00:03:00.000Hey, guys. Sorry having a little bit of technical difficulties over on entropy.
00:03:17.460Anyway, welcome back to another exciting edition of Victory Never Sleeps.
00:03:22.820And tonight, for the second time on the program, we are joined by Gauthier Daniel Young, as we talk about another of Ausatru's heroes that we celebrate with Days of Remembrance.
00:03:38.620um trying to think if there's news since last week uh i suppose the biggest thing since last
00:03:51.760week is we've had people out at uh segerheim putting in some work tearing down some old
00:03:57.980fencing uh laying down some gravel for a little driveway space and putting down a pad to put a
00:04:07.640structure on. So we're, we're moving right along with Sigurhan.
00:04:16.340Yeah, I think that's the big thing over the last, last little bit here. And in almost exactly one
00:04:22.660month, we have Elsie Fest 3, a celebration of folk mother Elsie Christensen in Wisconsin.
00:04:31.580If you guys can make it out to that, love to see you guys there. If you're interested,
00:04:35.900please reach out to James Ault, our folk builder in the area, j-a-u-l-t at runestone.org,
00:04:54.700And, yeah, I think that's what I got for right now. I'm sorry, the entropy thing threw me off
00:05:00.780little bit but without further ado daniel could you tell us a little bit about the jarl and
00:05:08.220assume folks out here have never heard of him before sure but before we get started into who
00:05:14.060he was i can explicitly say who he was not despite what netflix may be telling people
00:05:20.140in their inaccurate betrayals of the oral he was in fact not an african-american one
00:05:25.740He became the Earl of Laid around the year 962 after his father, Sigurd, was murdered by Harold Graycloak.
00:05:38.740Sigurd and his men were burned alive, and around that time, Jarl Hauken was about 25 years old.
00:05:46.260When he heard the news of his father's murder, he was enraged, vowed revenge, and never forgave, and nor had he ever forgotten.
00:05:55.740Eventually, he went to war with Greycloak to avenge his father, but Halkin's men were forced to retreat and fled Norway, where he had spent some time in Denmark under Harold Bluetooth.
00:06:09.080The two of them got together and started to conspire against Harold Greycloak.
00:06:14.380In 970, they tricked Greycloak into a meeting in which he was supposed to meet with Harald
00:06:23.380Bluetooth and with Halken, but instead Halken and some of the Bluetooth men then killed
00:09:06.540So during this time, shortly after, Halkin became involved in another war in which Bluetooth rose up in rebellion against Otto II of the Holy Roman Empire.
00:09:17.640He was no longer willing to accept German rule over Denmark and Norway.
00:09:24.760So Halkin and his forces, along with Bluetooth and his, crossed the southern border into Germany and defeated the forces of Otto.
00:09:32.820So he returned to Norway again, hailed as a legend and a hero by this point, and was now known as Halkin the Powerful.
00:09:39.500But before he returned to Norway, he was forced by Bluetooth to baptize and forced clergymen to spread Christianity throughout the lands of Norway.
00:09:49.940But by this time he had crossed back into Norway, he had actually forced the clergymen out and continued to restore and dedicate temples to his gods, our gods.
00:10:05.400And so doing, he severed his alliance with Blue Tooth.
00:10:09.220He was enraged by his actions, and he damned Jarl Halkin and vowed revenge.
00:10:17.840But by this time, Halken, although he was not king in name, he was king in every other way of Norway.
00:10:23.720It says here, 986, Bluetooth paid a group of mercenaries from the fabled Jomsvikings to attack Halken's lands and convert his people to Christianity.
00:10:34.880When they sailed into Norway, they could see their route number.
00:10:41.540It caused the Jomsvikings' ships to collapse once their lives were lost in the battle conness.
00:10:46.880And then he forced the fabled Yoms Vikings to flee his lands. So again, his legendary status can continue to rise.
00:10:59.880The stories of habitual womanizing began to spread where he would take the daughters of noble farmers' daughters and would take them into his bed,
00:11:13.880them into his bed but he only keep them around for a couple of weeks and just started really
00:11:17.080getting people angry because i think the hope was a noble and common folk is that
00:11:22.840uh those daughters would be taken on as you know perhaps a wife or even a concubine but
00:11:26.920that didn't happen and uh so this was like an extreme disrespect according to the common folk
00:11:34.040and um this this uh left room for a catalyst to really emerge at this time and that was olaf
00:11:40.680triperson and um he was a descendant of uh harold fine hair and everybody had forgotten about the
00:11:47.800glory of of hawkins field exploits and his resistance to conversion and uh this seemingly
00:11:58.760disrespectful way that he was uh womanizing uh really began to kind of turn the populace against
00:12:05.240him and they forgot again about his legend and uh was only focused on his cupidity and his
00:12:12.680resistance to christianity and uh the people of norway began to revolt and this uh caused halkin
00:12:19.640and a servant kark to hide in a hole in a pigsty and uh nearby olaf was holding a meeting offering
00:12:26.840a great reward for his head and uh when jarl halkin had fallen asleep his uh servant and
00:12:34.520supposed friend love his throat and decapitated him and he presented the head to uh and was
00:12:42.520waiting for his reward and his reward was the same fate that uh park in the elevator
00:19:13.200Shouldn't be surprised by any of this. We've seen this a bunch in pop culture.
00:19:17.860no uh yeah that's that's extremely unfortunate but i think you know i think we all know how that
00:19:26.120goes in this day and age uh we have question any kindreds slash events in maryland um kindreds
00:19:34.920not as of right now events yes we have gatherings in maryland we have i believe one folk builder
00:19:42.900currently in maryland um we have folk builders right on either side in uh excuse me in west
00:19:50.020virginia kind of surrounding west virginia in pennsylvania and uh and in virginia and uh
00:19:57.700don't have one in delaware right now but we do have a folk builder in maryland one of our newer
00:20:02.980folk builders uh james bethard i would encourage you to reach out to him if you want to get more
00:20:08.980involved he's always looking to do stuff there and he's a he's a nice guy uh j b e t h a r d
00:20:18.500at runestone.org and uh yeah he would he'd love to help you out and see about getting
00:20:24.660you involved but we absolutely do have stuff in maryland james is a good guy too good friend of ours
00:20:30.500um our next question comes from mary in las vegas glad to have you on the show mary
00:20:39.620if possible i would like to ask whether you can suggest any of our gods and goddesses
00:20:45.860who can bring rain to the las vegas valley we are parched dry and desperately need water from the
00:20:53.260sky um daniel who do you think the most appropriate deity to call upon for for rain would be i think
00:21:03.700the obvious answer to that would be thor uh being the storm god um also i would uh i would give
00:21:09.940offerings to craig you know you think of uh think of rain and you think of thor you think of you
00:21:16.780know thunderstorms and those kind of things it's not really good soaking rain it's more like it
00:21:22.040just a what we call in the carolinas a tow trailer washes over the fan it
00:21:28.280doesn't really soak in but i would uh definitely pray and uh and and give
00:21:32.540offerings to fray because uh he brings the gentle rains and uh that's what i
00:21:40.980would do matt who would you no i think that's perfect uh you stole my answer
00:21:47.460And in that order, too, I think those would be the perfect folks to pray for for that.
00:21:53.720Although, and I've said this before, if Mary, if you have a particular God or goddess that you feel a really strong connection with or that you'd like to, I think that any of our gods could be helpful in that way.
00:22:06.360But I think the the most iconic for that would certainly be Asathor.
