My Co-Host/Wife (Rachel Snyder) and I have a laughter-filled conversation with Musician, Experimental Theatre Director/Playwright, Potential Stand-Up Comic, and Rachel’s new best friend, Juli Crockett. We discuss bringing home a roller blading crackhead, Juli analyzing Rachel’s street fighting abilities in relation to her own boxing skills, creating weird pandemic postcards, the tragedy of comedy versus the hilarity of mortuary work, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) Tik Tok videos, Juli creating music with her band (Evangenitals) during the pandemic, being too exhausted for polyamory, transforming capitalism into an egalitarian barter economy, having silent dance parties in the woods, someone being way too high during this conversation, sound baths at the Integratron, how Juli’s new George Project made me cry over my breakfast toast, Creepy Daisy, and much more. Recording Date: Wednesday, October 20th, 2021. To learn about Juli and her latest projects, please visit: www.julicrockett.com To learn about Rachel’s latest death-positive work, please visit: www.posy-filledpockets.com To learn more about me, please visit: www.blindmaninblack.com

I have a profoundly enlightening conversation with Psychologist, Educator, Author, and Activist, Dr. Paula Green. We discuss Paula’s experiences of growing up within a culturally diverse neighborhood in New Jersey, the development of her worldview, seeking to better understand herself through the study of sociology/psychology, the Women’s Movement helping her to “break out of the box,” having a transformative encounter with Angela Davis, practicing Buddhism, peacebuilding person-to-person within conflict zones across the globe, founding the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, finding hope within our shared humanity, creating the CONTACT: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures Program at the SIT Graduate Institute, working to dialogue across divides in her latest project entitled, “Hands Across the Hills,” and much more. Recording Date: Wednesday, October 13th, 2021. To learn about Paula’s work at Hands Across the Hills, please visit: https://www.handsacrossthehills.org/ To learn about Paula’s work at Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, please visit: https://www.karunacenter.org/ To learn more about me, please visit: www.blindmaninblack.com

Are you ready for some podcast-on-podcast action? My Co-Host/Wife (Rachel Snyder) and I have a very funny conversation with Jon Huck, the Host of Speaking Highly with Jon Huck podcast and his Producer, Indy Fawcett. We discuss how Jon and Indy began their bromance on the set of the series My Death Co, how hilarious Rachel and I are on TikTok as “The Exhausting Snyders,” the creation of Speaking Highly with Jon Huck, Indy’s connection to Farah Fawcett, Rachel’s dead Dad’s Exorcist-style possession of our son, Indy’s long-haul trucking days, Jon watching my pornographic film Pirates (XXX) at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, Rachel’s harsh critique of our show, Jon’s interactions with Norm Macdonald on Last Comic Standing, how I’m “unnatural,”, Indy’s emerging podcast network (CHOBO), Jon’s inspiring conversations with his guests (Garrett Morris, Jamie Kennedy, Harland Williams, etc.), and much more. Recording Date: Thursday, October 7th, 2021. To learn about Speaking Highly with Jon Huck, visit: www.speakinghighly.com To learn about Jon or see him perform comedy in your area, visit: www.jonhuck.me To view Indy’s podcast network, CHOBO, visit: https://www.chobopodcasts.com/ To learn more about Rachel and I, please visit: www.blindmaninblack.com

“Clara Fang is senior fellow at Citizens' Climate International, an organization that builds political will for climate solutions around the world. In addition, she is pursuing her PhD in environmental studies at Antioch University New England where her dissertation is on racial diversity in the climate movement. She also serves on the Board of the Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences. Clara has twenty years of experience working in the field of sustainability and environmental advocacy. She holds a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University, an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Utah, and a BA in English from Smith College. She lives in Detroit, Michigan with her partner and three pets.” Recording Date: Wednesday, October 6th, 2021. To learn about Clara’s work, please visit: https://climatediversity.org/ To visit Clara’s blog, please go to: http://residenceonearth.net/ To learn more about me, please visit: www.blindmaninblack.com

