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Walter Rhein Podcast
Thoughts on culture, politics, racism, and what the United States has to do to make up for this embarrassment of an administration. walterrhein.substack.com
Episodes
Walter Rhein PodcastA Round Up Of Little-Known Christmas Movies From Years Ending in 4
Hey Everybody,This seemed like an appropriate replay for Christmas day. Brandon joined us to discuss his exploration of little known Christmas films. By…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow We Made It Through Our Darkest Winter
Hello Everyone! Merry Christmas! I wrote this story about five or six years ago and actually won a contest with it. I think it’s an appropriate sentiment for…
Walter Rhein PodcastA Replay of My Very First Substack Live While Out Skiing
Hello Friends,I saw this video sitting in my draft folder so I thought I’d dust it off and publish it. It was from a day in maybe December or January when I…
Walter Rhein PodcastPrimal Scream to End 2025 and other Shenanigans
Hey Friends!This was a fun one, I got all riled up and started screaming into the microphone, then Dana and Lawrence joined in. I mean… if any year deserved be…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow I Know That Magic Is Real and That Our Spirits Are Eternal
As I slid into the family car, I noticed how the warm rays of the morning sun had illuminated the gently floating dust motes. They blazed with a muted but…
Walter Rhein PodcastI Found Out My Work Is Being Aggregated to a Hostile, Right-Wing Hate Platform
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Walter Rhein PodcastThe Impact of Racism on Healthcare Outcomes
Hello Everyone!Will and I got together last week for an important talk about medical racism. When cruelty is allowed in our medical system, you can believe…
Walter Rhein PodcastPeru's Choquequirao Represented the End of a Chapter in My Life
Hey Everyone! I’m going to try to give you a break from all the hard content since it’s the holiday season. This is one of the various retellings of the trip I…
Walter Rhein PodcastIf All Lives Mattered, College Would be Free
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Walter Rhein PodcastPracticing Accountability Means Demanding That All Politicians Meet a Standard of Integrity
Hey Everyone!Nick and I had another wonderful talk with an emphasis on accountability. It’s really concerning how little integrity actually plays a role in our…
Walter Rhein PodcastWe Knew the GOP Would Try to Blame Clinton, But How Should We Respond?
Hello Friends,The first thing I want to say is that we’re in the middle of some extremely difficult times. The Epstein files represent a culmination of an…
Walter Rhein PodcastWe Have to Stop White Supremacy Hate Groups from Going to Colleges to Indoctrinate our Kids
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Walter Rhein PodcastHow to Prepare for Censorship by Establishing Yourself on Various Platforms
Hello Everyone!I came to Substack by way of Medium. My first posts on this platform were tutorials about how to use Medium. I published those posts here…
Walter Rhein PodcastAren't You Sick of Being Manipulated by Social Media?
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Walter Rhein PodcastHow to Dismantle All Authoritarian Power Structures and Create an Ideal Society
Hello Folks!I’m still in the middle of my holiday scramble, so I’m more than a full week behind in scheduling this live. My good friend Robert Danna told me to…
Walter Rhein PodcastSelf-Censorship Is Already Happening Because Freedom of Speech Can Make You a Target
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Walter Rhein PodcastWhich Actors Are Most Overrated in Hollywood and Other Silliness--Escapist Delights
Hey Everybody!I’ve been overdoing it with lives the last few weeks so that I’ll have content to post over the holidays. That way you won’t start to miss me 😊…
Walter Rhein PodcastA Vote For Hate Is a Vote For Death
A day of accountability is coming. It could have been directed at the nepo baby orange post turtle with ties to child rapists. Collectively, as a nation, we…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow to Live a Life In Accordance With Your Personal Values
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Walter Rhein PodcastWhat America Needs Is More Mothers in Political Office
Hello Everyone!I had the opportunity to sit down with Liuba Grechen Shirley who is the founder and CEO of Vote Mama Foundation. It’s an organization that helps…
Walter Rhein PodcastI’ll Only Vote for Democrats Who Are Actively Anti-Racist
We’ve all experienced injustice. We’ve all endured treatment that wasn’t charitable, kind, or fair. It’s not hard to find agreement that malicious behavior…
Walter Rhein PodcastMisogyny, Gatekeepers, and the War on Kindness
Hello Everyone!My conversations with Will always represent the turning point of the week. After Wednesday, I pivot to movies with Ben Ulansey and then the…
Walter Rhein PodcastCan We Please Hold the Right Wing Accountable for Sending Death Threats?
