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  • Let’s Weekend #466 – Harvard’s Revenge

    In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the GOP's dumb reconciliation bill, Trump's continued fight with Harvard, and Joe Biden's cancer announcement.

    • Intro
    • What Are We Up To?
      • C: Andor, Lilo & Stitch, Fortnite, MLB The Show 25
      • B: Clair Obscur Expedition 33, Doom The Dark Ages, Babylon 5.
      • Brandon’s Random Factoid
      • Assholes of the Week: Two Israeli Embassy staffers in DC were killed by a shooter
        • House GOP barely passed that massive reconciliation bill to fund Trump’s agenda
        • The DOJ charged NJ congresswoman LaMonica McIver for allegedly assaulting law enforcement officers outside the ICE facility a few weeks ago, Newark mayor Ras Baraka’s case was dropped because they had no evidence of wrongdoing
        • Trump admin is revoking Harvard’s ability to enroll international students, Federal judge has blocked it for now
        • Heroes of the Week: UK suspended free trade talks with Israel and announced sanctions over their continued blockade of supplies into Gaza
        • RIP George Wendt
        • Trump Dump Truck
          • Trump’s meeting with South Africa’s president had him pushing the genocide conspiracy
          • Supreme Court blocked the creation of religious charter school in OK with 4-4 deadlock
          • Federal judge blocks Trump admin from shutting down the DOE
          • DOJ made deal with Boeing to drop criminal case over two fatal crashes of 737 MAX jets
          • Federal judge continues block of DOGE taking over US Institute of Peace
          • President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer
            • Dilbert creator Scott Adams announced that he’s dying of the same cancer
            • Romania picked a Pro-EU centrist over a hard-right nationalist in its presidential election
            • President of CBS resigned as the Trump lawsuit looms over the company
            • WB Discovery’s credit rating has been cut to junk status
            • Darren Aronofsky announced a new studio Primordial Soup that focuses on AI-based tools
            • Netflix stepped in to pick up Sesame Street’s worldwide streaming rights
            • Netflix has ordered a series adaptation of the upcoming Dan Brown book “The Secret of Secrets”
            • Avengers Doomsday and Secret Wars were delayed to 2026 and 2027
            • Alex Garland will direct the Elden Ring movie
            • Amazon Prime canceled The Wheel of Time after three seasons
            • We got an official trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth
            • We got a teaser trailer for Zootopia 2
            • Contact us at [email protected]
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            • 1 hr 29 min
            • Let’s Weekend #465 – The Seashell Threats

              In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the explicit bribe that Trump is accepting from Qatar, Trump's love of a certain group of immigrants, and how James Comey angered the Trump admin.

