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This Is Your Afterlife
by Dave Maher
What do you hope happens when you die? If you could relive one memory, what would it be? What's your coma? Comedian and coma survivor Dave Maher ("This American Life") asks artists and organizers these questions in conversations about death, politics, and art.
Episodes
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TIYA After Dark Preview — Horses Are Awesome with Bryan Duff
This is a preview of this week's bonus episode. Subscribe to TIYA After Dark on Patreon to support This Is Your Afterlife & get all bonus episodes for $5 a month: patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife. Friend, TIYA listener, and comedian Bryan Duff creates short-form videos that are funnier & more...
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The Burden of Isolation with Pauly V of DIABETICGUY.ORG
I can't say for sure what I expected to find at diabeticguy.org when I saw Pauly V's sticker outside a concert venue in Cleveland. I just knew it was a funny URL, and I was curious. What I found was best-case scenario: an artist with type 1 diabetes making zines and prints protesting the evils of...
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Podcasting in Time: Voyage in Time + That One Scene From Atomic Blonde with Jake Serwin
Podcasting in Time is brought to you by the Afterheads and Producers on Patreon in collaboration with my unemployment. If you enjoy it, SUBSCRIBE to get episodes early and enable me to do more things like this. You'll also get all the other bonus episodes of TIYA After Dark:...
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Air Felt Different with Ned Milligan
"Music Sounds Better with You" by Stardust is Ned Milligan's favorite French house song, and by the end of this conversation, we realize the title is basically Ned's ethos as a musician and the founder of Florabelle Records. He makes space for listeners to make meaning with him. That generosity...
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Podcasting in Time: Nostalghia with Comrade Yui
Podcasting in Time is brought to you by the Afterheads and Producers on Patreon in collaboration with my unemployment. If you enjoy it, SUBSCRIBE to get episodes early and enable me to do more things like this. You'll also get all the other bonus episodes of TIYA After Dark:...
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TIYA After Dark Preview — Blackmetalpalooza with Jetski
This is a preview of this week's bonus episode. Subscribe to TIYA After Dark on Patreon to support This Is Your Afterlife & get all bonus episodes for $5 a month: patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife. Longtime listeners know my musical explorations have led me to black metal in recent years, but this…
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Two More Minutes of "Purple Rain" with Hanif Abdurraqib
This is an all-time great episode of This Is Your Afterlife, the entry point I'll give to TIYA newcomers going forward. Poet, essayist, cultural critic, Ohioan, and MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient Hanif Abdurraqib explores death, loss, grief, awe, and even heaven so deeply in his work that I…
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PATREON PREVIEW — TIYA After Dark: Mid-Life Crisis Tier List with Drennen Quinn
This is a preview of this week's bonus episode. Subscribe to TIYA After Dark on Patreon to support This Is Your Afterlife & get all bonus episodes for $5 a month: patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife. I turned 42 last week, which is honestly the closest to middle age I've ever been. I decided to have...
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Utmost Worst with Tom Krell (How to Dress Well)
"There is nothing theorizable or interesting about death," Tom Krell says 30 minutes into his appearance on my podcast about death. He's speaking precisely. By "death," he means what he's learned of it from watching those close to him die. The annihilation of self. The finality of it. What he's…
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Podcasting in Time: Stalker with Philip Metres
Podcasting in Time is brought to you by the Afterheads and Producers on Patreon in collaboration with my unemployment. If you enjoy it, SUBSCRIBE to get episodes early and enable me to do more things like this. You'll also get all the other bonus episodes of TIYA After Dark:...
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PREVIEW — Everything Is a Ghost Kitchen
This is a preview of this week's bonus episode. Subscribe to TIYA After Dark on Patreon to support This Is Your Afterlife & get all bonus episodes for $5 a month: patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife. Here's another solo episode of TIYA After Dark where I give myself a starting point and an endpoint…
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Serving, Loving, and Mocking Children with Brandon Ogborn
I razz him for using "brutally honest" in descriptions of two separate projects, but I love Brandon Ogborn. I know the comedian, playwright, podcaster, and reluctant "content creator" from our days on the same improv team at iO Chicago, Sports Team. Reminiscing about that time is the closest I…
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Podcasting in Time: Mirror with Vienna
Podcasting in Time is brought to you by the Afterheads and Producers on Patreon in collaboration with my unemployment. If you enjoy it, SUBSCRIBE to get episodes early and enable me to do more things like this. You'll also get all the other bonus episodes of TIYA After Dark:...
