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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Aug 18: Lawrence’s Behind-the-Scenes of the Banner & Backbone 24-hour LiveThank you BJ Roberts , KB 🙋🏼♀️🧩🔍⚖️✨ , Brandon Ellrich , Brushy 🐺 📚 , Jeanne Elbe , Carrie , OldHenCharlie , Damon Kenner , Dana DuBois , @dunn647 , EBS , Mike Gagne , Elizabeth Newman , Frederic Poag , Gayety , Marney , judyth Watson-Remy , Karen Marie Shelton , Kevin , Kim Taylor , Kostadenos Priskos , Jo , Leo McChaser , Rich Kagan , The Momster 🧷 , Linda Low , The One Minute Daily Boost , Lawrence Winnerman , Mel , Sage’s Mom. (No DM’s) , MorganX , Peter William Murphy , MJM , Paul kirkpatrick , Phillip Sisson , Polly Walker Blakemore , Musings on Interesting Times , Ellie Leonard , Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA , Sally Costa , @dunn647 ,
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, August 13: The Quadruple Fuck and a Little (Legal) HopeHuge thanks to Sophia Kelly Grace and Melissa Corrigan, she/her for joining us in our last Restream for an amazing conversation.Thank you R.V. Hughes , Lisa Jensen , Brandon Ellrich , Carol Ann Power , OldHenCharlie , cynmac , Dale Scaringi , Damon Kenner , Dana DuBois , Dan Houghton , David Caffrey , Gatto Sospetto , IncredibleHulka , julie elder , Karen Marie Shelton , Kimberly Finix , Kostadenos Priskos , Kothar Lai , Jo , The Momster 🧷 , Lawrence Winnerman , Margaret , Mandy Ohman , MorganX , Peter William Murphy , Polly Walker Blakemore , Rachel Hendricks , Musings on Interesting Times , Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA , Robin Wilding , Sacha Cohen , Julie Price Carpenter , Nick Paro , Soso , Wendy🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🌈 , Tom Young , Victor Cardenas
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Sick of this PodMid-week Wizards' Counsil - sick of this damn Eagle Jizz 🦅Thank you Caro Henry, Brandon Ellrich, Frank Kohl, Robert Sawers, Sunny, Dana DuBois, Dmitry 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🍺 Rachel Hendricks and many others for tuning into today’s Mid-week Wizards’ Counsil — with Frederic Poag, Lawrence Winnerman, and Nick Paro — where we get a little rowdy and ruckus! Get full access to Sick of this Shit with Nick at sickofthis.substack.com/subscribe
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Aug 12: Falling in Love Through My Thumbs, Part 1Today Dana DuBois shared her latest—a story from several years ago about falling for someone online, and the hopes and tribulations found therein. Check it out here:Thank you R.V. Hughes , Lisa Jensen , Brandon Ellrich , Carol Ann Power , OldHenCharlie , cynmac , Dale Scaringi , Damon Kenner , Dana DuBois , Dan Houghton , David Caffrey , Gatto Sospetto , IncredibleHulka , julie elder , Karen Marie Shelton , Kimberly Finix , Kostadenos Priskos , Kothar Lai , Jo , The Momster 🧷 , Lawrence Winnerman , Margaret , Mandy Ohman , MorganX , Peter William Murphy , Polly Walker Blakemore , Rachel Hendricks , Musings on Interesting Times , Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA , Robin Wilding , Sacha Cohen , Julie Price...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Aug 7: Stomping Trolls with The Opinionated OgreDana DuBois recently published her article about middle-aged men ogling her daughter, and it caught fire and jumped into red-pilled Substack.One of the results was that our good friend, The Opinionated Ogre saw the trolls harassing Dana in the comments section, and wrote an article of his own, massively taking down the misogynistic MAGA assholes who felt the need to share their creepy ideology:Our conversation today was spicy, and as much fun as our conversations with Ogre usually are. Check it out!Thank you An Advocate for Spirit , Armani Ashley , Artb3...
