The Confessionals - The Ask Tony Anything Show

Episode Date: January 13, 2019

In celebration of producing 100 episodes of The Confessionals we are doing a live show where you ask the questions and I give the answers! Nothing is off limits! Thanks to the millions of people who have made the show what it is by listening to our weekly episodes! Without the listeners the show wouldn't have made it this far!

What's up, everybody? This is The Confessionals, and I am your host, Tony Merkel, and the following audio is audio from the Ask Tony Anything Show that we did on YouTube. If you didn't get a chance to check it out, this is the audio format of that. If you prefer to watch the video, go to YouTube.com, look up the Confessionals, hit subscribe and watch the video format. Now, the audio quality on this show is not going to be the normal audio quality because we were not focused on audio quality. We were focused on actually pulling off a video format show for two hours. Actually, it was almost two a half hours. So I hope you guys enjoyed the conversation between me and Jack and answering questions. It was a great time. Thank you very, very much for listening to the show and being with me and the confessionals for over 100 episodes. Let's get to it. This was all circulating around the base that a giant had to kill, but no one was supposed to talk about it. I saw three long boning fingers reach up underneath the door, curl up to grab it, and then disappear. When he came over to me, dude, he slithered over to me. And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen.

And he starts running and firing at this giant. With a giant move, he's got a spear in one hand, and he's running really fast. And spears, Dan, holds him up like this. Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face. They basically decapitate him. Got spursers, got spars him, got spars him, when he got about this. Feel something pulling at my leg.

And I look over and there are two small gray entities. And they're literally, I'm getting pulled off the bed. I reached my hand into this bush and I touch air. Couldn't breathe and it couldn't move because I know I'm seeing a monster. There we go. Let's start it over. My bad. Of course there's an audio technical difficulty on Ask Tony Anything.

rounding in at 110 pounds, your host, Tony Merkel. I don't think you're 110, though, so. Oh, I am 110. I wait myself this morning. I'm 110 pounds. No jokes. No jokes. I've been putting 210, 210, 2.10.

What's not, dude? This is my young brother, Jack Merkel, aka Young Merck, Mirk, aka Young Blood, AKA the lesser of Tony. The lesser of Tony. What's up, dude? I'm the better half, but anyway. Yeah, okay.

So we had some issues here on this show the last time we tried going live. I think that was what in December? Yeah, that was. What, it was two months ago, right? Yeah, it was like right before Christmas. I think it was December 9th, right? Yeah. So we had, we were planning on doing the Ask Tony Anything Show to celebrate episode 100.

and we had we had it all set up like this was this is how we had it going i mean we had the if you could see the studio right now uh in fact if you wanted to you know not now but after the show is over you can go to facebook uh and if you're not following us on facebook yet by the way go ahead and do that uh give us a like thumbs up yeah give it a like but uh you can go to facebook or you can go to instagram check out the confessionals instagram page i went live on both of those and to the studio. We got dual monitors in here. Jack's got the laptop going. We got double cameras going on. We got the soundboard. We got the audio interface going. We got it all going on in here. And last time we did this, it was like, we were literally, we sat down. We set everything up. Cameras were working.

I had it all worked out. And the last thing I was thinking that I have an issue with was the audio. I do audio all the time. I actually run this very software. The whole setup, I actually run it for the patrons. And so, like, I was like, there's no way we're going to have a problem with the audio. There's no need to test it. Wrong. Wrong. Never again will I ever just think that, ah, we're good.

Because we didn't do the mic check until what, like 10 minutes before we're live? Yeah, it was maybe 10 minutes. And of course, we're both thinking, you know, it's nothing. Because like you said, you never think about it. But if it's not one thing, it's the other with us. It's always something. It really is. It's a live show.

It's always something. So we do a lot of live shows for patrons and stuff like that. And we'll probably, when we transition to the membership on the website, we'll be doing live shows over there as well. But it's like we, every time we go live, there is an issue with something. It's always a problem. And I think today was actually the smoothest we've done it, even though in the very beginning there was no audio and stuff, but that's okay.

I, uh, it works. Okay. I'm just glad somebody said there was no sound because I was able to actually go in and just, whoop, turn it back up. Because I turned the channel down and I forgot to turn it back up, all that stuff. Listen, it ain't easy. It ain't easy. It ain't easy being a Merck. There's so much that you have to, that goes into this. So it's, it's, you know, there's a lot of different, you know, things that we have to set up. But it's worth it. Absolutely. Absolutely. Jack, show people your hoodie that you got going on there. This is the Confessionals. Reping the TC. Repping the TC.

Right there. Yeah. And I'm repping the SC, Sasquatch Chronicles. So we're wrapping it all tonight and stuff. We're holding it down. I want to let you guys know that this episode actually has a special sponsor. And that sponsor is BrokeDick. BrokeDick.com.

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And let them know the confessional sent you. If you're a vapor, I'm telling you're not going to be disappointed with Brokedick.com. It's my favorite. This is my favorite juice right here. It's called Watercup. If you like try a new Flavors water cup is the flavor for you. So BrokDick.com, check them out and let them know through email or through a comment or review that, hey, the confessional sent you. All right. So today we have Ask Tony Anything. And I'll tell you what.

Like when I first came up with this idea of Ask Tony Anything to celebrate episode 100, I was really excited about it. And leading up to it, I was pumped. And then the big letdown we had last time with the audio. And to be honest with you, I forgot all about doing the show again. And it was literally this week, my wife asked me, she was asking me questions about the newsletter we send out on a monthly basis.

And she's like, you know, do you want to send out anything special on the newsletter? And I told her, I said, no, not yet. I don't really know what I had a chance to think about it. Then she asked me the question. She's like, did you ever do the live show for episode 100? Ask Tony anything. And I said, no. And I wasn't driving truck this week.

I took a vacation week. So I text you. I said, Jack, you free this Friday. And you're like, yep. And so here we are. So, I mean, I wanted to make sure we got this done and stuff and all that stuff. So, yeah, here we are. Ask Tony anything.

And we got a lot of questions that people sent in last, what, it was like two months ago and stuff. People were asking me questions online today. And I'll get to them if I can. But we have a lot of stuff to cover and stuff. So if you didn't get your questions in by the due date last month, you are put on the back of the list as far as questions go. Hate to say it like that, but it sucks to be you. Hey, what's the saying to the show, right? Truth will set you free.

But first it will piss you off. Exactly. I'm surprised you know that. Jack, when's the last time you listened to an episode? Actually, not that long ago. Oh, really? It was probably last week, two weeks ago, probably. Like, you're my younger brother.

You helped produce the live shows. you're like you're an integral piece of the show to the point that I actually put you on the website as part of the team and everything and I could quiz you on the show over the last month and you get most of questions wrong. In fact, I could just ask you what the shows were about and you get the most of questions wrong. That's probably true. The funny thing is though, you know, you say that like it's a bad thing but most content creators most likely don't listen to their own shows. You're wrong. Really? Yeah. I don't think so. You know, if somebody's on the radio, they're not going to listen to their show back, you know. Radio. No, I'm not on the show, but it's still. If it's FM radio, it's a, you know, 24-hour turnaround. They're not listening to it. But guys like me, all right, so I put my show out on Tuesday, the next day. I'm in my truck.

Probably the first thing I do that day is listen to my show and make sure that it all came out okay, that I didn't miss anything. Because, like, the one time, you wouldn't know this because you don't listen to the show. I actually had to mess up with the audio, and it was an overlay of audio. And so at times, I was talking over to the guests. And I was talking about the stars and the planet and he was talking about farming. You know, like, it was just like, what, what's going on here? And I did that by accident. And I actually had somebody on Twitter like, stop over talking your guests.

I'm like, come on, dude, really? You really think, have you never listened to a show before? Have you like, you know what I mean? So I was just like, whatever, dude. I want to, I want to take a second here. Jack, did you ever comment in the chat room? I did. All right, there you are.

Let me see if I can make you a moderator here. here. That is a moderator. There you go. All right, Jackson official moderator. And let's see. I'm not looking, I'm seeing, I don't see anybody else. All right.

So if Wes shows up, if Sasquatch Chronicles shows up, I'll make him a moderator too. But what was I just saying? We were talking about your show. Yeah, what was I saying? You're making fun of me for not listening. Oh, well. And how you listen back to every show. Oh, yeah, I listen back at every show and stuff for quality control, you know.

and also because I hear things that I don't like with the audio quality and then I can go back and work better on the next week and stuff like that. In fact, I've been tweaking the audio for the past month and I haven't had any complaints on it. So either people aren't noticing or they like it. So it's just I've been taking a lot of highs out of my vocals and leaving some lows in. So it sounds more booming. That's good.

That's actually not booming voice. I got to lower down. Anyways. So, Do you got any questions? Do we have questions today? Yeah, yeah. Let's start it off. Let's start it off with some softball questions, all right? Do we have any softball questions? All right, all right. I'll give you a softball question and we'll bang around here with some, some chit chat, talk, talk. I wanted to do some extracurriculars on today's show,

but I couldn't drag phone numbers out of people. Hey, there's Sasquatch Chronicles. Let me make him a a moderator. And so I was going to actually do some prank calls today. I know. I didn't want to do that. I had it all planned out. The only problem is, so what I was doing was I was going on Craigslist and I was looking up Bigfoot. And I found Bigfoot toys, Bigfoot books. And one guy was selling a Bigfoot costume. And I was like, oh, this would be so golden. And so I'm asking for his number. He's not giving it to me. He's like, well, I'm like, come on, dude. I got you, I got to get your number. for you know, because I was going to call him up and like, you know, like if, like if he were to answer the phone, me like, hello, I'm like, hey, I'm calling about the Bigfoot costume you got.

Yeah. I was like, so is it a female costume or a male costume? He'll be like, like, uh, you know, I'll be like, listen, I actually, I'm looking for a female costume because it's going to be soon mating season and I'm going to be putting my brother in the costume. I'm going to have him walking through the woods. We're trying to attract the male Sasquatch because we're trying to catch him on camera. But I need it to be a female.

Now, if it's not a female, I could probably work it that way also stuff. But I have to tweak some things, maybe spray some potpourri on or something. I was just going to roll with it until the guy hung up on me. But he wouldn't give me his phone number. So there's that. That's that. That's that. Okay.

So now you see his mind, ladies and gentlemen. I'm crazy. I am crazy. Like on the show, I'm so much more tame because I have to be. Well, I don't have to be, but it's just not the format for the show. I'm a clown, though. I am such a clown. Yes, you are definitely a clown.

The patrons could tell you that, too. Oh, man. So let's start off with a softball question, like you said. Layup. We got one here from Luke all the way over Luke in the UK. Do we really want to take Luke from the UK this early, at least? Oh, it's the only one that's on there from him, so. Are you sure?

Yeah, yeah. This is a good one to start with. What is it? What's your favorite country song? See, that's what I'm talking about, Luke. That's what I'm talking about. I'll tell you what, Luke. I'll appease you.

No, actually, I won't appease you because what I'm about to say is something that you're not going to like. Now, Luke's actually on here. I can't believe Luke's actually here. So, Luke, Jack's throwing you a bone right now because he knows that you're watching and he knows it's 2 a.m. your time in England. Luke, I know you like, you know, the old-time country music stuff, but I would say, at least right now, my favorite country song would be Jason Aldeen drowns the whiskey. Wow. You want to hear some of it?

Sure. As I was going to say, I don't think I even know that one. I can look it up real quick and we'll see here. Have you heard that song before? No, I'm not really, I don't listen to a whole lot of country. If I listen to country, it's more like Willie Nelson. and Hank Williams. I like...

Actually, you know what? I can't look it up. I can't do it or else YouTube will strike me. Oh, yeah, don't do that. See, we don't want any strikes from YouTube. Yeah. We're not into getting in trouble. Right.

What does FFS mean? FFS. FFS. I have no idea. See, Bigel says he lost a listener. Listen, I don't listen to a whole lot of country as it is. You're lucky I got an answer. You're lucky you got an answer.

Oh, man. Lost a listener. Get lost. Well, let's get off of that topic because we're not really country fans. Oh, Luke's cussing up here. Okay. We're going to leave that hidden, Luke. Yep.

So let's start with this one here, okay? And this is a pretty good one. This is from Jen from New York. How did you start the podcast, especially since you're a truck driver during the day? Well, it all started in 1985 when this little boy named. name Tony Merkel was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. And now, I, um, so it's in all honesty, I had a background with audio production. And, uh, I always wanted to do audio production in one way or another.

I was, I was probably seventh grade. I started running the sound room at our church, uh, the same church that actually Jack goes to today. And, um, I fell in love with the. I fell in love with, you know, the idea of producing audio. I can't sing. I can't play an instrument, but I loved sound. And I was like, this is what I want to do.

