Asatru Folk Assembly - April 27, 2023


4⧸26⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 42 - Jarl Haakon

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Jarl Hauken and his exploits real names in AUSATRU Jarl Hauken faith and land spirits continual self-improvement fall living openly and authentically nature and religion stag imagery kindred initiations
Hosted by
Steve McNallen
Guests
Daniel daniel
Mentioned
Jarl Halkin Jarl Hauken Tiershoff Matt Harald Greycloak Halken Harold Bluetooth Chris Jericho Bill Goldberg Alan Turnage Shea McCurdy Otto I Sasquatches Alcitru Sigurd Aubrey Allie Rob Stamm Witten Clifford Erickson Lionheart Chris Jericho and 37 more
4⧸19⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 41 - Freyja Hexennacht at Óðinshof 2023

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25,547

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22

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Jarl Halkin was one of the most celebrated heroes of the ancient Norwegian sagas. He was a man who lived in the late 9th and early 10th century, and was a member of the royal bloodline of the Norwegian royal family. However, he was also a man of many talents, and his love for Odin and his devotion to his native gods led to his cult-like cult worship.

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00:00:30.000 Thank you.
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00:03:00.000 Hey, guys. Sorry having a little bit of technical difficulties over on entropy.
00:03:17.460 Anyway, welcome back to another exciting edition of Victory Never Sleeps.
00:03:22.820 And 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.
00:03:38.620 um trying to think if there's news since last week uh i suppose the biggest thing since last
00:03:51.760 week is we've had people out at uh segerheim putting in some work tearing down some old
00:03:57.980 fencing uh laying down some gravel for a little driveway space and putting down a pad to put a
00:04:07.640 structure on. So we're, we're moving right along with Sigurhan.
00:04:16.340 Yeah, I think that's the big thing over the last, last little bit here. And in almost exactly one
00:04:22.660 month, we have Elsie Fest 3, a celebration of folk mother Elsie Christensen in Wisconsin.
00:04:31.580 If you guys can make it out to that, love to see you guys there. If you're interested,
00:04:35.900 please reach out to James Ault, our folk builder in the area, j-a-u-l-t at runestone.org,
00:04:46.300 and he can try to get you all set up.
00:04:54.700 And, yeah, I think that's what I got for right now. I'm sorry, the entropy thing threw me off
00:05:00.780 little bit but without further ado daniel could you tell us a little bit about the jarl and
00:05:08.220 assume folks out here have never heard of him before sure but before we get started into who
00:05:14.060 he was i can explicitly say who he was not despite what netflix may be telling people
00:05:20.140 in their inaccurate betrayals of the oral he was in fact not an african-american one
00:05:25.740 He became the Earl of Laid around the year 962 after his father, Sigurd, was murdered by Harold Graycloak.
00:05:38.740 Sigurd and his men were burned alive, and around that time, Jarl Hauken was about 25 years old.
00:05:46.260 When he heard the news of his father's murder, he was enraged, vowed revenge, and never forgave, and nor had he ever forgotten.
00:05:55.740 Eventually, 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.
00:06:09.080 The two of them got together and started to conspire against Harold Greycloak.
00:06:14.380 In 970, they tricked Greycloak into a meeting in which he was supposed to meet with Harald
00:06:23.380 Bluetooth and with Halken, but instead Halken and some of the Bluetooth men then killed
00:06:29.560 Harald Greycloak.
00:06:32.800 And this weakened the throne of Norway because it left Harald Greycloak's brothers in charge
00:06:39.620 of things, and they failed to fill the throne with any kind of authority.
00:06:43.800 So it kind of spun the top of the hierarchy into a sort of disarray.
00:06:51.300 So when Halkin returned to his lands, he had gathered some men amongst like the farmer and some of the local noblemen
00:06:59.300 to rise against the remaining kin of Grey Cloak.
00:07:06.880 This led Norway into a civil war of sorts.
00:07:09.740 and uh hawkins legend began to really grow specifically around his divine lineage and his
00:07:16.520 uh exploits of the battlefield and uh this really helped uh the farmers kind of really latch on to
00:07:24.100 him uh in his quest to rid norway of uh the remaining kin of uh greycloth they overcame
00:07:32.920 the brothers and um the brothers were forced to flee flee norway so at this point bluetooth
00:07:39.180 had assumed the throne of Norway alongside Venmore,
00:07:42.800 but the true leader was Jarl Halkin.
00:07:46.700 And of this time, it was written by the Scowl,
00:07:50.280 and I can probably struggle with this guy's name,
00:07:53.200 but it's Radfelsen, and it says,
00:07:56.020 and I'm doing my best to quote here,
00:07:58.540 We know no greater Jarl beneath the moon's pathway, Halkin,
00:08:01.860 than you. You prosper through battle and have ushered in,
00:08:06.080 I'm sorry, ushered to Odin to offer the courses
00:08:08.320 feast upon. Nine royal men you slaughtered. This ruler
00:08:12.740 rendered your land expansive.
00:08:21.440 One second here.
00:08:24.440 So this really tells the story of the common man and
00:08:28.380 the mogulman's love and appreciation for
00:08:32.360 Halkin and their admiration. His legend continued to grow.
00:08:36.540 his love for his native gods
00:08:38.840 endeared him to his folk
00:08:40.240 and restored temples to Thor and Odin.
00:08:44.260 It especially
00:08:44.820 pleased the farmers and the peasants
00:08:46.320 during the Christianization period, where it seems
00:08:48.780 like the faith in the old gods had began
00:08:50.760 with them.
00:08:54.020 And then
00:08:54.720 Bluetooth began
00:08:56.860 to force conversions throughout
00:08:58.740 Norway at this time, although
00:09:00.860 Halkin himself was a devout pagan
00:09:02.740 and a champion of his people.
00:09:06.540 So 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.
00:09:17.640 He was no longer willing to accept German rule over Denmark and Norway.
00:09:24.760 So Halkin and his forces, along with Bluetooth and his, crossed the southern border into Germany and defeated the forces of Otto.
00:09:32.820 So he returned to Norway again, hailed as a legend and a hero by this point, and was now known as Halkin the Powerful.
00:09:39.500 But before he returned to Norway, he was forced by Bluetooth to baptize and forced clergymen to spread Christianity throughout the lands of Norway.
00:09:49.940 But 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.
00:10:05.400 And so doing, he severed his alliance with Blue Tooth.
00:10:09.220 He was enraged by his actions, and he damned Jarl Halkin and vowed revenge.
00:10:17.840 But by this time, Halken, although he was not king in name, he was king in every other way of Norway.
00:10:23.720 It says here, 986, Bluetooth paid a group of mercenaries from the fabled Jomsvikings to attack Halken's lands and convert his people to Christianity.
00:10:34.880 When they sailed into Norway, they could see their route number.
00:10:37.060 There was like 180 ships to 60.
00:10:40.320 And then a hailstorm began.
00:10:41.540 It caused the Jomsvikings' ships to collapse once their lives were lost in the battle conness. 0.96
00:10:46.880 And then he forced the fabled Yoms Vikings to flee his lands. So again, his legendary status can continue to rise. 0.99
00:10:59.880 The stories of habitual womanizing began to spread where he would take the daughters of noble farmers' daughters and would take them into his bed,
00:11:13.880 them into his bed but he only keep them around for a couple of weeks and just started really
00:11:17.080 getting people angry because i think the hope was a noble and common folk is that
00:11:22.840 uh those daughters would be taken on as you know perhaps a wife or even a concubine but
00:11:26.920 that didn't happen and uh so this was like an extreme disrespect according to the common folk
00:11:34.040 and um this this uh left room for a catalyst to really emerge at this time and that was olaf
00:11:40.680 triperson and um he was a descendant of uh harold fine hair and everybody had forgotten about the
00:11:47.800 glory of of hawkins field exploits and his resistance to conversion and uh this seemingly
00:11:58.760 disrespectful way that he was uh womanizing uh really began to kind of turn the populace against
00:12:05.240 him and they forgot again about his legend and uh was only focused on his cupidity and his
00:12:12.680 resistance to christianity and uh the people of norway began to revolt and this uh caused halkin
00:12:19.640 and a servant kark to hide in a hole in a pigsty and uh nearby olaf was holding a meeting offering
00:12:26.840 a great reward for his head and uh when jarl halkin had fallen asleep his uh servant and
00:12:34.520 supposed friend love his throat and decapitated him and he presented the head to uh and was
00:12:42.520 waiting for his reward and his reward was the same fate that uh park in the elevator
00:12:48.200 and that kind of ends the story there
00:12:55.960 all right well thank you for that um
00:12:58.600 Um, I believe last episode was the first episode we've done of our heroes to where we actually
00:13:06.360 had questions about the hero.
00:13:08.240 So hopefully we'll generate some more of those this evening.
00:13:12.260 Um, I apologize for any and all of the background noise.
00:13:17.280 Uh, my, my daughter wants to hang out and co-host this evening.
00:13:23.320 That said, we've got a number of questions lining up so far.
00:13:28.600 um first one what are your thoughts on making an afa equivalent for the
00:13:42.280 french version of the mother's cross i'm sorry i don't speak french and i would butcher that word
00:13:46.120 so bad um or the cross of honor for german mothers to honor our wonderful mothers and
00:13:52.600 large families in the afa um not opposed i think that's i think that's a good idea we try to honor
00:14:01.640 those families and those mothers constantly i don't think an award would be a bad thing at all
00:14:09.160 i'm certainly certainly not opposed to that um i think that the size of families when those awards
00:14:20.840 were awarded we're a lot so i think our requirements might be different but it takes
00:14:26.920 some looking into but i'm not opposed to that at all we are so very proud of all of our
00:14:35.080 all of our amazing children that have been born that number grows every year it is skyrocketed
00:14:41.160 in the last few years and we are very very blessed with all these kids we have events we had a um
00:14:46.760 Um, I had a dinner at my house that I do monthly, uh, just this last weekend and blown away
00:14:55.240 by all the little kids running around.
00:14:57.220 It was, it was really special to see and really special to have so many little kids
00:15:01.120 at, uh, at my house.
00:15:03.080 We had six little kids running around.
00:15:07.240 Um, I think the kids, I think the adults outnumbered the kids by one, but no, it was fantastic.
00:15:14.040 um yeah we'd love to do something like that king of cheese matt and daniel good to see y'all
00:15:20.920 how we doing tonight um i think daniel is having some technical difficulties as how's he's doing
00:15:28.560 we'll check back in with him when he pops back on um i'm doing fantastic i look forward to this
00:15:34.440 all the time i know i always give you virtually the same answer but uh no i'm doing doing really
00:15:40.740 good tony i hope that you're doing well as well and here he is daniel how are you doing tonight
00:15:45.460 king of cheese wants to know i'm doing okay my wi-fi is trying to make sure i don't have a good
00:15:50.420 night so it's okay you'll overcome uh next question and this is kind of a little bit confusing to me
00:16:03.460 can someone be a member of the afa as a solo practitioner um i don't know what that means
00:16:10.740 I think by being a member of the AFA, you are moving one step away from solo practice, which I think is a wonderful thing.
00:16:20.660 I'll say this. In the AFA, you're not you're not forced to interact any more than you'd like.
00:16:28.820 If you just want to sign up and donate and support the team, we appreciate that.
00:16:36.560 uh if you'd like to get out and interact we would love that that's certainly what the goal is
00:16:42.160 but you're never you're never forced to to come to anything or to participate any more
00:16:49.360 than you're comfortable with than you'd like to um so i hope that answers what you're trying
00:16:55.600 to get at daniel do you have any thoughts on that well i would ask why i continue doing a solo
00:17:02.400 practitioner um i was a solo practitioner for i don't know two or three years uh best i could be
00:17:10.400 before i joined the austral folk assembly and not only is my spiritual experience increased
00:17:17.280 everything about me has increased much more stability in my home um i've achieved a bunch
00:17:24.960 of success because the success of people around you is really contagious and you become uh not
00:17:31.120 envious in a way where you would not want them to have things so you can have things but when you
00:17:35.840 see that people have good things say man i really want a piece of that too and uh a lot of times
00:17:41.840 when uh people notice that change in you um you know what's changed what's what's uh added so much
00:17:48.240 improvement for your life that tell them man my membership in the officer focus assembly i'm
00:17:52.560 surrounded by successful people and it spurs me on so if you're a fellow practitioner matt said
00:17:58.960 you know, we're not going to force you to come out of things, but why sit on the sidelines? Come join us.
00:18:04.720 Yeah. I mean, I think that a great many of us started as solo practitioners and pretty much
00:18:12.920 all of us who started as solo practitioners are very glad we were able to stop being solo
00:18:19.140 practitioners. You know, man is the joy of man in us coming together and worshiping our God's
00:18:25.200 a really good thing. And I hope that you have the opportunity to, to experience that, but no,
00:18:30.080 that's up to you. And, uh, there's no timeframe on it. You can join and do whatever makes you
00:18:35.500 comfortable. And maybe, maybe down the road, you'll feel more comfortable being part of a
00:18:39.020 group, but yeah, I appreciate the question. And certainly you're welcome to join without
00:18:43.320 having to practice in a group setting. If you're not comfortable, um, see a question over on the
00:18:49.840 side asking if Jarl Haakon is the one that Netflix blackwashed. They blackwashed and
00:19:00.880 girlwashed. So they turned him female and black for some reason. But yeah, he was neither 0.98
00:19:09.520 of those things.
00:19:13.200 Shouldn't be surprised by any of this. We've seen this a bunch in pop culture.
00:19:17.860 no uh yeah that's that's extremely unfortunate but i think you know i think we all know how that
00:19:26.120 goes in this day and age uh we have question any kindreds slash events in maryland um kindreds
00:19:34.920 not as of right now events yes we have gatherings in maryland we have i believe one folk builder
00:19:42.900 currently in maryland um we have folk builders right on either side in uh excuse me in west
00:19:50.020 virginia kind of surrounding west virginia in pennsylvania and uh and in virginia and uh
00:19:57.700 don't have one in delaware right now but we do have a folk builder in maryland one of our newer
00:20:02.980 folk builders uh james bethard i would encourage you to reach out to him if you want to get more
00:20:08.980 involved 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
00:20:18.500 at runestone.org and uh yeah he would he'd love to help you out and see about getting
00:20:24.660 you involved but we absolutely do have stuff in maryland james is a good guy too good friend of ours
00:20:30.500 um our next question comes from mary in las vegas glad to have you on the show mary
00:20:39.620 if possible i would like to ask whether you can suggest any of our gods and goddesses
00:20:45.860 who can bring rain to the las vegas valley we are parched dry and desperately need water from the
00:20:53.260 sky um daniel who do you think the most appropriate deity to call upon for for rain would be i think
00:21:03.700 the obvious answer to that would be thor uh being the storm god um also i would uh i would give
00:21:09.940 offerings to craig you know you think of uh think of rain and you think of thor you think of you
00:21:16.780 know thunderstorms and those kind of things it's not really good soaking rain it's more like it
00:21:22.040 just a what we call in the carolinas a tow trailer washes over the fan it
00:21:28.280 doesn't really soak in but i would uh definitely pray and uh and and give
00:21:32.540 offerings to fray because uh he brings the gentle rains and uh that's what i
00:21:40.980 would do matt who would you no i think that's perfect uh you stole my answer
00:21:47.460 And in that order, too, I think those would be the perfect folks to pray for for that.
00:21:53.720 Although, 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.
00:22:06.360 But I think the the most iconic for that would certainly be Asathor.