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Sick of this PodEmergency Wizards Counsil - shooting at Fort Stewart, Ga.Thank you cynmac, Brandon Ellrich, P. J. Schuster, Robert Sawers, Sunny, 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 Sick of this Shit with Nick at sickofthis.substack.com/subscribe
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Aug 6: Parenting Trans Kids With Melissa Corrigan & Sophia Kelly GraceBack in 2023, I launched a tiny publication on Medium to create a community for storytelling and advice for parents of gender-nonconforming kids.I hoped other writers would find it and want to share their stories.Not in my wildest dreams did I hope to find two amazing writer/editor/thinkers like I found in Melissa Corrigan, she/her and Sophia Kelly Grace, yet somehow, they found me—and together, we created Pink Hair & Pronouns.So much has changed since the summer of 2023, and not for the better for trans and nonbinary folks. Especially no...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Aug 5: Little "r” RelationshipsThis morning on The Daily Whatever, Dana DuBois and I had a great conversation about her latest article, “I Had a Little ‘r’ Relationship”. It’s her fascinating take on a six-year relationship that met a lot of needs—but not all of them—and which never turned into a Relationship. Check out the article here:Thank you Amit Sen , Beth Cruz , BiffBiff , BJ Roberts , Brandon Ellrich , Cat , Damon Kenner , Dana DuBois , Dr. Amber Hull , Jane B In NC🌼 , Füsun Aydın , John David 7, John Warrington , Joyce Reese , Karen Marie Shelton , Kimberly Finix , Kostadenos Priskos , Jo , Rich Kagan , The Mo...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, August 4: Light Shines Through, Ch. 4 | SharonHello, Whatevers!I did a reading from the latest chapter of my novel, and answered a few questions about what it’s like to write the future and then have it catch up with you! Read the full chapter here:Thank you Alexandra Sarafidou , April Mensinger , R.V. Hughes , Brandon Ellrich , Brushy 🐺 📚 , Jeanne Elbe , Callie🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽 , Cat , C Wallis , Damon Kenner , BiffBiff , Dana DuBois , Jonathan Eddison , Dorothy Arney Yantis , Foye , Füsun Aydın , AlbertWilliams , Melissa Corrigan, she/her , Jon weston , Karen Marie Shelton , Kimmy Win , Jo , The Momster 🧷 , The One Minute Daily Boost , Lawrence Winnerman , Wendy Parker , Mel , MorganX , Peter...
2025-08-0559 min
Walter Rhein PodcastEscapist Delights in a Crumbling Democracy w/ Jim MercurioHello everyone!This was a fun talk with Jim Mercurio in which he shared his thoughts on the best films of the 21st century. I liked his list, it was very honest and included quite a few films I’d heard of but haven’t seen. There’s a difference between a list that’s designed to sound “elitist” and a list that is genuine. Jim’s list was genuine and I appreciated that.We had another one of our tangential talks that bounced all over the place. I’ve given up on trying to keep track of th...
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Sick of this PodThe Daily Whatever, August 2: Karaoke Party 🎉Thank you The Bathrobe Guy 👘, Cat, cynmac, Brandon Ellrich, Jeanne Elbe, and many others for tuning into Dana DuBois and Lawrence Winnerman’s Karaoke special, where Soso and I joined for a Saturday singing special! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to Sick of this Shit with Nick at sickofthis.substack.com/subscribe
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Aug 2: Karaoke Party 🎉We had the best time today, celebrating the milestone of hitting 50 paid subscribers with a good, ol’-fashioned karaoke party for the ages. THANK YOU to everyone who helped get us to this milestone, and who helped us celebrate today!We love this community, and we (tho’ highly biased) think that The Daily Whatever has the best Substack morning show community of anyone out there. Take that Coffee with the Contrarians!* Dana karaoked the classic Baby Got Back in the voice of Richard Nixon!* Lawrence sang Material Girl in the voice of Henry Kiss...
