Asatru Folk Assembly - 6⧸5⧸24 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 100 - 100th Episode Special

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00:03:00.000 Hello, and welcome to the 100th episode of Victory Never Sleeps.

00:03:20.120 And it is an honor to be here to celebrate 100 episodes so far with many more yet to come.

00:03:35.780 And tonight's going to be kind of a special night.

00:03:38.780 We're going to have lots and lots of guests.

00:03:44.080 We're going to have a new guest ideally popping in every 15 minutes or so.

00:03:49.100 but we may catch a few at random and we may keep folks here as long as they'd like to sit and share

00:03:55.420 and participate with us as always you know we're happy to answer any and all of your questions as

00:04:03.560 they come in so please bring the questions ask the questions about anything you want we're welcome

00:04:10.900 to you know it's going to be kind of a a fun evening but we're happy to take it wherever the

00:04:17.040 uh wherever the questions take us on stuff um

00:04:21.920 it's one of those things when you start getting older it's strange to me to think that it's been

00:04:29.800 already 100 episodes it seems like seems like not that long ago uh we had the idea to do these and

00:04:38.060 start going and our first guest to start off the evening is often a gentleman who is in the

00:04:45.940 background is producer Nick. He is the only one who has been on every single episode of

00:04:52.860 all 100 episodes now of Victory Never Sleeps. He does lots, does lots for us behind the

00:05:02.600 scenes to make this work and make it run smooth in a lot of different capacities, but

00:05:11.360 I would say at present, Nick is top five, hardest working people in the AFA, easily.

00:05:25.520 I think, truth be told, probably top three.

00:05:30.300 So, no, Nick does a ton for us, and I am excited to have him on as the first guest.

00:05:36.680 How are you doing, Nick?

00:05:38.520 I'm doing good. Happy to be here.

00:05:41.360 i think this third fourth time on so ain't no thing no it's good it's it's nice to

00:05:51.200 um what are we so 100 episodes that's what like four short of two years we've been doing this a

00:06:00.000 wow we have been um guess first off as as per usual uh ronald blake our champion of generosity

00:06:17.280 has started off the episode with a hundred dollar donation to our latest book services cause thank

00:06:24.880 you you contribute in such a big way and it definitely definitely adds up thank you very much

00:06:44.400 looking around at chat okay so top of the show items today it also happens to be the first show

00:06:52.960 june so to bring you kind of bring up speed on some things first coming up very soon we have

00:07:03.280 midsummer at odys talk both nick and myself uh as well as a number of special guests uh

00:07:15.840 Erickson, his wife, Katie Erickson, will also be at Midsummer as far as folks outside the region.

00:07:24.600 I'm sure there will be other folks as well, but we would love to see you out there.

00:07:28.280 Odenshof is the first Hof of the Oustru Folk Assembly.

00:07:31.860 We have been celebrating Midsummer there since Midsummer of 2016.

00:07:37.140 It is a very, very special place.

00:07:39.520 We would love to share it with you guys.

00:07:40.980 Have you come check it out.

00:07:43.120 That's in Brownsville, California.

00:07:45.080 If there's any way you can make it, please contact any of our folk builders and they can get you set up.

00:07:51.300 We would love to see you there.

00:07:52.880 And that's coming up on June 21st through the 23rd.

00:08:01.640 In July, we're going to be celebrating the second annual Sigur Bloat at Sigurheim.

00:08:07.540 and you guys have heard me endlessly talk about how awesome Sigurheim is it's an amazing place

00:08:16.720 I would love to show that to each of you guys and spend time with my

00:08:20.800 I guess upper portion of southern leadership there in in Tennessee that's in Jackson County

00:08:34.360 tennessee is where sigerheim is located and that's going to be july the 19th through the 21st

00:08:41.000 i'd love to have you there if you can make it talk to one of your folk builders ideally talk

00:08:46.360 to this gentleman sharing the screen with me right now and he can get you set up um

00:08:52.680 and then following that in august we will be celebrating frayfaxi at valdershof the 16th

00:08:59.960 through the 18th going to be a super special one this is going to be the first time that i get to

00:09:05.080 show my wife and my daughter baldursoff they have not made a baldursoff event yet so i'm excited

00:09:10.200 they're going to be out there with me for that one i'd love to see you guys for that that's in

00:09:14.280 murdoch minnesota again any of our folk builders can get you set up something you can do um

00:09:21.800 whoa looks like gothi daniel young is throwing a hundred dollars at us for a hundred episodes

00:09:32.960 thank you daniel that's extremely generous um yeah thank you thank you to everybody who's been

00:09:40.160 generous you guys are awesome and you it's that generosity that uh allows us to do the amazing

00:09:49.800 things that we've been doing and to help the folks we've been helping um

00:09:57.800 oh top of the show things so we have made tremendous progress in the last month's time

00:10:04.920 on paying off uh york's off so some of you guys may know our next big thing that we are planning

00:10:11.960 for and there's no specific time frame on it yet but the next goal is to try to establish phrase

00:10:17.000 hoff and we've talked about that being either in western pennsylvania or eastern ohio we're excited

00:10:25.000 about that we want to do it but we got to do it responsibly and the first step towards doing that

00:10:30.760 is paying off our debt that we have on new york's hoff um as you guys can see on the calendar we

00:10:37.720 have made amazing progress on it uh we've had the hoff for less than two years and we've been able

00:10:44.280 to pay off lots we've been able to pay off 159 127.40 so far um just so you guys know this is

00:11:00.360 i don't know roughly

00:11:04.520 4 000 better than we were at last month so that's that's quite a bit of movement in just a month

00:11:11.320 and that's all due to your guys donations and we appreciate it very much so thank you

00:11:16.040 if you're interested in helping with that um oh and just running on the math on it anybody listening

00:11:23.080 uh as a podcast who doesn't see this in the visual here we owe currently 85 872.60

00:11:33.960 that's with the initial cost being 245 000 so we've made a lot of progress

00:11:40.280 we're chipping out chipping away at that a very healthy way and i appreciate anybody

00:11:44.600 that wants to help on that if you're interested um runestone.org and we have a donate link there

00:11:52.520 and we're happy to take any donations any help that you guys would like to do we've had a lot

00:11:58.600 of really amazing people step up on that so that's where we're at on that just to bring everybody up

00:12:02.760 to speed um other off the top things

00:12:15.400 hey we got a big show we'll hit on some other stuff a little bit later i think the other thing

00:12:18.760 i want to say is do have some new products dropping for you guys people seem to like

00:12:23.960 the products that we're coming out with we're still experimenting to find the best way

00:12:27.960 so if you guys have thoughts and feelings about how it works please let somebody know so we can

00:12:34.680 take that into consideration but we got some cool drinking vessels um as you see here some

00:12:42.600 lovely coffee mugs a a couple uh looks like a pint glass and a metal thingy

00:12:50.760 ah a tumbler so uh these are featuring

00:12:56.740 silhouettes of three of our hoffs and then a logo for a fourth of our hoff um no they all they all

00:13:06.400 have the silhouette on one side and the logo on the other side and we have all four hoff options

00:13:13.640 for all three different cups so we got the silhouettes on three and you have to take our

00:13:18.460 word for the the thorshof silhouette being on that one i have seen it i know the design exists so uh

00:13:24.700 it's there i know who to send you after if if it comes out and yours doesn't have it

00:13:29.820 brandy um no we appreciate you guys we've got um

00:13:36.620 witt and brandy has put a lot of effort into making that happen um go the east wife madison 0.98

00:13:43.820 has uh done a lot on the design work there too those ladies have worked really hard for us to

00:13:49.180 make sure we have cool stuff and got our store back up and running we're very thankful for that 0.62

00:13:55.500 um got a few things stacking up um

00:14:02.780 So, Brandy, speaking of Brandy, she wants to know, Mr. Nick, how did you get roped into

00:14:14.460 running V&S anyways?