And so I applied to a school called Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida. And I know some of our listeners actually went there. And one of our listeners, she went there, graduated. And now she's heavily, heavily, heavily involved in the movie industry. She does a lot of big time stuff for like net flu. and stuff like that, TV shows. So it's pretty cool. But I was going to go to Full Sail University.

I was accepted to Full Sail University. And then I started thinking about some things. And one of the biggest things that led me away from full sale was the fact that it was Orlando, Florida. And I would have had my own apartment in Orlando, Florida at 17 years old. They didn't have dorms. It was a trade school. I think they had dorms now. but at the time they didn't have dorms.

It was just a trade school. And so, like, I was thinking to myself, that's just not a good idea. I didn't feel comfortable with it. I didn't feel confident in it. I didn't think that I was ready to live, you know, 1,500 miles away from home at 17 years old with my own apartment. I just wasn't mentally there. I was scared. I was scared to do something like that, you know, like having to pay the bills and things like that.

Just so I default. And I was like, well, how hard could it be to be a pastor? It's like, went to Bible College. Yeah, the transition. I was like, well, it can't be that hard. And so I followed three of my friends to, I guess I could say the name of school. At the time, it was Valley Forge Christian College in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. And now it is called the University of Valley Forge. And I was a freshman there in 2003. And one of the cool things about being a freshman there in 2003 was I was the dormitory that I was living in. was actually a bunch of rappers on that floor. I mean, I'm talking like, if my memory serves me, maybe it wasn't the entire floor, but it was a lot of people on that floor that were rapping

or people on the campus that would come to our floor to record and things like that. I got really into producing beats and playing around with the audio production side of things and tweaking things. You remember, I would come home for winter break and summertime with my computer and I'd be like blaring beats that I made and stuff,

in the bedroom and things like that. And so, you know, it's one of those things where I fell in love with audio at an early age. And then I was fortunate enough to go to college and just land on a dorm floor that was heavily involved in hip hop. And I started, you know, just doing what I love doing. And I got a good feel for it there. And so that was my background with audio production, which doesn't answer your question. So it's right, right.

And so what happened was I was a, I was a closet Bigfoot guy for a long time. Like you knew I was in the Bigfoot, but I didn't talk about it publicly because I just didn't want to deal with people being like, what? You believe in Bigfoot. You got to explain to them all the time. And, you know, it just become a laugh factor. And I just didn't feel like dealing with it. And I was driving truck. and we had I got back one night from work and another driver had gotten out of his truck

and we're walking in and he goes dude you believe in bigfoot and my face just dropped and I was like Jay where'd you hear that and he's like I saw one of your Bigfoot videos and I said Jay no you didn't I was like that's impossible. This was this when you started PSR? Yeah I had PSR but yeah that's right. right, thank you. So I, let me rewind it here. I started Pennsylvania Sasquatch research because I was trying to just find people in Pennsylvania that were into the topic like I was. I didn't think there would be that many. Turns out there was a lot. And that group grew to the point where I was like, let me start a YouTube channel. I started making these YouTube videos, just my thoughts on it and stuff,

things like that. And then that's, so he saw, he must have saw one of my videos on YouTube, even though he said it was Facebook. I knew it wasn't Facebook because I didn't, I never posted on Facebook. I, and I remember the one time I posted something on Facebook by accident, and I deleted it, and I'm like sweating for like two days. Did anybody see that? You know what I mean? So I had the YouTube channel, and I was out of my big foot closet at that point.

I was like, whatever. And, you know, I was big footing and proud. So. And so I was driving the truck one day, backed it in at the dock at the end of the night. And I got a phone call. over Facebook from, you know, we always rep him here on the show, Sasquatch Chronicles, Wes Ghermer. And never talked to him before my entire life.

He was the myth, the legend. The guy I listened to every Monday morning from his Sunday show, not as a member shows because I was too cheap. And he calls me. And he's just talking to me about my, you know, YouTube channel and Bigfoot stuff and just getting to know me. And I was just like, wow, okay, this is a little weird. You know, but we talk for like 45 minutes.

And during that time and stuff, he's like, dude, you should think about starting a podcast. I'm like, really? He's like, yeah, yeah, you should think about starting a podcast. And I was like, oh, I don't know. And he's like, oh, I'll help you, you know, get it on iTunes and things like that. I'll show you what to do. And I was like, huh, okay. And so that got my wheels turning.

West didn't know that I had a background with audio production. Like that's a, I see people comment online. stuff saying that Wes taught me how to do like audio stuff. West didn't teach you how to do audience. He helped you with a lot of stuff but that was something that you kind of... These studio microphones you guys see on this video right now I had before Wes and I ever said one word

to each other. Well, and that was, you know, one thing you did try to get into. You've done so many different ventures too in your life, but you did a music you know, what was that, music? I had a record label. Record label. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. You've been doing a lot.

I mean... Yeah. Yeah. I had a record label for a short period of time. But the problem is, uh, I don't work well with others when others don't match my work, um, ethic. Yeah. And, uh, when I'm managing running a company and the artists in the company are not putting the same kind of effort into their own music that I'm putting into their music, that's a problem for me. And so, right? I, I just dropped it. I was like, it's not worth my time or my money. I was investing too much. Uh, I got stories for his, I got stories for days. Anyways, so Wes encouraged me to start the podcast.

And here you are today. I think it was probably like two months later I launched the first episode. I don't drag my feet on things when I decide I'm going to do something. I do it. And so we had, first episode was, I think it was, it's called Farmer Seas 2 Sasquatch or something like that. And that's somebody that I was talking to because of PSR, he contacted Dave Groves. And Dave Groves is a great friend of mine. And Dave pointed him to me.

and we were talking. And I thought his story was incredible. And it just so happens we were talking. At the same time I was talking about, I just started talking about doing a podcast. And so I asked him if he'd come on the show. He said, yeah. And we were off.

I mean, literally. I mean, and I was worried that, like, I was like, how am I going to get guests and stuff? Because my thing was, I was going to start the Confessionals, which was actually a YouTube series on PSR, the YouTube channel. It was actually its own little playlist. I had like five episodes. And it was just, you know, all I did was I had an app on my phone that records phone conversations.

I would call somebody up and say, just state your name and your story. I didn't interview anybody. I was just like, they'd be like, hi, this is Jack Merkel. And I saw Bigfoot. This is what I saw. Blah, blah, blah. And I was like, thank you very much. Have a nice day.

Exactly. A lot less formal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I didn't, I didn't know what to. do. I didn't know what to do. And I knew I could talk to people. This is something that you and I are very familiar with, you know, living from a Merkel household. I tell people this all the time. I don't think they really believe me, but like we didn't have TV growing up. Like, we would come home from school and we sit down at the kitchen table and that's where we stayed. Like, we were just sit there and

talk. You and I were trained to be talkers. Yeah. And even, I mean, you know, that's just how some people have dinner on the TV for the most part. We would have dinner around the kitchen table. Yeah. I mean, there was just, you know, and even to today, like, we still always talk around the table. So that's just the way we are. It is the way we are. And it's fine with me. If you knew our sister, you know we are all talkers. It's just the, it's in our blood.

Yeah. Yeah. But that's why it worked out really well for you to be a podcaster. I mean, you're able to just make conversation sometimes out of, you know, the smallest thing. Yeah. And that's the, I guess that's, you know, a gift. I don't know. But I just, I combined two things that I was really good at, you know, talking and audio

production, you know. Right. And, yeah, so that's how the show started. It was encouragement from Wes and me just grinding. And it ain't easy. It ain't easy. Like, people ask me, I tell, like, because there's a lot of people that contact me now, you know, hey, I'm starting a podcast, any suggestions.

Yeah. Work your face off. It's the only way you're going to get anywhere. Like, if you approach this like a hobby, it's going to show like a hobby. You know, like what I do, like, I drive truck. I do like close to 60 hours a week. And that aside is a lot of hours to put into anything. Right.

And Lindsay was maybe two or three months away from finding out she was pregnant when I first started the show. Yep. And that whole first year, Ben was born in December, that whole first year, the show. I would come home from work, kisser, eat something. I'd come up here and I'd start working on stuff. There was days that I would sit down in front of the computer. I'm like, I have no idea what to do because podcasting is a very new industry. It's a very new industry. It hasn't peaked at even close to being peaked yet. And so the formula of building a successful podcast, it's still floating out there. Like people have their different ways of doing it and stuff,

but there is no formula per se. So I would just sit down from the computer and put myself in an environment to be creative. And I'd either find some music to play around with, a video to play around with, or I'd be like, hey, you know what? I found this YouTube channel. I wonder if they'd do any cross promotion and start contacting them. I did a cross promotion early on with Mr. Creepy Pasta on YouTube. He's got over a million subscribers. And that was from me sitting at the computer coming across one of his videos. I don't listen to creepy pastas a whole lot. But I came across his stuff on YouTube, and I was just like, I wonder if this guy would do cross promotion.

Right. And so I reached out to him and we did a cross promotion. And I remember having some people email me saying, hey, you know, creepy posse, send me here. I love the show, whatever. So it worked. And so I, if you hear me on other people's shows, people talking about my show and stuff,

it's not by accident. I reach out to podcasters all the time to do cross promotion because that's one of the best ways to grow your show. Well, you listen to Vaynerchuk. So, I mean, The cold call thing is one of his biggest, you know, when he was talking about when he started, that's what he did. But he's talking about his wine business. But it's the same thing.

Well, you're trying to get your name out there. Yeah, I'd say my entrepreneurial mentor, spirit animal is Gary Vaynerchuk. If you guys haven't heard of Gary Vaynerchuk and you're an entrepreneur, check him out. Yeah, he's definitely a go-to guy for me. And, you know, he's one of the guys that kind of kept me motivated. throughout that first year to just grind, grind, grind, nobody's going to do it for you. Just go, go, go.

Just go, go, go. How many hours of sleep do you need? Well, I need eight. No, you don't. You need four. Get back to work, women. Technically, yeah, you don't need eight. Yeah, no, I'm seriously.

I mean, even for me now, I come home at night. I hang out with Ben now and stuff. I can't just come up here. I got a son now. He needs my attention. So I hang out with Ben and I wait for him to go to sleep, usually around 9, 930, sometimes 10 o'clock. Right.

depending on what time he got up from his nap. Right. And at that point, whenever he lays down to go to bed, I get to working on the show. You can attest for this. How many times do I text you at 2 o'clock in the morning? Yeah, a lot. Yeah. I know you're sleeping, but I know that I know when you wake up, you're going to see what

I wanted you to know. Yeah. And so, I mean, I work until about 2, 3 o'clock in the morning every day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. I'm at work by 9. I drive truck all day. And that's what I do. Monday through Friday.

Saturdays and Sundays are interview time. People, I do interviews. I do probably about 6 to 10 interviews a week. weekend. Yeah. And you spread them out throughout the day, too. It's not just, you know, a quick, short interview. You guys know how the, you know how the interviews go. Yeah, I usually, I usually start them off around 12 o'clock, 1 o'clock in the afternoon. And I go to about six, seven o'clock in night, Saturdays and Sundays. So, yeah, yeah, I that's, I hope that answers your question. I guess I gave it, I gave it more juice than what she asked for. But that's good,

though. That's what, it's a good answer. I'm a Merkel, I talk. Well, you know, people want to know too because you know you never know who's out there that's going to want to start a podcast and to hear that you work 60 hours a week and i know you talk about it on your show as well but i can't remember what i talk about in my show i don't know if you remember what you talk about even when you're texting me sometimes but yeah everybody kind of wants to know and it's a good thing yeah all right so let's get to the next one here uh these two kind of tied together so let me get them both out and then you can answer uh what is the weirdest thing you've seen on the road at work aside from the UFO and also driving truck, have you ever had a big foot experience?

One of those was submitted by Chris. I never had a big foot experience period and a story ever in my entire life at all. Never saw Bigfoot at all. I guess you can say I've had Bigfoot experiences where I've found tracks. I found, you know, tree structures that were super big. Yeah, I mean, we've gone out together and we've seen some crazy stuff. And I know you've gone out. So, I mean, there's, there's been definitely sign of Bigfoot, but I've never laid eyes on a Bigfoot.

Probably never will. That's just truth. Can we take a quick break? If you don't mind, the Hawks just beat the Sixers. That's all I wanted to just say to you by two points. So for any of you who don't care about basketball, our team just lost by two points to a terrible team. But anyway, it doesn't matter. Go ahead.

I don't remember what I was saying. I know. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. What was the question? So you, we've had a. You know, you've seen structures. You've seen, you've seen tree bends.

Oh, yeah. But I've never had a Bigfoot experience. And so driving truck, no, definitely not. Haven't seen anything. Yeah. Our dad drives truck. And our dad, this is a fun story. I never knew that our dad was into this kind of stuff, like Bigfoot, ghost, aliens, all that stuff.

