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This is Jimmy Nanette and we...

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Well, I always have to mention Mr. Chevy because he's with us.

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He is this time.

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He was not with us last week because...

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We were in Florida.

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What were we doing in Florida?

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Oh my gosh.

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What were we not doing in Florida?

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Having the time of our life.

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It was so much fun.

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I'm really...

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I was sad to come back home.

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I begged you to stay.

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Honestly, no, I was too.

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I felt the same way.

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No, no, no.

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But I just...

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I'm Mr. Responsible here.

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I felt like we needed to get back.

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Why?

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So we could sit here?

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Mr. Chevy.

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Oh my gosh.

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Chevy was doing great with Faith.

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Very, very good.

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Now, I really wanted a few more days.

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I know, but you always do that on trips.

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You always beg for more.

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It's like...

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What can I say?

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No, we got to get back to real life.

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But we're not in real life yet.

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We're still in solitude.

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Well, and to Choo-ching and we didn't have reservations and blah, blah, blah.

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There's a lot.

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A lot of reasons, obviously.

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Okay.

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Next time.

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I'm doing two weeks.

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Okay, so before I sound like I'm just party pooper over here, I want to welcome our guests.

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Those that are listening, this is show number 32.

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Yeah, you got it.

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Can you believe it?

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32 episodes.

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That just sounds like a lot.

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It feels like we just started last week.

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It doesn't to me.

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It doesn't?

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No.

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It feels like they've been doing this for years because you're such a pro.

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That's why.

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Right.

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I am a pro.

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You've got the best voice.

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Oh, here we go.

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I'm in the world.

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Okay, let's go ahead and talk about what we're going to talk about.

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Keep eating the mic.

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That will help.

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I'm eating the mic.

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Oh my gosh.

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We're back in our bouncy room.

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Actually, last week when we took our road caster with us, Adam listened to the show.

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It was the best sound we've ever had.

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Adam, the pod father and our executive producer, Curry.

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We had what?

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Towel, wood, floors, no blankets hanging up.

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We were in a kitchen.

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A kitchen.

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In a condo.

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There was noise outside.

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It was shocking.

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Of course, we were on the beach, so there's the beach outside and there's people playing

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music and vehicles going up and down the beach.

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We were like, oh, there's no telling what's going to happen.

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It came off really well.

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It was way better.

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The road caster performed.

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Way better than I thought it would be because he complained.

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Well, I don't want to say the word complain.

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No, he pointed out.

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He points out quite a bit of our issues.

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That's why I pay him so much.

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We're in our office, our studio, but not there.

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This doesn't make sense.

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We're good to go.

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Hopefully.

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I think a lot of it was me back in too far off the mic creating.

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Who knows?

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Anyway, we'll see how it goes today.

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I'm sure we'll hear from you.

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I guess I am the pro and you're not.

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You know, there's a lot of truth in that.

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By the way, speaking of Adam and Tina Curry.

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I know.

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Oh, here we go again.

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Where are they right now?

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Where we were supposed to be with them in Italy, but that's okay.

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Next year, we're going to Japan.

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All of us.

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Yeah, we're looking at it.

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We're looking at it.

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I think it'll be an exciting trip.

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I had a friend that Evan Archulette went to Japan with his family.

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No, just with Memily, his wife.

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Oh, I didn't know.

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Yeah, it was just them.

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He came back and he said, I would move there.

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I would move there tomorrow.

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Now, obviously, he went as a tourist.

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He didn't know the whole culture, but from a tourist American perspective, what he liked

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was how peaceful it was and how clean and orderly it was, which that fits right in with

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Evan's mindset.

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For sure, it's his personality.

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But I would like to experience that cleanliness.

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He said peace.

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Peace.

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Yes, yes.

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There's just a, they really, as a culture, they strive for that.

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I strive for that.

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How do you strive for peace?

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You know, you lean into, you receive, you accept.

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So apparently, it was very impactful for him.

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So that kind of inspired me of saying, you know, I would like to explore.

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We've talked about it with Currys.

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We may do it.

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She wants to come back and start planning it.

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You know, if we did that, then we might could do a crossover podcast there in front of Japan.

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Oh, that's a good idea.

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That would be fun.

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So last week, Panama Beach, Panama City Beach, we worked out how many days?

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I mean, so we're on a carnivore journey and we're also, so we're in the middle of our

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sabbatical.

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Maybe we're further, we're on the other half of our sabbatical.

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We have a week from Sunday.

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A week from next Sunday.

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So we've still got a couple of weeks.

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And we've been focusing on our mind, our body, and our spirit.

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Spent the first few weeks really dialing in on the spiritual side of things.

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Now, we didn't abandon the spirit to go focus on the others.

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It's foundations and layers.

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And so we focused on the spirit, really got some rhythms, some healthy, healthy devotional

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rhythms where we both have our times in the morning.

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We come back and what did you learn?

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What's God speaking?

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Sometimes we're texting each other from each end of the house going, oh my gosh, this quote's

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amazing from, you know, whatever.

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So when we came back together, that's amazing.

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So we got our rhythm set in.

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Then we went to focus on the body, on the physical, which we kind of started anyway

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right at the beginning because we re-embraced our keto, our ketogenic diet journey, which

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we did for years.

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And then we, after COVID, totally botched that.

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Which most people did.

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It's really sad.

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Yeah, it was hard.

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I've seen a lot of videos and people who said, I just fell apart during COVID because of

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these lockdowns.

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That's all I'm going to say about that so I don't get on our rant.

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So anyway, that's not this show.

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No, that's not this show.

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We're living up in a down world.

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But we do realize it's a down world.

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Especially now.

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So then we focus on the body.

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So we started our keto journey and wow, just already we were like, it feels good to feel

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good again.

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Feels good to be eating right again.

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Then we switched to carnivore.

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We upped our game.

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A little bit.

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I would say more keto-for because we added fruit.

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Ketovore sounds like your keto, but a little more.

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We're actually more carnivore with a tiny bit of keto.

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Just a tiny bit, which is just fruit because keto consists of vegetable salads.

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Berries, yeah.

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Basic fruits.

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And we're only incorporating maybe about one serving of fruit a day or every few days.

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It just depends.

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But we're really, really drilling down on the meat.

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And that has been... So share your experience.

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It was really hard because on the carnivore diet, you're supposed to eat a lot of fat.

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And I was one that grew up with you don't eat the fat.

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Everybody grew up that.

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Yes.

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And I was...

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Well, I was all told fat will make you fat.

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Or give you a heart attack.

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I even went through a time in my life where I did everything low fat.

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Well, not the carnivore diet.

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You do everything with high fat.

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That's why it's okay to do cheese, heavy cream.

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But they want butter.

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Lots of butter.

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But your meat, you need to eat the highest fat content meat you can eat.

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So now when we go into order meat from Smokey's Barbecue over in Bernie, by the way, I would

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give a high triple thumbs up.

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If I had three thumbs, they would all be up.

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I only have two.

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But if I had three, all three would be up.

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It was phenomenal.

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The guy running that place, I don't know who he is, but he was amazing.

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We went in and said, we just want to order meat.

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He's like, you came to the right place.

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I mean, he was like, what do you want?

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He hooked us up.

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So we had lots of meat.

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I said, I want marbled fatty cuts.

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He said, no problem.

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But at the very beginning of this, eating this heavy meat was very hard on me and I

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was nauseated.

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It was hard on me too, our stomachs.

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Not as much as me.

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True, true.

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It was very hard.

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And I think I was telling Tina after a couple of weeks, I was like, I don't know if I can

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continue doing this.

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Yeah, I remember.

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And then I hit this threshold and I don't know what happened.

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I think it was about the middle of our time in Panama City Beach.

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No, it was at the beginning.

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It was right before we got there.

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Oh, I'm thinking when all the energy kicked in and we were like, whoa.

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I didn't feel full.

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I didn't feel heavy.

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Gotcha.

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Then the energy kicked in in Panama City like unbelievable energy.

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Both of us.

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And her and I, we would walk in our neighborhood and I didn't have any energy to walk and I

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was having to really strive to walk.

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When she gets back, it's going to brutalize her.

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Yeah, but the heat is too much right now.

