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This Is Your AfterlifeWhat Is Won't Be with Adam GilbertAdam Gilbert (Just for Laughs) is a real sweetie, and he was in a punchy mood (or maybe that's just him?) when we recorded. And even though he compared me to Bill Maher, we had a lot of fun. This makes two weeks in a row of standups, and who knows, maybe this is the start of This Is Your Afterlife as traditional comedy podcast! (It's not.)Content warning: alcoholism, dead dad, escalators, spiders, time, self as a concept like gender or money, unsucked boy.If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want...2024-10-011h 03This Is Your AfterlifeRIYL Will Oldham's Episode: The Patrick Shiroishi Taco Bell EpisodeAs a follow-up to last week's Will Oldham episode, I'm re-releasing my episode with the man Will called an "internet angel," saxophonist and Fuubutsushi member Patrick Shiroishi.This conversation has been on my mind because my move to Cleveland has come with consuming more Taco Bell than I have in the past decade, so take any shade I throw toward T. Bell with that grain of salt.In my mind, this is a classic This Is Your Afterlife. I hope you enjoy it.Content warning: Japanese internment camps, ambiguously supportive parents, ancestors, shit...2024-07-3155 min
Genre Reveal Party!The Brat Pack (St. Elmo's Fire and BRATS) with guest Eleanor Russell: We Just Don't Even Know Who to Be AnymoreFor our final episode of this season on school films, Eleanor Russell helps us emotionally process the recent documentary about the Brat Pack, Brats (2024), and St. Elmo's Fire (1985). Spoilers: self-indulgence, repression, saxophones, sweat, swirlies, the "wet look is in," not getting over shit, Joel Schumacher's filmography, cocaine, Georgetown, Demi Moore's mansion, most of these guys are rapists, matching denim shirts, undeserving of incredible original scores, stalking women, incredible apartments.Follow Eleanor Russell @eleanoir on Twitter.Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your thoughts, suggestions...2024-07-262h 09This Is Your AfterlifeMy Best Self Is the Person That's Making Songs with Will Oldham aka Bonnie Prince BillyBooking This Is Your Afterlife sometimes looks like me hand-writing a list of dream guests off the top of my head. Will Oldham appears on every one of those lists. I've been a fan since he released the first Superwolf album with Matt Sweeney in 2005, and their 2021 follow-up, Superwolves, joins it as one of my favorite albums ever.Few artists are better at combining mystery, sincerity, wisdom, and mischief. And rather than strive for any sort of definitive Will Oldham interview, I just wanted to do the best This Is Your Afterlife episode I could with him...2024-07-231h 17Genre Reveal Party!The Faculty with guest Kayte Terry: We're DiscontentThis week we're joined by Kayte Terry, host of Tender Subject and Fangs for the Memories (a Buffy and horror podcast), to discuss The Faculty (1998). Spoilers: horror in the late '90s, Jon Stewart teaches science, Dawson's Creek talk, reverse She's All That-ing, it's good to do drugs, blondes from out of town, horrible use of hair gel, gay boys on TV, misunderstood endings.Check out Kayte's podcasts @fangspodcast and @tendersubjectpod on InstagramFollow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your thoughts, suggestions, guest requests...2024-07-191h 32This Is Your AfterlifeThis Existence Is So Much Grasping with Steven StraffordPlaywright, actor, and well-balanced adult Steven Strafford is a breath of fresh air when it comes to putting creative pursuits in their proper place, i.e. as part of a life rather than a whole life. It was wonderful to talk to him about sobriety, meeting his husband, and moving from Chicago to Ohio as a grown man.Content warning: sobriety, family, having kids, people pleasing, ants and grasshoppers, the "Pumpkins" song, a funeral at a sensible black box.If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron...2024-07-1755 minGenre Reveal Party!Bottoms: We're, Like, the Main GuyThis week we covered the most contemporary film from our season "School Days," the queer-absurdist high school sex comedy Bottoms (2023).Spoilers: murder, blood, "main guys," cheerleaders, absurdism, making fun of skinny culture / being body positive and making the joke anyway, pineapple juice, beware of those who have cell phones. Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your thoughts, suggestions, guest requests, and genre reveals.Follow Madeline @la_louve_rouge_ on Twitter and Instagram.Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram, and listen to...2024-07-121h 39This Is Your AfterlifePunishment Is Not Balance with Benji HartI've wanted artist, writer, educator, and organizer Benji Hart on the show for a while, and today we finally make it happen. It's such a pleasure to speak with them about navigating abolition work while acknowledging the very human desire to see evil punished. It's something I think about a lot, and clearly Benji does too.Content warning: abolition, punishment, religion, not being able to relate to doing a genocide, Saturn return, voguing, bomba, dismantling the binary between thinking and feeling, why am I mourning Ben Carson?If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife...2024-07-101h 08Genre Reveal Party!More Graduation Movies (Ghost World and The Graduate) with guest Jasmine Bridges: We Want You to Know How Much We Appreciate ThisWe talked about even more graduation movies, this week with Genre Reveal Party series regular Jasmine Bridges. We paired two unlikely films in a double feature, and found a lot of connective tissue... Spoilers: Jasmine and Madeline and their Ghost World thing, we've got problems with Ben, movies that end with bus scenes, ambivalence about adulthood, generational traitors, going from one diner to the next diner, dying your hair twice in a day, getting married too young, swimming pools, missing out on the rev. Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at...2024-07-051h 41This Is Your AfterlifeI Incarcerated the Spider with Lyn RyeMy conversation with Lyn Rye was so intense and locked in that I gave up on taking notes (and doing bits). They're a bass player, songwriter, artist, gardener, "house dad" at Casa Al-Fatiha (an autonomous sanctuary house for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers), and abolitionist troublemaker. Yet our conversation stretched beyond even all that work!Content warning: domestic violence, carceral violence, assisted dying, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Islam's day of reckoning, Joe Hill, afterlife-as-memory synchronicity. Wanna hear the full-length version of this conversation? Become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow Lyn on IG...2024-07-021h 06Genre Reveal Party!Graduation Movies (Reality Bites and Kicking and Screaming (1995)): We Do NothingThis week we talk about two canonical gen-x graduation movies: Reality Bites and Kicking and Screaming (no, not the one with Will Ferrell). Spoilers: 90s bisexual cinema, friendship cinema, lots of kinds of "cinema," geriatric millennial talk, chain smoking, Troy was a fuckboi but maybe Madeline forgives him because he gives good apology, more chain smoking, Noah Baumbach's directorial debut, MTV, gas stations and the food we buy at them, AIDS, jobs, and what do they mean by "reality" anyways man?Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com...2024-06-282h 02This Is Your AfterlifeWhat Made My Day Today? with Daniel WycheDaniel Wyche is a composer and improvising musician who uses guitar, pedals, and other electronics to make tracks full of ideas, noise, and even humor. I love his new tape with Lia Kohl, Movie Candy, so I talked to him in my living room about how to listen to experimental music (a Patreon-only part of our talk) and just how important other people are to his well-being. Content warning: hell is NO people, a gap year without the name "gap year," Chris Wiersema, learning how to hitchhike, metalhead with duffel bag full of CDs, Estonian farm, cousins.2024-06-251h 06Genre Reveal Party!More Student Uprisings (if.... and Class of 1984) with guest Sean O'Brien: We Like TigersIt's our second double feature of student uprising films, including perhaps the most legendary movie in the genre, 1968's if... And Class of 1984 is also here. Joining us is Sean O’Brien, a writer and researcher who teaches at the University of Bristol.Spoilers: animal sounds, the worst movie we’ve ever watched for the podcast, the young Michael J Fox, ammunition, bad punks, vengeance, Mr Holland’s Opus but murderous.Check out Sean's lecture series for 87 Press.Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your t...2024-06-212h 34This Is Your AfterlifeNon-Dual Thinking with Mary Cait WalthallImproviser, actor, and teacher Mary Cait Walthall directed Feed Wolf Ice Cream, the one-man show this podcast grew from. I talk to her about how the project has evolved and the comas that lead away from the dream of fame.Content warning: punishment, parenting, enlightenment, death of childhood friends, talking circle funeral, Karens.If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Mary Cait's improv team, Super Human, performs on Thursday nights at the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago.2024-06-181h 29Genre Reveal Party!Student Uprisings (Over the Edge and Bambule) with guest E Conner: We Only Got One LawThis week we talk about two excellent films from the 1970s about two very different contexts of student uprising. We're joined by E Conner, editor of The Weakly and TANC organizer in the Bay Area. Spoilers: teen runaways, rioting, Meinhof talk, the young Matt Dillon, being young and doing crimes, movies that end in the back of a bus with ambivalent facial expressions, German prison slang, poor Johnny, don't trust adults, more rumors about book titles.Follow E @braidssssssssss on Instagram and @E_C__ on Twitter, and check out The Weakly @thee_weakly on Instagram.2024-06-141h 59This Is Your AfterlifeGive Up All the Other WorldsMoving from Chicago to Cleveland, how do I pay tribute to my home of 22 years, my entire adult life? I do this.Read the poem I reference (and read), David Whyte's Sweet Darkness.If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want more solo (and other bonus) episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow this show on IG: @thisisyourafterlife, and get more info at thisisyourafterlife.com. Have thoughts on the show? Email thisisyourafterlifepodcast@gmail.com.Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter.All...2024-06-1143 minGenre Reveal Party!School Scandals (May December and Notes on a Scandal) with guest Milo Muise: We Don't Think We Have Enough Hot DogsThis week we're joined by Milo Muise to discuss what we're calling the "School Scandals Double Feature," May December (2023) and Notes on a Scandal (2006). Both films deal with the sexualization of the teacher/student relationship, abusive power dynamics, obsession, and divas. We felt this was a fascinating double feature, but we also flirt with the idea of this as a trilogy with Tar (2022). Maybe we'll talk about Tar in a future episode... Spoilers: Susan Sontag, obsession, genres vs. sensibilities, diarists are creepy, Julianne Moore went for that lisp, Todd Haynes-let's meet up in...2024-06-072h 02This Is Your AfterlifeThe Solidarity of the Ages with Daniel BachmanIt's an all-time-great This Is Your Afterlife with artist, musician, and independent folklorist Daniel Bachman. Daniel creates huge concept albums like Almanac Behind, which documented the climate crisis with field recordings of extreme weather that sometimes swallowed his guitar playing, and writes pieces on his Substack like “Well Seasoned”: A History of North American Immunocapitalism. Content warning: I use this space to alert folks to traditional content warnings as well as cheekily share some of the topics covered in the episode. This time, we've got some fairly heavy genuine content warnings, almost all to do with the Amer...2024-06-051h 30Genre Reveal Party!All Teachers Are Cops (Dangerous Minds and Kindergarten Cop): We Lack DisciplineWe put together another double-feature for this week called "All Teachers Are Cops." We watched a couple '90s, VHS classics: Dangerous Minds (1995) and Kindergarten Cop (1990). Spoilers: white savior complexes, child actors, "police school," sweat pants, leather jackets, Coolio, junk food diets, Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't won an Oscar, watching women eat in films in the '90s, grade abolition, karate, Emilio gets shot, Penelope Ann Miller's career, Ivan Reitman / Schwarzenegger collaborations, height differentials, Linda Hunt's problematic Oscar win, pedagogy, Peak Ferret.Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com...2024-05-312h 16This Is Your AfterlifeHow We Make Political Performance Art with Bindu PorooriHow do you make political art that isn't dogmatic or trite? What are ways to reimagine live performance to activate an audience instead of creating a seated mass of mindless consumers?It's my performance chat with Bindu Poroori!If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow Bindu on Instagram: @himabinduCheck out Do the Needful at @dtn_chicago on Instagram.Donate to the Chicago Abortion Fund via my page to provide life-saving healthcare...2024-05-3046 minThis Is Your AfterlifeWhat If I Was Vulnerable Right Now? with Bindu PorooriBindu Poroori is a warm, deep, brilliant writer, performance artist, and singer whose creative practice can't be summed up tidily. She's in a band called Do the Needful, and her time hosting Salonathon made her the live performer she is. We bonded over our approaches to performance and the struggle to make political art that is authentic to us, so much so that there will be a whole bonus episode with our performance talk! For now, enjoy Bindu's answers to the prompts, "What do you hope happens when you die?," "What's your coma?," and "Relive one memory."2024-05-281h 02Genre Reveal Party!Precocious Students (Rushmore and Election): We're Here for the ExtracurricularsThis week we discussed two films about precocious high school students that came out in 1998 and 1999, which were both second features made by precocious indie filmmakers: Wes Anderson's Rushmore and Alexander Payne's Election. These films have a lot in common, but they also have very different takes on the adolescent / mid-life crisis dynamics they stir up. We also listen to a call-in from Johanna Isaacson about Slumber Party Massacre, as we continue looking at representations of school in film. Spoilers: bee sting sequences, Bueller... Bueller..., American Beauty, justice for Margaret Yang, unnecessary aquariums, Alexander Payne...2024-05-241h 59This Is Your AfterlifeWhere Are You At With the Christian Stuff? with Devin BustinDevin Bustin is not just a poet, songwriter, musician, and, gulp, minister (official title: Director of Spiritual Growth and Students). He's one of the most influential people in my life. Listen to us plumb our shared evangelical Christian history, the possible different functions of doubt in our lives, our shared love of poetry, and the entry of recovery into our lives.Content warning: going pro with Christianity, poverty tourism, sobriety, the unmarketed opinions of evangelical churches, A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps, Carl Rogers' unconditional positive regard, Ross Gay's Last Will and Testament.If...2024-05-211h 29Genre Reveal Party!Inspirational Teacher Comedy Double Feature (School of Rock and Hamlet 2): We Have a DeviceThis week we followed up our boarding school trilogy with an inspirational teacher comedy double feature: School of Rock (2003) and Hamlet 2 (2006). These are two incredible antidotes to Dead Poets Society. Spoilers: abolish grades!, the power of theater, Jack Black is sexy and everyone knows it, politically incorrect lyrics, Erin Brockovich on stage, Richard Linklater talk, boring and awful girlfriend roles, Tamika makes us cry, herpes commercials, cast Dave in a Dick Wolf production or as Jack Black's brother who works as a librarian ASAP, keep the original cast if you go to Broadway. Follow us...2024-05-171h 44This Is Your AfterlifeThe Bittersweet Files with Annie ShareThe snap of a good jerky