Asatru Folk Assembly - April 13, 2023


4⧸12⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 40 - Olvir of Egg


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In this episode of Victory Never Sleeps we are joined by Justin Day Folkbuilder out of Texas. Justin talks about how he got involved with the organization and how he came to know about it. He also shares some of the history of the group and how it came about.

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00:03:00.000 Hello, everyone, and welcome to another exciting edition of Victory Never Sleeps.
00:03:20.640 this uh this evening we have another uh a lot of them are first timers that are doing
00:03:30.000 our uh presentations on our outs of true heroes and today we're going to be joined by
00:03:35.280 justin day folk builder out of texas
00:03:38.160 yes so that'll be very exciting trying to think any top of the top of the show business to
00:03:46.000 bring you guys up to speed on
00:03:48.240 um as of yesterday our first settler arrived at uh at Sigurheim and is living on the property
00:03:59.760 down there we're very excited about that um trying to think of other new things since last week
00:04:07.860 I spent pretty much all day on Monday out at High Desert Penitentiary in Susanville doing
00:04:21.300 some prison ministry out there. And it was neat to meet the guys out there and be helpful to some
00:04:26.600 folks trying to practice our faith while they're incarcerated. And so that was interesting.
00:04:33.360 thing. And we recently set up, and Nick's got a link for it, a donate link for if anybody wants
00:04:40.780 to help with any of the prison ministry stuff. And that's basically going to go towards literature
00:04:46.300 that can go to the chaplain for the chaplain to own and lend out as he sees fit. So it'll stay at
00:04:53.660 the institution and be there for our folks trying to learn how to practice Alistair True the correct
00:04:57.760 way while they're incarcerated so that's new since last we spoke um also guys remember
00:05:05.120 tonight if you would like to uh donate to us we appreciate that and uh entropy is a really good
00:05:14.160 way to do that uh we get your donations on entropy and we'd also if you want to participate in super
00:05:19.520 chat if you want to have your uh your question come to the front of the line that's a way to do
00:05:24.320 that also but we really appreciate you guys appreciate your generosity um we're being
00:05:29.200 broadcast on odyssey entropy twitter vk and youtube right now excellent we got our first one
00:05:38.160 travis uh bodish our one of our folk builders out in colorado doing amazing jobs 10 us dollars we
00:05:44.960 appreciate you travis hail the gods hail the folk hell the afa hail victory says travis
00:05:50.080 fantastic so we're getting the show started off right first and foremost and we'll talk about
00:05:56.820 uh over here in a second but justin since it's your first time could you tell people
00:06:02.240 a little bit about i guess first a little bit about how you found ausitru and how you found
00:06:09.740 the ausitru focusing um well i guess like a lot of people just um you know i i i like to say i
00:06:19.620 wandered the desert of religion for almost two decades i was raised kind of loosely christian
00:06:26.660 lutheran um you know my dad was kind of a christian agnostic kind of country boy and then
00:06:33.220 my mom was lutheran i was kind of raised with that but um you know the older i got just the more and
00:06:39.300 more i started to see the holes in that ideology and just the more i realized that i didn't really
00:06:46.980 fit into that so um got started with meditation and buddhism when i was like 15 uh continued
00:06:54.900 exploring you know i kind of went all over the spectrum did i was into wicca for a while and
00:07:01.460 then as i kind of got into my my 20s i um kind of fell away from religion in general and was very
00:07:10.420 very agnostic atheist just very into like quantum physics theoretical physics and ended up kind of
00:07:16.420 you know full circle um you know realizing that
00:07:20.740 many of those truths of science have been discovered by the ancients
00:07:24.580 uh through our spirituality um but as for also true itself yeah just
00:07:30.740 uh looking at videos online um you know i as i was around 25 26 i
00:07:39.780 kind of started to realize the kind of the the
00:07:43.460 logical case behind social being socially conservative and um i was looking to get into
00:07:50.340 religion kind of tried to get into christianity again because that was what i knew that's what's
00:07:55.060 kind of what's popular and just again it was a square peg into a round hole um saw a lot of
00:08:01.300 videos online uh you know they were of you and uh stephen mcnallen uh saying a lot of really great
00:08:08.340 things you know being very proud of our of our heritage and um you know just the more i heard
00:08:13.860 about uh also true the more it resonated with me and um so i went ahead and took the plunge and
00:08:21.140 joined the afa and about when was that um that was a few years ago yeah about three years ago or so
00:08:31.860 um so yeah it was six months here i was you know just kind of lurked in the in the group chats
00:08:37.620 didn't really get involved uh you know a lot of the events were kind of far away i said you know
00:08:42.580 it's it's not really worth it but you know people kept telling me they said man justin you got to
00:08:48.340 come out to an event there's just there's nothing like it and i said uh you know it's it's i don't
00:08:53.620 know but finally you know uh one of the guys they came to my town grabbed me by the scruff of my
00:09:00.500 neck threw me in the back car dragged me down to san antonio i'm in dallas myself and uh
00:09:05.540 From the seconds I experienced my first blow when I felt that heart to hand to horn
00:09:13.380 um
00:09:14.820 I knew there there was it was nothing like nothing i'd ever experienced and I knew right then and there
00:09:21.860 That I had to be at every single event from there on out and I just
00:09:26.980 I was so blown away and I mean
00:09:29.220 You know two three years later here. I am i'm a folk builder and this is my life and
00:09:33.780 And I know this is my calling and I want to be remembered for it.
00:09:37.680 And yeah, this is this is my everything.
00:09:44.000 So a couple of things just to acknowledge quick.
00:09:48.480 Ashley, thank you very much.
00:09:49.800 Ashley thinks I'm cool.
00:09:50.960 I see over in the chat.
00:09:52.040 I appreciate that.
00:09:54.140 And Ronald Blake just donated $50 towards one of our one of our elder Goethys and his wife.
00:10:02.420 having some financial trouble and we've got a donate link on our site about that so he just
00:10:06.180 threw uh 350 at that we appreciate that a lot ronald is on here i think every week donating to
00:10:13.940 us in a substantial substantial way and uh i just want to i just want you to know we really do
00:10:19.860 appreciate it thank you so much um all right so justin can you tell people and we're going to get
00:10:30.660 to all we're here in just a second i promise but can you tell folks a little bit about the afa in
00:10:36.580 texas what we've got going on and then nick if you could throw up a uh um an email address for
00:10:43.220 justin in case we got anybody listening or watching this in the in the lone star state
00:10:47.940 that would like to be involved uh yeah yeah so we um right now we kind of are doing a circuit
00:10:56.260 it. As you all probably know, Texas is a huge place. It's hard to cover all the ground. So we
00:11:03.200 do our monthly bloats just like every other area. We rotate between, we'll go from the Dallas area
00:11:10.000 to the San Antonio, Austin area. And then this month we'll hit up the Houston area and kind of
00:11:17.640 make that circle. I often throw local events here in Dallas myself. And there's lots of people who
00:11:24.340 are looking to set up events like that so if you're interested in uh meeting some great people
00:11:29.700 and learning more about uh more about the osier and how you can deepen your connection with them
00:11:34.980 i i strongly encourage you to uh go ahead and put in an application or shoot me shoot me an email if
00:11:41.060 you have a question or ask me here all right and without further ado for anybody who has never
00:11:48.580 heard of him before can you tell us what you know about us a true hero oliver of egg
00:11:59.220 yeah absolutely so oliver of egg is one of our uh honored heroes and he made his fame
00:12:07.540 during the reign of a of a man named king olaf ii um known to the catholics as saint olaf
00:12:15.780 um not to be confused with olaf tryggvason who was several generations before him but he ruled um
00:12:23.060 he was uh established as uh king olaf that is was uh established was recognized formally
00:12:30.180 as king in 1015 and was king of norway until he fell at sticklestad in 1030 a.d um so what was
00:12:40.580 going on was he was part of the forced conversions of Norway to Christianity.
