This Is Your Afterlife

Dave Maher
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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.

  1. 1d ago ·  Bonus

    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: https://www.patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife Welcome back to Podcasting in Time, a This Is Your Afterlife bonus miniseries exploring the filmography of Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky. With this Solaris episode, we're deep into this filmography. My head is full of flowing waters, plants swaying in the wind, and horses being weird, and we've reached the point of the series where I'm not sure what I've said and on which episode. Plus, this movie affects me the way the planet Solaris does everyone in its orbit: it scrambles my mind! Fortunately, I've got film critic Fred Barrett here to talk about it. Fred is sharp and insightful, and he rattled off a syllabus' worth of other films to watch during the course of our conversation. If you like it, let me know! Follow Fred: https://twitter.com/fred_beretta https://fredbarrett.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/electricdreams/ Incredibly Incomplete List of Works Referenced: Stanislaw Lem: Solaris Harlan Ellison: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" Solaris (2002) Red Line 7000 (1965) Gertrude (1964) Ugetsu (1953) Laura (1944) Kiss Me Deadly (1955) High and Low (1963) Journey to the Shore (2015) High and Low (1963) Moon Rainbow aka Lunar Rainbow (1983) Follow TIYA, share your thoughts: https://thisisyourafterlife.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife/ thisisdavemaher@gmail.com Music by TIYA house band Lake Mary: https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/chaz.prymek/

    Podcasting in Time: Solaris with Fred Barrett

  2. 2d ago

    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 longest friends in comedy. This time, it's Bill Stern, Claire Favret, Meaghan Strickland, and me arguing Ways to Live! How it works: pick a topic, fill a bracket with examples of that topic, and argue the matchups in the bracket until we crown a winner. The thing is, the winner of Bracketology is the quintessential example of the topic, NOT necessarily the "best" or our favorite example. If you'd like to look at the bracket in seed order before/while you listen, here you go! Golden RuleFarm With All Your Friends Surrounded by the Ripest, Most Delicious Fruits (Fruit Commune)ExtravagantlyYOLOFamous Musician Constantly on Tour, Beloved by Fans but at Night After the Shows… Alone (Commitment to Craft)AnonymousDouble LifeVicariously Enjoy, subscribe to TIYA After Dark to hear the full ep, and spread the word! Follow Claire: https://www.instagram.com/clairefavs/ Follow Meaghan: https://www.instagram.com/stricklygram/ Follow Bill and Claire's sketch group, Cigarette Sandwich: https://www.instagram.com/cigsandwich/ Follow TIYA, share your thoughts: https://thisisyourafterlife.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife/ thisisdavemaher@gmail.com Music by TIYA house band Lake Mary: https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/chaz.prymek/ Artwork by Matt Sage: https://www.instagram.com/matthewjsage/

  3. Jul 21

    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 it to be. Fortunately, I don't need permission to self-aggrandize, and I have no plans to retire the bit any time soon. It's a silly moment in the midst of a really pleasant and sometimes intense conversation about E's punk rock radicalization, surprising (to me) orientation toward religion, and what it feels like to be part of an activist/artistic community in the Bay Area for 20 years. We talk about: punk roots, tenant organizing, Black Liberation Army pamphlets, Maximum Rocknroll, traveling as a homeless teenager, the Ghost Ship fire, environmental grief, turning self activity into collective activity. This Is Your Afterlife is made possible by listeners like you on Patreon. Support the show & get bonus episodes by subscribing to TIYA After Dark: https://www.patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife Check out & support the Freedom Archives: https://freedomarchives.org/ Follow The Weakly: https://www.instagram.com/thee_weakly/ Follow TIYA, share your thoughts: https://thisisyourafterlife.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife/ thisisdavemaher@gmail.com Music by TIYA house band Lake Mary: https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/chaz.prymek/ Artwork by Matt Sage: https://www.instagram.com/matthewjsage/

