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The Daily Whatever, Jun 20: Fucked-up Friday with Frederic Poag & Walter Rhein

The episode I nearly slept through (but was so glad I didn't!)

I always knew this day would come.

As many of you know, I’m a west-coaster and a night owl. So a 7am daily podcast requires discipline as well as a loud alarm.

Guess which one I forgot to set this morning?

It was a delight to realize how much concern you all had for me—so many messages!—and a relief my amazing guests

and were such good sports about it all. We still had a rowdy chat and such amazing conversation about all the fucked-up news of the week.

Specifically, our Fucked-up Friday picks were:

  • Walter went with the Democrats lacking an ounce of spine to stand up to Republicans, directed in particular to the 18 Senate Dems who helped pass the so-called GENIUS Act win for the cryptocurrency industry.

  • Frederic gave himself a “no Trump” policy to help limit the fucked-uppery of the week, and spoke about our society’s decline into incivility, as demonstrated by this woman on a flight ridiculing and spitting on her seatmate, who she’d decided was too fat.

  • Dana picked the story of Adriana Smith, the Georgia woman who’s been kept on life support since February to gestate her baby due to the state’s draconian so-called “pro-life” laws. The news claimed she “delivered” her baby this week. In reality, her baby boy Chance was extracted prematurely from her remains as they decomposed past a point where they could support his life.

Frederic tried to steal the vote Trump-style, but in the end, I emerged victorious.

But no one wins when women are forced to birth, and Adriana’s story is the worst but also inevitable reality now in the pro-forced-birth United States. It’s beyond fucked up.

One small way we can all help: here’s a GoFundMe for Adriana’s family, including her seven-year-old son.

(Aside to

: one day we should have an episode about how GoFundMe is another horror of late-stage capitalism…)

Y’all are the very best and it was an honor and thrill to chat with all of you…

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Love you mean it!

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