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Normally episodes of Says Who come out on Wednesdays, but these aren't normal times and special for EVERYONE is a bonus episode of Says Who! Specifically a very special SaysWhosterpiece Theater: Maureen and Dan read the (don't call it a) transcript of the call between Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky. This is the (not a) transcript that the White House released thinking it would let all this blow over. You'll never guess what happened next.

If this is not yet enough Says Who for you this week, there is also an entire hour for our Patreon Town Watch backers. Get on board at patreon.com/sayswho. 

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Maureen is in Greece, Dan is back in his basement, there's a eight hour time difference  and also mountains and dolphins and while it sounds like paradise, well, it is.

And yet, and yet there is trouble around the edges--the news won't stop. At the time of this recording (the halcyon days of yesterday morning), Brexit had been thrown once again into question and Donald Trump was getting in too deep with the Ukraine.

Of course since then, well, Pelosi spoke and now impeachment has begin. Or something--that bit's still a little foggy if we're being honest. BUT DO NOT FEAR SAYSWHOVIAN, because Dan and Maureen saw this coming and are already making their post-Trump Disney World plans once again.

Because, SaysWhovians, maybe it is happening? Certainly SOMETHING is happening and where would you more like to be than bobbing in a salt water pool with Maureen and Dan like buoys, warning oncoming ships of dangerous waters ahead.

Or, you know, something.

SHOW NOTES

Dan just wrapped his summer on the road, give a listen to Season Two of The Hitch now full and complete with 66 days of adventure.

Maureen's new book The Vanishing Stair is OUT NOW. NOW!

Support Says Who and become a citizen of SaysWhovia by joining our Patreon today! You really can join for just a dollar. Or more if you want!

Your Intrepid Hosts: Maureen Johnson and Dan Sinker

Our awesome theme is courtesy of Ted Leo

We love Darth

Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

Well, well, well. Here we are. Three years after Dan and Maureen agreed to do something for eight weeks, this deranged carnival rages on. It's the Says Who Third Anniversary Show! And, like she does on each anniversary, Ana Marie Cox returns to see how far we've come.

How far is that, exactly? Bret Kavenaugh is back, and so is Sean Spicer. You know what? Forget it. Just forget it. You don't want to know what happened this week.

Except for some stuff about lightbulbs.

Let's just talk to Ana instead, about hope, learning, moving on, and moving forward. With any luck, we won't be having this discussion next year.

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Here we are again, on the eve of the third year anniversary of Says Who. Dan and Maureen have gotten together to parse the events of the week. They have been--and this is painful to say--weirder than most.

But first! The Says Who U experiment continues. There are benefits to getting away from this stuff from time to time! Dan is pouring concrete and making yogurt! Maureen is...

...listening to Parliamentary debate. Because Brexit rages on to its conclusion.* Parliament is grasping back some control just as Boris Johnson tears it away, and a figure named Black Rod enters the chamber to move the magic stick. Britain is metal as hell.

Here in the US, the President gets a pen and shitposts about celebrities. Maureen wonders what the hell is wrong with him. Perhaps he has swallowed a glass piano.**

Also! There are debates this week! Things are happening! Good things? Bad things? Just things? Only time will tell.

Get your magic rod. It's Says Who time.

SHOW NOTES

Dan just wrapped his summer on the road, give a listen to Season Two of The Hitch now full and complete with 66 days of adventure.

Maureen's new book The Vanishing Stair is OUT NOW. NOW!

Support Says Who and become a citizen of SaysWhovia by joining our Patreon today! You really can join for just a dollar. Or more if you want!

Your Intrepid Hosts: Maureen Johnson and Dan Sinker

Our awesome theme is courtesy of Ted Leo

We love Darth

Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

So it begins. We've passed Labor Day and now we're in that exciting transition from summer to fall--a time to new starts and getting back to work.

Maureen has just finished a book! And now she is getting some new furniture so she can stop storing clothes in a VHS tape cabinet. Dan has returned to his house, which is filled with dust and ghosts. Both have taken time each day to get away from screens, and they like it!

But. This is Says Who, which means that they must look upon the news. Dan takes the US, running through the latest weird capers of Trump. Maureen is handling foreign affairs--she gives a breakdown of the major Brexit developments occurring this week. Rules! Drama! The Queen! It's a lot. Strap in.

Get your new school supplies and take a seat, SaysWhovia. We're getting down to business.

SHOW NOTES

Dan just wrapped his summer on the road, give a listen to Season Two of The Hitch now full and complete with 66 days of adventure.

Maureen's new book The Vanishing Stair is OUT NOW. NOW!

Support Says Who and become a citizen of SaysWhovia by joining our Patreon today! You really can join for just a dollar. Or more if you want!

Your Intrepid Hosts: Maureen Johnson and Dan Sinker

Our awesome theme is courtesy of Ted Leo

We love Darth

Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

Ah, the end of summer. The back to school sales. The backpacks. The books. The pencils. The premature PSLs. The cooler weather ahead. Nuking hurricanes. Calling yourself the Chosen One. It's all classic stuff.

