Ask, Tell, Confess: Do Our Loved Ones Really Send Signs From The Afterlife?

Summary

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Episode Overview

Podcast: Dumb Blonde
Episode: Ask, Tell, Confess: Do Our Loved Ones Really Send Signs From The Afterlife?
Release Date: October 24, 2025
Host: Bunnie XO (with co-hosts/guests Vanessa, Jaime/Jaime/“High May”, and Olivia)

In this heartfelt and candid episode, Bunnie XO and her co-hosts explore whether loved ones really send signs from the afterlife. The group dives deep into personal stories and listener submissions about spiritual signs, dreams, and angelic encounters, tying them back to belief, comfort, and the ongoing connection we feel with those who have passed on. Through laughter, emotion, and a few side tangents, the episode balances spooky season stories with reflections on hope, grief, and the mysterious ways the afterlife might reach out to us.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Whistle, Sensory Talk, and Mukbang Trends

[03:23-05:24]

• The episode sidetracks into sensory irritations: whistling annoys Vanessa, while mukbang trends such as "the deep breath before a bite" are divisive among the hosts.
  • Memorable Moment: “There’s some people... love chewing. Let’s talk about this really quick...” – Vanessa [03:59]
• The segment is full of playful banter, setting a laid-back tone.

2. Belief in the Afterlife

[06:31-07:51]

• Discussion of personal and listener beliefs about life after death.
• Vanessa expresses that it's "sad" to believe in nothing after death and stresses the need for hope and belief in a higher power.
  • Quote: "When you die, it's just over. That scares me because I'm like, God, that’s so sad." – Vanessa [07:37]
  • Quote: "There has to be a higher power, because how did we get here?" – Vanessa [07:58]
• Jaime brings up a friend's scientific perspective ("your neurons just stop firing"), but the group agrees it feels intuitively wrong.

3. Listener Stories: Signs From the Afterlife

Brandy Reynolds: Dream Visit from Great Grandmother

[11:34-12:38]

• Vanessa reads Brandy’s story: during pregnancy, Brandy is visited in a vivid dream by her late great-grandmother, who provides comfort and predicts her baby’s gender.
  • Quote: “She said, ‘Don’t worry baby, I will always be watching over you and your little girl.’” – Brandy (read by Vanessa) [12:10]
  • Brandy feels the ongoing presence ("Anytime I have had bad stuff happen, I can feel her hand on my head, stroking my hair.")

Ancestors and Land Connections

[12:49-14:44]

• The team discusses ancestral connections, property with family graves, and the idea of being drawn to places due to past life connections.
• Jaime shares that his great-great-grandfather is buried nearby, sparking a discussion about reclaiming heritage and land (“land sisters”).

Olivia: Kayaking Cap and A Father’s Favorite Team

[17:33-18:33]

• Olivia reads a listener story: after her dad's death, a woman receives a New Orleans Saints cap (her dad’s team) from her boyfriend, found inexplicably floating in the ocean. Watching the Saints on TV, she feels her father’s presence.
  • Quote: “That was my dad’s favorite sports team... I cried happy tears.” – Listener (read by Olivia) [18:19]

Vanessa’s Signs from Her Own Mother

[18:46-21:49]

• Vanessa shares emotional personal experiences:
  • After her mom’s passing, she finds comfort in coincidental plays of “Mama, I’m Coming Home” and the appearance of colored lights.
  • Quote: “All of a sudden, ‘Mama, I’m Coming Home’ starts playing on the Alexa... the lights are going, and I’m just sitting there, like… all I could do is just kind of like start laughing because I was just like, okay, mom, like, I love you too.” – Vanessa [19:13]
• Vanessa also describes psychics affirming her mother’s strong afterlife presence.

Listener Story: Butterflies After a Mother’s Passing

[22:37-23:55]

• Jaime reads a message from a young listener who sees butterflies after her mother dies, connecting the butterfly symbol to her mom’s tattoo and presence.
  • Quote: “Every time I go out butterflies, I always see butterflies. I do believe butterflies are... Oh, for sure.” – Listener [23:31]

Reincarnation & Burial Practices

[24:08-25:19]

• The group debates reincarnation and whether the form of burial (earth burial vs cremation) affects energy and the possibility of spiritual signs.

Morning Doves, Cardinals, and Animal Significance

[25:42-27:15 & 38:28-39:50]

• Jaime explains the origin of the “mourning dove” name (it’s about mourning, not the morning).
  • Quote: “It’s like, and what’s crazy in the history of it, multiple, like, Native Americans and other… people all named it the same thing.” – Jaime [26:18]
• Several stories mention red cardinals and butterflies as spirit messengers, a view shared by multiple hosts.

Tracy & the Security Cam Angel

[27:30-28:22]

• Tracy’s story: after her aunt passes, security cameras in her workplace begin acting up, and she catches an image of a white, angel-winged figure behind her.
  • Quote: “A huge white figure with angel wings appeared behind me. It was absolutely beautiful.” – Tracy (read by Vanessa) [28:07]

Haley: The Daisy That Would Not Die

[37:14-38:03]

• A listener finds a single, mysterious daisy (her grandmother’s favorite flower) returns after being trampled—interpreted as a sign from her late grandma.
  • Quote: “About a month later, one single Daisy popped up in the yard... The next day it was back. Like it was never gone.” – Haley (read by Olivia) [37:53]

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4. Angelic Beings: Comfort & Fear

[28:24-31:03]

• The group goes into the biblical and historical depiction of angels—contrasting pop culture’s sweet cherubs with awe-inspiring, even terrifying “biblically accurate” angel lore.
  • Quote: “Real angels are not like the beautiful, like, white winged gorgeous thing. Like, they’re freaking scary.” – Vanessa [28:41]
• Vanessa recounts her own terrifying yet protective vision of an angel during a domestic violence incident.

