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Dingus of the Week: A weekly comedy news podcast. Your co-hosts, Lyz Lenz and Zach Smith, will focus on everything that is the epitome of all that is silly, awful, enraging, and ridiculous in politics or popular culture. Also, some good things too!

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  1. Haley Stevens' fiancé and vote blue no matter who with Megan Goldberg — Dingus of the Week #46

    <html><p>Haley Stevens lost Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed, then announced her engagement to Jason Turkish, a disability rights attorney and campaign donor. Days before the Nov. 3 election, Turkish told reporters he

  2. James Carville vs. the DSA, with Elizabeth Spiers — Dingus of the Week #46

    <html><p>Imagine for a second: you’re one of the most-booked men in Democratic politics. The midterms are just two weeks away. Your party is polling its way towards a wave election. And so how do you make the most out of this one little lif

  3. Trump ballroom's secret donors revealed — Dingus of the Week Podcast #45

    <html><p>The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/10/15/secret-documents-reveal-donors-behind-330-million-trumps-ballroom/" target="_blank">obtained an internal spreadsheet</a> tracking every major don

  4. Kimberly Guilfoyle’s $100K Amex texts, explained — Dingus of the Week Podcast #44

    <html><p>Kimberly Guilfoyle made her name as a <a href="https://www.ebar.com/story/162233" target="_blank">prosecutor in the San Francisco dog mauling case</a>, but she's making her criminal future on a Wall Street Journal report that she <

  5. Eric Schmitt's Jack Smith "perjury" gotcha ends in a Caitlin Clark own goal — Dingus of the Week Podcast #43

    <html><p>On Tuesday, Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/completely-humiliating-gop-senators-unbelievable-hearing-faceplant-stuns-media-world/" target="_blank">accused former special counsel Jack Smith of

  6. Jon Husted, Ashley Hinson, GOP senators turn on Trump over Iran war — Dingus of the Week Podcast #42

    <html><p>For months, the war in Iran was a lockstep vote for Congressional Republicans. Support it, keep supporting it, and don't blink. US Rep. Ashley Hinson <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/iowa-gop-senate-candidate

  7. Kelsey McKinney on Ed Sheeran v Macklemore— Dingus of the Week Podcast #41

    <html><p>Who would have thought we'd be talking about the moral clarity of the popping tags guy? You know what? Never mind. We're glad you're here, Macklemore. </p><p>He's been using his tremendous platform as an opener for Ed Sheeran to sp

  8. Ogre and Out: John Fetterman's full send to the GOP convention — Dingus of the Week Podcast #40

    <html><p>A lot can be said about John Fetterman, but maybe people don't appreciate the Senator from Pennsylvania's love for stirring the pot. Down in Dallas, Fetterman appeared on the jumbo screen before a crowd of adoring Republicans, insi

  9. Goop, there it is: Gwyneth Paltrow's conscious uncoupling from reality — Dingus of the Week Podcast #39

    <html><p><a href="https://puck.news/newsletter_content/what-im-hearing-netflixs-dc-muscle-igers-lakers-angst-gwyneths-ai-party/" target="_blank">Puck reported</a> that Gwyneth Paltrow was throwing a private, "off-the-record" dinner at her H

  10. Built (Doug) Ford tough: Canadian premier tells Trump to kiss his ass — Dingus of the Week Podcast #38

    <html><p>Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney does not inspire fear. When he says he'll do dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs against the United States—sure it hurts. But wait, who's that lumbering giant telling the President of the Unite

  11. Flock and awe: Flock Safety and the surveillance state you didn't vote for — Dingus of the Week Podcast #37

    <html><p>A man in Atlanta got tired of cars getting jacked. Instead of getting therapy, he decided to get even. Garrett Langley's Flock Safety cameras now blanket small towns and big cities alike, sharing a searchable database of your activ

  12. Dead center: Wall Street's think tank picks a fight with the left (again) — Dingus of the Week Podcast #35

    <html><p>Democrats keep winning elections, and Third Way has had just about enough of it.</p><p>After Abdul El-Sayed's upset win in Michigan's Senate primary — the latest in a string of victories by candidates running on the radical notion

  13. Moreno, mo problems: Ohio's car salesman senator yells at Fauci — Dingus of the Week Podcast #34

    <html><p>Senator Bernie Moreno told a room that he sold off his car dealership empire six years ago just so he could one day stick it Dr. Anthony Fauci. Whether you're Fauci fan or couldn't care less, maybe a sitting U.S. Senator should aim

  14. Breaking Bot: OpenAI model's big escape — Dingus of the Week Podcast #33

    <html><p>OpenAI spent this week trying to spin the fact that one of its models broke into another company's servers as a scientific breakthrough. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/openai-hugging-face-hack/688025/" targ

