Let's Weekend

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we ring in the New Year as we make fun of Andrew Tate's stupidity, the hubris of Bed Bath & Beyond and WB Discovery, and the wild Damar Hamlin situation.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Alice in Borderland S2, White Noise, Kaleidoscope, Vampire Survivors, Rocket League

P::Basically the property of my own YouTube channel at this point, which is fine. Sold off the vast majority of my library to rebuild around digital and Switch. GT7 support making me seriously consider a PSVR2, but don’t want to do it for just one game. More in the works...

B: PS5!!!, Also Switch games, Georgia weather makes no sense.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Idaho authorities seem to have found a suspect for the killings of four University of Idaho students

Andrew Tate’s massive ego tried to talk shit to Greta Thunberg on Twitter, causing a series of stupid events that lead to his arrest for human trafficking in Romania

Southwest Airlines caused a lot of chaos during the holidays with tons of cancellations due to its ancient employee tracking system, which could lead to massive fines

Heroes of the Week: Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin suffered a traumatic heart/lung injury during the game on Monday and has miraculously recovered enough to breath on his own as of Friday morning

Fans, teams donated over $7 million to Damar’s charity in the wake of his injury

Kevin McCarthy was finally elected as House speaker after the humiliation of 15 rounds of votes

The FDA finalized a rule change to make abortion pills available to more pharmacies, online & off

A teacher in Newport News, VA was shot by a 6 year old student

A new Louisiana law requires its citizens to provide proof of their age to visit & view porn sites

The black family that regained Bruce’s Beach from LA county back to the county for $20 million

Amazon plans on laying off 18k employees

Bed Bath & Beyond says they’re likely going to file for bankruptcy because of their absolute hubris

Two very stupid men attacked a substation to knock out an area’s power to commit robbery

Wednesday was renewed for Season 2 at Netflix

1899 has been canceled at Netflix after one season

HBO Max removed half of its Looney Tunes catalog along with 3 seasons of The Flintstones

We got an official trailer for Evil Dead Rise

We got an official trailer for Renfield

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s You People

We got an official trailer for Peacock’s Poker Face

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the newest GOP liar in the House, the end of the January 6 committee, and why we're excited about a potential RRR sequel.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Glass Onion, Alice in Borderland S2, Costume Quest Grubbins on Ice, Pinball Heroes, Rocket League

T: FFXIV, Pokemon Violet, Mario Kart 8, not a lot of tv

B: Soccer Story, Eastward, movies, it’s fucking FREEZING!

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: One of the GOP’s newest House Reps in New York lied about much of his work and school background

The Vatican defrocked an anti-abortion priest that had once placed an aborted fetus on an altar

Harvey Weinstein found guilty on three charges in a new LA trial

Tory Lanez found guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion

German court convicted a 97 year old that was a secretary at a Nazi camp

Heroes of the Week: The January 6 committee ended its final meeting by voting to recommend four criminal charges for Donald Trump to the DOJ

Congress passed a $1.7 trillion spending package before Friday’s deadline

Report on Trump’s tax returns showed the IRS lacked the resources to do mandatory audits

The USPS is pledging to move to an all-electric delivery fleet

The TSA has broken their record for most guns found in carry-on bags with two weeks left in 2022

Death penalty researchers noted a record number of botched executions in 2022

Germany is returning 22 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

Elon Musk made a poll on Twitter about whether he should step down as CEO and lost

He claims he’ll resign when he finds a suitable replacement at CEO

The owner of the Phoenix Suns and Mercury has sold his teams to Mat Ishiba

Director S.S. Rajamouli is working on a sequel to RRR

We got an official trailer for Oppenheimer

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s That 90s Show

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the ongoing antics of Elon Musk, Trump's new grift, and how Ash Ketchum got to retire before you did.