              • Intro
              • What Are We Up To?
                • C: Thunderbolts, Everybody’s Live, Graveyard Keeper, Onimusha: Warlords
                • T: Balatro, mobile Civ, Kingdom 2 Crowns, finishing off Archer, DB, Memorial Day prep
                • B: Doom The Dark Ages, Clair Obscur Expedition 33, books, family drama.
                • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                • Assholes of the Week: Due to Georgia’s abortion ban law, a brain-dead woman must be kept alive to give birth to her fetus
                  • Trump’s accepting Qatar’s offer to replace Air Force One with a $400 million luxury Boeing 747 jet that he gets to keep after he’s out of office
                  • Somebody tried to car bomb a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, but only killed one person and only damaged their offices while the lab was fine
                  • Trump admin made a deal with Mexican cartel leaders to let 17 members of Ovidio Guzman Lopez’s family into the US
                  • Heroes of the Week: Dems + 5 Republicans block Trump’s reconciliation bill from passing the Budget Committee
                  • RIP Joe Don Baker
                  • Trump Dump Truck
                    • US and China announced a temporary deal to cut tariffs from 145% to 30% for 90 days
                    • James Comey’s being investigated by DHS/Secret Service over a seashell Instagram post
                    • Walmart says that higher prices due to tariffs are coming as soon as later this month
                    • The FDA is moving to remove prescription fluoride supplements for kids from the market
                    • India disputed Trump’s claim his trade talks helped make India/Pakistan’s ceasefire happen
                    • Harvard found out that a mislabeled document in their digital archives is an authentic Magna Carta
                    • Rodrigo Duterte won his mayoral race in his home city of Davao despite being stuck at the Hague
                    • A trove of forgotten Nazi documents were found in Argentina’s Supreme Court basement
                    • The man who stabbed Salman Rushdie has been sentenced to 25 years in prison
                    • Twitter’s AI Grok was telling everybody about the white genocide in South Africa that didn’t happen
                    • MLB’s commissioner has removed Pete Rose and others from the permanently ineligible list
                    • Charter and Cox Communications struck a $21.9 billion merger deal to become a cable giant
                    • ESPN’s getting a standalone service this fall for $29.99 per month
                    • Max will be renamed HBO Max after two years
                    • Mickey 17 will be available on HBO Max May 23
                    • Captain America: Brave New World will be on Disney+ May 28
                    • Amazon Prime is getting a Creed spinoff series set in the Delphi Gym
                    • Fallout has been renewed for a Season 3 ahead of Season 2’s premiere in December
                    • Peacock’s The Office offshoot “The Paper” will premiere in September
                    • Netflix renewed The Four Seasons for Season 2
                    • We got an official trailer for Marvel’s Ironheart
                    • We got an official trailer for Nobody 2
                    • We got an official trailer for Superman
                    • Contact us at [email protected]
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                    • 2 hr 3 min
                    • Let’s Weekend #464 – The Chicago Pope

                      In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the new Pope from Chicago, what ICE did to the mayor of Newark, and Trump's new dumb idea of the week.

                      • Intro
                      • What Are We Up To?
                        • C: Detroiters, The Four Seasons, MLB The Show 25, Death Stranding DC, Logiart Grimoire
                        • B: The Hundred Line LDA, Unpacking, books, rainy weather
                        • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                        • Assholes of the Week: Newark mayor Ras Baraka was arrested at ICE detention facility for alleged trespassing as he and two members of Congress were there to inspect and protest the facility
                          • The USDA and DOGE are demanding that states hand over personal data of food stamp recipients for their nefarious plans
                          • The Trump admin fired the Librarian of Congress via late night email on Thursday
                          • Trump’s new surgeon general pick loves raw milk and has no medical license
                          • Trump’s new pick for interim US attorney for DC is Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro
                          • The World Central Kitchen closes their soup kitchens across Gaza due to dwindling supplies as Israel’s continued blockade of aid forces them to close down
                          • Heroes of the Week: Judge ordered the release of Rumeysa Ozturk from immigration detention
                          • Trump Dump Truck
                            • Trump’s EO allowing white Afrikaans South Africans results in the 1st group arriving soon
                            • Trump fired all 3 Democrats from the Consumer Product Safety Commission
                            • FedEx board member David Steiner is the new postmaster general of the USPS
                            • Trump says he wants to reopen Alcatraz for the “most ruthless and violent” prisoners
                            • FEMA’s admin was fired after testifying in Congress that FEMA should not be shut down
                            • The new Pope is American Cardinal Robert Prevost with the name Leo XIV
                            • Friedrich Merz was confirmed as German chancellor after a second vote in parliament
                            • Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said he won’t run for a Senate seat, but for President in 2028
                            • Russian probe will be re-entering Earth’s atmosphere after spending decades orbiting Earth
                            • The movie industry was confused by Trump’s announcement of 100% tariffs on foreign productions
                            • Netflix is pulling Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and another interactive title on May 12
                            • The team behind BoJack Horseman’s new show with Netflix will debut August 22
                            • We got a teaser trailer for Squid Game: Season 3
                            • We got a teaser trailer for Peacemaker Season 2
                            • Contact us at [email protected]
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                            • 1 hr 25 min
                            • Let’s Weekend #463 – Nice Job, Canada

                              In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the awful things Trump's admin continues to do, the good things going on in Canada, and the latest chance you'll have to check out Alfred Hitchcock's movies.

