This was a thrilling episode of The Daily Whatever Show with our dear friend, . Have at it!

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We’re thrilled to welcome the our dear friend (and brilliant investigative journalist) back to the show for Fucked-up Friday this week!

Mark your calendars—it’s 10am ET this Friday, Aug 21. 🗓️

Here’s the full rest-of-summer lineup!

• Aug 21:

• Aug 28:

• Sept 4:

• Sept 11:

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Then we launched into our Fucked-up Friday competition... and you’re gonna have to tune in to hear which stories we thought were even more fucked-up than all that.

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We’re thrilled to welcome the incredible to the show for Fucked-up Friday!

Mark your calendars—it’s 10am ET this Friday, Aug 14. 🗓️

Here’s the full rest-of-summer lineup!

• Aug 14:

• Aug 21:

• Aug 28:

• Sept 4:

• Sept 11:

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Then it was time for Fucked-up Friday, where we discussed three wildly different contenders. pitched a story about AI-created viruses with no evolutionary history, discussed the cop supervisor in Texas who stole a female police officers’ intimate photos from her phone without recourse, and connected the dots from Jon Stewart’s 9/11 first responders fight to the broader failures of this administration to protect the military people they claim to serve with basic provisions—and the guarantee their loved ones won’t be deported by ICE while they’re deployed.

As always, the chat had the final say on who brought the most horrifying story of the week—listen in to learn who won!

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We’re thrilled to welcome the incredible to the show for Fucked-up Friday!

Mark your calendars—it’s 10am ET this Friday, Aug 7. 🗓️

Here’s the full rest-of-summer lineup!

• Aug 7:

• Aug 14:

• Aug 21:

• Aug 28:

• Sept 4:

• Sept 11:

We’ll be posting more about each guest per week, but wanted to share our full summer calendar so you can plan around it.

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is back this week and he and are thrilled to welcome the incredible to the show for Fucked-up Friday!

Mark your calendars—it’s 10am ET this Friday, July 31. 🗓️

Here’s the full rest-of-summer lineup!

• July 31:

• Aug 7:

• Aug 14:

• Aug 21:

• Aug 28:

• Sept 4:

• Sept 11:

We’ll be posting more about each guest per week, but wanted to share our full summer calendar so you can plan around it.

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Thanks for listening!

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What happened was an hour about what it costs to refuse to shrink.

Karen walked us through where things stand with The Washington Post: she was fired in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing, after commenting on the political discourse around his death on Blue Sky. The Post’s argument was that she’d endangered her colleagues. The record says otherwise — the threats the Post cited were directed at her, not at anyone else at the paper, and still the institution moved to protect itself rather than her.

She named the pattern plainly: this is the same paper that suspended Felicia Sonmez for factually reporting Kobe Bryant’s rape case the day he died. Punish the woman who won’t perform grief on command for a man credibly accused of harm.

Then there’s her book. Karen was the editor who hired Jamal Khashoggi — worked with him for a year before he was murdered in Istanbul by Saudi agents. She’d finished a manuscript about that year with him, close to the finish line, when the Post quietly stopped the editing process. Three years later, she still doesn’t know why. Now, watching the paper scrub Jamal’s name from its own history at the same time it’s trying to write her out of hers, she’s treating the book as an obligation rather than a project — her word was spiritual. She’s finishing it no matter what happens with the arbitration.

The entire chat blew up with future readers.

Nicole’s through-line was permission, specifically women’s refusal to keep asking for it. She told the story of how she first landed on my radar: the week Andrew Tate hit number one on Substack’s bestseller list to widespread outrage, and Nicole unseated him. Her point wasn’t the ranking. It was what she said when I asked her and Karen why neither of them had a thousand invitations already sitting in their inbox: because we have to work ten times harder for the attention any mediocre white man gets for doing less.

RELATABLE.

Put next to each other, their stories weren’t really about journalism and entrepreneurship as separate lanes. They were the same fight in two rooms: institutions — a newsroom, an industry, your own inner critic — will ask women to make themselves smaller in exchange for safety, and the safety is usually fake anyway. Karen’s fighting that fight in arbitration. Nicole’s fighting it every time she tells a client to send that invoice. Neither one is interested in shrinking to make it easier on anyone else.

