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The Daily WhateverUnboxing My genXy Merch!I got my first piece of genXy merch from Lawrence Winnerman’s side-hustle, alpacalunch.com, and I couldn’t unbox it alone! Thanks to everyone who tuned in to watch the big event—you’ll see more of this fabulous mug on The Daily Whatever show tomorrow!If you want a mug or a tee, scan this handy QR code for our Linktree and shop right from there!If you are a paid subscriber, check out this post, which includes your complimentary (and FOREVER) 25% off discount code!Love you, mean it! Byeeeee!
2025-08-1213 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, August 11: Plans and Plot TwistsGenX is scrappy, resilient, curious, and knows how to roll with the punches. When it comes to tech, we tend to be early adopters—and here at genXy, we resemble that remark.Dana DuBois and I are using a new tool called Restream (if you’re interested in learning more, go to Restream.io and check it out. Use code RESTREAM20 to save 20%, and tell them Lawrence Winnerman sent you!) to get more features and quality for The Daily Whatever, and our Saturday premier was rife with challenges. However, y’all stuck with us, offered some GREAT feedba...
2025-08-111h 04
The Daily WhateverGenXy Ice Bucket Challenge for 70 Paid Subscribers (Dana’s version)This weekend GenXy hit an exciting milestone—70 paid subscribers!! To celebrate, as promised, Lawrence Winnerman and I have each taken the Ice Bucket Challenge and HOLY SHITBALLS, that was cold!But also, it was pretty exhilarating.As a special bonus, I wore the t-shirt from my “Hello, I Have Amazing Boobs” viral story, to commemorate what’s also turned out to be my first (and presumably) only wet t-shirt competition. So yeah, you’re welcome.Mostly, we’re just so grateful to all of you. We’re only halfway through our Summer Pledge...
2025-08-0409 min
The Daily WhateverGenXy Ice Bucket Challenge for 70 Paid Subs!Y’all! We did it! GenXy officially hit 70 paid subscribers this weekend. Huge thanks to Alan and Susan, who were 69 and 70, respectively. And huge thanks to all of you for helping to get us to this point, and for tuning in to me completing the Ice Bucket Challenge!I officially challenge my lovely partner in crime, Dana DuBois — your turn!Thank you to Lahboss , Musings on Interesting Times , Nick Paro , Robin Wilding, The Bathrobe Guy 👘 and everyone else who tuned into my live video! Join us tomorrow for The Daily Whatever! We’ve got a gre...
2025-08-0404 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 31: Bathrobe Day with The Bathrobe Guy and Karen Marie SheltonWe’re in the throes of our genXy Summer Pledge Drive to reach 100 paid subscribers for GenXy by end of summer.We committed to planning a special celebration at each 10-subscriber milestone—and today, we celebrated 60 paid subscribers by podcasting Live in our bathrobes. Lawrence got a bit spicy on-air with his, so be sure to watch for the leg and nip flashes throughout the episode.The idea was proposed by The Daily Whatever regular The Bathrobe Guy 👘, so naturally we had to invite him on the show to chat. We also asked Karen Marie Shelton...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 26: Saturday Grab BagShort-n-sweet, baby! On The Daily Whatever today we celebrated (again) Dana DuBois birthday, and got a report from her about the festivities of the day! Also—Dana got her first checkmark, and we learned something about how Substack doles them out!Dana had to leave to go to her daughter’s play, and the hilarious Brandon Ellrich was game enough to jump in for the remainder of the show. Thanks, Brandon!Thank you Robin Wilding, The Bathrobe Guy 👘, Noble Blend, Yolanda D., tecolote42, and many others for tuning into my live video with Brandon Ellrich and Dan...
2025-07-2759 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 19: A formal affair to celebrate 40 paid subsIt’s not easy to arrive anywhere in formalwear by 9am.But let this be known about Lawrence Winnerman and me: We don’t shy away from hard things. Including ties and sequin on a Saturday morning.A couple weeks back, we ask the “Whatevers”—our amazing Live audience members—what we should do to celebrate reaching milestones in our Summer Pledge Drive. The first suggestion was that we should show up for The Daily Whatever in cocktail attire. This week, we hit our first fundraising goal: 40 paid subscribers.So today, we brought i...
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The Daily WhateverA Very Formal Celebration of Meeting Our First Summer Pledge Drive Goal!Join us at noon ET/9am PT for a very formal The Daily Whatever, where Lawrence Winnerman and I will celebrate 40 paid subscribers to GenXy!We’ll be joined by my bestie Sunny Hong, who was number 40. There may be champagne. There will most def be sequin, Hope to see you there! Get full access to genXy at www.genxy.io/subscribe
2025-07-1917 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 18: Fucked-Up Friday with Nick ParoTGIF! The great thing about Fridays is that here at The Daily Whatever, we use it as a time to process how unbelievably shitty our descent into authoritarianism has become. It’s a celebration of the worst of the worst news.Welcome to Fucked-Up Friday!Dana DuBois and I were thrilled to welcome Nick Paro to the show, and get to know him as a community member (and a poet!) Nick shared his Kum ‘n’ Go tribute poem with us, and it was a great way to kick off our time with him. The Fu...
