If you have joined us today, we are living up in a down world.
And this is episode number 67.
How are you doing, beautiful?
Oh my gosh.
I've been crying almost all day.
I know.
I'm very emotional.
I'm a little, I'm a little, but clenched myself.
We have had...
Wow.
I don't even know.
I'm gonna start crying just talking about it.
We've had an amazing day,
and then we just got an amazing email
from some people who watched you on Sunday
and wanna get together.
They live in Dripping Springs, wanna get together.
They have a ministry in Uganda.
We watched CBS Austin.
We're bawling.
Both of us are just crying,
watching this ministry that got aired on CBS.
And they wanna talk to us, and we're just the clamped.
Aren't we?
We're a little messed up.
I mean, in a good way.
We're just emotional because we're so grateful.
And God keeps bringing people into our lives
that are inspirational.
Blowing our mind.
Mind blowing.
Everything.
I feel like, you know,
I know this is gonna sound crazy.
It started with, and I'm gonna give them credit
because it really started with Adam and Tina.
Adam and Tina, I'm gonna cry about them too.
Them coming to our life has opened up
a whole new world for us.
We wouldn't be doing this podcast if it weren't for them.
Yeah, we wouldn't have known where to start
with a podcast.
So this podcast has taken off
and it's going all over the world.
And we're getting to meet people like,
who was it at K-Love with us?
Sir.
Oh, Sir Patrick.
Sir Patrick.
Yeah, what a cool guy.
No, I'm talking about K-Love.
I know.
Oh, Sir Patrick, but the other couple
that supports us every day.
Yeah, Jules, David.
Jules and David, yeah.
Yeah, David Wicker.
Yeah.
Sir by his grace.
By his grace, yes.
There you go, I know.
I was trying to go by his that name,
but getting to meet them and getting to meet Sir Patrick.
And so they've introduced us to a whole new world.
And then we start Carnivore while we're on sabbatical.
And now we've been opened up a whole nother world.
And today was a day I'll never forget in our life.
We were filmed for a documentary on the Carnivore journey
called Healing Humanity.
They're crowdfunding it now.
They're almost ready.
They have enough to go ahead and do a movie.
Yeah, they can do.
And then maybe just do another segment later.
Yeah.
And we got the honor of being filmed in this
and telling our story.
And we're crying.
While they're filming us.
Because we're telling stories
about what God's done in our life.
And then we come and sit down to just breathe for a second
while you're getting ready for this podcast.
And we get this email from this couple
that are inspirational and doing big things.
And it's like, God, what are you doing?
Why is he blessing us with the privilege
of meeting such amazing people?
He's showing us, he's introducing us to people.
Always say we don't generate the wave.
We just catch the waves that come by.
And he's bringing these waves by and we're just like,
oh, jump on the wave and see where it takes us.
And it's opening doors that puts us
into the lives of world changers.
Oh my gosh.
Difference makers, culture shapers.
We're just little old Jimmy and Annette in Fredericksburg.
And yet.
And yet, Carrie Mann, Adam Lacey, Ashley,
they all came today and set up this studio.
Anybody who's in the carnivore world knows who they are.
Adam Lacey, Carnivore Today.
You're missing out because they're amazing people.
Carrie Mann is, he's got Homestead Howl.
He's a huge influencer.
He's the one who's really driving
and spearheading the documentary.
And he's the one who interviewed us.
And then Ashley, he has a carnivore channel,
our YouTube channel, it's Carnivore Brothers.
And he and his brother are doing carnivore together
and they've got a great channel.
All these guys have amazing stories
of what just changing the way of eating,
changing their mindset.
It's completely changed their lives.
It's transformed them.
And they're all brothers in Christ.
These are all godly, godly people.
We prayed together a couple of times, three times.
Three times we prayed.
I prayed when we kicked it off.
I prayed when they wanted to video us, you prayed.
And then I prayed before they left
and we just shot some pictures of each other.
And we just had such a great day together.
And they invited us.
There was a, what did they call it?
Hack.
Hack your life.
Hack your health.
Hack your health event.
Large event in Austin this last weekend.
It ended yesterday.
And we got invited to come meet all these doctors
that are proponents of carnivore
and that are gonna be in this movie
and have dinner with them.
And we usually don't do much on a Saturday night,
especially it's at five o'clock on a Saturday evening.
And you know, Sunday's our game day.
And we just said, absolutely, we will be there.
So we drove an hour and a half,
had dinner with the most amazing doctors
that are in this carnivore world
that are leaving their practices.
And they've changed our lives.
They've changed us.
Because through their teaching about total life health,
total life wellness, the carnivore way of eating,
it has completely changed our life from the inside out.
Cause you know, when you get your health together,
it impacts everything.
It's like when you get your spiritual life together,
it impacts everything.
You get your mental health together, it impacts everything.
And so there are these three great pillars,
mind, body, spirit.
