The Dumbest Story of the Week

A man who can’t stop invading countries and flipping off his citizens unironically got himself a Nobel Peace Prize. Except unlike Obama, he got a used one on the secondhand market. Reality is in the eye of the beholder in the murder of Renee Good. A man who fomented an insurrection threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act. Pete Hegseth sure does have a perfidy mouth. Thou shall not covet thy neigh...

ICE is saving us by killing us. That will be sure to keep the immigrants out. (Sarcasm font.) Alabama's governor has opinions about what happened in Minnesota this week. McDonald's is facing a lawsuit over the fact that a McRib sandwich may not have any rib meat. You probably don't want to know what IS in a McRib. A guy in Wales got busted for impersonating an admiral for whatever reason. RIP CPB....

Donald Trump finally gets his Venezuela-shaped distraction. How many people are going to die to massage his fragile ego? The holidays finally roll out of town, leaving us missing the cheese tray and the bar. Does Your Boo Annoy You? If they do, don’t make a list. And if you do make a list, make damn sure they can’t find it. Is there an annual list of things that Americans get stuck up their bums?...

Lots of people will be flying the holiday season. But do you who travels ALL the time? Musicians. Life on the road isn't all limos, hookers, and blow. Believe. It's trying to find creative new ways to keep the airline baggage handlers from destroying your instrument every time you hop on an airplane. Musician Ted Wulfers is learning this lesson the hard way after his prized guitar recently got man...

Happy holidays from TDSOTW! Rest in power, Rob Reiner. You truly were one of the good ones. Trump proves once again that there is no bottom. DOJ whiffs on releasing the Epstein Files. Young men don’t know how to talk to young women and Slut Camp is here to help. Or not. Trump’s higher ups get a fancy photoshoot, and they are none too pleased with the results. Trump announces the Patriot Hunger Gam...

Trump pitches austerity with a golden spoon up his ass. SCOTUS is A-OK with partisan gerrymandering. The U.S. Navy goes full-pirate and seizes a Venezuelan oil tanker. Do you think they want another oil war? I do. As if we didn’t already have enough to worry about, quicksand is more real than previously believed. Cheap Trick surrenders and Kiss sucks for Trump at The Kennedy Center. Liam Neeson us...

It's the holiday season once again and just as Ralphie Parker learned in A Christmas Story, you never bend the knee to a bully like Scut Farkus. And we're looking at you, Northwestern University. As it turns out, female dogs are much more observant than male dogs. And we're looking at you, male humans. Pete Hegseth is in increasingly deep water with his murderous boat attacks in the Caribbean. but...

Got MAGA relatives? Of course you do. Will you have to share a Thanksgiving table with them this week? Here is a short episode sliding in under their radar that includes some helpful tips on how to survive the maelstrom of logical fallacies, racist policies, and inane musings of your cultist relatives while they pass the stuffing. Good luck, and happy Thanksgiving from The Dumbest Story of the Wee...

Well, well, well. Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning. Should we be happier about this? It gives me no joy to say it, but Americans are getting dumber, and we have the receipts. Are you eating Doritos right now? Because ultra-processed foods are really, really bad for your body. Scientists have receipts on that, too. Donald Trump is as misogynist. Is anyone surprised? After all, it takes a piggy t...

The Epstein Files strike back and MAGA has decided that the right play is to defend pedophiles. Sounds about right. It took the Democrats five days to squander their blue wave momentum, and that might be a new record. The government is no longer shutdown, at the cost of your weed gummies. Kim Davis of Kentucky, the dowdiest of Kim Davises, loses again and gay Americans can continue to get married....

A rogue blue wave strikes American and Republicans are Big Sad about it. Dick Cheney dies and perhaps meets the hundreds of thousands of humans killed in the unnecessary war he started, The president of the United States fights to not feed his constituents. Lauren Boebert wears a racist Halloween costume but wasn't invited to Trump's Great Gatsby ball. Let them eat ballrooms, I guess. A jury found...

Happy Halloween from The Dumbest Story of the Week! This is the week I learned about 6-7, and I am dumber for it. A man in Taiwan discovered just how durable his Apple AirPods are in the strangest manner possible. The bar for joining ICE is staggeringly low, and is anyone surprised? A criminal springs a criminal! Trump commutes George Santos' seven-year sentence, and he is out just in time to TP h...