2025-07-1858 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 16: Music and MemoirOne of the things I have always loved about Dana DuBois, my friend, Anam Cara, and co-founder of GenXy is her love for music — her deep and abiding passion for it —and her ability to use music to build community.This passion for music is innate for Dana, something she remembers from her earliest years. In the early 2000s, Dana co-founded Three Imaginary Girls, a Seattle indie-pop review site that got to the core of the local music scene with its upbeat and fan-fueled documentation of a resurgence of Seattle-centric music.From there, stepping into musi...
2025-07-1658 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 14: GenX dating and mating with Frederic PoagFrederic Poag is one of the best humans we’ve had the pleasure to meet on Substack.And for good reason. Frederic has wise words about this political moment in time. He’s also a staunch feminist and ally, using his substantial online blast radius to champion for women and marginalized groups. Simply stated: Frederic is awesome.So when we saw him getting grief for a Note he posted about asking a woman out in a cafe, we knew we had to bring him onto The Daily Whatever to talk about it.Wh...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 12: Weekend RecapOn Saturday’s show, we spoke about writing, worldbuilding, vexillology and focused on the latest chapter from my serialized novel, Light Shines Through. I read from the chapter, and was truly flattered by the great feedback.Check it out here:Thank you Beth Cruz, Brandon Ellrich, Callie🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽, Cheryl Chevalier, Dana DuBois, Debra Groves Harman, Diane Geurts, Daniel Paden, Elaine the Mean Old Feminist, JOHNSON CRIFACI, Karen Marie Shelton, Jo, Lahboss, The Momster, Linda Blatnik, The One Minute Daily Boost, Mason/she/her/💛🤍💜🖤, Mojmír VEDEJ, Musings on Interesting Times, Noble Blend, Robin Wilding, Nick Paro, Nick Paro, tecolote42, The Bathrobe Guy...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 11: Fucked-up Friday with Michelle TeheuxHello hello, Whatevers!This week in news—like every single week living under this regime—has been fucked up. The deadly July 4th floods in Kerr County, Texas made this week particularly bleak. As of this writing, 129 have died, with 170 people still unaccounted for.It’s extra fucked-up, as we know natural disasters like this are becoming more common due to climate change, and that we’re living in a country that will only hasten such events through inaction or wose.It’s extra-extra fucked up, as these are deaths caused by Republicans, at both th...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 10: Finding the Rainbow Connection with Joe GuaySometimes you don’t realize how a song from childhood resonates until someone points it out years later. Joe Guay joined Dana DuBois and me this morning on The Daily Whatever to talk about the burden of surnames, the rise of AI, and the power of “The Rainbow Connection” from The Muppet Movie.We recently published Joe’s story about his connection to the song:As usual, the chat was off the hook, where we learned about things like customer loyalty cards for sex workers (and sluts: mine is a complimentary blueberry muffin (it’s not just f...
2025-07-1058 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 9: Karaoke adventures with Walter RheinThank you Robin Wilding, Polly Walker Blakemore, thepoetmiranda, Ashley Schmitt, John Pearce, and many others for tuning into my live video with Walter Rhein! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to genXy at www.genxy.io/subscribe
2025-07-091h 01
The Daily WhateverTACO Tuesday: Trump Tariffs, Trade, and Jeffrey EpsteinWhenever Frederic Poag invites you to join his Lives, you join his Lives!This one was SUCH a blast. I don’t join till well into the episode, but I’m certain everything Frederic says it’s worth a listen. Enjoy!Thank you Lisa, Nick P, Jeanne Elbe, Soso, John saxon, and many others for tuning into my live video with Frederic Poag! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to genXy at www.genxy.io/subscribe
2025-07-091h 38
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 8: Equal parts retort to an incel and GenX gay anthems...Today I intended to dedicate the hour to talking GenX gay anthems with Brandon Ellrich.Then last night, Untrickled by Michelle Teheux brought a story by MAGA incel Rohan Ghostwind to my attention. In it, he denigrates a cluster of women writers on Substack as “degenerates” and provides screenshot after screenshot to substantiate his claim that we made him say “what the fuck.”I am featured as one of the degenerates.Second in the list, no less.And what was my offense, you may ask? Writing about my boobs and also my famil...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 7: with Füsun Aydin and Stewart MasonPoor Lawrence Winnerman! He made it home from Seattle safe and sound—but sadly, with a stomach flu*. So today, I had to host it alone. But thankfully I had two amazing guests: first the incomparable Füsun Aydın shared how her brother’s wedding went, when she reunited with the family she hadn’t seen in 15 years, since she came out as trans. (Spoiler alert: it went really well, other than being mostly ignored by her mother, who clearly doesn’t understand what a gift to the world her daughter Fusun is).Then the deligh...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 4: Fucked-up Friday with Melissa CorriganThank you Polly Walker Blakemore, The Bathrobe Guy 👘, Nick P, Steve Uppendahl, Noble Blend, and many others for tuning into my live video with Melissa Corrigan, she/her and Dana DuBois! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to genXy at www.genxy.io/subscribe