00:12:51.460 During the Viking Age and Europe in general, it was a very brutal time when kings, often in
00:12:57.940 in order to gain the monetary support of the Catholic Church, were basically murdering
00:13:06.900 innocent people uh for refusing to convert to catholicism to christianity and um the trondheim
00:13:14.260 area had been especially difficult in this regard and this is where olvir of egg comes in or oliver
00:13:22.260 of egg yeah in uh i guess old norse um so word came to olaf of some little parties that he was
00:13:32.660 throwing that where they were honoring their and their ancestors and the gods and goddesses that
00:13:38.260 they had always known and so he sent uh people to summon uh they were called his bonds uh b-o-n-b-o-n-d-e-s
00:13:50.180 and they were kind of like representatives of the area uh almost like um like
00:13:56.420 it's basically people who report events to and report the will of the people and such
00:14:01.220 um so bolver and several of the bonds came to stand before king olaf and see the first time
00:14:10.020 this was in the autumn of 1020. um so i so i guess the seren the event he would have been throwing
00:14:16.580 would be something similar to what we celebrate in ossitrua's winter finding today um so he
00:14:23.540 was asked about you know hey what's going on and he said you know you know these are just uh these
00:14:34.900 are just kind of communal drinking rounds you know you know people out here you know they like to
00:14:39.860 they like to get together and feast and have fun and you know there's nothing really religious
00:14:44.580 about it um he's quoted as saying as to what may be may have been told you of the words which may
00:14:50.420 have fallen from a fallen from us thrown behind people in our drinking parties men of understanding
00:14:56.180 would take good care not to use such language but i cannot hinder drunken or foolish people's talk
00:15:02.820 so yeah he said you know that's not what's going on anybody who told you that maybe they were drunk
00:15:07.540 and they heard something that they misunderstood and just kind of played it off um olaf you know
00:15:13.540 he's not dumb so he's like hmm all right sounds suspicious don't let me hear about this again
00:15:20.420 and so he goes back to throne time well didn't stop her um so again the king heard talk of
00:15:30.240 a yule feast uh there were great sacrifices uh great drinking uh great honoring again to the
00:15:37.540 ancestors to the gods to the forces of nature and uh he again summoned the bonds and he was um
00:15:45.100 quite he was he was angry this time he was not having it many of the bonds were afraid and many
00:15:51.580 of them did not come with olvir but olvir was a brave man and he stood before olav again
00:15:57.580 and he said to him you will feast and drinking feast wide around in the districts the bonds do
00:16:04.560 not prepare their feast so sparingly sire that there is not so that there is not much left over
00:16:09.440 which people consume long afterwards at marin at one of the towns there is a great farm with
00:16:16.480 a large house on it and a great neighborhood all around it and it is the great delight of
00:16:20.000 the people to drink many together and company so again olaf he's not convinced uh but he he said
00:16:29.680 look if i hear anything else about this there's going to be trouble so he sends him on his way
00:16:35.760 well he sends informants to kind of tag along and start listening in and see what's going on
00:16:42.240 and in the spring of 1021 uh his attention that olvir was gathering resources for an ostara feast
00:16:52.400 and so this time the king didn't summon the bonds he summoned his bailiff uh his name
00:16:57.200 whose name was thoraldi from frondheim to olvern and he uh he asked him he said he said listen
00:17:05.760 I'll make sure nothing happens to you, but you need to be honest with me.
00:17:09.240 What's going on out there?
00:17:11.040 And he spilled the beans.
00:17:14.020 So King Olaf sent it was five ships and 300 men to capture Olvir.
00:17:21.660 Olvir was executed, his property sacked, and many of his men were maimed, killed, driven from the country.
00:17:30.180 Their belongings appropriated by the king for his empire.
00:17:35.760 And, um, it was, it was, it was, again, really brutal. So it was, uh, it was in, but still he held his bravery. Um, and the reason that I chose Olvir, um, he, he's kind of different from some of our other heroes. Many of our heroes, there's something, you know, they led in these huge battles and they, uh, did these, these larger than life things.
00:18:03.340 Olvir, and not to speak little of him, he was known as a great chieftain, a great gothing,
00:18:11.980 and a man of honor and prestige among his people. He's the owner of a great farming estate, but
00:18:19.420 he in many ways was a normal guy, just like us, who had the courage to stand up for what he
00:18:29.020 believed was right and so and it seems like that's something that we see less and less of today as
00:18:36.860 the air of political correctness has continued to envelop our culture
00:18:44.520 i think it's that we need to bring back uh it also reminds me of you know because we here in
00:18:55.040 united states we have so many great examples of people from the american revolution who
00:19:01.840 spoke their minds under pain of death um many of the people who signed the declaration of
00:19:07.840 independence for instance were you know they're they were killed arrested their homes burned and
00:19:15.520 all these terrible things so that we could have the freedom in this country to speak our minds
00:19:20.400 and i think we need to we really need to remember that that it's so important to a functioning
00:19:29.940 society for us to speak the truth so that so that tyrannical rulers cannot
00:19:38.900 cannot establish their faulty viewpoints over the people shall we say
00:19:46.040 all right well there you have it and you have uh you've accomplished a first so this is our
00:19:53.960 third episode on heroes and in the questions line right now we have uh two and a half questions that
00:20:02.760 are related to our hero today so that is a first in the previous episodes we haven't had
00:20:07.960 any questions about the hero that we were featuring um that said not one of those questions
00:20:14.840 gothi trent east asks justin is there a god or goddess you feel closest to and if so why
00:20:23.640 well i i guess when i started out uh much like many men um odin and thorne were the first one
00:20:30.360 the first gods that i identified with and i still do love them they're such great examples of how we
00:20:36.040 can how we can live our lives um i'm always very strongly identified with odin because he's known
00:20:44.520 for his bravery but he's also known for his wisdom and as someone who is i consider myself a lifelong
00:20:52.520 learner and that's that's so important um he also practiced the esoteric and he's uh just a great
00:21:02.680 example of a leader but uh as i as i became a leader myself and i've kind of grown into this
00:21:08.680 position um i've grown closer to tear because i have learned more about the selfless service and
00:21:22.040 self-sacrifice that goes into being a leader and really all of the gods and goddesses i've
00:21:29.320 cultivated a much closer relationship with because as a spiritual leader i have to work with people
00:21:37.800 who very closely identify with those gods and goddesses and through them i am able to build
00:21:43.960 a connection with them and learn more about them as people sounds good um all right and our our
00:21:55.720 half-related question from Catla. Okay, serious egg question. Favorite way to eat your eggs.
00:22:05.080 What is your favorite egg preparation, Justin? Scrambled with cheese and breakfast sausage.
00:22:15.000 Sounds good. I'm gonna go off the res here and not really a breakfast egg.
