Let's Weekend Unknown

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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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the dumb plan for Congress to ban Tiktok, the GOP's nominee for governor of North Carolina, and the new remake of The Crow and the original's effect on wrestling.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Damsel, Dragon Ball, Balatro



B: Unicorn Overlord, The Sparrow, music, the A-pollen-ocalypse.





Brandon’s Random Factoid



Assholes of the Week: The House of Reps voted on a bipartisan bill to require ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban on all US devices

Father of the Oxford High School shooter found guilty of involuntary manslaughter



After his Romanian trial is over, Andrew Tate will be extradited to the UK to face charges of sexual aggression in another case





Heroes of the Week: Flint, Michigan is giving every new mother $7,500 in cash aid over a year



Chuck Schumer calls on Israel to hold new elections to replace Netanyahu to achieve peace



Trump’s New York trial is delayed until mid-April



Trump and Biden have clinched their party’s presidential nominations for 2024



North Carolina’s GOP nominee for governor has said a lot of awful things



The Boeing whistleblower John Barnett was found dead in his truck



An older Boeing plane landed in Oregon with a missing panel



America’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm is officially open off the coast of Long Island



Pornhub has turned off access in Texas after its new age verification law goes into effect



The Boy and the Heron will be streaming on Max as WB Discovery renews Studio Ghibli deal



Patty Jenkins is working on Rogue Squadron movie again after Wonder Woman 3 falls through



We got an official trailer for The Crow



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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the life and influence of Akira Toriyama, the dumb reason a retired Air Force employee was indicted, and George Santos' dumb plan to get back in Congress.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Spaceman, FFVII Rebirth, Fortnite



B: Unicorn Overlord, Pacific Drive, Rebuild of Evangelion, still job hunting.





Brandon’s Random Factoid



Assholes of the Week: Retired Air Force employee has been idicted for disclosing classified info about the Russia/Ukraine war on a dating site

George Santos says he will run again for a House Rep seat, but for the seat of the Rep that lead the effort to get him expelled





Heroes of the Week: The first over-the-counter birth control pill is heading to stores later this month

Dartmouth’s men’s basketball team is the first college sports team to unionize in the US





RIP Akira Toriyama



Nikki Haley has suspended her presidential campaign



The Supreme Court unanimously restored Trump to the Colorado primary ballot



Senator Kyrsten Sinema will not seek reelection



Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey advance to the general election for California’s Senate seat



Colin Allred won the Dem primary to face Ted Cruz in Texas’ Senate election



Alabama’s governor signed IVF bill to give patients and providers immunity



JetBlue and Spirit Airlines abandon plans to merge after it was blocked by a judge



Apple was fined 1.8 billion Euros for hindering music streaming competition on iOS devices



Warner Bros. Discovery is shutting down Rooster Teeth after 21 years



Netflix renews Avatar: The Last Airbender for two more seasons



Baywatch is being rebooted on Fox



We got an official trailer for Prime Video’s The Idea of You



We get an official trailer for Prime Video’s Fallout



We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Ripley



We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Parasyte: The Grey



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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about deflections of ExxonMobil, the awful actions of the IDF, and the effects of a surge in syphilis cases.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Fortnite, FF7 Remake Intermission



B: Persona 3 Reload, Splatoon 3 Side Order, Rebuild of Evangelion, job hunting.





Brandon’s Random Factoid



Assholes of the Week: ExxonMobil is blaming consumers for global warming and not their decades long campaign to keep their research hidden from the public, They’re also suing investors who want them to be more green and slash climate pollution

Over 100 Palestinians have died after Israelis opened fire on the crowd trying to get food from aid trucks



Georgia’s working on a bill to force all school and public libraries to cut ties with the American Library Association





Heroes of the Week: Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire in protest of the government continued aid of Israel

Michigan Dem primary voters made their protest votes for Uncommitted





RIP Richard Lewis



RNC’s Chair Ronna McDaniel is stepping down March 8



Mitch McConnell is stepping down as Senate minority leader in November



SCOTUS is hearing arguments on Trump’s presidential immunity case in April



Congress passed a short-term spending bill to prevent a partial govt shutdown



Two men have been found guilty of killing Run DMC DJ Jam Master Jay



FTC and 9 states are suing to block the Kroger/Albertsons merger



Penicillin is being rationed in some areas because of a surge in syphilis cases



The original Road House writer is suing Amazon over blocking his ability to reclaim its rights



Poor Things will be available on Hulu starting March 7



Anatomy of a Fall will be available on Hulu starting March 22



We got an official trailer for Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga



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