If you’re not already subscribed to these women, do not pass go or collect $200. Just got subscribe—and if you can, pay for it. Independent journalism doesn’t run on goodwill.

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It’s my birthday week!

My birthday is Saturday, and I’m calling it—I’m getting the most amazing birthday gift a day early, because I have the incredible and joining me on for Fucked-up Friday on .

I’m over the moon!!

When told me he’d be out of town this week, I was a bit bummed, but determined to make the most of it. I’ll miss him terribly but also—this show is going to be incredible!

Mark your calendars, and see you there. 🗓️

Here’s the full rest-of-summer lineup!

• July 24: +

• July 31:

• Aug 7:

• Aug 14:

• Aug 21:

• Aug 28:

• Sept 4:

• Sept 11:

We’ll be posting more about each guest per week, but wanted to share our full summer calendar so you can plan around it.

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It’s Firesmoke season, the air quality index is apocalyptic, and the news is worse—so naturally we’re laughing so we don’t cry. Waj of returns to the show and comes in absolutely scorching, with a unified theory of why the self-styled alpha males of MAGA are, shall we say, protesting too much. From Pete Hegseth’s “High-Tea” military makeover to a Blue Angels flyover that traumatized a beach full of American families, Waj connects the dots between closeted self-loathing and public cruelty—and Lawrence, speaking as your friendly local queer, has receipts.

There’s also a genuinely moving detour into the death of Lindsey Graham, an essay called “The Wren in the House,” and the best Bourne trilogy reference you’ll hear all week: look at what they make you give.

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Then it’s time for the main event. Three contenders enter the Fucked Up Friday arena: masked ICE agents operating with total impunity, a White House spectacle seemingly ripped from a dystopian YA novel, and a brand-new “revenue stream” so nakedly corrupt they announced it proudly, out loud, on purpose.

The chat votes, the race is closer than you’d think, and we’re not telling you who won.

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Along the way: Trump’s mush-mouthed prime-time speech, the networks that finally grew a spine, and an urgent public service announcement about your bagged salad. Watch to the end for the return of the Strait of Hummus—creamy, thick, rich, and now with roasted pepper.

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Thank-You Note

A huge thank-you to everyone who packed the chat this week. You crashed it—twice—which we’re choosing to take as a compliment. You dropped names, receipts, and links faster than we could read them, kept the vote count honest, and turned Fucked Up Friday into the best party at the end of the world. Extra love to our tireless moderator, , who rode out every crash and kept the whole thing humming. We see every one of you, and we’re grateful for you:

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We’re live every weekday at 10am ET with thoughtful analysis, sharp interviews, cultural commentary, humor, and the kind of conversations that don’t pretend everything is fine when it clearly isn’t.

If you’re enjoying what we’re building, please consider supporting our work with a paid subscription. Your support helps us keep the show independent, book fascinating guests, and continue creating smart conversations with your morning coffee.

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The Daily Whatever Show schedule this week

As you all likely know, The Daily Whatever Show is on a bit of a Summer Vacation, so we’re on Fridays-only for the season. We’ve got an entire summer of Fucked-up Friday episodes booked.

And this week we’ll be joined by the amazing !

Please join us—and mark your calendar for the rest of the summer. 🗓️

• July 17:

• July 24:

• July 31:

• Aug 7:

• Aug 14:

• Aug 21:

• Aug 28:

• Sept 4:

• Sept 11:

We’ll be posting more about each guest per week, but wanted to share our full summer calendar so you can plan around it.

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Thanks for listening!

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Because we had the immense honor to welcome the great almighty to The Daily Whatever Show, and while I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumors, I can confirm: God has a sick sense of humor.

And we were all here for it, as the conversation popped off about queer Jesus, fountains of shit, deviled eggs (god-ed eggs?), and my deep unholy desire to challenge the omniscient, omnipotent God to a karaoke-off. (We need to make that happen, amirite??)

Then we settled into our regularly scheduled Effed-up Friday programming, breaking down another week of spectacularly unhinged headlines with God's running commentary. I’m not going to give away the stories or the winner—but let’s say it featured everything from Trump Derangement Syndrome to explosive diarrhea. Was it a cause and effect situation? Who can say. You’re just going to have to listen.

