Death and Friends

Oct 31 2024 71 ep. 31 mins 200
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Have you ever wondered about death? Sure you have - after all, you're not Keanu Reeves, probably. As it turns out, humans have gotten pretty good at dying over the course of history - and we've really committed to the bit in a lot of (death)ways. Join comedians Nash Flynn and Angel Luna on a world history tour of death and dying. What's the worst that could happen?

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D&F&F Ep3 | Cemetery tour of Graceland with Coimetromania (Grace Robbins) and Yes the Audio Gets Better

Oct 31 2024 37 mins  
Join us as we explore the rich tapestry of history, art, and mystery woven into Chicago's iconic Graceland Cemetery. This episode features the fascinating insights of cemetery tour guide and historian Coimetromania, our special guest, Grace Robbins. Together, we unravel the stories behind Graceland's founding by Thomas Barbour Bryan, who sought a serene resting place after

S5 E13 | Nominative Determination: The Time A Slaver Ship Captain Called Joseph White Was Brutally Murdered

Sep 19 2024 46 mins  
Welcome back, Skeleton Army! I We don't often support ship captains being murdered, but when we do, it's slave driving Captain Joseph White. How will his large fortune be inherited? Per Capita or Per Stirpes? My money is on the one that rhymes with herpes. !n this episode, we travel back to the eerie streets of Salem, Massachusetts in 1830 to recount the chilling murder o

D&F&F Ep2 | Epoch Preservation: History Brought Back to Life Through Gravestone Restoration

Sep 05 2024 53 mins  
Ever wondered what it takes to bring an overgrown and forgotten cemetery back to life? Rachel Meyer and Josh Gerloff from Epoch Preservation (@epochpreservation) join us to share their incredible journey of transforming neglected burial grounds into beautifully maintained historical sites. Starting with Rachel's groundbreaking research, they moved on to tackling an overgrown ce

D&F&F Ep1 | Medieval Literature and Black Death revisited with Dr. Mary M. Alcaro

Aug 08 2024 52 mins  
Dr. Mary M. Alcaro, a visiting assistant professor of literature at Bryn Mawr College, takes us on a captivating journey through the intersections of plague, trauma, and Middle English texts. This episode kicks off our new interview series with Dr. Alcaro, who shares her path from undergraduate curiosity to a dissertation on the social and psychological effects of the Black Death.

S5 E12 | Teenage Lobotomy: Walter Freeman and the Ice Pick

Jul 25 2024 39 mins  
DISCLAIMER: Hi everybody, this is Angel. A quick reminder, Death and Friends is not a podcast for the light of heart. Dark and serious subjects may come up. Listener discretion is advised. This episode, we talk about a different kind of death. If you read the title and thought, "oh i like The Ramones," clearly this will be light hearted. It is not. Not even a little bit.

S5 E11 | We Need to Talk About Jessica Mitford: the Problem With American Funerals

Jun 20 2024 43 mins  
Join us as we unravel the extraordinary life of Jessica Mitford, starting from her birth in 1917 Oxfordshire, England, amidst a family infamous for their fascist leanings and Nazi sympathies. Listen in as we recount the unsettling history of the Mitford family, including her father's fascist tendencies, her sister Diana's marriage to British Union of Fascists leader Oswald

S5 E10 | True Crime Time Part 2: William Henry Bury and The 13 Hour Criminal Trial 

May 30 2024 38 mins  
On the back door of the flat, chalk graffiti says “JACK RIPPER IS AT THE BACK OF THIS DOOR” and no one is mentioning that at all in the police headquarters. Join Nash and Angel as they try to parse out the most confusingly planned crime of the century, and decide for yourself whether Jack the Ripper abandoned cheery old East End London for small-town Scotland to murder his own

S5 E9 | True Crime Time Pt 1: Hide Your Wives (In A Large, Weirdly Empty Trunk You Have For No Reason): William Henry Bury, The Time He Maybe Definitely Killed His Wife, and Was Maybe Jack the Ripper

May 16 2024 34 mins  
It’s true crime o’clock, and in today’s episode, Angel and Nash find themselves in Scotland, in a basement flat, with the body of a woman in a trunk. She definitely didn’t put herself there, and the guy that did is currently at the Dundee Police Station telling them he didn’t kill her, but he did shove her in there five days ago, and maybe he’s also admitting to being J

S5 E8 | Back to the Future: The Other Pandemic That Almost Ended The Modern World - The Spanish Flu

May 02 2024 34 mins  
A pandemic AND a world war?? Wow, that sounds really hard. We wouldn’t know anything about that today, because we solved medicine and warfare, thankfully. Phew! Oh wait, just kidding. In today’s completely hashtag-relatable episode, come hear Nash and Angel learn about the other time these things happened in tandem - and why the 1910s were not better at coping at basically ever

S5 E7 | Do You Smell What The Rocks Are Cooking? Surprise, It’s Death!: A History of The Paris

Apr 18 2024 21 mins  
Angel and Nash are enjoying a lovely holiday in Paris. Or they would be, if they could expense it. Since they can’t, join them as they deep dive on the city’s catacombs and how they came to be. Hey, if you thought the bone mudslides of early Plymouth Colony (The First Thanksgiving Episode) were fun, we bet you’ll love this! (Hint: Yeah, more bone mudslides!) In other news, w