# BEST OF Hacking the Afterlife w Jennifer Shaffer, Prince, Hawking, Lincoln, Animals, Robin Williams

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Podcast: [Hacking The Afterlife podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacking-the-afterlife-podcast-28832)
Published: 2026-05-11T23:45:02+00:00
Episode link: https://richardmartini.podbean.com/e/best-of-hacking-the-afterlife-w-jennifer-shaffer-prince-hawking-lincoln-animals-robin-williams/
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Duration seconds: 3620

## Resource

BEST OF HACKING THE AFTERLIFE These are excerpts from a number of podcasts - with conversations with people offstage about how things work. Charles Grodin, Robert Towne, Phil Hartman, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix stop by briefly Prince stops by, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Hawking, Robin Williams, and two animals stop by - Hira, the dog and companion of screenwriter Robert Towne, and Mr. Bailey, the companion and pet of Luana Anders. Both have insight into how animals incarnate, how consciousness functions. It's a free wheeling discuss with lots of different concepts flying around. Someone requested us doing a conversation with animals - and out of the many podcasts, conversations where animals showed, up, these were a few with a dog I knew (Hira) and walked for 3 years for my boss Robert Towne.. Hira showed up during a session we did with Robert. He was a skeptic until I asked Hira to tell Robert something I didn't know, that only he could remember. Jennifer said he was showing her challenging a buffalo on Catalina. Something only Robert could have known. Luana is our moderator on the flipside, and is responsible for teaming me and Jennifer up - and also was close friends with any number of people who show up (Charles Grodin, etc). It's hard to characterize this as anything but an extended conversation about how consciousness functions or incarnation works. Enjoy.

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