Best Friends Since the Carter Administration. Furious Ever Since.
Two best friends of forty-seven years, a memoirist and a science fiction writer, reading the news out loud and refusing to pretend it is normal. Real news, told with maximum satire and outrage; anything invented is flagged.
The memoiristDana DuBois
Dana DuBois is a memoirist and Gen X word nerd based in the Pacific Northwest. She founded I Write Out Loud, her Substack publication, where she writes across a range of subjects; parenting, music and pop culture, relationships, and feminism are her favorites. She co-hosts The Daily Whatever Show. Em dashes, Oxford commas, and well-placed semicolons make her heart happy.
Stories by Dana
The science fiction writerLawrence Winnerman
Lawrence Winnerman is a science fiction writer in Fort Wayne, Indiana. After twenty-five years leading technology programs at Amazon and Microsoft, he was chief operating officer of Blue Amp Media. In his Substack publication, The Hinge & The Near Field, he writes about AI and democracy and is serializing his novel Light Shines Through. He co-hosts The Daily Whatever Show.
Stories by LawrenceUnhinged but Accurate
Everything here is real news told with maximum satire and outrage. Satire runs on a scale of one to ten, and every level of it is reality-based.
Level eleven is the only invented kind, and when a story uses it we say so at the top, with this: Contains satire
Every story carries its receipts: the court filing, the clip, the report. If we got something wrong, the receipts are how you catch us.
What This Site Is
The Daily Whatever Press is the front page for everything we publish. The stories live on Substack, where you can subscribe and comment; this is where they are collected, indexed, and kept.
The Daily Whatever Show is the broadcast: Fucked Up Friday, live every week at 10 a.m. ET.
Started as GenXy. Became The Daily Whatever. Same two people the whole time.
To reach both of us: hello@thedailywhatever.press.