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WeCroak
by WeCroak
We talk about the things we don’t talked about enough. Starting with death. But not ending there.
Episodes
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44| Jane Callahan
Season 7, Episode 5: Jane Callahan on a Meaningful End Jane Callahan is an end-of-life doula and the author of A Death Doula’s Guide to a Meaningful End. In this conversation, Jane shares how the painful, medicalized death of her estranged mother set her on the path to becoming a death doula, and...
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43| Elizabeth Bruenig
What does it feel like to be in the room when a death sentence is carried out? In this episode we talk to The Atlantic Reporter Elizabeth Bruenig about her reporting that took her deep into how death penalties are carried out in America and stories of the people on death row. WeCroak on YouTube […]
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42| Colin Dickey
Happy October! We have journalist and author Colin Dickey on the WeCroak podcast to talk about America’s obsession with ghost stories, the paranormal and occult. Careful not to say whether he believes or not, Dickey is more interested in what these stories say about us. WeCroak on YouTube…
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41| Tim O’Keefe
It was Epicurus that said, “Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death is not; and when death is, we are not.” Today we are joined by Tim O’Keefe, an expert on the philosophy of Epicurus and what this ancient practical philosophy brought to our understanding of the big questions of life and...
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40| Brittney Hartley
The WeCroak Podcast is back with an episode on Nihlism with our Guest Brittney Hartley. She is the nihilism expert and survivor behind the popular channel No Nonsense Spirituality. Find out how to make life meaningful when nothing you used to believe in matters anymore. Heads up, explicit…
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39| Alex Ebert
Season 6, Episode 3: Alex Ebert on writing songs after a crisis of faith This is our second conversation of Alex Ebert, famous for his hit songs from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. We talk about some new music that comes from his meditations on death, and what he’s spent the last few years...
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38| Lauren Kennedy
Season 5, Episode 8: Lauren Kennedy on Pets, Death, and Dignity I found Lauren Kennedy on TikTok doing breathtaking end-of-life photography sessions for beloved family pets, often taken just hours before a schedule vet appointment. It turns out she also founded The Tilly Project, a national...
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37| Social Stomach
Season 5, Episode 7: WeCroak Has A Baby: The Social Stomach App Hansa and Ian, the guys who brought the world WeCroak, announce their second app called Social Stomach. It’s an app for waking up to the power of social eating, one of the simplest lifestyle changes you can make, besides…
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36| Katie Engelhart
Season 5, Episode 6: Katie Engelhart’s Dispatches on the Right to Die I’ve never been so uncomfortable reading a book about death or having a discussion. Katie Englehart’s book The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die is a master work of journalism about people who say they are not suicidal...
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35| Massimo Pigliucci
Season 5, Episode 5: Massimo Pigliucci on Choosing a Good Life Massimo Pigliucci was the first guest we ever had on the WeCroak Podcast. In that episode we talked about his adult decision to commit to Stoicism as a life philosophy. Today, we talk about his new book, “How to Live a Good Life,”…
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34| Clay Risen
Season 5, Episode 4: Clay Risen from the NYT Obit Pages This is a conversation about death, who gets remembered and how we write stories about the departed. We are joined by Clay Risen who writes for The New York Times Obituaries page so expect a lot of your host nerding out about obits and […]
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33| Dr. Emily Nagoski
Season 5, Episode 3: Emily Nagoski PHD on Burnout This is a conversation about how everything is connected. We speak with Emily Nagoski about burnout, that feeling of overwork and overwhelm and how it connects to things far outside of stressful jobs and schedules. It comes down to, she argues…
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32| Dr. René Najera
Season 5, Episode 2: Dr. René Najera on the History of Vaccines When we forget our history, we lose our context for the present and the future. The past year has been a return to humankind’s historic relationship with mass death caused by disease. Early vaccines were a breakthrough that picked...
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31| Dr. Nikki Mirghafori
Season 5, Episode 1: Dr. Nikki Mirghafori on Death & Mindfulness Retreats Today we talk about Buddhism, Technology and why you might want to go to a seven day death and mindfulness retreat with meditation teacher Dr. Nikki Mirghafori. Guest Website: NikkiMirghafori.com Guest Website: One Day...
