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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 PodcastEscapist Delights in a Crumbling Democracy w/ Peter Markham
Hello Everyone!What a fascinating conversation this one turned out to be! I’m always delighted with the people Ben Ulansey manages to find for our movie talks…
Walter Rhein PodcastI Witnessed a Rural Teacher Pull a Gun on a Student
Thanks in advance for your generous donations! You make this happen! Upgrade at 30% offJenny always sat in the front row. She was to be valedictorian. In the…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow the Mindset of Rural Tribalism Has Held Me Back My Entire Life
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Walter Rhein PodcastMoving to a New Country Is Easier Than You Might Think
Your tips keep me going, thanks in advance!I wasn’t fully aware of what compelled me to get on a plane and move to Peru in 2001. George W. Bush was president…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhy You're Wrong If You Refuse to Describe Rapists and Human Traffickers as Evil
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Walter Rhein PodcastYour Patriarch Is An Abusive Sex Fiend and Liar, and He Always Has Been
Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% offYears ago I knew a guy who’d met his wife when he was working as a youth Bible counselor. She’d been…
Walter Rhein PodcastI Believe in Universal Education So My Newsletter Must Be Free
Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% offHello Friends!I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’ve been kind of slow pedaling through August. I’m…
Walter Rhein PodcastAny Swipe At Young People Is an Act of Fascist Authoritarianism
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Walter Rhein PodcastWhy You Must Consider the Possibility That All Billionaires Are Evil
If you’ve been thinking of sponsoring me, why not do so today :) Upgrade at 30% offI see a lot of posts that begin with the disclaimer “It’s not wrong to be a…
Walter Rhein PodcastMy Kids and I Spent a Day Watching Fan Videos of Warren Zevon Songs
Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% offThis article originally appeared on Medium around Thanksgiving in 2023.Yesterday one of my readers left a…
Walter Rhein PodcastNo, You Can't Sprint Past an Elite Marathoner
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Walter Rhein PodcastYou're Not a Man if You Support the Republican War on Women
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Walter Rhein PodcastIgnorance Provides the Fertile Ground in Which the Seeds of Hate May Flourish
Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% offI remember my first days as a young teacher. There was one student that the staff recognized as being…
Walter Rhein PodcastRepublicans Are Evil, the Left Is Non-Violent
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Walter Rhein PodcastWhy It’s Good to Post Things You Wouldn’t Dare to Say in Real Life
If you’ve been thinking of sponsoring me, why not do so today :) Upgrade at 30% off“Everybody’s a tough guy behind a keyboard.”I hear people grumble that…
Walter Rhein PodcastThe Passive Enablers of Fascism Are the Ones I Hate the Most
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Walter Rhein PodcastHow Editors No Longer Represent the Voice of the Readers
Don’t forget to tip! I appreciate you all!At 16, I sent off my first story to a paying market. I’d yet to sell a short story, but I’d had articles accepted for…
Walter Rhein PodcastShould a President Resign If it Was Determined That He Rigged An Election?
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Walter Rhein PodcastReflecting on Twenty Years of Headwinds, Hills and Cold
Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% offI thought you might all need a little break, so here’s a more lighthearted reflection on finishing my 20th…
Walter Rhein PodcastWe Haven't Even Begun to Explore the Depths to Which the Political Right Will Descend
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Walter Rhein PodcastIt Doesn't Matter What You Voted For, We're All Complicit Until the Atrocities End
Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% offSometimes it feels as if the whole world is standing around with their hands in their pockets while…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhat People Who Live Down in a Hole Get Wrong About the Misery of Life
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Walter Rhein PodcastHow to Escape the Clutches of Depression and Find Your Joy Again
Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% offMy heart always goes out to anyone who is struggling through dark times. I know how it feels to descend so…
Walter Rhein PodcastThe Cult Behavior of Moderate Apologists Is Really Quite Distressing
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Walter Rhein PodcastWhy Left-Leaning People Are Awful When it Comes to Political Messaging
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Walter Rhein PodcastDon't Allow Yourself to Get So Caught Up in Nuance That You Miss the Big Picture
Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% offOne of the main things that keeps us divided is how people can be tricked into defending a statistically…
Walter Rhein PodcastTerror Is the Enemy of Free Speech
Even writers can become complacent about free speech. We take it for granted because it’s something we’ve always had. But the truth is, freedom of speech is…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhy We Need to Talk About the Common Characteristics of the Enemy
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Walter Rhein PodcastHow a Day of Renewal Can Help You Recognize You're on the Verge of Winning
Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% offAugust is the time to go to the water park. Though there’s still a whole month of summer that remains…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhy the Most Powerful Thing You Can Do Right Now Is Change How You Think
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Walter Rhein PodcastMemories of Preparing For the Collapse of Civilization With Marksmanship and Murder
We drove out to the gravel pit for a day of shooting. It was just me and my dad and a bunch of weapons for killing human beings.He stapled the target to a…