And any of those, when you dial those in,
you get them on track, it impacts the other things.
And so, you know, last year during our sabbatical,
we had great, great results with our spiritual health
and our mental health.
And then we got on the carnivore way of eating.
And now all three, mind, body, and spirit
started to work in tune.
And it has literally changed our lives.
Yes, it has.
I mean, our minds are blown right now.
And the doctors that we were listening to
for the last year.
Yeah, who were teaching us.
Who were teaching us.
We were having dinner with them.
We had dinner with, okay, Dr. Sean Baker.
Yes.
Who is a beast of a man.
He's like six foot five, 270 pounds of pure muscle.
He's an orthopedic surgeon.
He's an orthopedic surgeon and a professional rugby player.
No.
He was.
He was rugby?
No.
He played rugby too.
Yes, he did.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Dr. Anthony Chafee.
Dr. Anthony, I'm going around the table.
We got a picture of us.
I'll put it in the newsletter.
He's a neurologist.
He's in his residency.
Residency and neurology in Perth, Australia.
He was there with his girlfriend, El Marie,
who is also an influencer in carnivore.
These guys are game changers.
They're influencing millions of people's lives.
And then I'm gonna go on around the table.
Dr. Philip.
Ovadia.
Dr. Philip Ovadia.
He is a heart doctor.
Cardiologist.
Who's doing carnivore.
Carnivore.
Eating lots of meat.
Teaching all about health through eating meat.
And then the next in line was Dr. Robert Kiltz.
Yes, fertility doctor.
What a joy Dr. Kiltz is.
He's one of the funnest dudes I've ever been around.
He was in my face.
Like when he talks, he talks in your face.
Yeah, he's 69 years old.
He's about to turn 70.
He is in peak health.
Peak health.
I mean, he's got practices all over the place.
He is not slowing down.
There is no retirement in his future.
He gets up at five o'clock every morning,
does a podcast, a video podcast.
Just greeting the day, greeting people.
He loves Jesus.
He loves red meat.
He loves people.
Faith is my foundation.
There it is.
Everything I do.
And I just love him.
Great guy.
Most positive man I've ever been around besides you.
I mean, aw, that's so sweet.
Thank you.
That's true.
I'm trying to live up in a down world.
I know.
And he lives up in a down world every moment of his life.
He does.
He's up.
I'm like, are you ever in a bad mood?
Why would I be?
No kidding.
Like, wow.
So going on around the table,
because I'm looking at the picture of the table,
is Adam Lacey of Carnivore today.
We got to spend Saturday evening.
He's the one who invited us to the shin dig.
It was amazing.
And even Adam and Carrie Mann didn't know
that we were all going to get to sit
at the rock star table of all these influencers.
Adam's the one who said,
hey, there's two seats to go get the Pruitts.
They're VIPs.
He invited us over.
I was like, VIPs?
He was super sweet.
Sweet.
And so Adam Lacey,
and then Adam was with us all day today.
He's doing the videography for the documentary.
And he's the one,
the first podcaster who asked you to be on his show.
Yeah, he interviewed me on his podcast.
And his show blew up because of you being on there.
Yeah, it went really well.
So you and he just got really close.
Yeah, we just became friends.
And he's a great brother in Christ.
And then the next person was Carrie Mann.
Carrie Mann and Carrie's just-
Oh my gosh.
He's the biggest influencer of all.
He's huge.
I mean, he's huge in this carnivore space.
Homestead Howl is his YouTube channel.
Yeah, he started off as a homestead YouTube channel,
you know, because they're homesteading up in,
is it Michigan?
Minnesota?
I don't remember.
I know, I know.
It's somewhere up there.
I'm sorry I don't.
With the M state.
I don't think it's Minnesota.
Yeah, it must be Michigan then.
But anyway, so he was here today
and he did all the interviewing.
And just a great guy.
And he was there on Saturday night as well.
Such a good guy.
So coming on around the table,
the next is Elle Marie.
Dr. Chafee's-
So that's Dr. Chafee's girlfriend.
And while they all went and did a full on panel live-
Three hour.
Three hour live panel.
So it left a lot of us down below
in this meeting place we were at.
And so we just struck up a conversation with Elle
and it turned into a complete total utter Jesus conversation.
Yes.
Which here we are going to the secular event.
Yeah, yeah, non-Christian per se.
Yeah.
We can't go anywhere without bringing Jesus into it.
Never, nowhere.
Can't help ourselves.
That's bringing salt and light.
Yeah, yeah.
That's bringing light to that salt.
And we ended up talking to her
and we introduced her to the U version app
and she got super excited.
So now she's got a Bible on her phone.
She's fairly new to the faith.
She found a church in Perth, Australia,
where she grew up and it has a lovely accent.
And just was so cool to be able to talk to her,
encourage her in her faith, in her journey,
and share a little bit of our journey with her.
And that was a beautiful conversation.
