Maureen Johnson and Dan Sinker

Says Who?

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In 2016, two friends—and author and a journalist--sat down to ride through the final weeks of the Presidential election by talking to the journalists covering it. They thought they were doing eight episodes. They were wrong. What started as a short trip has become a long and strange journey. They’ve gotten weird. They’ve made friends along the way. Mostly, the weird part, though. Join #1 New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson, and legendary publisher of Punk Planet Magazine Dan Sinker as they digest the news each week. Says Who: it’s not a podcast—it’s a coping strategy.

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Maureen Johnson and Dan Sinker

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Latest episode

Jul 1, 2026

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Episodes

SHOW ME THE MONKEY 31.03.2021

It’s a big week here in SaysWhovia! Dan and Maureen have both received their first shot. Dan was slightly overwhelmed by the experience. It has been a long time since he has been out. Meanwhile, the sideways boat has been freed, which reminds Maureen of a time she was on a boat. A lot happened on this boat. She will tell you all about it. Neither of them are ready for prime time. Down in Florida,...

DAN GETS A STICK 24.03.2021

CONTENT ALERT: Maureen discusses the use of a diet tracking app and eating behaviors from minute 32:14 until 35:04. Toot toot! It’s Says Who time, and there’s big news! Dan is going to be vaccinated! He’s excitedly preparing to go to Walgreens. Maureen is not up for her stick yet, but she has been to Walgreens, so who is the real winner here. America gets back to normal,  ever so slowly, and that...

TOOT TOOT 17.03.2021

Dan and Maureen have now been inside for a year. They like it in here. Outside is bad, and has teeth. Well, Maureen went out a little. She had to go to the doctor. She saw Times Square! She has been on an Adventure. Meanwhile, Dan has gotten his Biden Bucks and is now a fancy man. He’s all dressed up and in the basement, where he is content. They don’t know what they’re going to do when things get...

MILK BAG 10.03.2021

*opens window*  Oh, hello! It’s a warm and sunny day, and Dan and Maureen are feeling good. It’s almost springtime. There are vaccine appointments on the horizon. People are getting their shots. Andrew Yang is going to be the next mayor of New York City… Dan was saving that one for Maureen. Maureen is going to have to join the Yang Gang and move into a Tic Tok influencer house or something. He’s n...

LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN 03.03.2021

*flips calendar page* Hey, we did it! It’s March! We made it one full year into the COVID lockdown! And Dan is… well, Dan is processing. He’s knows it’s March, but he doesn’t know what year. Maureen must break this to him. It’s a SaysWhovian look back at a super duper weird year, and the strange, perpetual March that has everyone feeling ugggnnnhhhhnnnhhhhhhhh. Remember getting that first grocery...

BIG SHRIMPS 24.02.2021

It’s been a long winter, SaysWhovia. And a long fall. And summer. And spring. We’d all like to get away for a bit. And who deserves a break more than Ted Cruz? Texas should not be so cold. He needs a break. Thus was Ted’s Cancun Adventure launched, and yes, Dan and Maureen are going to talk about it. But that’s not the big story. The big story involves meat sizes, tiny bottles of ketchup, and big...

ICE TO MEET YOU 18.02.2021

Dan is frozen inside of his house. Also, he has lost his mind a little. Things built up—homeschooling, work, the impeachment trial, and…TV lighting? Yes. TV lighting. Meanwhile, Maureen celebrated a quarantine birthday by doing laundry. Did we mention it’s cold? It’s cold. At some point in the last week, an entire impeachment trial zipped by. Then Trump emerged from the grave and Mitch McConnell p...

THE MADNESS OF DAN SINKER 10.02.2021

Dan’s made some bad choices. Let's discuss them, together.  Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

JITTERBUG DAN 03.02.2021

Welcome to February, the first Trump-free month! It is . . . making Dan very nervous. He cannot sleep. He is twitching. He cannot adjust. Also, he has twenty-nine jobs and twenty-eight of them might be impeachment-related. Maureen is fine! And she wants Dan to be fine too. She will explain how to be fine. The first step is working out the difference between a Big Juicy Impeachment and a Lil’ Donut...

OK FEET 27.01.2021

Just kidding. But it is definitely a better start than last week, when Donald Trump was in the final, weird days and hours of the presidency he won by collecting the most white nationalists. Dan and Maureen are adjusting to this new, somewhat slower life, where we don’t have to check Twitter every sixteen seconds in case Trump made a raccoon the Secretary of Defense during a midnight tweet storm....

INAUGURAL BALLS 21.01.2021

It’s happened. It really, really happened. Trump is gone. He got on a plane and flew away. Dan and Maureen are . . . trying to process.  This is new territory. How do you watch the news without screaming? How do you look at Twitter without flinching at the word BREAKING? How do we live in a reality that is changing every moment, like a room full of monkeys is controlling the switches? HOW DO WE FU...