2025-07-071h 08
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 2: Our college roommate spills the teaWe had the best time chatting with our college roommate Lisa today! Thank you, Chat, for being amazing as always! We can’t wait to see you tomorrow!Thank you Beth Cruz, BiffBiff, Bryan Hagerla, Brandon Ellrich, Carol Helbing, Cat, OldHenCharlie, Dana DuBois, Eileen Dougharty, Elaine the Mean Old Feminist, Füsun Aydın, Jeanne Elbe, JOHN ONEIL, John Pearce, Janet Scott, Karen Marie Shelton, KC, Kelly Mindiola, Lahboss, The Momster, Los Gatos Sin Madrid, Mason, She/her/enchanted beast, Rachel Hendricks, Musings on Interesting Times, Robin Wilding, Soso, The Bathrobe Guy 👘, Wendy🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🌈, Todd Goldin, William Mieras, You’re Right Get...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 2: Bob Vylan, antisemitism, and the right to protestHello, Whatevers!Today Lawrence Winnerman and I dove into the news, and in typical fashion, our conversation wandered to more philosophical hot takes as we pondered the Overton Window and its steady slide into fascism.But one news story in particular has stuck with me. And that’s a story about British grime-punk band Bob Vylan.At the Glastonbury Music Festival this weekend, the duo caused a stir by chanting “Death, Death to the IDF” during their set. Now they’ve been dropped from music festivals and their agent, lost their US Visas...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 1: Lost Connections and Chaos EditionThere are days that we speak eloquently about many things, and days like today where nothing seems to go quite right.Thanks for putting up with the craziness today, friends! We appreciate you, and always look forward to having a conversation with you—even when everything seems to be going wrong. Thank you Char Sundust, Peter William Murphy, Margaret Williams, MS, ACC, Cat, John Pearce, and many others for tuning into my live video with Brandon Ellrich, Wendy🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🌈, Füsun Aydın, and Lawrence Winnerman! Join us for more The Daily Whatever every weekday at 7am PT / 10am ET...
2025-07-0156 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 30: Reunited!It’s so good to be home!I returned to Seattle late Saturday night, to the best treat ever—Lawrence is in Seattle! Yesterday we celebrated our reunion by purchasing a shit-ton of olives and devouring them Live, alongside a bottle of delicious pale French rose. The resulting “Olivepolooza” was an outrageously delicious good time. We can’t believe Ben Ulansey and Brandon Ellrich haven’t weighed in with a rebuttal.But that’s not all Lawrence and I are up to… We’re here IRL, scheming our schemes, hatching plans to grow genXy and The Dail...
2025-07-011h 02
The Daily WhateverOlive The Above, Olivepalooza!!We had the best time eating FIVE types of olives and drinking rosé, y’all! Take a gander as we ranked Collossal Greek olives, Turkish Grilled olives, Castelvetrano olives, Morroccan Dry Cured olives, and Pepper Stuffed Green olives. Thank you tecolote42, Rachel Hendricks, The One Minute Daily Boost, Karen Marie Shelton, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.genXy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get...
2025-06-3054 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 28: What's Next with Wendy and Walter RheinSorry for the short wrapup, but I’m not even sure I could capture the full range of our convo. Huge thanks and love to Walter Rhein and Wendy🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🌈 who were absolutely incredible on today’s show.We’re back on Monday, June 30th! Dana DuBois will be home, and I’ll get my first taste of a 7am broadcast time. Yikes! Our theme will be Reunited, and it Feels So Good.Thank you Polly Walker Blakemore, Karen Marie Shelton, Beth Cruz, Brianna, William Mieras, and many others for tuning into my live video with Walter Rhein and Wendy🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🌈...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 27: Fucked-Up Friday with Füsun Aydin & Frederic Poag AND Dirty Talk with Füsun and Lawrence!!!Thank you Jason Dyer, Alexandra Porter, Anthony Burke, April K Wilson , Becky Martinek , Beth Cruz , Beth Plank , BiffBiff BJ Roberts , bluePNWcats , Brandon Ellrich , Mariellen , Carissa Rogers , Carol Duffy , Cat , CatherineC , Celice Carlough , OldHenCharlie , Cheryl , Christine Balint , Charles , Craig Nixon , Craig Pulliam , Dale Scaringi , Dana DuBois , dani clark , Dan Thornton , Dar Gfree , David Long , Deb17☘️☘️ , Deanna Surber , Denise Cronin , Julie D , Draft of a woman , dra_ma_r , Elli , Emily Suyat , Elaine the Mean Old Feminist , Adrian , saint francie , Füsun Aydın , Gary Whaley ,
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 26: Awakenings with Char SundustThere are many things I’ve gotten wrong in my life, but friends ain’t one of them. I am lucky and blessed to have several women whom I have known for years that I consider to be best friends. Today I was lucky enough to be on a Substack Live with two of them!Char Sundust joined me to cover for Dana DuBois, who, it turns out, completed her top secret mission early. Char and I started talking about our friendship and her work. Chat, I am here to tell you that she undersold the power of w...