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Sick of this PodWizards’ Counsil - three beards unite for freedom!Thank you Dana DuBois, The Bathrobe Guy 👘, Brandon Ellrich, Cat, cynmac, Soso, and many others for tuning into today’s Wizards’ Counsil with Frederic Poag, Lawrence Winnerman, and Nick Paro! Join us for our next live video in the app. Get full access to Sick of this Shit with Nick at sickofthis.substack.com/subscribe
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, Aug 1: Fucked-up Friday with K.R. ByersEvery Friday, Lawrence Winnerman and I invite a very special guest to join us for Fucked-up Friday, a weekly competition for the most fucked-up news story of the week. This week, the amazing (and very color-coordinated) K.R. Byers brought his A-game to the competition!Here are the stories we each pitched:* Dana DuBois: Substack Has it’s First Plagiarism Scandal. If Substack doesn’t have a clear, firm strategy on how to manage plagiarists, how can it thrive as a platform? Also, report and block Maalvika, the plagiarist in question.* Lawr...
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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 30: Feminism Without Misandry With Dr. Amber HullYou know how sometimes you meet your online heroes and they turn out to be total disappointments?Today was the exact opposite.Because today we welcomed one of my Substack heroes— Dr. Amber Hull—to The Daily Whatever. And she was even more incredible in real life! While we originally invited her to the show to discuss her response to my sorta-viral story Middle-Aged Men Keep Ogling My 16-Year-Old, our conversation veered from expatriating to butt stuff to HRT to sex education to misandry to writing on the internet as a GenX woman, and...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 29: Lawrence’s Latest Novel ChapterOf the many joys I’ve found here on Substack (seriously, don’t laugh!) one of the most surprising to me is the elation I feel when reading excerpts of my novel out loud for the chat on our Lives. I had no idea how rewarding that would feel, but here I am, awash in the post-orgasmic glow of yet another successful read, and ladies and germs, let me tell you, it rivals sex. Today, I read from chapter 3 of Light Shines Through, my queer dystopian sci-fi novel that I’m serializing over on Lawrence Winner...
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Sick of this PodQueer Politics Talk: How The Fuck Are We Doing?Thank you The Bathrobe Guy 👘, Caro Henry, julie elder, Earl Brownlee, tecolote42, Kimmy Win and many others for tuning into my live video with Elaine the Mean Old Feminist, Rick Herbst, Brandon Ellrich, and Wendy🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🌈! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to Sick of this Shit with Nick at sickofthis.substack.com/subscribe
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 28: Hit Me With That GLP-1 ShotThis morning on The Daily Whatever, Dana DuBois started by celebrating with the whole Chat: Lawrence, Dana, and Füsun Aydın got checkmarks, Nick Paro and The Bathrobe Guy 👘 placed on the charts, and more wins across our community. We love to see it! A rising tide lifts all boats, we like to say. Congrats to everyone, and thanks for your support and reader/viewership. It means the world to us!Dana wrote a powerful piece of memoir focusing on her family of origin programming around body and diet, and how taking a semaglutide GLP-1...
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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
Walter Rhein PodcastEscapist Delights in a Crumbling Democracy w: Philip OgleyHey Everyone!Today we had the pleasure of chatting with Philip Ogley. I know Philip from his work on Medium and his regular show with Peter William Murphy. Philip was born in the UK but is currently living in France. I always appreciate getting an international experience.Over the years, I’ve found that much of how we interpret literature comes from our cultural assumptions. So, I always find it really interesting to ask people how certain stories land. Philip provided some excellent insights.I hope you enjoy this conversation, you can follow Ph...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 25: Fucked-Up Friday with Dash from The Halfway Cafe(Note: We’re in the middle of a fundraiser for our dear friend and talented author Füsun Aydın. Please subscribe and restack Füsun’s work, and if you are able, please contribute to her recovery fund.)The great thing about this Substack adventure Dana DuBois and I have been on is the sheer volume of great people we’ve met. From the awesome Whatevers in our Chat, to the many guests we’ve had on the show, it feels like a smorgasbord of good, funny people. Even better when we get to meet them on Dana’s B...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 24: Outrage & Civil Discourse with Walter Rhein and Nick ParoI was delighted to welcome Walter Rhein and Nick Paro to The Daily Whatever this morning as the incomparable Dana DuBois continues her penguin-rescuing mission on the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP (What, you didn’t think it could mean two things?))We kicked off the show with a show of love for our dear friend Füsun Aydın. Please, send her some love and show you care by signing up for her newsletter and, if you are able, by becoming a paid subscriber to her. Füsun, we love you! I hope you were able to see t...