00:22:19.400 deviled eggs. I love me some deviled eggs. I can eat an infinite quantity of deviled
00:22:25.640 eggs. The serving is whatever quantity finds itself in front of me. That's going to be
00:22:31.620 my favorite. From Sarah, where does the egg part of his name come from? A town, a family
00:22:41.800 name, maybe it's a translation. Justin, enlighten us.
00:22:47.000 It comes from, that was the name of his farming estate.
00:22:49.400 I'm not sure if that was named after the region, but that's what he was known as.
00:22:54.780 Olver of the Egg or Eggia Farming Estate.
00:23:00.240 There you have it.
00:23:03.320 Katie J asks, good evening, gentlemen.
00:23:06.500 Which of the nine noble virtues would you say that this hero exemplifies the most?
00:23:12.720 What are your thoughts, Justin?
00:23:17.580 Courage.
00:23:19.400 I think that sounds solid. It's funny because when you overthink it, you always find many of the virtues that kind of overlap. I was going to say courage, but I was torn on fidelity and perseverance as well.
00:23:38.920 One of the things that is powerful to me is he took his responsibility seriously as, and this was kind of a thing, as one of the more well-to-do people in his area, it was his job to take on the responsibility of making sure our gods were worshipped and of leading his people in our religion.
00:24:05.840 and this was a time it would be very very easy for him to give that up and go along and get along
00:24:13.680 and be much much safer but he took that responsibility very seriously and not only
00:24:18.800 to take it seriously to arrange for the sacrifices and the feasts but to then go and stand before the
00:24:25.280 king in enemy territory and show his face representing the people um that certainly
00:24:32.480 it exemplifies the courage that justin talked about but also it's part of his his fidelity to
00:24:39.200 our gods and his perseverance in continuing our faith even when it was outlawed so that's my
00:24:46.960 thoughts on that um dan mason our folk builder from maine asks what is your favorite part of
00:24:55.840 being a folk builder just being able to help people um whether it's being able to counsel people
00:25:05.200 through times of hardship maybe grief or maybe they are in between jobs or you know they're
00:25:13.760 experiencing a crisis of faith you know they have problem with drug abuse or you know there's so
00:25:21.600 many things that i've encountered being a folk builder that i've been able to help people with
00:25:27.840 and it's you know it's kind of hackneyed the um you know the old saying that you know it's
00:25:35.040 oh you know service is uh the the quickest way to happiness and you know i never believed that
00:25:40.480 until i started doing it and it's it's addictive being able to help people and you know and not
00:25:47.600 just individuals being able to lead community service you know it you it makes you and
00:25:54.800 in addition to the people that you get involved in those community service projects you know that
00:25:58.480 you're you're taking responsibility for your environment you know whether you're you're
00:26:04.800 leading a a park cleanup or a food drive or whatever it may be and uh yeah it's fantastic
00:26:13.040 give it a try so we got a an important reminder over in the chat everybody who's listening to
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00:26:52.560 perhaps would enjoy hearing this or perhaps need to hear it
00:26:58.400 question from ryan orion wotenson in what saga is this hero you're talking about in
00:27:05.520 Justin can you tell them yes that is the heimskringla the saga of the kings of Norway
00:27:16.720 and this is in uh king Olaf's saga correct in the heimskringla yes sir yeah if you guys
00:27:24.000 haven't read that that was one of my uh you know what that was my first bit of of our lore that I
00:27:31.280 read and i read that right when i was on the cusp of you know just just leaving christianity but i
00:27:38.400 wasn't didn't fully find alsatru yet and so i read the heimskringla and it's awesome it's a great work
00:27:48.160 of history and it's a really good collection of sagas and i think it's a really good place
00:27:54.240 to start for a lot of folks if you do have an interest in history
00:27:57.520 um from katla also justin uh can you tell us about a powerful spiritual or magical experience
00:28:09.680 that you've had yeah every time i galder is a magical experience um that's something that
00:28:19.280 resonated with me very strongly from the moment that I found this faith was the wisdom of the
00:28:28.340 runes and the ability to use resonance to change what's inside of you, you know, be it your body,
00:28:39.200 your mind, your spirit, or your inner, your inner guard, as well as your outer guard,
00:28:44.520 you're projecting those vibrations into the world um often i will i try to galder every day
00:28:51.580 and often i'll have incredible visions of maybe things that should happen maybe things that i
00:28:59.100 want to make happen maybe things that will happen um there have been a couple times that i think that
00:29:04.920 i may have made contact with spiritual beings um i i don't like to get too too serious about that
00:29:11.720 But I, the way I take it is, you know, was it real?
00:29:15.820 Well, it was a real experience and, um, those, those experiences meant a lot to me and they
00:29:22.360 help guide my actions and my thoughts.
00:29:24.360 So I put a lot of stud into it, but that's going to be up to the individual.
00:29:29.480 But, um, yeah, as the wounds go, study them.
00:29:35.480 They'll do you right.
00:29:38.240 All right.
00:29:38.840 We got a $3 donation from Michael.
00:29:41.260 thank you Michael we appreciate it hail Matt hail Justin hail the gods hail our Volk I wish I could
00:29:48.700 give more but anyway I appreciate I do appreciate the work you do hey that counts you know three
00:29:56.140 dollars three dollars and three more than we had we appreciate it a lot and thank you for that and
00:30:00.940 thank you for the appreciation of of what we're doing um it's good to have you here good to have
00:30:06.220 audience um okay from jason gallagher our folk builder coordinator justin tell us about your
00:30:19.260 awesome kindred uh our kindred here in texas is called frither folk kindred and it is we we've
00:30:27.180 been rolling since it was around the time that i started getting involved with things i believe it
00:30:32.780 was January of 2020, I believe, is when we were officially incorporated as a, well, not
00:30:42.060 incorporated legally, not to confuse, don't say that, but we became an official AFA kindred.
00:30:48.300 And yeah, it's, it's, it's been really special to me and I hope to serve it well.
