Stay ConnectedDeath is Hilarious is a podcast that talks about grief in a humorous, realistic, and death positive way with comedians and professionals in the grief space.
Tawny Platis, founder of Death is Hilarious Grief Relief Foundation and comedy content creator, started the podcast after her husband, George, passed away in November of 2019. They had a comedy podcast together called The Dirty Bits, which can still be found on this feed.
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In this episode, I (Tawny) chatted with Anita and Mel from the podcast Widow We Do Now?, the show that addresses topics related to grief, death, bereavement, and moving forward through the inescapable pitfalls of young widowhood. And it’s funny too! We talked about podcasting being a great platform for teaching and healing, learning from other people’s grief, normalizing the different ways we grieve and normalizing mental health through social media, and creating communities for people who feel like they have to grieve a certain way. You can listen to their show now on apple podcasts. For information about Death is Hilarious, visit deathishilarious.com
To get in touch, email deathishilarious@gmail.com. You can support the podcast by becoming a patron, at patreon.com/deathishilarious. Thanks for listening!
Welcome to Death is Hilarious, the podcast where I chat with other survivors about how they’re using comedy to cope with loss and grief.
I’m your host, Tawny Platis, and in part two of this two part episode, I sat down to chat with Charity Pimentel-Hyams, author of The Widow’s Survival Guide, a book that gives practical and honest advice about living with children after the death of your spouse. We talked about making other people uncomfortable, dating after death, and our shared love of using dark humor to cope with the loss of our husbands. Find Charity and her book at livingafterdeath.com and you can follow her on instagram @thewidowssurvivalguide
For more information visit death is hilarious dot com. To get in touch, email deathishilarious@gmail.com. You can support the podcast by simply sharing the show with your friends and if you’d like, you can become a patron at patreon.com/deathishilarious. Thanks for listening!
In part one of this two-part episode, I sat down to chat with Charity Pimentel-Hyams, author of The Widow’s Survival Guide, a book that gives practical and honest advice about living with children after the death of your spouse. We talked about making other people uncomfortable, dating after death, and our shared love of using dark humor to cope with the loss of our husbands. Find Charity and her book at livingafterdeath.com and you can follow her on Instagram @thewidowssurvivalguide
For more information visit death is hilarious dot com. To get in touch, email deathishilarious@gmail.com. You can support the podcast by simply sharing the show with your friends and if you’d like, you can become a patron at patreon.com/deathishilarious. Thanks for listening!
Psst...hey lovebugs, it’s Tawny. A quick word before we get started today: George is currently on oxygen and the machine is pretty darn loud. We’re trying to find a way to work around that in regards to the podcast, so you may notice the audio quality is a little funky in this episode. We appreciate your patience as we make adjustments in regard to George’s diagnosis. Stick around for this episode’s “After Dark” segment for more details.
In This Episode:
As we tell this story, keep in mind that due to history largely being written and taught from a European perspective, the legitimacy of the so-called madness that Ibrahim became notorious for is still debated over by historians and biographers. As you know, these are always my favorite episodes to explore because it’s such a fun puzzle to try to solve.
"But by this time, Ibrahim was so paranoid after walking on eggshells for so many years that he thought it was a trap and Murad was still alive, like he was gonna pop out behind a column, like, “Got ya sucker!” and then slit his throat. So his mom and Grand Vizier are like, “No, really, he’s dead.”
And Ibrahim goes, “Let me see the body then.”
And they’re like, “Are you serious?”
And Ibrahim goes, “He just killed four of our siblings, yes I’m fucking serious. Show me the body.”
So he PERSONALLY examines his brothers corpse and after he’s finally convinced that the whole situation isn’t some giant ruse, he’s like, “Ok, I’ll take the job.”
During the early years of his reign, Ibrahim’s Grand Vizier is mostly calling the shots and he makes progress stabilizing the empire. "
If anything sounded goofy in this episode, it probably was! Don’t take my word for it - always do your own research and make sure what you’re reading is from a verified, reputable, and academic source.
Get in touch with us on our website at TawnyVoice.com/DirtyBits or by emailing Tawny@TawnyVoice.com. You can also hit us up on:
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Special thanks to our Executive Producers and Podcasters at Patreon.com/DirtyBits for making the show possible. Without your support, the show wouldn’t exist.
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After Dark:
Frida Kahlo episode
Next up on the Dirty Bits we’ll be talking about Frida Kahlo, as picked by our patrons on Patreon. For just $3 a month, you get to vote on the next episode subject, trading cards, behind the scenes sneak peeks, like outtakes and bloopers.
Questions:
Who is your favorite person from history?
How old are you guys?
What makes you choose some scandalous people from history and not others?
Where do you draw the line in comedy?
SIngle worst event in history?
Comedy recommendation - The Righteous Gemstones
Sources:
Peirce, Leslie Penn (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Studies in Middle Eastern History. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507673-8.
