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BJ Miller: An Expert on Death Talks About Life
The Art of Asking Everything
10/13/20 • 71 min
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with BJ Miller. Recorded May 9th, 2019 in Marin, CA.
BJ currently sees patients and families via telehealth through Mettle Health, a company he co-founded with the aim to provide personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the practical, emotional and existential issues that come with serious illness and disability.
At the age of 19, BJ was electrocuted and lost 3 of his limbs. This accident led him down a path of studying art history and eventually towards his career of palliative care.
His 2015 TED Talk, entitled “What Really Matters at the End of Life” presented BJ’s perspective on death.
BJ is also the subject of the 2018 Netflix documentary, “End Game.”
His book, “A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death,” was released last year. The Washington Post called it, “a gentle, knowledgeable guide to a fate we all share.”
We talked about art history as therapy, living life as an art composition, the relationship between limitations and creativity, making the best of your situation and the allusion of independence.
@bjmillermd
@Mettle_Health
TED:
https://www.ted.com/talks/bj_miller_what_really_matters_at_the_end_of_life?language=nb
A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death:
www.thecenterforyingandliving.org
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Elizabeth Lesser: Bullshit is Everywhere
The Art of Asking Everything
09/29/20 • 64 min
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Elizabeth Lesser. Recorded Aug 14, 2019 in Woodstock, NY.
Elizabeth Lesser is an author and healer who co-founded Omega Institute in 1977.
She is the author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow,Marrow: Love, Loss & What Matters Most, The Seekers Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure and, most recently,Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes.
In 2008 she helped Oprah Winfrey produce a ten-week online seminar based on Eckhart Tolle’s book, "A New Earth." The webinar has been viewed by over 40 million people worldwide.
She has two TED Talks - “Take The Other to Lunch” and “Say Your Truths and Seek them in Others.”
In this episode we talk about memoirs, Elizabeth’s books, telling other people’s stories, The Omega Institute, patriarchy and leading an examined life.
www.elizabethlesser.org
www.eomega.org
@ElizabethLesser on Twitter
TED:
https://www.ted.com/speakers/elizabeth_lesser
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Nadya Tolokonnikova: Pussy Rioting Now
The Art of Asking Everything
11/10/20 • 86 min
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Nadya Tolokonnikova. Recorded October 4th, 2020.
Nadya Tolokonnikova is a Russian conceptual artist, political activist, and co-founder of Vladimir Putin’s least favorite band, Pussy Riot.
In 2012, she was convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" after a performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and served two years in prison.
She is the author of “How to Start a Revolution” and “Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism.” Her prison correspondence with philosopher Slavoj Žižek was compiled into the book, “Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj.”
In this interview we talked about coping with a pandemic, Putin’s never-ending reign, storming the Russian Parliament, the influence of riot grrrls, female empowerment, the advantages of being a multimedia artist, building an institution as a statement of punk, creating your own rules, rebelling against expectations, reuniting with your parents, and the importance of reading books when you have lost your freedom.
@tolokno on Twitter
@nadyariot on Instagram.
Check out everything from music videos to anti-surveillance makeup tutorials on Pussy Riot’s YouTube
www.youtube.com/channel/UCQYcCfKYfYMcuCsem8z5CyQ
Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism
www.harpercollins.com/products/read-riot-nadya-tolokonnikova?
Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj
www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20819758-comradely-greetings
Get your Destroy the Patriarchy merchandise at pussyriot.store
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Madison Young: Can Porn Be Feminist? (Spoiler alert: Yes it can)
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02/02/21 • 53 min
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Madison Young, recorded June 11, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.
Madison Young is an erotic artist, filmmaker, and performer. She entered the world of erotic filmmaking first as a performer in 2002 and later started directing films in 2005.
She is a noted expert on sex, BDSM, and sexual power dynamics.
Madison has taught workshops, given lectures, and acted as a panelist on the topics of sexuality, feminist porn studies, and the politics of BDSM at institutions such as Yale University, UC Berkeley, and the Berlin Porn Film Festival.
She is the founder of the Erotic Film School, a three-day erotic filmmaking training program held in San Francisco, CA, that introduces students to the pre-production, production, and post-production process of making erotic film.
She is also the founder of the now-closed Femina Potens Art Gallery, a nonprofit art gallery and performance space in San Francisco that served the LGBTQ and Kink communities.
Along with Moorea Malatt, she hosts the podcast, Wash Your Mouth Out.
Madison published her memoir Daddy in 2014.
In this interview we talk about Madison’s life as a sex worker, being a bondage model, transitioning to director, the body as an artistic medium, creating a queer performance space in San Francisco, our fandom of Annie Sprinkle, black box theaters, and the importance of being a pleasure activist.
Website:
https://iammadisonyoung.wordpress.com
Podcast:
http://www.washyourmouthoutpodcast.com
Instagram:
@therealmadisonyoung
Book:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17341771-daddy
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Dr. Rola Hallam: The Fuckery of Philanthropy
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03/15/21 • 101 min
Dr. Rola Hallam is a punk rock doctor. She is the founder of CanDo; a crowdfunding platform that puts resources in the hands of the frontline healthcare workers in war-affected communities.
In 2011, when war first broke out in her home country Syria, Hallam became involved in the humanitarian response. Working with various Syrian-led NGOs, she played an integral part in building 7 hospitals in Syria including the first ever crowdfunded hospital.
