You’re Going to Die: The Podcast

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See Past the Burning House w/Reverend Bodhi Be Sep 01, 2022

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Reverend Bodhi Be, ordained minister, funeral director, end-of-life/bereavement counselor, & casket maker, as they talk about bringing love to the work of dying, completing a life to leave in peace, & running The Death Store on the island of Maui, Hawaii.
Read “Facing Death, A Conversation with Reverend Bodhi Be”: https://www.powells.com/book/facing-death-9781953508256
The Death Store: https://www.doorwayintolight.org/the-death-store.html
Check out Founder Bodhi Be’s Doorway Into Light: https://www.doorwayintolight.org/ - join their e-newsletter, donate to their work, or attend our death doula trainings
Check out ‘Īpuka’s Sanctuary Park & Natural Burial Ground, a sacred story of life & death interweaving in healthy community life, protected & cared for by a nonprofit organization in perpetuity: https://www.ipuka.org/
All the prison orgs, programs, retreat centers, etc. mentioned in this episode…
Alive Inside: https://www.alive-inside.com/
Bellwether Farms: https://bellwetherfarms.com/
Death Penalty Action: https://deathpenaltyaction.org/
Horizon Prison Initiative: https://www.horizonprisoninitiative.org/
Think Make Live Youth: https://tmlyouth.org/
Ohio Innocence Project: https://law.uc.edu/real-world-learning/centers/ohio-innocence-project-at-cincinnati-law.html
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Untouched,” “The Evolutionary Pinnacle of Fire,” &
"Moon King" by Nick Jaina - all songs available on a Bandcamp-only release: http://nickjaina.bandcamp.com/album/elemental-two
Sounds from Bellwether Farm provided by Isaac Hollingsworth
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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A Lot to Hold w/The Feelings Parade Aug 18, 2022

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with a couple of his favorite friends & musicians, Morgan Bolender & Scott Ferreter of The Feelings Parade, as they share the story of their debut full-length record “Let It Move You,” from its “places” of inception, to their surviving Morgan’s grand mal seizure, her “cavernous malformation” diagnosis, & ultimately the brain surgery to treat it, to the miraculous release of an album that holds it all.
Check out The Feelings Parade: https://thefeelingsparade.com/
Get tickets to You’re Going to Die Presents… LET IT MOVE YOU - The Feelings Parade Album Release Show at Freight & Salvage on Tuesday, September 13th: https://www.yg2d.com/eventsandworkshops/letitmoveyou
Get The Feelings Parade’s NEW ALBUM “Let It Move You” [& a ton of other wonderful merch!]: https://the-feelings-parade.myshopify.com/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
"The Tides" by The Feelings Parade
”Strongest I Have Ever Felt” & “Let Go Into It” - album interludes by The Feelings Parade
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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DIG w/Cara Levine Aug 04, 2022

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with artist Cara Levine, talking about This Is Not A Gun [her multidisciplinary project aiming to create awareness & activism around police brutality through collective creative action], DIG: A Hole To Put Your Grief In [her week-long performance project digging a large-scale hole in the ground, around which other artists utilized the site as a container for new works relating to grief & mourning], & the personal health story that brought her to so many edges of her own mortality.
Check out Cara Levine: http://www.caralevine.com/
DIG, A Hole To Put Your Grief In: http://www.caralevine.com/#/dig/
DIG, A Hole To Put Your Grief In DOCUMENTARY: https://youtu.be/bbqMBUeIF-E
This Is Not A Gun: https://thisisnotagun.com/

CARA SAYS SUPPORT:
NIAD - https://niadart.org/
Equal Justice Initiative - https://eji.org/
Critical Resistance - https://criticalresistance.org/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
"Ultimately" by Nick Jaina, with sounds from DIG, A Hole To Put Your Grief In DOCUMENTARY
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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I Had a Dream That You Died w/Kevin Sullivan of Field Medic Jul 21, 2022

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Kevin Sullivan, artist behind the freak folk project Field Medic, talking about making music we really want/need to make [unless Beyoncé asks us to do a song], how the people we want to trade shoes with can save our lives, & the life of a mortal musician during these strange times.
Check out Field Medic: https://www.fieldmedic.net/
Follow Field Medic on IG: https://www.instagram.com/_fieldmedic/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
"song I made up to stop myself from having a panic attack just now" by Field Medic, REMIXED by Nick Jaina
”i had a dream that you died” by Field Medic
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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We Can’t Escape Ourselves w/Minna Jain Jul 07, 2022

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Minna Jain, a disabled/non-binary/, artist/writer, plant/bee steward, & racial equity educator training as a Sōtō Zen Buddhist priest, as they talk about ghosts & monsters, drinking tea & whiskey in conversation with death, & living after almost dying.

