Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions
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Money shame, system rage, sharper questions.
A Thousand Natural Shocks turns everyday financial stress into blunt, funny conversations about systems that make people feel broken. Gabe S. Dunn talks with guests about money, politics, identity, labor, and survival.
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A Thousand Natural Shocks is a political, interview-led continuation of Bad With Money, built around the idea that personal financial distress is rarely just personal. Gabe S. Dunn keeps returning to the same pressure point: people are told to fix themselves while larger systems keep manufacturing the crisis. That makes the show broader than a money podcast, but not separate from money. Debt, bosses, household secrecy, career ambition, medical access, media panic, parenting online, and religious institutions all become ways to talk about power. The show has a casual surface and a hard edge underneath it. It can joke about internet outrage or reality-TV curiosity, then turn toward child privacy, family exploitation, or the loneliness that makes viewers attach to strangers online. It can start with ADHD and end up talking about capitalism, diagnostic access, TikTok mental-health advice, and industries that gather around fear. It can ask a financial attorney about hidden purchases and come away with a conversation about shame, withdrawal, marriage, and trust. It can bring on Lex to discuss Jewish learning and unlearning, then move into American Jewish institutions, Israel, Palestine, representation, and political assumptions. The pacing is brisk, but the guests are allowed to build long answers. The host’s questions are often simple on purpose. They make room for complexity without pretending the subject is clean. The show is skeptical of easy fixes, savior politicians, tidy personal-finance scripts, and wellness language that ignores material life. It is also interested in comfort, not as branding, but as a place for people to admit anger and exhaustion. The recurring promise is not that listening will make someone richer. It is that the show will take financial and social panic seriously without talking down to anyone. For listeners burned out on neutral commentary, it offers a sharper room: funny, wounded, curious, and unwilling to treat survival as an individual budgeting problem.
Made for: For listeners who like personal-finance conversations only when they admit politics, class, gender, health, media, and power are already in the room. It especially suits people who want interviews that can be funny, blunt, and morally serious in the same hour.
What sets it apart: Most money shows move toward advice; this one moves toward cause. Its strength is connecting ordinary stress, secrecy, and burnout to the institutions and narratives that keep producing them.
After years of attempting to "girlboss" his way out of systemic class divide, Gabriel Shane Dunn, now a trans man and veteran podcaster, relaunches his show, “Bad With Money,” with a furious, funny, and deeply personal exploration of surviving our capitalist hellscape. Ditching conventional finance advice, “A Thousand Natural Shocks,” is a companion show to Gabe’s thriving newsletter of the same name. This isn't just about money; it's about breaking free from the individualistic lies and fighting for collective liberation. Capitalism is killing us. The police state is killing us. Fascism is killing us. But we can no longer feel helpl...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It connects financial advice to shame, consumption, work and institutional power through curious guest conversations and sharp cultural examples.
A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn treats money as an entry point into private choices and public power. Gabe S. Dunn works through guest conversations, pairing plainspoken questions with playful humor and a willingness to keep following an answer after the practical…
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A sharp, skeptical conversation about who gets to speak for American Jews.
Lex Rofeberg frames Jewish learning as a harder question about who gets to speak for American Jews. The conversation moves through federation leadership, the local Jewish federations, the ADL, the AJC, and AIPAC to map how institutional power is arranged and who it claims to…
A thoughtful look at family vloggers, child influencers, and the uneasy problem of consent.
Fortessa Latifi and Gabe S. Dunn dig into family vloggers and child influencers, keeping the focus on what consent can mean when a child is part of the content.
A sharp, messy conversation about Democratic fracture, media framing, and the limits of savior politics.
The episode starts with political frustration and broadens into a blunt look at Democratic fracture, media framing, and the lure of savior politics.
A sharp look at how money secrecy turns into a relationship wound.
Gabe S. Dunn and Leslie Tayne treat financial infidelity as a plain but painful breach: one partner hides money choices, and the other finds out later, after trust has already taken the hit.
A candid ADHD conversation that keeps diagnosis, money, and the systems around distress in view.
Danielle Elliott brings a useful tension to this bonus conversation about ADHD diagnoses among women: pandemic-era awareness widened, but diagnosis can still require appointments many people cannot realistically manage.
Gabe S. Dunn revisits the teacher who encouraged their writing, then confronts book bans and forced outing in schools.
Gabe S. Dunn returns to the teacher who first encouraged them to write, then follows that bond into a harder present: the same teacher now votes to ban books and supports candidates Dunn says oppose people like them.
A furious personal reading studies how routine language can make immigration enforcement sound ordinary.
Gabe S. Dunn returns in a low, furious state, putting aside a prepared piece on sentience, self-awareness, and iRobot to read from A Thousand Natural Shocks.
A pointed look at how church-state separation could shield enslavers from moral accountability.
White Christianity's defenses of slavery become, in this episode, a way into the uneasy boundary between religion and political power. Joel Edward Goza, a writer and professor of ethics at Simmons College of Kentucky, looks at church-state separation as an arrangement that…
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Gabe Dunn talks with a journalist and author about politics and why it feels so stuck.
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Host Gabe Dunn interviews reporter Danielle Elliott about the rise of ADHD diagnoses among women, exploring symptoms like hyperfocus and emotional regulation.
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Gabe Dunn interviews an executive coach about leadership challenges and personal finance psychology.
An interview with Brie from Child Free Wealth about financial planning for people without children.
Gabe Dunn interviews a financial planner about monthly financial coaching sessions for child-free individuals.
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Gabe Dunn interviews ethics professor Joel Goza about reparations and systemic racism in finance.
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Gabe Dunn and guest Josh Gondelman discuss the concept of an ethical billionaire using Iron Man as a case study, blending finance with feelings.
Gabe Dunn interviews comedian Josh Gondelman about his familiarity with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, blending humor with financial and social commentary.
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Gabe Dunn and Allison Raskin discuss money questions related to relationships and marriage.
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An interview with financial therapist Asia Evans about her book 'Feel Good Finance' and the psychology behind money management.
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This episode explores hidden marketing tactics that influence spending habits and offers practical advice on mindful consumption with insights from the Frugal Friends podcast hosts.
This episode continues a discussion of the 1926 book 'The Richest Man In Babylon' with guest Tristan Miller, exploring its biblical-style parable about money and its cultural impact on financial thinking.
This episode features an interview with Vrinda Gupta, CEO of Sequin, discussing her women-focused debit card designed to help people live debt-free while earning rewards on self-care and donations.
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This episode features an interview with Matt Schulz, a chief credit analyst at LendingTree and author of a book about asking the right questions to save money and improve financial management.