Asatru Folk Assembly - 1⧸18⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 28 - Self-Reliance

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00:03:00.000 hello everybody and welcome back once again uh tonight we're going to continue on with

00:03:20.960 our series on our noble virtues and tonight we'll be discussing self-reliance um we're in

00:03:29.280 for a treat tonight uh we've got folk builder nathan erlinson on here it is his first appearance

00:03:35.280 on victory never sleeps so i'm excited for y'all to get to know him just a bit uh thinking of top

00:03:44.000 of the show business to run down for you guys coming up very quickly i believe just about two

00:03:50.240 weeks we've got charming of the plow at njordshoff this is their first national level event that's

00:03:57.360 being hosted at New York's Hoff, which is our newest Hoff. We're all very, very excited about

00:04:02.500 it. The folks down there have put a whole lot of love into this place. It's beautiful. I'd love

00:04:07.960 for you all to get a chance to go see it. It's going to be the first time my wife and daughter

00:04:14.620 are joining me on one of these out-of-town excursions in quite some time, so I'm excited.

00:04:19.720 things you should know that's in the town of white springs florida so that's north florida

00:04:28.140 it's very doable for a lot of our southern members definitely something to think about

00:04:32.900 if you can make it if you're thinking about doing that please make sure to reach out to

00:04:37.740 your local folk builder and they can get you all set up also since the last time i spoke to you

00:04:43.860 guys. We had our first event at Sigurhan. Now, it was cold and it is a virgin piece of property

00:04:54.920 right now, but it was amazing to get to go see that with some of our AFA family. It was fantastic.

00:05:04.340 We scouted out the property. It is beautiful. I've been stocking this place for months

00:05:11.160 in every kind of online way I could with satellite views and all kind of stuff,

00:05:16.920 but was not prepared for just how amazing it is in person. It is everything that we wanted

00:05:23.460 and hoped for it to be and much, much more. One of the biggest things that stands out about it

00:05:29.060 is just the expanse of it when you get there. It is a good piece of property with a lot of room to

00:05:36.780 build our hopes and dreams on. We did a tear bloat up at the top of one of the ridges where

00:05:43.300 we plan on putting tears off. And it was very powerful. And I want to thank everybody who

00:05:48.220 came out to that. Big thanks to folk builder Melissa Mills for helping to, you know, basically

00:05:56.360 to run that event. I just got to show up and look pretty. And she basically ran the event

00:06:01.360 it was great turned out fantastic i know i'm blabbing a lot about it but i'm i'm pretty

00:06:08.000 exciting uh pretty excited it was really neat to get to actually see it in person there's no way

00:06:12.560 that you know i did a little video looks like we're all standing in front of the same basic

00:06:17.280 wall of leaves doesn't capture it at all it is it is it is really really an amazing spot

00:06:23.760 uh but without further ado uh nathan introduce yourself to the folks that may not be familiar

00:06:29.760 with you and if you could tell us a little bit about what you do for the afa yeah absolutely

00:06:37.680 my name is nathan erlinson i'm a folk builder and gothar student in baldur's hop district

00:06:44.880 out of minnesota up here i also help manage baldur's hop specifically along with the district

00:06:53.600 out here. How, okay, so I ask everybody this their first time on the program. Can you tell us

00:07:03.820 how you, how you discovered Ausatru and how you became part of the Ausatru Folk Assembly?

00:07:12.300 Absolutely. So I was raised and born in a Catholic household and started asking some

00:07:20.740 really tough questions at a pretty young age, probably right around 12 or 13 years old.

00:07:26.540 And those questions, nobody ever seemed to have any good or even legitimate answers to.

00:07:33.740 And so I started pulling away from that because something felt wrong with it altogether

00:07:39.340 throughout it to me. And so I started a long, long road of very, very slow progression towards

00:07:53.480 finding our ancestral faith and practices. And then that led me to ultimately, probably about

00:08:05.060 six or seven years ago i stumbled upon some of stephen mcnalen's work and watched some of his

00:08:13.220 older videos on dvd ended up getting his book and that led to other books regarding our practices

00:08:24.980 and faith. And then a couple years ago, not long after I met my fiancee, Ashley McStalker,

00:08:35.220 she was already an AFA member. And I had heard about the AFA, obviously, through researching

00:08:42.080 Steve and reading his material and everything like that. But I wasn't quite sure about it.

00:08:47.640 I didn't really know where to go to find it or anything at that time until Ashley showed me

00:08:54.420 where to go, and I applied, and the rest is history, really. Fantastic. Starting to get

00:09:06.820 some questions over on the side. I know it looks like you got a lot of fans in the chat room.

00:09:12.720 Before we get there, so to reiterate, when we put folks on here as guests about each of these

00:09:21.080 virtues, it all starts with a question that I ask our folk builders in an email thread, you know,

00:09:28.300 which of our leaders do they think best exemplifies each of these virtues? And

00:09:36.260 it's a special thing because, you know, a lot of the time I'll have in my head who I think

00:09:46.020 who i think that person ought to be and a lot of the time it works out but it's really important

00:09:53.260 this is a uh this is by the i'm sorry my wife just handed me some tea and i got that going no

00:10:02.940 anyways it's a an honor that they're selected by their peers on this so i think that nate is not

00:10:10.040 only a good choice, but his fellow folk builders in Gothar also overwhelmingly thought that he was

00:10:17.360 the guy on this virtue. So if you could tell us, you know, unlike some of the others, this one may

00:10:26.640 seem self-evident, but can you tell us a little bit about what self-reliance means to you?

00:10:32.920 yeah um self-reliance to me is so much more than just being survival okay a lot of people

00:10:44.680 associate self-reliance with survival living off the land um not needing anybody and that couldn't

00:10:53.300 be further from the truth self-reliance is relatable to free will which ultimately is to

00:11:02.280 be one's own man or woman and comes with certain duties, responsibilities, chiefly responsibilities

00:11:10.280 for yourself and the choices and deeds that you make and commit, which ultimately leads

00:11:20.440 to self-determination.

00:11:23.000 It's something that in an individual, you don't wait for the world to hand you anything.

00:11:30.180 You go and you take it.

00:11:32.120 You go after what you want.

00:11:34.560 And it's not that you push others away and isolate yourself because that would be something completely different.

00:11:45.640 Free will or self-reliance is also an interconnectedness.

00:11:51.000 And 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.

00:12:18.300 and you don't let others do the thinking for you.

00:12:22.820 You think for yourself.

00:12:24.940 You're not satisfied to let others do your work.

00:12:30.960 You're self-driven, self-motivated, and have drive.

00:12:37.620 Basically, that's what it comes down to.

00:12:39.400 Have drive for yourself, for your family, for your community,

00:12:43.820 your church, your tribe.

00:12:48.300 well good i think that i think that's a good place to start on it um this one isn't a a confusing

00:12:59.020 one but the application for it i think it finds itself in a lot of ways that people don't

00:13:04.380 necessarily think of it up front so let's start with some of our questions uh tim asks nathan

00:13:10.860 what are some of your life experiences that have taught or made you self-reliant anything in

00:13:17.260 particular you'd like to share? Lots of things. A couple of major ones, for instance. I played

00:13:26.920 sports all through my youth, growing up all through high school. And in order to succeed

00:13:34.400 in any of those team sports, team being the key word, you had to have drive motivation

00:13:43.140 along with the skill not to mention you still had to follow direction and that led me into

00:13:51.060 joining the military I did two enlistments my first enlistment I signed up with U.S. Army

00:13:59.560 and before I even graduated high school and as a firefighter I wanted to be part of that kind of

00:14:07.200 team and I was willing to run into those burning buildings when everybody else is running out

00:14:14.320 and I really loved being a firefighter was stationed in Alaska for a period of time

00:14:19.340 excelled at it loved it and then 9-11 rolled around when 9-11 rolled around I had been

00:14:28.300 actually out of that first initial enlistment for a few months only and I took the day off of work

00:14:37.200 that day went back to the recruiter's office and enlisted as an infantry soldier this time

00:14:43.680 which brought me to a whole nother level of not only self-reliance but group reliance

00:14:51.520 because you operated not only as an individual but as a team as a squad as a platoon as a company

00:15:01.520 and you know that that changed me that that really formed who i became as as a man in life

00:15:11.600 and it's who i still am i still have those drives at the core of who i am um

00:15:21.760 and that's what really brought me to

00:15:24.160 being where I'm at at that point. That's the most significant experience in my life

00:15:32.600 that shaped who I am today.

00:15:40.000 So Tim follows that up with Matt, same question.

00:15:44.260 um so i think this is a kind of another way of going about uh the virtue of self-reliance

00:15:57.740 um

00:15:59.220 one of the things that i think is important and i do think this relates but maybe it's it's a little

00:16:11.220 bit uh tangential tangential um we all have visions of who we'd like to be or the life we'd

00:16:24.740 like to have and all too often people recognize that distance and just assume it can't be crossed

00:16:36.180 or there's nothing you can do about it. And the successful folks or people that I admire quite a

00:16:42.280 bit are people who make those things happen in their life, who see what they want and take the

00:16:49.820 steps to attain it or to, if not to attain it, to be, you know, a far sight closer to attaining it

00:16:56.500 than they are at present. And that's something that, that was important to me.

