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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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- The Dumbest Story of the Week
Episode 42: Orgy Domes, Flag Burning For A Dictator, The Theater Of The Macabre, American Communism, An INTERVIEW With Tony Pierce About Party Schools, and more
Episode #42 is the answer for everything. At least if you have read Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy it is. Do you remember college? Sure…
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Episode 41: Trump Gets Punked By Putin And Newsom, Free Plasticine, Doing Your Own Research Makes You Dumber, Radioactive Shrimp, Illinois Nazis, Cracker Barrel Ditches The Cracker And The Barrel, and more
Lordy, lordy was this week full of dumb news. Some of it spilled over from last week, like Donald Trump getting punked by Putin. And the Republican brain trust…
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Episode 40: Big Balls Gets Carjacked, Gavin Newsom Grows A Pair, Superman Joins ICE, Vance On Vacation, This Is Your Drunk Naked Pilot Speaking, Trump Gets His Brownshirts, and more
Big Balls from DOGE got himself carjacked. An event Donald Trump then used as a pretext for militarizing our nation's capital and launching his own army of…
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Episode 39: Robot Rabbits, Crowdfunding The National Debt, RIP CPB, Sydney Sweeney Is/Is Not A Republican, Killing The Messenger, Paving The Rose Garden, and more
What's better than a beautiful garden full of roses? A cement pad, of course. Donald Trump kills the messenger over jobs numbers. Will reality ever matter to…
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Episode 38: Speaking Ill Of The Dead, Body Counts, Trump Wants A Big Ball (Room), The Good Thing About LA Traffic, and more
We were flush with dumb this week, up to and including a dead person who denied that their cancer existed. Chuck E. Cheese got arrested in Florida. How many…
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Episode 37: Welcome To The Distract-O-Rama, Canceling Colbert, Going Forward By Going Backward, RIP Scotch, and more
Is Donald Trump in the Epstein Files? You bet your ass he is. But he wants you to think about anything other than that. How about Obama, renaming sports teams…
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Episode 36: MAGA Vs. The Epstein Files, Coldplay Makes A Cold Play, Trump Is A (Diet) Coke Addict, Cyborg Bees, and more
The inevitable sunset of The Velvet Sundown, the world's first million-streamed AI band. Texas' Ken Paxton, a bigot who doesn't want gay people to get married…
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Episode 35: Floods Are Natural Disasters, Donald Trump And Ted Cruz Are Man-Made Disasters, Men Do (A Little) More Housework, Idiots Attack Radar, and more
The dumb stories just keep rolling along, don't they? Republicans aren't to blame for the tragic flooding in Texas, but they have been working to make it…
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Episode 34: Happy Independence From Democracy Day, AI Rock Bands Suck, Robot Soccer, Dogs With Wings, Alligator Auschwitz, and more
I used to like the 4th of July. Hoo-boy. The wheels are coming off this country. Trump's Big, Stupid Bill arrives like a freight train full of rabid monkeys. I…
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Episode 33: Trump Bests The Normandy Invasion, SCOTUS Drives Us Off A Cliff, Methaphone Treatment, Target Wants You Back Baby, and more
Donald Trump and his sycophants are trying to convince you that their expensive Midnight Hammer bombing mission was the greatest military operation in the…
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Episode 32: Protesting On Vacation, Gilded Elevators, Stupid Parades, Stochastic Terrorism, RIP To Gilbert Who Is The Best Boy, and more
I love you guys so much that I made an episode during my vacation in Yosemite National Park. I also protested on No Kings Day in Yosemite National Park because…
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Episode 31: Battle Los Angeles, Fighting Authoritarianism Requires More Than Tweets, Terry Moran Tells The Truth, Uncomfortable Allies, and more
Donald Trump declares war on Los Angeles and Los Angeles isn’t having it. Step off, Mr. President. American fascism is here. People who know nothing about…
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Episode 30: We’re All Gonna Die, The Clash Of The Doughy Titans, Trump And Elon Are No Longer BFFs, Joe Biden Is A Robot, and more
Senator Joni Ernst believes in nothing, Lebowski! Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s bromance that flushed our country down the toilet has come to an end. What would…
