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

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.

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

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 that. The ghost of Joe McCarthy. The People’s gas stations. The tragedy of USMNT. FIFA’s “integrity.” The FDA loves forever chemicals. Looksmaxxers and Giga Chads. Andrew Jackson > Harriet Tubman. White supremacists crash Trump’s sweltering, self-aggrandizing 4 of July party. Graham Platner is not sorry. Southwest Airlines can STFU. Cannibalism is bad for your health. And so are hot dogs. How to get your roommate to shut up. And so much 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

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 Executive screws us in other ways. Which zodiac signs are bad in bed? Elon Musk may not have the world’s smallest penis, but he is still jealous of someone else’s philanthropy. Digital birth control. Totally free Texas students must read the Bible whether they like it or not. A transphobic influencer doesn’t believe in Helen Keller. Bill Maher is too smug to be liberal. “Be Good” with your commemorative Donald Trump passport. The Board of Peace will have legal immunity because…? The Onion is relaunching InfoWars this week and will be giving merch money to Sandy Hook families. Suck it, Alex Jones. A man gets a big payout for playing ominous Star Wars music at Donald Trump’s military goons. Pete Buttigieg is targeted by an anonymous jerk. Americans can’t be unpolarized. Garlic may prevent mosquitoes from mating. And humans, too. E. Jean Carroll gets a defamation payout because Donald Trump can’t keep his mouth shut. Watch for killer crocs. And so much 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

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.

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.