The June 7, 2026 episode of This Dum Week opens with a running complaint rather than a technical glitch: Alex arrives already frustrated that the show failed to cover the sprawling Bricks and Minifigs LEGO consignment saga — a story involving franchise ownership disputes, vigilante social media justice, Mormon community corruption, leaked unredacted footage, and what Alex describes as moving through stages of "ridiculous, insane, absurd, surreal" before it really starts getting going. RollerGator counters that the story is simply too complex to assemble in a week, and the pair agree to prioritize it going forward. The episode's opening half-hour is otherwise occupied by RollerGator's detailed personal account of thwarting a social engineering phone scam on Friday — a sophisticated AI-voice-assisted Google account takeover attempt he narrated and recreated using ElevenLabs — followed by the Alaska Senate race ballot-name-cloning story, a YouTuber banned for life from Six Flags for attempting to eat ten chicken nuggets on a roller coaster, the Chrisley-sentencing judge's affair scandal, and an Ebola update now showing the outbreak has crossed into Uganda.

The episode's middle section moves through a series of distinct stories with increasing analytical weight. The mpox-scientists-smuggling-deactivated-virus story feeds directly into a New World screwworm detection in South Texas and a John Bolton guilty plea on classified information charges — RollerGator using all three as a "plague month" riff. Alex then delivers his most extended mid-episode contribution: a detailed update on his AI-assisted reinvestigation of Scott Alexander's ivermectin meta-analysis, in which his automated citation-verification pipeline found an anomalously high density of errors in the ivermectin piece compared to Alexander's other scientific writing — a surprise, since Alex had originally assumed all of Alexander's work was equally sloppy. The metatomidine drug supply contamination story — a fentanyl-adjacent sedative crowding emergency rooms — and the update on missing Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Melissa Casillas (remains found in Carson National Forest, a handgun present, in an area the family says was previously searched) close out the first half. The teacher misconduct segment returns for its fourth consecutive week, this time with five cases including a particularly severe final entry involving a Newport, Idaho teacher charged with incest after alleged sexual conduct with two of her adopted children.

The episode's final hour and a half is the show's most analytically concentrated, organized around two major technology-and-governance topics. First, RollerGator presents the federally mandated in-vehicle impairment detection technology story — a 2021 infrastructure bill provision requiring all new cars to passively monitor driver impairment by 2027 — with extended clips from Rep. Chip Roy's congressional opposition speech and the NHTSA's own February 2026 report to Congress admitting the technology does not yet exist at an acceptable error rate. Alex connects this directly to prior episodes' coverage of 3D printer gun legislation as part of a broader pattern: legislation drafted as if government can simply will technically impossible surveillance into existence, with Mike Bloomberg identified as the funding source behind the 3D printer bills. The episode closes with a long segment on Bernie Sanders' "American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act" proposal — a 50% stock tax on AI companies framed as reclaiming "stolen" human knowledge — which Alex and RollerGator dissect for both logical and political incoherence. Guest speaker Katie Kin, who worked on the Andrew Yang UBI campaign and now works in defense-sector UX/UI, contributes a detailed firsthand account of the Yang campaign's internal dynamics, the DNC's data-selling apparatus, and what she observed as Yang's evolution from breath-of-fresh-air outsider to mainstream Democratic pundit. The episode closes with RollerGator's complaint about Meta's algorithm serving him AI-generated incestuous stepfamily soap opera chatbots.

Detailed Outline Opening: Bricks and Minifigs LEGO Consignment Saga — The Story They Couldn't Cover (00:00:00 - 00:05:30) Main Topic: Alex's Frustration That RollerGator Skipped the Week's Most Gripping Story

Alex opens the show already "very disappointed" in RollerGator for not covering the Bricks and Minifigs LEGO consignment story
RollerGator explains: the story involves too many moving parts to assemble in a single week's prep; he spent as much time on it as Alex claims to have spent and couldn't make it work
The story involves the largest LEGO Star Wars collection ever put on consignment, placed with a large chain franchise store called Bricks and Minifigs; the store went into debt and was taken over by a new franchisee who refused to honor the consignment; multiple parties fighting over ownership, money from already-sold items, and the unsold collection
Alex's update beyond what RollerGator covered: leaked unredacted footage has since emerged; there are Mormon state-within-a-state police corruption angles; the story has become surreal and then "really starts getting going"
RollerGator commits to prioritizing it for a future episode

