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The prolonged isolation of COVID has taught me that I really have some incredible friends: novelists, memoirists, poets, musicians, songwriters, comedians, painters and so on. Also, I am terrible at keeping in touch with them. These conversations will be part catch-up with my friends (some of whom I haven’t spoken to in years) about our addictions and/or sobriety, our mental health struggles, and the challenges of the creative life. And these will be in-depth explorations of their work, how ...
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LilyList

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LilyList aims to be a ”handbook for the living.” Providing resources that help people tell their stories and understand their legacies. Life can be a scary place, and end-of-life even scarier, but fear has no place here.
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In this deeply moving interview, Dr. Kim Harms shares her journey of overcoming personal adversity and dedicating her life to helping others through grief and healing. Born with only seven fingers and facing a turbulent childhood, Dr. Kim recounts how she navigated the challenges of her mother’s suicide, her own physical limitations, and the devast…
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Welcome to episode 13 of the LilyList podcast, where our goal is to be a handbook for the living. In this candid conversation, Angy Brinson, a social worker and former paranormal investigator, opens up about her journey through life’s challenges and her dedication to helping others. From her difficult childhood in rural North Carolina to founding a…
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In episode 12 we chat with Chris Lockler who shares his inspiring journey of self-discovery, overcoming addiction, and making amends. We discuss his struggles with substance abuse, finding purpose in volunteering and helping others via his work with Bearded Villains, Team Rubicon, and the Red Cross Disaster Action Team. He touches on his experience…
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In Episode 11, we chat with Stacey Carter, a prominent advocate and community leader from Salisbury, North Carolina. She emerged as a powerful voice in the aftermath of tragedy – known for her appearances in documentaries about the infamous Pazuzu Algarad killings. Stacey courageously shared her personal experience of losing her son’s father to Alg…
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Welcome to episode 10 of the LilyList podcast, where our goal is to be a handbook for the living. We chat with North Carolina artist Tom Troyer about his upbringing in the Wesleyann church, the intersection of education and religion, how he transitioned to music full-time, and who he wants to leave his gear to when he dies. His latest album - The S…
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In episode 9 we catch up with our friend Eddie Pepitone. We touch on Eddie’s background, experiences in pursuing a creative career in America's capitalist system, and the importance of personal legacy and preparing for legal aspects of life. We also chat about writers that inspire us, the impact of Eastern philosophy, and even Eddie's health and fi…
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In episode 8, Mishka and Curt discussed the challenges of living in extreme weather conditions, the ephemerality of creative work, and the importance of legacy in art. They also shared their personal experiences and influences that shaped their artistic expression, including the impact of music and their tumultuous journeys from troubled childhoods…
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In episode 7 we present a very interesting conversation with Beth Talbert. An amazing human being with an amazing story, who isn’t done yet. We discuss her life from adoption, growing up on islands and moving to New Hampshire, landing in North Carolina, and navigating life while caring for a husband with early-onset Alzheimer’s. We also touch on he…
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Welcome to episode 6 of the Lily List Podcast. Brian Clarey is a lifelong journalist, NY native who landed in Greensboro, NC via New Orleans, founder and leader of an independent news organization, and true believer in the power of family and community. In this episode, we discuss his journey - the challenges and successes, as well as where he is f…
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Welcome to episode 5 of the Lily List Podcast. JT Habersaat is an entrepreneur, standup comic, storyteller, and lives life by the DIY punk ethos. In this episode, we discuss the impact his parents had on him, how he shifted from a 9 to 5 to being his own boss, his writing career, and why we had to capture his DNR on this recording - versus him spea…
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We were grateful to host Lydia Lunch recently and see her perform live. She can come across in her performances as angry, brash, and insulting to some, but we found her to be wonderfully intelligent, open, and generous with her time. In this episode we touch on where Lydia came from - nature versus nurture - some of her many experiences, where she …
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In episode three, we speak with Dr. Corinne Aumann. She is the founder and CEO of Choice Care Navigators, a Nationally Certified Guardian and an Advanced Professional member of the Aging LifeCare Association. Dr. Auman received her Ph.D. from NC State University, where she studied developmental psychology with a specialty in adulthood and aging. Co…
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Continuing the conversation with my mother, we explore the life of Michael - her son and my brother - what his arrival gave us, what his loss took from us, and what the legacy of his life has been. We also dive deeper into how Judy navigated this period in her life, and what she looks forward to today.…
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In the maiden voyage of LilyList, Judy Dutcher talks about her experiences growing up, having four kids before the age of 26, handling substance abuse and the suicide of her first husband, and what keeps her getting up each day, focusing on the positive, and moving forward.By LilyList
