You’re Going to Die: The Podcast

Join You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Merrill Garbus of tUnE‑yArDs. Consider this a raw & honest invitation to step into the complexity of aliveness, even when it's hopeless, & burst into your own unique song. MUSIC AS MEDICINE: it doesn’t distract, but activate, so that we can feel all the things, hold them wholly, even when they're in conflict, & maybe breathe a little more freely on the other side of the catharsis of a siren scream. tune-yards’ NEW EP, Tell The Future With Your Body: https://tuneyards.ffm.to/ttfwyb music & merch: https://kf-merch.com/collections/tuneyards website: https://tune-yards.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/tuneyards/ fb: https://www.facebook.com/tuneyards/ x: https://x.com/tuneyards Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Check out Nick's new album "Monster Mash" out now: https://nickjaina.com/ "Better Dreaming" by tUnE‑yArDs - the title track from their newest album - check it out here: https://tuneyards.ffm.to/betterdreaming EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Psychotherapist, writer, & soul activist Francis Weller is back on You're Going to Die: The Podcast, talking with host Ned Buskirk about the saturation of sorrow we’re faced with in these new times on our planet - a time he calls, the The Long Dark - & discusses the medicine we'll need to live through it. francis weller’s website: https://www.francisweller.net/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina  “The Covenant” & “Pier 70” by Nick Jaina Check out these tracks & Nick's new album "Monster Mash" now: https://nickjaina.com/ EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poet, performer, and the author of bone, The Terrible, and The Catch (available June 2025). She’s also the founder of the utter, a poetic neuroscience movement that fuses story, science, and sonic design to repair attention and support emotional health. Her mission is to help people live beyond their survival patterns and feel more—on purpose. Yrsa’s work lives at the intersection of art, brain science, and healing. yrsa daley-ward's website: https://yrsadaleyward.squarespace.com/ substack: https://yrsadaleyward.substack.com/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yrsadaleyward Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator Thomas Hübl, PhD, who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma. He is the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. He has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations, as a coach for CEOs and organizational leaders, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. thomas hübl's website: https://thomashuebl.com podcast: https://pointofrelationpodcast.com instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thomashuebl Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Korean American writer, artist, and musician Johanna Hedva, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches. Hedva’s practice cooks magic, necromancy, and divination together with mystical states of fury and ecstasy, and political states of solidarity and disintegration. They are devoted to deviant forms of knowledge and to doom as a liberatory condition. There is always the body — its radical permeability, dependency, and consociation — but the task is how to eclipse it, how to nebulize it, and how to cope when this inevitably fails. Whether the form is novels, essays, theory, poetry, music, performance, AI, videogames, installation, sculpture, drawings, or trickery, ultimately Hedva’s work is different kinds of writing because it is different kinds of language embodied: it is words on a page, screaming in a room, dragging a hand through water. Hedva is the author of the novels Your Love Is Not Good and On Hell, as well as Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, a collection of poems, performances, and essays. Their artwork has been shown internationally, and their albums are Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House and The Sun and the Moon. Their essay collection, How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom, was published in September 2024. johanna hedva's website: https://johannahedva.com/ book - How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom: https://johannahedva.com/how-to-tell-when-we-will-die.php instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bighedva bandcamp: https://bighedva.bandcamp.com/ linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/bighedva last album: https://johannahedva.com/black-moon-lilith-in-pisces-in-the-4th-house.php my 2023 solo exhibition: https://joanlosangeles.org/johanna-hedva-if-youre-reading-this-im-already-dead/ piece: https://www.amant.org/publications/10-scream-demo this body of work: https://johannahedva.com/the-clock-is-always-wrong.php video game: https://glut.website/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab, investigating the effects of grief on the brain and the body. Her book The Grieving Brain was included on Oprah’s list of Best Books to Comfort a Grieving Friend. O’Connor holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in psychoneuroimmunology at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Her newest book, The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing, a follow-up to The Grieving Brain, this time focuses on the impact of grief—and life’s other major stressors—on the human body. mary-frances o'connor's website: https://maryfrancesoconnor.org/ book - the grieving body: https://maryfrancesoconnor.org/books/the-grieving-body Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with a song writer, theater maker and multi instrumentalist Shaun Bengson, one half of The Bengsons. Alongside his wife and collaborator Abigail Bengson, he has written a whole big gob of shows and performed them all over the place as well as composing music for dance, film and TV. Shaun and Abigail are raising two kids in their home bases of NYC and VT. the begsions' website: https://www.bengsons.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/thebengsons Sonya Renee Taylor & The Bengsons - LIVE at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley episode: https://yg2d.podbean.com/e/sonya-renee-taylor-and-the-bengsons-live/ In the Truth w/Abigail Bengson episode: https://yg2d.podbean.com/e/abigail-bengson-rerelease/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer and therapist, Prentis Hemphill. They are the Founder and Director of The Embodiment Institute and The Black Embodiment Initiative, and host of the podcast “Becoming the People.” For the last ten years, Prentis has practiced and taught somatics in social movement organizations and offered embodied practice during moments of social unrest and organizational upheaval. Their debut book “What it Takes to Heal” published June 2024 through Penguin Random House. Prentis Hemphill's website: https://prentishemphill.com/ book: https://prentishemphill.com/book ig: https://www.instagram.com/prentishemphill Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Clover Stroud, a Sunday Times bestselling writer, journalist and host of her own podcast, Tiny Acts of Bravery. Her first book, The Wild Other, was shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize. Her critically acclaimed second book, My Wild & Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story and third book The Red of My Blood were instant Sunday Times bestsellers and rated ‘best books of the year.' Her fourth memoir, The Giant on The Skyline, was published in May 2024. Originally from Oxfordshire, she is currently living in Washington DC with her husband and the youngest three of her five children. Clover Stroud's website: https://www.cloverstroud.com/ substack: https://cloverstroud.substack.