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Huge thanks to Marlon Weems for joining us for a spectacular show! Today was a first—a nearly unanimous winner for Fucked-up Friday ! And it was Dana DuBois , with this absolute doozy of a story. https://www.thedailywhatevershow.com/p/he-drugged-his-pregnant-girlfriend Thank you Nick Paro , Cat: Poli-Psych , Amy Gabrielle , Dr. Eric Lullove , Char Sundust , and many others for tuning in, and to Ka...

Thanks for tuning in for Mornings with TDWS! Did you know, you can also watch us on YouTube? True story. We’d love if you’d subscribe to us over there as well. 🌟 Subscribe to The Daily Whatever Show on YouTube ! Today’s top stories: The daily woo: * The moon is not void of course, but Mercury is still in retrograde till November 13. Get more details at MoonDark . * Today’s Tarot card is the King...

Thank you Nick Paro , The Rebel Crone (Shālah) , Noble Blend , WingsofaBlackbird✨🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 , Skutt Hope , and many others for tuning in, and to Karen Marie Shelton for moderating. Thanks for stopping by! We’re Dana DuBois and Lawrence Winnerman , lifelong BFFs and co-hosts of The Daily Whatever Show — our independent home for smart, irreverent conversations about culture, politics, media, creativity...

Thanks for tuning in for Mornings with TDWS! Did you know, you can also watch us on YouTube? True story. We’d love if you’d subscribe to us over there as well. 🌟 Subscribe to The Daily Whatever Show on YouTube ! Today’s top stories: Stay tuned each weekday morning for all the Unhinged But Accurate news. And be sure to pop on Friday, as we’re thrilled to welcome Marlon Weems for Fucked-up Friday,...

We had such a blast welcoming back Maritsa Georgiou and Senator Jon Tester from Grounded Podcast to The Daily Whatever Show! Thanks for tuning in for Mornings with TDWS! Did you know, you can also watch us on YouTube? True story. We’d love if you’d subscribe to us over there as well. 🌟 Subscribe to The Daily Whatever Show on YouTube ! This week’s Fucked-Up Friday stories: Here’s a hint at each of...

Thanks for tuning in for Mornings with TDWS! Did you know, you can also watch us on YouTube? True story. We’d love if you’d subscribe to us over there as well. 🌟 Subscribe to The Daily Whatever Show on YouTube ! Today’s top stories: Stay tuned each weekday morning for all the Unhinged But Accurate news. And be sure to pop in Friday, as we’re thrilled to welcome Grounded Podcast for Fucked-up Frid...

Thanks for tuning in for Mornings with TDWS! Did you know, you can also watch us on YouTube? True story. We’d love if you’d subscribe to us over there as well. 🌟 Subscribe to The Daily Whatever Show on YouTube ! Today’s top stories: We discussed the icky ambiguity of the Israeli election outcome , the magic of no cell phones at a Phoebe Bridgers concert , and these stories… The daily woo: * The m...

Thanks for tuning in for Mornings with TDWS! Did you know, you can also watch us on YouTube? True story. We’d love if you’d subscribe to us over there as well. 🌟 Subscribe to The Daily Whatever Show on YouTube ! Today’s top stories: First we discussed how Microsoft offered a buyout to 60K employees yesterday because, AI. What that likely means for the other tech companies? When Microsoft sneezes,...

Good morning and happy Monday! Eight days till the midterms, so hold onto your tinfoil hats. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride. Thanks for tuning in for Mornings with TDWS! Did you know, you can also watch us on YouTube? True story. We’d love if you’d subscribe to us over there as well. 🌟 Subscribe to The Daily Whatever Show on YouTube ! The daily woo: * It’s a full moon in Taurus, big and bright! Step...

Did you know, you can also watch us on YouTube? True story. We’d love if you’d subscribe to us over there as well. 🌟 Subscribe to The Daily Whatever Show on YouTube ! Huge thanks to Rich Kagan from A Rich Life In France for joining us for Fucked-up Friday ! Please go follow and subscribe because his work is fabulous. Who won? You’re gonna have to listen to find out. Have an amazing day! XOXO Dana...

Thanks for tuning in for Mornings with TDWS! Did you know, you can also watch us on YouTube? True story. We’d love if you’d subscribe to us over there as well. 🌟 Subscribe to The Daily Whatever Show on YouTube ! Today’s top stories: More Unhinged But Accurate news: The daily woo: * The moon goes void of course tonight at 11:30pm ET and stays there for about 16 hours. Get more details at MoonDark...

Thanks for tuning in for Mornings with TDWS! Did you know, you can also watch us on YouTube? True story. We’d love if you’d subscribe to us over there as well. 🌟 Subscribe to The Daily Whatever Show on YouTube ! And now, today’s show… Today’s top stories: More Unhinged But Accurate news: The daily woo: * The moon was not void of course . Well, it was briefly, before we went live. For the rest of...

