00:11:34.560And it's not that you push others away and isolate yourself because that would be something completely different.
00:11:45.640Free will or self-reliance is also an interconnectedness.
00:11:51.000And it's not shutting people out, but it's utilizing the world around you to go after what you want and to make things happen and to not have any reliance on anybody as an individual, but also as a family, as a community, as a group, as a tribe.
00:12:18.300and you don't let others do the thinking for you.
00:15:59.220one of the things that i think is important and i do think this relates but maybe it's it's a little
00:16:11.220bit uh tangential tangential um we all have visions of who we'd like to be or the life we'd
00:16:24.740like to have and all too often people recognize that distance and just assume it can't be crossed
00:16:36.180or there's nothing you can do about it. And the successful folks or people that I admire quite a
00:16:42.280bit are people who make those things happen in their life, who see what they want and take the
00:16:49.820steps to attain it or to, if not to attain it, to be, you know, a far sight closer to attaining it
00:16:56.500than they are at present. And that's something that, that was important to me.
00:17:03.020just distant. I'm trying to think of any great example on that. One of it is
00:17:12.460the distance between who I wanted to be and who I was.
00:17:19.660My dad didn't spend a lot of time with me growing up. I suppose he did when I was very young,
00:17:26.080but in my teenage years, he and my mom had had a divorce and he was with my stepmom and their
00:17:34.700family. And for a variety of reasons, he and I weren't close during that time period. So I didn't
00:17:39.820really have that male influence in those years of my life helping me with some stuff. So a lot
00:17:46.400of stuff I had to figure out on my own. I've mentioned this before on the show many times,
00:17:53.220but you know my my role models growing up in the 80s and early 90s are you know these larger than
00:17:58.820life figures and i was you know i was this scrawny didn't have any friends nerdy kid in high school
00:18:09.540that you know i didn't really take off in those ways until until i became an adult and right around
00:18:16.1802000, you know, about a year after I graduated, I decided, you know, I'm going to start making
00:18:23.140an effort. What's the difference between me and these guys that I wish I was like, or these people
00:18:27.040that I, you know, think in my head I ought to be. And I started trying to take a swing at that. And
00:18:33.220I felt like I was way behind. I think one of the things a lot of folks in my generation and the
00:18:38.160generations that have come since run into is if you miss the boat early on socially with with
00:18:49.040your peers with girls with sports with things in school that a lot of people get every year that
00:18:55.120you don't catch up with those things the obstacle becomes harder and harder to to get on top of and
00:19:04.240accomplish um and it's one of the things that i really had to to accelerate as a as a young adult
00:19:10.880so i tried to i started hitting the gym i started you know trying to get my diet where it needed to
00:19:18.240be to to put on some size i you know wanted to i went to the roughest bar in town and decided i was
00:19:25.280going to bounce there and learn some skills that way and learn about myself so really trying to
00:19:31.040seize those things but it's carried over a lot in my afa involvement and this is something that
00:19:38.880i wanted to bring up and i suppose this is as good a time as any when people join
00:19:46.640the afa they always assume that there's an infrastructure in place that's always been
00:19:52.720there that always will be that just gets things done this this magical institution that some
00:20:00.320someone out west when i first joined um it was it was steve or somebody in california
00:20:07.360makes afa happen everywhere and what people don't realize it's a whole lot of individuals
00:20:15.440that are self-reliant it's a whole lot of people that step up and say hey there's nothing going on
00:20:21.120here so i'm going to folk build there's nothing going on where's an event oh there's nothing
00:20:27.280near me well i'll host one at my house it's that that makes up the afa and makes it all work
00:20:34.400and it's not an individual pursuit it's all of us working together but it's made up of individuals
00:20:39.440that have really had to pioneer the area that they're in and that was something i certainly
00:20:45.440had to do in alaska when i was the folk builder up there and i've seen that a lot of places so
00:20:50.800So something I've really seen in my life is when you look around for heroes and one is not readily available, it's your job to become that hero, to become the hero of your own story, to become the hero of other people's story that can inspire them and they can look up to.