                              • Intro
                              • What Are We Up To?
                                • C: Detroiters, MLB The Show 25, American Truck Sim, Borderlands 3
                                • B: The Hundred Line LDA, Clair Obscur, Lifeforce, going through old magazines.
                                • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                                • Assholes of the Week: Trump admin deported three young children, one with cancer, who are US citizens to Honduras alongside their mothers
                                  • The Trump admin wants to cut funding for the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline for LGBTQ+ youth
                                  • Amazon Haul was considering listing import tariff charges on some products until Trump complained to Jeff Bezos and he forced them to cancel those plans
                                  • Trump admin dismissed the scientists working on the National Climate Assessment
                                  • Trump’s new EOs want to “unleash high-impact local police forces” on immigrants and criminals
                                  • Illinois landlord that killed a Muslim boy and injured his mom in a knife attack hate crime was sentenced to 53 years in prison
                                  • Heroes of the Week: Mark Carney’s Liberal Party won the federal election in Canada and his Conservative Party opponent Pierre Poilievre lost the election and his seat in Parliament
                                    • Judge ordered the release of Mohsen Mahdawi after he was arrested by immigration officials during an interview about finalizing his US citizenship
                                    • Trump Dump Truck
                                      • DEA raided a nightclub in Colorado Springs and claimed to capture 114 immigrants
                                      • Bipartisan bill targeting revenge porn passed through Congress
                                      • There’ll be a military parade on Trump’s birthday to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary
                                      • Maine’s legal fight against the Trump admin ended with a settlement
                                      • Federal judge permanently blocked Trump’s EO targeting the Perkins Coie law firm
                                      • Lindsey Graham asked the enclave to be open-minded about naming Trump the new Pope
                                      • SCOTUS heard arguments about whether cops can be accountable for wrong house raids
                                      • Army Black Hawk helicopter flew in Reagan Airport airspace, causing flights to abort landings
                                      • Germany’s domestic intelligence agency labels AfD party as extremist
                                      • Netflix is getting a collection of Alfred Hitchcock movies on June 1
                                      • Natasha Lyonne plans to direct a movie called Uncanny Valley using “Ethical” AI
                                      • Guy Ritchie will direct Road House 2 with Jake Gyllenhaal
                                      • We got an official trailer for Duster
                                      • We got an official trailer for The Smashing Machine
                                      • Contact us at [email protected]
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                                      • 1 hr 35 min
                                      • Let’s Weekend #462 – Smell You Later, George

                                        In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the newest Signal chat scandal, this brewing Ron DeSantis scandal, and how long George Santos is going to be in prison.

                                        • Intro
                                        • What Are We Up To?
                                          • C: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain, Detroiters, Balatro
                                          • B: The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, Strike Commander, Hellaverse, Data East
                                          • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                                          • Assholes of the Week: DOD Sec. Pete Hegseth caught using a 2nd Signal chat for attack plans that included his wife and brother among its members, It seems like the White House is searching for his replacement
                                            • The FBI arrested a Wisconsin judge for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest
                                            • ICE refused to let Mahmoud Khalil be there for his son’s birth, so his wife had to do it alone
                                            • The El Paso Walmart shooter was sentenced to 23 consecutive life sentences
                                            • George Santos was sentenced to over 7 years in prison for fraud
                                            • Heroes of the Week: Harvard is suing the Trump admin over their freeze of more than $2 billion in grants
                                            • Pope Francis died the day after meeting JD Vance on Sunday
                                            • Trump Dump Truck
                                              • Trump now claims he has no intention of firing Federal Reserve’s Jerome Powell
                                              • NIH’s autism study will pull from private medical records
                                              • Trump posted on Truth Social asking Putin to stop his attacks on Ukraine
                                              • Trump admin canceled funding for women’s health study before reversing that decision
                                              • Elon will spend less time with DOGE as Tesla’s sales and profits plunged
                                              • One of the top Dems in the Senate, Illinois’ Dick Durbin, will not seek reelection
                                              • Gov. Ron DeSantis has a controversy brewing over $10 million of state money funneled to his wife
                                              • Fyre Festival 2 was canceled with all tickets refunded with the brand now for sale
                                              • 60 Minutes’ top producer has left the show over pressure from Paramount to be Trump friendly
                                              • Sydney Sweeney’s set to star in a Split Fiction film adaptation with John M. Chu directing
                                              • Michael Bay is set to direct an OutRun film adaptation with Sydney Sweeney producing it
                                              • Max joins the wave of cracking down on passwords with Extra Member Add-on feature
                                              • We got a teaser trailer for Mountainhead
                                              • We got a teaser trailer for Predator: Badlands
                                              • We got a teaser trailer for Wednesday Season 2
                                              • Contact us at [email protected]
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                                              • 1 hr 34 min
                                              • Let’s Weekend #461 – The Least Colossal Squid

