night due to pressure from Marco Rubio and the Catholic League that has led to other groups pulling out
    Florida is investigating a teacher that showed Strange World to her class
    House GOP blocked Democrat resolution to expel George Santos from Congress
    Heroes of the Week: Penguin Random House and 5 authors are suing a Florida school board over its book bans
    Martha Stewart is the oldest cover model for a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue
    Turkey President Erdogan is heading to a runoff election after failing to reach at least 50% of votes 
    The IRS is working on its own tax filing system that is making the tax companies angry
    House Rep. Cori Bush has introduced new legislation calling for $14 trillion in reparations
    Disney has canceled plans for $1 billion Florida campus
    Disney’s also shutting down its extremely expensive Star Wars hotel
    Dancers at a topless bar in LA unanimously voted to unionize to become the only one in the US
    Google will be deleting old accounts that haven’t logged in during the past 24 months
    Scientists have done a full-sized digital deep sea scan of the Titanic shipwreck
    SAG-AFTRA is calling for strike authorization vote ahead of its June 7 negotiations with studios
    Disney’s pulling a bunch of movies and series from Disney+ & Hulu
    Avatar: The Way of Water is coming to Disney+ and Max on June 7
    What We Do in the Shadows Season 5 debuts July 13
    The Futurama revival will debut on Hulu July 24
    Disney+’s Loki Season 2 debuts October 6 and Echo series debuts November 29
    Conan’s “Conan O’Brien Must Go” travel series has been ordered at Max
    We got a teaser trailer for Killers of the Flower Moon
    We got a teaser trailer for Five Nights At Freddy’s
    We got a teaser trailer for The Creator
    We got an official trailer for Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning
    We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Extraction 2
    We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Nimona
    Contact us at [email protected]
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    1 hr 30 min
  • Let’s Weekend #366 – Nancy, Bigo Was Here
    On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about some big insurrectionists going to prison, how Texas Republicans are holding their AG accountable, and what sort of person gets a poem removed from a Florida school.
    Intro
    What Are We Up To?
    C: Futurama, American Gladiators, PowerWash Simulator, Tears of the Kingdom, Dredge
    B: Zelda TOTK, reading Karl May, Memorial Day shit.
    Brandon’s Random Factoid
    Assholes of the Week: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy
    The insurrectionist that put his feet up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk got 4.5 years in prison
    Target removes Pride Month products after increased backlash and threats against employees
    SCOTUS has narrowed the scope of the Clean Water Act
    The Texas House GOP-led investigative committee recommended impeaching AG Ken Paxton on 20 articles of impeachment
    An 11-year old Mississippi boy called 911 for help and got shot in the chest by the cop
    Heroes of the Week: E.Jean Carroll is expanding her second defamation lawsuit against Trump with new remarks from his CNN Town Hall
    RIP Tina Turner
    It seems like Biden and McCarthy will get a debt ceiling deal done just before the US defaults
    GOP Senator Tim Scott is officially running for President
    Ron DeSantis launched his presidential campaign on Twitter Spaces in a disaster of an event
    The LA Dodgers have apologized and re-invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night
    One woman’s complaint got Amanda Gorman’s poem removed from a Florida school
    An AI-generated image of a bombing at the Pentagon got the stock markets to briefly drop
    An Indiana man died after somebody pulled the pin on a grenade in his grandfather’s belongings
    A Miami zoo got in trouble with New Zealanders after advertising a kiwi encounter event
    While giving the commencement address at Boston University, David Zaslav got heckled
    Max got a ton of criticism from writers and directors guilds for putting their credits under “creators”
    MoviePass is back
    The Color Purple is getting remade as a musical
    We got an official trailer for Barbie
    We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Skull Island
    Contact us at [email protected]
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    1 hr 47 min
  • Let’s Weekend #364 – All Killer No Filler
    On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the big criminal charges for George Santos, an innocent Bible prank in Arizona, and the end of Sum 41's long run being in sight.
    Intro
    What Are We Up To?
    C: The Muppets Mayhem, Star Wars Visions S2, Phineas & Ferb, The Meg, Breath of the Wild, Rocket League
    T: Brannagh’s Hamlet from 1996, ACNH, rewatch latest season of Rick & Morty, Muppets Mayhem on Disney+ is schlocky fun, Ken Burns’ Benjamin Franklin, predicting Tucker Carlson on CNN, driver’s permit followed by ramen
    B: Deathloop, Indivisible, waiting for Zelda, books, Mother’s Day stuff.
    Brandon’s Random Factoid
    Assholes of the Week: House Rep. George Santos is facing 13 counts from three different fraud schemes
    Nazi shot up an Allex, Texas mall to kill eight people and wounding seven others
    Driver in Brownsville, Texas ran into a crowd of people near a migrant shelter to kill eight people and injure 10 others received reckless driving and 18 other charges
    Jordan Neely’s killer surrendered himself to the police and was charged with second-degree manslaughter
    Heroes of the Week: E. Jean Carroll won her civil trial against Donald Trump on sexual abuse and defamation claims
    Advisers to the FDA have backed the first over-the-counter birth control pill
    Tucker Carlson’s show is returning on Twitter
    Trump said a lot of bullshit during his CNN Town Hall
    Arizona’s House is investigating a Democrat member over a bible prank
    Florida lawmakers want to allow radioactive waste to be used to make roads
    Dan Snyder’s agreed to sell the Washington Commanders for $6 billion
    Researchers discovered that hammerhead sharks hold their breath for deep, cold dives
    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has given them a closer look at an unusually shiny planet
    Sum 41 is disbanding after 27 years
    Disney’s looking to merge Disney+ and Hulu into its own “One-App Experience” later this year
    WB has formally announced Beetlejuice 2
    We got an official trailer for The Walking Dead: Dead City
    We got a teaser trailer for Poor Things
    We got an official trailer for Meg 2: The Trench
    We got an official trailer for Apple TV+’s The Crowded Room
    We got an official trailer for Oppenheimer
    Contact us at [email protected]
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    1 hr 30 min
  • Let’s Weekend #363 – The Wrath of Bisconte Draculo
    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
    Contact us at [email protected]
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    1 hr 29 min
  • Let’s Weekend #362 – Pinkertons of the Coast
    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
    Contact us at [email protected]
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    1 hr 41 min
  • Let’s Weekend #361 – SpaceX’s 4/20 Starship Disaster
    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
    Contact us at [email protected]
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    1 hr 6 min
  • Let’s Weekend #360 – Rings Around Uranus
    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
    Contact us at [email protected]
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    1 hr 27 min
  • Let’s Weekend #359 – The Tennessee Three
    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
    Contact us at [email protected]
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    1 hr 32 min
  • Let’s Weekend #358 – We’re Not Gonna Fix It
    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
    Contact us at [email protected]
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    1 hr 43 min
  • Let’s Weekend #357 – The Last of Fungus
    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
    Contact us at [email protected]
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    1 hr 12 min

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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…