00:30:54.780 good deal
00:31:01.820 all right so another question for you justin this time from
00:31:06.060 again from travis our folk builder in colorado
00:31:12.460 what's your favorite genre of music
00:31:18.060 first off let me say i am an absolute nerd when it comes to music um i don't pay for any
00:31:23.580 subscriptions other than audible and spotify and spotify i pay for that because i just love music
00:31:30.780 so much um going right back into the concept of resonance it's such a powerful thing um i grew up
00:31:39.340 on heavy metal my two older sisters was really into it and i thought she was like the coolest
00:31:47.020 person on earth and she got me really into uh metallica pantera guns and roses uh you
00:31:53.980 know a lot of thrash metal um power metal hair metal um and as i got older i just continued to
00:32:03.100 taste in different types of music and but these days um folk metal folk metal is my absolute
00:32:09.900 favorite uh in particular elevating uh they are a gaulish folk metal band from switzerland
00:32:17.660 and i had the pleasure of seeing them in their north american tour a few weeks ago
00:32:23.020 really cool um i guess what i what i like about folk metal is especially elevati in particular
00:32:31.580 they are they have an amazing ability to blend the ancestral instruments of our folk
00:32:42.700 with the newer instruments that people often associate with our folk so you know it's it's a
00:32:50.300 really wild thing when you first hear it it hits your ear kind of like like wait what what is this
00:32:54.940 you know but you know when you hear a hurdy-gurdy and a toggle harpa and nickel harpa
00:33:00.220 uh combined with you know a an amplified electric guitar um but it's it strikes this incredible
00:33:08.220 balance the more you listen to it and it's almost kind of this this uh this outplaying
00:33:15.340 of like the divine masculine and divine feminine um another great thing about them is they can do
00:33:23.260 some songs that are pure folk you wouldn't even know they were a heavy metal band and then they
00:33:28.460 do some songs that'll they're so hard that it'll leave your hair frizzed up so yeah folk metal
00:33:37.500 it's my final answer there you have it so we've got a question from our producer nick
00:33:47.660 he wants to know do we fault olvir for lying about their embracing of their culture and faith
00:33:53.820 in the first time that he was summoned in front of olav uh no nick we don't and that's one of the
00:34:02.060 one of the things about alsatru that's not comfortable for some people um
00:34:07.660 um everything's not black and white and everything's not uh thou shalt and thou shalt not
00:34:17.340 context matters and there's a way that you treat friends and there's a way that you treat enemies
00:34:24.520 one of the things that the have them all advises when we're dealing with um when we're dealing
00:34:32.160 with enemies or people that we that aren't trustworthy and that we don't trust no thank
00:34:36.920 you sorry my daughter's trying to feed me something um yeah if you're dealing with folks
00:34:42.660 that you don't trust and that that are dishonest to exchange lie for lie and to learn how to
00:34:49.120 be dishonest with people being dishonest to you that's not a you know that's not a advice
00:34:55.860 to to be a dishonest person in general but it does say that your tactics have to fit
00:35:00.680 your situation and i think that's really important to be able to internalize and use wisdom
00:35:06.700 and discretion on when to when to exercise that or not um follow-up question to your your musical
00:35:14.540 question what do you think of amon amarth i love love amon amarth um they're a little harder on
00:35:24.220 the vocals than i enjoy i i prefer a growl over a truce a little bit lighter growl than what they
00:35:30.620 do but their electric guitar is outstanding um yeah i would love to see them would love to see
00:35:39.980 them live i want to see them when they come through uh here dallas when they're touring
00:35:44.860 with ghosts we'll see how we'll see how the ruins fall all right um also okay so we knew this was
00:35:57.260 gonna this was gonna come up um return of the nolder asks uh also five favorite books of any
00:36:09.420 type justin what are you five five favorite books any type of books okay well if we're gonna go
00:36:16.860 fiction um i've always really enjoyed uh stories about nature and animals um you know kind of
00:36:24.540 background about me you know i i grew up in boy scouts really heavily when i was young
00:36:31.660 ended up going to school for to get my degree in environmental science um i absolutely love nature
00:36:37.580 and it was during my camping trips and boy scouts i first discovered that the forest was where i
00:36:44.540 felt most in touch with the divine um having said that i would say uh white fang by jack london is
00:36:52.780 an absolute classic i love that it's told from the perspective of the wolf and he refers to humans
00:37:00.220 as the gods it was a very interesting thought experiment for me um i think i think i first
00:37:05.980 read it in middle school um where the red fern grows another really great book about a boy who
00:37:12.620 gets to two hunting dogs and traps raccoons in the early 1900s out in the ozarks um it's a sad book
00:37:23.500 in the end yeah but uh a good one it's worth the read um the count of monte cristo is one i'm
00:37:34.460 i i've loved the movie since i was a kid absolutely fantastic movie and now i'm reading
00:37:39.820 the book and it's even better uh highly recommend both of them um the chronicles of narnia was
00:37:48.620 another really good one really good that i loved as a kid um lord of the flies really liked that
00:37:56.220 one kind of shows the the darker side of of men when you uh when you get tyrannical leaders in
00:38:03.420 charge um and starship troopers uh shout out to uh folk builder mike joiner actually sent me a copy
00:38:10.700 of that appreciate it mike a really great book highly recommend anybody who likes sci-fi and
00:38:17.580 uh kind of gets into like philosophy and even political science to an extent it's it's a
00:38:23.820 really interesting thought experiment um as far as non-fiction i'm gonna go
00:38:30.540 um actually actually when i first joined the afa uh matt here actually recommended me that i read
00:38:38.140 the biography of king edward the first and i ended up reading all the way through king edward
00:38:43.180 the third thought it was a it was a really great story uh just of the all the crazy thing that
00:38:49.180 that royal family went through um that and uh julius avola i really like his writings on the
00:38:56.300 esoteric um this really helped me in a in kind of a tangential way understand the runes
00:39:04.300 all right well there you go um for matt and justin this is coming from uh gothi daniel young
00:39:20.860 do you think or believe the runes are sentient what are your thoughts justin
00:39:26.820 well that's a philosophical question um i guess it depends on what you mean
00:39:32.600 by sentience um because i mean all beings are made of energy in the end of the at the end of
00:39:40.640 the day uh both according to many of our ancient spiritual practices as well as modern quantum and
00:39:47.500 theoretical physics and um i mean the runes in there at least certainly in their resonance
00:39:54.420 are energy so if we're talking about an energy that has a force of its own it's definitely that
00:40:04.340 um maybe they do i know that there have been times that you know i've been been confused or
00:40:12.200 frustrated about a certain set of circumstances i'll be going through and i'll actually see
00:40:17.020 a rune in something whether it's in you know the veins of a leaf or a design in a hotel lobby
00:40:24.840 and uh it'll set me set me straight you know so maybe
00:40:30.600 all right i don't think the runes are sentient but what i think the runes are is a very useful
00:40:42.280 medium for sentient things to speak through um and i was just explaining this um when i was at
00:40:53.000 the prison the other day with with the runes i think that the runes are at times perhaps our
00:41:00.600 gods speak to us through the runes certainly i think our ancestors speak to us through the runes
00:41:08.760 i think your uh your philgia can speak to you through the rooms i think parts of yourself i
00:41:17.240 think you speak to you through the rooms i think the ruins in a very fundamental way work as a lens
00:41:23.560 that help you to see the world through a certain prism through a certain perspective and it they
00:41:30.680 help very much that way to clarify things in your life and i think a lot of that is
00:41:35.320 comes from within whereas i absolutely believe some of it comes from without a lot of it comes
00:41:41.400 from within so i think the runes are a good medium for sentience to speak through if that makes sense
00:41:51.080 the runes are really great um to add on to what you're saying that they're a really great portal
00:41:56.200 to the subconscious when you galder and practice mindfulness meditation to a point where you reach
00:42:03.640 that you reach a certain point of lucidity and anybody who has practiced meditation will know
00:42:09.160 what i'm talking about where you start to notice things in the world that you didn't notice before
00:42:14.520 where your thoughts quiet and you achieve a new level of of calm and knowledge of yourself um
00:42:25.880 yeah and if you haven't definitely give it a shot
00:42:28.360 all right um next question and last question so we need some more questions guys uh next question
00:42:41.480 is what sort of parallels would you draw between olvir and the afa in the modern world what are
00:42:49.080 your thoughts on that justin don't be afraid to stand up for what you believe
00:42:53.000 um it's really easy to duck questions and things like that when
00:43:02.440 when controversial topics come up and and i and don't get me wrong you should definitely pick
00:43:08.580 your spots but when it comes to you know what you believe especially for somebody like me
00:43:15.380 who you know the afa is the core of my life everything in my life is centered around this
00:43:21.840 faith and when you leave that important of a part of yourself out of what other people perceive
00:43:34.400 your personality as it makes you seem hollow number one and then you know if let's say people
00:43:43.060 you know find out that you're a member of the afa and you have never spoken about this before
00:43:48.480 they're gonna be kind of scratching their head like you know why didn't you tell us you know
00:43:53.600 about this you've been keeping this big secret you know why is this a secret you know what are
00:43:58.080 you really doing and it gives people kind of leaves a bad taste in their mouth rather than
00:44:03.200 and as a matter of fact i you know in my experience when you're just open with people
00:44:08.720 people are a lot more understanding than than i guess the media in the internet would give
00:44:15.200 you credit for the vast majority of people i've spoken to about my spiritual beliefs when you
00:44:20.480 tell them in the right way is you know they're usually just anywhere from oh you know that's
00:44:26.640 interesting could you tell me more about that or yeah you know i disagree with you but you know
00:44:31.440 everybody's got their beliefs so yeah i uh one thing i think is particularly important
00:44:45.200 in the example of olvier's life is
00:44:54.240 as far as it relates to to now people there's kind of an inverse relationship to this now
00:45:01.200 when people have very little to lose that's when they're the most courageous um
00:45:08.080 the folks that don't have a lot going on well in their life they don't have you know lands and
00:45:13.200 fortune and success are the ones most likely to stand up for our faith it's very difficult and
00:45:20.240 it's rare that rich people and successful people and people who have careers and you know seemingly
00:45:27.040 a lot to lose are willing to step forward but it's precisely those people that it's their job
00:45:35.680 when you have when you have success when you've been blessed when things have worked out well
00:45:42.320 for you in your life it's your job to be a leader for your folk and to help the rest of your folk to
00:45:49.360 take that responsibility that was older's job as the you know the the rich guy in the community
00:45:55.200 that owned the farm that owned the means to make sure that the gods were worshipped and that he
00:46:00.400 was representing the people when he had to go to the assembly and speak before the king um
00:46:05.920 Um, very often now people use as an excuse and it's, you know, it's way easier said than done.
