Deathless
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Creator: M. Rowan Meyer
Full cast Science fiction Serial Audio Drama
Synopsis:
It's been almost 10 years since we stopped dying. Let's talk about that. I interview people with unique relationships to immortality, attempting to answer the question of the decade: Does life still have meaning if it never ends?
Format: Audio Drama
Continuity: Serial
Voices: Cast
Genres: Science fiction
Framing device: Show within a show
Completion status: Partial
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Episodes:
Blood & Rudd (with Hannah Altenbach)
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 06:00:00 -0500
Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach.
Main Story: Blood Donation
Bi-monthly blood donations for paramortal hospitals are now a tax write-off. Download the app to start saving.
On the Lighter Side: Who Murdered Paul Rudd?
A new unscripted comedy podcast about the murder of adorkable Hollywood icon, Paul Rudd. Hosted by Paul Rudd.
(***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Raving on Chladni Plates (with EKG)
Mon, 09 Dec 2024 06:00:00 -0500
EKG is a sonic experimentalist who remixes The Event to create transcendent techno raves. He even treated your host to a unique experience involving a bathtub on a bed of speakers. It was as trippy as it sounds, but oddly healing.
We talk about Chladni plates, the possibility of sound unlocking immortality, and dentistry.
(***EKG is portrayed by Nick Carrillo)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:00:00 -0500
For Jonah.
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains sensitive and disturbing content.
Listen with care.
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Brain Trees (with Sophie Scott, CBE)
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 06:00:00 -0500
Professor Sophie Scott is a neuroscientist and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at University College London (UCL). Her research investigates the cognitive neuroscience of voices, speech and laughter.
We talk about the medical benefits of laughter, tree-like connectors in the brain, and how best to rewire our most complex organ for an immortal world.
(***Sophie Scott, CBE FMedSci FBA)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Rhizotomy Cluster / Boomer Babies (with Hannah Altenbach)
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 06:00:00 -0500
Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach.
Main Story: Rhizotomy Cluster
The World Health Organization just approved an experimental but promising surgery that kills the pain response throughout the entire body.
On the Lighter Side: Boomer Babies
During The Event (which lasted 8.3 seconds), at least 13 children were born. And guess what? They're all friends!
(***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Eating Insects (with Chef Ari Westin)
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 06:00:00 -0500
Ari Westin is the head chef at Chrysalis, a Michelin star restaurant in Chelsea that combines fine dining with eating bugs. She is also the face of HOPPER, one of this podcast's sponsors. Ari helps me cook a delicious dinner of cricket tacos.
We talk about turning a cicada infestation into a business, buggy meal kits, and an exciting new cooking show.
(***Ari Westin is portrayed by Lacy Dunn)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Oxy Party / My Old Man (with Hannah Altenbach)
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach.
Main Story: Oxy Party
The United States may no longer be a two party system. The Adaptavist Party is quickly growing in support, but we take a deeper look into where they get their funding.
On the Lighter Side: My Old Man
Congratulations to Karim Iqbal, who just had his first child... at the age of 93.
(***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Puppetry in Perpetuity (with Danny Watanabe)
Mon, 28 Oct 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Danny Watanabe is the creator of "The Wowzers", an Emmy winning show that uses puppets to teach children about immortality. He's been called the Fred Rogers of the deathless era.
We talk about weight/breath/gaze, what goes into creating a puppet, and Great Grampa Okra's bootcamp.
(***Danny Watanabe is portrayed by Kennedy Kanagawa)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Sentinelese / Orbus! (with Hannah Altenbach)
Thu, 24 Oct 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach.
Main Story: Sentinelese
In the Bay of Bengal, a tribe of uncontacted peoples have made their own traditions and practices in the face of deathlessness.
On the Lighter Side: Orbus
The latest sport out of Denmark, quickly supplanting football as an American pastime. And so much fun to say... Orbus!
(***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Under the Influence (with Cambria Wallis)
Mon, 21 Oct 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Cambria Wallis is an influencer who promotes party/drug culture on her enormous platform. When asked in a magazine interview how she felt for being famous for 9 public overdoses, she responded "Ask me again after 10." But despite the glamor and reckless behavior, there's more to this internet mogul than meets the eye.
We talk about her (many) brand collabs, an unconventional kind of business school, and the indy rock band 'Shiver Creek'.
(***Cambria Wallis is portrayed by Allison Siko)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
F.I.C.A.S. / Life Sentence (with Hannah Altenbach)
Thu, 17 Oct 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Welcome to the first mini episode of Deathless, Season 2, where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach.
Since Last Time: F.I.C.A.S.
