Crowded house today. We talked about my recent appearance in COAST TO COAST with George Noory, then Luana Anders thanked us for our work together for 8 years. Her friend Michael (Mick) Gough came to mind, the actor who was Batman's first butler (Tim Burton's version) who I knew and spent time with. Then Gene Wilder, Bill Paxton, Gilda Radner, Charles Grodin weighed in on how actors, musicians, creative people help those on the planet with their roles and their creative projects. Robert Towne's d...
Jun 16, 2023•47 min•Ep. 152
This past week I attended the "Contact in the Desert" conference run by Ron Janix ("Captain Ron") in Indian Wells. It was a lot of fun and had a great time hearing Paul Hynek, Matthew James Bailey and others. I wanted to meet Paul Hynek because when I was in grade school in Northbrook Illinois, my Catholic nun science teacher Sister Delfine (later Sister Anne) got me to do a State Science fair project. Her friend at Northwestern was roped into being my mentor, and that happened to be the famous ...
Jun 09, 2023•34 min•Ep. 151
Another unusual afternoon chatting with folks on the flipside. In this episode we get a visit from an old friend Harry Dean Stanton. Harry passed away in Sept. 2017 at the age of 91. As noted in the book BACKSTAGE PASS TO THE FLIPSIDE, Harry Dean came through prior to his memorial service. When Harry passed, I wondered if it was possible to chat with my old pal. A skeptic's skeptic, he had spent many a long evening arguing with anyone who wanted to talk about the afterlife. He lumped the reports...
Jun 02, 2023•25 min•Ep. 150
Didn't plan it, suspected it might occur, but we got a visit from the Queen of Rock and Roll. In the podcast, Prince shows up first, I thought because he showed up the week previously and didn't get to speak, but he wanted to say "We got her." And then he presented Jennifer with Tina. We asked if she was ready to be interviewed, or if she just wanted to hang back, but because of her relationship with our moderator on the flipside, Luana Anders, who knew her when they both joined the Nichiren SGI...
May 26, 2023•41 min•Ep. 149
Another one of the mind bending podcasts. This one primarily a birthday conversation with my old pal Bill Paxton. When I first began working with Jennifer, one of our earliest filmed meetings was in her office, where I asked many questions about my friend who had just passed away. The fact that I asked two other mediums the same questions (and in one case I wasn't there when the questions were asked) they were identical questions - and all three said the same things about him. They also pointed ...
May 19, 2023•44 min•Ep. 148
In honor of our moderator on the flipside's upcoming birthday tomorrow, we decided to chat to folks over there what it's like to "celebrate birthdays" ... or have a party. Easily the most unusual thing was to hear that David Crosby was singing "Yesterday" to her. Yes, we know that's not his song, but Luana was a longtime friend of David's and knew him back in the day, (introduced me to him at our local restaurant. He was friendly). It is slightly odd and coincidental that last night we were watc...
May 12, 2023•33 min•Ep. 147
A tad shorter podcast today, but still jam packed with fun. Podcast begins with a conversation from Luana Anders, talking about "my next book" (when the last one came out in Easter). The point was that this morning I was having this "I wonder if I should blend these two ideas into one book" - and Jennifer said "She's saying she put that thought in your head, to blend the ideas." That's one of those "uncanny" things for me, but it's not about me - so I asked Luana if she had anyone that wanted to...
May 04, 2023•23 min•Ep. 146
Another mind bending podcast with Jennifer Shaffer. In this instance, we begin with a conversation about a phone call that I received just prior to the podcast, with a friend of the moderator on the flipside (Luana Anders) calling me as we were about to go on air. So when Luana references that phone call on the podcast, she's referring to the process of how they do that - a week earlier, on a previous podcast, Luana gave Jennifer a message to give to me, I emailed this person with a message, and...
Apr 28, 2023•33 min•Ep. 145
Another mind bending podcast. I was close friends to Paul Tracey and his dad Jack throughout the past 50 years. Paul passed away in 2004, and his father recently, after a bout with Alzheimer's. As an experiment, Jennifer and I did an interview with Jack's higher self while he was in hospice care. That interview can be found on Medium: https://richmartini.medium.com/alzheimers-and-the-flipside-a-memorial-for-a-friend-32afd52682f2 "Alzheimer's and the Flipside" In the interview, he explains what i...
Apr 21, 2023•51 min•Ep. 144
Another mind bending session with three individuals on the flipside. In the first section, Jennifer's dad Jim stops by. A Mormon Bishop, he's stopped by in the past to show his daughter some amazing things. We took a visit to her Akashic Library some years ago, as well as introduced us to a classroom on the flipside where the subject was "astrophysics" - but the class was in deep space. At first he warned Jennifer not to be "freaked out" by his teacher - who appeared in a cloak with 8 arms. Beca...