2025-06-2657 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 25: A Good Vintage with Sacha CohenDana DuBois and I were absolutely delighted to have Sacha Cohen from A Good Vintage on the show today, it soon became clear that if we lived closer, we’d be hanging out with her over long, lazy apéro afternoons! Sacha and her husband Jason are not expats—yet! They are taking slow and easy moves towards an expat life. The remarkably clever thing about this approach is that they get to live in various parts of France and experience the local culture along the way. Currently in Dijon, Sacha’s substack is awash in good bread a...
2025-06-2554 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 24: Fuck Diabetes (and Israel and Iran too, apparently (and Trump))Sometimes our freeform days are the most fun; often they have some of the biggest news. Today was both, and a whole helping of kick in the pants, too.We started by debating the meaning of Trump’s on camera “fuck” at Israel and Iran. Is the world’s best negotiator all out of non-swear words?Furthermore—what is happening? Why is all of this unfolding the way it is, and why does it seem so…strange? Does nobody involved know what they’re doing? Or is there some overarching mysterious plot we’re all not privy to?
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 23: Iran and MomsI spent the past two days in a whirlwind of travel—like literal planes, trains, and automobiles—getting my child off to a pre-college camp and then driving all the way down the shaft of Florida to visit family.Disconnecting for a couple days can feel restorative. But in my hours offline, the US somehow managed to get embroiled in war. Because that’s where we are now as a country. And while the news is harrowing at best, it was great to catch up with Lawrence Winnerman today and hear his hot takes on the no...
2025-06-2356 min
The Daily Whatever“We just bombed Iran…”Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to genXy at www.genxy.io/subscribe
2025-06-2217 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 21: Happy Funtime Goodnews!Whew, that was fun! A huge, giant The Daily Whatever thanks to Karen Marie Shelton and Robin Wilding who helped me steer this ship while Dana DuBois is away on her top secret mission to dismantle the Iranian nuclear weapons program!Karen, Robin, and I had a fabbo time sharing the GOOD NEWS that is out there in the world, if only you look for it. We had so much good news, we did like seven rounds of sharing stories—so many I can’t list them all here!Giant thanks to our incredible chat—we’re...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Jun 20: Fucked-up Friday with Frederic Poag & Walter RheinI always knew this day would come.As many of you know, I’m a west-coaster and a night owl. So a 7am daily podcast requires discipline as well as a loud alarm. Guess which one I forgot to set this morning?It was a delight to realize how much concern you all had for me—so many messages!—and a relief my amazing guests Walter Rhein and Frederic Poag were such good sports about it all. We still had a rowdy chat and such amazing conversation about all the fucked-up news of the we...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 19: Expat Dads in France 🇫🇷 with Rich KaganChat, who amongst us hasn’t had a moment where they’ve thought “You know, fuck this America shit. I’m going to sell my things and move my husband and adorable daughter to quasi-rural France and ride this shit out while drinking some lovely wine with a nice baguette and brie.”?I have! Many times! And I don’t even HAVE a husband and an adorable daughter!But Rich Kagan does, and he and his family have been in Carcassone, France (it’s not just a game! It’s a real place!) We had a great c...
2025-06-1958 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Jun 18: Talking TaylorHuge thanks to everyone who tuned in for our Live chat with Steve Uppendahl today! It was a blast to talk about parenting teen daughters and traveling internationally to take them to see Taylor Swift—as well as the impact Taylor has had on them (and us).Here are links to the stories:Steve’s story is on Medium so the link won’t unfurl, but you can find it here.To the Whatevers—BiffBiff, Brandon Ellrich, Callie🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽, Cat, OldHenCharlie, Craig Nixon, Damon Kenner, Dan Wann, DILLIGAF?IDO, Eileen Dougharty, Füsun Aydın, John saxon, Karen Marie Shelton...
