Asatru Folk Assembly - 11⧸26⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Ep 177 - Adulting with Allen： Gratitude

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00:03:00.000 Hello, everyone, and welcome to an Adulting with Alan episode of Victory Never Sleeps.

00:03:15.580 Thank you to Gauthier East and Folk Builder Savage for covering for me last week.

00:03:22.080 Sounds like they did an awesome job and had a good show for you.

00:03:25.000 I took the week off because my dad came down to visit us, and I had not seen him in quite some time.

00:03:31.740 So it was nice and appreciated that I was able to have some good folks filling in.

00:03:39.140 This week's topic is seasonally appropriate with Thanksgiving upon us tomorrow.

00:03:45.360 Tonight, the law speaker is going to discuss gratitude with us.

00:03:49.260 before we do a couple of top of the show notes I noticed over in the chat that Sierra says the

00:03:57.080 law speaker episodes are the best so there you go there's there's it would be made to argue

00:04:03.860 fair enough I happen to also be on those episodes so I don't really have a dog in the fight

00:04:10.180 Okay. Coming up very soon, December the 6th, we have the Dedication of Phraseoff. That is in

00:04:22.540 Austintown, Ohio. It is a once-in-anybody's-lifetime event. It's going to be very well

00:04:32.800 attended. I think we're sitting at 129 people registered at present. Many of us will be

00:04:41.260 there. I believe that law speaker, myself and producer Nick will all be in attendance

00:04:46.420 as well as other AFA luminaries, including our founder, Stephen McNallan and his lovely

00:04:54.620 wife, Githya Sheila McNallan. And they're very excited to see it. Everybody would love

00:04:59.720 to meet you. So be there if you can. It's going to be well worth it. We'd love to see you there.

00:05:07.100 If you're interested, please reach out to any of our folk builders or myself and we can get

00:05:13.020 you squared away. But that's coming up on December the 6th. Speaking of phrase off, because I give

00:05:22.580 all an update because that's what i do um and speaking of gratitude thank you for everyone

00:05:29.780 being so very very generous um we have had an unprecedented run of generosity both with the

00:05:37.220 payoff of njordshoff and with the contributions towards phrasehoff um if everything goes as

00:05:45.220 it ought to and with our monthly payment i think we will be um one-third of the way done with paying

00:05:53.460 off that hoff before it is even dedicated and that's tremendous and it's because you guys being

00:05:58.660 generous so thank you very much um right now if you can see we are we have paid 39 247 so far on

00:06:09.460 this off if you're interested and you're able runestone.org donate we would appreciate any

00:06:18.100 help that we can get but thank you guys so much y'all are awesome and we're very very impressed

00:06:23.700 speaking of being impressed by people's generosity gw farnsworth as always coming in with 50 towards

00:06:31.860 the pop and 25 towards this broadcast thank you we appreciate you you are an example to us all

00:06:39.460 So, that's what I've got off the jump today. So, oh, other plug. If you're at the dedication or you can wait and see pictures afterwards, we are all very excited to see the mural that Witten's Fawn has painted there in honor of Lord Freire.

00:07:02.760 spectacular i'm very excited to see it in person and i am excited to show it off to everybody at

00:07:10.860 the dedication and uh you know everybody threw pictures afterwards so that's another exciting

00:07:17.300 note coming up and with that law speaker tell us about gratitude well thank you uh matt and i'm

00:07:26.320 uh happy to be here and i guess you know i'll start by offering my own um

00:07:35.600 sorry litany of gratitude the wrong word came to mind um you know i'm grateful to you for

00:07:42.000 allowing me to talk myself into having this series on uh on our uh broadcast i um i sold it to you

00:07:51.760 in a way because I think that it's important to talk about

00:07:55.500 not just the theory of

00:07:58.420 what the gods are and what they should and do mean to all

00:08:03.640 of us but I think a practical approach to

00:08:07.560 living is an important aspect and I'm grateful that you allowed me to talk you

00:08:11.520 into seeing that

00:08:13.260 and I'm grateful to Nick for working diligently

00:08:19.860 behind the scenes, making stuff happen that I have no idea how to do, but it always seems to

00:08:27.340 work exactly right. So Nick, thank you very much for doing everything that you do. And to all the

00:08:35.380 folk builders and volunteers and donors to the AFA, everybody does a little bit.

00:08:44.440 But like Pam McCloskey, for example, you know, she's the she cooks a wonderful meal at every for every get to go that we have there at York's off.

00:08:56.640 And, you know, that those sorts of things make, you know, make things happen.

00:09:01.500 And it makes life pleasant when everybody does their little bit.

00:09:05.200 And we should all be more expressive of our gratitude in that way.

00:09:08.600 um it did remind me oh

00:09:14.440 I guess we are right back um be right back the um so it did remind me in a um you know in a certain

00:09:24.620 way my mother was one who um and I know that I sort of slided her this way and I you know

00:09:33.620 And the last couple of weeks I've been feeling especially bad about that.

00:09:39.060 She always, if she gave a gift, which she always did to anyone in her church that had a baby or got married or anything, had one of those life events.

00:09:55.440 I think even a lot of the kids who graduated high school while she was in the church, you know, she always gave them a little gift.

00:10:04.740 And her minister always told those people to write Miss Sarah a thank you note because, you know, although that is a lost art, right?

00:10:15.200 I realize it's like the 1830s, you know, you've got to sharpen your turkey feather and dip it in the inkwell and send off this folded up piece of parchment in the Pony Express.

00:10:29.740 But those are the kinds of things that have a lot more meaning, and those expressions of gratitude and appreciation can have a lasting resilience.

00:10:41.560 I meant to actually have the thing that I could show you, the last one, and actually one of the other things that brought to mind, and it just was coincidence that with this episode coming up, but we get a bill every year for Odenshoff, for the Odenshoff district that is the volunteer fire department that maintains the fire suppression out there in that district.

00:11:10.100 And so I threw them in like an extra 50 bucks and they sent me back a letter signed by a couple of their members, you know, this, you know, thanks for your, thanks for the extra, you know, and that's what generates gratitude is going above and beyond and, and just appreciation keeps it, you know, keeps it coming back.

00:11:31.980 um in another one of those personal uh moments um matt i probably don't even remember one of

00:11:40.120 those things that um we were at doors off i think it may have been this past year and you just looked

00:11:48.560 at me go you know i appreciate you i appreciate the work that you do for us and obviously it

00:11:54.680 you know it echoed with me to uh you know to have you take just that extra couple seconds and say

00:12:01.480 thank you for um occasionally being useful so uh you know so and and so it

00:12:09.200 um my heart grew three sizes that day um so uh thank you for remembering to do that

00:12:17.760 um and the the other important thing that i that i wanted to bring up on the um on the front end

00:12:26.480 of this discussion about gratitude, well, two things. The first is, I think that one of the

00:12:32.960 reasons I think that gratitude is a proper topic for adulthood is that children, adolescents,

00:12:44.000 they just take everything for granted. Everything is just presented to them as a given. There's

00:12:50.620 always food you know the lights are on there's a roof over your head there's gas in the car

00:12:56.660 and children are not required to think about those sorts of things most of us in this modern era

00:13:03.040 our children don't you know just never have to worry about um you know what the what how all

00:13:09.680 that stuff's going to work so they are allowed during their childhood and um minority to take

00:13:17.200 those sorts of things for granted um but once you become an adult and you know how much work goes

00:13:23.500 into the turn for those sorts of things to happen you know clean clothes don't just appear in the

00:13:30.260 uh in the dresser you know some there you know there's some mechanism underneath that that happens

00:13:36.300 so that that can so that that can go um i think in the bigger political picture um the

00:13:44.940 the ungratefulness that we see expressed against Western civilization is sort of an adolescent rebellion.

00:14:01.080 Like all this stuff just sort of magically happened.

00:14:04.180 We were as if the thousands of generations of literal blood and sweat that made our progress and liberty what it is today, that's all ignored by certain elements of our society who just take all that for granted.

00:14:33.660 Like, you know, as if it popped into existence five minutes ago just for their benefit.

00:14:39.120 Air conditioning, refrigeration, internal combustion, illumination, you know, those sorts of things made this soft life possible.

00:14:49.760 And we should honor that sacrifice that came from our progenitors and express our gratitude by maintaining their civilization in a way that's recognizable and can carry on to our descendants.

00:15:16.040 what that all should look like by keeping this civilization intact.

00:15:22.040 And then more narrowly, in particular, in the Ositrim Folk Assembly 0.86

00:15:30.480 and some of the disloyalty that we've seen among some of our former folk,

00:15:39.900 Um, you know, I, I think that that too shows a lack of gratitude among other things.

00:15:47.920 I think, and that's, and I tie those two things together, that gratitude generates loyalty.

00:15:55.360 Um, that, uh, for example, I'm grateful for the amount of work, Matt, that you do that,

00:16:02.840 you know, cause it's a lot of, it's a, and I think a lot of people know, but maybe, you

00:16:08.440 You know, even I don't really know, you know, the 80 or 120 hours a week that you put in to, you know, to keep this looking effortless.

00:16:20.280 And many of these people who have broken off from the AFA to do their own, I'll eliminate the majority, to do their own, you know, to take their little splinter sack and go sit in the corner by themselves.

00:16:38.440 You know, they would never have known each other for the most part without having come through the AFA.

00:16:44.960 They would not know the proper way.

00:16:47.400 They would never have been introduced to the proper way to interact with the gods without the inspiration and instruction that has come through the AusTruth Folk Assembly,

00:17:02.120 through our founder Steve McNallan, through your work, through our dedicated Gothar and the efforts

00:17:10.680 of our folk to make this better and to make it work in the way that it does. And to take that work

00:17:20.360 and go in some separate direction, I think not only certainly is disloyal, but I think it

00:17:30.360 displays an adolescent

00:17:32.620 attitude

00:17:36.200 of just

00:17:38.420 lack of appreciation for

00:17:40.300 the fact that

00:17:42.800 Mr. McNallan

00:17:44.560 brought this into existence. We are doing our

00:17:46.460 best to carry on the work

00:17:48.420 that he began, and I think that

00:17:50.380 we are doing it in

00:17:51.960 the best

00:17:54.560 way that made possible.

00:17:56.680 I think we punch way above our weight

00:17:58.280 class, both in

00:18:00.340 terms of the impact that we have on the wider discourse on the in the

00:18:10.220 civilizational movement and in the and the religious discourse that that we have

00:18:16.980 that centers around the efforts that we all make to have these hops and give

00:18:26.160 food to people and demonstrate to the world what

00:18:30.000 also true is and what noble Aryan people

00:18:33.740 are and ought to be. And so they should be

00:18:37.980 grateful for that and should have been. And they should have been loyal

00:18:42.160 to the work that we did. And I'm not saying that we're not

00:18:46.000 above criticism. I take criticism. I give

00:18:49.960 criticism. We make mistakes. But

00:18:53.500 But in the great grand scheme of things, like with my parents, right, they did some stuff that I would have done differently and did do differently when I was raising my kids.

00:19:02.920 I'm sure my kids think incorrectly that I made some mistakes raising them.

