You’re Going to Die: The Podcast

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with award-winning author & illustrator MariNaomi, talking about their new & ninth book, I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME, a collage-comics graphic memoir about a friendship-gone-wrong & the unreliable nature of memory. MariNaomi’s website: https://marinaomi.com/ patreon: https://www.patreon.com/marinaomi Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”The Flowers Above You Are Blooming This Time of Year” by Lake Mary ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina 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.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Mangda Sengvanhpheng, artist & the founder of BACII - a digital space that focuses on loss & grief while providing services & offerings that renew our engagement to life, meeting one another from the stories of their mothers’ deaths & where those losses place them, with mutual understanding, working in the context of death & dying. ALL THINGS MANGDA SENGVANHPHENG Bacii: https://bacii.co/ Bacii on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_bacii/ Consider enrolling in YU:EXIST at https://bacii.co/yuexist SUPPORT Mangda’s work & being in the world via Venmo: https://bacii.co/donate Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina 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.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Dorota Szuta & Stelth Ulvang, the songsmiths of desert grunge trio Heavy Gus, as they talk about the story of the early years of their coming together, peppered with much grief & loss, but also with the life, love, & music that emerged from their deepening relationship. ALL THINGS DOROTA & STELTH & HEAVY GUS Heavy Gus: https://www.heavygus.com/ Heavy Gus IG: https://www.instagram.com/heavygus/ Heavy Gus YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@heavygus4432 Stelth on IG: https://www.instagram.com/stelthulvang/ Dorota on IG: https://www.instagram.com/mydorota/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina ”Breathe” from the album Notions by Heavy Gus 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.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with author Lisa Wells, as they talk about the kind of love that sits at a deathbed [for a fellow human or a dying planet], our culture's relationship to life/death/the planet, & her book Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World. ALL THINGS LISA WELLS Get Lisa’s book Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World: https://www.lisawellswriter.com/believers Get her book of poetry The Fix: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781609385477 Read “To Be a Field of Poppies: The Elegant Science of Turning Cadavers Into Compost” in Harper’s Magazine: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/10/to-be-a-field-of-poppies-natural-organic-reduction-composting-corpse/ On IG: https://www.instagram.com/lisa_wells_writer/ Nick Jaina’s book SPEKTRUM: https://nickjaina.com/spektrum Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina 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.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Sophie Strand, writer & “neo-troubadour animist w/a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories,” as they talk about her new book The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine, THE ANIMATE EVERYTHING, & slowing down to “turn to each other, arms open, ears pricked, & ask with complete rapt attention: ‘What troubles you?’” ALL THINGS SOPHIE STRAND Get Sophie’s book The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Flowering-Wand/Sophie-Strand/9781644115961 Sophie’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/cosmogyny/ Sophie’s Webby: https://sophiestrand.com/ Sophie’s Substack: https://sophiestrand.substack.com/ & Sophie requests that you check out Fungi Foundation: https://www.ffungi.org/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”The Final Benediction” by Sophie Strand, scored by Nick Jaina ”Just to Sing Here” by Chelsea Coleman ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina 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.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with veteran artist, songwriter, touring musician, & producer Thao Nguyen, as they talk about the death of her grandmother, the influence of familial Buddhism on her relationship to mortality, & creating bridges of vulnerability to transmit love, as an artist & a human being. All Things Thao… IG: https://www.instagram.com/thaogetstaydown/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thaogetstaydown Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andnowthao/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thaomusic Webby: https://thaothaothao.com/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”How Could I (Strings Version)” by Thao and the Get Down Stay Down ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Nick Jaina 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.