2025-06-1859 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Jun 17: genXy meets Gen X CrisisIt’s not everyday you get to connect with an old friend from highs school, but today we were lucky enough to do just that. Dana DuBois and I went to school with our guest, Gen-X Crisis with Robert Guess, and it was excellent to reconnect.We started off reviewing some breaking news: Trump* left the G7 early for mysterious reasons, up to and including the possibility of a wider war with Iran. Additionally, I stumbled across this ‘stack this morning, and this post left me contemplating what any of it means if we’re predicting the collap...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 16: Weekend Review & Human SovereigntyKeeping this writeup short, Chat! It was a jam-packed episode, with so much to cover from the weekend. We talked about the assassination of MN lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the attempted assassination of State Senator of John Hoffman and his wife—and the sheer lack of surprise that the gunman was a disgruntled MAGA fool.The No Kings protests were huge, and Trump’s parade was bust. Meanwhile…Israel and Iran are trying to wipe each other off the map. Kiss your ass goodbye, maybe?We wrapped up talking about my pie...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Jun 14: No Kings Day news round-up with Frederic Poag & Walter RheinI went into this No Kings Day with huge apprehensions—with just cause.We had a president itching to pull the trigger on the Insurrection Act, a baltallion in Washington DC for his “I’m a Big Boy” military parade, millions gathering for protests, the National Guard deployed in multiple states, the Marines in Los Angeles, and Israel and Iran lobbing weapons at one another. Then we awoke to news of the assassination of Minnesota State Rep Melissa Hortman and her husband Saturday morning.It was a lot.Thankfully, I had Frederic Poag and Walt...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Jun 13: Fucked-up Friday with Ossiana TepfenhartThank you Amy Beeman, Andrew, Stephanie Beauvais, Beth Cruz, BiffBiff, Brandon Ellrich, Callie🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽, Carolina Baffigo, Cat, Cecily Wilson, OldHenCharlie, Chris Esko, Claire at Backpacking Bella, Random_Crow, Craig Nixon, Dale Scaringi, Damon Kenner, Eileen Dougharty, Everett Taasevigen, Füsun Aydın, GenXcellent, Greg, Sarah, Ira Krakow, Jeremy George, Jon Michael Ahrens, Joseph Tucker, Karen Marie Shelton, Victoria Quinn Quinn Stephens, Keith Lowell Jensen, Lahboss, Lee, Linda k Messamore, The One Minute Daily Boost, Melissa Mazzei, Corey L. Jackson, Mondopopsickle, Cary, MorganX, Murle Scrutchin, Peter William Murphy,
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Jun 12: genxy meets GenXcellentChat, we had so much fun with Liz LaPoint from GenXcellent today! It totally smelled like teen spirit up in the joint, full on Marsha! Marsha! Marsha! meets the Tarantula Tiki God episode times infinity +1. What am I saying?GenXy meets GenXcellent was a kick in the pants! A house on fire! By the end of the hour we all agreed that there wasn’t enough time, and that we could have kept going, well, forever. Because one thing we’ve learned, if you get two or more GenXers talking about being GenX? There’s nothing that can sh...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Jun 11: Fathers and fatherhood with the Opinionated OgreLawrence Winnerman and I knew we wanted to host a pre-Father’s Day Live where we shared stories about our dads. We decided we needed to bring on an amazing father as our guest—and The Opinionated Ogre was a top choice. So we asked him.He replied yes, and then shared a link. “You might want to read my story first…” he told us.And… whoa. After reading it, we knew he was the only possible guest for today’s show. Here are our stories:* “I’m Not Your Biological Fa...
2025-06-1159 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 10: Sea Glass in the Womb with Füsun AydínIt’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 dro...
2025-06-1058 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 9: LA: The Beginning of the EndgameThanks 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 , LetsGetIntoIt2025 , The Momster , The One Minute Daily Boost , Lorraine Gaudet , Timothy Massey , MorganX , Peter Wil...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever: June 7 - Saturday Grab BagWe 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 end...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 6: Fucked-up Friday with The Opinionated OgreFans 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 selected the whol...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 5: Parenting and politics with Melissa CorriganMelissa 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 Melis...
2025-06-0557 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 4: GenX sex & relationshipsI 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 shit-show, um, literally.We’re so thankful so many of y...
2025-06-0458 min
The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 3: Queer History with Wendy the DruidAttention, 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 didn’t we talk about? Also Chat, what didn’t you talk about? The Daily Whatever is known for having and active and spicy ch...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, June 2: Parenting with Pride!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 day...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 31: Meet the Whatever communitySaturdays 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 writing to canning to making her own CBD healing creams. We a...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 30: Fucked-up Friday with Mr. Troy FordWhat 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...
