The Daily Whatever

genXy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. We had an insanely good time hanging with Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney this morning for their show. We laughed, we cried, we talked MAGA Face. You’ve just got to watch this one! Thank you Jenn Budd , Eric Lullove , Stuart Cohen , An Mcgreevy , LeftieProf , and many...

Today’s episode of The Daily Whatever Show marked the start of something new, with me, Lawrence Winnerman , officially launching my Monday queer takeover: Not Straightforward . Not Straightforward envisions a queer conversation space that refuses simplification—where lived experience matters more than hot takes, complexity beats slogans, and honesty isn’t softened for comfort. It’s a place for peo...

Note: You can also catch Matt on Blue Amp Media . Today’s The Daily Whatever Show opened with its usual warmth and chaos, as I checked in “from the field” — specifically, the open-air, poolside setting of an L.A. airport hotel at 7 a.m. The vibes were already different, and the hotel staff specifically commented on how they loved my energy. My morning tea was elusive, but the Starbucks at the near...

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Thank you Neurodivergent Hodgepodge , Rachel @ This Woman Votes , Cat , Polly Walker Blakemore , Char Sundust , and many others for tuning into my live video with Melissa Corrigan, she/her , Lawrence Winnerman , and GenXy ! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to The Daily Whatever Show at www.thedailywhatevershow.com/subscribe

Thank you Nick Paro , Dr. Amber Hull , Polly Walker Blakemore , Char Sundust , Melissa Corrigan, she/her , and many others for tuning into my live video with Dana DuBois ! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to The Daily Whatever Show at www.thedailywhatevershow.com/subscribe

Thank you Nick Paro , Dr. Amber Hull , This Woman Votes , Caro Henry , Cat , and many others for tuning into my live video with Dana DuBois ! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to The Daily Whatever Show at www.thedailywhatevershow.com/subscribe

Today’s Bestie Day opened on a somber note. Before we said anything else, Lawrence shared the update none of us wanted but all of us needed to hear: his mom was heading to surgery for her cancer soon. The fear, the love, the exhaustion — all of it was right there in his voice. The chat rallied immediately, wrapping him in the softest kind of support: shared stories, prayers, holding space. A Melis...

We opened today’s The Daily Whatever Show with some pre-Thanksgiving banter (and Dana DuBois channeling her recurring “old smoker barfly” voice), plus a quick chat about Dana’s new essay When Thanksgiving Isn’t Safe for Your Trans or Nonbinary Child , delving into issues around family, pronouns, and why 2025 feels very different from pre-Trump-2.0 days. After that, we pulled in our guest Dash from...

This show was pure electricity — the kind where the guest arrives mid-chaos, mid-tech-glitch, mid-greenroom confusion, and still manages to set the universe on fire within three minutes of speaking. That is, in short, Mona Das . Lawrence Winnerman and I opened by letting everyone witness the sausage-making: Mona briefly appeared on screen by accident, declared “I need to switch to my iPad,” and va...

Today’s Fucked-Up Friday episode delivered exactly the blend of outrage, catharsis, and chaotic laughter the title promises — thanks in huge part to our guest, writer and community-builder Walter Rhein , who jumped in last-minute and absolutely owned the show from the opening seconds. We kicked things off with Walter’s daughter’s adorable caricatures of us — including Lawrence’s now-iconic “eye sm...

Today Lawrence Winnerman and I got to welcome someone who has been a pillar of our little Whatever community from the very beginning: Polly Walker Blakemore . We started in the usual chaos — still riding the high of going quad-platform (Substack! YouTube! Facebook! Instagram… kind of!) — and me recovering from hosting a full-scale teenage soup party in my tiny house. Then Polly joined us and opene...

Today’s episode hit me harder than most. I came in tired — the kind of tired that comes from juggling late-stage capitalism, Substack life, and a multi-hyphenate existence where the eggs are cracked but the omelet is nowhere in sight. And then there was that New York Times article. The one asking — with a straight face — whether women are “ruining the workplace.” It gutted Dana DuBois . And honest...

Today’s Fucked Up Friday on The Daily Whatever Show brought the chaos, the catharsis, and a whole lot of righteous fury — with Dana DuBois hosting, and Melissa Corrigan, she/her and Nick Paro stepping in for me while I was off on a “secret stealth spy mission.” Both of them showed up fully loaded and absolutely delivered. The episode started with a whirlwind recap of the week’s political sewage: t...

Today’s episode of The Daily Whatever Show hit differently. Maybe because Dana DuBois and I both grew up in the era when your hometown newspaper was as essential as your morning cereal. Maybe because our guest, the extraordinary Untrickled by Michelle Teheux , brought the kind of clarity, integrity, and lived expertise that makes you realize how much we’ve lost—and how much it matters. Michelle sp...

This morning’s The Daily Whatever Show was equal parts hilarious, heartfelt, and righteously pissed off — which is to say, a typical Wednesday. Lawrence Winnerman joined me live from Seattle (yes, he’s here this week!!), and we kicked things off catching up on jet lag, sleep deprivation, and my ongoing campaign to make lentil curry a political act. Then we dove straight into the good stuff: our gu...

Today’s show was a full ninety minutes, an emotional marathon that swung from personal transformation to political courage, from quitting cigarettes to fighting hunger. We started with frustration. Another morning, another Democratic cave-in to Trump’s hostage politics. Lawrence Winnerman and I vented (loudly) about the collapse of strategy into surrender — how our party keeps defending procedure...

Today’s show was supposed to feature Tara Dublin , and we were SO excited to meet her and learn more about both her activism work in Portland and her creative writing work as a novelist. But in classic “I’m fine, everything’s fine” fashion, I gave her the wrong time zone when I sent the start time. So we’re gonna reschedule Tara’s appearance—hopefully for very soon! Instead, today was just me and...

Today’s show with Ellie Leonard felt like a collision of worlds — punk rock meets political realism, investigative spreadsheets meets motherhood, fury meets focus. Ellie, a Substack writer and self-described “railroad family mom,” has quickly become one of the most indispensable voices tracking everything from Project 2025 to the Epstein–J.P. Morgan document dump, translating corporate legalese in...

This Monday morning my voice was hanging on by a thread — the price of a Halloween dance party where I went full Jessica Rabbit (minus the dress that arrived the next day, grumble grumble). Lawrence teased me for sounding “sultry,” which was generous. But honestly, losing my voice felt like a metaphor for the week — because our conversation with Lisa | We Are The Third Estate was all about finding...

No guest today, as our scheduled guest—everyone’s favorite Epstein investigative journalist Ellie Leonard —had a last-minute kid soccer game scheduling snafu (parenting > podcasting). So it was just and me and honestly? It was kind of perfect to enjoy a meandering hour chatting up my BFF Lawrence Winnerman . After swapping soggy Halloween stories — yes, it rained in Seattle, shocking — I wished La...