Pilot: Podcast Origin Story with Host Dinah Susan Alobeid (Ep 1)

💐 Episode SummaryThe short and sweet teaser episode of “Play This At My Funeral” introduces the entire concept and origin story for why host Dinah decided to start this podcast endeavor. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry possibly, you’ll discover a couple of new songs. And you’ll get a taste of what to expect this season. 💿 Songs Mentioned“Bitch” by Meredith Brooks: The quintessential 90s, girl rock. We contain multitudes, deal with it. “Adore” Amy Shark: A gift from the Schitt’s Creek musical selection pros. Thank you Amy Shark for this beautiful song. “Tell Me” by Johnny Jewel featuring Saoirse Ronan: This lullaby for the soul will be your new fave. Just you wait. “O Children” by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: Bring the tissues and the centuries and eons of grownup guilt we feel for the messy world we leave behind for the innocent ones. The children. This song always makes me question where the line between childhood innocence and adulting ennui ends. You can listen to Dinah’s playlist on Spotify.🎙 About the Guest (and in this instance The Host)Dinah Susan Alobeid is a writer, dancer, and VP of Communications & Content by day (not always in that order). She’s the creator and host of the newly launched “Play This At My Funeral” podcast. Her fiction has appeared in Porter House Review, Five on the Fifth, and Reverie Literary Magazine and her nonfiction and poetry can be found in Spectrum Magazine, MediaPost, and more. She lives in New Jersey (even though she’s a born and bred New Yorker) with her partner and their rambunctious toddler. 🌹 About Play This At My FuneralPlay This At My Funeral is a deeply fun, slightly macabre, always heartwarming show about the songs that shape our lives — and the ones we’d play at our funerals. Each episode invites a guest to curate the playlist for their own (hypothetical) send-off and share the stories that made those songs matter. In each episode, host Dinah invites a guest on to talk through the soundtrack of their life: the songs that have held them in moments of anguish, haunted them on the regular, and maybe just maybe even saved them. It’s a cozy, 45-minute-ish journey through meaningful lyrics, vivid memories, and the emotional mixtapes that mark our most human moments.Think Desert Island Discs meets Films To Be Buried With — but with more vibes and fewer survival scenarios.The show is created and hosted by Dinah Susan Alobeid and is edited and co-produced by Alice Marcondes. 💜 Stay ConnectedSubscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcastsPlease leave a 5-star review and share with someone who’s quietly building their own “funeral playlist” (or should be!)Follow us! Instagram at @PlayThisAtMyFuneralPodcast TikTok at @PlayThisAtMyFuneralPodDinah on IG @DinahSusanAlobeidWritesYou can watch the podcast video episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WriteDanceRepeat/playlists Stay in touch with Dinah by joining her Substack community at Write, Dance, RepeatI hearby declare that I do not own the rights to any music or lyrics played during the recording of this podcast. All rights to the music and audio belong to their respective owner(s).