40 episodes
WeCroak WeCroak
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- Society & Culture
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4.8 • 38 Ratings
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We talk about the things we don’t talked about enough. Starting with death. But not ending there.
We’ve some amazing guests in our first season with practicing stoic philosophers, founders of zen hospice programs, comedians, tech visionaries and more.
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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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33| 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 resource for creating end-of-life memories for families and their pets. […]
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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 contemplating death often, to […]
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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 and believe they have […]
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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,” about […]
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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 […]
Customer Reviews
I’m biased, but still.
I’m the editor of this podcast, so I am very biased about its rating. Over the course of editing these episodes I get to listen to them many times and each guest is so great that each pass-through adds something new to my experience. This podcast brings you such a diversity of perspectives, to talk about the things we don’t talk about enough.
Interesting Interviews
I'm ahuge fan and heavy user of the We Croak app, and when an episode of the podcast arrives I'm eager to listen and learn more. The host asks good questions, and the guests are interesting. There are many podcasts about death and dying, this one is worth trying. Highly recommended.
Changed the way I think about life
Although this podcast is talking about death, it’s really about living your life with more purpose and intention. From the very first episode, this podcast (and its companion app) have helped me think differently about living in the now right up until the very end. I’ll keep listening thinking about death because the awareness that time is precious is making my life better today.