TLO 69: The Best, Dumbest and Most Clickable Stories of 2025 (Part 3 of 3)

10:16 AM EST on December 31, 2025

Well, we made it.

After a year of scandals, resignations, culture-war stunts, public meltdowns, and at least one crazed banana-slicing incident, 2025 is finally over.

If you’ve already worked your way through TLO 69 Part 1 and Part 2, this is the last stop – the final batch of TLO’s best, dumbest, and most clickable stories before we shut the door on the year.

Enjoy the 69 finish and we’ll see you back next week!

47. Lawmaker Guilty of Domestic Assault “Forgets” to Resign
Date: 8/29/2025

What We Wrote: Last night, AG Gentner dropped a divebomb on the Oklahoma media when he announced State Rep. Ty Burns – a military veteran, former sheriff’s deputy, and the prototype for every controlling, abusive-father movie villain ever created – had pled guilty to three misdemeanor domestic abuse and assault charges stemming from “family situations” involving his wife, their kids, and other relatives.

He will receive no jail time and instead be sent to something they really call "batterer counseling."

48. TLO EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Cope Sued by Empire Slice House Investors
Date: 9/4/2025

What We Wrote: There’s a battle brewing over one of OKC’s biggest pizza… empires.

Thanks to a tip via the Ogle Mole Network, we’ve learned that investors behind Empire Pizza – the NYC-themed pizza chain that’s grown to seven locations across Oklahoma over the past decade – are suing founder, managing partner, and former TLO Show podcast guest Rachel Cope in Oklahoma County Court.

49. VPO: Creepy County Commissioner Now Facing Sexual Assault Allegations
Date: 9/9/2025

What We Wrote: Oklahoma politicians continue to do Oklahoma politician things!

Late last week, word hit the news wire that a local woman with an important last name had filed a VPO against Oklahoma County Commissioner Myles Davidson and, for added measure, his wife, Marilyn.

50. Edmond Vet Neutered Over Charlie Kirk Comments
Date: 9/17/2025

What We Wrote: It turns out conservatives like cancel culture after all!

In case you haven't noticed, one fallout from the Charlie Kirk assassination is that it’s given our future leaders of Gilead a good smoke screen to try and criminalize political speech they don’t like, because you know, freedom!

51. Lookout Kitchen Gets 86’d
Date: 9/22/2025

What We Wrote: After a quick attempt to fix and salvage the relationship, the Oklahoma Tourism Department and Lookout Kitchen have officially broken up again, and this time, it’s apparently for good.

52. End of an Error: Ryan Walters Finally Does Something Good for Oklahoma Students
Date: 9/25/2025

What We Wrote: Ring the bells, kiss a Trump Bible, and gently massage your best friend’s thigh! Ryan Walters is resigning as Oklahoma State Schools Superintendent!

As is usually the case, I first started hearing rumors about his departure early in the afternoon. After a couple of phone calls and emails, we were the first local media outlet to report the news on X.

53. Oh No: Charles McCall Slices Banana in New Campaign Ad
Date: 10/1/2025

What We Wrote: In a bold attempt to outrage the liberal echo chamber while simultaneously stealing support from the loonies who liked the Ryan Walters crowd, he released an ad where he used a banana as a symbolic metaphor for a penis – stating, accurately, that just because you cut it in half, it doesn’t magically become an orange.

54. Paycom Embarks on Yet Another Employee Purge
Date: 10/1/2025

What We Wrote: Paycom is continuing with its purging ways, but only this time it's official!

Earlier this morning, the Ogle Mole Network, Reddit, and the broader social media sphere lit up with reports that Paycom – the OKC-based S&P 500 payroll tech company that’s been aggressively (and unprofessionally) cutting staff over the past year – has commenced yet another round of employee layoffs.

55. Seemingly Normal, Not-Crazy Man Named State Schools Superintendent
Date: 10/3/2025

What We Wrote: For the first time in 626 days, Oklahoma public education is not being held hostage by a small-town evangelical grifter stooge and his posse of Texas hustlers.

Not wanting to waste any time helping people forget how instrumental he was in the rise of Ryan Walters’s political career, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt appointed a seemingly normal, not-crazy man as state schools superintendent yesterday afternoon.

56. ONLY ON TLO: Oklahoma Man Acquitted in the Great Seth Wadley Ass-Whoopin’
Date: 10/8/2025

What We Wrote: It’s not just the customer wallets that take a beating at Seth Wadley Chevrolet!

Thanks to a tip via the Ogle Mole Network, we’ve learned that a Maysville man was recently acquitted of felony assault charges stemming from a Lake Texoma ruckus that left Pauls Valley car mogul – and Tiger King icon – Seth Wadley more bruised and battered than one of Joe Exotic’s dusty old ball caps.

57. Ryan Walters’ Bible-in-the-Classroom Crusade Fed to the Lions
Date: 10/15/2025

What We Wrote: We have some bad news for wacky Christian Nationalists who want to use government resources to force religion on kids, or still panic about kitty litter in school bathrooms.

Earlier today, new sane Oklahoma State School Superintendent Lindel Fields announced he will not be moving forward with Ryan Walters’ unconstitutional plan to distribute Trump Bibles in Oklahoma classrooms, officially ending one of the more shamelessly moronic crusades Ryan tried to force through as superintendent.