  4. Jul 16 ·  Bonus

    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: https://www.patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife Welcome back to Podcasting in Time, a This Is Your Afterlife bonus miniseries exploring the filmography of Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky. This is it, y'all: the Andrei Rublev episode. I write this blurb from a future where I've now seen 5 of the 7 Tarkovsky features, and currently, Andrei Rublev is my favorite. In the Mark Le Fanu book I reference throughout this series, he says this movie "represents filmmaking about as physically ambitious as it is possible to contemplate." And here, I'm contemplating it with Pod Casty for Me's Ian Rhine. Ian is a sensitive, funny, and intelligent conversation partner, and this episode was truly a joy to make. At one point during recording, I remember sitting back and just appreciating how nice it was to be having such a great talk about such an incredible movie. This episode is longer than the final cut of the film but not as long as the original cut, The Passion According to Andrei. As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Incredibly Incomplete List of Works Referenced Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed Mark Le Fanu: The Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky Follow Pod Casty for Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://www.patreon.com/c/PodCastyForMe/ https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme Follow TIYA, share your thoughts: https://thisisyourafterlife.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife/ thisisdavemaher@gmail.com Music by TIYA house band Lake Mary: https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/chaz.prymek/

    Podcasting in Time: Andrei Rublev with Ian Rhine

  5. Jul 14

    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 don't have to. I talk about: preserving the status quo, high school essays and college bulletin boards, toothless criticism, cancel culture, evolution, you simply DO NOT have to hand it to him, and we all deserve better. Follow TIYA, share your thoughts: https://thisisyourafterlife.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife/ thisisdavemaher@gmail.com Music by TIYA house band Lake Mary: https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/chaz.prymek/ Artwork by Matt Sage: https://www.instagram.com/matthewjsage/

  6. Jul 8

    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 others through his writing, thinking, DJing, and, yes, curating. We talk about: deliberately cultivating your life, the Bomb Squad, "boundaries" & "healing" as buzzwords, lifelong what if-ism, grieving the recent passing of his mother, losing family members to gun violence and HIV/AIDS, invisible disability, recategorizing friendships, traveling as achievement, tech people = enemies, and our new podcast: Future Words. This Is Your Afterlife is made possible by listeners like you on Patreon. Support the show & get bonus episodes by subscribing to TIYA After Dark: https://www.patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife Follow Gabriel: https://www.instagram.com/soundsbydjibril/ https://www.instagram.com/thecowartsprogram/ https://www.instagram.com/astralspiritsrecords/ https://theofficialcowmusic.bandcamp.com/ https://astralspirits.bandcamp.com/ His recent "archival appreciation" of late jazz legend Sonny Rollins is a warm and rewarding read: https://www.agatheringtogether.com/blog/the-brightest-of-sonsets He wrote the foreword to Cisco Bradley's I Hear Freedom: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/i-hear-freedom/9780231221573/ And there will be a panel for the book on August 6, so pay attention to his Instagram for details! Follow TIYA, share your thoughts: https://thisisyourafterlife.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife/ thisisdavemaher@gmail.com Music by TIYA house band Lake Mary: https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/chaz.prymek/ Artwork by Matt Sage: https://www.instagram.com/matthewjsage/

  7. Jul 2 ·  Bonus

    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: https://www.patreon.com/thisisyourafterlife Welcome to Podcasting in Time, a This Is Your Afterlife bonus miniseries exploring the filmography of Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky. In this very first episode, I welcome film writer Peter Raleigh to talk about Tarkovsky's 1962 debut feature, Ivan's Childhood. After brief descriptions of the filmmaker's early life and the Soviet cinema from which he emerged, we dive deep into this movie about an orphan scout for the Red Army. Tarkovsky said one of his objectives making Ivan's Childhood was "to establish whether or not I had it in me to be a director," and surprise, surprise: he did. This is the first of many wonderful conversations about these movies I'm excited for you to hear. I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments. Follow Peter Raleigh: Long Library Substack: https://peterraleigh.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PetreRaleigh Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/petreraleigh.bsky.social Follow TIYA & share your thoughts: https://thisisyourafterlife.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife/ thisisdavemaher@gmail.com Music by TIYA house band Lake Mary: https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/chaz.prymek/

    Podcasting in Time: Ivan's Childhood with Peter Raleigh

  8. Jun 30

    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 doing this, and I hope you like it too! Topic include death (naturally), seeking out new media, internalizing criticism of others' art, reality shows, poker chips, fantasy baseball, and fruit. Follow/contact This Is Your Afterlife: https://thisisyourafterlife.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife/ thisisdavemaher@gmail.com Music by TIYA house band Lake Mary: https://lakemary.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/chaz.prymek/ Artwork by Matt Sage: https://www.instagram.com/matthewjsage/

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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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  • Creator
    Dave Maher
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    259
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Copyright 2026 Dave Maher
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