                                                In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the school shooting you might have missed, the cute colossal squid, and the Maryland Senator that did something amazing we weren't expecting to happen.

                                                • Intro
                                                • What Are We Up To?
                                                  • C: Daredevil Born Again, American Truck Sim, MLB The Show 25
                                                  • B: Blue Prince, secret game, Civil War, Spring Heat.
                                                  • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                                                  • Assholes of the Week: Two people died and six others are injured after a mass shooting at Florida State University
                                                    • Somebody set fire to the Governor’s Residence that PA Gov Josh Shapiro and his family lived at before getting out safely on Passover in apparent antisemitic attack that the GOP gave no shits about, the suspect seemed to be upset about his role in the Gaza war
                                                    • Israel killed Fatma Hassona and her family with a missile strike on their building shortly before the film she starred in was to debut at Cannes
                                                    • Britain’s Supreme Court has ruled that the legal definition of a woman is someone born biologically female in huge blow to the trans community
                                                    • Shortly after DOGE took over the NLRB, they made their computer systems incredibly unsafe that led to suspicious log-in attempts from an IP address in Russia almost immediately
                                                    • Hero of the Week: Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen pledged to go to El Salvador after Trump and El Salvador President Bukele refused to consider bringing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from CECOT and managed to meet with him to confirm that he’s okay at the moment
                                                    • Trump Dump Truck
                                                      • Trump admin shutters a CDC lab that could’ve helped with an ongoing hepatitis outbreak
                                                      • Trump’s war against Harvard includes freezing $2.2 billion in grants and contracts
                                                      • Trump considers pulling Harvard’s tax exempt status in retaliation
                                                      • Trump admin drafted a memo to Congress to outline its desire to cut NPR/PBS funding
                                                      • Luigi Mangione was indicted on a few charges as AG Pam Bondi seeks the death penalty for him
                                                      • Marjorie Taylor Greene’s town hall in Acworth, GA featured three arrests and two people tased
                                                      • A colossal squid was filmed in its natural habitat for the first time
                                                      • Google’s digital ad network was declared an illegal monopoly
                                                      • Disney+ is getting a Darth Maul animated series in 2026
                                                      • Shawn Levy is directing a new Star Wars: Starfighter movie with Ryan Gosling starring for 2027
                                                      • Clueless sequel series with Alician Silverstone is in development at Peacock
                                                      • Peacock’s Poker Face Season 2 begins May 8
                                                      • Netflix’s final two-part season of The Sandman will release on July 3 and July 24
                                                      • Peacock’s Twisted Metal Season 2 begins July 31
                                                      • We got an official trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps
                                                      • We got an official trailer for The Life of Chuck
                                                      • We got an official trailer for The Roses
                                                      • Contact us at [email protected]
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                                                      • 1 hr 19 min
                                                      • Let’s Weekend #460 – The Tariff Trap

                                                        In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the chaos of the tariffs rollout and pause, the fun times of seeing how depraved the Trump admin is to deport people wanting a better life, and what the difference is between The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.

