This Is Your Afterlife

By Dave Maher

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Episodes: 217

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What happens when we die? What if this is the afterlife? Comedian, coma survivor, and former Pitchfork writer Dave Maher ("This American Life") asks artists, entertainers, and activists for definite answers to these unanswerable questions.

Episode Date
Just Us: The Guests I Don't Book
Nov 12, 2024
Just Us: The THIS
Oct 16, 2024
Keys to All My Favorite Places with Emma Casey
Oct 08, 2024
What Is Won't Be with Adam Gilbert
Oct 01, 2024
80% TikTok, 20% Mushrooms with Steven Castillo
Sep 24, 2024
Not Everything Is a Sign + The BLT Scale with Claire Favret
Sep 17, 2024
RIYL Will Oldham's Episode: The Patrick Shiroishi Taco Bell Episode
Jul 31, 2024
My Best Self Is the Person That's Making Songs with Will Oldham aka Bonnie Prince Billy
Jul 23, 2024
This Existence Is So Much Grasping with Steven Strafford
Jul 17, 2024
Punishment Is Not Balance with Benji Hart
Jul 09, 2024
I Incarcerated the Spider with Lyn Rye
Jul 02, 2024
What Made My Day Today? with Daniel Wyche
Jun 25, 2024
Non-Dual Thinking with Mary Cait Walthall
Jun 18, 2024
Give Up All the Other Worlds
Jun 11, 2024
The Solidarity of the Ages with Daniel Bachman
Jun 04, 2024
How We Make Political Performance Art with Bindu Poroori
May 30, 2024
What If I Was Vulnerable Right Now? with Bindu Poroori
May 28, 2024
Where Are You At With the Christian Stuff? with Devin Bustin
May 21, 2024
The Bittersweet Files with Annie Share
May 14, 2024
We Should Collect Acorns and Record Ourselves with Brad E. Rose of Foxy Digitalis
May 07, 2024
How to Stop Dressing Like a Magician with Case Blackwell
May 01, 2024
What Kind of Pangea Do You Want to Be? with Maria Jacobson aka Fran
Apr 23, 2024
One Last Wipe with Phylicia McLeod
Apr 16, 2024
The Way the Mind Actually Works with Nick Turner aka Tyresta
Apr 09, 2024
Karaoke As Revolutionary Act with Anna De Ocampo Kain
Apr 02, 2024
Humbled and Amazed by Dead Birds with Julie Mitchell
Mar 26, 2024
Chicken Tenders Salt Lake City Sex Heaven with Chris Jusell
Mar 19, 2024
Be With the Panic with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Mar 12, 2024
How Do You Relate to the Past? with Max Fox
Mar 05, 2024
The Better Life List with Mark Richardson
Feb 27, 2024
Hanging Out With the Elephant in the Room with C. Fausto Cabrera
Feb 20, 2024
A Special Batch with Chaz Prymek
Feb 14, 2024
Uncertainty As a Value with Abby Pajakowski
Feb 06, 2024
That's the Old Way, Bro with Aaron Weaver
Jan 30, 2024
Aim for the Ditch with Zach Peterson
Jan 23, 2024
TIYA REMIXED: Hell Is a Collective Condition with Dylan Rodriguez
Jan 20, 2024
Mission: Relax the World with Alejandro Salinas
Jan 16, 2024
The Sky Is Just Blue with Tyler Parker
Jan 09, 2024
New Year's Special: The Year Hating Went From Delicious to Sour with Claire Favret
Jan 02, 2024
From Comedy Robot to Confident Ghost with Daniel Shar
Dec 26, 2023
There Are Mean Memes with John Michael
Dec 19, 2023
I'm Really Afraid of Liberals with Al from MASK UP (covid.tips)
Dec 12, 2023
TIYA REMIXED: Wrapped in Mushrooms and Shoved into the Earth with Matthew Sage
Dec 05, 2023
Meadow Goth with Kayte Terry
Nov 28, 2023
R.I.P. Jonathan Euseppi
Nov 21, 2023
Here to Make Friends Postpartum Talk with Claire Favret
Nov 07, 2023
Producing Independent Shows with Rebecca Spectre
Oct 24, 2023
Bracketology: Apocalypse with Meaghan Strickland, Bill Stern and Nick Leveski (KC Redheart)
Oct 10, 2023
IT'S A F**KING STICK Episode 5: Strip for Peanut Butter
Sep 25, 2023
IT'S A F**KING STICK Episode 4: Owtuit, Oualtay, Outlast
Sep 24, 2023
IT'S A F**KING STICK Episode 3: James' Banana Etiquette
Sep 22, 2023
IT'S A F**KING STICK Episode 2: Shane's BlackBerry
Sep 19, 2023
IT'S A F**KING STICK Episode 1: It's a Fucking Stick
Sep 18, 2023
How to Use the Sidewalk Properly with Claire Favret and Meaghan Strickland
Sep 08, 2023
Here to Make Friends!!
