The Confessionals - 2026 and the Underground Invasion | Slingshot Nation

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

The veil between the natural and the spiritual is thinner than ever. In this live broadcast, we explore the terrifying and glorious reality of worlds colliding. Is the "Upside Down" manifesting in our world actually the beginning of the Great Tribulation? We are diving deep into the Apocalypse, the rise of darkness from beneath the earth, and the ultimate hope found in the Return of Christ. Join us as we discuss how spiritual warfare is manifesting into physical reality and what you need to do to be ready for the final clash.Please pray for Tony's wife, Lindsay, as she battles breast cancer. Your prayers make a difference!If you’re able, consider helping the Merkel family with medical expenses by donating to Lindsay’s GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/b8f76890Become a member for ad-free listening, extra shows, and exclusive access to our social media app: theconfessionalspodcast.com/joinThe Confessionals Social Network App:Apple Store: https://apple.co/3UxhPrhGoogle Play: https://bit.ly/43mk8kZTony's Recommended Reads: slingshotlibrary.comIf you want to learn about Jesus and what it means to be saved: Click HereMy New YouTube ChannelMerkel IRL: @merkelIRLMy First Sermon: Unseen BattlesBigfoot: The Journey To Belief: Stream HereThe Meadow Project: Stream HereMerkel Media Apparel: merkmerch.comSPONSORSSIMPLISAFE TODAY: simplisafe.com/confessionalsGHOSTBED: GhostBed.com/tonyCONNECT WITH USWebsite: www.theconfessionalspodcast.comEmail: [e-mail] ADDRESS:Merkel Media257 N. Calderwood St., #301Alcoa, TN 37701SOCIAL MEDIASubscribe to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/2TlREaIReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theconfessionals/Discord: https://discord.gg/KDn4D2uw7hShow Instagram: theconfessionalspodcastTony's Instagram: tonymerkelofficialFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheConfessionalsPodcasTwitter: @TConfessionalsTony's Twitter: @tony_merkelProduced by: @jack_theproducer

Oh boy, is that a slingshot? Yeah, yeah. Slingshot season. Hey, let's run it. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Grace hit me like, boom, can't miss no. God with me a whole squad going. Devil try to throw shade.

I grin because the light too bright where I've been. Welcome to Slingshot Nation live, friends. We got ourselves another banger today, I'm sure. I'm excited to talk to you about some of the things that just been on my heart. Welcome to 2026. This is the first time I'm officially live with you guys this year. We were going to go live.

What was it last Friday, Derek? Friday. Yeah, and then it was kind of, what was the issue? Do you remember? What was the issue? Does anybody remember the issue? We were going to go live. Time.

Time. Time. It was time. Okay. Yeah. You guys were out of town. He came back. We were trying to force the issue.

didn't work out. And so here we are live today on Monday. Thank you for tuning in to this Slingshot Nation Live. This is going to be kind of like a grab bag episode. We have different things we want to talk about going into 2026. I think that this year is going to be a very significant year for many people and for many different reasons. And I mean, like very severely important. year. I just got this like stirring in my stomach and my, and my, my spirit is very much stirred up for 26. And I wasn't like that last week. I was asked to make a video for Pastor Larry Raglan's New Year's Eve broadcast. They were live. And I spoke to his audience and I said that I felt there was just going to be, and these aren't conflicting words, by the way. I felt like there was

going to be a supernatural peace amongst the body of Christ that as this year unfolds, we will have this peace about us that defies explanation. And I think it's because the book has been written and we are an understanding as to what is coming. And so it's not that we're embracing it and enjoying as much as we're not caught off guard. And we understand where the finish line is actually at. It's not a mystery to us. And so I shared that with them. And then on Sunday morning, now, the show that we're going to be doing today is like a mix because I had planned this show for last Friday. We didn't do it. We're still going to do this show from last Friday today. but yesterday more happened and I just felt like somehow it's going to get worked into today

and turns out I'm doing it right now. So here we go. But I got I had this stirring yesterday and we'll go into it more later as the show unfolds. But I think I think there's signs that something is coming this year and it's going to be severe. whatever it is, it's going to have a magnitude of importance that is undefinable. And I'm stopping short of trying to say that this is a prophetic word, but I really feel in my spirit that what I feel stirring is, is the word severe comes to me. In fact, I think I said that yesterday at church, didn't I, Derek?

I said, pretty sure you did. Yeah. Like, it's, it's very strong. And so, anyways, welcome to Slinghot Nation. This is where we're going today. Post-holiday hangover. Did you guys have good holidays, though? New Year's Eve, Christmas.

Great holiday. Everyone was sick. Everybody was sick? For the whole Christmas break. Wow. With my dad. Like my parents' house, my brother was literally just, like, laid out on the couch. No way.

He slept, like, the whole day. Wow. It was crazy. So that's what you got to do to get a break around here. You just got pretend to be sick. It's the dad way. Well, I think, Jack, you went to visit mom and dad. Weren't they sick, too?

Yeah. Yeah, it was like the flu was going around the north, like crazy. I'm sure it was down here, too, because I think that everybody was sick at church the week that we were all gone. But it was... There was a lot of sickness, but there was also a lot of people traveling. And so we were pretty shorthanded. We didn't even have a drummer.

Yeah, I know. And pastor led worship, which, I mean, our pastor can sing really well. He actually was offered a record label deal back, I think, in the 90s, and he turned it down. But yeah, back in the 90s when record label deals were actually a thing to care about, right? Like nowadays, like, hey, son, like to sign you to a record label. It's like, nah, I can do this on my own, thanks. Is it so true. Does anybody actually want to sign a record label deal these days?

No, everybody does their independent producing all in their own. Yeah, I mean, you can, like, literally, I'm not a musician, so I can't make, I can't sing. Nobody wants to hear me sing. But I think we have enough gear in this studio to produce a really good album if we had the talent behind the microphone and stuff like that.

I mean, would you guys agree? Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm sure it's a lot more than what other people have. But at the same time, I mean, these big time Nashville studios, I've seen them. They're huge and they have so much tech in there. But you can do it all from your home, friends.

So if you have a dream, if you have a dream in 2026, My friend, now is the time. Execute. And actually kind of takes us right into, doesn't it? I love it. It's so good. I've been doing, I've been preaching this message for years, for years. As I was going through the end of the year last year, I was in a contemplative state of mind, running back to, you know, where God is kind of.

kind of taken me, this platform, even you guys, you know, being part of this now. And it got me nostalgic. And so I found myself scrolling through my Instagram all the way to like the early days. And I knew I was arriving to the early days by the size of my beard. I was like, was it growing? It was getting along. It was like, oh, that's my Moses stage. Got it.

And I pulled some videos because I thought, you know what, it might be fun before we kind of get into some of the heavier stuff to kind of poke fun at me when the show started. Because, you know, if you're watching on YouTube right now, which right now everybody is because that's all we're at. But if you're listening on the audio replay, you might remember this because a lot of the audio listeners have been with me since 2017 when I started. YouTube, it's much more newer of an audience. We start YouTube like three years ago, Jack? Two years ago. And so the YouTube audience may never have heard the beginning of what this show was.

And how timid I was behind the microphone. Let me just, before we go into some of these video clips, I want to share my mindset. One, I was nervous, okay? I was nervous to put a microphone from my face. I was nervous to speak. I was nervous to speak my mind. That took me years to get over.

But one of my biggest hurdles, and I don't think that this is something that I should have ever been worried about, but it was something that I just, I was very aware that I had the potential to reach an audience that was global. And I was also very aware that I spent my mind. entire life in the northeast philadelphia area and i had an attitude that not a lot of people would identify with and so i was trying to be sweet loving tony gentle tony and so i've referenced this on shows before how i'd be like welcome to the show everybody well we got we got clips to show you how i was now what we're going to do is we're going to start off with the blooper reel right jack yep

And then we're going to actually take you back in time from there. The bloomer wheel will show you just a little bit of like the process. It's like a minute long process of me just trying to record an intro to the show. Now, this was in the third bedroom of my house in Pennsylvania, which became my daughter's bedroom when she was born years later. And after we do this blooper, we'll get into my original content creation days because before I was a podcaster, I was a beard product review. viewer and I thought that was my future. I never knew that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I, I, I, I, I, that's what, that's what I did. So, Jack, play that blooper real. I'll see how crazy I was. Welcome to the show, everybody. I am your host, Tony Merkel, and I am really glad, really glad, really glad. Welcome to the show,

everybody. I am your host, Tony Merkel, and I am really glad that you're here, and I'm really glad to be here. I had a much better week this week at work, and I'm really appreciative. Welcome to the show, everybody. I am your host, Tony Merkel, and I am really glad that you're here. And I'm really glad to be here, friends. I wanted to talk to you about, I think this is, welcome to the show, everybody. I am your host, Tony Merkel, and I am really glad that you're here. And I am really glad to be here.