                                                        • Intro
                                                        • What Are We Up To?
                                                          • C: The Running Man, The Core, MLB The Show 25, American Truck Sim
                                                          • B: The Citadel, Shadows of Doubt, music, April showers.
                                                          • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                                                          • Assholes of the Week: A lie on Twitter about an interview from a Trump official claiming Trump considering pausing tariffs caused the stock markets to rally for a bit on Monday before the White House corrected it and the markets crashed again, Then Trump paused the tariffs for 90 days on Wednesday for every country but China to cause a big rebound, but then they went down again because there’s no trust in Trump’s BS, and now some want an inquiry into whether this whole charade was market manipulation to help insider traders, China raised their tariffs on US goods to 125% after Trump raised tariffs on China to 145%, Smartphones and computers are now spared from Trump’s tariffs
                                                            • The Trump IRS finalized a deal to share tax information with ICE to help them find more immigrants in the US
                                                            • Trump admin has added more than 6k living immigrants to the social security deaths list to try to force them to leave the country
                                                            • Secretary of State Marco Rubio admits that there was no criminal conduct by Mahmoud Khalil, but did say he could be expelled for his beliefs, Judge ruled that he can be deported
                                                            • Supreme Court voted unanimously to order the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, Federal judge again ordered the Trump admin to provide her with daily updates on its efforts to bring him back
                                                            • Heroes of the Week: Major nations have agreed on the first-ever global fee on greenhouse gases for international shipping boats
                                                            • Trump Dump Truck
                                                              • Trump admin backed off of the in-person requirements they announced for Social Security
                                                              • White House ordered NIH to research trans “regret” and “detransition”
                                                              • RFK Jr claims the HHS will find the cause of autism by September
                                                              • RFK Jr endorsed the MMR vaccine with the measles outbreak, angering his anti-vax fans
                                                              • The House passed the SAVE act to require voters to have more than just a driver’s license
                                                              • Australian woman unknowingly gave birth to a stranger’s baby after IVF clinic error
                                                              • Biotech company is trying to bring back the dire wolf from extinction
                                                              • The National Recording Registry announced their 25 latest additions
                                                              • A Minecraft Movie has done incredibly well to become the second biggest movie the year
                                                              • Amazon’s working on a Carrie series
                                                              • Amazon’s developing a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon series
                                                              • Netflix landed a Monopoly competition reality show
                                                              • AMC’s new Great American Stories anthology series’ first season will be The Grapes of Wrath
                                                              • The Last of Us was renewed for Season 3 ahead of the premiere of Season 2
                                                              • We got an official trailer for The Phoenician Scheme
                                                              • Contact us at [email protected]
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                                                              • 1 hr 22 min
                                                              • Let’s Weekend #459 – Tariff Talk

                                                                In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the big tariff wave of news, the latest awful disappearance of a legal American resident, and the signs that a blue wave is on the wave in response to Trump's actions so far.

