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The Daily Whatever

genXy is home to "The Daily Whatever," a daily Live podcast, airing every weekday at 10am ET/7am PT, and whenever we damn well please on weekends. We also host or appear on other one-off podcasts--and we"ve got "em all here. www.genxy.io

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The Daily Whatever, June 10: Sea Glass in the Womb...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/06/10

It’s no secret that Dana DuBois and I are fans of Füsun Aydın. What’s not to love? She’s smart, funny, and has a rapier wit so scathing and funny that you have to laugh, even if it’s impaling you. But what brought us together to begin with—and what keeps us enraptured—is her writing.Füsun has announced an ambitious plan to write and publish her first memoir on Substack—an autobiography of her first fifteen years, wherein she will publish a chapter each week on Sundays.Her first chapter dropped last

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62:34

The Daily Whatever, June 9: LA: The Beginning of the...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/06/09

Thanks to our amazing The Whatevers crew for another fun day in the chats, even as we were discussing serious topics.We covered both of my recent articles about the situation in LA:andWe’re keeping a watchful eye, and hoping for peace and healing for everyone in LA. Fuck Trump!Thank you Barbara , BiffBiff , Brandon Ellrich , Callie🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽 , Cat , Craig Nixon , Damon Kenner , Dana DuBois , Füsun Aydın , Sarah , Jennifer Karger Lange , Karen Marie Shelton , Kevin Alexander , Lahboss ,

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85:40

The Daily Whatever: June 7 - Saturday Grab Bag

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/06/07

We here at The Daily Whatever try to run a tight ship, with planning and production values and whatnot, but sometimes things don’t go according to plan—a lesson we’ve learned a lot this week!Today, Dana DuBois was going to ask me about the story I was supposed to have just published—but I collapsed into bed at 8:30pm last night, and never got to finish it. The joys of working two jobs, and co-hosting an every day podcast, I suppose.But hey, we’re scrappy GenXers, and so we winged it, and it ended up

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60:41

The Daily Whatever, June 6: Fucked-up Friday with The...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/06/06

Fans of The Daily Whatever know Lawrence Winnerman and I are huge fans of The Opinionated Ogre. His impassioned, swear-filled political rants are the antidote to the legacy media that we all need in these fascist regime times.So when the Ogre himself agreed to come on our humble podcast, we knew how to show up...…as sock puppets, of course.Turns out, talking about the fucked-up news of the week is insanely fun whilst cosplaying ourselves as socks.For this week’s Fucked-up Friday show, none of us

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57:04

The Daily Whatever, June 5: Parenting and politics...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/06/05

Melissa Corrigan, she/her and her publication CounterStory Media are on a mission: to use storytelling to change the world—and people’s votes.Melissa is multi-hyphenate as a writer and podcaster: A veteran. An adoptee. A mom of a trans son. Her voice is powerful and she’s not shy about raising it, especially to champion for others.In short: she’s spectacular. Having her on the podcast was such an honor.Here are a few of Melissa’s stories you should check out.The first is my origin story with

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58:55

The Daily Whatever, June 4: GenX sex & relationships

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/06/04

I was so excited to discuss today’s topic.I made an outline and a plan. And you know what happens when you make plans…?Yeah. Today Lawrence Winnerman and I demonstrated our GenX resilience, as we dealt with repeated fuck-ups for the first 15 minutes of the podcast—starting with when I stepped in the dog mess my darling dog left under my desk during the night, continuing with Lawrence power going out, and ending as Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈 heroically stepped up to co-host with us. Hot damn, what a

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64:05

The Daily Whatever, June 3: Queer History with Wendy...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/06/03

Attention, students! School is in session, the library is open, and it is Time. 👏 To. 👏Learn. 👏 Queer. 👏 Herstory. 👏 Periodt. 👏Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈 the Druid joined Dana DuBois and lil’ ol’ me ( Lawrence Winnerman ) for the first of what we hope are many sessions of schoolwerk. First of all, Wendy is the owner of ThistleAndMoss.com, a Substack dedicated to—an amazing combo of things: Queerness, Druidic work, politics, poetry, and elevating other Queer voices. Go subscribe now!And Chat, what

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58:24

The Daily Whatever, June 2: Parenting with Pride!

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/06/02

Happy Monday, and more importantly, Happy start of Pride Month!It’s a challenging time for Pride. I have my apprehensions the US will remain a relatively safe place to gather and celebrate Pride. I hope I’m wrong,Today I perused LinkedIn ahead of the podcast and checked for the rainbow logos we’ve all grown so accustomed to in June. And I saw literally none. Wait, I take that back. Grindr has a rainbow logo. But I barely think Grindr counts, not for this. It’s not like they can hide their Pride any

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70:40

The Daily Whatever, May 31: Meet the Whatever community

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/31

Saturdays tend to be pretty chill here at The Daily Whatever (unlike weekdays when we’re super locked-down and professional). We wanted today to feel like a gathering of friends. So we put it out there to our community of regular “Whatevers”—those who frequent the podcast—that everyone was welcome to come online to say hello, and tell us what they’re into and how they came to find us.Unsurprisingly, everyone was wonderful. First Sarah came on and shared her multihyphenate interests: everything from

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54:33

The Daily Whatever, May 30: Fucked-up Friday with Mr....