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Right, but what I'm saying is you're on fire right now with energy.

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The energy level has really gone.

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And I would never have, I mean, in my mind, I can't comprehend eating fat and getting

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thinner, too.

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It doesn't make sense.

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And we're definitely getting thinner.

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I mean, I just went back and pulled all my old clothes out and started wearing them.

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Awesome, too.

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Wow, some really cool stuff.

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Yeah, so it's amazing.

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But it's not just about that, but it is about feeling.

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It's about health and feeling good.

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But I felt really good on keto.

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Yeah, I did too.

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And I don't know if this is different than that because of going through that couple

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of weeks time when it was so bad.

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Now I don't remember how great I felt on keto, but anyway.

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Yeah, it's kind of hard to remember back.

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Yeah, and I'm still leaning that I could go either way.

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And I don't want to go off of ketovor no matter what.

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For me, I'm sticking with carnivore because I've never felt better in my life.

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And I had hypertension.

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I was on blood pressure medicine and I took a risk.

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I said, you know what, I'm going to go off this medication because I'm trying to get

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off every supplement, every kind of medication.

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I went off of it.

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We've been checking your...

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Dr. Jason Pete, here's this.

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You did what?

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So we've been checking your blood pressure every day.

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Every day.

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I did it incrementally until we went to Panama City Beach and I literally stopped my blood

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pressure medicine because I literally had faith that this was going to work because

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I've been really digging into the science of this and our bodies and I was confident

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that it would work.

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So while we were there, it was like 140 over 70 something or 80.

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It's still a little high.

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Little high.

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But according to Dr. Ken Berry, that's really not high.

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Those standards were set at a different time.

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Well, it was 120 over 60 and now he's saying 140 over 80 is the new standard.

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I'm not sure if that's correct, but that's what he says.

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So we went along and I was bouncing around 140 on the top and you were a little nervous,

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but I was like, no, no, I feel good about this because I have never felt better.

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I've never had more energy.

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I mean, brain fog gone.

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I mean, it's...

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But today, it was in the 120s.

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Today, we got back and this is the first time I've checked it since we got back from vacation

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and yeah, 120s.

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It was like 120 over 72.

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Yes.

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Perfect.

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I mean, literally perfect.

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It's been complete my...

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How long have you been off your medication?

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About two weeks now at least.

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I think it's been longer than that.

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Maybe a little long because I started phasing it out.

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I was doing it every other day.

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So I was weaning off of it because I did read about it.

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I did my research.

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I made sure I didn't do anything stupid and it said I could go off my Ulsa Martin, which

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is for cholesterol, which I'm so not worried about now.

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And then it was the other was, you might want to wean off of that, consult your doctor,

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blah, blah, blah.

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And so I did wean off of it and then I went cold turkey.

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I said, I'm done.

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So I didn't even bring it with me on the trip on purpose so that I would kind of write it

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out.

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Anyway, all that to say is my hypertension is gone.

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It's been completely reversed and healed.

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Glory to God and thank you, carnivore diet.

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This is the thing.

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We're not just doing diets randomly.

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We're literally asking the Lord, show us what's good for us because what's good for us is

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not always good for other people.

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And you have to determine what's best for your body and for, you know, good point because

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everybody is different and some people can't tolerate just meat.

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So thank you for saying that.

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So I would agree with you and say we're not telling people they should do it.

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You need to do your own research.

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And what and what are your goals?

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My goal was not to lose weight.

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Well, you wanted a few pounds a little bit, but I knew that would come whether we did

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keto or whatever that that would come off.

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I knew that was going to happen, but it wasn't the ultimate goal was not primary.

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Primary was health, overall health, getting rid of what's called visceral fat, which is

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the fat around your organs, which is the dangerous fat.

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The fat on your thighs is not dangerous.

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The fat around your liver.

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It's actually healthy.

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Right.

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It's actually God's gift to in case of famine, it's a primal thing.

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Exactly.

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Our ancestors had to store up fat for lean times.

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It's different now, so we don't have to do that.

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But that's why our bodies do that and respond that way.

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So getting rid of that visceral fat is the healthiest thing you can do.

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And ketogenic diet is great for that.

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Carnivore diet is great for that.

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We did keto is great, but I wanted to up the game.

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What I don't go for it.

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What I found out when I was doing the low fat diet years and years ago is they would

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add extra sugar.

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So you're you're you're eating low fat products, but they're adding especially if you're eating

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a lot of processed stuff, which is so bad for you anyway.

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They're adding sugar and taking out the fat.

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Yes, they really have.

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Introducing totally against low fat diets.

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Yeah.

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Well, and for us, we're not doing any processed food at all.

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No, I mean, and that was the thing with the ketogenic diet that we were doing.

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We were adding all these Atkins, Slim Fast, all these bars, bread, keto bread.

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There's no such thing.

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They're all still processed.

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Let me say this again.

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The food industry has completely contaminated the ketogenic diet by introducing all these

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processed snacks.

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Yes.

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Peanut butter cups and clusters.

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Does sound good.

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But anyway, I digress.

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All that it's fully processed and it will it will completely derail your ketogenic is

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not pure diet.

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Which is why when we tried keto back on a year ago and we were buying all that stuff,

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we didn't do that the first time we started buying all that because, hey, this is available

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now.

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And I was doing workout supplements.

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I was doing Spark from Avicare, which is full of sugar and caffeine, all that stuff.

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So yeah, all those things we were doing, all these supplements was actually detrimental

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to what we were trying to do.

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So we're completely off all of those.

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No sugar.

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I don't remember the last time we had sugar unless it was accidental.

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Yeah, I don't think so.

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Literally nothing.

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I guess it was just when we ate out at Panama City Beach, if any of the restaurants added

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sugar to any of the meat.

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Sometimes bacon's got sugar added.

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We were very careful about even dying bacon.

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We talked to each of the waiters and waitresses and said, this is what we're doing and this

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is what we want.

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And they were great.

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Yes.

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Speaking of that, let's move off of that onto the favor factor.

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So we prayed before our trip, we prayed for Adam and Tina as they went on their trip to

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Amsterdam, Italy, Spain, no, Amsterdam, Spain, Italy.

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They're in Italy now.

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And they're going back to Amsterdam.

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They're going back to Amsterdam to spend time with his family.

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But we prayed for them.

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We prayed for ourselves.

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We asked the Lord for favor.

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Lord, would you grant favor with every clerk, every attendant, every ticket agent, every

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airline, every steward or stewardess?

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I mean, just we asked God for favor, so we moved in what's called, and those of you

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listening, listen to this, heads up on this.

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We moved in the spirit of appeal.

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Father, we appeal to you.

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Would you grant us favor?

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It's a question.

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Would you?

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Would you?

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Would you?

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After that, we moved on to declaration.

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And that's where we moved from appeal to declaration.

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Now prayer of declaration is just what it sounds like.

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We declare favor over our lives, who declare the favor of God on us according to God's

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word in Psalm 30 verse 5.

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Psalm 5 says He surrounds you with favor as like a shield.

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Psalm 30 verse 5 is, "'Anger lasts for a moment, but his favor lasts for a lifetime.'"

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So we declared God's word over us.

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His word is His will.

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So when you declare His word, you're declaring His will over your life.

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It means His desire, which I love that.

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His desire, which means His will for us is what He desires for us.

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Isn't that beautiful?

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Yes.

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I love that.

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I just heard that this week.

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I want to encourage you in your prayer life, take both approaches.

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Come in the spirit of appeal.

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Come in the spirit of declaration.

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Appeal means you're asking.

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Father would you?

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Don't say, Father, I just ask you to.

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It doesn't make sense.

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Father would you?

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Then you move into the place of declaration because you now know you have the word of

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God on it.

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When you have the word on it, you can be quite clear.

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I declare in the name of Jesus that favor will go before us.

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It's exactly what happened.

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From the moment we left our home to the moment we came back, it was unbelievable.

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How many cool conversations did we have with waiters and waitresses?

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I mean, everybody, we ran into them.

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Even our waiter.

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And locals.

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Locals there in Florida.

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Our waiter at that really nice seafood place.

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Captain Anderson's.

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Wow.

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That was amazing.