Like, he listens to Coast to Coast at night, all that stuff, right? We didn't know that because he didn't talk about it with us. And he's listened to it for years since he was driving. truck and he's been driving for 28 years or something like that close to 30 years. My gosh. And he would listen to it all the time. And we would watch some of the shows on TV and stuff as kids, but like he never talked about it, talked about it.

Like we talk about it, you know? And so, you know, my dad now, he used to listen to XM radio all the time, loved it. But I told him, I said, that's a thing about the past. You need to get on podcasts. Right. Finally got on podcasts. And I showed him how to use it and everything. And that's all he does all night long now.

He's podcast everything. He even said to me, because he's a. He's a huge music guy. So he's a singer. He got awards, you know, for singing and everything. Our dad won New Male Vocalists of the Year in 1995. Yeah, and Best Gospel Vocalist or something. No, he was nominated for New Mail.

He was nominated for a single of the year. That's what I was single thing. He won New Male Vocals of the Year, the Gospel Division in 95. That was, yeah. He can sing. He has some pipes. Yeah, he can sing his butt off. He's incredible.

But the guy listens to music. He used to listen to music nonstop. And when he, when Tony showed him, the podcast, it was an immediate switch. He even said to me, he's like, I never listen to music anymore. He's like, I get in my car, get in my truck, and immediately I put on the podcast. And he's talking to me just recently about how much he listened. He loves Sasquatch Chronicles, too. So he's like, he was thankful that you showed him that. And so Wes, that's a shout out to you. Yeah. You got another fan. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I saw that mom was in Sasquatch Chronicles fan group.

I was like, I didn't add her in there. I know. I don't know. She just jumped in there herself, but it was funny. They bump your microphone up just a little bit. I'm seeing your levels are a little low. Just a little bit. You should be good now. So, yeah, our dad listens to tons of podcasts, and he listens to Saskwatch Chronicles like Jack mentioned.

And he said to me over Christmas, he said that, you know, when he's driving now at night, he's always looking around and see if he sees anything because, you know, you get, you get these people who say that they're driving a tractor trailer and they saw Bigfoot or they're driving down the road and across the road. And dad drives through some, you know, very well. Way out there. Yeah, exactly. Middle of nowhere.

At night. Yep. So, like, I'm a daytime driver. My dad drives at night. So, in fact, he's driving a truck right now. In fact, he's probably getting his truck, just got in his truck not too long, but I fire up at the night. Yep.

Drive safe driver. But what was the question? Have I ever had a big experience? Yeah. Have you ever had an experience? There was like a two-part question. Yeah, it was, have you ever had an experience or have you ever seen anything at work on the road? And besides your UFO experience.

Because you talked about that. Yeah, I talked about the UFO experience. If you don't know what talking about, it's because you don't listen to the entire episode. What I do sometimes is after the outro, I add extra content just for the people who make it through the entire show. Because I know a lot of people dip out after the interviews, so you miss out on some extra content. And like sometimes I'll put it in right afterwards. And sometimes you have to listen to like two minutes of complete silence. And all of a sudden, what comes in?

It's that secret bonus track. Secret bonus track. But yeah, I did that for one of the episodes where I told, told people about me seeing a UFO that was in the shape of a check mark. It was like a triangular, but it had like wings of a check mark. Uh-oh, looks like my son's going to bed. Come on, everybody. The people can see you.

Hey. Say hi, everybody. Hey, say hi. Say hi. Say hi. See hi. See something. Say hi.

Hi. Oh, these microphones's coming off. I got you. Yeah. Say hi. You going to bed? Yeah, you look tired. You look tired.

Say hi. My name's Ben. He's like, Dad, not in front of the people. See, you smile in the other direction. I love you, buddy. Yeah, watch a point in this direction and say something to them. What's our ear? Look.

I don't know if he sees himself here. Can you see you? Look at it. That's Ben. that's Ben he's like I don't care yeah I think it's my bedtime yeah have a good night sleep good

don't be a pain in the butt for mom the night all right so anyways we were talking about me not seeing Bigfoot right yeah yeah and your checkmark oh yeah so we saw the UFO that I saw the UFO that was in the shape of a checkmark I've actually seen it two other times since I

I recorded that. Really? Yeah. Oh, you didn't tell me about that. On the same turnpike, different spots in the turnpike. But I saw it. I think it was one, the first time was on the left side.

And I think I saw it twice in the right side of the highway. But it's one of those situations where I'm on a turnpike guys. Please don't email me and write the comments. Why don't you take pictures? I was literally just about to say that too. I'm on driving. It's illegal to pull a tractor over on a bridge of a turnpike without the emergency rest area. There's pullouts where it's an emergency spot.

I can't just pull my truck over on a bridge of the road, get out, and chase around a big foot on the turnpike. Or a UFO. You know, 15 foot barrier walls there. It's just not going to happen. So don't email me. Why didn't I take pictures? Yeah. Just got to take my word for it.

Well, yeah. I mean, there's not pictures, you know, tagged along with every single experience that you've shared on the show. So, yeah. I think it's okay, Tom. Anyways. This is Tony on edited. Yeah. So I can tell you this, though.

I did see something really weird on the road. And it's something that I saw before I started a podcast, before I started looking into Bigfoot and all that stuff. I actually was, I think it was when I was dating Lindsay. So I met her when we started dating, we were 18. So I was probably like 18 or 19 years old. and and I'm sorry, I just got a text. I was probably about 18 or 19 years old.

And I was driving home from Lindsay's house one night. And where my parents live, where, you know, Jack and I grew up, it's out there, you know, we're from Shoemaker'sville, Pennsylvania, small little town. And I was taking a back road home. And I was driving my 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix. That thing was awesome. Oh, dude, that was such a great car. I was such a stupid idiot.

I got rid of that car because I thought Lindsay didn't like it. Are you freaking kidding me? Oh, man. I never knew that. I never talked to her about it. I just assumed she didn't like it. Just because it was older or something. And it was an old car.

And I was just like, ah, I want to impress this girl. She asked me why I got rid of it. Yeah, because that thing was awesome. Dude. So anyway. Yeah, turn your mic down a little bit. You're clipping now. So...

I'm driving home from her house. It was late at night. And at the time, I called it a fox. And I still think it was probably a fox. I didn't know what to make of it. But now, looking back, it must have been injured. It had to be an injured fox. That's the only thing I can tell you.

If it's not paranormal, if it's not crypted, it had to have been some kind of injured fox. because this thing, I'm driving down the road and I'm about to go over to this hump in the road where I like to speed up because you can kind of jump the car, you know? And I'm flying and this fox goes running across the road on its hind legs.

And it was like, I couldn't have been flying that fast because it crossed in front of me. But anyways, it ran across the road. and it's it's like arms were up like this and it was running really weird it was like rabid fox yeah i guess i don't know but it was running really weird on its hind legs and it's like it's like head was like kind of cocked into like i think the tongue was hanging out the side but it it was weird man how many drinks had you had that sounds like i wasn't drinking there's

something else going on there yeah no that's wow dude that's crazy yeah yeah it was it was pretty weird. I never tell you that. No. Yeah, I remember telling Lindsay that and her, um, and her mom. And I was like, they're going to think I'm crazy. But I'm the kind of person. If I see something, I got to talk about. Yeah, I know you. That's why like, if I, like, you can trust me when I say, I never saw Bigfoot because if I saw big foot, I'd be talking about it. Oh my Lord. I'm talking about it. That'd be a constant unfiltered, you know, it just come out all the time. Yeah. But that's crazy, man. I like, yeah, it was pretty nuts. Yeah. It's funny. Actually, I don't even know if I was just tired or something.

But the other night, I was driving it. I was going to call you because I thought I saw, I literally thought I saw a ghost in the middle of the road. Really? Yeah, it was the weirdest thing. And it was, you know, this is why I hesitated to even call or like tried to rationalize a little bit more because it was a little bit foggy. And it was really late and I was tired. So I was like, did I see that?

But it was a, like, shaped like a person. Yeah. But I don't, you know, I don't really want to, I didn't really go into it too much. But, yeah, it's just crazy when you see something and you're driving and you kind of, you don't know what you really saw. Because you're going faster. You're not really, you're not really going at a walking speed. So you can't take a second to stop and look. So sometimes you don't want to stop and look either.

Yeah. When I was, when I was, you know, dating Lindsay again, she went to Penn State Bird. Herks campus, it was about an hour away from my college. I would go up to see her every day. And when I would drive back, it was usually like one, two o'clock in morning. I was exhausted, tired. And I would be so tired, you know, you start dozing off behind the wheel. And you'd have those like mirages where you think you see something that's not there

because you're dozing off. He's like, whoa, you swear you saw somebody right there. Right. Yeah. Was that kind of situation for you? I wasn't dozing. I've, you know, I've had things like that before. That's why this one was a little bit more like, did I see what I saw?

Because I was like, I was awake. Yeah. But it was late. Like you just know all the factors that go, like the darkness, the fact that it was already foggy. Like not super foggy, but enough that it's like, you don't know what's going on. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it could have been what it was, what I thought it was, or it could have just been fog because we've ever heard across from a river.

So. Right, right, right. You never know. But, yeah, that's interesting. I, but I mean, that's, that's about as weird as I've ever saw driving and stuff. That sounds really weird, too. Yeah. It's almost like a cartoon.

Yeah, I'm trying to think if there's, I'm sure there's stories. I just, I can't even remember, like, just, you know, normal crazy stuff you see on the road. I mean, you tend to see it all driving truck. But, and I don't drive, like, across the country. Like, I stick to the region. So, I mean, I live here in the Philadelphia area. I drive in the Philadelphia area. I drive a tractor in the Philadelphia area.

And I do like 20 deliveries a day. And so you see a lot of stuff during the time. I mean, you're mostly, you're mostly, you know, in city areas, right? Urban areas where you're going to have a little bit more of a building. I drive, if anybody is from the area, I drive Ben Salem, Pennsylvania. That's the area I do every day, Ben, Salem. So it's a nice area to drive track the trail. I'll tell you that much.

Yeah. I would love to do like a cross-country trip at some point. Yeah. You know, to get just to that point real quick of what you said about not driving across country. That'd be really cool. I mean, I've been to a few different places like Montana and Idaho and places like that. Minnesota. Yeah, and, you know, all those different areas, you know, Montana was probably the coolest because of all the mountains that you have.

So I feel like you have more of a potential there to see something, but there's potential everywhere. That's why even when you're just where you're at, you know, seeing those UFOs. Because, I mean, you know, it may not be extraterrestrial, but it's something you don't know. So I just think it's crazy what you can see. And especially if you're looking because most of the time, people just aren't looking. That's what our dad said about looking for what our dad said about looking for Bigfoot when he's driving. It's like good. Look because most people don't look.

Right. And if he sees one, he's going to be turned into that crazy guy that saw Bigfoot on the side of the road. So, yeah. Yeah. All right. So let's get to another one here real quick. Yeah. We're supposed to be doing it.

Ask Tony anything. This is what happens when you get two Merck brothers doing this. We go off on tangent. So you guys might be in for a long ride in that because we've been going for a while. I think we covered like two or three questions. Yeah, it was only two. Well, three technically, with Luke's question. So we have one here from Jen from NY, New York.

Yeah, yeah. Why did you yay, yay that? We're not from New York. Neighboring state, man. DSR covers Pennsylvania and surrounding states. All right. I feel you there. Anyway, so she wants to, she wants to know.

She said, I really like your intro song. Where did you find that? So I'm not sure she means the old or the updated, but both are cool. But both are good. I mean, she emailed that within the last few months. I made both of them to a certain extent. The very first one, I actually made that intro for a Bigfoot podcast before I had a Bigfoot podcast. I found Sasquatch Chronicles.

I was listening to the show. I emailed Wes like 100 times. He never answered my emails. Throwing Wes, beep, beep, beep under the bus. No, but actually it's funny. Me and Wes, we were talking to one day. Me and West, we do FaceTime a lot.

And we were talking to, I mentioned that to him. And I went through all my old emails to see if I could find him. I found like two or three of them that email and that he never answered back. I sounded like a deranged fan. No wonder why he didn't answer me. I sound like, like, I was like, please answer me, man. Please, I want to talk to you about Bigfoot. He's like, you're such a good guy, West.

Yeah, he's probably like, freaking weirdo. No, I'm not going to talk to this loser. You know, so anyways, what was the question? Wow. It was the intro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I created the Bigfoot podcast intro, the very first one that was for the show, for what, the first year of the show.

I created that for other podcasts. I didn't know. I just wanted to create something like, you know, I get these creative spurts in me where I just feel like doing something creative. I get, you know, um, yeah, inspired, you know, and so I was inspired to do it and I did it. And I sent it to Wes and I sent it to other podcasters. Nobody bit on it. So I just held on to it. And then I got a podcast going and I was like, huh, I already got a show intro. And the intro is the very first beginning where it's like, I shoot the lights out. Yeah. Right out.

