Fascinating, poignant, and surprisingly life-affirming conversations about death, the human condition, and life’s great mysteries. Join Joanna Ebenstein , founder of Morbid Anatomy, for Memento Morbid, a series of surprisingly life-affirming conversations around topics that tend to be deemed morbid. Meet a wide range of fascinating individuals including death workers, artists, New York Times bestselling authors, a practicing witch, Hollywood actors, and a former crematorium worker- all exploring the rituals, stories, and delightfully strange ways humans confront the unknowable. Each episode is curious, insightful, and often striking, revealing the beauty, humor, and meaning we can find in life by confronting death head on. 📢Listeners! You are invited to share your own offerings : voice notes on death, dying, ritual and the beauty of finitude. Include your first name and location if you want them shared- you might be fe
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Signup to Generate a PitchFascinating, poignant, and surprisingly life-affirming conversations about death, the human condition, and life’s great mysteries. Join Joanna Ebenstein, founder of Morbid Anatomy, for Memento Morbid, a series of surprisingly life-affirming conversations around topics that tend to be deemed morbid.
Recent episodes include "17: ‘Spiritual Gumbo’ - Lilith Dorsey" (13 August 2026, 60 minutes), "16: Reality TV: A Poison and a Pox?" (6 August 2026, 59 minutes), and "15: ‘The Deathosphere’, Joanna Ebenstein & Producer Jess" (30 July 2026, 43 minutes).
Memento Morbid publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 49 minutes across 18 episodes.
Booking probability for Memento Morbid is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Memento Morbid requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Memento Morbid's contact route on record: public web form.
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Memento Morbid is a society podcast with 18 episodes published.
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Episode #17
"Voodoo dolls are the one thing I'm always on my high horse about." In this episode, Joanna is joined by author, filmmaker, anthropologist and initiated New Orleans Voodoo priestess Lilith Dorsey for a rich conversation...
Episode #16
"I don't keep the most valuable things. I keep the things that sing to me." — Evan Michelson What makes an object into a portal for memory, grief, beauty, and the sacred? This week, Joanna Ebenstein is joined by Evan...
"It's the death of organisms that creates the fertility of the soil." When a storm in Mexico forces a last-minute change of plans, host Joanna Ebenstein is joined by Memento Morbid's Series Producer, Jess Gunasekara...
What happens when the project that defined your life suddenly no longer belongs to you? This week, Joanna Ebenstein is joined by her longtime friend Dylan Thuras , co-founder of Atlas Obscura , to explore wonder, grief...
Episode #13
What if the dead are not gone at all, but woven into the fabric of everyday life? Historian, scholar of religion and Black studies, and Sinners consultant Yvonne Chireau joins Joanna Ebenstein for a rich conversation...
Episode #12
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Lee Unkrich—director of Coco, Toy Story 3, and longtime Pixar creative—joins Joanna Ebenstein for a deeply personal conversation about collecting, mortality, and the unexpected ways art...
What if mediumship and creativity trace back to the same roots? In this episode of Memento Morbid , Joanna Ebenstein is joined by medium, researcher, educator and author Tiffany Hopkins for a wide-ranging conversation...
What happens when a lifelong fascination with mortality leads you into crypts, catacombs, pet cemeteries, and skull festivals across the world? Photographer, writer, and art historian Paul Koudounaris joins Joanna...
<p>What happens when a lifelong fascination with mortality leads you into crypts, catacombs, pet cemeteries, and skull festivals across the world?</p><p>Photographer, writer, and art historian Paul Koudounaris joins...
<p>What happens when a photographer spends 25 years documenting people who believe they can speak with the dead?</p><p>Photographer Shannon Taggart joins Joanna Ebenstein for a fascinating conversation about...
<p>Is Reality Stranger Than We’re Willing to Admit? <br><br>Religious scholar and author Jeffrey J. Kripal joins Joanna Ebenstein for an engrossing conversation exploring mysticism, sexuality, death, and the edges of...
Episode #7
<p>In this episode of Memento Morbid, Joanna Ebenstein speaks with independent scholar, historian, and author Asti Hustvedt about hysteria, gender, spiritualism, and the uneasy territory where medicine meets the...
<p>What happens when a lifetime spent studying death collides with personal loss?</p><p>Death scholar, writer, and educator John Troyer joins Joanna Ebenstein for a conversation about mortality, grief, funeral culture...
<p>What happens when we recognise creativity as a form of magic?<br><br>Writer, curator, and cultural critic Pam Grossman joins Joanna Ebenstein for a conversation about witchcraft, creativity, death, and the unseen...
<p>What does it mean to live well, knowing our time is finite?<br><br>Author Oliver Burkeman joins Joanna Ebenstein for a conversation about time, mortality, and what it means to live well inside finite...
Episode #3
<p>Grave dirt makes the best mud pies… <br><br>Leila Taylor, writer, designer, cultural critic and Creative Director of Brooklyn Public Library, joins Joanna Ebenstein for a rich, wide-ranging conversation about the...
Episode #2
<p>What Does It Mean to Become Someone Else?<br><br>Award-winning actor and producer Paul Giamatti joins Joanna Ebenstein for a wide-ranging, eerie, and often amusing conversation about monsters, performance, and the...
Episode #1
<p>What Happens to a Body After Death?<br>Mortician, author and death care reformer Caitlin Doughty joins Joanna Ebenstein for a candid, curious and surprisingly funny conversation about what really happens to our...
Memento Morbid
<p>Memento Morbid<br>Fascinating, poignant, and surprisingly life-affirming conversations about death, the human condition, and life’s great mysteries.<br><br>Join Joanna Ebenstein, founder of Morbid Anatomy, for...
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