00:14:16.060 That was a long time ago. So, it was shortly after I stepped up to be a fold builder and

00:14:28.600 or got oath to be as a folk builder and we were in a meetings in a couple meetings brandy would

00:14:36.600 uh witten bassett would say like talk about this article or this book or this thing and i would

00:14:46.680 post it in the chat because i had all the things i was the keeper of all her things so one day she's

00:14:53.880 like hey so matt is uh wanting to do a little more than just his weekly lame boring whoa hey

00:15:03.880 now best of a pot of his uh one hour streams and want to know if i wanted to help out i had uh you

00:15:12.360 know never done anything like that never made a video never made a stream a podcast none of that

00:15:21.960 but i could learn and i learned fast and uh you know paid some money for some things that

00:15:33.160 alistair goethe may or may not have known about at the time and uh we got an awesome show going

00:15:42.040 and you know 100 episodes later

00:15:43.960 not quite got 99 in the books 100 still in the works we'll see we'll see if it goes down in

00:15:53.600 flames this evening i assume i assume it probably won't i think we can we can steer it in but we'll

00:15:58.780 see praise the ice when it's crossed um what happened is that nick messed up and showed that

00:16:06.660 he had competency at doing things and when you mix competency and dedication unfortunately i have a

00:16:18.360 way of you know loading you down till you can't walk so i appreciate nick holding up under that

00:16:25.740 that's uh what happens with our volunteers um we've got some amazing amazing people who volunteer

00:16:32.380 to make the afa work and a lot of it you know you may not see if they're folks that are not in your

00:16:37.500 region you may not see if they're not um quote unquote leadership and they're just in a different

00:16:43.100 volunteering capacity but we've got a whole lot of people that help out to make this work

00:16:47.740 and the ones that the ones that show up and do a good job are uh rewarded with an endless uh

00:16:58.140 endless supply of tasks to do so very appreciative of them and we all should be and nick kind of

00:17:06.700 leads that charge um daniel wants to know sir can you explain how the transition from

00:17:15.740 the old facebook lives to the current format went uh nick just hit on that a little bit but

00:17:21.340 But, yeah, they weren't weekly back then.

00:17:24.060 They were monthly, and they seem really well-received.

00:17:30.380 And I've got something I'm going to talk about later this evening on this.

00:17:37.500 But I look at a couple of things.

00:17:43.260 First, as far as just a nice thing, it's very nice to get to talk to you guys every week.

00:17:52.220 something i look forward to something then i look forward to back then it was monthly but i looked

00:17:57.340 forward to it all the time and it was a really nice evening and it felt like i got to you know

00:18:05.100 communicate directly with members and folks who were interested and

00:18:13.260 it was it was just it was just really nice and i felt like the question and answer format worked

00:18:19.500 really well um some of the initial thing was and i'm not gonna spend time on them but you guys

00:18:30.460 see and run into there's detractors out there um i know shock i think anytime that you're trying to

00:18:38.700 do a bold endeavor you're trying to do something good it's very common in this day and age to have

00:18:43.820 have detractors that you know make noise about things but one of the things that people

00:18:48.140 would throw around was this need for transparency. And I felt like I was as transparent as I could

00:18:56.400 possibly be. And that's really important to me. I don't want to trick anybody ever. It's not what

00:19:03.400 I'm trying to do. I don't want to be dishonest or misleading ever. That was really important to me

00:19:10.220 when I became Allsheria Goethe to be devoted to being straightforward and clear about

00:19:15.440 where we were with things, about how things work, about where we stand on stuff,

00:19:21.920 because that was a really important thing to me. And so when folks said that, I'm like,

00:19:26.680 all right, what more can I do to be completely transparent? And what I wanted to do was come on

00:19:34.060 and face any and all questions that folks might have in the open and answer any questions. And

00:19:42.080 that was kind of an impetus to start going with it and that still is an overriding you know theme

00:19:48.080 very often people are too polite to ask you know maybe some salacious questions that are out there

00:19:55.280 or some scandalous things and i appreciate that but i want folks to know any like unless the

00:20:01.040 question is deliberately insulting in the asking i'm happy to answer any questions um so anyways

00:20:06.960 that's kind of what started that and got me going on it and uh it worked out really well and i found

00:20:12.800 through doing it um something that has always been challenging for me is sitting down and writing

00:20:19.520 anything you know what does the afa think about this or that or the other i know that the

00:20:24.720 information needs to get out there and i know that i need to be the one articulating it but

00:20:29.600 it. Writing has always been a difficult thing for me to do, but answering questions and being

00:20:36.940 in a conversational place like this is something I felt that I did okay at. Certainly, I felt it

00:20:43.500 was something that I was comfortable doing and I could get a lot of information out doing.

00:20:47.720 So, I figured this would be a good way to do that. We had success with the Facebook Live,

00:20:54.760 so i'm like all right let's let's see what we can do i think if i recall it also corresponded to

00:21:03.320 facebook giving us the boot so we couldn't run them as facebook lives anymore so we had to

00:21:07.560 figure something else out and in doing that you know i was starting to listen to more podcasts

00:21:13.400 myself to see that the thing that people do regularly and uh yes that's kind of how it

00:21:19.720 came about but again like nick said nope we didn't have any idea how to do it but we're like

00:21:28.120 can we do the facebook live thing but just do it on youtube okay and can we do that you know

00:21:36.360 every week instead every instead of every month sure well people probably tired of just hearing

00:21:41.240 from me so let's bring on some guests and hey nick make this work and make it look pretty and

00:21:47.960 And, you know, 99 episodes later, here we are trying our 100s.

00:21:55.020 All right.

00:21:55.840 Well, before you go on to the next question,

00:21:58.300 these 15-minute intervals go really fast,

00:22:01.260 and we're already late for our next guest.

00:22:04.980 Who do we got coming in?

00:22:06.940 Next up is supposed to be Gauthier Lane, Ashley.

00:22:11.740 Is Lane back in the green room?

00:22:14.380 I don't know.

00:22:15.020 Let's see if he's ready.