00:19:08.480 But at the same time, you know, we, my ex-wife and I, impressed upon our children the idea of gratitude.

00:19:22.680 And certainly one of the ways that we did that,

00:19:26.660 and I would recommend it to anyone with children or even adults,

00:19:31.280 one of the things that we used to do is at every,

00:19:34.700 many of our dinners that we had together,

00:19:37.860 we always ate together as a family.

00:19:39.840 But at many of our dinners,

00:19:41.100 we would go around the table and say,

00:19:42.440 what you're thankful for, you know, for the food,

00:19:47.500 for the lights being on, for the teachers that were teaching the kids.

00:19:53.580 We were all grateful for many things, but that's the sort of thing that can easily be taken for granted

00:20:01.000 if it's not impressed on young, formative minds.

00:20:10.460 And that's kind of the spiel that I wanted to open with.

00:20:16.080 And then, you know, with that, I'll remind those listeners out there that, you know, we always think of this as cumulative.

00:20:26.120 So if you have other questions about that or how any of this interacts with that or any of the other prior topics that we've talked about here or anywhere else, you know, I am passingly familiar with the lore as well.

00:20:38.960 So if you had a if you want to throw a softball at me, I would take that as well.

00:20:45.220 Well, while we've got a break, I don't want to jump in.

00:20:49.700 I think that you diagnosed a lot of the flakiness of some of our people and the disloyalty that we see sometimes.

00:20:59.840 Accurately, when you talked about it being a type of an adolescence or an adolescent kind of response to things.

00:21:05.260 And I think we've seen that a lot.

00:21:10.720 So, I mean, just up front, disloyalty is bad. People who are disloyal are turds. We don't like them. But that said, we do like them when they wash themselves off and want to come back and figure it out. 0.97

00:21:24.320 And we have a lot of people that have gone through the step of, you know, thinking they know better, thinking the grass is greener somewhere else and realizing, you know, in whatever time it takes them that it's really not.

00:21:39.760 And that the things that it's kind of about that taken for granted, they assume in their head how things should be.

00:21:49.340 And I was so full disclosure, I was very much like that when I first joined and when I first got involved in Asitru, not to the point where I was disloyal by any means.

00:21:59.520 But, you know, I was in my 20s and we should do this different and that different and this other thing's different and, you know, all this.

00:22:07.460 And I thought, because this is something that is a big problem for our young men today.

00:22:18.180 They spend a lot of their time in their head.

00:22:22.660 We have very smart people, but the smartness is not seasoned with wisdom.

00:22:28.600 and so in a vacuum under the conditions they imagine in their in their head and in their

00:22:34.840 imagination yeah of course they know the right thing to do and it's like on tv if you're writing

00:22:41.400 the script then of course your hero can always be right because you're creating the scenario

00:22:48.040 but in real life when you do things and you know i appreciate that number of months back you you

00:22:54.680 brought to mind um president roosevelt's uh not the commie one president roosevelt's uh

00:23:01.400 quote about the man in the arena because we are in a world that is disproportionately

00:23:10.120 critic heavy and social media and our current discourse and just how things are

00:23:16.040 lend themselves very well to that or to fostering a perpetual criticism of things but not really a

00:23:24.440 balance and actually going out and doing stuff so so many things that we appreciate all take

00:23:32.760 really hard work and um one of the things that's interesting to me and this this cuts both ways

00:23:42.920 but it's something i mentioned you know a number of times and you know alan you've

00:23:47.720 been around long enough to to know the truth of this whereas a lot of people don't

00:23:51.400 it's funny the things that people just assume happen or ought to be and i don't fault anybody

00:24:01.060 for this you don't know what you don't know but a lot of the times people reach out

00:24:06.040 very eager like wondering if we have a hof within 30 minutes of them

00:24:11.920 and they're like shocked and like surprised that we don't and it's weird because that's 1.00

00:24:24.600 so bittersweet it's strange because that's so bittersweet um and thank you for keeping

00:24:30.380 us mindful of word usage i think it's really important and it keeps our head in the game

00:24:35.780 on the one hand the fact that we have in 10 years gotten five Hoffs is amazing and I'm very grateful

00:24:54.580 for that the fact that we've set the expectation that no of course Hoffs are things Hoffs should

00:25:00.280 be everywhere of course we have Hoffs it doesn't occur to people new to this that there was a time

00:25:04.980 not so long ago we didn't have any homes that's beautiful and a wonderful thing it's also

00:25:12.160 frustrating to some of the old timers like back in my day but again I do think it goes to gratitude

00:25:19.880 because that's hard work every time someone wants day one to roll into an established community of

00:25:26.620 Alcetru are in their area, they don't factor in that every place there is that healthy

00:25:34.580 community started with nobody and then one person saying, hey, I wish we had more people

00:25:42.520 doing this. I will invite people over. I will host something at my house. I will get people

00:25:49.080 together at a park or a restaurant. I will do it again and again when people flake out

00:25:55.660 or discourteous or don't show up or it doesn't work out the way I want it to, I'll keep going

00:26:00.380 until momentum takes hold. And there's a lot of those people that have stuck it out, been consistent

00:26:08.500 and by their hard work, we're able to have the nice things that we have. And so I'm very thankful

00:26:15.900 to those people. And, you know, you mentioned some folks and I think it's, you know, good a time as

00:26:21.340 any to mention a couple of things and a couple of people. Producer Nick, I say this, and

00:26:33.520 there's a bit of competitiveness, so I hesitate to, but I will say that Nick is firmly top

00:26:43.420 five but if i'm being honest i think man hours put in nick probably puts in the most hours per week

00:26:55.260 making the ostrich folk assembly happen than anyone else myself included and nick thank you very much

00:27:03.740 um a couple of other people that i don't know get all the shine that perhaps they deserve

00:27:10.540 somebody else that has put in a lot of work especially over this last year is uh folk builder

00:27:19.100 chris savage a lot of the stuff he does is behind the scenes uh helping me with variety of different

00:27:25.580 things doing history work doing a lot of stuff that i don't know that you guys all see and i

00:27:30.540 think it shines when he is on the program but chris does a lot for us and for this and so we appreciate

00:27:39.020 that you know all of our folk builders do this and make this work and i don't know if everybody

00:27:51.340 realizes but there's you know an ongoing work-related discussion all day every day on

00:27:59.100 implementing our mission and making this happen and our folk builders are

00:28:03.820 so vital and so very much appreciated you guys are awesome

00:28:07.020 I think that our founder Steve McNallan gets a lot of praise and a lot of shine but I think he

00:28:18.780 is always do more there is something uniquely special and something that I and we all should

00:28:26.580 be uniquely grateful for when a pioneer steps out where there is nothing and makes something

00:28:34.680 happen. And the fact that that something is tended to and makes it, you know, 50 years

00:28:41.260 down the line to thrive and be healthy, that takes courage and commitment and vision

00:28:50.720 and a lot of things that it takes a very rare breed to not only realize the need for those

00:28:58.700 things, but then to go out and shape that into the world around them. So to Steve, we should all be

00:29:04.500 very grateful, and I certainly am. I try to make sure I tell him as much as often as I can,

00:29:12.120 but also somebody that for, you know, since the very beginning of the Oustru Folk Assembly

00:29:17.860 and up through and continuing, and I'm sure will be so for the rest of her life and beyond,

00:29:26.820 Githia Sheila MacNallan has been, in a lot of ways, the beating heart of this forever.

00:29:32.200 Her motherly, feminine way of making note of each and all of our members and their families and the situations they're in and the struggles they go through and weaving together those bonds that really make the AFA such a family.

00:29:54.940 Very, very grateful for that.

00:29:57.700 And in a lot of ways, and I've said this before, Alan, I am tremendously grateful for you and the stuff that you do and the work that you put in and the advice and the counsel that you give me on things.

00:30:16.800 Those of you who are just listening in or may not know or whatever, you know, Alan has been there as, you know, someone that I go to for counsel since day one of my administration.

00:30:31.080 And he is very often the wheat to my frosted as the mini wheat goes.

00:30:39.460 And it's one of those kind of good signs that something is a good idea.

00:30:45.200 If he and I are both exuberant about something, then chances are it's a pretty good deal.

00:30:53.940 But that has helped me in a lot of ways.

00:30:56.940 It's funny that, you know, the title of the this series, the adulting with Alan may sound cheesy or whatever, but I really wanted to go with it because Alan is who I go to for adulting advice often on different things.

00:31:13.460 And that advice has been invaluable. Also, something that I think a lot of people don't realize, Alan is the reason that we have Baldur's off.

00:31:24.120 during that process um alan saw a lane opening in a possibility if we had enough cash on hand

00:31:35.280 at the right time we could go ahead and swoop in and make a purchase on something

00:31:39.300 and his planning and vision on that was the reason that in 2020 we got two hoss that year

00:31:46.480 and that's for boulders off well that's the thing and that was a rare opportunity that you know

00:31:53.340 hasn't come since may not come again that was a perfect storm of things but you read that in the

00:32:01.900 in the the weave of of orlog and you saw it coming you prepped for it and you had us ready

00:32:09.500 and that's that's why we got two hops that year and that's why we have uh balder soft so thank

00:32:13.980 you for that it's unsung i don't think a lot of people know that but that's absolutely 100 the

00:32:19.740 truth i had fun getting the permit though so uh you know it wasn't all work so that's the thing

00:32:29.900 too it is really cool and big timey to have a legitimate bona fide uh you know board certified

00:32:42.700 lawyer on the team of things it's nice when we did have to um advocate for our permit in murdoch

00:32:51.660 to be able to send up our high-powered lawyer from florida to go and and edumacate those people

00:32:59.100 on uh on things that was a really good feeling and a kind of a a neat turning point in the

00:33:05.260 development of of Alcitru in modern place that really was kind of a

00:33:13.340 I don't know it was a mark of of maturity and competency on our part and it was facilitated by

00:33:18.780 uh our law speakers thank you for that also you're welcome I'm glad I could go up there and uh

00:33:24.780 represent the the the right face of our of our folk and our people well so

00:33:33.020 So while I have the floor, I'm going to mention something else.

00:33:38.320 For our international audience, this might seem odd.

00:33:41.200 A number of years ago, we had like three Brazilian members that got very angry when I, in the AFA voice, was celebrating Thanksgiving. 1.00

00:33:56.960 They're like, ah, that's Christian. 1.00

00:33:59.500 Vikings aren't thankful for things. 0.96

00:34:01.660 it was such a silly it was such a silly thing and i get from an international point of view 0.94

00:34:11.060 perhaps seeing thanksgiving as a a christian holiday but in the united states it's really 0.76

00:34:17.080 like it's explicitly not that's one of the interesting phenomenon about it

00:34:21.240 is it's intentionally meant as a non-religiously specific holiday

00:34:27.500 um and it's a special thing because it's an opportunity for everyone to take stock of

00:34:38.380 things that they are thankful for and yes it's implied that you do that in a religious way

00:34:46.140 towards your gods but the initial instance of it was you know pagan children of the forest engines

00:34:57.340 and their christian counterparts you know they were being thankful to the great buffalo or

00:35:03.580 whatever they're thankful for too and it's a nice thing it is a good and noble thing for people to

00:35:11.020 be thankful and show gratitude for the blessings in their life. And I think we are always very

00:35:20.900 keenly aware of grievances and grudges and misfortunes and stuff that we're angry about

00:35:29.900 or that we feel slighted by. But I think far too little attention is paid in our lives to the

00:35:37.500 things that we appreciate, the blessings that we have in our life and, you know, the people and

00:35:45.120 the powers that provide those for us. And I am tremendously thankful to my AFA family,

00:35:53.860 to all my fellow AFA leaders, and profoundly thankful to the Aesir for their blessings

00:35:59.400 and, you know, all of the wonderful things that we have in our life collectively as the AFA and

00:36:06.580 that I have in my life personally,

00:36:08.980 I'm very thankful for that.

