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Episode 140

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13th Jun 2023

I Can Abstract Myself with Tim Barnes

Comedian and TV writer Tim Barnes (The Tonight Show, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central) and I bond over our longing for disembodiment.

Content warning: race, class, retail mirror reflections, abstraction, the Phantom Menace hype machine.

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Follow Tim: @TimBarnes451 on Twitter, @timbarnescomedy on Instagram, and @TimBarnes on Bluesky.

Read and subscribe to his comedy Substack newsletter, Letters From African America: timbarnescomedy.substack.com, and his short fiction Substack, Alternate Timeline: alternatetimeline.substack.com.

Listen and subscribe to the Star Wars podcast he co-hosts, Yub Nub.

Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.

And check out my other podcast, Genre Reveal Party!, where I'm analyzing TV and movies with writer and cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley.

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

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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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