stick. The taste of very wet eggs. Venturing off alone to see art. Performing as a Neo-Futurist. Annie Share enjoys her life! It's a skill she's cultivated through a careful selection of little treats.Content warning: yearbook enemies, wanting to die young and riding your bike, imaginary friend Gerald Oliver Dickens (G.O.D.), solo adventures, breakfast food preferences. If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Annie is mostly offline, so...2024-05-1550 minGenre Reveal Party!Boarding School Trilogy (Dead Poets Society, School Ties, Flirting): We Sound Our Barbaric YawpTo start off our latest season "School Days," we made you another trilogy! We discussed The Boarding School Trilogy: Dead Poets Society (1989), School Ties (1992), and Flirting (1991). Spoilers: shower scenes, acne, poetry, anti-semitism, the horrible history of 'boarding schools' and genocide in the US, Thandiwe we love you, hand jobs, book deals, Robin Williams casting history, Matt Damon doesn't deserve a redemption arc, Madeline's problematic crush on Ethan Hawke, Dave's #TeamRobertSeanLeonard, University of Chicago confessions, standing on desks and playing saxophone in a cave, Gen-X, trilogies that stopped at two, Dick Wolf.Follow us @genrerevealpod on...2024-05-102h 26This Is Your AfterlifeWe Should Collect Acorns and Record Ourselves with Brad E. Rose of Foxy DigitalisBrad E. Rose is a musician, podcaster, music writer, label owner, graphic designer, and dad, and we talk about his motivations beneath and for all of that. Content warning: COVID, parenthood, legacy, the undertow, extremely metal Capsula Mundi alternative, Terry Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air.If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Listen to Brad's excellent podcast, Songs of Our Lives!Read his music writing at Foxy Digitalis, and follow @foxy.digitalis on Instagram.2024-05-0754 minThis Is Your AfterlifeHow to Stop Dressing Like a Magician with Case BlackwellIs this the first ever Twitch streamer guest on This Is Your Afterlife? I believe it is! But comedian Case Blackwell (from sketch group Cigarette Sandwich) is much more than a streamer. I've known him a while, and I was surprised by most of our conversation. Take a listen to hear a brilliant silly guy get vulnerable.Content warning: ALS, dementia, parents dying, masculinity, shedding layers of anxiety, realizations while eating and driving, EarthBound pond memories.If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month...2024-05-0150 minThis Is Your AfterlifeWhat Kind of Pangea Do You Want to Be? with Maria Jacobson aka FranWhen I saw musician Maria Jacobson (the creative force behind Fran) was starting a new podcast called Godless—asking guests, "Do you believe in God?" and all the other questions it encompasses—I knew I had to have her on This Is Your Afterlife. So here she is! It's a warm, fun, easy convo about hard stuff, just like we like it.Content warning: anxiety, mom with cancer, climate crisis, Gnostic Gospels, the reward and risk of making friends with strangers on the road, Irenaeus, good in a crisis?, letting go of pressuring others to be good frie...2024-04-2359 minThis Is Your AfterlifeOne Last Wipe with Phylicia McLeodSecond City and Matt Damon Improv's Phylicia McLeod sits down with me to hash out how to deal with strict Christian parents whose idea of what's best for you is different than yours.Content warning: dead sibling, alcoholism, Pentecostal childhood, playing Lil Boosie/Boosie Badazz at your funeral, presence as the solution to boredom in paradise, masturbating in the staircase at work?If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow Phylicia on Instagram: @laugh_with_phee2024-04-1654 minThis Is Your AfterlifeThe Way the Mind Actually Works with Nick Turner aka TyrestaWhen everyone went scrambling to therapy during lockdown in 2020, what did the therapists think? Find out in this sweet and intimate conversation with Nick Turner, aka the experimental ambient musician Tyresta. I've had lots of musicians who are in Nick's orbit as guests, but he's the first one to really delve into the music-making process, so this could be a good intro to thinking about a genre that can get pretty heady. Find joy in the music and in this episode!Content warning: mom dying, burnout, insomnia, anxiety, modular synthesis, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Zen, making instrumental...2024-04-0956 minThis Is Your AfterlifeKaraoke As Revolutionary Act with Anna De Ocampo KainBeneath the singing, performing, and party organizing, Anna De Ocampo Kain sees themself as a facilitator. I get to the bottom of how the pandemic has changed her career plans to explore my own anger about it.Content warning: seeing a dead body, dead friends, vocal hemorrhage, Lyme disease, storefront opera, funeral karaoke, rejecting institutions where you're not wanted, radical hope.If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow Anna on Instagram: @kain.deo.anna....2024-04-021h 05This Is Your AfterlifeHumbled and Amazed by Dead Birds with Julie MitchellComedian, writer, and artist Julie Mitchell and I get on like gangbusters in this episode that easily could have gone twice as long. The whole conversation felt like unhinging a release valve for me, despite taking on one of my toughest challenges yet as a host: Julie has a definitive coma moment, but it's too raw and unresolved for her to go into detail. How do you talk about a moment that changed you when you can't talk about the moment itself? You talk about the changes!Content warning: musical improv, rape jokes, Long COVID, Palestine, big "...2024-03-261h 19This Is Your AfterlifeChicken Tenders Salt Lake City Sex Heaven with Chris JusellThe Fuubutsushi collection is complete! Chris Jusell, the ambient jazz band's violinist, joins me to jump down all the pop culture rabbit holes our brains present us as we try to get to the bottom of why Chris says he wants to take up as little space as possible. 'Cause does he really?Btw, I forgot to mention the Pigeon patrons on Patreon in my intro, so here they are: G, Barry Fontenot, Shubha Singh, Kati Llewellyn, Fred Fedewa, and DEBO. Thank you all!Content warning: grandparents' deaths, therapy, judgement, safety vs. variety, Titanic, The...2024-03-191h 09This Is Your AfterlifeBe With the Panic with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma"All the perfections are left in," I say in the intro to this perhaps-greatest-ever episode of the podcast, and yes, I meant "imperfections." But I enjoy the mistake, so it stays in, which is fitting for an episode I've minimally edited so that you can experience it as close to how I did as possible. And fitting for an episode in which legendary experimental/ambient musician and hospice chaplain Jefre Cantu-Ledesma helps me understand in a deep way the meaning of accepting all our feelings about death.Content warning: hospice, the experience of dying, old age, Zen...2024-03-121h 42Genre Reveal Party!BONUS: Training Day: We're Sorry We Exposed You to It with Dylan RodriguezWe've got one more chat about Season 2's theme "We Don't Need Another Hero." For our bonus episode we talked about Training Day (2001), featuring Denzel Washington's Oscar-winning performance as a crooked cop. Scholar, activist (and sports dad!) Dylan Rodriguez helped us think through this film, LA politics, and Hollywood copaganda.Spoilers: Ethan Hawke's punchable face, all cops are crooked bastards, Snoop cameo, LAPD / Hollywood collaborations, NAACP, respectability politics, David Simon, King Kong, Macy Gray, post-9/11 patriotism, Denzel Washington in the '90s. Dylan Rodriguez is the author of several books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic...2024-03-081h 48This Is Your AfterlifeHow Do You Relate to the Past? with Max FoxDoes Pinko editor Max Fox have a thing with posthumous projects? We explore Max's relationship to death by talking about his work editing his friend Chris Chitty's book, Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System.Content warning: suicide, dead friends, anxiety, legacy, Accountability, history is real, gay communism, Amphitheater of the Dead, having sex in nature.If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow Max on Twitter: @mxwfx, and check out...2024-03-0547 minThis Is Your AfterlifeThe Better Life List with Mark RichardsonMark Richardson (former Editor-in-Chief at Pitchfork, current rock and pop music critic at the Wall Street Journal) tells me about his tendency to help others rather than himself, being pushed into following his dream, and keeping a grasp on the substance of that dream.Content warning: anxiety, cancer, dementia, parents dying, Christian heaven sounds nice, part-time job with health insurance, difficulties of creating a funeral playlist, helping others to avoid helping yourself.If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. 