00:22:17.960 there he is hello everybody welcome lane how are you doing i'm doing marvelous great night

00:22:24.360 great milestone excellent well we're happy to have you with us um

00:22:30.440 gofi ashby is in florida and he is a gofi at new york's hof in white springs florida um

00:22:40.760 oh you've got something to to tell folks and nick uh showed me how the graphics for it a little bit

00:22:49.800 if you could bring people up to speed a little bit on the new uh i don't know community involvement

00:22:57.640 charity thing that's going on at york's off absolutely be happy to uh charity reached out

00:23:04.600 to us recently and it is uh feeding pets of the homeless and it really aligns with our project

00:23:13.480 and our mission to help the community and our food pantry that we've already been helping feed the

00:23:17.720 people so now we're going to also be taking donations at the hop starting in mid-summer

00:23:24.040 and then also distributing those again to the people in need in the white springs community

00:23:29.080 so one of the things that's really cool about this is these folks reached out to us

00:23:39.580 um i'm assuming that they heard about our uh food pantry that we do there um every month

00:23:49.080 and this isn't the first time the community reached out when there was

00:23:54.740 a hurricane there last year, I believe. The community reached out. There's a lot of people

00:24:02.120 who lost their power, lost a lot of their food, and they needed us to, I think, throw in an extra

00:24:09.700 day or something on our food pantry and be more involved in the food distribution there in the

00:24:15.740 community. And we were happy to oblige and be part of that. And so these people also came to us and

00:24:22.540 hey do you guys want to help out this something we're trying to do and it's nice that the community

00:24:27.900 recognizes that we're a place to come for for help and for being good neighbors and i'm really

00:24:34.300 excited that's something that you're doing so if folks want to know how's this how's this going to

00:24:39.100 work what will happen is there's actually another donation location besides ourselves and they're

00:24:44.940 fairly new to this as well so we'll be collecting donations from them and from ourselves as well and

00:24:50.460 we are the only distribution center in the county so we'll be we'll be handing out food

00:24:56.700 uh for for the pets there we'll be the only people that will be distributing

00:25:04.220 excellent um yes i'm excited to see how that turns out that's a really

00:25:13.260 it's a really nice thing when the community reaches out to us and we're able to say yes

00:25:18.220 and be helpful um that's something that i'm really proud of that we're able to do and i

00:25:22.780 appreciate your work on that yeah and also if anybody is coming out to the hoff at midsummer

00:25:29.180 bring a can of food a bag of food if you can afford it and get us get us kick started on

00:25:33.580 the donations so pets of the homeless what does this mean are we looking for mainly dog food are

00:25:42.060 Are we looking for cat food as well?

00:25:44.240 What stuff are we looking for specifically?

00:25:47.880 Non-perishable dog and cat food.

00:25:51.920 No live rats for the snakes or anything like that.

00:25:55.660 We don't have anything for that.

00:25:57.480 One of the other things that this charity does is they also help with vet bills for homeless animals that are hurt or injured and their homeless owners can't afford to help them.

00:26:10.660 they also help with those kind of cash donations as well to help with veterinary bills

00:26:21.860 all right so looking at just our questions that are stacking up back here

00:26:28.100 um raven wants to know question from matt and nick and uh assume also for you lane this was

00:26:34.340 asked before you were on program with us what ethical dilemmas have you encountered within

00:26:39.220 the outside community and how have they been resolved

00:26:49.540 so i'm curious about the framing of the question um

00:27:03.540 i wonder a little bit on clarification what you mean by the outside true community

00:27:08.020 because when i'm used to hearing that it is a theoretical idea that there's some point

00:27:15.060 of connectivity between the afa and other people who are not in the afa that um

00:27:23.940 purport to be practicing house true and i don't

00:27:26.980 think that that community really exists certainly not in this day and age um

00:27:32.100 So I'm going to think on that. I want you to go ahead and answer that first. Nick, what do you make of it? And I guess kind of answer the question in whatever way, I don't know, whatever way makes sense to you or you assume it applies to. And I apologize, there's just some in-group terms that probably mean something different depending on where you're coming from.

00:27:56.100 um i'll just take it at the most basic i think um an ethical dilemma in regards to the austro

00:28:04.020 community the the situation is most of the com most of the people who would consider themselves

00:28:10.260 also true don't have ethics okay we do have a clarification this just in he said sorry he meant

00:28:17.860 the afa only cool and that is the proper way to use the term house true community in my opinion

00:28:22.740 so under that under that understanding please continue i'm sorry i don't know well i'll just

00:28:31.080 even say most of the people who consider themselves to be awesome true outs who uh are like out and

00:28:36.440 about don't have ethics that are founded in our folk in our history in our lore and our gods and

00:28:46.700 our culture so i mean combating an ethical dilemma or whatever i'm just what does our

00:28:54.980 what does our morals and ethics say about this is it good for the folk is it is it honest to

00:29:02.280 the folk and etc etc is it healthy does it does it protect our women our children our our folk

00:29:08.560 our inner guard uh lane what do you have to to offer i'm going to take it from the from within

00:29:20.780 the afa uh also even even before the clarification but i would say um one one thing to start with

00:29:29.380 we have one of the most ethical communities i've ever been fortunate enough to be a part of uh

00:29:34.360 There's not many places you can go or people that you can be around that you can have complete trust that.

00:29:42.880 People are going to behave properly, that if you leave something of value, it's going to be there when you come back for it.

00:29:50.240 This is used to be a lot more common and it's good to have a community again like the ones that I grew up with, even even though they weren't also true.

00:30:01.960 but i think we have a very ethical community so while while conflicts arise i don't usually see

00:30:09.800 them as uh being ethical ones they're they're more conflicts with personality um strong strong

00:30:17.160 personalities you know also true is a strong religion of strong folk and people will butt

00:30:22.920 heads and but we work it out we know what's important uh the gods our family our community

00:30:28.520 so uh raven i want to encourage you to ask follow-up questions if there's more specifics

00:30:36.140 that you want to kind of dial in on there are so i wish there was a cool like answer

00:30:47.600 to give you and it's hard most of the time

00:30:50.840 a lot of it depends on what you perceive as an ethical dilemma and not

00:31:00.140 um as we have a lot of people that come to us as gothar for counseling and with

00:31:11.060 questions and concerns about ethics that apply to their family to their personal life to things

00:31:18.080 And to go in detail on any one of those two specifically would be inappropriate.

00:31:24.680 But if it is an ethical dilemma that an individual is facing, we get them in touch with Agothia or Agithia to talk about it and try to figure that out.

00:31:38.080 If it's two parties that are having a perceived ethical conflict between the two of them and their AFA members, even if they're not, we offer this sometimes.

