Dead Man Talking

Dead Man Talking

A black cassette tape with a coral label, the words Dead Man Talking hand-lettered across it.

Five lifelong friends, facing a reality none of them expected, but all of us will one day meet.

The show

A friendship deep enough to handle the hard times.

Dead Man Talking is a conversation between five friends who met almost 35 years ago and never let go of each other. Then Bob was diagnosed with stage four cancer. Instead of going quiet, he invited the other four in, on the record, to talk honestly about suffering, faith, friendship, grief, and hope. There are no neat answers here, no clichés. Just five men sitting in the hard questions together, and a place for you to sit with them.

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The five friends recording the podcast in a wood cabin, gathered in chairs around microphones by a stone fireplace.
Recording at the cabin. Five friends, thirty-five years on.

Death isn’t the end of the story. It’s the doorway to the real one.

From the conversation

Where to start

Six doorways in

The same questions the show keeps asking itself. Step through any one to find the episodes that sit with it.