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The RELEVANT Podcast

Episode 1282: Our New Year Episode — Bieber’s Faith, Jesse’s Patriot Games and Very Accurate 2026 Predictions!

The RELEVANT Podcast

RELEVANT Magazine

Religion & Spirituality, News, Christianity, Entertainment News

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We wrap up 2025 and kick off 2026 by catching up on everything from post-holiday chaos to the optimism that comes with starting a new year. Along the way, we touch on Justin Bieber’s recent reflections on faith, how people in 1998 predicted 2025, and surprising new archeological evidence that Noah's Ark was real. 

From there, the episode takes a turn into full chaos as Jesse introduces his own idea for the “Patriot Games”: teams of Americans competing using everyday life skills, jury duty-style. The episode then wraps with the cast predicting the trends of 2026 — all delivered with the usual mix of humor, honesty and side-tracking that makes the show what it is.

Highlights:

05:10 — Spring-free trampolines and modern parenting stress

07:40 — Childhood injuries, backyard chaos and growing up feral

12:30 — The unspoken pressure of being “the capable adult”

13:33 — SLICES: Noah’s Ark evidence

25:03 — 1998 predicts 2025

31:53 — Justin Bieber’s faith posts

30:45 — WHAT'S JESSE THINKING? Jesse introduces his Patriot Games concept

43:20 — IN OR OUT? Predicting 2026 



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0:00.0

It's episode 1282, and it's the relevant podcast, our year-end episode, the end of 2025.

0:11.7

Here in Orlando, I'm your host, Cameron Strang, and joining me from Loverland, Virginia.

0:15.3

It's Jesse Carey.

0:15.9

Hello, hello, with much better lighting.

0:18.3

From Nashville, artist, producer, Mogul, Derek Miner. What up, though. And just down the, in another state, still in Fort Worth. It's our managing editor downtown Emily Brown. Hey, y'all. Creature of Habit. It's the quilt. The quilt gives it away. All right. So this is our year-end episode. You know, I'm thinking about YouTube. People are checking us out for 10 seconds. I'm going to cut quilt talk short. And we're going to tell people what's coming up. So hopefully we'll hook them and they'll stay with us. So last week of the year, we have a What's Jesse Thinking coming up. We haven't brought back.

0:54.2

It's very important one too.

0:55.2

And at the end of the show, we are going to look back at 2025 and predict what's going

1:02.2

to be hot in 2026 with a special game in or out, 2026 edition.

1:07.0

You don't want to miss that.

1:08.0

They also have slices and all that.

1:09.5

I don't want to belabor it, but you guys have good holidays so far?

1:13.6

Are you having fun with family and all your toys and stuff?

1:16.6

Mine was delightful but nearly ruined by a torturous device known as a spring-free trampoline.

1:25.6

What is a spring-free trampoline? I only had one in, like, the 90s where, like, kids broke their legs on them. That's what I like the old 90s once, where if there's no cage for you to... Have you seen trampolines now? Because when we were growing up... It's like an octagon, right? Right? It's like an octagon thing. They have, like, stupid safety nurse and stuff's nothing preventing you from flying off, right? Yeah. And that's as it should be. There should be some consequences when you're pulling that sweet gainer, you know? Dude, I had, well, how big are they nowadays? Because, like, I had like a huge one. And we had, we lived in the woods. That sounds like I was a rural. We lived in the suburbs, but we had woods behind our house. And we cleared out a big area of the woods and put the trampoline in there. And I feel like it was like 15 feet wide or something huge. And we had youth group on Sunday nights at my house. So teenagers on this trampoline and guys trying to show off for the

2:18.5

girls and something like that. We're double. We're literally double bouncing each other into

2:22.1

trees. People were breaking legs left and right. It was fantastic. The 90s were a different era.

2:27.4

I loved it. It's, I had a buddy that had two of them. And that was great because you just make the gap

2:33.6

right next to the pool one time. And we were doing into the pool. Yeah, you just make the gap right next to the pool one time. And we

2:35.6

were doing into the pool. Yeah, you just make the gap larger and larger. The only safety

2:39.8

mechanism, most of those 90s trampolines had, a little pad where they had a little pad around

2:43.9

the springs. That was gone within about a month, just tattered, especially, and it was just

2:49.1

rusty exposed springs.

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