00:31:49.040 we like to send one to one gothi and one to another and kind of the counseling way that

00:31:59.920 we try to work that is for each you know each gothi to work with that party

00:32:07.520 towards their best interest of them winning and being successful and doing the right thing in

00:32:14.000 their life and then when we get together behind the scenes and work together as as priests as

00:32:21.440 gothar to figure out how to pair those two concerns in a way that will work to move that family or

00:32:30.800 those two individuals in the right direction to get them resolved ethically we also send folks

00:32:39.360 to our law speaker for mediation from time to time if that can help resolve an ethical dilemma

00:32:47.600 if someone who is a member is behaving in a way that is objectively grossly unethical then

00:32:56.720 if it's something that they can change course on we certainly counsel them about that and

00:33:02.000 encourage them to do so and try to help them do so if it takes some untangling

00:33:07.280 um if that ethical violation is dangerous to the safety of the spiritual well-being of the afa then

00:33:15.920 we remove that member promptly if it's something that needs to be worked on and grown and adjusted

00:33:22.400 from then we take the time to do that because we want to we want to fix problems ideally but

00:33:29.520 not at the cost of not the cost of our members so it really depends of like our members well-being

00:33:35.680 so it it's a complicated question because the answer is going to be different in every situation

00:33:41.200 i can think of one case um where

00:33:51.120 i don't know in an earlier time in the afa when things were a little bit less clear

00:33:55.520 uh sometimes we've had to remove people because their understanding of ethics and

00:34:02.000 the proper understanding of ethics were different

00:34:04.480 and if it's a blatant thing and it's not something they want to fix then we do need to part ways

00:34:11.840 but i think that's the overarching theme is to

00:34:16.720 kind of as the Odinsoff motto says to do right and to fear no one to do the right things

00:34:25.720 and to do them openly and honestly and to have that kind of honesty and transparency on stuff

00:34:33.280 that has helped clarify a lot of ethical things before they become a problem and I hope that gets

00:34:40.020 to the meat of the question you're asking but I encourage you ask as many follow-ups as you'd like

00:34:44.720 think it's a really good question it's just kind of broad he's got at least two more still in the queue

00:34:50.880 but we've got uh time to uh bring on another one though and so everybody knows uh just because

00:34:59.280 somebody new comes on it's not like we're kicking lane out of the seat lane is welcome to stay as

00:35:03.280 long as he wants and we'll get him in on all the questions until he's determines it's time to go

00:35:08.960 but he is on the east coast so that time may come sooner than we like so it's all a matter of how

00:35:14.880 long he wants to stay with us uh who we got up next next up is uh witten young and then we'll

00:35:21.120 have bode after that gofie bode and when gofie bode gets on i'm gonna bounce because you know

00:35:26.320 me and him fight too much and plus i gotta focus on the stream it's gonna be madhouse um i think

00:35:32.960 that maybe i should have gone with 30 minute intervals and not 15 but we're gonna we're gonna

00:35:37.760 roll with it so all right here comes whitten young daniel welcome how you doing doing wonderful sir

00:35:45.680 i'm uh happy to be here and let me just say congratulations on 100 episodes i know this is

00:35:51.840 uh this is a big accomplishment i know a lot of work goes into it behind the scenes especially

00:35:56.880 with that man on the screen uh the only guy who's been present for all 99 of the previous episode

00:36:02.800 nick rice and uh cheers to you bud yeah i remember talking about these we were just trying to figure

00:36:08.960 out how to start them um i believe when you were out here uh you and heather were out here for

00:36:17.200 midsummer two years ago we were talking about launching these like as soon as you left

00:36:24.480 how big is that chair you are sitting in it's the biggest chair i could fit my little self into

00:36:30.960 it looks it looks enormous it looks like you ate the wrong kind of mushroom in the

00:36:38.160 in wonderland no this is one of those um facebook marketplace finds that ever got

00:36:45.040 we've got two of them and it's the most comfortable it looks extremely comfortable

00:36:50.480 i envy your comfort um i got this chair at the uh

00:36:54.720 i think the salvation army thrift store awesome that's it was it was a good choice uh and it's

00:37:04.760 comfortable comfortable seating is important so welcome how's daniel doing i'm doing pretty good

00:37:12.480 um you know got a little bit of change going on at home but it's all good uh things are looking up

00:37:19.140 i'm getting myself adjusted to my new schedule uh afa keeps me uh busy as ever

00:37:26.660 i'm you know excited about you know coming up at sigerheim and of course uh midsummer

00:37:34.500 at four o'clock you know we're preparing for that right now

00:37:39.300 all right so ron boardman asks and those you may not know uh ron is one of our folk builders

00:37:46.420 in new hampshire um decided to have him on the team he asks i was here you're guilty when you

00:37:54.820 started vns you had a vision of how it would look now that we're 100 in how does it look

00:38:02.020 compared to your vision so i did but my vision was was kind of loose one of the things that

00:38:10.740 has always been kind of a i don't know a core component to vns and this was baked in at the

00:38:17.460 beginning is for it to be audience driven as far as questions and you know not a lot of preparing

00:38:27.780 for it but more taking the questions as they come and giving you know giving honest answers

00:38:33.940 to honest questions and kind of conversationally seeing where it's going it's always been

00:38:38.660 kind of an adventure to see where the conversation takes us sometimes we'll think it's going to be a

00:38:44.460 light-hearted episode and somebody will have something really serious happen in their life

00:38:47.920 and it'll take a little bit more serious uh sometimes more uh more grim turn other times

00:38:56.060 the exact opposite we'll talk about something we think is going to be super serious and people

00:39:00.440 start asking us about pro wrestling and breakfast cereals so it all depends um i think getting into

00:39:09.080 the lore episodes with svawn is kind of a unexpected i wasn't sure we were going to go

00:39:14.840 there that's something we were going to do like the reading them live on the air so that's

00:39:19.480 different than i guess how i envisioned it otherwise it's really close and i think in large

00:39:28.120 part because you know when i tell nick something that i want he magically is able to make it happen

00:39:35.560 or very close um and so i'm really really lucky to have him because he's able to turn kind of the

00:39:42.840 ideas that i have or that i want into into realities and he's able to do it pretty quick

00:39:47.480 which is which is awesome um the technical stuff that nick does is really wizardry to me it's

00:39:55.960 beyond my kin so i appreciate that you know i remember when you came up with a name for this i

00:40:02.600 we were in the middle of the acquisition or pursuing the acquisition for sigerheim and

00:40:09.560 i was here to go if you recall that time period a lot of those messages that went back and forth

00:40:13.880 between you and i were well into the wee hours of the morning

00:40:17.080 and i remember asking you one time don't you ever sleep and you said victory never sleeps

00:40:25.960 awesome

00:40:28.480 that is in case people haven't noticed and it's worth pointing out the obvious

00:40:37.480 the Austin True Folk Assembly is incredibly victory centric

00:40:45.540 you're not going to win at everything you try in life

00:40:50.440 but you're not going to win at any of the things you don't try at

00:40:55.960 lots of things in the world suck and are far from what we want them to be

00:41:04.400 we get it but what i don't think enough of us get is there's stuff we can do

00:41:13.280 all of the time to accomplish amazing things there are so many ways that we can win in our lives

00:41:22.020 for our faith for our folk in the world at large that we are so focused on what we can't do we

00:41:30.680 don't see all the opportunities of the things that we can do that's why this is victory never

00:41:36.420 sleeps we got to stay vigilant looking for those chances to win those opportunities for success

00:41:42.440 those pathways to victory, and it's also why, you know, the place that Nick is eventually

00:41:53.500 going to find himself living, and also Tins, where Daniel and myself are going to live

00:41:58.060 with our families, where the AFA's capital is going to be, is called Sigurheim's, the

00:42:02.660 home of victory.