Editor's Note: Last week's show notes are included below this week's show notes so you can read up on the news we couldn't cover due to not being able to record the show last weekend.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Alice in Borderland, The Muppets Christmas Carol, Vampire Survivors, Rocket League

B: Chained Echoes, Soccer Story, books, holiday shit.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Elon Musk banned a bunch of journalists and other Twitter accounts that criticized him, also barred accounts tracking flights and banned the Elon Jet account

Peru’s President announced he was dissolving Congress, so Congress voted him out for violating their constitution, Judge orders him to be detained for 18 months

Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas as he’s been indicted on federal charges

The Trump Organization was found guilty of tax fraud and falsifying business records

Heroes of the Week: NY bans pet stores from selling cats, dogs, and rabbits

Starbucks workers are planning a 3-day walkout at 100 stores in a unionization effort

You can now order free COVID-19 tests once again from the USPS

Ralph Warnock wins the GA runoff to give Dems 51 seats in the US Senate

Kyrsten Sinema announced that she’s leaving the Democratic Party to be Independent

Congress voted to remove a bust of the Chief Justice that upheld slavery from the US Capitol

Drug maker is seeking FDA approval to sell OTC overdose-reversal nasal spray

Scientists in a lab managed to produce more energy via fusion than it put in

Trump hyped up a huge announcement, which was $99 NFT Trump trading cards

25 more movies have been added to the National Film Registry, including Carrie and Iron Man

Netflix landed the live-action My Hero Academia movie

Netflix’s Old Enough is getting a second season on January 1

Ash Ketchum will no longer be in the Pokemon anime starting with the next season

HBO Max pulled Westworld and The Nevers in its latest batch of removals

Henry Cavill will not be in the next Superman as James Gunn is working on a new Superman film

Amazon signed Henry Cavill to its newly announced Warhammer 40.000 project

We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Kaleidoscope

We got a trailer for Hulu’s Extraordinary

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

We got a teaser trailer for Barbie

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Last Week's Show Notes for the news we couldn't cover last week

Intro

What Are We Up To?

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: The Club Q shooter is being charged with hate crimes

The Trump Organization was found guilty of tax fraud and falsifying business records

Tampa police chief resigned after flashing her badge to get out of a traffic stop

Hertz will pay $168 million to customers after falsely accusing them of stealing their cars

Terrorists shot up two electric substations in North Carolina to shut down a drag show, taking down power for a few days in Moore County

Peru’s President announced he was dissolving Congress, so Congress voted him out for violating their constitution

Heroes of the Week: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Time’s Person of the Year

Brittney Griner is finally coming home after prisoner swap deal with Russia

American sports journalist Grant Wahl died in Qatar during World Cup under suspicious conditions

Ralph Warnock wins the GA runoff to give Dems 51 seats in the US Senate

Kyrsten Sinema announced that she’s leaving the Democratic Party to be Independent

Former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani sentenced to 13 years in prison for fraud

Indonesia is banning sex outside of marr

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about Kanye West's very eventful week, San Francisco entering the Robocop age, and that Cocaine Bear trailer.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Slumberland, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, One Piece, Rocket League

T: Pokemon Violet

B: Vampire Survivors, Metal Hellsinger, anime, Early voting

P: SO MUCH VIDEO PRODUCTION. Sound Off will be all over the site this month.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes convicted of seditious conspiracy in his January 6 trial

The House voted to force a contract on workers to avert a rail strike, The Senate also passes it

Danny Masterson’s rape trial ended with a hung jury and was declared a mistrial

NYC’s Mayor Eric Adams moved forward with plan to involuntarily hospitalize homeless people

Kanye West had a hell of a week praising Nazis and Hitler

Alex Jones has declared bankruptcy

Heroes of the Week: The Senate voted to pass the Respect for Marriage Act

The USMNT beat Iran 1-0 to move on to the next round

Federal appeals court ended the special master review of documents seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate

WHO renames monkeypox as mpox

House Dems elected Rep. Hakeem Jeffries as leader

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors considers allowing SFPD’s robots to use deadly force

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate reached a $105 million settlement with the US Virgin Islands

After robocall shenanigans in 2020, Jacob Wohl and his buddy were sentenced to register voters