To address the issues she had found within the aid system, she established CanDo, a not-for-profit social enterprise and crowdfunding platform for local humanitarian organizations. She ran a crowdfunding campaign in 2016 called People's Convoy, which raised money to build a Hope Hospital for children after the last children's hospital in Aleppo was destroyed having been bombed for the 6th time. She and the Convoy drove the entire provision of medical equipment for the hospital from London to the Turkey-Syria border in December 2016. She says, “Hope Hospital was built because thousands of people came together from around the world and said: It is not acceptable to bomb hospitals, it is not ok to bomb children. And we will rebuild.”
March 15, 2021 is the 10-year anniversary of the ongoing war in Syria. Hallam is now fundraising to help protect children who are being targeted in schools. Go to SaveSyriasSchools.org to help purchase early-warning systems for 150 schools.
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‘Saving Syria’s Children’ documentary
TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/rola_hallam_the_doctors_nurses_and_aid_workers_rebuilding_syria/up-next
‘Open Letter: Let us Treat Patients in Syria’
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)61938-8/fulltext
The People’s Caravan
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-38528360
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Rachel Jayson: I Want The Thing
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01/26/21 • 88 min
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Rachel Jayson, recorded September 10, 2019 in Woodstock, NY.
Rachel Jayson is musician, educator and fashion designer. She is the violist in two bands: Jaggery and Walter Sickert & the ARmy of BRoken TOys. She also teaches music and conducts two award-winning orchestras at Lexington High School outside of Boston. Rachel has also designed footwear for John Fluevog Shoes and makes her own clothing.
In this episode we talk about what it means to be Dapper Q, being a proxy for African Americans to her mostly white students, teaching children to use music as a tool, finding music that is as angry as you are, overcoming postpartum anxiety, and Rachel’s notoriously independent mentor.
Twitter + Instagram:
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Clare Bowditch: Putting Hope into The World
The Art of Asking Everything
02/09/21 • 72 min
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Clare Bowditch, recorded March 6th, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia.
Clare Bowditch is an Australian actor, radio presenter, and entrepreneur. She started performing in the Melbourne pub circuit at seventeen years old.
In 1998, she formed the band Red Raku and recorded two albums along with producer and drummer Marty Brown—who is now her husband, producer and music manager.
Her memoir, Your Own Kind of Girl, is an exploration into her own inner critic that pulls no punches.
In this interview we talk about the power of naming your doubts, searching for a higher power in order to stay alive, the importance of how books get into our lives, the most useful experience of Clare’s life, the need to pass on little acts of kindness, how truth is the most important gift we have to offer, dealing with death at a young age, and the cost of telling a story.
Twitter:
@ClareBowditch
Website:
https://clarebowditch.com/
Big Hearted Business:
https://www.facebook.com/bigheartedbusiness/
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Laura Jane Grace: Punk Guilt
The Art of Asking Everything
10/20/20 • 42 min
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Laura Jane Grace. Recorded March 15, 2019 in Austin, TX.
Laura Jane Grace is the founder, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the punk rock band Against Me!They’ve come out with 7 studio albums. Grace is one of the first highly visible punk rock musicians to come out as transgender and has become an outspoken advocate for transgender awareness. Her column Mandatory Happinesswas published by Vice for years.
Her autobiography is entitled, "Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout."
Her debut solo album “Bought to Rot” was released in 2018. Her new album “Stay Alive” is out now on Polyvinyl Records.
We talk about enjoying music as an individual, musicians working in cycles, the relationship between speed and creativity, and punk guilt.
@LauraJaneGrace
Stay Alive:
https://www.polyvinylrecords.com/product/stay_alive
Bought to Rot:
https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/bought-rot
Against Me!:
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout:
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Introducing... Everything
The Art of Asking Everything
09/18/20 • 6 min
One day in my early forties I looked around and realized that I occupied a very strange social space: I was good friends with both doctors and porn activists, climate scientists and avant-garde writers and musicians. When I began recording these conversations, I realized that I'd accidentally created what I've always yearned for: an excuse to randomly call up really creative and compassionate people, dispense with the superficial chat, and get to the core heart-to-heart discussion about what's important in this life. Being able to create this podcast using patronage also means that I don't have to answer to a boss, rely on advertisement, or otherwise dilute the content of the conversation. This podcast is produced purely by me and my home-team, for my community, with no added artificial ingredients.
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Lenny Henry: Humor, Trauma, and Flipping the Cosmic Spatula
The Art of Asking Everything
10/06/20 • 60 min
Amanda Palmer presents an intimate conversation with Lenny Henry, recorded December 17, 2019 in London.
Lenny Henry is one of the most successful British stand-up comedians of all time. In 1975, at just 17, his career took off when he was a repeat winner on the weekly TV talent show, "New Faces.” He went on to host his own sketch comedy program, "The Lenny Henry Show," starting in 1984. Later, Lenny stared in the 90’s BBC sitcom, “Chef!" Lenny is a founder, front-man and a creative force behind the charity Comic Relief.
In this episode we talk about the paradoxes of celebrity and social media, how the internet is a buffet, starting a career in entertainment in Working Mans’ Clubs, using humor as armor against racism, the history of minstrelsy in the UK, making your work the structure of your life, giving your loved ones fair warning when you publish a memoir, the beautiful meld of words and images in comic books, the power of masks and fiction and why giving advice to younger artists is so important.
@LennyHenry
https://lennyhenry.net
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How many episodes does The Art of Asking Everything have?
The Art of Asking Everything currently has 25 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Music, Podcasts, Arts, Music Interviews and Performing Arts.
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The episode title 'BJ Miller: An Expert on Death Talks About Life' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on The Art of Asking Everything is 66 minutes.
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The first episode of The Art of Asking Everything was released on Sep 18, 2020.
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