00:22:18.420from crystal the hermitis readings where can i find out more information about sigerheim
00:22:28.020will this branch into a new district um well certainly we've got an article every month in
00:22:35.300the runestone about sigerheim we post regular updates i try to update people here on the program
00:22:42.740If you wanted to send me an email, mattflavell at runestone.org, I'd be happy to answer any
00:22:50.900questions that you might have. But shoot, I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have on
00:22:55.940here. Will this branch into a new district? Yes, eventually. It will branch into a new district
00:23:04.680when Tiershoff is established there. And Tiershoff is going to be our sixth Hof, the
00:23:13.120Auschwitz-Folk Assembly. So for that to happen, we need to first pay off Njordshoff, then we need
00:23:19.620to get and then pay off Frey's Hof. And then after that, we'll begin on Tiershoff. And once
00:23:27.000As Tiershoff is established, Sigerheim will be the center of a new Tiershoff district.
00:23:35.360But that's probably a few years out, but we're very much looking forward to it and excited about it.
00:23:41.680Yeah, and I welcome any other questions you might have about it.
00:23:44.500It's something good for us to talk about on this program, or if you wanted to reach out privately, that'd be good, too.
00:23:50.180actually while we've got him here uh gothe young here is the man that scouted out the
00:24:00.380sigerheim location for us he was the guy on point doing a lot of the running around
00:24:05.000talking to our realtor dealing with all the moving parts on the purchase and getting things set up
00:24:12.620so we owe him a great debt in fact that we have sigerheim it is an absolutely beautiful and
00:24:19.400amazing place. And yeah, this man right here on the program with us tonight is the guy that
00:24:25.360found that for us. It's a pleasure. If you noticed the thumbnail from this video, it was actually
00:24:31.420taken. That was the first time Y'all sure that Goethe had set foot on the property at the point.
00:24:39.760The only people that saw that property was myself and my wife. And, you know, a lot of nerves and
00:24:45.380anxiety going into that because you know matt says go find this property and uh you know he
00:24:52.260kind of rolled the dice and went with him uh on the property without having actually set foot on
00:24:57.420it and uh until after the purchase had already gone through so that was a nerve-wracking experience
00:25:03.600and uh but it's definitely a labor of love and you know folks in our circles uh we're looking
00:25:12.240at this type of idea is like a pie in the sky kind of thing and when uh when matt first proposed
00:25:16.960it to me i was thinking to shoot man you know we're decades away from that right nope
00:25:24.000not this man running the show is not0.87
00:26:23.880The trick in doing that is you do need to be vouched for if you want to do that.
00:26:29.060So if there's a Hoff you'd like to go to, I'm not sure where you're located or I'd tell you exactly who to reach out to.
00:26:35.300But you want to reach out to one of your local folk builders or perhaps a GoFeed in your area and they'd be able to get you squared away and and welcome you to one of our Hoffs.
00:26:47.060I absolutely understand wanting to check it out for yourself in person before you feel comfortable joining.
00:26:53.400And we welcome that. Just need to check in with that folk builder first.
00:26:58.620Our next question, I have a question. What is your opinion about fairies in general?
00:27:09.740Some consider them guardians of forests and gardens. Daniel, what do you think about fairies?
00:27:18.780I don't all that often. I'm aware of the folklore, but I do think that it's possible
00:27:27.120this and upg on subject that's possible that is some sort of manifestation of a land spirit
00:27:37.040and i'm bouncing the ball back to you big guy all right so no i'm i'm with you on that i don't have
00:27:42.160a um ton to offer because it's never been that's never been a huge part of my house of true practice
00:27:53.760um or i suppose emphasis uh but i i do tend to look at that category of of being as being land
00:28:04.720spirits um but there's all different kinds of land spirits i think fairies are one manifestation of
00:28:14.400that we know that there are you know benevolent and friendly land spirits and they're also malicious
00:28:21.920land spirits so they're not all cut from the same cloth but yeah i look at those as land spirits and
00:28:29.120i think or i for myself first of all it's it's become much more um a much bigger part of what i
00:28:41.840do now that we have physical locations um it wasn't really such a big thing to me before
00:28:49.920But now that we have we have literal holy ground that we have temples on, building a relationship with the spirits of those places is really important and it's special.
00:29:06.860And, you know, there's different things you can do to make offerings and to honor those spirits.
00:29:11.860But fundamentally acknowledging them is in and of itself a real important thing to do.
00:29:18.360so we try to make sure that we do that at our uh at our physical locations at our hoffs and at
00:29:24.360sigerheim oh so you guys know entropy is back up and running it had a it's adding a layer of
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00:31:03.260about us. I think once folks know about us, then I think we're an easy sell for a lot of people at
00:31:12.180those points. I think that the gods help them at those points. I think that what we're doing in
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00:31:29.960we do is much appreciated um back to our questions uh all right this one's for you daniel from
00:31:41.400from Antonio Rodriguez. Can you explain about Jarl HÃ¥kon?
00:31:49.020Well, he's the last Ossetru ruler of Norway. He was, while the powers that be that outranked him
00:31:58.920were doing their best to install Christianity in his land, he was still dedicating and restoring
00:33:05.680as a, as the stock of Ivar, perhaps referring to Ivar the Bombas, and he's said to have come from
00:33:13.060a race of giants, and somewhere in his lineage, and I'd have to dig back through my notes to
00:33:17.420remember the king's name, but it was legend that he had descended from one of the early Norwegian
00:33:22.780kings who claimed descent from Odin himself. So Cliff asks this, and I think this is a
00:33:33.540an often asked question, but a really important one to, I don't know, I don't think this one can
00:33:41.840be spoken about enough. Why is it important to practice Ausatru publicly? Real names,
00:33:47.700real faces, no cloak and dagger nonsense.
00:33:57.540Trying to even think to where to start, because honestly, the answer is so all-encompassing.
00:34:03.540everything to our ancestors was about reputation, about fame, and about
00:34:17.160putting your face on your deeds and being proud of them. There were things that were considered a
00:34:24.800crime if you did them secretly, but weren't if you did them openly. The idea of being secretive
00:34:33.200about the things that you do has always been looked upon as shady. We celebrate courage.
00:34:39.640Courage is one of our chief virtues, and we talk about it all day long, and we post memes of
00:34:45.320Vikings with blood dripping from their axe and talk about courage. Yet some of the people who
00:34:52.360post the most chess beating about courage um go under the name of john odinson with a picture of
00:35:03.800you know various historical figures as their uh their avatar and won't put a
00:35:12.760real face in a name with the the courageous boasting that they do um literally standing
00:35:20.440up and being counted for us, for our church, for our gods, and for what we believe in is the most
00:35:29.180fundamental and basic level of having courage and expressing courage. And the thing you do when you
00:35:36.140have courage is it waves the banner of Ausitru for other people to see. It makes those who are
00:35:44.900weak, feel stronger and strengthened by your strength and your courage. It makes those that,
00:35:51.840you know, think they're all alone, be strengthened and feel like, no, I'm not all alone. There's
00:35:57.460other people out there who think like me. It brings hope to people who despair and think,
00:36:02.640you know, everything's gone crazy and there's nobody that gets it. You standing up and put
00:36:07.020your face and your name behind it shows them somebody does get it. So that's an example.
00:36:11.180You know, our kids are watching. Our kids are watching. The future is watching us to see how we behave. You know, are we doing something wrong and shady? Well, then why are we hiding? And if we're doing something right, then why don't we stand up with our head high and be proud of it?
00:36:27.760And one of the other things about courage, unfortunately, courage, courage comes with consequences. Being willing to stand against risk, that is fundamental to courage. It's the story of everyone we celebrate. It's the reason we have nice things.
00:36:48.720And it's the determining factor on whether this this will survive after us or whether it dies with us.
00:36:56.280As if we have courageous people to pick up the banner, to put their name and their face behind who they are and what they believe and to move this forward.
00:37:04.060But if no one had the courage to put names and faces behind it, this wouldn't exist and we wouldn't be here.
00:37:11.160the courage to stand up, put your name, your face, your reputation behind this that we all do
00:37:20.140is probably the most fundamental thing you can do to move House of Truth forward.
00:37:27.000What are your thoughts, Daniel? I mean, it's going to be kind of co-signing what you just said.
00:37:31.980I joined House of Truth Folk Assembly in 2018, and I remember 2018 and 19 were kind of a weird time.
