Asatru Folk Assembly - 12⧸21⧸22 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 24 - Discipline

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00:03:00.000 hello guys welcome once again to another exciting edition of victory never sleeps

00:03:20.560 i hope you guys are having an amazing yule out there um i want to thank uh brandy callahan for

00:03:27.920 for hosting for me last week. I had some family in town and that was really nice. My father and

00:03:36.000 my grandmother came down and my grandmother hadn't gotten to meet Aubrey yet. So it was great to get

00:03:42.740 all four generations in one spot. Nick, if you got that picture, you can throw it up. It was

00:03:48.480 really cool to have uh there we go to get that time it's uh my grandma is 92 years old and

00:03:57.760 not sure how many more times i get to see her so it's really nice to to get that time especially

00:04:03.220 during uh during the yule season but yeah thank you uh brandy and and spawn for doing an amazing

00:04:09.720 show i tried to check in on that a little bit and you guys did a great job um tonight we have

00:04:17.760 once again uh folk builder adam hudak joining us because his uh his colleagues overwhelmingly think

00:04:25.280 that he is the living embodiment of discipline so uh we want to talk to adam about that virtue

00:04:33.280 this evening and uh yeah amongst any other questions that you guys might have um anybody

00:04:41.760 that wants to participate in super chat or wants to throw any kind of donations our way um doing

00:04:48.640 that on entropy is the best way and we appreciate any and all of that um without further ado uh

00:04:58.400 welcome adam how are you doing this evening very good thanks for having me back again

00:05:04.080 honored to be here well we're glad to have you and uh you know it's not just a courtesy you are

00:05:11.760 were overwhelmingly endorsed by your peers as the living example of discipline

00:05:16.880 so i am uh glad to have you on and hopefully we can inspire some folks about that virtue tonight

00:05:25.840 we've already got a couple of questions popping up so first one comes from sarah for

00:05:32.720 a five dollar donation thank you sarah we always appreciate it

00:05:36.320 Good evening, Matt and Adam. Matt, I was wondering if you did anything exciting yesterday

00:05:42.880 on Mother's Nights that you would like to share with everyone. Why, yes, Sarah, I did. So

00:05:49.980 Sarah is referring to yesterday was, okay, babbling a little bit tonight. Bear with me.

00:06:00.760 I'm on some cold medicine. You guys may hear it in my voice. I'm a little bit under the weather,

00:06:05.240 So we'll see how long I can make it happen tonight. But yesterday, I was able to go to the high desert, the high desert state penitentiary in California and meet up with some also true folks that were.

00:06:22.360 that practice in that facility and get to see those guys and share a little bit of Yule joy

00:06:32.460 with them. And it was very nice. Some of you guys may or may not know about the AFA's prison

00:06:39.220 ministry and how that works. And up until now, it really hasn't worked. It's one of those things

00:06:46.640 when, for a variety of different reasons, the AFA's always gotten a lot of letters and a lot

00:06:54.300 of correspondence from folks who are incarcerated, but never really knew what to do with it or knew

00:07:03.080 a substantive way to have that be a, I don't know, have that be a productive thing for us. So for

00:07:09.720 a variety of reasons, not a lot was going on with that when I became Yelts Harrier Goethe.

00:07:14.400 me. I jumped right in and I'm like, no, we can fix this. We can help these guys out. I'm going to

00:07:19.820 have all these great letters that we can help folks and whatnot. And I learned very quickly

00:07:26.380 there's a lot more to it than that. Letters that we were getting at the time weren't really about

00:07:32.120 our faith as much as they were about merchandise. And we weren't set up with a catalog to where

00:07:38.180 those guys could get our products. It was a lot of asking for stuff or asking where they could

00:07:44.080 buy stuff. So it wasn't really Ausatru related. I mean, it wasn't corresponding about Ausatru

00:07:50.660 related, I should say. And yeah, we had a number of people step up between now and then that

00:07:57.020 wanted to get that project going to where the AFA was fielding serious questions and serious

00:08:05.380 letters from folks incarcerated and when available to where our Gothar could go and, you know,

00:08:11.940 provide some ritual and religious service for for folks that were incarcerated and a lot goes into

00:08:19.540 it a lot of building relationships with the chaplaincy at different institutions a lot of

00:08:25.620 paperwork back and forth there's a lot more involved than i think people realize so we had a

00:08:30.100 whole lot of people step up and want to try and not be able to not be able to go the distance with

00:08:36.420 it. And only very recently, our folk builder, James Ault, has made great strides in it. For

00:08:43.360 the very first time, I was able to go and go into a penitentiary and get to meet with those guys.

00:08:52.720 And it was a really interesting experience. I had no idea really what to expect, but the chaplain

00:08:58.580 was great and really interested in working with us and making sure the Alcetree guys got

00:09:04.540 religious services. He was very interested in that and very helpful. And the guys there were

00:09:10.760 very thankful, very grateful for, you know, just the time and the thought and, you know,

00:09:16.440 making the effort to be there with them. So it was really nice. We did a little bloat to the

00:09:21.200 Allfather and we had a stumble and we talked for a little bit and it was very nice. It's something

00:09:27.060 I look forward to doing again. So yeah, that's what I did yesterday. And I think it was a

00:09:31.500 It was a nice way to start the start the Yule season.

00:09:37.400 We got another question from Timmy.

00:09:41.440 Adam, you were 2020 Folk Builder of the Year.

00:09:46.080 Now two times a VNS interviewer.

00:09:49.540 Please share with us more with us mortals how you started the path of discipline and maintain it.

00:09:55.900 And then following up, Matt, could you share with us any of your pursuits as well?

00:10:06.780 Adam, so how do you get to be so disciplined and how do you maintain discipline for so long?

00:10:15.340 Yeah, I was thinking about that a little bit over the week.

00:10:18.840 And I have to give a lot of thanks to how I was raised.

00:10:23.940 Um, my, my, my parents were born in the fifties and obviously their parents were, uh, you

00:10:32.460 know, in the twenties and thirties range.

00:10:35.360 So, you know, I always remember my, I've, I've been blessed to be able to kind of sit

00:10:41.320 back and watch, uh, people and, uh, just watch and, and my father, no matter how tired he

00:10:51.280 was he always got up to go to work. He did what he had to do. And I always remember that. And

00:10:58.040 the same with my mother. My mother, from a very young age, and I think it's kind of been lost

00:11:05.300 today. It might sound cruel, but my mom, if I wasn't feeling good, she would say, well,

00:11:15.020 you still have to go to school. You still have to live life. You got to get up and do what you

00:11:19.320 have to do whether you feel good or not and uh so i i would say that that's kind of what started it

00:11:26.100 so from a young age i began to do things that i didn't want to do that i had to do and uh going

00:11:37.700 through in my later years in in teenage years by i went to military school for a period of time

00:11:46.020 And that was. That definitely taught me organization and at a young age, you know, I was only 15, 16 years old.

00:11:59.380 And, you know, that that went with me from that period of time.

00:12:04.220 So and I'm also a little OCD, to be honest, like once I start something, I can't stop it.

00:12:11.300 I have to finish it. That's just how I am.

00:12:13.800 And, you know, in my younger years, obviously, you know, people tell you, oh, that's a problem and whatnot.

00:12:20.300 But I learned how to use it positively in my life.

00:12:26.000 So, yeah, that's that's that's kind of what brought me here as far as discipline goes in that in that regard.

00:12:35.060 And it stays with me.

00:12:36.500 well i think that's that's great to hear and having i don't know it's not it's not always

00:12:47.220 the it's not always what we hear for folks who've come to house to choose that their parents

00:12:51.620 you know instilled a lot of those values in it and you hear it less and less as we get younger

00:12:56.260 and younger people and it's great that your parents raised you with that and raised you with

00:13:01.540 that you know that could that could uh account for a lot of our values not just discipline but

00:13:08.180 you know perseverance and a number of others and it's it's really nice to hear that you

00:13:14.180 had that growing up that's awesome you know you bring up something that i think is really

00:13:19.300 interesting and you know this isn't to make any light of mental health i think that you know if

00:13:24.980 we can rectify our mental health situations do it but so often we have whatever issues we deal

00:13:32.260 with mentally they just are and they exist and they're kind of a part of how our mind works

00:13:38.180 if we can find ways to channel those energies into things that are productive

00:13:44.340 i think that's that's a winning strategy if you can do it um it's not always changing the cards

00:13:51.620 that you're dealt sometimes that's your hand and learning how to play that hand in the most effective

00:13:56.020 way is uh it's an art and it's a really special thing when you can do it um following up on uh

00:14:06.500 tim's question so so matt could you share with us any of your pursuits as well as far as discipline

00:14:14.260 goes. I was thinking about it. And one thing that I think comes to mind for a lot of us when we talk

00:14:23.200 about discipline is physical fitness. I know that's very important to you, Adam. And it's

00:14:32.660 really important to me as well. And earlier this week, you know, this is another testament to Adam.

