The Confessionals - Machines, Monsters, and The Future | Slingshot Nation

Episode Date: November 7, 2025

A futuristic showdown between man-made intelligence and ancient beasts — this live episode dives into the blurred line between technology and the supernatural. From AI robots and self-driving trucks to cryptids breaching realms, the moon landing hoax, and what’s coming next — we’re pulling back The Thin Veil of Reality.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 BattlesThe 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

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Yeah run it up I attack it out Welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome Welcome to a live Slingshot Nation friends We are here and we are recording and live and all that stuff. Thanks for joining me here today on this random live. I started the lives, I would say,

better part of a year ago. And consistency has always been the hardest thing on doing these lives on YouTube. But we're going to give it another crack. What do you say? About a year ago, I think it's been maybe even two years now. I don't remember. We tried starting the Wednesday morning wake-up shows.

and that was a lot of fun. And basically Wednesday morning, I found out was the worst time for me to do lives when it came to school year, taking my kids to school and stuff. So by the time I was ready to go, it was no longer a wake-up Wednesday morning. It was more like a Wednesday afternoon scrambled before you got to pick up the kids kind of thing. So it didn't last the way I wanted it to. But earlier this year, we were hitting the ground running pretty well.

And I thought things were going well. and then, you know, life took a turn and, you know, many of you know, my wife got sick. And so that kind of took over everything for months. And we had to do a lot of readjustments. And here we are. I think life is, well, that'll be a lie. Life is not settling down for me at all. It's more, it's more hectic than ever. But I'm finding, I'm finding a weird balance in this. chaos, does that ring true for any of you? Let me know in the chat if you can identify with that. It's one of those things where, I guess, you know, I'll use this example, I suppose. When I was driving truck and doing the podcast at the same time, I mean, podcast was literally

like full-time job effort, right? And then I also had 12 to 14 hours a day of driving a truck. You get used to that life of chaos where it's just nonstop, go, go, go. And you don't even realize you're tired, right? You just don't realize until something changes and, you know, you stop driving truck and you realize how tired you are. And you're like, I mean, it took more off my plate, but you just spent years of beating yourself down. I feel like that's a similar thing here with the schedule. It's just you become so numb to it. You don't even realize how crazy, busy it is. You're like, yeah, I can, I can bring more on my plate. Why not? Let's do some lives and start that up again. So bear with me.

I am a bit rusty and also bear with me if I don't show up again next week, but I'm planning on it. We're trying to find the right days, though. Is the right day Monday or Thursday? That's what we're thinking right now. Monday or Thursday. And I'm thinking Thursday because naturally Thursdays are the day that I'm sitting here thinking, I could go live. Monday is usually scrambling around getting things done that you didn't get done during the weekend

and all that jazz gearing up for the Tuesday show. So Thursdays might be the day that we go live. I don't know if any of you guys have been kind of plugged into the future of really everything. Technology, quote unquote, scientific advancements or even currencies. I mean, it's been in pretty wild times that we're living in. You know, I don't know if I've ever shared this story with you, but many people that are, you know, maybe listening to this show familiar with me. or, you know, whatnot, might think similarly as I do. And, you know, many people might be into, you know, something called cryptocurrencies. And I was little late to the game with the crypto stuff.

But when it first started happening, the whole Bitcoin launched, I think it was in 2008 or something, I was young. If it was 2008, I was a year married. I know I was married because of how the story goes. But this whole crypto Bitcoin thing happened. And I didn't totally understand what it was. I just knew that people were saying this was going to be super valuable, get in on the bottom and all that stuff.

And I was like, oh, boy, I need to get in on this. And so I talked to my wife. I went home to my, I think we had a 700 square foot apartment. And our kitchen was in the hallway. And I said to my wife, I said, I want to invest in this thing called Bitcoin. And I told her probably a half-baked understanding of what it was. I still don't understand totally what it is and what a blockchain is. But she said no.

And I said, let me just get $100. Let me just put $100 down on this. She said no. And as a good husband, I respected my wife's wishes. And I said, okay, I will not buy any Bitcoin and put it in this wallet that I can't hold or can I hold it. I'm not sure. And that same week, I'll never forget the same week, my cousin came down to my apartment with visiting and I I guess I wanted to flex how much of a man I am of my own, my own household. And so instead of buying Bitcoin that week, I decided to go down to the Kmart with my cousin and buy a PS3.

And I bought a PlayStation for like $300. Without asking my wife, I honored her wishes. I did not buy Bitcoin. So she can't be mad at me for that. I show up at the apartment and I have this PlayStation, we plug it in and play some stupid game. She comes home and I show her with pride on my face of what I was able to accomplish. And she wasn't too happy. I said, buddy, you got to go home, man.