2024-02-271h 02This Is Your AfterlifeHanging Out With the Elephant in the Room with C. Fausto CabreraAfter 20 years in prison, C. Fausto Cabrera is free. Six weeks post-release is quite a time to talk about transformation, and here we go.Content warning: prison, anxiety and depression, social death, not being a victim, dry room, Keats' negative capability, doing party drugs and getting lost at sea, beets and boiled eggs.If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. You owe it to yourself to check out C. Fausto Cabrera's work at his website, faustocabrera.com.2024-02-2051 minThis Is Your AfterlifeA Special Batch with Chaz PrymekChaz texted me, "it’s pretty nice to be reciprocal fans dave." I texted back, "It’s so nice! Such a well of comfort and inspiration." Chaz is the third of four members of ambient jazz band Fuubutsushi who I've had on the podcast. And his solo-and-friends recordings as Lake Mary are divine. Enjoy this exploration of his artistry, pains, and loves, which is also the beginning of our friendship.Content warning: deaths of family members and pets, grief seizure, against ego death, Big Fish funeral, mischievous trees, people turning into coyotes, long walk...2024-02-141h 06Genre Reveal Party!Mike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend: We Know, We're in the Future Also with Lucas O'NeilTo close out our season on heroes and villains, we talked about Mike Birbiglia's 2013 comedy special My Girlfriend's Boyfriend with guest Lucas O'Neil. Spoilers: comedy talk, aspirations, inspirations, Death Cab for Cutie, white guys, "which," humiliation, controlling the narrative, Georgetown, geriatric millennial vibes, one man shows, clowns. Find Lucas' tour dates and join his email list at lucasoneil.com. Follow him @mr.lucasoneil on Instagram and TikTok.Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your thoughts, suggestions, guest requests, and genre reveals.Follow...2024-02-092h 01This Is Your AfterlifeUncertainty As a Value with Abby PajakowskiNeo-Futurist Abby Pajakowski joins me for an in-person episode from my kitchen, and we get real specific on their hell, a party game, and the exact ways in which a single night in bed can change your life.Content warning: anxiety, depression, someone slowly approaching with a gun, Antz, mailed cremains, glorious limbo, losing your religion and it's chill.If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow the development of Abby's prime time show at the Neo-Futurists...2024-02-0641 minGenre Reveal Party!Fargo Season 5: We've Got Our Own Reality with Kyle Lane-McKinleyThis week we dug into the recently concluded fifth season of FX's Fargo, with guest Kyle Lane-McKinley! We discuss the series as an adaptation of the 1996 Coen Brothers' film, and more broadly the Coenesque world. And we keep reflecting on the theme of our own season, heroes and villains. Spoilers: Coencidences, Wizard of Oz, nipple rings and prosthetic nipples with rings, lions, tigers, bears, rabbits, gators, home invasion, 500 year old sin eaters, bisquick, allegories, Jon Hamm's BDE, redemption, David Graeber, scary men with women's haircuts, chili movies, etymologies, accents.Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and...2024-02-021h 49This Is Your AfterlifeThat's the Old Way, Bro with Aaron WeaverPerfect This Is Your Afterlife guest alert! Aaron Weaver is a comedian who's been thinking about spirituality maybe his whole life? He shares the tools he's picked up recently for being present and staying in his body. Those are buzzwords, but we get specific. We also talk a lot about Aaron's friend, Kenny DeForest, an excellent comedian and amazing person who was killed by a car in December 2023 at age 37. It's brutal and senseless, and I'm grateful Aaron was so open in talking to me about Kenny and his influence on Aaron's life.Content warning...2024-01-301h 01Genre Reveal Party!Inventing Anna: We Do Not Have Time for This with Jasmine BridgesThis week Madeline's best friend Jasmine joins us once again - our first second appearance on the podcast! We hope to have her on every season. This time around Jasmine assigned us with Inventing Anna, the 2022 Shonda Rhimes mini series about Anna Delvey aka Anna Sorokin. Spoilers: poor people pretending to be rich and rich people pretending to be poor, failed Venn diagrams, hustling, grifting, scamming, Delveying, girlbossing and girlbitching, good acting, bad acting, good bad acting, The Shondaverse, more Survivor connections, Dave was in an episode of Chicago Med, cartoonish oral sex scene with Anthony Edwards...2024-01-262h 14This Is Your AfterlifeAim for the Ditch with Zach PetersonZach Peterson wants to be the Butthole Surfers of comedy. Next step: release his new special, A List of Wet Celebrities, this Thursday, January 25!Content warning: anxiety, OCD, dead parents, Burger King panic attack, sobriety, success, Neil Young, cigarette heaven, Rick Rubin's "The Creative Act," John Prine's "The Tree of Forgiveness," outsider art, avoiding sour grapes.If you believe in This Is Your Afterlife and want fun bonus episodes, become a patron for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Watch A List of Wet Celebrities on Four by Three's YouTube channel. 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This Is Your AfterlifeTIYA REMIXED: Hell Is a Collective Condition with Dylan RodriguezSurprise! It's another installment of TIYA REMIXED, in which I re-edit classic interviews from the archives as refreshers for fans and great introductory episodes for new folks.Dylan Rodriguez is a founding member of Critical Resistance, an organization that for decades has provided leadership and resources in the movement to abolish the prison industrial complex. As importantly, he's a down-to-earth dude who could absolutely handle a heaven of sushi buffets every day.Content warning: copaganda, collectivity vs. individualism, Geronimo Ji-Jaga, humility, rude baby.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get...2024-01-2039 minGenre Reveal Party!Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: We're Against You, Russell with Ariel EliasThis week we talked all things Survivor with comedian Ariel Elias. Like Dave, Ariel is a Survivor super-fan, and had lots to say about Season 20: Heroes and Villains. Spoilers: Russell's eyes, poop in the ocean, pandemic binging, Russell's hat, libertarianism, all-coconut diets, Coach's vulnerability, Mae Martin & Parvati, no one gets to be a hero. Ariel Elias is a comedian living in New York City. Described as “a sly young comic from Kentucky” by the New York Times, Ariel has also been featured in Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, and on Good Morning America. As a trav...2024-01-192h 03This Is Your AfterlifeMission: Relax the World with Alejandro SalinasAlejandro Salinas may or may not be a death doula, but he's definitely a vampire.Content warning: even more death talk than usual (incl. dead dad), ice cube as reincarnation metaphor, bird eye contact, why goths are tall, dying practice.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow Alejandro on Instagram: @alej_salinasFollow Chicago Death Doula Collective on IG too: @chicago.death.doula.collective. CDDC is hosting a death cafe on January 27 at Chi Yoga Shack, where...2024-01-1656 minGenre Reveal Party!The Hunger Games: We Went Back for the Cat with Hope BarnesThis week we talked about The Hunger Games franchise with special guest Hope Barnes! Spoilers: Peeta revenge fantasies, sperm creatures, post-Occupy vibes, what if cannibalism?, fascism.Follow Hope @hope.ellen.barnes on Instagram.Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your thoughts, suggestions, guest requests, and genre reveals.Follow Madeline @la_louve_rouge_ on Twitter and Instagram.Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram, and listen to his other podcast, This Is Your Afterlife.---Music by...2024-01-122h 20This Is Your AfterlifeThe Sky Is Just Blue with Tyler ParkerTyler Parker (The Ringer) wrote a damn novel! A Little Blood and Dancing is a technicolor Oklahoma revenge story, and I was so stoked to talk to an old friend from Chicago improv about the transition from performing comedy to writing fiction.Content warning: Christian music, wanting to record your own audiobook, what hell would do to your vocal cords, accepting you're not too good for Minions.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Read Tyler's book, A Little Blood...2024-01-0956 minGenre Reveal Party!Jennifer's Body: We're Still Here Breathing NowIs this season secretly about horror? Maybe. This week we talked about Jennifer's Body. Spoilers: pronunciations of "Seyfried," being late to learning about Megan Fox, bad lip syncing, production company conspiracies, speculative making-of mocku-dramedies, wtf another Diablo Cody movie?Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your thoughts, suggestions, guest requests, and genre reveals.Follow Madeline @la_louve_rouge_ on Twitter and Instagram.Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram, and listen to his other podcast, This Is Your Afterlife.---2024-01-051h 53This Is Your AfterlifeNew Year's Special: The Year Hating Went From Delicious to Sour with Claire FavretFriend, TIYA superfan, and This Is Your Aftershow cohost Claire Favret returns to the main feed for our annual New Year's Special episode. We celebrate our years of minimal and no resolutions, and we answer a series of New Year's reflection questions Claire is pretty sure came from Simi Botic of Movement Unmeasured.Content warning: YOU DON'T NEED RESOLUTIONS TO DO THINGS, relationship to the word "prayer," cooking with loved ones, CD shopping, love/frustration with your union, validation at Socialism Conference, good vs. bad hating, printing stickers, Free Palestine.Patreon supporters make This Is...2024-01-021h 19Genre Reveal Party!Women Against Power Trilogy: We Don't Need Sugar with Phil LongoWe made another trilogy episode! This week we talked with Phil Longo about the "Women Against Power Trilogy": The China Syndrome (1979), Silkwood (1983), and Erin Brockovich (2000). These movies each feature a bad-ass woman (Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, and Julia Roberts) standing up against a power plant conspiracy, and we had a great time thinking about them as a series. Spoilers: poison, boobs, the 2023 mullet, Diet Coke, "Every Day is a Winding Road," lesbian Cher, Mike Nichols, shirtless Kurt Russell, Alien and other scary workplaces, Aaron Eckhart with horrible facial hair babysitting your kids, wtf another Michael Douglas movie?2023-12-292h 13This Is Your AfterlifeFrom Comedy Robot to Confident Ghost with Daniel SharComedian, sex worker, and writer Daniel Shar directed my first one-man show, Dave Maher Coma Show. The experience changed everything for me creatively and turned us from acquaintances into full-blow friends. Shar is so creative and funny, and he produces work as efficiently as a Comedy Terminator.Content warning: mom's death, breakup, porn career, surprise Beyonce fandom, this is absurd, evolving ambitions, objectively correct places to haunt, the hell of no comedy, the hell of using comedy work to outrun personal pain, Better Questions.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome...2023-12-2659 minGenre Reveal Party!A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night: We Like the Way You Stir It with Johanna IsaacsonThis week we talk with special guest and feminist horror critic Johanna Isaacson about Ana Lily Amirpour's 2014 Persian-language western Neo-noir vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. Spoilers: sexy vampires, terrible men, Chester Cheeto, skateboarding, the "Jurassic Park rule," hipster directors, Tony Hawk 380.Special Guest: Johanna Isaacson, author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror (Common Notions 2023). You can follow her @StepfordDotter on Twitter. Read the Blind Field Journal piece of hers we mention in this episode, We Don’t Need Another Zombie-Killing Hero: Political Horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978)....2023-12-221h 47This Is Your AfterlifeThere Are Mean Memes with John MichaelJohn Michael is my solo play-creating peer, independent art comrade-in-arms, and throwing-humor-at-heavy-subjects brother. I talked to him in my kitchen a couple weeks after seeing his most recent show, Spank Bank Time Machine, at the Neo-Futurist Theater. It's a new TIYA classic.Content warning: drug overdose, mental illness, weird bits, giddy laughter, Narcan, toxic friend representation, trauma dump vs. trauma bond, our sibling dynamic, twisted mom humor.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow John Michael on Instagram: @jmsilly2023-12-1944 minGenre Reveal Party!King of Comedy: There's Only One Problem, We're 34 Years Old with Eleanor RussellThis week we talk with special guest Eleanor Russell about that one time when Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro tried to make a comedy as their follow-up to Raging Bull. King of Comedy stars De Niro, Jerry Lewis, and the incredible Sandra Bernhard. Spoilers: we are all Rupert Pupkin, Joker talk, obsessive fandom, Liza Minelli/Martin Scorsese/Mikhail Baryshnikov love triangle, Jerry Lewis wrapped in duct tape, is this a Taxi Driver multiverse? Special Guest: Eleanor Russell! Eleanor has a PhD in Theater Drama from Northwestern University, and she writes about comedy. You can...2023-12-151h 46This Is Your AfterlifeI'm Really Afraid of Liberals with Al from MASK UP (covid.tips)Al—first names only this episode—is a member of MASK UP, a group of organizers who authored a 70-page doc called “How to Talk to Your Loved Ones About Covid,” which you can find at covid.tips.I don't follow the usual format for this interview. COVID has given shape to This Is Your Afterlife in many ways, so I wanted to explore my current thoughts around it with Al directly, rather than mediated through the usual questions. Until the end!Content warning: tick bite, microscopic feces and blood, chronic illness, fitting in = safety, fatphobi...2023-12-121h 11Genre Reveal Party!Interview with the Vampire: We Belong In HellThis week we talked about Neil Jordan's 1994 film Interview with the Vampire, adapted from Anne Rice's 1975 novel, as an eerie portrait of '90s sexy leading actors who are actually vampires pretending to be men: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Antonio Banderas. Spoilers: "how avant garde," there will be blood, the existence of Tom Cruise, immortality, the '90s, Claudia's Lolita vibes, brief discussion of Axl Rose.Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your thoughts, suggestions, guest requests, and genre reveals.Follow Madeline @la...2023-12-081h 35