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Sick of this PodRushdoony, 7 Mountains, Christian ReconstructionismThank you Gemma, julie elder, Funny Farm erin, Musings on Interesting Times, Brandon Ellrich, Lady Libertea, Cat, and so many others for tuning into my live video with Lisa J 💜🏳️🌈! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to Sick of this Shit with Nick at sickofthis.substack.com/subscribe
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 22: Middle-aged men keep ogling my 16-year oldWhat conversation about the way men treat women in our society wouldn’t be complete without a living example in real-time? Dana DuBois featured one of her most compelling—and popular—recent pieces about how grown men are treating her teenage daughter, only to have the Chat invaded by an asshole who has been stalking women in our community. After re-blocking the schmuck, we had a chance to dive deep into Dana’s excellent story:The Chat was full of observations, love, and support. We had some truth and hardship shared, and the community responded with lov...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 21: Lawrence’s latest chaptersHappy Monday!Today Lawrence Winnerman shared the latest chapters from his novel, The Shattered World Series.Or more accurately: we explored Chapter 2: Jake. And Lawrence read it aloud, and we all reverted to small children, utterly rapt by storytelling because his voice is so meliflous and the story is so compelling.Here’s the chapter. But definitely listen to the podcast because it’s soooo gorgeous when Lawrence reads his own work.We decided we needed the full show to discuss Jake, and that we’ll talk about Chapter 3 - Jackie on Sat...
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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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Walter Rhein PodcastEscapist Delights in a Crumbling Democracy w/ David GroverHello Everyone! This was an excellent discussion with David Grover. David is an independent filmmaker who helped to create Kill Mode and Psychonaut. It was really cool getting his perspective on making independent film, plus hear his comments on some new and old favorites.I hope you enjoy the conversation. You can follow David here:https://substack.com/@david894719Thank you Brandon Ellrich, Ma Wilkinson, and many others for tuning into my live video with David and Ben Ulansey!You all make this newsletter happen! Thanks for your...
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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...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 17: Antisemitism in America with The Opinionated OgreThe Opinionated Ogre stopped by The Daily Whatever this morning to chat with us about antisemitism, and y’all! It was a convo for the ages. Shockingly, Ogre has opinions about this topic, and we got an earful—in a good way!(Note: we started the hour with an update on our Summer Pledge Drive*, wherein we cheered that we hit 40 paid subscribers! Thank you! Come join us on Saturday, when we’ll broadcast in formalwear to honor our commitment, and keep it going to 50 when we’ll do a live karaoke show!)Our conversation was wide...
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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...
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The Daily WhateverThe Daily Whatever, July 15: Writers on writing with Diane GeurtsGreetings, Whatevers—and a happy Twat-tastic Tuesday* to all who celebrate!Today we welcomed author Diane Geurts to The Daily Whatever, to talk about her newly published novel, Still the Millers.We chatted about all the things: self- versus trad-publishing, inspiration and muses, horses and meth labs, and most of all, Diane’s sage advice for all of us multi-hyphenate busy writer Join utypes: write one sentence per day. Be sure to follow Diane on Substack and Medium!Huge thanks to Patrick Mill, Beth Cruz, BiffBiff, BJ Roberts, Brandon Ellrich, Mariellen, Cat...
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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 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...
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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 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 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...
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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...
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Walter Rhein PodcastEscapist Delights in a Crumbling Democracy w/ Lawrence WinnermanHey Everyone!Today our special guest is Lawrence Winnerman from “The Daily Whatever.” We had a blast, and I got to get Lawrence’s pick for the definitive Gen X movie.I should come up with a question for every episode and have everyone write down their answer for the big reveal. That was kind of fun.I was just reflecting with Ben as to how much I enjoy these talks. It’s great to have an open topic such as film/shows/video games to form the basis of a discussion with all thes...