00:36:11.000 And I'm excited to be mindful of that

00:36:15.200 and specifically be mindful of that tomorrow.

00:36:18.420 Happy Thanksgiving, people.

00:36:20.380 Happy Thanksgiving for all of us.

00:36:22.700 So, you know, I never really considered that,

00:36:25.460 you know, that aspect of Thanksgiving being,

00:36:28.960 because it's always been sold to me as a secular,

00:36:32.540 very much a secular holiday.

00:36:34.280 um but it's a pretty direct adaptation of you know just a harvest festival which you know there's

00:36:43.660 there is nothing more pagan than being thankful for the bounteous fruits that are given to us by

00:36:51.520 the earth mother so you know pish tosh yeah it's it's it's silly i think that too many people

00:37:02.120 And again, this is part of that adolescent ingratitude. I think a lot of people come to some realization in their life that they don't like Christianity, they need something different.

00:37:15.340 And then they don't know a lot about Ausatru or about Viking culture or whatever.

00:37:24.580 And they jump in immediately full barbarism and, you know, throw all the baby out with the bathwater.

00:37:33.020 Anything clean or dignified or proper or nice. 0.71

00:37:40.000 Vikings don't do that. 0.99

00:37:41.120 We raid and pillage and burn stuff. 1.00

00:37:43.120 um it's it's silly and ridiculous but i understand how people start there it's tragic when they stay

00:37:55.540 there but i get starting there at some point but i don't think enough is is paid to that like like

00:38:03.400 you mentioned it's absolutely an evolution of the ancient harvest festival that is all about

00:38:12.280 being thankful and reverent for the bounty of the year and that is a religiosity that existed in

00:38:22.360 europe far far before the the coming of of jewish christianity into into our homelands

00:38:30.520 um it's absolutely one of the things uh it's interesting just comes to mind you know the

00:38:37.640 sigdrifimol prayer uh prayer you know hail the earth all giving um the idea of appreciating the

00:38:46.600 the giving nature of divinity of the world around us and the forces within it is essential to also

00:38:56.520 true in direct contrast to the uh to the christian idea which is dominion over the earth you know we

00:39:04.200 you know we beat the earth into submission as you know as their idea as opposed to working

00:39:09.720 cooperatively to you know to uh you know to receive the gift of the gods and give back in

00:39:16.680 return in life yeah um something that's i think witten erickson has you know crystallized in a

00:39:31.480 way that you know hasn't been presented before or whatnot our worship practice is all about the gift

00:39:39.000 cycle between the gods and us and the gods uh infinitely and yes it is that but it's really

00:39:48.760 important to be grateful and make note of they started it like the first giving of things

00:40:00.920 to us were those those gifts of oath and villi invade that made us us they initiated that gifting

00:40:11.160 cycle way back when and if not for the gifts that they bestowed on us none of us would have the

00:40:17.720 things that we have or be here today and do this so having a disposition of gratitude towards the

00:40:24.040 is completely noble and appropriate and something that we should be you know we should always be

00:40:32.600 conscious of and i think that once people get past that adolescent phase they very much are

00:40:40.360 i certainly went through it you know we you know as you say you know back in my day i mean any

00:40:47.720 gathering of hospital was you know was a long discussion about the anger um that we felt for

00:40:56.520 having our rightful heritage taken away and misused and so forth but we have matured i think

00:41:04.120 as a faith to now we're sure that happened but now we are in a now we're in a different place 0.71

00:41:12.440 You know, and again, with gratitude for the liberty that's bestowed on us in this country where we can, you know, express our own religiosity where we're not subject to severe penalties, you know, for openly worshiping a non-Christian God.

00:41:35.520 I mean, that would have been unheard of 500 years ago and certainly would be unheard of in many religious countries today and that, you know, that practice a different type of religion.

00:41:53.120 So the liberty that we have, and, you know, I have often expressed gratitude in Summel and elsewhere for the founding fathers who brought forth on this land a new nation that allowed us to have these expressions of liberty.

00:42:12.100 um we all forget that it should be liberty under duty um you know that that it's not all rights

00:42:23.600 there are responsibilities that come with citizenship in this great republic um but it

00:42:29.520 should also um be again with an idea of gratitude yes you know these things are imperfect um but

00:42:39.040 But they are a far cry better than anything else that's ever been promulgated in 2,000 years that we know of.

00:42:49.740 I mean, they're part of the Roman Republic that would have been good to live in if you were Roman.

00:42:55.280 You know, there's, it's interesting and I, it is unfortunate that we notice gratitude when we see, or that we often are reminded of gratitude when we see counterexamples.

00:43:19.540 You know, I think that we all spend a lot of our time noticing stuff that's wrong with, you know, specifically those of us living in the United States.

00:43:31.640 There's a lot wrong with it. There's a lot of bad things that go on in our country and in our government.

00:43:37.540 And I get that. But it's times where you look to our neighbors to the north in Canada, to folks in the United Kingdom.

00:43:48.720 them, and you become very grateful for the for not living there. And I think that those

00:43:57.480 people can probably look at some, you know, savage Central African nations and other places 0.99

00:44:06.540 that they're probably real grateful they don't live in also. And it's just I guess the point 1.00

00:44:12.040 I'm trying to make, and it's not really a political one so much as it's all too often

00:44:17.460 we forget to be grateful for things until we notice a stark contrast to people who have it

00:44:23.460 worse than us. And that's unfortunate. We should have gratefulness and gratitude

00:44:31.500 at the forefront of our mind much more often than we tend to. And that's a so and that's a thing.

00:44:39.440 And I'll admit this or put this out there. It's something I try really hard to remind myself of.

00:44:47.460 In managing the duties of the AFA often, because they're immediate, I spend a lot of time focusing on putting out fires or fixing problems or, you know, dealing with things that aren't optimal because those are things that, like, there's an urgency to fix or to do something to address.

00:45:13.640 it's important to spend time noticing all of the things that are optimal and that are amazing and

00:45:21.200 that are functioning well it's unfortunate it's like people with a great number of kids that

00:45:26.140 focus all their attention on you know one that's difficult or that's struggling instead of the ones

00:45:34.040 that are you know all the others that are being very successful so it's important to just stop

00:45:39.320 and notice sometimes like, wow, we have some really good stuff and that's amazing and being

00:45:45.460 thankful of it. I think we all have an abundance of good things in our life if we stop and take

00:45:52.860 note, but it does, it's a, it's not an automatic response. It's something we have to train

00:45:59.940 ourselves to do and train ourselves to look with an eye of gratefulness at times. So I would

00:46:10.100 encourage everybody to, when you notice yourself being grumpy about things, take the effort to

00:46:17.960 itemize the good things too. And I think that it changes perspective quite a bit. At least it does

00:46:23.560 for me when I get in a, in a particularly grumpy, uh, frame of mind. Uh, no, you're, you're absolutely

00:46:30.660 right. The, um, it, it is all too easy to focus on the rough spot and not see all the smooth

00:46:37.240 that, uh, that is all around it. Um, one thing that I have been forgetting to say, but don't

00:46:45.060 want to let it go unsaid, um, for all of you members out there listening, one way that you

00:46:52.160 can express gratitude um to the aesir and to your uh ancestors for bringing you into this place

00:47:02.460 is to go to your hof go to the local hof the the work that we've put in to get this is a

00:47:09.860 is a testament to all of our hard work and dedication and it's always the and more makes

00:47:23.820 more so you would be well served yourselves to to go and be part of the Hoff community because it

00:47:32.680 is like um i know it yours often i'm sure it's uh the same everywhere like the regulars who come

00:47:39.880 there i mean we are very much like a big extended family and you can be part of that extended family

00:47:47.960 and um show mr flavel here how great grateful you are for his 14-hour days by uh coming in and

00:47:57.640 And joining us for food and celebration, because that is a rite that can no longer be denied to you.

00:48:05.700 It's one of those things that can seem daunting when you're in a funk or you're lazy or whatever the deal is.

00:48:18.680 I really want to go or whatever.

00:48:20.580 Whatever it is that you're thinking.

00:48:22.640 People don't leave the Hoff disgruntled that they made the journey.

00:48:28.080 That doesn't happen.

00:48:29.780 And I'm trying to think in my head.

00:48:31.540 I can't think of instances where people are displeased that they went to the Hoff.

00:48:38.540 It is rejuvenating for your spirit.

00:48:42.420 It puts you back in sync with the right things and the right order of things.

00:48:49.320 It is something that I'm very grateful that I'm able to do and that everyone I know who attends their local Hoff is grateful for.

00:48:59.920 And I want you guys to have the chance to be grateful for it, too.

00:49:03.140 So make that make that effort to do that.

00:49:07.260 We got a couple of couple of questions.

00:49:10.400 First one is a Nick request that we answer one that I guess was already answered last week, but not by us.

00:49:19.320 Okay. Hey there, question for the show tonight. How has being Ausatrue impacted your role in your families, be they as sons, parents, husbands, siblings, etc.? Do you find that being Ausatrue inspires you to do things in your familial relationships that you may not otherwise do? Thanks. Alan, how does Ausatrue affect your familial interaction?

00:49:45.800 Well, first of all, I think it reinforces the idea of the, you know, I think it's the Roman term, the paterfamilias.

00:49:58.680 You know, this is a patriarchy, and I'm not embarrassed to advocate for that.

00:50:06.160 Women are our equals, almost.

00:50:09.300 You know, they have a say, unlike in other faiths and civilizations, we honor and respect what they do.

00:50:20.620 But in the end, you know, the man is the, you know, the man is the final say.

00:50:28.720 I think it and it's funny because, you know, I think we talked a fair bit about this during the episode that we did on child rearing where.

00:50:39.300 You know, we talked about the delicate balance within Indo-European or Indo-Aryan child raising approach.

00:50:54.360 You know, we we don't want to break our children's will.

00:50:58.820 And that's the, you know, it's a delicate balance in there because I know it would be easy to, you know, to overdo the aspect of obedience, which is expected in other faiths and other civilizations.

00:51:16.540 You know, the absolute obedience to authority is not how we raise our children.