So, I mean, like, what do you think of that day? Dude, I love watching you trying to smile the whole time. Like you're trying to like like like emphasize how happy you're not. I'm like, I'm nice Tony. Nice Tony. Yeah, you're smiling the whole time. Welcome to the. I didn't even do it like that.

I was like, welcome to the show. I was trying to be so gentle and kind. And your mic placement. Come on. Come on. Jack's rolling over right now. You know what the funny thing? The funny thing is I don't understand what because there's more clips like that.

I don't know if we're going to play or not. But I don't understand what my thought process was of filming myself. because I didn't do video back then. So I don't know why I was documenting me on video like that. But I'm glad I did. I'm glad I did. So fun. So that was a little taste of,

and we'll play some other videos where you can actually see, like, me just trying to be, just gentle, gentle Tony. Just gentle Tony. But let's go to one of these beard product reviews. If you have anything in mind, Jack, I'll let you pick. Cool. There we go. We'll be doing a beard care review on the Northwoods Beard Company.

There's their bomb. There's their oil. Stay tuned and find out what I thought of the company's products. I mean, it came in a box. They taped it up real well. So that's really cool. Packaged in there real nice. Northwood's Beard Company, chainsaw, beard bomb. Check that out right there.

I'm excited. I like that. Just rub it around our hands. And I forgot to take my wedding ring off, so we'll do this with the wedding ring. So I like rubbing it through from the bottom first and then coming up top, rubbing it all in nicely. And this would make 32417. It really smells like a chopped wood.

This is Bigfoot approved. Bigfoot approved. I'm like, it came in a box? As opposed to what, son? As opposed to what? Does it magically appear? Did they teleport it to you? What is that?

It didn't even come in like a specialty branded box or anything. You were like UPS certified. You took box opening quite literally. Oh my gosh. I mean, the whole idea was to, it's the unpackaging, right? So how has it come? What can you expect? And man, show them the video of me dropping some, it was a blue bottle.

I don't even know if I have that one in here. I'm pretty sure I sent it to you. Yeah, no, I don't know if I have it. Okay. Yeah, I don't think you do. Okay. Well, so that was, is that all the beard product review ones you have in there? I think there's one.

There might be one more. Okay. Can you do a live beard review right now? See how it's improved. I'm out of practice. You're out of practice. I'm out of practice. I tried people.

I don't even have much of a beard anymore, you know? The truth of the matter is Lindsay hated that beard. And so when I remember, I don't remember exactly what it was, but the beard, when it grows, it goes through different stages and you have to suffer through different stages. And my goal was to go ZZ top. But it was hitting a stage where it was becoming insufferable. And it was like, it's the same thing with me when I used to vape. So Lindsay asked me, because I used to smoke heavily, and then I switched to vaping, and she was like, when are you going to quit? And I'm like, when I stop driving truck?

And I stopped driving truck. And she's like, when are you going to quit? I'm like, mm. And, but I remember the reason why I quit vaping was because I was driving my truck, my pickup truck, and I spilled my juice all over my lap. And I was so irritated at myself. I was like, that's it. I'm quitting.

I quit. That's why you quit. That's why I quit. Oh, that's amazing. And my recollection was, it was about two weeks, two week period of time where just life was insufferable at home. Lindsay says it was about three months. And so like I, that whole period of time was just a blur for me. All because you made yourself angry. It all made myself angry. And so I was in the bathroom trying to get my beard together and it wasn't working. And I was like, that's it. I'm shaving it off.

And I just like, I shaved it off. And I was like, I can grow it back and I just never grew it back. So yeah. But anyways, so that was Tony Beard Review guy. Okay. And this is all, uh, the The first video was 2017. This video that you just saw, the beer review stuff, was probably about 2016, mid-late 2016. Because I think that the beard review stuff and the podcasting kind of overlapped a little bit, if I remember correctly. But the next videos that I want to show people is mindset, right?

So what we'll do, actually, Jack, is if you can show them the video of the me, me looking at the, I don't know which one it is. I'll let you show them whatever you want to show them. There's one more, that's more comedic that I kind of was wanting to show. Go for it. Just go for it. Please go for it. Because I think there's one where it's me like saying, you know, welcome to the show, everybody. Yeah. That's the one I want to show.

Yeah, let's do that. Gentle Tony. I'm about to call a guy on an interview, but before I do, I just want to remind you guys to that if you've had an encounter of any kind, whether it's a ghost, alien, UFO, Bigfoot, Skinwalker, dog man, I don't care. Miracles, I don't care what it is. But if you've had an encounter and you'd like to share it with me and the rest of the audience, get a hold of me. Go to the website and go to the connection section where you can actually email me personally

or you can just email me at the Confessionals podcast at gmail.com. I'll talk to you later. Bye. I'll talk to you later. Bye. By the way, that email still works. Because people email that email and we have it said to automatically forward to contact at the confessionalspodcast.com.

So we still get emails through there. But, you know, like, it's just like very gentle, you know, but you didn't know me back then, but Jack, was I gentle in real life? Okay. I was expecting you to lie there. No, it's kidding. But I was just, I was so, like, I used to get so nervous to sit down and do an interview. I mean, literally, like, terrified.

the people who I was interviewing were probably just as nervous, but I was so scared because I was like, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know how to do this. And I would have a notepad, a legal pad with just a page or two of preset questions. You know, I mean, I spent my entire day just trying to, like, journalistically analyze everything. And I'd get myself all worked up. And then I'd find myself not even using my questions during the interview. And then if I did try using them, it was forcing it and it would just break up the rhythm. And that's when I started realizing, you know what? I think I just need to be myself.

I'm not a journalist. I'm a truck driver. I know I can hold conversations with people. My dad kind of raised us to do that, you know, the way he raised us. And so I was like, and at the time I was driving around, listening to Joe Rogan all the time. And I was like, you know what? I think I think I just need to hold a conversation like this guy. And it was a work in progress, right?

But I mean, to see where the show was to what it is now, that's what I try to tell people. Like when I talk to people, when I first meet people and they're like, oh, what do you do and stuff? And I tell them. And I'm just like, listen, if you want venturing back nine years ago, it's a completely different show today. So it depends on what you want, you know, is to what you get with this show. Because it went through different stages. And I suspect it will go through more stages.

moving forward. Now, are we going into mindset now? Yeah, yeah. The last three or? Yeah, you know what you're thinking? Yeah. So I want to tie a bow on this little segment with, so I didn't just pop up on the scene. I've been doing this a really long time. And from the beginning, I was constantly trying to preach mindset to whatever audience I had. And back then, it was like five viewers on an Instagram video, you know? But as a verbal processor, I think I benefited from speaking to the audience of five that I had to say, I'm grinding now. And I have no guarantee of a payoff.

Like, there was no guarantee. Like, nothing is handed to you, right? So, like, I'm literally, like, torturing myself, driving a tractor trailer. hating the situation I was in, which by the way, I think was very ungrateful at the same time, because I found myself hating, driving truck, which I would never go back to do now. But God put me there for a reason. It allowed me to develop who I was becoming in him without distraction, right? So I don't want to spit in God's face because he put me there for a reason.

And I can see that hindsight, 2020. But you'll see in these videos what my mindset was then. And the message hasn't changed at all. I mean, I literally, before we went live, started saying something. You guys started laughing because it's exactly what these videos were saying. So go ahead and do whatever you want, Jack. Okay. 36.

I'm going to bed. Waking up at 9 and doing it again. work ethic. Yeah, that's a little short one. But, I mean, that was just kind of showing people. Like, I know I've said it on the show several times that I would work until two, three o'clock in the morning. You know, that was what, 3.36 I said or something like that.

Like, I worked all the time on this, you know? And I guess if anybody's watching, which I know people are watching right now, what, 500 people watching, if if you're whether you're pursuing content creation or your own entrepreneurial endeavor crafts at sea baking whatever your your your hustle is your what is now a side hustle is for you like i would encourage you to be honest with yourself and know that at the end of the day nobody's guaranteeing the payoff like you're not promised for success.

You're not, you're not promised that it's going to happen for you. At the same time, you need to put blinders on and pretend that you never heard yourself say that. You have to be honest with yourself. Know that it's not guaranteed. It's not going to be handed to you so you have the work ethic to do it. But then at the same time, trick yourself into believing that success is literally right around the corner. It's happening tomorrow. You're five minutes away from success.

Even though you know the truth. truth is you're five years away from success, but you're not going to get five years down the road if you don't act like it's happening right now. And so, like, that's what I did for years. And I just would, like, put these blinders on. And I remember, I remember when the podcasting started to make enough where I was able to pay my mortgage, which was $1,500 a month or something like that. And one, I was like, well, I guess I can never quit doing this because like I'm pretty much at the time, like, now I have a different mindset because like it's like a legit business that we're running and things like that. But like at the time, I was like, I'm pretty much living for free.

