This Week on the Daily Whatever Show—With Two Bonus Shows!
Week of June 29-July 3, 2026
The science fiction writer
Lawrence 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 Lawrence
TDWS: Effed-Up Friday with Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Politics, perspective, and plenty of gallows humor as Anne P. Mitchell helped us sort through another week in America.
Last Minute Switch—Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Joins Us for Effed-Up Friday!
Join us on Friday, June 26th for our weekly news rundown and competition.
The Daily Whatever Show: Effed-Up Friday with Guest Ann Kramer
A recording from Lawrence Winnerman's live video
Effed-Up Friday with Special Guest Ann Kramer
Join us on Friday, June 19th for our weekly news rundown and competition.
The Daily Whatever Show - Effed-Up Friday with Ellie Leonard!
Ellie Leonard joined us for our final daily broadcast before summer mode, and somehow the conversation turned into a reflection on parenting, transitions, and the moments we don't realize are ending u
The Daily Whatever Show: Dana, Dana, Dana! (And Lawrence)
It was a triple D threat--or as we dubbed it, the Danaverse
The Daily Whatever Show: What We're Working on AMA
A recording from The Daily Whatever Show's live video
TDWS: Not Straight Forward with Lawrence Winnerman & Aidan Wharton and Guest Füsun Aydin
A recording from Lawrence Winnerman's live video
This Week on the Daily Whatever Show
Week of June 8-12, 2026
The Daily Whatever Show - Effed-Up Friday with Guest Nick Paro!
A recording from Lawrence Winnerman's live video
The Daily Whatever Show Celebrates Rosie the Resister
Rosie the Resister joined us for a final conversation about courage, motherhood, mortality, and the work we leave behind for others to carry.
Talking "Under-Babied" and More on Amped Up
Trump VANISHES for 7 Days — and the Rumors Are Wild
The Daily Whatever Show: Our Summer Vacation AUA (Ask Us Anything)
A conversation about creative burnout, making space for what comes next, and why sometimes the best way forward is to pause.
Who Are You When You Take Yourself Apart?
Four men, one question—when you rebuild yourself from scratch, what's the part that stays?
The Cloud Has to Land Somewhere
Whose water, whose power, whose backyard? Inside the real cost of the $650 billion AI buildout—and the fight against it.
This Week on the Daily Whatever Show
Week of June 1-5, 2026
Saturdays for Sanity
Lawrence & Dana spend an epic Saturday morning live with the Mayday Network
The Daily Whatever Show: Effed-Up Friday with Grounded Podcast
☀️ the Daily Whatever Show Is Going on Summer Vacation ☀️
You Cannot Build Community by Starving the Creators
Nicole Walters joined TDWS for a conversation about reinvention, money trauma, creator burnout, and why so many Gen X creatives struggle to ask for support
This Week on the Daily Whatever Show
Week of May 25-29, 2026
TDWS: Effed-Up Friday with Qasim Rashid
From Stephen Colbert to New Orleans to Elon Musk’s AI future, this week’s Fucked Up Friday explored what happens when distraction becomes governance
The People Demanding More Babies Won’t Protect the Ones Already Here
A conversation about motherhood, trans kids, reproductive rights, evangelical culture, and why so many women are rejecting the systems that raised them