Ain't nobody want to see this. And so that was my introduction to Bitcoin in one way. week. I could. But here's the thing. I was so, I was so not ready for something like that. You know, if you don't know, Bitcoin is, right now, it's over $100,000. And so, you know, people are, I would say, making out very well if they held their Bitcoin throughout these years. And I don't think I would have been that person. though. If I'm buying a PlayStation for $300 when I didn't have $100 for Bitcoin, more than likely, I would have bought it at what, 10 cents a coin or whatever it was. And once it hit a dollar,

$2, I would have been like, oh, I'm rich. I'm cashing out, you know. But right now it's worth over $100,000 a coin. And, you know, you look back on it and you say, oh, I wish I could have, would of, shoulda kind of thing. But the reality is things happen for a reason. I just, I don't know what that reason is. But, you know, I got into crypto, I'd say probably about a year ago or something. I started dabbling with it and, you know, trying to diversify my income in the future of currency and finances. because I do believe that that is where we are going. Whether we like it or not, that is where we're going. And now my algorithm is just completely trained for my behavior.

And I can't go on, and I go on Instagram for almost everything. I barely touch X. I don't touch Facebook. You know, it's just I go on my personal Instagram and that's where I dabble. And that algorithm just knows me. It shows me NBA basketball, specifically the 76ers, shows me dystopian type content, and it shows me cryptocurrency. That's what it shows me. I barely see anybody that I follow, which, you know, is the way social media has changed. It's no longer social media.

It's interest media. It's interest-based media. They don't really push your friends that you follow as much as what your interests are. It's all about the algorithm. And my algorithm constantly shows me XRP and Bitcoin. And if you, if you, if you, if you, if you, if I'm speaking Chinese to you, I apologize. But XRP is a digital currency that a lot of people are high on.

I quite enjoy it. And there are people who will say things like XRP to the moon. It's going to, this time next year, XRP could be $10,000 a coin. Now, this is not financial advice, friends, just so I have to be clear. But my lord, does the algorithm know I'm a sucker for a good headline. You know, because XRP now, I think, is like $2. And last I'd check was like 30 cents or something like that, a coin. And so you start doing the numbers.

And every time, every time I see. a post on social media about XRP going to the moon. XRP $58,673.2 by March 27, 2009. I'm like, oh, that's it. That's the ticket. That's the timeline. And I go and I pull my phone out. The first thing I do is I pull out the calculator.

I start calculating, how much would I be worth if this happened, you know? And I'm just a sucker for this stuff. And, you know, more than likely, XRP is going to be worth $5.30 years from now. And I'll just still be holding it. I'll still just be holding on to my XRP saying, one day, one day I'll be all to leave my kids something substantial. What about you guys?

Do you guys touch the crypto? It's an interesting thing. I don't really totally understand the blockchain idea, to be honest with you. They've been talking about it for years. I've had people try explaining it to me. I don't quite understand it. But I do understand that it has everything to do with everything. The blockchain, things are going to be sold on the blockchain.

Life is going to exist on the blockchain from what I understand. From what I understand. But it's just an interesting time we're living in. You know, I've been going through, if you've been listening to the show for, any, any amount of time recently, let's just say the last year and a half, two years, you've definitely seen and heard transitions in the show, the confessionals. I, hmm, the show has gone through its own stages throughout the years, you know. It just, the chapters have changed and pages have turned.

And I think that's because it's host driven, you know, like I'm a human being and as my perspectives and thoughts changed, so does the show ebbs and flows with that. And one thing that we just always always come back to, no matter where the show's at, is in my mind, the cryptids being, well, I should say when I first started the show, I was much less of this opinion only because I didn't know how to quantify, not quantify, express what my gut was telling me. If you look back at the beginning of the show, the first episode, we talked to a farmer who had two Sasquatch encounters. The second episode was an up-close UFO encounter. The third episode is my wife sitting in our third bedroom of our house telling me her

hat man stuff. Fourth episode was about the Nephilim. I had a professor come to my house and talked to me about the Nephilim. So I've been on this for a while, right? But I didn't know how to connect dots, and I still don't. I don't want to say I have it all figured out. I don't. But I didn't know how to even express in my gut how I felt about this cryptid stuff. I express it now in a much more supernatural way. But even back then, I had this feeling that there was something supernaturally driven about these cryptids. And I guess the big hang up and maybe it's still the hang up for so many people is the fact that it's such a it can be and most often is such a physical experience how is that how can that be a supernatural thing um it's not

until you start really i guess being engulfed in it for so long that you start thinking about you know the the physical attributes and aspects of the supernatural how it manifests even in the scriptures and biblically speaking, like you do see physical manifestations of the supernatural God physically manifesting in different ways. The Israelites followed a cloud by day and a pillar fire by night. Those are physical manifestations of the supernatural. And if you look at the negative side of it, you know, the fallen angels were physical manifestations. Many times people will talk about having a physical manifestation of a an angel, an angel, an angelic being in their homes, in their rooms. And, you know, that there's,

there is a physical aspect to the supernatural. And I guess it just took me a while to start understanding that maybe these cryptids are not just a little supernatural. They're severely super natural. And I just had a friend of mine in studio here. Actually, it requires, what's today, Thursday? Yeah, so today's member episode, my friend Brian, local guy, came in. He's a local monster hunter. That's why I like calling him, Monster Hunter.

