You’re Going to Die: The Podcast

Ada Limón - The Vulture and the Body

Host Ned Buskirk speaks with the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The

Emile Suotonye DeWeaver - The Con of Patriarchy

Host Ned Buskirk speaks with Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, a formerly incarcerated activist, owner of Re:Frame LLC, and the award-winning author of Ghost in the Criminal Justi

Kazu Haga - Making Space for the New Systems

Host Ned Buskirk speaks with Kazu Haga, trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response t

ahlay blakely - You're Not Crazy

Host Ned Buskirk speaks with ahlay blakely, a Seattle-based singer-songwriter and community grief practitioner whose work explores more-than-human kinship, ancestral memo

Mark Nepo - Sincerity

Host Ned Buskirk speaks with poet and philosopher Mark Nepo, a teacher in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 50 years. With over a million copies sold, Mark h

Dr. Kaye Cleave - It's a Lonely Thing, Grief

"It was so monumentous. How do you live? I didn't know who I was. And this clear thought came to me: You have two choices here. You can curl up and become a bitter old wo

Lisa Olivera - Medicine

In this episode of You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk speaks with author and licensed psychotherapist Lisa Olivera. Highlighted in The New York Times, The

Joy Harjo - Last Words

In this episode of You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk speaks with the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo, internationally renowned poet, per

Stephen Jenkinson - The Whole Damn Thing

The man, the myth, the medicinally confronting conversationalist is BACK on You're Going to Die: The Podcast for his third guest spot! This time Ned Buskirk speaks with c

Dale Borglum - Invoke That Which You Trust

Host Ned Buskirk speaks with Dale Borglum, founder and director of the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the Unit

Daren Thomas Magee [of Real Fun, Wow!] - Spheres

Host Ned Buskirk speaks with the founder of Real Fun, Wow!, Daren Thomas Magee. An artist and writer best known for blending blunt honesty with compassion, his work cente

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - The One Life We Can Save

Host Ned Buskirk speaks with poet, teacher, speaker, and writing facilitator Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour

Dan Deacon - If You’re Not Born You’re Dead

In this week's episode of You're Going to Die: The Podcast, host Ned Buskirk "cry battles" and speaks with critically-acclaimed experimental underground electronic musici

Pádraig Ó Tuama - How to Be Alone

In this week's episode of You're Going to Die: The Podcast, host Ned Buskirk speaks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama, host of 'Poetry Unbound' from On Being studios and th

Megan Falley - Earthside Responsibility

In the wake of Andrea Gibson's death on July 14th, 2025, Ned Buskirk speaks with their partner Megan Falley, about grieving their death, still finding moments to walk wit

Andrea Gibson on You're Going to Die: The Podcast [rerelease from January 2022]

In honor of Andrea Gibson, for their life and death on July 14th, 2025, we're resharing host Ned Buskirk's conversation them from January of 2022, including a new intro w

Honoring Joanna Macy w/Lydia Violet Harutoonian

In the wake of Joanna Macy's death and with You're Going to Die's upcoming San Francisco event - A Wild Love for the World: An Evening Honoring Joanna Macy - host Ned Bus

Because We Have Mortality w/Stephen G. Post

In our newest episode, host Ned Buskirk speaks with Stephen G. Post, one of the world’s leading scholars on altruism, love, compassion, and the science of giving. He is a

To See With the Eyes of the Dead w/Perdita Finn

In the first episode of this season of You're Going to Die: The Podcast, Francis Weller reminds us to invoke the medicine of our ancestral lineage; consider this episode

Cultivating Wonder w/Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs

Join You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Merrill Garbus of tUnE‑yArDs. Consider this a raw & honest invitation to step into the complex