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Shane.

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Yeah.

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He said, his family's from Bernie.

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We're like, what?

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He goes, do you know where Bernie is?

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Yes, we do all of our shopping there.

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We go to the gym there.

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We're 20 minutes from Bernie.

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I was pretty shocked at that.

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He was such a neat young man.

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He was very respectful.

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He was so great.

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We kept hanging out at our table, even though the place was crushed because it's one of

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the most, it's like top 10 in Florida for seafood.

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Wonderful.

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And he was just hanging out and standing at our table.

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Our food was getting cold at one point because he was just hanging out with us.

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But I loved every second.

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I kept thinking, this is the favor factor.

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This is God.

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He's drawn to us for a reason.

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Not because we're amazing, but because God in us is amazing.

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And that happened everywhere.

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So let me tell you a miracle that happened.

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TSA?

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Hey, I'm telling you, my Bible says miracles happen, according to Pastor Eddie Freeman.

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My Bible says the same thing.

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Miracles still happen.

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TSA.

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All right.

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Just the very letters TSA puts the fear of God in people.

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I mean, just like, you know, it's almost like saying the DMV.

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That's another adult.

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Oh, gosh.

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That's for sure.

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Please.

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So we're at Panama City Beach Airport, which is a small airport.

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It reminded me of that show, Wings.

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Yes.

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I loved it.

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Everybody was nice.

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Oh, it was so sweet.

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Doing our baggage, doing our tickets.

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And he was the pilot as well.

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I'm kidding.

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But it was a small airport.

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But we go to International, which is shocking.

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Nice airport.

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We go through TSA.

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I have to unpack everything.

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I had four iPads.

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No, three iPads.

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You had mine too.

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A laptop computer.

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Three iPads, a laptop, and the Roadcaster Duo, which is what we're doing the podcast

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through.

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It's the equipment, all the microphone.

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I had to unpack all of that out of my backpack.

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I had my backpack.

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My backpack weighed 70 pounds.

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And it's not even that big.

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But anyway, we got it all in there.

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And I'm like, do I have to unpack everything?

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We didn't have to do that in Austin, which was great.

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So I unpack everything.

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And my phone, get everything repacked because it took a minute for me to get everything

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back together.

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And you know how it is in those lines.

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You don't want to err.

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But there weren't that many people there.

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So it wasn't that bad.

522
00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,240
But anyway, we get up to our gate.

523
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:04,240
I feel my pocket.

524
00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,760
And I'm like, my phone's not in my pocket.

525
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,840
Oh, it's in my backpack.

526
00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:10,280
I go through my backpack.

527
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:11,280
It's not there.

528
00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:14,040
And I realize I left it in one of those bins.

529
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,000
Which anybody could have picked up.

530
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,440
Not only was that my phone.

531
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,020
It was credit cards and my driver's license.

532
00:21:22,020 --> 00:21:26,320
So I'd be more twerp about some of that than I would my phone.

533
00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,360
You can replace the phone.

534
00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:33,440
But anyway, so I was actually very calm about it.

535
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:34,920
I was quite shocked.

536
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:35,920
I decided not to panic.

537
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:37,600
Because you're a calm person.

538
00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,680
But still, that's pretty unnerving.

539
00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:41,760
It was.

540
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:42,760
And I got up.

541
00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,880
I walked back to, which wasn't very far.

542
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:46,240
It's a small airport.

543
00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:47,240
Hallelujah.

544
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,960
It's not the FW or Chicago or O'Hare.

545
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,480
So I walked back.

546
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:53,480
And I walked right through.

547
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,080
It says, do not enter.

548
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,000
To go back in, I walked right in and right up to the TSA agents.

549
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,980
And they're like, could we help you?

550
00:22:00,980 --> 00:22:02,140
They were nice.

551
00:22:02,140 --> 00:22:03,140
But could we help you?

552
00:22:03,140 --> 00:22:05,040
I said, I left my phone.

553
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:09,000
And I said, are you sure it's here and it's not in your backpack?

554
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,780
I said, we checked our find my phone.

555
00:22:12,780 --> 00:22:13,780
It's right here.

556
00:22:13,780 --> 00:22:15,200
No, but you went back twice.

557
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:16,200
The first time.

558
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,640
They said, come back and check your backpack one more time.

559
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,120
I humored them, went back, checked the backpack, came back with find my phone.

560
00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:25,600
I said, because my wife had the phone, you had the phone.

561
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,000
I told them that.

562
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,040
And they went into action.

563
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:31,520
They tore that place apart.

564
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,280
And then she said, just call it.

565
00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:35,920
And you said, well, yeah, I don't have the ringer on.

566
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,960
She goes, I'll hear the vibration.

567
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,200
She turned off the fans.

568
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:40,200
So there were fans.

569
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,280
The airport was hot because it's hot everywhere in the world right now.

570
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,360
The world's on fire right now.

571
00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:50,240
She turned off all the fans in that area, which was, I was like, this is amazing.

572
00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:51,240
And she was so gracious.

573
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,520
And she's all right, everybody be quiet for a minute.

574
00:22:54,520 --> 00:23:02,680
I mean, she told the whole six TSA agents to shut up and shut down all the machines.

575
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:04,080
And they said, call it.

576
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,920
So we called it and she said, I hear something.

577
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:12,840
They tore, they went through Ben after Ben after Ben and tore that place apart and found

578
00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,800
it and she goes, I got it and she was so excited.

579
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:17,800
They all started clapping.

580
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:18,800
What?

581
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:19,800
Okay.

582
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,800
Don't tell me there's not still miracles.

583
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:27,120
Adam has a real hard time with TSA, but they had a good experience too.

584
00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:28,120
So that's true.

585
00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:29,120
We had a great experience.

586
00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:30,120
They give a bad rap, but you know what?

587
00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:32,160
Because they have a hard job.

588
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:33,160
They do.

589
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,160
They do.

590
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:35,960
People are jerks flying right now.

591
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:36,960
They are.

592
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:37,960
I know I said that was very direct.

593
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,200
But God had his favor on you.

594
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:41,200
And I just think that.

595
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:46,320
But first, you know what, when you first went back down to look for it and I was still sitting

596
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,600
there, I was just going, really God?

597
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:49,600
Everything has been wonderful.

598
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:50,600
Everything.

599
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,600
This is not the way I want to end my trip.

600
00:23:53,600 --> 00:24:00,520
So I began to pray and I didn't even think about find my phone app on my phone until

601
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,320
you came back and you said, hey.

602
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,360
Hey, find my phone.

603
00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:06,960
Because you're always checking up on me where I'm at.

604
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:07,960
Yeah.

605
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:08,960
That's true.

606
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,760
But God is so good.

607
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,600
Oh, God is good.

608
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:17,080
I'm just saying those TSA agents were great and they were fun.

609
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,840
And I got to tell you, I was so blessed by that.

610
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,240
And I just said, I cannot thank you enough for your attitudes.

611
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,880
I just went past Oralon.

612
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,120
I'm a practically loved.

613
00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:30,080
I mean, it was crazy.

614
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:31,960
I've never seen that in an airport before.

615
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:32,960
I haven't either.

616
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,440
And it was so the favor of God.

617
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:36,440
A lot of times.

618
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:37,440
That's why when I came back, I was so happy.

619
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:38,440
Right.

620
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,080
I told you, we found it.

621
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,800
But not only did we find it, these people were amazing.

622
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,680
They've been over backwards to take care of me.

623
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:53,440
So yay for the TSA agents in the Panama City Beach Airport.

624
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,240
Which I want to go back as soon as we can.

625
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:57,240
We're going to go back.

626
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:58,240
That was such a good experience.

627
00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,240
Okay.

628
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:03,280
The trip was, I'm going to dare I say it, use a word that some Christians get weird

629
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:04,280
about.

630
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:05,280
It was magical.

631
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:06,280
It really was.

632
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:07,280
It was enchanted.

633
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:13,280
But I felt the peace of God, the favor of God.

634
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,920
I can't even explain.

635
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,560
And not only that, just such a love for you.

636
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,620
Us getting away together.

637
00:25:21,620 --> 00:25:23,600
Even though we've been here every day.