Aug 29, 2023
Binge-Watch Humanity with David Drake
Aug 16, 2023
Self-Exclusion with Steve Tapas
Aug 08, 2023
I Hate Being Perceived with Eleanor Russell
Aug 01, 2023
Wake Up Smiling with Alyx Goodwin
Jul 26, 2023
Existential BDSM with Lucas O'Neil
Jul 18, 2023
Only Child Heaven Cafe with Karl Bradley
Jul 11, 2023
What Are Some of the More Interesting Choices? with Ian Abramson
Jul 04, 2023
Glorified Punk Rock Piss Bucket with Molly Brennan
Jun 27, 2023
Worship Leader Nepo Baby with Jason P. Woodbury
Jun 21, 2023
I Can Abstract Myself with Tim Barnes
Jun 13, 2023
Everything Is Just People with Neil Bhandari
Jun 06, 2023
Peeves and Affirmations
May 23, 2023
Is It Really Ignorance? with Owen Black
May 16, 2023
Succession: We Are Not Serious People - Genre Reveal Party!
May 12, 2023
What If They're Doing That Shit?! with Andrew Tisher
May 10, 2023
Announcing... Genre Reveal Party! - Genre Reveal Party!
May 07, 2023
Shmying Around with David Feinberg
May 02, 2023
I Felt the Moisture in the Air with Stephanie Alma
Apr 25, 2023
Deeply Not Chosen with Sheera Talpaz
Apr 19, 2023
Eating Sandwiches and Reading on the Beach with Neil Bardhan
Apr 12, 2023
Feng Shui with the Furniture in Your Brain with Kirk Rawlings (Courtesy)
Apr 04, 2023
I Hate Going Backwards with Jay Mumford
Mar 29, 2023
Join Me in Developing My Next One-Man Show! Listen to Abandoned Building No. 1
Mar 23, 2023
Vast Terminating Silence with Winslow Dumaine
Mar 22, 2023
I Definitely Intend to Experience Personal Growth with Rebecca Spectre
Mar 15, 2023
Open to the Surprise with Nicholas Krgovich
Mar 07, 2023
This Asian Hawaiian Over Here with Martin Urbano
Mar 01, 2023
Taco Bell Is Better for Me with Patrick Shiroishi
Feb 21, 2023
But I Respected That Bitch with Marcella Arguello
Feb 14, 2023
Unexplained Legends, Part 2: I Am Never Going Away with Denis Len
Feb 08, 2023
Unexplained Legends, Part 1: Relaxing Pizza Party with Roger O'Sullivan
Jan 31, 2023
Pros and Cons List at the Funeral with Raphael Jose Martinez
Jan 24, 2023
Thunder, Balloon, Book, Party, Car with Cat Huck
Jan 17, 2023
Convoluted Cake Metaphor with Thomas Kelly
Jan 10, 2023
The Patrick Cotnoir Memorial Hell Question with Patrick Cotnoir
Jan 03, 2023
New Year's Special: Perfectionist Fantasies with Claire Favret (PATREON UNLOCKED)
Dec 27, 2022
Insulin Rationing/Uncanny Astrology with Zoe Witt (Mutual Aid Diabetes)
Dec 20, 2022
My Whole Gender Thing with Luca Harsh
Dec 13, 2022
If You Could Say Everything in One Verse with Psalm One
Dec 06, 2022
See Far Away with Sean Morrow (The Eli Lilly Tweet)
Nov 29, 2022
Choke Sex with Susan Messing
Nov 22, 2022
I've Experienced Blob with Madeline Lane-McKinley
Nov 15, 2022
Out of Body with Franco Danger
Nov 08, 2022
The Hormones, The Obsession with Tiffany Topol
Nov 01, 2022
This Is Your SLASHERLIFE: Ravenous (1999) plus bonus Braiding Sweetgrass with Bettina Johnson
Oct 25, 2022
This Is Your SLASHERLIFE: Annihilation with Oui Ennui
Oct 18, 2022
This Is Your SLASHERLIFE: Serial Mom with Annie Donley and Jo Scott (aka Mom Stomp)
Oct 11, 2022
This Is Your SLASHERLIFE: The Babadook with Johanna Isaacson
Oct 04, 2022
Hearing Angels with Jon Matteson
Sep 27, 2022
Everything for Everyone Part 2: A Chance to Be Sad and a Chance to Tell Stories with M.E. O'Brien
Sep 23, 2022
Everything for Everyone Part 1: Wasalna El-Chalet with Eman Abdelhadi
Sep 20, 2022
Full Tortoise: Reflections on 100 Episodes
Sep 13, 2022
Her Reality Holds Space for It with Katie Maher, My Mom
Sep 06, 2022