00:46:13.180 Please don't get me wrong. I know it's very difficult. Um, but it's why it's so admirable.
00:46:17.620 What Olver was able to do is people are scared. They don't want to stand up. They don't want to
00:46:23.520 lose their livelihood. They don't want to lose their career. They don't want to lose, you know,
00:46:27.960 all of the, the blessings that they've been given in life. They're scared to lose them.
00:46:33.580 So they become, you know, their their blessings become a prison of sorts that keeps them from feeling free to stand up for the things they believe in.
00:46:45.320 And I think Olver is a really strong example of with money and with success and with power and affluence comes a responsibility to represent your people, to speak for those that don't have a voice, to make sure that the gods are taken care of.
00:47:06.480 You notice that people who make, okay, so I've noticed this, and this doesn't speak for everybody, certainly. But in the AFA, oftentimes the people with the least to give are the most generous and willing to give, you know, very large percentages of what they have.
00:47:24.760 But it's the people that are very successful that oftentimes give very little and give a much smaller percent of the things that they have.
00:47:36.980 And I think that's that's interesting. And Olver is a is a powerful example in how to do that. Right.
00:47:43.800 i think um i have a question from folk builder shay mccurdy from oklahoma what skills talents
00:47:54.120 or trades do you wield well the table justin well i am i've done a lot of different stuff in my life
00:48:05.720 um i'd say probably one of the most unique ones was uh i my father was a horse trainer
00:48:15.800 a journeyman farrier which is someone who puts the shoes on a horse and hoof he nails them on there
00:48:23.480 and a welder and it's been a blacksmith so i grew up apprenticing with him and
00:48:29.400 And I didn't know how lucky I was, man.
00:48:33.340 It was such a coming-of-age experience challenging myself against these, you know, beautiful, majestic animals.
00:48:40.980 You know, it's like my dad always used to saying, a horse is an animal, a 2,000-pound animal with the strength of 10 men and the mentality of a 2-year-old child.
00:48:52.980 and learning to work with an animal that's make those animals my companions and learn
00:49:04.020 learn from them was such a special experience um you know i did that i'm
00:49:14.620 i got i had the pleasure of working at a store that specialized in aquarium service and
00:49:25.840 um salt water coral and that was incredible getting to see so many
00:49:32.940 just rare and strange sea creatures and it's this incredible form of life it's like wait
00:49:41.100 i thought these were plants wait corals aren't plants no they're animals they're actually animals
00:49:45.640 believe it or not but they do photosynthesize and just learning to again just getting my getting
00:49:52.000 myself involved with nature in so many ways has been so rewarding and i'm gonna sound like a broken
00:49:57.680 record but get out there get out there in the woods and work with animals and experience it
00:50:05.660 yourself if you haven't there you go that's that's really unique uh your your dad being a farrier
00:50:14.140 that's that's a that's a cool and unique skill set that is you know much much more rare to come by
00:50:21.740 uh now and labs to be even more so in the future um brandy uh witten brandy callahan asks justin
00:50:31.500 and I'll share your gothy could you both tell us about a moment when you feel that you have
00:50:36.620 achieved victory justin tell us tell us about a moment where you felt victorious
00:50:46.620 when i was oath as a folk builder at the feast of the inner yar about six months ago now or so
00:50:53.020 and in this last november um it was really great to see all my hard work recognized and um not just
00:51:01.180 recognized but but recognized by some of the people that i respect and admire the most
00:51:10.940 well i think that's i think that's a good one i'm i'm proud and happy i was i was there to
00:51:16.940 to be there for that moment of you being victorious um
00:51:22.060 shoot randy it's hard i have been i've been very very fortunate um
00:51:31.180 One big moment that I felt was really victorious was when we finally closed on Thorshoff.
00:51:44.740 You know, we got Odenshoff at the tail end of Steve McNallan's administration.
00:51:51.720 And one of the big things jumping in that was kind of a proving ground of, you know,
00:51:56.780 could I fill the shoes? Could I, could I be effective as Osherian Yothi?
00:52:05.840 Was, you know, can, can we keep this ball rolling? And so it was really important,
00:52:10.880 but it was kind of a behind the scenes victory when we were able to pay off Odin's off. And
00:52:15.320 that was really important to me. But the big public victory was, you know, can Matt get us
00:52:21.640 off and if so how fast can he get us off and anybody who was there during the time we had a
00:52:27.560 number of things kind of fall through and not work out the way we wanted to and you know it was it
00:52:33.800 was definitely there was some struggling involved to get uh thor's off and we overcame it we were
00:52:39.720 able to do it there were so many people who contributed to that victory i don't want less
00:52:44.120 than that but that was that was my first half i was able to be a part of you know to take the
00:52:50.840 lead and make it happen. And that meant and still means a lot to me and will always have a very
00:52:57.240 special place in my heart. And that was a moment that I felt very blessed with victory.