00:21:08.640And I think that's kind of where some of my, you know, some of the self-reliance I have is rooted in that.
00:21:15.940uh brandy asks nathan how did your self-reliance and dedication help bring balders off to what it
00:21:23.620is today well thanks brandy thanks whiten callahan um i guess uh that's rooted in my personality
00:21:38.760the core of my personality, unwilling to ever give in, give up when it comes to not the battles, but the war.
00:21:53.700And to put that into perspective, obviously, to win wars, sometimes you have to relinquish here and there.
00:22:01.320But with Baldershoff, I was in a fortunate position, I guess, timing was perfect where I was able to be out there three or four days a week when it was under destruction, when it was being revamped.
00:23:50.540cody asks hey nate what are some ways our folk can become more self-reliant
00:23:56.060in a society that continues to push us towards dependency
00:24:02.860great question cody um i would say that probably the foremost aspect to that question and answer
00:24:12.700would be to stop going with the crowd do what's important to you don't necessarily
00:24:25.020just resort to doing something because it's the easy way or it's what others are doing
00:24:31.500do what's right um right action means everything and you'll find so
00:24:37.740often today that people are just acting or not even acting just blindly following things without
00:24:48.460any real personality in it not any nothing that defines them in their course of action
00:24:55.740and so when it comes to self-reliance make a name for yourself strive to constantly improve
00:25:05.500areas of your life and build build a community build a family build a church
00:25:14.200um you know it's it's the blind leading the blind really in our society today and our folk are
00:25:24.260opening their eyes finally and coming home and that means they have taken that first step to
00:25:31.580being self-reliant in a community and a culture, not a community, but a culture
00:25:35.820that frowns upon that individuality and taking that step towards doing something that's important
00:25:42.560to you. Yeah, it's a real delicate balance. And I know that I beat the drum of community and,
00:25:53.500you know, going along with our community a lot, because I think it's important. And we certainly
00:25:58.460need that that unity of purpose we need to be able to work together but one of the keys to that
00:26:06.380we all function better if we're made up by a collection of strong people and we can be there
00:26:14.620and lift each other up when we're individually strong into strong individuals make a strong
00:26:20.460community and so we really want to see every one of our members you know become the very best
00:26:26.220version of their self that they can be and you know that can be physically mentally spiritually
00:26:31.980financially all of those things but that really is important to us and i'd encourage anybody out
00:26:39.420there that you know feels like they need some help with that to reach out to their local go
00:26:44.620through your githia and get a plan in place on on how to how to shape up and make the best you
00:26:50.620you can be i think we're all we can all be better than we are today and uh we should all be striving
00:26:57.260to do that and to help each other do that um one of the things cody that strikes me with your question
00:27:04.940is so many of our people are isolated and feel defeated or feel the distance between their
00:27:16.460dreams and themselves is too far to for them to do anything about so they spend an awful lot of time
00:27:23.260on the internet complaining and one thing that i think is really important about self-reliance
00:27:28.620is being reliant on yourself in terms of providing your own motivation
00:27:35.180and i don't think previous generations had that same problem in the way that
00:27:40.380that we see around us today as much but everyone needs this motivation today because breaking that
00:27:48.780lethargy and breaking the armchair quarterbacking of life seems to be a real challenge that's before
00:27:58.940before us today so i think that's an important thing about self-reliance to consider as well
00:28:03.740John asks, what will the requirements, what will be the requirements to move to Sigerheim?
00:28:12.540So stay tuned, John. That's something that's evolving a little bit, and I'm sure it will continue to evolve as space starts filling in and, you know, as we learn things.
00:28:25.260As far as hard and fast rules, got to be AFA members.
00:28:33.740But it's more than that. At Sigerheim, we're not just going to be AFA members. We're going to be the very best example to others of what the AFA should and could be.