00:51:25.240 at the same time they have to respect who we are they have to respect that we have some

00:51:30.600 vague idea of uh whether the stove is hot whether you should go play in traffic i mean

00:51:38.680 adults are in charge for a reason so um but at the same time you want to so you want to raise

00:51:44.920 your child with a healthy respect for rightful authority um but without bending their will that

00:51:51.960 too is one of those aspects of um certainly informed the way that uh that i approached uh

00:51:59.640 raising my boys um you know to to allow them to have to develop their own will and their own

00:52:07.480 conscience um i think it also gives us uh the idea of courage um to you know to face the things that

00:52:17.640 we know are unpleasant but you know it's um but just but it's still better to face those things

00:52:28.040 with courage um to uh and just overall to take an approach that where you recognize

00:52:37.480 that in the end it is your honor it is your family's honor that is at stake and i you know 1.00

00:52:45.480 know, I would never advocate for the way that the Chinese are doing things with the, you 0.99

00:52:51.920 know, that cultural credit system or whatever, you know, the everywhere surveillance, Big 1.00

00:52:57.480 Brother style thing that they're doing, certainly given the lens to be in charge of that. But

00:53:02.280 I think it is important for us to understand that we do have a lateral, a horizontal relationship

00:53:13.380 to the people around us, that when one of us AFA folk does something

00:53:21.600 that disrespects the entire culture, it reflects poorly on all of us,

00:53:27.640 and we have that obligation to maintain decorum and a sense of integrity,

00:53:36.120 recognizing that when we act, the world sees each of us as the only onus that they know.

00:53:47.000 And so that, too, is one of the things that you just have to bear in mind,

00:53:52.440 that we have to be a step above, not only because we are a step above,

00:53:57.600 but because we carry the knowledge with us that whatever we do reflects on all of us.

00:54:06.120 So you covered a ton of it.

00:54:12.980 Before I get started, Michael in Indiana donated $20 towards Phrasehoff payoff.

00:54:20.420 Thank you so much.

00:54:22.100 We are grateful for your donation.

00:54:24.780 Appreciate your generosity.

00:54:25.960 Thank you, Michael.

00:54:32.540 And I want to be fair.

00:54:34.040 I think some of this is true for most faiths, but being a religious person, as opposed to being an atheist, it reinforces your obligations to your family.

00:54:51.260 You are entrusted with a responsibility.

00:54:55.540 Specifically, being also true, you know that your obligations and duties aren't just to your wife or your siblings or your living parents or your children, but also to your ancestors and all those who came before you.

00:55:11.480 And one of my, I don't know, duties as a husband and as a father is to live in such a way that my grandmother and my grandfather would be proud of me and appreciate me carrying through the lessons that they taught me.

00:55:32.400 And in turn, that makes their parents proud of them, even though both of those generations are long since beyond the veil.

00:55:46.380 We're the keepers of something sacred passed down to us, that it's our job to pass forward to future generations.

00:55:55.920 Our, you know, existence isn't a finite nihilistic, you know, 80 year lifespan.

00:56:02.400 We are a link in a chain that goes back indefinitely. And it's our obligation to send it forward the best we can towards infinity. It's also, as Alan mentioned, it's our, you know, we don't believe in equality. Equality isn't true.

00:56:23.860 There's no two things that are equal. But it's our job as as men to lead our families, to look out not just for, you know, physical needs of our family, but to instruct them and take care of them spiritually.

00:56:43.280 When in our power to do so, to instill in our children and our spouse, the values that are pleasing to our ancestors and our gods, to help foster a relationship between our gods and our children in a way that sticks and in a way that is meaningful to them, to teach them our traditions, to

00:57:13.280 And be an example of positive, also true to them, so that as they grow and they develop into the world, they have a solid faith to cling to, to hearken back to, and to have as a touchstone of how things ought to be in their life.

00:57:35.400 Um, so I think all of those things, it, it fundamentally affects who I am as, uh, as a

00:57:43.420 father, as a husband.

00:57:44.320 It also affects, you know, who I am as, as a son and making sure that, you know, even

00:57:51.120 if it's difficult with your, with your parents, if there's differences in worldview and values

00:57:57.900 and religion and a lot of things, recognizing the sacrality of family and going the extra mile to

00:58:06.000 fulfill your familial obligations, even, you know, even when it's not easy, even when it's

00:58:12.900 uncomfortable or awkward or, you know, you don't think you got a lot in common or whatever your

00:58:18.800 situation is, making that time, because again, you know, fidelity to your elders and to your,

00:58:28.420 your parents, that's a duty of an house to truer and something that I think is, is really

00:58:35.880 important. It absolutely is. And that's, you know, and it should not go unsaid that as your talk,

00:58:43.780 As you were going through that, that, you know, men absolutely have the duty, the obligation to lead in a way that is completely almost selfless in that way that, you know, that we have to put the needs of the family to the fore.

00:59:09.660 And in this atomized, narcissistic, individualistic culture that we find ourselves in at the moment, you know, a lot of that stuff has been lost.

00:59:23.600 And so I guess I'm expounding on the idea of the patriarchy, you know, because too many people, when they hear that, they think, you know, is some kind of absolute overlordship.

00:59:37.240 And it's exactly the opposite.

00:59:38.900 that, you know, the man rules as the servant of the family.

00:59:44.120 Just like, Matt, you are the patriarch of the AFA right now,

00:59:49.480 but you rule in a way that is a benevolent dictatorship

00:59:55.380 with the needs of the all at the forefront.

01:00:00.660 Yeah, it's really unfortunate that so often people decouple

01:00:07.700 um authority for from responsibility um

01:00:13.700 that's a whole lot of people want to be the boss of stuff but a relatively small portion of those

01:00:26.920 actually want to lead and take care of the responsibilities that that entails

01:00:33.040 and you know we we've all seen that in our lives in a variety of ways one of the other things that

01:00:40.560 I do think is very important is and so I'll go ahead and open up the next question because I

01:00:48.300 think it flows into this really well next question is from an Aryan lens why is it so important to

01:00:54.040 do your absolute best work whether you're flipping burgers being a mechanic or a nuclear scientist

01:01:00.800 etc no matter the pay and it comes to something that you said earlier that i want to expound upon

01:01:08.160 it will a couple two things here so

01:01:12.800 and i guess also to a comment in the chat about you know i'd mentioned to be a positive

01:01:18.480 example of positive also true and uh folk builder ron boardman's like if it's not positive then i

01:01:25.600 and I don't believe it's Ausatru, and I agree with you, but to the untrained eye that doesn't

01:01:30.640 know any better, you may be the only Ausatruer they know. To your children, when they go up

01:01:36.220 and go out into the world, they're going to associate you with Ausatru. If you're a terrible 0.97

01:01:44.260 parent and you're Ausatru, that's going to leave a taste in their mouth in relationship to our gods 0.99

01:01:50.800 and our faith. If you are an amazing dad and you're also true, they're going to attribute some

01:01:58.860 of that greatness towards our gods and our faith. In your workplace, people don't know a lot of

01:02:06.020 also true. Are you maybe the only person they've ever known that does this strange worship Odin

01:02:11.720 stuff? What? But if you show them you're a serious person and you are an honorable person

01:02:18.640 and a good valuable person and they see your merit as a human on that it makes them treat

01:02:25.220 our faith with a much greater degree of seriousness we are so relatively few in the

01:02:32.720 world right now your performance in all aspects of your life is a reflection on our gods and our

01:02:39.860 faith and on all the rest of us that practice house the truth and that's an important responsibility

01:02:45.640 And it goes to the other thing I was going to say that I neglected to mention on the previous question.

01:02:53.160 The gods are watching.

01:02:56.180 We want to do things to attract their attention, but it's twofold.

01:03:03.260 We don't want to attract their attention if we're a dirtbag.

01:03:06.300 We want to attract and seek their judgment. But then we also want to be worthy of their approval and of them being proud of us. And that is an important obligation.

01:03:20.460 You know, our gods aren't, you know, the creepy stalker looking at the minutiae all the time thing that sometimes gets expressed in Christianity.

01:03:37.140 But when we invoke them and we invite them into our lives, we want to make them proud of us.

01:03:43.140 And we want to do deeds and live in a way that they appreciate and, you know, recognize as good. And I think that being aware that we are accountable to something greater than ourselves is a very important thing.

01:04:04.860 And, you know, thank you, Alan, for saying the things you said about my leadership in the AFA.

01:04:12.840 And one of the things that there's not a day that goes by, but I don't think there's a six hour period that goes by.

01:04:24.220 if I'm awake, then I'm not very aware of my accountability to the gods and very much

01:04:33.760 conscious of trying to be worthy of that and to make them proud. And I hope that never changes.

01:04:44.020 And, you know, if it does, I hope that you Tiger Crane kicked me out of the big chair,

01:04:50.600 Cause I don't, you know, I wouldn't want to be in that spot, but, uh, I'm inspired by the chart

01:04:55.880 behind you. Um, we'll start with a good stern finger wagging. Well, no, it's one of those

01:05:03.500 things, leadership, be it in your family, be it in whatever you do, being aware of those who came

01:05:13.760 before you, being aware of all of those under your, under your charge, under your leadership

01:05:18.820 and being aware of that the gods look on at the things that we do

01:05:25.940 should give you a sense of place and a sense of duty and obligation.

01:05:30.660 And if it doesn't, then you're doing it wrong.

01:05:34.180 So the constant presence of that in my life

01:05:38.420 is something that is very much related to my being in Alistair.

01:05:43.420 It's funny.

01:05:43.940 this has been my life for most all of my adult life um i've been also true for 24 years now

01:05:55.100 it's hard for me to conceive of myself outside of that so when asked like well how does also true

01:06:01.820 affect x y and z and and i don't this isn't braggadocious i don't mean it that way but

01:06:10.300 something I've tried very hard for the last two decades to do is to merge my

01:06:18.700 my life as an Ausitruer with all of the other pieces of my life to where they all work together

01:06:27.960 and they're all you know inseparable like you couldn't separate where

01:06:34.460 the non-alcitru mat is because that doesn't exist it's woven into all of the all of the

01:06:43.080 parts of who i am and the life that i live i've been able very successfully to decouple you know

01:06:49.120 to not have any of those everything works in synergy we in modern america because of

01:06:58.300 world that we live in, a great many of us are very compartmentalized. Different person at work,

01:07:05.260 different person at home, different person at the Hoff, different person in all of these things.

01:07:12.260 And it's been incentivized for you to not express who you truly are in the public sphere. Sometimes

01:07:18.660 I've been very fortunate that I've been able to construct my life in such a way that I can be,

01:07:24.140 I don't want to be arrogant and say fully integrated, but I can be increasingly fully

01:07:30.200 integrated into that. And my life is so much better for it. And I would encourage everyone to

01:07:36.060 do that to the degree that you're able and, you know, seek ways to do that increasingly if you

01:07:42.080 can. One of the ways that I've expressed it, and I think you have too, is that also true is not

01:07:51.500 something that I do. It's something that I am. So when we talk about how does it influence all

01:07:58.140 this other stuff, you know, there are certainly elements of stoicism that come about through in

01:08:08.820 that way. I think it's very much, you know, part of my path included a time where I really

01:08:16.500 considered myself a taoist um which you know which is very much um influential on the way that i

01:08:27.540 approach my life as an author truer um but so what so one it's and i'm you know i'm the same way i've

01:08:38.900 been doing this for 20 years now and i i feel like i've and in fact i feel like that's an important

01:08:46.260 part of also true practice and one of the reasons why i started this series one of the reasons why i

01:08:54.340 try to bring these matters to everybody's uh to the forefront of their mind because

01:08:59.380 what that's exactly i think it's the healthiest way um to uh to approach um

01:09:06.980 um socialization um your psyche your spirituality is to do it to do it all as an integrated whole

01:09:16.420 and i think that the um i think the area in practice of also true provides exactly the right

01:09:27.220 balance of all of those elements of psychology and sociology and leadership and

01:09:36.980 And all those things, I think, are the most important way.