00:17:03.020 just distant. I'm trying to think of any great example on that. One of it is

00:17:12.460 the distance between who I wanted to be and who I was.

00:17:19.660 My dad didn't spend a lot of time with me growing up. I suppose he did when I was very young,

00:17:26.080 but in my teenage years, he and my mom had had a divorce and he was with my stepmom and their

00:17:34.700 family. And for a variety of reasons, he and I weren't close during that time period. So I didn't

00:17:39.820 really have that male influence in those years of my life helping me with some stuff. So a lot

00:17:46.400 of stuff I had to figure out on my own. I've mentioned this before on the show many times,

00:17:53.220 but you know my my role models growing up in the 80s and early 90s are you know these larger than

00:17:58.820 life figures and i was you know i was this scrawny didn't have any friends nerdy kid in high school

00:18:09.540 that you know i didn't really take off in those ways until until i became an adult and right around

00:18:16.180 2000, you know, about a year after I graduated, I decided, you know, I'm going to start making

00:18:23.140 an effort. What's the difference between me and these guys that I wish I was like, or these people

00:18:27.040 that I, you know, think in my head I ought to be. And I started trying to take a swing at that. And

00:18:33.220 I felt like I was way behind. I think one of the things a lot of folks in my generation and the

00:18:38.160 generations that have come since run into is if you miss the boat early on socially with with

00:18:49.040 your peers with girls with sports with things in school that a lot of people get every year that

00:18:55.120 you don't catch up with those things the obstacle becomes harder and harder to to get on top of and

00:19:04.240 accomplish um and it's one of the things that i really had to to accelerate as a as a young adult

00:19:10.880 so i tried to i started hitting the gym i started you know trying to get my diet where it needed to

00:19:18.240 be to to put on some size i you know wanted to i went to the roughest bar in town and decided i was

00:19:25.280 going to bounce there and learn some skills that way and learn about myself so really trying to

00:19:31.040 seize those things but it's carried over a lot in my afa involvement and this is something that

00:19:38.880 i wanted to bring up and i suppose this is as good a time as any when people join

00:19:46.640 the afa they always assume that there's an infrastructure in place that's always been

00:19:52.720 there that always will be that just gets things done this this magical institution that some

00:20:00.320 someone out west when i first joined um it was it was steve or somebody in california

00:20:07.360 makes afa happen everywhere and what people don't realize it's a whole lot of individuals

00:20:15.440 that are self-reliant it's a whole lot of people that step up and say hey there's nothing going on

00:20:21.120 here so i'm going to folk build there's nothing going on where's an event oh there's nothing

00:20:27.280 near me well i'll host one at my house it's that that makes up the afa and makes it all work

00:20:34.400 and it's not an individual pursuit it's all of us working together but it's made up of individuals

00:20:39.440 that have really had to pioneer the area that they're in and that was something i certainly

00:20:45.440 had to do in alaska when i was the folk builder up there and i've seen that a lot of places so

00:20:50.800 So 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.

00:21:08.640 And I think that's kind of where some of my, you know, some of the self-reliance I have is rooted in that.

00:21:15.940 uh brandy asks nathan how did your self-reliance and dedication help bring balders off to what it

00:21:23.620 is today well thanks brandy thanks whiten callahan um i guess uh that's rooted in my personality

00:21:38.760 the core of my personality, unwilling to ever give in, give up when it comes to not the battles, but the war.

00:21:53.700 And to put that into perspective, obviously, to win wars, sometimes you have to relinquish here and there.

00:22:01.320 But 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.

00:22:18.360 And that's all I wanted to do.

00:22:22.320 I was in a position to where I was technically on work comp during that time.

00:22:29.320 so I was able to do that. And that's one of the greatest things that I've ever been able to be

00:22:35.560 part of was transforming Baldershof into what it is. And without a series of events transpiring the

00:22:44.840 way that they had, I may not have had that opportunity to do so. Yeah, you've made such

00:22:55.460 a difference up there. Baldur's Hoff is really a story of, you know, a handful of individuals and

00:23:03.960 self-reliance in a lot of ways. Folks that may not be familiar, when we got a steal of a deal

00:23:10.400 on Baldur's Hoff, we got an amazing, amazing deal. One of the reasons it was such an amazing deal

00:23:15.400 was that it was in a sorry, sorry state when we got it. We needed a lot of repair work, a lot of

00:23:20.980 love a lot of help to get it to get it where it needs to be and to get it back beautiful

00:23:26.100 and uh you know a lot of people don't have that skill set but fortunately we were able to have

00:23:32.740 some people that were able to go in put the time put the effort put the blood sweat and tears to

00:23:39.000 make that place shine and be the the amazing temple to Baldera that it is today and uh you

00:23:46.540 nathan's certainly one of those guys

00:23:50.540 cody asks hey nate what are some ways our folk can become more self-reliant

00:23:56.060 in a society that continues to push us towards dependency

00:24:02.860 great question cody um i would say that probably the foremost aspect to that question and answer

00:24:12.700 would be to stop going with the crowd do what's important to you don't necessarily

00:24:25.020 just resort to doing something because it's the easy way or it's what others are doing

00:24:31.500 do what's right um right action means everything and you'll find so

00:24:37.740 often today that people are just acting or not even acting just blindly following things without

00:24:48.460 any real personality in it not any nothing that defines them in their course of action

00:24:55.740 and so when it comes to self-reliance make a name for yourself strive to constantly improve

00:25:05.500 areas of your life and build build a community build a family build a church

00:25:14.200 um you know it's it's the blind leading the blind really in our society today and our folk are

00:25:24.260 opening their eyes finally and coming home and that means they have taken that first step to

00:25:31.580 being self-reliant in a community and a culture, not a community, but a culture

00:25:35.820 that frowns upon that individuality and taking that step towards doing something that's important

00:25:42.560 to you. Yeah, it's a real delicate balance. And I know that I beat the drum of community and,

00:25:53.500 you know, going along with our community a lot, because I think it's important. And we certainly

00:25:58.460 need that that unity of purpose we need to be able to work together but one of the keys to that

00:26:06.380 we all function better if we're made up by a collection of strong people and we can be there

00:26:14.620 and lift each other up when we're individually strong into strong individuals make a strong

00:26:20.460 community and so we really want to see every one of our members you know become the very best

00:26:26.220 version of their self that they can be and you know that can be physically mentally spiritually

00:26:31.980 financially all of those things but that really is important to us and i'd encourage anybody out

00:26:39.420 there that you know feels like they need some help with that to reach out to their local go

00:26:44.620 through your githia and get a plan in place on on how to how to shape up and make the best you

00:26:50.620 you can be i think we're all we can all be better than we are today and uh we should all be striving

00:26:57.260 to do that and to help each other do that um one of the things cody that strikes me with your question

00:27:04.940 is so many of our people are isolated and feel defeated or feel the distance between their

00:27:16.460 dreams and themselves is too far to for them to do anything about so they spend an awful lot of time

00:27:23.260 on the internet complaining and one thing that i think is really important about self-reliance

00:27:28.620 is being reliant on yourself in terms of providing your own motivation

00:27:35.180 and i don't think previous generations had that same problem in the way that

00:27:40.380 that we see around us today as much but everyone needs this motivation today because breaking that

00:27:48.780 lethargy and breaking the armchair quarterbacking of life seems to be a real challenge that's before

00:27:58.940 before us today so i think that's an important thing about self-reliance to consider as well

00:28:03.740 John asks, what will the requirements, what will be the requirements to move to Sigerheim?

00:28:12.540 So 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.

00:28:25.260 As far as hard and fast rules, got to be AFA members.

00:28:33.740 But 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.

00:28:46.640 And so that's important. It means holding yourself to a higher standard that way.

00:28:50.320 the other thing we need to be committed to each other's success at siggerheim we need to be

00:28:55.760 committed to the success of siggerheim with everything we have with our labor financially

00:29:02.640 taking care of it and one of the things that sounds silly but is absolutely essential is we need to be

00:29:13.040 hyper frithful with Sigurheim. The people who are actually going to live there together 0.99

00:29:20.460 in an AFA village need to be absolutely committed to maintaining a good relationship with one

00:29:27.440 another. And that means there's no room for pettiness or for problems that linger. They

00:29:32.620 need to be solved and moved forward. And this is all kind of ethereal, I think, as far as practical

00:29:37.720 things go. We want somebody who's going to build a home there and a home that looks respectable

00:29:44.700 to our folk, not, you know, not a shanty, not a, you know, it needs to look like a nice place where

00:29:53.820 noble people live, not a squalid place like the res or something. So whatever we have needs to

00:30:03.120 be clean and nice and have a home that people would intend to live in that looks nice. Another

00:30:09.460 thing that's going to be relevant to Sigurheim is those folks are going to be folks paying

00:30:14.440 Hofftoller. They're probably going to be paying that Hofftoller at something like 10%. Those

00:30:19.620 people are going to need to be really chipping in because we're going to do a lot of stuff.

00:30:23.900 There's the infrastructure and all the things that go into running basically an AFA village.