After attending their 3rd annual conference, we were invited to partner with F.I.C.A.S. (Foundation for Immortal Conversations And Studies). We're back, baby!
Main Story: Life Sentence
Hannah Altenbach, always the busy bee, wrote a best selling book about how immortality reshaped the prison industrial complex. Available wherever books are sold... and also prison libraries.
(***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Calling All Angels (with Jackson Dellario)
Mon, 14 Oct 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Jackson Dellario is a founding member of the Angel Guard, an elite team of professional heroes who dive head first into catastrophes. They've saved hundreds from cave-ins, mudslides, hurricanes, tsunamis, explosions, and sink holes. Their motto is "No One Is Abandoned", even in the most extreme of paramortal situations.
We talk about gator tours in the Everglades, sink holes, and the craziest meet cute you’ve ever heard.
(***Jackson Dellario is portrayed by Ruffin Prentiss)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 09:00:00 -0400
We're back!
Thanks to FICAS, the Foundation for Immortal Conversations and Studies, Deathless is getting a second season. Stay tuned for 8 all new episodes with amazing guests, plus weekly bonus content with fan favorite: Hannah Altenbach.
We're diving deeper into immortality than ever before. It's time we finally found out just what happened to us. And what we're going to do about it.
It's been over 10 years since people stopped dying. Let's talk about that.
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Stayin' Alive (with Matthew LaBanca)
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Matthew LaBanca is a performer and teacher helping the youngest generation to navigate immortality through stories and music. He also just so happens to be my husband.
We discuss schools, marriage, and the success of this whole podcasting experiment.
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Gamescom / Goodbye (with Hannah Altenbach)
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach.
On the Lighter Side: Gamescom
Imani Otieno designs a VR game for her ailing grandfather that may help prolong the effects of dementia and Alzheimers.
Main Story: Goodbye
Sadly, following the contentious interview with Permadorm CEO Elias Kingsleigh, our sponsors have all pulled out. Thank you listeners for joining us on this journey. It's been a wild and wonderful ride.
(***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
The Permadorm Problem (with Elias Kingsleigh)
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Elias Kingsleigh is the CEO of Permadorm, who turned a refrigeration appliance company into one of the most successful and controversial brands in the world. He addresses the future of cryogenics and a recent cyberterrorism attack.
We discuss the process of going into cold storage, why the cost of cryo is so high, and whether or not a leaked video from a Permadorm facility is real or a deep fake.
(***Elias Kingsleigh is portrayed by Simon Pearl)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Happy Birthday Agnes / Cyberterrorism (with Hannah Altenbach)
Thu, 30 May 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach.
On the Lighter Side: Happy Birthday Agnes
Agnes Gottsmundottir, the oldest person in the world, celebrates her 125th birthday.
Main Story: Cyberterrorism
A Permadorm cold storage facility in Bangladesh falls prey to a cyberterrorist attack.
(***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Living Shiva (with Rabbi Allegra Caravida)
Mon, 27 May 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Allegra Caravida is a rabbi who, after a sabbatical to Japan, was inspired to adapt traditional Jewish practices to fit our new deathless world. She pioneered the concept of a Living Shiva, a kind of funeral rite to mark -- not a death -- but a passage into a new stage of life.
We talk about her nomadic childhood, sabbatical to Japan, and thinking of death as a universal dis-integration.
(***Allegra Caravida is portrayed by NB Mager)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Birthing Bans / Rubber Bullets (with Hannah Altenbach)
Thu, 23 May 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach.
Main Story: Birthing Bans
China enacts a new policy to reduce population growth.
On the Lighter Side: Rubber Bullets
Police departments in large US cities switch to rubber bullets, as "lethal force" is now definitionally impossible.
(***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Undead Eleganza (with CaCoffiny)
Mon, 20 May 2024 06:00:00 -0400
CaCoffiny (nee Cacophony) is a drag queen known for theatrically un-aliving herself on stage. Audiences fell in love with her campy transformation just as she was about to retire from drag. A surprisingly philosophical discussion... with a few dick jokes for good measure.
She's a true triple threat: Broadway, Disney, and Death.
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Extreme Influence / The Wowzers (with Hannah Altenbach)
Thu, 16 May 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach.
Main Story: Extreme Influence
Social media star Cambria Wallis gets famous for extreme partying.
On the Lighter Side: The Wowzers
An Emmy winning children's show about immortality.
(***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Up to Snuff (with Florian Ascher)
Mon, 13 May 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Florian Ascher is an adult entertainer who used to specialize in one particular fetish. Snuff has become a popular niche in pornography since The Event, and Florian found a career there for several years until a particularly extreme shoot in Tokyo. He is now working for himself as a Top 3% creator on OnlyFans, making content that combines his past work with a new outlook on life and immortality.
