This Is Your Afterlife

Sarah Knittel (Edinburgh Fringe, Pig Iron School) is one of my best friends, in part because she is a mischievous, sexy, insecure, sweet, and hilarious clown and solo performer. We met at 2019 Cincy Fringe, and I quickly forced my friendship on her. She breaks the seal on This Is Your Afterlife guests crying on the mic.

Content warning: broken engagement, love of performance, normcore funerals, Tree of Life, emotional bitch, Edinburgh Fringe, being hard on yourself, trapped in pantyhose.

If you think This Is Your Afterlife is worth the price of a nice coffee or a cheap meal (I do!), please consider joining my Patreon for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Subscribers get my full convos with guests, the companion podcast This Is Your Aftershow, and shoutouts in future episodes.

Leave a voicemail, and I'll play it on the show! Call (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).

Follow Sarah on Instagram for "daily laughs:" @sarahhmonster. She'll post there about her upcoming video series "Hell Town."

Can't believe I'm doing this, but follow her on frickin' LinkedIn and hire her ass!

See Sarah live at her free, monthly variety show, Sarah Knittel's Hell Ride, every 4th Thursday at Sutton's in Philadelphia, starting August 25 at 7:30pm!

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R.I.P. Jak Knight

He was a brilliant and hilarious comedian who, at 28, already had a deep body of work. If you haven't, check out this 2019 standup set of his at Dynasty Typewriter in L.A.

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

In the midst of searching for a job to support my art, bombarded by doubts and old attitude habits, and aching from my second COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, I attempt to find a way to believe the ideas about creativity that I want to believe.

Content warning: discouragement, quitting, insulin, Rilke, job search, life not turning out like you planned, “Don’t have a Plan B,” second booster.

If you think This Is Your Afterlife is worth the price of a nice coffee or a cheap meal (I do!), please consider joining my Patreon for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Subscribers get my full convos with guests, the companion podcast This Is Your Aftershow, and shoutouts in future episodes.

Leave a voicemail, and I'll play it on the show! Call (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).

Texts:

"Austin Kleon on the Gift of Obscurity" (In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl podcast)

Andre Gee: "Just Write"

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Music = Four Tet: "Two Thousand and Seventeen" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

Jonathan Euseppi (he/they/she) is a comedian who creates one-person shows that feature stories and heightened theatricality, so we're kindred spirits. Her first show, Grief Is Horny, was about her dad's death and her love of the musical Cats. His second show, about getting cancer and marrying his wife, is called Cancer Is Gorgeous. We spend the majority of the episode talking about Jonathan's TWO times suffering through cancer (he's currently cancer-free!) and the difference between those times. But they also talk about their wedding day, their struggle to come out as nonbinary, and the calm that came after admitting who they are.

Content warning: suicidal ideation, anxiety, cancer, dementia, Parkinson's, water afterlives, crying just thinking about your wedding vows.

Leave a voicemail, and I'll play it on the show! Call (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).

If you think This Is Your Afterlife is worth the price of a nice coffee or a cheap meal (I do!), please consider joining my Patreon for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Subscribers get my full convos with guests, the companion podcast This Is Your Aftershow, and shoutouts in future episodes.

Follow Jonathan Euseppi on Instagram: @jeuseppi

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

Mike Park (Asian Man Records, Skankin' Pickle, the Bruce Lee Band) is an antiracist ska/punk O.G., a DIY role model, and a goofball who wants to throw his funeral at Chuck E. Cheese.

Content warning: traffic, crowds, animatronic funeral performances, free stuff, eating food people off strangers' plates at Denny's and out of the movie theater trash, Venn diagram of punk ethos and Christianity.

Leave a voicemail, and I'll play it on the show! Call (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).

If you think This Is Your Afterlife is worth the price of a nice coffee or a cheap meal (I do!), please consider joining my Patreon for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Subscribers get my full convos with guests, the companion podcast This Is Your Aftershow, and shoutouts in future episodes.

Follow Asian Man Records, @asianmanrecords: TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook

Listen to the new album by the Bruce Lee Band: One Step Forward. Two Steps Back.

Listen to Mike's Degrassi podcast, I'm in Love With a Girl Named Spike

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

I've said the funniest three people in the world are Meaghan Strickland and Annie Donley (previous guests), and I don't even know the third. Well, we have a candidate for that spot: Parker Callahan! Parker is a sketch comedian, solo show director, TikToker extraordinaire, and he once did a PowerPoint bit about the original Queer Eye that made me choke laughing.

Content warning: mushrooms are aliens, platonic soulmates, sharks eating dead bodies, 2019 Diane Keaton vehicle Poms, chosen queer family.

Share your thoughts! Call (313) MIST-URA (647-8872). Leave a voicemail, and I'll play it on the show.

If you think This Is Your Afterlife is worth the price of a nice coffee or a cheap meal (I do!), please consider joining my Patreon for $5 or $15/month at patreon.com/davemaher. Subscribers get my full convos with guests, the companion podcast This Is Your Aftershow, and shoutouts in future episodes.