00:28:46.640And so that's important. It means holding yourself to a higher standard that way.
00:28:50.320the other thing we need to be committed to each other's success at siggerheim we need to be
00:28:55.760committed to the success of siggerheim with everything we have with our labor financially
00:29:02.640taking care of it and one of the things that sounds silly but is absolutely essential is we need to be
00:29:13.040hyper frithful with Sigurheim. The people who are actually going to live there together
00:29:20.460in an AFA village need to be absolutely committed to maintaining a good relationship with one
00:29:27.440another. And that means there's no room for pettiness or for problems that linger. They
00:29:32.620need to be solved and moved forward. And this is all kind of ethereal, I think, as far as practical
00:29:37.720things go. We want somebody who's going to build a home there and a home that looks respectable
00:29:44.700to our folk, not, you know, not a shanty, not a, you know, it needs to look like a nice place where
00:29:53.820noble people live, not a squalid place like the res or something. So whatever we have needs to
00:30:03.120be clean and nice and have a home that people would intend to live in that looks nice. Another
00:30:09.460thing that's going to be relevant to Sigurheim is those folks are going to be folks paying
00:30:14.440Hofftoller. They're probably going to be paying that Hofftoller at something like 10%. Those
00:30:19.620people are going to need to be really chipping in because we're going to do a lot of stuff.
00:30:23.900There's the infrastructure and all the things that go into running basically an AFA village.
00:30:29.500So we're really going to lean on people heavily there. We're going to lean on each other to make
00:30:33.080sure things happen. And basically that commitment. People who move to Sigurheim need to be AFA
00:30:40.980through and through and 1000% committed to our success and to victory in general. And we're
00:30:48.320looking forward to folks that are going to do that. If it's something that you're interested in,
00:30:51.960please reach out. You can reach out to your local folk builder or to me and we can try to
00:30:56.640get that all set up. We're at that stage and I'm really excited to see who the first folks that
00:31:02.640going to be those pioneers are going to be i'm probably you know at least a year and a half if
00:31:08.560not more out before i can my family can do it so between now and then i'm very excited to see the
00:31:14.320folks that'll be be pioneering that uh trent nate could you please explain the importance
00:31:21.680of the one arm push-up absolutely trent the importance of the one arm push-up not only
00:31:31.600signifies and represents strength in an individual, but also balance, technique, form, which is
00:31:41.480one and the same with technique. And just more than anything, Trent, it's dedication.
00:31:50.300It's drive and dedication. You want to do that one-arm push-up, you will do that one-arm push-up.
00:32:01.600So you guys may not all get the inside joke, but Guth East is deficient in his ability to do one-arm pushups.
00:32:12.580By deficient, I mean he can't do a one-arm pushup at present.
00:32:18.740In contrast, folk builder Nathan Erlandson is a champion of one-arm pushups.
00:32:23.760I can't really get to the spot where he actually wins out on it because he leaves the competition in the dust.
00:32:32.460So this man can do some one arm pushups. I've seen it. Respect it.
00:32:39.540Tim asks, Nathan, could you tell us about your Feast of the Einherjar event and what it means to you?
00:32:47.980Feast of the Einherjar is so, so important to me.
00:32:53.760multiple levels as as an infantry soldier myself it screams importance it screams
00:33:06.680ritual it screams remembrance for brothers of mine that I've lost brothers
00:33:16.420of mine that I lost not only not only in combat but after coming home as well
00:33:22.700which is important. But not just in the modern time. The Feast of the Ain Hur Yar is an important
00:33:33.540remembrance for our folk as a whole that goes all the way back to the beginning of our time,
00:33:41.640of our of our blood of our of our people because we are a noble people that will fight to protect
00:33:53.780what we what we own what we have those we care about and our way of life and for thousands of
00:34:03.300years, we've lost. We've lost a lot of men, of women, all around. And the Feast of the Einherjar
00:34:14.640is to honor all of those warriors, whether it was battlefield warriors or whether it was
00:34:23.080warriors of another type that fought for our folk. It doesn't just signify those
00:34:32.680combat veterans or those battlefield warriors wielding axes. It's an ethos that we have to
00:34:43.440remember and that we have to keep alive, that we will fight for right action, that we will fight
00:34:51.120for what we believe to be true, and that we will fight for each other.