5. The Bible, Religion, and Spiritual Evolution

[31:06-35:15]

• Engaging discussion about the Bible’s history, missing chapters (Mary Magdalene), and the human (and flawed) element in religious institutions.
• They touch on religious hypocrisy, like wealthy pastors and manipulated donation requests.
• Quote: “Your entire life is summed up by a hyphen. Yeah. Birthday and then death day. Your entire life is literally just…” – Olivia [35:45]

6. Closing Thoughts: Love Over Materialism

[35:14-36:07]

• Vanessa contemplates the futility of material wealth and the true purpose of life—love and compassion.
  • Quote: “When you go, when you’re born, you’re by yourself, and when you die, you’re by yourself... your entire job on earth is to not acquire material things... but... to love people.” – Vanessa [35:14]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I love when ancestors are, like, part of children’s lives. I think that is so sweet to me.” – Jaime [12:46]
• “She [Vanessa’s mom] had to make sure I knew that she was hiding behind somebody.” – Vanessa [21:36]
• “I love the birds that nobody loves... I love the crows. I love the vultures.” – Vanessa [39:15]
• “I would have beat that little kid... for stepping on that flower. Little jerk.” – Vanessa (joking) [38:17]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [06:31] – Shift into episode’s main theme (“why do you believe there’s an afterlife?”)
• [11:34] – First listener story: dream of a great-grandmother
• [17:33] – Cap from the afterlife and father’s signs
• [18:46] – Vanessa’s story of personal signs from her mother
• [22:37] – Butterfly story as a spiritual message
• [24:08] – Discussion on reincarnation and burial
• [27:30] – Visual angelic encounter through a security camera
• [28:24] – Real vs. “Hollywood” angels & Vanessa’s experience
• [31:06] – The Bible, religion, and removed chapters
• [35:14] – Reflection on the meaning of life and love
• [37:14] – The Daisy—another sign from the afterlife
• [38:28] – Red cardinals and birds as spirit messengers

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Episode Tone & Takeaway

The hosts blend humor, raw honesty, and sensitivity while exploring signs from the afterlife. Listener stories offer comfort for anyone searching for meaning after loss, and the team’s reflections provide both laughter and food for thought. The episode’s message: signs from loved ones—be it through dreams, objects, or animals—offer hope and connection, emphasizing the importance of love, belief, and open-mindedness when it comes to life after death.

Final Thought:
“Your entire job on earth is... to love people and to be love and to show people love even when they do you wrong.” – Vanessa [35:15]

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Wow. All right. Okay. More.

[Vanessa]

We have mixed reviews. In the comments, some people are like, yes, the whistle's back. And other people are like, can you never do that again?

[Jaime]

50. 50.

[Vanessa]

Listen, I'm with you guys who don't like it. I hate people that whistle. My husband whistles all the time. It drives me insane up a wall. Like, I've had to hold them and go like, honey.

[Bunny]

And what is that called? Is that.

[Vanessa]

Is that there. Is there a name for that?

[Jaime]

Like, stimulation, Right?

[Vanessa]

I don't know. I cannot hear a whistle without it pissing me off. Like, I literally am just like, oh, like it. Like.

[Olivia]

Or if that's sensory overload.

[Vanessa]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

Because it's like, when you hear people chew and it makes you mad kind of thing.

[Vanessa]

I don't see. That doesn't bother me. There's some people. Okay, love chewing. Let's talk about this really quick, because I actually do have something to talk about. Why is every Jaime. I cannot even take you serious. Scaring the out of me every time I look over. And we'll get to the high maid, too, in a second. But every freaking new mukbanger, this is like a new thing that they do when they go to take a bite.

[Olivia]

They go.

[Vanessa]

They breathe in.

[Olivia]

I like that.

[Vanessa]

And then they bite. No, I don't. First of all, if I did that, I would choke.

[Jaime]

I want to punch you.

[Vanessa]

I can't do that. If I did that, I would fudgeing choke. I can't handle it. It drives me crazy. Like, I was watching this girl last night, and I loved hearing her chew, like, the way she ate. She's like this mukbanger on TikTok, and she doesn't come, like, three different angles. Do you know who that girl is? I don't know her name. Super cute, like, Hispanic girl that does.

[Olivia]

The Chili's one all the time. Yes, that's my girl.

[Vanessa]

I love her. But every time she bites, she goes, I know.

[Olivia]

I love it.

[Vanessa]

And it's like, I can't.

[Jaime]

How I would choke the way Jason chooses at night. Make me want to be.

[Olivia]

Choose his vitamins.

[Jaime]

Oh, bro, I want to get violent with him.

[Vanessa]

I mean, what is he taking? Children's vitamins?

[Jaime]

No, the magnesium gummies that we take, but they're sour. So he's like. And I'm like, go in the other room.

[Olivia]

Ah, those are sour.

[Jaime]

As though this new batch. I got so sour, even I kind.

[Vanessa]

Of was like, no. Chewing doesn't bother me as much as whistling. Whistling. I will send me into a frenzy. I cannot handle it to save my life. Jaime, you were well received. Everybody was so happy to see you on the podcast last week.