I have an empathetically educational conversation with Poet, Writer, Social Justice Activist, Educator, and friend, Marcus Van. We discuss Marcus’ early years growing up in poverty with his single mother and siblings in Ventura (California), being guided by his mother’s compassionate faith, exploring the world through reading classic literature as a child, fighting bullies, finding meaning through creative writing, experiencing racism (including Neo-Nazi violence), discovering his concept of faith, living in Taiwan, embracing his passion for education, repairing his relationship with his father, illuminating the challenges/benefits of public education, showing his students their fullest potential, learning by doing, and much more. Recording Date: Wednesday, September 29th, 2021. To learn more about me, please visit: www.blindmaninblack.com

I have a life-changing conversation with my dear friend, Sarah Louise Wilson. Sarah is a Visual Artist, Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Educator, and the author of the book entitled, S & M. We discuss Sarah’s brilliant, humorous, sensual, beautiful, haunting, and powerful exploration of inherited trauma from slavery and systemic racism within the United States through her book, S & M. Recording Date: Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021. To learn more about Sarah and her current projects, please visit: www.sarahlouisewilson.com To learn more about me, please visit: www.blindmaninblack.com

Former Editor-In-Chief of Atlas Obscura, Co-Founder of Odd Salon - San Francisco, Writer, Public Speaker, Funeral Counselor, and my sexy wife, Rachel Snyder and I have an erotically relaxing conversation with former Featured Showgirl, Dominatrix, Sex positive Advocate, and the Innkeeper at Innthrall (Pennsylvania), Kathleen Ashford. We discuss Kathleen’s early years growing up in Alaska, running away from home at 15-years-old, being sexually “curious,” becoming a featured showgirl after attending an amateur night at a gentlemen’s club, becoming a dominatrix, exploring the therapeutic aspects of BDSM, Rachel working in a strip club as a waitress/bartender in her early 20’s, Kathleen & Rachel’s shared experiences at Burning Man, Kathleen assessing my sexual proclivities, Rachel crying for the first time on the show, learning that tears are a sexual lubricant, the creation of Kathleen’s kinky bed and breakfast (Innthrall), and much more. Recording Date: Wednesday, September 15th, 2021. To make a reservation at Kathleen’s kinky B&B (Innthrall), please visit: www.innthrall.com

I have a much needed conversation with Special Education Teacher, Disability Inclusion Advocate, Co-Founder of ArTES magnet school in Los Angeles, and my dear friend, Joshua Rauh. We discuss Josh’s formative years growing up in the Santa Cruz Mountains with his loving adopted family, discovering his love for the theatre/acting, extending our childhoods by playing lava tag as teenagers, our shared performances at Los Gatos High School, studying acting at U.C. Davis, living in Bologna (Italy), creating theater in Kenya (Africa), working in a theatre company in Los Angeles, discovering his love for teaching students with disabilities, co-founding an inclusive school for the arts, becoming a father, why I was called “Booger Snotter,” and much more. Recording Date: Wednesday, September 1st, 2021. To learn about or support Joshua’s work, visit: www.artesmagnet.org To learn more about me, please visit: www.blindmaninblack.com

I have an anxious, yet lovely conversation with former Editor-In-Chief of Atlas Obscura, Co-Founder of Odd Salon - San Francisco, Writer, Public Speaker, Funeral Counselor, and my loving wife, Rachel Snyder and Deprofessionalized Intellectual, Author, Activist, mentor, and my dear friend, Gustavo Esteva. We discuss how capitalism transformed death into an unspoken subject/shady business, how death/dying is discussed in Mexico versus United States, COVID-19’s effects on the funeral industry, Día de los Muertos, celebrating life through death, and much more. This conversation will continue in a future episode where we will conclude this discussion on the Art of Dying and move into a conversation on “transforming rage into love.” Recording Date: Sunday, August 29th, 2021. To learn more about me, please visit: www.blindmaninblack.com

I have a lovely reunion after 20 years with Creator, Director, Artistic Advisor, Writer, Educator, Intellectual, and dear friend, Jessica Kendall, Ph.D. We discuss Jessica’s formative years growing up in Baltimore (Maryland), welding in San Francisco, our time together at CalArts, exploring India, meeting the Dali Lama, grieving her mother & father’s deaths, being present with “what is,” training to be a circus performer, being comfortable with the familiar/strange, working on her doctorate in the United Kingdom, traveling the world, discovering who she is through becoming a mother, finding her home in Canada, perceiving reality, radical kindness, and much more. Recording Date: Saturday, August 28th, 2021. To learn more about me, please visit: www.blindmaninblack.com