00:34:56.280all right uh tony the king of cheese matt nate good to see you both tonight
00:35:05.880how are y'all doing tonight nathan how are you doing i'm doing absolutely wonderful sir
00:35:12.760tony i'm doing great as well i'm a broken record on this but i really am i'm doing fantastic i
00:35:22.100always enjoy being here. It's one of the highlights of my week. Chase asks, Nathan,
00:35:28.900what is self-reliance and what does it mean to you? Now, we already kind of got to this at the
00:35:34.400top of the thing, but is there anything you can add to that or any spin you'd like to put on that?
00:35:40.480Yep. Sure. I'll summarize it in don't wait for someone else to do your job for you.
00:35:47.400Don't wait for the world to be handed to you on a platter.
00:35:52.100that's, that was simply put, but it means more than, you know, um, I think we spend a lot of
00:36:02.640our lives waiting instead of making the changes manifest in the world that we want to see happen.
00:36:10.160And, uh, I think breaking that mindset is, is so crucial and I hope we can all help each other
00:36:18.560to get better at that. It's really important to me. It's one of the reasons that I named the
00:36:24.640show what I did and that victory is such a big thing that I talk about is there's so much that
00:36:28.820we have the ability to achieve and accomplish. But all too often, we just don't. We wait for
00:36:34.900somebody else to do it. We wait for the right time. We wait for a lot of things that allow
00:36:42.760perfect to be the enemy of good um nick would like to know what was the training like to bike 100
00:36:51.480miles and what was it like actually competing and riding that long at once for folks that don't know
00:36:57.720nate can you kind of tell them what you competed in and how that worked yep so up here on the north
00:37:04.360shore of lake superior every june there's a mountain bike race it's called the lutzen 99er
00:37:13.960there are lesser length races as there's a 29er a 49er a 69er and then the culmination of the event
00:37:24.840is a 99 mile mountain bike race through the mountains of lake superior which for those of
00:37:31.880of you out west not the same kind of mountains but to be fair you're you're up hills you're
00:37:39.020you're pedaling a mountain bike and you're going 100 miles um the last year was my first attempt
00:37:49.200at that um i guess a lot of people start out probably at one of the lesser distances but
00:37:57.160I'm a, I'm the type that jumps in head first. I'm not going to check the temperature of water. Typically. Um, I'm just going to go all in. And the training for that was the better part of six months. Um, for me only took about six months. I was in the gym a lot.
00:38:18.340I was doing a lot of high rep, low weight leg workouts, a lot of biking.
00:38:30.460I would take my mountain bike up to an area not far from here and try to put on 50 miles in a day.
00:38:37.920I also picked up a road bike just to get the duration in, to get that 100 miles in.
00:38:44.800And so I started at 20 mile bike ride. I started that and then moved up to a 40 mile bike ride and then a 60, 75, 85.
00:38:55.240And ultimately, then I hit like 105 miles on a road bike. It's a lot different than a mountain bike.
00:39:03.060You're going a lot faster. You have significantly less resistance.
00:39:08.780um the hills are smooth the rain is smooth uh for that lutes in 99er um you're crossing streams
00:39:20.180you're you're moving at a snail's pace it seems like in some areas where there's a shit ton of
00:39:26.440mosquitoes pardon my language um you're covered in mud you're sweating you're hungry you're thirsty
00:39:33.040You have to stop from time to time to re-up on your water and your high-calorie snacks to do it.
00:39:43.420But I'll tell you what, one of the coolest things I've ever done, and the eight hours and 13 minutes it took me to do that, flew by.