[Jaime]

Yes.

[High May]

It was really nice to see all the different versions my name could be spelled.

[Vanessa]

Yes.

[Jaime]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was nice.

[Vanessa]

I actually had to ask Jaime how to spell his name because I have you programmed in my phone as high May. So it's H I, G, H dash me. Yep.

[Olivia]

Yeah, that's how people were spelling it too.

[Jaime]

Yeah. That's how Olivia spells it. So I've always spelled it like that.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[High May]

Yeah, that's how you can read it to pronounce it, but yeah.

[Vanessa]

Is it spelled like Jamie?

[High May]

It's spelled like Jamie, yeah. But it's the I that gets tricky. So it's J, A, I, M, E.

[Vanessa]

I've seen Jamie's spelled like that, though, too.

[Jaime]

I never have until I met him. Yeah. That's crazy, huh?

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Yeah. Not a very common name, but, I mean, it kind of is, but kind of isn't.

[Vanessa]

Why did Spanish people use J's as a sound?

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[High May]

Kind of like Jorge instead of George.

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

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[Jaime]

You know?

[Narrator/Expert]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

Like, it's just. It's the trickery.

[Jaime]

Yep. You said the trickery.

[Vanessa]

The trickery.

[High May]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

So this week, we have decided to talk about a little bit of a different subject because it is spooky season, but also, there's. I feel like there's so many different.

[Bunny]

Aspects to, like, spookiness.

[Vanessa]

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[Vanessa]

And yeah, you guys are gonna get a lot of stuff. We're excited about that. And again, you don't have to, but if you want to be a part of it, you Can. But this week we just asked everybody on the channel, and you guys delivered, and there's some really, really cool stories. So I'm excited to dive into this because it's just amazing to see how, like, God works through people. And, like, you know, I don't know. I just. There's so many people who are like, oh, there's. When you die, it's just over. And that scares me because I'm like, God, that's so sad.

[Jaime]

Like, that freaks me out.

[Vanessa]

I feel like everybody needs something to believe in or like they need a little bit of hope. And it's like when you're just like, oh, when you die, it's over. Like, nobody wants to think about that.

[Jaime]

I had a friend who believed that, like, your neurons just stopped firing. And that's it. I was like, that's crazy.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

It's like, I just feel like one. There has to be a higher power, because how did we get here? You know? Like, I know a lot of people believe in, like, the big bang theory and, like, other things. It doesn't matter because everything ties back into who the hell created us. Like, our freaking blood vessels, the blood.

[Jaime]

Flowing through our body freaks me out.

[Narrator/Expert]

Our.

[Vanessa]

Our brains are just amazing. The way that we are structured. We are so fearfully and wonderfully made. And that's what it says in the Bible.

[Jaime]

It's like, so precise. Yeah.

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And it's like, you cannot deny that there's not a higher power out there that, you know, crafted us with love. So who wants to kick these off this week?

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I see you kick it off. Me. Yeah. Okay.

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[Vanessa]

This one is from Brandy Reynolds. She said, My great grandmother died while I was pregnant with my first child and I was devastated. This lady was my world and I.

[Bunny]

Was terrified of having my child without her.

[Vanessa]

The day of her death I was laying in my bed crying my eyes out and I cried myself to sleep and proceeded to have an experience I have never forgot. I dreamed, quote unquote that she came and sat down on my bed. I actually felt the weight of the mattress sink and placed her hand on my head. I was crying and said, how am I going to raise this baby without you here? And she said, don't worry baby, I will always be watching over you and your little girl. This was back in 1990 when ultrasounds weren't as frequent as they are now. And I was only two months pregnant, so I had no idea what sex my baby was going to be. But from that day forward, I never picked out a boy's name. And I didn't know what I was having until she popped out. I felt such peace after having that dream. And anytime I have had bad stuff happen with my daughter, I can feel her hand on my head, stroking my hair and whispering, I'm here. I've got you.

[Jaime]

I'm gonna cry, dude.

[Vanessa]

That, like, made me tear up.

[Jaime]

That's sweet.

[Vanessa]

That made me tear up. That is so beautiful.

[Jaime]

I love when ancestors are, like, part of children's lives and stuff. I think that is so sweet to me.

[Vanessa]

No, I love it too, dude. So to. Okay, so the land that you're getting, that just triggered something that I thought of the land that you're getting. This lady and her husband I had seen on Tick Tock were. Had got some land or whatever, and they had some graves that were on the land. And somebody in the comments said, maybe those graves are you guys and you're coming back to the land to claim your land. They're your land sisters. They're your land sisters. Like, instead of ancestors, they're your land sisters. And I was just like, oh, my God, what if that's why that. That land is calling you so tough? Because maybe there's something linked to your guys's past life or something on that land.

[Jaime]

Stop it. My ancestors come back. I did my ancestor DNA. And my parents have family here. One of my great, great grandfathers is buried in McMinnville.

[Vanessa]

Wow.

[Jaime]

I've never seen his grave. But, like, I've told my. Because I don't want to go without my parents. I told them I would take them with me. But yeah, it. You know. Findagrave.com you have a picture of his grave on there.

[Vanessa]

Wow.

[Jaime]

It's really cool. Yeah, we have a lot of family from this area, so that. That freaks me out because they.

[Vanessa]

I would research.

[Jaime]

Yeah. It in the early 1800s, and my family is here in the 1700s.

