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Hosted by drrollergator · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 52 episodes
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Weekly live broadcast every Sunday on X (formerly Twitter). Hosts Dr RollerGator and Alexandros Marinos discuss the latest news in politics, pop culture, tech, AI, and all that is dum with the world. Tune in for takes informed by history, humor, and healthy skepticism. The world may be getting dummer, but you don’t have to.
drrollergator hosts This Dum Week, a news show with 52 episodes published.
This is a second consecutive solo episode: Alex Marinos remains in Greece on vacation, and RollerGator reopens the show with the same pre-recorded intro joke from last week before confirming, again, that he is flying wit
This is a solo episode: Alex Marinos is on vacation in Greece, and RollerGator opens by "lying" to the audience about it before admitting he's flying alone, promising a looser format with more listener call-ins to fill t
The June 28, 2026 episode of This Dum Week opens on an experiment: RollerGator announces the show is now streaming simultaneously to YouTube and Substack for the first time, adding both platforms to the usual Twitter Spa
The June 21, 2026 episode of This Dum Week opens on a genuinely strange note: Alex's week was made briefly intelligent by the Anthropic Mythos/Fable saga, then "made dumb again" by what he calls doctor-driven ultrasound
The June 14, 2026 episode of This Dum Week opens on an unusual note: RollerGator is complimenting Alex's previous week's closing thoughts on Terrence Howard, the Hollywood actor turned self-styled mathematical revolution
The June 7, 2026 episode of This Dum Week opens with a running complaint rather than a technical glitch: Alex arrives already frustrated that the show failed to cover the sprawling Bricks and Minifigs LEGO consignment sa
The May 31, 2026 episode of This Dum Week opens with technical chaos — Alex drops off mid-sentence the moment he begins describing his good week — before settling into a string of short, punchy stories that set the show'
The May 24, 2026 episode of This Dum Week opens with a brief riff on the ongoing chaos of Trump's Iran deal negotiations before pivoting to a nostalgic but skeptical look at Yum Brands' attempt to revive Pizza Hut's retr
This episode of "This Dum Week" opens with an unusually chaotic production situation — RollerGator accidentally shuffled his entire audio playlist moments before the show began, then compounds the problem by revealing th
This episode of "This Dum Week" opens with a brief production update — RollerGator has further automated the live video feed, triggering automatic switches to and from clips without manual intervention, and has upgraded
This episode of "This Dum Week" opens with a production announcement — RollerGator has debuted a dual video stream alongside the regular audio space, using LiveX (the former Periscope technology) to display clips in real
This episode of "This Dum Week" opens with a hardware announcement — RollerGator has finished coding a Lua-based MIDI controller, and the quack button is now accessible mid-show — before diving into its densest single-ep
This episode of "This Dum Week" opens with both hosts present and in good spirits, kicking off with a characteristically warm story before descending into a dense sequence of institutional and political coverage. RollerG
This Easter Sunday episode of "This Dum Week" opens with RollerGator flying solo — Alex is absent for the intro, having just recovered from a domestic scare (a temporarily misplaced child). The episode is recorded agains
This episode of "This Dum Week" opens in a notably good mood — Dr. RollerGator reports a personally strong week — before launching into the kind of dense, wide-ranging news digest the show is known for. The first hour co
This episode of "This Dum Week" opens with a pair of housekeeping items — Dr. RollerGator recounting his successful deferral of jury duty (complete with a jury duty hotline call and a judge's intervention) and an explana
This week's episode of This Dum Week opens with RollerGator and Alex in characteristically sardonic form, touching on daylight saving time confusion before diving into a dense lineup of stories spanning political theater
This episode of This Dum Week opens on what the hosts describe as a heavier-than-usual news week, recorded on the same day the United States launched its second major military strike against Iran. The episode begins with
This episode of "This Dum Week," hosted by Dr. RollerGator and Alex Marinos, opens with a dramatic piece of breaking news—the killing of Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes, head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (
This episode of "This Dum Week," hosted by Dr. RollerGator and Alex Marinos (with guest Nathan), delivers an exceptionally dense analysis of the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein document releases and their cascading political and
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This Dum Week is hosted by drrollergator. The show is categorised under news (commentary) and has published 52 episodes.
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