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- Let’s Weekend #456 – Crotch Parachutes
In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about citizens being disappeared, a certain VP getting booed at the Kennedy Center, and the silliest major cheating scandal in sports.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Moana 2, Daredevil: Born Again, Rocket League, Avowed
- B: Wanderstop, Shadows of Doubt, GHQ, stormy weather.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: ICE kidnapped Columbia University student and protestor Mahmoud Khalil without any real charges, DHS official tried to defend the arrest to NPR while not citing a reason for it, The US wants to go after more pro-Palestine immigrant protestors
- Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested on order of the ICC for crimes against humanity and taken to The Hague over his killing of thousands of people
- Trump’s EPA plans to target more than two dozen rules and policies for what it calls the “most consequential day of deregulation in US history”
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and 9 other Dems voted to help the GOP pass their short-term spending bill to keep the government going that also enables Trump to keep gutting the government
- Heroes of the Week: The audience at the Kennedy Center for a concert started loudly booing once they saw that JD Vance had entered the hall
- Trump Dump Truck
- Mark Carney is Canada’s new prime minister and will continue the fight against Trump
- Greenland got a bit of a surprise result in their recent election of parties to fight Trump
- Trump announced new 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, EU responds
- Federal judge temp. blocks Trump from enforcing EO that targets Perkins Coie law firm
- Trump’s pick to head the CDC was withdrawn just before his Senate confirmation hearing
- Elon Musk turned the White House into a Tesla dealership for a cheap publicity stunt
- There’s a major scandal going on in the sport of ski jumping as Norway’s cheating goes public
- Netflix is working on a remake of Stephen King’s Cujo
- Sony’s working on a Starship Troopers reboot
- Mufasa: The Lion King is debuting on Disney+ on March 26
- Babygirl will debut on Max April 25
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians was renewed for Season 3 ahead of Season 2’s Disney+ debut
- We got a teaser trailer for Freakier Friday
- We got a teaser trailer for The Life of Chuck
- We got a teaser trailer for Poker Face Season 2
- We got a teaser trailer for Spinal Tap II
- We got an official trailer for F1
- We got an official trailer for Lilo & Stitch
- We got an official trailer for The Last of Us Season 2
- We got an official trailer for The Shrouds
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or RSS
1 hr 43 min - Let’s Weekend #455 – No Mandate
In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the one notable event from the State of the Union address, SpaceX's latest mishap, and which company will be the next victim of private equity firms.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Daredevil: Born Again, Avowed, Balatro
- B: Trails Into Daybreak II, Lost Records Bloom & Rage, The Secret History, Grandma’s estate
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: After firing hundreds of CDC employees, some received emails rescinding their firings, Nearly 6k USDA workers that were fired have been ordered back to work
- Trump’s working on an executive order to call on new DOE Sec. Linda McMahon to close the DOE
- DOD’s DEI purge featured a blanket removal of items with “gay” in the title, like information on the Enola Gay plane and service members with the last name Gay
- SpaceX had another rocket launch explode, causing flights in its debris path in Florida to be delayed
- Heroes of the Week: Australian James Harrison, who had a rare antibody in his blood and donated blood over 1k times to save over potentially 2 million babies, has died
- Rep. Al Green was removed from the House chamber for heckling Trump’s speech that he didn’t have a mandate for his sweeping changes, House GOP + 10 Dems voted to censure him
- Walt Disney Animation Studios workers have ratified their first union contract
- Trump’s Tariff Toilet
- Trump implemented last minute 25% tariffs on Canada/Mexico, plus an increase on China
- The US stock markets plunged quickly, wiping out any gains since November
- China imposed tariffs of up to 15% on US farm imports
- Trump gave automakers a one month reprieve from his tariffs
- Trump then signed an executive order to exempt goods covered by the USMCA
- Trump signed an executive order to establish a government bitcoin reserve
- EU is proposing a big defense spending package after Trump’s denied support for EU allies
- Walgreens has been acquired for a private equity firm for nearly $10 billion