Monster Hunter, Brian, welcome to the show. And he, I love Brian because, though he and I don't necessarily see, eye to eye on everything as far as philosophies go with this stuff, how to operate within the topics and how to even conduct research. You know, there's plenty of things that Brian does that don't make me feel the most comfortable. I wouldn't do it myself. I love Brian's methodology when it comes to his thoroughness and his willingness to consistently go out to areas. and investigate. And he does a lot of his stuff during the day for many reasons.

And no, it's not because he's scared to be in the woods at night. I've been in the woods with him at night. And not one time did I think Brian was terrified of being there. Brian goes out during the day because you can see more, you can accomplish more, and video can capture more. It is fun to go out at night. It's, you know, theoretical, but, you know, these creepy, crawly things might come out at night more. If you have the proper, you know, cameras, night vision, thermals, that might behoove you to capture something at night.

But he goes out by himself most of time, and he goes during the day. And there are times that he has experiences that you say to yourself, boy, oh boy, am I glad? Brian went out during the day, you know? You're going to hear me talk next week. We have Stacey Brown coming on the show. He came up from Florida. We're releasing a documentary on a docu-series on Merkelfilms.com that Stacey produced called Bigfoot the Journey to Belief. And him and I had a fan It was honestly one of the best crypted conversations I think I've ever had in studio. It was so, so fun. I think we did about two and a half, three hours.

And the only reason why we stopped is because we had to get to the airport. We could have gone for four hours. It was riveting. And he goes, I have no idea why I brought him up. why did I bring Stacey Brown into this equation? I don't remember.

Let's get back on Brian. I have no idea how I got there. But we're going out during the day and stuff. Brian, oh, so Brian, Brian is going out during the day. And he captures some pretty interesting, pretty interesting things on camera.

And we talk about it on today's show for the members, but I'll tell you guys, that's why I brought it up, because you'll hear me talk next week about the area that this happened for Brian in. So next week, you're going to hear me talk about an area that recently has been pulled back from us to be able to go into as readily and easily available. There is ways to get there still, but it is now parts of it at least, government federal property and listed as such, which is very suspicious because of the activity that we get back there. I've had activity Scott Carpenter has, Brian has. And you'll hear me talk about that next week on Tuesday's show. But Brian's back there. And he starts hearing,

and I know I must have talked about this before with you guys, the predator clicking sound that I've heard in certain areas here in East Tennessee. Justin from Cryptids of the Corn podcast has tried to help me identify the biological creature that is making the clicking sound. And he has sent me dozens of sounds to listen to. And I've never been able to match the sound that I heard out there several times. And Brian has heard it as well. And so of other people. Ryan, I think caught it on audio.

But while he's out there and he is recording this and he's exploring, he has lots of game trail cams out there, he starts seeing something in the trees, not up in the trees, but in the tree line. And he's on a motorcycle. And I don't know exactly how the whole scene unfolds. At least I don't remember how he described it. but he winds up like running.

Like he felt like his life was at stake. He felt there was a sense of fear. And so he took off. And I just said fear thinking, oh, I just said he wasn't afraid. Maybe his sense of safety was at stake. And you see this captured on video. At one point, he sticks,

he says that he saw multiple things. He doesn't want to say creatures or their things, but they were black. And he couldn't make out details. and they are in the tree line. And he puts his camera in his pocket, and he takes off. You hear around the motorcycle,

and he just goes. And he's out there in the woods on a motorcycle, not electric bike, like a legit motorcycle. And at one point he stops and he takes his camera out and he shoots behind him. And you see a black, shadowy thing standing on two legs on the trail. And like, it's, it's wild.

I mean, we're sitting in here and he pulled it up on, well, Jack pulled it up on the screen for us to look at it in the studio. And it was like, you hear people talk about entities that when they appear, they're blacker than black. Like, like, if it was a black room, you still be able to see the entity because the black of the entity is blacker than the room of darkness. That's kind of like what it looked like on camera. It was daytime and it was just a pure black silhouette standing on the trail and it looked

like just one. He said he saw multiple at one given point. But then he brightened. He took a screenshot of it and brightened the image. And so now it looks like it. Because it was dusk out. It was dusk out. So, like, it was getting dark when he shot this. And you could see the black silhouette and the shadows around it and all that stuff. But then when he brightened the pictures, when it pops. And it's crazy because when he brightened the picture,

it looks like daylight now because he brightened it. But the shadowy silhouette still stayed black. It was completely black. There's no, you couldn't. see any definition, nothing. It was just absolutely, it was wild. Anyways, we talk about that on today's show. And, you know, it gets me, I've been really, I've been really thinking a lot about different tactics when it comes to how to handle this stuff. And the more I lean into and come to understand and truly in my heart and in my gut believe that this crypted phenomenon, most of it, not all of it. I don't want to say all of it because I do think that you can go down to dinosaur route. Technically a dinosaur today would be encrypted and I think it would be

probably pretty physical. Maybe. Unless you subscribe to the dinosaurs being offspring of Nephilim, then it would be supernatural. So anyways, I think I just subscribed. I just subscribe mostly to the idea that the cryptids are they're supernatural in nature. And if they're supernatural in nature, then I feel like, though I don't think you'll ever catch me out in the woods without a gun. Because there's a lot of other things out there too.