Apr 15, 2023•56 min•Ep. 143
I was invited to speak at this conference in March at Tibet House Menla (thusmenla.org) to talk about the latest research in the book DIVINE COUNCILS IN THE AFTERLIFE. It's a recap of the research to date, why I'm doing this research, and a bit about my trip to Tibet with Robert Thurman. It's a 90 minute talk with 30 minutes of Q and A. Jam packed with all the research to date. Please visit Thus.org (Tibet House in NY) or Thusmenla.org - as they depend upon donations for their survival, a group ...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 142
As usual, Jennifer and I don't speak until we start the podcast. So we both have no idea who's going to show up, or what they might want to impart. In this episode, Prince makes a return visit and speaks about how he's helping people around the planet on a daily basis. Could be for musical reasons, creativity, or for some reason he pops into their mind. I invite Ludwig back as he spoke to us last week, and I wanted to mention two experiences where he popped into my mind last week, to see how acc...
Mar 31, 2023•36 min•Ep. 141
Another unusual podcast. Jennifer is going to be appearing this weekend at an event. She mentions it during the podcast for a ten percent off the ticket price. Meanwhile, I'm speaking at the Menla Conference this Sunday at 1-2:30 PM LA time, details are at RichMartini.com Today we had yet another visit from Amelia Earhart. What makes that uncanny is that yesterday, I was submitting a project about her to a production company, and she was in my head, as well as in my emails. Knock on wood, hope s...
Mar 24, 2023•43 min•Ep. 140
Another unusual podcast. This time my mom shows up to say hello, to talk about "what it's like on the flipside." She was a concert pianist, and she talks about our home in Northbrook Illinois, only how she's recreated it on the flipside. Then one of her favorite composers stops by, someone we've spoken to before, Ludwig - and he talks a little bit about what the experience on the flipside is like for him, and recounts his "most favorite lifetime." Also Will Shakespeare stops by - again, we've in...
Mar 18, 2023•37 min•Ep. 139
This was one of the more unusual podcasts in memory - mainly because it was on my birthday, and I had the profound experience of being with my friend Luana Anders on my birthday. Here, Luana left the planet in 1996, and being able to ask her questions and get answers, as well as ask her to give her Oscar's speech - is mind bending. Jennifer and I have been doing this for 8 years. Luana has appeared to members of my family (when they'd never met her, but could identify her) as well as other frien...
Mar 14, 2023•31 min•Ep. 138
A wide ranging discussion about dreams, about getting out of one’s head space and into your heart so you can connect on a spiritual level. A number of people come forward, including someone that Jennifer has met with before, Eddie Hassell, (not Haskell) a young beloved actor who passed in 2020. He stopped by to mention a detail to Jennifer that only she would know. Luana Anders moderated the class from the flipside – as she normally does. We had visits from Jennifer’s dad Jim – who revisited his...
Mar 03, 2023•37 min•Ep. 137
Another unusual visit with pals on the Flipside. In today's podcast we have folks who've been to visit us before, but had more to say. One is the Oscar nominated dog Hira, owned by the screenwriter director Robert Towne. Hira's been to visit us before, transcripts are in the book "Backstage Pass to the Flipside." David Crosby stopped by again - after talking to us about what it was like to return to the flipside, and in this case, he wanted to talk further about his semi jaded, snarking observat...
Feb 24, 2023•39 min•Ep. 136
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 feature films, a couple of documentaries. Some years ago, my best friend died in my arms and started comi...
Feb 17, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 135
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 what "helping authorities find missing persons" meant - which is what Jennifer does with law enforcement...
Feb 10, 2023•29 min•Ep. 134
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 noted, they cut me out. It's just fun that I did the show, and that Harry Dean Stanton sang a song (...
Feb 03, 2023•30 min•Ep. 133
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 had a new lease on life. He was friendly and kind. When he passed last week, as noted in the podcast,...
Jan 27, 2023•41 min•Ep. 132
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, her son Benjamin and her former husband Michael Jackson greeted her on the flipside. As noted in the ...
Jan 20, 2023•31 min•Ep. 131
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? Nothing? A lot of people would be interested." (from Kristin) Generally I like to point out we're not in cha...
Jan 11, 2023•40 min•Ep. 130
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 at Gaia.com) and Amelia Earhart. It was in this very office where Amelia told us something I didn't know...
Dec 31, 2022•54 min•Ep. 129
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 her mom is in the hospital, and her emotions around the loss of her dad, five years ago. He's come by a...
Dec 23, 2022•44 min•Ep. 128
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 have an experience of "chatting" with someone I see if that's something we should pursue. The first ti...
Dec 09, 2022•39 min•Ep. 127
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 how meditation can allow access to the flipside; divinecouncils.com In this podcast, we asked our m...
Dec 02, 2022•40 min•Ep. 126
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 up today in a article about Jack Nicholson and how he had dedicated his Oscar to her and other friend...
Nov 18, 2022•36 min•Ep. 125
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 you surprised to meet on the flipside? What are you doing? So it's a free wheeling chat with two icons ...
Nov 11, 2022•42 min•Ep. 124
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, I thought it might be of interest to revisit an unusual podcast. We'll be back at it next week!...
Nov 04, 2022•44 min•Ep. 123
