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April 2, 2026 Weekly Weekend Warrior

April 2, 2026·24 min·1 clip

Jason David Frank's final film, Legend of the White Dragon, finally gets a theatrical release date five years after his death.

The show starts with greetings. It marks April 2 with National Autism Awareness Day, celebrates Emily Eder turning 40, and rattles through a birthday stack that includes Alan Citron, Pedro Pascal, Zach Bryan, the late Alec Guinness, Emma Myers, Jesse Plemons, Clark Gregg, Emmylou Harris, Michael Fassbender, and Marvin Gaye. Then comes a correction. The host admits the earlier Whitman note was off by a day and fixes it to Monday, March 30, before moving on with a quick oopsies and no time wasted. April 3 gets its own parade. Jane Goodall, Paris Jackson, Marlon Brando, Eddie Murphy, Adam Scott, Alec Baldwin, Doris Day, and David Hyde Pierce all get name-checked, and the calendar talk folds in 90.7 WKKL's Straight Up 90s anniversary plus movie-and-TV anniversaries for Danny Phantom, My Hero Academia, Beethoven, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, Furious 7, and Primal Fear. April 4 follows. Paul Walker is framed as what would have been his 47th birthday, and the show keeps the same fast-moving birthday-roll rhythm with more names attached to the date. The headlines then kick in. A Paramount survival-thriller project, Fall, gets an August 7, 2026 date and is said to open against Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man, the rom-com One Night Only, and the comedy Super Troopers. Miranda is next. Lin-Manuel Miranda has zeroed in on Octet as his next directing project, with Dave Malloy adapting his own stage musical about digital dependency, writing the screenplay, and executive producing while the film follows eight internet-obsessed people who lock their phones in a box inside a church basement. Broadway stays in the lane. A filmed version of the musical is set for theaters on August 14, 2026, with the original West End queens returning and the project leaning into its pop-royalty framing and global stage pedigree. Animation gets its turn. The episode points to new Avatar the Last Airbender chatter and then dives into the SpongeBob movie, naming Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Carolyn Lawrence, Mark Hamill, Regina Hall, George Lopez, and Roger Bumpass in the cast roll call. The SpongeBob pitch is loud. The plot has SpongeBob trying to prove himself to Mr. Krabs by chasing the Flying Dutchman into the ocean's deepest reaches and the underworld, with the film positioned as the sixth SpongeBob movie overall. It wraps briskly. The host signs off with the usual push to stay safe, watch lots of movies, and get to the theaters if possible, keeping the whole segment in its breezy radio-roundup lane.

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A brisk entertainment roundup that moves from birthdays and corrections to Broadway and film updates.

Weekly Weekend Warrior keeps its foot on the gas, opening on birthdays and a correction about Whitman Keefe before turning to a stack of entertainment notes.

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