[Olivia]

Wow. What if they bought it from your family?

[Jaime]

Stop it. Freak out.

[Vanessa]

You guys start doing research.

[Jaime]

Today's 1023, by the way, which is the number that we found on the land. It is his. Yeah. Happy birthday, grandma.

[Vanessa]

Yeah, so I. When I read that, I was like, oh, my God. Like, I don't know, it just kind of sparked, like, something in me, and I was like, I wonder if that's why their Mimi is so drawn to that land.

[Jaime]

I need to research it more.

[Vanessa]

Yeah. And, like, see if there's maybe some graves on there. If anybody was buried there, that would be cool.

[Jaime]

Crazy. I. I really want to, like, get into the land and, like, dive deep into it. Like, I want to know about the cave. Yeah. Like, how far does that go down? Can I put a GoPro down there, you think?

[Vanessa]

I don't see why you couldn't.

[Olivia]

Your land.

[Vanessa]

Yeah, literally.

[Jaime]

I'm gonna try, like, because I didn't know if they could see. Like, are they night vision?

[Narrator/Expert]

I don't think so.

[Jaime]

Okay.

[Vanessa]

Vision. Put a selfie light on it.

[Jaime]

I will. Yeah. Stick it down.

[Vanessa]

One of those hats on with the. With the light and just walk in there. Like, you're just do it yourself.

[Jaime]

No, they're like, you gotta crawl in it.

[Vanessa]

Oh, it's that. It's like, you can't stand in it.

[Jaime]

Like, splunking where you, like, shimmy down in it.

[Olivia]

Absolutely not.

[Jaime]

I love watching this.

[Vanessa]

It gives me. I freak out. I can't breathe. I saw some guy who was climbing in one of those, and everybody in their mom want to text me right now. I saw a guy who was climbing in one of those, and I mean, he. There was nowhere for him to move. No. Why does anybody. By choice. That's optional.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

Like, yeah, that's a choice.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

You did that because you wanted to.

[Olivia]

I can't. Ever since that. What is that called? The something.

[Jaime]

The Nutty Professor? Nope.

[Olivia]

It's the one where the dude gets stuck face down and he's still there.

[Jaime]

No, it's like, that's a very famous.

[Olivia]

One where he, like, went and he got stuck to where he couldn't come out. Like, no one could get him. And he's still there.

[Vanessa]

He died there.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

That's like, people who, like, why would.

[Vanessa]

Nobody get him out? You couldn't break anybody get it out.

[Jaime]

I think you could probably get to.

[Olivia]

It and get to him.

[Jaime]

I'm watching all those people get stuck on the mountain right now who are, like, on Everest. You guys saw the storm that came through and trapped, like, 100 people up there. No.

[Olivia]

Nutty Putty Cave.

[Vanessa]

Nutty Putty 2009.

[Olivia]

He was trapped for 27 hours. He died of cardiac arrest due to immense strain on the body. The cave was sealed to prevent other incident. Incidents, and his body remains inside.

[Vanessa]

That is so sad. That is so sad. But again, why would you do that? Like, I'm not choice. I'm not.

[Jaime]

And a lot of them have water that runs through them. I don't Know if you guys know that. But, like, especially out in this area, because there's so much rock, it goes through the water, goes through the rock. And so some of these people are, like, down there, like, wading through it waist deep.

[Bunny]

No.

[Jaime]

What if there was.

[Vanessa]

Imagine the freaking bladder infection. Oh, what if something just bites your leg?

[Jaime]

That's what I was thinking. Like, what if there's some creature that's just been living down there, hasn't seen the light in, oh, 200 years, just.

[Vanessa]

Bites your wiener off? Because, you know, women aren't down there. This is only men that do this.

[Jaime]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Olivia]

I've actually never seen a woman.

[Vanessa]

Because we're smart. That's why we're intelligent.

[Jaime]

Or random holes.

[Vanessa]

Yeah. At all. All right, who's gonna read next?

[Olivia]

Okay, this is from Liz Ashley. I was on a vacation in the Virgin Islands with my boyfriend. On the last day, he asked me how I felt about the trip. I was disappointed that I didn't feel my father's presence there, who passed away recently. He was always telling us to go on vacation and spend time together. He was always making his presence known in subtle ways. After he passed, my boyfriend assured me he was around. In any event, later that day, my boyfriend went kayaking. And when he returned, he was very, very freaked out. In his hand, he held a drenched New Orleans Saints ball cap. He proceeded to tell me that he found it while out on the kayak floating in the ocean. He flagged down every boat in the COVID and asked who it belonged to. Not one person claimed it. That was my dad's favorite sports team. He was obsessed with them. What. What would that be doing here? Why that specific spot of the ocean at that very moment, I cried happy tears. I immediately called my mom, and she told me to go turn on the TV because they were playing. When my father was alive, he was always texting me the score and trying to get me to watch the game.

[Jaime]

Oh, what a moment.

[Vanessa]

So good.

[Jaime]

This is a really feel good episode.

[Olivia]

I would have gotten full body chills if that happened.

[Vanessa]

I believe that There are so many signs in the afterlife.

[Olivia]

Oh, yeah.

[Jaime]

Yes.

[Vanessa]

So many. When my mom first died, she gave me so many signs. I. I went to sleep one night and I woke up to the. Okay, so the first thing that happened was, I think, right when I found. Found out that she had passed, or it was the day that she had passed. We had to film, and I was at the studio for some reason.