- California man was charged after stealing $25k in LEGO
- Scientists start their journey to bring back the Woolly Mammoth by making woolly mice
- Investigators figured out the causes of Gene Hackman and his wife’s deaths
- Disney laid off under 200 people from its TV & ABC News operations, plus shutting down 538
- Sony’s working on a new Resident Evil reboot movie for 2026
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or RSS
1 hr 30 min - Let’s Weekend #454 – United States of Russia
In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the Trump's continued siding with Russia over Ukraine, his support for Andrew Tate and his brother, and some positive news about that asteroid that had a small chance of hitting the Earth in 2032.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Dragon Ball Daima, Avowed, American Truck Sim
- B: Trails Through Daybreak II, Stardew Valley, books, house guests.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: DHS released a memo about detaining migrants in US bases across the country to make them internment camps
- US voted with Russia and its allies against a UN resolution urging Russia to withdraw from Ukraine
- Trump invited Ukraine president Zelenskyy to the White House to try to humiliate him and side with Russia in front of him, Western allies lined up to pledge continued support for Ukraine
- Trump pulled strings to get Andrew Tate and his brother back to the US while they’re facing rape and trafficking charges in Romania
- Trump posted an AI-generated video on Truth Social showing the transformation of Gaza into Trump Gaza
- Heroes of the Week: Illinois jury finds Chicago landlord guilty of murder and hate charges for killing a 6 year old Palestinian American boy and attacking his mom
- RIP Gene Hackman, though the cause of his and his wife’s death are still under investigation
- RIP Michelle Trachtenberg
- Trump Dump Truck
- Trump named former Fox News host Dan Bogino as Deputy FBI Director
- Trump’s tariffs for Canada and Mexico will supposedly go into effect on April 2
- The House GOP barely passed their first reconciliation bill to fund Trump’s plans
- Trump announced a new green card for rich foreigners called the “gold card”
- 21 DOGE staffers resigned, saying they won’t help dismantle public services
- Trump admin tried a very stupid plan to blame Biden for a $400m Tesla armored car deal
- Jeff Bezos announced new Libertarian focus for the WaPo Opinions section that everybody hates
- Germany’s election ended with Friedrich Merz winning as a major loss to the AfD Nazis
- Thanks to the private equity firm that owned it, Joann Fabrics will be going out of business
- That asteroid that had a strikingly high chance of hitting the Earth is now at 0% chance to hit us
- Skype is shutting down in May
- Ayo Edibiri is set to write the script and star in the live-action A24 Barney movie
- Disney+ is getting a slimmed-down version of Sportscenter for casual sports fans called SC+
- Moana 2 will be available on Disney+ March 12
- Kathleen Kennedy is planning to leave Lucasfilm at the end of 2025
- We got a teaser trailer for Andor Season 2
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or RSS
1 hr 40 min - Let’s Weekend #453 – We’re the Baddies
In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the Trump admin siding with Russia over its war on Ukraine, Mitch McConnell going away for good soon, and how a plane landed upside down in Toronto.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Cobra Kai, SNL 50, A Game About Digging A Hole
- B: Trails Through Daybreak II, Lost Records Bloom & Rage, freezing
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with allegedly attempting a coup to overturn the 2022 election
- Trump blames the Russian war on Ukraine on Ukraine’s President and calls him a dictator after negotiating the end of the war without Ukraine’s presence
- The DOJ expands Trump’s pardons on January 6 defendants to include separate, but related gun charges
- Senator Mitch McConnell will not seek reelection in 2026
- Kash Patel confirmed by the Senate 51-49 to head the FBI
- Heroes of the Week: Canada beat the US in overtime to win the NHL’s tense 4 Nations tournament finals
- Trump Dump Truck
- The USDA fired staffers working on the bird flu, but now wants to hire them back
- The IRS is cutting 6k jobs in the middle of tax season
- Trump is hanging a NY Post cover of his mug shot just outside of the Oval Office
- Delta Air Lines jet flipped upside down during landing in Toronto, but everybody survived
- Archaeologists in London uncovered a 2k year old Roman town hall during construction
- Amazon MGM gains creative control of 007 franchise after longtime producers step back
- Netflix is investing $1 billion in Mexico’s film industry
- Netflix is working on an Extraction TV series with Omar Sy as the lead