00:30:29.500 So we're really going to lean on people heavily there. We're going to lean on each other to make

00:30:33.080 sure things happen. And basically that commitment. People who move to Sigurheim need to be AFA

00:30:40.980 through and through and 1000% committed to our success and to victory in general. And we're

00:30:48.320 looking forward to folks that are going to do that. If it's something that you're interested in,

00:30:51.960 please reach out. You can reach out to your local folk builder or to me and we can try to

00:30:56.640 get that all set up. We're at that stage and I'm really excited to see who the first folks that

00:31:02.640 going to be those pioneers are going to be i'm probably you know at least a year and a half if

00:31:08.560 not more out before i can my family can do it so between now and then i'm very excited to see the

00:31:14.320 folks that'll be be pioneering that uh trent nate could you please explain the importance

00:31:21.680 of the one arm push-up absolutely trent the importance of the one arm push-up not only

00:31:31.600 signifies and represents strength in an individual, but also balance, technique, form, which is

00:31:41.480 one and the same with technique. And just more than anything, Trent, it's dedication.

00:31:50.300 It's drive and dedication. You want to do that one-arm push-up, you will do that one-arm push-up.

00:32:01.600 So you guys may not all get the inside joke, but Guth East is deficient in his ability to do one-arm pushups.

00:32:12.580 By deficient, I mean he can't do a one-arm pushup at present.

00:32:16.180 So I would like to see that change.

00:32:18.740 In contrast, folk builder Nathan Erlandson is a champion of one-arm pushups.

00:32:23.760 I can't really get to the spot where he actually wins out on it because he leaves the competition in the dust.

00:32:32.460 So this man can do some one arm pushups. I've seen it. Respect it.

00:32:39.540 Tim asks, Nathan, could you tell us about your Feast of the Einherjar event and what it means to you?

00:32:47.980 Feast of the Einherjar is so, so important to me.

00:32:53.760 multiple levels as as an infantry soldier myself it screams importance it screams

00:33:06.680 ritual it screams remembrance for brothers of mine that I've lost brothers

00:33:16.420 of mine that I lost not only not only in combat but after coming home as well

00:33:22.700 which is important. But not just in the modern time. The Feast of the Ain Hur Yar is an important

00:33:33.540 remembrance for our folk as a whole that goes all the way back to the beginning of our time,

00:33:41.640 of our of our blood of our of our people because we are a noble people that will fight to protect

00:33:53.780 what we what we own what we have those we care about and our way of life and for thousands of

00:34:03.300 years, we've lost. We've lost a lot of men, of women, all around. And the Feast of the Einherjar

00:34:14.640 is to honor all of those warriors, whether it was battlefield warriors or whether it was

00:34:23.080 warriors of another type that fought for our folk. It doesn't just signify those

00:34:32.680 combat veterans or those battlefield warriors wielding axes. It's an ethos that we have to

00:34:43.440 remember and that we have to keep alive, that we will fight for right action, that we will fight

00:34:51.120 for what we believe to be true, and that we will fight for each other.

00:34:56.280 all right uh tony the king of cheese matt nate good to see you both tonight

00:35:05.880 how are y'all doing tonight nathan how are you doing i'm doing absolutely wonderful sir

00:35:12.760 tony i'm doing great as well i'm a broken record on this but i really am i'm doing fantastic i

00:35:22.100 always enjoy being here. It's one of the highlights of my week. Chase asks, Nathan,

00:35:28.900 what is self-reliance and what does it mean to you? Now, we already kind of got to this at the

00:35:34.400 top of the thing, but is there anything you can add to that or any spin you'd like to put on that?

00:35:40.480 Yep. Sure. I'll summarize it in don't wait for someone else to do your job for you.

00:35:47.400 Don't wait for the world to be handed to you on a platter.

00:35:52.100 that's, that was simply put, but it means more than, you know, um, I think we spend a lot of

00:36:02.640 our lives waiting instead of making the changes manifest in the world that we want to see happen.

00:36:10.160 And, uh, I think breaking that mindset is, is so crucial and I hope we can all help each other

00:36:18.560 to get better at that. It's really important to me. It's one of the reasons that I named the

00:36:24.640 show what I did and that victory is such a big thing that I talk about is there's so much that

00:36:28.820 we have the ability to achieve and accomplish. But all too often, we just don't. We wait for

00:36:34.900 somebody else to do it. We wait for the right time. We wait for a lot of things that allow

00:36:42.760 perfect to be the enemy of good um nick would like to know what was the training like to bike 100

00:36:51.480 miles and what was it like actually competing and riding that long at once for folks that don't know

00:36:57.720 nate can you kind of tell them what you competed in and how that worked yep so up here on the north

00:37:04.360 shore of lake superior every june there's a mountain bike race it's called the lutzen 99er

00:37:13.960 there are lesser length races as there's a 29er a 49er a 69er and then the culmination of the event

00:37:24.840 is a 99 mile mountain bike race through the mountains of lake superior which for those of

00:37:31.880 of you out west not the same kind of mountains but to be fair you're you're up hills you're

00:37:39.020 you're pedaling a mountain bike and you're going 100 miles um the last year was my first attempt

00:37:49.200 at that um i guess a lot of people start out probably at one of the lesser distances but

00:37:57.160 I'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.

00:38:18.340 I was doing a lot of high rep, low weight leg workouts, a lot of biking.

00:38:30.460 I would take my mountain bike up to an area not far from here and try to put on 50 miles in a day.

00:38:37.920 I also picked up a road bike just to get the duration in, to get that 100 miles in.

00:38:44.800 And 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.

00:38:55.240 And ultimately, then I hit like 105 miles on a road bike. It's a lot different than a mountain bike.

00:39:03.060 You're going a lot faster. You have significantly less resistance.

00:39:08.780 um the hills are smooth the rain is smooth uh for that lutes in 99er um you're crossing streams

00:39:20.180 you're you're moving at a snail's pace it seems like in some areas where there's a shit ton of

00:39:26.440 mosquitoes pardon my language um you're covered in mud you're sweating you're hungry you're thirsty

00:39:33.040 You have to stop from time to time to re-up on your water and your high-calorie snacks to do it.

00:39:43.420 But 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.

00:39:54.220 Because there's a thousand people competing in that.

00:39:59.220 And I wasn't competing to win.

00:40:01.600 I was doing it, um, as my first attempt to actually complete it. Um, so then moving forward

00:40:11.580 down the road, I'm going to try to take time off of my, uh, final score, but tell you what it flew

00:40:19.980 by, it could have been two hours or eight hours. And I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference

00:40:26.580 It's because of the pure energy that surrounded that event.

00:40:30.860 The communities in that area all support it.

00:40:33.600 And you have 1,000 people on mountain bikes.

00:40:37.060 You have another 5,000 people cheering them on at different areas.

00:40:42.180 And so, yeah, really cool, really cool experience that I've had.

00:40:47.000 Probably one of my top five experiences in my life completing that without needing an ambulance or anything at the end.

00:40:56.580 well no that's a that's a sounds like a daunting race so uh we're all proud of you on that that's

00:41:04.620 awesome um obsidian skull has a question why does the afa uses anglican priest tippets i saw the

00:41:14.440 question in another place but i would like more details since it seemed weird to me um so

00:41:21.620 it's not that we use anglican priest uh tippets or we call them stoles it's that we both use

00:41:32.420 ancient roman pagan stoles so um in looking into it we're trying to figure out something

00:41:39.960 distinctive for our clergy to wear that marks them out recognizably as clergy and the stole

00:41:47.400 is one of those things in the west that does that um yes it is very very often used by the christian

00:41:53.640 church and has been since early times but it doesn't come from um any kind of a biblical

00:42:00.920 practice or from any kind of hebrew ritual garden it actually comes from uh ancient roman and there's

00:42:08.680 a case to be made there was something similar in ancient greece and it was to signify a learned

00:42:15.960 scholar status and it evolved over time because those places were hotbeds of the development of

00:42:24.760 Christianity that Christianity did also use the stole but it's actually a pagan garment and that

00:42:30.780 was important to us. One of the benefits is it instantly marks us out as oh and some of the

00:42:42.300 scholastic history of it is why you see stoles worn at graduations. But as I was saying, it

00:42:48.720 instantly marks us out as clergy in when we're officiating a ceremony, no matter where we're

00:42:55.380 at. And that's worked really well for us because then the people who are not only the people that

00:43:00.760 we're performing ceremony with or for, but also those who see it understand that the person doing

00:43:06.840 it as a clergyman and as a priest. So that's why we end up using those. Chase asks, how

00:43:15.940 is us being self-reliant viewed in the eyes of our gods in your opinion? Nathan, what

00:43:26.300 do you got to say to that? Give you some time to think about it on that. That's why

00:43:32.560 that's why i asked you first yeah so how is how is us being self-reliant viewed in the eyes

00:43:40.460 of our gods is that what viewed in the eyed eyes of our gods in my opinion

00:43:49.040 i would say that as opposed to uh middle eastern beliefs and practices

00:44:00.120 um our gods want us to strive to be like them not to be subservient and sub submitting to them

00:44:09.940 um it's important and viewed by our gods for us to be strong

00:44:16.820 whereas alternative beliefs and practices you are supposed to it's emphasized to be weak and to be

00:44:29.080 reliant on on others other powers other unseen entities and things like that with our gods

00:44:39.320 yeah that that that's really it in my opinion and is that our gods want us to strive to be

00:44:47.900 as they are though that is never an attainable result but the striving to do so is what's

00:44:56.340 important. So I think along with this comes a certain amount of

00:45:06.340 confusion for folks. And again, I mentioned that this, this

00:45:12.580 virtue, it's balanced by other virtues. And so finding the

00:45:20.640 exact, you know, when to be self reliant versus when to be a

00:45:24.420 good cog in the in the bigger machine is a question but i go back to the answer that i gave

00:45:31.700 on that earlier we are stronger when we're each individually strong than we are for a collection

00:45:39.300 of weak people if we are a collection we can have the same level of cohesion

00:45:44.260 but are made of much stronger units our community is stronger um

00:45:49.060 um we absolutely recognize our place in the hierarchy and we worship our gods we recognize

00:45:58.420 our gods as greater than ourselves and uh we can still do that by being as self-reliant as we can

00:46:07.060 and that's the thing you're never don't get it confused we are not individually self-sufficient

00:46:14.500 We need community and even the best of us needs other people.

