In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the wild week of Trump’s threats against Iran, some good news about WGA getting a new deal, and the journey that Artemis II went on until landing in ocean as we started recording.
- Intro
- What Are We Up To?
- C: The Dinosaurs, Maul, The Fifth Element, Mean Girls, Temtem: Swarm
- B: Death Stranding 2, Neverway demo, books, It’s getting hotter
- Brandon’s Random Factoid
- Assholes of the Week: Trump sent out a curse-filled post on Easter threatening Iran if they don’t open the Straight of Hormuz, then said “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” on Tuesday, but then agreed to a two week ceasefire before having to follow through on it, Israel kept attacking Lebanon despite the ceasefire
- Heroes of the Week: Artemis II broke Apollo 13’s distance record as it flew by the moon on Monday, they took a bunch of amazing photos, the crew asked to name a crater after the Commander’s late wife who died of cancer in 2020
- Election Tuesday
- The man behind the Gilgo Beach killings plead guilty to murder charges
- Drug dealer behind the ketamine that killed Matthew Perry was sentenced to 15 years in prison
- Paramount Skydance confirmed that Middle Eastern Wealth Funds are part of their WB deal funds
- Rome court ruled that Netflix’s price hikes in Italy are illegal and customers are entitled to refunds
- A few hundred people are getting laid off at Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Disney’s expected to lay off up to 1,000 people soon
- WGA reached a surprisingly early deal with studios a month before their previous deal ended
- Netflix announced a LEGO One Piece special that is out September 29
- We got an official trailer for The Invite
- We got an official trailer for The Punisher: One Last Kill
- We got an official trailer for Lord of the Flies
- We got an official trailer for Remarkably Bright Creatures
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