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30| Casper ter Kuile
Season 4, Episode 5: Casper ter Kuile on The Power of Ritual Six years ago, Casper Ter Kuile started reading the Harry Potter series as a sacred text on his hit podcast downloaded over 22 million times. Now he has a whole lot more rituals inspired by practice that can be adapted to our more…
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29| Heather Christle
Season 4, Episode 4: Heather Christle on Crying In this conversation we look at crying and tears in countless ways good and bad with poet Heather Christle. It’s about why we do it, what it feels like, and how tears bring out both the best and the worst in us. Further Reading: The Crying Book...
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28| Massimo Riva
Season 4, Episode 3: Massimo Riva on The Decameron In 1348 the Black Death Plague took as a third of the population. In Florence Italy, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron in response to the plague, a classic that has lasted down the ages. We have on Professor Massimo Riva to talk about this...
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27| Long Litt Woon
Season 4, Episode 2: Long Litt Woon on Mushrooming and Mourning This is a conversation about grief and how Long Litt Woon found her way back to feeling alive by following forest paths looking for mushrooms. It’s about how only knowledge can protect you from a poisonous mushroom and how one needs...
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26| Donald Robertson
Season 4, Episode 1: Donald Robertson on How to Think Like a Roman Emperor You know who else thought about death often? Ancient Roman Stoics including the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. In this episode we chat about what practical philosophy meant to these powerful practitioners and why it feels so...
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25| Dr. Sunita Puri
Season 3, Episode 8: Dr. Sunita Puri Talks That Good Night Dr. Sunita Puri is the Medical Director of the Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Service at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California. We talk on this episode about her new book, “That Good...
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24| Alex Ebert
Season 3, Episode 7: Alex Ebert Contemplating Zero Alex Ebert is the lead singer of the band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and an American singer songwriter and composer. The first rock star on the WeCroak Podcast, Alex Ebert talks about how important contemplating death has been to his...
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23| Shoshana Ungerleider
Season 3, Episode 6: Shoshana Ungerleider – The People Trying to Change How We Die Doctor Shoshana Ungerleider is the founder of the End Well Project, working to change how the medical profession treats the dying. We talk about her involvement in award winning Netflix documentaries and the End…
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22| Rebecca Goldstein
Season 3, Episode 5: Rebecca Goldstein – Why Mattering Matters Rebecca Goldstein is an award-wining philosopher and novelist, an unexpected combination from an original thinker. We talk about her latest work on why mattering matters to us and how the search for a more meaningful life is essential...
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21| Jay Michaelson
Season 3, Episode 4: Jay Michaelson – Enlightenment by Trial and Error Jay Michaelson is a journalist, meditation teacher, and author of several books about the contemplative life. In this episode we talk about his latest book, “Enlightenment by Trial and Error” about the search for a meaningful...
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20| Agnes Callard
Season 3, Episode 3: Agnes Callard- On Anger Anger is one of the most common and difficult human emotions and here, we talk about its hidden risks and benefits. After all, we are all going to have anger in our lives and what we do with it will determine much of who we are. This […]
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19| Joseph Margulies
Season 3, Episode 2: Joseph Margulies – On The People We Torture The WeCroak Podcast is the place we talk about all the things we don’t talk about enough and this week that means discussing torture. Our guest Joseph Margulies is an attorney with the MacArthur Justice Center and has represented...
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18| Jennie Dear
Season 3, Episode 1: Jennie Dear – What Does It Feel Like To Die? Journalist and Writer Jennie Dear is the author of the new book, “What Does it Feel Like to Die?” We talk in this episode about that essential question we’ve all wondered about but most of us have always been too afraid […]
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17| Rachel Menzies
Season 2, Episode 8: Rachel Menzies – Death Anxiety and Mental Health What does death anxiety have to do with mental health? According to some new studies by Rachel Menzies of The University of Sydney, death anxiety may be the “worm at the core” of several mental health conditions. We talk about...
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16| The WeCroak Guys
Season 2, Episode 7: The WeCroak Guys WeCroak Co-Founder Ian Thomas joins your host Hansa Bergwall to discuss all the death news that’s fit to croak about. We talk Kara Swisher, problems in tech, changes coming to the app, Hansa’s overwhelm finishing a book, and some interesting obits. Support...