638
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:24,600
We have, but it's home.

639
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:25,600
It's a little different.

640
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,960
There's something special about going away together.

641
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,600
And I just, I'm already in love with you.

642
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:34,880
I already love you.

643
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:35,940
I'm in love with you.

644
00:25:35,940 --> 00:25:40,200
Would I, if you could even say that I re-fell in love with you.

645
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:41,200
That sounds weird.

646
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,720
I don't know what words to use, honestly.

647
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:48,480
But literally it was one of my favorite times in our 30 years of marriage.

648
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,320
Why do you think I asked if we could stay a few more days?

649
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:53,320
I didn't want that.

650
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:54,320
I get it.

651
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,320
I so get it.

652
00:25:55,320 --> 00:26:01,880
Well, because I do know once we get back in the groove a week from Sunday, it's, you know.

653
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:02,880
Game on, right?

654
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:03,880
Yes.

655
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:04,880
Yeah, we're back in.

656
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:06,640
But we're not the same people.

657
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:07,640
No, no.

658
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:14,160
God has done such a work in us that we will go back into our work life joyfully, by the

659
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:15,160
way.

660
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,720
I am getting excited about it because I know we're not the same people we were.

661
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:25,760
God has done such a deep work in us and I'm forever grateful.

662
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:26,760
Forever grateful.

663
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:27,760
I am too.

664
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,640
We're very blessed to have a board and staff.

665
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:31,640
We have a board of directors.

666
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:32,640
That are so...

667
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:33,640
Supportive.

668
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,640
Supportive of us.

669
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:36,640
Loving.

670
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:44,040
And want the best for us because they know that they'll get the best of us if we take

671
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,160
care of our temple.

672
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:47,160
That is true.

673
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:48,160
And take care of our marriage and our family.

674
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,360
It's kind of like when your parents are healthy, the family's healthy.

675
00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:57,480
What's odd is we haven't hardly talked to faith except through text.

676
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,400
Our own daughter, our youngest daughter who's on staff at our church.

677
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,800
There's two times in seven weeks, six weeks.

678
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,800
Hardly just here and there.

679
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:11,040
But it's just because with her working at the church, we're really...

680
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:19,720
We're trying to be kind of separate from the church as much as we can and not get sucked

681
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,160
into it because we can.

682
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:22,400
Because our minds go there.

683
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,680
Once your mind goes there, it's hard to disengage.

684
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:26,680
And so...

685
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,200
But we do think about the people a lot.

686
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:29,200
We talk about them.

687
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,200
We miss.

688
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,960
I saw Amy when we went to the...

689
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:33,960
Cleaners today.

690
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,920
She'll be here and she'll hear that she loves our podcast.

691
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,880
Amy, we love you so much.

692
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:42,680
Amy Moore, she works at the cleaners and we had to go pick up our bedding.

693
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,760
And I so enjoyed talking to Amy.

694
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:46,760
I did too.

695
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,240
It was like, one of our people.

696
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:49,520
I literally felt that.

697
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,760
I didn't say anything to you, but I noticed that we just stayed there a long time until

698
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:54,760
car pulled up.

699
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:55,760
I know.

700
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:56,760
I keep looking to see if there were cars behind us.

701
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,760
Nobody was behind us because I think God wanted us to.

702
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,200
I talked to one of our church members that we love.

703
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:02,200
It was funny.

704
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:03,200
It was almost like we're desperate.

705
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,880
Oh my gosh, a real conversation with a church person.

706
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,440
I was like, ah, so good to see you.

707
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:15,360
But anyway, we love Amy so much and thank you, Amy, for listening to our podcast.

708
00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:17,400
Just good to see you today.

709
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:18,400
Can't wait to see the church.

710
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,320
This is going to be a family reunion when we go back.

711
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:21,320
I know.

712
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,280
Well, I've had many dreams this week about going back.

713
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:25,280
It's freaky.

714
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:26,280
I know.

715
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:27,920
Why are we dreaming about this?

716
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,440
Because it's coming up really fast.

717
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,440
It's coming fast.

718
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,440
Fast, yes.

719
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,400
I don't have a lot of spiritual dreams.

720
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:35,400
I have freaky.

721
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:36,400
It's weird.

722
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,680
But when you do, you remember them.

723
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,440
When I do, I remember and I've been having some dreams.

724
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,280
Some of them are a little frightening and demonic and I know where that's coming from.

725
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:46,960
I know the source of all that.

726
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,880
A dark enemy hates what we've done.

727
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,640
He hates that we didn't take a sabbatical.

728
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:57,640
We received the gift of sabbatical and he hates that.

729
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,240
We haven't squandered it and we've worked through it.

730
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:01,360
All right.

731
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,360
We've gone on and on, but we're full.

732
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,360
Our tanks are full.

733
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:12,880
Pastor Eddie Freeman from Gateway Church in Southlake has been our coach and mentor through

734
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:13,880
this.

735
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,120
Although once we started, he's like, hands off.

736
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,120
Don't even text me.

737
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,120
I don't want to hear from you for two months.

738
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,160
You had to text him to ask him if he could preach.

739
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,720
You're not even supposed to be thinking about this.

740
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,760
It's coming up soon and you do need someone to fill the pulpit.

741
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:31,360
We've reached at our church twice and some little information gets through from time

742
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:37,400
to time and people have loved him and adored him as we do.

743
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,200
He has coached and mentored us well through this.

744
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:41,720
He set us up for success.

745
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:49,560
He's been meeting with our staff, which I love because they can draw some nuggets from

746
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:53,080
him that he... Because we're part of the Gateway Church's

747
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:59,280
network and he's just come in and really carried the load for us.

748
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:03,480
So thankful, Pastor Eddie and a dear brother and a dear friend.

749
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:10,080
I want to switch gears for the last part of the show and I want to talk a little bit about

750
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:14,040
some of the things we've been learning, some of our learnings within this.

751
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:19,520
A while back, I even said it in a message, maybe in the last message or two that I preached

752
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:24,640
before we started the sabbatical, which was now what, six weeks ago, however long it's

753
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:25,640
been.

754
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:31,580
It was basically a declaration and it was a declaration that I give up.

755
00:30:31,580 --> 00:30:34,880
It's not often as a Christian you go, I just give up.

756
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:36,320
That sounds very defeating.

757
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,480
It sounds like, oh my gosh, he's not going to make it.

758
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,800
But really, I want to talk about the fact that I've given up and here's what I've given

759
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:44,800
up.

760
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,140
I've shared this on here before so I won't be laborious on this, but I want to give some

761
00:30:48,140 --> 00:30:50,160
scripture background.

762
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,960
So for those of you listening, I want to share this with you.

763
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:59,320
It's just three learnings that we're getting out of the sabbatical, although there's millions

764
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:00,600
of them at this point.

765
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:01,600
But here it is.

766
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:02,600
It's a declaration.

767
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,080
I give up my right to be offended.

768
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:10,260
Now I shared this on a couple broadcasts, so I mean this isn't brand new, but I want

769
00:31:10,260 --> 00:31:15,880
to reiterate because I'm the kind of guy that I don't get anything the first or second time.

770
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,920
I need repetition.

771
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:18,920
Most of us do.

772
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:26,760
And I remember hearing, we were watching a show called Holy Ghost or something by Darren

773
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,200
... I'm trying to remember.

774
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,800
You know who I'm talking about.

775
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,560
And he was interviewing Michael W. Smith.

776
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,280
And Michael W. Smith made a couple of statements, but he said one of the things he's endeavored

777
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:43,640
to do for the rest of his life is that he is endeavored to never be offended again.

778
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,760
This is a guy who's been in the music business for 30, 40 years.

779
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,520
And he's saying, I am endeavoring to never be offended again.

780
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,080
I thought he said that on the Jesus movie.

781
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:56,080
It was one of those.

782
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,080
I mean, it was that.

783
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,660
It was in that same vein.

784
00:31:59,660 --> 00:32:06,440
And so we heard Pastor Bill Johnson, who we have high respect, high honor for, say this.

785
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:10,240
He says, I gave up my right to be offended.

786
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,680
And so I just morphed that into my own wording.

787
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,100
I give up my right to be offended.