Thanks for tuning in for our debut Mornings with TDWS! Today’s top stories: More Unhinged But Accurate news: The daily woo: * The moon was not void of course . * The Tarot card for today is The Star. Lucky us! Have an amazing day! XOXO Dana DuBois & Lawrence Winnerman Thank you NeuroDivergent Hodgepodge , Pouty Defy-Ant 🐜 , Christiane mccafferty , Wendy R 🇨🇦 , Monica Grover , and many others for...

Thanks for tuning in for our debut Mornings with TDWS! Today's Top Stories: * El-Sayed Disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood on the Spot. Tommy Wouldn't Disavow Sh!t. https://www.thedailywhatevershow.com/p/abdul-el-sayed-tommy-teepell-christian-nationalism * Matt Gaetz Got Sued for Sex Trafficking, Then Tried to Dox His Accusers With a Bikini Photo https://www.thedailywhatevershow.com/p/matt-gaetz-got-...

It’s always a pleasure to welcome our official legal correspondent Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. back to The Daily Whatever Show for Fucked-up Friday! Today co-hosts Lawrence Winnerman and Dana DuBois opened the show with a somber discussion about the latest horrific school shooting in Bend. Oregon, with a heartfelt FUCK THE GUNS directed at every single elected official who’s refused to take action over...

Dana and Lawrence popped up live on a Monday morning (Indigenous Peoples’ Day, for those of us who still have to go to work) armed with PG Tips, vanilla, and the best news either of us has heard in months. Over four days, Ukrainian drones hit three data centers belonging to Yandex, which is basically Russia’s Google, the platform running search, taxis, payments, and a whole lot more. The targets w...

The United States plans to shoot a man on December 3 and let you watch. Pete Hegseth told Jack Posobiec that the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be public—“we’ll make sure that people are able to watch it”—which puts us in a club with Iran and Afghanistan. Jason Odell brought that one. Shalah, the Rebel Crone, brought the FBI’s seizure of two deepfake sites that sold s...

Have you been reading about the Russian plague situation with a haunting sense it’s early March 2020? Yeah, us too. Lawrence Winnerman wrote the article below to address what we know, what we wish we knew, and what to look for. Then we had this conversation to bring the story to life. We hope you find it helpful. We’re not panicking. Concerned, but not panicking. More to come as this story unfolds...

This week’s Fucked Up Friday had a common thread, and Libbie Grant named it before the vote: “It’s all misogyny, man.” Dana brought the Cornell 7 case, now in Letitia James’s hands, and one line from Jane Doe that explains why survivors blame themselves first. Libbie, whose new novel The Ended World imagines an AI waking up, brought the developer who built an AI “torture chamber” on GitHub. I brou...

News of “The Cornell 7” has torn through the internet at such breakneck speed this week, I invited the amazing Michelle Kinney from The Mayday Network to come deconstruct it all. I also published three (yes, three) stories already this week on this evolving story, which you can read here, in order of appearance: This story is gaining traction and visibility because Jane Doe spoke up with her story...

Dana’s out, so Dash MacIntyre of The Halfway Cafe and Ellie Leonard of The Panicked Writer pulled up chairs for Fucked-Up Friday . Three pitches, one chat vote. Dash brings the Putin-linked oligarch who bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. Ellie brings FCC chair Brendan Carr’s nine years in Midtown, the D.C. AA offshoot former members call a cult. I bring the memo that makes killing an endangered species...

It was an honor to get to spend September 11 with one of our very favorite New Yorkers, the amazing Julie Roginsky , and to share our stories of where we were, what we remember, and how disheartened we feel in the aftermath of these attacks, 25 years on. Thank you Ellie Leonard , Cat: Poli-Psych , Amy Gabrielle , Jason Gael , Sacred Storylines | Kathryn🎨 , and many others for tuning in, and to Ka...

Fucked-Up Friday came back this week with a guest, three horrors, and a through-line nobody planned: in every one of these stories, a step that was supposed to happen simply didn’t. Our guest was ProfessorMeredith of Bitchy History , joining from Norwich, England, and she is exactly the kind of brain this show exists to hand a microphone to. She turned in her second master’s thesis on Wednesday. T...

We cancelled the show we had planned this morning. We don’t do that. But a line got crossed in this community this week, and there was no version of the two of us doing a normal Friday while it sat there. We started where the world started this week, with Dolly Parton, and by the end she had handed us our organizing principle. Not the tote-bag version, the real one. Watch the old Barbara Walters i...

AI Sexbot teachers in public schools! Raging menopausal women without their HRT! And… whatever doomsday dot-connecting Lawrence Winnerman got up to this week!! This was a thrilling episode of The Daily Whatever Show with our dear friend, Ellie Leonard . Have at it! Thank you You Ready Grandma , Laura LeBleu , Caro Henry , "Sushi"(Jen) of MIND HAVEN , and many others for tuning in, and huge thanks...