00:53:04.620 So Nick asks, our producer Nick, so there's not a folk builder everywhere. Can members that don't
00:53:12.680 have the time and energy to take on all the responsibilities of folk buildings still host
00:53:18.820 something local to them and how could we help them with that well absolutely so
00:53:26.020 not only can folks do that we would really love to see folks do that um
00:53:35.140 so we've got way better folk builder coverage now than we've ever had but midgard is a big place
00:53:41.540 and uh much more likely to have somebody very close to you now than you have been in days past
00:53:47.860 but we still we need all the help we can we can get to do this and if we have members somewhere
00:53:53.300 and you want to host something and see something happen in your area a couple of things first
00:53:58.660 every place that we have that's all right so trying to get the best way to start this one thing that
00:54:12.020 you know when you're when you just start to be an adult and you move out to your own place
00:54:17.860 You know, who buys dish soap? Who buys, you know, who buys aspirin? You just go in the in the cabinet and there's aspirin when you're a kid.
00:54:28.320 Well, somebody has to actually go do those things. And you take for granted that it's your parents that do it.
00:54:34.520 In the AFA, people just assume we've got stuff everywhere. And they assume when they show up that, you know, I'm sitting out here in in Nevada,
00:54:42.960 oh, we're waving a magic wand and, you know, a community erupts somewhere. And I really wish I
00:54:50.080 had the power to do that. That would be awesome. We would be doing some spectacular things if I
00:54:56.160 could. But realistically, it takes regular folks who are members who see a need and decide, hey,
00:55:02.680 I want to step up and make this happen. And that comes in a lot of different shapes and sizes,
00:55:07.060 certainly with our folk builders. But even if we don't have that in, hey, I'm a member,
00:55:11.680 is there anything going on near me? Well, no, there's not. The next question you should ask
00:55:16.460 is, well, are there members near me? And your folk builder, however far away they are, or me,
00:55:21.860 I can tell you if you got folks next to you. And if they've clicked the referral box,
00:55:26.480 I can give you their contact info. And I can help. And when I say I, the AFA in general,
00:55:34.360 any of our folk builders, any of our go-thar and myself can help you figure out what to do.
00:55:40.780 I think people, if they go to one of our larger events, they go to a Hoff and they see, you know, something spectacular, they assume that their get-together that they do, you know, needs to be at that level, and it doesn't.
00:55:55.800 When I started folk building, I started folk building in Anchorage, Alaska, and what I always really loved to do was to have people in my home and have a meal and, you know, do that.
00:56:08.560 So I still do that to this day, but that's one of my, that's my folk building fundamentals.
00:56:14.280 But I was doing this before I was officially a folk builder is invite people over and have a meal,
00:56:19.960 have a potluck. So it's not a big expense or hardship on you. And if you're not comfortable
00:56:24.380 with that, that's okay too. You can have a park moot. You can have a pub moot. What I say to
00:56:29.640 anybody, and I say this to all the new folk builders when I talk to them as well, 0.99
00:56:33.080 don't start out investing a lot into it because that's going to build frustration if it doesn't
00:56:40.580 you know if it doesn't work out that first time and the the unfortunate truth is sometimes it
00:56:45.060 takes several times before it catches on but when it's consistent when it does it snowballs
00:56:50.540 amazing things happen but I would say this if you want stuff to happen in your area and there's no
00:56:56.300 folk builder get with your local folk builder and have them help you host something and host
00:57:01.780 a pub mood at a place you like to go or at a restaurant you like to go to. If you got a
00:57:08.400 girlfriend, a wife, bring them with you. And worst case scenario, nobody shows up and you guys have
00:57:15.540 a nice dinner at a place you like. And best case scenario, a bunch of people show up and you have
00:57:20.260 a successful mood and you take a picture. You guys still eat a dinner that you like at a place you
00:57:24.240 like. And then you've got momentum for that next month that you try. So, and that goes for anything.
00:57:30.520 doesn't have to look like that you can have a bowling mood you can play pool you can go for a
00:57:35.800 hike you can have a moot with your kids at a park where they can play on the equipment
00:57:41.480 a lot a lot of options but willingness to step up and want to try that's the big thing and
00:57:47.000 reach out to your folk builder they'd love to help you so that's that's what i gotta say in that
00:57:51.640 regard um folk builder shay mccurdy asks what is the best place time fair festival uh to visit
00:58:03.640 your great state suggestion if anybody wants to visit texas when when should they go and what
00:58:09.080 should they go for um well i guess um i guess i'll go ahead and uh i'll just tease it right now
00:58:18.520 well first of all let me say if you have the opportunity to go to a midsummer celebration
00:58:23.560 the one at odenshof is going to be the biggest so don't miss out on that but
00:58:27.560 if you can't make it out there um we're planning i'm cooking up a pretty fun little bloat that
00:58:33.480 we're going to have out on the water for this midsummer so uh come on out for that uh i also
00:58:40.280 really enjoy our thora bloat um being in texas you know it's it's not a super harsh winter
00:58:47.320 most of the time and we play our games of strength everything from
00:58:51.480 uh indian leg wrestling to arm wrestling to um you name it you just got to come out to see it
00:58:58.760 uh a lot of times we have uh we have a lot of the oklahoma afa guys out from out from uh up north
00:59:05.560 and we make a make a big event of it so we'd love to see that grow in the future and um
00:59:12.200 yeah i'd love to have everybody support and see some new faces
00:59:16.600 excellent from uh gofi daniel young as a folk builder what has challenged you the most
00:59:25.480 and how do you overcome them
00:59:26.760 hmm well there's been a couple of things i guess i mentioned earlier uh learning learning to work
00:59:42.100 with people who are different for me has been has been challenging but it's also been a real
00:59:48.140 privilege because i've learned a lot from it and like i was saying it it is i have learned to
00:59:53.100 connect to people who are different from me by connecting with them through our gods and
00:59:57.900 goddesses um there's that and then there's how should i put it speaking loud and proud from your
01:00:10.200 heart so when i first when i came to my first event i kind of had an idea of what stumble was
01:00:16.500 going to be so i i had kind of prepared this like poem that i was going to say but the the like the
01:00:24.560 more stumbles and bloats that i attended the more i began to the only way i can put it and it might
01:00:35.260 sound a little bit a little bit campy but a lot and a lot of times i'll kind of close my eyes and
01:00:41.140 gather myself before i do it and open myself up to the energies of the universe and let i let the
01:00:48.720 gods and goddesses speak through me i just open my mouth and allow what's in my heart and spirit to
01:00:57.260 flow out and learning to do that has been very challenging in the beginning but it's been very
01:01:04.880 rewarding as well all right so Mary Mitchell one of our members out here in
01:01:17.300 the Las Vegas area asks Justin was your father a thoroughbred trainer we he
01:01:27.200 trained all kinds of horses our most common that we encountered were quarter
01:01:31.860 horses simply because of their versatility. Uh, but yeah, I distinctly remember we trained some
01:01:36.920 thoroughbreds, trained paint horses, trained palominos, um, even did some, some training of,
01:01:43.940 uh, the big draft horses. As a matter of fact, when I was 14, I got to accompany my father on
01:01:51.980 several, um, jobs when he was hired. We did their horses, uh, their hooves and everything,
01:01:58.280 uh with their special um with their special made big shoes for the draft horses and then we
01:02:06.520 we took a cutting torch and we torched tungsten carbide cleats onto the bottom so that when they
01:02:15.620 were walking around the city they would dig into the cement and then it was such an incredible
01:02:21.440 experience i got to accompany my father while he took people on carriage rides through downtown
01:02:28.140 dallas during the during the christmas time and i even got to drive them myself a couple times and
01:02:33.980 that was ah it was fantastic that sounds awesome drafts draft horses are amazing to me they always
01:02:41.500 have been and they're i mean they're beautiful animals but just the the power that those horses
01:02:47.820 have and seeing those stand next to you know other breeds of horses has always been cool i used to
01:02:53.900 loved to see that at the State Fair in Alaska when I was growing up. So from folk builder Dan
01:03:02.620 Mason in Maine, what would you say to folks who are considering joining the AFA but are having
01:03:09.100 trouble actually clicking the join button on the website? What would you say to them, Justin?
