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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 Reflection on Love and All the Things That We Cannot Control
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Walter Rhein PodcastThe Celebration of Billionaires Dehumanizes the Rest of Us
The billionaires will try to shut me down. Your support helps!Alright, let's just stop and take stock of the situation. We've got a completely irresponsible…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhat Happens When the Fascist Regime Starts Importing Outside Agitators?
Thanks for your support!Hello Friends,It’s distressing how unprepared we are as a society to recognize and respond to the fascist playbook. One of the main…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhy Do Republicans Feel They're Entitled to Non-Consensual Friendship?
Thanks for your support!Hello Friends,Well, here we are in month 6 of this dystopian nightmare of cruelty and incompetence. One of the things I loved about…
Walter Rhein PodcastPublishing Has Been an Exercise in Censorship for the Last 50 Years
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Walter Rhein PodcastAs a Farm Kid I Developed a Trauma Bond With the Land
Thanks so much for your generous tips! The white house made me afraid. Grass grew beneath the stairs leading up to the door. The wet, rotten steps sagged under…
Walter Rhein PodcastAmerica Can't Continue to Silence the Innocent People Who Pay the Price For Our National Lies
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Walter Rhein PodcastWhat Toxic People Get Wrong When They Start Raging About Student Loans
Tips keep me going, and I love you for them (I love you anyway)!Did you ever consider the high cost of denying our children the right to an education?…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow Book Signings Are Pretty Much Worthless for Unknown Writers
If you sponsor my page, you don’t have to buy my book :) All writers dream of drawing big crowds and seeing their books fly off the shelves, but we always have…
Walter Rhein PodcastOne of the Kids I Graduated With Was Beaten to Death
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Walter Rhein PodcastThere Are Some Challenges to Stand and Face and Others You Must Escape
It slices, it dices, it’s delivered free every day to your telephone! You have the option to give tips though, and I love you for them (I love you anyway)!Like…
Walter Rhein PodcastThe Inadequate Representation for Educated Perspectives in Media
Hey Everyone!This conversation came out of something Robert (Bob) Danna mentioned on one of my posts. He merely noted how infrequently experts are brought onto…
Walter Rhein PodcastI Once Witnessed a Farmer Hit a Kid With His Pickup Truck
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Walter Rhein PodcastA Desperate Man, a Gorilla Costume, and a Fulvous Whistling-duck
At this point, I’d lived in Peru long enough to be known as “The Godfather of Lima.” I solved problems.When people came to me, I provided legitimate solutions…
Walter Rhein PodcastThe Nostalgia You Feel For a Time of Abuses Past Is Not Love
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Walter Rhein PodcastWhat I Learned When I Worked Up the Courage to Check Why People Unsubscribe
Hello Friends,Yesterday was the first day of summer vacation 2025 for my children. In the morning we got up and walked to the park. I’ve paced out a 1 mile…
Walter Rhein PodcastJesus Didn't Take the Wheel, So Billionaires Gave Us Self-Driving Cars
For the record, I would prefer that this kind of thing isn’t taught in schools… (please support me if you agree)Okay children, it's time to bow your heads and…
Walter Rhein PodcastTalking Movies, Bob Dylan, Kubrick, Horror, and Sailing Around the World
Hey Everyone!I keep saying that one of the joys of Substack is that it allows the opportunity to have conversations with writer friends I’ve known only through…
Walter Rhein PodcastOnce You're Down in a Rural Town You're Never Getting Back Up
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Walter Rhein PodcastHarris Lost Because 70 Million Americans Voted for Evil
You can fight evil by sponsoring this newsletter, thank you in advance!I keep seeing people writing ignorant things like “Harris lost because she's a woman” or…
Walter Rhein Podcast3 Stories by Walter Rhein
Hello Everyone!I really enjoyed this! Yesterday I was watching “A Complete Unknown” and I always feel inspired when I listen to good wordplay. That reminds me…
Walter Rhein PodcastIf Being an A*****e Is Your Defining Personality Trait, Don't Pout When It's Thrown Back at You
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Walter Rhein PodcastWhy You Must Stop Normalizing the Idea That the Midterms Will Be Canceled
Hello Friends!Almost every time I write an article about how Republicans are going to face accountability in the midterms, I get the same tired old…
Walter Rhein PodcastHow False Compliance Is the Best Form of Defiance
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Walter Rhein PodcastIt's a Normalized Form of Abuse to Force Farm Kids to Operate Heavy Machinery
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Walter Rhein PodcastAmerican Farmers Get By on Authoritarianism, Socialism and Child Labor
My dad used to hire this guy named Levi to come and help with jobs around the farm. Levi was smart and capable. I always wondered why he got stuck working with…
Walter Rhein PodcastWhy We're Going to Win and Why the Losers Will Continue to Lose
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