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The Daily WhateverHelp! The Live recording from this morning is missing and I’m not having any luck getting support from Substack.Get full access to genXy at www.genxy.io/subscribe
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 28: GenX PrideWe 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 tuning in. Join us every weekday at 10am ET/7...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 27: The Dating Show with Frederic PoagThere’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 that weekly show, friends!W...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 24: AUA (ask us anything!)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 f...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 23: Fucked-up Friday with Jonathan SmallEvery 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 such an insightful takedown of what fuc...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 21: Protecting our trans kidsIn 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 obey in adva...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 20: Leaving Medium with Patrick StewartPatrick 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 we think Medium has made these un...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever: May 19 - The Democrats Are Doing It Wrong. Again.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 diagnosis. I almost did...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 18: Char Sundust on Writing, Sanctuary, and SubstackToday 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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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 17: Why is the news obsessed with GenX lately?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 Capitalist Society You Were Born Into, and another is called Understanding Tyrrany (™ Kare...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 16: Fucked-up Friday with Frederic PoagIt’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...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 15: ??? with ???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 scratc...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 14th: Politics, Journalism, and Comedy with guest Amy FallonFor 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 Amy...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 13: Living the Dream with Peter William MurphyOur 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 lovely, lively...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 12: Medium in Memoriam with Walter Rhein & Patrick StewartFellow 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 forward.Thank you Robin Wilding, Füsu...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 10: Is GenX Feral? with Robin Wilding!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 here, and we cannot tha...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 9: Fucked-up Friday with Ben UlanseyWe 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 most fucked...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 8: Speculative fiction “The Book of Deek”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 permeate the story, as w...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 7: The Cure and music memoir writing 🖤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 band for me...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 6: With Füsun Aydın on 'Writers on Writing'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 who did not speak Eng...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 5: Cinco de Gato 😻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 abou...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 4: DemisexualityHappy 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 might be hard to escape ov...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 3: a very GenX job hunt updateAs 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 career as Santa Law...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 2: Fucked-up FridayThank 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 cancer without their meds is by far the worst thing, but it...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, May 1: Writers on writingWhat 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...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, April 30: My damn internetThank 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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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, April 29: It’s the end of the ports as we know itFirst of all, CONGRATS to Canada and the Liberals and Mark Carney! The liberals will form a minority government (meaning they don’t outright have 172 seats to form a majority government; they’ll need a junior party to team up with.) AND, Pierre Poilievre has lost his seat. The power of Trump—to kill everything he touches, again!Brace yourselves, word on the street is that Carney has a bigger tariff retaliation plan, and was waiting until he had been elected to a full term to impose them. Here he is sounding tough on ‘Merica to the Beeb.
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, April 28: Substack friendsToday was a groggy Monday morning Live, but we still had a blast.Why were we groggy? Well, I am trying to adjust my circadian rhythms to adjust to this daily 7am podcast. Good thing I love it so much, it’s like a jolt of energy that sustains me through my day.Lawrence? He was up half the night battling with Descript, trying to make our pre-recorded podcast with Jonathan Small work. It appears Descript won, mostly, as multiple versions of me appear in place of Lawrence or Jonathan in the video. ...
2025-04-2956 min
The Daily WhatevergenXy | The Podcast: Episode 6 - The GenX Career Meltdown with Jonathan SmallFiguring out job/work/career these days during the Great Career Meltdown feels a little like trying to find a clean bathroom at a music festival — chaotic, unpredictable, and occasionally miraculous. Gen X sits right in the middle of it all, caught between the Boomers' "stay at one job forever" mindset and the Millennials and Gen Z who basically invented side hustles as a lifestyle.Listen as Lawrence Winnerman and Dana DuBois team up to dive headfirst into this wild landscape with our very first podcast guest— Jonathan Small from the Substack Small Talk. We talked careers crum...