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Walter Rhein PodcastHow Evil People Are Desperate to Escape the Thunderous Echo of Their Insignificance
Let’s bring it back to basics. Good people build. Evil people destroy. It’s as simple as that. The reason evil people can only destroy is because they don’t…
Walter Rhein PodcastOur Society Allows Child Rapists to Walk Free and it Places an Impossible Burden on the Innocent
Hello Friends,I can’t believe it’s already been a week since this conversation. I’m scheduled to again chat with Nick Paro later today. In this episode we had…
Walter Rhein PodcastGoodbye In Advance For the Day This Regime Decides to Come and Censor Me
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Walter Rhein PodcastDon't Be So Distracted by the Corruption That You Miss the Bigger Problem
This morning as I was scrolling through the news, I noticed how every story felt like a distraction. All the headlines were the same, “Breaking news” or “Holy…
Walter Rhein PodcastNo, Racists Aren’t “Only” Abusive to the Groups They Discriminate Against
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Walter Rhein PodcastJames Carville Costs Democrats Votes Every Time He Opens His Entitled, Obnoxious, Ignorant Mouth
Hello Friends,James Carville recently went after Jasmine Crockett and his comments left me enraged. Here’s a guy that’s so out of touch that he thinks he has…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow the Supremacy Mindset Turns Impressionable Boys Into Mass Shooters
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Walter Rhein PodcastThe Radical Right Is Just Looking for an Excuse to Kill Us and the Media is Complicit
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Walter Rhein PodcastWhat Everyone Gets Wrong When it Comes to Writing a Family Holiday Letter
The actual letter I sent out for Christmas this year.December 2025This is the time of year when we’re supposed to send out little notes to let everyone know…
Walter Rhein PodcastI Witnessed a Childhood Friend Succumb to the Pressure of Judgment and Poverty
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Walter Rhein PodcastHow Do We Improve Activist Coordination in the Digital Age?
Hello Friends!This was a great conversation with Brian over at the Together Foundation. He works both on Medium and Substack and he reached out to me because…
Walter Rhein PodcastRepublicans Are Better at Supporting Hate Than Democrats Are at Supporting Kindness
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Walter Rhein PodcastSending Love and Appreciation to All My Compassionate and Empowering Readers
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Walter Rhein PodcastBillionaires Protect Themselves as They Burn Down the World And We're Not Having It
Hey Friends!I love these dudes! The Friday rant was just sort of born into the world by the power of three immortals, and now we’re on our… what, 6th or 7th…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow You're Losing an Information War You Didn't Realize You Were Fighting
I grew up in the era of the local newspaper. My town only had two thousand people, yet we were able to keep two reporters employed. They covered school sports…
Walter Rhein PodcastRepublicans Block the Laws that Would Stop Insane Men From Pulling the Trigger
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Walter Rhein PodcastGuilty Pleasures Like "The Housewives" and Other Suggestions for Streaming
Hey Everyone!Last week, Ben Ulansey sat down with me and Natasha K. to chat about film and anything other than politics. Naturally, we got stuck talking about…
Walter Rhein PodcastDon't Mistake Your Unconscious Bias For Common Sense
Originally published on Medium back when we used to have a president.It’s hard to argue with somebody when they say “Our society needs more solutions that are…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow To Recognize If You’re Confronting Deliberate Malice or Honest Ignorance
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Walter Rhein PodcastIt's Time to Grab Toxic Masculinity by the Balls
One of the most pathetic causes of all the conflict in the United States is the reality of fragile masculinity. I would suggest that much of the toxic…
Walter Rhein PodcastRepublicans and MAGA Seem to Be Fine With Protecting Child Rapists
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Walter Rhein PodcastHow Losing Somebody Drains All the Color Out of Your Life
I’ve been suicidal at various points in my life. People don’t know about it because I never woke up in the hospital, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t go through…
Walter Rhein PodcastAmerica's Right Wing Doesn't Produce Jack Squat
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Walter Rhein PodcastWhy It’s a Tragedy that Adults Rarely Model Accountability in the USA
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Walter Rhein PodcastGetting Educated in the Era of Toxic Authority
The law said the teachers couldn’t hit us, but they had ways around that. They delivered our education through an authority based system. Authority leverages…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow Trickle-Down Hatred Impacts and Dehumanizes Your Co-Workers
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Walter Rhein PodcastI'm Dealing With the Sadness and Stress of the Hectic Holiday Season
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Walter Rhein PodcastRacists Are Up To Their Eyeballs in Shame and a Small Push Can Provoke a Collapse
In the wake of this horrific, dystopian year, my wife and I made the mutual decision to stop watching the news. That’s why, in 2025, we enjoy our morning…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow Rural Conservative Holiday Traditions Are Actually Harmful to Our Kids
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Walter Rhein PodcastHow To Succeed (and Fail) as a Human Writer in an AI World
Hello Friends!The other day I had a conversation with Natasha K. She’s just getting started on Substack and she asked for some advice on growth strategies. I…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow Ignorant Rural Republicans Forced Me on a Quest for Books
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Walter Rhein PodcastThey Need Our Blood, So Healthcare Should Be Free
The United States healthcare system is so astoundingly corrupt that it’s a wonder people aren’t protesting in the streets. The simple fact is that you can work…
Walter Rhein PodcastIt’s Validating to Empower People to Embrace Their Authentic Sparkle
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Walter Rhein PodcastThe Fascist Right Plays Dirty and They Absolutely Want to Silence Decent People Forever
Hello Friends,I think the main thing that makes me irritated right now is when people try to insist that we need to “remain friends” with verifiably awful…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow Citizen's United Allows Pedophile Money to Buy the US Government
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Walter Rhein PodcastSkiing and Laughing in the Deep, Dark, Woods With Daddy and the Dog
Sunday was piano day for my eldest, so I asked my youngest if she wanted to go skiing. We’d had the first real snowfall of the winter overnight, and I’d spent…
Walter Rhein PodcastSexual Frustration Is at the Root of the Political Right
If you’ve spent the last few years trying to figure out what motivates conservatives, I have two words for you: sexual frustration. It’s obvious in everything…