01:09:42.780 They're the best way to live a good life.

01:09:45.780 And that's why I keep my shoulder to the wheel like I do, because I want more people to experience the joy that we have felt in being able to live this life.

01:10:00.160 Absolutely.

01:10:03.280 Just a side note, we're now at 130 registered attendees.

01:10:06.980 for dedication of Frazehoff. So that's awesome. It's really kind of blowing me away how much,

01:10:16.060 how large that attendance is becoming. It's very auspicious for the start there at that hoff.

01:10:23.700 so go ahead and take the first swing at this Alan how have you combated fear mongering of

01:10:36.460 Alcetree or do you feel it's not important to deal with

01:10:40.120 you said you're going to take the first swing at it or did you want me to no I offered you

01:10:48.080 the first swing if you would so choose? Well, I can say, you know, a couple of things. I am

01:10:58.700 self-employed, so I don't have to worry about my boss outing me or, you know, to go through that

01:11:07.580 sort of thing because my boss knows what I do. At the same time, every client who hires me is my

01:11:14.920 boss so um some of them have asked me about their about my hammer and about the other

01:11:22.520 representations of also true that i have um in my office in there and i'm always honest

01:11:27.320 and forthright about you know what it is i am and what i do um you know i think it's

01:11:35.640 It's, you know, I think it's also important that people understand that while we are an exclusive religion, we, you know, we're not doing, we do that only in an inward looking way.

01:11:51.040 Like we we're not practicing folkish also true in order to exclude anyone.

01:11:59.360 That's not the purpose of it. The idea is this is an ethnic religion.

01:12:05.020 Just and just like any other ethnic religion, it's you know, it is exclusive to Indo-European people.

01:12:12.800 if people are going to be angry about that they are not going to hear any kind of explanation 0.60

01:12:21.100 so nothing you say is going to is going to turn that in your favor so you just have to give it

01:12:28.640 to them and you know they may come around to it at some point anyone with any degree of receptivity

01:12:36.860 to rational argumentation will understand that.

01:12:41.760 I've laid many people's fears with, you know,

01:12:46.000 explanation very much in keeping with what I just said.

01:12:50.040 And, you know, the other side of that is to emphasize that,

01:12:56.960 you know, that we practice an internal faith,

01:13:00.240 but it's not about, but we don't do it out of any spirit of hate or malevolence.

01:13:06.000 We we love our people. We love our folk way and full stop.

01:13:15.020 You know, so it's not about not doing other stuff. It's about doing our stuff.

01:13:20.080 I mean, that's the that I think is the most important thing is to just express it in a positive way and for other people to see you in a positive light.

01:13:31.660 and a lot of times it's simple stuff you know an example and i've i've relayed this before in the

01:13:40.340 on the show but i was walking into lowe's one afternoon and um you know it there was a piece

01:13:48.140 of plastic trash on the ground right in front of me and i just i didn't even have to break stride i 0.97

01:13:53.460 just scooped down and picked that up put in the trash can and this lady's standing there and she

01:13:58.720 goes that was so nice you know that hey aren't you an attorney you did my bankruptcy and so like

01:14:06.200 just in that one moment it integrated that whole thing of caring for the earth and respecting my

01:14:13.440 community and doing the right thing albeit it didn't caught me very much in that particular

01:14:22.700 moment but it's being a good citizen and um and portraying those values and allowing your

01:14:31.980 goodness and brightness as a person to overcome whatever

01:14:39.260 false labels that people would try to put on us

01:14:44.780 yeah and so

01:14:45.980 So, we get it.

01:14:51.280 Don't think for a second that we're, you know, being PC or whatever else.

01:14:57.760 I get it.

01:14:59.560 Lots of us have different stuff we don't like and plenty of things we're opposed to.

01:15:05.620 But we're not defined by our opposition to things.

01:15:10.680 And I think that's really important that we define ourselves by what we're for. All the things that we are opposed to are become there. They're out of circumstance. That's not the fundamental to our existence. That is a circumstance we find ourselves in that we have to combat.

01:15:31.820 define yourself and mean this and exude this from your pores define yourself by the things you are

01:15:42.540 for by the things you love not by things you hate or by things you don't like or whatever you are

01:15:49.180 currently opposed to define yourself by what you are for and as the house of true folk assembly

01:15:56.220 We absolutely do that. Best thing that I have found that combats anti-ouser true fear mongering, be a noble, good person.

01:16:08.780 Not only that, be that and wear your hammer and be vocally ouster true when it's appropriate to that for that to come into the conversation.

01:16:19.240 You don't need to yell that at people all the time, but when other people are expressing their religiosity, don't shy away from expressing yours.

01:16:29.720 When people associate the nice person in front of them that they've known and that they have a good relationship with, with our faith and our values, it makes a very sharp contrast with whatever preconceptions they might have or whatever, you know, misleading media narrative there may be.

01:16:53.420 I don't ever personally experience also true fear mongering.

01:16:57.920 Now, as the AFA, sometimes we get that, but it's very quickly dispelled by real-world interaction with AFA members.

01:17:10.140 That's happened in the only time that we have...

01:17:16.160 I don't think that we have ever had an organic negative experience with our community of any kind of ausitru fear issue.

01:17:26.660 But the media has generated fear concerns in Minnesota outside of Baldershoff, a little bit around Thorshoff, and the tiniest bit when we first opened at Njordshoff.

01:17:41.640 All of those things have been very easily and relatively quickly dispelled by us being noble, good, nice, Aryan people.

01:17:52.940 and it's very quick the it is a long you know there there's there is a struggle to convert

01:18:02.760 people or get people to agree with us on all the things but it's not hard to get them not to be

01:18:09.180 scared of us that's just showing up and being a normal human being and not being a jerk 0.93

01:18:16.360 and that happens very very quickly um you know I recall with Njortzhoff I don't know 0.94

01:18:25.460 if Shaniqua is the black version of Karen um we had two uh two black ladies in uh White Springs

01:18:35.640 for those you don't know we're literally on the wrong side of the tracks in White Springs there 1.00

01:18:40.180 um we're in the the darker part of that community and there's these two black ladies that

01:18:45.300 I guess like taking walks near the Hoff and they'd read, you know, 0.97

01:18:49.580 whatever the media has to say about us.

01:18:51.340 I'm very concerned and they expressed the concerns really respectfully,

01:18:54.380 honestly, on, on Facebook, they, you know,

01:18:59.480 requested to talk to me about some things, some concerns they had.

01:19:04.740 And I guess they'd let it said, you know, Hey, we,

01:19:07.160 we walk our dogs by this place or we walk by there with our kids and we're

01:19:11.840 scared. We don't know what you guys are going to do and all this other stuff.

01:19:15.300 we had a food pantry there, I believe, like a week after dedication, and immediately it cleared

01:19:23.520 up any issue. They were all very gung-ho. They needed to speak to me about their concerns.

01:19:30.800 We had the food pantry and they disappeared. And I reached out. I said, hey, I haven't heard from

01:19:34.380 you, but you were going to talk to me about some questions that you had. They're like, no,

01:19:37.920 we saw you guys' food pantry. We walked by. You guys are great. We're fine. No problem.

01:19:45.300 So the fear-mongering is media-generated, and it's very easily dispelled by the light of reality. 1.00

01:19:52.880 Just don't be a jerk. 1.00

01:19:54.360 Don't be a jerk. 1.00

01:19:55.740 Be a good person. 1.00

01:19:57.480 Wear your hammer.

01:19:58.480 Be proudly Ausitru, and then be the person that you want them to think that we are.

01:20:05.980 Be that.

01:20:07.000 Be worthy of that.

01:20:08.060 The person your grandmother wants you to be.

01:20:10.360 Well, that's the thing.

01:20:11.540 I unabashedly use the term Aryan and I think a certain segment of our people think it's you know

01:20:19.740 like me trying to be edgy or some kind of cool edgy dog whistle it's not it's not it's refusing

01:20:27.920 to be you know bullied into not using something that I think is special but it's also a sense of

01:20:38.160 pride as a self-identifier of our race and being proud of that but it's also a

01:20:45.440 um a benchmark or an admonition to ourselves to be worthy of that because it means noble

01:20:54.000 it implies you know a radiance to that nobility we should be that all the time we should be that

01:21:02.000 when no one's looking but people are looking and as long as you are that and the more of us that

01:21:07.920 are noble good people that are also true the more easily dispelled any kind of you know media driven

01:21:16.720 fear-mongering is out there so it's not something you know the question is not something it isn't

01:21:22.400 something to worry about don't waste time worrying about it but do be conscious of being proactively

01:21:30.160 also true and putting your best foot forward as you do so the more of us do that the easier it is

01:21:36.160 for all of the rest of us oh uh alan next question is for you are those tang sudo forms on the wall

01:21:47.440 behind you no that is um that is the tiger and crane form which is the

01:21:59.840 second of four forms in my particular system of hungar

01:22:06.160 And if and this is a reproduction of an original printing in from Hong Kong in 1949, and it reads actually across the top, but left to right.

01:22:19.560 Anyone who's interested, I would be glad to teach that to you.

01:22:26.080 A very brief history since you expressed some interest.

01:22:30.560 Um, uh, the Kung Fu instructor that I had knew dozens of complete systems of Kung Fu and he had a system that he taught us as a base and then would let us kind of strive after we got the base sets, um, would let us branch off in the direction that we found most appropriate.

01:22:53.060 and hungar is what fit me it fits my body type it fits my um profile um and i could wax on and on as

01:23:07.540 i sometimes do although i also wax off the um but it would uh but it works for me and i still do the

01:23:18.180 system i i found that instructor in 1993 and so i did take some time off when i was raising the

01:23:28.580 kids but so i've been basically practicing this system for if we if we clip out the middle part

01:23:35.860 i've been doing that for 25 years and um you know that too is part of the i think practicing a

01:23:44.900 martial art, very much in keeping with who I am as a, as an odinist, you know, as a

01:23:52.040 author, as a follower of the way.

01:23:55.240 It, it gives me confidence and it keeps me in shape physically and mentally.

01:24:04.660 I think that's really important to,

01:24:08.040 it's hard because so many of our men don't have

01:24:15.920 an avenue for a martial expression of that masculinity but it's very important

01:24:23.680 that our men keep a martial bearing and a martial mindset

01:24:28.020 because having it prevents or it staves off the necessity

01:24:37.080 of manifesting it physically oftentimes.

01:24:43.080 There's another question coming up that I risk bleeding into,

01:24:49.860 But predatory forces in the world look for soft targets, they look for the weak, and they look for the cowardly.

01:25:03.820 If you instill within yourself a bearing of strength, of courage, and of efficacy, it is much more likely that, you know, predatory forces will move on to somebody who is softer or easier to deal with.

