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The Dumbest Story of the Week
The Dumbest Story of the Week is self-evident. The 24-hour news cycle generates a lot of content, and not all of it is worth the digital ink on which it isn't printed. The show is hosted by longtime radio and podcast producer and host Joe Armstrong. Don't be a dummy.
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Episode 102: Jittery Dems And The Midterm Blues, Competitive Napping, The Worst Political Ad Ever, Dying By The Cross, I Don’t Mind Stealing Birds, Breaking The Globe, Bathtub Gin, Ted Cruz And Transgender Witches, Snitches Get Paid, and more
It's episode 102 and we’re cruising now! The polls say that the Democrats are poised for big wins in the upcoming Midterm elections, and that has left them…
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Episode 101: Psst, It’s The Guns, Shut Up And Play Metal, A Tale Of Two Portlands, Zacharia Out, We <3 Billionaires, The Little Shop Of Texas Horrors, The Execution Will Not Be Televised, and more
Looky here, it’s episode #101! No Dalmatians required. “Shut up and play metal,” so sayeth James Hetfield. A tale of two Portlands. Katie Zacharia, we hardly…
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Episode 100: Drunk Donuts, Taking Out Los Angeles, Live Streaming Death, No Nobel For You, Banning Books, RIP Ditka, and more
It's the 100th episode of The Dumbest Story of the Week! The mile-high self-love club. Drunken donuts. Texas loves banning books, because banning things always…
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Episode 99: Frat Boys Will Be Frat Boys, A Classic GOP Self-Own, SupercalifragilisticArtificialIntelligence, Gen-X Boozehounds, Front Row Joes Find The Exit, and more
Would you look at that! It’s episode 99. On the precipice of our 100 episode of The Dumbest Story of the Week, we’ve got a classic Republican self-own that…
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Episode 98: Banning The News, Karl Rove Goes Blue, Judge Judy Is A Bigot, Furry Pilots, Tucker Carlson VS. NPR, AI Actresses, Cheese Boycotts, The Best Worst Guard Dog, and more
Banning the news. Karl Rove goes Blue. As it turns out, Judge Judy Is a Bigot. LAX’s People Mover isn’t moving people. Tommy Tuberville wants you to be very…
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Episode 97: Ed Sheeran Waffles On Genocide, Don’t Vandalize The Still-Dead Charlie Kirk’s Statue, James Talarico Is A Trans Traitor, East-Winging The Kennedy Center, Kash Patel Explains Bestiality, Rebooting Lonesome Dove, and more
Ed Sheeran waffles on genocide. Don’t vandalize the still-dead Charlie Kirk’s statue. James Talarico is a trans traitor. East-Winging the Kennedy Center. Kash…
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Episode 96: Trump Floats A $5k Redistribution Of Wealth, A Jagoff Gets Himself Duct-Taped To A Seat, IDONOTWANTAFOLDABLEIPHONE, No Clean Water For You, Algorithmic Wage Discrimination, No Mas Fascist Tetris, New America, and more
Donald Trump floats a $5k redistribution of wealth. A jagoff gets himself duct taped to a first-class airline seat. Have we achieved peak diesel?…
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Episode 95: Leaving MAGA, JD Vance Welcomes The End Times, Yosemite For Sale, Saving Us From The Thin Blue Line, Flipping (Off) A Trump Coin, Milo Yiannopoulos Gets ICEd, and more
Leaving MAGA. JD Vance welcomes the End Times. Saving us from the thin blue line. Yosemite for sale. Milo Yiannopoulos Gets ICEd. The truth is blind, deaf, and…
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Episode 94: Lake Ontario 4EVA, Sayonara Dolly Parton, A Malort World Record, Australia Axes AI Music, Ants From Hell, The Robots Are Winning, Female Flatulence, and more
Lake Ontario 4EVA. Humans are losing the Robot Olympics. Millennials think they did everything first. The science of female flatulence. Wild horses. Trump…