00:39:54.220Because there's a thousand people competing in that.
01:00:50.520Certainly everything that Nathan just said, absolutely. One thing that I think is super
01:00:56.620important is to never let the idea of helplessness take root in your kids.
01:01:07.960Don't ever let you, because they don't start out that way.
01:01:11.640They start out seeing the world as full of opportunity and all these things they have dreams about and aspirations to do and to become and to make happen.
01:01:23.660Don't kill that and don't let the world kill that.
01:01:27.800Find ways to reinforce positive things that they can do and can achieve.
01:01:33.740and encourage them to, even if they're tiny steps, to take actual steps towards that direction.
01:01:44.460And, you know, what Nate said about little kids, have them help you with stuff.
01:01:50.060Have them do things and be part of stuff.
01:01:52.040And when I say help, I help in the air quotes.
01:01:56.720My daughter is two, and she's not literally that helpful,
01:02:00.560But her fussing with stuff and pretending to help and being around, trying to be an active participant in things is really cool.
01:02:13.620But you got to, especially in the world that we live in today, white kids and especially young white boys need all of the voices that they can in their ear telling them, yes, they can.
01:02:30.060they can succeed they can achieve and they can build their dreams because i don't think that
01:02:36.380that's reinforced by society today so it's all that more incumbent upon us to
01:02:42.300make that message loud clear and overwhelming so that it drowns out some of these other signals
01:02:47.340they're getting uh daniel asks nathan could you speak on your experience as a gothar student
01:02:56.780and how self-reliance has helped you in that pursuit
01:03:02.860well um self-reliance as a gothi student gothar student um
01:03:12.700in order to complete anything you have to do the work right and in order to do the work you have
01:03:21.340to be self-reliant because we are not sitting in a classroom we are not being directed
01:03:31.180physically or even we're not being directed it's up to us as individuals in that class
01:03:39.340in that program in order to take that initiative to complete things and to
01:03:47.340um succeed to keep moving forward with it and so yeah that's where the self-reliance comes
01:03:58.540in regards to that because other nobody's going to do it for you as much as you want them to
01:04:06.780you have help you have guidance you have support but nobody's going to do the work for you
01:04:12.220all right uh human manipulation nation i have a question how about we start an at-home workout
01:04:23.260until the first day of spring go from there maybe walking running basic exercises like
01:04:29.900push-ups squats sit-ups and possibly some free weights that's a great idea yes you should
01:04:39.020absolutely do that um is there anything on that you'd like to add or i'm i'm trying to think of
01:04:48.940how to address the the question because i don't really see the question in it do you have any
01:04:52.940thoughts on that nathan um i'm guessing he might be referring to maybe uh a virtual type setting
01:05:01.820um which if you want to start something like that uh by all means you know it's a great idea
01:05:10.060uh it's it's gonna i i don't know i don't know man um i think you have to start something
01:05:21.580somewhere um on your own and get that ball rolling first and people will jump on board
01:05:29.940if you are successful and you know that drive to make sure it succeeds and
01:05:36.720I don't know how I feel about doing a virtual workout I just assume get at it
01:05:45.420but hey everybody's got their own approach to those things so
01:05:52.560Uh, what Nate said, and then absolutely on the, uh, on the topic of self-reliance,
01:06:02.420if that's something you want to do and you feel you need to work on, go out and do it,
01:06:05.800go out and do it and show and share what you've done. That's been successful.