01:03:14.940 so if you're considering joining the afa i i would ask why um i kind of farkled on the subjects for
01:03:27.300 a little while but once i actually got involved and started speaking to people and i can understand
01:03:32.820 it can be a little intimidating at first you know speaking to people you don't know when you're kind
01:03:37.880 of a newcomer to the spirituality but um man just about everybody i've talked to
01:03:44.640 has been very welcoming very very willing to teach and you know help me grow with them and
01:03:51.880 that's and that's more than anything that's what also true as a community as a kindred is on you
01:03:59.360 know being a part of a kindred is all about is growth helping each other to grow and learn
01:04:04.320 lessons and to support each other through our hardships so you know you don't want to miss out
01:04:10.920 on this, on being part of a strong community. So go apply today.
01:04:18.940 You know, it all, it all depends on what their hangup is, but at the end of the day,
01:04:25.140 that's the, that's the biggest step is the step from stasis to action from, um, the friction of
01:04:36.800 you being glued to your couch to you standing up and going to your front door. That's the
01:04:41.800 greatest distance that there is. And I know a lot of people are hesitant and you think,
01:04:48.040 you know, one of these days, or, you know, maybe if I know a little bit more, or maybe once I,
01:04:52.860 you know, maybe whenever. Tomorrow is not promised.
01:04:59.760 And there's people who are part of something and they're not. Or, okay, there's people who are part
01:05:05.700 something and there's people who are not also true isn't about belief it's about action i just
01:05:13.540 can't say this enough people mistakenly translate also true as belief in the gods
01:05:19.780 it doesn't mean that it means troth with it means loyalty to the gods
01:05:26.100 loyalty is an action it's not an idea it's not a concept um
01:05:30.580 the difference between joining and not joining is the difference between being a part of what
01:05:37.480 we're all doing together and sharing in our victories and being a spectator and being a fan
01:05:43.060 and those two things are world apart now I will I appreciate all of our fans I appreciate everyone
01:05:50.940 out there who you know clicks like and you know donates maybe and uh you know gives us good wishes
01:05:59.500 I appreciate that. But being part of our family, being tied to us, being connected by Hymenia
01:06:06.460 to the Aus True Folk Assembly, what we do makes you a part of something that's amazing and special.
01:06:13.060 It makes you an active living part of this family and what we're doing. And, you know,
01:06:20.300 I never hear from people that they wish they never would have joined us or they're sorry they joined
01:06:25.940 us or you know this sucks what i hear is man i wish i would have known about you guys a long time
01:06:31.140 ago man i should have joined years ago i don't know why i didn't i understand it sounds 0.95
01:06:38.580 self-serving on this this podcast or this youtube program but i promise you i hear that
01:06:45.860 several times a month um it's it's a really wonderful thing to do and it's certainly
01:06:52.340 you know it's the best thing i've done in my life um so yeah go ahead and click join take
01:06:57.860 a chance roll the dice be part of something um okay so here is uh also from okay also from nick
01:07:12.420 our uh producer shay says that you can sing yeah you gotta show it so apparently people want to
01:07:20.420 want to want to hear you you sing a few bars they want that they want to hear me sing i don't know
01:07:26.900 if they do nick does it sounds like okay i mean i guess i could uh sing a little clip i haven't
01:07:34.100 practiced or anything okay don't i'm gonna watch and if if viewers go down next week because of
01:07:40.260 this is we're gonna have words oh okay so um
01:07:49.460 ships on vigor the waves are skimming barren summits to the verdant plains
01:07:54.820 each horizon is a new beginning rise and reign
01:08:00.180 far from the fjords and the ice cold currents ravens soar
01:08:04.260 new frontiers songs and sagas of a fate determined shields and spears vows of favor with the thrill
01:08:12.900 of plunder pull together for the clan and kin clack of hammers and the crash of thunder pound
01:08:19.940 with them the echoes of eternity
01:08:34.500 thank you for that that wasn't that wasn't half bad thank you all right
01:08:41.540 All right. So our next question from Catla, how far are we with Njordshoff getting paid off?
01:08:51.140 All right. So for those of you that do not know, got Njordshoff in White Springs, Florida,
01:08:59.380 beautiful Njordshoff. It's fantastic. People down there put a lot of love into it.
01:09:03.860 It was our most expensive hoff so far because Florida is a very popular place for people to
01:09:10.680 be buying right now. They have been pillars of freedom down there. So a lot of people are
01:09:15.400 wanting to move to Florida. The total cost all in for our, for Njordshof, it's $245,000.
01:09:26.380 As of today, it is, we still owe $112,000 and change. That's a huge chunk in a very short
01:09:38.080 amount of time. You guys and your generosity has been amazing. You know, last time I ran numbers,
01:09:46.660 it was about $102 per AFA member. If you guys paid that, we would immediately have that half
01:09:52.880 paid off. But I appreciate anybody who has. And mentioning that figure, a number of people just
01:09:58.720 stepped up and did when I asked. So I appreciate that a lot. Getting very close. Another side thing,
01:10:04.940 because of you know various persecution we've had to be find alternative ways to get lending
01:10:13.380 and we've had two people one an afa member and another who wasn't a member but is shares shares
01:10:21.540 values with us who are willing to lend us some money and make this happen and i really appreciate
01:10:26.280 that so we had two separate loans taken out in order to get yorts off and i'm proud to say that
01:10:33.400 as of this last month we have paid off one of those loans so now we only have one loan remaining
01:10:39.160 on it and uh sounds like a big number but it's it's much less than half of what that original
01:10:45.400 chunk was and we're we're only i got a math but we're only you know what eight or nine months
01:10:53.960 into it so this has been fantastic i appreciate it i appreciate everybody who's been generous
01:10:58.600 So you guys know that's the first step in us getting Frazehoff. Frazehoff is going to be our next hoff, and it's going to be in eastern Ohio with the slightest of chances that it could be in western Pennsylvania.