788
00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:19,600
And I have to keep that in front of me.

789
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,280
So I want to give a couple of scriptures on that and then we'll move on because I want

790
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,000
you to hear a couple of others.

791
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,680
Matthew 13, 21, listen to this.

792
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:32,600
Yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while.

793
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:40,440
And when tribulation or persecution arises or offense arises on account of the word,

794
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:41,960
immediately he falls away.

795
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,120
Remember, that's the context of the four soils.

796
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:50,760
And he's saying that whenever persecution arises, immediately he falls away.

797
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,000
And that's so true.

798
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,400
Sometimes we're doing really good and then offense comes and it just takes us out.

799
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,160
Tanks us.

800
00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,160
Knocks us off.

801
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:00,160
It does.

802
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,160
It does.

803
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:02,160
It does.

804
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,160
Because we end up...

805
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:04,160
And it eats at you.

806
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,320
I was going to say, what do we do with it?

807
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:07,320
Yes.

808
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:13,200
And it causes so much stress in our bodies and then we start eating improperly.

809
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:14,720
We start thinking improperly.

810
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,200
Our minds go crazy.

811
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,200
We spin out.

812
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:19,200
We spin out.

813
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,200
And we spin up.

814
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:21,200
Yeah.

815
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,440
Another verse, Matthew 18, 21, I love this.

816
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:28,560
Then Peter came up and said to him, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me and

817
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,200
I forgive him?

818
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:37,920
As many as seven times, Jesus said to him, I do not say to you seven times, but 77 times.

819
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:38,920
And what he's acting...

820
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,800
He didn't even say he's asked for forgiveness, did it?

821
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:46,200
So he's like, if a brother sins against me this many times, what do I do?

822
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,680
He says, you forgive him, period.

823
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:54,760
And actually, 77 times is a perfect number and it literally means infinity.

824
00:33:54,760 --> 00:34:03,400
So there is no limit to our extending grace, mercy, forgiveness to others.

825
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:10,600
Another scripture, last one, Ephesians 4.31, 32, let all bitterness and wrath and anger

826
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:15,520
and clamor and slander be put away from you along with all malice.

827
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:25,240
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave you.

828
00:34:25,240 --> 00:34:26,240
There it is.

829
00:34:26,240 --> 00:34:29,280
I give up my right to be offended.

830
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:37,240
And here's the thing, family, I mean, anyone who's been wronged, there'll be 15 people

831
00:34:37,240 --> 00:34:44,200
as you walk away from the cross of Jesus Christ, as you leave, as you move away, there'll be

832
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:49,760
15 or 20 people patting you on the back saying, you have every right to be offended.

833
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:54,000
And the only reason why we tell people about our offense is we want to get them on our

834
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,200
side so they can see we're right and they're wrong.

835
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:58,800
It's called validation.

836
00:34:58,800 --> 00:34:59,800
Exactly.

837
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,360
And it's wrong.

838
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:05,040
And that's where I want to really grow as a Christian.

839
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,040
It's all about the flesh, right?

840
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,040
Yes.

841
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,920
So what we're doing, and I want to encourage you to do this, make this declaration.

842
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,800
I would write this down.

843
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,320
I give up my right to be offended.

844
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,720
Now at first, you go, well, if I say that, I'm afraid I'm going to be tested.

845
00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:22,720
You're going to be tested anyway.

846
00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:23,720
Oh, you'll be tested.

847
00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:26,040
No, no matter what, because we live in a fallen world.

848
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,040
Bingo.

849
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:28,040
We live in a down world.

850
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,040
We're living up in a down world.

851
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,280
So one of the ways we live up in this down world...

852
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,880
Is do the opposite of what the world does.

853
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:34,880
Exactly.

854
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:35,880
Bingo.

855
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,480
That's what I'm telling you.

856
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:38,480
Awesome.

857
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:39,480
All right.

858
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:40,480
Second declaration.

859
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,880
So that was one we've already talked about, but I feel like it's good to bring it back

860
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,040
up just as a reminder.

861
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:52,080
But another declaration is this, number two, I give up my right to withhold encouragement.

862
00:35:52,080 --> 00:36:00,760
How many times have you had this inkling, we call them God taps, a God pause moment

863
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,360
where you feel like, I should reach out to so-and-so.

864
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,160
I haven't heard from so-and-so in a while.

865
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:07,800
I hope they're okay.

866
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:08,840
I should text them.

867
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:09,840
I should call them.

868
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:10,840
Whatever.

869
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:11,840
I should email.

870
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:12,840
Whatever.

871
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:13,840
But we don't do it.

872
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:18,120
And in our mind, we justify that we sort of did because we thought about them.

873
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,120
But good wishes and good thoughts and good intentions don't do anything.

874
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,120
And you never know.

875
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:27,360
That person may have needed what you had to say right then, and you could have given up

876
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:28,560
that opportunity.

877
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:34,200
I reached out to somebody just this morning with something that was on my heart, an encouragement.

878
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:35,720
I reached out to them.

879
00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:39,640
They wrote me back almost immediately and said, thank you.

880
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,960
I've been going through a difficult, rough, was their words.

881
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,520
I've been going through a rough time.

882
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,280
This is timely.

883
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:52,200
And that was a confirmation from the Lord, you heard me.

884
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,120
And so I've been trying to be very mindful of that.

885
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:59,120
I've limited my reach right now simply because we're on sabbaticals.

886
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,920
So I'm not like just blasting out texts and emails.

887
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:07,960
But I have a handful of people that are in my orbit that I continue to reach out to and

888
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:09,280
encourage.

889
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,440
Dear friend of mine, Mark Barry, I'm so excited for Mark.

890
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:14,440
Mark went in.

891
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:15,440
Mark's my age.

892
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:20,160
We were both guitar players in a rock band, a Christian rock band in college back at Howard

893
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,480
Payne University back in the mid-80s.

894
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,520
We both were dueling lead guitar players.

895
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:30,320
We wrote a lot of music together, had a lot of fun just touring and playing music.

896
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,200
And we've stayed friends, close friends.

897
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,640
He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

898
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,240
And he was diagnosed.

899
00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:41,240
He went in and he had his colonoscopy, you know, we're both 61.

900
00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:42,800
And it came back bad.

901
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,800
They said, you've got, we've removed polyps.

902
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,240
We think there may be a problem.

903
00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:50,600
Went in to an oncologist who did the test.

904
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:56,380
They came back and said it was cancerous and that they may need to look at radiation or

905
00:37:56,380 --> 00:37:57,640
what's the other one?

906
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:58,640
Chemo.

907
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:00,480
And so they were talking about what to do.

908
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,280
They removed these polyps at the time.

909
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,520
They also disconnected his colon and did some...

910
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,680
Yeah, he's had a bag and all that stuff.

911
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:10,680
Colostomy.

912
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:11,680
That.

913
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,600
So he's having to deal with that right now.

914
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,240
And this dude is like an entrepreneur.

915
00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:16,240
He's got businesses.

916
00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:18,720
He's an amazing guy.

917
00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:22,720
And all of a sudden he's like incapacitated because of this.

918
00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:26,640
And they're saying, so they did all the blood work and I've been walking with him and texting

919
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,920
him every other day saying, give me an update, Mark, how are things?

920
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:30,920
How are you feeling?

921
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,140
How's your heart through this?

922
00:38:32,140 --> 00:38:33,140
He has been doing great.

923
00:38:33,140 --> 00:38:34,140
He's been praying.

924
00:38:34,140 --> 00:38:36,480
I've been praying with him.

925
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:37,880
He just wrote me back today.

926
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,160
Can I read the text?

927
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:40,160
Sure.

928
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:41,440
Even said, please share this story.

929
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,760
I want people to know how good God is.

930
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,200
He said, good morning, bro.

931
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:49,200
Thank you for that.

932
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:50,200
It's something I sent this morning.

933
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:51,200
Encouragement.

934
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,760
Again, I gave up my right to withhold encouragement.

935
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,920
He said, that's sermon material right there.

936
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,760
He said, I would appreciate your prayers this afternoon because I have an appointment

937
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,360
at 2 p.m. to go over my blood work.

938
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,600
If it comes back clean, then I won't need any kind of treatment.

