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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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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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52:43

The Daily Whatever, May 16: Fucked-up Friday with...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/16

It’s always an amazing day when Frederic Poag joins your Live.Even when it’s Friday, so it’s time to talk about the fucked-up news of the week.For those of you new to GenXy, each Friday we invite a guest to join us—and all three of us present our pick for most fucked-up news story of the week. Here were our respective picks:* Frederic: Kristi Noem Wants Migrants to Compete for Citizenship on New Reality Show. Like “The Long Walk” or “The Hunger Games,” only real life! So fucked-up!* Lawrence: Israel

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56:56

The Daily Whatever, May 15: ??? with ???

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/15

Well, that was something, wasn’t it?Friend of the Pod, Untrickled by Michelle Teheux, was booked to speak with us, but her pup, Mr. Joe needed an X-Ray, and so, of course, she had to attend to that. We’re all sending good vibes, Michelle! Let us know how Mr. Joe is doing, please and dogspeed for healing wishes.Another Friend of the Pod, Robin Wilding, volunteered to jump in and THANK GOD she did! No sooner had she joined than Dana DuBois’ phone died, leaving me and Robin to improvise a show from

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60:34

The Daily Whatever, May 14th: Politics, Journalism,...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/14

For the love of all that is holy, Substack, save the chat with the video! As usual we had a rollicking sidebar in the chat with many of our favorite people, who all helped me give a warm welcome to the inimitable Amy Fallon from Bring The A-Game!Thanks, Amy for being such a great sport, and for being willing to hold court with me to talk about journalism, politics, comedy, the death of print media, the Pope, and so much more. My dear co-host Dana DuBois was taking pup Kira to get ACL surgery, but

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62:35

The Daily Whatever, May 13: Living the Dream with...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/13

Our huge thanks to Peter William Murphy of The Exile Files for joining us this morning on The Daily Whatever! He was so kind and willing to share with us his writing process and we had a lively conversation of everything from inspiration to editing.As usual, our chat was off the hook, and apparently Henrik Hageland of Fragments of a Northern Mind baked a cake while listening to us. Thanks to everyone who showed up for the chat—y’all make our days, every day, and we’re so grateful that we have such a

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62:25

The Daily Whatever, May 12: Medium in Memoriam with...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/12

Fellow Medium mourners,Thank you all for joining me and sharing your memories both fond and frustrating of what Medium has meant to you—with extra special huge thanks to Walter Rhein and Patrick B. Stewart for being such incredible guests.This was exactly the cathartic moment I was hoping for. We shared our stories, our joys, our laments, all of it. We have loved Medium. We continue to love Medium. We hope Medium gets it together, because we’d love to keep writing and thriving there, going

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66:22

The Daily Whatever, May 10: Is GenX Feral? with Robin...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/10

What an absolute delight to welcome Robin Wilding of Wilding Out onto The Daily Whatever this morning/ afternoon! We had a great conversation with her about a multitude of things, and we got to shout out that our little Substack venture here is only two months old, and The Daily Whatever is really only two weeks old.CONFIDENTIAL TO ROBIN: Next time we have you on, we’ll do a better job of prepping questions in advance and, you know, share them with you beforehand, too. 🙈🙈🙈Hey, we’re learning over

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59:38

The Daily Whatever, May 9: Fucked-up Friday with Ben...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/09

We were so excited to welcome Ben Ulansey from The Gen Z Report to The Daily Whatever this morning! Ben is an amazing writer, with opinions on everything from politics to popular culture, which means he’s a great add to the genXy fam. He may be two generations removed from us, but clearly, he’s one of us in spirit and vibe. We mean that in a GOOD way, Ben! 😜Today was Fucked-Up Friday, and as per the rules, all three contestants entered the ring with a story that they could credibly argue was THE

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72:06

The Daily Whatever, May 8: Speculative fiction “The...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/08

One of the great things about having a daily podcast with your bestie, Dana DuBois, is that you get to focus entire episodes on featuring each other’s writing! Yesterday we spoke about Dana’s piece on her lifetime love affair with the band The Cure, and today we dug into the nuts and bolts of my latest spec-fic piece, The Book of Deek.Dana is a great interviewer, and so we dug into everything from my friendly non-binary Muse, who shows up and delivers stories to me, fully formed, to the themes that