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Episode 29: Trump Pardons Criminals And Ponders Pardoning Terrorists, The Texas Commandments, Your College Degree Sucks, The Life Cycle Of Sperm, and more
Donald Trump once again gets out his pardon pen to exonerate grifters of all manifestations. Oh, and potentially some stochastic terrorists. They don’t need…
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Episode 28: The Boss vs. The President, College vs. AI, Harvard vs. The President, Golden Domes, Biden vs. Cancer, Anti-Spice, and more
Donald Trump thinks that Bruce Springsteen looks like a "dried out prune," but has he looked in the mirror lately? I bet he has. He also picked a fight with…
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Episode 27: The Flying Emoluments Brothers, Welcome AfriKKKaner Refugees, Dead Alligators, RFK Jr. Thinks That Sewage Is Good For You, and more
Do you want a free airplane? Who doesn't? But is it a Trojan Boeing? Trump courts supporters of terror in the Middle East. Back home, Oklahoma is getting…
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Episode 26: Alcatraz, Chicago Pope, White Fragility In The Mushroom Apocalypse, Thinning The Herd, Stolen Rabbits, and more
This week delivered another deluge of dumb, but don't give up. We'll get through it. When Donald Trump goes fully off the rails, how will we know? JD Vance is…
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Episode 25: America Becomes Alabama, NASCAR For Sperm, All Hail Pope Donald, Alex Jones Gets Pushed Too Far, and more
Apparently, being president isn't enough attention for Donald. Now he wants to be Pope, too. Maybe he can ask God for better poll numbers. Is humanity ready…
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Episode 24: Nipple Flags, AOC 2028, Skynet Cometh, JD Vance Kills The Pope, Sarah Palin Loses (Again), A Sunshine Update, and more
Step right up! It's Episode #24. That's a case! Of beer. Or something less good. AI is now smarter than humans. I mean, rocks are smarter than humans these…
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Episode 23: Dogs Are the Best of Us, Do More With Less, Space Babes, In Which I Agree With Sarah Palin, Authoritarianism Arrives, and more
Episode #23 is the G.O.A.T. At least when it comes to having the same number as Michael Jordan. Are you listening, Caitlin Clark? Elsewhere, the White House…
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Episode 22: Trump's Unforced Economy Error, RIP Due Process, Pronouns & Pride Flags, The Assassin Game, and more
Welcome to Episode 22. You know what to do! Weezer's bass player's wife gets shot by the police in Eagle Rock. For real. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants all of…
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Episode 21: America Is a Country Club, Banning Chemtrails, Vance Goes to Greenland, Corey Booker Goes The Distance, and more
Episode 21 can buy you a beer! You might need it, because the week's news cycle was a deluge of dumb. (Always avoid alliteration.) Republicans want to ban…
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Episode 20: Wanna Buy Some DNA?, (Attempted) Murder By WiFi, The Doyers Sell Out, Who Needs Checks and Balances?, Lying About Lying About Leaking Military Operations, and more
Episode 20 is a bona fide humdinger. Did you do a 23andMe test to find your long-lost rich uncle? Well, the popular genetic testing company is going belly up…
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Episode 19: The GOP Cognitive Dissonance Is Staggering, Astronauts Don’t Get OT, Iowa Voter Fraud, and more
Where we go dumb, we go all. A MAGA dad supports his trans son and still votes for Donald Trump, proving for the billionth time that Republicans only care…
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Episode 18: Measles Parties, Misgendering, Southwest Sucks, White House Car Lots, Dems Cave Again, and more
Episode 18 has your back! Senator Tommy Tuberville doesn't know what a "tri-angle" is. If Marjorie Taylor Greene invites you to a measles party, should you go?…
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Episode 17: Trump Addresses A Weary Nation Weary Of Trump, Will The Real Al Green Please Stand Up, Trans Mice, New York Grills Texas Over Steaks, Musk Vs. Empathy, and more
Episode 17 is ready when you are, and you know you are. Donald Trump addressed a weary nation this week. Why are we weary? Because Trump. Jesus, does that man…
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Episode 16: I Love You Dad, Trump Makes A Fool Of Himself And Drags You With Him, and more
Donald Trump sold us out and I lost my dad. That's all I've got this week. Go tell the people you love that you love them. Especially your parents, if you can…
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Episode 15: Huntington Beach (Somehow) Goes Even More MAGA, Bigfoot Gets a New Gig, Self-Loathing Opossums, Shark Selfies, Hug Your Loved Ones, and more
