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What A Day
If you’re looking for hype, fake outrage, and groupthink, kindly keep moving. Our mission at What a Day is simple: to be your guide to what truly matters each morning (and the fun stuff you might have missed) in just 20 minutes. Host Jane Coaston brings you in-depth reporting and substantive analysis on the big stories shaping today and the creeping trends shaping tomorrow—and when she doesn’t know the answers, she asks someone even smarter to fill us all in. Radical, right? New episodes at 5:00 a.m. EST, Monday–Saturday in your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. Being informed was never...
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Ratings & Reviews
4.6 stars from 12,533 ratings
Informative, funny, hopeful
This podcast is just what I needed. Smart reporting that doesn’t pretend that things are normal or OK, but balanced with a realistic world outlook, a palpable concern for humanity’s future, and the sanity of your listeners. Thank you for your great work.
Jimsdgfsdfgd via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 11/14/24
Headlines
I’ve been a listener since the beginning, through all configurations of hosts. I do like the current host during the first 2/3 of the episodes but I really struggle with hearing the daily headlines. Their voice sounds like I’m listening to a high school book report. Can someone else in the...Read full review »
HereIsJuliette via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 11/14/24
I will preface this by saying I lean left/progressive and love other Crooked Media podcasts like Pod Save America, Lovett or Leave It, Hysteria, and Offline. Jane seems very knowledgeable by comparison to them, and that is one way the podcast seems to have improved over previous recent hosts...Read full review »
SDqbf2782 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 11/14/24
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Published 11/18/24
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