939
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:05,600
Thank you again.

940
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,360
I hope you all are doing well, blah, blah, blah.

941
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,840
And he says, I just had my doctor's appointment.

942
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:15,400
This is later today to go over my blood work, which is a determining factor if I was going

943
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:16,580
to need treatment or not.

944
00:39:16,580 --> 00:39:18,680
And they said that my blood work was clean.

945
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:19,680
Wow.

946
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:20,680
So thank you, Jesus.

947
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:21,680
Jesus.

948
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:22,680
Wow.

949
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,440
And I said, I have been praying for you and boom, there it is.

950
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:27,920
I'm so happy for you, brother.

951
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,560
Now you can move forward and leave this behind.

952
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:36,040
He said, yes, and I would love it if you could use my testimony in a sermon sometime.

953
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:37,040
Wow.

954
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:42,480
The fact that I was diagnosed and completely clean within five weeks is nothing short of

955
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,480
a miracle.

956
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:44,480
Miracle.

957
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:45,480
God is awesome.

958
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,440
I want to thank you and your wife for your prayers.

959
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:49,440
Wow.

960
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:55,480
And he's got a corrective surgery on September 7th to take care of that colostomy and get

961
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,080
everything back and he'll be back to normal.

962
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,080
So praise God.

963
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,080
Wow.

964
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:02,080
Go.

965
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:03,080
Yay, Jesus.

966
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:04,080
Yay, God.

967
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:05,800
And yeah, just one of those things.

968
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:10,840
And so again, I've just chosen not to withhold encouragement.

969
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,520
And so I've been reaching out to people.

970
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:19,040
First Thessalonians 5 11, therefore encourage one another and build one another up.

971
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:20,560
I love that.

972
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:21,560
Yes.

973
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,440
Encourage one, build each other.

974
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,720
The word encourage literally means to inspire courage.

975
00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:30,720
So when we encourage someone, it inspires courage within them.

976
00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:33,240
Hebrews 10 24 and 25.

977
00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:39,700
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to

978
00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:45,640
meet together as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another.

979
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,020
And all the more as you see the day drawing near.

980
00:40:49,020 --> 00:40:50,680
We talked about this earlier today.

981
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:55,760
We feel like, and we're listening to a lot of great teachers who believe we're in the

982
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,560
last of the last days.

983
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:05,120
I'm not ever going to try to calculate times, seasons, or so to speak, but yet Jesus said,

984
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,120
be aware, be mindful.

985
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:08,120
Be vigilant.

986
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:09,120
Yeah.

987
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:10,560
Keep your eyes open.

988
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:15,020
And so encouraging one another and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

989
00:41:15,020 --> 00:41:20,040
So the last one, and I want some comments from you on this because this has really been

990
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:21,560
powerful for me.

991
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:26,400
We heard this was spawned by some of what we've been listening to, what we've been growing

992
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,000
through during our sabbatical.

993
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,280
Number three.

994
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,720
So that last one was I give up my right to withhold encouragement.

995
00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:34,720
Number three is this.

996
00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:35,720
I want to encourage you.

997
00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:36,720
You should write this down.

998
00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:39,880
I give up my right to not take responsibility.

999
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:40,880
All right.

1000
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:42,120
You got to think through that.

1001
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:43,880
This is a thinker a little bit.

1002
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:49,480
I give up my right to not take responsibility.

1003
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:55,360
You know, the word responsibility, you can hyphenate the word response-ability.

1004
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,920
Think about that for a second.

1005
00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:58,920
Response-ability.

1006
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:07,960
And what it is, what responsibility is, it's the God-given ability to respond in a Christ-like

1007
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:08,960
and biblical manner.

1008
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:12,160
I want to read that again because I think that's important.

1009
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:19,760
Responsibility, the God-given ability to respond in a Christ-like and biblical manner.

1010
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:25,080
As followers of Christ, we've been given, we've been empowered and given the ability

1011
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:32,000
to respond rightly, to respond biblically, to respond as Christ would respond because

1012
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,080
Christ in us, the hope of glory lives.

1013
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:40,200
And so I give up my right to not take responsibility.

1014
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:41,200
Here's another way to say it.

1015
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:50,300
I have the ability to respond to injustice, sin, unrighteousness, and immorality.

1016
00:42:50,300 --> 00:42:57,720
What I'm not talking about is jumping on your computer and crushing everything out there

1017
00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:05,040
on social media or getting your opinion out there in a sea of opinions because it's just

1018
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:06,040
more noise.

1019
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:07,700
It's more static.

1020
00:43:07,700 --> 00:43:09,160
It goes nowhere.

1021
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:17,400
I'm talking about to intelligently address real issues, not by reacting, but by responding.

1022
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,800
When we react, we're in the flesh.

1023
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,200
When we respond, we can be in the Spirit.

1024
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:23,200
Does that make sense?

1025
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,280
Does that sound, does that resonate with you?

1026
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:40,840
Now, yeah, absolutely, because I think it's hard because we tend to, when we see injustice

1027
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:49,520
in some way, we tend to react to the situation instead of respond rightly.

1028
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:55,000
And so it's where, it's like what our moms used to say, put your thinking caps on.

1029
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:02,600
Well, put your thinking caps on before you speak and say something intelligibly and not

1030
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:06,320
just say something that's from the flesh.

1031
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:11,000
And what would, I mean, God, I mean, Jesus, I mean, he was in the temple.

1032
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,840
He was upset because they were gambling in the temple.

1033
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,920
And he responded rightly.

1034
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:22,520
I mean, he was angry, but he didn't sin.

1035
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:23,520
There's a difference.

1036
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:24,520
He didn't react.

1037
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:25,520
He responded.

1038
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:26,520
He responded.

1039
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:36,960
And, but I do believe that we are so quick to react and we don't think before we respond

1040
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,680
so much of the times, especially as Christians.

1041
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:40,680
What are our values?

1042
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:41,680
What are our values?

1043
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:42,680
What are God's values?

1044
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:47,000
Are our values lining up with God's values?

1045
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,880
And are we using honey?

1046
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:51,880
You know what I'm saying?

1047
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:52,880
Yes, yes.

1048
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:58,000
I know that saying you, you know it.

1049
00:44:58,000 --> 00:44:59,000
Come on.

1050
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,800
You know what I'm saying?

1051
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:03,800
Yeah.

1052
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:04,800
Honey attracts.

1053
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:05,800
I know.

1054
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,960
I can't think of what it is, but you know what I'm saying.

1055
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:21,200
It's, it's, don't come in the spirit of this aberration where you're just a boring things.

1056
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,280
It's the way you come.

1057
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,920
Coming in anger, coming in indignation.

1058
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:26,920
Indignation.

1059
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:27,920
Yes.

1060
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:28,920
Wrath.

1061
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,680
It's a, it's a whole different spirit that you come in.

1062
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,160
It's a spirit of love.

1063
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:34,160
Yes.

1064
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:40,000
I'm going to take, I'm going to, I'm going to take my ability to respond and I'm going

1065
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:48,240
to speak into a situation that is, has to do with sin, unrighteousness, injustice, or

1066
00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:49,560
immorality.

1067
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:55,080
What's happened is for Christians, we've been marginalized and silenced because we're

1068
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:59,320
not out there beating some kind of drum, but it's time.

1069
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:04,000
I talked about this in a sermon right before the sabbatical called Take a Stand.

1070
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,680
There's going to be another sermon called I Give Up.

1071
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:13,860
I'm giving up my right to not take responsibility.

1072
00:46:13,860 --> 00:46:18,400
So when we take responsibility, a lot of times when we, okay, think about how we say it.

1073
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:23,680
Oh man, that person took responsibility for what they said, or they're a responsible

1074
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:26,520
person because they show up on time.

1075
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:34,760
But to truly take responsibility means I act upon the enablement of the Holy Spirit and

1076
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:44,420
the God-given ability to speak into, not react, but to respond well, to think well, to respond

1077
00:46:44,420 --> 00:46:51,960
intelligently and spiritually and biblically into a situation which means government, big

1078
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:58,560
tech, big pharma, everything that's going on in our world, education, food industry,

1079
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:04,600
all the things that are spinning out right now, government, local, state, federal, we

1080
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,320
need to be showing up at meetings.

