Hacking the Afterlife w Jennifer Shaffer, Luana, Robert Towne, Redford, Paul Newman, Tesla, Dickens

Another crowd filled podcast from our class on the flipside! Luana Anders shows up to talk about an article I wrote on Medium about her pal Robert Towne on the flipside. (I sent Jennifer a video clip about Chinatown but not the article) Luana comes forward to say that the article is incomplete - because I barely scratched the surface of our conversations with Robert Towne and these other folks offstage. (The last paragraph references them). So I knew immediately what Luana was complaining about, Jennifer could not. Then when discussing how Robert influences my writing (he referenced an iconic scene from "The Great Escape" when Steve McQueen was bouncing a baseball against a wall over and over) - Robert talked about the fun of putting an idea in my head and then seeing it come to fruition. Along those lines, Robert Redford showed up to remind Jennifer how he'd met her once, and how he was able to put that memory in her mind, since she'd forgotten about it. Then his pal Paul Newman showed up - someone we've spoken to before, but he also gave his two cent about playing pranks on the flipside. Then Nikola Tesla showed up - the father of AC and radio waves - and we asked him about the amount of his conscious energy that he has brought back to the planet. (He referenced Musk, but said it was "around 3%") That isn't a pejorative - and he could be referring to the OCD part of his journey on the planet. Then Charles Dickens stopped by - all of these folks we've chatted with before over the past ten years, even if Jennifer doesn't recall them - I do. Robert Towne's dog Hira makes a funny comment as well. Just another day at the office. Enjoy!

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This episode was published on Mar 27, 2026.

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