Hello magical friends.

Iris here with a diversion from your regularly scheduled doom-scrolling. My dear friend and unofficial Queen of the Desert, Carly Schorman of Tempe-based YabYum Music and Arts has created a podcast that is short, funny, and full of information. Specifically information about death.

What witch isn't interested in death? Ok, ok, some of us aren't. If you aren't, please go right back to whatever else you were doing. Consider this your content warning before you dive in.

Still here? Great! I'd like to introduce you to The Mortician's Daughter, a bite-sized (15-20 minutes or so) podcast focused on the what's, how's and sometimes the why's of death and dying. Previous episodes include topics hauntings and fairy killings and, personally appealing to my philosophically trained mind, the concept of eternal recurrence. There's an episode focused entirely on the Golden Gate Bridge. The most recent episode "Reincarnation" is especially of interest to pagans and magical folk, though be warned it is told from the creator's distinctly agnostic perspective. In this episode. Carly outlines many faiths and traditions that ascribe to reincarnation, while poking mountain sized holes in western celebrity new ageism.

The whole series is this way: glib and detached while remarkably engaged. This podcast is informative without being dull. It's witty without losing its darkness, and macabre without losing its humor. It's highly recommended to witches, magicians and all those who work with death, grief, and the life we anticipate beyond this life. Check it out at YabYum.