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Episode 93: The Trump Kennedy Trump Center, My Old Venecky Home, $40 Trillion In The Hole, Joe Rogan Doesn’t Like Socialism, The Best States For Swingers, Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty To Having A Conscience, Pheromone Maxxing, and more
The Trump Kennedy Trump Center. AI sucks at maps and loves to destroy books. The best states for swingers. Donald Trump is a genius at grass. And flagpoles…
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Episode 92: Karoline Leavitt Leaves, Enshittification, Trump’s Cowardly Airplane Shell Game Subterfuge, ICE’s Electric Gloves, Stowaway Snakes, Trombone Tariffs, The third-party Blues, and more
Karoline Leavitt leaves. Enshittification. Trump’s cowardly airplane shell game subterfuge. ICE’s electric gloves. College without grades. Stowaway snakes. Do…
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Episode 91: Trump’s Shameless Stolen Valor, MTG And Tucker Carlson Go Rogue, Obama Lets Loose On The Trumps, Preaching On Planes, McConnell Lives, Alabama Wants A Border Wall, Jeanine Pirro Is In Hot Water, and more
Trump’s shameless stolen valor. MTG and Tucker Carlson go rogue. Obama lets loose on the Trumps. Preaching on planes. Mitch McConnell lives. Alabama wants a…
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Episode 90: Free Fauci, The Boss > That Keyboard Guy From Journey, The Odyssey Vs. Grok, Help Us Jimothy - You’re Our Only Hope, The Steroid Olympics, MAGA’s Greatest Hits, RIP Glen Hansard, and more
Free Fauci! Pete “Fox News Weekend Host” Hegseth thinks that the U.S. Military needs more testosterone. Check out the new K-Tel MAGA’s Greatest Hits…
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Episode 89: Take A Break From The News, Really, Do You Have A Mantra? Because I Have A Mantra, and more
Being sick sucks. Being sick in the summer sucks even more. I am down for the count with some kind of cruel respiratory malady, which means that I am advising…
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Episode 88: Lindsey Graham Jumps The Line, Integrity Vs. Mortality, RIP Standard Time, The Ten Worst States Are MAGA, The Dodgers Sell Out Their Fans, ICE’s Bloodlust, and more
Lindsey Graham jumps the line and we’re stuck with Mitch and Donny. Integrity vs. mortality. RIP Standard Time, maybe? The ten worst states to live in are…
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Episode 87: Weekend At Mitch McConnell’s, The Tragedy Of USMNT, Sayonara DOGE, NPR Platforms A Christofascist, The People’s Gas Stations, Looksmaxxers And Giga Chads, Graham Platner Is Not Sorry, Cannibalism And Hot Dogs Are Bad For Your Health, and more
Weekend at Mitch McConnell’s. Plasma cannons and potato guns. The Islamic Republic of Japan. Sayonara DOGE. The Trump bridge is out. NPR platforms a…
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Episode 86: A MAGA Uncle Sam Gets Arrested For ‘Raising His Flag’ At The Great American State Fair, 20% Of Americans Are Bailing On America’s 250th, Birthright Citizenship Survives SCOTUS Illiteracy, Helen Keller Isn’t Real, Alex Jones Can Suck It, Killer Crocs, and more
A MAGA Uncle Sam gets arrested for ‘raising his flag’ at the Great American State Fair. 20% of Americans are bailing on America’s 250 Independence Day. SCOTUS…
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Episode 85: JD Vance Loves Richard Nixon, Are The Reflecting Pool Vandals In The Room With Us Right Now? M&M’s Go MAHA, SCOTUS Screws Us, Killer Robots Have Arrived, The Worst President Ever Is…, Crappy Sunglasses, and more
Invisible vandals vandalize The Reflecting Pool. Are the vandals in the room with us right now? White guys gonna do white guy stuff, like still being mad at…
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Episode 84: INTERVIEW with David Lazarus – Can The World Cup Save The Struggling Alcohol Industry, Allbirds Goes AI, The Donald J. Trump Reflecting Pool Goes Green, and more
KTLA’s Business Reporter, the unstoppable David Lazarus, joins The Dumbest Story of the Week to talk about whether the rowdy and thirsty World Cup drinkers can…