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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...
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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
Walter Rhein PodcastWhat a Nuclear Engineer Has to Say About What's Really Going on in IranHello Everyone!What I really appreciate about Substack is that it allows me to connect with so many intelligent and accomplished people! I was chatting about this talk with Robin Wilding and she called Robert Danna a “treasure!” I think so too.It’s wonderful to get the straight truth from experts in our field. Why don’t people like Robert ever appear on the news?I think the media mechanism has pressured us all into getting our information from certain ignorant sphincter mouths in pursuit of the patriarchal ideal. We’ve come to neglect...
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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 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, 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...
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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, 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 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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Walter Rhein PodcastAnother Movie Chat Where We Try to Take a Break From PoliticsHello Friends,It was nice to have Peter William Murphy join us again. I’m getting a kick out of his chaotic Monday podcast. He’s been pulling out all the stops and he’s the first Substack user I’ve seen to openly parody the idea of a livestream. I guess Ben is their next guest, so I’ll be sure to tune in to that.We can’t take ourselves too seriously… lord knows there are enough jerks out there who take themselves too seriously.This week, we went all over the place with...
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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 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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Walter Rhein PodcastTalking Movies, Bob Dylan, Kubrick, Horror, and Sailing Around the WorldHey Everyone!I keep saying that one of the joys of Substack is that it allows the opportunity to have conversations with writer friends I’ve known only through their work. It’s really cool to read somebody’s articles and then discover how much they exceed your expectations when you have a conversation with them.I wish I lived in a town and had all these people as my neighbors. Imagine that! Imagine if we could go for coffee and there would be Cory Vinny or Brandon Ellrich or Sarah Paris or all the other...
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Walter Rhein Podcast3 Stories by Walter RheinHello Everyone!I really enjoyed this! Yesterday I was watching “A Complete Unknown” and I always feel inspired when I listen to good wordplay. That reminds me that I should probably start each morning by sitting down and reading some poems. I always write so much better after a catalyst of quality like that. The pilot light springs to life.POOF!And then I can get to work.As I was watching the movie, I thought of three of my stories I was most proud of (well, two stories and a kind...
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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, 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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Walter Rhein PodcastEscapist Delights in a Crumbling Democracy w/ Brandon EllrichHello Friends!Ben and I were delighted to have Brandon Ellrich come and give us his thoughts on some of his favorite films last Thursday. You can subscribe to his newsletter here:I chatted with Brandon after the talk and we discovered that technology played a little trick on us. We occasionally dropped our connection and that made us lose parts of the conversation. He mentioned how he saw in the replay that I asked him some questions that he didn’t hear during the live. The same thing happened from my end, so there is...
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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 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 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...
2025-05-2058 min
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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Walter Rhein PodcastA Boisterous Discussion About Anime, Thunderbolts, The Iron Claw and a Kiss ConcertHello Friends!I always enjoy these chats with Ben on Thursday. He’s finding excellent guests. The real power of Substack is taking the opportunity to chat with all these wonderful content creators. There are so many rational and insightful people out there—why does the mainstream media have such a hard time elevating reasonable people (is it because the mainstream media doesn’t want to broadcast reasonable perspectives?).Anyway, I tell the famous Kiss story in this interview, and provide a great parenting idea about how you should show your kids Yojimbo, followed by a Fist...
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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...
2025-05-0558 min
Walter Rhein PodcastThe Revenge of the Sith, South Park, and America the Motion PictureHello Friends!It was our pleasure to bring along Peter William Murphy this week. He had excellent commentary (and a funny story about ‘The Lion King’). I hope this episode gives you all a little bit of a break from these anxiety inducing times!Thank you Yolanda D., Brandon Ellrich, Larry C. Brown, Joyce Jordan, cheryl mcgrady, and many others for tuning into my live video with Ben Ulansey and Peter William Murphy!“I'd rather Be Writing” exists because of your generous support. If you have the means please consider upgrading to a paid spo...