58. Joleen Chaney to Leave KFOR
Date: 10/29/2025

What We Wrote: Spit out a watermelon seed and wipe off the teleprompter. We have some sad news to report.

Thanks to a tip via the Facebook Algorithmic Network, we have learned that Joleen Chaney – the 6 and 10 p.m. co-anchor for KFOR Channel 4 and watermelon queen of the Oklahoma City media – is resigning from the station effective Friday, November 7th.

59. Former OKC Fox 25 Anchor Charged with Murder
Date: 11/3/2025

What We Wrote: Remember the name Angie Mock?

Mock eventually left OKC for St. Louis in 2011. She left that market in 2015 to join the corporate world, discovered carbs, and then – 10 years later – ended up in jail for stabbing her 80-year-old mother to death in Wichita, Kansas.

60. “I’ve Had It!” Lady Finally Leaves for New York
Date: 11/6/2025

What We Wrote: Maybe it’s because I have a distaste for propaganda, hypocrisy, and opportunistic retread opinion, but over the past year, I’ve watched with bemusement, wonder, and mild annoyance the rise of Oklahoma podcast superstars Jennifer “Coyne” Welch and Angie “Toots-Pumps” Sullivan.

Well, I guess former Oklahoma podcast superstars…

61. Oklahoma Fails Again
Date: 11/7/2025

What We Wrote: Oklahoma remains a Top 10 state in letting rapists off the hook.

As you may have noticed, the national online outrage machine has latched on to an infuriating case out of Stillwater involving known rapist Jesse Butler…

62. Can’t Drive 95: Walters’ Mystery Suburban Hit Triple-Digit Speeds
Date: 11/17/2025

What We Wrote: We found another German thing Ryan Walters likes – the Autobahn!

Earlier this week, Oklahoma Voice published the findings of an open records investigation into a mysterious state vehicle linked to Ryan Walters and one of his staffers, some dude named Joseph Porter.

63. OKC Monopoly Board Features Photo of Tulsa Skyline
Date: 11/21/2025

What We Wrote: Oops. In our rush to roast the glaring omissions from the OKC Monopoly board, we apparently overlooked the biggest one of all!

Thanks to a hot tip from the Ogle Mole Network, we’ve learned the much-hyped and ballyhooed OKC Monopoly board features a photo of the downtown Tulsa skyline.

64. State Sues Joe Exotic’s Magician Over Lookout Kitchen Debacle
Date: 12/1/2025

What We Wrote: When Governor Stitt said he wanted to run the state like a business, I guess that meant he wanted taxpayers to lose money in the restaurant industry!

In a surprise to absolutely no one who reads this site and/or has ever invested money in a restaurant, the state sued the operators of Lookout Kitchen – the much-maligned chain that replaced the much-maligned Swadley’s Foggy Bottom Kitchen in all state parks – just months after the chain was shut down over $200,000+ in unpaid bills.

65. OU Student Goes Viral Over Stupid Essay
Date: 12/2/2025

What We Wrote: We’ve got a fresh new culture-war skirmish to trigger our anger, outrage, and attention!

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, the hard-to-avoid saga of OU junior Samantha Fulnecky erupted across the social webs. If you were lucky enough to miss it, congratulations – please tell me which cave you’re living in and if there’s room for one more. This idiocracy out here is getting exhausting to cover.

66. Stitt’s Son Drove 16 Months with a Suspended License and a Bench Warrant
Date: 12/3/2025

What We Wrote: It looks like the Stitt family motto is still “Rules For Thee and Not For Me!”

We got a tip via the Ogle Mole Network that, until yesterday afternoon, Kevin Stitt’s oldest son – John Andrew “Drew” Stitt of Guthrie Haunted House and OSU Parking Enforcement fame – spent the last year and a half cruising the streets, highways, and probably a few off-road trails of Oklahoma on a suspended license.

67. Oklahoma Sheriff Goes F’n Nuts on Small-Town Cops
Date: 12/10/2025

What We Wrote: You know how there’s a negative stereotype out there that cops are nothing more than volatile, power-hungry bullies with anger-management issues who have no business being in law enforcement?

Well, I guess we can thank Pawnee County Sheriff Shawn Price for reminding us why that one exists!

68. Tevis Hillis Leaves News 9 to Work for Governor Stitt
Date: 12/12/2025

What We Wrote: Joleen Chaney is about to have some TV news company at the State Capitol!

Thanks to a tip via the Ogle Mole Network, we’ve learned that Tevis Hillis – a former Ms. Lawton who spent the last several years as an anchor and reporter for KWTV Channel 9 – has apparently left the news channel to work in the press office for Governor Stitt.

69. City Stops Pretending the Classen Bike Lane Was a Good Idea
Date: 12/19/2025

What We Wrote: About a month or two ago, I was stuck in a traffic jam around 10th and Classen, where the well-traveled and slightly compacted thoroughfare narrows from six to four lanes due to a random six-block segment of bike lanes.

As I sat there, running late to an appointment, listening to the Sports Animal, and watching some doofus try to merge from the right into the center lane while a car in front attempted to simultaneously turn across three lanes of traffic, I remember thinking, “What bonehead city planner thought this was a good idea?”

And with that, we’ve reached 69. Nice.

Thanks for spending 2025 with The Lost Ogle. Enjoy the New Year – we’ll see you next week!