00:37:41.160A lot of guys were, you know, faces were under papers, faces were on television, and it was frightening to some people.
00:37:50.000But I think using those particular instances as a reason to be fearful is almost disrespectful to the sacrifice those people make for us.
00:38:00.580where i live and i get this question a lot and as does my wife heather as you know how do we
00:38:08.700practice also true openly in the bible belt and that's because people fear what they don't know
00:38:14.940so if we're really open about who we are and as matt said i mean we're doing nothing wrong i'm
00:38:20.940just an average guy doing average things and it's just some eccentric hobby to me
00:38:25.940this has become a way of life and I'm proud of what it's done for me why would
00:38:31.880I not practice this faith openly and I don't respond to people who send me
00:38:42.520messages through social media apps is like blood urine pathogen son you're not
00:38:46.940a real person and if you're not willing to put your name and face behind your
00:38:50.820words and your words are just wind. All right. So I've got, I've got to tell the story. And
00:39:01.020if the person who went by this moniker is out there listening, I promise I'm laughing with
00:39:06.220you, not at you. Your, your, your fake name was really clever. Um, but we get a lot of,
00:39:14.080young people that have become, I don't know, culturally aware of some of the things going on
00:39:23.600in the world today that want to push for something more normal, more traditional.
00:39:30.340We have this whole circle of people that are used to communicating through the internet and through
00:39:34.980fake names and fake existences. So I went amongst a group of these folks one time. I was invited
00:39:43.020there and i appreciate the invitation again i've got to tell the story because it's funny not
00:39:46.780because i'm i'm being a jerk i promise um but i showed up and again i'm you know at this point
00:39:53.740i'm in my my late 30s and i show up and uh people are sitting around and you know drinking scotch0.84
00:39:59.900and well-dressed good-looking noble people doing stuff and i shook shook a man's hand
00:40:07.020and uh i said hi my name is matt and he said i'm chill bro swaggins
00:40:14.380and i stood there and i and i held a good firm grip onto the guy's hand and i made it awkward
00:40:20.220and i stared at him and i stared at him and i stared at steve you could call me steve hey steve
00:40:25.980good to meet you um so yeah that's a that's a thing uh using real names is important to what
00:40:34.540we do and it means we're we're taking this seriously i see some comments over on the side
00:40:39.100and you know one of the things that the uninformed will suggest a lot is that house true is larping
00:40:46.540it's especially larping when you have a fake identity and a fake persona
00:40:53.820um it's not larping when you go out there and this is who you are this is who you what you
00:41:01.340say you are when you talk to your friends and your family this is who you are when you raise your
00:41:06.940children when this is who you are and you're willing to put your real name your real reputation
00:41:13.260your real face behind it that's what separates any of this from larping that's what makes this real
00:41:19.660um and that's scary sometimes and that can be scary for people but uh that's what makes it
00:41:26.540worthwhile that's what puts puts meat and skin in the game and that's why it's so very important
00:41:34.540to behave in a noble way because your reputation affects those who put their name next to yours
00:41:43.020so keeping that in mind is is i think really important also
00:41:46.540So, um, so, uh, Allie asks, uh, oh, now I messed up my, my thingy on the side here.
00:42:00.460Allie asks, what is the biggest takeaway from the story of Jarl Haakon, uh, that we can
00:42:07.060apply in our lives today as modern Alcetruar?
00:42:11.200Daniel, what do you find to be the biggest takeaway that we can apply?
00:42:16.540I think the Jarl, operating as a devout pagan during the time of the Christianization, was a good example of what we go through today living in woke America.
00:42:32.480Rather than, you know, complain or hide, the Jarl practices faith openly.
00:42:39.380He continued to dedicate temples to his native gods.
00:42:42.040He continued to offer sacrifice to Odin.
00:42:46.540despite what the world around him was doing.
00:42:48.760And he did that up to his dying breath.
00:42:51.800And it's kind of similar to what Matt and I were just talking about,
00:43:20.560I think if he can do that, we can face any of the obstacles in our path in order for us to continue to push this religion forward and faith forward and push our people forward.
00:43:32.620you know, I'd say one of the, one of the, if not
00:43:43.360is wanting our gods to be proud of us.
00:43:52.280And I think, and this isn't aimed at anyone, this just is,
00:43:56.780The more real your faith is in our gods, the more you genuinely believe in them, the greater you internalize whether you're making them proud or not.
00:44:09.660Um, but the idea of, and this is an expression, I don't mean this literally because it doesn't
00:44:18.940work like that, but the idea of looking your gods in the eye and saying that you were unwilling
00:44:25.880to put your name in your face or risk, risk a job or your parents looking at you funny
00:44:33.180or your girlfriend dumping you to identify yourself as loyal and standing with them.
00:44:41.640I couldn't imagine doing that. I couldn't imagine standing before my gods and saying that. I would
00:44:48.860be too ashamed. I couldn't do it. The more real these gods are to you, the more I think that
00:44:55.240people will feel that way. Our next question, how can we incorporate the land spirits as part
00:45:04.260of our daily practice? I don't hear them brought up nearly as often as the gods and ancestor
00:45:10.020worship. Well, there's a good reason for that. And I think this is an important thing to point out.
00:45:15.180the land spirits aren't good or bad or on our team or not well okay individually they may be
00:45:26.860them as a category isn't necessarily someone we want to pray to or make offerings to or build a
00:45:36.060relationship with they could be they could not be our ancestors are somebody that by default it's
00:45:43.540our duty to honor. Not only should we honor them, we want to honor them, we'd like to honor them,
00:45:49.880but it's literally our job to honor them. Our gods. Choosing to practice Ausitru means that
00:45:59.220we're signing on to being loyal to those gods. It's inherent to our faith that we worship the
00:46:04.260Iser. That's what Ausitru is about. Interacting with the land spirits is much different. You
00:46:10.400choosing to have a friendship with your neighbors isn't a necessary component of
00:46:18.840ascertrude, whereas ancestor and God veneration is. So choosing to interact with land spirits is
00:46:25.040much more of a personal choice. You know, how I think is done in a lot of different ways. And I
00:46:33.820think this is one of the things there's a lot of variety to. This is like worship in your home at
00:46:39.620or altar. I think everybody probably has a different way they do it and a different
00:46:44.020tradition maybe in their family or in their home that they're comfortable with.
00:46:52.580Most often what I think people do is they'll select a space on their property or on a piece
00:47:02.100of land that's important to them or maybe a place where they do ritual and they'll find a special
00:47:08.880rock or a special tree or a feature of that land that they focus that lances that um i'm sorry
00:47:18.640land spirit veneration on an altar if you will for that and they'll leave offerings there
00:47:26.800a lot of the time because it's what we're very used to doing we make that offering
00:47:30.960in the form of some sort of libation it'll be a drink or a you know pouring out a horn
00:47:38.880something that way. I know a lot of people with land spirits like to offer tobacco. I know folks
00:47:46.860like to alter or offer like butter or cream, sometimes oatmeal or porridge.