That whole thing is from a Kanye West song called Monster. Yeah. And that song is a nasty song. It's so good. And so I took that and I chopped that off. And then I took the instrumental of a meek mill beat, a meek mill song. I can't remember what song it was. But it was what I wanted.

It was like, d-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-d-d-d-d with the piano. And then I took, let's see here, I took, the very first thing you hear is the guy from signs, the movie signs, the, I think it was the admiral or some of that. He's like, they're staying in the shadows. Making sure everything's all clear. Making sure everything's all clear. And then Merrill says, clear for what? He's like, for the rest of them.

He's talking about aliens and stuff, but it fits so good. So good. And so I played that. And then I played some big foot sounds and wood knocks and things like that. And the big foot vocalizations on that track is from, I think it's called Ontario Sasquatch YouTube channel. It's like probably one of their most famous videos of those vocalizations. And I think they are prudently fake, but it still sounded cool. And so it's not, you're not going for it.

It doesn't take for the opening song. I don't care. It sounded cool. You know, it's an intro. It's supposed to be entertaining. You know, if I was going for all. authentic would be very boring. Yep.

It'd be like, you'd hear the quietest little. Crickets. Yeah. So I threw those in there. And then there's the guy saying, you know, I forget what the quote was. But I know at the end he's like, that is a Sasquatch. That's me, actually. The original video, there was actually.

Actually, there was a video of somebody, I think there was a big foot outside. outside their tent and he was recording. And I wanted to use him saying that, but the audio just sucked so bad because it's probably done with his phone. There's so much white noise. I couldn't eliminate most of it. And I was like, what do I do?

Well, power up the mics. And I was just like, that is a Sasquatch. And I put it on there. Yeah, it worked really well. Yeah, so that's how the first intro came together. The second intro came together. I wanted to switch things up. And we're going to switch up the intros again here.

this this year sometime for a finalization of the show's intro. I mean, I might make more down the road and stuff, but this one that I make is going to be one that sticks for a while because I need to, yeah. Anyways, so the second intro that we're doing here that you guys heard today and stuff, that was the extended version. that one is a guy over in Germany I think the YouTube channel is

yeah beats but I don't think that's his artist name obviously I forget his name he's a German guy though and he made that track that that whole chant and the beat

sick that is really good I never get tired of hearing that beat ever I could listen to that all day. It is a sick beat. It is really good, yeah. I had to do it.

And I grabbed it. I put my stuff on it and threw it out there. And people were like, oh, I love the intro. And then you got other people saying, the intro's too damn long. And I'm like, you know what? The funny thing is it's a two and a half minute intro, and I knew it was too long,

but I liked it so much. I wanted to put it up there, right? Yeah. And so I knew it was too long. And I was planning on shortening it. But every time I got somebody complaining about the intro being too long, guaranteed that the intro is going to be too long another two weeks. I was like, I'm not going to change it now because if you're going to think you're whining,

because it solved your problem. Right, right. So I was like, I had to wait for a silent period where nobody was complaining for me to actually change it because I'm ornery like that, I guess. So, you know, but yeah, so I shortened the intro. and we've been rocking with that for about a year now and I really enjoy it but we're going to change it. I have another instrumental in mind that I do really enjoy.

It doesn't have any chanting, but I do enjoy the instrumental. If you listen to Good Night Luke. If you listen to K-Swiss or not K-Swiss, Swiss Beets. No, Swiss Beets. Swiss Beets has a song that actually is, has the same chorus.

Let me see if I can find it here. But it has the same chorus that... Are you allowed to play it with... Whatever. I'm not making money off this video anyways. All right. I'm not monetizing anything. So all they'll tell me is if the original artist wants to monetize commercials on my video,

if that's what's going to happen. And that's fine, whatever. Whoop has the sound of the police? Yeah. The YouTube police. But, yeah, Swiss beat just came out with a new, I can't remember the freaking name of it, though. I'm not going to be able to find it. Actually, right here it is, I think.

No, that's not it. Let's see here. Stunt. There we go. So this song, you're going to hear the chanting for my intro in this song by Swiss beats. And if anybody out there doesn't know, Swiss beats, pretty big deal. Show time. So that's the, you can hear it, right?

The chorus from the intro? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Listen, Swiss Beats, when I was producing instrumentals back in 2003, 2004, Swiss Beets is who I wanted to be like. I wanted to take my style and mix him with Timberlin and have a little bit of Eminem feel in there. That's what I wanted to mind to be. Wow.

And I'd never accomplished that ever. at all. So, no, but that's all right. Those guys are good, man. Yeah,

they're really good. Showtime! That's ridiculous. That's pretty cool, though. Yeah. All right. Well, that was a good question.

Hopefully that answers the question. Yeah, that's a good question. Um, all right, so this one's a little bit more serious. Um, sorry if you guys don't like serious questions.

Uh, have you, have there been any guests that you've had on your show, uh, that when they're telling you their story, you've thought bull crap. Uh, That was sent from Mark from the UK.

Mark from the UK. Yeah, yeah. Shout out to Mark. Yeah, man. You get that. You get that with doing this show. Sometimes people are looking for attention. Sure.

They are, I don't know. I don't know what. See, I don't understand it because I would never schedule time to waste. That's true. Yeah, that's true. Like, like, I'm not going to, because I'm scheduling, I schedule months in advance. Like, my schedule, like, I'm slammed for the next two, three months with interviews. And that's just talking about one on a Saturday, one on a Sunday.

We're talking about multiple. I would never schedule three months from now a time to talk to you, Jack, about a made-up story that I concocted in my head. Well, and even. It doesn't make sense to me. Yeah. I don't know necessarily that even maybe it was like a very minuscule part of their experience was, what they experienced. Yeah. And I feel like sometimes that's what happens. I think it happens. We do, I mean, even, you know, just when you talk to someone about what happened. Right. Yeah. Yeah. But, uh,

sometimes it does, you can, you can kind of tell. Yeah. And I don't want to throw anybody on the bus, but I'm gonna, no, I'm just kidding. No, I was going to say. No, Jack Saund got huge. He's like, he's like, you haven't even drank yet. No. Um, so with the way I run my interviews, uh, I have an open format for people to come on and share their experiences. Get it off your chest. I'm not a counselor, but sometimes just talking to somebody that is wanting to listen and believe what you got to say. It helps you. And so I enter. If I schedule an interview with you, it's because I read an email and you shared enough detail with me that I'm interested. I working as much as I do, do not have time to call people, talk to them about their experience

for 30, 45 minutes, to schedule another time to sit down. and actually record for another 30, 45 minutes. I don't have that kind of time. So what I do is if I'm interested in what you've got to say, I schedule an interview and we sit down to do the interview and that's the vetting process. Just because you get interviewed doesn't mean you're going to get aired. Now, I'll tell you, probably about 98% of the people that I interview, I believe. Yeah. The ones that I interview that I don't believe, I don't air.

You'll never hear those interviews. I have them on file. Right. But you'll never hear them. If you are listening to this right now and you've been interviewed by me four or five months ago, and you still haven't heard your interview, just be patient. I'm backed up. I got like 50 interviews that I've already done.

They're sitting there waiting to be produced and released. And I only do one episode a week. That's why you have the like 100 terabyte drives that you have. Yeah, I got one terabyte drive that's already filled up for my first year doing the show. This is a two terabyte drive. I just checked the other day, and I'm using 1.2 terabytes on it right now. So I'm going to need to get a new one soon. Yeah.

I go through so many interviews, you know? Yeah. And so that's a lot of audio tags. But here's the thing. I get a lot of people emailing me to be on the show, to share their experiences, because we don't just do one topic. We do everything, you know? And so there's a lot of people emailing to be on the show.

If I were to just schedule one interview a week, like say you want to be on the show, Jack. and I schedule an interview for you on Wednesday. We interview and then on next Tuesday you get released. If I do that, that means there's a lot of people that I'm not interviewing. Right. And they're either going to lose interest or they're going to forget about it. I'll forget about it. I'll lose their email.

The best, and I've found, trust me, I didn't always do it like this, but I found probably about eight months into the show, I found the best thing for me to do was to just start scheduling people in advance. If they don't like it, that's fine. they don't need to schedule with me. But this is what I can do for you. I'm a busy guy. So at one time, I was scheduled six months in advance of where I was at there in the current time.

Yeah. I started a calendar system now that actually helps me consolidate things. So it's helping me schedule things, you know, and better timing. Yeah, that was a good idea. But so I do all those schedules and stuff. And that's how the show comes together. But that whole process means that when I sit down to interview somebody and we're recording, it's the first time I'm actually hearing their story.

And so when you hear me talking to them, it's the very first time we've ever talked. And so you're getting the first take of things. This isn't scripted. And if I don't believe them, it doesn't air. Right. I have maybe, I think I've had like three. Probably three and a lot. I mean, you have a lot, like you said.

Since I've been doing this, that I have on file that I'll never see the light of day. Right. So, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, so there's times. That's not a whole lot, though, because, I mean, people, people got crazy stuff to share. And the way I approach the show is, I don't know what you saw. I don't know how you, everything that you went through.

But all I do know is when I walk away from that interview, do I believe that you are telling me what you really feel you experienced. That's basically my criteria. I'm not here trying to expose whether you're telling me the truth or not. I'm here. My questions are, the way I question people is to draw out more detail of their experience. And by doing that,

if they're lying, typically you draw out the lie as well. Right. Yeah. But I'm not here when you're telling me your story to say, well, I have a hard time believing that because you said this one second and the next second you said this, I don't do that. Right.

What I do is asking questions to draw out more detail. Right. And I believe that by doing that, you expose the liars. Yeah. It's worked out pretty well for me, I think. It's a very, I think it's a typical tactic that you'll see in any questioning. That's just how it works. It's a way to, if any details change or if there's any.

that is inconsistent. But like I said, I don't get a whole lot of this. Yeah. I just don't. Well, and for the most part, I mean, it's like you said, your show is so that people can come on and share what they've experienced. Yeah. Sometimes things are that crazy that maybe just doesn't sound like that's even possible.

But, I mean, the whole point is that everybody can. Yeah. I mean, here's the thing. Like, I mean, so like Tony Rodriguez. I got people saying, oh, that was a waste of time, blah, blah, blah, blah. Listen, I'm not asking you to believe every episode I put out. Right. What I'm asking you.

to do is just listen to an episode and give it an honest listen and walk away with it from it with what you you know how you feel you know i mean i'm not saying every episode i put out you have to buy into 100 percent with tony rodriguez i believe that what he recalls because he says that these are my memories right that i started coming back to me i believe him yeah okay there were certain things that he said during that episode that i don't agree with like when he started talking about religion and faith and things like that like it didn't jive with me because i believe certain things But I wasn't going to get into a debate with him about religion on the show. Right.

You know what I mean? Yep. And so you pick your battles, right? Yeah. But Tony Rodriguez has got a crazy story. And here's the thing with Tony Rodriguez. He's not the only one that has these stories. In fact, I double book tonight.

Because you forgot. Yeah. In about 25 minutes, I was supposed to be starting an interview with guy in California who has access to many, many, many, many people that have very similar stories to Tony, Rodriguez I was going to be interviewing this guy and hopefully getting access to these other people as well I was going to interview them all interview them all bring them on the show because it validates Tony Rodriguez more and it gives these people an opportunity to share their story and get it off their chest and all that stuff I have a patron who has contacted me telling me that he's been

through similar things and so him and I've been talking through that and so it's just people experience crazy things in this world and the moment you think you got the whole universe figured out God, that life seems boring. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I definitely agree with you. I mean, I think kind of along that line, when you're, especially with, you know, what you're talking about with different people, it's just you don't want any way to feel like, like almost like you're sitting there kind of judging them through what they're saying. Oh, sure. And I think that's, right.

