Hacking The Afterlife podcast

For those not familiar with this podcast; Jennifer Shaffer is an intuitive medium who works with law enforcement nationwide on missing person cases.  She does pro bono work daily for them, and once a week we get together and see what we can learn from the flipside.  We've been doing this weekly for 8 years, the last two on our podcast. I'm a filmmaker, have written and/or directed 8 theatrical fea...

Jennifer and I had the rare opportunity to chat on the phone yesterday, and is mentioned in the podcast.  In this one, a familiar voice appears, Amelia Earhart - the first person that I interviewed when I met Jennifer eight years ago. As detailed in the book HACKING THE AFTERLIFE Jennifer reached out to me and I knew nothing about mediumship or what being an intuitive meant. However I did know wha...

Another mind bending podcast.  First an apology for talking over Jennifer; because I knew I didn't have her for long, I wanted to squeeze in as much information as I could. The first half I interrupt her often, the second half not so much. Yes, I did a Laverne & Shirley, I played "Guide the Pizza Delivery guy" - an idea that Charles Grodin had, that he pitched to Penny. They wrote me in and as not...

Another one for the ages.  I was a music critic at Variety during my film career, they had me go by the moniker Tini, and I got to meet or review many musicians... fun gig.  At some point, Luana Anders and I were having lunch in Hugo's in West Hollywood when David Crosby came in, came over to the table to say hello to Luana. They were old pals from the 60's. He had just had his live transplant and...

So Jennifer let me know that she didn't think she was going to be able to make today's podcast, then texted me a few minutes later to say she'd try since someone was "bugging her" about doing so.  We started our podcast as we do all of them - no prep.  Don't know what we're going to talk about.  But clearly someone wanted to stop by and say hello. Lisa Marie Presley, who said that her father Elvis...

This is another mind bending session.   Someone on our MartiniZone.com page on YouTube posted this question: 'Richard...it would be great to interview Damar Hamlin when he is well enough.  Everyone knows he died while on the football field.   (His uncle told CNN he had to be revived again at the hospital, so it seems he died and was revived twice).  See what he has to say.   Did something happen?...

This is our year end podcast, and what a fun what it is.    Jennifer and I got together for lunch so I swung by her office in Manhattan Beach to do our podcast from her office - where our journey began eight years ago! It was in this very office where I first spoke to friends on the flipside, including Bill Paxton (who gave Jennifer a tour of the Titanic - it's in the film TALKING TO BILL PAXTON a...

It sounds bizarre, I know.  We interviewed Charles briefly in the book "Backstage Pass to the Flipside" so his presence didn't throw me for a loop.   I really did look at a note on my cellphone this morning about a story that he's in - and his pal Washington Irving.  And for him to say "that's why I stopped by" is mind bending to say the least. We start off the podcast with Jennifer revealing that...

Welcome to another mind bending podcast.  In the past Jennifer and I have had discussions with John Lennon, Princess Diana, but never Queen Elizabeth. After a "dream" I had where I had the impression I was speaking with John about Elizabeth the other night, I decided to ask him to show up for a number of reasons. For the most part we let Luana decide who our guest list is going to be, but when I h...

This is our 8th anniversary of doing our sessions together, and the second anniversary of our podcast.  Jennifer and I met 8 years ago, and have been filming our conversations with the flipside weekly. Portions of the film Hacking the Afterlife has some of our sessions, our books include BACKSTAGE PASS TO THE FLIPSIDE 1, 2 and 3, and TUNING INTO THE AFTERLIFE. The most recent book is demonstrating...

Another one of those mind bending sessions.  In this case, our moderator on the flipside, Luana Anders - LuanaAnders.com showed up with her cat Mr. Bailey. I asked Mr. Bailey the same questions that I ask people that show up - who greeted him on the flipside, what his experience was or is. We started off talking about process, how coincidence is made from those on the flipside, as Luana had shown...

Jennifer's back!  Another mind bending podcast. In this case last night I heard "the teacher" as I was waking up, as if someone was telling me, "remember the teacher" for today's podcast. So we invited "a teacher." But a week ago, as I was nodding off, suddenly seeing and hearing Johnny Carson. As noted in the podcast, I didn't judge that - just asked him questions like I ask everyone. Who were yo...