00:47:55.500But I really think that's up to you and where you're at and what you feel is a good thing
00:47:59.740with what you're doing. With any interaction, with any sentient being, I think that
00:48:07.840intention is a huge part of it. And what you, what the spirit in which you do it in, I think
00:48:17.860becomes self-evident to the land spirits, to the gods, to the ancestors, or to a friend of
00:48:24.920yours when you're interacting. I think you can tell that. So if your head and your heart are in
00:48:29.480the right place, I don't really think there's a, you know, there's a variety of right ways to do
00:48:33.900that. What do you think on it, Daniel? In the past, I've, I personally have offered fruit,
00:48:44.100you know, something of the land back to the land. Similar to what you were saying, though,
00:48:50.680it doesn't take like a precedence in my personal practice. Although the home I live in, I've only
00:48:58.420been here for three years, and this is the first place I've ever owned. And a lot of that's because
00:49:03.640of the australian folk assembly and the success that was contagious in my life and helped spur
00:49:09.400me toward this but when we when we took this land and did the lamb taking ceremony we offered a bowl
00:49:15.640of uh fruit soaked and mead and we poured our uh devotion into that mead much the same way you
00:49:22.520would in a normal bloke but something that i've had to adjust over the over the my the course of
00:49:30.360my ostrichery burning personally as i know early on it was you know praise of the gods and asking
00:49:37.080for blessing praise of the gods and ask for the blessings and especially now with so much success
00:49:44.840uh personally and you know for the church as i approach the gods the ancestors and the lambeteer
00:49:51.320with a much more grateful heart it's uh kind of goes back to what matt was saying about intention
00:49:57.400And whenever I do approach my personal altar or, you know, I look up to the sky in prayer, just how grateful I am to have another day in Midgard to further my faith and to bring glory to my gods.
00:50:14.980So I don't see if there's a question in it, but I am seeing some things on a side note and I want to put it out there about doxing and professional things.
00:50:23.180And, you know, there is a there is a time and a place and I'm not speaking monolithically here.
00:50:35.620There are circumstances. I understand, you know, if there's a particular threat where you work or in a career that you're building, there are circumstances.
00:50:45.100Maybe the nature of your job, people feel that you need to be a clean slate. And if they know about your religion or your politics or your home life or various other things, then you can't function professionally in that environment. Maybe that's the case. And I understand that.
00:51:01.980But there's levels. If you're in a profession where that's not something that's brought up, okay. If you're in a profession where all your co-workers are, you know, having their Jesus stuff up and, you know, talking about their faith, then I think that's the environment you should talk about your faith as well.
00:51:21.400that if nobody's talking about faith, then okay, I understand that. There's, again, context is
00:51:28.500everything. But it's, it's okay. So here's the thing that hits close to home. One of the things
00:51:38.560I've been contemplative since my mom passed. I love my mom. She's an amazing, amazing woman. But
00:51:44.900One thing that I learned from her life, she, as far as friendships went, she kept it very light with her friends, with her co-workers, with other families.
00:52:02.760She didn't share a lot of the deep things in her heart, her deeply held beliefs, because she was so polite.
00:52:22.340And unfortunately, that really hampered her ability to have true friends and true relationships in a lot of way.
00:52:29.600Because when you structure your friendships with people without sharing who you really are and what you really think, then you don't connect on those deeper levels.
00:52:41.660When people hide their faith from their family, from their friends, out of out of fear or anything else, I think they do themselves a disservice because they cut themselves off from a deep and heartfelt friendship based on understanding of who a person really is.
00:52:59.180And so I think that's really important.
00:53:01.240There's plenty of professional reasons where it might not be appropriate.
00:53:04.920And again, I'm not, we all have to make choices and I'm not, I'm not trying to be insulting or disparaging to anybody. I'm just trying to tell a little bit about where I'm coming from and my thoughts on it. And you're going to have to make the choices that are right for yourself and your family.
00:53:21.640well checking the temperature of the room matters too i mean i certainly wouldn't break out into
00:53:28.220bloat on my on my job or something like that i certainly wouldn't i don't talk about my work
00:53:34.460you know at the hall if i i'm a pretty avid uh golfer and a lot of my co-workers i play golf
00:53:43.140with and one of our like the number one rule to get into our golf circle nobody talks about work
00:53:49.380while we're there because I'm not on the clock. Why am I thinking about work? It's very similar
00:53:55.320to the way I treat things when I'm on the job. I'm there to make a living. It's there to put
00:54:00.980bread on my table and make my mortgage payment. And if the topic comes up, we'll talk about it,
00:54:06.820but it's not like I walk around with a sign and ask me about alcohol or something.
00:54:13.040No, no. And you don't want to be obnoxious. It is what it is, but there's the people that
00:54:19.100find Jesus and man, they can't not tell everybody about Jesus 24 seven. And again, sometimes that
00:54:26.120pushes people away and, you know, people, people don't, don't want what you're selling. And that's
00:54:31.060cool too. There's the taking the temperature of the room is, is sound advice that Goethe Young
00:54:36.080gives us. Our next question. Hey, Matt, what kind of pelt slash fur is covering your epic throne
00:54:43.720there sir also just had a chance to finish up last week's episode agree with those who said
00:54:49.880it was one of the best shows thank you we got a lot of really great feedback from last week
00:54:55.400i felt really good about it um that one felt like a really really good show and i gotta thank uh
00:55:01.640witness fawn for all of all of his knowledge and input he puts in on on the programs that he's on
00:55:08.680um so first my epic throne um i'll put out the secret my epic throne was was purchased at the
00:55:19.080thrift store and i think it was 25 um so epic on a budget uh the pelt was actually a gift from our
00:55:28.800law speaker it is an icelandic goat pelt um but yeah law speaker alan turnage gifted that to me
00:55:37.220number of years ago he also got my daughter a white one that is uh icelandic goat so
00:55:44.580there you go yeah uh our law speaker alan turnage is is my daughter's godfather and a really special
00:55:53.780guy to to my family and earlier before the show i thought we're gonna have a problem because she has
00:55:58.740this this huge red bouncing ball that was chaos she was throwing at my camera and i was having
00:56:05.300fend off and that was also a gift from our lossby um next question can you both please talk about
00:56:17.620the importance of continual self-improvement uh fitness strength etc daniel can you talk
00:56:25.780about that for a minute uh yeah i mean we can talk about that on a number of different levels
00:56:32.500be it you know for personal health uh personal excellence but i think it comes back to um
00:56:39.940i think our physical appearance is a reflection of uh who we are on the inside i know a lot of
00:56:46.580folks would look at you know bodybuilder with seven percent body fat and talk about their vanity
00:56:52.260but they care deeply about their presentation it's not just about what they see in the mirror
00:56:58.820is what they see in the mirror is a reflection of the inside um myself you know dealing with0.99
00:57:04.740stupid health problems that you have poor choices and diet and stuff for the last several years has0.99
00:57:09.220you know pushed me toward uh you know not just hitting the gym but really watching everything1.00
00:57:13.780i eat i count everything that i eat whether it's uh you know just a midnight snack or
00:57:22.500a glass of milk or whatever but uh i think it's uh vitally important i think and i think beauty
00:57:27.940is important. And this day and age where mediocrity and almost people choosing to be ugly
00:57:37.940is a reflection of the soul sickness that our founder, Steve McAllen, talks about.
00:57:46.640So I think it's vitally important that we take care of our... This is all we're given to
00:57:51.060further our cause and mid-guard, and we need to take care of that vehicle investment.
00:57:57.940You know, so a couple of things. First, to kind of start where Goethe Young was at.
00:58:11.520I'm not ashamed of it. How we look is important. How we look is vitally important.
00:58:18.140I mentioned on last week's episode about Lady Freya, but we want to look our best. We want to
00:58:26.680be beautiful. We want to celebrate beauty in what we do. And it was so important to our ancestors.
00:58:33.020It's so important to our folk, to our gods, this new movement we have of celebrating the ugly
00:58:41.220of body positive. And those listening on the podcast missed my air quotes.
00:58:47.640um no celebrating obesity isn't isn't cool it's not cool because it's gross it's also not cool0.77
00:58:57.980because it's terribly unhealthy and getting ugly on celebrating ugly unhealthy people that are
00:59:06.560intentionally ugly and unhealthy does them a great disservice for them to be a mascot for your
00:59:14.940deviant social views, they pay that price. And oftentimes they pay that price with their life.
