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Wednesday, January 28, 2026 Is Whistling Protected By First Amendment Rights? + An Incantation for Restoring Democracy

Audio from pt. 1 of today's episode comes from this YouTube live event presented by No Kings called Eyes on ICE: Document and Record. You can watch th...

Wednesday, January 21, 2026 How Much Capacity Do You Have Today? with Bridget Thoreson

Bridget Thoreson is an award-winning journalist, executive, and creator of the Career River framework. Check out her Weirdly Helpful episode about fl...

Wednesday, January 14, 2026 Step Into the Slipstream of History and Get Jacked with Dr. Conor Heffernan

Conor Heffernan is Lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at Ulster University, UK, and Chair of the British Society of Sports History. His new book is Wh...

Wednesday, January 7, 2026 "Hey Buddy!" Let's Talk About Why You Feel Doomed with Andy J. Pizza

Andy J. Pizza is a New York Times Bestselling author-illustrator of many books for children and adults such as "Invisible Things" and "A Pizza with Ev...

Wednesday, December 31, 2025 Resolutions Smesolutions! Ta Ta 2025.

Happiest and healthiest of New Years to you and yours! Thank you for listening. Love, z ⁠SUPPORT WEIRDLY HELPFUL BY BECOMING A PATRON RIGHT NOW. To...

Wednesday, December 24, 2025 How to Take Control of your News Diet with Rekha Murthy (PLUS: How much does Zak earn from Weirdly Helpful?)

Rekha Murthy is a podcast strategist with more than 25 years of experience in podcasting, public radio, and other digital media. SOURCES MENTIONED: ...

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Friendship Conflict, Grief Practices, Family Cookbooks, Guilt-Free Gift Giving and more with Zak on Michigan Public!

Zak went on Michigan Public's daily show Stateside to share some weirdly helpful end of year rituals and practices. He shares that segment today. St...

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 A Fun Alternative for Surviving Our Disastrous Times with Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. He’s the bestselling author of Steal Like An Artist and other books - Austin's essay on Meeker's work, The Comedy...

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 Let's Meet at the Corner of Mindfulness and Playfulness

Zak's Weirdly Helpful guru, Laura Hawley, returns to the show to share a transcendent and fun gift-giving practice. Hear Laura on howling and bus art...

Wednesday, November 26, 2025 The Weirdly Helpful Gratitude Hour

Weirdly Helpful advice on today's episode comes from Lainey, Margo, Rabbi Yoni and Zak! --- If you have a response to Morty's voice memo, send me so...

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 Make a List of Your Enemies to Articulate Who You're Not! with Emma Martin

Emma Martin is a painter and workshop facilitator from Chicago. Check out her work! She was last on the show dishing on indecision. Become a WEIRDLY...

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 What's the Deal with Handshaking in 2025?

Lizzie Post is the great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post, and author of Emily Post's Etiquette - The Centennial Edition, and Higher Etiquette, as we...

on 8/29/2025

After listening to the morning news podcast I treated myself to this show. My favorites that I use most days are the witchy water maneuvers, writing a letter instead of looking at your phone, touching grass, mind palace for your mind/ 9o’clock rule
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on 8/6/2025

Capsule wardrobe: yes. Minimizing your clothing's impact on your mental space: yes. Ordering things from Amazon: no. Throwing things in the trash as soon as they're stained or need light mending: terrible advice!! Mend before you spend, people, and don't shop on Amazon if you can avoid it at all (which can be done 99% of the time)
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on 2/4/2025

Zak manages to go deep into very helpful every day issues in very practical ways. Which is hard and rare. Thanks for making me feel inspired while giving me concrete steps to evolve.
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