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62:18

The Daily Whatever, May 7: The Cure and music memoir...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/07

Today we discussed one of my favorite stories I’ve written, about one of my very favorite bands of all time: The Cure. 🖤🖤🖤I adore music memoir. For a music super fan like me, observing how songs have intertwined themselves into my lived experiences and using them as a narrative arc to tie a story together is a thrill.This is especially true as we age, and have the perspective of decades worth of memories and listens. Plus, we all know GenXers have the very best taste in music…The Cure is that

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73:38

The Daily Whatever, May 6: With Füsun Aydın on...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/06

There are rare peak moments in life, and rarer still that we get to recognize we’re having one while we’re in it. Today we had the chance to speak with Füsun Aydın about writing, and her Substack, Letters from a Prostitute by Füsun Aydın ; this was one of those moments for me, for sure.Please come take a listen to our wide-ranging conversation. Dana DuBois and I had the chance to talk to Füsun about everything from her skill with languages to her lyrical-to-the-point-of-poetry writing. For someone

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59:31

The Daily Whatever, May 5: Cinco de Gato 😻

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/05

Huge thanks to Karen Marie Shelton for joining us on The Daily Whatever!I believe Karen is the one-and-only person who’s attended every single The Daily Whatever podcasts, so it was a thrill and an honor to have her on. The fact that we spent most of the hour talking about our cats? That was a bonus.I was so inspired, I posted this for you, Karen:If anyone has photos or stories about their cats, please feel free to share them in the comments! Most days we’re gonna be talking about politics or

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67:46

The Daily Whatever, May 4: Demisexuality

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/04

Happy Sunday, friends!Today Lawrence Winnerman and I had a great conversation about this story I wrote about demisexuality:But really, it was a conversation about much more, including...* When does something cross over from being a modifier to an identity?* Do neo-identities like demisexual belong on the LGBTQ+ continuum, or are they taking up space where they don’t belong?* Is identity immutable? * Does it harm tweens and teens to identify as asexual or demisexual, because they apply a label that

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72:58

The Daily Whatever, May 3: a very GenX job hunt update

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/03

As Robin Wilding said, today’s The Daily Whatever felt like catching up with our besties.We talked about Lawrence’s long and winding road back to employment, as after ten months and 700 interviews, he got not one but TWO job offers this week. What a thrill! But in true GenX multi-hyphenate fashion, that’s not all the work he’s got. He’s also a writer and podcaster here on Substack, of course. He’s also got a snarky political t-shirt side hustle at Alpaca Lunch, and as of this week, a burgeoning

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66:05

The Daily Whatever, May 2: Fucked-up Friday

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/02

Thank you Walter Rhein, Debra Groves Harman, Polly Walker Blakemore, Karen Marie Shelton, Lahboss and so many others for tuning into The Daily Whatever: Fucked-Up Friday with Lawrence Winnerman and Dana DuBois featuring our guest Kevin Alexander! Y’all! I (Lawrence) got a job! Huzzah! Also, I’m planning a new side hustle as Santa Claus. Read Santa Lawrence’s origin story here: Today we had a battle royale for the most fucked-up thing that happened this past week. We agreed that deporting kids with

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58:42

The Daily Whatever, May 1: Writers on writing

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/01

What a blast we had, hosting the delightful Walter Rhein and nerding out about all things writing.I’m going to keep this one short and sweet so we can send the video live straight away. Have a listen to learn about our respective writing styles. The TL;DR is: * Walter favors a rapid-fire write and publish approach.* Dana favors a “stew for hours in memoir dust” approach.* Lawrence has a nonbinary muse entity who visits him with story ideas.What’s your approach to writing? Let us know in the

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42:18

The Daily Whatever, April 30: My damn internet

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/05/01

Thank you Karen Marie Shelton, techwriter35, Sarah, Obladioblada, and many others for tuning into my live video with Dana DuBois! Join us tomorrow for “Writers on Writing with Walter Rhein” for The Daily Whatever! Get full access to genXy at www.genxy.io/subscribe

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