Like I talk into a microphone and my house is paid for this. It's amazing, you know? But like that, that was like the light at the end of the tunnel for me. I remember driving to track a trailer down the highway thinking, not even thinking, just visualizing like I'm going through a tunnel and I can actually for the first time see light. And I was like, this is replicatable. I just need to continue doing what I'm doing. The snowball has officially started rolling on its own down the hill. I just got to keep shoveling snow in front of it and let that thing build. And so play another bit. I don't even know. I was going to say, we can get the, because there's two, there's two more that we wanted to get to in there.

I know. I'll get it long-winded. Okay. It's passion. It is 10 after 9, and I am exhausted. I usually stay for another three hours and work on stuff, but tonight I am just too tired. And if I'm tired like that tonight, then tomorrow night I'll be super tired. And Friday nights are the nights that I spend practically all night

working on the show, making sure everything's good to go for Saturday. So it's going to be an all-night or tomorrow night, so I got to get my rest tonight if I'm this tired already. But yeah, so I think the lack of sleep is starting to catch up to me. I think that's what's happening here. But it's okay. You got to work hard. You got to push, push, push.

You got dreams, you've got goals. You've got to be willing to sacrifice to make those things happen. And that's what I'm doing. So I'm going to get some sleep, though, and I'll talk to you guys later. It's like an audio diary of mine. Yeah. It's like time stamped and everything. And you know it's years ago because of the beard, unless it's AI, right?

It's true. Yeah. Maybe I'm lying and it's all fake. It's all fake. Show them the last one because the last one I remember when I came across that, I think that was the last video I looked at because I was like, holy crap. Holy crap. It just hit me.

It hit hard. All right. Guys, I want to make this video quick before I head in the work. I had a great interview with Rocky Elmore last night. He's an author of a book. Sorry. Rocky Elmore was episode 15 just to be able to put a timestamp on that. Like, I was 15 episodes in when I made this.

Go ahead. On foot talking about his experiences on the Border Patrol. Anyways, I wanted to let you know that, you know, just a year ago, I wouldn't have done that interview. I would have been too nervous. I would have been too shy thinking I couldn't do something. Listen, here's the thing. Like, your actions have to meet your one, you know? And if you're not willing to put the work in, then you're never going to reach your goals.

I mean, for instance, I'm going into work right now. One day, I'm going to be making these videos from a home studio because that's what I do full time. And it will happen because I'm willing to put the work in. And are you willing to put the work in for your dreams? Whether it's, you know, beard stuff, podcasting, vlogging, you know, crafts, whatever your thing is, are you willing to put the work in to do that? because if you're not, it's never going to happen. But if you're willing to put the work in and work hard for it,

it's only a matter of time. Wait for time to catch up to you. Wait for time to catch up to you. I remember saying that all the time, all the time. Because I felt like I was working out of the future. Like, I really felt like I was like, I'm in the future right now and just waiting for time to catch up to me. But isn't that crazy?

Like, like, prophetically said it, right? Yeah. And you're still going for the beard oils too. Yeah. But like, I mean, I, I, I just, I don't know. I mean, we've surpassed that, right? I mean, my, my thought was, I guess my dreams were actually limiting.

Like, my dreams didn't match God's vision, you know, which is crazy to me. It's wild. It's absolutely wild. And so, and that all started because I'm driving down Germantown Pike and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, you're going to start a podcast. And it took me a month to start actually accepting that because it wasn't what I wanted. I really thought I was just going to drive truck. And podcasting was not on the agenda. And then as I started podcasting, trucking became more and more insufferable. And like I said, I feel like at times I disrespect what God gave me. But at the same

time, that was a process of God ushering me out of the path and calling he put on my life as a truck driver to develop who I was as a human being to put me into another position in my life, another path, and that path was going to develop on its own. And I had to get off of the trucking path in order to get on the other path. Does it make sense? Yeah, it's also, it's like, you know,

Andy Bernard, you know, I wish I knew that I was in the glory days when it was the glory days. Like, it's not that those were the glory days, but you wish you had the same type of reverence and respect for what was going on and what maturity was being placed on your life at that time as you do now. Yeah. You know, because like you look at it now and you're like, you know, I feel like I was rejecting

or I was spitting in the face of what God was giving me, but you weren't. You were just, you were not content with where you were at. No. And Paul talks about that. You know, don't be complacent, right? You can be content where you are, but don't be complacent in the things that you're doing. And complacency is something you always talked about not being complacent. And all of those inspirational videos you put out,

I mean, you were like the entrepreneur mindset, the Gary V mindset, you know, like, grind, grind, do you think, do your thing. I mean, how many, like you've talked to this before. What, man? Nobody else is going to do it for you. Yeah. It's just how many times did you end up, you know,

going through something, trying to create something on your own. And then this time with God, he was right there. He told you, directed you, directed you, directed your path and you obey you. Absolutely right. You know? I mean, like, I've tried.

so many other things that were not something that God called me to do and told me to do. You know, I mean, I owned a cleaning company. Like, I don't know if I've ever said that publicly. I've owned a cleaning company. It was a short stint, but it happened. But I always, I was always trying something. Yeah. But this is the only thing that God actually told me this is what you're going to do.

No, man, it's such great, like, motivation for the new year for everybody. Yeah. You're like, what God can do when you just say yes? Yeah. You're just going to move forward with, like, his plans for in your life. Absolutely. I just wanted to, I guess, this took longer than I thought it would, but it is what it is. I wanted to kind of open up the new year with looking back a little bit and look forward now because God placed the three of us in this room for a reason. And it's not to play softball for people's comfort. And, um, I don't have a, like I said, like I said in the beginning, I don't have a clear understanding yet. I might be speaking too early because I don't have the clear vision, but I have a, I have a burning feeling inside that I need to just state and yell from the tower as a watchman.

Something's coming from the distance. I don't know what it is yet. I can't see it. It's not close enough yet. But something's coming. Everybody, be ready. You know? And maybe that falls in line with the last name Merkel, you know,

guardian of the frontier, you know. But I had this stirring yesterday. And 2026 is going to be a year where when we look back, if we make it to look back, but when we look back, we're going to be like, whoa. There was an incredible, shift, and I get the sense that worlds are colliding this year. I think what we has spent past several years discussing will probably start manifesting this year. So Stranger Things suck.

So happy New Year. I bring up Stranger Things suck. I bring up Stranger Things sucks. It was like, Terrible. Yeah. Terrible. I felt like the Duffer Brothers drug the last season on so long that they lost interest in actually doing it. Because it seemed like it was just slapped together

and didn't really have the thought of the viewing audience and mind as they were making it. Mm-hmm. Because, listen, if you want to watch Stranger Things and you haven't seen it yet, unplug. Unplug. Because I'm just going to say some things. here. The last episode, the whole second half of that episode, didn't need to happen.

Like, the pinnacle of that episode was the portal shutting. I'll try to keep it spoiler-free. But that was where it should have ended. If anything, it should have flashed forward to the very last scene of the episode with the guys in the basement kind of putting a bow on it. Everything in the middle didn't need to happen. But it is like they needed to meet a, a quota on time and there's like, oh, throw a little bit of this in, throw a little of that in. And it's like, guys, we're not here for that. You just waste the time. But Stranger Things, over the years, has depicted pieces of reality as far as I'm concerned. Okay. And you guys can chime in at any point on this stuff.

but one of the crucial things that happened in this final season was the I'm not sure if it was actually in any of the episodes, but I saw it going around online. It was like an info diagram of how logistically all this breaks down now because we had a clear picture. And it truly is what we've been talking about for years now. And I know, I think it was on episode 510, I think with Hunter, I think that was 510, all the way back then. And also with James from like 512, I can't remember the order of those, but like the Desert Portal Death Colt episode, those guys, let's just go with James, the Desert Portal death cult.

I'm pretty sure on that episode, I told him he entered the bridge. So, like I said, numerous times in the show, I almost called it the Port-a-Potty, the Port-a-Potty portal. Yeah. Because he enters a urinal, a port-a-potty, and when he comes out, everything was dramatically different. There was a shift that happened while he was in there. I don't think the portal, or the Port-a-Pottie was the portal, but there was a shift that happened. And he found himself on a bridge between realms where it was. was basically a playground for evil.

Maybe the second heaven, but I'm not there like I maybe once was. I'm pretty sure, though, I can still say he was on a bridge. He wasn't here, but he wasn't anywhere else either. And to back up that is a guy, and again, I wish I had him on the show. He never got back to me. He emailed once, emailed me news, news, clippings of his disappearance in Joshua Tree. And he said, while I was gone, I was in Joshua Tree. I was there, but I wasn't, I was here, but I wasn't here. And he said, there was black cloaked

figures walking up to him, speaking in language he didn't understand. They searched all over the place for him. He reappeared in a place they already searched. They said, where were you? He's like, I was here, but I wasn't here. And this made it to the news. So that's what I've been calling the bridge. It's like the transition point. It's like a... Would it be like the astral realm? Is that?