00:59:25.080No, we want to be the best we can be. We want to present ourselves at our very best before our
00:59:31.680gods. So that does have to do with how we look, how we take care of ourselves, how we present
00:59:38.080ourselves how we dress how we act how we speak and the physical shape we're in but also it's so much
00:59:45.680more we want to be um we want to be the best at all things we can be we want to be smart we want
00:59:55.040to know things we want to learn we want to it's a challenge every day and so important to be a
01:00:06.240a little bit better tomorrow than we are today and to build that success. And this is something
01:00:11.640Daniel mentioned earlier about success, but it's contagious. When you are around successful people,
01:00:18.200it inspires you to up your game and be better. I want everyone I'm with to be their very, very best.
01:00:26.560And if they're better than me at something, that's great because it inspires me to be more than I am.
01:00:33.300And if I can inspire other people, great.
01:00:36.160But I'm looking for people to be inspired by all the time.
01:00:40.220If we are each trying to leapfrog each other to be the very best we can be, it moves us all forward.
01:00:47.620And the thing is, when we're all strong and we're all the best we can be, if somebody's falling down or somebody's having a hard time,
01:00:54.500they've got a support system for people that can pick them up and carry them forward.
01:00:58.520and uh that's that's our goal is to be the best that we can because we are we are the the living
01:01:07.200example uh the poster to the world of what also true is and of to reflect our gods and our
01:01:16.080ancestors i want those who came before me to be proud i want to be the best version of my family
01:01:22.520line that's come about. I want Aubrey to be better than me. And I want whatever children Aubrey has
01:01:29.600to be better than her. I want to always be increasing and being better. And that's the
01:01:35.740path of the hero. That's what we owe our families. It's what we owe our spouses. It's what we owe
01:01:41.560our children. It's what we owe our gods to be the very best we can be. And none of us are going to
01:01:47.000be perfect. And I think that shooting for perfect is always really hard, but shooting for better
01:01:53.660than you are right now is always achievable. And if you're always shooting for better than you are
01:01:59.160right now, eventually that's going to lead you closer and closer to perfect. And that's the,
01:02:03.760that's the goal. Next question. Good evening, gentlemen. Which characteristics of Jarl HÃ¥kon
01:02:13.320can the folk learn from the most what are your thoughts daniel
01:02:21.160that we stick to our faith no matter what no matter what the uh
01:02:25.160winds of society try to push us to and we always stand on our principles and stand up for who we
01:02:42.680courage to stand by your convictions and also courage to go out and do big things
01:02:49.560courage to be a part of stuff and to live in a big way um
01:02:58.200he started out well in life but because of his prowess and because of his you know trying to
01:03:03.480go out there and be the hero he became basically the the uncrowned king of norway for a time um
01:03:12.680The idea of going out, living in a big way, being proud of who you are and having the courage of your convictions is an example for all of us.
01:03:22.160And I think that's really important. And I think that's why we celebrate a day of remembrance every year to honor him.
01:03:31.460and we remember his name now i gotta stop in math but we remember his name
01:03:39.380what 1200 years after his time and that's a that's a really important thing
01:03:47.140and it's a special thing uh next question do you have a favorite time of year or holiday
01:03:54.900If so, why that one? Daniel, what's your favorite time of year or holiday and why?
01:04:02.920My favorite time of year is October. You know, that transition into fall. Here in the South,
01:04:11.540we call that where I'm from, particularly we call it second summer. But when it starts to get that
01:04:16.620crispness in the air and, you know, you kind of start to get those chills when you walk out on
01:04:21.940the porch in the morning uh especially after the oppressive heat and that we get in the carolinas
01:04:27.780it's a definitely my favorite part of the year i think to be honest with you it's almost selfishly
01:04:32.580but it's that's when my birthday is and uh some of my happier moments growing up were surrounded
01:04:39.620by my birthday my mother made sure that uh you know while it may have seemed small to other
01:04:45.700people but my mother when she not just the gift she gave but just the effort she put in to
01:04:50.260celebrating my birthday as her first child and all that and seeing her give all of herself to it
01:04:55.700it uh always feels it fills my heart with warmth uh to this day uh i have the voicemails my mother
01:05:03.300leaves me on the minute i was born and uh on my on my birthday she'll call me at 8 12 in the morning
01:05:11.380every year and she sings me happy birthday on my voicemail every year and uh i save them
01:05:17.140every year i think i've got four or five in a row now um and it's you know less about me but it's
01:05:23.780more about my mom's love for me and i and i'm totally enveloped by that and as far as holidays
01:05:29.060i love everything from yule to uh from winter nights to yule those are those are my favorite
01:05:33.620my favorite holidays and uh again that kind of harkens back to my childhood uh before my mother
01:05:39.940started getting into uh jehovah's witnesses and stuff and we were still celebrating christmas
01:05:44.420every year i literally believed in the magic of christmas uh you know just the spirit of that
01:05:50.900holiday and all that was really infectious and i still feel that way to this day um
01:05:55.780my daughter is 14 now and she believed in santa up until she was about 11. or at least she was
01:06:02.580telling me that anyway so um but that's that was really important to me that uh my children believed
01:06:09.220in the magic that time of year. Don't ever move to Alaska. Mom's going to be calling you at four
01:06:14.360in the morning. Just news you could use. Yeah, my favorite, favorite time of year is fall going
01:06:30.300into winter. You know, favorite time is, is right, is you. My favorite holiday, it's my favorite
01:06:37.280time of year always has been since i was a kid it this doesn't make sense and i don't know if i
01:06:45.120explain it right but uh being in alaska that time of winter doesn't feel cold to me it feels warm
01:06:56.320because you're not outside in that a bunch you're spending most of your time inside and it's dark
01:07:02.960out and so you have the nice warm you know i always like the yellow light i don't like the white
01:07:08.000the white fluorescent light i like soft yellow bulbs and lamps and fire light and you're inside
01:07:15.440by the fire and it's warm and you've got family and friends around and that's when people really
01:07:21.520spent that time getting together and it just always felt magical and special i think as a
01:07:28.000kids seeing all the lights and all the you know all the special stuff around that time of year
01:07:33.840was always really really neat to me growing up and uh yeah i love that i love that to this day
01:07:40.960um but you know what it doesn't have to be up in alaska where it's snowy i've been you know i've
01:07:47.440been in the yule season everywhere and again they put up put up trees and lights and it's you know
01:07:55.360the darkest it's going to be there and you get that feeling i can remember you know it felt that
01:08:00.800way when i was uh down in saint augustine florida for a couple of years do this thing called the
01:08:05.920city of lights during december and uh you know all the historic buildings downtown and everywhere has
01:08:13.360you know their their lights up there you know i think the white uh christmas lights up but it's
01:08:19.680it's just neat it's a whole special feeling they got the holly jolly trolley or whatever they call
01:08:26.160it that takes the tourists around and they drunkenly sing carols at you or whatever
01:08:32.560it's just fun um so that's my favorite time of year and that's that's probably why
01:08:41.680it really is and like i say it can be in the middle of the tropics like in florida and it's
01:08:46.160still really cool um next question is it wrong to keep your identities secret for example if we're
01:08:55.840promoting views online now that are not considered acceptable is it wrong to not show your face and
01:09:02.080keep your identities a secret um we talked about that a little bit on this program big um
01:09:10.880context is everything it all depends it depends where you're at it depends what you're doing and
01:09:16.000it depends what particular view you're expressing and how you're expressing it um
01:09:22.880in the big picture yeah that's not the the ideal way you should do it putting your name and your
01:09:28.640face behind who you are and what you believe is the best and right way to do stuff but context
01:09:34.160is everything depends where you're at and it depends what you're saying um the more that
01:09:41.760you can live courageously the i would i would say this it's on a spectrum
01:09:47.280um can't always be perfect you're not always going to put your face and your name on everything
01:09:51.920all of the time everywhere the closer you get to that the better so the closer you can get
01:09:58.960to living as openly and authentically the things that you believe the better there's a million
01:10:05.440circumstances that everyone out there can think of on why to keep stuff secret. And I get that.