00:14:38.600 I asked if he had any fat pictures. So I was trying to think if he was ever, you know,

00:14:42.660 out of shape and dumpy looking and had to fix it. And you may not be surprised, but there's no fat

00:14:51.220 pictures of Adam because Adam's always in great shape. And I think that's a testament to the

00:14:55.460 man's discipline. I, on the other hand, wasn't. I got, you know, I tried so hard early on. I was

00:15:04.180 scrawny. I tried so hard to get bigger that I didn't care what dimensions bigger took. So I was

00:15:11.780 i was pretty chunky there for a minute i think nick's got a a fat picture of me from

00:15:18.340 24 said 2015. nick you got that picture there we go and look i was so spoiler alert i was not

00:15:27.380 pregnant i just had a had a very large belly in that picture but one of the things when i became

00:15:33.780 miles here ago is i couldn't i couldn't be a fat dude i had to i had to try the best i could to

00:15:41.940 to look the part and be the part and be in the best shape i could so within a year of that picture

00:15:49.460 i got very disciplined with my diet i tracked every single you know every single macro i ate

00:15:55.860 for a couple years i'm still doing that now that's something that has stuck with me i count my macros

00:16:00.180 and in a very short time i was able to make some progress let's see if there's a

00:16:04.820 progress picture up there nick i know i sent you those two

00:16:12.420 so next quick draw with the fat picture but there we go so i was able i was able to make some gains

00:16:19.540 and uh both of those i think the one over the one on adam's side was about a year from that and about

00:16:26.340 two years from that fat picture is is the one that's over my face there but discipline was

00:16:34.660 the key to all of that um so that's i think that in my afa stuff is i think where i have

00:16:44.980 where i'm the most disciplined and i think that that comes from in both of those instances having

00:16:51.860 a passion for something but i also so think it's a little bit of it's a little bit of tism i think

00:16:57.540 it's a little bit of you know adam mentioned that he's ocd about something he's got to finish

00:17:02.100 something i've got more of a i feel tremendously guilty if i don't do everything i can on something

00:17:10.820 so i've got to outrun the the guiltiness by by leaving it all on the field and by you know making

00:17:17.300 sure i've got nothing to regret about it and i think that's what i do with it one of the reasons

00:17:21.940 that i stay on it so much um but something else that i want to say about discipline because i

00:17:26.900 think it's so important discipline comes from forming habits in a lot of things and i think

00:17:35.780 that's true with um i think it's true certainly with physical fitness goals whether that's losing

00:17:45.060 weight whether that's gaining muscle whether that's upping your performance at a you know

00:17:50.740 at a sport or an athletic accomplishment that you want to do but it's the same with anything else

00:17:57.140 the same with learning a language or becoming more spiritually active or anything else in

00:18:04.340 your life it's forming habits that you do daily and once you develop a routine on them it makes

00:18:12.100 it very easy and it becomes something that you feel um something's missing if you're not doing

00:18:18.420 that behavior that you built that habit around and so that's what's really helped me with discipline

00:18:24.340 i i don't know what do you what do you think about habits on that adam is that something

00:18:27.700 that you find to be true yeah absolutely um you know you mentioned the gym um that has translated

00:18:35.460 a lot to my life because before I ever found Asatru, you know, I exercised. That helped me

00:18:43.560 feel somewhat better. I wasn't complete then, obviously, but I learned a lot from that. And

00:18:49.880 what I found is you're not going to have these aha moments all the time. You know, you're going

00:18:58.120 to have to continuously do little things all the time. And that's really what discipline is. It's

00:19:04.940 it's doing the little things for a continuous period of time to reach your goal. And I translated

00:19:13.160 that to anything else I do, whether it's meditation, all that, you know, probably 80% of the time,

00:19:21.480 I don't notice a bunch of, you know, I'm not some God man or something like that.

00:19:29.300 It's very seldom, but by continuously doing the little things here and there, you find results.

00:19:37.800 So, yeah, it's just doing things that most people won't do all the time, you know, and that's what we need to do as far as this one goes.

00:19:48.800 So, yeah, I agree.

00:19:53.580 You know, I think that's really true with so many things.

00:19:56.980 It's kind of a theme of this program is is victory and victory is more often than not built on the big victory with the big V is built on a bunch of small V little bricks over time.

00:20:15.780 You know, you lay all of that foundation and you build one step at a time with laying those bricks of victory in until you get where you're trying to go.

00:20:24.560 very seldom do you just win in one one big flourish it's you know it's game of inches sometimes but

00:20:31.200 they add up um got some more questions piling up travis asks glad you'll matt can we see your whole

00:20:41.280 ugly sweater why are you calling my sweater ugly my sweater's beautiful thank you um yeah

00:20:46.000 i'll see if i can show you a little bit more of it more of it here

00:20:55.440 i don't know if you guys are seeing it i got a little bit of camera delay

00:21:00.960 but it's got santa and he's uh bringing a bag of gains

00:21:09.920 um we got a question from ally with new year's resolutions around the corner

00:21:15.840 how can we find the discipline to make them stick what would you say to that adam

00:21:20.560 well a lot of people and and you know going back to the gym i've been going to the same gym for

00:21:29.120 many years now and what you often find is people go into it with this idea of completely

00:21:38.600 radically changing their lives right and unfortunately what usually happens is about

00:21:45.160 a month later, you never see those people again, because they went into too radical.

00:21:52.860 Okay, so what we want to do, in my opinion, is not be overly radical with how we go about

00:22:01.020 our changes in our lives.

00:22:03.700 It's the slow progress upwards versus this, you know, big jump and then downward fall

00:22:13.440 that you see with a lot of people.

00:22:15.640 So that would be my advice on it.

00:22:20.160 You know, go into it, discipline,

00:22:24.180 but not so radical to the point where, you know,

00:22:28.020 you can't stick with it because that'll only make you in the end

00:22:33.440 falter in what your goal is, in essence.

00:22:43.440 You know, I think that's I think that's spot on. And it doesn't matter what that resolution is. I know that I go back to the gym a lot with talking about this. And I just think that's a way that it has played out in my life that I think is a go to.

00:23:03.180 but i think these techniques are important in anything that we're doing whatever that resolution

00:23:08.620 might be as adam said if you pick something that's very very hard to do and is radically

00:23:14.300 different than what you're doing now you know if you do and you can stick with it then we'll all

00:23:21.420 give you a round of applause that's amazing but more than likely at some point you're not going

00:23:27.100 going to be able to keep that kind of a radical change and then there's all the feelings of

00:23:34.540 you know shame or regret or defeat that you can't keep it up and those things you know tend to not

00:23:43.420 only do they tend to not make you succeed but they make you regress i know physically a lot

00:23:49.100 when people are trying to lose fat and you know can't keep up with some crazy diet that they tried

00:23:54.860 to get on, they say, ah, screw it. And then they try to drown their sorrows in cake and

00:23:59.880 they eat their, they quite literally eat their feelings. And, and I think a lot of folks do that.

00:24:06.940 So I think setting, setting small, but attainable changes and building on those is, is much,

00:24:16.060 much more important. And in the gym, I think a lot of that, you know, has to do, you don't just

00:24:22.640 add hundreds of pounds on the bar you try to add one of those little 2.5 plates and the next time

00:24:28.640 you go up you add another one and eventually you get somewhere but if you throw you know if you

00:24:33.840 throw the 45s on there every time you're trying to go up weight you end up being self-defeating

00:24:38.560 and you can't you can't do it one of the especially the older we get a lot of the situations we find

00:24:48.800 ourselves in. And again, the go-to is physical fitness, but I think the same is the case in

00:24:54.500 career or in education or anything else. We notice all of the time that we've lost and we

00:25:01.980 try to make up for it by one massive flood. We want to fix 30 years of stagnation with one big

00:25:11.260 push. And it's very hard to do that. If you spent 30 years building a career, building a life,

00:25:17.960 building a body in one way to completely reverse course on that isn't something that's done

00:25:24.220 overnight. It's a steady progress thing. And it's very hard for me when I watch people,

00:25:31.100 let's say folks that are very overweight and they set their mind to fixing it and they go,

00:25:36.980 they do stuff that makes them uncomfortable. They get outside of their comfort zone. They

00:25:40.280 work out really, really hard for a week or two weeks, maybe even a month. And they're like,

00:25:46.840 damn I'm still fat and so they just give up and go back to their old habits because it's so hard 0.97

00:25:52.320 they they feel like they put all this in and they can't immediately notice it and unfortunately it's 0.99

00:25:58.240 it's not a sprint it's a marathon and seeing those results take a really long time I think

00:26:04.160 the same is true of somebody trying to get in you know to get bigger and stronger I think the same

00:26:09.520 is true somebody trying to learn a challenging subject or learning a new language you're not

00:26:14.160 be fluent in a new language after only studying it for a few months it takes putting in those hours

00:26:20.000 putting in that time excuse me yes we got another question uh heathen hammer does the afa still work

00:26:31.440 together with the australian alliance um no we don't and honestly i don't know what the perception

00:26:39.120 was but the afa hasn't really worked with the austral alliance in any meaningful way in a very

00:26:45.520 very long time certainly not since i've been an afa member and i think well well before that

00:26:53.360 i think the afa working together with the alliance probably hasn't happened this century in a

00:27:00.640 meaningful way i'm not sure if there's any follow-up on that or if there's anything specific

00:27:06.000 that you had to ask about that but please feel free to it's a it's an interesting topic

00:27:12.880 bruce asks matt how do i step up to be a part of the prison outreach things

00:27:18.880 the afa have going on right now bruce what you want to do is reach out to james alt

00:27:24.400 and he can you know see where and how you could be most helpful in that process

00:27:30.720 so j alt at runestone.org and he's the guy you want to talk to and you know he is he is a huge

00:27:39.600 reason why i was able to go in yesterday and he's done a really really great job with that so far

00:27:46.480 um antonio asks does the afa um have work or or associated with the odenic right

00:27:57.600 so that's another really interesting topic no the afa really doesn't have any interaction with

00:28:03.680 the odinic right and again probably haven't till you know this entire century

00:28:11.600 what i can think of is at the very very very end of the last century for a very

00:28:16.560 brief period of time in like 98 or 99 there was this idea of the uh

00:28:22.640 Ausatru Odenic Alliance, I think. I think that was the order that they were in, but it was

00:28:33.460 basically all three of those at the time, the prominent three folkish organizations all working

00:28:38.700 together. And from what I've heard, that really didn't ever, ever fully take off or manifest

00:28:44.720 into something in the real world. And since then, the Ausatru Alliance really has become

00:28:52.560 very, very inactive. And the Odinic right. So this is interesting. And maybe somebody in the 1.00

00:28:59.680 chat on the side has more information or can get more information for me. As far as I can tell,

00:29:04.860 the Odinic right doesn't really exist as an organization and hasn't for a very long time.

