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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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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the surprisingly failure of the No Labels party, the UAW trying to get union support in the South, and the amazing $30 million heist on Easter in LA.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Physical 100 S2, MLB The Show 24, Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, Balatro



B: Freedom Planet II, Dragon’s Dogma 2, anticipating Fallout on Prime.





Brandon’s Random Factoid



Assholes of the Week: Israel attacked a World Central Kitchen convoy bringing food to Palestinians, claiming it was a mistake and fired officials responsible for the attack

Israel also attacked the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing two of its generals and several others





Heroes of the Week: The Iowa/UConn game between Caitlyn Clark and Paige Bueckers set a record for the most watched women’s college basketball game ever

California’s $20 minimum wage for fast food workers has started





Florida voters get an abortion amendment on the ballot for this fall



Shocking no one, No Labels will have no third-party presidential candidate this year



The UAW is hoping to breach the South with two plants that have upcoming union elections



Theives got away with $30 million in cash during an Easter heist on an LA storage facility’s safe



Amazon’s removing their Just Walk Out technology from its Amazon Fresh stores

Smart grocery carts might be their next plan for its grocery stores



As a result, they’re laying off hundreds of people from their AWS





Amazon Prime Video extends WNBA exclusive streaming pact for two more years



Denis Villeneuve and Legendary make deal to work on Dune 3 and Nuclear War: A Scenario films



Matrix 5 is in the works as WB ignores the last movie’s point



We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives



We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Bodkin



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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the awful bridge collapse in Baltimore, how the former RNC chair got paid to do nothing, and the new grift from Trump.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Poor Things, Balatro, MLB The Show 24



P: Achieved Master rank on SF6 and taking the opportunity to improve as a video editor, treading lightly with Little Akiba Games as a new gaming culture war flares up, Smashpad’s relaxation of review formats may bring me back to writing those.



B: Dragon’s Dogma II, Stellar Blade Demo, books, Easter stuff





Brandon’s Random Factoid



Assholes of the Week: The Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a giant container ship crashed into it, clearing the channel of debris will take weeks

Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud charges



NBC hired former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, then said she wouldn’t be on air after employees complained, and then dropped her entirely after outcry succeeds



Trump is selling $60 “God Bless The USA” Bibles





Heroes of the Week: The next US Census will have new race/ethnicity options for MENA and Hispanic/Latino

Cheeseburger Doritos are back!





Good riddance to Senator Joe Lieberman



RIP Louis Gossett Jr



RFK Jr’s VP pick is Nicole Shanahan



Boeing’s CEO Dave Calhoun has stepped down



Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate has been dismissed



Two of Sean Combs’ homes were raided by the Feds



Hulu on Disney+ is now officially available



We got an official trailer for Hulu’s Under the Bridge



We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Unfrosted



We got an official trailer for Bad Boys: Ride or Die



We got a teaser trailer for Kinds of Kindness



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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about what's really going on with Kate Middleton, Trump's loan troubles, and how we were messed up by The Neverending Story movies.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Dune: Part Two, Sand Land, Dragon Ball, MLB The Show 24, Balatro



B: The Ascent, The Invincible, books, A-pollen-ocalypse II: Nasty Booger-loo





Brandon’s Random Factoid



Assholes of the Week: Trump’s lawyers have said that Trump cannot get a loan to cover the $450 million bond needed to appeal his New York Fraud case

Six Mississippi deputies were sentenced to prison for torturing two black men





Heroes of the Week: The first human transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney has been successfully performed

The so-called “Ghost Army” from World War II has been given their first public recognition with Congressional Gold Medals





Congress and Biden passed a $1.2 trillion funding package to last until September 30



Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill that bans state funding of DEI programs



The Princess of Wales has announced that she has cancer and is undergoing treatment



The US has finally banned the most common form of asbestos



133 people were killed in a massive terrorist attack on a Russian concert venue by ISIS



Joann Fabrics has filed for bankruptcy



The US DOJ has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple over its monopoly with the iPhone



The Neverending Story is being adapted for new movies



Wish will debut on Disney+ April 3



Dead Boy Detectives is debuting on Netflix April 25



We got an official trailer for Disney+’s The Acolyte



We got an official trailer for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga



We got a teaser trailer for Alien: Romulus



We got a teaser trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice



We got a teaser trailer for Max’s The Penguin



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