Let's Weekend Unknown

On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about how the Epoch Times is a money laundering scheme, Alex Jones' media empire being liquidated to pay the families that sued him, and the horrific fungus that's making cicadas horny.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Hit Man, Fallout 76, Rocket League, Little Kitty Big City



B: Apollo Justice Ace Attorney trilogy, Amnesia The Bunker, books, Shiny Happy People





Brandon’s Random Factoid



Assholes of the Week: Biden’s new executive order denies asylum claims to most migrants crossing the border unlawfully

The CFO for the Epoch Times was charged with laundering at least $67 million in illegally obtained funds





Heroes of the Week: Mexico elected its first female president



Judge orders Steve Bannon to report to prison by July 1



Alex Jones has agreed to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families



Dog breeding company is facing a record $35 million fine for mistreatment of its beagles



Black workers at a General Mills plant in Georgia are suing the company over racial discrimination



Simone Biles won her 9th all-around national championship



That stingray that supposedly got pregnant without other stingrays around was just sick



There’s a fungus that is turning cicadas into horny zombies



WB Discovery hikes price for Max ad-free plans effective immediately



Netflix’s Wallace & Gromit film will be out this Christmas



Netflix’s Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight was rescheduled to November due to Tyson’s ulcer issues



Prime Video orders an American Gladiators reboot



Prime Video’s Like a Dragon: Yakuza live-action series debuts on October 25



Monkey Man is debuts on Peacock June 14



Suzanne Collins is working on a new Hunger Games book that’ll be a movie in 2026



We got an official trailer for Alien: Romulus



We got an official trailer for Netflix’s That 90s Show Part 2



We got an official trailer for Piece by Piece



We got an official trailer for Venom: The Last Dance



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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about Trump's very bad week as he got booed relentlessly at the Libertarian Party National Convention and was found guilty on 34 felony charges in his hush money trial.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Columbo, Oppenheimer, Sweet Tooth, Rocket League, Hitman 3, MLB The Show 24



B: Apollo Justice Ace Attorney trilogy, Selaco, books, X-Men 97.





Brandon’s Random Factoid



Assholes of the Week: Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony charges in his hush money trial

Chief Justice John Roberts declined an invitation to meet with top Senate Dems over judicial ethics



Justice Samuel Alito refuses to recuse himself in January 6-related cases after more flags were found flying at his vacation home





Heroes of the Week: Vermont is the first state to require oil companies help pay for climate change damages

The MLB has officially incorporated Negro League stats into its record books, creating new leaders in various categories





Trump got a taste of dissent as he spoke at the Libertarian Party National Convention



The media company behind the book/film 2,000 Mules apologized and will halt all distribution



The Wall Street Journal laid off a bunch of writers after lucrative OpenAI deal and record profits



OpenAI also inked deals with Vox Media and The Atlantic to get their content on ChatGPT



Ticketmaster has been hacked with info stolen on more than 500 million customers



South Korea says that North Korea is flying balloons full of trash over the border



Ryan Reynolds revealed the most sexual popcorn bucket yet for Deadpool and Wolverine



Godzilla Minus One is on Netflix now



Netflix’s Tomb Raider animated series will premiere October 10



Netflix is developing an animated Minecraft series



WB Discovery is bringing back Dinner & A Movie for TBS



WB Discovery is developing a 300 TV series



We got a teaser trailer for Moana 2



We got an official trailer for Wolfs



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On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the federal lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, a new malaria vaccine, and the unfortunate reasons for Red Lobster's bankruptcy.




Intro



What Are We Up To?

C: Columbo, Rocket League, Little Kitty Big City, Hitman



B: Read Only Memories, Another Crab’s Treasure, books.





Brandon’s Random Factoid



Assholes of the Week: Trump’s latest social media campaign video calls for a “Unified Reich”



Heroes of the Week: The DOJ and 30 state/district attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster

A new malaria vaccine has been delivered to the Central African Republic





The ICC is seeking warrants for Israel’s and Hamas’ leaders

Norway, Ireland, and Spain say they will recognize a Palestinian state





Nikki Haley announced that she’s voting for Trump because she has no morals



Iran’s president died in a helicopter crash



Michigan farmworker is the second US bird flu case tied to dairy cows



Red Lobster is filing for bankruptcy



Scarlett Johansson put out a statement about her anger that OpenAI’s Sky voice sounds like her



Study finds microplastics in the testicles of all of its human and dog subjects



Google’s search AI has been providing a lot of wrong facts and answers this week



Disney Pixar laid off 175 people



Yorgos Lanthimos is working with Emma Stone on a third movie called Bugonia



Universal’s looking to reboot The Munsters



Netflix confirms the third Knives Out movie for 2025 release



We got an official trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice



We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F



We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Sweet Tooth Final Season



We got an official trailer for Netflix’s Trigger Warning



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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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