00:22:18.420 from crystal the hermitis readings where can i find out more information about sigerheim
00:22:28.020 will this branch into a new district um well certainly we've got an article every month in
00:22:35.300 the runestone about sigerheim we post regular updates i try to update people here on the program
00:22:42.740 If you wanted to send me an email, mattflavell at runestone.org, I'd be happy to answer any
00:22:50.900 questions that you might have. But shoot, I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have on
00:22:55.940 here. Will this branch into a new district? Yes, eventually. It will branch into a new district
00:23:04.680 when Tiershoff is established there. And Tiershoff is going to be our sixth Hof, the
00:23:13.120 Auschwitz-Folk Assembly. So for that to happen, we need to first pay off Njordshoff, then we need 0.99
00:23:19.620 to get and then pay off Frey's Hof. And then after that, we'll begin on Tiershoff. And once
00:23:27.000 As Tiershoff is established, Sigerheim will be the center of a new Tiershoff district.
00:23:35.360 But that's probably a few years out, but we're very much looking forward to it and excited about it.
00:23:41.680 Yeah, and I welcome any other questions you might have about it.
00:23:44.500 It's something good for us to talk about on this program, or if you wanted to reach out privately, that'd be good, too.
00:23:50.180 actually while we've got him here uh gothe young here is the man that scouted out the
00:24:00.380 sigerheim location for us he was the guy on point doing a lot of the running around
00:24:05.000 talking to our realtor dealing with all the moving parts on the purchase and getting things set up
00:24:12.620 so we owe him a great debt in fact that we have sigerheim it is an absolutely beautiful and
00:24:19.400 amazing place. And yeah, this man right here on the program with us tonight is the guy that
00:24:25.360 found that for us. It's a pleasure. If you noticed the thumbnail from this video, it was actually
00:24:31.420 taken. That was the first time Y'all sure that Goethe had set foot on the property at the point.
00:24:39.760 The only people that saw that property was myself and my wife. And, you know, a lot of nerves and
00:24:45.380 anxiety going into that because you know matt says go find this property and uh you know he
00:24:52.260 kind of rolled the dice and went with him uh on the property without having actually set foot on
00:24:57.420 it and uh until after the purchase had already gone through so that was a nerve-wracking experience
00:25:03.600 and uh but it's definitely a labor of love and you know folks in our circles uh we're looking
00:25:12.240 at this type of idea is like a pie in the sky kind of thing and when uh when matt first proposed
00:25:16.960 it to me i was thinking to shoot man you know we're decades away from that right nope
00:25:24.000 not this man running the show is not 0.87
00:25:29.120 well you know i i've
00:25:32.720 i've been uh
00:25:33.840 in in this in this and also true in my time and also true i've seen a lot of people
00:25:45.200 a lot of people talk a lot of people sell dreams and promises and not fulfill them
00:25:52.960 and i've kind of vowed to do my damnedest never to be that guy you know if i say we're going to
00:25:58.400 do something then i'm committed to putting my whole self behind making sure that happens and
00:26:03.160 Luckily, I've got some great people with me helping me to do just that.
00:26:09.120 Our next question, is it possible to join a bloat slash sumble at a HOF before joining, as in seeing if the AFA might be?
00:26:20.540 Yeah, absolutely.
00:26:23.880 The trick in doing that is you do need to be vouched for if you want to do that. 0.70
00:26:29.060 So 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. 0.85
00:26:35.300 But 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.
00:26:47.060 I absolutely understand wanting to check it out for yourself in person before you feel comfortable joining.
00:26:53.400 And we welcome that. Just need to check in with that folk builder first.
00:26:58.620 Our next question, I have a question. What is your opinion about fairies in general? 0.90
00:27:09.740 Some consider them guardians of forests and gardens. Daniel, what do you think about fairies?
00:27:18.780 I don't all that often. I'm aware of the folklore, but I do think that it's possible
00:27:27.120 this and upg on subject that's possible that is some sort of manifestation of a land spirit
00:27:37.040 and 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
00:27:42.160 a um ton to offer because it's never been that's never been a huge part of my house of true practice
00:27:53.760 um or i suppose emphasis uh but i i do tend to look at that category of of being as being land
00:28:04.720 spirits um but there's all different kinds of land spirits i think fairies are one manifestation of
00:28:14.400 that we know that there are you know benevolent and friendly land spirits and they're also malicious
00:28:21.920 land spirits so they're not all cut from the same cloth but yeah i look at those as land spirits and
00:28:29.120 i think or i for myself first of all it's it's become much more um a much bigger part of what i
00:28:41.840 do now that we have physical locations um it wasn't really such a big thing to me before
00:28:49.920 But 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.
00:29:06.860 And, you know, there's different things you can do to make offerings and to honor those spirits.
00:29:11.860 But fundamentally acknowledging them is in and of itself a real important thing to do.
00:29:18.360 so we try to make sure that we do that at our uh at our physical locations at our hoffs and at
00:29:24.360 sigerheim oh so you guys know entropy is back up and running it had a it's adding a layer of
00:29:34.920 verification that i hadn't set up before this program but that's all something for me and our
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00:30:48.920 we can get it out to. That's the thing. One of the biggest, biggest factors in growing the Ask
00:30:57.560 True Folk Assembly is all the people that don't know that we exist, getting those people to know
00:31:03.260 about us. I think once folks know about us, then I think we're an easy sell for a lot of people at
00:31:12.180 those points. I think that the gods help them at those points. I think that what we're doing in
00:31:18.040 good works speak but it's hard for them to speak if there's not people to listen so getting getting
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00:31:29.960 we do is much appreciated um back to our questions uh all right this one's for you daniel from
00:31:41.400 from Antonio Rodriguez. Can you explain about Jarl HÃ¥kon?
00:31:49.020 Well, he's the last Ossetru ruler of Norway. He was, while the powers that be that outranked him
00:31:58.920 were doing their best to install Christianity in his land, he was still dedicating and restoring
00:32:06.100 temples to our gods
00:32:08.000 and
00:32:09.320 it also goes to show too
00:32:11.820 at the end of his story where the
00:32:13.680 excessive womanizing
00:32:16.200 now we don't know how true that is by the way
00:32:17.980 that could just be
00:32:19.500 Christian morality being
00:32:22.040 injected into our lore
00:32:23.760 it's possible
00:32:24.540 and it may have been deeply exaggerated
00:32:28.140 but it can also show how
00:32:29.920 quickly someone's reputation can get
00:32:31.840 taken from them just by
00:32:33.920 selfish and poor choices
00:32:35.680 at the end of their lives sometimes.
00:32:39.960 Quite frankly, up until I knew I was doing this episode,
00:32:43.180 I didn't know a whole lot about the Jarl.
00:32:45.540 And by the time I especially stopped cramming today,
00:32:49.560 literally just over 90 minutes ago,
00:32:52.160 I was asking myself why I didn't know more about this fellow.
00:32:56.440 But the source material for him is really expansive.
00:32:59.980 You can look in Heimskringla.
00:33:02.600 And Adam of Bremen also mentions him.
00:33:05.680 as a, as the stock of Ivar, perhaps referring to Ivar the Bombas, and he's said to have come from
00:33:13.060 a race of giants, and somewhere in his lineage, and I'd have to dig back through my notes to
00:33:17.420 remember the king's name, but it was legend that he had descended from one of the early Norwegian
00:33:22.780 kings who claimed descent from Odin himself. So Cliff asks this, and I think this is a
00:33:33.540 an often asked question, but a really important one to, I don't know, I don't think this one can
00:33:41.840 be spoken about enough. Why is it important to practice Ausatru publicly? Real names,
00:33:47.700 real faces, no cloak and dagger nonsense.
00:33:57.540 Trying to even think to where to start, because honestly, the answer is so all-encompassing.
00:34:03.540 everything to our ancestors was about reputation, about fame, and about
00:34:17.160 putting your face on your deeds and being proud of them. There were things that were considered a
00:34:24.800 crime if you did them secretly, but weren't if you did them openly. The idea of being secretive
00:34:33.200 about the things that you do has always been looked upon as shady. We celebrate courage.
00:34:39.640 Courage is one of our chief virtues, and we talk about it all day long, and we post memes of
00:34:45.320 Vikings with blood dripping from their axe and talk about courage. Yet some of the people who
00:34:52.360 post the most chess beating about courage um go under the name of john odinson with a picture of
00:35:03.800 you know various historical figures as their uh their avatar and won't put a
00:35:12.760 real face in a name with the the courageous boasting that they do um literally standing
00:35:20.440 up and being counted for us, for our church, for our gods, and for what we believe in is the most
00:35:29.180 fundamental and basic level of having courage and expressing courage. And the thing you do when you
00:35:36.140 have courage is it waves the banner of Ausitru for other people to see. It makes those who are
00:35:44.900 weak, feel stronger and strengthened by your strength and your courage. It makes those that,
00:35:51.840 you know, think they're all alone, be strengthened and feel like, no, I'm not all alone. There's
00:35:57.460 other people out there who think like me. It brings hope to people who despair and think,
00:36:02.640 you know, everything's gone crazy and there's nobody that gets it. You standing up and put
00:36:07.020 your face and your name behind it shows them somebody does get it. So that's an example.
00:36:11.180 You 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?
00:36:27.760 And 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.
00:36:48.720 And it's the determining factor on whether this this will survive after us or whether it dies with us.
00:36:56.280 As 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.
00:37:04.060 But if no one had the courage to put names and faces behind it, this wouldn't exist and we wouldn't be here.
00:37:11.160 the courage to stand up, put your name, your face, your reputation behind this that we all do
00:37:20.140 is probably the most fundamental thing you can do to move House of Truth forward.
00:37:27.000 What are your thoughts, Daniel? I mean, it's going to be kind of co-signing what you just said.
00:37:31.980 I joined House of Truth Folk Assembly in 2018, and I remember 2018 and 19 were kind of a weird time.
00:37:41.160 A lot of guys were, you know, faces were under papers, faces were on television, and it was frightening to some people.
00:37:50.000 But I think using those particular instances as a reason to be fearful is almost disrespectful to the sacrifice those people make for us.
00:38:00.580 where i live and i get this question a lot and as does my wife heather as you know how do we
00:38:08.700 practice also true openly in the bible belt and that's because people fear what they don't know
00:38:14.940 so if we're really open about who we are and as matt said i mean we're doing nothing wrong i'm
00:38:20.940 just an average guy doing average things and it's just some eccentric hobby to me
00:38:25.940 this has become a way of life and I'm proud of what it's done for me why would
00:38:31.880 I not practice this faith openly and I don't respond to people who send me
00:38:42.520 messages through social media apps is like blood urine pathogen son you're not
00:38:46.940 a real person and if you're not willing to put your name and face behind your
00:38:50.820 words and your words are just wind. All right. So I've got, I've got to tell the story. And
00:39:01.020 if the person who went by this moniker is out there listening, I promise I'm laughing with
00:39:06.220 you, not at you. Your, your, your fake name was really clever. Um, but we get a lot of,
00:39:14.080 young people that have become, I don't know, culturally aware of some of the things going on
00:39:23.600 in the world today that want to push for something more normal, more traditional.
00:39:30.340 We have this whole circle of people that are used to communicating through the internet and through
00:39:34.980 fake names and fake existences. So I went amongst a group of these folks one time. I was invited
00:39:43.020 there and i appreciate the invitation again i've got to tell the story because it's funny not
00:39:46.780 because i'm i'm being a jerk i promise um but i showed up and again i'm you know at this point
00:39:53.740 i'm in my my late 30s and i show up and uh people are sitting around and you know drinking scotch 0.84
00:39:59.900 and well-dressed good-looking noble people doing stuff and i shook shook a man's hand
00:40:07.020 and uh i said hi my name is matt and he said i'm chill bro swaggins
00:40:14.380 and i stood there and i and i held a good firm grip onto the guy's hand and i made it awkward
00:40:20.220 and i stared at him and i stared at him and i stared at steve you could call me steve hey steve
00:40:25.980 good to meet you um so yeah that's a that's a thing uh using real names is important to what
00:40:34.540 we do and it means we're we're taking this seriously i see some comments over on the side
00:40:39.100 and you know one of the things that the uninformed will suggest a lot is that house true is larping
00:40:46.540 it's especially larping when you have a fake identity and a fake persona
00:40:53.820 um it's not larping when you go out there and this is who you are this is who you what you
00:41:01.340 say you are when you talk to your friends and your family this is who you are when you raise your
00:41:06.940 children when this is who you are and you're willing to put your real name your real reputation
00:41:13.260 your real face behind it that's what separates any of this from larping that's what makes this real
00:41:19.660 um and that's scary sometimes and that can be scary for people but uh that's what makes it
00:41:26.540 worthwhile that's what puts puts meat and skin in the game and that's why it's so very important
00:41:34.540 to behave in a noble way because your reputation affects those who put their name next to yours
00:41:43.020 so keeping that in mind is is i think really important also
00:41:46.540 So, um, so, uh, Allie asks, uh, oh, now I messed up my, my thingy on the side here.
00:41:59.840 All right.
00:42:00.460 Allie asks, what is the biggest takeaway from the story of Jarl Haakon, uh, that we can
00:42:07.060 apply in our lives today as modern Alcetruar?
00:42:11.200 Daniel, what do you find to be the biggest takeaway that we can apply? 0.51
00:42:16.540 I 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.
00:42:32.480 Rather than, you know, complain or hide, the Jarl practices faith openly.
00:42:39.380 He continued to dedicate temples to his native gods.
00:42:42.040 He continued to offer sacrifice to Odin.
00:42:46.540 despite what the world around him was doing.
00:42:48.760 And he did that up to his dying breath.
00:42:51.800 And it's kind of similar to what Matt and I were just talking about,
00:42:55.120 you know, being Alistair now in 2023,
00:42:58.580 particularly of the focus variety is,
00:43:02.320 in particular in this society,
00:43:05.400 is what we have to do to keep this thing moving,
00:43:08.440 despite what the society around us thinks
00:43:10.420 or what threats may be around the corner for us.
00:43:14.080 We don't have the same threats that Halkin had.
00:43:16.840 He literally faced the blade.
00:43:20.560 I 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.
00:43:32.620 you know, I'd say one of the, one of the, if not
00:43:39.500 the point of Ausatru
00:43:43.360 is wanting our gods to be proud of us.
00:43:52.280 And I think, and this isn't aimed at anyone, this just is,
00:43:56.780 The 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.
00:44:09.660 Um, but the idea of, and this is an expression, I don't mean this literally because it doesn't
00:44:18.940 work like that, but the idea of looking your gods in the eye and saying that you were unwilling
00:44:25.880 to put your name in your face or risk, risk a job or your parents looking at you funny
00:44:33.180 or your girlfriend dumping you to identify yourself as loyal and standing with them.
00:44:41.640 I couldn't imagine doing that. I couldn't imagine standing before my gods and saying that. I would
00:44:48.860 be too ashamed. I couldn't do it. The more real these gods are to you, the more I think that
00:44:55.240 people will feel that way. Our next question, how can we incorporate the land spirits as part
00:45:04.260 of our daily practice? I don't hear them brought up nearly as often as the gods and ancestor
00:45:10.020 worship. Well, there's a good reason for that. And I think this is an important thing to point out.
00:45:15.180 the land spirits aren't good or bad or on our team or not well okay individually they may be
00:45:26.860 them as a category isn't necessarily someone we want to pray to or make offerings to or build a
00:45:36.060 relationship with they could be they could not be our ancestors are somebody that by default it's
00:45:43.540 our duty to honor. Not only should we honor them, we want to honor them, we'd like to honor them,
00:45:49.880 but it's literally our job to honor them. Our gods. Choosing to practice Ausitru means that
00:45:59.220 we're signing on to being loyal to those gods. It's inherent to our faith that we worship the
00:46:04.260 Iser. That's what Ausitru is about. Interacting with the land spirits is much different. You 1.00
00:46:10.400 choosing to have a friendship with your neighbors isn't a necessary component of
00:46:18.840 ascertrude, whereas ancestor and God veneration is. So choosing to interact with land spirits is
00:46:25.040 much more of a personal choice. You know, how I think is done in a lot of different ways. And I
00:46:33.820 think this is one of the things there's a lot of variety to. This is like worship in your home at
00:46:39.620 or altar. I think everybody probably has a different way they do it and a different
00:46:44.020 tradition maybe in their family or in their home that they're comfortable with.