00:42:03.640 That focusing on winning and keeping your eyes on the prize is something that is at

00:42:11.080 the core of what we do and why we do this. I'm glad that things have synergized with

00:42:18.520 this program in such a way to make that apparent and cause me to point it out to the point of

00:42:27.740 being obnoxious to you guys because it's worth beating in with as much regularity as possible

00:42:36.960 because it's really really important i just now saw that um

00:42:43.920 ronald our uh champion of generosity has donated fifty dollars uh ten yards off thank you

00:42:52.400 once again blown away thank you um so raven's got another question here question can you share a

00:43:00.320 moment of personal doubt or challenge in your also true journey and how you overcame that and

00:43:07.440 i'd like to go around the room on this um nick you had a moment of personal doubt or a challenge in

00:43:16.080 your house true journey and how did you overcome it assuming you did we can't hear you if you're

00:43:26.160 muted though okay so um my mom passed away back in 17 and shortly after that i moved back to

00:43:38.400 illinois from georgia i've been in georgia like 17 years moved back to illinois to be

00:43:43.200 near closer my dad and my siblings and i spent like four years like

00:43:49.600 boring i worked i came home i slept i went to work i came home i slept my entire personal practice

00:43:59.760 just kind of disappeared to nothing i still believed in everything just didn't do anything

00:44:06.240 and i got real bored one day and said that's enough and i said i remember there's this thing

00:44:12.400 called the afa that i heard about this one time and i looked it up reached out to rothna goodkindred

00:44:22.720 uh the time uh mr messaged me and uh well i met up with him and came in apprentice a month later

00:44:33.600 and the rest is history i uh ran to victory even if i didn't know it as a random interlude i just 0.98

00:44:42.160 want to give a shout out um it's come to my attention that a lovely woman farron is

00:44:49.680 watching us in uh and in the comments over there and on the youtube and paying attention i appreciate

00:44:55.360 it i'm glad you're watching our program and um aubrey is thankful for all the fruit snacks that

00:45:01.200 you loaded her down with last week really glad you're watching hope you're having an awesome

00:45:06.480 night um with that lane has there you had a moment of doubt or a challenge that you've needed to

00:45:14.720 overcome in your your also true journey and can you tell us about that plenty plenty of challenges

00:45:21.200 but none none around the faith uh around my face that has always been there i did begin though my

00:45:28.000 journey as a uh humorist i did not at first see the gods as divine beings but merely as

00:45:35.440 our our oldest ancestors and i think you know looking back i think that's because that's the way

00:45:42.240 that's that's all i was ready for at the time that gods presented themselves to me in a way

00:45:46.960 that i was willing to accept them but once i had them in my life i i began to you know know their

00:45:53.520 divinity and feel them with me the um one time when i was riding a an odin's boat i was sitting

00:46:01.920 there i had the tv on in the background just some white noise and but i heard somebody mention uh

00:46:08.880 lineage and being uh born to uh leadership uh talking about the kings and of england and then

00:46:17.840 i look up and there's a picture of odin on the tv looking back at me as i'm as i'm riding my odin's

00:46:23.680 bloat and i was like yeah i'm i'm on the right path that was a solidifying moment that i knew

00:46:30.720 what i was what i was doing the direction i was taking was correct you know that's

00:46:36.480 it's one of the things that we ask first

00:46:43.840 first if whether or not you want to be a member or not

00:46:48.320 if you are a heterosexual white man or woman and you are watching this

00:46:54.640 what we would ask is you know we don't there's no part of us that expects you to wholeheartedly

00:47:04.320 devote yourself to the ic or sight unseen day one because you saw this program and maybe matt

00:47:10.560 nick daniel lane said something cool but what we would encourage you to do is to open yourself to

00:47:18.320 that when you open yourself to the possibility and you present yourself before the gods in whatever

00:47:27.040 way you feel comfortable doing saying hey you know i don't know one way or another but i'm here

00:47:33.120 and i'm listening and you do it respectfully some really amazing things can happen and same with

00:47:38.480 membership in the afa we don't ask that you are devoutly also true when you join but we do ask

00:47:46.400 that you'd like to do and it's one of those things if you haven't had the experience it's really hard

00:47:53.680 to develop a real faith until it becomes real to you and there's levels of that there's place where

00:48:00.560 you choose to believe it whether i've heard the christians describe faith and it's this nebulous

00:48:09.200 thing about you taking this leap to believe something that you don't know to be true but

00:48:13.120 you're just going to believe it anyway and i think that's the first level there's people that do that

00:48:18.720 and i think that is incredibly powerful and important if you can do that

00:48:25.600 but beyond that there's a moment when it's not faith anymore it's it's real i don't need to

00:48:32.800 have faith in the other people i'm talking to on this this program they're real they're friends of

00:48:37.440 mine i know them i talk to them i don't like i could not conceive of not being an aussitrue

00:48:45.280 because i know that it's real but we can't expect that day one so the the first thing is just opening

00:48:51.760 yourself and if you do that and you open yourself and you you make the effort really really amazing

00:48:59.600 things can happen daniel have you had a moment of of doubt or of spiritual challenge in your

00:49:06.880 house a true journey how did you handle that yeah it was um it was during the transition

00:49:17.600 in the carolinas that uh our previous leadership all of them actually we had

00:49:25.280 we had three three to three or four folk builders in this area in the carolinas and uh one by one

00:49:31.920 each of them kind of dropped off and a couple of them i was pretty close to uh one was the

00:49:37.680 head of the kindred i was a member of and when they all bailed uh particularly the last guy right

00:49:45.200 when uh thor's office was uh established or was in the process of being established um

00:49:52.720 i remember like uh the handful of kindred members that hung around after that and then we were all

00:49:58.320 at my house one day i remember kind of describing it to my wife later on as like someone had dropped

00:50:03.520 a jar of marbles and was just watching the marbles rolling around and i i thought i thought to myself

00:50:09.280 hell why not me i would do it and uh and i remember having a couple of conversations with

00:50:16.000 the ulterior gothi uh about you know taking the next step and you know stepping into leadership

00:50:23.600 in one capacity or another but i had my eyes on becoming a goathy and uh i don't like using the

00:50:30.480 term buyer's remorse but once it was announced to my and i was out there and i was i was totally

00:50:36.480 comfortable with all that but i remember thinking that um i would fail and i i had a real fear of

00:50:44.480 that and um you know through some uh some support from you know surrounding leadership uh leadership

00:50:51.440 from surrounding areas, Rob Stam, who was in Virginia at the time,

00:50:56.040 Trent Easttown in Georgia, Gauthys Vaughn-Harrell,

00:50:59.900 and a handful of others.

00:51:02.340 I could run a list, the Erickson's and a few others,

00:51:06.800 that really supported me and bolstered my drive

00:51:11.380 to do better than the guys who came before me.

00:51:15.380 So, yeah, how did I overcome it?