01:10:12.620And so let me just say that. Everyone out there when I say this, or very, very many of our viewers
01:10:20.100when I say this, immediately are thinking of, ah, but I couldn't do that here. Ah, but I've got a
01:10:25.840career. These other guys have a job at the gas station and I've got whatever. Oh, but, oh, but
01:10:31.160my parents are old and they, they just wouldn't understand. Oh, there are a million excuses. And
01:10:37.380when I say excuses, that doesn't mean they're not legitimate excuses. There may be very legitimate.
01:10:44.460There's a million reasons not to, but what I challenge everyone out there to think about
01:10:49.040is reasons to, or situations where you could, where are you not living openly and authentically
01:10:55.560that you could change that up and put your name and face on it and stand proud for what you believe
01:11:00.180instead of thinking all the things that you can't do what things can you do and yes ideally putting
01:11:07.560your name and your face behind who you are and what you believe makes anything you want to
01:11:12.360contribute that much more powerful one of the problems online on the internet
01:11:18.960it's what people like to call slacktivism people think that they're doing something or making a
01:11:25.920change by spending all day arguing with nameless, faceless people that may be sitting in mom's
01:11:33.420basement. And it's not the real world. I know a lot of people with great potential that spend
01:11:40.620all their time in Twitter arguments. They could be out there living life and building a family
01:11:47.220and building a reputation and worshiping our gods and participating and doing things.
01:11:51.780But they'd rather get in navel gazing, you know, belly button lint debates with people on Twitter. And I think that's worth examining as well. What do you think, Daniel?
01:12:05.300I think we've covered this pretty extensively, but I'll offer
01:12:10.620this one proof of advice. If what you are saying is something
01:12:14.520that you wouldn't sign your name or face to, don't say it.
01:12:18.920And if it doesn't lead you or us to victory,
01:29:26.420You know, don't let my situation run you off and all this stuff.
01:29:30.800You know, and Matt can testify to this, that within weeks of making that decision, I picked the phone back up.
01:29:38.460I knew I'd made a mistake and reached out to the officer to go through directly.
01:29:42.500And the first person I called was Rob Stam.
01:29:46.500And it was less about whether or not I'd be welcomed back.
01:29:52.160It was more for me to apologize for disrespecting him, that he stood literally face to face with the enemy and paid a pretty heavy toll for it.
01:43:45.860so i was uh when i was a kid there was a show called unsolved mysteries now not the kind of
01:43:58.660lame unfortunately netflix version of unsolved mysteries which i hope gets better but the og
01:44:05.500like 1990 unsolved mysteries with robert stack thing was as a kid this is a news program it's
01:44:16.340a very serious program that talks about real disappearances and crimes and abductions and
01:44:23.360very serious things and the guy's voice is legitimately terrifying yep so i that was
01:44:30.020gospel when I was a kid. This was deadly serious things. And I had a Cub Scout camp out to go on.
01:44:38.880This was in Alaska. This is why the story is relevant. And then they did an episode about
01:44:44.720Bigfoot. Same guy telling me about very legitimate people who got abducted and disappearances and,
01:44:51.540you know, people finding their long lost relatives and like serious news stories
01:44:58.060with no change of tone no change of show starts talking to me about bigfoot sightings
01:45:04.380and i'm you know about nine years old eight nine years old
01:45:10.300made for a very uncomfortable camp out for the next weekend in the uh the untouched wilderness
01:45:16.220of alaska this is a thing in alaska that um so far i haven't really experienced much down here
01:45:21.740in the lower 48 when you go hiking and camping in alaska you're in the middle of nowhere
01:45:29.340down here you're on trails and there's people everywhere and
01:45:33.900it's much harder to get in the middle of nowhere right off a highway in alaska you can get
01:45:39.260in the middle the middle of nowhere where you won't see another camper
01:45:43.980so uh yeah every every noise i heard every rustle of a leaf every uh every twig that broke was
01:45:54.420bigfoot i swear to it or i would have sworn to it when i was eight or nine so that was that's
01:45:59.360what i got for you i have never seen or encountered bigfoot um honestly i think that most of the
01:46:07.580encounters in alaska are further are they're in southeast they're down around what are they on
01:46:14.380prince of wales island i think they're down closer to juno and i never got down to that part of the
01:46:19.740state but uh that's the closest i know what to make out of that question the theme music from
01:46:27.020that show uh helped make it creepy because yes it did very well going back to like a trash can at
01:46:33.500night or whatever take the trash out from mom and have just you know watched an episode of it and
01:46:38.140that theme music would be stuck in my head and somebody was behind me the whole time i swore to
01:46:43.500it so speaking of that they also did an episode it was like a halloween time they did one about
01:46:52.300werewolf sightings thing was werewolf busted out behind some garbage cans those old like tin cans
01:46:58.780and had rattled them and made crazy noises yeah that that was terrifying as well i remember i
01:47:06.300needed to sleep with my light on after that one i remember that all right so the next question
01:47:13.100speaking of mothers not a question more a request my mother is very sick right now
01:47:18.540is it appropriate to ask everyone for prayers to ire for her or to air for her uh speedy recovery
01:47:25.100yes it is and this is from jasmine uh jasmine if you could please give us your mother's name
01:47:33.340on the side so that we can do that appropriately and i'm very sorry to hear that your mom's sick
01:47:39.220um i genuinely wish her the very best if you put her name on the side i think that'd be a
01:47:43.720very nice thing for us to do jess she's already in my prayers
01:47:47.620um next question is it really wise today to put your name and your face on everything you can
01:47:58.660considering the current dangers of new ai technology so again there is a spectrum between
01:48:09.700none and everything. Does it always need to be on everything? Maybe not. Should you have it on the
01:48:19.440most things that you can reasonably? Yes. Like Daniel said earlier, should you have it on
01:48:28.040everything that you genuinely believe and you're confident saying in front of your parents and in
01:48:33.580of your gods and in front of your children yes are there places that that might not be what you do
01:48:44.620okay but here's the thing with the new ai technologies if you want to live like the
01:48:53.660unabomber and live in a little cabin in the middle of the woods and sneak into town and
01:49:00.620put things in the mail maybe just maybe you can avoid those ai technologies honestly
01:49:09.260you can delude yourself with the illusion of privacy but privacy that you think that you
01:49:16.300have doesn't really exist there's facial recognition everywhere there's that privacy's come and gone
01:49:25.260in the face of the fact that you don't really have that privacy, even if you think you do.
01:49:33.960Letting the fear of the lack of anonymity prevent you from living the way that is authentic and
01:49:44.040standing up for what you believe is a very, very easy win for our enemies.
01:49:48.600yeah it's better to put your name on it and live authentically and build a life to where you can
01:49:57.580do that now i don't know you and what you think and what you believe on everything and i don't
01:50:02.900presume to i know that what i think and what i believe isn't illegal it's not mean-spirited
01:50:10.860it's not hateful and it's not wrong so i feel very confident saying it in front of people
01:50:17.680I feel very confident putting my name and my face behind it.
01:50:22.260I have tried with all that I can to structure my life in a way that I can do that confidently.
01:50:28.840Other people are in a very different situation, and I understand that and I respect that.
01:50:33.680But the idea that you're putting a bunch of content on the Internet and other places
01:50:40.380and you can hide behind a fake screen name or a, you know, a VPN or whatever you think you're doing,
01:50:49.660I promise you, you can't. The surveillance state is too big and too good at what they do.
01:50:57.580And I wish I was better at my have them all thumping.
01:51:11.580I wish I could tell you the verse right now and somebody over in the side absolutely will.
01:51:16.580But, you know, you can think that you'll be saved from spears by avoiding the fray, but you'll find yourself old and alone and ashamed
01:51:26.580that you never went out and lived for that fear. And somebody will pop in that the appropriate
01:51:32.440have them all quote on the side. And I apologize that I can't just pull that up as fast as I could.
01:51:37.480Honestly, I bet you my wife can pull that up on the side. But it's something to think about.
01:51:44.160Again, you're going to have to make those choices based on whatever factors are important to you.