1081
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:08,960
We need to be responding, not reacting.

1082
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:13,960
We need to be responding because we've been given the ability to do so.

1083
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:20,500
So I give up my right to not take responsibility, which means it's time to take a stand, stand

1084
00:47:20,500 --> 00:47:29,320
up and say what needs to be said in love, in love, not in anger, not in protest, but

1085
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:30,320
in love.

1086
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:31,320
Exactly.

1087
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:36,760
And that is what you're talking about where honey will get you a lot further than vinegar.

1088
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:37,760
Exactly.

1089
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:38,760
There you go, honey.

1090
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:39,760
But what is that saying?

1091
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:40,760
I can't remember the saying.

1092
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:41,760
I can't remember the exact saying.

1093
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,600
You can tell us what we're completely botching here.

1094
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:45,960
Sure, I was told that as a child.

1095
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,280
But I know exactly what you're saying.

1096
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,560
You're going to attract a lot more with honey than you will with vinegar.

1097
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,760
A lot more flies or whatever.

1098
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,200
I think that's due with flies.

1099
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:55,200
Gross.

1100
00:47:55,200 --> 00:48:00,720
So anyway, a couple scriptures here, Ephesians 5-11, listen to this, take no part in the

1101
00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:06,040
unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

1102
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:07,040
Boom.

1103
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:11,480
You know, as you're talking about this, this is what Steve Berger, this is his...

1104
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:12,920
Oh, Pastor Steve.

1105
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:18,880
His whole passion right now is exactly what you're saying.

1106
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:21,280
It's exposing the darkness and speaking up intelligently.

1107
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:22,600
And he is really taking a stand.

1108
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:30,560
And he said it's time for churches, for pastors to stand up and not acquiesce to the culture

1109
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:32,840
and become like everybody else.

1110
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:37,840
We have got to be set apart from the culture because we're Christians.

1111
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:39,640
We're supposed to be set apart.

1112
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:41,800
We're not supposed to look like everybody else.

1113
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:46,920
What I'm really thankful for is we have a group of parents, moms here in our community

1114
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:52,760
at Fredericksburg, Texas, who are standing up and they're getting castigated in the newspaper,

1115
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:53,760
getting castigated by...

1116
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:55,640
Anyway, I'm not even going to go into details.

1117
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,320
That it's worldly people.

1118
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:58,560
It's people who...

1119
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:04,600
But some people say they're Christians, but it has to do with pornography in the libraries.

1120
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:05,600
That's just part of it.

1121
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:07,960
There's a lot broader stroke than that.

1122
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:09,680
But that's one thing.

1123
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:15,440
And I'm so proud of Tracy and Tara and that group of women, Andrea and others who have

1124
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,240
stepped up, Jeannie.

1125
00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:18,240
Yeah.

1126
00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:19,240
Yeah.

1127
00:49:19,240 --> 00:49:20,240
Nancy.

1128
00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:21,240
Nancy.

1129
00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:24,040
I mean, so many have stepped up and said, enough's enough.

1130
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:26,400
We're tired of what you're feeding our children.

1131
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,800
You know what's interesting is some of these people that are standing up don't even have

1132
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,120
children and may have never had children.

1133
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:35,680
And yet their heart for the next generation.

1134
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:37,680
It's not even about just barking.

1135
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:41,640
It's about taking responsibility.

1136
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,040
They're taking their ability to respond and we're running with it.

1137
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:45,880
I'm just so proud of them.

1138
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:47,240
So the next scripture, listen to it.

1139
00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:49,760
So they're exposing them, the deeds of darkness.

1140
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,600
Listen to this, James chapter 4 verse 17.

1141
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:58,320
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

1142
00:49:58,320 --> 00:49:59,320
Wow.

1143
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,720
Wow and ouch.

1144
00:50:01,720 --> 00:50:02,720
How many times...

1145
00:50:02,720 --> 00:50:04,440
I'm just going to be real transparent here.

1146
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:12,840
Have I sat silent in a meeting or in a group or in a situation only because I didn't want

1147
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:14,720
to be the outsider.

1148
00:50:14,720 --> 00:50:20,400
I didn't want to be the one guy who says, I don't agree with this.

1149
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,680
But you stay silent because you want people to like you.

1150
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,320
I'm too nice.

1151
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:26,320
People pleaser.

1152
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:27,320
Too nice.

1153
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:28,320
Instead of going, you know what?

1154
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:29,320
This isn't right.

1155
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:35,280
And here's the thing, really again, what God's teaching me through the sabbatical is there's

1156
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:41,920
a time to speak up and a time and you can do it and you can speak the truth in love.

1157
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:43,440
And that's really our heart.

1158
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,000
And that's my desire.

1159
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:51,760
And so coming back into the world out of this hibernation of two months, I will not be the

1160
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:52,760
same person.

1161
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,760
I already know that.

1162
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:58,920
And so anyway, these scriptures have really impacted me.

1163
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:00,880
Here's another one, the last one.

1164
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:02,800
This is Matthew 5 13.

1165
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,040
You are the salt of the earth.

1166
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,280
I was about to use the word salt.

1167
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:08,280
Oh yes.

1168
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:09,280
You are the salt.

1169
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:10,280
Definitely.

1170
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:11,280
We love salt, don't we?

1171
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,960
Being on the carnivore diet where you have a new love affair with salt.

1172
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:14,960
Okay, let's go back.

1173
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:16,920
You are the salt of the earth.

1174
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:19,400
You are the light of the world.

1175
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:25,720
Let your light shine before others so that they may see your good works and give glory

1176
00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:28,280
to your Father who is in heaven.

1177
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,880
I love that passage.

1178
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:36,800
Where to be salt, salt seasons, it preserves, but they've got a little sting to it sometimes.

1179
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:41,120
I mean, speak the truth in love.

1180
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:43,480
Take response ability.

1181
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,640
I hope you'll never read that word the same again.

1182
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:50,320
I hope you'll never define that word the same again.

1183
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:59,680
You have been given by God an ability to respond well and to respond in a responsible way, if

1184
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:04,800
that sounds funny, double negative there, but that's what it's about.

1185
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:07,280
So anyway, I hope you're encouraged.

1186
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:08,280
Are you encouraged in that?

1187
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:09,280
I'm encouraged.

1188
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:10,280
Is Chevy encouraged?

1189
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:11,280
That's what I really want to know.

1190
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:12,280
He's been asleep the whole time.

1191
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:14,240
He's crashed out in your lap again.

1192
00:52:14,240 --> 00:52:16,680
So as we land the plane, I've got some thanks to say.

1193
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:22,120
You've had such a great response and I want to pull some of these up and say thank you

1194
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:23,760
to some of our dear friends.

1195
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:26,960
In fact, I'll just read some of these comments.

1196
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,880
I'm going to start down here with Skippy.

1197
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,800
Skippy, this is on Fountain Rites.

1198
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,280
Wow, not only do you set...

1199
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:36,280
No, wait.

1200
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:41,440
He says keep it going, exclamation point, and a striper boost of all things.

1201
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:44,160
So I've got to do a striper boost.

1202
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:49,160
Thank you Adam, the Podfather Curry for the file, the striper file.

1203
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:51,360
By the way, I loved striper back in the day.

1204
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:52,360
I know you do.

1205
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:53,680
So yeah, good guitar player.

1206
00:52:53,680 --> 00:53:02,960
So and then Adam, the Podfather Curry comes in with another striper boost of 77,777 sats.

1207
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:11,240
He says, wow, not only do you sound wonderfully peaceful and rested, that's my favorite compliment.

1208
00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:12,240
It was.

1209
00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:13,520
That made me feel good.

1210
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,320
We were really up.

1211
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:17,320
We had a lot of energy.

1212
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:21,720
We thought we had a lot of energy, but yet we were very rested and very peaceful.

1213
00:53:21,720 --> 00:53:27,160
He says the sound quality of this remote recording is outstanding in all caps, which makes me

1214
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,200
super happy.

1215
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:33,960
Congrats on another great episode and love from Amsterdam, because they were in Amsterdam

1216
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:34,960
waiting for it.