That was why we were there, I think.
I do too.
I think that was one of the highlights.
I was telling Tina, she said, how did it go?
How was it?
And I said, that was one of the highlights
of anything we've ever done.
And she goes, anything?
Because we all went to K-Love and it was wonderful.
And I said, anything secular that we've been invited to
because that turned into a total God thing.
I mean, they asked you to pray.
I don't even know if everyone there was saved or not,
but it was such a God thing.
It was a total God thing.
To be invited into that space as a pastor,
as a carnivore peer, you know,
and just, and not feel like outsiders.
We never felt like an outsider.
Not at all.
They were wonderful.
That was wonderful.
When you get around people that are on a mission,
whether it's a spiritual mission like ours
or a physical health mission,
mission does something to people.
It gives them that sense of purpose,
that sense we're in something bigger than ourselves.
We're in over our heads in a very real sense.
Or we're a part of something bigger than us.
That does something that brings out the best in human beings
is when you know you're living your life on mission.
Well, when you get around a bunch of people that are like that,
man, it doesn't matter what your background is,
what your profession is, nobody cares.
It's the mission that matters.
That's why community is so important in church
and life groups, connect groups are so important.
I'm gonna turn it for a minute because that is why
we need each other.
We need to be on mission with each other
and not just by ourselves.
Right.
You cannot just sit at home and watch church on TV
and expect that that's all there is
because it's really more about what you're doing
with other people.
Yeah, that's so true.
Connection is protection.
We've said that many times, but it's so true.
We need to connect with people that have a like-mindedness
and you feel like you're in it together.
You're on the journey together.
And it's amazing how God has brought us
some different communities to be connected in
and feel like we're playing in something bigger than us
in every one of them.
And then there was one other girl.
Coming on around the table, the next one was Bella
and she is the steak and butter girl.
She is like a big influencer, YouTube influencer
in this space.
I didn't realize it, she's six foot two.
And she's like from Asia.
Yeah.
Where is she from?
I don't know.
But I've never seen anybody that tall.
Six foot two and she is a full on carnivore,
thin as a rail, I mean, just beautiful tall.
But I did not expect to be looking up
and talking to a girl from Asia.
So she was amazing and such a sweet soul.
She went right over to you and just hugged you.
She grabbed me and hugged me like she knew me.
Didn't even know you.
Nope, never met me.
And there's just something.
Yeah.
The whole group was like that.
They were all just sweet.
All the doctors were like that.
They were all just very loving.
And it was like, oh, you're one of us.
And just took us in like we were.
Community.
Yeah.
It was beautiful.
It really was.
The whole evening was wonderful.
And then we ate.
Tomahawks.
Every one of us got a two pound plus Tomahawk rib eye.
It had to be a lot more.
Oh, it was huge.
It could have been closer to three pounds.
I could barely have a pound.
And it was on a cutting board.
Every one of us had cutting boards.
Is the person after my heart.
Yeah.
Whoever thought of that after my heart.
I hate eating on plates, especially meat.
Yeah.
And so it was all on cutting boards.
And then they had, what kind of butter was that?
Bone marrow.
Bone marrow butter.
That Adam Lacey actually made.
Unbelievable.
Oh wow.
Salted and unsalted.
They did bone.
It's uber healthy for you.
It was really good.
And it is so good.
It's so rich.
So that's all we had.
Big old Tomahawk.
And then they had prime rib too.
And then flaked salt.
Flaked salt and butter.
Oh my gosh.
And we left.
Topo Chico's.
It was a drink for the night.
Literally we're just, we left so full.
Full.
In our tummies.
And full in our spirit.
No kidding.
It was so beautiful.
Beautiful evening.
Like you said, you know,
we usually don't give up a Saturday night
to be with a lot of people.
Cause it's exhausting.
And then we had three services on Sunday morning.
So, and we got back late.
Cause we had to drive over to Wimberley,
which is over by Austin.
So it was a long evening,
but it was so rich and so good.
I wouldn't trade.
I wouldn't trade for anything.
God has enriched our life.
He's just enriched our life with the most amazing people.
Beautiful, amazing people.
Our church.
Our congregation.
Just every week we're just,
we're giddy that we get to,
we get to pastor
and do life with this,
this church congregation that God gave us.
And we don't take it for granted.
No, not at all.
We're so grateful that God gave us another chance
to pastor as we're aging.
Because you know,
a lot of people at our age are like,
they, they're retiring,
but us we're refiring.
Totally refiring.
And so we're very excited about
the future of Bridge Church
and what God is doing in us and through us.
And it's, it's exciting.
It's an exciting time.
I don't think we've ever been
in a place like this for this long
and so giddy.
I feel rich in the right way.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm not talking about money.
I feel rich.
I feel wealthy with life.
Wealthy and just rich with life
because of the friends and the people,
the acquaintances,
the conversations, the connections.