[Jaime]

No, you went there because you had better wi fi. Remember, we were going through the WI Fi issue at your house. And you're like, I'll just drive down to the studio. It's fine. And you were just by yourself? Yeah.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

So I went there to just kind of zone out for a second. And I just. I was kind of like bawling my eyes out because my mom had passed. I was sad, you know, and all we had gone through before she passed away and just how things ended just. It was really rough on me. And I remember I was bawling my eyes out, and then all of a sudden, mama, I'm Coming Home starts playing on the Alexa. On the Alexa. No, nothing was hooked up to it. Nothing was going on. But then also there we had lights.

[Jaime]

Accent lights behind the couch.

[Vanessa]

Accent lights behind the couch. And they just started turning multiple colors.

[Jaime]

Which we've never used that setting, by the way. We only. As you guys can. We only use, like, solid ones. We've never even turned it on that.

[Vanessa]

So Mama, I'm Coming Home is playing. The frickin lights are going. And I'm just sitting there, like. All I could do is just kind of like start laughing because I was just like, okay, mom, like, I love you too. Because it was. She's just such a little rocker biker lady that. To play Ozzy Osbourne, Mama, I'm Coming Home. And then get the lights going was just, like, really cool. And then I knew that it was her again, because a couple days later, I fell asleep. And I don't think Jay was home. I think he was on tour or something. I fell asleep. And I never sleep with the TV on. I cannot sleep with the TV on. Next thing I know, I wake up because I see just lights going like this. And I open my eyes and literally the. The. Literally the entire TV was just doing the multiple lights like it was doing at the studio. And I was just like, so sweet.

[Jaime]

Yeah. And she, to this day, keeps showing you signs. Yeah.

[Vanessa]

I love you, Vanessa.

[Jaime]

I get it. You know, your signs are still there.

[Vanessa]

Yeah, the signs are. Any psychic I talk to, I just recently talked to a psychic, and I said before I went to go see the psychic, I said, mom, I don't want to hear from you today. Because every time I talk to anybody that can tap into energy like that, she's front and center, and she doesn't give anybody else a chance to come through. And the psychic says to me, in this reading, she says, your mom is here, but she's hiding behind somebody else because she wants to let them come to the front. She would have never known that I had goosebumps.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

She would have never known that. And I just started laughing because I was like, she's so dramatic, dude.

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

Like, she had to make sure I knew that she was hiding behind somebody.

[Jaime]

Yep. Yeah.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

She's like, I'm listening to you. Yeah.

[Bunny]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

Okay, honey, go ahead. Do what you got to do. But I'm still here. Don't forget about me. Just know that I'm here.

[Jaime]

She's so funny, dude.

[Vanessa]

Lunatic.

[Jaime]

She was. She was such a character. That's like, the best way to describe her. She was such a character in real life.

[Vanessa]

And after, I feel like after she's just gotten more brazen. It's like, mom, calm down a little bit, you know? But no, she's great.

[Jaime]

Don't start. It's literally my turn.

[Vanessa]

Why don't we do this every time?

[Olivia]

Gosh dang. If you wouldn't have said anything, I wouldn't have even real. That's just normal. No, but since you said something, now it's going to be a.

[Vanessa]

It's going to be a problem. I didn't even realize it was your turn. She said, it's my turn. Okay, go ahead.

[Olivia]

God dang it.

[Jaime]

Don't look at each other.

[Olivia]

I'm not.

[Jaime]

All right. My mother, Jessica, passed away on April 3, 2024. It was the end of my eighth grade year. I was 14 turning 15 that June. And when she died, I felt like something left me that night. Wait, wait.

[Vanessa]

She said she died April 2024?

[Jaime]

April 3, 2024.

[Vanessa]

And she was in eighth grade?

[Jaime]

It was the end of my eighth grade year.

[Vanessa]

So this she's writing in right now?

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Bunny]

Oh, poor baby.

[Jaime]

It was like her soul left me. And then everyone in my family started having dreams. I had a dream of her in a field in all white. And one night I had a dream that she had her hair up. She was sitting in a rocking chair at the house. She said, mommy loves you, baby girl. I'm sorry. Everything is going to be okay. Plus, my mom had a tattoo of a sunflower and a butterfly on her leg. Every time I go out butterflies, I always see butterflies. And they will then follow me. I do believe butterflies are like, oh, for sure. Yeah. So that's what made me believe in my. In the afterlife and everything else possible. I'm now 16 and 100 believe in the afterlife. I believe butterflies. I believe butterflies.

[Olivia]

I wonder if some. Like, when you come back, sometimes you are reincarnated into animals.

[Vanessa]

I feel. So here's the thing. I don't feel like when people are. And this is just my opinion, I feel like when people are reincarnated, you can become. Come back as anything that you want to be and you can jump into different things. I don't feel like somebody comes back and has to live a whole dear life, you know?

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

That's what they're chained to, that body. I feel like spirits can just come and, like, kind of show themselves and present themselves and what they want.

[Jaime]

Yeah, for sure. I. I watched a tick tock one time, and someone said, like, the reason they don't want to be cremated and they want to be put back in the earth is how your energy is put back into the earth. So being burnt versus, like.

[Olivia]

I know because I told you I've seen signs from my aunt who was buried. Yeah, but I haven't seen you from my uncle who was cremated.

[Jaime]

Yeah. Everyone says the way your energy gets kind of filtered back in, like you were saying, is like, versus earth and cremation are.