00:46:52.580 Most often what I think people do is they'll select a space on their property or on a piece
00:47:02.100 of land that's important to them or maybe a place where they do ritual and they'll find a special
00:47:08.880 rock or a special tree or a feature of that land that they focus that lances that um i'm sorry
00:47:18.640 land spirit veneration on an altar if you will for that and they'll leave offerings there
00:47:26.800 a lot of the time because it's what we're very used to doing we make that offering
00:47:30.960 in the form of some sort of libation it'll be a drink or a you know pouring out a horn
00:47:38.880 something that way. I know a lot of people with land spirits like to offer tobacco. I know folks
00:47:46.860 like to alter or offer like butter or cream, sometimes oatmeal or porridge.
00:47:55.500 But I really think that's up to you and where you're at and what you feel is a good thing
00:47:59.740 with what you're doing. With any interaction, with any sentient being, I think that
00:48:07.840 intention is a huge part of it. And what you, what the spirit in which you do it in, I think
00:48:17.860 becomes self-evident to the land spirits, to the gods, to the ancestors, or to a friend of
00:48:24.920 yours when you're interacting. I think you can tell that. So if your head and your heart are in
00:48:29.480 the right place, I don't really think there's a, you know, there's a variety of right ways to do
00:48:33.900 that. What do you think on it, Daniel? In the past, I've, I personally have offered fruit,
00:48:44.100 you know, something of the land back to the land. Similar to what you were saying, though,
00:48:50.680 it doesn't take like a precedence in my personal practice. Although the home I live in, I've only
00:48:58.420 been here for three years, and this is the first place I've ever owned. And a lot of that's because
00:49:03.640 of the australian folk assembly and the success that was contagious in my life and helped spur
00:49:09.400 me toward this but when we when we took this land and did the lamb taking ceremony we offered a bowl
00:49:15.640 of uh fruit soaked and mead and we poured our uh devotion into that mead much the same way you
00:49:22.520 would in a normal bloke but something that i've had to adjust over the over the my the course of
00:49:30.360 my ostrichery burning personally as i know early on it was you know praise of the gods and asking
00:49:37.080 for blessing praise of the gods and ask for the blessings and especially now with so much success
00:49:44.840 uh personally and you know for the church as i approach the gods the ancestors and the lambeteer
00:49:51.320 with a much more grateful heart it's uh kind of goes back to what matt was saying about intention
00:49:57.400 And 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.
00:50:14.980 So 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.
00:50:23.180 And, you know, there is a there is a time and a place and I'm not speaking monolithically here.
00:50:35.620 There 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.
00:50:45.100 Maybe 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.
00:51:01.980 But 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.
00:51:21.400 that if nobody's talking about faith, then okay, I understand that. There's, again, context is
00:51:28.500 everything. But it's, it's okay. So here's the thing that hits close to home. One of the things
00:51:38.560 I've been contemplative since my mom passed. I love my mom. She's an amazing, amazing woman. But
00:51:44.900 One 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.
00:52:02.760 She didn't share a lot of the deep things in her heart, her deeply held beliefs, because she was so polite.
00:52:09.300 She didn't want to offend anybody.
00:52:10.920 She didn't want to, you know, she didn't want to make waves.
00:52:14.900 So she kept it about work or about superficial things.
00:52:20.580 And I watched.
00:52:22.340 And unfortunately, that really hampered her ability to have true friends and true relationships in a lot of way.
00:52:29.600 Because 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.
00:52:41.660 When 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.
00:52:59.180 And so I think that's really important.
00:53:01.240 There's plenty of professional reasons where it might not be appropriate.
00:53:04.120 And I get that.
00:53:04.920 And 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.
00:53:21.640 well checking the temperature of the room matters too i mean i certainly wouldn't break out into
00:53:28.220 bloat on my on my job or something like that i certainly wouldn't i don't talk about my work
00:53:34.460 you know at the hall if i i'm a pretty avid uh golfer and a lot of my co-workers i play golf
00:53:43.140 with and one of our like the number one rule to get into our golf circle nobody talks about work
00:53:49.380 while we're there because I'm not on the clock. Why am I thinking about work? It's very similar
00:53:55.320 to the way I treat things when I'm on the job. I'm there to make a living. It's there to put
00:54:00.980 bread on my table and make my mortgage payment. And if the topic comes up, we'll talk about it,
00:54:06.820 but it's not like I walk around with a sign and ask me about alcohol or something.
00:54:13.040 No, no. And you don't want to be obnoxious. It is what it is, but there's the people that
00:54:19.100 find Jesus and man, they can't not tell everybody about Jesus 24 seven. And again, sometimes that
00:54:26.120 pushes people away and, you know, people, people don't, don't want what you're selling. And that's
00:54:31.060 cool too. There's the taking the temperature of the room is, is sound advice that Goethe Young
00:54:36.080 gives us. Our next question. Hey, Matt, what kind of pelt slash fur is covering your epic throne
00:54:43.720 there sir also just had a chance to finish up last week's episode agree with those who said
00:54:49.880 it was one of the best shows thank you we got a lot of really great feedback from last week
00:54:55.400 i felt really good about it um that one felt like a really really good show and i gotta thank uh
00:55:01.640 witness fawn for all of all of his knowledge and input he puts in on on the programs that he's on
00:55:08.680 um so first my epic throne um i'll put out the secret my epic throne was was purchased at the
00:55:19.080 thrift store and i think it was 25 um so epic on a budget uh the pelt was actually a gift from our
00:55:28.800 law speaker it is an icelandic goat pelt um but yeah law speaker alan turnage gifted that to me
00:55:37.220 number of years ago he also got my daughter a white one that is uh icelandic goat so
00:55:44.580 there you go yeah uh our law speaker alan turnage is is my daughter's godfather and a really special
00:55:53.780 guy to to my family and earlier before the show i thought we're gonna have a problem because she has
00:55:58.740 this this huge red bouncing ball that was chaos she was throwing at my camera and i was having
00:56:05.300 fend off and that was also a gift from our lossby um next question can you both please talk about
00:56:17.620 the importance of continual self-improvement uh fitness strength etc daniel can you talk
00:56:25.780 about that for a minute uh yeah i mean we can talk about that on a number of different levels
00:56:32.500 be it you know for personal health uh personal excellence but i think it comes back to um
00:56:39.940 i think our physical appearance is a reflection of uh who we are on the inside i know a lot of
00:56:46.580 folks would look at you know bodybuilder with seven percent body fat and talk about their vanity
00:56:52.260 but they care deeply about their presentation it's not just about what they see in the mirror
00:56:58.820 is what they see in the mirror is a reflection of the inside um myself you know dealing with 0.99
00:57:04.740 stupid health problems that you have poor choices and diet and stuff for the last several years has 0.99
00:57:09.220 you know pushed me toward uh you know not just hitting the gym but really watching everything 1.00
00:57:13.780 i eat i count everything that i eat whether it's uh you know just a midnight snack or
00:57:22.500 a glass of milk or whatever but uh i think it's uh vitally important i think and i think beauty
00:57:27.940 is important. And this day and age where mediocrity and almost people choosing to be ugly
00:57:37.940 is a reflection of the soul sickness that our founder, Steve McAllen, talks about.
00:57:46.640 So I think it's vitally important that we take care of our... This is all we're given to
00:57:51.060 further our cause and mid-guard, and we need to take care of that vehicle investment.
00:57:57.940 You know, so a couple of things. First, to kind of start where Goethe Young was at.
00:58:11.520 I'm not ashamed of it. How we look is important. How we look is vitally important.
00:58:18.140 I mentioned on last week's episode about Lady Freya, but we want to look our best. We want to
00:58:26.680 be beautiful. We want to celebrate beauty in what we do. And it was so important to our ancestors.
00:58:33.020 It's so important to our folk, to our gods, this new movement we have of celebrating the ugly
00:58:41.220 of body positive. And those listening on the podcast missed my air quotes.
00:58:47.640 um no celebrating obesity isn't isn't cool it's not cool because it's gross it's also not cool 0.77
00:58:57.980 because it's terribly unhealthy and getting ugly on celebrating ugly unhealthy people that are
00:59:06.560 intentionally ugly and unhealthy does them a great disservice for them to be a mascot for your
00:59:14.940 deviant social views, they pay that price. And oftentimes they pay that price with their life.
00:59:25.080 No, we want to be the best we can be. We want to present ourselves at our very best before our
00:59:31.680 gods. So that does have to do with how we look, how we take care of ourselves, how we present
00:59:38.080 ourselves how we dress how we act how we speak and the physical shape we're in but also it's so much
00:59:45.680 more we want to be um we want to be the best at all things we can be we want to be smart we want
00:59:55.040 to know things we want to learn we want to it's a challenge every day and so important to be a
01:00:06.240 a little bit better tomorrow than we are today and to build that success. And this is something
01:00:11.640 Daniel mentioned earlier about success, but it's contagious. When you are around successful people,
01:00:18.200 it inspires you to up your game and be better. I want everyone I'm with to be their very, very best.
01:00:26.560 And if they're better than me at something, that's great because it inspires me to be more than I am.
01:00:33.300 And if I can inspire other people, great.
01:00:36.160 But I'm looking for people to be inspired by all the time.
01:00:40.220 If we are each trying to leapfrog each other to be the very best we can be, it moves us all forward.
01:00:47.620 And 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,
01:00:54.500 they've got a support system for people that can pick them up and carry them forward.
01:00:58.520 and uh that's that's our goal is to be the best that we can because we are we are the the living
01:01:07.200 example uh the poster to the world of what also true is and of to reflect our gods and our
01:01:16.080 ancestors i want those who came before me to be proud i want to be the best version of my family
01:01:22.520 line that's come about. I want Aubrey to be better than me. And I want whatever children Aubrey has
01:01:29.600 to be better than her. I want to always be increasing and being better. And that's the
01:01:35.740 path of the hero. That's what we owe our families. It's what we owe our spouses. It's what we owe
01:01:41.560 our children. It's what we owe our gods to be the very best we can be. And none of us are going to
01:01:47.000 be perfect. And I think that shooting for perfect is always really hard, but shooting for better
01:01:53.660 than you are right now is always achievable. And if you're always shooting for better than you are
01:01:59.160 right now, eventually that's going to lead you closer and closer to perfect. And that's the,
01:02:03.760 that's the goal. Next question. Good evening, gentlemen. Which characteristics of Jarl HÃ¥kon
01:02:13.320 can the folk learn from the most what are your thoughts daniel
01:02:21.160 that we stick to our faith no matter what no matter what the uh
01:02:25.160 winds of society try to push us to and we always stand on our principles and stand up for who we
01:02:30.360 are who we come from yeah um
01:02:42.680 courage to stand by your convictions and also courage to go out and do big things
01:02:49.560 courage to be a part of stuff and to live in a big way um
01:02:58.200 he started out well in life but because of his prowess and because of his you know trying to
01:03:03.480 go out there and be the hero he became basically the the uncrowned king of norway for a time um
01:03:12.680 The 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.
01:03:22.160 And I think that's really important. And I think that's why we celebrate a day of remembrance every year to honor him.
01:03:31.460 and we remember his name now i gotta stop in math but we remember his name
01:03:39.380 what 1200 years after his time and that's a that's a really important thing
01:03:47.140 and it's a special thing uh next question do you have a favorite time of year or holiday
01:03:54.900 If so, why that one? Daniel, what's your favorite time of year or holiday and why?
01:04:02.920 My favorite time of year is October. You know, that transition into fall. Here in the South,
01:04:11.540 we call that where I'm from, particularly we call it second summer. But when it starts to get that
01:04:16.620 crispness in the air and, you know, you kind of start to get those chills when you walk out on
01:04:21.940 the porch in the morning uh especially after the oppressive heat and that we get in the carolinas
01:04:27.780 it's a definitely my favorite part of the year i think to be honest with you it's almost selfishly
01:04:32.580 but it's that's when my birthday is and uh some of my happier moments growing up were surrounded
01:04:39.620 by my birthday my mother made sure that uh you know while it may have seemed small to other
01:04:45.700 people but my mother when she not just the gift she gave but just the effort she put in to
01:04:50.260 celebrating my birthday as her first child and all that and seeing her give all of herself to it
01:04:55.700 it uh always feels it fills my heart with warmth uh to this day uh i have the voicemails my mother
01:05:03.300 leaves me on the minute i was born and uh on my on my birthday she'll call me at 8 12 in the morning
01:05:11.380 every year and she sings me happy birthday on my voicemail every year and uh i save them
01:05:17.140 every 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
01:05:23.780 more about my mom's love for me and i and i'm totally enveloped by that and as far as holidays
01:05:29.060 i love everything from yule to uh from winter nights to yule those are those are my favorite
01:05:33.620 my favorite holidays and uh again that kind of harkens back to my childhood uh before my mother
01:05:39.940 started getting into uh jehovah's witnesses and stuff and we were still celebrating christmas
01:05:44.420 every year i literally believed in the magic of christmas uh you know just the spirit of that
01:05:50.900 holiday and all that was really infectious and i still feel that way to this day um
01:05:55.780 my daughter is 14 now and she believed in santa up until she was about 11. or at least she was
01:06:02.580 telling me that anyway so um but that's that was really important to me that uh my children believed
01:06:09.220 in the magic that time of year. Don't ever move to Alaska. Mom's going to be calling you at four
01:06:14.360 in the morning. Just news you could use. Yeah, my favorite, favorite time of year is fall going
01:06:30.300 into winter. You know, favorite time is, is right, is you. My favorite holiday, it's my favorite
01:06:37.280 time of year always has been since i was a kid it this doesn't make sense and i don't know if i
01:06:45.120 explain it right but uh being in alaska that time of winter doesn't feel cold to me it feels warm
01:06:56.320 because you're not outside in that a bunch you're spending most of your time inside and it's dark
01:07:02.960 out and so you have the nice warm you know i always like the yellow light i don't like the white
01:07:08.000 the white fluorescent light i like soft yellow bulbs and lamps and fire light and you're inside
01:07:15.440 by the fire and it's warm and you've got family and friends around and that's when people really
01:07:21.520 spent that time getting together and it just always felt magical and special i think as a
01:07:28.000 kids seeing all the lights and all the you know all the special stuff around that time of year
01:07:33.840 was always really really neat to me growing up and uh yeah i love that i love that to this day
01:07:40.960 um but you know what it doesn't have to be up in alaska where it's snowy i've been you know i've
01:07:47.440 been in the yule season everywhere and again they put up put up trees and lights and it's you know
01:07:55.360 the darkest it's going to be there and you get that feeling i can remember you know it felt that
01:08:00.800 way when i was uh down in saint augustine florida for a couple of years do this thing called the
01:08:05.920 city of lights during december and uh you know all the historic buildings downtown and everywhere has
01:08:13.360 you know their their lights up there you know i think the white uh christmas lights up but it's
01:08:19.680 it's just neat it's a whole special feeling they got the holly jolly trolley or whatever they call
01:08:26.160 it that takes the tourists around and they drunkenly sing carols at you or whatever
01:08:32.560 it's just fun um so that's my favorite time of year and that's that's probably why
01:08:41.680 it really is and like i say it can be in the middle of the tropics like in florida and it's
01:08:46.160 still really cool um next question is it wrong to keep your identities secret for example if we're
01:08:55.840 promoting views online now that are not considered acceptable is it wrong to not show your face and
01:09:02.080 keep your identities a secret um we talked about that a little bit on this program big um
01:09:10.880 context is everything it all depends it depends where you're at it depends what you're doing and
01:09:16.000 it depends what particular view you're expressing and how you're expressing it um
01:09:22.880 in the big picture yeah that's not the the ideal way you should do it putting your name and your
01:09:28.640 face behind who you are and what you believe is the best and right way to do stuff but context
01:09:34.160 is everything depends where you're at and it depends what you're saying um the more that
01:09:41.760 you can live courageously the i would i would say this it's on a spectrum
01:09:47.280 um can't always be perfect you're not always going to put your face and your name on everything
01:09:51.920 all of the time everywhere the closer you get to that the better so the closer you can get
01:09:58.960 to living as openly and authentically the things that you believe the better there's a million
01:10:05.440 circumstances that everyone out there can think of on why to keep stuff secret. And I get that.