And so that was on Saturday night,
Sunday morning, we did three services back to back.
We're going to summer schedule,
which will be two services,
which I'm really feeling good about right now
because it did get exhausting.
Start Sunday.
Six months of three.
I'm already relieved.
Yeah, me too.
But we have so many people,
volunteers especially that are out a lot
during the summer.
We didn't want to put our kids at risk
of not being able to gather together as well.
So we had a great day on Sunday morning.
Course just great.
And your message,
you used the title from our podcast last week
that I came up with.
You used that to just develop your whole message
because it-
See how this podcast is helping us do church
and do our ministry.
Look for God in it.
And that was the email that we got today
from this couple in Dripping Springs.
They happened to just stumble upon-
Upon that message.
And it got their attention.
Look for God in it.
And then reached out to us.
You know, that's what we're doing in everything we do.
We're looking for God in it.
You know, you can say, well, I'm not carnivore.
I don't believe in it.
I don't want to do it.
Well, that's fine.
But we looked for God in it.
And we prayed about it and said,
Lord, is this what you want us to do?
Everybody's different.
And everybody has to do what's good for them.
And I'm a little bit more keto for.
I will have a little bit of keto-ish stuff.
Like a little bit of fruit here and there.
If I don't, I'm going to dwindle down to 100 pounds.
You don't want me to do that.
You're going to disappear.
But, and I, because I can't eat the kind of meat you eat.
You can eat a pound or two easy.
I can't do that.
But to me, what we have done is we've looked for God
even in that.
And now he's introducing us,
inviting us into this lane of people
that we're impacting and they're impacting us.
And that, isn't that what life is about?
That is.
I mean, and really that,
that's the theme of today's podcast is community.
Community.
And connection.
And the fact that God gifts us with these relationships
and people that come into our lives,
that we get to contribute something to them
and they contribute something to us.
There's this beautiful exchange that happens.
But you don't do it to get something.
It just happens that way.
But I have to bring up Ashley who came.
Yeah, he's a mate.
It's a guy.
It's a dude.
Ashley, great.
His name is Greg.
I love him.
Oh, what a good guy.
When we met him Sunday night and we,
we told him that Carrie and them are coming out here
to film with us.
And he just kind of had this look and I said,
are you coming with them?
And he said, well, no.
I said, you should tell them we would like for you to come.
And he was like, you're going to let me come?
Like, you want me to come?
Yeah.
And we were like, yes,
because we really connected with him.
And sure enough, he comes in with them.
And I was so happy to see him because he was a,
he's a godly man.
He's been in the same church for like 24 years
in Roanoke, Texas.
And it was just so cool to meet
and get to spend time with him.
And we watched him, his channel is Carnivore Brothers.
He and his brother, younger brother,
do a channel.
And we, I recognized him.
I couldn't remember which one
because there's so many Carnivore channels.
And I was like, oh my gosh, we've seen you.
We've watched you and you inspired us.
And he was like, little old me.
It's like, yeah.
I know, I know.
It's cool.
Because when you find a community that's impactful,
you want to glean everything you can
from the different people that are part of that community.
Yeah, that's right.
And it's the same thing in the church world.
We listened to Pastor Alan Jackson, Pastor Jack Hibbs,
Pastor Robert Morris.
You know, we have several different pastors we listen to
because we want to glean wisdom that they have.
Because we don't know it all.
We can read the Bible, we can get revelation,
but God puts people in your path
and you got to spend time with Robert Morris personally.
We got to go to Alan Jackson's church recently.
Jack Hibbs, we were going to have to go
to Southern California at some point.
We'll have to get out there for sure.
Just to get in his orbit.
But it's important that you connect
with those people that bring life to you.
There you go.
So that's really what connection,
and when we say connection is protection,
that means a lot of things.
It means that there's somebody there when you're down.
They're up, you're down.
Or there's somebody there that's inspiring you.
That's cheering you on.
We need people around us that will do that.
And sometimes people say,
well, it's hard to find a community.
Yeah, sometimes you got to be the creator.
You got to be the catalyst.
And you actually generate the community.
You start it, you get the ball rolling.
And so we've just have found these communities
over the years.
And we just kind of jump in.
And we just jump in and go, we're here.
We're not afraid.
No, that's true, we're not shy.
People have started to do that with us
as they've gotten to know us.
And we're like, we just need some time with y'all.
Like we're going out to dinner with the Hobricks tonight.
And yes, we want that too.
We hope and pray that we're the inspiration
for someone else.
That they want to get time with us and spend time
and glean from the wisdom that God's given us.
But it works both ways.
So we got to do that on Saturday nights.
We step into a new community
and it's like instant brothers.
I mean, instant.
Members exchange, everything.
Instant, like instantaneous.
And then Adam and Tina, Crury invited us to-
Their dinner.
They were doing this thing on Monday night.
And it was with some guys that are,
they have a podcast.
They were speakers at the Austin.
