
You’re Going to Die: The Podcast
A creatively conscious mortality podcast for a 501(3) nonprofit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death and dying, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.
For more info on You’re Going to Die check out www.yg2d.com.
Latest episodes

Dec 22, 2022 • 1h 5min
I’d Rather Not w/Avi Vinocur
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Avi Vinocur, singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, & producer, as they talk about the death of his father when he was 3 years old, the kinds of grief one lives through after loss like that, & what it means to both be grateful for a life perhaps made in some ways by death AND too simultaneously wish for those we’ve loved & lost to be a part of our lives now.
Follow Avi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avispersonalprofile/
Avi’s Website: https://www.avivinocurmusic.com/
Avi’s Linktree: https://linktr.ee/avivinocur
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”I’d Rather Not” performed by Goodnight, Texas, written by Adam Nash, Avi Vinocur, & Patrick Dyer Wolf
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman, & Ned Buskirk
FOLLOW YOU’RE GOING TO DIE
on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yergoing2die/
on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yergoingtodie/
on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YerGoing2Die
THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU.
Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Dec 8, 2022 • 1h 10min
Our Dead Still Speak w/Caleb Wilde
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Caleb Wilde, author & sixth generation funeral director of 20 years who left his family's business this past August, as they talk about his decision to end his career as a funeral director, how the funeral industry shouldn’t exist, & creating the kind of funeral where our dead can actually be participants.
Get Caleb Wilde’s newest book “All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak”: https://www.book.calebwilde.com/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
Soundscaping 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 MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU.
Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Nov 24, 2022 • 1h 27min
Do You Want to Be Home? w/Hospice Nurse Julie
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Hospice Nurse Julie McFadden, BSN, RN, ICU & Hospice/Palliative Nurse, as they talk about her personal journey to work with the dying, knowing our options for the end of life before we need them, & how hospice is more about how we live at the end of life than how we die.
Hospice Nurse Julie
on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hospicenursejulie
on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hospicenursejulie/
on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hospicenursejulie
on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Hospice-nurse-julie/100077937666311/
Get Nick Jaina’s book SPEKTRUM here: https://nickjaina.com/spektrum
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Grape Reduction” by Oilbhe Pepper, 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 MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Nov 10, 2022 • 1h 15min
Death Is the Only Real Thing w/Rabbi Steve Leder
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Rabbi Steve Leder, author & senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, talking about his books - The Beauty of What Remains & For You When I Am Gone, how to show up for the dying, to trust your authentic self in those moments, & what it means to be lead by our heartfelt human being, instead of by our jobs or the systems we operate within.
Connect to Rabbi Steve Leder HERE: https://www.steveleder.com/
And on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steve_leder/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping 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 MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Oct 27, 2022 • 1h 29min
Yoga Death w/Susan Marrufo
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Susan Marrufo, co-founder of Samarasa Center, yoga teacher, & meditation teacher, as they talk intimately, from personal experience, about ego death, taking responsibility for our minds’ projection of reality, a reality formed by our past, & sometimes our trauma, all as a doorway into Susan’s work with Samarasa Center & Yoga, + Death™️.
Check out the Samarasa Center: https://www.samarasacenter.com/
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samarasacenter/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/samarasacenter
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samarasacenter/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”The Ganges” 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 MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU.
Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Oct 13, 2022 • 1h 2min
The Call of Duty w/Alec With Pen
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with cartoonist & comedian Alec MacDonald, aka Alec With Pen, as they talk about how our guilty entertainment pleasures offer us needed relief from the intensity of EVERYTHING/LIFE, the accessible, effective, creative catharsis of drawing, & the deep significance of our pets’ lives & deaths.
Check out Alec With Pen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alecwithpen/
And You’re Going to Die on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yergoing2die/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Alec at Night” by Alec MacDonald, 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 MADE POSSIBLE
WITH SUPPORT FROM
LISTENERS LIKE YOU.
Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Sep 29, 2022 • 1h 28min
Grief is Universal w/AmarAtma Khalsa
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with AmarAtma Khalsa, a Grief Coach, w/a Grief Recovery Specialist advanced certification, & a Board Certified Chaplain, w/a dual Master’s Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine & Divinity, meeting at the threshold of vulnerability to talk about how to face/embrace/release our intense & uncomfortable emotions, reclaiming humanness out of our dark nights of the soul, & how to use our body to access parts of ourselves, our lives, our emotional landscape, to find healing & peace.
Check out AmarAtma here: https://amaratmacoaching.com/
AmarAtma on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amaratmacoaching/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Preparation” by AmarAtma Khalsa, scored by Nick Jaina
Get more of Nick Jaina’s music: http://nickjaina.com/music
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE
WITH SUPPORT FROM
LISTENERS LIKE YOU.
Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Sep 15, 2022 • 1h 9min
An Elaborate Hoax w/Eef Barzelay
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Eef Barzelay, singer/songwriter behind the band Clem Snide, as they talk about their moms’ deaths, who our dead are after they’ve died, & what their “great act of death” offers us, the living they leave behind.
Check out Eef Barzelay & Clem Snide: https://www.clemsni.de/
Eef’s Bandcamp: https://eefbarzelay-clemsnide.bandcamp.com/
A Life In Song with Clem Snide podcast: https://linktr.ee/alifeinsong
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Page 150 of Spektrum” scored, written, & read by Nick Jaina
Get a copy of Nick Jaina’s book SPEKTRUM here: http://nickjaina.com/
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE
WITH SUPPORT FROM
LISTENERS LIKE YOU.
Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Sep 1, 2022 • 1h 16min
See Past the Burning House w/Reverend Bodhi Be
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
THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE
WITH SUPPORT FROM
LISTENERS LIKE YOU.
Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Aug 18, 2022 • 1h 43min
A Lot to Hold w/The Feelings Parade
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
THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE
WITH SUPPORT FROM
LISTENERS LIKE YOU.
Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.