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The Confessionals

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The Confessionals

Merkel Media

Personal Journals, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this off-the-cuff studio sit-down, Tony, Derek, and Jack step away from structure and let the conversation go where it wants, faith, fear, mystery, and the unseen forces moving beneath it all. What starts as laughter turns into reflection, and what feels ordinary becomes anything but. It’s a rare glimpse behind the curtain, where stories, experiences, and convictions collide in ways that can’t be scripted or explained.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. This is a preview of today's members episode. If you want to hear the whole thing,

0:04.4

head on over to the confessionalspodcast.com. Hit the join button and become a member today.

0:10.9

Merkel Media.

0:17.2

This was all circulating around the base that a giant had been killed but no one was supposed to talk about it.

0:23.6

I saw three long, bony fingers, reach up underneath the door, curl up to grab it, and then disappear.

0:33.6

When he came over to me, dude, he slithered over to me.

0:44.1

And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen.

0:47.8

And he starts running and firing up this giant.

0:51.0

Well, the giant moves, he's got a spear in one hand and he's running really fast and spears

0:57.2

Dan holds him up like this. Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face. They basically

1:03.2

decapitated.

1:06.2

Got closer, got closer, got closer, got closer, when he got about 15 yards away from me, I raised that 12 days and I blow this head on.

1:14.9

I feel something pulling at my leg, and I look over and there are two small gray entities

1:22.6

pulling it.

1:24.2

And they're literally, I'm getting pulled off the bed.

1:26.6

I reached my hand into this bush, and I touch air. Couldn't breathe. And they're literally, I'm getting pulled off the bed. I reached my hand into this bush,

1:28.5

and I touch air. Couldn't breathe and I couldn't move because I know I'm seeing a monster.

1:35.3

Welcome to another member's episode, friends. We are here in studio. And this is a little bit of a

1:39.9

different episode for you because I came into the office this morning and I told these guys, I said,

1:46.2

hey, we're going to do a recording for the members to go next Thursday. Here's a curveball.

1:51.1

Deal with it, right, Jack? That's right. Yeah. And we're rolling. We're rolling. Yeah. And so

1:56.0

we have this fancy table. We have a fancy table. We have a fancy TV on the table.

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