01:11:14.480 but I think Eastern Ohio is the safer bet. We're working really hard to make that happen. And the
01:11:20.560 first thing that we got to do is get out from under Njordshoff, and then we can worry about 0.90
01:11:26.580 starting to make Frazehoff happen. But we're excited. We've got a lot of momentum, and you
01:11:30.500 guys have been very generous. We appreciate it. So Vladimir says, greetings, friends. I apologize
01:11:40.600 for intruding off topic. But gentlemen, where can a Slavic German Gentile get a closer look at your 0.99
01:11:48.720 movement? Vladimir, thank you. You're not, no apologies necessary. We go, we go wherever the 0.79
01:11:56.580 questions take us on this program. You want to go to our website, www.runestone.org. But I'm going
01:12:07.620 have Nick throw up the sites for each of our Hoffs depending on where you're located or look
01:12:12.460 at all of them if you'd like. Each of our Hoffs has their own website. What I would say if you
01:12:21.440 want, so those are good places to read about stuff we do and get an idea of scheduling on when and
01:12:27.840 where events are and things of that nature. But if you want to kind of see and get a feel for
01:12:32.700 what we're about and what we do, I don't know where you're watching us right now, but our YouTube
01:12:37.480 channel is where you want to go and you can find all of our videos, all of these that we do once
01:12:44.020 a week. You can find little slideshows we make of all the different events that we, you know,
01:12:50.980 the national and regional events we host throughout the year. And then every quarter and certainly
01:12:56.640 every year, I put out a little video that's basically a slideshow of all the different,
01:13:01.440 you know, all the different little gatherings that we do. And, you know, any given weekend,
01:13:05.520 we've got those going on across the country so got a lot of really cool things going on that
01:13:11.120 we'd love to show off to you the other thing is uh each of those websites has contact uh information
01:13:17.280 so please feel free to ask any of our go thar any of our folk builders anything you might be
01:13:22.560 curious about we'd love to help and you can always email me matt flavel runestone.org and
01:13:30.240 And I'd be happy to help as well.
01:13:33.980 So, no, thanks for asking.
01:13:35.520 And I encourage you to go to any of those locations.
01:13:41.720 So James asks, folk builder James Ault in Wisconsin asks, Justin, coming to LC Fest next month?
01:13:51.280 No, I don't have any plans to.
01:13:53.600 But yeah, if you go ahead and shoot me some information, I can take a look at it and see if I can work it into my plans.
01:14:01.600 All right. There you have it.
01:14:03.600 So I'm sure James will let you know the details.
01:14:07.600 Anybody else that's coming up next month, Nick can throw up the dates for you here.
01:14:12.600 I believe it's the 20 something of next month in Wisconsin.
01:14:20.600 We're going to have a our third annual celebration of folk mother Elsie Christensen and James Alt and his his wife host that and they do an amazing job.
01:14:34.280 So if you guys can get up there and they have a Wisconsin fish boil all the time, and that's absolutely delicious.
01:14:41.120 And I'm looking forward to that. I'd love to see you guys there. I'll be up there for it.
01:14:46.240 So, yeah, consider doing that.
01:14:48.100 next question from humanipulation nation it's good to see you on here by the way
01:14:54.680 uh do you guys drink bud light no i don't drink bud light it's gross and let me tell you a couple
01:15:00.480 of a couple of few things so obviously i get where the question comes from right now and no i don't 0.54
01:15:06.620 want to support them with their um disgusting support of mental illness but that said bud
01:15:15.500 Bud Light's not good anyways. 0.95
01:15:22.120 Bud Light, I would have a very hard time getting any benefit out of Bud Light.
01:15:29.300 I will tell you this, Bud Light, I'm not convinced there's alcohol that's actually in Bud Light.
01:15:35.720 It is very similar to drinking murky water.
01:15:39.680 Not a fan.
01:15:41.680 Justin, do you drink Bud Light?
01:15:44.640 do not good let's uh let's hope that our our viewers have have better taste in in their
01:15:52.800 in their malted beverages than to drink bud light um jared williams asks is there a certain point
01:16:01.600 of knowledge i should have before i get really connected or is this counterintuitive and should
01:16:08.400 i just reach out and ask to be taught more ah absolutely the second okay and i think as a
01:16:17.120 follow-up to this question like a second line to the question i just don't want to be burdened
01:16:22.080 first you're not a burden that's what so many of us are here for um
01:16:30.560 one thing that a lot of us this is such a tendency of our people to do and i understand that
01:16:38.400 um people like to wait and make perfect the enemy of good so they imagine at some point uh you know
01:16:48.060 sometime down the road will be the right time but not today and it reminds me of this you know this
01:16:54.060 bar I used to work at it says free beers tomorrow on this uh on this neon sign and guess what no
01:16:59.820 matter what day you come in there it says free beer tomorrow always tomorrow and tomorrow and
01:17:04.860 tomorrow and tomorrow and today never really happens and that's one of the things if you put
01:17:11.280 it off you can put it off forever there is no perfect time uh it's great to get as much knowledge
01:17:16.680 as you can but there's two different kinds of knowledge there's there's book learning and
01:17:23.880 that's really important that's we all love to do that but there's also um experiential knowledge
01:17:33.600 there's the knowledge you get from participating from being part of something from learning from
01:17:39.360 people that actually practice our faith and the knowledge you get from building relationship with
01:17:44.960 our gods uh today is absolutely the right time for you to join and you can learn as you go
01:17:52.560 i believe very strongly and we're fortunate we have the information that we have
01:17:58.000 but i believe very strongly if all of that was taken from us and we find ourselves you know
01:18:03.760 something happened and our people awoke you know a thousand years from now with no records
01:18:11.840 no history none of none of the things that we take for granted our gods are still our gods
01:18:17.760 they would still make themselves known to us and we would still be true and loyal to them and we
01:18:23.760 would still build a relationship to them we may lose all these stories of the past but we would
01:18:28.480 build stories in the future so no there's no certain point of knowledge that you need
01:18:33.920 all you need is to to want to get involved and want to build a relationship with our gods
01:18:38.400 so anytime you can do that is is the right time for you to join
01:18:44.720 and looks like the last question of the night unless we get something else that pops up
01:18:51.680 uh what states will be in the phrase hoff district says green leader so this is not a uh
01:19:03.120 be all and end all list this is what our current plan is and this is certainly subject to change
01:19:10.800 until we you know until we get there and we're all dialed in but i'm pulling up our uh our map right
01:19:16.880 now so that i can tell you and this is the current plan we've recently kind of had a
01:19:22.480 change in a couple of the states back east that we're going to be a part of it so
01:19:30.240 phrase hoff will likely take an eastern portion of canada the farthest east portion of canada
01:19:38.880 um we'll see it's certainly going to be michigan uh indiana ohio west virginia
01:19:51.840 pennsylvania new york new jersey connecticut uh massachusetts rhode island vermont new hampshire
01:20:05.280 and maine and it will also be potato europe and tomato europe will stay a part of
01:20:15.360 the uh thorshof district and for purposes of this because i know it gets split depending
01:20:22.080 on where you're looking we're going to consider france as part of tomato europe and not potato
01:20:27.760 europe though i know that's not definitive across that country
01:20:34.400 I'm trying to look over the side and see if we have any other questions, but I think that's
01:20:43.280 what we've got for tonight. Justin, thank you so much for joining us and for talking about Olver.
01:20:51.960 This is the first time we've had somebody present one of our heroes that we've actually got
01:20:55.920 questions about that hero, which is fantastic. Thank you so much for being here, Justin.
01:21:01.120 yeah not a problem my pleasure also thank you for the work you're doing folk building down in texas
01:21:07.680 if anybody wants to reach justin it's j day j d a y at runestone.org and justin would be very happy
01:21:19.820 to get you guys set up and answer any questions and get people involved in the lone star state
01:21:25.380 all right folks well it's been fun talking to you guys i appreciate i appreciate it i appreciate so
01:21:32.000 many of you being part of this every single week and making this happen it's one of the highlights
01:21:37.660 of my week something i look forward to so uh until next time hail the gods hail the folk
01:21:43.560 hail the afa and remember that victory never sleeps
01:21:47.900 hail
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