Hacking Your Health.
Yeah, so they were involved in that as well.
And it's two guys, Harry and Brett.
And they've got a podcast, a website called The Meat Mafia.
I love that name.
We got to spend time with them.
And Charles, who owns-
Got to hang out with them.
Charles is the Pharaoh guy.
Pharaoh guy.
Who he raises pigs.
He raises hogs.
And then he takes this fat
and creates these amazing skin creams out of-
Yes, and they're packaged beautifully too, by the way.
Oh, it's amazing what he's done.
He's very entrepreneurial.
These are just giants.
These are super cool people.
Of course, David and Andrea were with us as well.
Had a sweet time with them.
Had a great time with them.
And then Brett brought his girlfriend
and I didn't get her name, so super sweet.
She's from-
Tina will know.
She's from New Jersey.
Anyway, we got to spend the evening with them.
And here we are stepping into another new community.
We didn't get to sleep till one in the morning last night.
Oh my gosh, we're like party animals now.
But we stepped into this beautiful community.
Rocked some meat, a bunch of meat people.
We had tomahawks again.
Two?
I know, a rib eye.
Two times in one week.
Tomahawks.
I know, come on, I'm getting spoiled.
But we had the best time.
And these guys are young.
They're entrepreneurial.
They're health conscious.
It's all about wellness.
And we buzzed.
I mean, I paused a couple of times
and just looked around the table and so did Adam.
We were laughing together.
Cause we're like, listen to this.
I said, this is the buzz factor.
This is when life is happening.
When people are all talking at the same time.
It was like a roar in that place.
Yeah, over at their house.
But it was such a beautiful time.
And I was having those thoughts at what we're talking
about today about community is like everything.
It's what brings life.
It's what gives you hope.
It's what inspires.
And I had a couple of surreal moments where I'm like,
I'm so grateful that I get to be here.
Absolutely.
In this group of people.
And some of them I just met for the first time.
And yet we're talking like we're best friends.
Like we've known each other forever.
That's the power of community.
It is.
It is something.
And wherever you are,
wherever you're hearing us at right now,
I want to encourage you that there is a community for you.
There are people just like you.
I won't say identical.
They don't have all the same dynamics.
No, that would be weird.
But they're like you in the sense that they need community
too.
And sometimes we just have to stop and pray and say,
God, I need people in my life.
I remember when Adam and Tina moved here to Fredericksburg.
They had no friends.
No friends.
They didn't know anybody here.
And Tina was just feeling this sense of,
I have no friends.
And now she has more friends than I've ever had
in my lifetime.
Oh yeah, you're on their text chain and it's non-stop.
So yay you.
So anyway, but it's such a beautiful thing.
She was worried that she's moving from Austin
to Fredericksburg and that she wouldn't have any friends.
And look what God does.
Boom.
Watch what I'm gonna do.
And now she's got so many different community friends.
It's crazy.
Different communities, exactly.
Cause I've got their no agenda friends
who they have meetups all the time.
Which is so cool.
And then she stayed connected with her friends
from other places, Peggy and Julie and all them,
from other, and Tim from other places.
And yeah, she's surrounded.
Yeah.
Isn't that beautiful?
Power of community.
It's so important.
So many people are so afraid to get out there
and I think too people don't, they're afraid that,
because I know this from me.
It was like, I'm afraid if people get to know me,
they won't like me.
I think everybody has a little bit of that in them.
Yeah, I do too.
I do.
I think people have that, what if they think I'm a fraud?
Yeah.
What if they think I'm not authentic?
Yeah, exactly.
I think that is something that everyone struggles with
to a degree.
Well, I was talking to Adam Lacey today because,
I did that testimony where I was on camera
for that YouTube video.
Oh, right, right.
And then today we're gonna be in a movie.
And I said, I don't like to be videoed.
He said, I really wanna see y'all's podcast get on video.
And I said, well, I just don't.
And he goes, you know, Annette, he said,
I used to be so afraid to talk.
I didn't even wanna talk.
And he said, now I just don't care what other people think.
God's given me a voice and I'm gonna use it.
I love that.
And I said, oh, well, mine's not always
about what people think, it's just what I think.
But you're right, it's probably what people think.
Because if I think that, then they're gonna think that.
Oh my gosh.
But the thing is, is we've gotta lay that down,
lay that aside and go,
what is it that God wants me to glean from this person?
Or what can I do if we can
understand that God wants to use us to help other people?
I mean, we're God's hands and feet.
Yes, we are.
And we're his voice.
I mean, he uses us to help people.
We're in this world to make it a better world.
And it's so important that we use our voice,
use what God has given us and the gifts that he's given us
and develop our characters.
We've gotta develop our characters.
And then be that to those people that need
what we have to offer,
because God's using us in every way.
So let me share this principle,
because you're describing something that I shared
with Adam and Ashley and Kerry.
As we were talking, we were thanking them
for what they're doing.
