On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the latest case of corruption by Clarence Thomas, the "controversy" of the new dress code in the US Senate, and what new Troll sequel is on the way.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Columbo, Fast & Furious series, Starfield, Super Mario RPG

B: Baldur’s Gate 3, books, welcome to Autumn!

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone magazine, is being criticized over his new book not featuring black and female musicians because they weren’t articulate enough

Birmingham PD tased a high school band director for not stopping his band’s performance after a football game

Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has close ties to the Koch network that had him speak at two fundraising events for the influential conservative organization

Democratic Senator Robert Menendez has been indicted on federal corruption charges

Heroes of the Week: The Senate managed to promote General Charles Q. Brown to chairman of the Joint Chiefs as they managed to get around Tommy Tuberville’s blocking of promotions

The Federal gov’t is resuming it’s free mail order COVID test program starting on Monday

The Biden admin announced plans for new regulations to bar medical debt from affecting your credit score

Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as chair of Fox and News Corp, letting Lachlan lead all of it

Chuck Schumer has relaxed the Senate’s dress code in the latest dumb controversy in Congress

The Southern Baptists Convention has ousted an Oklahoma church whose priest did blackface

Clorox products may be hard to get right now due to a cyberattack in August

A Danish artist has been ordered to repay a museum after delivering two blank canvases

Drew Barrymore did the right thing and delayed her show’s return until the strikes are over

Blink-182 announced their new album “One More Time” will be out October 20

Disney announced a $1500 set of 100 Disney & Pixar movies for their 100th Anniversary

Studio Ghibli is selling a controlling stake to Nippon Television

Amazon is planning an ad tier for Prime Video

The Meg 2: The Trench will be on Max September 29

Netflix has ordered a sequel to Troll

We got an official trailer for Dream Scenario

We got a teaser trailer for Netflix’s Griselda

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