00:46:21.340 But there's a difference between doing the best you can and needing other people.

00:46:27.940 And just laying there like dead weight and wanting everybody else to carry.

00:46:32.380 And religiously speaking, that's very different in our faith than, say, Christianity.

00:46:38.580 The Bible makes a big point about being saved by faith and not by works

00:46:43.380 that none should boast. So my understanding is that the Christian God does not want 1.00

00:46:50.440 his people to be proud of their achievements or to achieve, but more to receive the grace

00:47:00.200 and receive the blessings of their God and have their God do it for them.

00:47:05.460 I in also true fundamentally we want our gods to be proud of us we want to make them proud we make

00:47:16.020 them proud by doing and by living heroically and by accomplishing yeah it we would love to have the

00:47:24.180 help of the gods and the gods do help and bless us but we want to be able to take credit for

00:47:32.300 achieving things so that they have something to be proud of and to celebrate. Our gods are

00:47:39.160 magnified and made better if they're worshipped by heroes than if they're worshipped by losers.

00:47:46.160 Quite frankly, winning is in and of itself an offering to our gods and magnifies them.

00:47:53.680 And we need to keep that in mind. So I think that our gods, when asked how it's viewed from our

00:47:59.680 God, our gods see us accomplish something great or do and attempt something great, I think that

00:48:06.060 they're proud of us. And that's certainly what we all strive so hard for. Katla asks, Nathan,

00:48:16.600 could you share a powerful or meaningful experience with the gods that you have had?

00:48:21.500 i'll tell you what katla um

00:48:30.980 there are quite there has been quite a few times where i've been at baldershoff by myself

00:48:42.660 um where my my skin tingles um there's been times where i've been at bloat um at odin's

00:48:55.520 hof at thor's hof um at balder's hof where that bloat came alive um in regards to our

00:49:09.720 gods around us and our folk gathered in unison in a common goal for that bloat. And so I can't

00:49:25.200 single out just one time specifically because there's been so many since I've been part of the

00:49:33.600 AFA. There may have been a couple of times prior to the AFA where, I won't lie, in Iraq,

00:49:46.860 there was more than once where the only injury I sustained was from shards of the wall behind me

00:49:57.620 bouncing back from bullets that likely should have gone through me and you know and it was

00:50:05.760 right around that time that I started looking to the ASEER and these things happened and

00:50:14.220 you know a lot of people will say oh well there's this or there's that

00:50:23.160 variable that could have led to that. Well, I'll tell you what, once I first started

00:50:31.020 following or looking into the old ways of our people, the true ways of our people,

00:50:40.340 things started to change for me. There was one time, the first oath I ever took,

00:50:46.640 which I thought long and hard on for for months before I did it, where once that oath was taken

00:50:53.600 to our gods, to our Asir, the holy and mighty Asir, that my life changed dramatically and

00:51:02.560 significantly. And so, yeah, lots of lots of instances, but a couple of more significant,

00:51:12.540 probably, even though they're all significant. Like I said, combat was something entirely

00:51:20.300 different, but along those same lines. That first oath I made to our holy Asir, I'm not 1.00

00:51:29.980 kidding. When I say my entire existence, my life changed noticeably. So I hope that answers 1.00

00:51:37.440 your question well. Nick's got a question. He says that you led the Einherjar bloat at the feast

00:51:45.420 this past November. Was that as powerful for yourself leading as it was for the rest of us

00:51:51.920 experiencing it? Leading that Einherjar bloat was one of the most 1.00

00:51:59.400 um significant things i've ever been a part of um that i and her yard bloat specifically

00:52:07.680 the way that it transpired the area that it took place in the people that were there

00:52:17.500 made it what it was and and it was by far the most significant

00:52:24.880 ritual I've not only led, but been a part of. When that ritual started,

00:52:40.520 there wasn't thought. It was just action. And I had an idea of what I wanted to

00:52:53.900 accomplish with that bloat but once it started it was like running on autopilot

00:53:01.820 nearly and it just went and it just happened

00:53:11.100 those of you who were not fortunate enough to be at feast of the iron here yard this year

00:53:16.060 or i guess last year we're in january be there this year um that bloat was very powerful

00:53:26.220 very powerful um spawn and i i talked about this and it's one way that you can kind of gauge

00:53:37.180 the group spiritual experience to a degree um the the the culmination of that bloat was the

00:53:45.340 the setting of light of a of a ship that we had um that we'd placed uh offerings in

00:53:52.700 and it was on a lake and it was it was uncomfortably cold there

00:54:01.500 and i watched as a significant number of us myself included were literally spellbound

00:54:08.140 we were literally so in in that ecstatic place of bloat that we stood there and we watched this

00:54:19.320 thing burn for a half an hour and i think that you know when we're all in the circle we're like

00:54:24.520 man we need to get back up there and warm up and this is cold and what all these other things

00:54:29.580 when the magic hit we were all just standing there stunned watching this thing silently

00:54:36.360 and experiencing it together.

00:54:38.980 And it was, I mean, we were literally spellbound.

00:54:43.240 It was very powerful.

00:54:49.600 Okay, so this question, all right, it's on two different lines.

00:54:52.720 That's why I was having trouble.

00:54:54.840 All right.

00:54:55.200 How do the gods see us following the self-reliance virtue?

00:54:59.760 I do a bloat asking for the opportunity for something

00:55:02.820 and do a bind rune ritual.

00:55:05.720 then I go out and do or get what I need to do to get what I wish to attain.

00:55:16.620 I think this is really similar to the question we had just a little bit ago,

00:55:20.860 but is there more that you'd like to add to that, Nate?

00:55:24.940 Not really.

00:55:26.620 I'd say you really hit the nail on the head earlier, Matt,

00:55:34.140 with your explanation as well, as far as incorporating bind runes and such.

00:55:43.280 That's out of my wheelhouse.

00:55:45.520 I would defer to you if you had anything more to say on that.

00:55:49.980 Yeah, a little bit.

00:55:50.880 So, you know, I think that, again, all these things need to be balanced.

00:55:59.740 we come before our gods and we we ask for things that we don't possess and maybe things that only

00:56:07.260 they can can give us like their blessings and sometimes we ask very often for their inspiration

00:56:15.540 but it's not so much asking for things when you're doing a bloat and you vow to do something

00:56:25.380 and you create a bind rune about it

00:56:28.600 and then you go out to achieve a goal

00:56:30.580 or to complete a quest.

00:56:34.520 By doing that in a bloat context,

00:56:36.940 you're doing that as if the quest itself

00:56:40.100 is an offering to the God that you're bloating to.

00:56:44.520 And I think that's really cool that you do that.

00:56:47.120 And I've certainly done that myself.

00:56:50.340 It's not wrong to ask the gods for things

00:56:52.920 that are beyond you or out of your control

00:56:54.960 or to ask them for help with things that are in your control but one of the most important things

00:57:01.200 is not to expect them to do the work for you you know asking them for that extra to push you over

00:57:08.720 the edge of something absolutely you know doing your very best and then asking for a little push

00:57:17.120 is is fantastic there's nothing wrong with that but sitting around on your couch asking for stuff 0.94

00:57:23.360 to appear that's where we have the problem and and i get that people coming from from different 0.66

00:57:30.720 faiths that's you know literal literal interpretation of the bible tends to lend itself towards that

00:57:39.680 and uh our faith is very much a contrast to that but you know we covered it earlier i would say

00:57:45.600 that you know not only accomplish things for yourself but accomplish things in order to

00:57:53.360 glorify our gods or give fame to your family or to one of your ancestors you can accomplish stuff

00:57:59.760 at where the act of accomplishment is is a gift is an offering is a sacrifice and i think that's

00:58:07.520 kind of a cool way of achieving christine says excuse me what are your recommendations to teach

00:58:18.320 our children and young adults how to be self-reliant what are your thoughts on that nathan

00:58:26.880 i would say problem solving skills are at the forefront of becoming self-reliant

00:58:38.800 our children the next generation coming up and such need to be able to learn how to figure things

00:58:45.200 out for themselves obviously on uh very very small scales for for the very young and in

00:58:54.560 increasing magnitude as they get older um whether it's whether it's helping to pick up toys for a

00:59:01.920 toddler and putting them all in the same area in the end or it's you know when it comes to homework

00:59:11.520 for older children and such and then you know as it at an ever-increasing magnitude like i said

00:59:20.240 uh starting from the very young all the way you know and it's something that we never stop doing

00:59:25.920 which which is one of the greatest aspects of it it's something that we can always

00:59:32.800 learn more and refine specifically um i would like to say too that

00:59:40.800 Self-reliance is more than just figuring out your homework as well.