01:10:12.620 And so let me just say that. Everyone out there when I say this, or very, very many of our viewers
01:10:20.100 when I say this, immediately are thinking of, ah, but I couldn't do that here. Ah, but I've got a
01:10:25.840 career. These other guys have a job at the gas station and I've got whatever. Oh, but, oh, but
01:10:31.160 my parents are old and they, they just wouldn't understand. Oh, there are a million excuses. And
01:10:37.380 when I say excuses, that doesn't mean they're not legitimate excuses. There may be very legitimate.
01:10:44.460 There's a million reasons not to, but what I challenge everyone out there to think about
01:10:49.040 is reasons to, or situations where you could, where are you not living openly and authentically
01:10:55.560 that you could change that up and put your name and face on it and stand proud for what you believe
01:11:00.180 instead of thinking all the things that you can't do what things can you do and yes ideally putting
01:11:07.560 your name and your face behind who you are and what you believe makes anything you want to
01:11:12.360 contribute that much more powerful one of the problems online on the internet
01:11:18.960 it's what people like to call slacktivism people think that they're doing something or making a
01:11:25.920 change by spending all day arguing with nameless, faceless people that may be sitting in mom's
01:11:33.420 basement. And it's not the real world. I know a lot of people with great potential that spend
01:11:40.620 all their time in Twitter arguments. They could be out there living life and building a family
01:11:47.220 and building a reputation and worshiping our gods and participating and doing things.
01:11:51.780 But 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?
01:12:05.300 I think we've covered this pretty extensively, but I'll offer
01:12:10.620 this one proof of advice. If what you are saying is something
01:12:14.520 that you wouldn't sign your name or face to, don't say it.
01:12:18.920 And if it doesn't lead you or us to victory,
01:12:22.900 don't say it or don't do it.
01:12:27.320 That's where I stand on that.
01:12:31.820 All right.
01:12:32.620 uh this one comes from bodie gothe young can you speak on how also true is grown-up real world
01:12:40.720 polytheism well i think the answer is in your question it's grown up real world polytheism
01:12:48.320 i mean we're actively out here putting our faith into action and a lot of times you'll see these
01:12:57.480 again, you know, Matt was referring to memes earlier
01:13:00.560 or about, you know, also true is, you know, is about what we do and not
01:13:04.460 necessarily just what we believe. I live an also true life.
01:13:08.720 I don't just practice also true when it's also true time. It's also true time
01:13:12.720 for me and my family, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
01:13:16.240 And who am I telling? The guy on the other side of the screen is literally a full-time
01:13:20.740 go-thee. This is his full-time job.
01:13:24.500 Look at all the cool stuff that we're doing.
01:13:26.120 it's it's the the four halves it's sigerheim and you know the horizon is still within reach we're
01:13:33.480 still chasing that horizon every day um just this past month uh the team at korshoff fed 60 families
01:13:43.160 in the last two uh food drives uh and that's barely scratching the surface when it comes to
01:13:49.480 what odenshoff is doing baldoshoff is doing phenomenal stuff up there in murdoch with
01:13:53.560 their food pantry and uh new york's office coming up and nipping at our heels and doing awesome
01:13:58.920 things down in florida this is out here doing it and rather than talking about it debating it and
01:14:05.240 studying it and you know and talking about the what ifs you know one day we're going to have
01:14:10.920 you know intentional community the afa's got one one day we're going to have a temple afa's got four
01:14:19.080 we're out here actually practicing this faith and putting those things into action it reminds me a
01:14:23.080 lot of the slogan or the motto rather at uh thorsoff that words are wind and deeds are iron
01:14:28.520 and it goes back to that age-old uh also true uh maxim that we are our beads
01:14:41.480 all right
01:14:41.960 Right. Absolutely. So many people talk about it and the differences when you live in such a way
01:14:54.680 that you are about it. And that makes literally all the difference in the world. All right.
01:15:02.900 next question what have you what do you think of the quote unquote also true channels that say the
01:15:12.340 gods aren't real but just represent nature and natural forces slash biology so i mean i think
01:15:20.420 the answer is in your question the fact that you put also true in quotation marks those people are
01:15:25.860 not loyal nor true to the icr not only are they not loyal to them they don't believe in them
01:15:33.700 those folks are atheists that like cool viking stuff um
01:15:41.780 and atheists out there if you want to like cool viking stuff that's awesome viking stuff's cool
01:15:47.140 but that's not also true and it has nothing to do with outside true and what i think is
01:15:56.500 what what i dislike about it the most is that it's confusing to new people
01:16:01.380 um it's very important and in the afa we try really hard to get the word also true to mean
01:16:12.180 something to have it have a meaning that's recognizable that others when they hear it
01:16:18.780 can associate it with something and it's a beautiful word that has an important meaning
01:16:23.240 people have spent their lives building that meaning through faith through reverence through worship
01:16:30.460 and through the gift cycle over the years for, you know, armchair intellectuals to get online
01:16:38.500 and claim to be also true. And then talk about how not real the gods are and how atheist they are.
01:16:47.420 It's slap in the face to those of us who've who've made this their entire life.
01:16:55.480 We don't know what more to say except for those people are wrong. They're very wrong.
01:16:59.880 they're drastically wrong they're as wrong as they can be um
01:17:08.840 i would say the gods don't represent nature nature perhaps represents the gods
01:17:14.920 i think one of the biggest things that is unfortunate is people reverse the order of things
01:17:22.840 when they see elements that are shared by our gods and that are shared by nature
01:17:28.600 they think the gods are a reflection of the nature as opposed to the nature being
01:17:33.560 reflection of the gods when they see our people live a certain way or do a certain thing they
01:17:39.480 think oh the stories of the gods are just tales to explain people doing people things
01:17:45.160 maybe people doing people things are a reflection of our gods and the gods that created us and the
01:17:51.480 values and the belief in our gods that our people do not just maybe but that is what happens
01:17:57.800 Um, yeah, those aren't also true channels. They muddy the waters and make it really hard for
01:18:04.520 well-meaning people out there to figure out who we are and what we believe. And what I think the
01:18:09.420 biggest harm is, is when regular folks Google Alcitru and those folks have a better algorithm
01:18:15.600 than we have, it makes people discover that, you know, wow, these, you know, Alcitru,
01:18:23.220 they don't really believe in the gods that's all you know just atheist you know mumbo jumbo and
01:18:29.460 then they and then they turn the channel and go elsewhere people that are naturally drawn to our
01:18:34.500 faith that if we were the first thing they saw maybe they would come home to alsatru and come
01:18:39.300 home to their gods are put off from it by pretenders claiming to be alsatru and to be honest
01:18:46.020 they're just atheists and i can respect that be atheist if that's what you're going to do but
01:18:51.380 be honest about it and don't take something that we love and that we cherish
01:18:56.580 and degrade it by your atheism do your own thing uh what do you think daniel
01:19:03.940 i couldn't have said it better myself the answer is those people are wrong
01:19:09.060 and they've obviously never had a true spiritual experience
01:19:12.340 that moment when we see one of our people have that look in their eyes like the aha moment like
01:19:24.760 you know the minute it becomes real you ask those people it isn't just the elements of nature that
01:19:30.360 calls that. So the next question, can you explain the difference, if there is one,
01:19:45.080 between fear and cowardice? Is there a difference between courage and recklessness?
01:19:51.480 Where's the line drawn? So that's, that's three questions. And I think that they're all in need
01:20:04.580 of an individual response. Difference between fear and cowardice. Fear exists.
01:20:16.020 cowardice is having your actions dictated by that fear one can be terrified of things
01:20:26.140 and still do them and that is courage one cannot be scared of anything and go out there and do them
01:20:34.380 that's also courage but if you're scared and you let fear be the defining factor in your character
01:20:42.320 in who you are and in your life, then unfortunately you're a coward. And if you do that on an
01:20:48.520 individual action, it is an action of cowardice. One of the things that I've noticed, and again,
01:20:58.420 please don't think that I don't go through these things myself or contemplate them over the course
01:21:04.480 my life i'm not i'm not talking down to anyone and i'm aware that reality is very different than
01:21:12.720 me telling you the perfect thing to do real life is much more messy than that and i get it
01:21:19.760 and courage is such an easy thing to say and it's such a hard thing to do i know that um
01:21:28.000 fear prevents each of us from doing things all of the time and sometimes that's a very
01:21:36.400 smart and reasonable thing to do um oftentimes it's not it's a cowardly thing to do
01:21:45.860 but we're all susceptible myself included i get that i'm not please don't think that and i know
01:21:53.400 on these these shows but it's my job on these shows to tell you about the ideal thing
01:21:59.880 not to tell you something that's not true but might be more comfortable
01:22:04.360 so i'm trying to live up to that but i'm also not trying to hurt anybody's feeling or rub salt in
01:22:09.320 anything um difference between courage and recklessness absolutely courage is doing the
01:22:21.080 right thing the right thing isn't always the most bold in your face thing it's the noble thing that
01:22:29.240 ought to be done recklessness there's a lot of things that ought not be done but just doing
01:22:36.280 things on a whim because you want to and because you don't fear anything that's reckless factoring
01:22:42.920 in whether it's worth it whether it's not your chances of success your chances of failure your
01:22:50.520 fears and your convictions and then making the the right choice that's uh the difference
01:22:58.040 between courage and recklessness in my opinion and the question and i'll say this this is a question
01:23:04.680 that um that rubs me wrong and i'm taking it honest from the way you're asking so this isn't
01:23:11.320 aimed at you this is for our audience that hears this it's a common refrain when we have
01:23:20.520 When we're confronted with something that takes discernment to decide, people always ask, well, who's to say?
01:23:30.160 Well, who's to decide?
01:23:31.940 A lot of different ideas about right and wrong.
01:23:35.640 Who's to say one's better than the other?
01:23:38.320 You are.
01:23:39.000 That's your job as a man.
01:23:41.720 I am, because today I'm taking it upon myself to say it.
01:23:46.460 Any of us who have courage and the strength of men, we're the ones to make a decision
01:23:54.480 about right and wrong, to make a decision about where the line is drawn.
01:24:00.980 You know, we can talk all day and there's no way that Daniel or myself can provide the perfect line
01:24:07.360 of exactly how much you should risk to do something courageous and exactly how much
01:24:14.060 consequence is too much every situation is going to be different but the thing is in
01:24:22.780 also true you're judged by your peers and you're judged by your gods are you confident
01:24:30.380 that acting in a way that is
01:24:35.020 in not doing something because you're scared of it is that a decision that your gods and your folk
01:24:41.660 and your family will endorse is is that something they'll celebrate or won't they
01:24:50.540 as far as courage and recklessness if you go out and do the right thing are your gods going to be
01:24:55.740 proud of you are your ancestors going to be proud of you are your folk going to celebrate you for 1.00
01:25:02.380 doing it or are they going to shake their head at how stupid you were and i think that's where 1.00
01:25:08.620 that line is drawn and that line is going to be drawn different for different people and different 1.00
01:25:12.780 for every situation under the sun but it's your challenge as a man to step up to that
01:25:20.540 and to choose courage over fear and to choose you know courageous actions over reckless actions and
01:25:30.380 answering that question is is each of our jobs to be worthy to stand before our gods and our
01:25:36.140 family at the end of the day what are your thoughts on those three questions like i say they're three
01:25:41.740 very separate questions that each deserve a response daniel
01:25:45.900 if i'm getting it thrown back up on the screen for me so i can answer them
01:25:49.580 correctly all right first one can you explain the difference if there is one between fear and
01:25:55.100 cowardice i think cowardice is uh caving to that fear is here go ahead i'm sorry i think it's caving
01:26:05.100 to that fear and letting that fear control you and you know uh that i would do this but what if
01:26:12.780 kind of thing all right yeah i've got some personal stuff to add to this when we're done
01:26:17.260 answering these questions okay is there a difference between courage and recklessness
01:26:22.140 absolutely there's a difference between courage and recklessness i think uh you know courage is
01:26:27.740 facing your fears uh and it's not not what the saying goes uh courage is in the absence of fear
01:26:33.420 is what you do in the face of it but i think being reckless is also part of it kind of goes
01:26:37.580 back to what i was saying earlier about you know if you wouldn't sign your name for what you have
01:26:41.100 to say then don't say it if it's not something you would feel comfortable saying in front of
01:26:46.300 your mother or your employer don't say it otherwise there's consequences for those things all right
01:26:55.020 so that may answer this next question where is the line drawn i i think i answered that
01:27:00.300 already i i think it's when if you say or do something so outlandish that you know potentially
01:27:07.260 cost you i mean not i just talk about your livelihood but you know friends social stature
01:27:12.780 how does it reflect on the rest of us that's something to always keep in mind you know those
01:27:17.740 of us who are out here with our names and faces are your words going to make us look good or make
01:27:22.940 us look bad all right and what uh what personal things did you want to share
01:27:30.300 okay matt or nick if they want to throw in the shepherd's hook on this i'm you know this is
01:27:34.780 this pretty personal and something i'm kind of embarrassed about all right nick man the dump
01:27:39.180 button thank you nick so and i mentioned i joined the afa in 2018 and uh i talked about you know
01:27:50.700 some of the craziness that was going on in my region in uh 2019. a number of guys in the southeast
01:28:00.060 and someone fairly close to me had uh had gotten doxxed and some of them famously gotten doxxed
01:28:06.620 you know it was uh pretty rough stuff and it literally scared the hell out of me and you know
01:28:13.740 this is you know before i decided to be a prince folk builder or or any part of leadership and i
01:28:20.700 really had some time to contemplate um at the time
01:28:25.580 there's rational fear and there's irrational fear and i had a tendency to go to the irrational side
01:28:35.140 and uh i woke up this is at the time i was you know night shift guy i woke up at four in the
01:28:40.580 afternoon and said that's it uh this is more than i can handle because i had people around me at the
01:28:46.900 time that was constantly feeding me with uh you know fear you know this black belt and stuff that
01:28:51.940 Like, you know, the enemy was waiting in the bushes in my backyard to, you know, just come and out me and all that.
01:28:58.300 And I pulled the plug on my membership.
01:29:02.760 And this was, I'm going to guess, early October of 2019 or so.
01:29:10.380 And a bunch of messages from my friends.
01:29:14.160 I was friends with some of those guys that had gotten doxed pretty heavy and, you know, were in a pretty bad way.
01:29:23.080 And a lot of those messages were the same.
01:29:24.620 Dude, what the hell?
01:29:26.420 You know, don't let my situation run you off and all this stuff.
01:29:30.800 You know, and Matt can testify to this, that within weeks of making that decision, I picked the phone back up.
01:29:38.460 I knew I'd made a mistake and reached out to the officer to go through directly.
01:29:42.500 And the first person I called was Rob Stam.