And then I just said, I know this is a sacrifice for you guys.
You're sacrificing your time,
sacrificing your families, your money.
Because they're driving everywhere,
they're traveling all over the place.
They're having to raise this unbelievable amount of money
to do this.
And yet they believe they're on a mission.
They believe that God gave this to them as a mission.
And so they're doing it, which is remarkable.
And I said, you know, guys,
I said, you guys are sacrificing so much to do this.
And I said this, I said, fire falls on sacrifice.
Fire falls on sacrifice.
In other words, God's presence,
God's blessing representing His Spirit,
the fire of the Holy Spirit falls on sacrifice.
And that was my prayer for them as we prayed together
that God would pour Himself out upon them
and energize them.
They wouldn't go away from today tired,
they would go away inspired.
Yeah, energized.
Because, and I want you to hear this too,
as you're with us today, part of the Living Up family
and listening, fire falls on sacrifice.
And when we sacrifice on behalf of others,
we got a lot going right now.
I mean a lot.
And then somebody calls and says, I have to meet with you.
And it would be real tempting to say, oh my gosh,
we have to see you.
I can't add another thing.
But fire falls on sacrifice.
And so it's like, okay, let's carve out a time for that.
Okay, we'll meet with you.
And then somebody else calls.
And then we get a text.
And then we get a little email.
And if we're saying no, it's literally
because our calendar is so full.
It's literally because we can't.
I mean, literally.
But we're at a point where we want to be used by God
to help other people.
And we want to be not just community takers,
but community makers.
I love that.
And where we're not just taking community
from other people and receiving it,
but we're also giving it back as a gift.
And so I want you to be encouraged
that the sacrifice you might make
in order to connect with other people
and gather with other people and build community,
fire falls on that presence of God, the blessing of God.
The heart of God falls on that.
Does that make sense?
Oh yeah, totally.
So blown away.
Blown away.
I'm full as a tick.
And then today, of course, doing the actual,
I'll put pictures on our newsletter,
but doing the actual documentary that-
Filming.
Filming up on our platform at the church.
And they brought all their own lighting.
It took an hour for them to just put everything together.
Oh, the setup is unbelievable.
Really cool.
I got some cool pictures of that.
But then Kerry did the interview
and it was just so beautiful.
Just his heart for one, he's such a real guy,
such a good guy.
But also he just teed it up for us to share our hearts.
Well, and when I saw the cast of everybody
that's gonna be in this documentary,
and we've met most of them now,
I told them, I said, why us?
Of all the people.
You did.
And they said, because people need to hear y'all's story.
And I just was like, it hit me
that the reason why they want people to hear our story
because ours involves faith.
It does, yeah.
And they wanted people to know about our faith
and about our church and about our community
and our journey at our age.
It's humbling, isn't it?
Very humbling.
I can't even tell you how humbling it was.
It was, I just, like you, was just in tears.
And they showed the trailer,
they did a little trailer of what they have
so far of the movie.
It was amazing.
They let us see it.
They were filming us.
Did you know they were filming us
while we were watching it?
While I'm crying like a baby.
And we're both crying.
Where tears are just falling down.
We're both crying and it was phenomenal.
It was like, this is really good.
I would use the word anointed.
It was.
It was powerful.
And we're not even in there yet.
No, that was free us.
It was just a little snippet
and then they're gonna add to it.
And I was just like, I would watch that documentary.
In a heartbeat.
And so I pray that it just goes gangbusters.
And it's gonna help a lot of people.
A lot of people.
They're not about just trying to make money at all.
No, no, these guys are trying to.
They use a lot of their own moneys.
But they're trying to get the word out.
But I love the fact that they wanted to use someone of faith
and we could bring our faith journey in there.
That says a lot about them.
I know, I know it.
Just to be a part of something like this was such an honor.
I feel blessed.
I know.
I can't even describe it.
I feel the same way.
It is hard to put into words.
Sometimes things just come along
and you know you didn't create it.
You didn't do anything.
You just said yes in the moment.
Because all you did was reach out to one of the podcasters
or one of the YouTube channel and just said,
hey, love what you are doing.
And he invites you on the show.
Well, I just encouraged him
and gave him a snippet of our story.
And then he reached back.
And said, hey, I'd like to have you on my show.
And then it just blew up from there.
Now you've been on many podcasts.
You, not me.
And then the Meat Mafia Boys.
I'm gonna be on their podcast.
I'm so looking forward to it.
Well, Ashley wants you to be on his.
So I'll be on the Carrefour Brothers podcast.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to this.
Because my heart,
and this is what we continue to say throughout
the documentary today, but also just in personally,
our heart is to help as many people as possible.
And that's mentally, spiritually, and physically.
It's all that, mind, body, spirit.
We want to help as many people.
And so whatever space we have an opportunity to do that in,
this was carnivore and health, man, we're full on.
