Let's Weekend Unknown

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about how much of South Dakota that the Governor is not allowed to visit, the most metal painting in British Royal history, and how dumb Rudy Giuliani was while avoiding being served an indictment by Arizona.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Planet of the Apes, Everybody’s in LA, WarioWare, The Bible Game 



B: Stellar Blade, Fear and Hunger Termina, Signalis, books.





Brandon’s Random Factoid



Assholes of the Week: Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker gave the commencement speech at Benedictine College that told women they will be happier as moms and wives

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardons the man convicted of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester



It seems that Justice Alito flew an upside-down American flag at his house after January 6, then blamed his wife for it



AZ’s AG had been searching for Rudy Giuliani before Rudy taunted him on Twitter and got served his indictment at his birthday party in Florida





Heroes of the Week: The Supreme Court has upheld the funding structure of the CFPB



RIP Roger Corman



RIP Dabney Coleman



Biden and Trump will be debating in June and September



DOJ says Boeing violated the terms of a deal they made to avoid prosecution over prior crashes



Autoworkers at the Mercedes Benz plant in Alabama voted against unionizing



Most of South Dakota’s tribes have banned Kristi Noem from their land



The DOW Jones has hit 40,000 for the first time



Target has scaled back on its LGBTQ+ merchandise ahead of Pride Month 2024



The first person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died



King Charles revealed his official portrait that looks like he’s in hell



The Silk: Spider Society live-action series is no longer happening at Amazon



Nic Cage is starring in a Spider-Man Noir live-action series at Amazon Prime Video



Amazon has greenlit a Tomb Raider series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge



Netflix renewed 3 Body Problem for more episodes for its finale



Katheryn Bigelow’s next feature film will be at Netflix



MCU show Agatha All Along will debut on Disney+ on September 18



We got an official trailer for Wicked



We got a teaser trailer for Max’s Dune: Prophecy



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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the bad news about two of Trump's trials, that weird Apple iPad commercial, and the weird story about RFK Jr's brain worm.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Planet of the Apes, More GBA on Analogue Pocket



B: Stellar Blade, Fear and Hunger Termina, books, Gunbuster





Brandon’s Random Factoid



Assholes of the Week: University of Mississippi has opened a probe into the hostile anti-protest that involved racists taunts of black protestors

Judge Aileen Cannon has delayed Trump’s classified documents trial indefinitely as it seems unlikely to happen before the election



Trump’s trial in Georgia has also been delayed as an appeals court will review decision on the DA Fani Willis



Tennessee’s legislature passed a bill allowing teachers to be armed in school





Heroes of the Week: Activists flooded a Utah tip line for violations of their new bathroom law to shield trans residents from complaints



RFK Jr. apparently had a brain worm in 2012 that ate a portion of his brain and died



Steve Bannon lost his appeal of his contempt of Congress conviction



Barron Trump may be a delegate at the RNC this summer



TikTok is challenging the US ban in court as unconstitutional



The Boy Scouts of America are changing their name to Scouting America



Panera Bread is discontinuing its Charged Sips drinks after two wrongful death lawsuits



Apple put out a weird iPad Pro ad about crushing creative instruments to make it



Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery announced a bundle of Disney+, Hulu, and Max



Warner Bros. Discovery is doing another Lord of the Rings movie



Peacock is getting a new The Office series centered around a midwestern newspaper



Netflix is getting the former Max series Scavengers Reign on May 31



Prime Video’s Batman: Caped Crusader animated series will premiere August 1



We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Exploding Kittens



We got a teaser trailer for Megalopolis



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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the continued campus protests, Trump's horrifying 2025 plan, and the mysterious death of another Boeing whistleblower.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Goodbye Earth, Everybody’s in LA, Poker Face, Yesterday, Fallout 4, Analogue Pocket



B: Helldivers II, Fear and Hunger Termina, books, the cicadas are driving me INSANE.





Brandon’s Random Factoid



Assholes of the Week: Nearly 300 people were arrested at campus protests last weekend, Agitators attacked protestors on UCLA’s campus while the LAPD watched, NYPD arrested 300 people after clearing out Hamilton Hall at Columbia

The House passed a bill claiming to combat antisemitism, but it classifies criticism of Israel as antisemitism





Heroes of the Week: The Biden admin is looking to reclassify marijuana with a lower classification



Trump’s plans for 2025 should he win are wild and scary



Trump was ordered to pay $9k for violating the gag order in his criminal hush money trial in NYC



The last sentence was handed down for the officers & paramedics in Elijah McClain’s death



Another Boeing whistleblower has died



Eight newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement



Dan Schneider is suing producers of Quiet on Set documentary about his abuses of children



Peacock’s raising their prices after doing so last year



Cobra Kai Season 6 is being split up into three parts with the first debuting July 18



We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Atlas



We got an official trailer for Mufasa: The Lion King



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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the oversized response to protests around the country, the good news out of the FTC and FCC, and another reason to avoid raw milk.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Goodbye Earth, Anyone But You, Fallout 4, Army of Ruin, Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising



B: Helldivers 2, Tales of Kenzera Zau, music, Starship Trooper sequels.