00:29:12.700 I've always been very interested in our history of modern Alcitru. And I've tried to keep up with

00:29:20.500 them at the very beginning of you know the early 2000s except to about 2010 or so the odenic right

00:29:28.320 had an amazing website and really looked like they were doing a lot of cool stuff

00:29:33.200 since then for for over 10 years now I've I've looked really hard to find pretty much them doing

00:29:41.120 anything and I haven't been able to see it um I haven't seen anything from their uh director of

00:29:48.360 court of gothar in probably 15 years i've heard several individuals that claim to be members of

00:29:56.200 the odinic right but i haven't uh been able to see anything from them as a you know as an

00:30:03.560 organization as a leadership structure in a very very long time uh this is something we've had

00:30:09.960 going on in leadership trying to get this figured out one of the first things i did when i became

00:30:15.320 also here you go through the afa was i tried to reach out to the odenic right to i don't know

00:30:20.680 just to exchange some pleasantries and that didn't really go anywhere and very recently i

00:30:28.360 sent uh email messages i think they have got somewhere like five or seven different

00:30:33.960 email contacts on their website i sent a message to all of those and i didn't get one response

00:30:41.400 so i'm not con i'm sure there are people out there that still claim membership in the odenic

00:30:46.440 right but i'm not i don't believe they still exist as an organization and if i'm if i'm

00:30:52.040 inaccurate in that please let me know i'd love to find out where that really stands

00:31:00.680 um shay asks any advice on dealing with the undisciplined among our folk

00:31:07.080 what boundaries do we recognize adam what are your thoughts on that

00:31:17.320 well i mean i guess it comes down to do do you want to be a good representation of um our people

00:31:26.600 or do you not want to be uh it's really that simple uh do you want to do the things that

00:31:32.360 that make you noble, that make you honorable, that make you be Arian, or do you not?

00:31:39.980 And, you know, it really is that simple when it comes to that in my mind. 0.86

00:31:48.520 Where do you want to be?

00:31:49.980 And I would think if we put it in that perspective and they are willing to listen

00:31:57.140 and want to make a change in their lives, then they'll do it.

00:32:02.360 You know, so that's that's that's what I got on that one.

00:32:07.360 You know, something that I think is important.

00:32:12.360 The question was, you know, about dealing with the undisciplined among our folk.

00:32:17.360 And it's really important to realize that we've got our folk are broken.

00:32:29.360 um steve mcdalen always called it having a soul sickness

00:32:36.400 but the current generation current past you know few generations of our folk are really damaged um

00:32:45.440 we can't suppose you can if you want to but it's not productive

00:32:52.640 to get frustrated at everyone for not being where you think they should be

00:32:59.360 it's just going to burn yourself out on it. There's a whole lot, a lot of people that maybe

00:33:04.400 we can see the potential in that don't see the potential in themselves or certainly that haven't

00:33:09.760 realized that potential. But what's important is, are they moving towards it or not? Or are

00:33:16.620 they moving away from it? Coming down on them hard or being really frustrated because they're

00:33:22.300 not as disciplined as you like isn't going to help make them more disciplined. It's going to

00:33:27.400 further push them towards indiscipline. But I think encouraging the things that they're doing

00:33:35.180 that moves them towards being more disciplined and encouraging and celebrating those when they

00:33:41.700 happen is a much more effective way to help bring those people up. And I think that's what we'd all

00:33:47.100 like to see. But it can be really frustrating, especially if you're a person that holds yourself

00:33:51.840 to one standard when you're around other folks that that don't hold themselves to that standard

00:33:58.080 it could be frustrating and sometimes rightly so so i i think it's a challenge but i think maybe it

00:34:04.000 takes some discipline on uh on our part to make sure we treat those people well and that we

00:34:11.600 realize that that many of us were once where they're currently at and have been able to overcome

00:34:17.760 and and make more of ourselves and encourage them to take those similar steps and that's what i'd

00:34:22.720 suggest yeah compassion compassion is it's the key there yeah absolutely one i think that needs

00:34:32.000 to be tempered with reality your your second half there is what boundaries do we recognize

00:34:36.960 there's a different you can be compassionate and encouraging but also not accepting excuses

00:34:42.320 or accepting things that aren't true one of the things that i find and i think it's important

00:34:46.240 And don't let people tell you things that aren't true.

00:34:50.500 Something I've found when a general statement is made about something, the people that feel guilty always feel the need to chime in with an excuse here or there when they weren't even spoken about.

00:35:04.160 And I think that's kind of a testament to they know they're messed up, but they'll come up with some excuse.

00:35:09.640 Don't accept excuses that aren't legitimate.

00:35:12.240 Those people can, you know, there's a difference between telling something untrue as an excuse or just being, you know, keeping your head down, being quiet and and learning from the exchange.

00:35:26.080 And this may all sound vague. I'm in my head, but I'm thinking about several Internet exchanges that have happened where, you know, man, people really should get in better shape.

00:35:37.420 and then somebody who's not in good shape needs to chime in about their various reasons why they're

00:35:42.400 in bad shape. And yeah, you don't need to be accepting of things that are below a standard,

00:35:49.500 but you should, pointing those out and beating folks up over it isn't helpful. Encouraging them

00:35:55.620 when they move towards that standard is helpful, in my experience. Don asked a question, accompanied

00:36:03.040 you'd buy $5 donation. Thank you, Don. We really appreciate that. Do you guys have any favorite

00:36:08.760 Yule traditions or ideas you'd like to share? Hail Hjolnir. Adam, do you have any Yule traditions

00:36:16.040 you'd like to share with folks? So my kids love, so when I first started off in Ositru and I was

00:36:25.020 trying to learn uh the different soul spritzes and holy days and whatnot um we always did we

00:36:33.980 would leave out a boot and put uh some some like uh cereal or grain or something like that

00:36:42.780 for odin's horse and odin would leave a little gift um one of the knights and they all look

00:36:50.860 forward to that so that's that's probably one of the biggest ones

00:36:57.980 it's uh it's weird that you mentioned that i was gonna i was going to say something very similar

00:37:03.740 we'd go to the to the end of the driveway and leave out an apple for uh for slepner

00:37:10.540 and that was that was something that we did and we do that on uh we do that on mother's

00:37:17.500 night. We do that on the night right before the solstice. Honestly, Mandy and I are still

00:37:25.040 formulating kind of some household family traditions that we want to do at Yule. Our

00:37:30.860 daughter's so young, but she's starting to get to that point where she can get into and enjoy those

00:37:36.280 things. So we're trying to build those into our family as we speak. Yeah, those type of things

00:37:44.200 take time you know it's it's like we've been talking about you know you mentioned someone

00:37:49.480 that's been doing some the same thing for 30 years you know we didn't find ourselves in in

00:37:56.520 this state of affairs as a whole with our religion in just 30 years it's been a thousand years so

00:38:05.320 when it comes to yule traditions each year we slowly build upon it and

00:38:11.000 And we get better at it, you know, so it doesn't have to be perfect.

00:38:15.980 So for anybody that's new, I know some of, you know, 12 days seems like a daunting task, especially when we have to work.

00:38:25.840 We still have other things to do in our lives.

00:38:28.320 So just do the best you can.

00:38:30.740 And for each year, it'll get better and better and better.

00:38:34.100 And your family will get more involved in it and stuff like that.

00:38:37.500 So I just wanted to mention that.

00:38:39.640 Absolutely. Anonymous asks, how does turning the other cheek fit into Asatru, if at all?

00:38:49.540 um so that's interesting uh the reference that you make is a is a biblical reference where

00:39:00.900 jesus instructs his disciples that if uh if someone slaps you in the face turn the

00:39:08.700 give them your other cheek to slap as well and uh

00:39:13.140 That, in that manner, certainly doesn't fit into Asatru at all.

00:39:21.100 But I want to just kind of speak on that because it's a little bit deeper in Christianity, in at least as it's presented in the Gospels.

00:39:31.760 there's this idea of non-violence and non-participation in those kind of social

00:39:42.620 interactions. There's a lot of world-rejecting, almost intentional embracing of victimhood

00:39:52.380 that's involved in that. And that's antithetical and the opposite of what

00:39:59.760 If you read the Sermon on the Mount or the Beatitudes, it almost verbatim is blessed are the losers.

00:40:14.260 It goes through a litany of different people that are beat down, unsuccessful, that, you know, blessed are the meek, blessed are those who mourn. 0.81

00:40:25.560 And blessed are all the people who are losing and on the bottom of society, whereas in Ossetru, we want to celebrate the victors. 0.52

00:40:33.600 We want to celebrate winning. We want to celebrate the courageous and the strong and the vital and the victorious.

00:40:41.660 But in that sense, no, if a grown man slaps you, feel free to defend yourself and to to physically, you know, physically fix that situation.

00:40:55.440 but another thing is to be said i think it's very easy for our people to want to rush out into uh

00:41:03.200 overinflated ideology about needing to be hyper violent or always having to be some barbarian

00:41:10.080 one of the things that is important about nobility is you can choose your actions

00:41:15.920 one of the cores of alsatru is the ability to choose you can grant someone a favor

00:41:20.960 and not give them the butt whooping that they may deserve out of the goodness of your heart

00:41:27.440 or as a, you know, as a kindness to them, you're, you're able to do that. But the difference between

00:41:33.100 that and also true in Christianity is you're not obligated to do that. You can bestow kindness or

00:41:39.220 forgiveness or favors based on your own personal will. And you're not entitled to let anyone walk

00:41:48.300 you or treat you badly and if you choose to accept an insult or you choose to accept something

00:41:55.820 and react in a measured way that's a choice you're making as a noble man

00:42:01.580 and and that's so much more special to me because you're not being being forced into

00:42:09.580 into a into a kindness that's not genuine it's not kind if the only reason that you're behaving 0.98

00:42:14.700 that way is because a vengeful God has determined you must or you're going to burn in hell.