This Is Your AfterlifeTIYA REMIXED: Wrapped in Mushrooms and Shoved into the Earth with Matthew SageMatthew Sage (aka M. Sage) and Fuubutsushi put out four records—aligned with the seasons—that helped keep me sane in quarantine. I talked to him in 2021 in this classic TIYA, and now he's my friend. I took my editing finger to this episode as an experiment to see if I could bring it under 30 minutes. I'm calling this leaner version of the podcast TIYA REMIXED. Let me know what you think!Content warning: nondenominational Christianity, type one diabetes, coma snobbery, mushroom suit, memory palace, IVF treatment.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and...2023-12-0529 minGenre Reveal Party!Four Lions: We're Real But Not AnymoreA comedy about terrorism? Released in 2010, Four Lions follows the story of four British Muslims who decide to become suicide bombers. It's... funny, tragic, confusing, satirical, and maybe a spoof of The Lion King. Directed by Sam Morris, and written by Morris, Sam Bain, and Jesse Armstrong, the film stars Riz Ahmed, Kayvan Novak, Nigel Lindsay, Arsher Ali, and Adeel Akhtar. Spoilers: weird to be watching this in the context of Palestinian genocide, The Lion King, anti-villains, post-9/11 satire talk, Jesse Armstrong and the Succession family tree, Madeline had a neck injury.Read...2023-12-011h 34This Is Your AfterlifeMeadow Goth with Kayte TerryI've been loving Kayte Terry's cannibalism podcast, Tender Subject. It's a weird sell, and that's what I like about it! The visual artist and podcast joins me to bond over type 1 diabetes stuff and talk about the art school permission that was her coma.Content warning: body horror (& Cronenburg, & Crimes of the Future), blood lickers, mushroom suit, the Five Obstructions, reparative readings. Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Listen to Kayte's podcasts: Tender Subject and Fangs for the Memories (a...2023-11-281h 01Genre Reveal Party!Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: We Don't Need Another Hero (Hero, Hero)We're launching our second season with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the film that inspired our season's title, "We Don't Need Another Hero." Made in 1985, the film is the third installment in George Miller's Mad Max franchise, and the last (thankfully) to star Mel Gibson. Stealing the show are Tina Turner as Aunty Entity, who rules over Bartertown. Spoilers: Mel Gibson (go to hell), Tina Turner (RIP), Australia, franchise talk, Furiosa prequel details, Babe and Babe 2: Pig in the City, George Miller's filmography, the actress who played Savannah (Helen Buday) was 23 at the time of filming. ...2023-11-241h 32This Is Your AfterlifeHere to Make Friends Postpartum Talk with Claire FavretFriend of the show Claire Favret helps me process the process of creating my new one-man show, Here to Make Friends.Content warning: Free Palestine, creative process, postcoital vs. postpartum, Infinite Jest version, massive amounts of navel gazing, the most powerful Afterhead, future of the podcast, Free Palestine.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Download the Palestinian Feminist Collective's "All Out for Palestine" Digital Action Toolkit.Follow Claire @clairefavs on Twitter and Instagram.Follow me...2023-11-071h 26This Is Your AfterlifeProducing Independent Shows with Rebecca SpectreWhat do comedy and magic have in common? What does it take to produce an independent magic and/or comedy show? I talk to my friend, previous TIYA guest, and magician Rebecca Spectre about our recent/upcoming shows, and how we went about both making them and putting them on.Content warning: DIY producing, comedy vs. magic, you're not Beyonce, "borrowed" tricks, unique venues, Mark James, Max Maven, David Berglas, Gob, the trick that cannot be explained.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon...2023-10-241h 05This Is Your AfterlifeBracketology: Apocalypse with Meaghan Strickland, Bill Stern and Nick Leveski (KC Redheart)What percent odds do you actually believe you will experience the apocalypse in your lifetime? That's a question from my most recent one-man show, Here to Make Friends, so I brought in my pals and collaborators Meaghan Strickland, Bill Stern, and Nick Leveski to help me answer it, in a roundabout way. "Roundabout" because before they answer the question directly, we perform Bracketology, an improvised argument game show we devised back in our days on the improv team KC Redheart.Follow along as we attempt to determine what makes for the apocalypse-iest apocalypse.Content warning...2023-10-102h 23This Is Your AfterlifeHow to Use the Sidewalk Properly with Claire Favret and Meaghan StricklandIt's September 2023, which means ANYTHING GOES in the lead-up to my third one-man show, Here to Make Friends. In this episode of the podcast, my aftershow co-hosts Meaghan Strickland and Claire Favret join me to present the one-man show that could have been: How to Use the Sidewalk Properly.Sidewalk CommandmentsYou must be willing to shift down to a single file line whenever someone is approaching.If you have odd numbers, take an Uber, or walk at your own risk.If you notice someone coming, you are the alpha in your group.If in a...2023-09-081h 26This Is Your AfterlifeHere to Make Friends!!Announcing my new one-man show and first big live show in 4 years: Here to Make Friends. In 2020, I watched 40 seasons of "Survivor" in 4 months. That + COVID alienation = Here to Make Friends. Enhancing the show is my recent revelation that at my artistic core, I'm an interviewer.Here to Make Friends will be at the Neo-Futurist theater in Chicago September 28-October 1, 2023. Until then, I'll be having a lot of fun releasing irregular This Is Your Afterlife episodes, both in terms of when they come out and content.If you'd like to go the extra mile in...2023-08-2929 minThis Is Your AfterlifeBinge-Watch Humanity with David DrakeDavid Drake is a father, doer of drugs in national parks, and fantastic comedian. We talk a lot of comedy process on this episode!Content warning: drugs, being an observer, standup comedy, major vs. minor storytelling, snapping out of limbo.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow David on IG: @daviddrakecomedyFind info about his shows and his upcoming special That's It!, plus links to his previous albums, at daviddrakecomedy.com.Follow me @thisisdavemaher on...2023-08-1652 minThis Is Your AfterlifeSelf-Exclusion with Steve TapasComedian and video creator Steve Tapas (Win It All, Easy) inspires a This Is Your Afterlife first: a long-form exploration of gambling addiction.Content warning: gambling, addiction, suicidal ideation, storage facilities, Greece, homemade filo, a bench with your name on it.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Watch Steve's video work by following him:@smallplates on TikTok@smallplatesyt on YouTubeAnd @smallplatesig on InstagramFollow me @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.2023-08-0852 minGenre Reveal Party!BONUS: Season 1 Finale: We Are Just Getting StartedIn this bonus episode we reflect on the season and the films and shows we watched, our awesome guests, and our plans for next season. Thanks for listening!Spoilers: theme for next season, "lens" crafting, the end of Casablanca, self-critique, uninformed feelings about Bo Burnham, thoughts about stan culture, RIP Pee-wee, RIP Sinead, the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your thoughts, suggestions, guest requests, and genre reveals.Follow Madeline @la_louve_rouge_ on Twitter and Instagram....2023-08-041h 49This Is Your AfterlifeI Hate Being Perceived with Eleanor RussellYou may hear writer and theater/performance/comedy/sound theorist Eleanor Russell, but you may not see her.Content warning: nature vs. nurture fuckup, first time seeing Jurassic Park in the theater, childbirth but more like having a pregnant body.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow Eleanor on Twitter: @eleanoir.And subscribe to her Substack newsletter, outside bones!Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.And check out my other podcast, Genre...2023-08-0153 minGenre Reveal Party!Rothaniel: This Only Works If We Feel Like Family with guest Tim BarnesTo conclude our first season on "Family Matters," we watched Jerrod Carmichael's 2022 comedy special Rothaniel with special guest Tim Barnes. Tim helped us unpack this incredible special and Carmichael's discussion of family secrets, Black kinship and family experiences, coming out, and more. We also talk about Carmichael's relationship to other iconic Black comedians, especially Richard Pryor.Spoilers: Chairs in stand-up comedy, the vibes of Bo Burnham, audience participation, edge-lords, looking directly into the camera. Tim Barnes is a comedian and television writer whose absurdist humor brings light to social issues from unexpected angles...2023-07-281h 59This Is Your AfterlifeWake Up Smiling with Alyx GoodwinAlyx Goodwin (#StopShotSpotter campaign) posits: What if you could be an organizer who is tired and, like, kinda happy?Content warning: abusive relationship, Everything Everywhere All at Once, "ugh, adulting," parenting is easy, beer weenies.