01:06:10.680Um, one of the cool things, if that's what you want to do, I mean, I'm not a real workout at
01:06:14.480home guy. I really like to go to the gym and something I always look forward to. And it, uh,
01:06:18.720but everybody's got different ways they want to work out. If this is something you want to do,
01:06:24.080do it, but share it on our physical excellence page on MeWe. Share it with other people so
01:06:29.440they can be inspired by what you're doing and encourage them if they want to do something
01:06:34.020similar to do it. If you want to do something like that and then help each other to stay on
01:06:39.300track or to be accountable, I think that's great, but it all starts with you getting out there and
01:06:44.020just making it happen. How would you define the importance of self-reliance in terms of
01:06:56.760complementing the strength of being in a group? Nathan? Yeah, we've kind of covered this a little
01:07:06.800bit already a couple of times. Being self-reliant doesn't mean you are alone by any means. It has
01:07:17.720nothing to do with the physical proximity of the people around you. It has to do with
01:07:24.700how you motivate yourself and how you create that drive. And to incorporate that into a group
01:07:36.700setting is going to make a group uh successful or it's going to make a group fail depending on the
01:07:48.920level of that self-reliance of the group members um and like our elshiri our gothi had mentioned
01:07:56.720earlier, a weak and pitiful group of people that comes together isn't going to hold a flame to a
01:08:11.120group of strong, self-reliant members of another group. And so that group's strength is only going
01:08:21.440increase as the self-reliance of its members increases you know that's uh that's an important
01:08:31.920aspect of that because having the virtue and the capability of self-reliance doesn't mean
01:08:40.320you always have to rely on yourself it means that you're able to rely on yourself you can function
01:08:48.080there's no situation in a group where just on the merits of self-reliance alone you're better
01:08:55.280off being less self-reliant than you are being more self-reliant if everybody in a group is
01:09:01.600self-reliant by nature then you have redundancy if people fall out or are not able to do certain
01:09:08.080things you have people they're ready to step in and help and to make stuff happen and to take
01:09:13.200initiative. It's one of those, it's one of those values that once you're, you know, if you were
01:09:20.500ultimately super self-reliant and capable of doing all these things yourself, there's no way that
01:09:27.300takes away from the group. That only strengthens it and makes it better. That maximizes the skill
01:09:33.680set of any group and really brings that to the fore. But that, you know, the two things, group
01:09:41.820participation and the ability to do for oneself aren't mutually exclusive in any way. Now, Lawrence
01:09:48.760gave us 10 Canadian dollars and a comment. If anybody else would like to send donations to us
01:09:57.080or participate in Super Chat, Lawrence gets his thing set up here before all these other questions.
01:10:02.780You can do that on Entropy. Good evening, gents. Nathan, I am intrigued by your mountain bike
01:10:09.100adventures slash event i may be getting a little old for pedaling now but i'm looking at getting
01:10:15.580back into motorized trails riding there's something very freeing about being on two wheels
01:10:22.300in addition to it being a fantastic form of exercise
01:10:29.500wonderful outstanding anytime you can immerse yourself in nature in your environment out there
01:10:36.780uh granted um you know they have e-bikes now e-mountain bikes that are battery powered and
01:10:45.180that way you have the that way you have the audio in immersion into nature around you as well
01:10:55.900so think about that take a look at some of those e-mountain bikes that's one way to actually to
01:11:02.620really immerse yourself once you've gotten, you know, to a point to where you're not going to
01:11:07.500be able to hit those mountain trails and stuff without a little bit of assistance, which there's
01:11:13.060absolutely nothing wrong with it. We're all going to be there. I'm 43. I'm going to be there someday
01:11:18.960where I'm going to have to trade in my mountain bike and get an e-mountain bike so that I can
01:11:24.120be out there and immerse myself. Brandy asks, Nathan, how were you able to convince our folk
01:11:32.320from a few brave women to a Steve McNallan himself
01:11:55.780Well, if people don't know, Nate, could you kind of tell people
01:11:59.020what went down and how that all came about?
01:12:02.320So, this started last year at the first Feast of the Einherjar on Lake of the Ozarks, which was, we had a dock, which was a lot more helpful to doing an early morning swim.
01:12:19.860Our founder, Stephen McNallan, is an advocate for the cold water, and he's up for any type of challenge, typically.