Yeah, and I think that's why what you do and how you do it is such a good. way to do it because you can feel very comfortable opening up to someone. Even like you said, you don't know. It's not like you have a personal relationship with everyone that you talk to. Right. And so the first time you're talking with them, they're willing to share this story with you. Sometimes it's many stories. Sometimes it's, yeah, or I should say accounts, not stories. Sometimes it's many accounts. Other times it's one. But it's a really good way. So kind of along that line, here's another question for you from Miriam. She said, as a Christian, what is your view on the paranormal because you're talking about it being boring if you had life figured out so what's your

view on the paranormal um it's real yeah so what about it though i mean like what specifically do you think when it when somebody says they've seen paranormal activity i believe them okay so do you think help me out here i'm trying to you just keep giving me the same answer so if you if somebody says that they saw like and like like a uh uh donkey that stood up on its hind legs, looked at them and said, you smell like beef. What would you say to that person? The Bible has a donkey speaking in it, and the guy speaks back to the donkey, like, it's not a big deal. Yeah. So that's my point, though. It's like people along that line of, like, the crazy, you know, the crazy, sometimes you may think that they're a little weird, like some of the

stories, some of the accounts, but doesn't that, doesn't that kind of lend to the fact that there are so many different experiences, so many accounts. And you can't say that one or the other is, you know, more outlandish because some of them might be extremely weird. And like, there are some that you've even had on your show that I thought that's like that's nuts. Yeah. Like, holy cow, and they went through this. But yeah, I mean, your view on the paranormal, it's, you mean, it's there. It's happening. Yeah. And if you, if you knew everything about it, like, that's the thing that makes paranormal awesome is that you just don't know everything about it like you can't know everything so what do you think i mean if you i think what you just said yeah okay no i'm just playing games no so my all right

i look at the paranormal the same way i look at supernatural okay i believe there's supernatural things that happen in the bible our grandfather my dad's dad jack's grandfather my grandfather he relates stories to us of the supernatural that he saw, that he experienced, that God worked through him, right? I recorded some of that audio. I played it on the show a couple times. So, like, you have audio of my grandfather sharing those experiences. Those are very near and dear to me. Okay. Those are, those are, that's audio that when I listen to, it chokes me up. Okay? Because my grandfather's a big inspiration for me to do these kind of things. Yeah. when I look at the paranormal, I don't know if you could tell my eyes twitching, but it feels like it's twitching.

And I think it's because I'm really tired. My eyes are actually really bloodshot. Anyways, and I ain't smoking the weed. It's illegal here in Pennsylvania. It is. So I look at it the same way as I look at the supernatural. I look at the Bible, and I say the Bible is a very paranormal book. You got hands writing on walls and unknown languages where Nebuchadnezzar needs.

needs Daniel to come in and interpret what it means. That's not the first time. Daniel had to interpret something for a kid. Yeah. And you got Joseph interpreting dreams. You got Joseph interpreting dreams. You got guys named Jesus walking through walls after he's already been dead. He raises from the freaking grave.

Magically, the big stone rolls away. Yeah. He's walking around, chilling. He walks through. The reason why I say walks through the walls because in the scripture, it says that the doors were locked. yet he appeared. He walked through a freaking wall appears before him, and they don't even recognize until they freaking put their fingers through the holes on his hands.

Yeah, they didn't believe it, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm talking like, the Bible's a paranormal book. And even when they're, when a few of the disciples think it's Peter and someone else are out on the boat and they see what they thought was a ghost is what the Bible specifically says. They said what they thought was a ghost. It was Jesus. Yeah.

It's like, whoa. Even then. You talk about witchcraft and things like that. And like, you know, we've had, we had a Wiccan on the show that I interviewed. I got so much flak for that from other Christians. Well, and you have to. Why are you talking about her on the show? Why didn't you debate with her?

Because my show is not about debating people. It's not. It's about building relationships and talking with people like they're human beings. Right. Okay. But I had her on the show. But the Bible talks about necromancy. It talks about witchcraft.

It talks about all those kind of things. And God warns throughout the entire Bible, the Old Testament, the New Testament, not to do these things. And it's very simple. If God tells you not to do something, it's not because it's impossible to do. He's not going to tell you not to do something that is impossible for you to accomplish. I've said it before. I said it on the show. God's not going to tell me, Tony, tomorrow do not go down to Center City, Philadelphia,

and pick up the biggest skyscraper and throw up. into Atlantic Ocean. Tony, I'm telling you, do not do that. He's not going to tell me that to do that. Why? Because it's impossible. Yeah, exactly. But throughout the entire, he doesn't say it one time, he says throughout the entire

Old Testament, New Testament, don't practice necromancy, don't summon spirits. You have, I think it's in Second Samuel, you have Saul going to a witch, a medium, to summon the dead spirit of Samuel. Yep. In that entire path, people, the scholars, another Christian, be like, oh, well, he didn't really talk to the spirit. the Bible didn't say that. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that he talked to a demon,

nowhere in the Bible does it say that he talked to an angel. It says that he had a conversation with Dead Spirit of Samuel. Dead Spirit of Samuel was pissed off that he was being disturbed. Yep. Like, demons aren't going to say that they're ticked off about being disturbed. You know what I mean? So there's plenty of evidence to show that he actually talked to the Dead Spirit of Samuel. That's in the Bible.

Yeah. That's in the Bible. Yeah. So that's why I approach, that that's how, that's how I, do what I do because it's one in hand, one hand, one in the other. It's the same exact thing for me. Yeah. Yeah. So you're tying it together kind of where you see all these things. It's no conflict of faith. Right. You've been raised on that kind of thing. And that's why, you know, this is actually really cool. Like you just said, it's no conflict of faith. Another

question that we had from Sarah, she asked, how has this affected you? You've been doing this for five, six, seven years now that you've been really involved in the Bigfoot crypted paranormal side. Yeah. And, you know, her question was, how? has this affected your faith? And, you know, based on what you said. I would say that that affected me in several ways. One, it helped strengthen my faith in a sense that I started looking into things that I didn't typically look into before. Right. And I started educating myself more and more. Like the whole Saul and Samuel thing that I just said, that's something that I picked up maybe a year and a half ago that just went, I learned it from Dr. Michael Heiser.

Love the guy. The guy's incredibly smart. Look him up on YouTube, Dr. Michael Heiser. And so it strengthened my faith in that sense by me looking into these things and pursuing how does this actually relate. Right. Um, it also, I started looking into, because you, you start looking into these things, you come across other things that aren't even paranormal. And, um, it affects you. And one of the biggest things and you and I debate this all the time. Um, but I got very frustrated with how 2000 now, 2019 American Christians are, how the American Christian Church is. I got very frustrated with the fact that I started when I'm looking

into the Bible and I'm looking at all the time because I started really diving into what was the culture like back then? Because I'm a believer that if you understand the culture within which these people were writing the Bible, you'll understand their mind frame of what they were thinking more. Because if you understand what's going on around them and what they're experiencing, it affects how they wrote and what they wrote. And so when I started looking into that stuff and the culture around was I wasn't sure okay yeah but when I started looking into that and stuff I I started realizing that whoa what I see around me in 2019 as far as what the American Christian culture is isn't what was intended right and yeah I started I started I started picking it apart and it affected

me in a way where I I said I personally stepped away from attention church for a while. And I am actually looking to get back into going to church because I do believe that as a Christian, you're supposed to fellowship with other Christians, iron sharpens iron. You're supposed to do that, right? But for a while, like, I got out of it because, one, I didn't feel like I was being fed the way I should have been fed. But also, I started looking around. I was like, I just don't know how I feel about this. And I want to get into specifics because the people at that church, I love them dearly. Love them dearly.

And I hope they know that. I haven't been around a whole lot, but love them dearly. Right. But there are things that I needed to step back from and just observe and get my mind right and figure things out. So, but that all stemmed from me looking into the Bible deeper because of the show. And what do I believe? You know, are all ghost demons?

No, I don't believe that. At one time I did. Right. I don't believe that anymore. because of having to dig dig when you see those kind of things like you said about saw and sam and on top of it i ain't sweating it right i'm not i'm not sweating ghosts and demons and gobbels i'm not worried about it i i i literally could sit in this office and do five interviews straight of the scariest stories in the world with the lights off i'm not sweating it right i'm not worried about it why because what what do i

to be worried about. I'm pretty secure in my faith and through to my studies and stuff. That's what I've learned. I'm good. I'm okay. So, I don't know if that answered your question, but we go on tangency. It was pretty good, yeah. So let's get into one here real quick. I think might lighten a little bit of the mood here. One submitted by Adam. Thank you, Adam. This is great. Uh-oh. Do you think big feet have human conferences? I thought that was pretty good. Maybe. Maybe they have a yearly conference to keep track of where have these humans be coming into our woods the most recently.

Have you been covering the north section because we need to make sure that they're staying off our area here. If they pass the second tree structure, we need to. to make it known to them that we know they're there because they come back down to the fifth tree structure. Dude, that's where we're chilling. We can't have that. So last year, we were together. We had this conference. We actually all agreed on the first tree structure. This year, we're going to push it back to the second tree structure. Okay, guys, make some notes. Get it out to your constituents. Okay, we'll reconvene here next year. But for this year, we are going to be doing the second tree structure. That sounds more like a rules committee or something like.

I think a Big Feet conference would be more like, these Homo sapiens have started to learn how to build cars. Yeah. Instead of the OBC, the Ohio Bigfoot, it's the Ohio homo sapiens. Oh, H.C. Yeah. Maybe Bigfoot holds a human conference in South Fork State Park Woods while we're holding our. Yeah, exactly. When everyone who would be looking for them is not doing.

That's when they get to get it. Yeah. We're all out there looking for. Bigfoot and soft work and they're all huddled in a corner having their own little conference. They are as smart as we think. I mean, why wouldn't they do it then? Yeah. That's pretty good.

Yeah, so along the lines of conferences, this kind of works together too. Let's see here. We have one from Jen from New York. I think it's the same submitter from before. But they want to know, what are some ways to connect with people who have experienced paranormal events? Are there any conferences or conventions that you may know of? Um, Bigfoot, I mean, that that's a ton of, I have only ever done Bigfoot conferences. Um, there's, uh, the Ohio Bigfoot Conference international Bigfoot conference. There's,

there's tons of smaller ones, uh, local to you. There's, I can almost guarantee anywhere you're at in the country. There's a Bigfoot group holding some kind of like town hall meeting where they, they, they have some, what their local bigfoot guy talking, bigfoot stuff and all that stuff. Even when we went to, you know, Lake Chitahua, that was, it wasn't huge. Chautauqua Lake Bigfoot Conference. That's right across the border from Pennsylvania into New York. Close to the area. Yeah, Peter, what's his last name?

I forget his last name. I remember. Peter runs a great podcast conference up there. He actually owns the campsite. And it's just really cool. Oh, by the way, I just thought it's now, help me remember this, Jack. me and Jack at that conference had a paranormal experience in the cabin that we talked about on a previous episode. But it turns out this year the conference had other people in those cabins.

And there's other people that had experiences in those cabins. Similar to ours. And the one guy said that he actually had a white entity. I think it was pinning him down or something like that. So he actually saw me a message on Facebook saying he's ready to talk about it because he wasn't ready to talk about it at the time. Jack, help me remember to contact him. Let me write it down right now because... Good idea.

I want to have a phone call with him and you, Jack, on the line with me, talking about this for the show. Yeah, that was... He's actually a Bigfoot researcher. Oh, wow. So... Yeah, that'd be really good. Anytime you have a Bigfoot researcher on the show, either people are going to love them or hate him. Yeah.

It is what it is. It's always the case. It's with anything. Yeah. But, yeah, so it's pretty cool. There's a ton of different conferences, conventions. I mean, you know, you can pretty much look it up, you know, close by regional, like you said. Or if you ever wanted to go to the Ohio Bigfoot or, you know, like you said, was it the IBC?

International Bigfoot Conference. There's tons. I mean, there's just two of the top of the head. They're two of the biggest that you can go to. Probably the two biggest in the country. But I know they even have stuff down in Raw as well. There's usually something going on down there yearly with. I'm not sure if it's a convention or if it's some sort of just gathering to, you know,

have people talk and things like that. If you look it up. Oh, yeah, you know what? I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, no, go ahead. Dave Gross just reminded me. Dave Gross says, don't forget the 34th annual Allegheny Outdoor Sportsman and Travel Show.

Yeah. First time they're letting anyone talk Sasquatch. Dave and Amy Boo are going there to talk Sasquatch. It's the very first time they're having somebody involving Bigfoot with this. And so if you. you have the opportunity if you live in Western Pennsylvania, check out the 34th annual Allegheny Outdoor Sports and Travel Show and go support Dave and Amy because the bigger turnout they have of Bigfoot's people

showing up to hear them talking stuff, the more likely they'll do it the following year and things like that. So if you're in the area and you're bored and you've got nothing to do on that day, check it out. I'm not sure about websites. Dave, feel free to post a website if you have one. If not, Google it. Yeah.

I'm sure there's going to be a lot of information shared too. that day. It's going to be awesome. Yeah, Dave's excited about doing it. It's going to be great. Yeah. Yeah, that's really cool. All right. So let's go with this one. I thought this one was great. There's a lot of great questions. Honestly, everything that was submitted was really good. So, you know, it's tough to choose between what to say. But I want to give you this one because you have some crazy answers. I'm a crazy guy. Because we're crazy boys. What's that from? It sounds like it's from something with Polly Shore. I just assume in the Army now. There you go.

Yeah. So here you go, crazy boy. This one's submitted by Casey J. She said, if you could travel back in time, what time period slash year would you go to? Who, that's a good one. There's so many time periods. I would love to travel back too. I mean, there's, this isn't my answer, by the way.

