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Hosted by Lyz Lenz · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 35 episodes
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Dingus of the Week: A weekly comedy news podcast. Your co-hosts, Lyz Lenz and Zach Smith, will focus on everything that is the epitome of all that is silly, awful, enraging, and ridiculous in politics or popular culture. Also, some good things too!
Lyz Lenz hosts Dingus of the Week Podcast, a news show with 35 episodes published.
Democrats keep winning elections, and Third Way has had just about enough of it. After Abdul El-Sayed's upset win in Michigan's Senate primary — the latest in a string of victories by candidates running on the radical no
Senator Bernie Moreno told a room that he sold off his car dealership empire six years ago just so he could one day stick it Dr. Anthony Fauci. Whether you're Fauci fan or couldn't care less, maybe a sitting U.S. Senator
OpenAI spent this week trying to spin the fact that one of its models broke into another company's servers as a scientific breakthrough. According to the Atlantic's Matteo Wong, an assortment of OpenAI's most advanced mo
There's a parasite loose in America's lettuce: the diarrhea-causing Cyclospora parasite has developed quite the reputation, giving the word "explosive" new resonance. It won't surprise you to hear that President Donald T
Mitch McConnell hasn't been seen in public in nearly a month. No photo, no video, no floor vote — just a statement from his office insisting the 83-year-old Senate Republican leader is "fully engaged" from his hospital b
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is an awe-inspiring site. While maybe meant to evoke introspection, it mostly evokes laughter these days. President Donald Trump wanted to clean it up. To give it a fresh coat of Amer
There is a 90-foot-tall, 600-ton steel structure on the South Lawn of the White House, assembled on grounds normally used for Easter egg rolls, Marine One departures, and a garden honoring presidents' children. UFC calls
Spencer Pratt was reality television's first fully self-aware villain — a man who admitted, on camera, that he was performing villainy for an audience. He staged a fake divorce, manipulated storylines, and turned being u
It's graduation season in America, and at Glendale Community College in Arizona, the administration decided to hand the most important moment of the academic calendar — the calling of your name, in front of peers and fam
The United States is wrapped in a weather pattern we've taken to calling a Dingus Hydra. That is a multiheaded beast, each head uglier than the last. To name a few: A racist livestreamer named Dalton Eatherly—known onlin
Steven Roth is the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, one of the largest real estate companies in the United States. Through it, he controls billions of dollars in property across New York City. And he has used this immense pl
Pete Hegseth is the Secretary of Defense of the United States of America, which means he is in charge of the most powerful military in human history. And he has used this immense position to *checks script* give Kid Rock
The story goes that Jimmy Donaldson was a normal kid growing up in North Carolina who spent five years studying virality on YouTube. "There's a five-year point in my life where I was just relentlessly, unhealthily obsess
Vice President J.D. Vance became Catholic in 2019, and he has some notes on the incense we're using at mass. It's always the new guy. “Now we can, of course, have disagreements about whether this or that conflict is just
You may know Geno Auriemma as the winningest coach in NCAA basketball history. Twelve championships. Forty seasons. The kind of record that fluffs up the first sentence of everything written about you. And not for no rea
You interrupted Survivor 50 for this? President Donald Trump declared mission accomplished—or at least "nearing completion"—in Iran. The President brought us into another crusade in the Middle East, and already civilian
Flying in America is already a full-contact sport. Airlines nickel-and-diming you for the privilege of existing, a guy in 14B who thinks the armrest is his birthright, and TSA agents who haven't been paid in 90 days beca
You may know Joe Rogan from Fear Factor, where he paid people to eat bugs. You may know him from the 90s TV show News Radio, where he played a handyman obcessed with conspiracy theories — a role he has not stopped playin
Cricket finally got his revenge. This week, Trump bid farewell to Kristie Noem and her tenure at the US Dept. of Homeland Security the only way he knows how: the last line of a Truth social post: "I thank Kristi for her
You may know US Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith from her cheerful offer to sit front row at a public hanging. You may know her from trying to name a stretch of interstate after the president of the Confederacy. YOU MAY know her fo
Spencer Pratt
former reality TV star
1 appearance on this show
Lyz Lenz
1 appearance on this show
Kid Rock
1 appearance on this show
Pete Hegseth
United States Secretary of Defence · Anthropic
1 appearance on this show
J D Vance
Vice President · Turning Point USA
1 appearance on this show
J.D. Vance
Vice President of the United States · Narya Capital
1 appearance on this show
Pam Bondi
former U.S. Attorney General · Florida Attorney General's Office
1 appearance on this show
Ilhan Omar
US Representative
1 appearance on this show
Steven Roth
Vornado Realty Trust
1 appearance on this show
Gregory Bovino
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
1 appearance on this show
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