- Wicked will begin streaming on Peacock March 21
- The Last of Us Season 2 will debut on HBO April 13
- We got an official trailer for Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or RSS
1 hr - Let’s Weekend #452 – Rooting For The Asteroid
In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the big oopsie that Elon Musk's team had with the NNSA, the weird way that Fort Liberty was reverted to Fort Bragg, and an asteroid that one might root for in these strange times.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Balatro, No Man’s Sky
- B: Trails Through Daybreak II, Coffee Talk Part 2, SMB Movie, Winter’s last gasp
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: The National Park Service erased any mention of transgender people from their website about the Stonewall Uprising
- Trump admin fired many people at the National Nuclear Security Administration before realizing that they maintained the national’s nuclear stockpile
- Vance went to speak at the Munich Security Conference to tell EU leaders that they’re on their own if they’re not helping the Trump admin and their interests
- Tulsi Gabbard was confirmed as director of national intelligence, RFK Jr was confirmed as HHS secretary
- Heroes of the Week: 7 NY prosecutors resigned rather than comply with a DOJ request to dismiss their corruption case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams
- Trump Dump Truck
- Trump’s planning a 25% tariff on imported steel and aluminum
- Federal judge temporarily blocked Trump admin’s USAID funding freeze
- Federal judge is blocking the Trump admin from firing more CFPB workers
- Federal judges temporarily blocked Trump’s EO to block gender-affirming care
- Fort Bragg sort of gets its old name back
- Steve Bannon pleaded guilty in We Build the Wall case, but avoids jailtime
- Trump admin blocks the AP from covering events for not using “Gulf of America”
- There’s an asteroid that has a 1 in 47 chance of hitting the Earth in 2032
- The Goonies is getting a sequel with Steven Spielberg producing it
- Netflix is working on a live-action Dungeons & Dragons series
- We got a teaser trailer for Twisted Metal Season 2
- We got an official trailer for Friendship
- We got an official trailer for O’dessa
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or RSS
1 hr 8 min - Let’s Weekend #451 – The Donald Duck Crisis
In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the CIA's big email flub, the sad turn of events for Alex Jones' bankruptcy, and some free movies WB put up on YouTube.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: One Piece, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Minecraft, Sniper Elite Resistance
- B: GoW Ragnarok, Coffee Talk, books, birthday stuff.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Neil Gaiman’s former nanny has filed a lawsuit against him and Amanda Palmer over rape and human trafficking allegations
- Trump is essentially shutting down USAID as he has put all non-essential staff on administrative leave, Federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order on these and previous USAID moves
- New US AG Pam Bondi launched a “Weaponization Working Group” to review officials who investigated Trump’s crimes
- The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all new hires that have been with the agency for two years or less
- NCAA has barred transgender women from participating in women’s sports after Trump’s EO
- Heroes of the Week: Historic Black church has been given the “Proud Boys” trademark after the group refused to pay their default judgment of $2.8 million
- Trump Dump Truck
- Trump has put the tariffs on Canada and Mexico on hold for a month after “deals” made
- Trump’s suing CBS over their 60 Minutes Kamala Harris episode for $20 billion
- Trump wants the US to take ownership of the Gaza Strip to redevelop it
- Donald Trump Jr is under fire in Italy for his hunting party killing a protected duck
- Judge has denied the Sandy Hook families’ deal for Infowars’ property, calls for new auction
- 100k eggs were stolen in Pennsylvania from a trailer
- WB has put 31 full movies on its YouTube channels for free without ads
- Legendary and Hasbro are working on a Magic: The Gathering movie and TV universe
- Hulu’s nearing a pilot order for a sequel series to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- We got an official trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth
- We got a teaser trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or RSS
1 hr 17 min - Let’s Weekend #450 – Consequences
In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the latest awful events of the Trump administration, Neil Gaiman's projects that are getting canceled, and the shockwaves that DeepSeek has created in the western AI industry.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: One Piece, Rocket League, Command & Conquer, Just Cause 2