This episode is another opportunity to pull myself – and hopefully all of you - out of the morass that is our weekly news cycle and focus on one topic and one person. I stumbled upon this week’s guest because he wrote a piece in The Guardian that resonated with me. It is called Democrats Are Captive To Outdated Norms. It’s Endangering Democracy, and it got me to thinking about_ how I am represente...

An investigation by POLITICO revealed this week that Young Republicans engaged in a little "locker room talk" this year, including talking about suppressing Epstein documents and gas chambers, as well as using racial, homophobic and antisemitic slurs and joking about rape. One of them said that he "loved" a certain long-deceased fascist German leader from 90 years ago. Charming...

ICE and the Texas National Guard Invaded Chicago and Qatar is about to invade Idaho by getting a new military base on American soil. Because those things make sense, right? The Nobel Committee wisely decided to give their peace prize to someone who hasn't invaded cities in his own country. No prize for you, Donny! Have any of you read Joseph Heller's book, Catch-22 ? Because you really should. An...

The wheels are coming off this country. As for me, I'm off to a music festival for the weekend.

This episode is going to be different. The usual dumb shit that happened in the last week, and there was plenty of that to go around, can keep until next week. It has always been my plan to incorporate interviews into The Dumbest Story of the Week , and I am very happy to say that this week I was fortunate enough to talk with an accomplished journalist and author about a topic that ties directly i...

Purported champions of free speech are curtailing free speech in the name of a man who championed free speech. And defense of the First Amendment is coming from some unexpected places. As such, I have found myself on the same side of an issue as Tucker Carlson AND Ted Cruz. Up is down. Black is white. Miracle Whip is mayonnaise. Dogs and cats. Living together. Mass hysteria. Also, studying chimpan...

This is not The Onion, but I can see the headline now: Man Who Condones Gun Violence Becomes Victim Of Gun Violence. I suppose it's time to start prepping for the next civil war. Oh, and you can forget about the Epstein Files now. Trump was an FBI informant, anyway. At least according to Mike Johnson. Also, a racoon gets a hangover. Germans do the second most German thing ever and invent powdered...

Florida is going backwards by canceling vaccine mandates as the West Coast launches a forward-thinking heath alliance. Who's MAHA now? Joe Rogan can't read science data. No surprises there. Some squirrels in California have gone carnivorous. Humans are made of meat, you know. Spirit Airlines has filed for bankruptcy twice in ten months, and their executives are giving themselves a big, fat payout....

Episode #42 is the answer for everything. At least if you have read Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy it is. Do you remember college? Sure you do. INTERVIEW! The first Dumbest Story of the Week guest - Tony Pierce, the mastermind behind the brilliant Hear in LA podcast - joins the big show to talk about the number one party school in America. The CDC leadership has bailed, which...

Lordy, lordy was this week full of dumb news. Some of it spilled over from last week, like Donald Trump getting punked by Putin. And the Republican brain trust continuing to take the bait on California Governor Gavin Newsom's epic Trump Trollfest. Fuck whose feelings, exactly? New research shows that doing your own research makes you dumber. Some Illinois Nazis get the boot, and Jake Blues would b...

Big Balls from DOGE got himself carjacked. An event Donald Trump then used as a pretext for militarizing our nation's capital and launching his own army of Brownshirts. What, me worry? California Governor Gavin Newsom calls Texas' redistricting bluff, thereby showing the rest of the feckless Democrats that it is possible for donkeys to have balls. Newsom also does some performance art with Trump's...

What's better than a beautiful garden full of roses? A cement pad, of course. Donald Trump kills the messenger over jobs numbers. Will reality ever matter to Republicans again? Scientists are battling invasive snakes in Florida using robot rabbits. No shit. Republicans bust a nut over torpedoing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. You know, because ignorant citizens are more servile. Oh, and...

We were flush with dumb this week, up to and including a dead person who denied that their cancer existed. Chuck E. Cheese got arrested in Florida. How many people is too many people when it comes to sex? A Spanish adult entertainment company CEO gives her employees "self-pleasure" breaks, and I am in the wrong line of work. Los Angeles no longer has the worst traffic in the nation. Who...