This is one of the archives from the podcast - from 2020.  In this session, we have a conversation with someone who self describes as a "Guardian of the Galaxy."  Some might call that a guardian angel, but in this case, we let them describe who they are and why they showed up in our podcast. As always, Luana Anders is our moderator on the flipside who is in charge of our guest list. In this case,...

THIS IS FROM THE ARCHIVES.  BUT FOR SOME REASON WAS NEVER AIRED. Ian Stevenson was a scientist from UVA who passed away in 2007. He left behind a locked safe in his office, and said that he would share the "phrase" or "word" that would unlock the safe if someone was able to connect to him on the flipside. In this talk, we begin with a discussion of Dr. Bruce Greyson's new book "After" - Bruce was...

Another mind bending episode of our podcast. As note in the podcast, Jennifer and I haven't planned our podcasts in advance.  We just kind of "show up" to see who our moderator on the flipside has brought to class. In this case, it just so happens to be someone that I've researched - the scientist Giordano Bruno.  When he showed up he said I had been writing about him recently - and referred to my...

So I got this email the other day:   "Dear Richard. I am a fan.  I listen to your podcasts with Jennifer.  I would like you to contact Emmet Till.  It would interesting to hear what he has to say.    Thanks. Regards, Kathie"   I wrote to her that the podcast is controlled by our pal Luana Anders on the flipside, that she is in charge of the "guest list" as she's the one with the "clipboard."   Ima...

Another mind bending session with Jennifer Shaffer.   In today's episode, we deal a little bit with process, and then specific details. We start off with a conversation about process - and Luana uses Elvis and Prince as an example - that when someone "shows up" in one's consciousness, it might not be because they're trying to reach out to us, but there's a reference to them that is in our awarenes...

Another mind bending session.   As we start every podcast, I had no agenda or idea of whom we might speak with. In this case, Luana Anders, our moderator on the flipside, wanted to talk about a request I had made to her about helping someone. Prior to the podcast, in a general conversation about how things are going, just prior to starting, I told Jennifer that a number of chaotic events were occu...

Jennifer and I can't swing the podcast this week - both have kids off to college, so I've dug into the archives for two podcasts a year apart.  It just so happen that two years ago, this very week, my old pal Bill Paxton showed up to chat with us. and then a year later showed up again! Same week. So in honor of Bill, in honor of the process, in honor of the podcast, I'm repeating two in a row. One...

This is another example of the unusual work that Jennifer and I have been doing for seven years.  In this podcast, I ask our moderator on the flipside, Luana Anders what she wants to talk about or if she has someone who wants to come forward to speak. She begins by showing Jennifer a "toddler" - literally shows her an image of holding up a child.  Jennifer has no idea what that means, nor do I. Is...

Jennifer and I improvise each week, asking who it is on the flipside wants to chat with us.  Luana Anders is our moderator on the flipside, and whoever wants to come through is up to her. Her mentioning this woman "Magda" in terms of a book I'm writing, an interview I did with a woman who was able to access this Magda, who claimed to be a Praetor's wife in the cabinet of Herod in the time of Jesus...

A short podcast today as Jennifer was juggling a number of things including her mom being in the hospital.   We all wish her mom a speedy recovery from hurting her hip! Today's podcast deals a bit with grief, and the process of helping people recover from grief.  Jennifer's dad Jim passed some years ago, and he's always got an interesting perspective when it comes to helping people with grief. He...

We're back after a two week hiatus.  In this podcast we chat with my dearly departed brother, for whom we had a memorial service this past week.  Jennifer was there, as well as some fans of the podcast. In today's podcast, Jennifer announces that Olivia Newton John wants to chat with us.  For those who've never tuned in before (or their last time ever tuning in) we have a group of individuals on t...

Another one of those mind bending sessions.  We open with a discussion about an unusual recent event, where my old friend Melinda Germann came through to give a climate warning to my friend Patrice.  Patrice and Melinda were best pals and went to Santa Cruz together. I met Melinda at the Loyola Rome Center and she was the light of everyone's eye - funny, sweet and just a delight to be around.  How...

Another example of how we don't plan our podcasts - we could, we can, but in this case, we just let Luana Anders, our moderator on the flipside dictate who was going to chat with us.  First up was Jennifer's dad Jim, the Mormon bishop who passed five years ago, who had in the past showed us some amazing things on the flipside, including an Akashic library (I asked him to access a memory that Jenni...