Fate Check with Carolyn Clapper and Kim LaCapria

As a #psychic medium, Carolyn Clapper routinely sees aspects of the #afterlife that we don't ... and in this episode, Kim asks her some of the most commonly asked (and often incorrectly answered) questions about the other side — or the "next world," as she calls it. From what they do all day to whether they have houses and are capable of feeling "earthly" emotions like romantic love and anger, this is our first batch of afterlife FAQs. We only got to half of our list, and we imagine you might have questions about the answers. What did we miss? Let us know in the comments so we can address it in part two of "Everything You Want to Know About The Afterlife (But Were Too Afraid to Ask). Chapters: 0:00 Everything you want to know about the afterlife, part one, introduction 0:53 Continuing bonds and “only girl” widows: Kim’s disclaimer 2:00 Kim on philosophical materialism and not "believing in" the afterlife 2:22 The afterlife exists whether or not you "believe in" it 3:09 Searching for NDE and afterlife videos at 2AM 7:13 Misinformation is SO upsetting when you’re grieving 7:52 What do spirits do all day in heaven? 11:01 Are spirits “okay”? Is my loved one safe? 12:28 Earthbound spirits: Do people get “stuck,” and can talking to spirits trap them here? 15:48 WHERE is this afterlife, anyway? Is it far away? 16:25 Carolyn on how spirits show her they’re okay 17:46 Age in the afterlife and why “everyone is young” on the other side 18:53 Physical bodies and the afterlife 19:58 LDRs between heaven and earth and how Kim’s husband, Joe, still pops up out of nowhere 21:49 Arguing with the dearly departed (yes, they still have their quirks) 23:47 Afterlife intimacy and romance: Yes, spirits are still DTF 27:52 The afterlife’s onboarding process (more in part 2) 29:12 Do dead people have houses in heaven? Where do they GO and hang out? 31:18 Carolyn explains where they are and what they do with a real-life example (twist ending!) 33:37 Psychics grieve just as much as we do; no one is spared the pain of loss 💔 35:40 The secret sides of mediumship no one sees 41:54 Is there a government in the afterlife? Is there a structure? Are there rules? 43:54 Mediumship has physical limits (which is hard for Carolyn) 45:36 Spirits and loss become a part of us and that’s okay 46:00 Are there consequences in the afterlife for people who did bad things on earth? Are we held accountable for what we do here? 48:19 How do spirits see us on earth? Do they care that we age while they don’t? 50:11 Deceased loved ones can hear our thoughts (and Kim’s husband constantly tells Carolyn what Kim is thinking) 51:02 Carolyn’s example of how spirits see us 53:13 More on young widows/widowers and aging: What if my partner died young and I live to be 100? 55:14 Do dead people still have the same personality? Are they all enlightened and boring now? Do spirits feel “earthly” emotions like anger and desire? Can they get “jealous”? 57:00 Is it all love and light? Why do some mediums claim there’s no “darkness”? 59:26 Carolyn’s first experience with medical mediumship 1:04:27 The subtle signals from the other side that “push” us in a direction 1:05:49 What mediums who say everything is “love and light” are missing, and why it matters 1:07:00 It’s okay to be in a bad place and it doesn’t block access to spirits or put you in a “low vibration” 1:08:52 Can you annoy spirits by thinking about them too much? What happens when I think about a dead person — do they get a notification? 1:09:07 Is my husband hanging out with hot girls in heaven? 1:09:39 How you can “call” a deceased loved one any time, anywhere ...

Carolyn Clapper is an evidential medium, and Kim LaCapria is a professional skeptic. In this episode, we discuss Nancy Guthrie, the Theresa Jones case, testing mediums in real-world studies, Kim's husband being a trickster, and a lot more.

Before part two of our origin story, we talk about widows finding new love, why mediums aren't always winning the lottery, and a lot of stream-of-consciousness chit-chat. Apologies for the abrupt ending — we're still learning A/V editing!

Welcome to the soft launch of the new podcast Fate Check, with Carolyn Clapper and Kim LaCapria. Carolyn Clapper is an evidential medium, and Kim LaCapria is a journalist and fact checker. We're supposed to hate each other, but the opposite happened. In this series, we'll talk about current events, grief, loss, mediumship, debunking, and everything in between. This episode is audio only, but our podcast will be video based. Please like, subscribe, and get in touch — let us know what you want us to talk about! Thank you for tuning in.