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Hosted by Joe Armstrong · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 88 episodes
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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.
Joe Armstrong hosts The Dumbest Story of the Week, a news show with 88 episodes published.
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 MAGA, and the MAGA crowd doesn’t like it. The Los Angeles Dodgers
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 Christofascist. The death of etiquette. Adult diapers aren’t made for t
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 upholds birthright citizenship but the cult of the Unitary Ex
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 Taylor Swift. This time for enjoying herself at a basketball ga
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 save the slumping alcohol industry. Shoe company Allbirds re
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 win, tails you lose! Everyone knows that all elections that MAGA
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 is coming. Everyone except Vanilla Ice dropped out of the Am
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 airport code. Was POS already taken? Texans love crooks like K
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 Colbert’s takes his final The Late Show bow. Macca > MAGA. Trum
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 good idea to ship pistols through the USPS? Because I don’t. Tra
Begun, the redistricting war has. SCOTUS screws democracy while whining about people calling them out for screwing democracy. Our kitchen sponge is nasty, but my Special Lady Friend doesn’t care. According to rich people
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 two more years? If the water isn’t blue at least we can paint
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 definitely (not) believe him. Pilots draw giant dicks in the
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 the upcoming midterms? Trump’s numbers are down, but Democrat
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 position, and spending billions for very little. A UK woman has s
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 Waffle House. Donald, Melania, and Barron Trump voted by mai
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 – a showdown between Democrats trying to reform funding for IC
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 “Petulant Megyn” Kelly? Cesar Chavez teaches us another lesson
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 Latin for AI, which is funny until it kills us. Gene Simmons ha
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 weren’t doing too well on that front before the bodies starte
Kash Patel
former Chief of Staff to Acting Secretary of Defense, Deputy Assistant to President Trump, Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council · Team USA
1 appearance on this show
Stephen Marche
author of The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future
1 appearance on this show
Sarah Palin
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