                                                                • Intro
                                                                • What Are We Up To?
                                                                • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                                                                  • C: Daredevil: Born Again, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, MLB The Show 25, Assassin’s Creed Shadows
                                                                  • B: Shadows of Doubt, secret game, books, Ninten-gasm
                                                                  • Assholes of the Week: Trump admin disappeared a Maryland man to El Salvador by mistake, but won’t bring him back to the US to his family, Federal judge in Maryland has ordered the Trump admin to bring him back
                                                                    • Trump unveiled sweeping 10% tariffs and reciprocal tariffs on dozens of nations, leaders around the world are furious at these tariffs, markets in Europe and Asia fall after Trump’s tariff announcement, The Dow Jones dropped almost 1,700 points during the following day, A number of uninhabited islands are included in Trump’s tariffs targets, the formula they used to determine tariff amounts has drawn a lot of criticism, China hits back with 34% tariffs on all US goods, Dow Jones dropped another 2,200 points on Friday
                                                                    • Federal judge has dropped Eric Adams’ corruption case
                                                                    • Heroes of the Week: Democrat Susan Crawford won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, defeating the Trump-endorsed and Elon-funded Republican to keep the liberal majority
                                                                      • Senator Cory Booker broke Strom Thurmond’s filibuster record at just over 25 hours
                                                                      • RIP Val Kilmer
                                                                      • Trump Dump Truck
                                                                        • Trump extends the deadline for TikTok to be sold
                                                                        • FCC chair opened an investigation into Disney/ABC over DEI practice despite donation
                                                                        • Trump says he’s open to running for a third term and that he’s not joking about that
                                                                        • Pentagon inspector general is investigating Hegseth’s use of Signal
                                                                        • Two mom House Reps countered the House Speaker’s attempt to stop their proxy voting bill
                                                                        • Two Dems lost their elections for heavy GOP districts in Florida, but with much improved margins
                                                                        • South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office
                                                                        • French court has barred Marine Le Pen from public office for five years for embezzlement
                                                                        • There are over 3,000 billionaires now, which is a record
                                                                        • WB completed the sale of Coyote vs Acme to Ketchup Entertainment
                                                                        • Fox renewed The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, and Bob’s Burgers for four season each
                                                                        • David Fincher is directing a “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” follow-up for Netflix
                                                                        • Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse got a new release date of June 4, 2027
                                                                        • Fubar Season 2 starts on Netflix June 12
                                                                        • Sydney Sweeney’s in talks to star in a Gundam live-action movie
                                                                        • We got an official trailer for Phineas and Ferb
                                                                        • We got an official trailer for Tron: Ares
                                                                        • We got a teaser trailer for The Naked Gun
                                                                        • Contact us at [email protected]
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                                                                        • 1 hr 24 min
                                                                        • Let’s Weekend #458 – The Signal Situation

                                                                          In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the whole Signal war planning chat that leaked in the dumbest way possible, the latest public disappearance of a college student, and what creepy data may be auctioned off to another company soon.

                                                                          • Intro
                                                                          • What Are We Up To?
                                                                            • C: Daredevil: Born Again, MLB The Show 25
                                                                            • B: Arcade Paradise, Syberia The World Before, books, pollen-ocalypse The Reckoning
                                                                            • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                                                                            • Assholes of the Week: Somebody in the Trump admin’s Signal chat where they discussed war plans accidentally invited the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, who then reported on what was going on in there, CIA Director and DNI claim they didn’t share classified information in the chat, The Pentagon warned after this leak that Signal is untrustworthy due to hacks, Judge James Boasberg is presiding over a case about the admin’s use of Signal for war plan discussions, The Atlantic published the entire text chat after Trump admin officials denied that classified info was discussed, Reports found that Signal password leaks included a number of the people involved in the chat
                                                                              • Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal was attacked by Israeli settlers and the IDF kidnapped him, but the IDF released him a day later
                                                                              • Another immigrant PhD student was kidnapped by plainclothes ICE officials as Rumeysa Ozturk was walking to meet her friends due to an op-ed she wrote for the Tufts university student newspaper, SoS Marco Rubio says his dept has revoked hundreds of student visas so far 
                                                                              • Usha Vance was going to Greenland for their national dog race, but then JD Vance joined her and ruined everything so that it turned into a visit to the US military base instead, he had a press conference to tell Greenlanders that they’d be better off with the US
                                                                              • Heroes of the Week: Canadian PM Mark Carney stands up to the Trump admin as he says they need to dramatically reduce its relationship with the US
                                                                              • Trump Dump Truck
                                                                                • Trump announced a new 25% tariff on imported cars and car parts
                                                                                • Appeals court sides with judge that blocked deportations under the Alien Enemies Act
                                                                                • Trump pulls Elise Stefanik’s nom. for UN ambassador due to slim House GOP majority
                                                                                • USPS head Louis DeJoy has stepped down as DOGE officials threaten the USPS
                                                                                • 20k people are being laid off from the US Dept. of HHS
                                                                                • Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, passed away on Sunday
                                                                                • Pope Francis has been discharged from the hospital after surviving severe respiratory infections
                                                                                • 23andMe is filing for bankruptcy and its DNA data will go up for auction
                                                                                • A babysitter checked under the bed for monsters for a kid, but found a man under it instead
                                                                                • Netflix ordered a Scooby-Doo live-action series for eight episodes
                                                                                • Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda movie will be out March 26, 2027
                                                                                • Sony’s Street Fighter movie was pulled from the schedule
                                                                                • We got an official trailer for One Battle After Another
                                                                                • Contact us at [email protected]
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                                                                                • 1 hr 15 min
                                                                                • Let’s Weekend #457 – Doxxing JFK