Dan and Maureen are easing into the fall with this summer wrap-up. They are taking the time to look back and look ahead. It's been almost three years of Says Who. What will the fourth year bring? They decide to talk to their August 2020 selves and let them know it's all very normal and very cool.

But remember: this is a coping strategy. To that end, Dan and Maureen start Says Who U. Want to learn to cope with your friends in SaysWhovia? Get ready to take the first chill-out mental health challenge!

Come on in, everyone! It's last splash time!

SHOW NOTES

Dan just wrapped his summer on the road, give a listen to Season Two of The Hitch now full and complete with 66 days of adventure.

Maureen's new book The Vanishing Stair is OUT NOW. NOW!

Support Says Who and become a citizen of SaysWhovia by joining our Patreon today! You really can join for just a dollar. Or more if you want!

Your Intrepid Hosts: Maureen Johnson and Dan Sinker

Our awesome theme is courtesy of Ted Leo

We love Darth

Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

Well, we did it! We did the thing we didn't mean to do, probably didn't want to do, and certainly never expected to do. Welcome to EPISODE ONE HUNDRED of Says Who, the podcast that was only supposed to last for eight episodes.

Dan and Maureen take a look back--first at the last two weeks of news, and then at the last hundred episodes. What have they learned? What wisdom can they impart to their 2016 selves? Is this coping? It gets personal, and then it gets weird.

It's triple-digit time, SaysWhovia.

SHOW NOTES

Dan just wrapped his summer on the road, give a listen to Season Two of The Hitch now full and complete with 66 days of adventure.

Maureen's new book The Vanishing Stair is OUT NOW. NOW!

Support Says Who and become a citizen of SaysWhovia by joining our Patreon today! You really can join for just a dollar. Or more if you want!

Your Intrepid Hosts: Maureen Johnson and Dan Sinker

Our awesome theme is courtesy of Ted Leo

We love Darth

Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

Great Googliemooglie.

Dan and Maureen meet once again, this time both on American soil. Maureen is home in New York, and Dan wandering the west, though he no longer spends his time in hot cars outside of pyramids. The summer of 2019 rages on. Rage being the operative word.

It was not, to put it mildly, the best week ever. Things in the US are not going great. There have been two mass shootings in 24 hours. And there were two debates. Terrible twos. Dan and Maureen are having a hard time making sense of it all. But the job is not to make sense--it is to cope. And they have been coping for 99 episodes now and are staring at the oncoming 100th episode.

So.

Dan watched the debates because Maureen did not and has prepared his report. His report is that he did not like them. Maureen gives her ringworm update. And Amy Carter's Shoe reveals more than ever before.

99 episodes of Says Who in your feed.

SHOW NOTES

Dan's back on the road this summer, so Season Two of The Hitch is OUT NOW. Weekly episode drop on Mondays!

Maureen's new book The Vanishing Stair is OUT NOW. NOW!

Support Says Who and become a citizen of SaysWhovia by joining our Patreon today! You really can join for just a dollar. Or more if you want!

Your Intrepid Hosts: Maureen Johnson and Dan Sinker

Our awesome theme is courtesy of Ted Leo

We love Darth

Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

Pip pip! Maureen is in England, trying to enjoy life for a second. But Dan is lurking, and he has notes. He was been following the news. Maureen cannot hide in butterflies and sunshine and tea. There are Events to Process. There's no running away.

So what has been happening? Well, Trump is turning up the racism, which is not news--it's just turning everything up to eleven. But racism. So much. Things are rolling downhill faster and faster.

Maureen is desperate. She'll talk about anything but the news. Anything. Literally anything.

Things go downhill. But we go downhill together. It's time to roll, SaysWhovia. Down the hill. Here we go.

SHOW NOTES

Dan's back on the road this summer, so Season Two of The Hitch is OUT NOW. Weekly episode drop on Mondays!

Maureen's new book The Vanishing Stair is OUT NOW. NOW!

Support Says Who and become a citizen of SaysWhovia by joining our Patreon today! You really can join for just a dollar. Or more if you want!

Your Intrepid Hosts: Maureen Johnson and Dan Sinker

Our awesome theme is courtesy of Ted Leo

We love Darth

Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho

What can we say, really.

Summer burns on, and things continue to brew. Dan is in Colorado, and Maureen is about to go to England. The UK has a new Prime Minister. Mueller is about to testify. We're on the verge of everything and nothing. And Dan and Maureen are...well, not well. Their brains are turning to gravy.

Here follows are two people trying to make it all make sense. How does it end? Impeachment? Change? More of the same? Or...IN A MUSICAL?

Stay vigilant, SaysWhovia. We're in the Weird Times.

SHOW NOTES

Dan's back on the road this summer, so Season Two of The Hitch is OUT NOW. Weekly episode drop on Mondays!

Maureen's new book The Vanishing Stair is OUT NOW. NOW!

Support Says Who and become a citizen of SaysWhovia by joining our Patreon today! You really can join for just a dollar. Or more if you want!

Your Intrepid Hosts: Maureen Johnson and Dan Sinker

Our awesome theme is courtesy of Ted Leo

We love Darth

Says Who is made possible by you, through your support of our Patreon at patreon.com/sayswho