Hacking The Afterlife podcast

It's our 60th podcast.  Yippee.    Jennifer was out of town last week, so I was thinking about a couple of people who showed up during previous sessions that we didn't speak to. She mentioned the "Librarian" (whom I described as Danny DeVito because someone else described him that way in "Architecture of the Afterlife") So I asked if there was a reason he wanted to chat with us. He implied that he...

This is a session I filmed back in 2017.  The idea was to create some form of expression where we could discuss the afterlife in real time, and put it somewhere. Pre podcasts. Now when I view this file, I realize we were doing the same thing we've been doing for the past year. In this session, my old friend Howard Schultz, the producer of many successful TV shows ("Extreme Makeover") shows up to c...

Another jaw dropping session.  I didn't have anyone in mind as I sat down to dial up the podcast, but suddenly the late Monte Hellman came to mind. Monte passed away a few days ago - and I thought since he was friends with Luana, Harry Dean Stanton and others both on this side and the flipside, thought he might be an interesting interview. At one point Jennifer mentions the "actor" who played a Ma...

A continuation of a conversation from a couple of weeks ago.  My father, the architect, said that he was working with "architects" on the flipside. When asked who they were, Jennifer said she was hearing "Bernini and Michelangelo."   As someone who majored in Humanities at BU, who wrote a miniseries for HBO about the Medici family in the Renaissance, I'm familiar with Michelangelo's story and Bern...

Jennifer is on spring break.  So in lieu of her being here, I started to look for something that we might have filmed awhile ago, but follows our format. This was our second interview on camera, done in her office in Manhattan Beach on Dec. 21st, 2015. At the time I was thinking about making these conversations into a documentary. Little did I know that our conversations over lunch, or in her offi...

Had some unusual dreams the past couple of days and used them as a jumping off place for the podcast.   First wanted to know if there was any meaning to find, then wanted to know how to help people contact their loved ones on the other side. Acknowledging that it's not easy for everyone, it is easier for some - and there are techniques to learn. Meditation helps because it rewires the brain. Allow...

Tonight's podcast starts off with a general discussion of staying healthy during Covid. A recap of the conversation with Dr. Jonas Salk from a year ago where he recommended drinking elderberry, aloe vera and acai juice to prevent Covid (published in April 2020 on RichMartini.com)  Then Edgar Cayce stopped by to talk a bit about his council of doctors who he used to help heal people on the planet,...

This is an exploration into incarnation.   Not in reincarnation - but the process of incarnation. How does it occur? We have a chat with Jennifer's father, a Mormon Bishop on the flipside. He discusses the process of a "drop of light" coming to incarnate in the guise of a human. When asked if anyone else wanted to speak on the topic, Elvis came forward to observe that music is the same kind of fre...

I had the impression that the great director Federico Fellini stopped by my place a few days ago - so I invited him to come by our class.  I had studied his films in college, and later when living in Rome there were sightings of him all over the city. Later, I met a number of people who worked with him, including the Roman actress Fiametta Baralla, the aunt of a fellow film school student Luca Ben...

Another unusual podcast.   In this instance, I had a thought to invite Ian Stevenson, the renowned professor and psychiatrist to our podcast.  I had a specific reason - because there's a phrase he left behind, that he thought - like Harry Houdini - he could "communicate" to someone on the other side. In doing these podcasts with Jennifer, on occasion we get to "prove" that the flipside exits. We d...

As promised, we asked Larry King to return this week. Luana Anders our friend on the flipside, helped facilitate the conversation. We asked him to talk about his life and journey - growing up in Brooklyn and then heading down to Miami. He talks about his mother and father, and who was there to greet him on the other side. He talked about some of the people that he knew in life, that are different...

Larry stopped by for the last ten minutes. He suggested we hold off on interviewing him. I asked a couple of questions to see what he'd say. We'll talk to him soon. Meanwhile we had a general discussion to help people to access their loved ones on the other side.  Larry stopped by for the last ten minutes. He suggested we hold off on interviewing him. I asked a couple of questions to see what he'd...