- B: GoW Ragnarok, Fallout NV, books, Old Gaming Magazines
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week, presented by Trump: There was a fatal plane and helicopter crash at Ronald Reagan National Airport that killed all 67 people involved, which Trump blamed on Biden, DEI, & diversity hiring
- Trump’s placing 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico along with 10% on Chinese goods on Saturday
- Trump wants to send up to 30,000 criminal migrants to a migrant holding facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
- The Trump admin halted work for PEPFAR that helped prevent and manage HIV in Africa
- The Trump admin laid off nearly 400 people from the USAID for supposedly not following a “stop-work” order
- South Korean prosecutors indict impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his attempted use of martial law
- Heroes of the Week: Federal judge blocked Trump’s federal funding freeze that would’ve stopped all funding for various federal programs, loans, and grants
- Trump Dump Truck
- Trump’s FCC chief is opening an investigation into NPR and PBS
- Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth ordered investigation into General Mark Milley’s conduct
- Meta settled Trump’s lawsuit against them for banning him in the wake of January 6
- Trump’s admin offered federal workers a suspicious buyout option to leave on February 6
- A medical plane crashed in Philadelphia that killed seven and injured 19 others
- Jim Acosta is leaving CNN after schedule shakeup pushed him out of the daytime schedule
- Chinese AI DeepSeek sent shockwaves through the AI market with their much cheaper model
- Neil Gaiman’s consequences
- Dark Horse Comics dropped him after the allegations
- Coraline musical has been canceled
- Netflix’s adaptation of The Sandman will end with its upcoming second season
- Netflix has greenlit a new adaptation of Little House on the Prairie
- Netflix’s Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney talk show debuts March 12
- Squid Game Season 3 will premiere on June 27
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or RSS
1 hr 17 min - Let’s Weekend #449 – The Pro-Crime President
In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the barrage of executive orders that Trump signed to make Project 2025 a big source of his second term's goals, Elon's obvious Nazi salute, and Trump's stupid pardons for his insurrectionist supporters.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: One Piece, When the Stars Gossip, Just Cause 2, Balatro, Noita
- B: GoW Ragnarok, Anno Mutationem, The Calculating Stars, SNOW!!
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: If you thought Project 2025 wasn’t Trump’s entire plan, he signed a slew of executive orders on Day 1 and since then covering a variety of topics that is directly from it
- DOGE got rid of Vivek Ramaswamy before Trump even took office
- Trump’s planning a 25% tariff on goods coming from Canada and Mexico
- He pardoned all of the 1500+ people charged with crimes in the January 6 insurrection
- He also pardoned Ross Ulbricht, creator of the Silk Road dark web marketplace
- Elon gave the Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration
- Heroes of the Week: Federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s executive order that tried to get rid of birthright citizenship
- A memo sent to OPM workers asking them to narc on coworkers working in secret DEIA positions to a specific email that’s been posted publicly and spammed by the internet
- A $7.4 billion settlement has been reached between the Sacklers, Perdue Pharma, and State & local governments over their suits in response to the opioid crisis
- Biden pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, and others that Trump has threatened
- He also pardoned a handful of others like Marcus Garvey
- Congress passed the Laken Riley Act
- Trump signed an EO to release the remaining classified JFK/RFK/MLK assassination records
- TikTok went down for only a short time, but made sure to tell users Trump saved the app
- Netflix is celebrating its biggest quarterly increase in subscribers with a price hike
- Conan O’Brien will receive the Mark Twain Prize for his lifetime achievement in comedy
- Vin Diesel vows to finish shooting for Fast X: Part 2 in LA to help bolster the local economy
- The Toxic Avenger reboot will be out in theaters later this year
- Sonic the Hedgehog 4 will come out in theaters March 19, 2027
- We got an official trailer for Opus
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or RSS
1 hr 26 min - Let’s Weekend #448 – Connected to the Moon