00:42:21.140 It's a genuine kindness when you have the ability to act in an extremely hostile way to those

00:42:30.280 things, but you choose not to. Jordan Peterson said something like that. We talk about you're

00:42:36.760 not a good man if you're ineffectual and you choose not to get in fights because you're

00:42:42.440 incapable of fighting you're just an ineffective man you're a good man if you're very capable of

00:42:47.240 doing those things and you choose to moderate that out of kindness or out of you know benevolence

00:42:54.200 and i think that's how that really fits fits into altitude do you have any thoughts on that adam

00:43:00.200 yeah i mean we don't have to accept unacceptable behavior um but as you mentioned you talked about

00:43:07.240 choice and choice is such a powerful word um we have the choice all the time and how we want to

00:43:15.160 act and how we want to deal with any situation that's one of my favorite words actually

00:43:27.160 well all right so uh katla asks how does the whole macro thing work so

00:43:33.560 what i'm doing is is a version of if it fits your macros and there's different places if you reach

00:43:43.560 out on the side we could give you um websites and stuff that have macro calculators basically

00:43:51.080 if you're trying to gain weight you need to consume more calories than you expend

00:43:57.240 now you can do that in a sedentary eating cake way and you can gain the wrong kind of weight or

00:44:02.520 Or you can do that by lifting hard and eating the right kind of things.

00:44:06.420 Same in the inverse.

00:44:07.960 If you want to lose weight, excuse me, if you want to lose weight, you've got to consume less calories than you're expending and go into a caloric deficit to some degree.

00:44:21.920 But again, just like the other way, there's a right way and a wrong way to do that.

00:44:26.560 And so much of that right way and wrong way depends on what percentage those macronutrients make up.

00:44:35.820 And for anybody that may not know, your macronutrients are your carbs, your protein and your fats.

00:44:42.560 So if you have a caloric goal and it's split up between those things and the ratio, you know, different people may have different ideas on it.

00:44:50.740 Any of those macro calculators. Here's the trick to diets. They all work.

00:44:56.560 You know, if you're changing what you're eating, all of the serious ones work.

00:45:01.800 What makes them work is sticking to them and having that discipline and not bouncing between one or another if you don't like them.

00:45:08.160 But most any serious diets work.

00:45:12.360 But, yeah, I digress.

00:45:14.300 So counting those macros.

00:45:18.180 Every day and keeping track of it now, people do this different ways if they're off what I like to do.

00:45:23.460 and again this fits my like guilt complex thing that i talked about earlier that keeps me on

00:45:28.180 discipline i will keep track of those macro goals every day and with a plus or a minus whether i'm

00:45:37.620 over or under and i try to make that sheet balance so if i splurge and eat whatever i want with it

00:45:43.940 you know one day i keep track of that and over the next day or the next couple of days i try to

00:45:51.540 you know overdue one or under do one and get get the balance sheet to come out right and that's

00:45:57.780 worked really really well for me that way of eating isn't so much to where you're locked in

00:46:03.060 you can literally eat anything you want what you have to do is eat anything you want in the right

00:46:07.860 ratios and if what you want is super fatty then maybe you only get a little bit of it

00:46:14.660 but it gives you a lot of freedom and sustainability in what you do but the thing

00:46:20.180 you'd look up or google is if if m i think if it fits your macros and then make that an acronym

00:46:31.060 and that's what you want to look up if you want to know more about that

00:46:35.860 and me and mandy talked about that i think somebody linked something over in the side or

00:46:39.380 said they could give you a video that we we kind of did a discussion with some folks talking about

00:46:43.780 that and there's probably different ways to do things but that's the way that's worked for us

00:46:46.980 really well um ketty asks adam and matt do you have a particular memory or regret in the past

00:46:58.820 when a lack of discipline occurred on your part what do you what are your thoughts on that adam

00:47:05.820 well generally anytime that i i've had a goal all right or i wanted to do a certain thing in life

00:47:16.620 um when i would not when i would not do one little thing that would add up to multiple things

00:47:26.440 and then i would find myself in a state where i didn't want to be all right and that could be

00:47:34.260 many different things um so yeah that's that's kind of what i i have to say about that uh it's

00:47:43.780 We have to make a choice, I guess.

00:47:47.080 We have to weave our weird when it comes to these type of things.

00:47:51.800 Stop for a moment and say, well, if I don't do this, where will it lead me?

00:47:56.280 And then if I do do this, where will it lead me?

00:48:00.860 And, you know, ultimately it's up to us.

00:48:04.180 But there's been many times in my life where I've been in a dark state, but I've learned from them as well.

00:48:13.780 you know and and that's the unfortunate thing i think about human nature is we we learn at

00:48:20.180 the dark times more than we do at the bad times and that's been my state of of my life for for

00:48:27.620 you know a good part of my life and i and i wish it wasn't like that but those times made me who

00:48:33.860 i am today so uh i i cherish those moments uh as i look back on it you know katie i'm sitting here

00:48:42.980 thinking of a real specific time and I'm having trouble coming up with it. Not because they don't

00:48:49.240 exist. I'm sure there's tons of them. But I'd say the biggest category of times on that is

00:48:58.060 writing stuff. I don't like writing things. And so if I have something I'm supposed to write in

00:49:05.680 a certain time frame, I will procrastinate and put it off and find anything else under the sun

00:49:12.500 that takes some priority, um, instead of sitting down and writing. And I know that's come back to

00:49:18.120 bite me a number of times. So that's something that I always struggle on, on discipline is when

00:49:22.940 it comes to knowing I have to write a certain content or write a piece. That's always very hard

00:49:29.100 for me. Um, Bruce looking swole, Matt. Thank you. Uh, what is your one rep max on the bench?

00:49:40.000 Honestly, right now, I don't know.

00:49:42.180 My joints are in such a sorry state, I can't really bench press heavy much anymore.

00:49:52.100 Bench press just doesn't work good with my body.

00:49:55.280 It puts a lot of stress on my elbows, a lot of stress on my rotators, which are not in the shape they should be in.

00:50:04.220 The best I ever bench pressed a number of years ago was 395.

00:50:11.260 My one rep max was 395.

00:50:13.520 That's the most I've ever got up.

00:50:15.420 It's frustrating.

00:50:16.440 It wasn't at that 405 with the four plates on there.

00:50:19.240 That's what I really wanted to do, and I never quite got there.

00:50:21.940 I got 395 before my shoulders kind of gave out.

00:50:28.180 What about you, Adam?

00:50:29.340 You know your one rep bench max?

00:50:31.280 believe it or not my my bench has never been my strong uh suit so probably uh

00:50:40.640 last i remember was about 280. uh my my bench prep or deadlift sorry has always been uh my my

00:50:49.440 stronger area which i've always liked it's like uh for picking up the uh serpent what's your

00:50:58.400 deadlift max the i've been close to 500 but yeah i always blow my back out right right around those

00:51:08.720 those areas right there deadlift is awesome that's always been my best lift as well i'm kind of tall

00:51:15.040 and lanky so squats are real hard on my knees but deadlift just feels the most natural it's the most

00:51:21.680 primal like lifting up something heavy off the ground that was always the one i was the best at

00:51:26.640 um my best uh best ever deadlift was 620 that's that's my lift i'm super proud of i got a 620

00:51:34.780 deadlift and that was really cool um but yeah that's that's hard to come by uh it has been a

00:51:41.480 long time since i hit those numbers it's really you against you with yeah you against gravity yeah

00:51:49.060 All right. Christine asks, Matt and Adam, can you share what the biggest obstacle you have conquered to achieve your goals and how did your perspective change after achieving victory?

00:52:06.060 What are your thoughts on that, Adam? Do you have something that comes to mind?

00:52:10.600 My greatest obstacle has always been myself. It's really that simple.

00:52:15.960 But how I view the world, my thoughts, whether I'm thinking negative about certain situations, my feelings, whatever, my path to ascension is always hindered by me.

00:52:35.100 So by conquering things that I needed to in my life, that that's what that's always been my greatest obstacle.

00:52:45.860 It's the guy in the mirror. And I and I always feel that for everybody, that's kind of our greatest obstacle.

00:52:53.860 The things that hold us back or the things we think we can't do or the things we tell ourselves that we can't do.

00:53:01.820 So, yeah, it's it's been me. And, you know, that obstacle is not done yet.

00:53:10.920 I still do that daily. You know, I still fight with that guy in the mirror and I probably will fight with that guy in the mirror for the rest of this this round.

00:53:22.340 so you know i think there's now that adam put it so succinctly it's like i don't want to deviate

00:53:32.380 from it because i think that's the truth of most anything it comes down to you preventing yourself

00:53:38.500 from achieving and i think that's you could probably boil any answer down into uh into that

00:53:46.260 very basic answer that applies to to all of us um just thinking about stuff that's held me back

00:54:03.300 and i say that there's some people that have a victory over over disease or over

00:54:07.780 something that is completely external please don't get me wrong but most of us we're just

00:54:11.940 in our heads too much. I guess, so in, in some things I've been involved with, I've been at

00:54:29.520 points where I had a lot of energy or I saw a lot of things that I wanted to be different,

00:54:36.780 But the way things were structured, I wasn't high enough on the pyramid to be able to enact the things that I wanted.

00:54:48.680 So it was very frustrating to have the energy that I didn't know what to do with and watch.

00:54:56.440 Maybe watch other people not take shots that I would have taken or do things differently than I would have done.

00:55:02.120 And that was hard.

00:55:02.980 I'm sticking it out and doing the best I could in my position at my spot allowed me to eventually get to a spot where I where I didn't have anybody in front of me who was doing things differently than I would have or, you know, stopping that flow of energy.

