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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News

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Latest episode

Jul 1, 2026

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Episodes

BIG MAC CITY 04.10.2023

October has arrived, and the very first trick or treat bags have appeared on the streets of NYC! Trump is on trial, and he is ordering a lot of McDonalds. Lots and lots of McDonalds. He has a lot of feelings to eat as he risks losing all his towers. Yes, trial season has started. It comes earlier every year, doesn’t it? They’re even starting to flip down in Georgia. Meanwhile, the House is losing...

FUN LADY 27.09.2023

Maureen has been out in the rain. She is damp and bedraggled. Dan is here to cheer her up with news!  The WGA strike appears to be over! Collection action works! So we’ve got that going for us! Also, the government is probably going to shut down, a Democratic Senator is taking gold bars, there’s a debate happening that no one wants to watch, and Donald Trump expressed a wish to buy a Glock.  But a...

SAYS BOOBERT 20.09.2023

After the tribulations of last week, Maureen and Dan are back and in better form. They have nice shirts on. They’re awake. Everything’s going great! Except that there’s COVID in the house of mj. Also, she saw a good dead rat. Was last week a dream? Did that impeachment threat ever materialize? No. No one can explain it. But Hunter Biden is in the news because of a gun. Because we care about guns n...

SAVE DAN SINKER 13.09.2023

Dan hasn’t slept in four days. Maureen just had a root canal three hours ago and is still groggy from drugs. Things start a bit loosey-goosey, but take a strong turn when Maureen tells Dan about some news he hasn’t heard. A certain dot f y I fella isn’t quite ready to handle it. Group nap after this one, Sayswhovia. Group nap. Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon a...

YOU'LL BE A DENTIST 06.09.2023

Imagine you start an episode and you discuss the events of the week and then someone gets a toothache and it gets worse and worse and you end up cutting things short. Just imagine. Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

GET ON THE BUS 30.08.2023

Everyone's back home! Summer is coming to a close and school is back in session. But mostly... get ready for a bonkers fall which will be nothing compared to the spring. Come March, right now is what you will be nostalgic for. Yes, there were mugshots but mostly things got weird.  Here comes the school bus, get on board. Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patr...

SOMEONE GET CLINT 23.08.2023

Greetings from the road, SaysWhovia!  Well, Maureen isn’t exactly on the road. She’s in Philadelphia, though occasionally sounds like she's underwater (we don't know why and apologize). But Dan very much is, and the road is not being nice to Dan. Dan is having a time of it, and it doesn’t help that the Trump Fuck Around And Find Out calendar is again targeting him personally. Yes, we’re ending a h...

REACH FOR THE ORANGE 16.08.2023

Dan is off dropping the teen off at college and stopped crying long enough to record. And that's good because there has been NEWS and Maureen wants to talk about it while Dan just wants to pick oranges and weep.   Anyway, there's been an indictment! No, not the Georgia one, which happened about 5 hours after these two finished recording, but the other indictment which happened just after they fini...

EAT THE CANDLE, KID 02.08.2023

Cheerio! Maureen is in England, where everything is cool and rainy. There is cream and tea and cake and ice cream and teeth—all the classics. Meanwhile, Dan is somewhere in a heat swamp next to a sewage drain situation. So everything is as it should be!  Dan and Maureen catch up, talking about the summer, life, how everything is on fire, and how Mitch McConnell stopped working for a while. And abo...

SUMMER MELTDOWN 19.07.2023

It's summertime and the living is... well, the living is not that easy. It's hot for one, and there's a lot going on. A lot. So much. Too much. Plus, it's summertime and that means summer travels for both Maureen and Dan. Turn a fan on, dunk yourself into some cold water, and listen in. Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

SLIP N SLIDE 12.07.2023

This week, Maureen is too hot and too wet. New York is not easy in the summer. Dan has ideas to help, but Maureen is not interested. She’s also not the only person who is too hot and too wet. It’s a Climate Change Summer! How do people keep doing normal stuff while the world changes around us? Not sure! Meanwhile, Dan is preparing to send his oldest child off to college and he is…not okay! Neither...

MAYHEM GRAVY 05.07.2023

This week, the Supreme Court did some stuff. It wasn’t great! But remember; this system is FLAWLESS! Also, Elon Musk did some stuff! But remember: rich people are always smart? Dan and Maureen probe these and other life lessons. This is basically the summer calm before the fall storm so enjoy it while you can!   Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/s...

