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The Daily Whatever
by The Daily Whatever Show
The Daily Whatever Show hosts the weekly show "Fucked-Up Friday", every Friday at 10am ET/ 7am PT. Join Dana Dubois & Lawrence Winnerman as they welcome a guest to compete on who has the most fucked up news story of the week.The Daily Whatever Show also produces news stories that are "Unhinged, but accurate", hitting whenever the news cycle burps one out. www.thedailywhatevershow.com
Episodes
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May Their Memories Be a Blessing (to Nobody)
Dana and Lawrence popped up live on a Monday morning (Indigenous Peoples’ Day, for those of us who still have to go to work) armed with PG Tips, vanilla, and the best news either of us has heard in months. Over four days, Ukrainian drones hit three data centers belonging to Yandex, which is...
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Hegseth Wants You to Watch a Man Get Shot: F@#ked Up Friday
The United States plans to shoot a man on December 3 and let you watch. Pete Hegseth told Jack Posobiec that the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be public—“we’ll make sure that people are able to watch it”—which puts us in a club with Iran and Afghanistan. Jason Odell...
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TDWS: So There's a Russian Plague...?
Have you been reading about the Russian plague situation with a haunting sense it’s early March 2020? Yeah, us too. Lawrence Winnerman wrote the article below to address what we know, what we wish we knew, and what to look for. Then we had this conversation to bring the story to life. We hope you...
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A 13-Year-Old, a Judge, and No Lawyer Plus an AI Torture Chamber & The Cornell 7: F@#ked Up Friday
This week’s Fucked Up Friday had a common thread, and Libbie Grant named it before the vote: “It’s all misogyny, man.” Dana brought the Cornell 7 case, now in Letitia James’s hands, and one line from Jane Doe that explains why survivors blame themselves first. Libbie, whose new novel The Ended...
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TDWS: Every Woman You Know Is Reeling About The Cornell 7
News of “The Cornell 7” has torn through the internet at such breakneck speed this week, I invited the amazing Michelle Kinney from The Mayday Network to come deconstruct it all. I also published three (yes, three) stories already this week on this evolving story, which you can read here, in…
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Effed-Up Friday: Don Jr., Brendan Carr, and a Dead Whale
Dana’s out, so Dash MacIntyre of The Halfway Cafe and Ellie Leonard of The Panicked Writer pulled up chairs for Fucked-Up Friday. Three pitches, one chat vote. Dash brings the Putin-linked oligarch who bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. Ellie brings FCC chair Brendan Carr’s nine years in Midtown, the...
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Effed-Up Friday With Julie Roginsky
It was an honor to get to spend September 11 with one of our very favorite New Yorkers, the amazing Julie Roginsky, and to share our stories of where we were, what we remember, and how disheartened we feel in the aftermath of these attacks, 25 years on. Thank you Ellie Leonard, Cat: Poli-Psych…
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F@#ked-Up Friday: The Week Nothing Was Even Guarded
Fucked-Up Friday came back this week with a guest, three horrors, and a through-line nobody planned: in every one of these stories, a step that was supposed to happen simply didn’t. Our guest was ProfessorMeredith of Bitchy History, joining from Norwich, England, and she is exactly the kind of...
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TDWS: A Vibe Is Not Evidence
We cancelled the show we had planned this morning. We don’t do that. But a line got crossed in this community this week, and there was no version of the two of us doing a normal Friday while it sat there. We started where the world started this week, with Dolly Parton, and by the end she had…
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TDWS: Effed-up Friday with Ellie Leonard
AI Sexbot teachers in public schools! Raging menopausal women without their HRT! And… whatever doomsday dot-connecting Lawrence Winnerman got up to this week!! This was a thrilling episode of The Daily Whatever Show with our dear friend, Ellie Leonard. Have at it! Thank you You Ready Grandma…
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TDWS: Effed-Up Friday With Marlon Weems
We always love when Marlon joins us on The Daily Whatever Show. We had an incredible chat before the Fucked-up Friday competition even began—as we discussed the $40 trillion national debt, reparations, what our spending says about our values, the increasingly terrifying surveillance state, those...
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The Daily Whatever Show: Effed-Up Friday with Wajahat Ali!
It’s Firesmoke season, the air quality index is apocalyptic, and the news is worse—so naturally we’re laughing so we don’t cry. Waj of THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali returns to the show and comes in absolutely scorching, with a unified theory of why the self-styled alpha males of MAGA are, shall…
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TDWS: Effed-up Friday with Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Effed-up Friday was equal parts news roundup, political therapy session, and dark comedy. We kicked things off with special guest Anne P. Mitchell, Esq., who jumped in at the last minute after Zev Shalev was sidelined with a broken finger (get well soon, Zev!!). Before diving into the week’s most...
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Who Are You When You Take Yourself Apart?
Four men, three of whom had never been in the same room, sat down on a Monday to talk about reinvention—and ended up somewhere none of them planned. Lawrence Winnerman is joined by Aidan Wharton, returning friend Ben Greene, and a brand-new face, Chuck Palmer, for a conversation that starts with…
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TDWS: Not Straight Forward With Guest Char Sundust
Lawrence’s other best friend of 32 years, Char Sundust, flew in from Seattle and is sitting RIGHT NEXT to him in the studio — and what was supposed to be a Monday hangout turns into one of the most wide-ranging episodes of the season. They start with plazas (yes, plazas), wander through city...