  15. Lettuce pray: A parasite, a gutted CDC, and the produce that runs through you — Dingus of the Week Podcast #32

    <html><p>There's a parasite loose in America's lettuce: the diarrhea-causing Cyclospora parasite has developed quite the reputation, giving the word "explosive" new resonance. </p><p>It won't surprise you to hear that President Donald Trump

  16. Weekend at McConnell's: The GOP's undead Senate strategy — Dingus of the Week Podcast #31

    <html><p>Mitch McConnell hasn't been seen in public in nearly a month. No photo, no video, no floor vote — just a statement from his office insisting the 83-year-old Senate Republican leader is "fully engaged" from his hospital bed. Meanwhi

  17. Reflecting poorly: The president's $20M pool glow-down — Dingus of the Week Podcast #30

    <html><p>The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is an awe-inspiring site. While maybe meant to evoke introspection, it mostly evokes laughter these days. </p><p>President Donald Trump wanted to clean it up. To give it a fresh coat of American

  18. The Claw is the law: A UFC octagon on the White House lawn — Dingus of the Week Podcast #29

    <html><p>There is a 90-foot-tall, 600-ton steel structure on the South Lawn of the White House, assembled on grounds normally used for Easter egg rolls, Marine One departures, and a garden honoring presidents' children. UFC calls it The Cla

  19. The Hills are alive with the sound of dingus: Spencer Pratt for mayor — Dingus of the Week Podcast #28

    <html><p>Spencer Pratt was reality television's first fully self-aware villain — a man who admitted, on camera, that he was performing villainy for an audience. He staged a fake divorce, manipulated storylines, and turned being unlikeable i

  20. Something borrowed, something booed: AI skipped my name at graduation — Dingus of the Week Podcast #27

    <html><p>It's graduation season in America, and at Glendale Community College in Arizona, the administration decided to hand the most important moment of the academic calendar — the calling of your name, in front of peers and family — to an

  21. The case of (Trump's) golden idol — Dingus of the Week Podcast #26

    <html><p>The United States is wrapped in a weather pattern we've taken to calling a Dingus Hydra. That is a multiheaded beast, each head uglier than the last. To name a few:</p><p>A racist livestreamer named <a href="https://www.cnn.com/202

  22. Do a billionaire's tears trickle up? Steven Roth on taxing the rich — Dingus of the Week Podcast #25

    <html><p>Steven Roth is the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, one of the largest real estate companies in the United States. Through it, he controls billions of dollars in property across New York City. And he has used this immense platform to *

  23. Pete Hegseth hits (Kid) Rock Bottom — Dingus of the Week Podcast #24

    <html><p>Pete Hegseth is the Secretary of Defense of the United States of America, which means he is in charge of the most powerful military in human history. And he has used this immense position to *checks script* give Kid Rock a helicopt

  24. The Feast Within: MrBeast Is Eating Your Kids — Dingus of the Week Podcast #23

    <html><p>The story goes that Jimmy Donaldson was a normal kid growing up in North Carolina who spent five years studying virality on YouTube. </p><p>"There's a five-year point in my life where I was just relentlessly, unhealthily obsessed w

  25. MAGA-vignon Papacy: Catholic convert J.D. Vance has notes for the Pope - Dingus of the Week Podcast #22

    <html><p>Vice President J.D. Vance became Catholic in 2019, and he has some notes on the incense we're using at mass. It's always the new guy.</p><p>“Now we can, of course, have disagreements about whether this or that conflict is just, but

  26. Geno Auriemma: The Winningest Loser - Dingus of the Week Podcast #21

    <html><p>You may know <strong>Geno Auriemma</strong> as the winningest coach in NCAA basketball history. Twelve championships. Forty seasons. The kind of record that fluffs up the first sentence of everything written about you. And not for

  27. Mission: Implausible. Trump says his oil war is over. — Dingus of the Week Podcast #20

    <html><p>You interrupted <em>Survivor 50 </em>for this? <strong>President Donald Trump</strong> declared mission accomplished—or at least "nearing completion"—in Iran. </p><p>The President brought us into another crusade in the Middle East,

  28. Terminal Dingus: ICE in the airport — Dingus of the Week Podcast #19

    <html><p>Flying in America is already a full-contact sport. Airlines nickel-and-diming you for the privilege of existing, a guy in 14B who thinks the armrest is his birthright, and TSA agents who haven't been paid in 90 days because Congres

  29. Joe Rogan is just asking questions - Dingus of the Week Podcast #18

    <html><p>You may know <strong>Joe Rogan</strong> from Fear Factor, where he paid people to eat bugs. You may know him from the 90s TV show News Radio, where he played a handyman obcessed with conspiracy theories — a role he has not stopped

  30. There's Noem place like Home(land Security) - Dingus of the Week Podcast #17

    <html><p>Cricket finally got his revenge. This week, Trump bid farewell to <strong>Kristie Noem</strong> and her tenure at the US Dept. of Homeland Security the only way he knows how: the last line of a Truth social post: </p><p>"I thank Kr

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