I am off the grid for Episode 15 because I'm skipping town due to a family emergency, so you get short and hot takes about a few dumb stories. The City of…
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Episode 14: Everything I Do I Do It For Fatbergs, Tesla Vandals, All Hail The Glory Hole, The Gulf of Sears, Polio For All, Who's Your Daddy Donny, and more
As my grandmother said, Happy Valentime's Day from The Dumbest Story of the Week! Episode 14 has got everything. Check it! Nothing can stop rock & roll, except…
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Episode 13: I Don't Mind Stealing Eggs, The Super Bowl Blues, Feckless Democrats' Circular Firing Squad, The Gaza Riviera, Thou Shalt Not Edit, DOGE Bros, and more
Lucky episode number 13! Eggs are nearly as valuable as gold. Trump cleans DEI house and fires a four star admiral. Just how super is the Super Bowl anyway?…
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Episode 12: Again With The Florida, Cholesterol Hands (EWW), Trump Is Number One, Condoms For Gaza, The MAGA Blame Game, and more
Episode 12 is chock full of dumb stories, just like the overstuffed week in the news! A Florida high school principal hosts a rager, while elsewhere in Florida…
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Episode 11: Snoop Sells Out, Pardon Me, The Inauguration Blues, TikTok Is Dead Long Live TikTok, Elon Should Know Better, and more
This episode goes to eleven! Snoop Dogg and Da Jewels rock the house at the Crypto Ball, whatever the hell that is. Biden and Trump run wild on pardons. The…
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Episode 10: Republican BS Travels Faster Than Wildfire(s), The Curse Of Crowdfunding, Biden Takes a Bow, The Inauguration Blues, Sayonara Tik Tok, and more
Hey. We've survived the fires, and we consider ourselves lucky. We unpacked all our irreplaceable shit that has been sitting by the door for the last week in…
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Episode 9: Tastes Like Burning, Failing Up, The Unbearable Petulance Of Being Above The Law, Looters, Look For The Helpers, and more
It has been a rough week. Unprecedented events have rendered my hometown of Los Angeles into a smoky and still-burning hellscape. Multiple friends have lost…
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Episode 8: Searching For Sasquatch, The Elon Show, Suck It Spotify, Chess Drama, Dry January, and more
Episode eight! Spoiler alert! Bigfoot isn't real. How the Spotify CEO Daniel Elk got lots and lots of money by screwing musicians. Intrigue and high drama at a…
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Episode 7: The Greatest Gift
This week I could talk about TikTok influencer idiots, one particularly challenging loser in the Federal budget battle, Donald Trump threatening to subsume…
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Episode 6: Guinness On Drought, Ambassador Walker, Sayonara Tik Tok?, George Bailey Vs. Republicans, and more
Happy holidays from The Dumbest Story of the Week! What was dumb this week? Where do we begin? England runs out of Guinness. No, really. Donald Trump and Elon…
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Episode 5: Hot Assassins, RFK Jr. vs. Polio, The Onion Gets Grilled, The Bane of Christmas Music, and more
In episode V, which was the best of the Star Wars movies, we discuss a tragic mishap on an interstate outside of San Francisco, and the outrage over and Robin…
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Episode 4: South Korea Goes Rogue (Temporarily), Justice Amy Coney Barrett's Moral Turpitude, A CEO Murder Moral Conundrum, A Canuck In Florida, and more
Where we go dumb, we go all! The South Korean president may lose his gig over a bizarre gambit with martial law, giving Trump some dumb ideas along the way…
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Episode 3: A MAGA Thanksgiving Survival Guide, Ignoring Trolls, Instruments of Mass Humiliation, and more
If you'll find yourself sharing a table with a MAGA enthusiast this Thanksgiving, here's your survival guide. Also, why I don't engage with online trolls and…
The Dumbest Story of the WeekEpisode 2: Whitney, Gaetz Goes, The Fonz, Tequila Thievery, Big Macs, A Requiem for Twitter, Post-Reality, and more
Where we go dumb, we go all, right? Here in Episode 2, we talk about taking too much shit into the mountains. Also, Matt Gaetz steps down, but the damage is…
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Episode 1: Bears, Cabinet Appointments, Yellowstone, Fascists, Tyson, and more
The auspicious debut of The Dumbest Story of the Week podcast! There is no shortage of opinions, and these are mine. If yours are different, I cordially invite…