00:51:18.800 If I didn't do it, I felt like it wouldn't get done.

00:51:21.440 And, you know, I think we pulled it off.

00:51:25.620 I mean, we've maintained and increased the membership in the Carolinas.

00:51:31.180 And, you know, Thorshoff turned out to be a success, you know,

00:51:35.160 and thanks in large part to Witten's Fawn Herald,

00:51:38.240 but I'd like to think that I made my mark and through other things, you know,

00:51:43.340 as it's going on.

00:51:44.080 But, yeah, I had some doubts early on about whether or not I was capable of leading.

00:51:51.440 sir you are muted your turn to mess up huh i was trying to blow my nose and i didn't think

00:52:03.920 y'all wanted to hear it no my nose in a very loud and obnoxious way and i'm told that i get

00:52:09.680 that honestly from my grandfather um but somehow somehow mandy does not appreciate the uh

00:52:17.600 a testament to my lineage. And I figured you guys wouldn't either. So that said, I just got

00:52:25.240 informed. When I saw a screenshot, we've got 102 people currently watching. So that's the best

00:52:33.420 we've ever had on Victory Never Sleeps that I'm aware of at one time watching. And that's really

00:52:38.800 cool for our 100th episode. I appreciate you guys. Thank you very much for being here for that.

00:52:43.160 At least that's straight from the YouTube side of things.

00:52:47.900 Looks like we have 170 to count Twitter right now.

00:52:52.080 That's amazing. Awesome. I'm very, very appreciative of that.

00:52:59.060 So we do need to make a sandwich, by the way.

00:53:03.540 And to do that, you need some goatee mayo. 0.62

00:53:07.100 Ha! Negative. I'm going to answer this question. 0.93

00:53:09.380 Then we will welcome in one of my best friends, buddy.

00:53:16.060 Before we do, thinking about a time that I got.

00:53:20.720 It's hard because doing the have them all, in the have them all, Ward Oden advises that it's best for folks to be middling wise.

00:53:44.400 And I think we all get that anecdotally in our lives.

00:53:47.800 There's sometimes you don't want to know everything.

00:53:50.720 Um, becoming Ausheri Goofy, I have the blessing and the curse of getting to know a lot of

00:54:04.640 things.

00:54:06.060 And so the peaks are very, very high and the valleys are very, very low.

00:54:14.820 Um, a moment of doubt, never.

00:54:20.720 Once I came home, and I can honestly say this, that's not bravado, I've had a lot of challenges, a lot of disappointments, but never doubt.

00:54:32.760 So when I broke from Christianity and I came home to Alistair, it took a little bit to fully feel the reality of our gods in my life.

00:54:50.960 but there's never been a moment of doubting them or of questioning them of not believing them

00:55:01.840 in them or of resenting or being disloyal to them never never once and i can i can honestly say that

00:55:09.320 a lot of challenges though a lot of different ones and i'm trying to think of

00:55:15.360 ones off the top of my head um

00:55:20.580 most recent one and you know we're honest on the show I spent large part of the first half

00:55:28.360 an hour of this program talking about transparency so keeping it real um this time last year almost

00:55:35.820 exactly we had a really really ugly coup attempt by some people that i thought were good friends 0.91

00:55:48.620 of mine um and we had this you know exodus of a bunch of the skinheads and it was all over

00:55:57.420 like lies and contrived stuff and it came out of nowhere and was super ugly and it took me

00:56:06.460 like it took me several days to a week i think to fully get what was going on because i couldn't

00:56:15.540 understand why these people who were my friends and who you know swore oaths and were super loyal

00:56:22.100 all of a sudden weren't. And I'm like, you know, man, did I mess up? What did I do? How do I fix

00:56:28.720 whatever? You know, what, what, what happened? Because there was no attempt at handling it the

00:56:36.380 right way. They just all of a sudden came at me with the knives out. And unfortunately, that's

00:56:43.760 probably the biggest example of that. But that's really, really common with our folk, because so

00:56:50.560 many of our people are so deeply deeply damaged with the soul sickness that we talk about

00:56:55.120 and to do this right i've got to put my heart into it and i make really close friendships

00:57:07.180 with people that i view as family and i let them in to where they make close relationships with my

00:57:14.440 family. And then over and over again, over the course of time, there's a lot of really deep

00:57:23.720 betrayals. And that is unfortunately a standout characteristic of our people during this wolf age

00:57:31.800 that we live in um overcome that by

00:57:41.000 being honest by trying to bear my soul before the ice here and

00:57:52.440 dedicate myself to trying to do more and build bigger and stronger and better and uh

00:58:01.800 And to stay the course, even when it gets really rough, and sometimes it can get really rough, but that's another reason I talk about victory never sleeps.

00:58:15.620 When you stop, that's when entropy sets in and doubts and, you know, negative thought loops and obsessing about things.

00:58:31.540 And that's when all that takes hold.

00:58:33.680 If you're out there fighting and trying to win and trying to do and trying to build, you don't have time to stress about that stuff.

00:58:41.420 And that's been so helpful to me.

00:58:45.620 and it's one of the reasons i focus on victories so much is the only way to like

00:58:52.580 i don't know outrun or compensate for disappointments is by building up accomplishments

00:58:59.220 once you accomplish stuff you've got stuff that's in the record books that folks can't take away

00:59:05.380 and you can build on that it gives you a solid platform to build on and so that's how i've

00:59:10.900 gotten through those i know i'm taking a lot and know we're going to have two people stacked here

00:59:14.980 But bring Bodie in, if you would.

00:59:19.740 You're muted, Nick.

00:59:21.320 So, ha-ha, back at you.

00:59:23.420 All right.

00:59:23.840 I guess I got to stay for a little while as punishment.

00:59:26.160 All right.

00:59:26.720 Mr. Bodie, here you go.

00:59:29.340 Hello, you guys.

00:59:31.400 Hey, Bodie.

00:59:32.000 Welcome. 0.86

00:59:32.440 Sorry I ate some of your time.

00:59:33.780 Tell us about yourself.

00:59:34.580 How you doing?

00:59:36.280 I don't know what there is to tell at this point that most of the people watching don't already know.

00:59:41.780 Well, where do you come to us from right now?

00:59:43.580 that surely is not your home.

00:59:45.580 It is surely not my home.

00:59:46.580 It is my home away from home.

00:59:47.880 And I am not a black comedian from the 90s with a sweat rag.

00:59:52.760 I'm trying to cover up corporate logos so that I do not get in trouble.

00:59:57.740 It is not my show your right rag.

01:00:00.000 I'm just trying to stay out of trouble.

01:00:02.280 So, yeah, I'm at my home away from home where I earn my money

01:00:04.760 so that I can do all of this for you fine folks.

01:00:08.400 What's the difference between Delta Burke and Delta Airlines?

01:00:11.440 50 pounds.

01:00:12.220 I ain't lying.