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/clover.stroud books: https://www.cloverstroud.com/books podcast: https://www.cloverstroud.com/podcast Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with culture activist and author Stephen Jenkinson. Jenkinson teaches internationally, is the author of seven books, and was the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded with his wife Nathalie Roy in 2010. Apprenticed to a master storyteller as a young man, he has worked extensively with dying people and their families. He is former programme director in a major Canadian hospital and former assistant professor in a prominent Canadian medical school. He has Masters' degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work). In 2023 Stephen received a Distinguished Alumni Honours Award from Harvard University for "helping people navigate grief, exploring the liminal space between life and death, and connecting humanity through ceremony and storytelling." To inquire about Stephen Jenkinson’s work, speaking engagements, live streams, counsel calls, interviews and The Scriptorium, please reach out HERE: https://orphanwisdom.com/contact/ The Scriptorium: Echos of an Orphan Wisdom - two in-person sessions April 23rd through 27th and April 30th through May 4th: https://orphanwisdom.com/scriptorium/ Sanity & Soul: Die Wise, Ten Years On - a livestream encounter March 15th and 16th: https://orphanwisdom.com/event/die-wise-sanity-and-soul-ten-years-on/ Only the Living Die - a live in-person event in Joshua Tree w/Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Ann Johnson on March 7th and 8th: https://orphanwisdom.com/event/a-year-of-reckoning/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Become a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. If you'd like to support YG2D, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, just email connect@yg2d.com or visit https://www.yg2d.com/donate. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with friends and writers Naomi Shihab Nye and Marion Winik as they talk about the promise they made, and kept, with their friend Ann Alejandro, to pull together, from thousands of her pages of writing left in their care, the new book I know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas, an extraordinary collection of writing put together by longtime literary friends in tribute to a third, who died in 2019 at the age of 64. I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas - edited by Naomi Shihab Nye and Marion Winik: https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781648432408/i-know-about-a-thousand-things/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina "What A Wonderful World" words by Ann Alejandro, music by Nick Jaina Become a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with beloved friend, singer/songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Scott Elliott Ferreter as they talk about his new album Trying Time, an album he didn't expect to be "about" death, but which actually has 9 out of 11 songs about either impermanence, death, his dead dad, his dead, or crying... They also talk about how Scott forgot Ned's birthday and how Scott thinks about Ned's death all the time. scott's website: https://www.scottelliottferreter.com/| ig: https://www.instagram.com/scottelliottferreter/ TRYING TIME Fundraiser: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/trying-time-scott-elliott-ferreter-s-solo-album#/ You're Going to Die's ALIVE INSIDE Prison Program: https://www.alive-inside.com/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina "Risk to Love" by Scott Elliott Ferreter THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Become a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Aerin Dunford, Lead Weaver of The Emergence Network (ten), a planetary network of care and inquiry gesturing towards new assemblages of response-ability during moments when the ways that we think about and address the troubling crises of our times are increasingly a part of those crises. This episode is released in anticipation of, and as invitation to, ten's Becoming Monster Festival, happening October 30th though November 3rd, 2024, a virtual, hybrid and in-person components hosted with a strange ecology of friends and partners (non-human and human alike) from around the planet. This event is a space held for grieving the losses that come with living into the end-times AND playing with ideas of fabulation, imagination and questioning: what else might the human be in our crumbling, entangled, pulsating, animist world(s). REGISTER TODAY FOR ten's BECOMING MONSTER FESTIVAL: bit.ly/becoming-monster-registration CONTRIBUTE TO ten HERE: https://opencollective.com/the-emergence-network#category-CONTRIBUTE aerin's blog: https://rafasname.net/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Become a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D. TRIGGER WARNING: stillbirth

This conversation originally aired August 31st, 2023. Join us ONLINE Monday, October 28th from 4-5:45pm Pacific, for a virtual screening of “The Last Ecstatic Days,” followed by ​Q&A with Scott Kirschenbaum, Director of ​"The Last Ecstatic Days​," and Aditi Sethi, Executive Director, Center for Conscious Living and Dying and one of the film’s subjects​. Facilitated by Ned Buskirk, Executive Director ​at You're Going to Die & Andrew Ingall, Senior Programmer, ​Reimagine... RSVP ​H​ERE: https://letsreimagine.org/76768/the-last-ecstatic-days-a-virtual-screening-and-qa aditi’s website: https://www.aditisethimd.com/ Center for Conscious Living & Dying: https://www.ccld.community/ Sign up for the CCLD updates & news: https://www.ccld.community/subscribe Support the CCLD: https://www.ccld.community/donation Or Venmo @ConsciousLivingDying The Last Ecstatic Days website: https://www.thelastecstaticdaysmovie.com/ The Last Ecstatic Days on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheLastEcstaticDays The Last Ecstatic Days on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelastecstaticdays/ The Last Ecstatic Days on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelastecstaticdaysmovie/ Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”Seva” performed by Aditi Sethi & The Appalucians ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Become a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Humanist Chaplain D.S. Moss, as they talk about the journey through life & loss that led to his mortality-influenced work in the world, including his experience of providing months of spiritual care to death row inmate, Phillip Hancock, holding space for him at the time of his execution by lethal injection. D.S. Moss' New York Times' "An Atheist Chaplain and a Death Row Inmate’s Final Hours": https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/us/an-atheist-chaplain-and-a-death-row-inmates-final-hours.html End Well talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WRbe6-ljmk The Adventures of Memento Mori Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3KqE5E57MR8HeRedVqk95b?si=4c6927dc56ad481c ig: https://www.instagram.com/ds_moss/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D. TRIGGER WARNING: details of a death penalty execution