2025-05-0459 min
Walter Rhein PodcastHow Can You Enjoy Superheroes When America No Longer Respects Justice?Here’s my favorite quote from the conversation.“I had no idea what changed in the snowman’s heart to make him go on that killing spree!”—Ben UlanseyTune in to find out the context of that statement, it’s kind of funny.Thank you Rich Dornisch 🏳️🌈, Baz, Polly Walker Blakemore, Brandon Ellrich, Kenyon, and many others for tuning into my live video with Eric Pierce and Ben Ulansey! Join me for my next live video in the app.Thank you for listening! This publication is reader sponsored. Your support means the world to me...
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Walter Rhein PodcastEscapist Delights in a Crumbling Democracy w/ Walter Rhein, Ben Ulansey, and Courtney SenderHello Everyone!Thank you Peter William Murphy, Karen Marie Shelton, Yolanda D., Joe Walker, Brandon Ellrich, and many others for tuning into my live video with Courtney Sender and Ben Ulansey!This is the first time doing our movie talk with a guest and I hope Courtney can become a regular contributor. She’s very insightful and I look forward to reading more of her work.As always, we hope this discussion gave you a much needed break from the issues we currently face as a nation. Thanks for tuning in!“I'd...
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Walter Rhein PodcastMovie Break: We Discuss Don't Look Up, Transformers One, Walking Dead, The Men Who Stare at GoatsHello Friends!Thank you Baz, Polly Walker Blakemore, Zuri Stevens, Brandon Ellrich, Robert Danna, and many others for tuning into my live video with Ben Ulansey! Join me for my next live video in the app.As always, we love reading your comments as we chat away. I always do my best not to get too much into politics, but it’s pretty difficult with the way the world is going to pieces.Sigh…Still, this is our life and we have to find enjoyment and relief any way we can. Than...
2025-04-0358 min
Walter Rhein PodcastThursday Movie Break! We Discuss Dexter, Time Bandits, Katamari Damacy, and Big Trouble In Little ChinaHello Friends!Thank you Earl Brownlee, Lucy Hanson, Brandon Ellrich, Sam samuelson, Ian Huntington, and many others for tuning into my live video with Ben Ulansey! Join me for my next live video in the app.Here’s where you can find our other discussions[Psst: If you’ve got a tutorial for how I can neatly insert a google docs spreadsheet into a Substack post, please share it in the comments]The Boys, First Blood, Severance, Man Vs. Wildhttps://walterrhein.substack.com/p/live-with-walter-rheinA Brid...
2025-03-2757 min
Walter Rhein PodcastThursday Movie Break: We Discuss Jurassic Park, For All Mankind, Ladyhawke, and The Secret KingdomHello Friends!Thanks to Caro Henry, Ollie - if Only i, Brandon Ellrich, Kate E, Jonathan Harvey, Peter William Murphy and many others for tuning into my live video with Ben Ulansey! In addition to the movies listed above we also spent quite a bit of time on Robocop, Blade Runner, and others.Here’s where you can find our other discussions[Psst: If you’ve got a tutorial for how I can neatly insert a google docs spreadsheet into a Substack post, please share it in the comments]The...
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Crann na beatha Stories and PoetryCrann Bethadh Stories and PoetryCead Mile FailtéWelcome to Crann Bethadh Short Stories and PoetryI have a mixed bag of stories and a poem for everyone this week. But first, let me get my adverts out of the way.This once a week podcast is being hosted on RSS.com and is also available on these mobile apps and websites. Spotify, Amazon Music, Samsung Podcasts, Podcast Index, Listen Notes, Apple Podcasts, iHeart radio, Pandora, Tune In, Deezer and Crann Bethadh at Substack.com.My shows are free to subscribe to with these podcast platforms b...
2023-10-2142 min
Pop Culture History 101Episode 124 - KW 19 The Crow - 1994Ein Film dessen Premiere der Hauptdarsteller nicht mehr erleben sollte - und der nicht nur deswegen heutzutage von vielen Fans als Kult verehrt wird: Heute dreht sich alles um The Crow von 1994 mit Brandon Lee!
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