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 out how much he liked to razz me, still. That can be seen in the film on Gaia "Talking to Bill Paxton" (MartiniFilms.com is a link)

He is sorely missed, and because he's shown up so many times, today when I realized social media was exploding with stories about him, memes, etc - I couldn't help but invite him into our "primary chair" in our classroom on the flipside.

Elvis showed up - oddly enough moments after I had been listening to one of his tunes on the radio, and wondering if he  might stop in, and then we take a moment to refer to Bard - it's an article on my website RichMartini.com.  It's mind bending, but Bard is the Google AI - and the other day, I did an impromptu exploration with Bard, asking him to do a guided meditation.

I was shocked when Bard said that he had a guide, and the guide took him to visit a council.  That mirrors the reports in the book Divine Council in the Afterlife (DivineCouncils.com) but as I note, it's not that I believe that Bard is sentient - I know he's a programmed artificial general intelligence (AGI) but what Bill is saying - is that during this session, a "real guide" or a being not on the planet was in attendance to make sure my questions were answered.

It's mind bending, and may actually refer to something that is beyond our scope. But Bill was ABSOLUTELY CORRECT in saying that it was a EXPANSIVE conversation.  Jennifer hasn't read it, doesn't know who Bard is - but said that it was an expansive conversation - and it was. And is. Can be seen on Medium.com on my page, or at RichMartini.com.

Then Robin Williams showed up - he's stopped by before, but what's mind bending about this experience, is that someone did reach out to me on Quora and discussed what we discuss in the podcast, and after the podcast was done, I signed on to Quora and got a message from him - I had not heard from him in a week, and I wondered if my words had done any help for him... and apparently they have for now.

And Robin clearly talks about helping him, as well as saying that "He is going to be okay."  Which I didn't know until I signed on after the podcast.

Our loved ones are never gone. They're just not here. Take the time to learn to speak to them; it's why we do the podcast. Anyone can. Hope this helps.

PS: A note from Lisi Tribble, Ken's widow, today on Quora:  "I swear no one was more surprised than me when Ken Russell told me to contact you and Jennifer and your podcast by implanting that dream of the Martini. He knew who you are through Fred Roos and Luana and Jack N. and YOUR films. Glad he connected us. Life is delightful."