Key Quote: "First it's ridiculous. Then it becomes insane, then absurd, then surreal. And then it really starts getting going." — Alex, describing the Bricks and Minifigs story's escalation

Hosts' Analysis: The opening exchange establishes the running problem of stories too complex to compress into a weekly format without losing what makes them significant. Alex's genuine frustration is not performative — the Mormon corruption angle alone apparently "exploded" while RollerGator was trying to write the original story.

RollerGator's Thwarted Social Engineering Hack (00:05:30 - 00:14:00) Main Topic: AI-Voice-Assisted Google Account Takeover Attempt; RollerGator's Step-by-Step Response

Friday evening, driving to the gym, RollerGator received a call from a caller ID reading "Google Assistant" claiming his recovery phone number had been updated
He pressed 1 as instructed (having not changed his recovery number), then reviewed all recent logins across his accounts, found nothing suspicious, logged out any unrecognized sessions, and remote-locked his PC
A follow-up call from a convincing "Google Support" representative informed him the change attempt originated from Toronto, Canada
The representative offered to send a recovery link via SMS — nothing arrived on two attempts — then pivoted to a push notification asking RollerGator to approve account recovery from "New York"
At this point the ruse was clear: saying yes would hand the attackers full account control
RollerGator informed them he understood the social engineering attempt; they offered to send a confirming email from "an authentic Google security source"; he told them to go ahead and then told them to perform a sexual act on him, at which point they hung up
RollerGator narrated and sound-designed the story for video/audio using ElevenLabs voice recreation
He notes the sophistication: a normal-sounding American voice, not an obviously foreign accent, making the scam more plausible; the attack appears to have originated from aggregated personal data (phone and email) assembled via leaked credential databases

Key Quote: "You guys are pretty slick. I see here that you pressed 'No, you don't want to reclaim your account.' May I ask why?" — the scammer, after RollerGator declined the push notification

Notable Detail: RollerGator's tell that the call was fraudulent: successfully changing a recovery phone number would require a prior successful login, and his account showed no recent unrecognized logins. The probability of the premise being true was very slim before the push notification confirmed it.

Hosts' Analysis: Alex notes that Google does not provide direct call support for consumer accounts, making any such call inherently suspicious. Both hosts treat this as a useful case study for the audience on how to navigate these attempts: entertain them long enough to understand the full mechanism, don't comply at any stage, verify independently.

Alaska Senate Race: Two Dan Sullivans on the Ballot (00:14:00 - 00:22:30) Main Topic: Democratic Ballot-Spoiler Strategy; Ghost Candidate History; RollerGator's Favorite Story of the Week

Alaska's open primary for the Senate seat held by incumbent Republican Dan S. Sullivan now features a second Dan Sullivan — Dan J. Sullivan — who filed as a Republican, adopted an almost identical campaign logo, and whose press release metadata traces to a known Democratic consultant and Peltola supporter
The state has an open primary where the top four vote-getters advance; Republicans fear both Sullivans could split the vote, handing the race to Democrat Mary Peltola
Incumbent Sullivan's characterization: "Democrats recruited a guy by the name of Dan Sullivan. He is a liberal progressive. His whole purpose of running is to confuse Alaskans."
The press release metadata linked to a New York Times-described Peltola supporter confirms the coordination claim
Alex consults Claude for historical precedent: Florida's 2020 ghost candidate scandal, where Democrat Jose Javier Rodriguez lost by 32 votes after a third-party candidate named Alex Rodriguez (same last name as the Democrat) drew 6,000+ votes; the spoiler later testified he was paid to run for that reason
There is apparently also a Dan Sullivan who is mayor of somewhere in Alaska, adding further confusion

Key Quote: "Will the real Dan Sullivan please stand up?" — RollerGator, invoking Slim Shady

Notable Detail: RollerGator finds this...