TRIGGER WARNING:
We discuss porn, suicide, and family ties.
(***Florian Ascher is portrayed by Miles G. Jackson)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
The Crichton-Gupta Experiment / Full Flag (with Hannah Altenbach)
Thu, 09 May 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach.
Main Story: The Crichton-Gupta Experiment
A reminder to all that even in cases where the body is annihilated, some part of us continues to survive. So please stop spreading misinformation.
On the Lighter Side: Full Flag
The NFL is no longer a contact sport. Also... is Bubble Ball a thing?
(***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
A Paintbrush with Death (with Keeley Horne)
Mon, 06 May 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Keeley Horne is a painter with a large-scale immersive exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She's been heralded as the post-immortality Hilma af Klint (surrealist painter decades before Surrealism) for her otherworldly pieces. Viewers universally call the show "familiar... as if from a forgotten dream". Several art lovers have had to leave the exhibit following panic attacks.
We talk about art, brain tumors, and the spirit realm.
(***Keeley Horne is portrayed by Kayla Wickes)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Back Alley Cryogenics / Pig Skin (with Hannah Altenbach)
Thu, 02 May 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach.
Main Story: Back Alley Cryogenics
A chilling crime on Staten Island involving 14 elderly people.
On the Lighter Side: Pig Skin
Pierre Coulet gets a whole new skin. From a surprising source.
(***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Escaping the Mortiferum (with Grace Kessler)
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Grace Kessler is a former nurse who escaped from the Mortiferum, commonly known as "The Death Cult", after a harrowing experience involving the group's founder. Now she spends her days helping others deprogram from the cult's brainwashing practices.
We talk about working in the ER during The Event, self detonation, and finding a rhythm that can sustain us through immortality.
(***Grace Kessler is portrayed by Sarah Sirota)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Longevitism / Record Breaker (with Hannah Altenbach)
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach.
Main Story: Longevitism
When risk mitigation becomes your whole identity.
On the Lighter Side: Record Breaker
From Everest to Roatan, Yiwen Huang does the impossible.
(***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
A Comic for the Shouldadieds (with Charlie Dugan)
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 05:00:00 -0400
Charlie Dugan is a stand-up comedian who found his audience after his "final" performance went viral. He's currently on a multi-city tour with his brother. But you won't see them at your typical venues. For this show, Charlie is only playing paramortal hospitals.
We talk about comedy out of tragedy, brotherly love, and rebranding "The Event" to "The Biggity Boom".
(***Charlie Dugan is portrayed by Jonathan Gregg)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
The On Switch / The Dalai Lama (with Hannah Altenbach)
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Welcome to the first mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach.
Main Story: The On Switch
An investigative report on precisely when human immortality actually begins.
On the Lighter Side: The Dalai Lama
After a year's long meditation, the spiritual guru breaks his silence with a single tweet.
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
After the Fall (with Chase Faulkner)
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 06:00:00 -0400
Chase Faulkner is the author of "After the Fall", a New York Times #1 Best Seller.
Nearly ten years ago, Chase and his wife Sarah were about to embark on a skydiving adventure. But The Event caused Chase to fall from the plane... without deploying his parachute. "After the Fall" is a memoir about his road to recovery.
We talk about medicine, marriage, and the matrix.
(***Chase Faulkner is portrayed by Craig MacArthur Dolezel)
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 18:00:00 -0400
It's been almost 10 years since The Event. Almost 10 years since this global phenomenon that changed everything we know about science, medicine, life in general. Almost 10 years since the last time a person died. We keep aging, we get hurt, we get sick. But we just won't die.
Obviously, none of this is news to you. But as we approach the double digit anniversary of immortality, it's been taking up a lot of my brain space. There's something about 10 years that makes it feel realer, somehow. Like, maybe it's not just a blip. Maybe this is just how it is. Forever.
And that's pretty fucking scary. Not to mention depressing. So I did what any depressed person would do... I made a podcast.
I started reaching out to people all over the world, from all ages and backgrounds. People with unique relationships to death and immortality. Looking for anyone who could help me answer the ultimate question: Does life still have meaning if it never ends?
And I heard back. I interviewed a painter, a drag queen, a rabbi, an author, a comedian, a former cult member, a CEO, and a porn star.
Our conversations were hilarious, heartbreaking, and ultimately, hopeful. And now I'm going to share them with you. I'm your host Rowan Meyer, and this... is Deathless.
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And one more thing... How's your immortality going?