01:25:26.640 And that has rung true in my life in a lot of ways.

01:25:30.340 I think that every man at least should learn a martial art, and that doesn't have to be an oriental one.

01:25:42.280 There's a lot of different things.

01:25:44.000 Be a wrestler, be a boxer.

01:25:45.780 But something to where your mind is in a tactical setting often and to where you have confidence in your ability to assert yourself if the need arises, that confidence goes a long way and it can be sniffed out by everyone around you.

01:26:13.360 And it's not just in order to strike fear into your foes, it's also to give confidence to your friends and those that look to you that you are someone who has their back and who is, you know, they can feel safe around, especially women and children and, you know, younger people or older people or whatever situation is.

01:26:38.700 it puts them at ease knowing that you are capable of handling situations.

01:26:44.200 So, I mean, I'm very thankful for that in the martial arts that I've studied and been a part of.

01:26:51.560 And I think it's cool that our law speaker is decades deep into the art of the tiger crane.

01:27:01.920 How heavy are those arm weights that you train with?

01:27:08.700 this is four of them when i use these i have five on each arm i weighed them up one time i

01:27:16.280 you know these are the act these are the large um brass rings and you know so i do 10 sets with

01:27:24.520 five of these on each arm i'm trying to work back up where i have more but and i weighed

01:27:29.880 them one time i i can't remember i think that i think they're about a pound and a half a piece

01:27:36.820 Well, they make a festive cacophony.

01:27:39.800 Right, and that's actually part of it,

01:27:41.600 because you have to concentrate with all that clanging going on, too.

01:27:46.260 There you go.

01:27:50.600 Has there been any major media that tried to cover the AFA in a positive way?

01:27:59.140 Of course not.

01:28:00.680 um major media is not geared towards that any media that would want to cover the afa in a

01:28:11.440 positive way domestically in the united states unfortunately would by necessity not be major

01:28:17.760 media um we have had a number of interactions with reporters that have expressed that they

01:28:25.400 wanted to cover us in a positive way but that their editor had given them a mission of talking

01:28:33.320 about racism or talking about the sexy woke focus that you know that is the focus of media now it's

01:28:44.440 not about truth it's about agendas i don't mean to say that to be jaded i don't want to be that guy

01:28:50.840 it just it is there's been alternative media people that have had um me and others on their

01:29:01.000 shows to do positive things and that's been really nice uh those have had a relatively

01:29:06.200 small audience but i appreciate all of them and that's been very nice um you know there was

01:29:14.680 I don't want to throw them under the bus, but a major newspaper man out here in the West

01:29:30.100 did an article on us and expressed like, man, I really wish that we could have done an article

01:29:36.840 on you guys 10 years ago when we had a lifestyles or a religious section, because what y'all do is

01:29:44.320 very interesting. Unfortunately, my editor wants us to do a

01:29:48.020 story on on racism. So that is going to be the lens that that

01:29:52.240 I'm covering this on. But that's happened a lot. So is what it

01:29:58.180 is the important thing to say, though, is we have never, to my

01:30:03.940 knowledge, had someone in the media who has doctored what we

01:30:09.580 said or you know misrepresented it to the point that we were saying something that we weren't

01:30:18.620 intending to say or that wasn't true so whatever slant they want to put on the story our

01:30:27.740 presence our message has been able to be delivered in the words of our people

01:30:34.780 in a good way that has had a good impact even when the point of the story is to do a hit piece

01:30:41.660 one of the benefits that we have in the world today as polarized as it is and i think that we

01:30:47.180 all see some of the negativity of that polarization but one of the positive things is

01:30:52.140 people that are going to hate us hate us already a story about how terrible we are isn't going to

01:30:57.020 make them hate us any different but there's a lot of people that agree with us and a lot of people

01:31:02.940 that would really like to be with us and the biggest hurdle we have to growth is that so many

01:31:11.020 people don't know that we exist every time our existence is put in front of more eyes of our folk

01:31:19.740 we gain members and we gain fame in midgard and it always helps us as long as we are able to tell

01:31:28.460 our side and that they're not you know doing a deep fake and having us say something we didn't

01:31:33.900 say it always does work out to our benefit fortunately alan do you have anything to add on

01:31:39.260 that the only thing i would say is the um a lot of the stories that came out around um the murdoch

01:31:46.860 um permitting process around that time the press was even trying to interview other people trying

01:31:54.700 to you know don't you know don't you hate those white people over there like no um i remember 0.87

01:32:00.940 there was the one um black fellow that they talked to who said well as long as they stay in their 0.98

01:32:05.420 land i guess they're they're you know i don't have a problem with it soldier slim big ups to 0.82

01:32:11.180 the homie soldier slim in somewhere near linden north carolina and so you know

01:32:18.620 know it is only those few woke overlords that uh that try to dictate this narrative everybody else 0.85

01:32:28.880 you know recognizes that the emperor has no clothes that we are doing not only what is

01:32:35.640 our right to do but what is right to do and you know you know i feel more sorrow for them than

01:32:43.460 anything well something else that is a a result of that it wakes people up it wakes a lot of people

01:32:50.940 up the folks in Murdoch I get it if you just google us and you read whatever hit pieces they

01:33:01.300 do on us then I understand if somebody is concerned um I probably would be if I were them too

01:33:08.440 I don't, I always wonder, and it's fanciful, but I wonder what our enemies really think that we do.

01:33:17.300 You know, anybody who comes to our events, and if you don't believe me, trust, test it, come out to the dedication of Frazehoff.

01:33:25.240 But, you know, we're naming babies and crying and hugging each other and worshiping the gods.

01:33:32.900 Telling stories about our grandparents.

01:33:34.800 yeah and like raising horns about you know our beloved grandparents and I don't know what they

01:33:41.760 think we do but it's not we what we do is not that so um yeah we had a number of people who

01:33:51.000 one of the articles and this goes to to the press the lady who wrote the article

01:33:56.460 says and I quote I've gotten a lot of people stirred up about this

01:34:02.100 no they go try to generate a problem to then report on the problem

01:34:08.740 um no people who uh one of the the founders of the murdoch alliance against hate

01:34:15.640 came by and apologized to us and said it you know what a blessing we are to have in their

01:34:22.020 community we get little notes left in the mailbox about you know how how nice it is have us there

01:34:28.940 and you know people have donated extra you know heating fuel and stuff because they had an overage

01:34:34.940 just to be nice to us we've had great interactions one of the one of the people from from white

01:34:41.340 springs mows the grass like he just you know he when he drives by and sees our grass needs mowing

01:34:48.540 just you know i'm gonna go do these people a solid that's it's really nice and when they see

01:34:57.260 that and they compare it to the articles written it wakes people up to the fact that they're being

01:35:03.260 lied to and there's there's a benefit to that as well um but yeah i mean we work with the environment

01:35:09.180 we're in if we have you know if the tables turn and we have media want to do a wonderful you know

01:35:16.060 glowing article on us i look forward to that day until then we appreciate the opportunities that we

01:35:21.660 get because again they all they all bring folk home to us the the the guardian hit piece that

01:35:29.420 they did uh in in minnesota where uh witten brandy who i saw her in the chat from i don't know if

01:35:34.860 she's still there she is happy thanksgiving brandy she did a wonderful job representing us to to that

01:35:41.420 situation and the whole intent was a hit piece on us that's the single biggest recruitment

01:35:49.020 thing that has occurred in, certainly in my time as Ausheri Gauthier, as far as driving members to

01:35:55.800 us. So. Now, all that being said, if any of you guys know the producers of 60 Minutes,

01:36:03.220 give them that number. Sure. That's the other, that's the other media stance thing.

01:36:10.920 Unless they are overtly dishonest in a way that I know is dishonest,

01:36:15.800 I'm very happy to interact with media in any way that, you know, if they would like to do a story

01:36:22.720 on us, I'm game to do a story anywhere. Because again, what I'm going to say is what we believe

01:36:27.720 and putting it out there in front of eyes that wouldn't normally see it is, is always a good

01:36:31.760 thing. Next question is kind of interesting. And I'll take first swing at it. Do you think

01:36:40.780 malevolent forces fear the hammer or the sign of it my daughter likes to grab an extra mjolnir

01:36:48.100 whenever she spends the night away from us for protection

01:36:51.280 the short answer is yes um i think that um and i think it works in two ways

01:37:09.760 One, I think that the ice giants and other malevolent forces that Thor smashes have both a real and a ethereal existence.

01:37:37.400 And I think that symbols, words, and symbols have the power that we give them.

01:37:47.320 And so that by focusing the ideal of protection and force and strength into this symbol that we wear, I think that it both reinforces and creates the fact that that symbol has power,

01:38:16.260 both as a symbol and as an object, and that has always been the way of our folk that by word and work, we weave the web of weird,

01:38:40.140 And so by saying that it has power and by reinforcing that ideal, I think it absolutely generates power into that.

01:38:51.780 And now, ultimately, that power comes from the Orlog, and it comes from the Ganungagap, and it comes from the owned or prana or chi that we generate as people.

01:39:15.480 But to have that, but it acts as a lens.

01:39:17.960 I think the hammer acts as a lens to focus and manifest that power into the plane of Midgard.

01:39:30.400 Yeah, it's funny because it's such a simple concept and a simple question.

01:39:36.580 The answer is really complicated.

01:39:39.120 And it doesn't have to be, especially for your daughter, for children, for simple people.

01:39:45.480 um as alan said yes

01:39:51.000 i don't think yes in the same way that you see in like the exorcist or something like there's

01:39:57.320 like a thing and you like ah power of christ compels you and you've got the the cross and

01:40:03.400 like it burns the flesh of the the demon possessed or the vampire or whatever

01:40:08.200 dialing it back do i think that malevolent spiritual forces are scared of the silver

01:40:18.820 around my neck no do i think that they are scared of actual mjolnir and of thor yes

01:40:25.660 but the hammer around my neck isn't something i'm going to beat them with a little tiny

01:40:32.120 necklace hammer that's not the point it means something so first if it is spiritually imbued

01:40:43.180 through ritual and through worship and through things I think that metaphysical forces see that

01:40:55.900 in a different way than we see that and i think the object itself with time and ritual and stuff

01:41:05.580 exudes a certain potency that i do think they recognize what else i think they recognize

01:41:12.060 this is a follower of thor this is a a son of the icer this person has a makeup and a character

01:41:21.660 that's integrated into their true self

01:41:25.240 and to a line of ancestry that's powerful.

01:41:28.840 This connects them to spiritual forces

01:41:31.660 on the other side of the veil that are also powerful.

01:41:34.620 I think when we invoke the gods into things,

01:41:45.580 malevolent forces recognize that we are in trough with

01:41:51.120 in allegiance to the Aesir, and that is a cause for concern for them.

