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Communist Plot
by Phoebe & Elizabeth
A couple of goths talking about cemeteries, among other things. Using our 2020 Middle Tennessee Cemetery Reviews as a starting point, we'll be delving into the historical, psychological, and cultural aspects of graveyards, any adjacent topics we might wander into, and, inevitably, class politics.
Episodes
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Two Cemeteries in Japan and a Necrosociality Tangent
In today's episode Phoebe talks about two cemeteries she visited on her trip to Japan last year with a brief overview of Japanese burial practices and discussion of a very interesting article about Necrosociality. Pictures from Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo and Higashi Otani Cemetery in Kyoto are here...
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Season 6: We're Talking About Fake Goths Again
In a turn of events that will not surprise longtime listeners, what was supposed to be a short informational teaser turned into a discussion about some recent fake goth discourse in which we definitively answer the question: Can you be a conservative goth? (Spoiler: No. No you can't.) If you like...
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Goth Fashion Crash Course
For lack of better content, here's an episode that's mostly a powerpoint presentation on goth fashion I did in grad school. Listen and follow along! The presentation is here. Consider following us on our Patreon! Other links: Nashville Scene Death Issue The Three Nashville Cemeteries You Can Not...
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Whistling Past the Graveyard
Elizabeth is here to talk about people being scared to death and then read you a ghost story! Happy Halloween! Resources: Scared to Death: Emotional Stress Causing Fatal Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructed Coronary Arteries in Women Scared to Death: Fatal Encounters with Ghosts The Cemetery...
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Burials in Spaaaaaaace
A brief overview of space burials--who's up there already, how can you join them, and all the ethical dilemmas you may want to consider. References and Further Reading: Ethical Dilemmas of Space Memorial Services by Zhanna L. Malekos Smith Biden Administration to Consult with Navajo About Human...
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Season 5: Resurrected
Help Moutaz and His Family in Gaza Catching up on some things we've been up to this past year, recapping a few summer cemeteries, and getting back into the swing of things. New episodes coming at you on Saturdays this season. Check out pictures of the cemeteries we're talking about on our…
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Oops, It's October 6th
The TL;DR of this is we're still on the struggle bus this year, but hopefully we'll have some episodes for you soon. <3
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A Quick Note on the Rest of the Season
Hey, we're not going to be putting out new episodes for a bit. Elizabeth is out of commission and could use any dollars you might have if you want to throw them her way via our Ko-fi. Link to our Ko-Fi Link to our Patreon
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Are You My Mummy?
This week we're discussing Rosicrucianism and the ethics of displaying mummies in museums with only a tangent or two about musical theater. (Hope you're a fan of us having a rambling conversation because I only had time to make one pass on the edit.) Pictures I took at Rosicrucian Park are here....
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Amelia White, Talbird, Colonial Park, and Santa Rosa Rural
Elizabeth is taken by the Odinsleep so it's just Phoebe telling you about some cemeteries for like 15 minutes. Pictures of them are here. Amelia White and Talbird are Gullah cemeteries in Hilton Head, SC. Colonial Park Cemetery is in Savannah, GA. Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery is in Santa Rosa, CA....
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Oak Hill & Bluff City
Season 5 kicks off with some info about what's been going on with us and talking about a few cemeteries. Pictures of Oak Hill and Bluff City cemeteries can be found here. Links: Gaza relief: https://linktr.ee/opolivebranch Hurricane relief: https://www.colaborativalamilpa.org/donate...
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Season 5: The Final Frontier
Here's our exceedingly brief and vague promo for our next season that begins October 2nd.
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Hollywood Forever and Ever
Phoebe's long-awaited review of Hollywood Forever and Elizabeth talks about recent developments in Gaza. For pictures from Hollywood Forever and other content, please check us out on Patreon! References: Russians Are Dying to Be Buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery Celebrating the Dead Is No…
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Los Gatos Memorial Park
Phoebe visited Los Gatos Memorial Park and reports back to Elizabeth about the experience, telling her about Moshe Menuhin and Fremont Older, two cool dudes who are buried there, and then proceeds to be very inarticulate about why this cemetery felt weird despite being pretty nice. Also, we just...
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Winter Cemeteries
Surprise! Here's an episode about some cemeteries we visited in December. We hope to settle on something like a schedule soon and you'll be the first to know! References: Historic marker placed at Owen-Moore Cemetery in Brentwood Little-known Hardscuffle community vital to Brentwood history...
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Climate Change and Dying
Talking about the various intersections of dying and climate change. --- This episode starts off with a note about Gaza. A good comrade put together this link tree that has places to donate, ways to find rallies near you, and scripts & links for contacting your reps. Check out CeasefireToday.com....
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Can I Become a Tree? Part 2: Fungal Free-For-All
Part 2 of Elizabeth exploring her options for becoming a tree after death. This one is mostly about mushrooms. References: Infinity Burial's Instagram 4 Things to Know About Fungi Climate Warriors How the Mushroom Death Suit Will Change the Way We Die Mycoremediation: How Fungi Can Repair Our…
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Can I Become a Tree? Part 1
Elizabeth looks into how she can make her dream a reality and become a tree after she dies. References: The Appalachian Son Instagram reel that started this journey Return Home Terramation responds to Steve-O Australian Academy of Science, "Deadly secrets—the science of decomposition" New...