I'm just brainstorming out loud. there's the early 1980s because that's the last time the sixers won a championship. Yeah. And so you have Julius Irving, Dr. Jay on that team, Moses Malone, Mo Cheeks. There's great players in that team. Yeah. And I mean, Dr. Jay was Michael Jordan before Michael Jordan was around. I mean, Dr. Jay was the man. People don't even know. I mean, he was an icon.

And Moses was like, what, three-time MVP, right? Yeah. I mean, he was one of the best players. Moses Malone. Actually, just tonight, right? Yeah, they retired his number. Tonight, right? I know.

I saw it. Yeah, they retired Moses' own number tonight, number two. Yeah, yeah. So the early 80s would be a great time because the Sixers were a great team. But the Sixers are a great team now, too. I don't see him winning a championship this year. But they're fun to watch, at least. Joel and Bid, Ben Simmons.

I named my son, Ben. There's a reason for that. Yep. Name him after greatness. So 80s would be nice, but that would be what I was like three years away from being born. So I don't know if that's far enough back. The early 1900s, that whole gangster era. So like the 1920.

It always interested me. I just the way they dressed was cool to me. Your wedding, man. We had. Oh, yeah, yeah. I should pull a picture of that up. So for his wedding, we had this. What was that called?

I forget the zootsuit, right? Yeah. That's what it was called. Zoot suits, yeah. With the long chains, you know, the long chain hanging from the wallet to the, to the front clip. And the hats, we had hats for his wedding, too. Yeah. Oh, that was great.

It was, I love the time frame because it was just that gangster, but it was like this classy gangster image. Yeah. And it was like, don't mess with us. Say, we'll blow your head away, but we'll do it classy. You know what I mean? I just, I loved it. Like, these Tommy guns and all that stuff. Here's the picture.

Let me pull it up here and out of here. Oh, out of here in a second. But it just was a good time era. And you had, you know, the prohibition. I was just going to say that too. And it's like, for me, that's awesome. Like, like, I, just the idea that alcohol was illegal, yet they did it anyways. Yeah.

What is that called bootlegging or? moonshioners or something. I forget. I forget what those people were called that were the underground. The underground casinos and all that stuff. I mean, it was just so stinking cool to me. And I was

just like, I was a factuated with that era. So I mean, I think going back to that era era would be really, really cool for me to experience. Yeah, that'd be cool. I'm trying to think back further. If there's anything that really piques my interest even further back,

I definitely don't want to be around during the Civil War. That seemed like kind of sucks. Well, you probably have to fight too. Yeah. They'd be like, what's this Puerto Rican doing? So I just, I don't, I don't think I'd enjoy that at all. So, but I don't know. I mean, I think the, like the early 1900s, like the 20s and stuff.

So that if you had to choose, if you had a time machine in front of you and you had the opportunity to use it once, that's what you would use it on 1920s? Yeah, I think I'd do that. And I get heavily involved in making booze. And I feel like that is definitely a time period for you too. Because it's like that was when every guy was like carrying a like a, you know, revolver with them. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

That's just. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I mean, if I can legally. Yeah. I usually have a gun on me. I don't at work.

And I don't, you know, when I go into a movie theater or something like that. But right. legally, if I can, I usually do have a gun on me. And it's just, it's not because it's a macho thing. It's just, it's a protection thing. It's a safety thing. Right. And, you know, and then now people know and stuff, but, you know, it's not something that I,

I boast about. If we're walking through the story, you would never know. Right. And I'm not looking, if there's an issue going on. If nobody's in danger, I don't really care. I'm backing out. If somebody's arguing, hey, have a nice day. I'm not trying to get involved in that mess.

you know I mean. Right. You're not causing trouble. No. No, no. It's literally for self-protection. Yep. And well-being of others.

Yeah, absolutely. But yeah, I think that would be the error stuff. Here's that picture. I'll fit it up there. So that's the, that's my wedding picture. It looks like it was edited. I'm all the way on the left. And that's Jack.

Jack, how old were you there? I was, I was 21, so you were 11. Yeah. So Jack was 11 there. our dad is in the middle, the older guy right in the middle standing up. With the like goatee. Yeah, with the goatee and stuff. He was my best man.

And let's see here. That's funny. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, there's a little Jack, me, my dad and my buddies. But our, if you look closely, the coats went down about just above the knees. Yeah. Just above the knees.

Yeah. And we had the chain and the hats. It was just, oh. that was an awesome outfit. I loved it. I loved it, loved it. Yeah. So, yeah, it was fun times, though.

Lindsay, when I told her what I got for our wedding, she wasn't feeling it. And then she saw it, she liked it. Yeah, it's a lot more classic than what the heck. Yeah, yeah. Because when you talk about it, it may not sound as, it may not sound like it looked as nice as what it did. I mean, I think they're like saddle shoes or whatever they're called when they're the two colors. Yeah. So it looked good.

I mean, it was pretty cool. But we didn't wear the hats for the wedding, though. No, no. But, like, we just had fun into that day. It was a lot of fun. I still have. I still have the hat, too. Because, I mean, I was much smaller than, so it doesn't fit me.

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So the next question here. What happened to the Renegade podcast from Maynard? Oh, the Renegade podcast. Yeah, well, it's what happened? No, it's not Wes. No, it's not West. It's life. That's what it is.

The Renegade podcast is the kind of podcast that you can't just, well, you can, it just wouldn't sound good. It needs planning. And we're busy people. I'm very busy. It's more me than anything. I literally don't have the time to do everything. Like, I tried laying out earlier in this little show that we're doing, my schedule. My schedule is no joke.

Like, I run a very, very tight schedule to the point that I've lost friends over it because they don't understand. They think that I'm lying to them. I'm not lying to you. Like, I literally have this schedule. and if you're not, if you want to hang out with me, we got to schedule it in. Yeah. Because I run a very tight ship. That's the only way I'm going to get anything done.

And so bringing on the renegade podcast was something that I thought was doable. And then Ben came along. And I realized how much work it takes to be a dad. Because when we first found out we were having Ben, I was like, how hard can it be? It's a freaking kid. Nothing's going to change. I'm going to do my thing. I'm going to work and come home.

Podcast is going to be great. No problem. It changes because. I could do that, right? Yep, absolutely. But I love that kid so much. I don't want to. The last thing I want to do is come upstairs and play around on the computer.

I want to hang out with the kid. And I should because that's my number one job, my number one priority. So having been really changed a lot of things in my household and made my schedule even tighter. And so doing the Renegade podcast is something that's very hard to do. I'm not saying it's never going to happen. I'm not saying we may come out with a different. podcast. We may we may scrap the renegade podcast and and do something like the west and tony show where it's just it's like a loose format and we just come on and we just talk about whatever the

freak we want to talk about. There's less planning and we just power up the microphones. Let's talk. West and Tony's show. That's something we might be able to do. And it'd be less planning and things like that. But I'm not saying Renegade's done. I'm not saying me and Wes aren't going to launch another podcast but right now I can't fit any more on my plate yep so yeah and I figure there's probably quite a few people out there that actually enjoyed the Renegade podcast when it was going so just for you guys yeah for those who who wanted to know you know myself was included so I'm glad to hear it but going on to the next one here let's see so we've had quite a few different

you know, reasonably easy questions to answer. I'm going to give you a pretty hard one. This one gets a little bit deeper as well. Okay. So right now, we have, from what this guy, Jeff from Michigan, is saying, it's according to the Vatican, we are experiencing more demon possessions. Why do you believe this is happening? Do you think the veil between the two worlds is getting, quote, unquote, thinner?

One, I don't believe a whole lot to the Vatican says. So that's one. But I do believe the veil between the worlds is getting thinner. One of the things that I reference, actually on this coming Tuesday show, I talk about it. Speaking of, this coming Tuesday show is going to be beast of a show. Anybody who's watching, I can't even see. I'm not even looking at it. How many people we've got watching right now?

We got 35. 35 people. You 35 people that are watching right now. When we drop this show, if you are not pissed off at me for broadcasting this show when you're done listening to it, I highly encourage you to share. We have Carrie Burner coming on and she talks about her experience, how she got involved in the Catholic Church at a young age. She became a nun and her story of being sexually assaulted by a priest or not a priest, a monk at a young age. at an abbey at the abbey so and how she tried handling in-house uh and it didn't go anywhere turned into a court proceeding that didn't go anywhere because years down the road years later she found

out that the vatican is heavily involved in the judicial system at least in massachusetts but also in other states um and how you know the vatican offered her a hundred million dollars to shut her mouth then she refused it. And then she talks about being followed, her phones being tapped, all that stuff. She has quite the story. So that said, I think that I forgot the question. What was the question? The question was, I'll read the whole thing for you real quick.

Yeah, please. It was according to the Vatican, we're experiencing more demon possessions. Why do you believe this is happening? Do you think the veil between the two worlds is getting quote unquote thinner? Yeah, I do think the veil is getting thinner. I think that there's, I think, you know, I think that one, I think that we hear more stories because of the technology that we have now. Definitely. We have more access to it.

Yep. I don't, I don't think necessarily that more stories are popping up as just people have more opportunity to share their stories. Yeah. But if demonic possession is vamping up to another level, and I've heard that before, I heard that they're looking to hire or train more exorcist to handle the problem and things like that. If that's true, I do believe that the veil is thinning. Enoch, and I use this example sometimes, and like I said, I used it on the show this past week. Enoch, I believe, is going to be one of the witnesses that comes back at the end times, Enoch and Elijah.

And I believe that this isn't like anything that I read in the Bible or anything, but I just noticed a singularity how the book of Enoch is making a huge surge back into the culture. People are starting to read it. People are starting to question what's in it. They're studying it and things like that. And I find it just a very coincidental singularity that most people believe that Enoch is going to be one of the witnesses that comes back in the end times. Yep. And we're seeing the book of Enoch make a surge back into our culture.

And I wanted if there's a singularity there where the book of Enoch's coming, and so is Enoch himself. Does that mean the end times are coming? If the end times are coming, then, of course, the veil is going to be thinning. And it's going to be, because there's battle. there's things going on and so i you know and even i don't mean to cut you know i was going to say even along the lines of science where we have cern which is constantly by the way cern's not going to fire up one time this year yeah um but anyway with those kind of with all the technology and the things that they've been doing there with the the very uh small black holes basically is what they've

they've called them, the power and the, you know, energy that they have, you know, those are the kind of things that you don't, what do you, you know, you never know what you're opening. It could be a portal to something like, you know, now I'm not saying that's it, but along the lines of that, plus it's funny because I definitely agree with you on the Enoch thing. I don't think I thought about it until you had mentioned that was like, what, a week or two ago when we were talking. Yeah. That's really, it's really an interesting, you know, point.

Yeah. What's this? Am I missing something here? I see something in the chat room. Caleb says, Tony, shut up, we want to listen. What's he talking about? That was when you're saying about your show

that's dropping on Sunday. Oh. Yeah. Are you still listening? Listen, Caleb, I'll tell you what. Thank you for explaining that because I got a little. No, no, he's good. He's good.

Caleb, you're cool with me, man. You're cool with me. Now, Caleb, I'll tell you what, dude. The 15, 20 seconds of what I shared, is nothing compared to what you're going to hear. It's a three-hour interview. It's a three-hour interview. And guess what?

I talked for about 10 minutes of it. She talked and shared tons of information. So trust me, Caleb. There's plenty more to hear. That's funny. Yeah. All right. Well, let's move on here real quick.

I wanted to get this one in. if we have some time left, from Casey J, if you were approached by someone who had solid evidence that they knew where a nephalum was, would you go? And if so, would you record it? So if I was approached by somebody who said that they had solid evidence that there was nephalum, would I go and would I record it? Yeah. To think about where you might have to go. Well, I'm thinking. All the circumstances.

Chinese border. That's where I was told they were. All right, first of all, if I did go. Let's say there's no. If I did, hold on a second. If I did go, I would bring something to record. I wouldn't be holding the camera, if I'd be GoPro to my chest, my back, my shoulders, my head, every inch of my body that didn't need to be used would have a GoPro on it.

Okay? Now, would I go? Let's say there's no circumstances. Nothing. You're not, not like worried about Ben or Lindsay or anything like that. It's no circumstances, no ties. Yeah, I'm going. You absolutely would go. No ties. 100%. Because you think about the real world situation, you have a lot of things you're tied to here. A lot of things that would, you know, you'd have to, you know, plan things out. Well, it's not even the planning thing. It's the fact that I don't want to end up like Dan and with a spear in me and have my son here raised with that with another guy. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah, no, I definitely agree with that. I mean, I worry about, you know, leaving a wife and child behind things like that. And that weighs into decisions. But if I had no ties, please, I'd be there in a heartbeat.