                                                                                  In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the legal battle between a judge and the Trump admin, the very helpful DC police helping DOGE take down another government entity, and something good that may be happening with Coyote vs Acme.

                                                                                  • Intro
                                                                                  • What Are We Up To?
                                                                                    • C: Wicked, MHA, Minishoot’ Adventures, Balatro
                                                                                    • B: Wanderstop, Arcade Paradise, books, pollen-ocalypse
                                                                                    • Brandon’s Random Factoid
                                                                                    • Assholes of the Week: Israel declared its ceasefire over as it launched more airstrikes in Gaza to kill hundreds more people, they’re also attacking Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon
                                                                                      • Trump signed an executive order aimed at closing the Dept. of Education, Student loans will go to the Small Business Administration and special needs concerns to the HHS
                                                                                      • Trump had hundreds of Venezuelans deported to El Salvador, despite court order demanding they stop for now, Federal judge asked for the DOJ to provide a sworn declaration on why they did it anyway, then he asked again for more details in another statement while Trump attacked him on Truth Social, Trump demanded that the judge be impeached before Chief Justice John Roberts stood up for the judge, the judge called the DOJ’s response to his orders “woefully insufficient” and has questioned the use of the Alien Enemies Act for this purpose
                                                                                      • DOGE were able to enter the US Institute of Peace thanks to the help of the DC police after being denied access for days
                                                                                      • The White House released the last of the JFK assassination files unredacted, which includes hundreds of social security numbers of people that are still alive
                                                                                      • Heroes of the Week: US District judge Ana Reyes blocks Trump’s transgender soldier ban, citing the military’s history of discrimination
                                                                                      • RIP George Foreman
                                                                                      • Trump Dump Truck
                                                                                        • DHS revoked legal protections for over 500k Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans
                                                                                        • Trump yelled on Truth Social that he could void all of Biden’s pardons because of Autopen
                                                                                        • The Pentagon had to restore webpages of Black veterans, Navajo Code Talkers, and more
                                                                                        • Canada and a few EU countries have issued travel advisories for travelers to the US
                                                                                        • Bernie Sanders and AOC are drawing huge crowds for their town halls across the US
                                                                                        • Harvard is making tuition free for families that make $200k or less
                                                                                        • Those two astronauts that were stuck in space for nine months finally returned to Earth
                                                                                        • Scientists find out that exposure to heat can alter your DNA and age you as much as smoking
                                                                                        • Director Carl Rinsch has been indicted on charges of fraud and money laundering from Netflix
                                                                                        • WB may be close to finding a buyer for Coyote vs Acme
                                                                                        • A Complete Unknown will be available on Hulu March 27
                                                                                        • Conan O’Brien will host the Oscars again next year
                                                                                        • Pixar’s working on Coco 2 for a 2029 release
                                                                                        • We got an official trailer for Ballerina
                                                                                        • We got a teaser trailer for Duster
                                                                                        • We got a teaser trailer for Happy Gilmore 2
                                                                                        • We got a teaser trailer for The Four Seasons
                                                                                        • Contact us at [email protected]
                                                                                        • Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or RSS
                                                                                        • 1 hr 38 min

                                                                                        About Let's Weekend

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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…