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Episode 83: Sayonara Spencer Pratt, All Elections That MAGA Loses Are Rigged, Ballmaxxing, Sleepy Trump Curses The Knicks, Ahhhhhhh Salesmen! (Rush Is Back), Assassinations Get JD Vance In The Mood, The Best Worst Burger In America, and more
Republican Spencer Pratt gets bounced in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than two-to-one, but the system is obviously rigged. Heads we…
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Episode 82: The GOP Has No Pride In Pride, No Love For Billy Joel, 60 Minutes Sucks Now, Trump Is As Healthy As An 80-Year Old Horse, Ayn Rand Gets A Selfish Museum, George Santos (Illegally) Bets On Himself, Birds Choke Their Chickens, and more
Republicans have no pride in Pride. The New York Times has no love for Billy Joel, but New York Times readers apparently do. The Ayn Rand Museum of Selfishness…
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Episode 81: The Kennedy Center Boots Trump, Nobody Wants To Play The Great American State Fair, The POS Airport Code, Texans Love Crooks, There Aren’t Enough Donalds Buried At Arlington National Cemetery, RIP Sonny Rollins, and more
Trump has two weeks to remove his name from The Kennedy Center. Musicians keep bailing on playing The Great American State Fair. An airport will bear the DJT…
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Episode 80: Chicago’s Delicious New Holiday, AI Jesus, Colbert’s Final Bow, Macca > MAGA, Trump Skips His Own Son’s Wedding, The 1st Amendment Strikes Back, RIP Schlitz, The Slushiest Of Slush Funds, Yosemite Vandals, The Great Sax Gig In The Sky, and more
Chicago’s delicious new holiday comes with sport peppers and giardiniera. Put your hands on the Internet, because you can now subscribe to AI Jesus. Stephen…
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Episode 79: Trump Goes To China And Sadly Also Returns, Gerrymandering Fallout, The GOP Grandmother Of The Year Bullies A Kid, Mail Order Pistolas, Sean Duffy’s Big Dumb Road Trip, Questionable Age Gaps, and more
Trump goes to China, and we forgot to change the locks while he was gone. Fallout from the racist GOP gerrymandering starts to pile up. Do you think it’s a…
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Episode 78: Begun The Redistricting War Has, My Girlfriend Loves Bacteria, A Billion-Dollar Ballroom, RIP Spirit, Commie Spiders Vs. Rittenhouse, Eating The Rich, No More Buffalo, SCOTUS Whines While Screwing Democracy, and more
Begun, the redistricting war has. SCOTUS screws democracy while whining about people calling them out for screwing democracy. Our kitchen sponge is nasty, but…
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Episode 77: Trump Vs. Assassins, Killing The Truth, The Reflecting Pool Blues, Automatic Sliders For The People, Running Like Hell, Mr. No Kings Fawns Over A Real King, Not So Killer Bees, The Ugliest American, and more
Donald Trump is winning 3-0 against the assassins and it’s all the Democrats’ fault. Are Canadian dinosaurs allowed across the border? Will the truth survive…
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Episode 76: Tucker Carlson Is Sorry, Trump Digs Drugs, The Big Dick In The Sky, Racing Robots, Winning Vietnam (Very Quickly), Voting Dogs, Happy Hour With Kash Patel, The GOP Fumbles Gerrymandering, and more
Tucker Carlson is sorry for promoting Donald Trump while sitting in his big house with his piles of money he earned for promoting Donald Trump, and you should…
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Episode 75: The Pope Has Trump On The Ropes, Viktor Orban Loses His Job and G. Love Loses His Shirt, Diet Soda Vs. Cancer, The Pride Flag And Bathtub Gin Are Back Baby, Hegseth Prays To Saint Tarantino, and more
Donald Trump picks a fight with The Pope and he somehow thinks he can win. Hungary has an election and autocrat Viktor Orban loses bigly. Is this a preview of…