Walter Rhein PodcastWe Must Strive To Be Worthy of the Love We’re Given
If you’ve been thinking of sponsoring me, why not do so today :) Upgrade at 30% offMy wife showed me a picture of her new classroom with her name on the…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhat Democrats Have to Fix About Themselves If We're Ever Going to Defeat Fascism
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Walter Rhein PodcastIt Feels Like Medium Is on the Rebound
Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% offHello Everyone!July ended up being a pretty good month for me even though I just lost a couple paid…
Walter Rhein PodcastA Garbage Sale and Lemonade
Your sponsorship means everything to me! Click for a discount!Change is in the air already. Ever since November 5th, we’ve been finding ways to get rid of…
Walter Rhein PodcastGatekeepers Are Gaslighting You
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Walter Rhein PodcastEscapist Delights in a Crumbling Democracy w/ Jim Mercurio
Hello everyone!This was a fun talk with Jim Mercurio in which he shared his thoughts on the best films of the 21st century. I liked his list, it was very…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow to Overcome Your Fear and Venture Forth Into Your Life
Don’t forget to tip! I appreciate you all!I remember sitting in my room in Lima, Peru and having all the young girls who were living in the same hostel come…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhy Writers Must Embrace the Chaotic Nature of True Creation
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Walter Rhein PodcastHow To Recognize Reasonable Sounding Arguments That Are Secretly Absurd
I wrote this one a few years ago. It is the origin of the horse drawing I use for my podcast. Don’t forget to tip! I appreciate you all!Did you ever consider…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhy You Should Never Feel Bad When You See Somebody Blocked You
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Walter Rhein PodcastA Blatant Disrespect for Education Signals the End of a Society
After I sold my small bicycle store in 2017, I spent a few months transcribing audio files. I didn't see it as a “career” but it was a convenient source of…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhat If a Pedophile Stole The Election Because He Wants to Rape and Murder Your Kids?
Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% offFor the last decade, people have been trying to figure out how we can bridge the gap in an increasingly…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhat Conservatives Get Wrong When They Think of Themselves as Decent People
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Walter Rhein PodcastThere Are a Lot of Conservatives Who Identify As Liberals in the USA
Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% offSuicide is the second leading cause of death for young people in the United States. People talk about how…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhat Toxic People Get Wrong When They Start Raging About Student Loans
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Walter Rhein PodcastWhy You Shouldn’t Take Advice From People Who Suffer the Entitlement of Privilege
Help me fight the abusers. Upgrade at 30% offThere’s a meme that regularly gets churned up from the depths which I saw again yesterday. It’s a graphic that…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhy Everyone Is Wrong When They Say Both Parties Are the Same
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Walter Rhein PodcastHow Your Innocence Can Become Your Armor When You're Willing to Give People a Chance
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Walter Rhein PodcastA Question on the US Citizenship Test Changed my Perspective on History and Humility
Your support means everything! Upgrade at 30% offMy wife wore a blue dress and a proud smile on the day she got sworn in as a naturalized US Citizen. The…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow Writers Can Work to Overcome the Media’s Malicious Ignorance Programming
Help me keep saying the thing that need to be said. I appreciate you! Upgrade at 30% off!One of a writer’s main objectives is to seek out inspiration. Writing…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow I Learned an Important Lesson Fixing an Old Truck with an Olympic Hopeful
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Walter Rhein PodcastHow Cross Posting Is the Best Promotional Tool You Aren't Using
Hello Friends!I’ve just discovered a new trick that I’m excited to tell you about. It’s called cross posting, and you can find the button for it by clicking…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhen You Live Abroad, You Lose Easy Access to Books
If you have the means, I greatly appreciate your support! Upgrade at 30% offOne downside to living abroad is that you lose easy access to books written in your…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow People Are Fed a Bunch of Beautiful Promises That Lead Only to Misery
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Walter Rhein PodcastWomen Make Better Leaders Because They're Less Likely to be Sex Offenders
Help me fight the abusers. Upgrade at 30% offHello Friends,Last week I received some gentle but surprising pushback to a comment I made while doing an…
Walter Rhein PodcastWe Have to Be Able to Criticize the DNC or We're a Cult Just Like MAGA
Hello Friends,I'm a little reluctant to write this argument because I know I'm wading into some contentious waters. There have been many times when people have…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow Stealing a River Helped Me Teach My Daughter Important Life Lessons
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Walter Rhein PodcastMost Trafficking Victims Don't Survive Long Enough to Testify
Help me fight the abusers. Upgrade at 30% offIf a child manages to escape her sexual tormentor and crosses the border looking for help, she's likely to be…
Walter Rhein PodcastAmericans Must Learn Humility Because Our Country Has Committed Horrible Atrocities
Your tips are greatly appreciated! Upgrade at 30% offI grew up in a family that called itself “great.” That’s all I ever heard, “Boy, you sure were lucky to be…