00:59:50.720 It's as you grow and mature, going to become something that is more of an internal drive and quest for an individual as well.

01:00:08.260 um that problem solving you can be naturally make have a natural mechanical aptitude for things

01:00:18.100 and whatnot whether it's computer programming or mathematics or languages or you know being

01:00:24.460 an auto mechanic but to be able to problem solve your life as well when difficulties arise

01:00:30.280 um helping talk your children the next generation through things so that they understand what it

01:00:37.960 what it feels like to start to break things apart as they get older to be able to comprehend

01:00:43.860 those conversations, obviously.

01:00:50.520 Certainly everything that Nathan just said, absolutely. One thing that I think is super

01:00:56.620 important is to never let the idea of helplessness take root in your kids.

01:01:07.960 Don't ever let you, because they don't start out that way.

01:01:11.640 They 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.

01:01:23.660 Don't kill that and don't let the world kill that.

01:01:27.800 Find ways to reinforce positive things that they can do and can achieve.

01:01:33.740 and encourage them to, even if they're tiny steps, to take actual steps towards that direction.

01:01:44.460 And, you know, what Nate said about little kids, have them help you with stuff.

01:01:50.060 Have them do things and be part of stuff.

01:01:52.040 And when I say help, I help in the air quotes.

01:01:56.720 My daughter is two, and she's not literally that helpful,

01:02:00.560 But her fussing with stuff and pretending to help and being around, trying to be an active participant in things is really cool.

01:02:10.780 And I think a lot is built on that. 0.78

01:02:13.620 But 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.

01:02:30.060 they can succeed they can achieve and they can build their dreams because i don't think that 0.51

01:02:36.380 that's reinforced by society today so it's all that more incumbent upon us to

01:02:42.300 make that message loud clear and overwhelming so that it drowns out some of these other signals

01:02:47.340 they're getting uh daniel asks nathan could you speak on your experience as a gothar student

01:02:56.780 and how self-reliance has helped you in that pursuit

01:03:02.860 well um self-reliance as a gothi student gothar student um

01:03:12.700 in order to complete anything you have to do the work right and in order to do the work you have

01:03:21.340 to be self-reliant because we are not sitting in a classroom we are not being directed

01:03:31.180 physically or even we're not being directed it's up to us as individuals in that class

01:03:39.340 in that program in order to take that initiative to complete things and to

01:03:47.340 um succeed to keep moving forward with it and so yeah that's where the self-reliance comes

01:03:58.540 in regards to that because other nobody's going to do it for you as much as you want them to

01:04:06.780 you have help you have guidance you have support but nobody's going to do the work for you

01:04:12.220 all right uh human manipulation nation i have a question how about we start an at-home workout

01:04:23.260 until the first day of spring go from there maybe walking running basic exercises like

01:04:29.900 push-ups squats sit-ups and possibly some free weights that's a great idea yes you should

01:04:39.020 absolutely do that um is there anything on that you'd like to add or i'm i'm trying to think of

01:04:48.940 how to address the the question because i don't really see the question in it do you have any

01:04:52.940 thoughts on that nathan um i'm guessing he might be referring to maybe uh a virtual type setting

01:05:01.820 um which if you want to start something like that uh by all means you know it's a great idea

01:05:10.060 uh it's it's gonna i i don't know i don't know man um i think you have to start something

01:05:21.580 somewhere um on your own and get that ball rolling first and people will jump on board

01:05:29.940 if you are successful and you know that drive to make sure it succeeds and

01:05:36.720 I don't know how I feel about doing a virtual workout I just assume get at it

01:05:45.420 but hey everybody's got their own approach to those things so

01:05:52.560 Uh, what Nate said, and then absolutely on the, uh, on the topic of self-reliance,

01:06:02.420 if that's something you want to do and you feel you need to work on, go out and do it,

01:06:05.800 go out and do it and show and share what you've done. That's been successful.

01:06:10.680 Um, one of the cool things, if that's what you want to do, I mean, I'm not a real workout at

01:06:14.480 home guy. I really like to go to the gym and something I always look forward to. And it, uh,

01:06:18.720 but everybody's got different ways they want to work out. If this is something you want to do,

01:06:24.080 do it, but share it on our physical excellence page on MeWe. Share it with other people so

01:06:29.440 they can be inspired by what you're doing and encourage them if they want to do something

01:06:34.020 similar to do it. If you want to do something like that and then help each other to stay on

01:06:39.300 track or to be accountable, I think that's great, but it all starts with you getting out there and

01:06:44.020 just making it happen. How would you define the importance of self-reliance in terms of

01:06:56.760 complementing the strength of being in a group? Nathan? Yeah, we've kind of covered this a little

01:07:06.800 bit already a couple of times. Being self-reliant doesn't mean you are alone by any means. It has

01:07:17.720 nothing to do with the physical proximity of the people around you. It has to do with

01:07:24.700 how you motivate yourself and how you create that drive. And to incorporate that into a group

01:07:36.700 setting is going to make a group uh successful or it's going to make a group fail depending on the

01:07:48.920 level of that self-reliance of the group members um and like our elshiri our gothi had mentioned

01:07:56.720 earlier, a weak and pitiful group of people that comes together isn't going to hold a flame to a

01:08:11.120 group of strong, self-reliant members of another group. And so that group's strength is only going

01:08:21.440 increase as the self-reliance of its members increases you know that's uh that's an important

01:08:31.920 aspect of that because having the virtue and the capability of self-reliance doesn't mean

01:08:40.320 you always have to rely on yourself it means that you're able to rely on yourself you can function

01:08:48.080 there's no situation in a group where just on the merits of self-reliance alone you're better

01:08:55.280 off being less self-reliant than you are being more self-reliant if everybody in a group is

01:09:01.600 self-reliant by nature then you have redundancy if people fall out or are not able to do certain

01:09:08.080 things you have people they're ready to step in and help and to make stuff happen and to take

01:09:13.200 initiative. It's one of those, it's one of those values that once you're, you know, if you were

01:09:20.500 ultimately super self-reliant and capable of doing all these things yourself, there's no way that

01:09:27.300 takes away from the group. That only strengthens it and makes it better. That maximizes the skill

01:09:33.680 set of any group and really brings that to the fore. But that, you know, the two things, group

01:09:41.820 participation and the ability to do for oneself aren't mutually exclusive in any way. Now, Lawrence

01:09:48.760 gave us 10 Canadian dollars and a comment. If anybody else would like to send donations to us

01:09:57.080 or participate in Super Chat, Lawrence gets his thing set up here before all these other questions.

01:10:02.780 You can do that on Entropy. Good evening, gents. Nathan, I am intrigued by your mountain bike

01:10:09.100 adventures slash event i may be getting a little old for pedaling now but i'm looking at getting

01:10:15.580 back into motorized trails riding there's something very freeing about being on two wheels

01:10:22.300 in addition to it being a fantastic form of exercise

01:10:29.500 wonderful outstanding anytime you can immerse yourself in nature in your environment out there

01:10:36.780 uh granted um you know they have e-bikes now e-mountain bikes that are battery powered and

01:10:45.180 that way you have the that way you have the audio in immersion into nature around you as well

01:10:55.900 so think about that take a look at some of those e-mountain bikes that's one way to actually to

01:11:02.620 really immerse yourself once you've gotten, you know, to a point to where you're not going to

01:11:07.500 be able to hit those mountain trails and stuff without a little bit of assistance, which there's

01:11:13.060 absolutely nothing wrong with it. We're all going to be there. I'm 43. I'm going to be there someday

01:11:18.960 where I'm going to have to trade in my mountain bike and get an e-mountain bike so that I can

01:11:24.120 be out there and immerse myself. Brandy asks, Nathan, how were you able to convince our folk

01:11:32.320 from a few brave women to a Steve McNallan himself

01:11:38.360 to jump into the freezing water.

01:11:43.840 Well, Brandy, don't tell anybody, but there's threats involved.

01:11:52.660 That's a secret.

01:11:55.780 Well, if people don't know, Nate, could you kind of tell people

01:11:59.020 what went down and how that all came about?

01:12:02.320 So, 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.

01:12:19.860 Our founder, Stephen McNallan, is an advocate for the cold water, and he's up for any type of challenge, typically.

01:12:33.660 And 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.

01:12:53.140 and without hesitation founder mcnalen said he's on board anybody that wants to join

01:13:01.620 meet me down at 7 a.m and so then this last year as well we got to keep that tradition going

01:13:09.220 so this last year we had we had even more um there must have been about 15 of us

01:13:16.660 15 of us jumped in that water it was it was below freezing air temperature um but this last year we

01:13:23.140 were in oklahoma as opposed to missouri so the water temperature was a little bit warmer which

01:13:29.300 made a little bit of a difference except for the fact that we had a walk-in versus jumping off a

01:13:33.780 dock um but that exhilaration that shock to the system is what it was really about that sacrifice

01:13:43.780 of your comfort into the cold to honor those who we were honoring for that

01:13:52.100 event that weekend and those ceremonies that happened there

01:14:00.580 good deal um i got a question from your fiance uh how has becoming a family man

01:14:07.860 changed your view on the importance of self-reliance and consistency asking for

01:14:13.780 Well, 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.

