This Is Your Afterlife

Utmost Worst with Tom Krell (How to Dress Well)

"There is nothing theorizable or interesting about death," Tom Krell says 30 minutes into his appearance on my podcast about death. He's speaking precisely. By "death," h

Podcasting in Time: Stalker with Philip Metres

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PREVIEW — Everything Is a Ghost Kitchen

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Serving, Loving, and Mocking Children with Brandon Ogborn

I razz him for using "brutally honest" in descriptions of two separate projects, but I love Brandon Ogborn. I know the comedian, playwright, podcaster, and reluctant "con

Podcasting in Time: Mirror with Vienna

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PATREON PREVIEW — TIYA After Dark Live at Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii with Daniel Strauss and Drennen Quinn

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Resonance in All Its Forms with Oui Ennui

"Ants experience humans as shadows and wind." And with that statement, four-time (!) TIYA guest Oui Ennui blew my mind. There are forces bigger than we can imagine, and h

Podcasting in Time: Solaris with Fred Barrett

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PATREON PREVIEW — Bracketology: Ways to Live with Bill Stern, Claire Favret, Meaghan Strickland

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Communism or Faith or Both with E Conner

I don't remember when I started responding "THANK YOU" to guests saying, "Good question," but E Conner said it so often I felt obliged to explain the bit. I was slightly

Podcasting in Time: Andrei Rublev with Ian Rhine

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PREVIEW — Stand-Up Comedy Is Conservative: Ridiculing Louis CK and Vulture

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Falling Into Knowledge with Gabriel Jermaine Vanlandingham-Dunn

Gabriel Jermaine Vanlandingham-Dunn has lost enough people in his life to form a "Grief Voltron" (his words), and he didn't hold back in this wide-ranging talk that's bee

Podcasting in Time: Ivan's Childhood with Peter Raleigh

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PREVIEW — TIYA Mailbag #1: Death Care, Toxic Nostalgia, and Death as Ending

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Send me your questions for the first-ever TIYA Mailbag!

Just what the title says. For next week's bonus episode, I am going to do a listener mailbag, and it will be very awkward with no input from you, a listener! So send your

The Two Tape Decks in Your Head with Rhys Langston

I met rapper, writer, visual artist, and technical octuple threat Rhys Langston when he opened for This Is Your Afterlife's 200th guest, Open Mike Eagle, at a show in Cle

PREVIEW — Does a Yacht Have Mortgage?: Questioning AI and Myself

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Return of the 90s Part 2: Spirals & Waves with Madeline Lane-McKinley and Sean O'Brien

Cultural critic & friend of the show Madeline Lane-McKinley joins my conversation with Sean O'Brien about their book The Return of the 90s: A Cultural History of the Pres

Return of the 90s Part 1: Anti-Work, Pro-Sleep with Sean O'Brien

I don't tend to use the word "periodizing" for the project of This Is Your Afterlife, but when I ask my guests, "What's your coma?," I'm absolutely "categorizing the past