Coffin Talk

Amrit Evans was born and raised in San Francisco and is the manager of SF Puppy Prep, a training school for puppies. Amrit grew up as a Sikh in the 3HO community but slowly faded from the practices by her twenties. In her free time, she is a gamer, athlete, dog-mom, singer, and spends time with family and friends. Please rate us on Apple and Spotify and subscribe for free at  mikeyopp.com This is...

Melissa Maker is a pediatric physical therapist living and working in the SF Bay Area. She is a lifelong equestrian who has combined her many passions in life by working at a therapeutic horseback riding program for more than 25 years.  Please rate us on Apple and Spotify and subscribe for free at  mikeyopp.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get a...

Greg Wilker lives in Marin County California where he does his best to remain present for his three children. He is a producer/host of two podcasts – one of them with a friend – and is slowly working on a third. Greg is renewing efforts to create a career as an entertainer/performer… and one day will die. As of this writing, he doesn’t know when that day is. For more please travel to gregorywilker...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikeyopp.substack.com Please rate us on Apple and/or Spotify and subscribe! Mike welcomes back long-time friend, “favorite roommate ever,” and two-time guest Pepe Guzman to the show. They talk about social revolutions, breakfast cereals, why bank tellers have boring jobs but count as blue collar workers, and which movie stars should pla...

Daelontae Marshall is the owner of Bio Balanced Organics, a company motivated by his deep-rooted belief in the power of nature’s ability to provide holistic well-being. Recognizing the need for providing education on herbs and their transformative potential, Dee was inspired to create a company dedicated to providing high-quality organic herbs that nourish the body, mind, and spirit. He now reside...

Krista Melanson is a dating coach helping women find lasting love and navigate the online dating scene! She is a recovering Chef who struggled through dating and found her Perfect Partner. Now she is helping others stay the course without giving up - she’s a drill sergeant, cheerleader, virtual BFF supporting women in any way they need it! Contact Krista on Facebook ! Please rate us on Apple and S...

Matthew Garnier is the author of Swept Up: Lessons from the End Times , a memoir about his church-focused, home-schooled upbringing in the 90's and what he carried from the experience into adulthood. Whether writing, podcasting, or shooting films and videos, Matt takes a comedic angle in his analysis of human behavior and tries to extract valuable lessons from even the most mundane details of life...

Jay Boyle is 75 years young and happily married to the love of his Life, Lenora Spatafore Boyle with two children, Grace 37 and David 34. After returning to America from Vietnam, he went to college, learned to meditate, and became a wholesale, colored gemstone dealer. It was a difficult business to succeed in, but his career took off after he learned about the ancient, esoteric use of gemstones wh...

In 1973, Jim Krag spent time with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, learning to teach Transcendental Meditation, then returned to university training in 1980 and became a medical doctor in 1986. He completed his psychiatry training in 1990 at University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, where he still lives. He has extensively studied the concepts of reincarnation, near death studies, children who remember pa...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikeyopp.substack.com Brother Sam is my brother. He’s not a colleague from a cult or anything weird like that. Although, I guess you could consider us cult-brothers, since we do come from the same home with the same leaders we called parents who told us how to behave and then we left that cult and had to adjust to “the real world.” Um,...

Nema Semnani is the Founder and President of Precision Sales Consulting, a company dedicated to helping companies drive revenue, profitability, and people development through scalable sales training, management training, coaching, and process development. He is also a standup comedian who has performed at the World-Famous Caroline's on Broadway and the DC Improv. Find him on IG @ thenanivon Like o...

Bridget Reiser is a licensed professional counselor who treats anxiety and depression. She got her bachelor's degree in film and after bartending and watching The Cell one too many times got a masters in counseling. She started her professional counseling career just as the pandemic began which changed much of the field that she trained for. She loves helping people untangle their relationships an...

Maddy Arthur is a Gen-Z food scientist, seafood expert, and a survivor of suicide loss. Originally from Northeastern Pennsylvania, she now splits her time between Seattle and some very remote parts of Alaska.   Please rate us on Apple and Spotify and subscribe for free at  mikeyopp.com This episode features conversations about suicide.  If you or anyone you know needs help with this subject, pleas...

