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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 Show, Nov 17: Volunteerism Will...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/11/18

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 recovering from hosting a full-scale teenage soup party in my tiny house. Then Polly joined us and opened up about her mental health challenges, and her rewarding life of volunteerism.Polly’s the kind of person

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79:02

The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 15: That NYT Story About...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/11/16

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 — with a straight face — whether women are “ruining the workplace.”It gutted Dana DuBois. And honestly, it punched me in the stomach too. We both felt that familiar mix of exhaustion, disbelief, and “is

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62:12

The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 14: Fucked-up Friday...

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2025/11/16

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 and absolutely delivered.The episode started with a whirlwind recap of the week’s political sewage: the Republican scramble over the Epstein files, Mike Johnson’s panic-fueled strategy pivots, the GOP’s

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62:43

The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 13: Local Newspapers...

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2025/11/16

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, integrity, and lived expertise that makes you realize how much we’ve lost—and how much it matters.Michelle spent more than three decades in local journalism, rising to become editor of her small-town daily paper

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63:50

The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 12: In Conversation with...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/11/13

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 ongoing campaign to make lentil curry a political act. Then we dove straight into the good stuff: our guest, Nick Paro — writer, veteran, and co-founder of Banner and Backbone, a civic advocacy platform that’s

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91:47

The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 10: Murphy and Senator...

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2025/11/11

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 vented (loudly) about the collapse of strategy into surrender — how our party keeps defending procedure while the other side burns down the process. “This isn’t chess,” I said. “It’s a hostage

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64:59

The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 8: Bestie Day

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/11/08

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 time. So we’re gonna reschedule Tara’s appearance—hopefully for very soon!Instead, today was just me and Lawrence Winnerman — two slightly disgruntled best friends winging it through a Saturday morning that was

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61:42

The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 6: Epstein Files Updates...

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2025/11/06

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 everything from Project 2025 to the Epstein–J.P. Morgan document dump, translating corporate legalese into something the rest of us can actually understand.I told her on air that “transcriptionist” doesn’t

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60:53

The Daily Whatever Show, Nov 3: Metallica, Meathead,...

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2025/11/04

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 metaphor for the week — because our conversation with Lisa | We Are The Third Estate was all about finding yours, especially when culture and politics collide.Lisa joined us to talk about her latest Substack

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73:58

The Daily Whatever, Nov 1: We Said NO ONE Left...

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2025/11/01

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 Winnerman. After swapping soggy Halloween stories — yes, it rained in Seattle, shocking — I wished Lawrence “Rabbit Rabbit” for good luck on the first of the month and he thought I was making it up? Luckily

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60:51

The Daily Whatever, Oct 31: Fucked-up Friday with...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/11/01

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 fast as we dug into the rollback of SNAP benefits — a gut-punch that begins tomorrow. I pointed out the cruelty of Americans parroting “just get jobs” while nearly half of SNAP recipients are children, and

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61:51

The Daily Whatever Show, Oct 29: It's Time to Talk...

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2025/10/29

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, we took on a topic most politicians won’t touch: reparations—what they mean, why they matter, and why now is exactly the time to talk about them.Marlon started by laying out a truth most Americans never

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59:25

The Daily Whatever, Oct 27: New Music for Olds with...

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2025/10/28

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 good taste.You may know Christian from Chappelle’s Show, Best Week Ever, or Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn — basically, the Gen-X media starter pack. But these days he’s the creator of one of our favorite

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The Daily Whatever, Oct 27: Limiting Executive Power...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/10/27

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 the “Rush Limbaugh of the Left,” and while that’s a bold comparison, we get it now—because what Tony brings to the table isn’t just righteous fire, it’s clarity, depth, and a whole new framework for thinking

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12:40

Happy Six Months of The Daily Whatever Show!

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/10/25

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59:49

The Daily Whatever Show, Oct 24: Fucked Up Friday...

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2025/10/24

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 clarity. Zuri didn’t just come to talk—she came to teach, and we were there for every word.Zuri started by grounding us in history and humanity. Her recent piece about Trump’s destruction of the White House

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67:04

The Daily Whatever Show, Oct 23: Letitia James Trial...

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2025/10/23

There are days when we log off The Daily Whatever Show feeling fired up—and then there are days like this one, when we feel both furious and profoundly hopeful. That’s what happens when you spend an hour with Melissa Corrigan, she/her, one of the most fearless investigative journalists we know. Melissa is based in Norfolk, Virginia, and she’s been doing deep, meticulous work on two stories that should have every one of us sitting up straight: the Letitia James case and the spread of Flock camera

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The East Wing

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2025/10/23

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59:52

The Daily Whatever Show, Oct 22: Talking Across...

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2025/10/23

On today’s The Daily Whatever Show, we had the joy of welcoming Egberto Willies — writer, broadcaster, book author, and tireless progressive voice whose calm persistence felt like the perfect antidote to this week’s frenetic news cycle.Egberto hosts Politics Done Right on KPFT and writes Egberto Off the Record on Substack, where he somehow manages to stay optimistic while staring straight at the dysfunction of modern politics. A longtime activist and Daily Kos writer, he’s spent decades not just

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The Daily Whatever Show, Oct 21: Blue Amp Media’s...

The Daily Whatever ·

2025/10/21

Today’s The Daily Whatever Show felt like a homecoming for independent media—a reminder that we’re not just screaming into the void, we’re building something real. Our guest, Cliff Schecter, is the founder of Blue Amp Media, co-host of Amped Up with David Shuster, and one of the sharpest, funniest, and most relentless voices in progressive politics today. Cliff joined us to talk about the new Blue Amp Media, the rise of independent journalism, and his latest project—the Soundcheck Fund, which is

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