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The opposite side of the Day 0 Update coin, Let's Weekend! is an informal hangout for various SmashPad staff, typically recorded on Friday night and posted Saturday. In contrast to SmashPad's flagship podcast, topics on Let's Weekend! include but are by no means limited to gaming, allowing the hosts to discuss their other major interests from literature to sports, from superheroes to music, and all points in between. Just remember, sobriety is optional.
Let’s Weekend #480 – The Cracker Barrel Culture War
Let's Weekend
1 hour 21 minutes 55 seconds
2 months ago
Let’s Weekend #480 – The Cracker Barrel Culture War
In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the shooting in Minnesota, ChatGPT's complicity in a kid's suicide, and what's been going on with Cracker Barrel.
Intro
What Are We Up To?
C: Twisted Metal S2, PWS, Hollow Knight, Madden 26
B: Trails demo, Sly 3, OFF, books, Knights of Guinevere.
Brandon’s Random Factoid
Assholes of the Week: Shooter killed two kids and injured 17 other kids and adults at a Catholic school church as they fired blindly through a stained-glass window
Missouri’s the next state looking to redraw their maps to give Trump and the GOP an advantage
Whistleblower says a former DOGE official copied the Social Security numbers, names, and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private part of the Agency’s cloud server
Federal appeals court finds that Trump’s tariffs are illegal, but is leaving them in place for now so the Trump admin can appeal to the SCOTUS
Trump ended the “de minimus” rule that allowed international shipments under $800 to be duty-free that will cause lots of businesses to stop shipping internationally
ICE detained Kilmar Abrego Garcia during his Baltimore check-in
Heroes of the Week: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has filed suit against the Trump admin for illegally firing her
The new CDC director was fired less than a month into the job
Iowa GOP Senator Joni Ernst is expected to announce that she won’t run for reelection in 2026
Kid’s family is suing OpenAI after their son committed suicide with the help of ChatGPT
Cracker Barrel's reverting to its old logo after a failed rebrand while they figure out what’s next
Spirit Airlines has filed for bankruptcy for the 2nd time in the last year
KPop Demon Hunters lead the box office last weekend with singalong showings
KPop Demon Hunters is the most-watched Netflix movie with 236 million views
Sony and Netflix are working on a deal to make a sequel
Mortal Kombat 2 was delayed to May 15, 2026
We got an official trailer for Alice in Borderland Season 3
We got a teaser trailer for Father Mother Sister Brother
We got a teaser trailer for Return to Silent Hill
We got a teaser trailer for Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
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Let's Weekend
The opposite side of the Day 0 Update coin, Let's Weekend! is an informal hangout for various SmashPad staff, typically recorded on Friday night and posted Saturday. In contrast to SmashPad's flagship podcast, topics on Let's Weekend! include but are by no means limited to gaming, allowing the hosts to discuss their other major interests from literature to sports, from superheroes to music, and all points in between. Just remember, sobriety is optional.