[Vanessa]

Well, my mom was cremated and she's great.

[Jaime]

She's.

[Vanessa]

Bill was cremated and he's weird, so. But my dad was always weird. Even alive, he was weird. So he shows the same energy.

[Jaime]

Yeah. I was going to say he shows himself exactly who he was. Yeah.

[Vanessa]

So I don't know. I don't know if I believe that, but I. I wish there was a better way to do things. There's these things now, like, when they bury people, you can bury them and pods or something like that to, like, become a tree or something like that. That is cool.

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

To me.

[Olivia]

I love that.

[Vanessa]

I would love to do that.

[Jaime]

I just told Jason the other day because we were talking about afterlife. I said, I don't want to be cremated. No, I don't. No. I want to be recycled back into the earth.

[Vanessa]

Yeah. Yeah. It's beautiful.

[Olivia]

I want to be a willow tree.

[Jaime]

Have you seen, like, online?

[Vanessa]

I swear I was just gonna say.

[Olivia]

That I'm obsessed with willow trees.

[Vanessa]

They're beautiful.

[Jaime]

Trees are aggressive.

[Vanessa]

Weeping willows are beautiful. The ones that look like they're, like, just crying and having a hard time.

[Jaime]

Hey, guys. Did you guys know that a morning dove does not mean morning as in daytime morning?

[Olivia]

You are.

[Jaime]

Yeah. Didn't know that morning, because back in the day, it sounded like the bird was crying. And they would show up a lot of the time during, like, what do you, like, traditions in which they were celebrating a death morning doves would show up. So they're actually not mourning as in day. They are mourning as in their cries are so sorrow that that's how they got their name. Didn't know that till the other day.

[Vanessa]

I didn't know that.

[Olivia]

I knew it was with a you, but I didn't know why.

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

So.

[Jaime]

And it's like. And what's crazy in the history of it, multiple, like, Native Americans and other, like, people all named it the same thing without knowing, like, those people call it that. And those people call it that. But a lot in the Native American were who named Morning Du. It's one of my favorite morning doves. We talked about this in Texas, didn't we?

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

I was like, morning doves have been my favorite bird because, remember, I was like, I.

[Olivia]

My last place I lived at for seven years, I never heard one. And now that I'm at this new place and I just feel better and, like, more positive. I hear morning doves now.

[Jaime]

Yep. I have two that visit me every morning on the power lines outside my house.

[Vanessa]

I love it.

[Jaime]

Yeah, I think they're in love. I like to think that a. I.

[Vanessa]

Think doves are so sweet. I have crows outside my house all the time. I swear sometimes they freaking scream just to wake me up.

[Jaime]

Yes. I walked outside. Yes. A couple days ago. Wait, when you stopped by, that was it. I walked outside and I was like, pablo. And then I look, three crows, literally us, just go screeching across the sky. I said, there we are.

[Vanessa]

What was Pablo doing? Was he running around going.

[Jaime]

He'S wild.

[Vanessa]

He's a. Yeah, he's a spaz for sure. This one is from Tracy. My aunt was in a medical accident in the 90s, and she passed in 2012. The day I came back to work, the security cameras started acting weird. They would ring, saying something was there. I'd look, and then. And then there would be nothing. This happened every day for about a week, only when I was alone. One day, my cousin left to go get us some lunch. The camera started ringing, So I looked, and it was the camera covering where I was. I was obviously moving, but the camera never went off. I actually filmed this on my BlackBerry, but a huge white figure with angel wings appeared behind me.

[Bunny]

It was absolutely beautiful.

[Vanessa]

It gave me so much joy. My aunt wasn't able to talk or walk after her accident due to medical negligence. And I feel she came to show me she's finally free of the things that held her back here on this planet.

[Narrator/Expert]

Wow.

[Jaime]

Get out of here. That gave me chills.

[Vanessa]

So I love that. That is so beautiful. And I love angels. Like, I'm obsessed with angels. I have a couple tattooed on Me. But did you know that real angels, like, not biblical angels, are crazy terrifying? They are not like what you think they would be.

[Jaime]

What are we talking about?

[Vanessa]

You want me to show you? Yeah. Real angels are not like the beautiful, like, white winged gorgeous thing. Like, they're freaking scary. And I can actually. I can actually vouch for that because when I was going through my domestic violence relationship and I was getting beat up in the back of a taxi, I saw an angel. And it was the biggest, scariest looking thing I've ever seen in my life. Just the way that they were. He was so it's crazy. It's in my book. You guys will. We'll talk about it whenever the book comes out. But, yeah, pretty crazy.

[Narrator/Expert]

The first angel we must discuss are the most common and recognizable angels, archangels. Archangels are said to be very bright beings that have clothing that is also just as bright. These are believed to be the military class of angels above other races of angels. Gabriel, one of the more known archangels, is explained as being the guardian angel of Israel that defends God's people from the angels of other nations. Also in a lesser known apocryphal book known as Enoch, which was once part of the Bible, Enoch explains what he saw in his ascent through the ten levels of heaven. He says this about when he encountered the archangels. And those men lifted me up from there and they carried me up to the seventh heaven. And I saw there an exceptionally great light and all the fiery armies of the great archangels, arms and legs.

[Vanessa]

These are the archangels. Now, when he spoke, play the other one that I sent you. And then there's other ones.

[Jaime]

This is crazy, you guys.