00:55:23.000 And that was a big thing for me. Something else that's been a huge thing for me is.

00:55:28.560 is fear. And I don't mean fear in a, in a terrified sense, but there's a,

00:55:44.080 there's a fear that comes with wanting to reach too high or wanting to go out and

00:55:53.580 do things because every time you every time you want to move forward you want to do something

00:55:58.680 different especially if it's bigger it's important there's a risk involved and you risk losing what

00:56:05.980 you have i'll say this is a huge thing and uh spoiler alert both of these things are about

00:56:12.460 ulterior stuff but um the fear thing and i really feel this and i understand how people get this way

00:56:21.200 when you have success and you have something really cool you don't want to risk it on another

00:56:31.140 roll of the dice you know you don't want to risk the success that you currently have

00:56:37.740 by trying something something new or something something different and that's a poisonous way

00:56:44.940 to think but it makes a certain amount of sense so there's always fear like if i say something

00:56:50.960 wrong or I do the wrong thing. You know, I'm just one dumb decision or one ill thought out statement 0.88

00:56:58.380 away from burning it all down for everybody. And that can be really paralyzing. And I've made a 0.98

00:57:06.320 very conscious effort not to let myself be limited by that. But there's plenty of times those thoughts

00:57:13.520 creep in and I've got to I've got to keep them at bay. So I think that's one of the things that

00:57:19.200 is difficult. And on the flip side, how did your perspective change after achieving victory on

00:57:25.960 things? In both of those scenarios, I think that I've grown to realize the truth that Adam shared

00:57:35.940 with us, that most of it is just overcoming yourself. It's the doubt and the fears and

00:57:45.380 projections and mental garbage that we all have going around in our heads that,

00:57:50.680 excuse me, I'm sorry, that prevent us from achieving a lot of the things that we want to 0.82

00:57:57.960 have. We impose so many limitations on ourselves, or we go into so much of our life thinking that

00:58:06.860 we're destined to lose instead of, you know, wondering what if we won? You know, hey, what

00:58:12.960 if we did achieve what we were trying to do? What can we do? What can we achieve? It's really easy

00:58:18.780 to get a negative mindset and stay in it. So I learned to see opportunity all around me. I learned

00:58:26.820 to recognize the tremendous opportunities that victory brings, but also opportunities that

00:58:34.680 defeat or setback brings. Every shift in your position or in the positions of those around you

00:58:41.460 creates opportunities and if we're so big busy pouting or worrying or stressing

00:58:49.940 we don't see those opportunities we have to get successes and sometimes those opportunities are

00:58:55.460 in places that we hadn't considered before so i think that's something that i've learned from that

00:59:01.540 i know that's kind of a all over the place answer but i hope it gets close to some of the things

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01:00:00.100 katla says matt did you choose that shirt or did someone give it to you

01:00:07.540 very much on brand tonight we're talking about the gym um i actually chose this uh this sweater we

01:00:14.920 were a number of years ago mandy and i were doing a wine walk and it was a you know christmas sweater

01:00:22.600 themed wine walk so we're looking for looking for novelty ones and and uh this one specifically i

01:00:31.460 don't know if mandy found or i found but this is you know this or something very similar was what

01:00:35.680 we were trying to find so uh yeah it does happen to be very thematic i wore it because it's yule

01:00:41.400 not because of what we're going to talk about but it worked out well

01:00:44.460 um sunshine sucks gave us ten dollars we appreciate it it's been a little while since 0.65

01:00:51.240 we've seen you, I'm glad you're back on the show. And he gave a little salute emoji. So thank you 0.97

01:00:56.580 for that. Tony, the King of Shishi, I'm still entertained by that. Matt, Adam, good to see

01:01:06.240 you both on here. Matt, looking stylish as ever. Thank you. How are you both doing tonight? How

01:01:11.780 are you doing, Adam? Very good. I mean, it's the solstice. What more can we ask for? You know,

01:01:18.800 The rebirth of all of it and the rebirth of ourselves in many ways.

01:01:23.240 So, yeah, it's going to be a good year.

01:01:27.040 Let's see what we can all do together.

01:01:31.200 Absolutely.

01:01:32.400 Tony, I'm doing fantastic.

01:01:34.040 I appreciate you asking.

01:01:35.240 I say that.

01:01:36.120 I'm in really good spirits.

01:01:38.280 Physically, I'm not doing fantastic.

01:01:40.040 You can hear me coughing.

01:01:41.120 I'm kind of under the weather.

01:01:42.760 I'm probably going to go to sleep pretty soon after I'm off this tonight.

01:01:46.420 But I look forward to these.

01:01:48.180 look forward to them all the time. Um, it's Yule. So I'm in a good place. I appreciate you asking.

01:02:00.020 So, uh, Shannon hopes that, uh, please tell me Mandy has a matching Mrs. Claus sweater.

01:02:11.920 She does not. I think it'd be really cool, but she does not currently have one. Um,

01:02:15.880 I'm not sure if I've seen those, but if one exists, that would be neat if she had it.

01:02:21.700 Anonymous. As a woman who's been pregnant three years in a row now and gained a tad with each, how can I balance my mom life and exercise when I live too far from a gym?

01:02:34.940 Adam, do you have any thoughts on that? 1.00

01:02:36.220 well i can only i can't always give advice on um you know what a woman should do obviously being a

01:02:46.380 man i can only with my own wife um we have many children and uh with her just taking care of the 0.53

01:02:58.540 kids alone has uh keeping her or kept her in uh in in a very good condition um

01:03:11.340 i i wish i could give a little bit better answer than that but i i know kids

01:03:16.220 keep us thin so maybe have more that maybe maybe just do that

01:03:22.140 so it's a good question and that's hard um

01:03:29.500 you're in and again i i answer this with a certain amount of humility i realize i'm a guy and um i

01:03:38.140 don't know what it's like being pregnant or how that all works or feels i've watched my wife deal

01:03:44.140 with you know deal with that and deal with gaining some gaining some weight during pregnancy um 1.00

01:03:52.140 So one thing, yeah, chasing around your kids helps, you know, there's, it can wear you out. That's a thing. And it's hard. I, you know, outside of professionals and even then, I don't think there's a way to go through a pregnancy without gaining, you know, without either losing some muscle mass in some area.

01:04:18.940 There's no way to really do it without damaging your musculature in some way.

01:04:24.160 It stretches your body out in strange ways.

01:04:26.860 It causes you to be less active, certainly towards the end stages than you would otherwise be very often.

01:04:34.480 And eating the extra calories to grow a healthy baby, you're going to put on a little bit of extra weight.

01:04:39.560 That's just a thing.

01:04:40.360 um and unfortunately i think hormonally and everything else it's hard to it's hard to get

01:04:48.300 that extra baby weight off that's something i've heard from everybody so what i would suggest a

01:04:53.440 couple of things um one thing that you don't need a gym for is nutrition any physical change you want

01:05:02.180 in your body is and i forget the ratio but it's something like 80 the diet and 20 the exercise

01:05:09.480 so if your diet's on point that can help a lot

01:05:14.340 there's a lot of stuff you could do specifically for weight loss things at home

01:05:20.660 i'm not a big fan of at-home workouts i love the gym i like the environment i like that way of

01:05:27.180 training but that's not the only way of training there's a lot of stuff you can do there's ways you

01:05:34.020 can get equipment for your house you can get bands i know a lot of people do band training and that

01:05:39.160 works a lot, resistance bands. So you can do a lot of exercise by looping those bands on things.

01:05:46.220 You can get an exercise bike. You can get a stair climber. You can get a lot of things for

01:05:49.900 your house that you can do for cardio stuff and a little bit of toning and shaping, especially

01:05:55.400 the lower body. There's a lot you can do. There's a lot of videos out there. One thing that I would

01:06:03.600 suggest and i don't know your financial situation but getting a personal trainer to advise you and

01:06:10.320 come up with a plan for you even if you're not at a gym but somebody who you can check in with

01:06:15.440 regularly that can plan your routine psychologically that's such a huge thing because

01:06:24.720 there's just something with the human mind and accountability if you have a third party that

01:06:29.040 takes that thought process away from you, sets up what you need to do, and you can trust in them to

01:06:37.060 get somewhere, it kills a lot of the self-doubt you have about if you're doing something right

01:06:42.300 or if you should be doing something else. If you just stay the course on what they tell you to do

01:06:47.160 and you check in with them, those check-ins can motivate a lot of change. And having that third

01:06:53.100 party to be accountable to really makes a difference for a lot of people. So I think

01:06:58.340 that's what I would recommend. All right. So we got another, another question.

01:07:12.360 Yes. Putting time and energy and spending knowledge on your growth. Oh, it's a mustache

01:07:19.260 real thing. I'm not really entertaining those questions. Got a question from user one, two,

01:07:24.940 three hi matt is it possible to donate to the afa through amazon smile i think i was able to

01:07:31.980 find the astral alliance on amazon smile but not the afa everyone out there if you find the afa on

01:07:39.740 amazon smile amazon smile it is a trap it is not official please do not use it um

01:07:46.060 um officially Amazon kicked us out of the Amazon smile program I believe four or five years ago

01:07:58.240 we were on there for a time but Amazon decided that we see the world in ways they find unacceptable

01:08:05.320 and they no longer wanted us to have uh participate in that part of their charity program

01:08:10.780 so no we are not on Amazon smile I have no idea whether the Alliance is or isn't

01:08:16.060 or what they would do with that money if you donated it.

01:08:21.260 For both of you, what are you doing to try and instill discipline in your children?

01:08:28.300 What do you recommend?

01:08:30.360 Adam, maybe you've got some good ideas on this you can share with folks.

01:08:35.060 I think it's all about what they see you doing.