In the end, and I realized: God really is like one of us. Just a slob like one of us.

We wouldn’t want it any other way.

Thank you , , , , , and many others for tuning in, and to for moderating.

Tune in next Friday, July 17 when we welcome for Fucked-up Friday!!

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Keep up with her work at Say No To Crip Crow and here:

Nothing About Us Without Us

Nothing About Us Without Us proudly serves as the welcoming home for Disability Community for Democracy, Inc., fostering a spirit of inclusion and collective voice.

By Nieta Greene

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The Daily Whatever Show schedule this week

As you all likely know, The Daily Whatever Show is on a bit of a Summer Vacation, so we’re on Fridays-only for the season.

So what did we do? We went ahead and booked incredible guests for the entire summer.

I mean, check out this line-up—it’s bonkers good!

• July 10: !!

• July 17:

• July 24:

• July 31:

• Aug 7:

• Aug 14:

• Aug 21:

• Aug 28:

• Sept 4:

• Sept 11:

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We’re not going to reveal the stories—just that Ayana won in a landslide.

Have a listen!

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Here are the essays we discussed:

Lawrence Winnerman

Zionist

by Lawrence Winnerman…

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Lawrence Winnerman

The Yobitsugi Plan: A Palestine & Israel Confederation

by Lawrence Winnerman…

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An Ambivalent Jew Returns to Germany for Taylor Swift

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We’d welcome your productive comments/feedback on anything else shared in this video.

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In the interest of time—and because Nick covered this so well—I’m going to quote him below, so we can start spreading the word ASAP.

In Nick’s own words…

A huge thank you to my friends Dana DuBois and Lawrence Winnerman (of The Daily Whatever Show) for hosting Nieta Greene (of Disability Community for Democracy) and me in this call to action for Saying No To Crip Crow.

The only ask I have for any of you reading this, or listening to the replay, is that you take the time today—and every day after—to contact your federal Representative and Senators to help us codify the rights and freedoms of the 1999 Olmstead decision into law as an expansion of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

To get involved, stay informed, and see the scripts/templates to help you make the calls, visit our new support page at: https://app.broadbanner.com/crip-crow

Thank you , , , , , and many others for tuning in, with huge thanks to Karen and for moderating.

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If you’re enjoying what we’re building, please consider supporting our work with a paid subscription. Your support helps us keep the show independent, book fascinating guests, and continue creating smart conversations with your morning coffee.

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The Daily Whatever Show schedule this week

We have two bonus shows for you all this week, so mark your calendars! 🗓️

Tues, June 30: A Call To Action: Say No to Crip Crow with .

and are sounding the alarm on a June 18th DOJ memo that undermines the Olmstead decision — the Supreme Court ruling that people with disabilities have the right to live in their communities rather than institutions — and calling on readers to contact their legislators now to stop what they're calling "Crip Crow": the re-legalization of forced institutionalization and segregation of disabled people.

When Nick asked if he could come on TDWS to spread the word, of course we said yes.

Thurs, July 2: A Reckoning With Our Jewish Identities

Lawrence and I are about the least active Jews you could imagine. But we’ve found ourselves in the strange position of defending—or at least, storytelling—about the ways in which our Jewish identity impacts us as antisemitism rises worldwide. We each have a new essay coming this week, and we’re going to go live on Thursday to talk about them both.

Fri, July 3: Effed-up Friday with

Y’all know what Effed-up Friday is all about—so join us as we welcome the amazing for her first visit to the show for everyone’s favorite weekly news show and competition!

Please join us for these three episodes at 10am ET/7am PT.

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We kicked things off with special guest , who jumped in at the last minute after was sidelined with a broken finger (get well soon, Zev!!).

Before diving into the week’s most outrageous headlines, Lawrence and I spent time discussing his powerful new essay on reclaiming the word Zionist and why nuance is disappearing from conversations about Israel, Gaza, and the future of the Democratic Party.

It’s definitely worth a listen to all of our stories—but spoiler alert, Anne won, hands down.

Thank you , , , , , and many others for tuning in and to and for moderating.

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We’re live every weekday at 10am ET with thoughtful analysis, sharp interviews, cultural commentary, humor, and the kind of conversations that don’t pretend everything is fine when it clearly isn’t.

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