01:29:46.500 And it was less about whether or not I'd be welcomed back.
01:29:52.160 It 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.
01:30:04.840 And he still stood firm.
01:30:06.240 And he didn't just stand firm.
01:30:07.540 He upped the ante, stepped on the gas, and put his name out there and put his name on the Prince Holdover.
01:30:11.580 so when y'all sure your growthy was gracious enough to allow me and my
01:30:16.540 family to rejoin the church I had that same thing in mind it was like if I'm
01:30:21.520 gonna come back I'm coming all the way back I'm gonna stomp on the accelerator
01:30:25.340 and that was just literally a momentary lapse in judgment and and caving to
01:30:31.200 irrational fear at the time because you know some of you folks might know me
01:30:35.900 personally some of you don't but I'm really just kind of a regular guy it's
01:30:39.440 not like I'm out there doing, you know, any kind of political activism or saying and doing
01:30:44.900 outlandish things. I'm literally here. So for the furtherance of my folk, the furtherance of my
01:30:51.660 kin, and the furtherance of my gods. So here's a, you bring up some first.
01:31:01.280 Thank you for sharing that story. Because it's really valuable that we keep it real with folks.
01:31:07.720 we're not just we're not just talking out of our backside on this we are people that go through
01:31:16.180 the same thoughts and fears and feelings that the rest of you guys do um some of us have been around
01:31:23.200 a little bit longer on you know either in life or or in practicing also true and have some
01:31:30.180 different experiences. But we feel the same things. And it's, we get it. The irrational fear
01:31:40.220 is a really big thing. When everyone around you is running around like chicken little saying the
01:31:45.220 sky is falling, it's easy to get freaked out. I'm not saying there's no consequences. There are.
01:31:51.920 But you know what? There's way less than you think there are. First of all, your chances of
01:31:57.600 getting doxed are not the 100% that you seem to think they are. If you get doxed, it doesn't mean
01:32:04.680 that you get fired. We've got tons of people who get doxed that their employer doesn't care
01:32:09.920 because they refuse to act on you for your faith, or they even agree with you and don't like all
01:32:17.520 this cancel culture nonsense. Things aren't as bad as they seem. And so being able to keep your
01:32:25.540 above pessimism is really important uh so we've got a ten dollar ten canadian dollar donation
01:32:33.700 from lawrence appreciate you lawrence uh good evening gents i've been busy with trip prep
01:32:39.380 lately and not tuning in as much but just to comment on polytheism the best evidence in
01:32:45.300 support of it in my opinion is the utter ridiculousness of monotheism great stream tonight
01:32:52.660 Thanks, and have a good evening. Thank you, Lawrence. We appreciate you. I'm not sure where
01:32:59.380 you're traveling on your trip, but I hope you have an amazing trip, and we look forward to
01:33:02.860 talking to you when you get back. So I don't see this in the questions queue, and I want to go
01:33:07.920 ahead and mention it. I see a thing in the chat that says, I'm folkish and believe in ancestral
01:33:14.760 memory and other racialist thinking, but I'm more agnostic when it comes to religious dogma
01:33:21.080 and spirituality that is my hesitation in getting involved with the afa first i really appreciate
01:33:28.360 you being honest about that i think that a lot of people may not be comfortable being as honest about
01:33:34.040 that so what what we like to say and i think this is a paraphrase of what um
01:33:44.040 witten cliff erickson friend of mine has to say on here
01:33:47.160 you don't have to believe in the gods to join you have to want to believe in the gods
01:33:55.560 so we talk about and daniel talked about this a few moments ago
01:34:00.800 there's a moment that happens when all of a sudden the gods are real you wanted them
01:34:11.040 to be real you thought maybe they were real you hoped but in your heart of hearts you weren't
01:34:17.440 sure and then boom there's a moment that it hits you and your eyes get as big as saucers
01:34:23.120 and you can't go back of course they're real the thing is in order to have that moment happen
01:34:33.040 very often you need to take those steps to facilitate that and sometimes those steps are
01:34:39.120 joining the afa and being part of a bloat being part of assemble being there when these things
01:34:44.960 happen so i wouldn't let that honest reservation prevent you from joining the afa if you're if you
01:34:54.800 have an open-minded and open heart you can join and try it out and see if it rings true to you
01:35:00.320 and see if if you open yourself up if the gods will be there to fill that um and i hope that
01:35:08.480 they are and they have been to so many of us so i would encourage you to give it a shot
01:35:14.640 and your honesty on that is really appreciated um if we're not honest about where we are
01:35:22.320 it's very hard to move forward in an authentic way and i appreciate that
01:35:26.720 next question i have a serious question for both gentlemen who brews the best mead
01:35:34.200 daniel so far in your in your life journey and aussitrue journey who is the best mead brewer
01:35:43.100 man you're putting me in a bad spot
01:35:46.720 i'm not a mead connoisseur by any means but my very favorite mead that i've tried during my
01:35:55.200 journey through also true was a spruce mead that uh wouldn't cliff erickson makes that's my favorite
01:36:05.200 all right cliff makes some spruce mead i appreciate trying uh the idea of spruce mead
01:36:11.600 first the spruce mead i thought was good secondly spruce is close to my heart being
01:36:16.480 from alaska that was the that was the big evergreen that we had everywhere and
01:36:20.560 And what I remember growing up with so much as a child, well, shoot, as a child, as a young man, as a man into his 30s.
01:36:32.580 I didn't leave Alaska until 2014.
01:36:39.100 All right.
01:36:43.100 So I got to be honest.
01:36:44.800 Unfortunately, all three of these people are no longer AFA members, which is sad.
01:36:53.040 One of them, two of them are on the team of our enemies.
01:36:58.180 Probably three of them if I really thought about it.
01:37:00.740 But I'm going to be honest, three best needs.
01:37:05.220 I think of equal quality, it just comes down to preference.
01:37:10.420 um the first was actually one of the first meads that i had and his mead was the first well
01:37:21.540 not true but the first home brewed mead that i had uh there was a guy named bill shellbrick that
01:37:27.380 was a uh folk builder in the afa for a time uh when i first got involved in the astro assembly
01:37:36.860 and at midsummer 2010 he had some mint chocolate mead oh that was interesting it wasn't one of
01:37:45.740 the best this is not the one for the the contender for the best but it was really good for what it
01:37:50.700 was for a mint chocolate mead which isn't what i want from my mead it was good um and he made
01:37:58.060 a lingonberry meat that was great and then this thing called apple piety that was an apple pie
01:38:03.580 flavored meat i don't know what he did guy was a chemist i don't know how he accomplished it
01:38:11.500 but it tasted exactly like liquefied mead consistency apple pie and it was absolutely
01:38:20.380 amazing um another guy and i forget his last name was a guy named shannon in the dakotas
01:38:30.300 in north dakota i believe he made a orange spice mead and that was absolutely amazing and
01:38:42.940 he had it that one time and then never showed back up to something that we did and i never
01:38:47.900 got any more of that meat and that was a shame because that was fantastic and then there was a
01:38:54.700 guy in uh a guy named patrick in pennsylvania new york new jersey area that made a spiced pear mead
01:39:05.820 so apple piety the spiced uh orange and the spiced pear best meads i've ever had in my life
01:39:14.380 just on preference alone the orange and the pear are my top two and this is only because
01:39:25.100 i'm an orange spice guy the orange spice wins out so this guy named shannon in north dakota makes
01:39:31.420 the best me that's what i got on it but i think that either of those three people can can can
01:39:37.420 fight for that title and uh any given sunday it might be any one of them
01:39:44.380 but you know what, and I'll preface this, I like a sweet mead.
01:39:53.600 I really hate to do this, and Daniel will understand exactly why.
01:39:58.940 It's a guy named Paul that makes a really dry strawberry mead.
01:40:03.140 It's the best dry mead that I've ever had.
01:40:05.320 The strawberry character comes through.
01:40:08.260 Don't have a high opinion of the man, but got to give credit where credit's due.
01:40:12.940 was a very good it was my favorite dry mead but i'm not a dry mead guy i'm a sweet meat guy
01:40:17.420 he made a peach mead that was pretty decent too i never got to try that one um
01:40:25.020 i'll resist the urge to do the voice um the whole time i promise you
01:40:31.820 fair enough all right so uh king of cheese back in from the forge what did i miss
01:40:39.100 lots you're gonna have to catch us on the replay or uh listen to us on spotify after uh after
01:40:47.420 friday but um you missed lots of good stuff lots of good stuff a lot of it talking about courage
01:40:55.180 way too much way more information than anybody really wanted about different means that i had
01:41:00.140 um next question daniel very important who had better mike skills jericho or the rock
01:41:11.980 um it's gonna have to be the rock i mean i liked uh i liked 98 wcw jericho when he first
01:41:19.580 turned heel and was doing the feud with dean malenko uh that's just classic stuff but
01:41:25.100 But I'm going to have to give it to The Rock, man.
01:41:28.980 You know, memorable catchphrases.
01:41:31.200 I mean, even people who are not even wrestling fans know, like,
01:41:33.960 if you smell what The Rock is cooking.
01:41:36.260 Mandy, stop this.
01:41:37.620 This is a folkish broadcast.
01:41:39.740 I feel like I have to say Lionheart Chris Jericho.
01:41:45.200 The Rock is the right answer, but those of you younger than myself,
01:41:50.620 if you have the ability or you have Peacock and you can go back
01:41:53.400 and watch uh 97 98 chris jericho from wcw it was amazing if you can watch him call daniel may know
01:42:05.000 exactly when this was at but the cruiserweight battle royal was the coolest thing i ever seen
01:42:11.800 that steals any moment i can think of from the rock yeah but that iteration of chris jericho
01:42:18.120 talking about Stinko Malenko
01:42:20.700 and his
01:42:22.900 creative commentary on the other
01:42:24.800 Lucha Libre wrestlers
01:42:26.540 was top
01:42:29.020 notch. Daniel, when was that? What was that?
01:42:30.880 What pay-per-view was that? I'm going to
01:42:32.620 take a stab at it. I'm pretty sure
01:42:34.960 that's either Superbrawl or
01:42:36.920 Spring Stampede of 98.
01:42:39.680 It might be 97.
01:42:42.380 There you have it,
01:42:43.080 guys. Go dig deep in the
01:42:45.140 deep cut for you.
01:42:46.960 But that's where the good stuff is.
01:42:50.660 And I'm a huge Jericho fan, by the way.
01:42:53.080 You're a Jericho-holic.
01:42:54.460 The guy was in his 50s and still going strong. 0.89
01:43:01.500 For the record, I just want to emphasize that one time he beat up Bill Goldberg.
01:43:06.240 That happened.
01:43:06.820 Legit.
01:43:07.400 Like really beat him up.
01:43:08.780 He's a thing in the back. 0.99
01:43:10.340 He was tired of taking Goldberg's crap, and he was able to show up. 0.99
01:43:15.860 So I got to appreciate that and respect it on a whole different level. 0.99
01:43:19.380 All right.
01:43:20.600 Next question.
01:43:22.220 How careful are you guys in Alaska because of the Sasquatch people?
01:43:27.200 I think that's a fascinating question.
01:43:30.560 Not sure what Sasquatch people you're referring to.
01:43:34.740 People that look and smell like Sasquatches, actual Sasquatches.
01:43:40.960 Questions all over the place.
01:43:43.940 All I know is this.
01:43:45.860 so i was uh when i was a kid there was a show called unsolved mysteries now not the kind of
01:43:58.660 lame unfortunately netflix version of unsolved mysteries which i hope gets better but the og
01:44:05.500 like 1990 unsolved mysteries with robert stack thing was as a kid this is a news program it's
01:44:16.340 a very serious program that talks about real disappearances and crimes and abductions and
01:44:23.360 very serious things and the guy's voice is legitimately terrifying yep so i that was
01:44:30.020 gospel when I was a kid. This was deadly serious things. And I had a Cub Scout camp out to go on.
01:44:38.880 This was in Alaska. This is why the story is relevant. And then they did an episode about
01:44:44.720 Bigfoot. Same guy telling me about very legitimate people who got abducted and disappearances and,
01:44:51.540 you know, people finding their long lost relatives and like serious news stories
01:44:58.060 with no change of tone no change of show starts talking to me about bigfoot sightings
01:45:04.380 and i'm you know about nine years old eight nine years old
01:45:10.300 made for a very uncomfortable camp out for the next weekend in the uh the untouched wilderness
01:45:16.220 of alaska this is a thing in alaska that um so far i haven't really experienced much down here
01:45:21.740 in the lower 48 when you go hiking and camping in alaska you're in the middle of nowhere
01:45:29.340 down here you're on trails and there's people everywhere and
01:45:33.900 it's much harder to get in the middle of nowhere right off a highway in alaska you can get
01:45:39.260 in the middle the middle of nowhere where you won't see another camper
01:45:43.980 so uh yeah every every noise i heard every rustle of a leaf every uh every twig that broke was
01:45:54.420 bigfoot i swear to it or i would have sworn to it when i was eight or nine so that was that's
01:45:59.360 what i got for you i have never seen or encountered bigfoot um honestly i think that most of the
01:46:07.580 encounters in alaska are further are they're in southeast they're down around what are they on
01:46:14.380 prince of wales island i think they're down closer to juno and i never got down to that part of the
01:46:19.740 state but uh that's the closest i know what to make out of that question the theme music from
01:46:27.020 that show uh helped make it creepy because yes it did very well going back to like a trash can at
01:46:33.500 night or whatever take the trash out from mom and have just you know watched an episode of it and
01:46:38.140 that theme music would be stuck in my head and somebody was behind me the whole time i swore to
01:46:43.500 it so speaking of that they also did an episode it was like a halloween time they did one about
01:46:52.300 werewolf sightings thing was werewolf busted out behind some garbage cans those old like tin cans
01:46:58.780 and had rattled them and made crazy noises yeah that that was terrifying as well i remember i
01:47:06.300 needed to sleep with my light on after that one i remember that all right so the next question
01:47:13.100 speaking of mothers not a question more a request my mother is very sick right now
01:47:18.540 is it appropriate to ask everyone for prayers to ire for her or to air for her uh speedy recovery
01:47:25.100 yes it is and this is from jasmine uh jasmine if you could please give us your mother's name
01:47:33.340 on the side so that we can do that appropriately and i'm very sorry to hear that your mom's sick
01:47:39.220 um i genuinely wish her the very best if you put her name on the side i think that'd be a
01:47:43.720 very nice thing for us to do jess she's already in my prayers
01:47:47.620 um next question is it really wise today to put your name and your face on everything you can
01:47:58.660 considering the current dangers of new ai technology so again there is a spectrum between
01:48:09.700 none and everything. Does it always need to be on everything? Maybe not. Should you have it on the
01:48:19.440 most things that you can reasonably? Yes. Like Daniel said earlier, should you have it on
01:48:28.040 everything that you genuinely believe and you're confident saying in front of your parents and in
01:48:33.580 of your gods and in front of your children yes are there places that that might not be what you do
01:48:44.620 okay but here's the thing with the new ai technologies if you want to live like the
01:48:53.660 unabomber and live in a little cabin in the middle of the woods and sneak into town and 0.98
01:49:00.620 put things in the mail maybe just maybe you can avoid those ai technologies honestly
01:49:09.260 you can delude yourself with the illusion of privacy but privacy that you think that you
01:49:16.300 have doesn't really exist there's facial recognition everywhere there's that privacy's come and gone
01:49:25.260 in the face of the fact that you don't really have that privacy, even if you think you do.
01:49:33.960 Letting the fear of the lack of anonymity prevent you from living the way that is authentic and
01:49:44.040 standing up for what you believe is a very, very easy win for our enemies.