We have Black Panthers out here and Dogman, Bigfoot, those are supernatural. We got the Red Wolf and the Cougars. and bear and all that stuff. I just feel like the weaponry to deal with this is evolving and changing in my mind. And I don't have a clear picture totally as to what that entails. I'm talking to some very highly respected people that I've had on the show before and brainstorming on how to go about this new chapter of investigation.

but I think the investigations are going to be turning more in a supernaturally driven direction. Like I said, I'll always have a gun on me. And if I see a big foot or a dog man, I'm pulling the trigger and seeing what happens. But I think that there is a better weapon to be using. And I think when you're dealing with territorial entities, when you're talking about principalities and breaking those strongholds in the spiritual, a gun's not going to do it. And so I think it takes strong faith and understanding the ultimate power and authority that you carry in Jesus Christ.

And that comes with you, in you, constantly. And so as things unfold and develop, I just notice I'm looking at my monitor here. And I just saw that I'm glitching a little bit. That's interesting. We'll have to take a look at that. Maybe the computer needs to be cleaned off. I don't know because I just got this new one and I'm supposed to fix everything. Oh, well.

Anyways, I'm back. As we continue to be out there and evolve our practices, I just see I can envision our fight against the spiritual warfare, the battle that we are all in, that evolves as we're out there and we get stronger in our faith and we understand our faith and our place in this realm and the cosmos and how this is all unfolding around us. The more we are getting secure in our salvation, the more we're going to understand how to really attack this. And I think, you know, like I'm walking you up to the water, right? But I don't, I don't have, there are, there are ways to go about things. And I don't have the methodology totally hammered out yet.

We have done certain things, liturgies and things like that out in the woods. You have not, yeah, I don't think you guys, you've guys see me, you know, pray and stuff out in the woods. we have done liturgies and that I don't think has been released yet but I just feel like there is if you're talking about you're talking about breaking principalities strongholds over geographical areas that takes some special weaponry and praise God that he's given us the ability to to understand where our authority and our power comes from. And yeah. So the cryptic scene is changing, I suppose.

At least my take on it. You know, I understand there's always going to be people who are, you know, Bigfoot is a relic hominid or your friendly forest giant. Darn it, there was something that me and my manager Derek, we're talking about when it comes to, that's gone. It kind of gave a new take on the whole

idea of Bigfoot, Bigfoot being a friendly forest giant. I just don't remember exactly what we were talking about. So, Derek, if you happen to be listening right now and you know what I'm talking about, feel free to come in here and let me know. But anyways, the cryptid scene

is definitely changing in my mind. it's getting more in depth and more pulling in a spiritual, supernatural way. I kind of want to do Bible studies in the woods. I kind of want to do, I kind of want to just, for me personally, like, I kind of want to just go out in the woods. All right, listen, I know this sounds weird, right, but let me just say this here. I kind of want to go out in the woods at night with me and the canon, 66 books, not the canon of the pew, pew. Pug. canon, but the canon of the flippity page canon. And I kind of just want to do devotionals for an

entire night out in the woods in a stronghold area. I just kind of want to, I just kind of want to read scripture out loud, pray out loud, do Bible study out loud, and like seek understanding my maker in more depth out loud in front of a supernatural audience, good and bad combined. You know, in Daniel 10, we see how, and I know I've referenced this before, but it's just a great depiction, that the spiritual warfare didn't even actually start until Daniel started praying. That is when the angel said that I was held up. up by the spirit prince of Persia, Persia, from being able to get to you to answer your prayer.

It wasn't until he started praying that that interaction happened. So what happens if you go out into an area that has a stronghold and you just seek God in the middle of that intentionally? What does that do around you? And you best believe I'll have a audio recorder going and probably cameras all around me, just in case something bonkers happens I try to catch stuff on video as much as I can it's hard though it's a lot harder than I thought it'd be

I got I got what is this live here on the show what is this I don't know okay some local thing was calling me and now

Siri's trying to talk to me on my watch my lord back on track so there's cryptid stuff But let's switch it up a little bit and talk about some AI stuff. What do you say? You guys know I have an affinity for talking about AI. I just, and I don't think that will ever change because it's not boring to me. It's just, it's never-ending, never-changing.

And the more you talk about the supernatural aspects of cryptids, how does that play into AI and even robotics? Oh, my lord. let me pull this up here now I'm going to pull up the chat I have a feeling you're not going to be able watch oh bummer all right I'm going to pull this up

you guys your job is to let me know if you can hear this okay so let me pull up the let me just pull the screen over here what is going on here my my monitor

for this broadcast is acting funky. There we go. I'm going to hit play. And if you guys can't hear this, just let me know, and I'll do my best to describe everything for you. You guys can't hear it. I just saw a no. That's unreal. Unreal. We got to figure this out. We got to figure this out. This person said, yes, actually, no. And this other person said, no. Nope. Okay, cool. Well, the show's over, guys. Thanks for being here. I really appreciate you tuning in. Okay, so basically this video here that I was going to play for you. You know, mental note, somebody here, somebody here, please. Let me see here.

