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7th Dec 2021

Birthday Cakes, Band-Aid Solutions & Poetry: Oscar Sanchez This Is Your Aftershow

G.O.A.T. episode here. What starts as a usual This Is Your Aftershow—with Claire Favret & Meaghan Strickland joining me to unpack Oscar Sanchez's episode of This Is Your Afterlife—becomes something entirely new to the "This Is Your" Universe when Oscar surprises Meaghan & Claire halfway through by JOINING US.

With and without Oscar, we touch on topics such as:

  • how misguided, confusing, and ridiculous this show is
  • the necessity of hope
  • birthday cake smashing
  • band-aid solutions to systemic problems
  • race jokes (Oscar and I make them)
  • anxiety attacks
  • the possibility of clout organizers being secretly useful actors

Plus, Oscar reads a couple of his poems!

This is the longest single episode of either show ("Afterlife" or "Aftershow") I've ever published on the main feed, with the longest intro I've ever done, and it's the episode I'm proudest of producing in a year and a half of making this show. I hope everyone who would like what this is listens to the whole episode. I feel like this show is becoming something different, something even more special: a world.

If you can, please join the show's Patreon at patreon.com/davemaher to make possible my dream of making this show my living. You'll get all episodes of This Is Your Aftershow, the extended episodes of This Is Your Afterlife, and more!

Transcript: This Is Your Afterlife on Podscribe

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Follow Meaghan on Twitter: @MeaghanStrick and Instagram: @stricklygram, and go to her website: meaghanstrickland.com.

Follow Claire @clairefavs on Twitter and Instagram.

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Intro Song = Future: "Use Me"

Outro Song = Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

Show artwork for This Is Your Afterlife

About the Podcast

This Is Your Afterlife
Comedian Dave Maher interviews artists and activists about death, their lives, and the afterlife.
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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