I don't want to call it a realm. It's... If you just think of a logistically a bridge and you have this existence and you have... There's many different landing points. Heaven one. And there's other manufactured places to land.

But to get to any of them, it's a bridge. So I'm really excited to have Joseph and Franco in studio tomorrow. He wrote a book called Decoding Cody. And in that book, I don't think he even would call it this, but I'm going to totally bring it up. There are autistic kids who visit what they all call the hill

where they meet with Jesus and they get to operate in a way where their physical bodies don't get a chance to experience. from what I'm understanding in the book. And I would say the hill is a bridge. And so we say this existence we have, there are many bridges coming off this existence that goes to different places.

And they're manufactured divinely, but also by things that we, by entities and beings that we don't want anything to do with. And there's, there's a lot. with this. But Stranger Things depicted that as the upside down. This final season, we came to understand that you have the right side up, this world. The upside down is not a realm of its own. It's a bridge to another dimension. Where that other dimension is, things used to come,

used a bridge, the upside down, to come here. So where all that chicanery happens in the upside down is a bridge. And that's where I kind of get caught up with this, this defined because part of me wants to say, at least what Stranger Things depicted as Second Heaven Warfare. Like when I think of Daniel 10 and what happened to Daniel 10, I think of what we see in the upside down essentially.

Like something happening around us. It's here, but not here. So we'll just call it a bridge. And this season depicted that. and at the end of, and again, spoilers, please unhook, okay? Don't email me that I spoiled things for you. You had like a week. So I don't even know it's been a week yet, but.

Yeah, pretty much. In this final season, I think the final episode, you have this plan of Henry Vecna trying to take this other world realm. They call it even a plan. at times, but Dimension X

and collapsing the bridge, the upside down, and merging the right side up with

this other world, this other dimension to become one. He didn't want to destroy the world.

He wanted to merge them to have his own hellish playground. And I get, and I get these,

these hints through that TV show over the years. I always thought that the Duffer brothers, they weren't just using their own imagination. I think they're incredibly talented writers, you know, clearly. But just like a lot of talented writers,

I'm not so sure it's all just them. Stephen King is one of them. Stephen King has books that, I mean, You know, and not to mention the infamous book from our show, you know, like people throughout, I believe throughout history have been given downloads from entities on the other side with particular information that they call creativity. Oh, it was an idea that came to me. And it's like, I don't think you realize how real that is. Yeah.

No, I was just laughing at you. Oh. No, that's true. It's like, yeah, the automatic writing, like just kind of letting this spirit or thing possess you so that you just start writing and you don't know what you're writing. Yeah. Yeah. That's historically been chronicled for a lot of different, like, creators. And I've even heard people suggest that CS Lewis is one of those, which is interesting, you know?

And I kind of want to go. I've mentioned this before on a live. I think it would be kind of fun for me to go back and watch movies or TV shows and like react to them as we go. But it's extremely limited because of copyright infringement and things like that.

So it has to be behind, you know, private paywall. I haven't done it yet. I have to find time to do it. But even doing like Chronicles of Narnia would be very interesting to do. And one would say, Oh, do a book club. That's not my thing.

I won't follow through on that. Fair point. Yeah. I'm not really willing to commit to that one. Yeah, but I mean, like along the lines of the whole being like having downloads and stuff like that. I mean, Diana Posolka talks about that specifically for the tech, you know, CEOs and things, the people who are in Silicon Valley. and then you have guys like Alastair Crowley and others who did you know who said that they had downloads that they had like automatic writing and it's not an uncommon thing for people who have influence to be able to tap into that kind of thing or to actively you know participate and search out those types of you know maneuvers it's you know whatever whatever you want to say it's you know power it's you know manipulation from you know the dark side the Sith side But yeah, I mean, it's anything.

It's any of those things. But yeah, so it's not, when you're talking about that with like stranger things having that symbolism, it wouldn't surprise me, you know, because how many different times have people mentioned this in, you know, media that what we see on TV and in film depicts what's coming or is a warning of what's coming, you know? So it's, who knows, maybe there's the Simpsons creators

that have that too, because there seems to be a lot of predictive programming the Simpsons. Yeah, I don't know. I've avoided The Simpsons like a bad habit on this show. Way to go, Jack. I enjoy that cartoon too much. I don't want to make it homework. So a couple things.

I mean, there's a lot of holes with stranger things, you know. Like even like the pregnant women, they just got destroyed, I guess, you know. and not to mention like final battle, right? Like we have this whole final battle and where are the demigorgans? Like that's a layup. So it just makes me feel like the Duffer Brothers kind of overlooked a lot of things just because they just didn't care that much. It's crazy.

Like the fan theories and the fan, like all the people who were taking all these bits and pieces and all the details and trying to like piece together some really interesting things. It's better than what they did. Way better. Like they were actually taking it and looking at everything critically to see what kind of like, what are they called, Easter eggs that they could find in the mix

to be able to relate it back to, are they going to come out with another episode? Are they going to do this or that? Dude, you know what? Like, there's probably so many sub-communities that are going to come from this now of people writing the story and it just carrying the story.

Like, can you... Imagine like a Reddit or something where it's just like people are creating their own ending and then it's like Star Wars. you had the original three Star Wars movies from the 70s. And now, today, there's a whole generation of people who don't even realize those things existed because of how mega that Star Wars has become after the original three.

You know, and so like maybe that's, you know, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, it's going to be a similar thing with this where this, like people aren't going to think about stranger things. It's going to be like the original, you know. They don't even realize where it all started, you know. But in this season, so I said about how there's hints of things throughout the show, and we've talked about that for years, obviously upside down being one of them, there was this revelation that Will was used by Vecna to build tunnels under Hawkins. and when that

when so I think it was in the same episode as the bridge realization because I think they called it a bridge because I remember I was sitting there with my wife and I was like they gotta listen to my show like I was like I said it like three years ago

you know which I don't think they listen I'm not I'm not saying that it was like holy cow you know because it's like it's one of those things where I never expect to be right and when I'm right

I'm like oh I was right you know and so in the same same episode, though, there's this revelation that Will was like the one that built the tunnels. Vecna was using Will's body to build the tunnels because he was connected to his hive mind. So the topic of tunnels comes up on the show and there's so much room for that story on the show to be built out. We've talked about the tunnels on the show. How many times have I brought up?

I've talked to a lot of people that have to do with walking through tunnel systems and having divine encounters. And I say divine as in maybe divine is the wrong supernatural encounters. But it all starts of them walking through a tunnel system. It's a transition point between this place and somewhere else. And that's exactly what they were depicting underneath Hawkins. Or even with Vecna himself. Remember when he's in the desert and he's going to kill the scientists? The girls escape through the tunnel and that's the realm to get out of that realm.

Yes, that's the portal. Yeah. It was a realm shift. Yeah. So like building off that. So you see them, it's like an old mine that they go into, like a mine shaft, but it's tunnels. And one's collapsed and they're pulling these rocks away. And when they break through, you see it's a whole.

other realm. And that's how they get out, you know? So episode 692, the main character of the story finds himself walking through a tunnel system. He's recruited to work for an entity. Episode 309, J.R. in the overtime. he was having sex with his girlfriend and he said all of a sudden he was just gone and he found himself walking through a tunnel system and that story part of that story that wasn't on the show because we didn't have this information yet he was walking through the tunnel system he

he opens into this big large room it opens up and he hears a voice that says you're now entering the throne room that's where he's recruited to work for this entity dressed in black And these are different entities, by the way. I want to be clear that this is a practice that's happening amongst entities. This isn't a singular entity. This isn't, I mean, maybe, I know, I'm pretty sure Satan does this as well, but there are other entities doing this. And it paints a picture of jockeying for position,

that there's this this almost like a civil war amongst divine beings or not divine beings I'm sorry fallen beings like a civil war amongst fallen beings so like I don't know I said this before but like

if you're if you're so prideful and egotistical that you could rebel against the creator God I imagine there's a lot of pride amongst your peers as well and in a few weeks we're going to have Ed Mabry on for an interview and him and I go in and talk about this. I remember we talked about that. But so there's a tunnel system, right? With with with jr story, what is wild about that is that

years later, I had my first interview for 692, which was three years before I actually released it. And it was so familiar that I called jr up. And I was like, dude, like this, I got to tell you this. And I, and we started talking, him and his wife went and, met with his ex-girlfriend at a diner, and he had her tell him what she experienced the night that he was taken. Because all he remembered was he woke up in bed. She slaps him and says, if you ever do that again, I'm going to kill you or something like that. He has no idea. He's like, what did I do? You know? But while he was gone, being recruited, his physical body was operating here

and he started walking her through different rooms and as they entered different rooms she said, and I have this on audio I just don't have permission to release yet but he sent it to me she said it was like you were leveling up every room in a sick

sexual game and every room was a new level that it got more intense and violence And she said, we went into the last room and you said, we're now entering the throne room, which is what he heard entering into that big cave room. And she said that he continued to, I don't think we could say it. Abuse.

