Walter Rhein Podcast

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The actual letter I sent out for Christmas this year. December 2025 This is the time of year when we’re supposed to send out little notes to let everyone know how our family is doing. We wish for peace on Earth and celebrate a feeling of goodwill. But this year, I find I can’t engage in such superficial platitudes without sounding like an enormous hypocrite. I know that we’re not supposed to actua...

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Hello Friends! This was a great conversation with Brian over at the Together Foundation . He works both on Medium and Substack and he reached out to me because he had some great questions about what kind of changes are needed in terms of online publishing platforms. Holy cow did we have a great talk! I glanced at the email he sent and I realized I was going to have to write pages and pages to answ...

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Hey Friends! I love these dudes! The Friday rant was just sort of born into the world by the power of three immortals, and now we’re on our… what, 6th or 7th week? Shane Yirak is always on fire and Arturo Dominguez speaks with the wisdom of 10 generations. And me… well, I occasionally crash out. The initial concept of the Friday Rant was to just engage in some primal scream therapy. Holy cow does...

I grew up in the era of the local newspaper. My town only had two thousand people, yet we were able to keep two reporters employed. They covered school sports and did regular profiles on the students and the members of the community. We even had our own cartoonist. His drawings reflected the unique humor of our town. It was fun to flip through the pages on a Sunday morning and get an idea about wh...

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Hey Everyone! Last week, Ben Ulansey sat down with me and Natasha K. to chat about film and anything other than politics. Naturally, we got stuck talking about politics too because it’s pretty much impossible when the president’s death squad is knocking at your door. Natasha had a work meeting, so Ben and I began with some thoughts about Eddington . I kept forgetting Pedro Pascal’s name. My recall...

Originally published on Medium back when we used to have a president. It’s hard to argue with somebody when they say “Our society needs more solutions that are based on good old-fashioned common sense.” In fact, when somebody invokes the phrase “common sense” in an argument, you might find yourself scrambling to retain credibility. People will look at you and mutter, “That kid is a darned fool.” T...

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One of the most pathetic causes of all the conflict in the United States is the reality of fragile masculinity. I would suggest that much of the toxic patriarchy and the toxic rape culture of the United States is derived from a sense of fear that a world of traditional masculine values is slipping away. Nonsense. We’ve never had a world of masculine values. It’s always been masculine oppression. T...

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I’ve been suicidal at various points in my life. People don’t know about it because I never woke up in the hospital, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t go through the planning. It’s problematic to think of contemplating self-harm as something you “get away with.” Those aren’t thoughts you should hide. Those are thoughts you should share. As for me, I didn’t talk about my depression because I couldn’t...

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The law said the teachers couldn’t hit us, but they had ways around that. They delivered our education through an authority based system. Authority leverages the power of pain as one of its primary tools. The classroom was filled with heavy things. The desks were heavy and made of metal. There was a heavy pencil sharpener bolted to the wall. The door itself was gigantic and thick. We had a blackbo...

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In the wake of this horrific, dystopian year, my wife and I made the mutual decision to stop watching the news. That’s why, in 2025, we enjoy our morning coffee while watching The Brady Bunch . My wife grew up in Peru, so she never heard of this show. I knew it existed, I just avoided it when I was a kid. For the most part, The Brady Bunch helps keep my blood pressure down. But yesterday I saw an...

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Hello Friends! The other day I had a conversation with Natasha K. She’s just getting started on Substack and she asked for some advice on growth strategies. I realized I hadn’t done an article like that in a while so I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to tell you all about my latest thoughts on this topic. I started Substack on January 30th, 2023 with 2 subscribers (one was me). I impor...

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The United States healthcare system is so astoundingly corrupt that it’s a wonder people aren’t protesting in the streets. The simple fact is that you can work hard all your life only to have everything you’ve acquired stripped from you the moment you fall ill. Prices are so out of control that people cower in terror at the thought of losing their jobs and health insurance. Even with insurance, yo...