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PATREON PREVIEW — TIYA After Dark Live at Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii with Daniel Strauss and Drennen Quinn
This is a preview of this week's bonus episode. Subscribe to TIYA After Dark on Patreon to support This Is Your Afterlife & get all bonus episodes for $5 a month: patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife. These bonus episodes are nothing if not experimental. Even more than This Is Your Afterlife, TIYA…
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Resonance in All Its Forms with Oui Ennui
"Ants experience humans as shadows and wind." And with that statement, four-time (!) TIYA guest Oui Ennui blew my mind. There are forces bigger than we can imagine, and how can we be sure of what we know??!!! My conversations with Jonn (Oui) get heady, so I wasn't surprised to be talking about…
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Podcasting in Time: Solaris with Fred Barrett
Podcasting in Time is brought to you by the Afterheads and Producers on Patreon in collaboration with my unemployment. If you enjoy it, SUBSCRIBE to get episodes early and enable me to do more things like this. You'll also get all the other bonus episodes of TIYA After Dark:...
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PATREON PREVIEW — Bracketology: Ways to Live with Bill Stern, Claire Favret, Meaghan Strickland
This is a preview of this week's bonus episode. Subscribe to TIYA After Dark on Patreon to support This Is Your Afterlife & get all bonus episodes for $5 a month: patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife. It's another episode of Bracketology, the comedy argument game show created by me and some of my...
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Communism or Faith or Both with E Conner
I don't remember when I started responding "THANK YOU" to guests saying, "Good question," but E Conner said it so often I felt obliged to explain the bit. I was slightly humbled by their admission it's an organizing trick for when you don't have an answer and not the turbo validation I interpret…
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Podcasting in Time: Andrei Rublev with Ian Rhine
Podcasting in Time is brought to you by the Afterheads and Producers on Patreon in collaboration with my unemployment. If you enjoy it, SUBSCRIBE to get episodes early and enable me to do more things like this. You'll also get all the other bonus episodes of TIYA After Dark:...
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PREVIEW — Stand-Up Comedy Is Conservative: Ridiculing Louis CK and Vulture
This is a preview of this week's bonus episode. Subscribe to TIYA After Dark on Patreon to support This Is Your Afterlife & get all bonus episodes for $5 a month: patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife. I watched Louis CK's new Netflix special, Ridiculous, as well as the Vulture podcast about it, so you...
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Falling Into Knowledge with Gabriel Jermaine Vanlandingham-Dunn
Gabriel Jermaine Vanlandingham-Dunn has lost enough people in his life to form a "Grief Voltron" (his words), and he didn't hold back in this wide-ranging talk that's been a long time coming. I hope you appreciate this conversation with a man who spends so much time appreciating the music of…
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Podcasting in Time: Ivan's Childhood with Peter Raleigh
Podcasting in Time is brought to you by the Afterheads and Producers on Patreon in collaboration with my unemployment. If you enjoy it, SUBSCRIBE to get episodes early and enable me to do more things like this. You'll also get all the other bonus episodes of TIYA After Dark:...
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PREVIEW — TIYA Mailbag #1: Death Care, Toxic Nostalgia, and Death as Ending
This is a preview of this week's bonus episode. Subscribe to TIYA After Dark on Patreon to support This Is Your Afterlife & get all bonus episodes for $5 a month: patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife. I asked, and you delivered: the very first This Is Your Afterlife Mailbag episode. I really loved…
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Send me your questions for the first-ever TIYA Mailbag!
Just what the title says. For next week's bonus episode, I am going to do a listener mailbag, and it will be very awkward with no input from you, a listener! So send your questions to my or the podcast's DMs on Instagram (@thisisdavemaher/@thisisyourafterlife) or my email:...