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Summer Cemeteries
Welcome to season 4! In this episode we briefly catch up on what's been happening in our lives since last year, followed by Phoebe talking about the three cemeteries she visited over the summer: Zion Chapel of Ease Cemetery in Hilton Head, SC; the Illinois State Training School cemetery in…
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Season 4 Promo!
Here we come with a 4th season of Communist Plot! We're launching a Patreon for this season AND a Ko-fi shop! For $3 you get a bonus mini-episode each week in October and a discount code for the shop. Both will launch October 1st. And new episodes start on October 4th! Patreon @...
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Appalachian Death Customs II (feat. Horror Movie Rundown)
In our final episode of the season we cover some more Appalachian death customs and superstitions. Then Elizabeth tells us about all the horror movies she's watched (as of October 28th). Thanks for listening to us ramble for another season! We might come at you with some random mini-episodes here...
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Sitting Up with The Dead: Appalachian Death Customs
We hope everyone had a great Halloween! This is our next to the last episode, where we start our discussion of Appalachian death customs. Enjoy! References/Further Reading Burial Practices in Southern Appalachia by Donna W. Stansberry How To Create a Family Cemetery: A Step By Step Guide
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California Cemeteries: John Brown's Widow and the Donner Party
I'm flying solo with this episode about three area cemeteries I've been to and a few interesting historical figures buried in each one! The three cemeteries are Madronia Cemetery (I keep saying "Madrona" in the episode), Santa Clara Mission Cemetery, and Oak Hill Memorial Park. Here’s the link to...
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A Brief Overview of Green Burial
In this episode we discuss the need for alternative burial options and take a look at a few green burial options including human composting, aquamation, and natural burial. The sound quality on this one is not fantastic and we go majorly off topic in the last 20 minutes, so there’s a lot to look...
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Goth Origins, Part II: We're Bringing Back That Barbaric Germanic Goth Vibe
Part II of our exploration of goth origins gets into the history of the term "goth" and brings us up through the ages to the birth of the contemporary goth subculture. Elizabeth would like to direct you to The Ghoul Guides for more in depth goth history and information. If you aren't following us...
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Goth Origins, Part I: How We Got This Way
To start off our new season we're talking about our own goth origin stories. There is a lot of death talk in this one (my dad passed away earlier this year and we talk about that a bit), though nothing graphic, but skip if you need to. I foolishly thought this wasn't going to be a two parter but...
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"Season 3" Promo!
Get hyped! A new season of Communist Plot is coming soon! I'll have a new episode edited and coming at your ears this Wednesday (if I remember how to edit audio files)!
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Hunting for Comb Graves in White County
This episode has everything: An airfield, a distant jamboree, more crunchy leaf ASMR, goths audibly eating French fries (sorry about that one). We went to White County in Tennessee to find an assortment of comb style graves and found a few other interesting things along the way! Most of my…
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Accidentally Learning Something in Columbia, TN
We visited three cemeteries in Columbia, two of which were the focus of a relatively recent MTSU Center for Historic Preservation project. Rosemount has served Columbia's Black community since 1873, Rose Hill is its neighbor and was originally established as a segregated whites-only cemetery....
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Corpse of a Town
Elizabeth found a goofy local ghost story/urban legend that led us to finding pieces of important local history that have been neglected. Links: Find a grave for Old Jefferson Old Jefferson directions plus links for getting to the Trail of Tears segment of the trail (these haven't been updated in…
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Live (sort of) from Mammoth Cave!
We went up to Kentucky to see some of Mammoth Cave National Park's beautiful cemeteries! This episode has everything: poor planning, a story about the Kentucky Cave Wars, a river ferry, us still not knowing how to record a podcast. It's a good time! I used this really neat interactive map to plan...
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The Funeral Industrial Complex
We're back! Kicking off our 2021 season with a discussion of the 1950 article "Status After Death" by William M. Kephart which takes a look at class distinctions within funerary proceedings and customs in Philadelphia. We follow that up with a more recent article that's a good companion piece…
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New Episodes are Coming!
A little promo to let y'all know we're coming back for October 2021! If you want to check out our cemetery reviews from last year they're up on my instagram here (maybe this year I'll move them over to an actual account for the show)
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Review of the Reviews
Going over our faves from our 2020 Middle TN Cemetery Reviews (which can be seen on my Instagram account). Notes: [The two cemetery guide websites we talk about are the Davidson County Cemetery Survey Project and the Rutherford County Cemetery Survey Project]
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Goth ASMR
We talk to our friend Sarah about visiting Père-Lachaise, walk around in crunchy leaves, and discover that the pentagrams we were seeing on tombstones are actually less metal than we thought. Notes: [I definitely said that Père-Lachaise was established in 1806 but it actually opened in 1804.]
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Necrogeography and Mary Shelley's Dad
Using Thomas W. Laqueur's article "The Deep Time of the Dead" as a frame work, we talk about why cemeteries exist and why we like hanging out in them. Notes: [TW: brief mention of suicide around 24 minute mark] [The book I couldn't remember the name of is The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History…
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An Introduction
Answering the burning questions: What is this? What will y'all be talking about? Is this a podcast? Notes: [Elizabeth would like to note that in her egalitarian take on modern cemeteries when she said that race was a bit more of a "sticky subject" specifically in the context of cemeteries, she…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A couple of goths talking about cemeteries, among other things. Using our 2020 Middle Tennessee Cemetery Reviews as a starting point, we'll be delving into the historical, psychological, and cultural aspects of graveyards, any adjacent topics we might wander into, and, inevitably, class politics.
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Phoebe & Elizabeth
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