In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the Charlie Kirk shooting, what happened in Nepal, and the birthday card that made the news this week. Intro What Are We Up To? C: The Paper, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Everybody’s Golf: Hot Shots B: Psychonauts 2, secret game, Helluva Boss, books, feeling my age. Brandon’s Random Factoid Assholes of the Week: Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at his event at Utah Valley University while answering a question about mass shootings by a shooter about 200 yards away, the shooter turned himself in after confessing to his dad MSNBC contributor Matthew Dowd was fired after tame comments about Charlie Kirk after he was killed as the most prominent example of overzealous blowback on comments, and others are losing their jobs over social media posts due to GOP snitches Democrats made public the birthday card that Trump denied sending to Jeffrey Epstein on his 50th birthday Former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro has been convicted of attempting a coup to stay in office after losing an election in 2022 There was a Colorado high school shooting where a student shot two of his peers before shooting himself to be the only death Heroes of the Week: Protestors in Nepal got their corrupt prime minister to resign with violent protests against a ban on social media platforms and government corruption Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency signed an agreement to pave the way for resuming cooperation on inspecting their nuclear facilities Senate Republicans are using the nuclear option to confirm Trump nominees in batches BLS revises annual hiring numbers up to March 2025 to be 911k jobs lower than previous estimate Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is resigning Macron appointed his defense minister as the new prime minister South Korea reached a deal with the US to bring the detained workers home via charter plane Poland shot down several Russian drones that violated its airspace Israel attacked Hamas leadership in Qatar Rupert Murdoch reached a deal with his kids to let Lachlan run Fox Corp. while the others are paid Paramount condemns Israeli film boycott after 3900 industry names signed the pledge Paramount Skydance owner David Ellison wants to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Sesame Street will be putting hundreds of classic episodes and more content on YouTube Elio will appear on Disney+ September 17 The live-action How to Train Your Dragon will be on Peacock October 10 Tim Robinson’s new series The Chair Company will debut on HBO and HBO Max October 12 We got an official trailer for Christy We got an official trailer for Song Sung Blue We got a teaser trailer for Last Samurai Standing We got a teaser trailer for The Rip We got a teaser trailer for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery Contact us at letsweekenders@gmail.com Subscribe via: Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, or RSS