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The Two Tape Decks in Your Head with Rhys Langston
I met rapper, writer, visual artist, and technical octuple threat Rhys Langston when he opened for This Is Your Afterlife's 200th guest, Open Mike Eagle, at a show in Cleveland. As I say to him in this episode, there were telltale signs he was my type of guy. I think he'll be your type of guy…
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PREVIEW — Does a Yacht Have Mortgage?: Questioning AI and Myself
This is a preview of a bonus episode from the Patreon feed, TIYA After Dark! Head to patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife to hear this full episode and all the others for just $5 a month. This solo episode was an experiment. Of the things that have occupied my thoughts recently, I picked two, made one…
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Return of the 90s Part 2: Spirals & Waves with Madeline Lane-McKinley and Sean O'Brien
Cultural critic & friend of the show Madeline Lane-McKinley joins my conversation with Sean O'Brien about their book The Return of the 90s: A Cultural History of the Present for the end of another two-episode week! Or am I joining their conversation? Doesn't matter! It's a great one because not...
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Return of the 90s Part 1: Anti-Work, Pro-Sleep with Sean O'Brien
I don't tend to use the word "periodizing" for the project of This Is Your Afterlife, but when I ask my guests, "What's your coma?," I'm absolutely "categorizing the past into discrete, quantified, and named blocks of time for the purpose of study or analysis" (thanks, Wikipedia). Periodization…
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Announcing "Podcasting in Time," A Tarkovsky Filmography Miniseries
This is a bonus episode from the Patreon feed, TIYA After Dark! Head to patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife to hear all the other After Dark episodes for just $5 a month. I asked, subscribers voted, and we're doing it: watching all seven Andrei Tarkovsky feature films this summer! Here's an "episode...
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Most Things Are Mid with Jeff Weiss
Is gossip the only thing people want from their media these days? Is your own taste to the contrary evidence of an audience for something different? What do you do when you want to create work that engages culture thoughtfully in a format longer than a single TikTok? The answer for Jeff Weiss is:...
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PATREON PREVIEW — Nasty Squeezes with Sarah Knittel #00001: What Are Nasty Squeezes?
This is a preview of a bonus episode from the Patreon feed, TIYA After Dark! Head to patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife to hear this full episode and all the others for just $5 a month. You can also purchase just this standalone episode for $3 here: patreon.com/posts/nasty-squeezes-158644003 Sarah...
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Pod Casty for Me Part 2: I Came Out of IOP and Started a Podcast with Jake Serwin
Pod Casty for Me week on This Is Your Afterlife concludes with a silly, serious, thorough, and discursive episode with that podcast's other host, Jake Serwin. I'm pleased to say our internet interactions have blossomed into an actual friendship, and I'm not at all insecure about how much I text…
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Pod Casty for Me Part 1: Forced Into the World with Ian Rhine
Ian Rhine is "one of the guys" who host Pod Casty for Me, my current favorite podcast. He and Jake Serwin talk about film and politics, and their deep friendship is evident in every episode. I find it illuminating and comforting and fun, and, wouldn't you know it, that's also how I feel about…
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PATREON PREVIEW: Afterlife Power Rankings + Pixar's Soul with Daniel Strauss and Drennen Quinn
This is a preview of a bonus episode from the Patreon feed, TIYA After Dark! Head to patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife to hear this full episode and all the others for just $5 a month. People have mentioned many versions of the afterlife on TIYA, but which one is THE BEST? That's exactly why we're...
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Place-Goers Part 2: Grief Is a Mole (The Sauce) with Danny Catlow
Place-Goers Week continues on TIYA, an acronym my guest—comedian/actor/YouTuber Danny Catlow—attempts to pronounce in this episode and we agree doesn't quite roll off the tongue. WE COVER SO MUCH GROUND IN THIS EPISODE. It starts with talk of how we met each other when my improv group Computer...
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Place-Goers Part 1: The Muscles Are Releasing Juice Into the Holes with Kate O'Connor
I've become a weekly watcher of Kate O'Connor's YouTube vlog, Place-Goers, which features her going places with her boyfriend, Danny Catlow. I know both comedians—and unapologetic YouTubers!—from doing comedy in Chicago, but since they live in L.A. now, that's the site of most of their…
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PATREON PREVIEW — Field Trip: Cemetery Visit to My Neighbor Harvey
All-new type of bonus episode this week! I decided to visit the cemetery across the street from me, make my way to the grave of Cleveland working class artist hero and underground comics pioneer Harvey Pekar, and bring you all on the trip. This was a blast to record, and it's one of my favorite...