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow the #StopShotSpotter campaign @stopshotspotter on IG and Twitter, and learn more at stopshotspotter.com.And if you're a Chicagoan, sign the petition to cancel ShotSpotter!Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.2023-07-2654 minGenre Reveal Party!Cruising: What We’re Doing Is Affecting Us with guest Max FoxThis week we discussed Cruising, William Friedkin's highly controversial 1980 film starring Al Pacino as a cop who goes undercover to catch a serial killer who's targeting gay men in the underground subculture of S&M and leather bars of New York City. Joining us this week to help us think about this confusing, confused, and fascinating film is writer, editor and translator Max Fox. We talk about attempts to sabotage the production of the film in the summer of '79 by gay protestors, the ways this film has been re-considered more recently, as well as James Franco's...2023-07-211h 48This Is Your AfterlifeExistential BDSM with Lucas O'NeilComedian and good buddy Lucas O'Neil (Comedy Central) shares his deep need to do things right.Content warning: grieving correctly, mother's death, Mainers, pet boundaries, being freed of potential.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Go see "Lucas O'Neil: Emotional Man" at Littlefield in Brooklyn on July 24 or at the Edinburgh Fringe at Just the Tonic @ The Caves the whole month of August.Follow Lucas @mr.lucasoneil on IG and TikTok.Get all the Lucas...2023-07-181h 00Genre Reveal Party!Jordan Peele's Us: We Are AmericansWe are them and we watched Us. Jordan Peele's 2019 movie Us.Spoilers: Santa Cruz housing crisis, Hands Across America bookkeeping, the Jordan Peele trilogy, Madeline thinks infamous horror villain Jason is a ghost.Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter, and email us at genrerevealparty@gmail.com with your thoughts, suggestions, guest requests, and genre reveals.Follow Madeline @la_louve_rouge_ on Twitter and Instagram.Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram, and listen to his other podcast, This Is Your Afterlife.---Music by Kirk Rawlings...2023-07-142h 06This Is Your AfterlifeOnly Child Heaven Cafe with Karl BradleyA subtle snow theme in this episode with sketch comedian and improviser Karl Bradley (Cigarette Sandwich).Content warning: suicidal consideration, black hole event horizons, wishing to be at least 200 different people, I DO NOT BELIEVE ANYONE HAS ACTUALLY EXPERIENCED DEJA VU.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. I'll be announcing the details of my new one-man show in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!Watch Karl live on stage in Trigger Happy at the Annoyance Theatre (Wednesdays...2023-07-1151 minGenre Reveal Party!The Royal Tenenbaums: We're Not Related By BloodThis week we took some time to revisit The Royal Tenenbaums, a film neither of us had seen in about twenty years, but which falls very clearly into this season's theme of films about family with lots and lots of genre troubles. We chatted about Wes Anderson's career, the politics of his aesthetics, and also what we didn't notice about this film in our late teens. Spoilers: hot pink, hot goss on Gene Hackman, the hipsterdom of hating other hipsters, needle dropping, castration anxiety, Richie's suicide scene should be edited out George Lucas style, CD players with...2023-07-071h 54This Is Your AfterlifeWhat Are Some of the More Interesting Choices? with Ian AbramsonIn a This Is Your Afterlife first, comedian Ian Abramson (Conan, Gary Busey's Pet Court) brought a full-on written piece as his sideways answer to "What's your coma?" It's a description of the afterlife that's really about his dad's death, and it rings eerily familiar to my experience waking up from a coma after being eulogized on Facebook.Content warning: parent's death, Ocean's Twelve, The Phantom Thread, winning a wedding on Instagram, DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at...2023-07-0457 minGenre Reveal Party!Caché: We Did Not Send the Tapes with guest Bettina JohnsonThis week we discussed Caché, the 2005 French film by Austrian director Michael Haneke, starring Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, and Maurice Bénichou, and suggested by our guest Bettina Johnson. Caché is about a well-off French family terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch. This terror reverberates from the Paris Massacre of 1961, which had only recently been acknowledged by the French government when the film was made more than four decades later. Through the course of the film, we see how this unspeakable moment in history and the horrors of colonialism haunt generations. 2023-06-302h 00This Is Your AfterlifeGlorified Punk Rock Piss Bucket with Molly BrennanActor, clown, and physical theater artist extraordinaire Molly Brennan has performed in plays at the Goodman Theatre, emceed The Fly Honey Show, and toured the world with her legendary 500 Clown troupe (defunct for some time now). She soothes me with a beautiful New Hampshire memory, talk of her atheist upbringing and DIY ethic, and only the righteous kind of bitterness. Content warning: abandonment, COVID-19, trickle-down shittery, accessible performance venues, the Titanic submersible, advocating for others vs. yourself, Tom Petty, band vs. solo artist life.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome...2023-06-271h 04Genre Reveal Party!Fate of the Furious: We Are the Crocodile at the Watering Hole with guests Em Gonzalez and Jo GiardiniWe learned so much in this episode about the meaning of family, freedom, and driving real fast. While Dave was a fan already, Madeline had never seen a Fast & Furious movie, so we called on two experts to fulfill this mission: Em Gonzalez and Jo Giardini. Em and Jo help us unpack everything from the geopolitical to the penis allusions of the entire franchise. Most of the discussion is about the eighth installment, Fate of the Furious, and none of the discussion requires any previous knowledge of any of it.Spoilers: Vin Diesel impressions, no...2023-06-232h 51This Is Your AfterlifeWorship Leader Nepo Baby with Jason P. WoodburyJason P. Woodbury (Aquarium Drunkard, JPW) and I bring our mutual admiration society to the mics. It's an experiment. Do you like it?Content warning: UFO/UAP sighting, moments of rupture, dental hell, pretty AND funny, evangelical Christianity, Audio Adrenaline, loop.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow Jason @jasonpwoodbury on Twitter and Instagram.Listen to his evocative and mysterious new album as JPW, Something Happening / Always Happening, on Bandcamp.Listen to his fantastic and...2023-06-211h 19Genre Reveal Party!Picard Season 3: We Are the Original Series with guest M. E. O'BrienThis week we talked to author M.E. O'Brien about the final season of Picard, and her forthcoming book Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communization of Care (Pluto Press 2023). We discussed the political legacy of Star Trek and recent series in the franchise, and the ways that sci-fi can help us better understand what exactly it might mean to "abolish the family."Spoilers: woke mob borg, the family form, the correct pronunciation of "Data," nostalgia, Troi and her outfits, father stuff.M.E. O’Brien writes on gender and communist theory. She co-edits two magazines, Pi...2023-06-161h 31This Is Your AfterlifeI Can Abstract Myself with Tim BarnesComedian and TV writer Tim Barnes (The Tonight Show, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central) and I bond over our longing for disembodiment. Content warning: race, class, retail mirror reflections, abstraction, the Phantom Menace hype machine.