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/30

What an amazing treat! Mr. Troy Ford stole the show at The Daily Whatever today as we ramped up for our fave day of the week: Fucked-up Friday! Troy, we could not have had more fun with you, and thank you for joining us! Please come back soon!We kicked off by talking about Troy’s book release—out on June 3rd!I’ve pre-ordered my copy, and I hope you’ll get yours, too! It sounds fun and poignant and touching all at the same time, and I can’t wait to read it.“The Whatevers” in the chat were as amazing

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5:05

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The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/29

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58:57

The Daily Whatever, May 28: GenX Pride

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/29

We had such a blast chatting with our new gay bae Brandon Ellrich! We covered a range of topics ranging from challenging fathers and families of origins, early iconic queer characters in film, and Brandon’s forthcoming Pride tour throughout the midwest. We’re hoping he and Lawrence Winnerman can meet IRL, so stayed tuned into June to find out—Kansas City may never be the same.Huge thanks to Füsun Aydın, Jim Dandy, Karen Marie Shelton, Robin Wilding, Peter William Murphy and all the “Whatevers” for

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65:07

The Daily Whatever, May 27: The Dating Show with...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/27

There’s no business like show business, amirite? And what a show we had today! Thanks to the always loquacious and irresistable Frederic Poag whose wild hair presaged a wild time talking about dating, sex, desire, and a whole lotta nonsense!If it ain’t clear, Frederic is ALWAYS welcome to talk to us, and when the topic is as spicy as today—well, we might just have to make that a thing! “The GenX Dating Show with Frederic, Dana, & Lawrence!” Smash the heart button ❤️ on this post if you’d like to see

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63:54

The Daily Whatever, May 24: AUA (ask us anything!)

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/25

Welp, that was a blast!It’s the holiday weekend, so I’m gonna keep this short. When you’ve been best friends for over 40 years, turns out you’ve got a lot of goods to share about each other during an “ask us anything.”What questions did we answer? You’re gonna have to listen and find out.Thank you John Pearce, Cat, Peter William Murphy, Lahboss, Karen Marie Shelton, Robin Wilding, The One Minute Daily Boost, Brandon Ellrich and so many others for tuning in!We’re taking Sunday and Monday off from

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55:07

The Daily Whatever, May 23: Fucked-up Friday with...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/23

Every Friday, The Daily Whatever hosts “Fucked-up Friday,” where we invite a guest to join us and discuss the news from the previous week.Or specifically—we each share what we thought was the most fucked-up news of the week, and we make the case for why it’s the most fucked up of all. And then our live audience votes for which story was, indeed, the most fucked-up.This week, we were delighted to have fellow card-carrying GenXer Jonathan Small as our special guest, and the ensuing conversation was

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66:43

The Daily Whatever, May 21: Protecting our trans kids

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/21

In the days following the election, as I grappled with the enormity of what Trump 2.0 would mean, I had a personal struggle as well: what to do with Pink Hair & Pronouns, my publication for parents and caregivers of trans and nonbinary kids?I researched the risks by reading Project 2025. I reached out to the CEO of Medium to ask him about guardrails and protections. And in the end, I realized—it was risky to leave my content up. And even riskier to keep writing.But in the end, I knew: I couldn’t

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58:08

The Daily Whatever, May 20: Leaving Medium with...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/20

Patrick B. Stewart is a writer and publisher and a Taoist/Daoist.When he joined us on The Daily Whatever last week, he dropped a big truth bomb—that Medium stopped giving writers access to the email addresses of their new subscribers, moving forward.And as we GenXers do—he researched. He aligned with his values. And he pivoted—away from Medium, removing his The Taoist Online publication. He plans to relaunch on June 1, 2025 at https://thedaoist.online.On today’s podcast, we discuss why he left, why

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61:31

The Daily Whatever: May 19 - The Democrats Are Doing...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/19

We’d say Happy Monday, but really, it’s a bit of a rough morning. Dana DuBois and I are both feeling varying shades of sadness and anger. The news about President Biden is hitting a lot of us hard, and we’re trying to wrap that into the overall narrative about his cognitive decline occurring earlier than we knew, and the general state of the world under Trump 2.0.The truth is—I wrote my article about the Democrats yesterday, and as I was editing in the evening, the news broke about Biden’s cancer

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75:27

The Daily Whatever, May 18: Char Sundust on Writing,...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/18

Today we had the joy of hosting Char Sundust of Spirit Sanctuary on The Daily Whatever, for a soulful and deep conversation about writing and safety and showing up with our words in the world.Char read her award-winning poem I Want to Move Things with My MindWe had the best time—a fun reunion of Seattle friends and writers. Yay!We love sharing the love of Substack on Sundays, and here’s who we recommended:* Char suggested reading Andrea Gibson for their gratitude work at Things That Don’t Suck.*

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74:29

The Daily Whatever, May 17: Why is the news obsessed...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/17

It was just Dana DuBois and Lawrence Winnerman today on The Daily Whatever, talking about the stuff we usually talk about. In this case, it was discussing our latest articles—Dana on her dating debacle, and mine comparing and contrasting the articles on GenX from the Economist and Vogue:In classic The Daily Whatever fashion, we had a wide ranging conversation that ended up with the idea that we need to create a genXy University, where one of the classes is called Understanding This Late-Stage

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