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The Dumbest Story of the Week is hosted by Joe Armstrong. The show has published 101 episodes to date.

What has The Dumbest Story of the Week covered recently?

Recent episodes include "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" (24 October 2026, 34 minutes), "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" (17 October 2026, 42 minutes), and "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" (2 October 2026, 24 minutes).

How often does The Dumbest Story of the Week publish?

The Dumbest Story of the Week publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 34 minutes across 101 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on The Dumbest Story of the Week?

Booking probability for The Dumbest Story of the Week is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Dumbest Story of the Week requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Dumbest Story of the Week's contact route on record: verified email.

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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Oct 24, 202634 minS1
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 jittery with a case of The Midterm Blues. Will Democrats manage...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Oct 17, 202642 minS1
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 knew ye. We desperately need a new ambassador to Greece. The...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Oct 2, 202624 minS1
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 will live in delightful infamy. Men, Bears, and the Cornell...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Sep 26, 202628 minS1
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 afraid of furry pilots. Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Sep 18, 202636 minS1
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. The top party school rankings are...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Sep 12, 202629 minS1
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? IDONOTWANTAFOLDABLEPHONE. Very expensive donuts. Space Nazis. No clean...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Sep 5, 202641 minS1
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 dumb. I speak for the trees. AI vs. hikers. Flipping (off)...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Aug 28, 202638 minS1
Lake Ontario 4EVA. Humans are losing the Robot Olympics. Millennials think they did everything first. The science of female flatulence. Wild horses. Trump threatens to raze The Kennedy Center, because if he can’t have...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Aug 14, 202634 minS1
Karoline Leavitt leaves. Enshittification. Trump’s cowardly airplane shell game subterfuge. ICE’s electric gloves. College without grades. Stowaway snakes. Do you have the fingers for drinking? Civil War Guinness...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Aug 7, 202638 minS1
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 border wall (How can I help?). Jeanine Pirro is in hot water...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Aug 1, 20261h 1mS1
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 Collection, including such bangers as “Communism!” and “More...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
Episode 89: Take A Break From The News, Really, Do You Have A Mantra? Because I Have A Mantra, and more
Jul 25, 20266 minS1
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 you to take a little break from the maelstrom of the news...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Jul 17, 202630 minS1
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...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Jul 11, 202645 minS1
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...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Jul 3, 202637 minS1
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...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Jun 27, 202646 minS1
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...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Jun 19, 202613 minS1
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...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Jun 12, 202620 min
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...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
Jun 6, 202629 minS1
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...
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The Dumbest Story of the Week
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
May 30, 202644 minS1
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...
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Recent episodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Episode 89: Take A Break From The News, Really, Do You Have A Mantra? Because I Have A Mantra, and more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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