At 70, as a widowed grandmother, Kathleen Israel walked the Camino Santiago de Compastela, with just her 4 angels to accompany her. She wrote a best-selling book about her adventures in which she shares the wisdom she learned from her experience and the people she met there. Want more? Go to wisdomonthecamino.com Please rate us on Apple and Spotify and subscribe for free at  mikeyopp.com This is a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikeyopp.substack.com Stand Up Comedian Nema Semnani asks Mike about Animal doppelgängers, human personas, bikes versus cars, marriage, divorce, abduction, regret, advice, and what it’s like to wish your team had a better attitude… This is a fun, ambly, rambly one! Be sure to check out Nema Semnani’s comedy on Youtube and Instagram ! Pl...

Tara McNeish is a 39-year-old Pennsylvania native and full-time artist and musician. She has an 8-year-old, a cat, and a dog, and spends her free time as an avid outdoorsman, foraging in her niche. Please rate us on Apple and Spotify and subscribe for free at  mikeyopp.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mikeyopp...

Tony Maurer is a retired industrial electrician, old Marine disabled (google it), Catholic, ex-scoutmaster, sapiosexual, and ammosexual who has lived the same place since 1985. He's logged 150,000 miles on a motorcycle, he's an atheist, and he’s writing a movie about ghosts, pixies and vampires. Please rate us on Apple and Spotify and subscribe for free at  mikeyopp.com This is a public episode. I...

Alan Murdie is a lawyer and psychical researcher who has investigated reports of apparitions, poltergeists and psi phenomena occurring in Great Britain, Romania and Colombia.  He has written and broadcasted extensively on paranormal topics for local, national, and international media and writes a monthly column on ghosts for the magazine Fortean Times. His publications include Haunted Edinburgh, C...

Jesse Jackson is a long-time podcaster who has hosted podcasts about Doctor Who , Babylon 5 , Farscape , Ted Lasso , John Hiatt and most notably Bruce Springsteen, on "Set Lusting Bruce" which began in 2015 and has more than 1,000 episodes. When he's not podcasting (and trying to see Bruce Springsteen live), he spends time with his lovely Bride, Linda and his adult son Chris, watching TV, enjoying...

Frank Meeink is a former white-supremacist, now human and civil rights activist, standing against the growth of mass incarceration. In 2020, he testified before congress about Neo-Nazis in law enforcement and you will love his story about the Ben Franklin Museum. This one is “intensely uplifting!” Please rate us on Apple and Spotify and subscribe for free at  mikeyopp.com This is a public episode....

Callie Russell is an ancestral skills instructor, wilderness experience guide, and goat herder who lives nomadically throughout the American Mountain West. She is passionate about learning skills that allow her to live directly from the land and helping others to feel at home in nature through Caprakhan’s wilderness courses. Callie is known from her performance on the History Channel’s “Alone” sho...

Edward Miskie is celebrating 10 years as a sole survivor of a rare cancer with the publishing of his book Cancer, Musical Theatre, & Other Chronic Illnesses . For the last 17 years, Edward has lived in NYC as a writer, producer, and performer but these ventures have taken him all over the country and world. He is a co-producer of the forthcoming film Ladylike (2024), and creator and Executive Prod...

Franck Reyherme, an English teacher turned software developer, lives in Michigan and works as an AI Engineer for an EdTech company called K12 Insight where he trains machines to understand humans. Born in the suburbs of Paris, Franck immigrated to Chicago at the age of six, and has moved around between the West Coast, East Coast, and Midwest over the course of his 40 years on earth. Franck’s most...

Nicole Kerr is an Award-winning health expert, public speaker and author. When she was a 19-year-old cadet at the United States Air Force Academy she had a terrifying Near-Death Experience and when the memory of the crash returned 20 years later, it spurred a 20-year transformation that helped her align her soul, spirit, mind, and body. A disabled veteran, Nicole has penned the best-selling book,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mikeyopp.substack.com Tatiana Bolshakova was born in the Soviet Union where she was educated to believe in communism and prosperity for all. That lasted until Perestroika, when despite the significant uncertainty and criminal chaos with no law or provision, she walked through to a bright future with the whole country. She then finished...