Let me, it's a, let me just pull it up here real quick. We're going to do something here fun real quick. Somebody here in the chat watching this live needs to do me a solid. And we look them up real quick. All right. So do me a favor. Somebody go on Instagram and look up my brother,

Jack underscore the producer. Jack underscore the producer, Jack Merkel, and shoot him a DM and tell him that he needs to remember to help me work through the audio issues so that we can actually do what I want to do on these live broadcasts, okay? Because right now, I can't do it and it's driving me nuts.

So I will tell you what this is about. this is the future of AI and robotics. And they're talking about within the next year, the next 12 months, there's going to be 12,000 people, I'm assuming worldwide, that have these robots in their homes doing laundry, folding towels. Let me mute this in place, so you guys can actually just watch it while I talk about it, I suppose. just doing everything. They can grab your mail for you, cook food, all that stuff.

They charge wirelessly through their feet. They go into a station and they stand on the station and it charges wirelessly. Like, the future is here. Okay? The future is here. And they're saying, I think in the next four years it says here, 100,000 people will have these in their homes. Will you?

I know most of you are saying absolutely not. I say absolutely not. But call me a hypocrite in five years if I do it. I mean, doesn't it look kind of cool, though? The dangers, yes, the dangers. But wouldn't it be nice to have somebody that's a robot making your food and poisoning you and folding your laundry and I don't know? They're saying that it's not just like a one-time model thing either. you'll get this robot and they will be able to be programmed to do what you tell them to do and all the things that they can do. But over time, they're part of an AI network.

And over time, your robot will encounter difficulties maybe just in your house, the way the house is laid out to its owner's schedule to what it's being requested to do. and it's going to create solutions for the problems it's encountering. And it will take those solutions and share those into the AI network so that the other robots are being updated with the solution that your robot found. So they can implement that into their daily use. So it's going to be a constant learning thing that over time, over time the robots will take over everything and destroy us all.

literally we're writing our own obituaries. It's wild. It's wild. Like I said, I'm not getting one. But listen, 10 years ago, I wasn't even a podcaster. So who knows? Like, who knows? I hope not, though.

If I get one, like, I need to go to future me and just smack me. Smack me good. but this got me thinking and you know like the advancements of AI's is is wild right here's another video they have successfully

had a tractor trailer I believe it was driving from either Dallas or San Antonio to Houston completely driverless completely driverless here's another one for you this is actually a Peterbell

this isn't even Tesla or anything like that. This is Peterbilt, which is, if anybody knows, I mean, I'm a former truck driver here. Peterbilt is probably like, like the number one tractor, trailer, the truck company for semi-trucks. I mean, like Peterbilt, like, who doesn't want a Peterbilt? They have successfully, shout out to Ellie for becoming a new member, they have successfully got this thing driving on its own. And look at it. It's not even, ugly. Like it's not like it doesn't have all these like big bulky cameras. Like I used to talk, when I used to talk about this, I used to say they're going to have all these cameras on it.

It's just going to be everywhere. Like that is clean looking and it's run with AI. It has such predictive programming that it predicts erratic behavior before it actually happens. It's, I wish you guys could hear this guy's description of it because everything he was describing of it was what I did as a human being driving tractor trailer. Like I would, I would look way in advance. So one nice thing about driving tractor trailer is that you sit higher than everything around you. So a tractor trailer driver, if he's paying attention, will see well in advance of everybody else. So if you're in a pickup truck, you're sitting higher than a car and you can see a little bit further. Think of that only with the tractor trailer.

I see everything. And if you're paying attention, you can actually predict and understand what's going to happen before it even happens. You can start seeing people acting. you learn people's behaviors. So you notice that, you know, if a car is driving a certain speed and aggressive nature up next to you and you're approaching an off ramp, there's a high likelihood that that person is trying to get to that exit. And instead of slowing down and getting behind you, they're zooming up to cut in front

of you because they view you as a tractor trailer, slow and annoying, and they just want to get in front of you so they don't have to slow down. You learn these kind of things. And you see it coming up and you're like, okay, just. and you start laying off because you're not trying to have an accident. So, simply like, I'll show them. You actually just lay off the gas, start coasting,

letting them do their thing, get in front of you, cut you off, and there they go on the on-ram. Like, you learn that and you start predicting the nature and the human actions. Well, this automatic driving, AI-driven tractor-trailer does that. It learns and is predicting the actions and behaviors well in advance. It's literally acting like a human. Everything he described, I was like, holy cow, that's exactly what I would have done in these situations.

And so the AI thing is not going away as much as you hate it. If you're on here watching me right now, I promise you you use AI. I'm sure you understand that. Whether you like it or not, it's already ingrained in every aspect of our lives. And it's not going anywhere. And it's going to, and you take the, the, the transportation industry and everything and the way it moves and everything, pairing it with AI. And it doesn't stop there because it's going to connect with other AI industries and they're going to come together. You will, you will start seeing the AI robots offloading and unloading and loading the AI tractor trailers.

