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The Daily Whatever, May 5: Cinco De Gato 😻

A recording from Lawrence Winnerman and Dana DuBois's live video

By Lawrence Winnerman, Dana DuBois, and Karen Marie SheltonMay 5, 2025 · 1 min read

Huge thanks to Karen Marie Shelton for joining us on The Daily Whatever!

I believe Karen is the one-and-only person who’s attended every single The Daily Whatever podcasts, so it was a thrill and an honor to have her on. The fact that we spent most of the hour talking about our cats? That was a bonus.

I was so inspired, I posted this for you, Karen:

If anyone has photos or stories about their cats, please feel free to share them in the comments! Most days we’re gonna be talking about politics or hard-hitting cultural issues or digging into memoir and fiction writing.

But some days, we just need a cuteness attack with our pets.

I’m thrilled that “Cinco de Gato” could be that day for us.

Thank you Polly Walker Blakemore, Soso, Simone Ona- musha, Brandon Ellrich, Peter William Murphy, and many others for tuning in!

Join us every weekday at 10am ET/7am PT for more The Daily Whatever.

Tomorrow we welcome Füsun Aydın and we can’t wait!

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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

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