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The Daily Whatever, July 26: Saturday Grab Bag

A birthday report from Dana, and Brandon jumps in!

By Lawrence Winnerman, Dana DuBois, and Brandon EllrichJuly 27, 2025 · 1 min read

Short-n-sweet, baby! On The Daily Whatever today we celebrated (again) Dana DuBois birthday, and got a report from her about the festivities of the day! Also—Dana got her first checkmark, and we learned something about how Substack doles them out!

Dana had to leave to go to her daughter’s play, and the hilarious Brandon Ellrich was game enough to jump in for the remainder of the show. Thanks, Brandon!

Thank you Robin Wilding, The Bathrobe Guy 👘, Noble Blend, Yolanda D., tecolote42, and many others for tuning into my live video with Brandon Ellrich and Dana DuBois!

Join us tomorrow for another episode of The Daily Whatever!

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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