Yeah. There's nothing more satisfactory to me than losing my life to the hands of a Bigfoot or anephalm. I would be fine with that. Wow. I don't think I ever. It makes sense. Because it would fulfill every piece of curiosity within me. me, my last dying breath would be me looking into the eyes of one of these creatures and

knowing they're real. 100%. I believe they're real, but I can't say I know they're real. The proof. It's the proof that you'd. Please. Yeah. We all got to die sometime. Why not from that?

I'd rather die from that than cancer. Cancer is slow and painful. Oh, man. I mean, I can't say I don't agree with you. A bullet to the head is very uneventful. You don't even know what happened. It just happened. Yeah, that's true.

But having your leg, your leg, your leg, an arm ripped off by a Sasquatch or a Nephilim giant? Jeez. You know what's happening. Jeez. You know what's happening. So your answer would be yes. Absolutely 100%. But the reality situation is I have Ben and Lindsay and I wouldn't go.

Yeah. So in real life, it's a lot more, there's a lot more to it, you know. I definitely understand that. Yeah. But here's one that I think is pretty good, too. Of all the experiences that have been discussed on your show, which would you you most want to have experienced for yourself? Which would I want to have experienced myself?

For yourself? That you would, you know. Wow. I blowed its head off. Would you want that one? I mean, you know. No. Because I know you talk about that.

That was, I should have, I should bring Brian back on this year. Yeah. See what he's been up to. But, I mean, there's a bunch of them, obviously. And, you know,

some of them you definitely want to have happened to you. But, um, I haven't had anybody on the show saying that they actually saw a nephalum giant because that would take the cake. Right. How about Stardust Ranch? Stardust Ranch is very interesting.

Yeah. I probably, it's hard to get a hold of John. Like the first time I reached out to John, he answered me, he said, yeah, let's do the interview. Right. Ever since then, it's been hard to get a hold of him. But I could probably eventually get a hold of him and actually get on the property. So, you know, that actually might be a reality that could happen maybe one day, which would be really, really cool. And then there's, there's Wes's encounter that he had with Woody.

And that was, I wouldn't want to experience it because of how scared, scary it was. but to be able to see what he saw that maybe I don't want to see that yeah I was just going to say I don't know it's like see I feel the same way about you know all the the different experiences people have said that they've reached out oh which episode was that when he was talking about he reached out through the bush and he felt the fur right oh yeah that was episode I think 17 or 18 with jason yeah Jason that's right yeah that was a that to me like those kind of experiences i'd be freaking out i'm i'm a scared cat like we talked about when it came to our experience yeah and i wouldn't even see anything yeah uh you know and there but there's also good ones where like uh in the intro i can't remember what episode this is

but when he says that three fingers came under the door and grabbed it like it was going to pull on it and then disappeared uh that like just that image in my is burned into my head yep and i i just picture, you know, just these three long fingers just curling underneath the door. There's a lot of those kind of little tiny experiences that I would love to be able to see what they saw kind of thing. But, um, yeah, I'm just going to go with Wes's experience. I think would probably be what I'd want to see. Wow. I think that's probably what it would be. I'm probably going to, if I looked at the list of episodes, I think of something else way better than Wes's stupid encounter. But, um,

You know. Oh, well. You know. So here's a funny one for you, Tony. You ready for this? All right. From Josh, do you plan on taking Lil Ben on camping trips and or to look for Bigfoot? Camping, sure.

Looking for Bigfoot, he's going to go hiking with Daddy. This should put that way. Ah. Okay. If I feel like there really could be a situation where we might see a big foot, probably not going to take my son. Yeah. You know, when he's a teenager, maybe that's different and stuff, but, you know, seven, eight years old.

Yeah, you don't want to. Yeah. Like, for instance, there's a property about an hour, hour and a half north of here. Guy at work owns it. He probably like a month, two months ago, we had a snowstorm. Pretty bad snowstorm. And that weekend he was out on his property hunting. And he was hunting bear.

He was tracking a bear. And they came across this gorge that he doesn't go. down because it's too steep and he doesn't he can't get down there because he feels like he won't be able to get back out the bears hang out down there and he said there's these sets of bare foot for not bear like roar but bear as in bird that's cold snow on my bear feet oh yeah bear footprints walking in the snow and he said that you know he for one of the things that he did was he tried check the stride length and he's not a big foot guy he's like he's just but he knows i am Right. And he showed me the stride length in the driver break room. It was probably about a five-foot stride. The feet print were about 12 inches by six-ish. And he had hair samples. He was putting the hair samples in his coat pocket. And then throughout the day as he was hunting, he forgot about the hair samples in his coat and his coat by putting his hands in and out of his coat with the gloves and everything. He lost the hair samples. But he said that he was collecting these hair samples along trees that the footprints were going.

And they're, you know, like my height up. And he's like, you know, he didn't think it was bare hair. Right. And so I want to get up there and check the property out. He told me I could. He said that I can go anywhere on his 70-some acres, including that gorge. He said there's a lot of caves down there. And, you know, if you watch some of the videos that we've made,

the people will see that you and I went in that one cave. I love going in the caves. Yeah, I agree with that. I think he said that there's a strong possibility I'd come across bear down there. So I got to be careful. But, you know, going to those kind of situations, I'm not taking my son until he's near adulthood. Yep. Because forget about a big foot.

What if I come across a bear? I don't want to be worried about my son. I got me to worry about. I don't be worried about my son. There's a lot of things that you can encounter in the woods that you don't really want. Yeah, you come across a sleeping bear. in a cave during wintertime? Yeah.

Well, yeah, sleeping bear. You can, a coyote, you know, whatever it's going to, whatever thing is going to come through. You really want to be careful with that kind of stuff. And I definitely understand that. Yeah. You're looking out for your kid. So. Yeah.

But it's cool when he gets older. That's the kind of thing that you guys can do together that. Oh, for sure. Yeah. I mean, he's not going to be a stranger to it. It's just, I got to be selective. I'm not going out there for real, for real, looking for big foot with my five-year-old. You know what I mean?

I don't think you'll find any Bigfoot researcher. you know, for the most part, just people in general don't take that young of a kid out there. Yeah, no. But yeah. Just not me. That's not you. So we got one here. This is about a former podcast from Tom.

He says, what are your thoughts on Zach King? That's it? That's a question. What are your thoughts on Zach King? Who's this from? This one specifically is just from Tom. I think Zach King is who he says he is. He's not the first person that I've heard that story from.

Not the identical story, but that kind of story. I've heard those kind of stories before. I've heard of an ex-high wizard, not high wizard, Hyde priest, satanic high priest, an ex-Satanic high priest who went through the process. of becoming a vampire. He literally for, I think it was a year and a half, all he did was eat unleavened bread like wafers and human blood. Ooh.

For a year and a half. Wow. Oh my gosh. You know what I mean? I've heard these stories before and stuff. And you're talking to a guy who, I believe that stuff's real. Yeah.

Why? Because it goes back to the other question. It's in the Bible. Right? So, like, it's not a conflict of interest for me. But God tells us not to do these things. Right. Not to be a sorcerer. Why?

Because it's possible. Yeah, exactly. Like, it's possible. It really is possible. And the way, I mean, the way that he described everything, it's not like, it's not like he was born into that situation where he was bred to be a sorcerer or something like that. You know, those are the kind of things that you can just get mixed up in. Right. That's how his, I think that's how his story impacts.

at least, you know, what I was thinking about it was, man, that's something anybody can get mixed up in. Right. And, you know, depending on what you believe, that's either bad or okay. And I don't think for me, it's a personal belief of, man, that stuff's scary and not so good. I don't find it scary. It's scary along the lines of more or less what it takes from you, what you have to put into it. Oh, yeah, I see what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Not that what they do, like, like the person themselves is, like, I look at you. Well, he, I mean, Jack King was a freak, man. Like, he's doing it. He's a freak. Like, the things he had to do, he was a freak. I'll tell you that much. Oh, man. No, I believe Zach King.

Yeah. I think it was one of my better episodes. Zach King was somebody that I reached out to have on the show. Yeah. So I believed him before he ever heard of me. Yeah, that was one of the craziest things, too. Yeah. Here's one about some UFOs here we have from Dan from the UK.

Have you ever come across anyone who has had an experience involving a huge black triangle at close range, if you've ever heard of those? And then he says, were the craft reacted or came to their position and left them with any strange experiences in the years following? So, do you mean for you again real quick? I'll bring it down for you because I don't want you to get too confused. I mean, come on. So the first part is about... I'm sitting here thinking I'm running out of water and you're blowing there and all these questions on me.

The first part is just simply about have you come across anyone who has had an experience with a huge black triangle. Yeah, I know I've talked to some people on the show. I can't remember what episodes they are or the details, but I know I've talked to people on the show that had that experience. I know I have some interviews in the bank

that haven't aired yet that have somebody talking about that issue. So, yes. And the second part was where the experience that they had with it, if it reacted to them and then left them with some strange experiences thereafter. Oh, yeah, episode 78 with Ryan. Ryan, what episode? That was 78. What was the title of it? Abducted with Lost Time.

Ryan had an ongoing abduction in his entire life, pretty much. And he had so many different stories and details surrounding each abduction. And he wasn't the only one. It was an ongoing thing. So, yeah, a lot of times I think that people are experienced. Like, if they're telling me that they had a UFO experience, something weird happened. And ever since then, this weird stuff's been happening. And a lot of times the weird stuff is they can't remember certain things or having weird dreams that feel very real.

Yeah. Probably because the dream is real. Yeah, it could be reality. Yeah. You know, and it's just the way that you're remembering it, that it feels like it's a drink. Yeah, I got a couple episodes that are in the bank that when they, when they air, people were like, whoa. What do you? What if that actually happened to you?

What would you think? Well, like, give us your reaction to that. If what happened to me, if I was that, if that, if that kind of experience where you may not know, like you, you know the triangular craft you have approached you or something, but you're feeling, you're just feeling odd. Yeah. doing this it's hard to say because doing my show it puts me in a different position than a lot of people are in I'm obviously more aware of this stuff than most people and I'm more open and understanding of it how I would react I probably tell you and I tell Lindsay probably dad and Wes and then from there I'd have to decide if I want to go public about it you know Right.

But more than likely, I'd go public about it because that's how I am. I just talk about stuff. I don't really care. And that kind of, that's the kind of thing that, you know, you're already involved. Why would I not tell people about that? Yeah, I was to say you're already involved in. Yeah. And the only thing that people, you know, you'll hear those kind of, well, you're, you're a podcaster, so you're just trying to make this up to.

But that's the kind of thing that would be a concern. That's the kind of thing that you're thinking of to try and avoid. Yeah, but I mean, bottom line is I can't control what other people say and do the thing. And the thing is, too, sometimes if you have an experience like that and you're willing to share it, it's like you say all the time. It gives other people sometimes the green light to go ahead and share theirs. So you being willing to share yours would lead to others. Absolutely. But, yeah, that'd be pretty crazy, though.

It would be. I don't think it's going to happen, though. Nah. So we have one that's actually kind of local. Mark wants to know if you actually know of any Bigfoot sightings within the Lancaster. Berks and Montgomery, Morchester County areas, which is in the year.

Yeah. Yeah. They're Don Kurtz. Look him up on Facebook. He saw a white big foot and state gameland 1-10. He was up there hiking on Christmas Eve by himself. I believe it was a rainy day. He saw a white Sasquatch running through the woods.

That's what started him on his quest of Sasquatch. there have been a lot of historical sightings in Burke County basically down the 422 corridor from anywhere Pots Town up to Potsville you know the 422 61 corridor kind of thing sure

but before those roads existed though farmers seen the Harryman the giant Harryman there's lots of those kind of experiences yeah I mean right at the foothills of the Appalachian mountains so yeah there there's there is a lot of different sightings especially when you get into like the schoolkill county sure uh just above burkes county lots of things start popping up

there Lancaster for sure uh chester county more southern chester county there have been sightings like in coatesville like southern coatsville just on the outside of the city there's been a sighting of Sasquatch uh so yeah there's been definitely sightings yep for sure so you you're kind of giving us a list of some stuff. But how'd you find that out? Did you look that up? I just made it up on the spot. I don't know.

Wow. There you got, Mark. Made it up on the spot. Real genuine. No. The Harryman sightings I read in Timothy Renner's book, Bigfoot in Pennsylvania. Well, yeah. I think it's this one here.

Yeah. Some free publicity for Timothy Renner. Bigfoot. in Pennsylvania. It's a good book. And he has a lot of different experiences in here. Historical experiences. Like this one here is from Pots Town, Pennsylvania, which isn't too far from me.

Yeah, that's right down the road. And then there's, let's see here, I have some of them marked off. This one is from Wild Man in Potter County. that's actually pretty far from here. But here's one for Chester County. Section of Chester County. Oh, that's Pots Town as well. Let's see here.