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Episode 74: Trump TACOs the Iran War, Who’s Your Daddy?, In Defense Of Not Liking Cats, Alabama Penisgate, Cancer Criminals, Broken Space Toilets, Trump’s Dead Air, and more
After threatening to annihilate a civilization, Trump TACOs the shit out of the Iran War, leaving thousands dead, putting the U.S. in a worse geopolitical…
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Episode 73: A Man With No Arms Or Legs Gets Accused Of Murder, Waffle House Teleportation, Trump Cheats By Mail, Vance Thinks Aliens Are Demons, Pam Bondi Gets The Axe, Snake Yoga, and more
A quadruple amputee and former professional cornhole player gets accused of murder. A high-ranking FEMA official sincerely believes that he was teleported to a…
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Episode 72: INTERVIEW with Christian – A TSA Officer Who Is Working Without Pay During Yet Another Republican Government Shutdown
Depending on how you count them, we may be in the midst of the fifth government shutdown in six years of Donald Trump’s administrations. The current shutdown –…
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Episode 71: You Can Marry Your Cousin In Florida, “Micropenis Mark” Beefs With “Petulant Megyn”, Et Tu Cesar, Bigfoot Lives, A Utah Woman Is Sad About The Husband She Murdered, Robots Will Kill Us All, and more
Want to marry your first cousin? Florida has got you. Some former Fox so-called News personalities are beefing. Who has the edge? “Micropenis Mark” Levin or…
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Episode 70: Gen Z Males Are Chauvinists, Camel Pageantry, Gene Simmons And Timothee Chalamet Have Some Opinions, Morrissey Is Too Tired (And Insufferable) To Perform, Gibberlink Will Kill Us All, Or Not, The Most Expensive Guitar EVER, and more
Did you know that there are beauty pageants for camels? And that people (and camels) get kicked out for cheating? I certainly didn’t. Gibberlink is like pig…
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Episode 69: Trump Is Awfully Cavalier About Americans Dying In The War He Started For Which He Has No Plan, Kristi Noem Gets Promotefired, We Might As Well Have Ranch Dressing Milkshakes, and more
Donald Trump, a man who campaigned on ‘no new wars,’ has gotten us into a stupid and unnecessary war with Iran. The first casualty of war is the truth, and we…
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Episode 68: Chicago Plows ICE, Leopards Love Eating Faces, Screaming Infidelities, Olympic Gold = Cold Burgers, Quantity Does Not Equal Quality At The SOTU, Trump Bombs Iran, and more
Donald Trump bombs Iran with Israel in tow, launching the third Middle East war in your host’s lifetime, and much to his chagrin. Chicago crowdsources the…
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Episode 67: Trump Takes An ‘L’ On Tariffs, No Glove No Gold At The Olympics, Smart Men Lean Left, Epstein Accountability, Science Says That Beards Are Gross (Or Not), RFK Jr. And Kid Rock Make A Porno, and more
The Supreme Court finally had enough of Trump’s shit and give him an ‘L’ on his idiotic tariffs. The Olympic athletes run out of condoms and are then rescued…
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Episode 66: Pam Bondi Goes Full Kavanaugh, Bridges To Nowhere/Canada, Kid Rock Violates A Big Rule, This Is My Rifle; There Are Many Like It But Mine Is In The Bathroom, NPS Vs. Pride Flags, and more
Pam Bondi pulled a Brett Kavanaugh in a House Judiciary Committee Hearing and Trump eats it up. A bridge to nowhere, or maybe Canada may not open because Trump…
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Episode 65: Bad Bunny Vs. Kid Rock, Trump Proves Yet Again That There Is No Bottom, Big Brother Is Watching Us, Where Are The Libertarians?, An ICE Forecast, Gaming The Midterms, and more
Are you watching the Big Game this weekend? Even if you aren’t, ICE is watching YOU. MAGA gets big mad about Bad Bunny and hires an idiot to play an alternate…