01:08:38.160 Um, you can tell people often till they're blue in the face, uh, whether it's kids or, or, or adults, um, what you should be doing, but often people learn by just watching and seeing and seeing how you live your life and whatnot.

01:08:58.000 So I hope that my kids see some of the things I do and maybe they challenge themselves later when they get a little bit older and, you know, see that, well, dad did this and whatnot.

01:09:14.120 So and obviously give them little hints here and there.

01:09:19.360 i think uh i think like anything if you try to push them to one way they go the other

01:09:32.320 so we want to stay centered um and not push too much in any one way because i know when i was a

01:09:40.240 kid when my parents told me to do something and they were adamant about it guess what i did i did

01:09:45.720 the other thing so all right i'm not sure if you guys can still hear me adam uh adam's feed went

01:10:02.520 down on my end but i think we'll get him back here soon um yeah i hope you guys can still hear me i'm

01:10:13.000 just going to go push through. Awesome. Thank you. So we got another question. What type of

01:10:23.440 workout would you suggest for women just getting back into exercise slash weight training to be 0.98

01:10:28.860 able to be consistent and successful without being overwhelmed? Do you have any thoughts on that, Adam?

01:10:34.540 well anybody that knows me knows i like burpees so i mean i think it's kind of

01:10:46.440 ones that that works pretty well so maybe burpees are a good test of your will um they uh

01:10:59.500 they pretty much work everything, um, in your body, um, and, and whatnot. So,

01:11:05.240 yeah. All right. Well, I'm going to take a back step for a question because I realized I didn't

01:11:12.560 answer my portion about the kids and the discipline. So to answer the rest of that

01:11:18.400 question, my daughter's really little, she's two and a half. There's not a lot we're doing to

01:11:24.260 instill discipline, but what I think is a part of discipline is routine and habits.

01:11:29.500 And we are pretty good about that, about having a set nap time and a set bedtime and routines on those.

01:11:35.900 And toddlers are really big on routines.

01:11:37.920 And hopefully we can continue some of that as she as she continues to grow.

01:11:43.080 I didn't want you to think I didn't wasn't going to answer my portion of that. 0.98

01:11:47.980 As far as stuff I would suggest for women getting back into exercise and weight training and stuff that's not going to overwhelm them.

01:11:55.660 Everybody's different. Every woman's different. 1.00

01:11:57.860 Every man's different as far as what they feel is overwhelming.

01:12:04.560 I would. The only thing that we have to go on when answering those kind of questions is like imagining what if it was me and I can't really what if I was what if I was a girl.

01:12:18.220 But as far as I'm concerned with that stuff, I get excited about it.

01:12:25.080 So the routines that I would do, I'm pretty much doing similar stuff that I did when I first started out.

01:12:32.120 And it's never felt overwhelming to me because I just enjoy it so much.

01:12:36.280 If you're a person that doesn't like going to the gym or that's overwhelming to you, then maybe a routine that's only, you know, three days a week, maybe a Monday, Wednesday, Friday thing to start out.

01:12:47.500 do a entire complete whole body workout on each of those days, doing big compound exercises

01:12:54.440 like deadlifts, like squats, but doing full body workouts on each of those three days.

01:13:02.580 I think that's a way to go. If you're not opposed to that, though, I would recommend the same stuff

01:13:07.980 I do, the routines that I post in the AFAs physical excellence program. And I go to the gym

01:13:12.920 every single day. But I do that because it's something I love. So it's hard for me to imagine

01:13:18.680 like that doesn't feel overwhelming to me, but it may very well to somebody who's not used to it

01:13:24.400 or who doesn't enjoy going to the gym. But I think going to the gym and immersing yourself

01:13:31.420 in that atmosphere is very helpful and it helps get you in a mindset and around people who are

01:13:37.740 pursuing similar goals. And I think that's always nice, even if you only go a few times a week.

01:13:42.920 but I'd suggest, you know, for anybody do the routines that I post on the physical excellence

01:13:49.040 thing. Um, you are somebody who doesn't like going to the gym or it is intimidating for you.

01:13:55.620 Full body workouts three times a week is what I would suggest. And I think you can make a lot

01:14:00.860 of progress just starting out that way. Um, Miranda asks, what deity do you feel best? It's

01:14:09.840 best to call upon in times when discipline is needed. What are your thoughts on that, Adam?

01:14:16.260 Photon. Yeah, that's, I mean, you can just look at the lore and all that he does and all that he

01:14:24.160 chases and the things that he wants to do. And not so much for himself, but for all of us.

01:14:31.480 That's, I would say that deity, you know, the high one represents discipline at its, you know,

01:14:39.160 highest level in my mind. You know, I don't think that there is a bad choice on that.

01:14:50.000 Our gods are multifaceted, and certainly we have gods that stand out for different things

01:14:56.640 and different reasons, but there's a lot of overlap. If you have a god you're particularly

01:15:03.600 close to, or you call on regularly, I think calling on them to help you with discipline

01:15:10.100 is never a bad choice.

01:15:13.080 I think if you had to choose one just randomly that personifies discipline, certainly I think

01:15:22.400 Odin is a very good choice for all the reasons that Adam suggested.

01:15:26.260 um for one reason and one one thing that i i think of is his the very name odin implies

01:15:38.620 it implies ecstasy but not

01:15:46.400 not just ecstasy by itself but the mastery of ecstasy so odin is a master of the woe he masters

01:15:58.200 the overwhelming ecstatic state and he masters basically he brings order to chaos he brings

01:16:07.800 discipline to the undisciplined um and though that's in a spiritual energy form i think it

01:16:15.220 applies to anything we talk about, Odin is certainly a god of self-mastery, of mastering

01:16:21.940 his environment, and of literally shaping will and order into chaos in the way that

01:16:31.020 he dismembered Ymir and shaped our reality, in the way that he reshapes reality with

01:16:39.480 his use of the runes. I think he's certainly an excellent exemplar of discipline. Another one I

01:16:47.800 think is worth mentioning. I think Tyr is also a good God to call upon for discipline. It takes

01:16:54.120 great discipline to be able to sacrifice and follow through with agreements and oaths, even

01:17:02.540 if they're very disadvantageous to you. I think there's a tremendous amount of willpower and

01:17:09.180 discipline involved when tears in the picture and in worshiping tears. So I think that's a good

01:17:16.080 choice as well. All right. Another question. All right. It's another mustache real question.

01:17:27.640 Nick, you can just leave those off if they're silly.

01:17:39.180 all right so this kind of puts it in in place there's there's a whole lot of real talk going

01:17:45.160 on and i think that's fine people have fun with it there's a lot of talk going on about

01:17:49.560 real being involved in your facial hair choices but the basic question uh that the king of cheese

01:17:58.440 is asking is what is real and uh in a serious way adam do you want to enlighten folks about

01:18:08.240 thrill in a in a serious way as opposed to in the less serious way well if you're familiar with um

01:18:18.880 some of the indo-aryan concepts of uh prana it's the same thing it's like the the uh fifth element

01:18:28.800 if you will um it's all around us it lives within us and and and we uh actually generate it a lot

01:18:37.760 in ourselves, all right? So that would be the idea of Vril. It's really the same thing

01:18:47.520 in that aspect. You know, one way of thinking about Vril is your magical potency.

01:18:56.000 And harnessing the energy of Vril is similar in a lot of ways, I think, to what's described as

01:19:03.680 ki or chi in the martial arts. Vril is channeling your magical potency and being able to put it

01:19:13.060 into effect. And there's a lot of different writings on it. Some of them make more sense

01:19:21.180 than others. But yeah, I think that's what they're going on about. And they're implying

01:19:27.860 it as a reference to the prowess that comes with their facial hair choice.

01:19:33.680 Shea asks, when undisciplined children are disruptive at our events, at what point do we address the child or do we only address the parents?

01:19:44.900 See, it's a real touchy question, and I don't think there's a perfect answer to it.

01:19:50.200 But I think that the place to start is what Adam said earlier.

01:19:54.660 You don't have to accept the unacceptable.

01:19:56.740 um i think that if you are aware that problematic children are going to be at an event

01:20:07.960 the best thing to do is set those standards early in front of everybody without singling anybody out

01:20:16.600 say hey guys this is what we're doing we're here for something very serious today we got a lot of

01:20:22.100 kids. That's amazing. But parents, please help. During rituals, we can't have noisy children

01:20:27.680 or we have delicate things in this house. So please keep an eye on your children.

01:20:34.140 Lay that groundwork up front and it will make everything that flows from it more

01:20:39.940 easier to handle down the road. And I mean, don't physically discipline other people's children,

01:20:49.580 but feel free to step in and tell children what is and is not acceptable, especially if it's in

01:20:55.000 your home or involving your things. You got to use some common sense. I think speaking to the

01:21:02.860 parents is always going to be more effective, but, you know, parents, certainly parents within

01:21:09.580 the AustroFolk Assembly should not be upset if their children are out of control and another

01:21:14.740 adult needs to appropriately tell them what the boundaries are and what behavior is and isn't

01:21:20.900 appropriate in their home um and i think that we all need to feel more comfortable doing things

01:21:26.260 like that do you have any thoughts on that adam yeah well towards it you know what you said at

01:21:32.100 the end you know are all a a family when it comes to that so i don't think uh you know if if if i

01:21:41.940 were to say something to someone else's child i think i don't think anybody would be upset with

01:21:46.580 that you know we're we're a big afa family and uh but at the and on the other side though i know

01:21:52.340 kids are going to be kids so we do the best we can uh to try to make it work they're they're

01:21:59.140 unpredictable they are unpredictable um try to deal with it i'll tell you this if aubrey's at

01:22:05.540 an event you're at and she's acting up please do not hesitate to tell her about herself or tell me

01:22:10.900 if I need to handle it. As Adam said, we're, we're family. And I, I think, you know, I mentioned

01:22:22.120 earlier in the program, and I apologize, my coughing is getting terrible. I'm sure it's

01:22:25.740 bothering you guys. I promise it's bothering me too, if that makes you feel better.