Like this is 100% going to happen and probably well before 2030. Like, I promise you. When I used to drive truck, I used to have a podcast called Hammer Lane Legends. It was with my dad. Actually, I think he's recording the last episode of it this Saturday. They're bringing it in for a landing. I used to talk to him about this and he used to irritate the crap out of him. I knew it would irritate him that I would talk about AI taking over the industry because

he's like, this is my job. like, I can't take over. It's taken over. If you're lucky, you'll have a good company like Pitt, Ohio. That's where my dad drives. That company, what I think is going to happen is they're going to do this, but they're only going to do it per retirement, per employee being fired. Maybe they'll look to fire more people for just stupid stuff.

But as they lose drivers, they'll probably purchase an AI truck to replace the driver. but it's going to happen. It's going to happen, especially when they start, when they have enough data showing how having an AI-driven truck will actually save the company money through accidents. Accidents happen all the time in trucking. LTL companies, they have accidents all the time because their drivers do 20 to 30 to stops a day and they're doing it in cities, erratic behavior around them. I had several accidents as a tractor trailer driver, nothing too major, but I've had several. things happen. It's just, it's just, it's just, it's just part of the job. And if you can save money, because the data shows that AI drivers are much more safer. And once you pay that truck off,

it's just there forever. Like, you don't have to worry about the, the driver retiring, going on maternity leave, getting cancer and getting sick and being out of work, and you're not sure if they're ever going going to come back. All that stuff goes out the window. So it 100% is going to happen. Now, back to, uh, the, the AI robot in your home. Now, we see, these things, I promise you these things will be unloading trucks. My question is, do these things have the ability to be possessed? I say yes, okay?

I don't know if that's a secret. Of course, that's what I would think. I might be a little crazy, I know. But if we're talking about cryptids, let's just use Dogman because I'm pretty sure Dogman is demonic. Like, it's not a good thing. If cryptids, Dogman, say Dogman is an interdimensional being an N-H-I, oh my.

There's crossover there. But say Dogman is a non-human intelligence. It's an entity that comes from another realm to this realm. And let me bring myself back up here. And it has the ability to transcend realms.

Now, you can talk about demons, just the generic phrase demons, entities, angels, heavenly angels, fallen angels. But Dogman specifically, is it possible if Dogman is a demonic entity

from another realm that manifests here can appear and be physical here, is it possible that it could possess one of these AI robots? And if it could, what does that mean? Right? there are things that make me

stay up all night. And this is one of them, okay? I can't tell you how many times I think about interdimensional dogman right around bedtime. And my brain goes sideways on things and I start these train of thought. Like I might be thinking about

my chicken dinner from two nights ago and all of a sudden somehow that got me on dogman. But here I am, thinking about interventional dogman before I go to sleep. And this idea that dogman can possess a physical AI robot.

It's like we talk about AI being possessed in general. We talk about dog man. In fact, I have some of you might know Joe Barker. He had a wild dogman encounter. He's been in here in studio. His episode is going to... I think his episode is going to release

probably sometime in January of 26. But part of his story is that when he killed this thing, he was visited by a government agency and they told him that he killed their asset. So was their asset a

designed creation in a lab to mimic a supernatural being, was their asset a robotic, a materialistic machine that they had possessed by a dogman entity? Could they have created the image of dogman for dogman entity to possess a machine to be used as a weapon? Often people talk about seeing dogman,

man in in cemeteries and graveyards why is that are cemeteries and graveyards the the portal gateways that are the veil where the veil is the thinnest between realms that makes sense and if dogman is an interdimensional being that comes from the underworld would it use an access point like that these are all things that go in my head right and so like i'm just i'm sitting here wondering if that's true, would it have any, would it, would it, would it, would it want to possess an AI robot that human beings have living in their homes with comfort? Like, you're comfortable. If you have an AI robot in your house, you're comfortable with that idea. You, you find a convenient. It's helpful, you know, mom and dad work, you know, 12 hours a day each. They also have two

kids that need breakfast, they need lunch, they need dinner. You have the AI robot do it. You pay $30,000 for the robot, and it's there, and it takes care of your family, and it's not even a year, a year salary for a nanny. They're going to make it so easy and convenient for you to have these things, like the personal financing, the discounts, the Black Friday discounts, the low-income housing discount. They're going to want everybody to have these in their home. They're homes. And you can go down to spy route of they want to spy on you. They want, there's some evil genius man behind a computer somewhere controlling the robots and all of a sudden they're going to take over. We're literally living I robot. But what if a large

portion of humanity has these AI robots in their homes and these AI robots are being possessed by vicious, malicious entities like dogman? And it is. And it is a lot of, it could sneak into the AI robot and do what it wants, when it wants, and you have no idea until it's too late because you've let it in your home and you felt safe with it. Welcome to the darkness, friends. I hope you find it enlightening. Shout out to Clyde Lewis. That's part of his show intro. Wild stuff. Wild stuff. So I don't know. I'm just thinking out I haven't done this in a while. I'm a bit rusty. Hopefully you guys, maybe something's clicking with you.

Maybe it's not. I don't know. I don't know. But I was going to play a video that I found real interesting, but I can't because you guys can't hear it. And this one you do need to hear. But I'll just tell you real quick, okay? I'll tell you real quick. Years ago, when I started the show, I was not sure if we landed on the moon. I erred on the idea that we probably landed on the moon.