01:14:43.780 And 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.

01:14:56.340 But no, it's made me stronger.

01:15:01.640 It'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. 0.99

01:15:15.740 You know, I don't get the inside joke per se, but girls like to hide stuff. 0.58

01:15:20.620 I know Mandy very seldom puts things back in the place that would be easily observable and findable by me. 0.64

01:15:31.200 So, Nathan, what genre of music do you prefer?

01:15:36.740 Well, that entirely depends on my mood.

01:15:39.020 I will listen to everything from old classic country to classical music to heavy metal, hard rock.

01:15:55.180 The only thing that I really can't get on board with is the hip hop kind of stuff.

01:16:00.840 I can get into some of the 90s as I am 43.

01:16:05.860 and so some of the older hip-hop stuff I can tolerate but for me it's all about

01:16:13.420 the messaging more than anything unless I'm at the gym and I just need some

01:16:18.760 hard-hitting music to just to pump me up and get me amped and ready to push

01:16:25.540 beyond my perceived limits all right um ryan asks can you show us a stole i'll just hear your goofy

01:16:39.700 matt i certainly can and uh nick's got one queued up that he's gonna pop on your screen right now

01:16:55.540 Maybe.

01:16:58.440 In theory.

01:16:59.400 There we go.

01:17:04.300 Excellent.

01:17:05.660 So that's my stole. 1.00

01:17:08.840 The Ausheri-Gothi stole is gold and a little bit bigger. 0.99

01:17:15.140 The Witten also have stoles. 0.79

01:17:16.700 Their stoles are white, and the Gothar have stoles, and their stoles are blue.

01:17:26.180 obsidian skull has a question for you nathan do you have any thoughts on the new find of the oldest

01:17:33.140 dateable rune stone do you think this lessens the theory that the runes were derived from

01:17:39.780 the roman alphabet i did see that headline the other day um i really didn't get an opportunity

01:17:49.300 to read read on it at all though so i'm kind of at a loss with that question um one thing i think is

01:18:05.220 i don't know an interesting

01:18:09.380 an interesting note on that um

01:18:11.620 um the assumption gets made that the the Romans or the Etruscans or the Germanics are completely

01:18:23.200 separate separate groups of peoples and I think that the further you go back certainly when we

01:18:33.340 talk about our spiritual heritage the further you go back those are all branches of Arian peoples 1.00

01:18:39.700 and there's all a con and there's a common root to all of that so i think that there is an endless 0.99

01:18:46.100 series of sharing and different mythic elements different elements of society rising and falling

01:18:57.860 and transferring between these peoples that share that same common root and that same common

01:19:03.620 association with a lot of these things. So I don't think it's always a very simple answer to

01:19:10.540 find out exactly where something comes from, because things pass back and forth through

01:19:16.060 different civilizations all of the time. But in any case, I think it's important to know that

01:19:21.940 these things do come from our Aryan folk soul. And they're very much magical. Writing in itself

01:19:29.200 is magic. It's a profound magic to our people. It's a primitive time travel, at least for ideas.

01:19:38.740 You can write and you can send your experiences into the future. So I think it was always held

01:19:45.780 in a magical context amongst our folk. Something else I think is important to think about with the

01:19:50.380 runes. The runes aren't the little stick drawings. I mean, they are colloquially, obviously, but the

01:20:00.340 rune is the mystery that those lines represent. And that can be displayed in any number of ways.

01:20:10.900 Those mysteries, we happen to know them and associate them with a certain configuration

01:20:15.400 of straight lines. But that doesn't have to be the case. It's important to know that the rune

01:20:21.320 is the magic behind it, not the sigil that personifies the magic. Rabbi Goldstein has a

01:20:34.140 question. Good evening, gentlemen. Do you think that we are witnessing the fall of the American

01:20:41.180 an empire, living in the last years before the collapse, or it's just a stage before

01:20:46.780 the reset.

01:20:56.340 I think Nick posted something out of context below it that I thought might be connected.

01:21:02.120 What are your thoughts on that, Nathan?

01:21:11.180 Are we witnessing the fall of the American empire?

01:21:35.900 I guess let's wait and see what the next election brings.

01:21:38.740 It's a conversation that comes up frequently, and it's not new by any means.

01:21:47.500 Every time a new regime takes power of the United States, the other side says it's the fall of the United States.

01:21:59.880 So let's just stand by, wait and see.

01:22:03.320 You know, I, I think that, I don't know, people get very fired up and like to jump to this

01:22:19.160 conclusion. But I think one thing that's important, whether we're witnessing that fall or not,

01:22:26.960 if we use, because I think that historically the example that gets used falling,

01:22:31.520 an empire falling tends to be that of Rome. When the Roman Empire in the West fell, it was a period

01:22:38.580 of hundreds of years that equaled that fall. That fall took place over a period of time longer than

01:22:45.320 America's been in existence. So are we declining and headed towards that? I mean, history will tell

01:22:53.460 us that once we get there in hindsight. But I think it's kind of beside the point. We are

01:23:02.520 witnessing a period where there's massive degeneracy and there's an erosion of what the

01:23:08.820 concept of America is or was. Certainly the America that we are giving to our children

01:23:16.320 in is not the same America that we were raised in. And that's even a bigger difference the older

01:23:23.820 the generation of person I'm speaking to when I say that. What I think is fundamental is that we

01:23:32.760 are poised to be successful, whatever that outcome might be. I think that it's very often,

01:23:41.460 very often that we get caught up in apocalyptic fantasies about things that we would do if you

01:23:51.760 know if civilization collapsed and i think that's that's fun and it's an interesting thought process

01:23:58.680 but fundamentally we've seen generations of people that have invested in that and spent

01:24:07.880 their fortune and their entire life preparing for, you know, the apocalypse and it never

01:24:16.000 happening. And those people have wasted a lot of time and a lot of resources. So I think whatever

01:24:21.620 that we do, either as individuals or as groups, should be based on being successful no matter the

01:24:28.180 outcome. So that's why we try really hard in the AFA to make moves that if things keep going the

01:24:36.000 way they are, we'll be set, we'll be in a good spot. If everything collapses, we'll be in a good

01:24:42.700 position to handle that. And if things get amazingly better, we'll be in a great position

01:24:48.580 to capitalize on that as well. So I think staying versatile with that is extremely important.

01:24:54.120 Even if we are in a decline or a fall, that fall is very seldom something rapid

01:24:59.660 and it can take place over over centuries. So we need to be very prepared for whatever tomorrow

01:25:07.020 brings. And the likelihood is tomorrow is going to be real similar to today. So just just thoughts

01:25:14.900 to keep in mind. I go back and I read some of the old rune stones and, you know, we've got old

01:25:20.520 timers freaking out about Y2K happening. And then we watch and the world in the year 2000 was very,

01:25:28.060 very similar to the world in 1999. So I think we need to look at the long game and not

01:25:35.040 wish and bet on, you know, lightning destruction of civilization so that we can rebuild something

01:25:44.040 completely fresh. We need to work within the structures that we have and be prepared in case

01:25:49.700 a situation like that does happen. Can you tell us a bit about your journey from joining the AFA

01:25:57.320 to becoming a folk builder and finally joining the gothar program i know you've already addressed

01:26:02.440 this a little bit nathan but if you could kind of run us through that again with the with the

01:26:07.000 addition of your your gothic aspirations absolutely um so i joined the afa and i got to work

01:26:17.560 plain and simple i was welcomed with open arms and frith from everybody that i encountered

01:26:26.440 at Baldershof and got to work. With that, I got to learn about the structure of the AFA.

01:26:39.300 And once I started learning about the structure of the AFA, that I found out there was ways that

01:26:45.220 I could help more people experience what I experienced in joining the AFA. And so then I

01:26:52.840 asked about what it took to become a folk builder. And from there, I apprenticed as a folk builder

01:27:00.780 and ultimately then was oathed in as a folk builder and wanted more still. So the next step

01:27:10.640 would be to enter the gothar program and um my aspirations of becoming clergy for the afa are

01:27:22.160 are nearly the pinnacle if not the pinnacle

01:27:28.000 of what i want for myself and my family and you know just going taking things to the next level

01:27:40.080 always to try to be more involved and effective and to show people that it doesn't matter

01:27:54.440 where you started out or the things that have happened to you in your life, that

01:28:02.300 things can change for the better um if you want them to and that

01:28:09.100 typically comes with taking on responsibilities um and for me that's what that was taking on

01:28:17.340 more and more responsibilities is what gave me a a better quality of life and um

01:28:27.080 for lack of a better term um you know i i breathe live and breathe the afa now and because it's

01:28:39.120 it's important to me it's important to my family it's important to my community it's important to

01:28:44.620 my church that i i live by that right action that we try to continually do better and be better

01:28:52.400 all right guys we've got two questions left if you guys have more questions please go ahead and

01:29:03.440 throw them in the chat and nick will get them up and if not we'll hit these two questions and

01:29:07.860 we'll call it night but there's something interesting over on the side and you guys

01:29:10.720 were joking um but yeah i don't know if you can see the side conversation nathan but they they

01:29:17.380 joke that you're trying to take my job. And honestly, I think this is a good time to talk

01:29:23.700 about that positive competition. Great if he is, if he has, I mean, I don't want him to steal it

01:29:32.400 from me, but if he has the ambition to be where I am, one of the things that is fundamental to

01:29:41.500 the AFA worldview is that we want to encourage ambition. I want everyone to try to be the best

01:29:48.820 that they can be. It keeps me on my toes and helps me want to be better. If he is trying to

01:29:54.480 eyeball my job, it's going to mean he's going to be doing better than he is. And it means I better

01:29:59.680 keep, you know, one step ahead because if he catches me slipping, I'm going to lose my spot.