Spiritually, Sunday morning, the rest of my 24-7,
we're full on.
Mental health, taking care of your thinking,
not having to think, we're full on.
Mind-morse.
The mind-morse of what we've been doing.
So this is just, it's just one more facet of the diamond,
so to speak, that we get to participate in.
And we live to help other people succeed.
We live to see other people live up in a down world.
Just so, so our buckets are full.
But I have to tell you.
Oh, please do.
I brought this up to Tina.
I'm sure she's gonna bring it up to Adam.
So I don't know if Adam is gonna talk to us,
but I want to change the name to Meet Pray Love,
because we're carnivore, we're spiritual,
we're all about love, we're all about praying.
Love of God, love people, love ourself
enough to do something about it.
But we have living up in a down world,
and I'm like, how can we mix the two as far as,
but the name is so much simpler
than living up in a down world.
And Tina said, well, maybe you should slowly
change your podcast, but you're gonna need a jingle.
So we need a jingle, someone out there.
She's gonna bring it up on her show.
They need a jingle for Meet Pray Love.
But we already have the YouTube channel, Meet Pray Love.
Well, actually it's living up in a down world.
Change the title of it, which I can change it back.
That's easy.
So anyway, yeah, so guys, just those of you
that are with us today, be patient with us
because we're really sensing a pull
of something God's doing,
and we just wanna be faithful to his call.
We don't want it to be all about carnivore though.
It's not gonna be like that.
We wanna keep doing what we're doing spiritually.
It's meat, that's carnivore, it's pray,
that's our spiritual journey, and it's love,
that's connection and community.
And, but we wanna do like a short carnivore corner
at the very end of the broadcast.
We can't not do that.
If people don't wanna listen to that part,
then they can just turn us off right then.
But if they do, we're gonna have about 10 minutes
of what's happening on our carnivore journey.
Because we have to be ourselves.
Yeah, that's it.
We gotta be true to ourselves.
And it's not necessarily just carnivore,
but it's health.
Maybe have a health moment.
Taking care of ourselves, stewarding ourselves.
Because that, and that may be giving up sugar.
If you just give up sugar and any grains
that turn into sugar, that will change your whole life.
It'll change your life.
Because I'm not against keto.
I'm not against keto.
And that's eating vegetables and fruit and all that.
And every now and then I will do that.
But it's health.
Maybe it should be the health corner.
Because it's not just carnivore.
Or maybe those of you that are with us today,
maybe you've got a good thought
of what that segment could be.
Now we just had this living up and a down world sign.
So we would have to put meat, pray, love.
Over the top of it.
Bigger.
Put it in red letters instead of blue.
The meat of the word, hello.
Oh, I know, I know.
It has a lot of connotations.
But it also is, ah, yeah.
So it's kinda encompasses everything.
I know.
Living up and down world is long.
And I think we need to do this, Jimmy.
I think we need to pull the trigger and do this.
We'll full talk more about it after we figure it out.
He's gonna hear this and he's gonna tell us.
I hope he doesn't say no.
But Tina was like, I think you should slowly do it.
Or just pull the trigger and do it.
But we definitely have to have a jingle.
Because we already have living up and a down world jingle.
So any thoughts from our listeners?
I mean, those of you that are with us today,
you listen, you're part of this.
And you're with us.
You're part of our community too.
And what do you think about the name meat, pray, love?
And you don't have to think of meat as in just meat.
But the meat of the word.
Because God talks about the meat.
He talks about it in the New Testament
about we shouldn't just live off of milk.
We need the meat.
And I like that.
And it's short and sweet and simple.
But anyway.
So let us know what you think.
You can write us, go to our website.
For now, it's called livingupandadownworld.com.
And it may change.
But livingupandadownworld.com.
You can leave a review.
You can write us a note.
You can read all of my daily blogs.
My day, they're devotionals.
I do every day.
They're all posted every morning.
Talk about meat.
That's meat.
No, your devotions.
No, I'm saying your devotion is meat
that we're getting first thing in the morning.
Yeah, yeah.
Which I love.
Which I need you to write women's devotions.
So anyway, moving right along.
So yeah, go to our website.
And then like I said, you can leave a review.
You can write us a note.
You can register, sign up to receive our newsletter.
And we'll get that out to you.
So go to livingupandadownworld.com.
And man, we'd love to hear from you.
And we wanna hear your thoughts on this.
I mean, some of you may think,
ah, no, it's too much health and wellness stuff.
Or some of you may think, oh wait, I need that actually.
And it won't be, but just a short amount.
Because who we are is more important.
For sure, for sure.
Spiritual beings, yes.
We'd love to hear from you.
Hope you guys are doing well.
And what else is going on in our life?
We got dinner tonight.
Man, we're gonna go have more meat.
We're gonna go have more meat.
We're gonna have steaks tonight.
Steaks.
With some friends.
Oh, I'm so looking forward to that.