01:49:48.600 yeah it's better to put your name on it and live authentically and build a life to where you can
01:49:57.580 do that now i don't know you and what you think and what you believe on everything and i don't
01:50:02.900 presume to i know that what i think and what i believe isn't illegal it's not mean-spirited
01:50:10.860 it's not hateful and it's not wrong so i feel very confident saying it in front of people
01:50:17.680 I feel very confident putting my name and my face behind it.
01:50:22.260 I have tried with all that I can to structure my life in a way that I can do that confidently.
01:50:28.840 Other people are in a very different situation, and I understand that and I respect that.
01:50:33.680 But the idea that you're putting a bunch of content on the Internet and other places
01:50:40.380 and you can hide behind a fake screen name or a, you know, a VPN or whatever you think you're doing,
01:50:49.660 I promise you, you can't. The surveillance state is too big and too good at what they do.
01:50:57.580 And I wish I was better at my have them all thumping.
01:51:11.580 I wish I could tell you the verse right now and somebody over in the side absolutely will.
01:51:16.580 But, 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
01:51:26.580 that you never went out and lived for that fear. And somebody will pop in that the appropriate
01:51:32.440 have them all quote on the side. And I apologize that I can't just pull that up as fast as I could.
01:51:37.480 Honestly, I bet you my wife can pull that up on the side. But it's something to think about.
01:51:44.160 Again, you're going to have to make those choices based on whatever factors are important to you.
01:51:50.140 And you're going to have to bear the reputation of that. You will have to shoulder the glory
01:51:55.700 of great success and of standing up and being courageous, or any shame that comes with not
01:52:01.620 doing that, or any consequence that comes with courage, or any benefit that comes with
01:52:06.640 avoiding that. So it's a decision you're going to have to make for yourself.
01:52:12.500 But I do advocate as best you can and as most you can to do that. And then to be cautious with the
01:52:17.760 things that you say that you say them eloquently, and you say them in a respectable way. One of the
01:52:23.640 So 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.
01:52:42.140 they're hiding behind a pseudonym or a fake picture and so they can just open up and say 0.77
01:52:48.940 ridiculous things that they may not really believe they may not really stand by but they're fun and
01:52:53.900 they get a reaction out of people trouble is when you find out that that secrecy doesn't really 0.72
01:53:00.620 exist those are the things that i've seen people and i will say this 100 honestly those are the
01:53:07.580 things that i've seen bite people the worst is when they think that they're being anonymous and
01:53:13.260 they say ridiculous things that's when they get hurt it's not when they're using their name in
01:53:19.900 their face and they say reasonable things that are politically incorrect it's when they show
01:53:25.340 off because they've got a fake name that i've seen bad things happen um another question this
01:53:33.980 one's coming from odyssey thank you guys that are listening on odyssey i appreciate that
01:53:40.380 i want to bring my friends and family to ausitru i'm not the best people person can you give me
01:53:48.380 one or two good tips on how to approach this daniel what advice do you have for this person
01:53:57.420 be the best person you can be and you know be a be the living representation of the gods i mean
01:54:03.020 we are our ancestors compiled in one living body and uh the other part is pretty simple
01:54:10.940 bring it to an afa again um i told the story the last time i appeared on the show that uh and and
01:54:17.420 my wife told the story when she was on the show interest analysis drew until she uh attended the
01:54:24.540 first a that was you know fairly local to us zero interest in it she was just there making sure
01:54:30.380 a kid around some you know weirdos and freaks and was so blown away by the uh by the community and
01:54:37.020 the camaraderie within that community that she applied before we pulled out the guy's driveway
01:54:42.540 and that's just facts and if it's specifically if it's women in your life or whatever i'm telling 0.99
01:54:48.700 you the women of the afa will make them feel welcome in an instant and they can sniff out
01:54:53.420 newcomers like uh like nobody's business a new young lady shows up by herself or with her fellow 0.99
01:55:01.020 to thor's off you can best believe the ladies are going to be scooping her up and and uh immediately
01:55:07.100 start that that thrift bond that the women do so yeah bring her to bring your family to an afa event
01:55:13.100 and uh when they start to realize that you know we are literally just normal people doing normal
01:55:17.980 stuff uh and we're not you know running around in shoulder pelts and wearing deer horns on our heads
01:55:25.020 and uh you know doing ooga booga chants and stuff and realize this is a living faith and
01:55:29.820 it's practiced by normal good-looking people and particularly families lots of families involved
01:55:41.820 those of you with uh with video access might dispute daniel's claim on good-looking folks
01:55:47.100 but um okay real quick uh woman who mentioned about her mom mom's name is julie for folks that
01:55:59.100 want to do do any prayers or offerings uh yeah hi and i'm very sorry to hear that um
01:56:09.260 my advice as far as oh also before i answer the question just as as suspected my lovely
01:56:15.900 wife i love you mandy thank you so much brought uh found have them all 16. a coward believes he
01:56:22.620 will ever live if he keep him him safe from strife but old age leaves him not long in peace
01:56:31.580 though spears may spare his life
01:56:33.500 life. I think that's really, really important as well. I say this as somebody who's going
01:56:49.940 to be 42 this year, I'm not an old man. But I'm feeling much older than I was. And one
01:56:58.720 One thing that I don't want and that I think we all have to one degree or another, but
01:57:10.060 I think we want to avoid as best we can is regret.
01:57:14.400 And I think that's another thing that speaks to being courageous.
01:57:19.240 Because a lot of the time consequences for courage are very, very temporary, but the
01:57:25.120 reputation from it and the benefit from it you don't realize until down the road especially
01:57:32.000 when you build a reputation for being courageous um but i'm so thankful of the times in my life
01:57:41.920 that i did act courageously looking back on them even though i know how scary they were at the time
01:57:48.720 the things that keep me up are the times that i'm man i wish i could have done that different i
01:57:53.200 should have said this but i chickened out and that's not just about house or true or about
01:57:58.240 politics it's about talking to a girl you like or you know anything
01:58:06.960 taking the courageous step you may risk embarrassment or temporary you know quick
01:58:12.480 consequences that are pretty scary but man looking back with regret is much much worse because you
01:58:19.120 can never get it back um but yeah it's more grim than it needs to be um my suggestion on ways to
01:58:27.920 bring friends and family into alsatru is very much what daniel said
01:58:36.320 it can especially if you're completely unconnected to alsatru if you're you know what
01:58:42.400 But, 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.
01:59:05.160 have them meet the women and the little kids and us at an event and then tell us to our face they
01:59:13.940 think we're we're mean or scary actual interaction with real also true our practicing our faith
01:59:21.540 that fixes everything you know i can't say it'll fix things a hundred percent of the time
01:59:28.820 but it's going to get you as close closer than anything else seeing who we really are um i think
01:59:35.420 you know a soft way to do that if they haven't been to something and are resistant is our event
01:59:40.820 pictures on here i'd like to think that listening to this program is a good thing for them uh if
01:59:46.800 you know you're listening now if you think these are good i would recommend these but also the
01:59:51.840 slideshows of our you know like the afa in 2023 first quarters up already just show them those
02:00:00.100 kind of things it's happy smiling people with their families and ladies and kids and people
02:00:06.940 doing fun things and having a good time and i think that that's really the takeaway is that
02:00:12.340 we're regular folks we're we're good people that love our families we love our gods we love our
02:00:18.480 people and people who interact with us in person they love us anything else it's hype it's the
02:00:26.080 media it's you know whatever other nonsense in real life take your family to one of our hofs
02:00:33.920 if you're too far away for that take them to a meetup that's close to them we've got meetups
02:00:38.000 around the country and around the world we have them every weekend get them to something to where
02:00:43.360 they get to see who we are and i think that'll sell itself hey matt yes i'm not sure if uh
02:00:52.400 the one of the previous commenters wanted me to say but that is uh jasmine is actually my sister
02:00:57.120 and it's my mom that is uh struggling with some health issues right now and i appreciate my sister
02:01:02.720 coming in uh and supporting me tonight and uh and i asked her for prayers for mom just appreciate it
02:01:13.360 So your wife gave me that intel a few minutes ago.
02:01:16.740 I wasn't going to say nothing because I didn't want to put it out there if you didn't want to.
02:01:20.860 First, I'm really sorry to hear that about your mom.
02:01:26.160 I will definitely, definitely be praying for her.
02:01:29.440 Let's appreciate it.
02:01:34.940 And also, awesome.
02:01:37.540 Hey, Jasmine, I appreciate you listening to the program tonight.
02:01:41.460 I think the world of your brother, he is one of my very best friends, and he is a man I have a huge amount of respect for.
02:01:48.320 That's appreciated.
02:01:51.520 Wouldn't say it if it wasn't true.
02:01:55.720 Next question about the gods being representations of nature as an atheist position.
02:02:02.940 If people worship nature as gods, nature being omnipotent and omnipresent, wouldn't it be the opposite of being atheists?
02:02:15.720 I think that's an interesting intellectual argument.
02:02:21.560 them and what I've you know one of the things that I've always heard is that you know atheists
02:02:32.180 are religious atheism just becomes their religion because again they become very dogmatic with it
02:02:39.260 they become you know almost worshipful of their position of atheism
02:02:45.140 um so in that way I think that trying to worship nature as if nature itself is some omnipotent
02:02:56.720 omnipresent thing is I suppose it's a slight step away from atheism but it is closer to atheism
02:03:06.680 than it is to theism um in in my
02:03:14.600 all right so i feel the need to try to couch it and i shouldn't i'm just putting it out there
02:03:19.960 theism is belief in gods as actual gods and that's scary so many people want to
02:03:27.320 try to poke around at that line and well nature's kind of a god but kind of not and kind
02:03:33.560 If you're going to be a theist, if you're going to have faith in a God and be religious, worship that God.
02:03:42.300 Worship those gods.
02:03:45.300 Put your whole heart into it and proudly, if you can't even acknowledge that they're persons, in a sense,
02:03:54.500 that they're, that they're individual personalities that have, have individual personality,
02:04:01.720 then at the end of the day, it's, it's trying to hedge your bets both sides.
02:04:10.920 Omnipresent nature isn't the same as a God that thinks and feels and loves and hates
02:04:21.300 and participates in the gift cycle with you.
02:04:27.220 And I think viewing a reverence for nature to such a degree
02:04:34.160 that you personify nature to godhood
02:04:37.020 is the exact opposite of what authentic religiosity is.
02:04:45.540 You see the beauty and the glory of your gods
02:04:48.880 through the natural world.
02:04:51.300 The things that you see around you that you love, you find as reflections of that which you worship.
02:04:59.780 And, you know, the directionality of that's very important.
02:05:05.140 Nature is a gift from our gods.
02:05:08.640 Our gods are not a personification of nature.
02:05:11.880 And I hope that addresses what you're asking.
02:05:14.820 What are your thoughts on it, Daniel?
02:05:15.940 i don't think i could have said it any better but i would argue that
02:05:20.420 nature isn't sentient and by sentient i mean it doesn't have feelings or a spirit of personality
02:05:28.320 which animates it the way that our gods do
02:05:31.360 see nate hayden over in the chat nate i haven't talked to you in years
02:05:39.420 but i think about you often and i'm really glad that you're listening to this program i hope that
02:05:44.320 you're doing well. And yeah, hope that you're doing good. And we've got some really cool stuff
02:05:50.780 going on in your area. So I'd love to see you coming out and making it out to those stuff.
02:05:54.860 But yeah, it's great that you're watching. I'm glad you're here.
02:05:59.180 The next question. I know that heaven and hell, good and evil are all Germanic words,
02:06:05.840 thus Germanic concepts. You've spoken before about order versus chaos.
02:06:14.280 Where does Alcetru hold itself on the tenets of goodness and evil?
02:06:19.460 So this is another thing that folks are very uncomfortable saying.
02:06:26.520 And I know there are words that express this better, but I'm trying to think of how to
02:06:33.800 encapsulate it. There was a current, and it's not, excuse me, it's not all the way washed
02:06:41.540 out of Alcetru, but especially early on, where the early practitioners in a modern sense of
02:06:51.840 Alcetru were very, very conscious of defining themselves as how not Christian they were.
02:07:01.280 So when you had Christian concepts like good and evil, there was this knee jerk. 0.71
02:07:06.040 No, we don't believe in good and evil, but we do believe in. 0.57
02:07:10.940 Come up with what you can say that means good and evil, but makes you not Christian.
02:07:16.020 And I think that we've moved past that. 1.00
02:07:19.040 And now it's true. We absolutely believe in good.
02:07:21.700 We believe in order and chaos.
02:07:23.520 And those are, you know, synonymous with good and evil to a degree.
02:07:28.520 We 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.
02:07:53.120 in Ausatru, good is things that are noble, and evil is things that are ignoble, or things that
02:08:00.440 are, you know, are outside of nobility, or against nobility. And so I think noble versus ignoble,
02:08:10.820 and that, you know, also very clearly correlates between order versus chaos.
02:08:17.000 that's what i think the best way to see it as from an also true practice and when you look at
02:08:24.940 noble versus ignoble it's noble to be loyal to and to stand in in uh in allegiance with and in
02:08:34.120 um under the command of under the the authority of our gods
02:08:39.860 against the enemies of our gods uh daniel what do you have to add to that
02:08:46.760 not a lot i mean just as you said you know
02:08:51.120 we know what's right and we know what's wrong we know health from sickness we know order from
02:08:59.360 chaos we know light from dark so certainly i think in the modern sense orchestra does have
02:09:05.500 a stance on good and evil
02:09:07.140 all right matt and daniel what is your go-to beer
02:09:16.860 Not necessarily your favorite beer, but the one that is accessible and easy to get your hands on.
02:09:23.960 Daniel, you go first.
02:09:27.000 I would say Yingling, the Dark Amber.
02:09:30.640 I like that one a lot.
02:09:32.980 And it's easily accessible.
02:09:35.440 But if I had to pick one that's my favorite, I know it's not part of the question, but I like a stout.
02:09:41.740 I particularly like Founders Brewery from Michigan.