And then as a show went on, I started thinking, I don't think we landed on the moon in 1969. I think it was a 69, right? It was 1969? Or was it 63? I don't remember. Either way, I was like, I don't think we landed when they said we landed,

but I think we landed on the moon on a future mission. Like, I don't think we did it then. But at some point, I think we did. And then they made me start stepping back when they were saying how, like, we don't have the technology to do it. I'm like, how does that work? How do we lose a technology? Okay, maybe, maybe.

I heard some really convincing arguments to the idea that we could have lost the technology. And I was like, okay, maybe it's going to make me feel good at night to feel and believe that we went to the moon. I will believe it. We went to the moon later. We didn't do it at first when they said they did it. But we had to say we did it. But we went to the moon now. We lost the technology.

And that's why we have not been back. And then there's this video going around the internet with actual NASA astronauts literally saying that this is the first time their mission, referring to their mission, that this is the first time that man is going to the moon. And I'm like, did everybody just hear that? am I am I living in a parallel universe right now like

first time y'all my whole life have been telling me we went to the moon and now you're saying the first time and I'm like are the gaslighting me they're doing something to my brain right now

it hurts I'm like yo dude you know what they're doing if this is real I mean I looked I looked I tried finding out this was an AI video I didn't see anything that says

it was an AI video. So as far as I understand, this video was legit. And if Joel sees this and he wants to make this video, please splice the video in so that people see it. Like, the only thing I can think is that technology is getting so advanced and there are certain lies of old that they can't juggle him. They literally find it impossible to juggle. There's no other way they can juggle it now.

They've juggled with their elbows. They've juggled with their feet. They've done the chicken dance. They can't do anything else other than just to say, we never said we went to the moon. We're going to the moon now, though. You know? Welcome to 2025, everybody.

Where man finally gets to the moon for the first time. It's going to be great. We're advancing in technology. We have AI. We have all this great stuff. I mean, you know, come on, guys. killing me. Oh my lord. I just, I just don't get it, guys. I just don't get it. It's like, it's like NASA is trying to make me a flat earther, man. I never say never anymore.

Golly, space is fake. The moon landing never happened. Oh, lordy, lordy, I don't know what to go. I don't know where to go with this. I mean, it's just our lives are a big facade. It's all fake. It's all fake. I mean, I'm speechless. Like, I'm just speechless. The more I think about it, like, I think this is the first time I've actually talked about it out loud.

I'm just speechless. How did we get here? Come, Lord, Jesus, come quick. I don't want any more of my paradigm shattered. I want to believe we went to the moon. Jesus is going to come back. He's like, I'm back. And Tony, we got.

out of talk. It's time for you to learn. It's like, it's like, uh, sitting down with your dad when you're, you know, a kid and he's like, son, we need to have a, a conversation. Oh, what, dad? Well, you know what bees are, son? That's what's going to be like, you know, the God, Jesus is going to come back and he's just like, Tony, come on over here, sit in my lap. I'm like, yeah, what's up, man? What's up? What's up? All right. Um, space. Don't say it so. Don't say it so. Please. Oh, man. It is what it is. It is what it is. Let me show you guys something here. And then we'll wrap this up. So I found this pretty interesting. Things that could exist by 2050. You know, some of this stuff on here is like, no, duh, right? And some of it got me thinking. So here's one. Human level AI. Experts predict AI systems will match, human reasoning and creativity within 25 years changing every job, classroom, and city.

No, duh. Give me like a no duh in the comments section. Like, homie, we're already there. Like, we're already there. People are losing jobs at Amazon. He just laid off 30,000 people because he's replacing them with AI robots with plans for, what, another 500,000 people to be laid off at Amazon? Like, Amazon, the hero company for the last 20 years.

is now eradicating human labor. No, duh. Tractor trailers driving themselves. No, duh. Classrooms. No, duh. Like, AI itself is a college grade course. Like, you can learn any...

You don't need to go to college. No, duh. 15-minute smart cities. No, duh. Next one here. Fusion power. Skip, no, duh. Asteroid mining.

This is interesting because for the people who say space, is fake. They're saying this is all part of the delusion and the agenda, but I find it interesting. Private companies plan to harvest metals from asteroids worth trillions. One rock could hold more platinum than Earth has ever mined. That's pretty interesting. I find it interesting. I find it interesting. Is it going to happen in the next 25 years? I think, why not? Like a lot of this stuff is like a Why not to me? Because with the advancements of AI, we see what we were able to do already.

AI is getting smarter by the day. The smarter and more capable AI becomes, the more humans will be able to technically do if our overlord AIs allow us. No, duh. Space elevator. Next. This is like a Tom Cruise movie, man. I don't even want to contemplate this, like space elevator. Quantum internet, I found this interesting.

Future networks may use entangled particles to send unhackable data at near instant speeds anywhere on Earth. Bull, I call baloney on that. I don't believe for a second, our overlords, whether it's human overlords or AI robotic overlords, will ever allow us to have access to anything that it's purely, truly, unhackable. Nah, I don't believe that for a second. They'll sell us the illusion that the moon's real and that we've gone to the moon and that the space station is in the outer orbit.