Gaslighting is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year

Woman is suing Kraft over misleading advertising of Velveeta Shells & Cheese

The Mandalorian Season 3 debuts March 1 on Disney+

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

We got an official trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3

We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s That 90s Show

We got a teaser trailer for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

We got an official trailer for Cocaine Bear

We got an official trailer for The Mean One

We got an official trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about two more awful shootings of the past week, some awful people going to prison, and the hero that stopped one of the shootings from being worse.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Wednesday, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, God of War Ragnarok, Tinykin, Rocket League

B: Persona 5 Royal, Vampire Survivors, Yukikaze, Christmas List Writing, Survived Thanksgiving

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Shooter went into Club Q, an LGBTQ club, in Colorado Springs, killed 5 people, and wounded 18 others

The shooter had made a bomb threat against his mother last year that resulted in no charges as the records were sealed, His dad was relieved that he only killed people in a gay club and wasn’t gay

Shooter went into a Walmart in Chesapeake, VA and killed 5 people plus himself and injured 4 others

Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were sentenced to prison time in fraud case

Georgia’s supreme court reinstates 6 week abortion ban

Elon Musk is granting amnesty to suspended accounts that haven’t broken the law or engaged in egregious spam

Heroes of the Week: Rich Fierro was the hero that stopped the Club Q shooter and pinned him down until the cops arrived

Democrat Mary Peltola won her election for a full term as the 1st Alaska Native in Congress

Biden admin extends student loan repayment pause to June 30, 2023

The largest rail union rejects the newest contract, which leaves a deal deadline of December 8

Alabama is pausing their executions after a third failed lethal injection since 2018

Bob Chapek is out at Disney and Bob Iger returns as CEO

We got a trailer for Netflix’s White Noise

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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the two bad killings on college campuses, some awful people going to prison, and the big snow storm that hit Buffalo and surrounding areas of western New York.

IntroWhat Are We Up To?C: Black Panther Wakanda Forever, One Piece, God of War Ragnarok, Rocket LeagueB: Persona 5 Royal, X Japan, freezing my ass offBrandon’s Random FactoidAssholes of the Week: Suspect is in custody after shooting at UVA that killed three football players and injured two othersFour students at the University of Idaho were killed by an edged weapon as the suspect is at largeThe man that killed six people with an SUV he drove into a Christmas parade has been sentenced to life in prisonElizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for fraud charges at TheranosTech companies unleash a wave of layoffs in fear of a looming recessionHeroes of the Week: US fines six airlines $7.5 million and requests them to refund customers over canceled flightsJudge overturns Georgia’s six week ban on abortionsShockingly, when given an ultimatum to stay on for massive crunch for “Twitter 2.0” or be laid off with three months severance, most Twitter employees took the moneyJeff Bezos gives Dolly Parton $100 million to donate to the charities of her choosing2022 Midterm Elections CleanupKatie Hobbs has officially beaten Kari Lake to become Arizona’s new governorDems officially retain control of the Senate as Arizona and Nevada go in their favorRepublicans official gain control of the House of RepsKevin McCarthy nominated by House GOP for House Speaker, but may not have the votesMitch McConnell is in the same situation in the SenateHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi will step down after two decades as a leaderTrump announced his bid for the 2024 Presidential race and it was a wet fart of a showSame-sex and interracial marriage bill advances in the Senate with bipartisan supportCongress held its 1st hearing about establishing non-voting delegate seat for the Cherokee NationBuffalo, NY is getting hit hard by a huge snow storm that has dropped up to 6 feet of snow on themThere are now 8 billion people on EarthChris Hemsworth takes time off after discovery of his genetic predisposition for Alzheimer’sAmazon picks up series from Sony based on its Marvel charactersMurderville returns to Netflix with a Christmas special on December 15We got an official trailer for Netflix’s A Man of ActionWe got an official trailer for Netflix’s The RecruitContact us at [email protected] via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about midterms that went well for the Democrats, the latest crypto scam, and what people are licking at one National Park.