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Live with Lawrence Winnerman
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The Daily Whatever Show: Effed-Up Friday With Wajahat Ali!
It was another absolutely unhinged Fucked Up Friday, and somehow the news cycle outdid itself—again. We dove headfirst into the chaos, breaking down everything from the latest political absurdities to the kind of stories that make you question reality itself. But the real fireworks came when…
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Live w/ Lisa & Lawrence Winnerman! • 2/25 @ 7pm CST
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TDWS: Char Sundust and the Year of the Fire Horse!
This morning on The Daily Whatever Show, I was flying solo while Dana was off on a top-secret mission, and I got to kick off the Lunar New Year — the Year of the Fire Horse — with one of my best friends in the world, Char Sundust. We talked about what the Fire Horse actually means in Chinese...
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Saturdays for Sanity with Michelle Kinney, Dana Dubois and Lawrence Winnerman
genXy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. We had an insanely good time hanging with Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney this morning for their show. We laughed, we cried, we talked MAGA Face. You’ve just got to...
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The Daily Whatever Show, Feb 9: Not Straightforward with Lawrence Winnerman & Guest Aidan Wharton
Today’s episode of The Daily Whatever Show marked the start of something new, with me, Lawrence Winnerman, officially launching my Monday queer takeover: Not Straightforward. Not Straightforward envisions a queer conversation space that refuses simplification—where lived experience matters more...
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The Daily Whatever Show, Jan 23: Effed-Up Friday with Matt McNeil
Note: You can also catch Matt on Blue Amp Media. Today’s The Daily Whatever Show opened with its usual warmth and chaos, as I checked in “from the field” — specifically, the open-air, poolside setting of an L.A. airport hotel at 7 a.m. The vibes were already different, and the hotel staff...
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The Daily Whatever Show, Jan 5: with Rachel (This Woman Votes) and Guest Co-host Melissa Corrigan
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Dash and Lawrence Winnerman
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Das Talks With Lawrence Winnerman
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Happy New Years Sanctuary: with Dana Dubois on a sharing life and what we want to create
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A Spontaneous Final Live for 2025…
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The Daily Whatever Show, Dec 22: Melissa Corrigan!
Thank you Neurodivergent Hodgepodge, Rachel @ This Woman Votes, Cat, Polly Walker Blakemore, Char Sundust, and many others for tuning into my live video with Melissa Corrigan, she/her, Lawrence Winnerman, and GenXy! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to The Daily Whatever...
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The Daily Whatever Show, Dec 15: A Spontaneous Bestie Day
Thank you Nick Paro, Dr. Amber Hull, Polly Walker Blakemore, Char Sundust, Melissa Corrigan, she/her, and many others for tuning into my live video with Dana DuBois! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to The Daily Whatever Show at www.thedailywhatevershow.com/subscribe
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The Daily Whatever Show, Dec 16: We Spill the Tea - Love Lost in 2025
Thank you Nick Paro, Dr. Amber Hull, This Woman Votes, Caro Henry, Cat, and many others for tuning into my live video with Dana DuBois! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to The Daily Whatever Show at www.thedailywhatevershow.com/subscribe
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The Daily Whatever Show, Dec 2: Besties Day!
Today’s Bestie Day opened on a somber note. Before we said anything else, Lawrence shared the update none of us wanted but all of us needed to hear: his mom was heading to surgery for her cancer soon. The fear, the love, the exhaustion — all of it was right there in his voice. The chat rallied...
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The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 26: The Halfway Cafe
We opened today’s The Daily Whatever Show with some pre-Thanksgiving banter (and Dana DuBois channeling her recurring “old smoker barfly” voice), plus a quick chat about Dana’s new essay When Thanksgiving Isn’t Safe for Your Trans or Nonbinary Child, delving into issues around family, pronouns…
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The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 25: Recruiting Dems to Run with Mona Das
This show was pure electricity — the kind where the guest arrives mid-chaos, mid-tech-glitch, mid-greenroom confusion, and still manages to set the universe on fire within three minutes of speaking. That is, in short, Mona Das. Lawrence Winnerman and I opened by letting everyone witness the...
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The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 21: Fucked Up Friday with Walter Rhein
Today’s Fucked-Up Friday episode delivered exactly the blend of outrage, catharsis, and chaotic laughter the title promises — thanks in huge part to our guest, writer and community-builder Walter Rhein, who jumped in last-minute and absolutely owned the show from the opening seconds. We kicked...
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The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 17: Volunteerism Will Save Us with Polly Walker Blakemore
Today Lawrence Winnerman and I got to welcome someone who has been a pillar of our little Whatever community from the very beginning: Polly Walker Blakemore. We started in the usual chaos — still riding the high of going quad-platform (Substack! YouTube! Facebook! Instagram… kind of!) — and me...
