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The Daily Whatever, Jun 18: Talking Taylor

Featuring Steve Uppendahl

By Dana DuBois, Lawrence Winnerman, and Steve UppendahlJune 18, 2025 · 1 min read

Huge thanks to everyone who tuned in for our Live chat with Steve Uppendahl today! It was a blast to talk about parenting teen daughters and traveling internationally to take them to see Taylor Swift—as well as the impact Taylor has had on them (and us).

Here are links to the stories:

Steve’s story is on Medium so the link won’t unfurl, but you can find it here.

To the Whatevers—BiffBiff, Brandon Ellrich, Callie🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽, Cat, OldHenCharlie, Craig Nixon, Damon Kenner, Dan Wann, DILLIGAF?IDO, Eileen Dougharty, Füsun Aydın, John saxon, Karen Marie Shelton, Kris Winters, Lahboss, The Momster, The One Minute Daily Boost, Peter William Murphy, Polly Walker Blakemore, Carol, Kelley, Robin Wilding, @dunn647, Soso , @susanmasonartist, The Bathrobe Guy 👘, Wendy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈, Victor Cardenas, Millard W. Hall, William Mieras—thanks as always for keeping our chat as lively/naughty/hilarious as ever.

We love you, mean it!

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Dana DuBois

The memoirist

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. All stories by Dana

Lawrence Winnerman

The science fiction writer

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. All stories by Lawrence