The Dumbest Story of the Week

Joe Armstrong
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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.

  1. 4d ago

    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

    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) a Trump coin. Stealing a Semi of beer. Ron DeSantis is the bizarro Robin Hood, robbing from the poor and giving to the rich. Food recalls pile up, SCOTUS screws us on the ballroom. The Arch de Trump cometh. That cheap gas at those Freedom Fuel gas stations was stolen. A gold star family gets the shaft from the Air Force. Trump has never been more simultaneously popular and unpopular. Sanders the Grey completes the Appalachian Trail at a spry 91 years of age. Seagulls love fish and chips. Sniffing behinds. And so much more.

  2. Aug 28

    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

    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 it, no one can. Sayonara, Dolly Parton. You made the world a better place. Flock cameras are watching you. Stars and Stripes gets censored. Trump gets a win on main-in voting, having just voted by mail. A Malort world record. Should there be gun stores next to day care centers? Australia axes AI music. Ants from hell. SCOTUS says, “Let them eat ballrooms.” The GOP discovers misogyny. Jimmy Buffett’s bridge to somewhere. Rick Schroder rides coattails of many colors. FEMA skips Trumpers. And so much more.

  3. Aug 21

    Episode 93: The Trump Kennedy Trump Center, My Old Venecky Home, $40 Trillion In The Hole, Joe Rogan Doesn’t Like Socialism, The Best States For Swingers, Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty To Having A Conscience, Pheromone Maxxing, and more

    The Trump Kennedy Trump Center. AI sucks at maps and loves to destroy books. The best states for swingers. Donald Trump is a genius at grass. And flagpoles. Darline Graham is not interested in national security. Shark selfies. Trump votes by mail, but you shouldn’t. Joe Rogan doesn’t like socialism. And I don’t like Joe Rogan. Columbia House goes out of business after 71 years of selling ten albums for a penny. The deficit that Trump promised to eradicate has now reached $40 trillion. Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to having a conscience. The social contract is null and void. Pheromone maxxing. Don’t date dumb guys. My old Venecky home. And so much more.

  4. Aug 14

    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

    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. Trombone tariffs. The efficacy of a cheese-based diet. Listen: vaccines do not cause autism. The third-party blues. The MyPillow guy loses his primary, but he can’t get reality through his soft head. Harris vs. Newsom vs. Ocasio-Cortez vs. Buttigieg vs. Kelly. And so much more.

  5. Aug 7

    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

    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 over the Reflecting Pool. Overpaid Podcasters. Minocqua Brewing Co. fights fascism with Antifa beer. The (un)friendly confines. Smart women can’t find dates because men are too dumb. Former park rangers tell real history. The atomic internet. I really don’t care do U? (About yet another new Melania docuseries). MySpace’s second act. RIP SNAP. Republicans are cool with hungry children. And they are also fine with domestic abusers. The Grim Reaper is watching you. A progressive candidate wins in Michigan and Democrats are uncomfortable with their left flank. Skewered by a trekking pole, but ‘tis only a flesh wound. And so much more.

  6. Aug 1

    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

    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 Communism!” Defending voting rights at Olive Garden. MAHA Vs. explosive diarrhea – who is winning? That keyboard guy from Journey is voicing his opinion about Bruce Springsteen voicing his opinion. Using lasers to defend against mosquitos, but please don’t kill house spiders. CDs are back, baby! What states and countries have a fetish for Machiavellianism? The Odyssey Vs. Grok. Lindsey Graham is dead. Long live Darline Graham. Help us, Jimothy. You’re our only hope. Juicers lose at the first “Steroid Olympics.” John Fetterman wears out his welcome. A Blue Angels jet buzzes a beach at 700 mph and 40 feet and the dullards think it’s cool. Trump singlehandedly loses The World Cup. TDS Vs. dating, Fake gold Trump coins are coming. RIP Glen Hansard, and so much more.

  7. Jul 25

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

    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 cycle. Go outside. Take a walk with your best friend or your dog. Or your best friend and your dog. And find a mantra. You'll be better for it. We'll be back next week with all the dumbest stories imaginable.

  8. Jul 17

    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

    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 sell out their fans. ICE’s bloodlust. Give us buttons or give us death. United Airlines thinks that “window” seats need not have a window. The last polio survivor who depended on an iron lung to breathe dies because they couldn’t find spare parts. The Reflecting Pool is once again as empty as Donald Trump’s soul. James Carville abandons his left flank. Trump brags about assassination attempts from Iran. And so much more.

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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.

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