S2E13: Go To Heaven
Always late for the bus, that’s us. But hey, we made it to the season’s lucky 13th episode! The Dead sure were lucky to snag Brent Mydland a...
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Dead To Me
A podcast about the Grateful Dead in the same way that Friday Night Lights is a show about football. Hosts Casey Rae and Eduardo Nunes explore a profound array of cultural intersections and...
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20 of 25 episodesS212: Shakedown Street
Ever tried to scrape cocaine out of a shag carpet? We haven’t personally, but if we ever found ourselves making the attempt, there’s a decen...
S211: Terrapin Station w/ Rusty Sutton of The Glow Management
Was the Dead’s hiatus shorter than ours? What even is time anymore? We figure a global pandemic is almost as good an excuse as trying to fin...
S2E10: Blues for Allah
Freshly back from hiatus, the Grateful Dead delivered the potent yet polarizing Blues for Allah in September 1975. Containing soon-to-be set...
S2E9: From the Mars Hotel
In this episode, the Dead to Me crew check into the Mars Hotel, where rooms are cheap and the vibe is high. In March 1974, the Grateful Dead...
S2E8 - Wake of the Flood (with special Guest Dan Horne)
It’s hard to believe, but we’re finally back from set break. For our first number, we’ll talk to Dan Horne of Circles Around the Sun and Gra...
S2E7 - Set Break Part Two: Skull & Roses / Europe ‘72
If we spell out what the Grateful Dead actually wanted to call their 1971 live album, we’d end up in Facebook jail, so let’s just refer to i...
S2E6: Set Break Part One with Jonathan Hart of Brokedown Podcast
For this special set break episode, Jonathan Hart of Brokedown Podcast pops by to talk about three Dead-adjacent albums that helped shape th...
S2E5: American Beauty
This episode is dedicated to Neal Casal. We honor the dead by living. Sometimes that’s not an easy thing to do. That’s why we’re grateful to...
S2E4: Workingman's Dead
The Grateful Dead had a topsy-turvy 1969, the year the countercultural underground became a global youth phenomenon. There was the bum set a...
S2E3: Aoxomoxoa
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” Juliet said to her Romeo. Although there may be sweeter slices of psychedelic pop than Aoxo...
S2E2: Anthem Of The Sun
What is the sound of thick air? This question is the koan at the chewy center of Anthem of the Sun , a sprawling psychedelic clusterfuck ori...
S2E1: San Francisco’s Grateful Dead
For Season Two of Dead To Me, we’re taking a deep dive into the Grateful Dead’s studio albums. Or more specifically, we’re considering the o...
Episode 12: Lens Of The Dead - With Author and Photographer Rosie McGee
Some people have photographic memories. The rest of us have photographs. Well, that and music. Put the two together, and you don’t even need...
Episode 11: Zen Of The Dead
Thus, I have heard: the same 1960s scene that birthed the psychedelic movement and the Grateful Dead is also responsible for the flowering o...
Episode 10: Dead Air
Conventional wisdom has it that the Grateful Dead couldn’t get arrested on radio (they saved that for real life)—at least not until their la...
Episode 8: Dead Studies
Understanding the Grateful Dead isn’t just being able to rattle off setlists and songs, or knowing what kind of guitar picks Jerry Garcia pr...
Episode 7: Dead As Company
Would you let a hippie run your business? How about a couple dozen of them, including road crew? Considering the Grateful Dead’s success, it...
SET BREAK: Mapping the Grateful Genome
Welcome to set break. This “unofficial” episode of Dead to Me is a bit different than our usual presentation. Casey, Eduardo, and Kevin sit...
Episode 6: Dead Medicine
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. And also the darkest… literally. The solstice is a time of reflection, when we acknowledge past st...