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15| Jules Evans
Season 2, Episode 6: Jules Evans – The Art of Losing Control After a spontaneous Near Death Experience, Jules Evans finds philosophy and puts his life back together in his hit book “Philosophy for Life.” But the ecstasy he experienced in his NDE always haunted him and in his second book “The Art…
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14| Elizabeth Minnich
Season 2, Episode 5: Elizabeth Minnich – The Evil Of Banality Elizabeth Minnich has spent the last few decades studying how genocides happen and her findings may surprise you. It turns out to pull off the biggest evils, you need a very particular kind of person, a thoughtless kind that is...
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13| Katy Butler
Season 2, Episode 4: Katy Butler – The Art of Dying Well Our society doesn’t talk enough about death enough and as a result, few are prepared for a thing we should all know to expect for ourselves and everyone we care about. Katy Butler is a refreshingly honest voice with practical information on...
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12| Todd May
Season 2, Episode 3: Todd May – A Fragile Life Todd May is a philosopher at Clemson University who consulted on the hit show The Good Place. We talk about death in philosophy and in living today. We also talk about all the practical philosophies like Stoicism, Buddhism and Taoism that promise to...
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11| Ann Neumann
Season 2, Episode 2: Ann Neumann – The Good Death Ann Neumann takes us on an exploration of dying in America in this episode of The WeCroak Podcast. We talk about how death in America today is a system fraught with contradictions and failures that don’t serve the dying. We also talk about some of...
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10| Hugh Ryan
Season 2, Episode 1: Hugh Ryan – When Brooklyn Was Queer Hugh Ryan is a writer and historian who works on issues of queers politics and culture. In his book we talk about a queer subculture that thrived along the waterfront in Brooklyn for over a hundred years, had its own lingo and values and […]
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8| Hansa & Ian Regroup on Death, Technology and Podcasting
We’ve spoken with meditation teachers, palliative care nurses who work with the dying, physicists and technologists. But have we learned anything about death? In this episode we discuss the WeCroak Podcast thus far and talk about the questions we want to explore next. We think we are on to...
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7| Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg is as influential a meditation teacher as you are likely to find. She is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society and has written nine books on mindfulness and meditation including The New York Times best-seller Real Happiness. In this book, we discuss her newest book, Real...
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6| Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier’s new book Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now is opening the world’s eyes to the real world consequences of social media’s business model based on maximum addiction and distraction. And it goes way beyond wasting the precious hours of your life. Lanier...
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5| Frank Ostaseski
Frank Ostaseski is an internationally respected Buddhist teacher and visionary cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, and founder of the Metta Institute. In this episode we talk about his new book The Five Invitations: Discovering what Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully based on his years of...
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4| Adam Cayton-Holland
Adam Cayton-Holland was named a top 25 comic to watch by Esquire and creates, writes and stars in the hit show “Those Who Can’t.” He also just came out with his first book, “Tragedy + Time: A Tragic Comic Memoir” about his sister’s life and suicide. Our conversation is about his family and how he...
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3| Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman is a theoretical physicist, author of six novels, meditator and professor who has served at both Harvard and MIT. His latest memoir Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine is as much about finding beauty in the natural world as understanding the science behind how it changes all…
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2| Sallie Tisdale
Sallie Tisdale is the author of nine books and today we are talking about her most recent Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them). Tisdales writing has also appeared in Harper’s, Antioch Review, Conjunctions, Threepenny Review, The New Yorker, and Tricycle, among other journals. As a...
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1| Massimo Pigliucci
Massimo Pigliucci is the professor of philosophy at City University of New York who wrote the book How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life. It’s about the author’s own journey finding the right practical philosophy for living in today’s modern chaos by listening to…
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Teaser – Season One
First episodes available on Sept 19, 2018. On the WeCroak Podcast we talk about the things we don’t talked about enough. Starting with death. But not ending there. On our first season we talk to a palliative care nurse, a stoic philosopher, a theoretical physicist, a comedian and a tech…
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We talk about the things we don’t talked about enough. Starting with death. But not ending there.
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