02:09:44.900 they make a uh stop called kbs which is kentucky breakfast style and it's delicious is that the
02:09:52.180 bane of the leprechauns that's oh man you're out me dude oh yeah that's the one but but my go-to
02:10:01.220 is typically uh england you know what my go-to is the beer that folks hand me uh that's that
02:10:11.540 that's what i will say so one of the the many benefits of my position as all's harry gofi
02:10:17.780 is uh when i travel around the country people hand me drinks all the time
02:10:22.340 and uh a free beer is the best beer uh outside of that honestly
02:10:30.340 so
02:10:32.980 people that know me i have uh
02:10:35.060 done a lot to build my, build my, my hetero points, but I have a tendency to drink a,
02:10:43.400 drink a fruity drink from time to time. So what I like to do with beers, honestly, I'm a big,
02:10:48.940 you know, mark for those variety pack beers on stuff. Anything that says it's got some
02:10:55.140 kind of a fruit note to it. I want to try it and see, you know, anytime they advertise those
02:11:01.880 stouts that are chocolate or cream flavored or vanilla or whatever i try them and most often
02:11:08.680 i'm disappointed because they're they you know anytime there's notes of whatever no you need to
02:11:14.920 punch me in the face with the vanilla one of the things i love the kirkland rum from costco the
02:11:21.080 spice rum it's awesome i know it's not beer it's not part of the question but it's a freebie for
02:11:25.640 you um when you read the reviews they complain about it they're like ah it's like drinking a
02:11:33.080 drunken gingerbread man that's exactly what i want from my spiced rum i don't want a note
02:11:39.880 of nutmeg i want to get hit in the face with it tasting like spice um so that's one of the
02:11:46.600 things with beers i like stuff with a fruity finish um there's one beer from russian river i
02:11:54.600 worked there for a short time uh ron mexico and it had this really cool like coconut finish to it
02:12:01.800 they're really fancy there with their hops right now i'm drinking some hop valley brewing company
02:12:09.000 stash bandicoot hazy uh imperial ipa again i got it because it was a very reasonably priced
02:12:18.280 uh beer at costco with a variety pack and i like trying different stuff honestly the first ones
02:12:24.760 that i killed of this i forget what they were called but they were like a pineapple flavored
02:12:28.920 beer they were really really good so whatever the thing out of that variety pack that was pineapple
02:12:35.000 flavored that's good stuff but yeah i mix it up depending on what's on sale and what's got a cool
02:12:39.880 variety pack uh especially if it's a seasonal seasonal variety pack
02:12:48.360 um
02:12:51.400 the next question i don't drink can you honor your holy gods and ancestors with other drinks
02:12:57.400 other than alcohol absolutely of course you can um you know we we all come from different places
02:13:06.840 in life we all have different experiences that have brought us to where we are and
02:13:13.960 you know that's fine uh a number of some of the best people i know that practice house are true
02:13:22.280 either don't drink recreationally and only drink during ritual or don't drink at all and
02:13:28.600 one of the things that we're trying to get better at when we have ritual this is not a guarantee
02:13:35.000 you can't necessarily find this everywhere but something personally i'm trying hard to do and
02:13:39.080 i'm trying to encourage our go thar at our haas to do more is to have a horn of um like sparkling
02:13:46.840 cider not just for people who don't who don't drink but also for children so they can participate
02:13:53.960 in the ritual and feel like they're fully part of it um the importance is to do something special
02:14:02.600 now i'm not a fan of using water i don't think water is what you use for ritual offerings
02:14:11.080 some people have an occasion for a certain thing they think that spring water
02:14:15.400 for a ritual does something in a certain way i'm not that's between them and the gods but what i
02:14:24.120 think the gods have no shortage of booze like the gods don't the gods aren't wanting for booze
02:14:38.280 the idea is it is an offering that you're doing that connects you with the gods
02:14:45.880 now there's a case to be made in sambal and some of our other rituals that drinking a little bit
02:14:50.920 puts you in an altered state just enough to where it it opens you just it opens you up spiritually
02:14:58.040 um it opens you up to the folk that you're interacting with and to the gods
02:15:02.920 but you can absolutely make offerings with other stuff i mentioned sparkling cider
02:15:07.800 i know that people have used um you know juice or milk uh shoot i've done uh prison ministry
02:15:15.720 and in there we've got to be very you know we've we've done bloats with coffee uh i've i've had to
02:15:22.840 do one in there with water it wasn't my first choice but it's what we had i've done bloats in
02:15:29.320 a prison with um mountain dew again it's not the ideal it's not what i would do at home or at the
02:15:38.360 Hoff. But in that situation, it's the best those guys can do. And so you make do with what you
02:15:44.720 have. I've also had people who did offerings with, I think it's Caliber, that's like a really good
02:15:52.040 non-alcoholic beer. There's a lot of stuff you can do, but no, you don't need to consume alcohol
02:15:57.880 to worship our gods. Our gods are much bigger and more important than that. Do you have any
02:16:03.900 thoughts on that, Daniel? Yeah, something that we do at Thor's Hall, and it's not necessarily
02:16:11.120 just for the God. We have a, I like to call it a shrine, but it's not really a shrine. It should
02:16:19.160 be a shrine eventually for one of our early donators was Terry Ronff, who passed away,
02:16:27.060 and we named our fellowship all after him. So we have a nice little portrait of him hanging on the
02:16:31.820 wall and uh one of our traditions is we the first plate goes to terry we'll make a plate for terry
02:16:38.300 and you know some of the guys will uh bring whatever his favorite drink was and uh that
02:16:44.220 would be trent who did that pour out a glass for him um but yeah a lot of times offerings of food
02:16:51.100 are sometimes appropriate especially when we're talking about the ancestors um my grandfather
02:16:56.780 preferred a certain type of spiked rum and that's what i pour out for him
02:17:02.060 all right um
02:17:11.500 next question i'm a white south african living in the states your top is my home
02:17:22.880 I appreciate everything you guys do, given that my family comes from generations of farmers.
02:17:30.140 My question is, what is the end game? To elaborate, sometime soon, the power grid will collapse,
02:17:40.200 violence will escalate, and the ANC will look away from certain racial atrocities.
02:17:48.260 does the afa do blessings for oh okay that's a different question all right cool so what is the
02:17:54.580 end game um if everything collapses and i'm glad that you specified in south africa because
02:18:04.100 i am in no position to dispute the reality of of that situation may be happening um
02:18:17.620 So, 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.
02:18:39.920 I'm not familiar enough with the situation.
02:18:46.360 Things look pretty bad there.
02:18:50.080 I think that I know that our people like to have a very strong connection with the land.
02:18:57.320 And 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.
02:19:09.920 uh i think that
02:19:17.840 so
02:19:21.360 sorry for the dead ear dead air but i think this deserves a really well thought out answer
02:19:26.240 and i want to give you that um i've thought about this a lot and so one of the things uh
02:19:33.040 And 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.
02:19:49.000 And 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.
02:20:04.800 And 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.
02:20:19.000 And 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. 0.70
02:20:28.220 So we were all horrified at what's happening to white South Africans. 0.88
02:20:37.940 And we're all sitting over here feeling terrible and not knowing what to do.
02:20:43.020 So we're sitting with all this hand wringing, not knowing what to do for a long time. And one thing
02:20:49.780 that was important to me when I became Alzheimer's Go-Fi was, you know what, I don't know what we
02:20:54.440 can do, but I know what we can't do. What we can't do is nothing. What we can do is something.
02:21:01.300 The best thing we've been able to figure out is helping folks eat. One of the big things over
02:21:06.600 there they're having a really hard time with for a while was a baby formula. So we collected a
02:21:13.380 whole bunch of money and we sent it over there for them to get baby formula. And a bunch of babies
02:21:18.860 didn't have formula did for a few months. And it doesn't fix the problem. You're asking about
02:21:25.760 Endgame. I know that. But it helped a little bit in that day at that time. What I would love to see
02:21:34.000 is for folks in South Africa, for our folk in South Africa to come home to our ancestral gods
02:21:42.900 and to be also true. I think that will help them spiritually a lot in a way that some of
02:21:48.440 the other things aren't. As far as what a good end game is, I don't know. If there's a solution
02:21:55.260 over there to where those people can live with dignity and pride and be safe and their families
02:22:00.220 be safe, great. If they can find someplace else to go, any place else to go, that wants them,
02:22:09.480 that they can live with dignity and with safety, I think that's probably the best solution for
02:22:14.620 some of those people. I was really honored to find out, and I didn't know this at the time,
02:22:20.140 But 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.
02:22:39.720 and I think honestly the end game is are people getting out of there and getting someplace that
02:22:49.700 they can be safe and that generations of their family can grow up with some safety
02:22:54.500 and wherever that wherever that is I don't know I don't know the perfect solution for it
02:23:00.040 but I pray and I hope that they find it and we would love to help those people any way that we
02:23:06.620 can and we feel for their plight so badly do you have any ideas on on a good end game daniel
02:23:14.300 i really don't i think you put it best i i
02:23:19.580 it's awful what those people are going through
02:23:25.020 get out you know as best they can and safely as they can
02:23:30.220 where to go though i i don't i don't know that answer either
02:23:33.100 but away is better than where they're at
02:23:36.660 there's something and this is this feels like trivializing it and i don't mean to
02:23:47.620 there's something called the sunk cost fallacy
02:23:51.020 where you gamble and you lose and because you can't afford to lose you stay at that table
02:23:59.740 and risk everything over and over and more and more and dig the hole deeper and deeper
02:24:05.480 because the idea of losing all that you've put in is too overwhelming.
02:24:13.000 At some point, you've got to know when to stop and try something else and cut bait and
02:24:20.760 do something different. And I think maybe that's where those folks are, unfortunately.
02:24:27.500 I'd love to help them. I wish they could come over here. If they could come over here,
02:24:32.780 I would love to help them once they get here. I wish them all the best in the bottom of my heart.
02:24:38.300 I don't know the best solution for them, but I want the very best for them, and I'd be happy
02:24:43.220 to help them in a lot of ways. Next question is, does the AFA do blessings for expecting mothers?
02:24:50.560 Absolutely, we do.
02:24:53.540 We've done blessings for folks that are trying to conceive.
02:24:58.880 We've done blessings for ladies who have a baby in utero.
02:25:06.160 And we've done a lot of blessing and work with them throughout their pregnancy.
02:25:12.940 That's something that our ladies have really done a beautiful, beautiful thing with.
02:25:17.080 And our githias have done a beautiful thing with.
02:25:19.900 What is the Ausitru Folk Assembly's thoughts on honoring ancestors who were devout Judeo-Christians?
02:25:31.960 Are they with the ancestors and just realize now that the Christian fear-mongering was a sham? 0.69
02:25:38.560 Yes. So, I mean, that's the simple answer. I believe and I think that people of a wide variety 0.92
02:25:52.120 of faith believe that when this life is done, you figure it out. The truth is revealed. The big
02:26:01.960 truths are revealed in a lot of ways. And that's going to be the proving ground. Were we right or
02:26:11.060 were they right? I believe that we're right. If that's the case, then yeah, I don't think that
02:26:19.500 the Jewish God has the magic to separate our ancestors from us in the afterlife.
02:26:27.740 life. Of course, we honor them. There's a generation of people that I think that we 0.97
02:26:37.360 don't or that we have a difficult time with, and that's the ones that rejected our faith
02:26:43.440 and embraced Christianity. But every generation past that, those folks didn't know that they had
02:26:50.280 a choice. They didn't know that they had an option. Many, many, many of them were amazing,
02:26:56.040 noble, fantastic people. We're heroes and heroines. We're amazing, amazing folk that of course we
02:27:03.720 honor. The vast, vast majority of us, when we're in Sumblin, we're honoring our parents and our
02:27:09.600 grandparents. Almost all of those people were Christians. We're finally in an age now where I
02:27:17.880 think that some of our younger members, their parents were atheists or agnostic or maybe some
02:27:24.200 kind of non-denominational pagans, but for centuries, all of our ancestors were Christians
02:27:31.640 and we honor them as much as we possibly can honor them. And I think that you'll find that
02:27:39.660 we all are very comfortable doing that. What are your thoughts on that, Daniel?
02:27:44.680 I don't think I could have said that any better, but as far as the afterlife and
02:27:50.040 where our christian ancestors go i i think some of them once they this is just me thinking you
02:27:57.020 know i don't know i mean well i guess we'll find out hopefully much later but i think once they
02:28:03.140 cross beyond the other side of the veil i think the other ancestors are going
02:28:06.900 we had it wrong but they're nonetheless still embraced by their forebears
02:28:14.540 that's my hope and that's my belief
02:28:16.760 Absolutely.
02:28:27.920 All right.
02:28:28.980 So Shea asks, our folk builder, Shea McCurdy from Oklahoma, seeing the imagery chosen for
02:28:37.360 Frazehoff, is there a reason y'all went with the stag rather than the boar?
02:28:42.240 First, yes, I'm sure that there is. Do I know what that imagery is? No, I do not.
02:28:52.020 I was curious. So some people may ask how that comes about.
02:29:00.080 You know, I like to have some say or some veto power if something is just ridiculous.
02:29:06.980 But 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.
02:29:28.020 I want them to be able to put that in there and put that devotion in there.
02:29:31.880 Uh, and I trust that to our go far in regions because, you know, they're the ones that have
02:29:37.560 built that region up. They're the ones that are going to be the stewards of that Hoff and, uh,
02:29:45.300 them putting, I don't know, putting that personal touch on it is, is important. So, you know, the,
02:29:52.580 the, the bigger AFA or, or me, I have, you know, I've got some veto power in it. If it was,
02:30:00.040 you know, disrespectful or just really ugly or something. But within within the scope of things
02:30:07.640 and, you know, you may have seen some of the the different animals for different Hoffs. Now,
02:30:13.100 we try to keep them relevant to the God, the Hoffs, but it's it's more than just that. It's
02:30:18.880 a temple to worship that God, but it's also the local house of worship for all of the
02:30:25.840 gods and true are in that region. And they're bloats held at all of these hafs to many of our
02:30:32.120 gods, not just the god of that haf. And so some of that goes into some of the color choices and
02:30:38.920 the animal choices. Sometimes the animal is very relevant to the region that we're in and not just
02:30:44.740 to the god that they're worshiping. So that factors in as well. Like for Njord's haf, we used
02:30:52.700 we use the swordfish the marlin um if that hof would have gone somewhere different if it would
02:30:58.860 have gone to the pacific northwest somewhere maybe we would have used a salmon or something
02:31:03.940 different it still would have been appropriate to meurther but it it wouldn't have been the
02:31:10.040 same animal so i'm not sure exactly why the ericsons chose to use the stag as opposed to
02:31:16.700 the boar but i think it's beautiful i think it looks really cool and i think that the
02:31:20.900 the forest hunter green on that very very light almost like a mint
02:31:31.580 ethereal green is really cool I think it's going to be a challenge to find merchandise that fits
02:31:39.040 it if that color of green it's like a super light blue super light green white mixture but I think
02:31:46.440 it's beautiful and I think it's going to look really cool. Question. Today I was watching
02:31:58.080 the Pharaoh's Golden Parade again. Do you think that European spirituality should reach 1.00
02:32:04.880 such a level or that something like that is the goal to be achieved for Euro people?
02:32:11.720 i have not watched the pharaoh's golden parade so i don't know what all that entails
02:32:22.100 i have to assume that
02:32:26.500 you're talking about the grandeur of ancient egypt and i think that
02:32:34.840 and i'll ask daniel on this i'm occupying a lot of the time talking here and i'm aware of that
02:32:41.600 yes that level of glory and greatness and the state being an house of true state and all of
02:32:55.040 those things absolutely what that looks like though I think it's we always conceive of
02:33:04.360 something from the past, and myself included, as like, that's what we should shoot for. But
02:33:13.000 honestly, anything we do now or in the future is going to be take the shape and the relevance of
02:33:20.500 that age with a different aesthetic, with a different, we can never bring back the past,
02:33:27.600 we can hope to be inspired by it we can move those concepts forward but you know we're not
02:33:35.520 going to larp and go back to the copper age of egypt to do things i hope that we do things that
02:33:44.640 are more glorious but we have to do them on on different terms and in a different uh different
02:33:52.160 context depending on our situation what are your thoughts daniel same as yours i haven't seen
02:33:59.360 what german was referring to about the pharaoh's golden parade but uh
02:34:05.840 i spent we all spend time studying history and studying the past and we're inspired by it and i
02:34:11.520 think as uh matt said you know we have to be forward thinking and by that i mean forward
02:34:17.040 facing we're heading in a specific direction you'll hear this a lot that uh uh people in
02:34:23.440 our circles might say something to the effect and i'm paraphrasing i was born in the wrong time
02:34:29.120 absolutely not we were born in the right time in the right place to do the right thing
02:34:33.840 to push up to push this religion and these and our people forward i like to look
02:34:40.000 i one time i remember asking matt i was on the 25th anniversary what's the next 25 years going
02:34:45.120 bring what's that what's that going to look like uh you know the imagery i have in my head is
02:34:51.120 even more grand and ridiculous than than you can imagine i want to see pyro every time we
02:34:59.840 step out on uh to the front lawn of sigerheim
02:35:04.880 i mean i i joke but but it's that's the way i try to think you know what i have control over now and
02:35:11.360 uh man i think about what you know lauren my youngest child what her kids are what's the
02:35:18.480 what's the afa going to look like for them when they when they come into the world
02:35:22.320 um and this is beautiful in my head but i don't know how to articulate it
02:35:27.040 so daniel you you run a lot of the show at thor's hoff next ostara i'm gonna come there when i drop
02:35:34.640 my hands i want that cane pyro you don't have that cane pyro i'm gonna be disappointed let's
02:35:40.080 Let's see what we can do, boss.
