Dead Reckoning

The Podcast Where Death Isn’t the End of the Story

About the Show

Dead Reckoning is the podcast where death isn’t the end of the story. Our conversations take place at the crossroads of death, history, and social justice. We focus on the San Francisco Bay Area but often stray into the wider world. 

Hosted by writer and creator Courtney Minick, and journalist and author Beth Winegarner, based in San Francisco. 

Produced by Carolyn Kissick and Here Lies a Story. Artwork by Dante Silliman. 

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Courtney Minick

Courtney is a storyteller with a career spanning technology, law, politics, and creative media. She is the creator of Here Lies a Story, a multi-platform storytelling project that explores history, folklore, and the way the buried past continues to shape our present.

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Beth Winegarner

Beth Winegarner is a journalist, author, essayist and pop culture critic who’s contributed to the New York Times, the New Yorker, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Wired, Mother Jones, and many others. She is a former daily news reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and a former contributor to The San Francisco Chronicle. She is the author of several books, most recently San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History.

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