01:51:50.140And you're going to have to bear the reputation of that. You will have to shoulder the glory
01:51:55.700of great success and of standing up and being courageous, or any shame that comes with not
01:52:01.620doing that, or any consequence that comes with courage, or any benefit that comes with
01:52:06.640avoiding that. So it's a decision you're going to have to make for yourself.
01:52:12.500But I do advocate as best you can and as most you can to do that. And then to be cautious with the
01:52:17.760things that you say that you say them eloquently, and you say them in a respectable way. One of the
01:52:23.640So this is a good time to mention this. One of the things that people do when they perceive that they have anonymity is then they get loose with what they say. And then they say ridiculous stuff that's inflammatory just to be inflammatory because they have the perception that they're safe.
01:52:42.140they're hiding behind a pseudonym or a fake picture and so they can just open up and say0.77
01:52:48.940ridiculous things that they may not really believe they may not really stand by but they're fun and
01:52:53.900they get a reaction out of people trouble is when you find out that that secrecy doesn't really0.72
01:53:00.620exist those are the things that i've seen people and i will say this 100 honestly those are the
01:53:07.580things that i've seen bite people the worst is when they think that they're being anonymous and
01:53:13.260they say ridiculous things that's when they get hurt it's not when they're using their name in
01:53:19.900their face and they say reasonable things that are politically incorrect it's when they show
01:53:25.340off because they've got a fake name that i've seen bad things happen um another question this
01:53:33.980one's coming from odyssey thank you guys that are listening on odyssey i appreciate that
01:53:40.380i want to bring my friends and family to ausitru i'm not the best people person can you give me
01:53:48.380one or two good tips on how to approach this daniel what advice do you have for this person
01:53:57.420be the best person you can be and you know be a be the living representation of the gods i mean
01:54:03.020we are our ancestors compiled in one living body and uh the other part is pretty simple
01:54:10.940bring it to an afa again um i told the story the last time i appeared on the show that uh and and
01:54:17.420my wife told the story when she was on the show interest analysis drew until she uh attended the
01:54:24.540first a that was you know fairly local to us zero interest in it she was just there making sure
01:54:30.380a kid around some you know weirdos and freaks and was so blown away by the uh by the community and
01:54:37.020the camaraderie within that community that she applied before we pulled out the guy's driveway
01:54:42.540and that's just facts and if it's specifically if it's women in your life or whatever i'm telling
01:54:48.700you the women of the afa will make them feel welcome in an instant and they can sniff out
01:54:53.420newcomers like uh like nobody's business a new young lady shows up by herself or with her fellow
01:55:01.020to thor's off you can best believe the ladies are going to be scooping her up and and uh immediately
01:55:07.100start that that thrift bond that the women do so yeah bring her to bring your family to an afa event
01:55:13.100and uh when they start to realize that you know we are literally just normal people doing normal
01:55:17.980stuff uh and we're not you know running around in shoulder pelts and wearing deer horns on our heads
01:55:25.020and uh you know doing ooga booga chants and stuff and realize this is a living faith and
01:55:29.820it's practiced by normal good-looking people and particularly families lots of families involved
01:55:41.820those of you with uh with video access might dispute daniel's claim on good-looking folks
01:55:47.100but um okay real quick uh woman who mentioned about her mom mom's name is julie for folks that
01:55:59.100want to do do any prayers or offerings uh yeah hi and i'm very sorry to hear that um
01:56:09.260my advice as far as oh also before i answer the question just as as suspected my lovely
01:56:15.900wife i love you mandy thank you so much brought uh found have them all 16. a coward believes he
01:56:22.620will ever live if he keep him him safe from strife but old age leaves him not long in peace
01:56:33.500life. I think that's really, really important as well. I say this as somebody who's going
01:56:49.940to be 42 this year, I'm not an old man. But I'm feeling much older than I was. And one
01:56:58.720One thing that I don't want and that I think we all have to one degree or another, but
01:57:10.060I think we want to avoid as best we can is regret.
01:57:14.400And I think that's another thing that speaks to being courageous.
01:57:19.240Because a lot of the time consequences for courage are very, very temporary, but the
01:57:25.120reputation from it and the benefit from it you don't realize until down the road especially
01:57:32.000when you build a reputation for being courageous um but i'm so thankful of the times in my life
01:57:41.920that i did act courageously looking back on them even though i know how scary they were at the time
01:57:48.720the things that keep me up are the times that i'm man i wish i could have done that different i
01:57:53.200should have said this but i chickened out and that's not just about house or true or about
01:57:58.240politics it's about talking to a girl you like or you know anything
01:58:06.960taking the courageous step you may risk embarrassment or temporary you know quick
01:58:12.480consequences that are pretty scary but man looking back with regret is much much worse because you
01:58:19.120can never get it back um but yeah it's more grim than it needs to be um my suggestion on ways to
01:58:27.920bring friends and family into alsatru is very much what daniel said
01:58:36.320it can especially if you're completely unconnected to alsatru if you're you know what
01:58:42.400But, quote unquote, a normie, the idea of all of a sudden believing in ancient paganism and things that are scary if you Google them and people have mean things to say that were hateful or whatever they think, the way to diffuse that is have them meet AFA members.
01:59:05.160have them meet the women and the little kids and us at an event and then tell us to our face they
01:59:13.940think we're we're mean or scary actual interaction with real also true our practicing our faith
01:59:21.540that fixes everything you know i can't say it'll fix things a hundred percent of the time
01:59:28.820but it's going to get you as close closer than anything else seeing who we really are um i think
01:59:35.420you know a soft way to do that if they haven't been to something and are resistant is our event
01:59:40.820pictures on here i'd like to think that listening to this program is a good thing for them uh if
01:59:46.800you know you're listening now if you think these are good i would recommend these but also the
01:59:51.840slideshows of our you know like the afa in 2023 first quarters up already just show them those
02:00:00.100kind of things it's happy smiling people with their families and ladies and kids and people
02:00:06.940doing fun things and having a good time and i think that that's really the takeaway is that
02:00:12.340we're regular folks we're we're good people that love our families we love our gods we love our
02:00:18.480people and people who interact with us in person they love us anything else it's hype it's the
02:00:26.080media it's you know whatever other nonsense in real life take your family to one of our hofs
02:00:33.920if you're too far away for that take them to a meetup that's close to them we've got meetups
02:00:38.000around the country and around the world we have them every weekend get them to something to where
02:00:43.360they get to see who we are and i think that'll sell itself hey matt yes i'm not sure if uh
02:00:52.400the one of the previous commenters wanted me to say but that is uh jasmine is actually my sister
02:00:57.120and it's my mom that is uh struggling with some health issues right now and i appreciate my sister
02:01:02.720coming in uh and supporting me tonight and uh and i asked her for prayers for mom just appreciate it
02:01:13.360So your wife gave me that intel a few minutes ago.
02:01:16.740I wasn't going to say nothing because I didn't want to put it out there if you didn't want to.
02:01:20.860First, I'm really sorry to hear that about your mom.
02:01:26.160I will definitely, definitely be praying for her.
02:07:23.520And those are, you know, synonymous with good and evil to a degree.
02:07:28.520We believe in but the thing is, it's it's good and evil mean different things to different context, perhaps in a Christian sense, good is whatever is following the will of Jehovah and evil is anything in opposition to that.
02:07:53.120in Ausatru, good is things that are noble, and evil is things that are ignoble, or things that
02:08:00.440are, you know, are outside of nobility, or against nobility. And so I think noble versus ignoble,
02:08:10.820and that, you know, also very clearly correlates between order versus chaos.