Follow Parker, @parkthelark: TikTok, Instagram, Twitter

Go to Parker's shows:

July 18: Applause with Maggie Winters & Parker Callahan at The Hideout

July 24: The Cosmic Country Cookout at Judson & Moore Distillery

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

Something different this week: a 3-pack of aftershows!

Third and finally, Claire Favret and Meaghan Strickland join me to unpack Shalewa Sharpe's episode of This Is Your Afterlife, including such topics as:

• day jobs and making a living from your art
• the birth of This Is Your Afterlife's newest segment
• 2 Wigs, Ring Light or Hat

Get all episodes of This Is Your Aftershow, my full convos with guests, and shoutouts in future episodes by subscribing at patreon.com/davemaher.

Wanna share your answer to the questions or thoughts on an episode? Leave me a voicemail, and I'll play it on the show! Call (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).

Follow Meaghan on Twitter: @MeaghanStrick and Instagram: @stricklygram, and go to her website: meaghanstrickland.com.

Follow Claire @clairefavs on Twitter and Instagram.

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Music = Future: "Use Me"

Something different this week: a 3-pack of aftershows!

In number two in the pack. Claire Favret and I unpack Chris Gethard's episode of This Is Your Afterlife, including such topics as:

• COMEDY! lots and lots of comedy talk
• rehearsing a TV audition that I BOOKED (I'll tell you more when I can!)

Get all episodes of This Is Your Aftershow, my full convos with guests, and shoutouts in future episodes by subscribing at patreon.com/davemaher.

Wanna share your answer to the questions or thoughts on an episode? Leave me a voicemail, and I'll play it on the show! Call (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).

Follow Claire @clairefavs on Twitter and Instagram.

Subscribe to my weekly newsletter, Definitive Answers! And follow me @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.

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Music = Future: "Use Me"

Something different this week: a 3-pack of aftershows!

First, Claire Favret and Meaghan Strickland join me to unpack Bianca Diaz's episode of This Is Your Afterlife, including such topics as:

• believing in ghosts to placate them
• Fran Lebowitz is overrated
• needing to see reality to change it

Get all episodes of This Is Your Aftershow, my full convos with guests, and shoutouts in future episodes by subscribing at patreon.com/davemaher.

Wanna share your answer to the questions or thoughts on an episode? Leave me a voicemail, and I'll play it on the show! Call (313) MIST-URA (647-8872).

Follow Meaghan on Twitter: @MeaghanStrick and Instagram: @stricklygram, and go to her website: meaghanstrickland.com.

Follow Claire @clairefavs on Twitter and Instagram.

Subscribe to my weekly newsletter, Definitive Answers! And follow me @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.

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Music = Future: "Use Me"

All I have to do is wind up Marty and Sarah with my death questions, then sit back and ride the wave as they spin podcast gold. They're quick, thoughtful, generous, and silly as they talk about the recent death of a close friend, Marty's memory of first meeting Sarah, a suicide at their old apartment building, and getting so fed up with your own patterns that you make permanent changes for the better. Consider it like an episode of their podcast, except instead of wrestling it's Marty & Sarah Love Talking About Death. Plus, Sarah improvises intro jingles for every segment!

You get a full half hour of bonus material for the cost of a coffee or a meal at patreon.com/davemaher, including their funeral plans and creative/life lessons Sarah learned from our improv days. Subscribers get my full convos with guests, the companion podcast This Is Your Aftershow, and shoutouts in future episodes.

Content warning: suicide, depression, calliope music, hospital stuff, death, Muppets, hella comas, past lives, codependency, the consciousness of windows, musical improv.

Marty & Sarah Love Wrestling comes out Fridays via the MLW Radio Network. Listen and follow on Spotify and Apple. Follow @martysarahpod on Twitter and Instagram.

Follow Marty, @martyderosa: Twitter, Instagram

Follow Sarah, @sarahjoyshockey: Twitter, Instagram

Sarah also games live on Twitch with friends: Adventure Tuesday at 8pm Central

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Four Tet: "Two Thousand and Seventeen" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

Grappling with despair this week in the wake of the Uvalde and Buffalo shootings, plus the quotidian stress of my job search. How do you have hope in hell? I turn to Audre Lorde and Mariame Kaba for answers. But if hope is not a feeling, what is it?

Content warning: gun violence, Uvalde, Buffalo, despair, Audre Lorde, Mariame Kaba, hope.

Texts:

Audre Lorde: "Uses of the Erotic" (printed in Sister Outsider)

Beyond Prisons podcast: Hope Is a Discipline feat. Mariame Kaba (excerpt printed in We Do This 'Til We Free Us)

If you think this show's worth the cost of a coffee or a meal a month, subscribe for $5 or $15 at patreon.com/davemaher. You'll get my mostly-unedited full convos with guests, every installment of the companion podcast This Is Your Aftershow, and shoutouts in future episodes.

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Music = The Thermals: "A Pillar of Salt" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"