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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