Gökbilgin, M. Tayyib (2012). Ibrāhīm. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online.
Börekçi, Günhan. "Ibrahim I." Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Ed. Gábor Ágoston and Bruce Masters. New York: Facts on File, 2009
Lucienne Thys-Senocak, Ottoman Women Builders. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006
Coco, C.: Secrets of the harem, Philip Wilson, 1997
Zacks, R.: History laid bare (Love, sex, and perversity from the ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding), Harper Collins, 1994
Welcome to The Dirty Bits of History. I’m Tawny Platis, a professional voice actor, who gives a casual, and comedic southern Californian retelling of the sexy, scandalous, salacious, fierce, funny, and freaky bits of history your teacher probably left out. Stay tuned after the episode or take a peek at the show notes for The Dirty Bits After Dark: Catching Up With Tawny and George, our contact info, coming attractions, and a special thank you message to our producers. For commercial-free episodes, visit Patreon.com/DirtyBits. Now, enjoy the show.
If you aren’t familiar with Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, they were writers and socialites who became the poster children of what we now call, “The Jazz Age.”
Scott seems to be best known for writing, “The Great Gatsby” and less well known for mercilessly plagiarizing his wife, Zelda. They’re both notorious for alcoholism, infidelity, mental illness, and just generally causing a scene in general during the 1920s and 30’s.
After nearly a century, why are we still so obsessed with the artists? What is it about Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald that has kept them relevant generation after generation?
The academic answer would be that we remain fascinated by the duality of narcissistic geniuses and reckless self-destruction. I personally find the answer to be that America has always loved to stop and gawk at a gnarly trainwreck. And the Fitzgeralds were the gnarliest of trainwrecks. Per usge, to better understand what’s going on here and get the full picture, we have to go back to the very beginning. And because she got the shit end of the stick for so long, I’m starting out with Zelda.
If anything sounded goofy in this episode, it probably was! Don’t take my word for it - always do your own research and make sure what you’re reading is from a verified, reputable, and academic source.
Sources:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2322760/The-Great-Gatsbys-heartbreaker-F-Scott-Fitzgeralds-fatal-obsession-love-inspiration.htmlDinitia Smith (September 8, 2003). "Love Notes Drenched in Moonlight; Hints of Future Novels in Letters To Fitzgerald". New York Times.http://boatagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2010/07/this-day-in-film-history-lois-moran.htmlMilford, Nancy (1970), Zelda: A Biography, New York: Harper & RowPrigozy, Ruth, ed. (2002), The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-62447-9Cline, Sally (2003), Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise, New York: Arcade Publishing, ISBN 1-55970-688-0The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People -By Irving Wallace, Amy Wallace, David Wallechinsky, Sylvia Wallacehttps://rememberingwwi.villanova.edu/newspapers/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/01/magazine/how-crazy-was-zelda.htmlPike, Deborah (2017). The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-8262-2104-9. Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph (2002), Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2nd rev. ed.), Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN 1-57003-455-9Lanahan, Dorothy. "Introduction." In Bryer & Barks 2002, p. Xxviihttps://www.salon.com/2001/08/25/fitzgerald_9/The Real F. Scott Fitzgerald: Thirty-Five Years Later - by Sheilah Graham(The Lost Summer: a personal memoir of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Tony Buttitta)
Music:
“Fig Leaf Times Two,” “Fuzzball Parade,” “Maple Leaf Rag,” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Public Domain Recordings Courtesy of MusOpen: Rhapsody in Blue I&II, Bullets and Bayonets
His love for the ladies, particularly intelligent, young, beautiful ones, has been WELL documented. There were at least 13 women Benny-boy dated, er, at least... tried to date. This one is a surprisingly fun romp through flirty history.
In today’s episode, we’re taking it all the way back to 15th century France when Agnes Sorel, a lady in waiting from a family of minor nobility became the first officially recognized mistress to the king, inspired many artists of the time, most notably Jean Fouquet’s Virgo Lactan’s or the Nursing Virgin, and was the first woman to hashtag free the nipple.
In This Episode:
Our lives may (finally) be boring.
Favorite woman comedians?
Why is your show in the LGBTQ category in podcast directory?
Who’s Babbs? I see the name when you sign stuff.
Who is your favorite podcaster?
Game of Thrones finale? Yay or nay?
The Reverend Sylvester Graham was a hell, fire, and brimstone Presbyterian minister who combined Christianity and healthy living, successfully pioneering the way for all of the self-help guru, diet faddists who now grace our Instagram feeds.
The Questions:
What kind of porn do you watch?
What kind of music do you listen to?
What are your favorite podcasts?
What other movies, shows, podcasts etc. are like the Dirty Bits?
Why did the show take a break? And I thought you were doing more and longer episodes?
Do you have kids?
Are you Greek Orthodox?
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