01:41:58.600 As I mentioned earlier, that says something about,

01:42:03.400 when I was talking about the martial bearing,

01:42:05.700 if you are empowered by taking heart in your religious affiliation,

01:42:12.200 that makes you a less likely subject of being messed with by malevolent forces,

01:42:20.240 all the more so if that symbol is backed by true practice and built relationship that I do think

01:42:28.400 spiritual forces read on you and are aware of. We believe very much in our philia, our DC or

01:42:36.480 spiritual forces beyond the veil that look out for us. The more aligned you are with that, I think

01:42:42.700 that sometimes malevolent spiritual forces make note of that um it's funny i don't and

01:42:53.100 i hope that i get a little bit of credibility because i don't go off on this too often

01:42:58.140 and i try to be reserved in it because i think it is something that's worthy of

01:43:04.940 being spoken about seldom but when spoken about very serious

01:43:09.500 so i don't know anybody who i don't know if you in your life listener whoever is listening to this

01:43:16.140 knows anybody that you trust has a degree of second sight but there are people who are more

01:43:24.460 attuned to perceiving the spirit world than the rest of us it is interesting because around people

01:43:33.580 that are increasingly spiritually attuned those people often notice that such a person is

01:43:45.100 accompanied by other other beings other things there are spiritual forces attached to them

01:43:53.580 i think there is also a certain amount of protection around yourself when you imbue

01:43:59.180 yourself with that spirituality that others perceive as auras that other perceive in a lot

01:44:05.100 of different ways but again we're talking about i don't feel like that is too fanciful when the

01:44:13.100 question is do ghosts and goblins fear it i think that if we're going to go on that plane then i

01:44:19.580 think it's completely germane to factor in positive things on that um one absolutely i think i think

01:44:27.180 all those horses that you're talking about the at some level it's terminology chi prana kundalini

01:44:38.860 owned uh thrill um you know those are all the same concept that we're talking about and the more that

01:44:45.740 your um personality for lack of a better word the more that your soul and personality and life way

01:44:56.940 is integrated into a holistic view a holistic way of living so that it is all one unified thing the

01:45:06.300 the more intact your um psychic protection is going to be and this flows into the next question

01:45:17.020 so i'm going to go ahead and bring it up because i think it's part of the greater conversation

01:45:20.460 we're having um do you think a lot of people's problems today are spiritual a lot of people now

01:45:27.180 don't believe in spirits so then negative spirits can affect them easier without them noticing

01:45:32.860 anything yes um so okay yes we can we can talk and we will after this we'll elaborate on do you

01:45:45.820 think that people's problem is spiritual yes but putting that aside i mean this and i mentioned

01:45:53.740 it before when people have asked about like demon possession questions

01:46:00.620 bad spiritual forces are real and i think we interpret them differently in different

01:46:07.180 religious traditions but the phenomenon exists

01:46:11.420 this and this was a contrast and this isn't it is a dig at christianity but it's not

01:46:21.140 for the sake of being mean spirited it's an important point i think 1.00

01:46:25.940 if your faith is about how worthless and helpless you are because you suck 0.99

01:46:34.480 and you're terrible and everything you do is sinful and bad the only thing that's good is jesus 1.00

01:46:43.620 so invoke jesus and like clench tightly till your hand bleeds on your crucifix because that's the 1.00

01:46:51.520 only thing that protects you because you suck it inherently conditions you to be spiritually weak 0.94

01:46:58.420 when we don't live in that fear of the other all the time when we have confidence and as you 0.98

01:47:09.900 mentioned in the question when we have spiritual awareness and keep our spiritual head on a swivel

01:47:18.520 i think it makes us much less likely to be victimized by forces that are looking for

01:47:25.080 soft targets to victimize and i really do believe that um i believe that in you know and

01:47:35.080 i think we make a mistake by conceiving of the non

01:47:43.320 physically perceptible as other and like some unknown completely different thing

01:47:50.680 I think a place to start is the rules that we exist by in our physical experience and work with those concepts in the metaphysical or the beyond the physical.

01:48:11.060 And this is my own thing, and Alan may disagree, and I think there's room for people to have some different ideas on this.

01:48:18.060 There was a time, and I know that other pagan traditions do a lot of warding against bad spirit stuff.

01:48:29.260 There was a time in modern Ausatru where a lot of people spent time and effort, you know, doing a lot of protection ritual and practice to try to stave off all of these bad spirits all the time.

01:48:48.060 I have never been a big fan of doing a lot of that.

01:48:53.300 I think a certain appropriateness of that given a situation or given a threat, it makes sense.

01:49:00.120 But I don't do that in my real life.

01:49:03.100 Like I don't act scared of all the stuff all the time, because that's the surest way in my experience to become victimized.

01:49:12.300 When I engage in the spiritual and when I reach out and I open myself to spiritual things, I do so aware and with my head up and my chest out and confidently, not arrogantly to try to flex on malevolent spiritual forces, but confident in my connection with the gods, with my ancestors, with the forces looking out for me on the other side.

01:49:42.300 And I think it's done me well. I think if you start, okay, now's the time of the program. I get into one of my mat bouncing stories. There's this guy I used to work with.

01:49:54.500 okay first when i started in fights a lot of the time when i finished in fights almost never

01:50:06.440 the difference i believe was how i carried myself when i started i didn't know what would happen if

01:50:13.820 there was fights what if what if the guy doesn't leave what if what what if this what about we

01:50:18.900 You can smell that fear and that uncertainty, and it starts conflict.

01:50:27.040 When you don't have that going in, like, well, I'll handle it, I guess.

01:50:32.100 And you go in without projecting that, it doesn't escalate the situation,

01:50:37.000 and you're less likely to be somebody that gets picked on.

01:50:40.600 This guy I worked with, he was always getting in fights with everything

01:50:43.820 because he was so scared all of the time about whatever was going to happen.

01:50:50.980 So every situation would escalate because everybody in there could sense

01:50:55.680 that he wasn't confident in what he was going to do.

01:51:00.020 So having a certain amount of confidence when dealing with stuff,

01:51:03.660 and I know this is meandering, but it does go to the question.

01:51:07.660 When you are aware of the spirit world and you accept it as a real thing

01:51:12.700 and not something that you're scarif scared of the unknown of but that you're confident in your

01:51:18.940 i don't use matrix in the the thing but that you're conf you're confident in your relation

01:51:24.780 to the spiritual i think it makes you much less likely to be victimized by something metaphysical

01:51:32.940 and that was a strange and meandering conversation i hope that it made some sense

01:51:38.140 law speaker if you would like to add anything or bring i agree 100 and i have said many times and i

01:51:44.780 and i'm um i think i'm echoing uh mr mcnallan on this you know that the the problems in our

01:51:55.420 civilization right now are a soul sickness um that's why we have these

01:52:01.420 These aberrant manifestations of psychosomatic illness in all of its many iterations is that people don't have those psychic defenses against these malevolent forces.

01:52:20.140 And, you know, whether you want to think of it as something that's more mundane, you know, at a more mundane level, you know, the whispering of Gimli Wormtongue in the ears of these teenagers, you know, about how many genders there are, you know, or about all these other insane expressions of radical egalitarianism.

01:52:50.140 and all that stuff that has never existed anywhere in any civilization that lasted very long.

01:52:57.480 But people don't have that unified confidence because they have been taught

01:53:05.620 that to even discuss these sorts of ideas is wrong think.

01:53:11.660 So it lets those psycho-spiritual influences in

01:53:16.900 because you don't have your defenses up.

01:53:20.980 And, you know, when you're sitting alone at home by yourself,

01:53:24.200 it's hard to manifest these defenses.

01:53:27.820 But if there are two of you or four or 14 that get together and say,

01:53:36.420 you know, we are the folk soul and we stand united against these forces

01:53:41.720 that would disintegrate us, then, you know,

01:53:46.080 then you can muster the psycho-spiritual energy

01:53:51.540 to defeat the forces of Mordor.

01:53:57.060 Yeah, I said we'd get to it.

01:53:59.540 Is the problem a spiritual problem? 0.74

01:54:01.440 It absolutely is.

01:54:03.040 And it manifests in a lot of ways.

01:54:05.040 It manifests in the metaphysical plane

01:54:10.340 on leaving yourself open to influences

01:54:13.320 of negative spiritual entities, certainly.

01:54:16.080 But in a lot of ways, just erodes your self-confidence. It doesn't make you whole and healthy. The fact that there are psychosomatic effects on your health illustrate this in a profound way.

01:54:30.940 The fact that placebo things, you know, magic feathers work tells you something. There's a capability there and a health there that absent external stimulus, you are not accessing.

01:54:46.080 And some of that is because you don't have a confidence in who you are, a pride in who you are.

01:54:55.020 Pride in who you are and where you come from and sincere faith in your native, inborn, blood-tied spirituality and religion.

01:55:08.860 When you separate a person from that, it weakens them.

01:55:13.140 And it weakens them in a very fundamental way.

01:55:16.080 And we've seen it with a number of different peoples of the world in different ways. 0.95

01:55:24.100 I don't think if we're having this conversation, anybody listening, if you're, you know, an American Indian, if you're an Inuit, I think that, you know, you guys agree with us in this spiritual sickness way.

01:55:38.980 When you're separated from your culture, your tradition, and your gods, leaves yourself open to addiction, to an addiction to alcohol in their situation, addiction to drugs, addiction to food, addiction to just lazy, nihilistic, wasting your time, an addiction to a lot of things.

01:56:05.720 addiction to self-pity, but it leaves you open to a lot of unhealthiness when you don't have a

01:56:13.240 confidence in who you are, where you come from, and your connection with the divine.

01:56:20.660 We absolutely suffer from a soul sickness, and the thing is, we're a robust people. It's taken

01:56:27.120 a long time for that to fully manifest. You know, you watch in medieval times,

01:56:34.320 christianity was a much more like masculine you know it was a a merging the percentage of

01:56:47.440 our folk soul and the jewish christianity was you know 99 us one them then you know 50 years later

01:56:57.200 98 and two of them now it's you know 70 them 30 us in a good situation in bad situations yeah maybe 0.78

01:57:08.720 90 10. when you get there you get to a point where people are rootless

01:57:16.080 our connectivity to our gods and our ancestors and the spiritual realm of those who've come before us

01:57:24.560 us. That's our lifeline that keeps us healthy, that buttresses us against the challenges we face

01:57:33.920 in the world. And that's been eroded. But I'm happy to say we're 50 years into rebuilding that

01:57:41.380 and to healing that. And I've seen a tremendous amount of healing happen with our folk in a very

01:57:47.660 short amount of time. And it's inspirational to see how far we've come in a short amount of time

01:57:54.500 and given longer the potential for how far we can come is tremendous so we've got really good

01:58:02.000 things in the work to heal that spiritual sickness that soul sickness as our founder put it

01:58:07.580 um yeah if you're listening to this if you are watching us if you are listening to this

01:58:15.040 wherever you find us if you're a heterosexual white person if you're an afa member awesome

01:58:21.900 we're glad to have you with us if you're not you should be get on the team there's no better time

01:58:27.660 than today get on the team come with us we're healing it we're healing it together we would

01:58:33.340 love to have your help we would be grateful for your help um yeah so what else we got

01:58:44.060 all right for a palate cleanser alan turkey or ham and why is lamb superior

01:58:51.900 I have not had a lot of lamb.

01:58:58.420 I do like gyros, which I understand is a lamb mixture,

01:59:05.480 which I do find tasty and succulent.