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The Daily WhateverStorytime: My Genderfluid Teen Tried to Explain Their Identity to My DadWell now, this is strange. Just yesterday, I checked the “Live” functionality and determined I could go live to any of my publications. I indended this one to go to the Pink Hair & Pronouns audience. But instead it went to GenXy.Clearly I still have much to learn in the ways of how Live functions.It was still a lovely way to spend a Sunday late-afternoon, reading one of my favorite stories to the kind Substackers who showed up to listen. Huge thanks to all of you.The story is called My G...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, April 27: GenX AnthemsNow this was a lively Live, wasn’t it?Lawrence Winnerman and I hosted Jonathan Small on the weekly GenXy recorded podcast (going live tomorrow), and we had so much fun, we decided to continue to conversation Live. We were joined by about 30 of our favorite Substack pals as we explored the quintessential GenX anthems.Some songs and artists we discussed: the Beastie Boys (“Fight for Your Right” versus “Sabotage”), Nirvana (“Smells Like Teen Spirit”), a slew of one-hit wonders (from “Take on Me” to “Tainted Love”), and a lively conversation about Prince, whereby Lawrence and I...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, April 26: Bumblegate!Yesterday’s Fucked-up Friday podcast was a bit grim.So today we wanted to talk uplifting news—and Substack’s own Jennie Young and her Burned Haystack Dating Method delivered that with a massive #Bumblegate win.The Burned Haystack Dating Method (BHDM) is a feminist dating methodology that teaches women to recognize harmful rhetorical patterns —things like “disciplinary/directive,” “I’m the prize,” or my personal favorite, “test and apologize.” Men displaying these patterns are giving early clues they’re too problematic to date.In BHDM, we “block to burn” these men, and move on. Instead of t...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, April 25: Fucked-up Friday with Walter RheinToday was the debut of “Fucked-up Friday,” where we discuss the most fucked-up news of the week in friendly competition. We were joined by the incredible Walter Rhein for an engaging, earnest conversation about the reality that we’re facing down is ethnic cleansing—or more simply put, genocide— Walter’s suggestion as the most fucked-up news of the week. And really, all the fucked-up news really rolls up to that, doesn’t it?Dana DuBois’ contribution was this horror: Barnard College staff alarmed by federal survey asking if they’re Jewish—and during Yom HaShoah, no less.Lawrence...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, April 24: GenX in the newsThank you to everyone who tuned into for our debut The Daily Whatever live podcast, and especially our real-life pals Craig Weissman, Sunny Hong, and Diane Wilder as well as Medium friend Walter Rhein! Today we discussed how suddenly, the news is like, paying attention to GenX? We’re not totally sure why. And sometimes, we hate it (hello, the whole “career meltdown” NYT story, bleh). But some of today’s stories were pretty great.Lawrence brought a few fascinating GenX stories to our attention. The first was from Forbes, called 7 Critical Ways Gen X Strength...
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The Daily WhatevergenXy Live: Jobs! Trips! Dollars! And more!Huge thanks to everyone who tuned in to our short but sweet Live, including Bob Daniel, Kassandra Ignored 🤓, and Grey Galaxie (over whom I had a ridiculous but sincere fanboi moment. LOL Sorry, Grey!)We kicked off talking about my desperate search for a remote job in the wilds of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and the piece of flash fiction I wrote yesterday for Earth Day, The Last Bloom. Please check it out if you have a moment. Dana shared the background of her latest piece, a moving and deeply felt rumination over her daughter’s searc...
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The Daily WhateverCitizen’s Oath w/ Frederic Poag & Lawrence WinnermanThank you Cat, NOT A FASCIST!, Stan Mroczek, Irish clover☘️, Susan Genser, and many others for tuning into my live video with Cat, Susan Genser, and Frederic Poag! We talked about damn near everything under the sun, from us both battling depression, to The Citizen’s Oath (https://thecitizensoath.org) to the nature of the fight ahead of us, to dating. Thanks to everyone who joined, and a huge thanks to Cat and Susan Genser for jumping on the video and taking the Citizen’s Oath!We’ll see you next time, friends!
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The Daily WhateverIs the New Facebook Dating AI Bot Trying to Kill Me?A few weeks back, I noticed Facebook Dating launched a “Dating AI” bot.Fine. I know this is the future of online dating, so I decided to test it. If nothing else, I figured it would be fodder for a story, something like, “I tried out the new Facebook Dating AI bot so you don’t have to.”For a few weeks, it suggested profiles to me, all pretty innocuous stuff. Then today—as I strolled around lovely Galway, Ireland with my family—it suggested I might like “Ryan,” a 50-year-old contractor in Seattle who loves...
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The Daily WhateverLive from Galway, Giddy from BoobsHello friends! This is just a quick live to say hello from my hotel room in Galway, Ireland, where I’m lowkey jet-lagged and feeling super light be outside the United States this week. I also wanted to say a huge thank you to the thousands of you who’ve visited/read/restacked/commented on my silly Hello, I Have Amazing Boobs story. I’ll likely write or podcast about the responses I’ve gotten in more detail. The short version is: so far, 99% of you have gotten the paradox in the light-hearted gravitas of the story, and left...
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The Daily WhateverLive! With Frederic Poag! The Citizen's OathThank you P. J. Schuster, Daniel Williams, techwriter35, Catherine Grassel, and many others for tuning into the genXy live video with Lawrence Winnerman, Dana DuBois, and Frederic Poag! Y’all we had a rollicking conversation, and Frederic illuminated his thinking behind oaths in general, and what something like an oath from regular Americans could mean, about us, each other, and our commitment to this country.Dana and Lawrence have each taken the oath, and Frederic did today as well—building on the oath he took in the Marines—to sort of re-certify his commitment to the co...
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The Daily WhateverThe #CitizensOath ChallengeHere’s what you do:* Feel inspired, or get a challenge request from a friend!* Grab anything with a camera—your phone, computer, your iPad—whatever.* Start recording, and tell folks why you’re doing this, if you want to.* Recite the oath, or have someone prompt you!The Citizen’s Oath"I ______name________ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;t...