01:30:06.420 So honestly, in a completely positive way, we want to encourage each other by being successful

01:30:14.000 ourselves. When you're ambitious and you step up, and just in the way Nate was just talking about it,

01:30:20.340 each one of these new levels of ambition isn't just for the fame or reward. Those things are

01:30:26.580 great, but it's also taking on ever-increasing responsibilities, more responsibilities and more

01:30:34.000 serious responsibilities and we want everybody to do that that's important for our leadership

01:30:39.760 it's important for our membership we always want to compete and be better than those around us

01:30:46.160 and we want those around us to try their best to be better than us by doing that we all get better

01:30:52.480 we all we all rise with that so i think that's essential to kind of how the afa sees some things

01:30:59.440 and absolutely if i can add to that too of course it's it's that competition amongst peers that

01:31:09.120 pushes everyone to do better and to be better it's that competition amongst every a friendly

01:31:18.080 competition keep in mind um because we are looking out for the better of each other in that

01:31:25.440 competition. We are looking for the betterment of our folk in that competition. Nobody can do

01:31:31.280 what Matt does because nobody is Matt. So we'll leave that at that. Well, I appreciate that.

01:31:41.040 Next question is for those of us that are severely hurt, do you have any ideas on how to get past

01:31:47.280 pain to work out? Nate, what are your thoughts on that? I'd say there's

01:31:55.440 It depends on the pain and the severity of the injury.

01:31:59.220 Obviously, with a significant injury of any type, you don't want to push it.

01:32:07.700 There's recovery.

01:32:09.000 There's rehabilitation for certain injuries, pretty much any injury physically.

01:32:15.080 but if you are hurt due to something that's not going to be rehabilitated

01:32:23.880 that just means you have to find alternative ways to incorporate fitness or exercise into your life

01:32:33.080 and you know there's infinite ways to do that it just depends on what you are capable of doing

01:32:41.280 without further injuring yourself which is what's important um yeah it's so monk that's a really

01:32:49.600 hard question because the details on that really really matter i have some thoughts though and this

01:32:56.560 isn't just for you but anybody out here who's listening to that is the pain indicative of

01:33:04.400 something continuing to break down or is it just discomfort if it's just discomfort work through it

01:33:13.520 if it is an indication that you are breaking something or further damaging something

01:33:18.480 then certainly that's got to get addressed like nate said you don't want to make anything worse

01:33:23.520 and it's a strange balance there's some people that you know i noticed that

01:33:27.680 but since I hit 40, everything hurts. There's no 100%. There's battling for if I feel 85%

01:33:35.880 on a day, then I know I'm doing all right. So training within that is always kind of a challenge.

01:33:41.940 One thing as my joints, because I've got some really bad joint damage.

01:33:48.840 As I've gotten older and my joints have gotten more banged up, I do a lot more machine work

01:33:55.480 and a lot less free weights. For anybody just starting out, if you're young and you're healthy

01:34:01.520 and you got good joints for it, free weight movements are the best bang for your buck.

01:34:05.980 But when you throw in range of motions issues, joint issues, and chronic pain issues,

01:34:13.360 changing over to machines helps a lot. And so I do that. And even though I do still use free

01:34:19.780 weight movements, I prioritize in the, in the rotation of, of how I do my, my sets or not sets

01:34:26.280 rather how I do my exercises. I try to do the machine exercises first so that I pre-exhaust

01:34:32.620 the major muscles so that when I do the free weight exercises, I'm slinging less weight around

01:34:39.100 proportionally. And I think I'm, you know, my joints are well, well warmed up and well lubricated

01:34:44.860 at that point um i saw over in the side a suggestion that i think is a really really solid one

01:34:52.060 um diamond dallas page does this yoga uh yoga thing um

01:35:00.300 you know professor he comes it comes out of his experience in professional wrestling but those

01:35:04.620 guys beat their body up really really bad and he's dealt with all different kind of people at this

01:35:09.820 point on dealing with those kind of very serious pain issues and getting past mobility issues and

01:35:17.320 things that way. Looking into that, I really don't think is a bad idea at all. Another thing

01:35:21.880 that I think is, you know, I just kind of discovered this past couple of years is the

01:35:27.040 chiropractor. I thought the chiropractor was just about backs. Not the case. They're about all of

01:35:33.160 your joints. And, you know, I went to a doctor to see about my joints. It was the biggest waste of

01:35:40.460 time of my life. It was somebody that's never worked out, that doesn't know what they're doing.

01:35:44.980 That was completely useless. And I didn't feel any better. Every time I've gone to a chiropractor, 0.88

01:35:51.920 they've made me, I've left feeling better than I went in. And the chiropractors that I found now

01:35:57.900 certainly find one that's, that's right for you or shares your experiences. But the chiropractors

01:36:03.120 I've found have been people that do work out, work with athletes and are able to understand

01:36:09.440 what I'm talking about and help me in functional ways.

01:36:13.260 So if you haven't tried it, chiropractors are a huge, huge help.

01:36:19.180 But without knowing more about the specifics, I think that's the best I've got.

01:36:25.660 So question for you, Nathan, five favorite books, not lore and not Etta's, and what's

01:36:33.460 your favorite saga?

01:36:36.000 Five favorite books that have nothing to do with our lore or Etta's, Teutonic mythology,

01:36:46.220 does that count?

01:36:48.220 Yeah, okay, let's go fiction, how about that, that's what I'm understanding that's being

01:36:54.580 asked here. I love mysteries. I love crime novels, stuff like that. John Sanford is an author that I

01:37:04.480 really, really like and have read many, many of his books. He's an ex-police officer in Minneapolis.

01:37:12.400 He's an ex-U.S. Marshal and detective for the police department and stuff and many other things

01:37:23.080 then started writing books about some of his experiences in law enforcement and so within his

01:37:29.800 books they're based on his actual experiences with investigations and stuff plus you recognize the

01:37:39.720 locations and everything like that as myself anyway being from minnesota and knowing that

01:37:47.480 being familiar with what he's writing about in those locations.

01:37:55.560 What was the second part of that question?

01:37:57.160 What was your favorite saga?

01:38:02.680 Oh, that's a tough one.

01:38:06.280 um i don't even know i i like uh the fooling of guilty

01:38:21.720 all right uh so following on to this kind of a theme who are your favorite painters

01:38:28.440 that specialize in depicting concepts of arian faiths

01:38:32.920 uh though he primarily does rodnover paintings uh mine is andre shishkin

01:38:42.600 i am not very familiar with artists names um i do like um if i if i were to choose it would be

01:38:53.080 anything done by our folk we have a lot of talented artists in the afa we have a few

01:39:00.440 close to home here in Baldershof district and so if there were artists that I would be privy to or

01:39:11.720 not privy to but be compelled to have pieces of their work it would be members of the AFA that

01:39:23.080 are extremely talented so yeah i think this is a different way than than maybe the question was

01:39:31.560 going but my favorite uh artist that depicts concepts of arian faiths is uh witness von harrel

01:39:41.880 he does the uh the murals at each of our hoffs and that's not just because

01:39:50.360 i run the afa or because i've helped spawn with some of those projects at least conceptually

01:39:58.280 what it is that's really important is he is a practitioner so often the people that do the art

01:40:07.640 don't have a general a genuine belief in the art they're depicting very often you have

01:40:14.680 um mythological art done by people who it's a curiosity or it's it's an interest but not by

01:40:23.080 people who genuinely worship the god that they depict and it makes all the difference um

01:40:31.480 they are powerful uh spawns works are powerful in a way that even the most beautiful works done

01:40:38.040 by someone who isn't Asitru can't hope to capture. The power that's there comes from his piety and

01:40:47.320 his worship of the God that he's depicting. So that would be my favorite. Nathan, what brought

01:40:56.280 you to Ossetru? What brought me to Ossetru? Something deep in my bones, in my blood. I

01:41:13.960 suppose you could say my genetic memory and something that I couldn't grasp at the time

01:41:24.440 but knew was there and uh as i explained kind of at the beginning of this i i knew there was

01:41:34.920 something more than what i had been told and the way i was raised i pulled away from and started

01:41:43.320 started going towards this route um and then ultimately at as an adult finding

01:41:53.240 um our faith our gods our our ancestors beliefs and them just running with it

01:42:05.080 all right um what is one thing you want to tell our men folk

01:42:10.200 there's a lot of things i'd like to tell our men folk but um

01:42:25.640 strong strong individuals make strong families strong families make strong communities

01:42:32.120 all right um next nate congratulations on the early success of the baldershoff lords group

01:42:48.440 you and cody are doing a great service for our men folk can you speak on the importance of