01:12:33.660And so that first event, we said, well, hey, how about an early morning set of pushups for the group, for our fallen heroes, for our fallen soldiers, for our fallen family members, and then culminating with a jump in the water.
01:12:53.140and without hesitation founder mcnalen said he's on board anybody that wants to join
01:13:01.620meet me down at 7 a.m and so then this last year as well we got to keep that tradition going
01:13:09.220so this last year we had we had even more um there must have been about 15 of us
01:13:16.66015 of us jumped in that water it was it was below freezing air temperature um but this last year we
01:13:23.140were in oklahoma as opposed to missouri so the water temperature was a little bit warmer which
01:13:29.300made a little bit of a difference except for the fact that we had a walk-in versus jumping off a
01:13:33.780dock um but that exhilaration that shock to the system is what it was really about that sacrifice
01:13:43.780of your comfort into the cold to honor those who we were honoring for that
01:13:52.100event that weekend and those ceremonies that happened there
01:14:00.580good deal um i got a question from your fiance uh how has becoming a family man
01:14:07.860changed your view on the importance of self-reliance and consistency asking for
01:14:13.780Well, I'll tell you what, it would be a lot easier if I could find the scissors, but, and, well, it's a new experience for me, and an experience I wholeheartedly embrace, because working as a team, you accomplish so much more than working as an individual, and so that self-reliance is still there for each of us.
01:14:43.780And as my beautiful fiance is a very self-reliant person as well and can always find the scissors for me, which none of you will get except for maybe Witten Callahan.
01:15:01.640It's made me a better person, a better man as a whole, learning to be part of that intimate team of two self-reliant people coming together.
01:15:15.740You know, I don't get the inside joke per se, but girls like to hide stuff.
01:15:20.620I know Mandy very seldom puts things back in the place that would be easily observable and findable by me.
01:15:31.200So, Nathan, what genre of music do you prefer?
01:15:36.740Well, that entirely depends on my mood.
01:15:39.020I will listen to everything from old classic country to classical music to heavy metal, hard rock.
01:15:55.180The only thing that I really can't get on board with is the hip hop kind of stuff.
01:16:00.840I can get into some of the 90s as I am 43.
01:16:05.860and so some of the older hip-hop stuff I can tolerate but for me it's all about
01:16:13.420the messaging more than anything unless I'm at the gym and I just need some
01:16:18.760hard-hitting music to just to pump me up and get me amped and ready to push
01:16:25.540beyond my perceived limits all right um ryan asks can you show us a stole i'll just hear your goofy
01:16:39.700matt i certainly can and uh nick's got one queued up that he's gonna pop on your screen right now
01:49:51.760you participate in these weekly and we really appreciate you i just sorry i can't give you a
01:49:56.560better answer to your question but maybe maybe we can think more on it you can clear it up for me a
01:50:01.920little bit at some point um yes uh so i also see a mention of the artsgemeinschaft in germany um
01:50:12.640i can't be say i'm an expert on them i did get to meet uh their their leadership and some of
01:50:19.200their members at a event that we had in sweden a while back and they were fantastic to meet in
01:50:25.920person they seem like they're very solid people um so yeah if you're in germany i would i would
01:50:31.760check those folks out as well and good on you ryan for pointing that out um what else do we got here
01:50:42.400okay we've got a couple of more questions here given the opportunity to prepare a meal for
01:50:48.560yourself what do you make what meal do you cook for your family nathan what do you what do you
01:50:55.600cook if you're making a meal for yourself and uh what would you cook for your family
01:51:00.320oh wow well that changes over time um that changes with um work schedules that changes with
01:51:09.200ashley's school schedules she does the vast majority of cooking for us if i were to choose
01:51:18.480something i would grill some steaks grill some brats throw some burgers out there
01:51:26.560for myself and our family that's that's my always been my go-to
01:51:31.600um fortunately i have ashley who is more health conscious in the food preparation
01:51:40.640arena than i am so she does most of our work for that
01:51:48.080yeah um there was no name attached to it so i'm gonna i'm gonna chime in a little bit too
01:51:53.120too. I don't make meals for myself. Honestly, I make protein shakes and chicken. If I'm making
01:52:03.340stuff for myself, unless there's a special occasion, it's usually something to get my
01:52:09.020macros in the way I'm trying to get them. And it's not so much done for gourmet value as for fuel.