02:35:41.300 All right.
02:35:42.700 Before we commit to it.
02:35:45.940 Fair enough.
02:35:46.880 So for those of you listening and not able to see the chat on the side,
02:35:51.600 Witten Clifford Erickson, who's the guy who decided on the stag,
02:35:54.680 has this to say.
02:35:56.220 The stag is symbolic of masculine virility and strength.
02:36:00.700 Prairie uses the stag as his last line of defense at Ragnarok.
02:36:07.020 And the stag looks cooler than the boar.
02:36:09.580 it. I think that last piece is a matter of opinion, but a stag is a majestic animal.
02:36:16.820 No, I think it looks really cool. I honestly, if I would have guessed, I would have thought it
02:36:21.140 would have gone with a boar as well. The stag is fantastic, though, and I think it looks really
02:36:25.120 cool. This is not the only hof that Lord Frayer is ever going to have in Midgard. When we start
02:36:30.160 getting hofs in every town, we're going to, there'll be some boar-related hofs to them at 0.98
02:36:36.600 some point. I promise you that. I think it's like the stag imagery is beautiful, though. Oh, it's 1.00
02:36:41.880 awesome. With the way the horns are like that, I think it's, I really like what they come up with.
02:36:54.680 All right, so next question. Matt and Dan, what is the most creative kindred initiation ceremony
02:37:03.300 that you have heard of or been part of daniel go first i can't say that i have been i mean um
02:37:12.420 when we founded our kindred uh rigged blood kindred uh and we stretched across the carolina
02:37:18.700 from georgia we had talked about some sort of initiation right but uh in my experience i've
02:37:23.620 never seen one and uh that's something with the east and i might might have to come up with uh
02:37:29.540 as we go forward. Can't say I've ever seen anything like that.
02:37:34.640 All right. So
02:37:36.100 I think that
02:37:40.500 I think that most kindreds
02:37:47.100 just get around and oath in, maybe have a bloat 0.90
02:37:51.800 and probably don't have something ridiculous. 0.91
02:37:54.240 us. Sometimes people have a special location that's sacred to them. When we oath in our 0.72
02:38:05.000 kindred in Alaska that I was a part of, we did it at Arctic Valley. And Arctic Valley
02:38:12.120 is, for those of you not familiar, is like a ski resort. Resort overstates it. It's a
02:38:21.460 ski course just outside of Anchorage um on the way between Anchorage and Eagle River and it's
02:38:29.440 a mountain that for a time and maybe still like half of it was owned by the military half of its
02:38:35.320 you know municipality of Anchorage or whatever um but it was a place that uh my mom and my uncle
02:38:44.740 used to like to ski as kids and they were up there and uh my grandfather was in the military so they
02:38:50.920 there doing that as army kids in alaska and it's where my grandfather and my grandmother's ashes
02:38:58.920 were distributed and so we did our our o thing and our ceremony for the start of that kindred
02:39:07.640 up there at arctic valley because it was kind of sacred ground um
02:39:17.080 most creative uh
02:39:20.920 all right so I'm going to put it out there this is not do not advertise this I don't think I
02:39:29.800 don't recommend this it is just the most uh creative and interesting uh kindred initiation
02:39:37.000 that I have seen or been a part of so uh a group of guys who are no longer none of the people who
02:39:45.700 were there at that initiation one member of that kindred is still an AFA member these guys aren't
02:39:50.140 afa members but they were a very rowdy group of dudes from boston and they did their kindred
02:39:58.460 oaths and initiation at winter nights in the poconos and you know they were rowdy young guys
02:40:06.620 and uh alcohol was flowing and i think most of them were shirtless i think one of them had some
02:40:14.700 kind of animal pelt on and they wanted me to witness it and they were down by the fire and
02:40:21.180 there was chest slapping and it was it was loud they had a whole loud like war cry thing they did
02:40:30.860 um i think that's the most creative and most crazy kindred initiation thing i've been part of
02:40:37.420 most of them just have like a nice solemn othing in ceremony and then then that's that these guys
02:40:44.460 were a little bit a little bit rowdier but they had a whole like white man version of the haka
02:40:49.820 that they did and and a bunch of stuff so that was that was probably the most elaborate i've seen
02:40:57.180 never saw that nope you weren't there that year i don't think ah maybe you were i gotta think on it
02:41:03.900 now um dan what famous musicians have you met in person
02:41:11.500 uh i have met all of the guys from kill switch engage i've i met the guys from chimera and
02:41:28.780 i think i met the guy yeah i met the guys from uh three inches of blood one time
02:41:32.460 they're famous to me is you know the kind of rebellious too it's not
02:41:35.180 i mean it's not you know ann wilson or anything so i know that uh know that i was not asked this
02:41:45.420 question but i'm gonna throw out some bonus information because it entertains me to do so
02:41:51.660 and i think we've got like one question left after this so famous musicians that that i have met
02:42:05.180 So I did security in Alaska for a long time. And I worked at, you know, I would do normal concerts,
02:42:16.840 normal venues, and then I was working at a bar that would get a lot of like, has-been acts to
02:42:21.980 come in and do, you know, one big hit, and then they wouldn't be there, whatever. So I met a
02:42:27.660 number of folks. Shock G from Digital Underground, also known as Humpty, was there. And I tell you
02:42:38.660 what, he was really cool. I know it's a Folkish broadcast, but I'll put it out there. He did his
02:42:43.800 one hit from them. He did the Humpty Dance song, but he stayed at that bar all night long. He went
02:42:50.700 up there he randomly jumped up on stage and did songs with the local cover band he schmoozed with
02:42:59.180 you know people on the smoke deck and he hung out all night that was pretty cool and i got
02:43:03.580 to talk to members of his band outside they were all really nice guys um
02:43:10.860 i worked this it was called like the second chance prom and it was for a bunch of you know
02:43:16.300 well past his prime uh this was like 2012 or something in anchorage and vanilla ice was
02:43:25.420 hosting it vanilla ice was like ridiculous on the mic check everybody had we had to open like an hour 0.97
02:43:31.820 late because he was so such a diva on the mic check and i thought he'd be a jerk he was not 0.87
02:43:36.300 he was awesome he was really cool with everybody he was very nice with the crowd he didn't take 0.95
02:43:41.420 himself too serious he did all the silly vanilla ice stuff you'd want him to do that was cool
02:43:48.540 one of the things was i got to so it was my job to stand in front of the stage and 0.97
02:43:57.660 it was my job to let the hot chicks up on the stage but to keep the the the bigger gals off 1.00
02:44:05.900 the stage and so i remember he you know selected some hot chicks to get up on the stage and dance 1.00
02:44:11.580 with them and then there was this heftier gal that tried to and i had to i had to be the one
02:44:16.620 that like no not not tonight honey i'm sorry and so that was a thing there uh i got to meet
02:44:25.100 huey lewis in the news huey lewis was kind of a jerk to everybody but his band was really cool
02:44:30.700 and i appreciated his band because they let us eat uh a bunch of their free food they had 0.76
02:44:35.420 spread out in the green room we got to eat all the stuff they didn't want and that was awesome
02:44:41.180 also not super famous the group i guess is famous but i don't know if they're individually famous
02:44:46.380 celtic celtic woman was up there doing a show at the performing arts center
02:44:50.700 they were all like vegetarians and stuff so again they had this big elaborate feast laid 0.99
02:44:55.580 out for them they didn't touch they let security uh chow down and it was awesome and they were
02:45:00.780 super nice to us that's what i got on famous musicians um and then the last one we have
02:45:13.260 for snow actually we got an extra one come in so second to last one we have uh dan have you ever
02:45:22.620 grown out your mustache it looks like you could grow a killer stash i have um i didn't really
02:45:31.100 start kind of pinching to the trying to grow some facial hair until the last six or seven years and
02:45:38.540 i'm a natural bald but my uh my hair color is actually uh sort of like a dirty blonde so it
02:45:45.820 kind of looks like dirt on my lip but i can grow a pretty thick stash and uh i attempted a full
02:45:50.940 beard a couple of winter nights ago and stash was pretty pretty tight on that number so when i
02:45:57.500 decided i was going to shave the beard off i was going to try out just the stash and it was really
02:46:01.900 good and thick and when i shaved the beard off and just had the stash it looked like i had no chin
02:46:07.580 so off of the stash so yeah i just keep a a fairly light you know weak looking beard now
02:46:14.060 you know i've never had just the stash my dad my dad has always tried out just the stash every now
02:46:27.060 and again and he had the like my dad was in the reserves and so he would have like
02:46:34.720 the army compliant ends at the edge of your mouth stash
02:46:38.200 i have never tried just the stash i am some people got got really cool stuff with it
02:46:47.700 curious to see daniel with just just growing out the stash hard not advising it i'm saying i'm
02:46:55.060 curious um rob got the best mustache in afa the gauntlet has been thrown down the rest of you
02:47:06.480 gentlemen, apparently. Rob got the stash. So I'm glad you bring up Rob. We got one more question
02:47:13.280 in the queue and we'll answer it, but I want to throw this out there for those of you who might
02:47:16.500 not be familiar. Goethe Rob Stamm, owner of the greatest stash in the Alistair Folk Assembly,
02:47:22.080 apparently, according to Daniel, is the dean of our Alistair True Academy. And I'm very excited
02:47:28.540 about this. We're just wrapping up the first year of the Alistair True Academy. Now, the Alistair
02:47:36.280 academy is our afa homeschool program for those of you who don't know about it the first year we just
02:47:43.240 did kindergarten and i think that's graduating class of 2035 if i'm not mistaken but um yeah so
02:47:54.840 we did uh did kindergarten so far it's been great the parents have great things to say about it
02:48:01.320 our enemies have great things to say about it and uh it's been really really impressive
02:48:07.240 the work that our volunteers and rob himself have put in is
02:48:15.480 it's amazing and they're literally building the next generation
02:48:20.840 it's not as flashy as our hoffs but it's probably much more substantial than any
02:48:27.640 single one of our hoffs us establishing that homeschool curriculum in the homeschool program
02:48:35.880 i am assured that by this fall when we take enrollment for next year we will have
02:48:43.800 not only kindergarten but first grade second grade and third grade that is a huge leap forward and
02:48:52.920 these people have put in a lot of work to make that happen so if you guys have kids and you
02:48:59.240 want to homeschool them we encourage you to do that we also know that one of the biggest things
02:49:04.040 that's a difficulty when it comes to homeschooling is parents concern about whether or not it's
02:49:10.520 compliant with their state regulations how do they interface with that how do they do it
02:49:16.440 But one thing we knew going in that's a huge part of our homeschool program is the handholding of parents.
02:49:24.740 Hey, you guys got this. What state are you in?
02:49:28.600 We gear it towards the most restrictive state to make sure this is legit in all 50 states.
02:49:36.260 And we're making sure it's legit in some provinces of Canada that do allow homeschooling.
02:49:42.900 um but yeah taking care of all that we do that we walk you through it we take care of you and we
02:49:50.140 take care of your child all the way through so it's very much a partnership between us and parents
02:49:56.380 to help facilitate that homeschooling that's become so important as we watch our schools
02:50:03.060 become very concerning places I say that as a father who wants to have my daughter in this
02:50:08.760 program here i guess two years from now when she's when she's eligible um it's a huge huge thing and
02:50:16.760 i'm so thankful for the guys that are volunteering and have put so much time in it we are very very
02:50:22.120 very proud of it and anybody on here that's got kids gonna go into kindergarten or third grade
02:50:28.920 this year please consider the astro academy we would love to help you and help your children to
02:50:34.840 succeed and to be the very best you guys can be and help you guys and your families
02:50:41.480 yeah rob's got some amazing support staff uh helping him out with that i've been in the room
02:50:46.840 when they've had some of their you know online meetings and stuff and all the tremendous detail
02:50:51.960 that goes into not only the curriculum but the interaction with the parents and students
02:50:56.200 themselves i mean they pour tons of hours into this so it's more than than just this but at the
02:51:02.120 very least it's made up of parents that have already put their children through homeschooling
02:51:07.960 successfully and that have a lot to offer on that it's also has former teachers that have been
02:51:14.600 involved in that from the public school end and can add their expertise to it as people get into
02:51:21.880 the higher grades we have people that want to volunteer that are specialists in particular
02:51:26.520 fields we really have a deep bench to pull from on that
02:51:32.840 um so last question of the night unless we get any more in uh why do gods and goddesses have
02:51:40.760 some time why do gods and goddesses names sometimes have ours at the end
02:51:47.480 That is an Old Norse gender convention very often. You will typically see that done with
02:52:01.240 a lot of proper nouns generally and specifically with masculine proper nouns. It's really a
02:52:09.040 question to ask Svan when he's on here because he's much more of a scholar on linguistics,
02:52:14.960 but that's what a lot of that is and you don't see it when it's anglicized when it's anglicized
02:52:21.360 often you'll see a an a at the end of a goddess's name but in the in the old norse you'll see an r
02:52:28.560 at the end of masculine names and that r goes away when you conjugate it like frayer is frayer
02:52:36.160 but it will be phrase half because it's one word or near there is is
02:52:43.920 the god but when it's conjoined it's mjordshoff as one word so adding that r very much is a
02:52:52.880 to imply masculinity to the word it's tricky because in english we don't have
02:52:59.040 a masculine and a feminine feminine case in terms of words but that's what that's for
02:53:03.840 um daniel do you have anything that you want to leave us with tonight or any last words that
02:53:12.520 you'd like to say about the jarl or uh or anything sure i think um i think the overall theme
02:53:21.860 on tonight's episode has been living courageously and living openly i think that's uh a lesson we
02:53:30.000 could take away from any one of our heroes and any one of you know the
02:53:34.740 leaders of AFA a lot of support building of these shows Nick does a tremendous
02:53:44.440 job behind the scenes producing it we don't thank him enough and we should
02:53:49.140 Nick thank you from all the stuff you're doing behind the scenes to make this
02:53:52.620 happen graphics look great you do a phenomenal job if you're watching this
02:53:58.440 and you're not in the afa and you are a person of focus orientation uh european person of focus
02:54:07.160 orientation and you're riding the fence get off the fence and come join us any one of our folk
02:54:13.480 builders at any point in the country we'll be glad to help you through the process and if uh
02:54:18.840 you're considering it quit considering it and just join the team quit being on the sidelines
02:54:23.400 to get on the field with the rest of us.
02:54:28.980 Well said.
02:54:31.760 I know we've beat the courage and opened this thing to death tonight.
02:54:41.240 You're the one who has to look yourself in the mirror at the end of the day.
02:54:45.400 You're the one making decisions for yourself and your family.
02:54:48.000 but uh i would encourage everyone on here
02:54:57.200 live in such a way that you can hold your head high have your chest out and live proud and
02:55:06.180 strong for what you believe if you're in this you like what we do if you are a heterosexual
02:55:14.500 a white person you should join the house true folk assembly we would love to have you with us
02:55:20.020 we're much stronger when we stand together we're doing amazing things we would invite you guys to
02:55:26.740 be a part of it so uh thank you guys so much for tuning in tonight and every week thank you guys
02:55:34.900 for your great questions we appreciate it the lively chat on the side it's really special to
02:55:40.420 me i'm glad that you guys are doing that uh appreciate y'all um please remember to keep
02:55:50.100 julie in your prayers hail the gods hail the folk hail the asa and until next time please remember
02:55:59.220 that victory never sleeps
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