[Vanessa]

Yeah, so this is what real angels look like. So swipe. So these are what real angels look like. Like, they're scary. They're not like your sweet angelic angels.

[Jaime]

That would freak me out.

[Vanessa]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

It says it's all of them.

[Vanessa]

Yeah, and there's more.

[Jaime]

There's more.

[Vanessa]

Yeah, there's more that you guys can go down the wormhole. But there's like. There's so many different types of angels, but none of them are like the sweet little cherub angels that everybody thinks they are.

[Jaime]

That's crazy.

[Vanessa]

That's a whole wormhole to go down, which we could cover the types of angels if we ever wanted to for. Yeah, there's some that are, like, really scary.

[Olivia]

The one with the eyes, I mean.

[High May]

The devil was an angel.

[Vanessa]

Whenever I brought up that Lucifer was an angel, people were like, he was not an angel. And I'm like, okay, whatever, then you. Everybody can say what they want. I believe that Lucifer was an angel. That's why lightning, when he was thrown down from heaven, that's where lightning came from. So, yeah, it's. There's.

[Olivia]

Wasn't he the angel?

[Vanessa]

It's all tied together.

[Olivia]

That's why, like, they say that.

[Vanessa]

Yeah. So that lightning is a. A representation of Lucifer getting thrown out of heaven.

[Jaime]

Wow. My mind's blown.

[Vanessa]

Yeah. There's so much. There's so much. Like, I think the. In my younger life, I despised religion and I despise having to read the Bible all the time and study it. But now that I'm older, it's like, it's fascinating when you really like, like read everything that just kind of like comes together from the Bible and it explains like so much about life. Granted, some people say it's a fairy tale. Some people say that it was, you know, there was a lot of stuff taken out of it, which I would love to read. The Bible that had Mary Magdalene's chapter. Chapter in it. They actually took Mary Magdalene's chapter out of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they have it.

[Olivia]

Yeah, There was this one. Tick tock. I saw this lady, I think, bought like a very, very old house and they were like, kind of renovating, whatever, and they found a Bible that was like, from a long, long time ago that had like, I forgot what it is. That's like not in there anymore. But it has like stuff that basically people were like, hide that or the government is literally going to come in. Like, it had like maps, older maps.

[Jaime]

Oh, I want to find stuff showing.

[Olivia]

Things that, like, they say aren't there anymore. Yeah, but this was like biblically accurate.

[Vanessa]

So the Bible was written by, by Jesus, prophets, all that stuff. And then as religion came in and like the church came in, they started taking stuff out. So that's all, man that did that. Yeah.

[Olivia]

Big on religion. Crazy.

[Vanessa]

Yeah.

[Olivia]

You see the, the church, the guy that had his Bentley parked behind him and he was like, iced out. Did anyone else see that? And he was like, God gave me this Bentley. And some guy in the crowd was like, can we drive it? He said, no. He said, jesus wouldn't want that.

[Vanessa]

Ah, is he a pastor?

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

That's hilarious.

[Olivia]

I saw, yeah, he had his bit and he had like iced out chains on him. And then I saw another one where this lady went to donate twelve hundred dollars and he said, he was like, that's not what I asked. He said. I said, a thousand plus another thousand.

[Vanessa]

Yes, yes.

[Jaime]

Okay.

[Olivia]

I'll work on the other 800.

[Vanessa]

I was like, yeah, I saw that one. I did a little bit of research, because you guys know that I'm, like, obsessed with Joyce Meyers. I've been graduating from Joyce Meyers, though. Like, I've been listening to Real Talk. Kim. Love her. I want her to come on the podcast. And I've also been listening to this other pastor who is a pastor of, like, I think it's called, like, 20, 2819 Church or something like that. Pastor Mitchell, I believe is his name. I don't quote me on it, but they're just so, like, g and how they operate. So when I saw that pastor, I was like, let me go research this guy a little bit more, too. So I did. And I guess he was giving a sermon about. He gave everybody specific directions. Now, of course, what you should never be telling people to give you money. Like, it's just wrong. But that's why they clipped that. That part of it, because, you know, to make it look a little bit worse than it was. But, I mean. Yeah. That he's obviously doing being a pastor for the wrong reasons.

[Olivia]

Well, there's no money in heaven.

[Vanessa]

Yeah. It's like, no, and you can't take it with you. I saw the saddest thing John heard. You guys know the actor from Home Alone, the dad?

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

You guys know from Home Alone? I know.

[Bunny]

I'm from Beaches.

[Vanessa]

He died in 2017. And his headstone is, like, this tiny headstone in the middle of this cemetery that has grass overgrown on it. And, like, what? Yeah, and just, like, nothing special, but it's like, it really makes you think.

[Bunny]

You can't take any of this.

[Vanessa]

When you go, when you're born, you're by yourself, and when you die, you're by yourself. So your entire job on earth is to not acquire material things, even though that's all we strive for because we've been programmed that way. But it's really to love people and to be love and to show people love even when they do you wrong, you know? And it's definitely a lesson that I am having to learn, but I think I'm getting better at it.

[Jaime]

You're doing great.

[Vanessa]

Even in when people are in the wrong, you still have to love them, no matter what.

[Olivia]

Your entire life is summed up by a hyphen. Yeah. Your birthday and then death day. Your entire life is literally just.

[Jaime]

All right, that's a lot crazy, right? Cool.

[Olivia]

I learned that in, like, a Bible camp I went to when I was in, like, junior high. And it stuck with me since then.