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Episode 64: ICE Proud Boys Murder Another American Citizen, Star Trek Is Too Woke, Trump Wants Iceland, Or Maybe Greenland, Libertarians Are MIA, Melania Gets Her 15 Minutes, The Board Of Peace > The UN, and more
Welcome to the fascist American future, where state-sponsored violence is the only law that matters. Now that the Proud Boys are collecting ICE signing…
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Episode 63: INTERVIEW with Jenny McCarty – An Artist and Conservationist Who Found A Clever Way To Stick It To Trump And Defend Our National Parks With Art
"I come from a long line of frontiersman and outdoor types." And that’s a line from one of my favorite movies, which would be The Coen Brothers’ Raising…
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Episode 62: Nobel Regifting, Stealing Greenland, Trump Shows Off His (Tiny) Middle Finger, You Sure Do Have a Perfidy Mouth, Bahrain Sex Toys, Grok Joins Skynet, and more
A man who can’t stop invading countries and flipping off his citizens unironically got himself a Nobel Peace Prize. Except unlike Obama, he got a used one on…
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Episode 61: ICE Kills (Another) American Citizen, Does A McRib Contain Any Ribs? Fighting At Disneyland, Threatening Greenland, Trump Blames The Left For January 6th, and more
ICE is saving us by killing us. That will be sure to keep the immigrants out. (Sarcasm font.) Alabama's governor has opinions about what happened in Minnesota…
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Episode 60: America’s Unnecessary Wars Part X, Does Your Boo Annoy You? How To Circumvent Anti-Vaxxers, Bummed About Getting Objects Stuck In Your Bum, and more
Donald Trump finally gets his Venezuela-shaped distraction. How many people are going to die to massage his fragile ego? The holidays finally roll out of town…
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Episode 59: INTERVIEW with Musician Ted Wulfers – How Flying With Guitars Can Be Hazardous To Your Health
Lots of people will be flying the holiday season. But do you who travels ALL the time? Musicians. Life on the road isn't all limos, hookers, and blow. Believe…
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Episode 58: Epstein Files Fails, Booze And Cheese Prevent Dementia, Karoline Leavitt Has A Lot Of Pores, Trump’s Hunger Games, Hypocrisy Slop, Slut Camp, and more
Happy holidays from TDSOTW! Rest in power, Rob Reiner. You truly were one of the good ones. Trump proves once again that there is no bottom. DOJ whiffs on…
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Episode 57: Let Them Eat Pencils, Marriage Advice From Incels, Redistricting Chicken, 86-ing 6-7, Cheap Trick Surrenders And Kiss Sucks For Trump At The Kennedy Center, and more
Trump pitches austerity with a golden spoon up his ass. SCOTUS is A-OK with partisan gerrymandering. The U.S. Navy goes full-pirate and seizes a Venezuelan oil…
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Episode 56: Phone Sober, Smart Bitches, Bending The Knee To Bullies, AI Overlords, Viva Em Dashes, Drunk Raccoons, Hegseth’s Hot Water, Born Again After Getting Stuck In The Holiest Of Holies, and more
It's the holiday season once again and just as Ralphie Parker learned in A Christmas Story, you never bend the knee to a bully like Scut Farkus. And we're…
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Episode 55: The MAGA Relatives Thanksgiving Survival Guide
Got MAGA relatives? Of course you do. Will you have to share a Thanksgiving table with them this week? Here is a short episode sliding in under their radar…
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Episode 54: Sayonara MTG, Americans Are Getting Dumber, Put Down The Doritos And Step Away, It Takes A Piggy To Know One, Famous Micropenises, 90s Amish, Don’t Argue With Strangers, and more
Well, well, well. Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning. Should we be happier about this? It gives me no joy to say it, but Americans are getting dumber, and we…