A lot of good things happening.
So many good things happening.
And then on Friday night,
we got invited by a wonderful couple in our church
that we're getting to know.
We're going to a TPUSA conference.
We're just going to the one session.
And we get to meet Charlie Kirk in person.
Talk with him.
I'm really excited about that.
This is a blessing, but we're part of the VIP thing.
The executive VIP, they call it.
So we get to meet Charlie and that'll be cool.
Shake his hand, probably get a photo op.
Who knows, right?
What are you doing over there?
Oh, you are so cute.
I did a neon sign.
There needs to be more spacing between the words.
I know, I agree.
Or even a hyphen maybe.
She's already doing logos for me at Pray Love.
She's out of control.
Am I though?
Oh, and we want to apologize.
Mr. Chevy's not with us today
because we've been shooting this film all morning.
So we did not have time to go home and get him
and get back up here because we're eating in a little bit.
So, so sorry.
Mr. Chevy's disappointed, I'm sure.
We'll tell him you said hi.
Anything else, Prudit, over there?
You just-
Oh gosh.
You're so distracted.
I'm so full.
I know, I got excited about doing this.
No, I'm just full of life.
I just love life.
Yeah, me too.
And I think there's so much-
My buckets are, I'm KYBLing.
Well, there's so much darkness out there,
but because this week we have been immersed in the light,
I don't even remember what the darkness is out there.
It's only Tuesday.
This week.
It feels like it's been a whole week.
It does.
It's just Tuesday.
But you know what?
I haven't really, I mean,
we had some bad news last week with Trump
and everything that's happening there.
And we had some bad news.
We talked about it on our last podcast
with some friends that were going through some trial,
a big trial.
But I think from Saturday through now,
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesdays,
four days of just inspiration.
Yeah.
And so I can say it's been a week.
I'm gonna start it on Saturday.
It feels like a week.
And Sunday was the highlight getting to be
with the church people,
but also our last third service.
And truthfully,
I'm still buzzing from the K-Love Award Show.
Oh my God.
I'm still, I can't shake it.
I don't think we're ever gonna.
Well, I made a playlist on my Amazon Unlimited
and I'm putting all the songs we heard,
all the artists we heard.
And I just, I'm running at 24 seven.
I can't stop listening to it.
It was so good.
And it was such a joy to go with Adam and Tina.
Can you put a hyphen between meet and pray?
Let me put a hyphen.
That's a hyphen.
It's a simple.
Let me see.
I know.
I'm sorry.
I'm so involved in this.
She's already running off with this.
So anyway, K-Love was such a great experience
that I'm already excited about next year
and doing it again.
Oh, I am too.
And getting to go with our friends, Adam and Tina.
Such, I mean, last night we're sitting around the table
with a ton of people, right?
And they are so loud, foods flying.
It's just one of those amazing events.
But you know what I'm doing the whole time?
Yeah, that's much better.
You know what I'm doing the whole time?
I'm thinking about how blessed we are
that God brought Adam and Tina into our lives.
Well, that's what I said.
It started with them.
It's just amazing.
Our life began to change
because they introduced us to the podcast world.
But we went on sabbatical during the time that we met them.
And they were the ones that we,
the only ones we would spend time with for two months.
Yeah, we hung out with them.
Yeah.
Besides family.
And so it was just, it's been an amazing year.
It really, really has.
We are truly, truly blessed.
Our buckets are literally running over.
I mean, wild.
And so thank you for being with us today.
We wanna encourage you.
We've got, wow, we gotta go home, take care of Mr. Shabby.
I know, before we go eat dinner.
He's gotta go out and do his business.
So we can take him home.
Honey, that's a prophet.
That's a prophet.
STMI, isn't it?
We wanna thank you again.
And we hope, our prayer for you,
our hope and our prayer for you
is that you are finding grace in Jesus Christ,
that you're finding hope in Jesus,
that even though this world is crazy,
that you're learning how to live up and down world
and to not allow this world to spin you up
and to spin you out.
So we love you, praying for you.
We love hearing from you.
Let us know what you think.
Meet, pray, love.
We're just kicking it around.
Annette's already running down the road on it.
She's already developed a logo,
a new unsigned and everything.
So anyway, and she did it all while we're on air today.
I love, yeah, I like a lot.
I know you like new beginnings.
You like new beginnings.
I like change.
I do too.
I need change.
I know it's crazy, isn't it?
Some people can't handle change.
That's true.
I've always loved change.
That's another topic for another day.
Hey, we love you guys.
Have an amazing week on purpose.
What's, wait, we still have a lot of week left.
It's just Tuesday.
I know.
We'll release this on Wednesday though.
Yeah.
All right.
Much love to y'all.
Have an amazing week on purpose.
Share this if this brings value to you.
Yes, share this.
Get the word out.
We're having fun and we're having fun with you.
God bless you.
Have a great week.
Krankenhaus.