01:42:54.360 brotherhood and our especially young men coming together in a positive way outside of the warrior

01:43:01.960 mentality warrior mentality is a very very small aspect to who we are um our our family mindsets

01:43:15.160 our community mindsets is so much more important and in cody had come to me a while back wanting

01:43:24.200 to create a men's group for Baldur's Hoff District specifically and I had been in contact with

01:43:32.440 a couple of our members Michael Sessoms and Steven Mundy out in Odin's Hoff and have been sitting in

01:43:39.960 on their Odin's Hoff men's group a few times and so that's what really gave me the direction to

01:43:48.520 pursue this and to go with this and to then ultimately have some sort of guidance as to how

01:44:01.240 Cody can make this happen or not just Cody but Cody and I together and it's important because

01:44:11.680 we are not solitary practitioners we we need to be together we need to come together as

01:44:18.700 as men we need to come together as communities and having these chats or these groups where

01:44:27.380 we can get to know one another across across districts is of utmost importance and that's

01:44:36.440 how you build relationships, and that's how you strengthen the communities that you're in and our

01:44:42.800 church as a whole by building those relationships. Brandy's got a message for you. Please let Nathan

01:44:52.160 know that Ashley says the scissors are in the knife block on the counter. Also, the Hoff bottle

01:44:58.120 opener is on the side of the fridge thanks brandy thanks ashley i have another question

01:45:08.120 uh nathan what have you learned about having and growing a strong or a solid strong family

01:45:20.120 growing a solid and strong family is a never-ending

01:45:24.680 uh task um in order for your family to become strong and to maintain that strength it's

01:45:37.640 it's a never-ending job that takes both partners and what i've learned from that is

01:45:47.660 it's a lot of work it is a ton of work and it takes a lot of patience

01:45:54.300 but at the same time it takes a lot of motivation because you have to be as motivated to build

01:46:03.820 your family and to strengthen your family as motivated to incorporate that patience within

01:46:11.940 yourself and you can't stop you you can never stop trying to strengthen your family um because

01:46:22.340 um the family is an ever-evolving and changing unit as people grow and as people learn different

01:46:29.060 things especially when you're starting from uh newborns and toddlers and then young children

01:46:35.620 and everything like that they get they're going to get ideas that are absolutely wrong and you're

01:46:42.260 going to have to train them and teach them and show them how to conduct themselves um over a

01:46:48.020 period of time and that's going to take a lot of patience because they are their own little people

01:46:55.860 and i'd like to say we have a strong family unit here

01:47:00.180 and as long as Ashley and myself maintain our solidarity and strength together as individuals

01:47:10.360 and as a cohesive pair, our family should only grow in strength.

01:47:20.000 All right, and I'm going to do my best with this question. I think there's a little bit of a

01:47:25.980 language barrier. Antonio asks, what religious groups does the AFA has more connections to the

01:47:35.980 ancient Aryans? I'm really a history and religion geek when it comes to this kind of stuff.

01:47:42.040 so nathan is confusing me with strange hand signals um

01:47:59.920 that's a i'm not certain what that question is now supposed to go both ways i can't i'm

01:48:09.260 I'm not certain what the question is. So a couple of different stabs at what the question might be.

01:48:19.580 If it has to do with other groups that also have strong connections to our ancient Aryan traditions,

01:48:31.020 there's really not that I'm aware of that are interacting, that are

01:48:36.060 functional in the United States, certainly. I do believe there are some groups in Europe,

01:48:42.060 especially in Eastern Europe, that have, like in Rodnoverie and such, but I'm not sure which

01:48:50.060 specific organization they belong to that are also practicing faith that's very directly

01:48:56.540 connected to our ancient ancestors. Unfortunately, any of the Hellenismos or

01:49:11.420 Roman pagan groups or Druid groups tend to not be very sincere, not be very authentic,

01:49:22.140 and tend to be a excuse for license and degeneracy very often. 0.98

01:49:27.920 I don't really think there's any other also true options

01:49:31.600 that are as connected and that are following our ancient faith

01:49:35.900 in the way the AFA does, certainly.

01:49:40.400 But again, there may be some groups in Europe that do.

01:49:44.520 I hope that addresses your question.

01:49:49.180 No, I see on the sides, no, Antonio,

01:49:51.760 you participate in these weekly and we really appreciate you i just sorry i can't give you a

01:49:56.560 better answer to your question but maybe maybe we can think more on it you can clear it up for me a

01:50:01.920 little bit at some point um yes uh so i also see a mention of the artsgemeinschaft in germany um

01:50:12.640 i can't be say i'm an expert on them i did get to meet uh their their leadership and some of

01:50:19.200 their members at a event that we had in sweden a while back and they were fantastic to meet in

01:50:25.920 person they seem like they're very solid people um so yeah if you're in germany i would i would

01:50:31.760 check those folks out as well and good on you ryan for pointing that out um what else do we got here

01:50:42.400 okay we've got a couple of more questions here given the opportunity to prepare a meal for

01:50:48.560 yourself what do you make what meal do you cook for your family nathan what do you what do you

01:50:55.600 cook if you're making a meal for yourself and uh what would you cook for your family

01:51:00.320 oh wow well that changes over time um that changes with um work schedules that changes with 0.86

01:51:09.200 ashley's school schedules she does the vast majority of cooking for us if i were to choose 1.00

01:51:18.480 something i would grill some steaks grill some brats throw some burgers out there 0.99

01:51:26.560 for myself and our family that's that's my always been my go-to 1.00

01:51:31.600 um fortunately i have ashley who is more health conscious in the food preparation 0.99

01:51:40.640 arena than i am so she does most of our work for that

01:51:48.080 yeah um there was no name attached to it so i'm gonna i'm gonna chime in a little bit too 0.87

01:51:53.120 too. I don't make meals for myself. Honestly, I make protein shakes and chicken. If I'm making

01:52:03.340 stuff for myself, unless there's a special occasion, it's usually something to get my

01:52:09.020 macros in the way I'm trying to get them. And it's not so much done for gourmet value as for fuel.

01:52:17.300 When I celebrate, that's different. And I think that goes a little bit more into what I cook for

01:52:21.260 my family. Again, Mandy eats like I do. So we don't typically cook a lot for ourselves. And

01:52:29.240 Aubrey's at a point where she's being really picky about what she's going to eat. So it's

01:52:32.580 kind of an odd question. I do like having people over once a month and cooking for the events at

01:52:38.720 my house. And when that's the case, I like to find interesting off the wall things that sound

01:52:46.260 like they'd be good and like they'd be fun to make. I enjoy cooking. I enjoy cooking for people

01:52:52.840 that I care about and extending hospitality in that way. I'll throw out there, I've mentioned

01:52:57.640 it before on here, but tropical schnitzel is my go-to that I think is really good. There's a lot

01:53:04.660 of other stuff you can do, but tropical schnitzel is good stuff. You get the opportunity. I'll make

01:53:08.340 it for you. You would enjoy it. The last question, and I think we're going to call it, this is the

01:53:13.940 last one for tonight. And I think it's a good question. So, oh, bonus, I see over on the side,

01:53:25.620 Allie is asking me when I'm going to make the blueberry soup. It's a really good question.

01:53:29.380 Thank you for reminding me. She gave me an awesome Swedish recipe book. And I will tell you,

01:53:35.440 I'm going to make some of that and I'll tell you how it turns out. So last real question,

01:53:39.400 What 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?

01:53:48.660 Nathan, what would you say to those folks?

01:53:55.280 I'd say I hate it for you, plain and simple, because our gods and goddesses are our ancestors.

01:54:07.700 we were never meant to practice as sole practitioners.

01:54:13.740 And so if you're not willing to make the jump,

01:54:19.320 hey, by all means, I'm glad you have found your gods and your way,

01:54:25.940 but I am truly sorry that you won't make the jump

01:54:32.200 to join your folk and join a community.

01:54:37.700 You 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?

01:54:59.900 what is the holdup is what i always want to know and very seldom do i get answers that

01:55:08.300 are particularly substantive very often it's

01:55:12.780 a fear of wanting to commit to something sometimes it's a reluctance to be held accountable

01:55:20.460 it all comes down to it takes courage to jump off the fence and to throw yourself

01:55:26.700 at something, to be involved in something. And when you do, risks come with that. Emotional

01:55:34.440 risks come with any kind of commitment. So what I would tell those people is we need you. We need

01:55:40.520 all our people on board to make this happen and to move forward. And I would challenge you to

01:55:46.100 have the courage to give it a shot. This already presupposes that you share our beliefs. If you

01:55:51.760 believe in what we believe in and you stand for what we stand for, then stand with us

01:55:56.420 and let's make stuff happen. Let's be victorious. With that, thank you so much for joining us

01:56:03.240 tonight, Nathan, and congratulations on being the example of self-reliance to our folk.

01:56:09.840 Thank you, sir. It's been my pleasure. I'm truly honored to have been here tonight.

01:56:16.960 Well, it was great to have you, and I'm sure we'll have you back on in the future.

01:56:21.760 I thank you guys all for participating, for listening, for asking great questions.

01:56:31.140 Think 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.

01:56:39.760 Until next time, hail the gods, hail the folk, hail the AFA, and remember that victory never sleeps.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - January 19, 2023

1⧸18⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 28 - Self-Reliance

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