Death Prattle

We recorded an episode! And the because it turns out taking care of a baby while working full time is brutally hard and turns your brain to mush, Tara forgot to upload it for a month!  Enjoy this discussion of all the grief stuff that's happened in the last several months!

We're back! This week Tara talks about her birth experience, which did not go as planned (but, spoiler, everything works out in the end). Content Warning: We do go into a fair bit of detail about a traumatic birth experience.

This week we talk about how Jane the Virgin became one of our favorite depictions of grief and loss of a spouse we've ever seen. Major spoilers for seasons 3 and 4 in our discussion. Plus Tara has had a bananas week and Talcott is finding milestones are passing a little more gently.  If you'd like to get in touch with the show follow us on Twitter @PrattlePod, like us on facebook at facebook.com/prattlepod or e-mail us at deathprattle@gmail.com Visit our webpage at www.prattlepod.com Our music is courtesy of Matthew Pryce. Visit facebook.com/MatthewPryceMusic to learn more about his work To share a memory call and leave us a message at 347-687-8223

Content Warning: We are going to discuss thoughts of pregnancy and infant loss in this episode.   This week we talk about existential worries about death while being pregnant. Also Talcott talks about watching Sleepless in Seattle for the first time and Tara is a monster who doesn't know how to let people do nice things for her.    If you'd like to get in touch with the show follow us on Twitter @PrattlePod, like us on facebook at facebook.com/prattlepod or e-mail us at deathprattle@gmail.com Visit our webpage at www.prattlepod.com Our music is courtesy of Matthew Pryce. Visit facebook.com/MatthewPryceMusic to learn more about his work To share a memory call and leave us a message at 347-687-8223

This week we talk about losing a pet as we mourn a member of the Death Prattle cat family. We discuss unexpected loss of a pet and how our relationships to our pets sometimes reflects our relationships with people.  CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes a discussion of pet euthanasia.  If you'd like to get in touch with the show follow us on Twitter @PrattlePod, like us on facebook at facebook.com/prattlepod or e-mail us at deathprattle@gmail.com Visit our webpage at www.prattlepod.com Our music is courtesy of Matthew Pryce. Visit facebook.com/MatthewPryceMusic to learn more about his work To share a memory call and leave us a message at 347-687-8223

Solo episode for Talcott this week while we get back into our regular recording routine. 

This week Talcott talks about taking his third sadness vacation on the anniversary of Val’s death and how what started as a type of escape is becoming an annual tradition. 

Content Note: This weeks episode contains some discussion of pregnancy loss throughout the episode.  This week we make a special announcement that explains why the episode release has been so weird lately. Tara basically talks at Talcott for 35 minutes about all the feelings she's been feeling about being pregnant after losing her first pregnancy earlier this year.    We are switching to an every other week schedule for the foreseeable future while Tara adjusts to the growing an entire whole person situation.   If you'd like to get in touch with the show follow us on Twitter @PrattlePod, like us on facebook at facebook.com/prattlepod or e-mail us at deathprattle@gmail.com Visit our webpage at www.prattlepod.com Our music is courtesy of Matthew Pryce. Visit facebook.com/MatthewPryceMusic to learn more about his work To share a memory call and leave us a message at 347-687-8223

We catch up a little after our slightly erratic release schedule to talk about going to a loved one's wedding as a widower and struggling to read books that reflect our own experience with loss. 

This week we talk about how a trauma response training triggered a very meta existential crisis for Tara about the podcast.  We had some technical difficulties with recording this one so there might be some blips in the audio here and there. If you'd like to get in touch with the show follow us on Twitter @PrattlePod, like us on facebook at facebook.com/prattlepod or e-mail us at deathprattle@gmail.com Visit our webpage at www.prattlepod.com Our music is courtesy of Matthew Pryce. Visit facebook.com/MatthewPryceMusic to learn more about his work To share a memory call and leave us a message at 347-687-8223

This week we answer listener questions. We talk funeral preferences, how much is too much to talk about lost loved ones, and how Talcott should definitely throw out a can of beans that is definitely poison. 

Talcott talks about coming up on the three year anniversary of Val’s death.

This week we talk about the bizarre feeling of thinking maybe your loved one faked it all along. We discuss the coming back from the dead trope in pop culture and how we'd feel if someone actually did that to us.    If you'd like to get in touch with the show follow us on Twitter @PrattlePod, like us on facebook at facebook.com/prattlepod or e-mail us at deathprattle@gmail.com Visit our webpage at www.prattlepod.com Our music is courtesy of Matthew Pryce. Visit facebook.com/MatthewPryceMusic to learn more about his work To share a memory call and leave us a message at 347-687-8223

It's an actual play podcast! Sort of. We record in the same room for the first time in over 80 episodes. We are joined by Tara's partner Ben to play and review Hello, a game designed to start conversations about the end of life. We discuss everything from who we'd turn to in a health crisis to what we want our funerals to be like. Even as people who often talk about death all the time we were surprised how much the questions made us think.    If you'd like to get in touch with the show follow us on Twitter @PrattlePod, like us on facebook at facebook.com/prattlepod or e-mail us at deathprattle@gmail.com Visit our webpage at www.prattlepod.com Our music is courtesy of Matthew Pryce. Visit facebook.com/MatthewPryceMusic to learn more about his work To share a memory call and leave us a message at 347-687-8223  

Talcott is off this week so we have a short episode where Tara talks about an existential question someone asked her recently. 

This week Talcott goes on a metaphorical journey as he makes sense of some of the feelings around being a widow. We also discuss why reading about death and dying is so much harder for us than hearing about it, and make just an unreasonable number of Star Trek references.    If you'd like to get in touch with the show follow us on Twitter @PrattlePod, like us on facebook at facebook.com/prattlepod or e-mail us at deathprattle@gmail.com Visit our webpage at www.prattlepod.com Our music is courtesy of Matthew Pryce. Visit facebook.com/MatthewPryceMusic to learn more about his work To share a memory call and leave us a message at 347-687-8223

We try a new format as Talcott records some in the moment reactions to getting, and getting rid of his wife's ashes. We talk about how a comfort for some is a weirdly unsettling item for others, and how our reactions to new stages of grief can surprise us. 

We talk about some of the ways social media can trigger grief responses, from pregnancy announcements to people pretending they have cancer for post engagement (yes this is a real thing people do Apparently.)  content note that we discuss a bit about pregnancy loss again in this one. 

This week we’re talking about how our grief can come unstuck in time.   *This episode is being released out of order because of some audio issues with an earlier episode. We might make references to an episode that doesn't exist yet because the show - like our grief, got unstuck in time. If you'd like to get in touch with the show follow us on Twitter @PrattlePod, like us on facebook at facebook.com/prattlepod or e-mail us at deathprattle@gmail.com Visit our webpage at www.prattlepod.com Our music is courtesy of Matthew Pryce. Visit facebook.com/MatthewPryceMusic to learn more about his work To share a memory call and leave us a message at 347-687-8223

Talcott is joined by special guest Daniel Baruela (@danielbtweets) of @justaangin to talk about death and Star Trek. Lots of spoilers from Discovery so catch up before you listen! Check our Daniel's podcast Just Aangin' Around