Full Body Experience in the Worst Possible Way with Joanna Jamerson
Aug 30, 2022
I Listen to Staind a Lot with Meredith Johnston (Warm Human)
Aug 23, 2022
Mushrooms, Spiritual Crisis, and The Truth with Pool Kids' Christine Goodwyne
Aug 16, 2022
Hot Bimbo Genius with Em Gonzalez
Aug 09, 2022
The True Self Emerges in Community with Mike Brunlieb
Aug 02, 2022
Pushing Forward Like It's Working with Chris Santiago
Jul 26, 2022
What's an Awesome Life? with Sarah Knittel
Jul 19, 2022
HOW Sway?: The Problem With "Don't Have a Plan B"
Jul 12, 2022
Learning How to Suffer with Jonathan Euseppi
Jul 05, 2022
Fun On As Little Money As Humanly Possible with Mike Park
Jun 28, 2022
Jane Fonda's the Goal with Parker Callahan
Jun 21, 2022
This Is Your Aftershow: Shalewa Sharpe
Jun 14, 2022
This Is Your Aftershow: Chris Gethard
Jun 14, 2022
This Is Your Aftershow: Bianca Diaz
Jun 14, 2022
Good in a Hospital with Marty DeRosa and Sarah Shockey
Jun 07, 2022
Finding Hope Through the Erotic with Audre Lorde's Help
May 31, 2022
Hell Is a Collective Condition with Dylan Rodriguez
May 24, 2022
I Want to Be the Strongest Person in Heaven with Jo Scott
May 17, 2022
Tragedy Minus Time Equals Posting
May 10, 2022
I Want to Know What Every Single Person Thinks of Me at All Times with Lucia Whalen
May 03, 2022
Boring Is the Worst Thing You Can Be with L'Rain
Apr 26, 2022
Afterlife Movie Club: Little Nicky with SHOWYOUSUCK
Apr 19, 2022
Unfollowing Your Old Ideologies with Skyler Higley
Apr 12, 2022
The Unknown Is Our Only Hope
Apr 05, 2022
Your Guardian Angel Must Be a Stranger with Shalewa Sharpe
Mar 29, 2022
Language and Linus Blankets: The Return of Oui Ennui
Mar 15, 2022
If This Is a Movie with Rashawn Scott
Mar 08, 2022
Busting Balls Is Love with Michael Timlin
Mar 01, 2022
Afterlife Movie Club: What Dreams May Come
Feb 22, 2022
Different Versions of Yourself with Sasha Geffen
Feb 15, 2022
Mundane or Mind-Blowing? with Chris Gethard
Feb 08, 2022
You Never Know When Some Jackass Is Gonna Shoot You with Patrick Rowland
Feb 01, 2022
From Certainty to Uncertainty with Ross Simonini: Part 2
Jan 25, 2022
From Certainty to Uncertainty with Ross Simonini: Part 1
Jan 18, 2022
I've Awoken from This Coma of Whiteness with Bianca Diaz
Jan 11, 2022
Unscrambled Fullcore with Colt Cabana
Jan 04, 2022
New Year's Special: Resolutions and Rosh Hashanah with Ariel Elias and Daniel Strauss
Dec 28, 2021
Christmas Special: How I Became the Magellan of Music
Dec 21, 2021
Ambient Comedian and Bud Light Coma Guy
Dec 14, 2021
Birthday Cakes, Band-Aid Solutions & Poetry: Oscar Sanchez This Is Your Aftershow
Dec 07, 2021
This Ugly Baby Gave You Hope with Oscar Sanchez
Nov 23, 2021
The Last Opportunity to Do What I'm Best At with Nicholas Ward
Nov 16, 2021
This Is Your Aftershow: Rob Auton
Nov 13, 2021
This Is Your Aftershow: Ariel Elias
Nov 13, 2021
The World Isn't as Good as I Want It to Be with Rob Auton
Nov 02, 2021
What's Missing with Ariel Elias
Oct 26, 2021
It's Important to Me That You Know You Are Free with Jacoby Cochran
Oct 19, 2021
This Bitch on Some Descartes Shit with Glitter Moneyyy
Oct 12, 2021
This Is Your Aftershow: Low
Oct 11, 2021
It's Not About Hope with Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk aka the band Low
Oct 05, 2021
Reversaroo! Part 2 with Me, Dave Maher
Sep 28, 2021
Reversaroo! Part 1 with Me, Dave Maher
Sep 21, 2021
Growth, Right? with Adwoa Agyepong
Sep 07, 2021
All of This Was Optional and I Can Let Go of It with Connor Shioshita Pickett
Aug 31, 2021