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The Daily WhatevergenXy - The Podcast | Episode 5: Protests & Power! (With Special Guest Appearance from Frederic Poag)Anyone go to one of the thousands of April 5th “Hands Off” protests yesterday? Lawrence attended in Fort Wayne, Indiana—and of course, we had to talk about it.We discuss Lawrence’s inspiring experiences at the protest, our disappointment in the lackluster pre- and post-event mainstream news coverage, and the overall impact. Early reports indicate thousands of protests around the US and the world, with millions of participants, all peaceful. Lawrence described the sense of hope, optimism, and unity he felt gathering with like-minded citizens and fighting back.We know many of...
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The Daily WhateverChina Strikes BackThanks to everyone who joined me for this vent! Man, I’m fired up. China struck back last night in our new Forever Trade War ™, and they weren’t coming to play. Not only did they reflect the 34% across-the-board tariff, but they also got SMART and targeted the heart of US tech, manufacturing, and agriculture.Goldman Sachs upgrades recession risk from 20 to 35%. JP Morgan thinks the chance is closer to 60%.China retaliatory tariffs match the 34% but they’re SMARTER. They also target 11 American corporations from doing business in China. They hit chicken and sorghum hard. They go...
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The Daily WhateverLive | Frederic Poag and genXyY’all! We just had the best time going Live! Thank you Earl Brownlee, Lynn, Noel, and many others for tuning into my live video with Dana DuBois and Frederic Poag! We talked about—well, what didn’t we talk about: the economy, the history of migration in the USA, Frederic’s colorful past, tariffs are taxes y’all!, the onsetting brain drain for the US in the face of a crashing economy, and ever so much more…We talked about our top genXy songs, and man we came up with some good ones. What would you ad...
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The Daily WhatevergenXy - The Podcast | Episode 4: genXy Responds to the NYT Article "The GenX Career Meltdown"Steven Kurutz’s March 28, 2025 article in The New York Times, “The GenX Career Meltdown” is so on-topic and on-brand for genXy that we couldn’t let it go by without commentary. To say that it inspired a wide range of feelings in us would be…accurate.Then our podcasting tool told us we were cut off for the month, so we decided to try our weekly podcast Live. And it was fun. When GenXers face a challenge, we’re resilient and can adapt to new technology—which was one of the primary points we found lacking in Mr. Kurutz’s s...
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The Daily WhatevergenXy - The Podcast | Episode 3: Thirst Traps & Substack ClassesGreetings, genXy peeps!Spring has sprung, and we’re back with another episode in which—strangely, in the midst of all the awful news—we’re seeing signs of hope.Firstly, Dana will be hosting a Masterclass with the amazing Kristina God. Are you an experienced Medium writer who’s trying to find their way in the wild world of Substack? Hello, you’re not alone! Please join us on April 2nd at 11am PT/2pm EST. The class is free for paid subscribers to either Kristina or Dana’s Substacks.➡️ Subscr...
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The Daily WhatevergenXy - The Podcast | Episode 2: Origin Stories & Musical GloriesThis week we have crazy, good fun talking about the stories that got us each started down our writing paths, and we ask the inherently unanswerable question of: “What is the single definitive song of Generation X?”Dana interviews Lawrence about his debut science fiction short story, “I Love You, Dieter Murphy”. We laugh, we cry, we cry laughing, and Peter Murphy makes an unexpected nominal appearance.Lawrence interviews Dana about her powerful memoir/ advice article “What to Expect Wehn You Weren’t Expecting a Gender Non-Conforming Child”. The vibes are real, and Dana explores the changes to...
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The Daily WhateverHubris Kills DemocracyHubris will be the thing that kills our American Democracy. Other people wiser than me have articulated this concept, but I don’t think we’ve had a better example of how pride and inflated self-importance are destroying our ability to respond to the unprecedented times we live in. Chuck Schumer is so convinced that only he can lead the Senate Democrats that we are now beholden to him and dying because of his inability to grasp the gravity of the current crisis. We need fresh eyes and more dynamic and responsive leadership.Chuck Schumer has...
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The Daily WhateverFuck You, DemocratsI am so livid that my Bell’s palsy eye is all squinty. Fuck you, Chuck. And fuck all the Democrats who voted with, and all the Democrats who are INCAPABLE of rising to meet this moment. We need a new PARTY and I am not even kidding. Get full access to genXy at www.genxy.io/subscribe
2025-03-1404 min
The Daily WhatevergenXy - The PodcastDana DuBois and Lawrence Winnerman talk about who they are, how they know each other, what “genXy” means, and what to expect from the show (and as we learn how to use our cool, new podcast tool.) Get full access to genXy at www.genxy.io/subscribe
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