01:22:31.920 But we talked about it earlier a little bit.

01:22:34.960 we, our people are broken and we have so many, so much mental baggage that we come into situations

01:22:44.620 with. And I think that there's a defensiveness that parents very often have when other people

01:22:50.680 try to step in and say something to their children or say something to them about a way

01:22:56.660 their children are behaving. We feel a need to step in and be defensive and, and it takes some

01:23:03.960 effort to break that. But none of us should be upset or offended if an adult in an appropriate

01:23:09.180 way stops our child from behaving badly or asks us to take care of our child if our child's

01:23:16.960 behaving badly. We should want to fix the problem rather than be upset that somebody would bring up

01:23:22.540 the problem to us. But that takes some growth, and that's easier said than done. I know a lot

01:23:27.180 of people have a lot of issues that way, and it takes growth on people's part.

01:23:34.440 but at the end of the day do right and fear no one uh if your child if you're around and kids

01:23:40.600 are acting up say something if parents are not controlling their kids say something it's much

01:23:46.680 better if you say something up front than if you let it build up and become a bigger problem over

01:23:50.760 time um uh aphid uh so we got a question another question are you eating lots of meat and animal

01:24:05.800 fats adam are you eating lots of meat and animal fats i actually just got off this uh vegetarian

01:24:15.560 diet for since kind of our last podcast i wanted to see how long i could go so actually i was going

01:24:22.840 till tonight and uh the 21st was my my oath if you will uh to eat meat again so i just started eating

01:24:32.760 meat again more just a mental thing i wanted to see if i could do it um but yeah for particularly

01:24:40.520 i i eat a lot of raw eggs and raw milk that's like my thing i i love raw milk so uh i eat a

01:24:49.800 lot of that and uh and obviously i'll be eating more meat uh as of you know going forward from

01:24:56.680 now again so i eat a lot of meat um i eat a whole lot of meat uh as far as the animal fats it all

01:25:04.680 depends again i count my macros and if i've already spent those fats on other sources then

01:25:11.160 i know i tend to stick with lean meats in that in that occasion

01:25:17.080 but if i've got the fats to spare absolutely i love animal fats and i do think they're very good for

01:25:22.040 you uh matt and adam what do you do to get ready for bloat mentally adam what do you do to prepare

01:25:30.840 for your bloods mentally um well generally when it comes to like the holy days i usually take like

01:25:41.200 a week or two to really think about what the importance is and kind of just like i have i

01:25:46.360 mentioned in my last uh response to the last question um i do things that are difficult

01:25:53.620 I changed my routine a little bit going into the holy day.

01:26:00.460 And once that day comes, I particularly don't eat before I do bloat.

01:26:08.360 So if the bloat's at 5 o'clock at night, I'm not eating anything all day.

01:26:13.640 I feel I can generate more power fasted.

01:26:20.740 My energy is much stronger that way.

01:26:23.620 Um, I certainly make sure that I don't drink, uh, alcohol or anything like that.

01:26:29.660 Um, so that's, that's kind of my, my take on it and it's serious, uh, what, what I'm

01:26:37.120 doing.

01:26:37.560 So I, I take it very seriously, uh, as far as that goes, uh, you know, so that's, that's

01:26:44.340 kind of some of the things I do.

01:26:45.980 It's just changing my routine from what I normally do, even a little bit more so before I go into it.

01:26:58.120 So it's interesting to hear that.

01:27:02.660 I was curious what Adam would say as well.

01:27:04.480 I think every – and some of you may not know, but Adam is training to be a goethi,

01:27:11.100 and I think that he'll do a very good job and make a very good goethi when he gets his ordination.

01:27:15.980 But every Goethe, I think, has a different process that works for them.

01:27:25.860 You know, I have no problem eating.

01:27:29.640 Because it's on festival holidays, you know, I will eat like a hog before I do a bloat.

01:27:37.680 I will, you know, if people are drinking, I'll drink.

01:27:40.400 I don't do that as much.

01:27:43.280 But what I do. Sorry, talking tonight is way rougher on me than I thought it would be.

01:27:52.160 I know I'm coughing a lot. A lot of things.

01:27:57.720 So I like to go over it in my head several times what I'm going to do and make sure all my logistics are in place.

01:28:06.760 It's funny. I'll walk around, you know, and look like I'm talking to myself and I'll look real serious.

01:28:11.960 people think I'm upset or something. And I say, no, I'm just preparing for bloat because I got

01:28:15.600 to get in the right headspace. I like to go in wherever the ritual, wherever I'm going to be

01:28:20.740 conducting the ritual. I like to go there and walk around in that area and feel the space,

01:28:27.600 get a sense of the space, become comfortable with it. Depending on who I'm going to do bloat to,

01:28:36.280 I usually usually say a prayer before before it's game time to, you know, express what I'm trying to do during bloat and to hope that I I to assure them that I want to represent them and honor them in the best way possible and kind of renew my commitment to do a good job with that.

01:28:56.520 that gives me some peace of mind and some steadiness.

01:29:01.260 Sometimes I'll galler a rune or multiple runes if it's relevant to what we're doing.

01:29:08.320 But all those things are really important to getting in my headspace. So one of the things

01:29:12.220 I'm so in the zone before bloat on what I'm going to do, it's always very helpful when other people

01:29:17.320 help me make sure I've got everything I need. It's really easy to space something or not have

01:29:22.840 a sprig or, you know, forget one of the bottles of mead or not remember to bring a horn or

01:29:30.240 whatever you're doing because I'm focused so much on the ritual itself that the little

01:29:35.440 bits and pieces, it's really helpful when I've got people there to look out for me that

01:29:39.360 way. But it's, if you haven't done it, I don't know if it makes sense, but there's a tremendous

01:29:54.060 amount of energy involved in it. One of the ways that I know if I do a really good ritual versus,

01:30:01.540 is a kind of ho-hum ritual is how exhausted I feel after it. The rituals that I've done that

01:30:14.300 have been the very best, they will drain you. So much energy literally flows through you

01:30:21.580 when you're connecting our folk with our gods or our gods with our folk.

01:30:27.220 you're a living conduit of all of that energy and if you do it right and if the gods are present

01:30:36.820 it'll it'll exhaust you i know a number of people myself included have had to just go

01:30:42.480 lay down afterwards because it's it's very powerful um so preparing yourself for that is a

01:30:51.800 little bit different for everybody but those are the things that i like to do that i find help me

01:30:56.480 how tall and heavy uh else harrier goethe is right now uh thank you for another great stream

01:31:06.380 gentlemen you're very welcome um how tall seems to be a matter of some dispute

01:31:12.020 up until this year i would have told you that i am six one and a half but according to uh

01:31:18.780 according to my general uh practitioner and according to her height thingy uh i am and i

01:31:25.680 checked it and it seems right i am six foot even and one half inch so

01:31:34.560 i suppose we got an inch variance there uh how much do i weigh

01:31:41.680 right now i weigh 232 which is pretty low for me but uh my body fat's down at

01:31:49.920 uh 18.2 right now i'd like to see that get under 17. if i could get like 16.9 i'd be

01:32:00.080 really happy with that and maybe i'd go in bulk for a month um but yes that's my my height and

01:32:06.240 weight at this juncture uh any news about sigerheim developments uh yeah as a matter of fact we're

01:32:18.400 We're going to do our first moot at Sigerheim on the 14th of January, and I'm looking real forward to that.

01:32:26.680 I'm very excited about it. I'll be flying down.

01:32:29.600 A number of people are going to drive over for it because a lot of people are excited to see it and check out the property.

01:32:34.120 At this stage, we're going to go through and get kind of a physical sense of the layout of land, exactly where the boundaries are.

01:32:49.360 The guy that did a survey didn't really do a 2022 survey.

01:32:54.940 he did kind of a 1922 survey so it's referenced from you know this fence post to this tree to

01:33:01.820 you know this degree angle this many feet to this other tree to this other tree to this other tree

01:33:08.300 so i'm assuming and i'm hoping that he flagged those trees

01:33:12.860 or spray painted them or did something if he did we'll be able to follow that pretty good

01:33:18.140 um if not we'll be doing a little bit more exploring uh but we're excited about that

01:33:25.980 we're going to do that i don't think we have our first person lined up to move onto the property

01:33:32.300 yet for a little while that's uh that's going to be coming in the coming uh probably year to

01:33:40.540 year and a half hopefully we'll have some folks that can move out there earlier than that but uh

01:33:46.060 don't want to put the cart ahead of the horse on that but all of that's going very well people have

01:33:51.980 been generous on trying to help us pay that off which is great we always need help with that

01:33:57.260 though if you would like to donate to that help effort and help us with sigerheim

01:34:02.060 please donate to the link that nick threw up but those are there we go those are the

01:34:08.140 developments as of right now but i'm very excited to actually get on the land and to

01:34:13.100 to be there with our folk.

01:34:15.220 And we'll be doing that next month.

01:34:22.820 Another, if you have...

01:34:25.100 What?

01:34:27.360 All right.

01:34:28.280 So my feed over on the side

01:34:30.660 is getting filled with a lot of nonsense.

01:34:32.560 So I got to sort through that.

01:34:33.700 I apologize, guys.

01:34:35.860 How does one keep harmony

01:34:39.860 in a house with divided religious views?