02:08:17.000that's what i think the best way to see it as from an also true practice and when you look at
02:08:24.940noble versus ignoble it's noble to be loyal to and to stand in in uh in allegiance with and in
02:08:34.120um under the command of under the the authority of our gods
02:08:39.860against the enemies of our gods uh daniel what do you have to add to that
02:08:46.760not a lot i mean just as you said you know
02:08:51.120we know what's right and we know what's wrong we know health from sickness we know order from
02:08:59.360chaos we know light from dark so certainly i think in the modern sense orchestra does have
02:17:11.500next question i'm a white south african living in the states your top is my home
02:17:22.880I appreciate everything you guys do, given that my family comes from generations of farmers.
02:17:30.140My question is, what is the end game? To elaborate, sometime soon, the power grid will collapse,
02:17:40.200violence will escalate, and the ANC will look away from certain racial atrocities.
02:17:48.260does the afa do blessings for oh okay that's a different question all right cool so what is the
02:17:54.580end game um if everything collapses and i'm glad that you specified in south africa because
02:18:04.100i am in no position to dispute the reality of of that situation may be happening um
02:18:17.620So, I try really hard to always give some kind of good answer here. I don't have the best answer. I wish that I knew the solution to the problem of your countrymen, and I don't know.
02:18:39.920I'm not familiar enough with the situation.
02:18:50.080I think that I know that our people like to have a very strong connection with the land.
02:18:57.320And I know that many of the white South Africans, their families have been there for, you know, three to 400 years of building farms in that country.
02:19:21.360sorry for the dead ear dead air but i think this deserves a really well thought out answer
02:19:26.240and i want to give you that um i've thought about this a lot and so one of the things uh
02:19:33.040And we started, shoot, I don't even know how many years ago, doing our donations every quarter to try to help displaced victims of racial violence in South Africa.
02:19:49.000And the most effective thing that we've been able to do is collect money and donate it to the commissary for the South Africa Family Relief Project.
02:20:04.800And that takes folks that are in the camps and they've got stuff there to where they feed a number of people and try to give them some kind of livelihood on building farms and doing things there.
02:20:19.000And so we asked ourselves, this is a long roundabout thing, and I know it doesn't completely answer your question, but I'm trying to approach it the best I can.
02:20:28.220So we were all horrified at what's happening to white South Africans.
02:20:37.940And we're all sitting over here feeling terrible and not knowing what to do.
02:20:43.020So we're sitting with all this hand wringing, not knowing what to do for a long time. And one thing
02:20:49.780that was important to me when I became Alzheimer's Go-Fi was, you know what, I don't know what we
02:20:54.440can do, but I know what we can't do. What we can't do is nothing. What we can do is something.
02:21:01.300The best thing we've been able to figure out is helping folks eat. One of the big things over
02:21:06.600there they're having a really hard time with for a while was a baby formula. So we collected a
02:21:13.380whole bunch of money and we sent it over there for them to get baby formula. And a bunch of babies
02:21:18.860didn't have formula did for a few months. And it doesn't fix the problem. You're asking about
02:21:25.760Endgame. I know that. But it helped a little bit in that day at that time. What I would love to see
02:21:34.000is for folks in South Africa, for our folk in South Africa to come home to our ancestral gods
02:21:42.900and to be also true. I think that will help them spiritually a lot in a way that some of
02:21:48.440the other things aren't. As far as what a good end game is, I don't know. If there's a solution
02:21:55.260over there to where those people can live with dignity and pride and be safe and their families
02:22:00.220be safe, great. If they can find someplace else to go, any place else to go, that wants them,
02:22:09.480that they can live with dignity and with safety, I think that's probably the best solution for
02:22:14.620some of those people. I was really honored to find out, and I didn't know this at the time,
02:22:20.140But when it all started getting really bad, my my mom's cousins, I don't know what that is to me, second cousin, perhaps that family took in a refugee from South Africa that escaped on a sailboat when everything fell.
02:22:39.720and I think honestly the end game is are people getting out of there and getting someplace that
02:22:49.700they can be safe and that generations of their family can grow up with some safety
02:22:54.500and wherever that wherever that is I don't know I don't know the perfect solution for it
02:23:00.040but I pray and I hope that they find it and we would love to help those people any way that we
02:23:06.620can and we feel for their plight so badly do you have any ideas on on a good end game daniel
02:23:14.300i really don't i think you put it best i i
02:23:19.580it's awful what those people are going through
02:23:25.020get out you know as best they can and safely as they can
02:23:30.220where to go though i i don't i don't know that answer either
02:23:33.100but away is better than where they're at
02:23:36.660there's something and this is this feels like trivializing it and i don't mean to
02:23:47.620there's something called the sunk cost fallacy
02:23:51.020where you gamble and you lose and because you can't afford to lose you stay at that table
02:23:59.740and risk everything over and over and more and more and dig the hole deeper and deeper
02:24:05.480because the idea of losing all that you've put in is too overwhelming.
02:24:13.000At some point, you've got to know when to stop and try something else and cut bait and
02:24:20.760do something different. And I think maybe that's where those folks are, unfortunately.
02:24:27.500I'd love to help them. I wish they could come over here. If they could come over here,
02:24:32.780I would love to help them once they get here. I wish them all the best in the bottom of my heart.
02:24:38.300I don't know the best solution for them, but I want the very best for them, and I'd be happy
02:24:43.220to help them in a lot of ways. Next question is, does the AFA do blessings for expecting mothers?
02:28:28.980So Shea asks, our folk builder, Shea McCurdy from Oklahoma, seeing the imagery chosen for
02:28:37.360Frazehoff, is there a reason y'all went with the stag rather than the boar?
02:28:42.240First, yes, I'm sure that there is. Do I know what that imagery is? No, I do not.
02:28:52.020I was curious. So some people may ask how that comes about.
02:29:00.080You know, I like to have some say or some veto power if something is just ridiculous.
02:29:06.980But honestly, it's really important to me that the local Gothar get a big say in what imagery, like what color scheme, what animal we use for the design work for future Hoffs.
02:29:28.020I want them to be able to put that in there and put that devotion in there.
02:29:31.880Uh, and I trust that to our go far in regions because, you know, they're the ones that have
02:29:37.560built that region up. They're the ones that are going to be the stewards of that Hoff and, uh,
02:29:45.300them putting, I don't know, putting that personal touch on it is, is important. So, you know, the,
02:29:52.580the, the bigger AFA or, or me, I have, you know, I've got some veto power in it. If it was,
02:30:00.040you know, disrespectful or just really ugly or something. But within within the scope of things
02:30:07.640and, you know, you may have seen some of the the different animals for different Hoffs. Now,
02:30:13.100we try to keep them relevant to the God, the Hoffs, but it's it's more than just that. It's
02:30:18.880a temple to worship that God, but it's also the local house of worship for all of the
02:30:25.840gods and true are in that region. And they're bloats held at all of these hafs to many of our
02:30:32.120gods, not just the god of that haf. And so some of that goes into some of the color choices and
02:30:38.920the animal choices. Sometimes the animal is very relevant to the region that we're in and not just
02:30:44.740to the god that they're worshiping. So that factors in as well. Like for Njord's haf, we used
02:30:52.700we use the swordfish the marlin um if that hof would have gone somewhere different if it would
02:30:58.860have gone to the pacific northwest somewhere maybe we would have used a salmon or something
02:31:03.940different it still would have been appropriate to meurther but it it wouldn't have been the
02:31:10.040same animal so i'm not sure exactly why the ericsons chose to use the stag as opposed to
02:31:16.700the boar but i think it's beautiful i think it looks really cool and i think that the
02:31:20.900the forest hunter green on that very very light almost like a mint
02:31:31.580ethereal green is really cool I think it's going to be a challenge to find merchandise that fits
02:31:39.040it if that color of green it's like a super light blue super light green white mixture but I think
02:31:46.440it's beautiful and I think it's going to look really cool. Question. Today I was watching
02:31:58.080the Pharaoh's Golden Parade again. Do you think that European spirituality should reach
02:32:04.880such a level or that something like that is the goal to be achieved for Euro people?
02:32:11.720i have not watched the pharaoh's golden parade so i don't know what all that entails