Wrapped in Mushrooms and Shoved into the Earth with Matthew Sage
Aug 10, 2021
We Might Just Be Examining My Anxiety in Real Time with Alex Stone
Aug 03, 2021
We're Gonna Teach Everybody How to Speak in Tongues with Nate Varrone
Jul 27, 2021
A Party Where I'm on the Grill with Ramon Rivas II
Jul 20, 2021
Young Sweaty Student Energy with Claire Favret
Jul 13, 2021
Where is this life taking me?: Catlyn Savado's Animal Spirit Reading
Jul 06, 2021
Something Bread-Based with Catlyn Savado
Jun 29, 2021
Screaming Thank You at the Waterfall with Cameron Gillette
Jun 22, 2021
We Have Won This Forever with Michael Rice
Jun 15, 2021
Gimme the Boos with Jamison Webb
Jun 08, 2021
Because Music Makes You Happy with Calvero
Jun 01, 2021
Let's Go Play Uno in the Woods with Mary Williamson
May 25, 2021
Epiphanies Change My Expectations with Air Credits
May 18, 2021
The Difference Between Heaven and Hell Is Square Footage with Kurt Chiang
May 11, 2021
Yeet Cops with Kennedy Bartley
May 04, 2021
Trees, Bees and Me with Drennen Quinn
Apr 27, 2021
Basically My Family with Vicko Alvarez
Apr 20, 2021
And That's Embarrassing! with Niccole Thurman
Apr 13, 2021
Fertile Shit with Maureen SanDiego
Apr 06, 2021
Space Gardening with Edgar Blackmon
Mar 30, 2021
Diapers, Disposals with Meaghan Strickland
Mar 23, 2021
Posthumously Uncomfortable with Sarah Welch-Larson
Mar 02, 2021
Good Question, Good Answer with Daniel Strauss
Feb 23, 2021
Inside the Dawn with Udbhav Gupta (Mr Twin Sister)
Feb 16, 2021
Very Cool Perfect House Party with Whitney Wasson
Feb 09, 2021
Moment of Hope with Arish Singh
Feb 02, 2021
Dismantle Binary Thinking with Sky Cubacub
Jan 26, 2021
Go Hard, Chill Hard with Carmen Christopher
Jan 19, 2021
Don't Ever Quit with Al Church
Jan 12, 2021
Life Is So Open with Untitled Queen
Jan 05, 2021
Fork-in-the-Road Moments with Zack Seward
Dec 29, 2020
"Showing Black People the Way That We Actually Are" — Vashon Jordan Jr.
Dec 22, 2020
Worms Gotta Eat with Oui Ennui
Dec 15, 2020
Annie Russell Has a Death Doc
Dec 08, 2020
Cartoon Heaven with John Spillane
Dec 01, 2020
Diet Atheist with Odinaka Ezeokoli
Nov 24, 2020
That Oyster of a Feeling with Eunji Kim
Nov 17, 2020
Bill Stern says, "Your Coma Could Be One of My Comas"
Nov 10, 2020
Mike Watt Wants to Be Buried at Sea
Nov 03, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife, Annie Donley
Oct 27, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife, Bettina Johnson
Oct 20, 2020
Angel Bat Dawid's Animal Spirit Reading
Oct 16, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife, Angel Bat Dawid
Oct 13, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife, Joz Norris
Oct 06, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife, Kimberly Michelle Vaughn
Sep 29, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife, Kyra Jones
Sep 22, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife, Max Thomas
Sep 15, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife, Jasmine Henri Jordan
Sep 08, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife, Gary Richardson
Sep 01, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife, Angela Oliver
Aug 25, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife, Derry Queen
Aug 18, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife, Andrew Sa
Aug 18, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife, Jake Noll
Aug 18, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife, Shantira Jackson
Aug 18, 2020
This Is Your Afterlife - Trailer!
Aug 06, 2020