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. 2d ago

    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

    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 game. Don’t swim upstream from waterfalls. And if your sunglasses fall into a pit toilet, just go buy new sunglasses. The worst president ever is… I’ll give you one guess! Tucker Carlson and MTG bail on the GOP. The US military can’t beat the flu. RIP mail-in ballots? Mexico didn’t pay for the border wall and taxpayers are paying for the ballroom. JD Vance admires Richard Nixon. Because of course he does. Earthquake weather is here. SCOTUS wants Americans to get cancer. And maybe get shot. The Great American State Fair is missing several states. Also, the headliner was an opera singer who sang a song about sex. Oh, and Kash Patel’s girlfriend sang a passable national anthem. A jury can’t decide if the man who started the fire that became the Palisades Fire is responsible for starting the Palisades Fire. Some World Cup fans are homophobes. Stay classy, Mexico. The world’s loudest man is not your upstairs neighbor. Trillionaires come and trillionaires go. Just ask Elon Musk. M\&M’s go MAHA. Killer robots have arrived. Trump holds the affordable housing bill hostage to attempt to steal elections. And so much more.

    46 min

  2. Jun 19

    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

    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-hatches as Smartbird, rebrands as an AI infrastructure company, and investors love it. What? And after spending what could have been as much as $16 million dollars of taxpayer money to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool what Donald Trump called ‘American Flag Blue,’ it is currently filled with algae and more of a deep Kermit green. Maybe we should rename it after Trump. We can use the letters that they just knocked off The Kennedy Center. The jokes just write themselves.

    13 min

  3. Jun 12

    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

    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 loses are rigged. Have you ever wanted to have a s*****m the size of a grapefruit? If the answer is yes, you’re in luck, because something called ‘Ballmaxxing’ exists. Donald Trump shows up at an NBA Finals game in New York, gets booed by Knicks fans, and then falls asleep in a luxury box. Ahhhhhhh salesmen! (Rush is back). Bizarrely, assassinations get JD Vance in the mood, and that’s not creepy at all. The best worst burger in America. Is anyone surprised that Pete Hegseth isn’t good at history? And so much more.

    20 min

  4. Jun 6

    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

    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 America 250 Concerts but they all got cancelled anyway. 60 Minutes fires Scott Pelley and that means that it sucks now. Trump is as healthy as an 80-year-old horse, and I have a number of bridges to sell you. Scientists discover that birds choke their chickens. Gender reveal parties are stupid, especially when they get people killed. Trump is on a losing streak. George Santos (Illegally) bets on himself and may land himself back in the big house for doing so. Pete Hegseth whitewashes the U.S. military, and so much more.

    29 min

  5. May 30

    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

    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 Ken Paxton. Donald Trump is dumber than a $250 dollar bill, A surprising number of people hate their partner. Have you ever wanted to be dirt? If you have, then you’re in luck, because human composting is coming to a funeral near you. A Nebraska dog shoots a woman with a shotgun. We have achieved the Idiocracy singularity with an impending UFC event at The White House. California’s Tesla Road Rage Guy gets convicted in Hawaii. Trump loves AI because it allows him to do shit that even he can’t get away with in the real world. Getting paid for having your way with yourself may be the best job in the world. Italy doesn’t think that water is a human right. The ‘Curse of the Goat’ lives! Or not. Furry pilots. Trump is paying for s****y dc renovations with National Park entrance fees. Ebola fears grow, and the U.S. is no longer a member of the WHO. What, me worry? Customer service is dead. You can’t illegally drive with a phone with a hand you don’t have. RFK Jr. is a snake handler. A federal judge gets her freak on. There aren’t enough Donalds Buried At Arlington National Cemetery, RIP Sonny Rollins, and so much more.

    44 min

  6. May 22

    Episode 80: Chicago’s Delicious New Holiday, AI Jesus, Colbert’s Final Bow, Macca > MAGA, Trump Skips His Own Son’s Wedding, The 1st Amendment Strikes Back, RIP Schlitz, The Slushiest Of Slush Funds, Yosemite Vandals, The Great Sax Gig In The Sky,

    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. Trump skips his own son’s wedding and in doing so denies us the most bizarre wedding speech of all time. After getting fired for quoting the late Charlie Kirk’s own words, the 1 Amendment strikes back. RIP to the beer that made Milwaukee famous. Trump launches the slushiest of slush funds to the tune of $1,776 billion of your tax dollars to give to criminals. Vandals have inundated Yosemite National Park and of course it’s Trump’s fault. Dick Parry, Pink Floyd’s legendary saxophone sideman, gets booked at the great sax gig in the sky. Gas prices are high, and Jim Jordan says, “That’s Life.” RIP Barney Frank, and so much more.

    40 min

  7. May 16

    Episode 79: Trump Goes To China And Sadly Also Returns, Gerrymandering Fallout, The GOP Grandmother Of The Year Bullies A Kid, Mail Order Pistolas, Sean Duffy’s Big Dumb Road Trip, Questionable Age Gaps, and more

    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. Transportation Secretary and his Fox News Host wife and their NINE CHILDREN go on a big, dumb road trip. Karoline Leavitt is four years closer to the age of her newborn than she is to the age of her husband. Mind the bears. Donald Trump drives his entire motorcade onto the reflecting pool to check out what $15 million of blue paint looks like. The Pentagon releases the first batch of the UFO files, and the truth really isn’t out there. Mississippi wants you to know that they can execute you via firing squad. Welcome to Mississippi! And so much more.

    28 min

  8. May 8

    Episode 78: Begun The Redistricting War Has, My Girlfriend Loves Bacteria, A Billion-Dollar Ballroom, RIP Spirit, Commie Spiders Vs. Rittenhouse, Eating The Rich, No More Buffalo, SCOTUS Whines While Screwing Democracy, and more

    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, calling someone rich is like using a racial slur. Poor babies. Gas is getting more expensive. Rude neighbors are the worst and nude neighbors are worse still. Casting demons out of the Internet with a holy mobile phone carrier. Yes, your newborn needs the vitamin K shot. New Orleans had better learn to swim. Communist spiders can’t stop Kyle Rittenhouse. Writing paper lists is good for your brain, but New York Times music lists are not. RIP Spirit Airlines. The only thing worse than flying Spirit is not being able to fly Spirit. No more buffalo. A billion-dollar ballroom. And happy 100 birthday to Sir David Attenborough, a man who has done much in the name of our magnificent planet and its wildlife, and so much more.

    29 min
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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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