I know we got some Hamburg in here. Ooh. This is Wilkes Bear. Wow. Yeah, so it sounds like that's actually a pretty good book. If anyone in the area wants to know a little bit more about some historical sightings. Do you know if there's anything from, you know, recent that isn't maybe so far, but I don't know

how far dated that book that he is, you know, researched. Yeah, I mean, a lot of these are older sightings, like, you know, older sightings. Yeah. But there are, like I said, the Coatsville one, I think that was probably within the last 20, 30 years. This one is Philadelphia. Wow. What else did I say? There was a Harryman, Coatsville.

What else? I know I said something else. Oh, Don Kurtz. Don Kurtz was, yeah. Two thousand fifteen, I think it was. Oh,

wow. Yeah. And the White Bigfoot dude keeps popping up in Pennsylvania. We got him on video. Yeah, that. I believe that video is authentic. Yeah.

Then you have Dave Groves' picture of the White Bigfoot that he, that he captured. Then there's countless other sightings of people saying they see it in Pennsylvania. Don Kurt saw it in Pennsylvania. It's just,

it's a very real phenomenon for Pennsylvania. Oh, there's also a Sasquatch Chronicles episode where a guy said that he saw what he thought was a white stuffed bear

on the side of the road when he was a kid passing by it until it turned its head and looked at him. It sounded like it was a baby white bigfoot. And it was back in like the 70s or something like that.

And I do wonder if that thing is the same one people are seeing only as an adult. I don't know. That would be pretty crazy. Right? That would be pretty crazy. The guy comes on and says in the Poconos, he saw a baby white Bigfoot. And now everybody's seeing this giant white Bigfoot running around Pennsylvania. And he didn't even connect those dots on the show.

Oh, wow. I'm sitting in the drive of trouble. Wes say the white Bigfoot in Pennsylvania. And he's not doing it. I'm just like, huh. Wow. You're wishing he would be. Oh, man. That's pretty cool, though. I wouldn't, you know, I probably wouldn't have been drawn that conclusion in my head either.

Yeah. The one person here, I don't know how pronounced the name, Solanochi. Solonki. Oh, okay. Yeah. Says, I suggest that the white color isn't due to age. Yeah. Some people, here's something that Jamie King, I don't know if people know who that is, but he's a really nice guy, him and his wife, Jamie and Jenny King. They were actually on the show not too long ago. They're researchers in Western Pennsylvania. And he brought this to my attention. I thought it was very astute of him to observe. But basically he said that albinoism is something that runs a lot in imbreeding. Embreds. Oh, wow. So if there's imbreeding going on among Sasquatch, it would make sense that there could be an albino. And so maybe that's what we're looking at.

I don't know. I mean, you would think that that would make sense because, right, you wouldn't get a white, typically don't animals and, you know, things of that nature tend to try and blend in with their environment. Why, why would you get a white bigfoot here? There's this one guy that just shot an albino white-tailed deer not to this year. I forget, it's not too far from here. I don't think it was. Wow. Yeah. He was here in Pennsylvania, an albino white deer. Wow. Yeah. So, and it's, and it was a buck with a big rack. So, Wow.

Yeah. That's pretty cool. How'd he survive? Well, he didn't now. I was just going to say it. He had a nice rack on. So we have actually a pretty sweet entry here. Someone wants to know what do you think if it's an ape, if Bigfoot is an ape or some type of sapien?

You know, where do you think the bloodlines have come from or if you think that there's some type of crossover or, you know, how in the world that we have this? you know, seems to be bipedal, you know, I don't want to say monster, but, but, you know, some type of mammal. I don't think, I don't think that, I don't think the big foot is a monkey. I don't think it's, not, not ape, but do you think it has any, maybe like a crossover gene or something? Oh, yeah, I think it's a crossover gene. I think it's a hybrid. I think it's a crossover between fallen angel and monkey. So why do you think that? Because hearing everybody's stories of what they experience, you hear people tell you stories of paranormal type experiences when it comes to Bigfoot. And then you hear stories of people having normal-ish type of experiences when it comes to Bigfoot.

And so how do you reconcile the two when it comes to seeing paranormal? stuff involving Bigfoot and also non-paranormal stuff involving Bigfoot. You know, there's, I'll get into that maybe a little bit here, but basically for me,

the way I can reconcile it, I'm not saying it's true, I'm just telling you what I believe. I believe that fallen angels had sex with women created giants, right? Sure. Yeah, that's it in Genesis.

Yeah, that's one. in the Old Testament, they're killing all the aites. Kill this, I kill that it. Right. A lot of them were giants. Why? They were Nephom. I'm sorry.

I'm burping in the microphone. I'm sorry. Anyways. So in the book of Enoch, there's several places. I mean, you have Book of Giants too, but that's so fragmented that people want to complain that, oh, well, you don't know what that's really saying because it's so fragmented. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So here you go.

Book of Enoch chapter 7, verse 5, it says, and they, meaning the fallen angels, began to sin against birds. Sin against means has sex with. Birds and beasts and reptiles and fish and tovour one another's flesh and drink the blood. That is describing what they did with women, only they did with animals. Wow. Well, what do you get when you have a fallen angel? humping a freaking wolf. Could it be a dog man? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, real quick, just aside. Do you see there's a dog man game? Like a card game for kids? I didn't see that.

Yeah. Crazy. Anyway, go ahead. Yeah. So, I mean, that's, and I have, obviously, my thoughts on it a little deeper than that. But I don't have my notes with me right now. It's not a topic that you can just, I can just rattle off the top of my head without preparing for. But that's the basic synopsis of why I think that I do take the book of Enoch's serious.

Yeah. And the way I can describe, that's the way I describe it because, so what if, so say, say, I have five sons and all five sons between me and Lindsay. And one gets his mom's height. One gets my height. And just people know, Lindsay's much shorter than me. One gets my skin tone and one gets Lindsay's skin tone.

If you don't know, Puerto Rican, my wife is see-through. And so, I mean, there's the different, you know, genes and stuff that it's involved here. here. And even like I have, I have siblings. I have two siblings that they're twins. Donnie and Danielle, they're twins. Donnie is darker than me and Danielle, you would never guess she's Puerto Rican. And they're twins. So there's, there's genes that it's involved that I think that maybe some of these creatures get different genes than others. And some of those

genes might be able to do some paranormal type kind of things. And that's, it might explain why some people have a paranormal type experiences with Bigfoot. And some people are like, nope, it was just a monkey in the woods. Right. Right. What do you think about the, you know, some of the encounters that people have had where they say they saw the Bigfoot enter a craft and take off or, you know, where they, they've said that the Bigfoot might be extraterrestrial or, or at least to them, it was extraterrestrial. Yeah. Well, I don't know what to make of that stuff. I really don't. I, you hear about it a lot, right? Yes. Stan Gordon does a great job reporting on that stuff. And I think it's fascinating. I think it's fascinating. There's a guy named Emery Smith. And he talks about, he's a biologist. He was a biologist for the military. or the government, and he performed surgery on extraterrestrials.

And he's seen a lot. And one of the extraterrestrials that he said resembles, there's something in Hollywood that resembles an extraterrestrial. And it's the most realistic that he's ever seen. And it's Chewbacca. Whoa. He said that there's an extraterrestrial type of extraterrestrial. that looks like Chewbacca.

Wow. What do you think Chewbac is? Jeez. So, I don't know. Yeah, mainstream Bigfoot. You got a lot of people saying that stuff. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to make of it.

Yeah. I mean, that's the kind of thing that, you know, there, I mean, obviously everybody has a different experience and everyone's is unique, but some have different undertones that some that are similar. Yeah. You know, with the extraterrestrial. Some believe that they've seen. Bigfoot appear and disappear and the ones that have felt him or seen him in person and think

it's a sapien of some type. You know, that's to me, it's just the crazy differing accounts sometimes. And it almost makes you wonder if maybe there's, maybe it's almost just putting on that look to give you something to see that you would fear maybe or even just have a, I don't know, acknowledging that it is different. I have no idea. When it comes to aliens and stuff, I have no idea on some of that stuff because there's some weird stuff. Like, people got mad at me for the Tony Rodriguez interview.

I didn't even, we didn't even get to half of his story. Yeah. There's still like a whole other half that I got to do with him. Wow. Like, it's literally that deep. Wow. Actually, Salin, Solanochi in the chat here on YouTube, sorry if we're butchering your name by the way.

She said her real name was, I think, Shelly. Oh, Shelly. Okay. That's easier. So maybe there are different types, you know, like they can take different forms or something. You know, different types of dogs, different types of cats, different, you know, that makes sense. Different types of people. Sure.

I mean, that's actually a pretty good point, I think. Right. Man. So, yeah, there's a lot to think about. I mean, it's an interesting topic when you go into specifics on everybody. thinks of Bigfoot and they just, you know, for the most part, mainstream, it's, you know, oh, it's an ape or something like that. But that's why I asked this one.

I figured this was a pretty good one. Yeah. So. Yeah, it was a good question. But, all right. Do we have any time for any more? Oh, what do you got? Two hours, ten minutes?

Wow, we'd be going for a while. I know. We've been chitter chatter. Let's do one more question. Let's do one more question. All right. Let's see here. I don't know, Tony.

Do you want me to give you a pretty serious one? or are you thinking just kind of like... Just throw me one. I don't care. Okay. I'm going to ask you one that we may have talked about a little bit before. This is one off the top of my head. Sorry, if there are any that were submitted. But recently I listened to a podcast about Jeffrey Epstein. So we're getting into a totally different era here.

Conspiracy. Yeah, conspiracy. So I wanted to know that Jeffrey Epstein was the guy who had the low-level. to Express and the island down in the things Bahamas or something so well don't you tell people what that means so this is this is about

the almost the sex trafficking in that in that sort of sense where this was high ranking officials you know people like the Clintons Donald Trump are you trying to get me whacked are you trying to get my channel taking down I'm just asking you

are you trying to get me in trouble why are you dropping names Hey, you know, I'm just saying it's, it's on. Listen, I got dirt, I got dirt on all of them, but I can't even talk about it because I don't want my show to take it down here. You go just throwing them out there. Like, this is. Like, it's nothing. Next time we start showing it with your name.

Okay. Look, I'm on this too. They know who I am. But no, I just, that's my question to you is, you know, we hear about these things. But why is there never anything done about them? Why do you, like, just give me your honest. opinion. Because they're, they're, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. Because the ones that enforce law are below them. The ones that enforce that their job is to enforce the law are miles below them.

They are so far above the law, the law can't even see them. That's why nothing gets done. Plus, there's so much more to it than just, oh, well, if they did this, throw them in jail. there are there's so much pushback that could happen in our society but on top of it it's hard to find somebody that has the ability the the the actual ability to do something about it that doesn't have dirt on themselves somewhere there's these people that get to those levels there's a reason why they got up that high it's because they got somebody's got dirt on them so if they don't cooperate and It gets put out there, right? Right.

There's, um, uh, crap. I forget what the document was called. But this stuff is documented. This stuff is documented. You could say it's fake. It's a conspiracy theory, whatever. I personally have some real life stories that I, I know they're real because the person who told them to me. Not the person, the persons who told these stories to me.

Right. It's not just somebody that I talked to on the phone for the show. These are people that I really do know and they told me things that I believe them. Yeah. This stuff is not fake. They really do crazy, crazy stuff. Yeah. Why it doesn't, nothing gets done about it. When you are the king doing crazy stuff, who is going to discipline you? Right. Yeah. It's true. That's why nothing gets done. Plain and simple. Plain and simple, that's why nothing gets done. Yeah. And I know there's a lot of people that, you know, are big Trump fans and stuff. I don't think he can do much. He's trying, I'm sure. I'm sure he's trying. People are saying he's trying. I'm sure he's trying.

But that's something that it hits hard, Sheldon crack, man. Yeah, on a real level. That's one that's just difficult to. Yeah. It's difficult to stomach sometimes, and it's just frustrating when you hear those kind of things.

Yeah. Yeah. I'd say I, well, I don't want to get into it. Yeah. I don't want to get into the politics. I do a whole more question for you. Okay. Where can we find any more of this information

on the confessionals? What information? Where do we find this show? Where do we find this? Is this a question somebody's asking? Are you asking? I'm just asking the question. Listen, we don't need to plug my show on this show.

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talking about before we get out of here uh no i just wanted to say thanks to everyone who submitted questions took the time out to you know reply to you know the invite to send out some interesting uh some really interesting questions uh it was great thanks for everybody who turned out for us too. Yeah, absolutely. I see that there's like 30-some people watching. Very cool. Very, very cool. Thanks for, you know, hanging with us for almost two and a half hours. I think the last like 45 minutes, my eyes have been getting really gummy. And that's why I've been running my eyes because my contacts are gumming up. I almost took them out, but I was like, no, I'm on camera. That would look bad. And then I'm burping on camera and something like that. I'm sorry. I just did it again.

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