196 episodes
This Is Your Afterlife Dave Maher
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5.0 • 28 Ratings
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What happens when we die? What if this is the afterlife? Comedian, coma survivor, and former Pitchfork writer Dave Maher ("This American Life") asks artists, entertainers, and activists for definite answers to these unanswerable questions.
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What Kind of Pangea Do You Want to Be? with Maria Jacobson aka Fran
When I saw musician Maria Jacobson (the creative force behind Fran) was starting a new podcast called Godless—asking guests, "Do you believe in God?" and all the other questions it encompasses—I knew I had to have her on This Is Your Afterlife. So here she is! It's a warm, fun, easy convo about hard stuff, just like we like it.
Content warning: anxiety, mom with cancer, climate crisis, Gnostic Gospels, the reward and risk of making friends with strangers on the road, Irenaeus, good in a crisis?, letting go of pressuring others to be good friends/siblings/parents/etc.
If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher.
Listen to Godless on Beloved Radio every 4th Sunday from 10-11am Central Time!
Follow Fran on IG: @fran_online__
Hear and buy Fran's newest album, Leaving, on Bandcamp.
Donate to the Chicago Abortion Fund via my page to provide life-saving healthcare to folks who need abortions.
Follow this show on IG: @thisisyourafterlife, and get more info at thisisyourafterlife.com. Have thoughts on the show? Email thisisyourafterlifepodcast@gmail.com.
Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter.
All music by This Is Your Afterlife house band Lake Mary.
Check out my other podcast, Genre Reveal Party!, where I analyze TV and movies with my friend, writer and cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley. -
One Last Wipe with Phylicia McLeod
Second City and Matt Damon Improv's Phylicia McLeod sits down with me to hash out how to deal with strict Christian parents whose idea of what's best for you is different than yours.
Content warning: dead sibling, alcoholism, Pentecostal childhood, playing Lil Boosie/Boosie Badazz at your funeral, presence as the solution to boredom in paradise, masturbating in the staircase at work?
If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher.
Follow Phylicia on Instagram: @laugh_with_phee
Go see her show, HOT GIRLS PRESENT: SH*T TALK, at iO Theater on August 16 and 23!
Donate to the Chicago Abortion Fund via my page to provide life-saving healthcare to folks who need abortions.
Follow this show on IG: @thisisyourafterlife, and get more info at thisisyourafterlife.com. Have thoughts on the show? Email thisisyourafterlifepodcast@gmail.com.
Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter.
All music by This Is Your Afterlife house band Lake Mary.
Check out my other podcast, Genre Reveal Party!, where I analyze TV and movies with my friend, writer and cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley. -
The Way the Mind Actually Works with Nick Turner aka Tyresta
When everyone went scrambling to therapy during lockdown in 2020, what did the therapists think? Find out in this sweet and intimate conversation with Nick Turner, aka the experimental ambient musician Tyresta. I've had lots of musicians who are in Nick's orbit as guests, but he's the first one to really delve into the music-making process, so this could be a good intro to thinking about a genre that can get pretty heady. Find joy in the music and in this episode!
Content warning: mom dying, burnout, insomnia, anxiety, modular synthesis, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Zen, making instrumental music ABOUT something, joy-curating practices, Suzanne Ciani & Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's album Sunergy.
If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher.
Follow Nick on IG at @nick__turner.
Listen to and buy the newest Tyresta album, Small Hours.
Preorder the new Montgomery and Turner album, Sound Is (Our) Sustenance!
And if you want to book therapy with Nick, check out his Psychology Today page.
Donate to the Chicago Abortion Fund via my page to provide life-saving healthcare to folks who need abortions.
Follow this show on IG: @thisisyourafterlife, and get more info at thisisyourafterlife.com. Have thoughts on the show? Email thisisyourafterlifepodcast@gmail.com.
Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter.
All music by This Is Your Afterlife house band Lake Mary.
Check out my other podcast, Genre Reveal Party!, where I analyze TV and movies with my friend, writer and cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley. -
Karaoke As Revolutionary Act with Anna De Ocampo Kain
Beneath the singing, performing, and party organizing, Anna De Ocampo Kain sees themself as a facilitator. I get to the bottom of how the pandemic has changed her career plans to explore my own anger about it.
Content warning: seeing a dead body, dead friends, vocal hemorrhage, Lyme disease, storefront opera, funeral karaoke, rejecting institutions where you're not wanted, radical hope.
If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher.
Follow Anna on Instagram: @kain.deo.anna.