Support these two Minnesotan orgs that Minna recommends, doing work that’s always vital, especially right now…

The SPIRAL Collective is a chronically ill, disabled, , trans, BIPOC-centered full spectrum reproductive + healing justice & care work nonprofit. They are committed to eliminating barriers to abortion access by honoring bodily autonomy & collective liberation: https://www.spiralmn.com/
QUEERSPACE works with LGBTQ+ youth & their families, the broader LGBTQ+ community & local organizations to create a strengthened LGBTQ+ support network & reduce LGBTQ+ youth isolation, suicide & homelessness: https://www.queerspacecollective.org/
FIND OUT MORE OF MINNA:
www.minnajain.com
www.buddhistjustice.com
www.realtransformationtoday.org
www.deeplisteningforsocialchange.org
WHEN YOU MEET THE MONSTER, ANOINT ITS FEET by Bayo Akomolafe
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
Excerpt from ”A River is a Long Soul” by Minna Jain, scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Revolution Is the Family Business w/Tongo Eisen-Martin Jun 23, 2022

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate, movement worker, & educator, Tongo Eisen-Martin, while they talk about the wide-open-eyed work of revolution, the meditative practice of writing, & the murder of his cousin’s son at the hands of a white supremacist.

MORE IMPORTANTLY THAN ANYTHING
support Tongo’s cousin as she seeks justice for her son’s murder at the hands of a white supremacist: https://www.gofundme.com/f/please-help-a-mother-get-justice-for-her-son
Follow Tongo on IG: https://www.instagram.com/_tongogara_/
Tongo’s We Charge Genocide Again! Curriculum for Operation Ghetto Storm: a 2012 Annual Report on the extrajudicial killing of 313 Black people by police, security guards, & vigilantes: http://www.operationghettostorm.org/curriculum.html
Black Freighter Press [co-founded by Tongo]: https://www.blackfreighterpress.com/

Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Four Walls” by Tongo Eisen-Martin & scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
THIS PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY
Katie Semro’s Project Til It’s Gone.
Contribute to the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/katiesemro/til-its-gone
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If We Don’t Remember, Who Will? w/Elton Beardy Jun 09, 2022

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Elton Beardy, an Anishinini cultural educator, storyteller, & writer from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, while they talk about the legacy of the life & death of his mother, the inherited impact of Canada’s Indian Residential School System, & the work of honoring & integrating where we all come from, culturally & ancestrally.

Connie Walker’s CBC Story on the firsthand legacy of residential schools: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1261239363717
Indigenous Relations at St. Joseph’s Care Group in Thunder Bay, Canada: https://sjcg.net/services/Indigenous-Relations/

Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Petitioning Mirth” written by Francesca Hernandez-Singer & scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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I Thought It Was Just Me w/Tawny Platis May 26, 2022

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with podcaster & comedian Tawny Platis, while they talk about her husband’s death, using dark humor to cope with grief, & creating community after loss with real, raw, visible being in the world.

Check out Death is Hilarious - the podcast & 501(c)3 nonprofit: https://deathishilarious.com/
Follow Tawny on IG HERE: https://www.instagram.com/tawnyplatis/
And HERE: https://www.instagram.com/thatdeathpod/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”HUSTLE” written & scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Enjoy Every Sandwich w/Wesley Schultz May 15, 2022

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Wesley Schultz, the guitarist & lead vocalist for the American folk rock band The Lumineers, while they talk about the impact of his father’s death on his work & music & being in the world, why we should sometimes keep doing the thing everyone else thinks we should quit, & creating music to help ourselves, & others, feel wholly & fully seen.

Check out The Lumineers HERE: https://www.thelumineers.com/
Follow Wesley on IG HERE: https://www.instagram.com/wesleyschultz/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”A Letter by Ted Hughes” written by Ted Hughes, read by Wesley Schultz, scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Love Tornado w/Taylor Rees Apr 28, 2022

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with documentary filmmaker Taylor Rees, while they talk about the stories beneath the surface, being a woman documentary filmmaking at the edge [literally & metaphorically], & the intentional act of storytelling as a way to presence humans - ecological beings - to what’s at stake, AND what’s still possible, for our home - planet Earth.

Connect to Taylor’s work & being in the world HERE: https://www.taylorfreesolorees.com/
Taylor on IG: https://instagram.com/taylorfreesolo?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

TAYLOR’S PROJECTS:
Ashes to Ashes - https://youtu.be/-2Q97pXZE2g
From Kurils With Love - https://youtu.be/kHGarqZFY1k
The Last Tepui - https://youtu.be/vmPredMTXpg
Behind the Scenes [The Last Tepui] - https://youtu.be/RlBlylIrPqg
Moonwalk - https://youtu.be/2xKSOrHm8Zs
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Two Northern White Rhinos Taking Mud Baths” Field Recordings by Taylor Rees & Scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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