01:52:17.300When I celebrate, that's different. And I think that goes a little bit more into what I cook for
01:52:21.260my family. Again, Mandy eats like I do. So we don't typically cook a lot for ourselves. And
01:52:29.240Aubrey's at a point where she's being really picky about what she's going to eat. So it's
01:52:32.580kind of an odd question. I do like having people over once a month and cooking for the events at
01:52:38.720my house. And when that's the case, I like to find interesting off the wall things that sound
01:52:46.260like they'd be good and like they'd be fun to make. I enjoy cooking. I enjoy cooking for people
01:52:52.840that I care about and extending hospitality in that way. I'll throw out there, I've mentioned
01:52:57.640it before on here, but tropical schnitzel is my go-to that I think is really good. There's a lot
01:53:04.660of other stuff you can do, but tropical schnitzel is good stuff. You get the opportunity. I'll make
01:53:08.340it for you. You would enjoy it. The last question, and I think we're going to call it, this is the
01:53:13.940last one for tonight. And I think it's a good question. So, oh, bonus, I see over on the side,
01:53:25.620Allie is asking me when I'm going to make the blueberry soup. It's a really good question.
01:53:29.380Thank you for reminding me. She gave me an awesome Swedish recipe book. And I will tell you,
01:53:35.440I'm going to make some of that and I'll tell you how it turns out. So last real question,
01:53:39.400What would you say to lone wolf types who share our beliefs but won't make the jump to join the men and women among our ranks?
01:53:48.660Nathan, what would you say to those folks?
01:53:55.280I'd say I hate it for you, plain and simple, because our gods and goddesses are our ancestors.
01:54:07.700we were never meant to practice as sole practitioners.
01:54:13.740And so if you're not willing to make the jump,
01:54:19.320hey, by all means, I'm glad you have found your gods and your way,
01:54:25.940but I am truly sorry that you won't make the jump
01:54:32.200to join your folk and join a community.
01:54:37.700You know, we run into these people from time to time and realistically, my first step isn't what to say to them. It's more what to ask and, you know, why not?
01:54:59.900what is the holdup is what i always want to know and very seldom do i get answers that
01:55:08.300are particularly substantive very often it's
01:55:12.780a fear of wanting to commit to something sometimes it's a reluctance to be held accountable
01:55:20.460it all comes down to it takes courage to jump off the fence and to throw yourself
01:55:26.700at something, to be involved in something. And when you do, risks come with that. Emotional
01:55:34.440risks come with any kind of commitment. So what I would tell those people is we need you. We need
01:55:40.520all our people on board to make this happen and to move forward. And I would challenge you to
01:55:46.100have the courage to give it a shot. This already presupposes that you share our beliefs. If you
01:55:51.760believe in what we believe in and you stand for what we stand for, then stand with us
01:55:56.420and let's make stuff happen. Let's be victorious. With that, thank you so much for joining us
01:56:03.240tonight, Nathan, and congratulations on being the example of self-reliance to our folk.
01:56:09.840Thank you, sir. It's been my pleasure. I'm truly honored to have been here tonight.
01:56:16.960Well, it was great to have you, and I'm sure we'll have you back on in the future.
01:56:21.760I thank you guys all for participating, for listening, for asking great questions.
01:56:31.140Think about that. If you can make it to Njortsov for Charming of the Plow here in two weeks in White Springs, Florida, it's a place that you want to be.
01:56:39.760Until next time, hail the gods, hail the folk, hail the AFA, and remember that victory never sleeps.