I'm questioning everything right now. But they're not going to allow us to have unhackable data. That's not happening. Not in a trillion years. Brain computer interfaces. No, duh. Right? like Neurlink is a real thing.

This is absolutely going to happen in the next five years. Like 100%. Neural chips could let people type, draw, or even talk using only their thoughts. Early prototypes already exist in labs. Neurilink, they're using the monkeys and all that stuff. My wife's texting me. Ooh, me she remembers me and she loves me.

Oh, good girl. This one is what I found the most interesting. Underwater cities. Architects are designing floating and submerged habitats powered by ocean currents and algae-based energy systems. Guys, this has the UAPUSO, underwater submerged object, U.S.O, U.S.O phenomenon written all over it. We got my local rep, Tim Burchett, talking about how these UFOs are coming up out of the water and there's bases under the water. This here, one, is a no-d-da, but two is absolutely going to happen. They are conditioning you through disclosure and the things that they're talking about for you to accept such things as this.

In fact, when this happens, promise you this. This was not designed by some genius in a lab. It was designed by fallen angel technology that already existed down there and we're just cohabitating with them. Is that the right terminology, cohabitating, co-existing with them? 100% no, duh. Personalized medicine. No, duh.

They're talking about how you can have a personal, well, let me just see here. AI and gene editing will tailor treatments to your DNA. Drugs could be designed specifically for one single patient. Or, or they're going to come out with technology abilities publicly that allow you to change your DNA to fit the medicine that they have to fix you, therefore altering your DNA. So instead of altering medicine for your DNA, they're going to alter your DNA for medicine. Tell me I'm crazy. I already know. Colonies on Mars. No, duh. Come on. Actually, no, let me, let me pause. Pause. For half, I don't know how many. I don't know what the percentages, to be honest with you, but for the people who say space is fake, Earth's flat, all that

stuff, this is a impossibility, I suppose. I don't know. I really don't know the, but nevertheless, if this is a possibility, I think, I mean, we know Elon says he's, he's gunning towards it. I mean, that's why he has the mining company so he can mine and bore holes into Mars. That's why he has nerling. That's why he has all the stuff he does, the X and all that, because he wants to go to Mars. He's crazy, guys, he's crazy. And he's letting, he's leading all humanity down this crazy scale train and we're just following this crazy guy who, L, you know, does it make sense? L? I was, I'm drawing a blank on his name. Elon, Elon, L, God, L, L, Elohim. It's not an accident. That didn't land. Okay. I think I'm going to wrap things up here, friends. It's been fun hanging out with you.

You know, it's been a bit that since we've done this. And I just, I appreciate every single one of you. And we've been riding together for, well, most of us have been riding together for a while. There's been a lot of new subscribers. But this is a fun time. I should do it more often. You know, you guys are good. And as long as my life allows it on a weekly basis, I'll do it on weekly basis.

If not, I'll do it as much as possible. Here we are today. happy Thursday everybody. If you're members and you haven't listened to today's episode, go check it out. It is a banger. I promise you. You're going to enjoy it.

And if you're not a member, next Tuesday show is another banger. You're going to enjoy it. So just keep being, you guys. I'll keep being me. Let the haters hate, let the lovers love, and everybody fall in between,

somewhere between there and there. I don't even know what I'm talking about. So I'm just going to get out of here. I'll see you. Oh, boy. Is that a sling? Slings shot season. No.

God with me a whole squad going with those shade. I'm green because the light too bright where I've been. Walking the spotlight, who's that? Stone in the slang and a truth slap. Devil in the way we move that. Trying to aim for the head like a new rat. I'm stuck in the valley that view bad. Now I'm up in the hills with a through that.

Guy took all my L's ran through that. Now the wind stack high like a new stack. Every step with the light, that's a blueprint. No whole pack getting bright because he doing it. He's kids so the crown got a new fit. And the crosshead harder than a new split. We ain't here just a body. It's a movement.

If the world when a hate, we cool with it. Because the love hit strong when the truth spit. Grace hit me like, boom, came in. God with me, whole squad going to win. Devil try to throw shade our grin, because the light too bright where I've been. Hey, hey, I've been down in the dirt now I'm cleaned up. Blub our brand new, never dreamed up.

They were throwing all the stones trying to deem up. Got 50 now I'm standing here for the beamed up. I remember them nights in the struggle. Feeling way down deep by the trouble. But he showed up strong broke the muzzle. Now the faith built big like a double. We ain't here for the fame of the flesh. We just point to the king, let him splash.

Even water in the cup, no cap, in the well, don't run dry. That's that's fast. Now we running on the path for the showstep. That's every large is a set up for the mess yet. Every giant in my face is a chestbed. Got swinging once, it's a headache. Grace came in like, can't miss. God with me, whole squad going to win.

Devil try to throw shade our grand, because the light too bright while I've been. Grace in me like, boom, can't miss. God with me, whole squad going win. We'll try to throw shade our grand because I like to break up. I'm back up. Grace hit me like, pull back. Let's go back.

I'll win. Slake shot nation. We don't back up. We don't break down. Just line it up. Pull back. Let it go. Run it up.

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