01:00:12.840 nice nice

01:00:19.880 all right well welcome to the program so bode have you had no doubt and have you had challenges

01:00:28.920 in your house true journey and how have you overcome them yes you were there for a lot of

01:00:34.220 them uh well for at least some of the big ones oh you gots to clarify that you were there for

01:00:41.420 a couple of the ones uh specifically where what was it 2016 2017 somewhere around in there um

01:00:49.980 the good folks watching and listening don't need to know all the particulars but suffice it to say

01:00:53.820 that i had at one point reached into my rope and told the else year ago that i was just going to

01:00:59.260 quit and he said what in the world who wins if you quit and uh gave me a good talking to and uh

01:01:09.100 And explained to me that I was needed and that I was valuable and that the church would lose, that you all would lose, that I would lose, more importantly.

01:01:22.480 So, yeah, and that was a pretty big challenge.

01:01:27.340 I had some what I thought was good reasons at the time for wanting to just walk away.

01:01:32.220 And they'll share to go. They quickly disabuse me of that notion.

01:01:36.700 And here I am today and somebody that's not on this screen yet, but I think I don't think he's scheduled to be.

01:01:45.120 But. The small guy in the big chair over there, him and his equally small guy, brother, also my brother, go to the east a couple of years ago.

01:01:59.160 I was not

01:02:01.260 in a good way. I was not

01:02:03.140 enjoying life.

01:02:05.200 Go to the East said, hey, man, I think

01:02:07.100 if you just

01:02:07.820 really reinvested yourself in the church,

01:02:10.900 your life will turn around.

01:02:13.800 He was absolutely

01:02:14.900 right, 1,000% right.

01:02:19.920 All these guys

01:02:20.940 here, all these guys,

01:02:22.760 equally small, yes, all these

01:02:24.900 guys. If you guys don't know,

01:02:27.340 Witten Young and Go to the East

01:02:28.800 are roughly the same height with my hands roughly the same height yet they argue eternally about

01:02:34.960 who is the tallest which is funny because i'm five inches taller than both of them so uh

01:02:43.040 so it's a good good it's good it's a good thing but you know when you're when you're when you're

01:02:49.200 members of the elite kindred of the afa you can make jokes like that so only short guys argue

01:02:54.960 about height by the way that's right those of us that are six foot don't care about our lessers

01:03:00.000 you're you're a tall fella tell folks how tall you are so we have a point of reference here for

01:03:04.240 those of us who are this for those of us listening on the podcast version how tall are you me yes

01:03:10.880 six foot two six foot two how tall are uh gothe's east what five eight five seven

01:03:18.720 they're out i was gonna say like five four all right i'm out that's it good night ladies and

01:03:25.520 gentlemen six feet of reference look at the chair uh i kid i kid we kid we kid we kid

01:03:36.080 because we love good good things come in small packages they do um

01:03:40.720 so and coke i see what you did there uh one of our newest apprentice folk builders asks

01:03:48.320 is there a pdf for the fundamental beliefs of the afa this is a good time beginning and i wanted to

01:03:55.840 bring this up and kind of release it on the 100th episode so i mentioned earlier

01:04:00.160 one of the reasons i did this is because i'm not good at writing down stuff voluminously

01:04:04.960 and this has been a way to get out our core theology and beliefs in an accessible way

01:04:13.900 but we need stuff written down so folks can reference it I've known this forever when I

01:04:19.760 first got involved in Allison True way back when you know like 2001 ish I've wanted some kind of

01:04:27.720 document like cool what what's the core tenets here what do you guys believe and over the years

01:04:33.800 people ask me like hey what is this also true thing what do you guys do and so we well you know

01:04:39.400 it's kind of like um well you know they're and because it's so vast it's hard to narrow down

01:04:47.480 in a step-by-step way this is who we are this is what we believe this is what we do and so um

01:04:55.640 It's way overdue, but I'm glad it's here today. We're releasing the Ausatru Trullamal, and it is an Icelandic word that means the codified statement of belief.

01:05:11.520 So you can find this in the library section at runestone.org, but this is a reference guide to what the AFA's fundamental doctrine is on the core essentials of Alcitru.

01:05:27.880 this is a starting point not a stopping point but something so you guys go there and you know

01:05:34.120 okay this is what the afa believes these are the core tenets that make up

01:05:39.880 ausitru as practiced by the austral folks and um something we put a lot of time into put a lot of

01:05:49.240 prayer into um it's meant to be very simple so it's very straightforward and not confusing and

01:05:59.000 so that it's very clear both for our members to be able to reference and for folks who are curious

01:06:05.960 hey what what are you guys doing what do you guys what what's this thing else true i've never heard

01:06:11.560 of it well this is what house true is and so hopefully that uh expresses the will of our

01:06:19.000 our icer in the best way and hopefully it's something that uh is of use and beneficial to

01:06:29.000 you guys spiritually so there it is and coke thank you very much for asking that question

01:06:34.200 if you guys find yourself in

01:06:35.880 don't want to mess up here so i'm saying kansas i'm gonna go with campus yeah there we go if

01:06:44.600 you're in kansas talk with this gentleman he just he has stepped up recently to folk build in that

01:06:49.960 area and uh we'd love to have you get to know him and love to see our folk grow in that part

01:06:56.680 of the country so thank you very much for asking um michael from yordsoff mr flavel might i mention

01:07:04.440 that your attire tonight is much appreciated by the gator in the pond at mjordshoff those of you

01:07:10.520 who might not know i have wanted this for two years turns out we now have a gator in one of

01:07:16.680 our two ponds at the temple to lord nyorther uh mjordshoff in white springs florida there's gator

01:07:24.040 and there's at least one gator in them ponds and i'm excited to know that um it it makes me happy

01:07:31.720 inside born and raised in anchorage alaska gators lizards and such are far outside of what i was

01:07:38.520 able to ooh and ah about as a kid so i think that's super cool um raven another one of his

01:07:47.480 questions has a few questions uh can you share an instance where a particular ritual or spiritual

01:07:54.040 experience led to a profound personal transformation for you we're going to start with you bodie what

01:08:01.160 What you got?

01:08:04.960 Well, something that, a quick one that a lot of folks around here will,

01:08:11.360 especially a couple of the people on the screen

01:08:14.580 and a couple of people watching at home will understand.

01:08:19.800 I was at the first, I was at the first Winter Nights,

01:08:23.100 and it turns out through Strange Twists of Fate

01:08:25.180 that that's the only one I've attended until last year.

01:08:28.380 So 2012 and then 2023 has been my only winter nights. I've missed all the ones in between then. However, at the first one, and I believe that Go the East was referencing this earlier when he said that at founder, one of founder McNallan's bloats, he had us all in a call and response portion of the bloat repeat in German that we are all Germans.

01:08:52.860 And at that bloat that he's referencing in 2012, or maybe he's talking about another one, but at the same time, it was the same thing.

01:09:00.660 But that bloat, and I know that a lot of folk who have been to the Hoffs and have seen the Asperia Gothi do his Wotan bloats, his Odin bloats, have felt the same sense of spiritual charge.