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow Tim: @TimBarnes451 on Twitter, @timbarnescomedy on Instagram, and @TimBarnes on Bluesky.Read and subscribe to his comedy Substack newsletter, Letters From African America: timbarnescomedy.substack.com, and his short fiction Substack, Alternate Timeline: alternatetimeline.substack.com.2023-06-131h 17Genre Reveal Party!THE MICHAEL DOUGLAS TRILOGY: When Did We Have the Power? with guest Jasmine BridgesThis week we're getting into some cringe-rotic territory with a conversation about THE MICHAEL DOUGLAS TRILOGY: Fatal Attraction (1987), Basic Instinct (1992), and Disclosure (1994). Spanning from the Reagan era into the Clinton years, this trilogy features so many flavors of feminist backlash. These films have different directors, writers, producers, and co-stars, but what they have in common is The Michael Douglas Character and his lady problems. To help us understand all this, we called on Jasmine Bridges, Madeline's best friend since the 9th grade, to tell us about the erotic thrillers of this time, and much more.2023-06-092h 31This Is Your AfterlifeEverything Is Just People with Neil BhandariNeo-Futurist Neil Bhandari and I really hit it off! We bonded over being big talkers and mischievous little guys (in the full convo you can hear on Patreon), and it was a joy to relate to his neuroses and listen to him describe moments of peace and LIFE.Content warning: India, Costa Rica, language barriers, extreme cold, the problem with the afterlife is figuring out the ages.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Catch a Neo-Futurists show if you're...2023-06-061h 16Genre Reveal Party!BONUS: Succession Finale: We Are Bullshit with guest Kyle Lane-McKinleyBack by popular demand, we're doing an encore discussion of Succession! We've got some emails and social media polls to share as well. In our first episode of the podcast, Dave and Madeline made some provisional genre reveals (Dave said "American satire accordion," and Madeline said "at worst, cluster-fuck, at best, meta-cluster-fuck"). Now that we've reached the conclusion of Succession, we're going to make our final calls on the genre reveal with guest Kyle Lane-McKinley. Kyle and Madeline know each other pretty well. Spoilers: the finale, correct opinions about Succession, BattleBots, decline of...2023-06-051h 44Genre Reveal Party!A Serious Man: We Didn't Do Anything with guests Daniel Strauss and Sheera TalpazThis week we're talking about A Serious Man, the 2009 Coen Brothers film starring Michael Stuhlbarg as Larry Gopnik, a Jewish physics professor whose family mostly hates him, and whose bad luck just keeps getting worse. While A Serious Man is certainly Coenesque or Coensy, we wanted to think more about the film's genre and the politics of Jewish humor with our guests, Daniel and Sheera. Spoilers: Santana Abraxas, F Troop, Richard Kind, threatening goys, more serious men, Sy Ableman, girls just wanna shampoo; ALSO: you might hear Madeline's cat killing a rat in the background...2023-06-022h 01Genre Reveal Party!Juno/Junior: We Like to Mix CuisinesThis week we've got our first double-feature on Genre Reveal Party: Juno & Junior. These are two of the weirdest movies about pregnancy, weirdly made by a father and son. Spoilers: home skillets, moldy peaches, steifens, Emma Thompson stanning, bromancing, pro-life but maybe accidentally, gender abolitionist but maybe accidentally, The Jason Bateman Character.Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter.Follow Madeline @la_louve_rouge_ on Twitter and Instagram.Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram, and listen to his other podcast, This Is Your Afterlife.---Music...2023-05-262h 04This Is Your AfterlifePeeves and AffirmationsIn this solo episode, I respond to a suggestion from Mom Stomp's Jo Scott to talk pet peeves. I also provide highly specific and surprisingly sincere affirmations.Content warning: human nature, (anti-)local pride, outside sounds, synchronicity, imaginary enemies, being present.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. The music I play under the affirmations is by previous guest Matt Sage, from an out-of-print album called Chautauqua (Loops). The newest M. Sage solo album, Paradise Crick, comes out this Friday...2023-05-2340 minGenre Reveal Party!Shoplifters: We Are Not SentimentalThis week we're discussing Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2018 masterpiece Shoplifters. It's a film deeply concerned with the question of what makes a family. What does it mean to be a family? How is 'family' defined by the state and private property? And how might we describe forms of care and survival in other terms? We talk about how the film grapples with these questions and more. Spoilers: noodles, child liberation, kidnapping, theft, more noodles, the care commune. Thanks to Adwoa Agyepong for recommending Shoplifters!Follow us @genrerevealpod on Instagram and Twitter....2023-05-192h 12This Is Your AfterlifeIs It Really Ignorance? with Owen BlackOwen Black, one of the most interesting conversationalists I know, is a writer and once-a-year comedian on his birthday. Hot off his 35th birthday set, my old standup buddy and I talk about his travels, upbringing, relationship to Blackness, and his new Instagram project.Content warning: walking through town eating gelato in the South of France, hymn raising, Brazil, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, starving and waiting in line at the same time, the curse of infinite variety, dying before your partner.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead...2023-05-161h 05Genre Reveal Party!Succession: We Are Not Serious PeopleTo kick off our first season on the theme of "Family Matters," we're talking about HBO's Succession: a show about daddy that's got a lot of mommy issues. While clearly positioned among HBO's prestige dramas (and currently Emmy campaigning as such), many critics and fans have made the case that Succession is quite clearly a comedy. So how do we read Succession? And what is it trying to say about the family, capitalism, and genre? Spoilers: dead daddy, the Shiv of it all, #TeamGerri, Nicholaus Braun seems sketchy, and no more power point...2023-05-121h 58This Is Your AfterlifeAnnouncing... Genre Reveal Party! - Genre Reveal Party!Here's the trailer for Genre Reveal Party. Writer/cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley and comedian/actor Dave Maher host this podcast exploring tv and movies through the lenses of politics and genre. Season 1 is "Family Matters," focusing on family stories like "Succession," "A Serious Man," "Star Trek: Picard," and "Fast X."Episodes drop on Fridays! Subscribe now, so you don't miss a single one.2023-05-0701 minGenre Reveal Party!Announcing... Genre Reveal Party!Here's the trailer for Genre Reveal Party. Writer/cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley and comedian/actor Dave Maher host this podcast exploring tv and movies through the lenses of politics and genre. Season 1 is "Family Matters," focusing on family stories like "Succession," "A Serious Man," "Star Trek: Picard," and "Fast X."Episodes drop on Fridays! Subscribe now, so you don't miss a single one.2023-05-0701 minThis Is Your AfterlifeI Definitely Intend to Experience Personal Growth with Rebecca SpectreIt's always nice when a guest is as afraid of death as I am. Bona fide magician Rebecca Spectre, who I know from her time as a standup comedian, joins me for the rare in-person conversation about how she'd like to be remembered and her well-examined reasons for performing magic.Content warning: magic, the corn kid, self-skepticism, egotistical funeral.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher. Follow Rebecca on Instagram to find out about her shows and classes at @rebeccaspectremagic...2023-03-1548 minThis Is Your AfterlifeI've Experienced Blob with Madeline Lane-McKinleyWe need good comedy criticism, and Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book, Comedy Against Work, assesses comedy not just as an art form but as a way of envisioning utopia. She examines our relationship to work and the kinds of futures we imagine through the lens of comedy on stage and TV. In this episode, she shares herself as well as her ideas. She also tells me what to do for my next show.Content warning: suicide, childbirth, constipation, the opposite of constipation, childhood abuse, misogyny, Blob.Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible...2022-11-151h 06