IntroWhat Are We Up To?C: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Enola Holmes 2, One Piece, Arcade Paradise, Rocket LeagueB: Persona 5 Royal, J-metal, cold setting in.Brandon’s Random FactoidAssholes of the Week: A noose was found at the Obama Presidential Center construction siteNJ woman hung stuffed animal toys tied in nooses above a political sign for a black man running for a House Rep seatJudge demands that Alex Jones pay an extra $473 million to Sandy Hook familiesHeroes of the Week: James Roesener is the first out trans man elected to US state legislatureMaxwell Frost was elected as the first Gen Z member of CongressWes Moore was elected as Maryland’s first black governor and the third in the countryMaura Healey (Mass) and Tina Kotek (Oregon) are the first out lesbian governors in US historySalt Lake City’s city council voted in favor of a project to build a small community for unhoused peopleRIP Kevin Conroy2022 Midterm ElectionsDems did very well in Governors’ races picking up PA, MD, MA, and are leading in AZThe Senate looks to be remaining at 50/50, though the GA race is going to runoffThe House looks similarly headed to a close stalemate, though races are still in limboCalifornia, Kentucky, Michigan, Vermont all voted to protect abortion in their statesMaryland, Missouri voted to allow recreational marijuanaElection deniers didn’t fare very well, though did better than they deservedFTX crypto exchange seeks bankruptcy after DOJ and SEC are investigating fraud claimsTwitter Blue is taken down as many people used it to impersonate brands and cause chaosLarge piece of the Space Shuttle Challenger was found in the Atlantic by History Channel crewThe National Park service is asking people to stop licking toads at an Arizona parkStudio Ghibli made a Grogu short for Disney+Netflix is working on Gears of War movie and animated seriesHenry Cavill is leaving The Witcher series after Season 3, replaced by Liam HemsworthWe got a teaser trailer for The Witcher: Blood OriginWe got a clip announcing that Cuphead Part 3 arrives November 18We got an official trailer for Glass Onion: A Knives Out MysteryWe got an official trailer for Dragon Age: AbsolutionWe got an official trailer for John Wick: Chapter 4Contact us at [email protected] via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the Kyrie Irving situation, the return of Benjamin Netanyahu, and great rejection of Bolsonaro as Lula won the Brazilian election.

IntroWhat Are We Up To?C: Manifest, One Piece, Shatter Remastered Deluxe, American Truck Sim, Rocket LeagueT: FFXIV, The Procession to Calvary, Letterkenny season 10, Andor, Harley Quinn, baked baking B: Signalis, Persona 5 Royal, j-metal, ready to voteBrandon’s Random FactoidAssholes of the Week: David DePape charged with assault, attempted kidnapping in attack on Paul Pelosi in his home, Conspiracies went rampant all over the Far Right after the incidentA theft ring of catalytic converters has been busted as the US gov’t seeks $545 million in forfeitures from the culpritsKyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets was suspended after sharing anti-semitic movie and refusing to apologize during several chances after the postFormer PM Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be returning to power after Israel’s fifth vote in four years due to partnering with the far rightHeroes of the Week: Lula da Silva has beaten President Bolsonaro to win the Brazilian Presidential electionElon Musk’s Fantastic First Week of Owning TwitterHis plan is to charging $8 for Twitter Blue and verification that everybody’s mockingHe blamed activists for advertisers leaving the platformHalf of employees have been laid off in chaotic sweep, which lead to a lawsuitCVS and Walgreens announced opioid settlements totally $10 billionShocking News: The rainbow fentanyl concerns by the DEA and Fox News were BSNASCAR driver Ross Chastain pulled off wild move at the end of a race he learned in a GC gameTaylor Swift is the first artist to sweep the entire Top 10 of Billboard’s Hot 100 listWestworld has been canceled by HBO after its fourth season endedNetflix renewed The Sandman for Season TwoWe got an official trailer for Avatar: The Way of WaterWe got an official trailer for HBO Max’s A Christmas Story ChristmasWe got an official trailer for Netflix’s TrollContact us at [email protected] via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about more of the consequences of Kanye's actions, the debate between John Fetterman and Dr. Oz where Oz was just an asshole, and James Gunn's amazing rise to power at DC.