Thank you. Abuse her in a very utmost violent way. And she said that, because like what I just shared right now could be somebody saying an excuse. Like, oh, I don't remember that. I was gone somewhere else, you know? I don't remember that. But she said, and she never told him this until he sat down with her at the diner and has it on audio. She said, while you were abusing me, there was a very large black entity standing behind you.

His body was being controlled by something else. And it's wild. but there's these tunnels that are constantly coming up in culture, pop culture, like stranger things, to our show.

Then you have the Tim Burchett, our local rep, which, by the way, just a reminder, we got to get them on the show. We're working on that, right? We're working on that, right?

If you're watching, yeah. Timberchette, please come on the show. He's local. No, we're actually, can I say what we're working on? Yeah.

Okay. We're actually working on going to DC to sit down and do a roundtable with Timberchette, Eric Berluson, and possibly another congressman about the UAP, U.S.O disclosure. So can I tell all this together real quick? Because it's really wild. In Stranger Things, when he's going through the tunnel, and again, warning, if you haven't watched it, and he's murdering that scientist.

So when you look it up, that's supposed to be happening in Lincoln County, Nevada. Do you know where Lincoln County, Nevada is? what's in Lincoln County, Nevada. No. Area 51. Okay. And so when he opens the briefcase up, right, that little piece like absorbs into him, are they, like, insinuating an alien tie to this whole thing, like an extraterrestrial

aspect to the mind flare in the whole realm? I mean, that makes sense. I mean, extraterrestrial for sure. I mean, they were calling it a planet in the show, you know? But they killed it, so it means that you can kill them. We can definitely kill them. They bleed. but um so we have these tunnels and uh this operation you have the underwater operation which

i don't think is a stretch to say underground i mean we see these things going in and out of the water where are they going when they go under the water i think that um i think uh lockness has a key to this to be honest with you uh i think that what people are seeing throughout the centuries, some of it's made up. But I think there's a real phenomenon because Lock Ness, I think, in all of the UK, has the most UFO sightings. And it's also, I think, the largest inland lake, or landlocked lake in the UK, I think.

But they say that nothing could survive down there, but what if it's not meant to survive down there? What if it's meant to transition down there into another existence through tunnels. Well, I mean, another tie and then to Stranger Things is the end of season four when they go to the bottom of the lake to get through the bridge to the other world,

to the upside down. I don't even remember that. Yeah, really? Yeah, like they all go in and Eddie, Steve, like that whole older crew, they go down, swim down to the bottom of the lake and get through the bridge. Wow.

See, and like I know for the mainstream, monster hunters, no woo-woo allowed, or scientists, no woo-woo allowed. This is all absurd, which I just don't care. Say the Lochness monster is real, which the jury's out for me. And they present really good arguments as to why it can't survive in there. But what if it doesn't survive? What if it's real and it doesn't survive in there? It actually goes down and goes somewhere else where it can survive. and it peaks out at times. What if that is some kind of repercussion or or

I can't think of the word equalization. Basically, it's something that happens when something else happens. It's a side effect. So people see this supposed creature, but it's because something else just happened. What if when that, whatever it is appears,

if you were to turn your head to the right, you'd see something coming out of the water that flies into the sky. Or something like that. I'm just spitballing. It's like time displacement, like where it's going to rift time because it's affecting time itself?

Sure. My mind wasn't even going there. Okay. But like, I remember when I was a kid looking at the Lochness monster because that was one of my first loves, I used to look at like, how could it survive? And if I remember correctly,

there is a theory that there is, there's caves all along underwater that lake. And I used to think, oh, well, maybe it goes into the caves. And that's why it only comes up randomly. What if those caves are actually tunnels? You know, so like I'm just thinking out loud, brainstorming on all this, right? But we have this idea of USOs, UFOs, UAPs,

going underwater, disappearing for extended periods of time. What are they doing down there? I don't think they're just existing in the water. I think that they're actually going somewhere. I think the water itself is a gateway. a portal, a threshold. I mean, it ties them with Bigfoot, too. Like, Bigfoot's always around water.

Bigfoot, like, has seen going into cave systems or it's track to cave systems. Dogman. Dog man. Like Scott Carpenter's, one of his most infamous locations where he had so much activity is surrounded by water. It's surrounded by water.

So there's that aspect. Now, I think what we're going to be going forward into 2026, and this is where I'm very, I don't want to say nervous, but just unsettled with to say, because I don't know. I'm not, this isn't me saying this is a prophetic word, but I have a sense that the worlds are like in stranger things colliding this year. The bridge is collapsing. And what is on the other side of the bridge is not,

by default, but going to be trying to manifest here. And it's not going to do it in hiding. We're primed as a culture for deception. With all the AI videos going out, nobody's going to know what to believe. And I think it's created,

it's not creating, it has created an environment for these things to manifest in front of you because nobody's going to believe you. Even if you catch it on video. nobody's going to believe you. And I think this year, we're going to start seeing that. And I think we've been seeing it.

I think we've been seeing things like this. Jack, start getting ready for the 911 call, if you can have that primed up. Because I think it was just a few months ago. So this is 2025. In North Carolina, there was a 911 call. of a creature. A lot of people are saying it's a rake

that manifested on... You good? My bad. It's plain. Oh. That was my fault. Go ahead. That manifested, and you'll hear how it all unfolds on a 911 call. I will say this before we watch this video. One, I can think of, but I know it's two.

In the last year, I've had episodes, I think they're both member episodes where the people talked about encountering a rake creature in North Carolina. So now this is documented on a 911 call. And I think that if you think about pop culture meets whatever I'm saying this is, Tony's reality, let's just call it that. Is there anything in cryptozoology? that is any closer to what a Demigorgon is depicted as

other than a rake? We haven't seen their face open up, so it's possible. Yet. Yeah, exactly. Jack, are you ready for that? Yeah. Well, I... He was ready.

He was ready. He said to gear up, and then I started gearing up, and it started playing. So he ungeared. Now it's re-gear. You let me know when you're ready to hit the initiate button on the re-gear. Oh, you initiated? Yeah, I'm an eneared. Okay. Make sure I have volume.

Kender County 911. What's the address of your emergency? I'm driving on 210. I just crossed the Black River, and I thought I saw a guy standing on the side of the road bleeding. Okay. Where are you at, sir? I'm on 210. I just crossed the Black River. I'm heading towards 53E. I just passed Patriots Watch. Okay, so you're over near Morse Creek? Yes. Okay. And did you, you saw a man standing on the side of the road?

What the... What was that, sir? That's not human! What's not human? Sir, are you okay, sir? There's something in the bottom of my truck! Okay, what's in the road? No, it's not in the road, it's in my truck. There's something in the bed of your truck?

Yes, ma'am. I just turned on my bed light for my truck and there's something in my bed. Okay, sir, will you say something? What do you mean? I just knocked it off of the bed of my truck and get over my roof. Okay, what was it? According to the CAD notes and the... All right, so the...

So there's more to this story. Carolina case files, right, Jack? Yes. If you can at some point, just put the link in the description for the full video for people to go ahead and watch and along with all the other videos

we're going to be posting today. Those guys actually reached out to me and are somebody, I don't know who. I think Derek, you're handling it or Lindsay's handling it. But we're trying to get them in studio. But check out that whole video because there's a whole breakdown.

They actually interviewed the guy, I think, who made the phone call. And I think this, what you just saw on that 911 call, is a starting point of the manifestations of the world, the bridge collapsing and the world's colliding. I think that these things are going to willingly start manifesting more and more here. And I think our brains are going to explode and pop. There's a supernatural war coming. Maybe we'll put it that way. A supernatural warcoming.

And Earth is the battlefield. You know, it's super weird. I'm on Google Maps right now, and I just looked up the Black River. And people can do this. Go on to 210. It's like one of the only roads that crosses the Black River.

The Conjuring House. The original Conjuring House is right there. No way. Like, dude, check it out. It's literally right there. Wow. So if that's where he was, that's like already like a portal spot for spirits. This is what I'm saying.

Yeah, the connections are crazy. It's, it's happening. There's a collision coming. And this is so supernatural. This is so supernatural, guys. You can get caught up in this physical manifestation. of a rake jumping in the back of a guy's truck, that's so nothing

compared to what is going to be coming. This is a super natural war. And I want to get into two other things in a few minutes here. Because just as there's a preparation, what I'll say is there's a preparation of a dark army. Let's just call it that. And we see this happen

in scripture too. Christ is preparing not like he doesn't need an army. I think Christ is preparing to flex. Slingshot Nation. Slinghot Nation, baby. Slinghot Nation. Oh boy, is that? Slinghot. By the way, that's my son. That's my son.