DING! 28.06.2023

Today, Dan and Maureen talk about the Russian coup—or, no they don’t. No one knows what that was about! So they get down to the new Trump tapes. But mostly this is about Maureen’s speed dating strategy and Dan saying “Ding!” Ding! Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

SALMON HAT 21.06.2023

First, Maureen wants to talk about the terrible and entirely predictable story of the missing submarine. Maureen has been thinking a lot about things that go in the water as she has spent the weekend in the Thousand Islands. She suggests that SaysWhovia resettle there. It is peaceful and lush, with clear water and nice people who commute on jet skis and eat ice cream all day. Dan likes this idea,...

TRON CLUB 15.06.2023

Maureen insisted that Dan get off the airplane and record because a few things have happened since he left for Disney World. Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

ROLLING THUNDER 07.06.2023

Greetings SaysWhovia! By the time you read this, Dan is already halfway up Big Thunder Mountain and Maureen is packing for beautiful checks notes Syracuse. Yes, it's summertime in SaysWhovia, and that means things are getting a little loose.  But not so loose that Maureen and Dan miss the BIG NEWS, that the MAN THAT EVERYONE WANTED TO KILL, Mike Pence, has decided to run for president. And what be...

MARGINALLY EMPLOYED 31.05.2023

This week, Maureen gets to the bottom of her notebook crisis. Dan has an emotional breakthrough at a barbecue. And Ron DeSantis enters the ring in the most SaysWhovian way possible. Grab another Spicy Sizzler Sando, SaysWhovia! Because we’re not going anywhere! Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

CRYSTAL CHINOS 24.05.2023

Welcome to this week’s Says Who, where… oh, Maureen’s already off the rails. She needs to tell you all about her gynecologist’s TV career and all of his bees.  Dan tries to steer the car back on to the road to Florida, where Ron DeSantis continues tilting at windmills and Marco Rubio gets mad at a distant baseball game. But Maureen lunges for the wheel again.  Since this week is about weird hobbie...

SOMEBODY GET GARY 17.05.2023

Well, SaysWhovia, we begin this week with tales of Rudy Giuliani—terrible tales that Dan and Maureen go over in not great detail, because the details are not great. (For those worried about the more upsetting content, we skip this completely. We’ve got your back on this.) There are tales of pardons for sale and bags of phones. Which somehow leads Dan to a long discussion of the Most Dan Side Quest...

TOO MUCH NEWS 10.05.2023

In a SaysWho first, Dan and Maureen break into their own podcast with... another podcast.  Literally the moment after they finished recording today's episode which was about the E Jean Carroll lawsuit against Donald Trump, the verdict came in. So, back to the microphones! Then, during that , George Santos is charged with…something?  So, it's one of those easy days. Also Maureen may have a new boyf...

HARRY POTTER AND THE GO F**K YOURSELF STONE 03.05.2023

Once again, Maureen is in Pennsylvania, surrounded by eagles, beavers, turtles, and floating sheds. Dan is in Chicago, marveling at the new adult human he has produced. And that’s it! Well, until Dan goes pro and gets to the news. Trans rights and humanity are under attack, and Maureen…well, Maureen goes off. ( Content note : trans friends, this one should be a-okay to listen to because instead of...

HAPPY FEET 26.04.2023

Maureen’s fresh off a plane from Los Angeles, full of tacos and weird vibes. Dan is in his workshop, full of ideas and news. So many things to talk about. There’s the Fox lawsuit settlement. There’s Tucker, and Dom, and Nate Silver, and the Pillow Guy. But there’s also a very excited shoe, A very excited shoe. We’re about to do 2020 all over again. Low and slow. Walk with us, SaysWhovia. We have a...

DAN NEEDS A NAP 19.04.2023

Does anyone have a pillow or blanket? Dan’s here, at least in body. He has just arrived back from LA and he has not slept. Maureen is worried. Against medical advice, Dan proceeds to the news. It’s the next chapter in the Disney saga. DeSantis is taking things personally. Things are getting weird. Do you know how hard it is to be weird in Florida? Meanwhile, Dan should really go to bed. Get cozy,...

MOUSETRAP 12.04.2023

It’s finally time, SaysWhovia. Dan and Maureen are going on their long-planned trip to DisneyWorld!  Sort of! Dan has a story to tell everyone at any rate—a long and wonderful tale of a man named Ron who decided to make beef with a big mouse. This story has everything! Sort of Nazis! A frozen head! Magic water! The British royal family! And the fate of a man who thought he could take down Disney....

SEE YOU TOMORROW: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT 05.04.2023

We entered a See You Tomorrow situation fully expecting to see you tomorrow, but then two weeks passed, Maureen floated in the water then had a near-death experience, while Dan just kept stacking more plates into his spinning-plate pile and then, Donald Trump went and got himself arrested and now, finally we SEE YOU TOMORROW, today. Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Pat...

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