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A Redo of THE FIRST DEAD EPISODE with Lucia Whalen
Chicago comedian and gem-of-a-person-to-talk-to Lucia Whalen returns to This Is Your Afterlife... for the first time? Lucia wanted a few things from episode 83 kept private, so I sent it to the great podcast beyond, and we took the opportunity to record a new conversation as episode 205. I…
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PATREON PREVIEW — Work Sucks, I Know: The Casual Work Cruelty Exorcism
This is a preview of a bonus episode from the Patreon feed, TIYA After Dark! Head to patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife to hear this full episode and all the others for just $5 a month. Thanks to everyone who contributed voice messages to this first call-in episode of TIYA After Dark (at least of…
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Arm the Choir with Wretched Blessing
There's only one piece of music from 2026 so far that I've loved, but it's nearing the point of obsession: Wretched Blessing's "How Deep Is Your Love?," which features guitar work from previous TIYA guest Genital Shame! It's a cover of the Calvin Harris & Disciples song (not the Bee Gees), but...
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PATREON PREVIEW: Does It Matter What We Tell Ourselves?
This is a preview of a bonus episode from the Patreon feed, TIYA After Dark! Head to patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife to hear this full episode and all the others for just $5 a month. A solo episode in which I'm trying to choose narratives for my life. Maybe you can relate? Support the show and…
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How People Change with Leigh Claire La Berge
"How can this possibly be the way?!" is a question Leigh Claire La Berge asks constantly in Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism Is a Joke. The book is Leigh Claire's reflection on her time prepping a Fortune 500 company for Y2K by essentially making a bunch of copies, double-checking...
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PATREON PREVIEW: "Synecdoche, New York" Is a Way Homer with Daniel Strauss and Drennen Quinn
This is a preview of a bonus episode from the Patreon feed, TIYA After Dark! Head to patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife to hear this full episode and all the others for just $5 a month. Daniel Strauss and Drennen Quinn return to talk about Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York. They're my closest...
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Just Saying What You Mean with Christopher Jason Bell
I recently saw two movies that exemplified how I want to make political art: Neo Sora's "Happyend" and "Failed State" by Christopher Jason Bell and Mitch Blummer. Both films tell intimate stories that show rather than obscure the ways political systems influence their characters' lives. In this...
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PATREON PREVIEW: "Emotional Man" Deep Dive with Lucas O'Neil
This is a preview of a premium episode from the Patreon feed, TIYA After Dark! Head to patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife to hear this full episode and all the others for just $5 a month. I love talking to Lucas O'Neil about the specifics of standup comedy craft, and since he just released his first...
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The Living Other with CRASHprez
Michael Penn II, aka CRASHprez, makes two rapper episodes in a row! Not since Mike Watt has there been a This Is Your Afterlife guest slinging this much of their own lingo (what is it about Mikes?), and I do my best not to pretend too hard like I understand it all. Fortunately, we take a detour...
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PATREON PREVIEW: 4 Death Lessons + 1 Art Lesson = 200 Episodes
This is a preview of a premium episode from the Patreon feed, TIYA After Dark! Head to patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife to hear this full episode and all the others for just $5 a month. On the heels of last week's 200th episode, I talk about why it made me more emotional than I expected, and I…
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TIYA 200! What Is Experience If You Don't Have a Body? with Open Mike Eagle
Sometimes a guest breaks my brain, like when Open Mike Eagle asks the titular question of this episode. I'm still parsing the way the question reorients consciousness in the body rather than as an entity separate from it. Maybe it's a basic thought, but it hit me fresh this time. But let me back...
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[PATREON PREVIEW] Bracketology: Transformative Life Experiences with Meaghan Strickland, Bill Stern, Nick Leveski, Mark "Huberman"
This is a preview of a premium episode from the Patreon feed, TIYA After Dark! Head to patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife to hear this full episode and all the others for just $5 a month. I use my coma as the central metaphor of This Is Your Afterlife to discover the moments that transformed my...
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An Amusement Park Based on Your Life with KR Riiber
KR Riiber wrote one of the best plays I've ever seen, Tangles & Plaques, a show about dementia and memory care borne from their time as an ensemble member of the Neo-Futurists, the Chicago theater group with core tenets like honesty, brevity, risk & chance, and transformation. Hmmmm, sound like…
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What do you hope happens when you die? If you could relive one memory, what would it be? What's your coma? Comedian and coma survivor Dave Maher ("This American Life") asks artists and organizers these questions in conversations about death, politics, and art.
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