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Sick of this ShitpodShit Talk: Pedo PaloozaThank you Füsun Aydın, Cat, Kimmy Win, Cat and many others for tuning into my live video with 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/subscribe2025-07-1847 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
Sick of this ShitpodThe Daily Whatever, July 18: Fucked-Up Friday with Nick ParoThank you Füsun Aydın, The Bathrobe Guy 👘, Richard Francis Hogan, Jeanne Elbe, The Momster, Kimmy Win, Wendy🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🌈, Cat, thepoetmiranda and many others for tuning into Dana DuBois and Lawrence Winnerman’s Fucked-Up Friday Live, with me as this weeks special guest! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to Sick of this Shit with Nick at sickofthis.substack.com/subscribe2025-07-1858 min
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...2025-07-171h 05
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 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...2025-07-151h 01
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...2025-07-151h 26
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 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...2025-07-081h 04
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...2025-07-071h 03
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...2025-07-041h 01
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...2025-07-021h 01
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 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 , 2025-06-271h 58
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?2025-06-241h 05
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 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...2025-06-171h 04
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...2025-06-161h 04
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...2025-06-161h 40
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, 2025-06-161h 00
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...2025-06-121h 01
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...2025-06-091h 02
The Opinionated Ogre PodcastThe Daily Whatever, June 6: Fucked-up Friday with The Opinionated Ogre!Thank you Füsun Aydın, Peter William Murphy, P. J. Schuster, OhDonna, Mason, Storyteller, and many others for tuning into my live video with Dana DuBois and Lawrence Winnerman! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to The Opinionated Ogre at opinionatedogre.substack.com/subscribe2025-06-061h 00
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...2025-06-061h 00
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 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...2025-06-0258 min
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...2025-05-311h 10
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...2025-05-2958 min
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...2025-05-271h 05
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...2025-05-2355 min
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...2025-05-211h 06
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...2025-05-1556 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...2025-05-121h 02
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...2025-05-101h 06
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...2025-05-071h 01
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...2025-05-061h 13
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
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...2025-05-041h 07
BiofiliaBiofilia: 8 Mart 2018Sosyal girişimciliğe hayat veren Hülya Denizalp, YAŞÖM (Yaşayarak Öğrenme Merkezi) Genel Koordinatörü Meryem Aydın ve YAŞÖM’ü Van’da hayata geçirecek Leyla Zengin ile sosyal girişimciliği konuştuk. Programa Füsun Öztürk Baysan tarafından Hülya Denizalp’in 30 yıllık sosyal girişimcilik hayatını kitaplaştırması vesile oldu.2018-03-0828 min