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Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Writer for the punk rock humor website The Hard Times Magazine, and host of the comedy Podcast "What's More Metal?" Nariko was winner of the Portland's Funniest Person Contest and named one of SplitSider Magazine's "Top Up and Coming C…
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Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Born in the rust belt, reared in the bible belt, Kristen Becker believes in Good Deeds and Dirty Jokes. Her comedy dances gingerly back and forth between drunken redneck and woke women studies major as she playfully explores the good a…
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Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Simply put, Rich Roll is a change agent. At age 40, Rich made the decision to overhaul the sedentary throes of overweight middle age. Walking away from a career in law, he reinvented himself as a globally recognized ultra-distance endu…
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Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! For the last six years, David Blum worked for Audible as the editor-in-chief of Audible Originals. Previously, Blum served as the founding editor of Kindle Singles, the store for original, high-quality longform fiction and nonfiction o…
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Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! Adam Cayton-Holland (www.adamcaytonholland.com) is a national touring comic who has appeared on Conan, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Comedy Central Presents, @midnight, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Happy Endings and was …
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Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! Thanks for listening! This week's guest is Andy Baker, he's Hack Oddity, he's Another Fat Guy Cooks, he's a terrible, terrible little man and he's my friend and I love him a lot. Andy is my one friend who isn't a comedian and he should be a comedian. He did…
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We lost Mark Lanegan a year ago today. I'd be hard-pressed to name another artist who has affected me as deeply. He was also a great friend of mine. I thought I'd start out addressing a couple of questions from other fans so I wouldn't spend the whole time just talking about my fancy feelings and then ended up spending most of the time on the quest…
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Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! When we say 'Mom' or 'Dad,' one of the things we're saying is "I have known this person my entire life." Before there…
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Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! Since 2005, Ryan McKee has worked as a writer, producer and content creator in TV and digital media for Duel, Guy Cod…
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Lou Poster is a writer and the voice of the band Driftmouth. We’ve been friends for 20 years now, so we’ve been in some shit together. 18 months ago, he fed me some venison and put this crazy idea in my head that one day, I might shoot a deer, too. This past winter, that idea blossomed into a full-on obsession. The adventure that followed became a …
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Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! Mat Alano-Martin has spent the last 13 years on the road telling jokes and sharing stories all across America. He has…
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Please subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform and sign up for the patreon! For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for listening! Jay Whitecotton is the product of a clinically diagnosed schizophrenic family of drug addicted Star Trek nerds, who w…
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Tina Muir is a former elite marathoner who is now CEO of Running for Real, and hosts a podcast of the same name. As a professional runner she was a 2:36 marathoner, represented Great Britain and was sponsored by Saucony. In her first race following retirement at what was considered the peak of her career, Muir won the 2019 Disney World Half Maratho…
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If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform? Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for list…
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If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform? Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for list…
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If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform? Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for list…
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If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on your preferred podcast platform? Please sign up for the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mishkashubaly For Patreon supporters, I'll be answering listener suggested questions on bonus episodes with my mom once a month. Thank you for list…
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Around the same time, my mother discovered a mass in her throat that was *probably not* cancer and my father was diagnosed with a mass on his kidney that was definitely cancer. So I figured we were probably due for a little catch-up with my mom. I scream, you scream, we all scream for cancer! If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share …
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Brandie Posey will be performing at my house on Nov 9th at 7pm! Please come and hang if you are in the Phoenix area. Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, Brandie Posey is a stand up comedian, writer and producer who now calls LA's comedy scene home. She has been featured as a performer at the Bentzen Ball, New York Comedy Festival, RIOT Comedy Fest…
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David Dondero is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. In 2006, NPR's All Songs Considered named David one of the "best living songwriters" alongside Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Tom Waits. https://www.patreon.com/davedondero If you enjoy the podcast, please take a moment to share it with someone else, maybe even subscribe and rate us on yo…