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The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 15: That NYT Story About Women Ruining Work with Carlyn Beccia
Today’s episode hit me harder than most. I came in tired — the kind of tired that comes from juggling late-stage capitalism, Substack life, and a multi-hyphenate existence where the eggs are cracked but the omelet is nowhere in sight. And then there was that New York Times article. The one asking…
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The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 14: Fucked-up Friday with Melissa Corrigan & Nick Paro
Today’s Fucked Up Friday on The Daily Whatever Show brought the chaos, the catharsis, and a whole lot of righteous fury — with Dana DuBois hosting, and Melissa Corrigan, she/her and Nick Paro stepping in for me while I was off on a “secret stealth spy mission.” Both of them showed up fully loaded...
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The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 13: Local Newspapers with Michelle Teheux
Today’s episode of The Daily Whatever Show hit differently. Maybe because Dana DuBois and I both grew up in the era when your hometown newspaper was as essential as your morning cereal. Maybe because our guest, the extraordinary Untrickled by Michelle Teheux , brought the kind of clarity,...
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The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 12: In Conversation with Nick Paro
This morning’s The Daily Whatever Show was equal parts hilarious, heartfelt, and righteously pissed off — which is to say, a typical Wednesday. Lawrence Winnerman joined me live from Seattle (yes, he’s here this week!!), and we kicked things off catching up on jet lag, sleep deprivation, and my...
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The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 10: Murphy and Senator Saud Anwar
Today’s show was a full ninety minutes, an emotional marathon that swung from personal transformation to political courage, from quitting cigarettes to fighting hunger. We started with frustration. Another morning, another Democratic cave-in to Trump’s hostage politics. Lawrence Winnerman and I...
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The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 8: Bestie Day
Today’s show was supposed to feature Tara Dublin, and we were SO excited to meet her and learn more about both her activism work in Portland and her creative writing work as a novelist. But in classic “I’m fine, everything’s fine” fashion, I gave her the wrong time zone when I sent the start…
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The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 6: Epstein Files Updates with Ellie Leonard
Today’s show with Ellie Leonard felt like a collision of worlds — punk rock meets political realism, investigative spreadsheets meets motherhood, fury meets focus. Ellie, a Substack writer and self-described “railroad family mom,” has quickly become one of the most indispensable voices tracking...
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The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 3: Metallica, Meathead, and the Politics of Everything with Lisa | We Are The Third Estate
This Monday morning my voice was hanging on by a thread — the price of a Halloween dance party where I went full Jessica Rabbit (minus the dress that arrived the next day, grumble grumble). Lawrence teased me for sounding “sultry,” which was generous. But honestly, losing my voice felt like a...
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The Daily Whatever, Nov 1: We Said NO ONE Left Behind, Dems!
No guest today, as our scheduled guest—everyone’s favorite Epstein investigative journalist Ellie Leonard—had a last-minute kid soccer game scheduling snafu (parenting > podcasting). So it was just and me and honestly? It was kind of perfect to enjoy a meandering hour chatting up my BFF Lawrence...
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The Daily Whatever, Oct 31: Fucked-up Friday with Marlon Weems
On today’s spooky Halloween edition of The Daily Whatever Show, Lawrence Winnerman and I welcomed back our friend Marlon Weems, the brilliant mind behind The Journeyman, for a Halloween-day edition of Fucked-up Friday. And wow, the world delivered plenty of material. As ever, Things got serious...
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The Daily Whatever Show, Oct 29: It's Time to Talk About Reparations with Marlon Weems
Today’s episode of The Daily Whatever Show hit deep. Dana DuBois is off on assignment somewhere top secret, so it was just me and the incomparable Marlon Weems —author, financial analyst, and one of the sharpest minds out there when it comes to connecting race, history, and economics. Together…
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The Daily Whatever, Oct 27: New Music for Olds with Christian Finnegan
Today on The Daily Whatever Show, we were joined by comedian, writer, and unapologetic music nerd Christian Finnegan, who somehow manages to be both self-deprecating and deeply wise about what it means to age with your ears (and sense of humor) intact. We brought the vintage tees, he brought the...
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The Daily Whatever, Oct 27: Limiting Executive Power with Tony Michaels
Today’s episode of The Daily Whatever Show hit that rare sweet spot where history, politics, and real talk converged—and it was thanks to our guest, Tony Michaels, the host of The Tony Michaels Podcast, and one of the sharpest political commentators on Substack and YouTube. Tony has been called…
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Happy Six Months of The Daily Whatever Show!
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The Daily Whatever Show, Oct 24: Fucked Up Friday with Zuri Stevens!
This week’s Fucked Up Friday on The Daily Whatever Show was one for the ages — or maybe for the end times. Dana DuBois and I were joined by the incomparable Zuri Stevens, author of We Need A Black Woman In Charge on Substack, who absolutely lit up the show with her intellect, wit, and deep moral...
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The Daily Whatever Show hosts the weekly show "Fucked-Up Friday", every Friday at 10am ET/ 7am PT. Join Dana Dubois & Lawrence Winnerman as they welcome a guest to compete on who has the most fucked up news story of the week.The Daily Whatever Show also produces news stories that are "Unhinged, but accurate", hitting whenever the news cycle burps one out.
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