I love it. But before we get into that, there's a middle ground now. So we just talked about the the underbelly, the tunnels, what's coming out of the ground, these manifestations of monsters and entities, hell itself trying to manifest here. Then you have the battlefield, the grounds here,

earth. Before we get to third heaven, Christ, seals breaking, what do we have going on here? Well, this year, we have a brand new thing happening in this country. You know what? What this year is, it's the 250th birthday anniversary of our nation. And to celebrate that, Donald Trump is hosting the Patriot Games. Oh, man. And, like, of course, of course, whoever's idea, I'm sure it wasn't his idea, but whoever's idea was is the idea of playing with the idea of hunger games. I don't know if they realized the date on this, though.

Because in Hunger Games, something to just backtrack here, Patriot Games essentially is every state is going to send one boy and one girl. The most superior high school athlete, boy and girl from every state is going to go to D.C. and compete in the Patriot Games this year to celebrate the 250th anniversary. And so right there, you're like, well that sounds a lot like the hunger game guys you know and it's like well we don't have the dystopian

nature as the hunger games does yet but when you find out and when you realize that the hunger games when you're watching the hunger games takes place in the year 2,100 and it's the 74th or 6th 74th 74th 74th 74th anniversary of the hunger games in the movie when you do your math it takes you back to 2006 is the first year that the Hunger Games started. And so it's like, could this be in itself prophetic of where things are going? Right. You know, like, is this where humanity, I mean, we've been? But is this like an anchor point of our downward spiral into dystopian, as I would say,

a revelationist futurist mindset? It's really weird, the correlations of what he's doing. that seem very Roman. So on Flag Day, he's actually having a UFC fight at the White House. And then he's also building the Ark Memorial

with the goddess Nike on top, which is going to be like on the way to the Veterans Memorial. The goddess Nike's going to be on top? Yeah. Are you serious? Yeah. Victory. They call it victory. It's the arc of victory. And victory will be standing on top of the archway. Wow.

In victory. So like he seems like he's, seems like he's recreating Rome is what he's doing right now. That's wild. That's wild. I don't even know what to say that. That archway is like, you described it before we started recording as like a portal. How do you picture that as a portal?

I mean, historically, a lot of them, like the giant arches, like the ones they were putting up in like New York City. What was it the, do you remember what temple that was like a few years back? No. But there was like, I think the Apollo, the archway of the Apollo temple, and they were like taking it around the world. And everyone was like, it's a freaking gateway. They're just opening these gateways. Like, you know what I mean? They're specifically placing them in places as gateway arches.

Yeah. And so here we're going to make a huge one with the goddess Nike on top. In 2026. It's like inviting. Hey, here's a portal for you to manifest through. As they basically have blood combat. A ritual. And right, you're reliving Rome all over again.

That is wild. Yeah. That is wild. So, welcome to 2026, friends. It's going to get crazy. Crazy, crazy, crazy. Crazy, man. So, like, that's what's happening.

And there's a lot more, right? I mean, we haven't even talked about Venezuela. I think, honestly, like, I don't really get caught up in, like, on this show. Because, listen, I'm not, I'm not a political commentary guy. I barely follow politics. I follow enough to know what I'm talking about as far as, like, my perspective on things. But, like, it's just. just not my wheelhouse. I don't enjoy it. I like talking about supernatural stuff. But what happened this

weekend in Venezuela, there's spiritual significance in the sense of liberation. You see the videos online, these underground churches coming out, people worshipping in the streets. Like there's Venezuela and consequently nations around it are primed for a supernatural spiritual revival, which is very exciting. However, that kind of stuff, as the year unfolds, I believe, will be significant and it will continue, but it will be serving as a distraction from what's really happening in the supernatural. If you want to see what's happening in the supernatural with what happened this weekend, you look at those videos, you see the glorification of Christ in these videos. Like, that's happening in the supernatural, right?

and it's it's a gearing up for what's coming okay so that was what three days into the into 2026 like that's that's not a coincidence setting the tone early um i think i heard that it was also on the anniversary of him uh also taken out uh what's that guy's name a sue something like that the iranian military leader that he took out he's like he died like a dog you know what talking about i can't remember his name it was just i i forget Balaamani, Alamani or something like that. But like, from what I heard, it was like on an anniversary of that, like, the same day.

Oh, wow. So, I mean, is that an accident? I don't know. I mean, I don't know. But you see this happening in the physical, you know, so we have these beings, these monstrous sights, Phobotron, Greek word for monsters. It's in the Bible.

Jesus said it. coming up out of the ground to this battlefield. Trump is preparing, and it's symbolically, a battlefield, the war games, the Patriot games, goddess Nike, I didn't even know that, portal. Like, there's this preparation of the battlefield of what's coming. And then there's what's happening in the third heaven. is there a seal that's going to break?

Is God the father going to give the son the nod? Because when he gets that nod, I mean, it's not going to be a competition. It's not going to be anything to marvel at it. It's like, wow, we're really going to do this. It's going to be done. Like he's been waiting to get it done. And so when that seal breaks, game over.

It's not even going to start. Patriot games aren't even going to start. It's done. You know, it's done. But there's two videos I want to hit. This first one, we're not going to watch the whole thing. I think it's like eight minutes long. But I just want to give people a taste of it.

And I don't totally know the background on it. Our friend Gabe, I always pronounce his last name wrong. What is it, Perrault? Perrault. Yeah, Gabe Perrault. He's going to be coming in studio later this year. He has a wild, I don't even want to call it an NDE. He died, went to heaven, had dramatic.

interaction while he was there and came back to tell about it. Like he cracked his skull open. He was dead. And now he's back. He back. But he's got a channel. I think it's like two and a half million subscribers on YouTube. I mean, he's got a huge channel.

And he posted this video, this little girl. Supposedly, I guess she died. And when she came back, she talks about Jesus and what Jesus was telling her. So if you could talk to let them hear that, Jack, that'd be great. was saying that he it's going to be another world and he just holds a book it was a Bible and he went on page 24 and he said is it right Jesus and said yes is it right and he said don't worry Abby don't be afraid Everything's going to be normal first.

We're going to go straight to heaven. And then it's going to happen. And then, like, it will melt the ice on the polar bursts and they will die. And then they need to drink. They need to have some water to keep them alive and I'll and penguins will die. Penguins as well? Yeah.

Aww. Baby penguins and little baby polar bars. And you know, and if some people don't believe in God, they will go to death. What do you mean? And, you know, like, if the people don't, and like believe in Jesus.

Yeah. They go to death. How do you know that? I just don't know because of Jesus he told me. And how did he tell you? He was like, he was like, what the hell? He said, it's me Jesus. And I'm like, what Jesus?

And he said, yes. And then he holded a book after when he was talking. What did he look like? Do you remember? Yeah. Yeah. He had white dress, long hair like girl, but some boys have long hair as well, like girls. And he had cruelly, and he was brown, and eyes was blue, I think. So that's just a little bit of her experience.

And Gabe is watching this who had his own experience. And she's just so cute, right? I mean, she's just so cute. And while we're sitting here, I felt I had a little booger on my end of my nose. So I told you guys, before we started, I said, do I got any boogers? You guys didn't actually check? I just fell a booger on the end of my nose. So sorry about that for the last hour or so, friends, if you've seen a booger on my nose.

Jack wasn't working the closest. Hey, you're right across the table from him. Yeah. He didn't have the heart to tell me, I guess. He's like, well, we're live. It's too late now. I'll tell him afterwards. But so, and you could say in that video, you know, for,

especially with lacking context, because I don't have the full context of it, uh, you could say that, well, this girl's brainwashed by her parents, you know, and that's why she's saying this and, you know,

and that's fine. You can say that. You can say, well, you know, she's just saying that because she's saying things that she's heard her parents say before. Um,

one thing, I, I wish mom would, would have stopped cutting her off because she kept the, I think twice there, she brought up the book. And I'm like, stop cutting her off.

Let her talk about the book. Because I think, what that book, I don't think that book was the Bible. I think the book, if she would have been able to get into more detail, I think it would have been the book of life. I think that's where that was going. And I was like, maybe she gets into it later in the video. I don't know.

But I was just like, oh, man, like from the mouth of babes, like Jesus says, let the little children come to me, and he wants us to come to him as children. So is it a shocker that he would come to children to speak to them because they're going to have the innocence to relay the message? You know, like children aren't going to overthink things. You're like, oh, man, did I really experience that? Oh, I don't know.

Like, if I say that, you know, my social peer circle or whatever, it's just like from the mouth of babes, like, they're the perfect vessel to relay this information, which is, again, another reason why I'm so excited to talk to Joseph and Franco tomorrow because autistic children kind of fit that bill. And it's just like what he has been able to write about in his book and uncover is just, it's just, it's why. wild. It's absolutely wild. So there's that video. I want to go to, because what I'm trying to do is to paint this picture of how we left 2025, Stranger Things Finale, things happening, and people talking about the tunnels. Like I forgot to mention Pastor Marcus Rogers, he's on YouTube. He came out the video just yesterday morning that stirred me it greatly because he was relaying things that I had been feeling inside. I'm like, yeah, man. And so I got his phone number and I text him today. Hopefully him and I can connect and at least talk about this. Like I'm not, it doesn't even have to be

for the show. I just want to be able to, hey, man, this vision that God gave you, what did you see? What are you, what are you talking about? Let's not talking code. Let's, I'll lay my cards on table. You lay your cards on table. We'll see if anything matches, you know. Um, but, But so, but he was talking about, he brought up tunnels and things coming out of the tunnels just yesterday. He's out of Chicago. And he was talking about supernatural manifestations, but he was also talking about political stuff. And so there's all that. So we have the underbelly.