FISHING FOR RUDY 14.01.2021

Insurrection, Impeachment, Inauguration… January of 2021 loves a Wednesday. Which is why Dan and Maureen are here on Thursday, clinging to the door like at the end of Titanic, trying to explain what’s been going on. In short: a lot. The slightly longer version: the fallout of the Capitol siege, a week of hilarious shitcanning, an impeachment, and a very sad Rudy. Yes, Rudy has been ghosted. There’...

SAYS COUP 07.01.2021

A very busy day. Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

THE END OF THE WORST YEAR 30.12.2020

It seemed like it was never going to come, but we are here, together, at the end of 2020.  Join Maureen and Dan for a little bit of looking back and a little bit of looking ahead and a little bit of that ol' Says Who magic here at the end of the worst year.  Plus: AN ANNOUNCEMENT. Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

A VERY SAYSWHOVIA PANDEMIC HOLIDAY 16.12.2020

It’s the holiday season in SaysWhovia! Dan and Maureen are sitting by the fire, waiting to tell you a story. What’s the story about? Well, it’s about vaccines, and Joe Biden, and spreading cheer. Also, it’s about Rudy Giuliani visiting Santa and Maureen’s issues with wearing pants. It’s a real up and down sort of experience. Come. Join SaysWhovia in this celebration. Get a cup of this nog stuff, d...

JINGLE BALLS 09.12.2020

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The weather is… unremittingly grey. People are… forced to stay apart. And it’s a season of giving… COVID to people who can’t or won’t avoid close situations. Okay, so things could be better.  Maureen has turned her book in and is holding things together better than Dan expected. Dan is over the Chicago weather. But what’s this? News from the Trump legal te...

GRAND PRIZE WINNERS OF AN A**-HANDING CONTEST 02.12.2020

Celebrate the moments of your life, SaysWhovia, that's what Dan says, because it's suddenly December and perhaps we need to remember those moments sometimes. Maureen does, as she's deep in the deadline on her book and doesn't think she's gotten anything done this year, you know other than write three books. So SaysWhovia, if you are listening it means you are here, at the end of the year, and that...

SHRUNKY DUNKS AND THE CAVE OF CUOMO with Akilah Hughes 25.11.2020

Gobble, gobble! It’s Thanksgiving week! In SaysWhovia, we celebrate in the traditional ways: cransberries pie, paper turkeys, and gravy made of whatever that was coming off Rudy’s head the other day! Yes, somehow it’s the end of November. Trump’s weird fall continues to fall weirdly, in a perpetual-motion machine of self-own. But Dan and Maureen aren’t going to talk politics at their Thanksgiving...

SOMETHING ABOUT TEA AND CANADIANS 18.11.2020

It’s been two weeks since the election, and Dan and Maureen are doing great. Maureen is drinking some coffee in a can that she found. Dan is creeping around his house making tea. They discuss the fact that Dan can’t remember any band from the 90s, because there’s nothing going on and nothing else to talk about! Just tea and Canadians. Well, there are maybe some things. Like the fact that Trump won...

PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM 11.11.2020

Hello again, SaysWhovia! It’s been *checks notes* two days since Dan and Maureen last recorded. What a time that was! The crematorium ash had barely settled on Rudy’s shiny bald head back then. Now, everybody’s been to the Four Seasons. What malarkey awaits? Whither Mark Meadows? Who’s the boss in Trumpvania? And what the hell is going on? Grab a podium. It’s time for a presser. You know where to...

SEE YOU TOMORROW 3: SEE YOU TODAY 07.11.2020

Amy Carter's Shoe is going to have one hell of a good four years. Maureen and Dan are still a little shocked by it all, but they're here, to celebrate, with you Sayswhovia! Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

SEE YOU TOMORROW 2: THE TOMORROWER 06.11.2020

Hey Sayswhovia! Dan and Maureen are back with a Friday afternoon update in this never-ending election week.  BUT WAIT: MAYBE IT IS OVER???? Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

SEE YOU TOMORROW 04.11.2020

So last night the election happened. Now it's today. We... maybe know some stuff? Or not? Or maybe? Join Maureen and Dan as they attempt to puzzle it through. There's math! Plus, a very special guest opens the episode. What the actual living f*ck. Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

THE SAYS WHO ELECTION DAY SPECIAL 03.11.2020

It's election day.  Uh, yay?  No, that doesn't sound right. It's going to be a long day, so join Maureen and Dan with some ideas on how to fill the time so you don't spend it all just furiously refreshing FiveThirtyEight. See you tomorrow! Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

ONE WEEK 28.10.2020

It’s just ONE WEEK until the election, and Dan and Maureen are ready. By ready, this means they are not ready. They are sort of ready. They are as ready as they will ever be, which is not that ready, but ready enough. So, not ready. It’s time to talk about final moves, coping, and who might be hiding in your toilet. SaysWhovia…assemble!   Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of o...

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