Listen Now: Stephanie on Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Last Day

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Last Day listeners, today we're sharing with you Stephanie's conversation with Kate Bowler on her show Everything Happens. Kate is a professor at Duke University and someone who was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in 2015 that had already metastasized. She is now in remission, and spends lots of time talking to other people about the fact that everything just, well, happens! To hear more of Everything Happens, head to: https://lemonada.lnk.to/everythinghappens

Today, we’re talking about tragicomedy. And isn’t that all of life? The absurdity. The horror. The laughter that somehow cuts through the most difficult of moments. Our guest today, Stephanie Wittles Wachs wrote a beautiful memoir called Everything is Horrible and Wonderful about the death of her brother to an accidental heroin overdose when he was 30 years old.

In this conversation, Kate and Stephanie discuss:

Loving someone with addiction
Grieving a person in public
Why it’s okay (and maybe necessary) to laugh in the midst of the worst moments
The 6th stage of grief—the manic-investigative stage

CW: mention of suicide, drug overdose, death of a sibling

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0:00.0	Two young fathers are shot to death outside an iconic Utah restaurant.
0:03.7	I said, your dad has been hurt really bad.
0:06.9	The grief was disorienting for those left behind,
0:09.9	until one choice changed everything.
0:12.7	I just remember writing this letter and it wasn't me writing it.
0:16.5	Can a personal decision shape generations?
0:19.4	We're all falling for this guy's trick.
0:22.1	I'm Amy Donaldson.
0:23.4	Season two of the letter, ripple effect,
0:25.4	is available now.
0:26.4	Follow us at the Letter Podcast.com,
0:28.4	or wherever you get your podcast.
0:30.8	Why hello there, it's your old pal Sarah Silverman and I'm back with a brand new season of the
0:35.7	Sarah Silverman podcast. On my podcast I am talking about everything politics. Yeah we
0:41.8	get into it favorite sandwich shop in LA I know a few
0:45.2	spots and I'm gonna tell you about them I'm also going to be talking to you I will be
0:50.0	reacting and responding to listener voicemails in real time.
0:53.0	Let me tell you things can get weird,
0:55.0	and I love every second of it.
0:57.0	Weird is my comfort zone.
0:59.0	The newest season of the Sarah Silverman podcast is out now
1:02.0	wherever you get your podcasts.
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