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Episode 53: MAGA Defends Pedophiles, Democrats Do A Little Spelunking, Sex Takes Too Long, Does Anybody Know What Magnets Are, #1 With An AI Bullet, Kim Davis Loses Again, RIP Pennies, and more
The Epstein Files strike back and MAGA has decided that the right play is to defend pedophiles. Sounds about right. It took the Democrats five days to squander…
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Episode 52: A Rogue Blue Wave, Cheney/Evil Dies, Dumb Halloween Costumes, Mississippi Monkey Hunts, Going Hungry In An Exceptional Country, Sandwich Guy Not Guilty, and more
A rogue blue wave strikes American and Republicans are Big Sad about it. Dick Cheney dies and perhaps meets the hundreds of thousands of humans killed in the…
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Episode 51: 6-7, The LEGO Black Market, Pooping AirPods, ICE Is Recruiting Criminals, R.I.P. The East Wing, Springing George Santos, and more
Happy Halloween from The Dumbest Story of the Week! This is the week I learned about 6-7, and I am dumber for it. A man in Taiwan discovered just how durable…
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Episode 50: INTERVIEW with Ryan W. Powers – Democrats Aren’t Rising To Meet The Moment
This episode is another opportunity to pull myself – and hopefully all of you - out of the morass that is our weekly news cycle and focus on one topic and one…
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Episode 49: Young Republicans Are Real Charmers, Potato Chips Are Made Of Potatoes, Drunk AF, USC Holds The Line, Columbus Day Strikes Back, Spotify Loves ICE, and more
An investigation by POLITICO revealed this week that Young Republicans engaged in a little "locker room talk" this year, including talking about suppressing…
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Episode 48: ICE Vs. Chicago, No Nobel For Donny, Bad Bunny Vs. MAGA Vs. The NFL, Circumcision Causes Autism (Not), Rush Lyrics Are Terrible, Qatar Invades Idaho, Leaf Blowers Suck, and more
ICE and the Texas National Guard Invaded Chicago and Qatar is about to invade Idaho by getting a new military base on American soil. Because those things make…
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Episode 47: America Collapses Into Fascism, Express Escalators To Hell, Cheating To Win, The Soup Of Death, Plants Feel Pain, MAGA Dentists, and more
The wheels are coming off this country. As for me, I'm off to a music festival for the weekend. Karl Rove says that “they” didn’t kill Charlie Kirk, but if the…
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Episode 46: INTERVIEW with Stephen Marche – author of The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
This episode is going to be different. The usual dumb shit that happened in the last week, and there was plenty of that to go around, can keep until next week…
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Episode 45: RIP Free Speech, Kimmel Gets Canceled, Drunk Primates, Tucker Carlson And Ted Cruz Are Right, Beer Pipelines, and more
Purported champions of free speech are curtailing free speech in the name of a man who championed free speech. And defense of the First Amendment is coming…
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Episode 44: Charlie Kirk Is His Own Collateral Damage, Pumpkin Spice VS. Powdered Beer, Anybody Wanna Buy The Smiths?, Bending The Knee For Scotch, and more
This is not The Onion, but I can see the headline now: Man Who Condones Gun Violence Becomes Victim Of Gun Violence. I suppose it's time to start prepping for…
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Episode 43: Again With The Florida, Carnivorous Rodents, Spirit Airlines Execs Fail Up In Their Golden Parachutes, Death By Diet Soda, and more
Florida is going backwards by canceling vaccine mandates as the West Coast launches a forward-thinking heath alliance. Who's MAHA now? Joe Rogan can't read…