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Kristine Levine is a comedian who got her start 23 years ago in Portland, Oregon. She’s been featured on 6 seasons of Portlandia. Her Edinburgh Fringe show 'Fat Whore' was described as "filth, intelligence, funniness and a massive helping of fuck you to 'normal' society.” She’s currently hunkered down in beautiful Bisbee, Arizona with two of her ad…
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TIMO ELLIS is a musician, composer, and producer. He lives and works in New York City, where he was born and raised. A vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Ellis has appeared on almost 100 albums in total over the past twenty years. He has recorded and toured with such artists as Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Cibo Matto, Joan As Police Woman, and Spacehog,…
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The Giraffes are a cult band from Brooklyn that has been leveling crowds with their signature mixture of heavy rock, punk, metal and surf since 1996. A well-earned reputation for mayhem has followed the band from the start. Their guitarist was shot in the leg outside of a White Castle late one night in Brooklyn after being accosted by an off-duty f…
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Jay Chanoine is a nationally touring comedian whose style has been described as "the comedic equivalent of a toy car that you pull back, then watch it zip out of control and wonder where it will end up." He is a frequent member of The Altercation Punk Comedy Tour, a contributing writer to satirical humor site The Hard Times, and a recording artist …
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Andy Iwancio will be performing at my house in Phoenix on Sept 24th with a bunch of other jerks! No cover charge, please come and hang out, details in the episode or message me directly. Andy is a trans gal comedian from Seattle (by way of Baltimore).With her ten years of comedy she brings a witty, sardonic and slightlyprofane style to her jokes ab…
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Mike Wiebe is a musician, actor, and stand-up comedian from Texas. Originally from Denton, he now lives in Austin. Wiebe is the lead singer of several nationally known Austin-based bands including Drakulas, High Tension Wires, and his most longstanding group, Riverboat Gamblers, with whom he has released six albums since 1997. Wiebe is known for a …
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Shanna Christmas was born and raised in Las Vegas, NV. She is a stand up comedian, writer, actor and producer. She stands at 6’3’’ and played volleyball in college, despite much protest. Her comedy style has been described as “Edgy/Classy” as she finds ways to speak about complicated issues that can offend, but she’s so charming that you can’t be m…
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Brennan Whalen of Memphis, Tennessee is a salesman, above ground pool enthusiast, and lead singer/guitarist of HEELS. I met him a few years back when I was one the road and he's become one of my closest friends and my favorite musicians. We talk about nude grilling, how Brennan drank himself out of both hips, his hot mom, and learning to cope with …
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Josh McLane is the drummer for HEELS, operator of the South Point Kitchen, a recovering drug addict, lackluster husband, and decent dad. I met Josh in 2014-2015 when I was on the road with Star Anna. He was an incredibly accommodating host and his bandmate Brennan was a fan of mine so I assumed that he would be the worst and that his band would als…
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Lou Poster is a songwriter, musician and author from a coal-mining town in West Virginia. He was the primary architect for the band Grafton. Today's episode features 3 songs from his band Drift Mouth's 2020 album, 'Loveridge is Burning'. His story "The Kindness of Strangers" will be available soon on svjlit.com. He lives in Athens, Ohio with his pa…
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Dean Delray is a case study of turning passion into a labor of love, merging his affinity with music and comedy into a thriving career on stage and a growing podcast network. When he’s not talking to musicians on his podcast, Let There Be Talk, chances are he is headed to his next stand up comedy gig, having performed almost 5,000 times over the pa…
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Rad Pinckard is a skateboarder, former drunk, and a songwriter. I met him a couple of years ago when I needed cheap labor and we kept in touch. No, you probably haven't heard of him but I wanted to have him on the podcast because he's been writing some really incredible songs. They're sad and funny and playful and self-deprecating and terribly catc…
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Hands down, this is the best podcast I've ever done, maybe the best one I will ever do. Elaine Lalonde was born in Makwa, Saskatchewan in 1947, the second of seventeen children. I've known her for 45 years because she is my mom. No other person has had a greater influence on who I am or what I've done with my life (well, the good stuff, anyway). We…
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Swapcast with my friend Jonas Barnes about mental illness, sobriety, addiction, and getting your ass handed to you during the pandemic! Back to new, exclusive content next week! Lauryn Petrie and Jonas Barnes Present: The Traumedy Hour 2 Comedians + A Guest + All The Things Society Tells Us Not To Talk About. Lauryn & Jonas talk to a guest every we…
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Josh LaJaunie was born and raised in south Louisiana. He grew up hunting, fishing, drinking, eating, playing football, and getting fat. In early 2011, he found himself tipping the scales at over 400 lbs. He's since lost 200 lbs, become a badass ultrarunner, and is now exclusively a plant-based, plant-powered athlete. I met Josh through our friend R…
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You probably know Max Collins as 'the guy from Eve6,' one of the sharpest, funniest, most thoughtful people on Twitter today. You probably know Eve6 as the band behind 'Inside Out,' which you probably know as "the heart in a blender song." You probably don't know that they wrote that album when they were 16/17 years old and that Max has had a wild …
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