We have the battlefield, which Trump is conveniently preparing for us this year, apparently. but then we have the heavenlies preparing. And our friend Joseph Z, his wife, Heather, her episode with me will air in two weeks from now. So tomorrow we have Katie Sousa. And then the following Tuesday, we have Heather Z. She came in studio. And Heather broke her neck as a,

I think she was a teenager when she broke her neck. She died. And she had interactions and came back. And she's had, I think she even, she almost died. again later in life from kidney failure. But great friends of mine. And Joseph,

he, his wife, Heather and their daughter, Ali, were live for New Year's Eve. And, you know, I was watching as a good friend would, right? All my friends watching, right? All my friends watch. Larry's out there. He's got to be. I'm watching, brother.

I'm watching. Down here from Alabama. Why? I was teasing how he says, why. But so I'm watching their stuff and I caught the back end of it. And it was about 12 minutes before midnight. And Joseph turns to his daughter, Ali. I imagine they had some kind of message board or something because it seemed like he knew she had something to say.

And because he said, Ali pray. And she didn't go into prayer. She went into a prophetic word. And I looked up some of the things on this prophetic word. And I was kind of taken back by what I was. what I found. And so let's get into what Ali said, which by the way,

Ali, she's a firecracker. She's like her dad and her mom. I mean, you talk about duplication, cloning yourself. They did it successfully through her. They raised her up in a household

that feared the Lord. And it was so normal that the next step is just to walk in the path of the family calling. I mean, it's just, it's wild. Anyways, just a lot of props to disease. Go ahead and hit play on that, Jack. Allie, pray. As, as you were talking, Dad, I, the Lord reminded me of something. Come on. And I started getting a download as you're at the board. Let's go. Share it. Okay. He said, or he showed me something where I was looking at the sky. And I don't know much about, like, constellations or whatever.

It just, it was purely symbolism. Yeah, share it. I saw a bright star. And as I was looking at the bright star, I looked over and I saw this horse constellation. And when I was looking at this horse constellation, then the Lord really started to speak to me. And I looked up, I looked up the constellation. I realized that the bright star meant Jupiter. And I saw the, saw the horse.

And Jupiter, he was speaking to me that way, how these false gods are going to fall. God spoke. And he said, the false gods are going to fall. fall and the pure breads are going to rise that the ones that it's like they're god's messengers they're god's agents they're going to they're going to act they're going to carry out his word they're going to react swiftly and with action and and with power with the holy spirit they're going to be quick and and efficient and then i also heard the lord say um that yeah yeah just that the false gods will fall and then these people, these messengers are going to rise on his behalf. They're going to speak

the word of the Lord with power and just represent fine, swift action in Jesus' name. Thank you. So that was what she just felt, the stirring of the Holy Spirit speaking to her during that live broadcast. And I don't remember exactly how I felt. when I heard that, but gravity. It was waiting for me. And some people might have seen that and they're just like, okay, you know.

But for me, I was, and there was no alarm bells going on. I'm like, oh, I know what that is. Other than when she said false gods are going to fall, just by default with what I do, I always go back to the recruiters. These entities, because I think that these are false gods.

Like one in the story is ball. or bail, however you want to say it, Bayal. I think it's honestly, people pronounce it that way, right? I've heard it every which way, yeah. Her saying that they're going to fall, well, we know that they're uprising. We know that they're building an army. We know that they're recruiting people to work for them.

We know that the, well, this is Tony's theory. We know that I know the worlds are going to be colliding. The bridge is collapsing. They're being brought together. These false gods are preparing for war. we have earth being prepared as a battlefield globally. Chess pieces are moving. And I think the heavenlies are preparing.

And I'm not a date setter. I don't predict, you know, God is coming back tomorrow. But I can say in my heart, I feel like the time is drawing near. I think the watchmen need to be on alert. they need to look out in the distance across the battlefield and say there's something coming. And that's how I feel right now. I feel like I'm saying there's something coming.

It's too far away. I can't see exactly what it is, but I'm telling you guys, there's something coming. And as it gets closer, I'm going to let you know what I've seen. But right now, all I'm seeing is a speck out there. But it wasn't there yesterday.

And that's how I'm feeling right now. So I looked up, I get my readers on. I looked up the bright star and horse constellation, what it could mean symbolically or what? The bright star, divine authority, revelation, or calling. In scripture, a bright star is almost never neutral. Key biblical meanings, divine presence or authority, revelation or guidance, a calling, a calling or a commissioning.

Christ Himself. Christ Himself. I am the root, this is Revelation 22, verse 16. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star. Other star symbolism, numbers 2417, a star shall come out of Jacob, which is messianic authority. Daniel 12, 3. stars as those who can turn who turn others to righteousness

that's beautiful I mean that is beautiful that lays out and Daniel 12 is laying out great commission work stars as those who turn others to righteousness let that hit

Revelation 120 stars representing angelic messengers or authorities. I think we've known that. I mean, what do you think about the northern star that the wise men were following? Do you think that was an actual star? Do you think that was an angel? I think it might have been, it's funny because she mentions Jupiter. They said it could be a conjunction of two planets. So they were merged and they actually appeared. And only those that were trained to see it would see it and notice what it was. Interesting. That's interesting. So it was a supernatural vision.

It was a supernatural. It was physical, but like only they would, because they were learned as the magi to interpret it. Interesting. They understood the significance of what it was. Very interesting. Thank you, Pastor Derek. No, I mean that. Seriously.

That's good. That's good. In visions, a bright star often points to something initiated by God, a heavenly directive, a moment of clarity breaking through darkness. So if you think about what I'm talking about, the tunnels underneath us, the bridge collapsing, the world's colliding, this war coming, Earth being the battlefield. And then you look at a moment of clarity breaking through darkness, a heavenly directive, a directive, that's military speak. Something initiated by God. The nod is what I call it.

Some would call it a breaking of a seal, but I call it the nod. It's like, it's like, go. The tough guy, not the action movie. Like, oh, yeah, I got you. And it's like, we already know. And it's done. The movie ends very quickly at that point.

Everyone gets murdered. All right, so that's the bright star. Now, the horse constellation. Depicting warfare, movement, or judgment. Horses in scripture almost always signal movement and power, often in a warfare context. In Job 39, 19 through 25, this is abbreviated. Do you give the horse his might?

He laughs, the horse is laughing. He laughs at fear and is not dismayed. He does not turn back from the sword. Biblical associations of horses. Spiritual warfare. Rapid advance or escalation. Judgment of or judgment or deliverance. Heavenly armies.

See where this is. kind of going here. Most notably, Zachariah chapter 1 and chapter 6, horses patrol the earth on divine assignment. Revelation chapter 6 and chapter 19, horses tied to judgment, authority, and Christ's victory. So I'm just going to let it there. There's more, but we know what happens when I read too long live. So I did really good there. You did great.

I was like, I know. We're going to stop while we're ahead. It's holding my breath. But so what I'm trying to, I guess, picture for people. And I'm telling you, I'm not a prophet. And I don't feel the Holy Spirit said, Tony, I'm coming tomorrow or I'm coming in 2026. But I have a stirring. There's a shift happening.

And maybe that shift is going to be drawn out for the next five years, 20 years, 30 years. I don't know. But I feel like 2026 is at least there's a shift happening. a very dramatic shift and we need to be ready for it. So I will end on this because I know we got to get going here. I know Derek has to go pay our rent.

Can I just say one thing? So the horse constellation, I just looked at it's Pegasus. It actually appears in the fall which is when they want to do the Patriot games. And Jupiter falling is actually a representation of the king. So is the king, that mentality, is that going to be exposed during this constellation being out? Wow.

That's powerful. Everything seems to be, for me, in my cooked up brain, and I do emphasize the word cooked. Everything seems to be lining up. Yeah. Everything seems to be like there's this collision coming, this, it's all coming to a head. And I just, I can sense it. I feel it. There's something happening.