[Vanessa]

I love Bible camps. They're so fun. That was the best thing I ever did when I was a kid was go and have Bible camps.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

Yeah. I never did. Yes.

[Olivia]

Did you ever do that vacation?

[Vanessa]

We should go to a Bible camp, Mimi, so you can experience it.

[Jaime]

I. I did. Like, I was raised in religion, but we were Catholic.

[Vanessa]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

So we didn't do, like. Like, Bible camp. You were raised Catholic, too, right?

[High May]

No, we did Bible camp.

[Jaime]

Okay. We maybe just didn't have it in my.

[Vanessa]

No, Catholics are boring. They don't do any of that stuff. No, they don't have fun.

[Olivia]

Southern Baptist.

[Vanessa]

I was christened as a cath. I was christened as a baby in the Catholic church, and my parents evolved to.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Vanessa]

The good old Southern Pentecostal.

[Jaime]

My mom accidentally left me at my first holy Communion.

[Vanessa]

That's traumatizing.

[Jaime]

My neighbor found me.

[Vanessa]

What?

[Jaime]

Yeah. She was like, where's your parents? I was like, I don't know. They left me. My mom thought that my aunt took me. My aunt thought my mom took me, and they left me at the church.

[Olivia]

We've all been left at church before.

[Jaime]

Yeah. So my neighbor was like, I'll take you home.

[Vanessa]

That is very traumatizing. No wonder you have abandonment issues. You've held on to that forever. Holy.

[Jaime]

That's really funny. That's really funny. Okay.

[Olivia]

This is from Haley Smith. She said, when I was around three years old, my grandma lived with us for a year or two. During this time, my parents had been new homeowners, and my mom was trying to make the yard presentable. Her and my grandma tried planting daisies along the driveway. They never grew. And my mom never tried planting anything else in the yard. When I was around 9, my grandma passed away very suddenly. I had spent the night with her, spent the whole day with her, and she dropped me back off at home that night, and she ended up having a heart attack. About a month later, one single Daisy popped up in the yard. One of the neighbor's kids accidentally stepped on it. And my mom saw because that was the one sign from her mom that was gone. The next day it was back. Like, it was never gone. Fair to say daisies are my favorite flower ever.

[Vanessa]

Ah. If she ever has kids, she should name her little girl Daisy.

[Jaime]

Oh, she's really sweet.

[Vanessa]

That was my first dog name. Daisy. That is sweet.

[Jaime]

That was such a sweet story.

[Vanessa]

I love that. I love daisies, too.

[Olivia]

Yeah. I feel like that's a huge psychic.

[Vanessa]

That's sweet. I love that.

[Jaime]

That Was. This is such a. I would have.

[Vanessa]

Beat that little kid.

[Jaime]

Oh.

[Vanessa]

For stepping on that flower. Little jerk. Just kidding. I wouldn't beat anybody else's kids, but I'd think about it.

[Jaime]

You think about it.

[Olivia]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

When I was 14, my grandpa sadly passed away in the hospital on his birthday after a long fight with kidney disease. It was a very quiet three hour drive back home when all of a sudden it started pouring down rain at night. Out of nowhere, we saw a red cardinal bird fly past the front of our car. I knew deep down that was my grandpa telling us it was okay. Now, at 22 years old, I still see red cardinals every time I think my grandpa. I feel like red cardinals and butterflies go hand in hand. Those two are so sweet. My mom swears by that she's obsessed with red cardinals, but I'm big into, like, the birds having sex.

[Vanessa]

Oh, yeah, Birds are huge symbolism, for sure.

[Jaime]

Red cardinals, like my mom always said when she would, like, pray and talk to her mom, a red cardinal would always show up in her backyard.

[Vanessa]

I'm obsessed with birds. I love them especially, like, big vultures. I love. I love the birds that nobody loves. You know, like, I love the crows. I love the vultures. At our new property, we have these two vultures that are massive and they go and they hang out by the pool and they just sit there and they're just like little gargoyles. They just sit there and look like they're just so cool. And then when they fly off, they're just winged. And then they'll fly to, like, another tree in the property. Like, they followed us. So we were going to. We were going down to this other house that's on our property, and they flew and sat and watched us from a tree.

[Olivia]

Like, it's.

[Vanessa]

They're the cutest things ever.

[Jaime]

I'm out there fighting them off with freaking brooms in my yard.

[Vanessa]

Oh, because you have chickens?

[Jaime]

Oh, yeah, dude, those things. You saw it the other day. It was just circling my yard. They're huge.

[Vanessa]

Like, get a BB gun and just.

[Jaime]

Think, yeah, that's what we have. That's what we used to fight the Caduce off with, those things. But now it's dead. I think a fox got it.

[Vanessa]

Well, all right, guys, this is our last spooky astral confession. We're gonna go back to regular ask Talking fast next week. So please make sure you subscribe to the Dumb Blonde podcast, YouTube, so you can get all the uncensored podcasts and tons of other stuff that we have on there. But also so you can be a part of Ask Tal. Confess. Ask us all the crazy stuff. Tell us all the crazy stuff. Confess your sins. We're here for it. Also, my book is coming out February 10th, 2026. You guys can see it back here.

[Bunny]

Stripped down, unfiltered and unapologetic.

[Vanessa]

Pre orders are ready to rock Lincoln Bio and every freaking social media outlet that I have, please get you guys one. And I have autographed ones also that are available on Talk Shop. Love you guys. Toodle do.