1217
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:35,960
So I have to just do this.

1218
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:36,960
I love these pads.

1219
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:37,960
I know you do.

1220
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:38,960
I know.

1221
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:39,960
Good guitar player.

1222
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:50,720
From a user who did not put their name in here, it says, so happy you got away heading

1223
00:53:50,720 --> 00:53:56,560
to see, oh wait, this has got to be, this has got to be Julie Hipple.

1224
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:57,560
What?

1225
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:58,560
Get that right.

1226
00:53:58,560 --> 00:53:59,560
Hold on.

1227
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:00,880
I have no idea what you're saying.

1228
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:02,320
It's somebody from our church.

1229
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:06,280
So happy you got away heading to Seaside with my daughter tomorrow for a few days.

1230
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:07,280
Julie Herbert?

1231
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:08,280
Yes.

1232
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:09,280
Thank you, Hipple.

1233
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:10,280
I'm not sure who Herbert is.

1234
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:11,280
Sorry, Julie.

1235
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,480
So yeah, but it's not on this particular.

1236
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,520
And she gave a thousand sets and we are so thankful for that.

1237
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:18,640
Thank you for doing that.

1238
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,680
And I hope you had a wonderful time with your daughter.

1239
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:22,680
Seaside?

1240
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:23,680
Is that what she said?

1241
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:24,680
Yeah, Seaside.

1242
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:25,680
That's Destin.

1243
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:27,000
Yeah, right down the street, right?

1244
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:28,400
From where we were.

1245
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:29,400
Beautiful.

1246
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:30,400
Somebody named The Keeper.

1247
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:31,400
Who could that be?

1248
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:32,880
I wonder who that is.

1249
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:33,880
Tina Curry.

1250
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:34,880
Tina.

1251
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:36,280
They're coming back this weekend.

1252
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:37,280
I know.

1253
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:38,280
We miss them.

1254
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:39,280
We miss them.

1255
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,320
I miss them and I miss Phoebe.

1256
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:46,080
And so I'm ready for the Currys to be home and my little girlfriend, Phoebe.

1257
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:47,080
She's not that little.

1258
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,320
She's like 118 pounds, but she's still my girl.

1259
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:51,800
So anyway, I miss them.

1260
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:52,800
We miss them.

1261
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,400
And we've been getting tons of pictures.

1262
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:56,400
Every day we're talking.

1263
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:57,400
Wow.

1264
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,880
We have not missed a day ever.

1265
00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:01,840
It's hard to not have the spirit of envy.

1266
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:05,160
But anyway, 25,000 sets.

1267
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:06,760
Thank you, Tina.

1268
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:10,340
She says this, you have the remote location recording down.

1269
00:55:10,340 --> 00:55:11,340
No excuses.

1270
00:55:11,340 --> 00:55:15,240
The road caster must always be packed on recording days.

1271
00:55:15,240 --> 00:55:16,640
Another great podcast.

1272
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:17,640
Love you too.

1273
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:18,640
And what do we say?

1274
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:19,640
We love you back.

1275
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:20,640
We'll be back.

1276
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:21,640
Love you more.

1277
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:24,720
And then the last one was, Jessie wrote this.

1278
00:55:24,720 --> 00:55:25,720
Jessi Workshop.

1279
00:55:25,720 --> 00:55:30,000
Try, oh, this is, you're going to love this.

1280
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:33,080
Must have heard our carnivore conversation.

1281
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,120
Try making a liver jerky.

1282
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:36,120
No, thank you.

1283
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:37,120
You love liver.

1284
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:38,120
I don't.

1285
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:39,120
I wrote Jessie back.

1286
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:43,560
She said, I think from Miss Annette, that'll be a, Dame Annette, that'll be a hard no.

1287
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:44,560
No.

1288
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:46,400
Try making liver jerky.

1289
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:50,200
We slice ours up, season with salt, pepper, garlic, and dehydrate it.

1290
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:53,520
If you don't like it, they also make great dog treats.

1291
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:56,280
Sheffy would probably love it.

1292
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:58,560
The smell alone would do me in.

1293
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaking of food, we need to land the plane on this.

1294
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:03,800
I do have one, a couple of letters.

1295
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:04,800
Beautiful.

1296
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:06,240
Just a couple of beautiful things.

1297
00:56:06,240 --> 00:56:08,040
So let me, let me find this.

1298
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:09,400
This, I love this.

1299
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:13,240
This is from one of our dear, dear, dear friends.

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00:56:13,240 --> 00:56:15,880
Peggy, Peggy Layden.

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00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:17,760
Peggy, we love you so much.

1302
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:18,760
She wrote this.

1303
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:19,760
Hi guys.

1304
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,000
So glad to hear that you are at the beach and enjoying it.

1305
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:23,920
The majesty and the ripples.

1306
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:28,400
Also, just wanted to encourage you that I think you made a good decision to not travel

1307
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:30,160
abroad during your sabbatical.

1308
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:34,200
That made me feel better because I was feeling kind of ganged upon.

1309
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:36,440
That kind of travel is a lot.

1310
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:39,120
Love that you are getting lots of deep rest.

1311
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,880
Can't wait to hear what pours from your teaching, Jimmy.

1312
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:43,880
Me too.

1313
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:44,880
I can't wait to get back.

1314
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:45,880
I can't either.

1315
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:46,880
I'm kind of trumpling it a bit.

1316
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:47,880
I know you are.

1317
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:48,880
Obviously.

1318
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:52,960
And then we had some, also we had quite a few new people sign up for, to subscribe to

1319
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:53,960
our newsletter.

1320
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:54,960
Yes, to our newsletter.

1321
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:56,720
So those of you listening, subscribe to our newsletter.

1322
00:56:56,720 --> 00:56:58,720
Go to livingupandadownworld.com.

1323
00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:00,720
Subscribe, subscribe, subscribe.

1324
00:57:00,720 --> 00:57:02,200
What's Sheffy doing?

1325
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:03,200
No, he's funny.

1326
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:05,800
He's so chill.

1327
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:07,040
Subscribe to our newsletter.

1328
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:12,720
I put it out every Sunday so that you are reminded that on Monday we will release our

1329
00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:14,720
podcast.

1330
00:57:14,720 --> 00:57:21,000
And then also we got another just a cool, I love this guy, David Wicker, Sir Bia's Grace.

1331
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:22,480
Oh, yes.

1332
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:25,880
So pleased to hear you had a favored vacation in our home state.

1333
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:28,040
I didn't realize he was from Florida.

1334
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,120
Looking forward to hearing all about it.

1335
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,160
I'm an episode behind.

1336
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:33,160
Not for show.

1337
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:34,160
I'm going to share below.

1338
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:35,280
So listen to what he says.

1339
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,600
We had a great sermon today.

1340
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:38,600
James 4.

1341
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:43,920
Brother Jimmy, James, the book of James, and your promotion of giving up my right to be

1342
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:48,960
offended and call to encourage go hand in hand.

1343
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:52,680
The God who spoke in that Old Testament is the same one speaking today.

1344
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:53,680
Yes.

1345
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:57,040
Stole that from you as well to work over here in North Florida.

1346
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,000
The message is clear.

1347
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:03,440
Always really working on praying for those that I'm not in agreement with.

1348
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:06,240
KTLD, keep the lid down.

1349
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:07,880
I love that.

1350
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:09,640
And then buckets leaking.

1351
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:10,640
Absolutely.

1352
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:11,800
It's a rippling.

1353
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:12,800
Let's go.

1354
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:14,320
I so love that.

1355
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:15,320
Thank you, David.

1356
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:16,320
We love you, man.

1357
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:17,440
I'll write you back.

1358
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:21,800
I hadn't had a chance to do that today, but listen, we got steaks to cook out because

1359
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:23,840
we're in carnivore lion version.

1360
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:24,840
It's getting late.

1361
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:25,840
I'm hungry.

1362
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:26,840
Yes.

1363
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:30,200
I do want to say how much we love and appreciate all of you.

1364
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:32,240
Thank you so much, everybody, for tuning in.

1365
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:56,480
And we will see you next week on living up in a down world.

1366
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:04,240
Bye.

1367
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:32,240
Bye.