IntroWhat Are We Up To?C: Manifest, Wendell & Wild, Costume Quest 2, Rocket LeagueB: Signalis, Persona 5 Royal, finished Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, HalloweenBrandon’s Random FactoidAssholes of the Week: Man that drove his SUV through a Christmas parade last year was convicted in courtThree men convicted of supporting plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. WhitmerElon Musk has finished his Twitter acquisition and immediately fired two of its top execsHeroes of the Week: The man who pulled Capitol Police officer Michael Fanone into the crowd of violent rioters on January 6 to beat him was sentenced to over 7 years in prisonKanye’s DownfallAdidas dropped their partnership with KanyeHe showed up to the Skechers HQ uninvited and was escorted out right awayKanye’s Donda Academy shuts down for the school year“Kanye is right” sign hung over LA freeway shows the damage of his actionsRishi Sunak will be the new UK prime ministerDr. Oz mocked Fetterman’s stroke, said local political leaders should be involved with abortionsFacebook’s 3rd quarter financial report has them at their lowest point since 2016Second railroad union votes down Biden’s tentative agreementPenn State canceled a campus event featuring Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnesThe ISS had to move to avoid hitting Russian space junkJames Gunn and Peter Safran have been hired to lead DC Studios for WB DiscoveryWe got a teaser trailer for Peacock’s Poker Face seriesWe got a trailer for Netflix’s 1899 seriesWe got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Sonic Prime seriesWe got an official trailer for Ant-Man and The Wasp: QuantumaniaWe got an official trailer for The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday SpecialContact us at [email protected] via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the quick end to the reign of Liz Truss as the UK Prime Minister, Kanye West's bad week of awfulness, and how good Trigun's rebirth is looking.

IntroWhat Are We Up To?C: She Hulk, Vampire Survivors, Rocket LeagueP: Made my return to YouTube in the form of three videos, more on the way.Streamlining game development by going all-in on a genre’s priorities.Arcade1Up can fuck all the way off.Smash is not a fighting game, but its future might change that.T: Fuck Me Running, but also some good news, and FFXIVB: Cyberpunk 2077, Scorn, hide content (fuck he was good), and I joined the IWW.(Play BallisticNG)Brandon’s Random FactoidAssholes of the Week: UK PM Liz Truss resigned weeks after getting the job because she’s bad at everything and nobody in her party likes her anymore, Boris Johnson offers to returnRichmond, VT employee resigned after lowering fluoride in their water for over a decadeSteve Bannon was sentenced to 4 months in prison for contempt of CongressTwo other LA city council members have been forced to resign after racist remarks were leakedElon Musk plans to lay off 75% of Twitter’s employees once he takes overHeroes of the Week: The site to apply for student loan relief is live and it’s pretty simpleMacKenzie Scott has donated $84.5 million to the Girl ScoutsKanye’s Bad WeekKanye West wants to buy Parler for some reasonGeorge Floyd’s family is suing him after saying George died of Fentanyl on a podcastBalenciaga is the first brand to drop him after his repeated antisemtic commentsThe EPA has started a civil rights probe into Mississippi’s water issuesTrump was officially subpoenaed by the January 6 committee to testify by November 14Insurrectionist was sentenced to over three years in prison for obstructing an official proceedingThe Oregon Governor’s race looks like a shit show with its richest man meddling in itRepublican states are pushing to get their voting district maps by narrowing down who’s blackMassachusetts names the “swift-footed lizard of Holyoke” as its state dinosaurWe got a trailer for Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western FrontWe got a new trailer for Trigun StampedeP: It still blows my mind that Knives is voiced by the derpy silver ranger from Gokaiger.Contact us at [email protected] via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Google Play, or RSS