Brandon’s Random Factoid



Assholes of the Week: 11 fake electors and seven others have been indicted in Arizona over their fake elector scheme

Cops have gone wild in arresting many college students as pro-Palestine protests expand across many colleges across the country, Netanyahu got involved to call them antisemitic



Kristi Noem wrote in her memoir about how she killed a 14 month old hunting dog named Cricket because it was “untrainable”





Heroes of the Week: The FTC has voted to ban noncompete clause agreements

The FCC has voted to restore net neutrality





The Senate overwhelmingly passed aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan

Biden signed the TikTok ban law that was a part of the aid package





NY Court of Appeals ordered a new trial for Harvey Weinstein after overturned 2020 conviction



Arizona’s House of Reps voted to repeal the 1864 abortion ban



Traces of the current bird flu affecting cows has been found in commercially available milk



Voyager 1 finally started sending coherent messages again after issues popped up last November



G/O Media has sold The Onion to an independent group of rich guys



Sesame Street writers get new contracts to avoid strike



Studio Ponoc anime film The Imaginary will debut on Netflix July 5



We got an official trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine



We got an official trailer for The Glassworker



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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about Keanu Reeves' role in Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the wild stuff going on at Columbia University, and the great union news out of Tennessee.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Columbo, MLB The Show 24, Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, Analogue Pocket



B: Helldivers II, Freedom Planet 2, Starship Troopers, weird April weather





Brandon’s Random Factoid



Assholes of the Week: Iran fired a bunch of drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation for their attack on Iran’s consulate in Syria, Israel launched missile strikes into Iran in retaliation of those attacks

Columbia University sends the NYPD to arrest pro-Palestinian protestors for criminal trespassing at the behest of its President



Google laid off several employees that protested its Project Nimbus cloud initiative with Israel





Heroes of the Week: The US Justice Department agreed to pay $100 million to about 100 of Larry Nassar’s sexual assault victims in a big settlement

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, TN voted to unionize with the UAW to be their first union in the South





Trump’s hush money trial will start on Monday with opening statements after the jury’s been seated



House Dems helped the House Speaker get aid bills for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan passed



Senate Dems kill the articles of impeachment that House GOP passed against HS Sec Mayorkas



Smartmatic settled its defamation lawsuit against OAN over its conspiracies after the 2020 election



The Kennedys have endorsed Biden, not RFK Jr



The Rust movie’s armorer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison



The NBA has banned Toronto Raptors player Johntay Porter for life over gambling violations



Paramount Global is potentially in talks to be acquired by Skydance or Sony Pictures



Keanu Reeves is voicing Shadow in Sonic the Hedgehog 3



Amazon Prime Video renewed Fallout for a second season



Netflix’s The Witcher has been renewed for a final, fifth season



We got an official trailer for Netflix’s A Man in Full



We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Hit Man



We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude



We got an official trailer for Transformers One



We got an official trailer for Trap



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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the death of OJ, the wild Supreme Court ruling in Arizona, and the total solar eclipse.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, Resistance Retribution, Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier



B: Dragon’s Dogma 2, Ion Fury, Fallout tv, A-pollen-ocallypse 3: the Reckoning.





Brandon’s Random Factoid (OJ Edition)



Assholes of the Week: Arizona’s Supreme Court allows an 1864 abortion law from before it became a state to be enforced that is a near total ban

The parents of the Oxford High School shooter were sentenced to 10-15 years in prison



Rogue health insurance brokers are making unauthorized policy switches for ACA policyholders



A Southwest Boeing plane flying to Houston lost its engine cover and returned to Denver, which means there’s another FAA investigation, Whistleblower alleged that Boeing routinely ignored complaints about issues in the manufacturing process





Heroes of the Week: 3 men were stranded on a Pacific island for nearly a week before being rescued after their HELP sign on the shore was spotted

The EPA has put limits on PFAS in drinking water





Good Riddance OJ Simpson



The solar eclipse was the biggest event of the week



Trump & Mike Johnson’s big election plan is to stop noncitizens from voting, which is already illegal



Norfolk Southern has settled a $600 million lawsuit from residents of East Palestine, OH



The Women’s NCAA basketball championship game beat the Men’s game in the ratings



NASA has been asked to create a time zone for the Moon



There’s going to be a live-action film adaptation of the TMNT story The Last Ronin



Paramount’s rebooting the Scary Movie franchise



Heroes is also getting a reboot with its original creator at the helm



Netflix has a six-episode comedy series from John Mulaney debuting May 3



Max’s second season of Velma debuts April 25



Apple renews Monarch: Legacy of Monsters for a Season 2 along with plans for spinoff series



We got a teaser trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux



We got an official trailer for Fly Me To The Moon



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