For people who are aware of how Jennifer and I met, there is an extended three hour interview with Amelia Earhart about her life, her journey in the book "Hacking the Afterlife."  We were in the midst of answering questions from viewers (who ask them via Martinizone.com on YouTube, or email at MartiniProds at gmail) when I asked our friend Luana Anders, moderator of our group, if there was anyone...

Jennifer lost a friend a few days ago, and we took the opportunity to chat with her about her journey and path.  We also took some questions from the audience, encouraged to submit them to MartiniProds at gmail - not to take requests for readings, but questions about process that someone on the flipside might be able to answer. Today's question was "How do emotions such as love or grief affect fre...

This is a podcast that's more about the process of how we communicate with the flipside. In it, we ask our moderator on the flipside, the former actress Luana Anders about her journey - her life is detailed in the book "Flipside" but in this we get around to asking her about her council and she talks about three of the 12 individuals in it. One who represents Peace, one who represents Energy, and...

Another wild session with Jennifer.  We began to chat about the inauguration, and David Bowie stopped by to talk about the music and musicians.  Jennifer wasn't aware of what Jon Bon Jovi played, just that he performed.  She was shown a photograph of someone like Yogananda associated with that song - I asked if we could speak to the fellow who wrote it.   George had a message for his wife Olivia a...

One of Jennifer's friends, a Doctor passed away a few days ago, and we took the opportunity to ask him about his experience reaching the flipside.  He said that "Jesus" was one of the people who was there to greet him.  We asked him questions about his life, his passing and the experience on the flipside, but also took the opportunity to interview the fellow who greeted him.

This is going to be hard for those who haven't read any of the books ("Backstage Pass to the Flipside" or "Architecture of the Afterlife.")  I can only say that Jennifer and I never discuss who we are going to talk to our about. And in light of the fact that we've spoken to former Presidents before, I figured they might want to chat about the events in the Capitol yesterday. I wasn't surprised tha...

Joe Ranft was one of the most prolific storytellers in the Pixar canon. Working at first for Eric Larsen at Disney, working on Lion King and Beauty and the Beast among others, then moving over to work with Jon Lassiter at Pixar as the head of the story dept - Joe was responsible for the story's and characters in Toy Story, Bugs Life, Cars and others. Unfortunately a car accident took his life in 1...

Jennifer and I discuss the process of how mediums and others can connect with their loved ones on the other side with or without help from those on the planet, assisting those on the other side to make the connection.  A Christmas/Holiday themed podcast.  For further info; JenniferShaffer.com, RichMartini.com, HackingTheAfterlife.com, MartiniZone.com or MartiniProds@gmail.com

It's our 40th episode!  How about that?  Well, this is no different than the others - mind bending and just about as out there as we can get. Last night I happened to catch Tom Hanks talking about his movie he's doing with Baz Luhrmann in Australia, where he plays Colonel Tom Parker. Went to sleep without a thought about it, and had the impression that Luana told me we'd have a "surprise guest" in...

It's been a couple of weeks since Jennifer and I did a session. As noted during this one, I had the impression that Chuck Yeager wanted to speak to us, and heard his name in my kitchen. As I always do, I suggest that person "Make a reservation with Luana, who is the holder of our clipboard." This morning, I had asked Luana in my mind on the flipside, "So who should we speak with?" and Chuck's name...

Empty clipboard, we asked Luana for whomever she wanted to bring forward. This was a Thanksgiving episode - in advance - without or idea that it might be. Luana knew both Billys.  She met Paxton when he and I rewrote my script "You Can't Hurry Love" together and he supplied the title track from his band Martini Ranch.  However, fate intervened, and our budding romance turned into his skyrocketing...

It popped into my head last night as I was going to sleep. However, as noted, this morning I didn't think it was a good idea and abandoned it. But when our session began, my friend on the flipside Luana Anders said "Don't be afraid of inviting the two people that you were planning on inviting." First I invited the father of Mary Trump, Fred Jr. He had a contentious relationship with his father, bu...

We didn't have any agenda today, and just thought we'd let the class take over. John McCain showed up first, had plenty to say among other things; "Sweet revenge."  Honest Abe, JFK showed up - and spoke eloquently about binding the nation's wounds and pulling us together.  (I kid you not. Neither Jennifer and I had any idea they would say what they say.) Sargent Shriver stopped by - odd name to pu...