01:59:12.480 My lovely girlfriend, Ann, had worked wonders again this year with turkey,

01:59:19.860 which she rubbed with a chipotle rub 0.99

01:59:24.340 and then did a bacon lace over the turkey 1.00

01:59:28.880 and baked it in the oven like that.

01:59:31.420 So we had the best of all worlds, turkey and pork.

01:59:38.780 So I would say that you're not wrong.

01:59:44.440 In my life, this week, it has been turkey for the win.

01:59:49.860 And if you're wondering why we had our turkey already, it's because my kids are traveling to be with the other half of their family for Thanksgiving.

02:00:03.540 So we did Thanksgiving over here Sunday afternoon and had all the kids and all that stuff.

02:00:10.240 So I've had my turkey, but lamb would not be wrong either.

02:00:17.120 So first, you were wise to leave out of the equation beef, which is superior to all of those things, and king crab, which is superior to all the things of all the flesh of all the creatures.

02:00:42.760 As long as you have butter, you got to have some butter for your king crab.

02:00:47.120 You don't got to, but it helps. It enhances, but king crab is amazing. Growing up in Alaska

02:01:01.880 before you're paying the prices some other people are paying for the things, man, I miss

02:01:08.660 the king crab legs. That's delicious. A lot of people will get the tiniest little serving

02:01:15.780 and consider themselves fortunate.

02:01:17.600 I grew up in a time in Alaska

02:01:19.020 when you could eat until you are stuffed

02:01:22.180 to the brim and uncomfortable of king crab legs.

02:01:25.620 And that's where you want to be.

02:01:29.900 If my choices are turkey, ham, or lamb,

02:01:34.980 now I'm reading into it by your choice

02:01:37.640 that you were referring to Thanksgiving.

02:01:41.000 A lot of memory and nostalgia and stuff.

02:01:44.440 I like a turkey Thanksgiving. But in any other day out of the year, you know, 364 days out of

02:01:53.100 the year, I think ham is the superior of those things. Lamb, I would like to eat more lamb.

02:02:02.320 I've had relatively little lamb in my life. I'll eat it. It's never one of my go-tos, but I think

02:02:09.500 that's just I haven't had enough of it and I'm happy to to remedy that should one provide me

02:02:14.760 with some lamb I will say this lamb is really gamey and it's like uh it's like goat cheese

02:02:25.240 I didn't used to like goat cheese I've eaten a lot of goat cheese and now I

02:02:30.620 you know very much like the goat cheese and I know that it's called something I just don't

02:02:37.920 to mess up the french uh whatever the french noise that it makes is but it's uh there you go

02:02:49.280 it's delicious and i will i will venture this further because it's not about the goat cheese

02:02:54.960 but now that i brought it up the goat cheese that's encrusted with the berries sometimes you

02:03:01.360 got cranberries sometimes you got blueberries that's fantastic and that on a cracker you can't

02:03:08.000 get a better i don't know if this is a frequent thing but growing up with the crab and the butter

02:03:13.520 we used to eat it with rich crackers i know that is a low class like addition to a very fine dining

02:03:20.400 meal but it's good you can't beat saltines man let you saltines whoa that's no stop because it

02:03:30.000 doesn't it doesn't have that Ritz flavor in there messing up your uh it's not messing up anything

02:03:36.560 it's enhancing your life Alan you're smarter than that you are you are a an esteemed barrister you

02:03:42.480 you surely you know the value of a Ritz cracker Ritz and peanut butter now that's what's happening

02:03:50.480 although what before we get too far what this whole discussion reminded me of what a joy it

02:03:56.160 has been to see raw milk come back onto the market um my dog because you can buy raw milk

02:04:04.320 in florida for your pets but my dogs share their raw milk with me

02:04:09.520 and it has been a wonderful experience to return to the joy of drinking milk again

02:04:20.240 it just hasn't been around me i haven't had that much raw milk i would like to have more

02:04:26.160 dude more than just that what I would really like sometime that I've never experienced I just haven't

02:04:32.940 been on a farm at the time whatever like raw raw milk like

02:04:40.620 I mean somebody else can go and milk the cow but like while it's still warm I would be interested

02:04:47.220 in that with like the layer of the cream and the stuff I've never experienced that and

02:04:53.820 I've heard that's really good. I've never experienced it, but hopefully someday.

02:05:05.000 I'm interested in joining the AFA. Would it be best to fill out the form or to speak with a

02:05:10.220 local folk builder first? Yes. All, both. Yes. Don't let... So here's the... Okay. Here's the thing.

02:05:21.200 If you have questions or anything, ask Folk Builder, ask me right now. Email me right now at mattflavell, F-L-A-V-E-L, at runestone.org. I don't want to strong arm you into anything. If you have questions, absolutely get those resolved and ask whoever you need to.

02:05:44.240 but yeah if you know that you want to join go ahead and join up join up and get involved and

02:05:51.280 then you can experience stuff we have things that go on every weekend somewhere hopefully close to

02:05:59.340 you i have no idea where you find yourself but thank you for wanting to join i would say go ahead

02:06:06.380 and fill out your stuff and join and we'll get you situated and you'll get welcomed by a local

02:06:11.940 thing to say is that if you fill out an application a full builder will get in touch with you that's

02:06:16.580 what i was going to say that'll be the thing so you fill out an application we'll run it to make

02:06:22.020 sure that there's nothing you know particularly scary on the background and that you're not a sex

02:06:27.620 offender and that being the case you will get welcomed in by your local folk builder and

02:06:34.420 and shuffled into stuff. And we will, you know, go from there. But yeah, I would encourage you

02:06:41.680 to go ahead and join up. And I look forward to seeing your application. And, you know,

02:06:45.280 congrats to you for taking that step. What else we got here tonight? Oh, I am about three hours

02:06:55.760 from Frazehoff. So that's a wonderful time to join. Three hours sounds like a long time.

02:07:02.740 my family is currently two and a half hours from Odin's Hoff usually three hours is about the

02:07:12.860 you know circle we draw around a Hoff that people attend from so it's a little bit of a way for you

02:07:21.340 but I would I will invite you I encourage you I would love to meet you at the dedication all of

02:07:29.980 would everybody on this program would that's a great you know first start into being part of

02:07:36.300 house true you can also meet our founder steve mcnallen it's going to be a really fun event

02:07:41.500 the hof is awesome yeah we'd love to see you there if you can do it the other thing about

02:07:48.140 yeah you know we we are all in this mentality that three hours seems like a long way but

02:07:54.140 But, you know, 200 years ago, it would have taken you an hour to hitch up the team, you know, to plod an hour to get six miles to the, you know, to the local meeting house.

02:08:07.660 So getting in your car and putting in the key and driving for three hours is not a burden that you should not be willing to overcome to rejoin your ancestral faith.

02:08:19.820 and so I'm glad that you want to join as Ron pointed out in the chat and Ron is a folk builder

02:08:26.520 of ours from New Hampshire within three hours of there like I'm I'm in my head looking in any

02:08:34.540 direction we've got a lot of stuff going on so depending on where you're at in that three hours

02:08:39.860 chances are there's a lot of activity near you and you have that Hoff within three hours of you

02:08:45.480 which is really, really fortunate for you.

02:08:48.960 So awesome.

02:08:49.980 I am excited for you.

02:08:51.140 And like I said,

02:08:51.760 I'm looking forward to your application coming in

02:08:53.640 and hopefully we get to see you at the dedication.

02:08:57.040 Yippee.

02:08:59.520 Do you know, 0.97

02:09:00.460 are creatures like Krampus of Ausitru or Pagan origins?

02:09:05.420 I'm in Prague and going to see Krampus soon.

02:09:09.520 Oh, yeah.

02:09:10.360 I'm sorry.

02:09:10.740 I didn't look who it was from.

02:09:11.640 It's from Fenwraith.

02:09:12.820 um alan do you know about the origins of krampus and things of that nature

02:09:20.280 um yes krampus you know i should have read this book already but i i have a couple of books on

02:09:31.900 Krampus. And I know it is an evolution of the, you know, when we talk about, like, is it, does it have an origin in also true? Not that I'm aware of. Is it, does it have its origin in the pre-Christian folk way of the Indo-Germanic people? Absolutely.

02:10:00.000 It's manifested in, you know, in hundreds of lore tales, the Brothers Grimm, and just the fact that it has survived into the current era is ample evidence that it is our own creation, you know, and it's a manifestation of our own folk way.

02:10:28.400 absolutely yeah certainly it is i don't have any cool like direct connection thing to give you on

02:10:36.800 it it's absolutely a um indigenous aryan european people's cultural phenomenon celebration

02:10:48.960 i am envious of you being in prague i would love to visit prague someday i'm not sure how

02:10:54.000 long you're staying in prague i know you talked about being there i don't know how long the

02:10:58.400 the hitch is that you're there for but that's awesome and uh hopefully i'll get to see prog

02:11:03.920 one day it sounds absolutely amazing you know that's as i want to say uh around the upcoming

02:11:12.720 yuletide season we need more krampus and less santa we certainly need yeah i i wouldn't fault that

02:11:21.600 uh every every yule season i am entertained by uh chocolatey pete of the uh of the dutch

02:11:29.440 um which i think comes from a similar kind of tradition

02:11:36.320 ah finwraith says he is there for one to two years possibly longer well that's exciting

02:11:42.880 uh i hope it is easy for you to get back home if and when you need to sounds like it is over there

02:11:49.360 but um good for you that's that's awesome

02:11:57.760 Alan is there more that you would like to add for our folk this evening

02:12:01.680 in reference to gratitude or anything else

02:12:04.960 um no except to express my gratitude again

02:12:09.520 to you and to all of our folk for allowing me to serve our people in this

02:12:15.920 spot and you know really I would again suggest that that we all be more

02:12:29.900 grateful I have great fond memories of our family expressing gratitude around

02:12:40.100 the dinner table and I think that's a tradition that we would all be well

02:12:43.160 served to uh reinstantiate absolutely um

02:12:59.240 we are living in an amazing time uh those of us that have been at this for any amount of time

02:13:07.960 can see all around us the blessings of the icr manifest themselves we are very fortunate we are

02:13:17.640 fortunate for the ways the gods have blessed us we are fortunate for our afa family we have

02:13:27.080 a thriving community of amazing people and we're doing wonderful things together uh the blessings

02:13:33.800 in our life are all around us they're there for us to see if we stock and stop and take stock and

02:13:42.280 look for them with an eye towards gratitude it is absolutely also true and appropriate

02:13:50.600 to give thanks to the icer for the things that we have and to let our loved ones on both sides

02:13:58.680 of the veil know how much we appreciate the way that they have contributed to all the wonderful

02:14:05.320 things that we appreciate and that we have um let's take you know let's take this time and

02:14:12.280 this opportunity to be thankful and to express our gratitude uh to those that have done so much

02:14:22.200 and continue to do so much for us we are we're fortunate life is good we live in an amazing time

02:14:29.640 with abundant blessings and we are very thankful for it uh until next time

02:14:35.640 Hail the Aesir, hail the folk, hail the AFA, and remember, victory never sleeps.

02:15:05.640 We'll be right back.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - November 27, 2025

11⧸26⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Ep 177 - Adulting with Allen： Gratitude

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