In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the death of David Lynch, John Deere's long-awaited comeuppance, and what to look forward to early on in Trump's second term.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: When the Stars Gossip, Just Cause 2, TCG Card Shop Simulator
- B: Sorry We’re Closed, Hotline Miami 2, The Accursed Kings, dad’s computer woes.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: John Deere’s facing a federal lawsuit that accuses it of illegally forcing farmers to use only authorized dealers for critical repairs instead of whoever they want
- Trump forces flags to be raised for his inauguration in spite of tradition for Jimmy Carter’s death, Greg Abbott’s done the same in Texas
- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was finally arrested and investigators are hoping to extend his detention
- ICE is planning major raids of cities like Chicago for illegal immigrants next week
- Multiple women have accused Neil Gaiman of sexual assault
- Heroes of the Week: Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire that could start exchanging hostages on Sunday
- Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 2500 people convicted of nonviolent drug crimes serving longer sentences than they should
- RIP David Lynch
- RIP Bob Uecker
- Trump’s moving his inauguration indoors due to the polar vortex that’ll create temps below freezing
- The list of bands performing at his inauguration shows how things have changed
- SCOTUS upholds the TikTok ban, People are protesting by switching to Chinese app RedNote
- Rudy Giuliani and the two GA election workers have agreed to a settlement to the defamation case
- Biden randomly declared the ERA to be the law of the land on Friday and nobody knows what’s up
- Medicare is targeting another 15 drugs to negotiate lower prices for its patients
- SpaceX’s exploded rocket caused flights across the Caribbean to be hastily diverted
- Walgreens tried to get out of its contract for its terrible smart fridge doors and the vendor retaliated
- Trump named Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson, & Jon Voight as Special Ambassadors to Hollywood
- Shout! Studios has rescued the Golden Princess library from licensing hell
- Steamboat Willie’s been adapted for the horror genre as Screamboat
- Takeshi Kitano’s new movie Broken Rage will debut on Amazon Prime Video February 13
- We got an official trailer for Daredevil: Born Again
- We got an official trailer for Until Dawn
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or RSS
1 hr 39 min - Let’s Weekend #447 – A Slap on the Wrist
In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about Rudy's bad day in court, the awful changes to moderation at Meta, Trump's lack of consequences from his sentencing, and the awful fires in LA.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: When the Stars Gossip, One Piece, Madden 25, Balatro, TCG Card Shop Simulator
- B: Ghost of Tsushima, Seven Samurai, modding Fallout NV, shit’s cold.
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Rudy Giuliani has been held in contempt of court in $148 million defamation case in Georgia
- Meta is ending fact checking on Facebook to let conservative misinformation flourish on its site
- The wildfires across Southern California have killed 11 people and 180k have evacuated the flames spread by a powerful windstorm across LA
- Trump got sentenced in his NY hush money case with an unconditional discharge with no fines, prison, or any other penalty
- Heroes of the Week: About 35,000 LGBTQ+ veterans won a settlement with the Pentagon over benefits they were denied for years
- Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is resigning, but will still be in office until a replacement is found
- Biden used an old law to block drilling for oil in over 625 million acres of US ocean
- Florida Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily blocks the release of Jack Smith’s special counsel report
- The US had their first bird flu death reported in the country
- McDonald’s is revising its DEI practices
- Vince McMahon got $400k fine to settle SEC’s charges over hush money payments as WWE CEO
- Disney, Fox, and WB Discovery is scrapping their Venu Sports streaming service
- Disney signed a deal to merge Hulu Live with Fubo
- Sony announced a Ghosts of Tsushima anime series for Crunchyroll at CES
- They’re also working on Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers movies
- We got a teaser trailer for The Last of Us Season 2
- Contact us at [email protected]
- Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or RSS
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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…
podcast, topics on Let's Weekend! include but are by no means limited to gaming, allowing the hosts to discuss their other major interests from literature to sports, from superheroes to music, and all points in between. Just remember, sobriety is optional.