01:34:42.540 thanks Adam do you have any thoughts on that Adam can you hear me all right I

01:35:11.060 think adam is down i'm not sure what's going on but uh i can hear you okay i was saying do you

01:35:16.600 have any thoughts on how to how to keep harmony in a house where there's divided religious views

01:35:21.920 well luckily i haven't had you know too much experience as far as when you when we say

01:35:33.220 division is it like hostile you know i for me i i never experienced that um in my household uh my

01:35:42.900 family uh my wife my mother you know obviously she don't live here but you know my my family

01:35:49.860 in general has always been very uh good to me in that aspect so um i i think we need to remember

01:35:59.200 that not everybody understands what we are doing. Obviously, this is, you know, we're starting to

01:36:08.220 turn back the wheel, if you will, after a thousand years of Christianity. So it's going to seem 0.95

01:36:17.540 strange to some, you know, maybe our family members and whatnot on what we're doing. But

01:36:24.200 I think you just continue to be yourself and be a good person. And over time, that your family or

01:36:35.400 in your household will see what you are doing is effective and making a good, doing something good

01:36:46.260 in your life. And I think that's what it comes down to. People see results, not so much what

01:36:51.940 you say to them. You know, we can talk all day about what we do, but if we're not really

01:36:59.100 doing it, it doesn't mean anything. So I think it's just, it's something that happens over

01:37:04.720 time. And yeah, so that's what I have to say about that.

01:37:14.000 You know, it all depends on the nature of the household. If the division is between

01:37:20.360 you know, if you're a young adult and you're in a household where your parents are hostile to your

01:37:31.380 faith, that's, that's one scenario that you deal with one way. Um, if you're, you know, if you're,

01:37:39.600 if, if the conflict is between parent and child, it's very different than if the conflict is

01:37:45.340 between husband and wife.

01:37:47.780 And you got to address those a little bit differently.

01:37:50.040 If there is a divided house first, 0.84

01:37:54.040 and this is something that is just true,

01:37:57.420 it doesn't necessarily mean an action item,

01:37:59.860 it's just a true statement,

01:38:02.780 that's really, really unfortunate.

01:38:06.360 It shouldn't be like that.

01:38:10.140 Our house, your house should be united

01:38:14.400 in the things that are most important. And your faith and the root of your values and your beliefs

01:38:20.160 should be something that unifies your family. And if it doesn't, it's important to examine

01:38:27.240 why that is and to take steps to alter that situation if you can.

01:38:34.720 If it's your parents and they're not going to change what they do,

01:38:38.120 that's a little bit different. You've got to figure out a way, much like Adam said,

01:38:43.340 to show them the value of your beliefs through your actions and through the person that you

01:38:49.460 exemplify. I've said that on here a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred more. The best way that

01:38:55.840 we can change anyone's preconceived conceptions of Alcitru is by being the example, by living it to

01:39:05.040 the best of our ability, by being great people. And when people ask or wonder why, attributing it

01:39:11.960 to your faith and to our gods and to our afa say being part of that has helped you be the

01:39:17.800 the man that you are that's what's that being the living example is that's everything

01:39:25.640 some of that applies in a spouse situation some of it doesn't um it's also difficult if you've been

01:39:32.360 married for some time and you move one way religiously and your spouse doesn't or your

01:39:39.480 spouse moves one way religiously that you don't want to go then that's a really terrible situation

01:39:45.960 and uh it's important that as you're able you move your family in the right direction

01:39:59.560 with some of these things and some of these core values especially within a household

01:40:04.520 to go along and, you know, everybody do their own thing. Kumbaya is, uh, it's really not the

01:40:12.700 optimal situation. And depending on your position in the household, if you're the head of the

01:40:18.700 household, it's your job to rectify that situation and to make sure your family is in the right spot

01:40:27.440 spiritually. It's not just a smorgasbord that, you know, everything's just as good as everything

01:40:33.560 else it's not if you believe this sincerely then this is the way your family should be going and

01:40:39.160 if they're not you got to fix it if if at all possible um but yeah i know that's not necessarily

01:40:47.720 the answer everybody wants to hear but that's that's the honest answer

01:40:55.880 question for adam which one of the gods do you think best exemplifies discipline and why i think

01:41:02.360 I think we already went over this, but Adam, if you've got more to add on it,

01:41:05.380 if there's some nugget that you didn't hit earlier that you can throw in.

01:41:10.620 No, I think I kind of touched on it.

01:41:14.040 For me, it's always going to be Botan.

01:41:18.540 That's the God that best in every aspect.

01:41:25.900 um he's he's always doing something more always becoming more always rising to the occasion and

01:41:35.500 whatever he's doing um uh to to to the goals not for just for him but once again for all of us

01:41:43.380 uh so so we can follow that and and and and live that in our own lives as well so that

01:41:52.120 that okay adam you broke up there um our next question is what are some spiritual thoughts

01:42:07.560 for this yola i don't think i've ever seen it spelled that way um

01:42:16.760 i'm gonna give uh adam a second here to see if his equipment starts working again

01:42:22.120 spiritual thoughts. So Yule is a, it's a good time for lots of things. But what I think,

01:42:30.960 especially coming at the end of one year and at the very start of a new year,

01:42:37.540 it's a really good time to take stock of how did 2022 go? What did you achieve?

01:42:46.980 Did you did you achieve the things that you sought out to? What can you celebrate? What great things happened for you and your family or people that you care about or your kindred or the AFA or just in the world in general that you're happy about?

01:43:04.040 celebrate those things. And if you have failures or things that you didn't achieve or things that

01:43:10.400 didn't go the way you want, examine that. Come up with a plan. How are those things going to

01:43:15.340 get better in the coming year? What can you do more? What can you do different? What plans can

01:43:20.640 you put in? What do you want to accomplish by this time next year? Annual's a time of celebration.

01:43:29.400 Don't evaluate those things in a masochistic way and beat yourself up over it.

01:43:35.760 But it's a good time for self-examination and for taking stock of the good things you have going on in your life and taking stock of, you know, things that you'd like to make better.

01:43:48.580 I think that's a really important part of you.

01:43:52.340 The other thing is spend that time with your family as much as you can.

01:44:00.160 Spend time doing Ausitru stuff.

01:44:02.940 This is a special time of year.

01:44:05.180 Take it all in.

01:44:06.160 Make time to pray and go before your altar.

01:44:09.600 Make time to do bloat.

01:44:11.140 Make time to do sumble.

01:44:13.060 Make time to get together with the rest of your AFA family and participate in things.

01:44:19.560 Really get the most out of this time of year because it's special and it's powerful.

01:44:23.160 And it comes once a year.

01:44:25.120 um so celebrate it wholeheartedly and fully and get the most out of it and uh make and this is a

01:44:35.520 thing be happy if you're currently happy because it's you and you're surrounded by family and

01:44:41.260 friends awesome if you're not then make yourself be happy because it's really important one of the

01:44:48.780 So it's kind of a random thing, a little bit of a deviation, but the holidays for all of our people is one of the most amazing, happy times of the year for so many.

01:45:04.760 But it's also the height of suicides and of depression.

01:45:09.080 if you're in that spot and this is part of what i've been saying this whole time

01:45:16.140 if you're sad if you're depressed do not be alone if you are sad and you are depressed

01:45:23.940 be happy reach out and do something with people do something with your friends do something with

01:45:31.440 your family if you've got them if you don't got friends reach out to a folk builder or

01:45:37.060 our go-thar and get together with some of your afa friends that maybe you haven't met yet

01:45:42.820 don't be alone this year celebrate this with people that matter make new friends cherish old

01:45:49.700 friends but please don't be alone and please don't be sad and depressed i know that's way easier said

01:45:57.220 than done but please reach out it's really important something i think we just need to

01:46:02.020 take stock of this time of year there's a lot you know as dark as things may be for some people in

01:46:09.300 some circumstances there is so much beautiful that we are surrounded by going on right now

01:46:16.500 sometimes it's hard to see but it's worth making that effort the best you can stay positive

01:46:25.940 and last question of the night adam do you still consume raw eggs and if so how many

01:46:32.020 well i've i've always eaten a lot of eggs uh ever since i was as early as i can remember

01:46:40.800 um i always eat at least five a day uh all the time um and actually within the last

01:46:48.980 i don't know year or two i i started eating them pretty much just raw all the time um it's a lot

01:46:58.360 easier and you can take in a lot more actually matt you might remember when i messaged about

01:47:03.720 that a while back um trying to ask some advice so yeah i never get sick from them it's amazing

01:47:12.120 the stuff that you can eat um and not get sick from so yeah if you know if my fats are there

01:47:21.080 i've gone through periods where i've drank uh at one point in time i was drinking a dozen a day

01:47:27.560 and it goes down easier if they're if the yolks are broken up i think i sometimes if i'm going

01:47:36.120 for i'd say if i'm going for six or more i start gagging on the yolks so if they're broke if the

01:47:43.560 yolks are broken up that it all goes down a little bit easier for me but everybody's different

01:47:48.360 everybody's got different situation that way but uh yeah i know a lot of people that drink

01:47:55.240 raw eggs. I don't know anybody that's got an illness from it, despite the concern that some

01:48:01.280 might have. So guys, I could, I could try to ring out some more questions. I could prompt you guys

01:48:09.200 to ask more stuff. I've answered all the questions in the queue for today and my, my throat is

01:48:15.740 killing me. But I want to wish you guys a very, very happy Yule. I want to thank our guest, Adam.

01:48:21.600 Thank you so much for being on here. And it really is a testament now that for our noble virtues, two of them, your colleagues think that you are the guy.

01:48:32.960 So congratulations on that.

01:48:39.480 And everybody else out there, until next time, please make sure you're having the best you can have.

01:48:47.060 Know that I love you and I'm thinking about you.

01:48:50.200 I hail the gods, hail the folk, hail the AFA.

01:48:54.120 And remember, victory never sleeps.

01:48:58.180 Happy Yule, guys.

01:49:17.060 We'll be right back.

01:49:47.060 Thank you.

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01:51:17.060 We'll be right back.

01:51:47.060 Thank you.

Asatru Folk Assembly - December 22, 2022

12⧸21⧸22 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 24 - Discipline

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