AND follow Parallel Play, Anna's collective organizing COVID-conscious events, at @parallel.play.chi on IG. You currently CAN STILL GET tickets to Dilly Dally, their speed-friending karaoke mixer in Chicago on April 13, at dillydally1.eventbrite.com.
Donate to the Chicago Abortion Fund via my page to provide life-saving healthcare to folks who need abortions.
Follow this show on IG: @thisisyourafterlife, and get more info at thisisyourafterlife.com. Have thoughts on the show? Email thisisyourafterlifepodcast@gmail.com.
Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter.
All music by This Is Your Afterlife house band Lake Mary.
Check out my other podcast, Genre Reveal Party!, where I analyze TV and movies with my friend, writer and cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley. -
Humbled and Amazed by Dead Birds with Julie Mitchell
Comedian, writer, and artist Julie Mitchell and I get on like gangbusters in this episode that easily could have gone twice as long. The whole conversation felt like unhinging a release valve for me, despite taking on one of my toughest challenges yet as a host: Julie has a definitive coma moment, but it's too raw and unresolved for her to go into detail. How do you talk about a moment that changed you when you can't talk about the moment itself? You talk about the changes!
Content warning: musical improv, rape jokes, Long COVID, Palestine, big "T" vs. little "t" trauma, vulnerability requires anonymity, Maya Shetreat, the Psychedelic Assembly, crowdwork in standup comedy, Pigeon Feathers, finally getting the movie Magnolia.
If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher.
Follow Julie @juliepoptart on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.
Subscribe to her Substack—Girl, Uninterrupted—at juliepoptart.substack.com. And read her movie reviews on her blog, I Heard the Book Was Better!
Donate to the Chicago Abortion Fund via my page to provide life-saving healthcare to folks who need abortions.
Follow this show on IG: @thisisyourafterlife, and get more info at thisisyourafterlife.com. Have thoughts on the show? Email thisisyourafterlifepodcast@gmail.com.
Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter.
All music by This Is Your Afterlife house band Lake Mary.
Check out my other podcast, Genre Reveal Party!, where I analyze TV and movies with my friend, writer and cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley. -
Chicken Tenders Salt Lake City Sex Heaven with Chris Jusell
The Fuubutsushi collection is complete! Chris Jusell, the ambient jazz band's violinist, joins me to jump down all the pop culture rabbit holes our brains present us as we try to get to the bottom of why Chris says he wants to take up as little space as possible. 'Cause does he really?
Btw, I forgot to mention the Pigeon patrons on Patreon in my intro, so here they are: G, Barry Fontenot, Shubha Singh, Kati Llewellyn, Fred Fedewa, and DEBO. Thank you all!
Content warning: grandparents' deaths, therapy, judgement, safety vs. variety, Titanic, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Chris is single.
If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher.
Find out more about Chris (and hire him to arrange music!) at his website, chrisjusell.com.
Follow him on Instagram: @jusellll
Buy Fuubutsushi's music at cached.media/shop, and listen everywhere! Their Instagram is @_fuubutsushi.
If you'd like there to be a working class of musicians in the U.S., sign this petition to support the Living Wage for Musicians Act.
Donate to the Chicago Abortion Fund via my page to provide life-saving healthcare to folks who need abortions.
Follow this show on IG: @thisisyourafterlife, and get more info at thisisyourafterlife.com.
Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter.
All music by This Is Your Afterlife house band Lake Mary.
Check out my other podcast, Genre Reveal Party!, where I analyze TV and movies with my friend, writer and cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley.
Customer Reviews
This is a great show!
Love this podcast, Dave cares deeply about the show and you can feel it as you listen. He’s a fantastic artist, host, and comedian. He finds interesting guests with a lot to say. A lot of the shows are funny but I’ve found many to be deeply moving making me feel introspective and appreciative. Subscribe!
A very good and thoughtful time!!!
Love a show with questions so good that it makes me rethink my own answers every time I listen. Just a super sincere time talking about big life stuff. Dave is such a good dude and I’m thankful for his vulnerability. Every time I listen I find myself wishing for it to be my turn as a guest. Does that make me self centered? I dunno, probably! But that’s not the point! The point is the show is good & it makes you think & jeez just listen to it already.
Dave died for your sins - what more do you want, you monsters?!
Death is a hard topic to cover and Dave does it effortlessly week to week. His personal journey, his years as a performer and teacher and his wonderful voice make him the perfect person to tackle such a heavy topic. If you can’t afford therapy, call your congressman but also subscribe!
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