And so yesterday, I'm going to end on this. And I'm not going to read this whole thing because I don't feel prepared in my heart to read this to everybody because I've never done this before. Yesterday, so just like we shared those videos in the beginning of the show, how the show started, how I was, how the show started was the Holy Spirit speaking to me. And, you know, I feel like it's a broken record, but I got to say for this part, The other part of that speaking was he told me who I was going to work with. Wes German from Sasquatch Chronicles. I didn't know Wes, and I never tried reaching out to Wes. But a month later, Wes called me and told me on our first conversation,

for whatever reason, he thought I'd be a good podcaster. So, like, God does speak to me. I'm not a prophet. But when you walk with God and you bring him and you're in the practice of bringing, him with you wherever you go or maybe it's backwards maybe you're going wherever he goes but you try to be glued to his hip you will learn the voice just like a baby in a brand new house has no idea what you're saying but a year later they start saying words because they've heard it over and over again they learn the language the more time you spend with god the more you're going to learn his

language and you will start hearing his holy spirit speak to you Yesterday morning, I'm getting ready for church. I have this stirring in my spirit. Then Marcus Rogers has that video. Man, I'm feeling it right now. And it just, again, I'm on a tower and I'm like, there's something coming. My stirring, I felt the ground rumbling. I looked out and sure enough, I see a speck out there across this field.

I can't make it out, but I know there's something there that wasn't there yesterday. That's the vibe. And so I go out and I grab my Bible and I go out in the porch and I just spend some time in prayer and asking God for clarification. And I read Philippians 210, which was quoted in Marcus's video and thinking that that was going to be my launching pad. And as I'm sitting there and praying and contemplating what I felt. like this stirring was, I saw a worm on the ground. And it's just so, like, I don't, it sounds so out of place. I'm just going to read this, I'm just going to read this because this is where I,

I felt the Holy Spirit speaking something to me. And so I pulled my phone out and I just hit voice to text and I just started speaking. So if this read, everything reads bad, I'm sorry. but I said I saw a worm coming up out of the ground this is visually what I saw at an unusual time of year, January and I don't even know if that's unusual or not I don't know

is it unusual I don't know but it seemed off to me I was like it's cold out it was cold morning and there's this worm and there's no rain there's no other worms as I sat there watching this worm struggle contemplating why I'm seeing a worm right now, the Lord spoke to me and said, this sounds so stupid, even silly to say, and said, the worms are coming up out of the earth.

Philippians 210. And what do worms do? They bore tunnels. They're slimy, they're disgusting little creatures. What's under the earth is coming up this year. We must be ready. Alert. Watchmen.

the signs are around us some signs have been here for years and and i'll jump down here because some of this stuff i don't want to read as i sit here watching the worm struggle writing this i look back at the worm and it's lifeless it's laying there exposed and dead the light that showed me the worm coming is now exposing its lifeless body and At some point, I don't remember how all this, actually, before I wrote this, I had come across, if, is that you, Jay? Okay. Somebody was trying to log into our email account. I think it was Lindsay, hopefully, because I approved it.

But, so in between the first thing I read and the second thing, I just started reading, I went from Philippians 210, and I was just flipping. and I landed on Ephesians 5. And just the way structurally this Bible is written, Ephesians 514 just visually popped out at me. And it says, for the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said, awake, oh, sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

And so then I, that's, so I read, that and then I wrote this. I'll just start reading it again. As I sit here watching the worm struggle writing this, I look back at the worm and it's lifeless. It's laying there exposed and dead. The light that showed me the worm coming is now exposing its lifeless body. Ephesians 5, we need to live in the light. Living in the light exposes the darkness as it comes and the darkness can't exist in the light. So like if this is the battlefield and we're the beacons of light, we are instrumental in how this battle goes. Not the final outcome that's written, but the road and blueprint to that final outcome, we are extremely instrumental just like we are with

prayer and spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare, if you look at everything as design, by God. Spiritual warfare itself has been designed by God. And I talked about this at church, but like, it's designed for our participation. It's not, our participation isn't a thing where it's like, oh, well, that helps. Without our participation in spiritual warfare, spiritual warfare is not warfare. And so in the same light and literally light, in the same vein as this,

were called to be awakened, oh sleepers, rise up from the dead, come out of your slumber, wake up, and Christ will give you light. Let us be the beacons of light. Let Christ's light shine through us so that in this dark time there's hope for people. I painted it throughout the last two hours or however long we've been going, I probably painted at times a grave image. And it's not going to be sunshine and roses. It's not. But it's important for you and I and Jack and anybody else watching and listening who are believers to go back to what I said, I gave the word for Larry's people, to have a supernatural unique piece about them. Knowing that it's already been written down, we know what.

the outcome is, therefore we can operate in the moment of this despair with supernatural unique peace. And that itself is going to be extremely attracted to people and we can show them how to get through this season that we're going to be entering into humanity. The bridge is collapsing. The worlds are colliding. And it's time to get serious about it. Final words, guys. I just want to read the next couple of verses out of Ephesians 5.

It says, be careful how you live. don't live like fools but like those who are wise make the most of every opportunity in these evil days don't act thoughtlessly but understand what the lord wants you to do do not be drunk with wine because that will ruin your life instead be filled with the holy spirit and that reminds me of the little girl that's Joel 228 where the outpouring the holy spirit's going to come and people are going to have dreams and visions and the lord's going to speak to people in these last days and so that's where we're at We just, we need to have that outpouring in our own lives personally so that we can begin to walk like we're supposed to walk. Absolutely.

I, I, 100% agree. Jack, you got anything to say? You're an equal participant in this show. Probably not really. I've probably dominated the airways like usual. But you got anything to say anything? I'll give you an opportunity to cast a prophetic vision over my audience. You got anything?

I don't have anything. Empty. An empty vessel we got over here. Let's get them filled up. Yeah. We need, hey, there's this thing called the Bible. Start reading it, son. You learn about something.

Guys, I appreciate you tuning in. I think this might have been the largest live we've ever done. I saw that we peaked around like 213, or you're at 213,000. Prophetic. Can you imagine? Prophetic. Can you imagine? I can't imagine.

Lord, can you? He's like, no, I can't. I saw we peaked around 1250, 1,300. That's good. So, hopefully, something. I said was impactful, not just entertaining as a ramblings of a crazy man. I'm a little crazy. I'm not all crazy, but I'm a little crazy. But can you be crazy if you know it and understand that you are crazy? Maybe, I don't know. But as we go through this year, guys, 2026, it's going to

have, it's highs and lows. If you have spent any time on this earth, you know that that's just normal. We have peaks, we have valleys, we walk through them, we get through them. In the process, there's many people on both sides of the octagon yelling at you for their perspective as to why it's all going to crash and burn. And the thing is, they're all right. It's all going to come undone. But we know how it ends, and you need to have faith in Christ. If you can have faith in Christ, that's your, literally your saving grace in this equation. It's now time to put up or shut up. If you're somebody who's a Christian, get deeper in your faith.

If you're somebody who has been backsliding, not real serious about it. It's time to wake up, oh, sleeper, and rise from the dead. Amen. It's time to rise from the dead. Get serious about it. Like, listen, not all churches are going to talk about. the Nephilim. My church doesn't talk about the nephalum every Sunday. My pastor's mentioned it several times. But he'll talk about the giants when it's relevant. But there's so much more in Scripture

beyond these giants. They are a source of the problem. Tower Babel, source of the problem. The fall of man and Eden, source of the problem. But there's so much more to Scripture. And the whole thing with scriptures is it's to redeem humanity through Christ. Find yourself, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you are a sleeper and you've been dead spiritually, find yourself a church that will preach Christ. Everything else is secondary. Everything else is secondary. Find a church that's going to preach Christ and get plugged in and get serious about your faith.

It has to happen this year. This is our first live show of 2026. I don't know how they're all going to go. I'm sure there's going to be some that are duds. I'm sure we're going to get back into the A. I rants, and we're going to get, but this is a very important broadcast that you tuned in for a very specific reason. And I would say it's divine that you're here watching and viewing. If I said anything that spoke to you, please take it to heart, get serious about your faith because there's a

war coming and you don't want to be just putting on your armor when the enemy's knocking on your door. I'll see you guys. Oh boy, is that sling? It's no God with me whole squad gone and devil try to throw shade eye grin cause the light too bright Walking the spotlight who that standing in the slang and the truth slap never in the way we moved dad on my name for the hit like a du wreck I was stuck in the valley that view bad now I'm up in the hills with a food bag got took all my elves ran through dad now the wind stack high like a new stack every step with the light that's a blueprint whole pack getting bright cause he's doing it he the king so the crown got a new fidd and the cross hit harder than a new clip we're here just the body's a movement every giant in the way he'll move it

the world when I hate we cool with it because the love is strong with the tree like boom can't miss no I've been down in the dirt now I'm cleaned up blood bought brand new never dreamed up every thorn out of stone trying to team up got 50 thousand standing here feeling beamed up I remember them nice in the struggle feeling way down deep by the trouble but he showed up up strong bro the muzzle now the faith built bit like a double we're here for the frame of the flash we just point to the king let him flash living water in the cup no cap in the well don't run dry that's that facts now we run another path with a show step every loss is a set up for the best yet every giant in my face is a test back got swing once

Boom, boom, can't miss no.