Obsessed With Death

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Obsessed With Death episodes

December 02, 2022 Flesh-Eating Bacteria
Meghan Herbst is a research editor and contributing writer at Wired Magazine in San Francisco. She writes about science, culture, technology, and has also covered housing, homelessness, crime, and politics.
Check out more of her work at www.meghanherbst.com
54 min
October 31, 2022 Ghost Stories
Happy Halloween! Today on the podcast Marc Hartzman joins us to share some ghost stories and discuss his new book Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural.
marchartzmanbooks.com
55 min
October 03, 2022 Grim Readers - Returns!
The Crowded Bookshelf is an independent online and pop-up bookstore based in Fort Collins, CO. They sell new, used, audio, and e-books, as well as bookish gift items. They also host virtual and in person author events.

More info @ TheCrowdedBookshelf.com
20 min
September 12, 2022 Titan Casket (Sponsored Episode)
Titan Casket was founded with a singular mission: to offer designer caskets at revolutionary prices, while driving affordability and transparency in the funeral industry.
www.titancasket.com
31 min
August 21, 2022 Still Standing
Still Standing is a documentary following the lives of George Saltz and Natalie K. Levant, two stand up comedians in their 80s, both starting stand up comedy after their 80th birthday. What begins as a story about comedy becomes a deeper conversation about aging, mortality, and creative persistence. Please enjoy my conversation with director Elizabeth Zephyrine McDonough.

Watch Still Standing here or via The New Yorker
35 min
July 25, 2022 Maya Belle Jewelry (Sponsored Episode)
Maya Belle Jewelry creates custom hand-crafted memorial jewelry, including pet nose prints, fingerprint keepsake charms, handwritten charms, good luck charm coins, and more. For more details check out their website below.
www.mayabellejewelry.com
36 min
July 18, 2022 Mortality & the Morgue
Rachelle Younie, the host of the Mortality & the Morgue podcast, joins the show to discuss collecting bones as a teen, working at a morgue, and writing death-related comedy.
We also spend some time on our minor obsession with Bill Hader. Enjoy.
Listen to Mortality & the Morgue here.
58 min
June 20, 2022 Taxidermy
A unique combination of science and style, Divya Anantharaman is New York City's premiere taxidermist. An award winning licensed professional preserving animals with honor and compassion for clients ranging from museums, high end designers, gallerists, and collectors. Her specialties are birds, small mammals, and anatomic anomalies, with a select number of commissions open for pets.
www.gothamtaxidermy.com
49 min
June 15, 2022 Grim Readers II
The Crowded Bookshelf is an independent online and pop-up bookstore based in Fort Collins, CO. They sell new, used, audio, and e-books, as well as bookish gift items. They also host virtual and in person author events.
Visit www.thecrowdedbookshelf.com for more!
16 min
May 18, 2022 Last Meal
Marcus McKenzie and Daniel Principe are an award-winning Australian filmmaking team working under the moniker Cinemâché. Shifting between the worlds of narrative and documentary storytelling, their work spans both film and television. This documentary hybrid interrogates capital punishment through death row inmates’ final meal requests. Through mesmerizing cinematography, food becomes a larger than life symbol to explore the life and crimes of incarcerated individuals sentenced to death. Watch Last Meal Film now.
42 min