01:09:17.980 um but founder mcdallan had us so spiritually whipped up into a frenzy which is pretty cool

01:09:27.300 because that's one of the meanings of all father's name is frenzy he had us so whipped up

01:09:33.580 that uh and with the the yelling and the calling response that when it was all over with uh i felt

01:09:42.300 like i couldn't talk i was immediately hoarse i felt like i couldn't talk and uh felt the need

01:09:47.240 to cough. And when I coughed, there was blood. So I screamed so hard in that bloat that I had

01:09:53.480 blood in my throat. And, um, that was one. Another real quick one was in 2003,

01:10:02.240 I had the fortunes to stand in a different Odin bloat that

01:10:06.540 Senator McNallan did in Missouri. And, um, and, and these things, they changed me in a profound

01:10:14.680 way because they connected me to to the acer themselves and made me feel that coli connection

01:10:21.720 made me feel that that time out of time and place out of place that can occur when you were in the

01:10:27.940 proper bloat setting and uh founder mcnalen was standing in the bloat space probably 20 or 30

01:10:36.980 yards away from me uphill. And at the beginning of the bloat, he raised his arms and he said

01:10:44.700 Lord Oathen's name, but he said it as a breath. And from 30, 40 yards away, I could hear it

01:10:51.220 loudly in my ears. And so could everyone else. So yeah, those two experiences, plus a handful

01:10:59.600 of other ones. I've been fortunate to have a lot of them. I think that a lot of us on the screen

01:11:05.280 And a lot of us in leadership and a lot of us just regular folk in the church have had multiple, multiple experiences that have attracted us to or made us come home, has held us here and keeps us going for the future.

01:11:22.400 So those are my two.

01:11:26.380 What you got, Nick?

01:11:33.000 I don't know for sure.

01:11:34.720 I mean, I'm going to go with really probably one of the most moving things

01:11:40.640 was this past year at Winter Nights, Sigurheim with the De Sierbrot

01:11:49.360 in the graveyard there at Sigurheim was a very moving and experienced, you know.

01:11:58.860 i know you you say it a lot too and i'd be and i'd say the same is i tend to cry at a lot of

01:12:06.740 things whether it be a baby naming that i'm not even a part of because i'm not a go-car or uh

01:12:12.520 a folk builder o thing or what have you uh but dc rebloat's definitely

01:12:17.860 some of the more emotional times i grew up a mama's boy so

01:12:22.180 with my mama being passed it's it's very emotional very uh spiritually fulfilling

01:12:30.580 winter nights is always good for that

01:12:32.580 all right what you got lane well the i have to uh second boat gothi bodhi's uh

01:12:42.920 exclamation about uh also your gothi's uh odin boat it is amazing the one i experienced in 2017

01:12:50.600 and uh was that was amazing but i think the the most uh powerful one for me was and it was almost

01:13:02.020 in retrospect was the first njords bloat that uh that he did at njord's house um founder mcdonald

01:13:11.020 has always talked about you know you know he's clear that odin is his patron god and the story

01:13:18.660 always the question always comes up when you get more than three uh also true in a room as who's

01:13:22.980 your patron god and i'd always you know had this road answer that oh i i you know worship all the

01:13:28.820 gods depending on you know the need and at one point he'd asked that and i realized i'm just

01:13:35.620 giving this road answer i'm not thinking about it i'm not feeling it so i i started to think about

01:13:40.580 it and that that that bloat triggered all the memories of my path on also true and how njord

01:13:47.300 has been there all along i first found aussitrew living on the pacific coast in cal and san diego

01:13:52.900 i found the afa once we moved to florida on the east coast um my at one point my job was going to

01:14:00.820 be shipped um offshore uh to another uh to another location and my boss told me i had six months

01:14:09.300 and my my job was going to terminate and a hurricane took out the data center

01:14:14.100 and they never moved and i i will be celebrating my 25th anniversary uh this next this year so

01:14:24.600 um jord has been my patron god whether i knew it or not i just and and during that blow it was like

01:14:34.000 an it was almost like an introduction like like our altar goes through was going hey lane here's

01:14:40.620 here's yours here's your patron god you you just didn't recognize him and it was very very powerful

01:14:49.500 selen who's whose tail did we just witness oh that is that is snagglepuss 0.79

01:14:56.220 she is she is my assistant and she wants to get on camera hello snagglepuss how you doing 0.86

01:15:02.140 while we're doing shout outs uh shout out to uh allison's dad i hear you are in the chat room it

01:15:10.780 was awesome meeting you at uh feast of the iron yard last year and uh for what it's worth i think

01:15:17.100 you could take a gator as long as you keep low and you avoid you avoid the jaws it can be done

01:15:25.500 um i remember the mr t cartoon when i was a little kid in the intro sequence

01:15:31.180 mr t was able to jump in and wrestle the gator successfully so if uh if mr t can do it you can

01:15:39.100 do it too oh it's a random side note and i told you it's gonna be a fun episode so this is kind

01:15:44.780 of random we are going to get to uh daniel and my special transformative bloat experiences but

01:15:51.580 and i say this and uh said what i said mr t by mr t is a really cool autobiography

01:16:03.340 and it was written before he was super famous it was written like

01:16:07.420 back when he was just starting to be famous

01:16:13.340 if uh it is a very folkish book but not one of our folkish books but if you have any

01:16:21.580 Friends of a Chocolate Complexion, encourage them to read Mr. T by Mr. T.

01:16:28.740 Daniel, tell us about a transformative bloat experience, if you will.

01:16:33.620 Yeah, I've got one transformative bloat, but I'm going to add another one to it.

01:16:39.600 O-Star 2019, it was held at a camp in Connecticut, North Carolina.

01:16:48.220 I first met the Ulterior Goethe there, and that was awesome because it was like meeting a celebrity.

01:16:56.400 That's where I first met Elaine.

01:16:57.960 I first met Bodie.

01:16:59.840 And, again, we keep referencing the Odin boys.

01:17:04.660 And it was my first real experience.

01:17:07.120 Like, this is real.

01:17:11.180 That was where I realized that I had found home.

01:17:14.960 and uh now i've talked about it i think on this podcast before but when matt had worked himself

01:17:23.340 into a friend and the rest of us because i mean if if i keep it really quiet in this room i could

01:17:28.680 still hear that harrier father song echoing across that lake from all the people who were so loud

01:17:34.120 um at any rate by the end of the bloat he had already had spurged the blessings and

01:17:40.500 I guess the horn had been

01:17:42.840 he had poured the horn into the

01:17:44.780 lead fire and it

01:17:46.220 burst in this big flame

01:17:48.400 and when he was emptying the horn

01:17:51.000 sort of like the motion I'm doing

01:17:52.760 where he was like you know aggressively

01:17:54.680 emptying the horn either the horn

01:17:56.940 slipped and he played it off or

01:17:58.780 to the rest of us it looked like he just spiked

01:18:01.020 it

01:18:01.400 while he was

01:18:03.540 shouting out the name of Odin

01:18:06.040 hail Odin

01:18:06.900 threw it down and when he did

01:18:09.040 you know Matt's a big guy and he was kind of like flexing and he uses his

01:18:16.900 whole body to convey the message Matt doesn't just talk with his mouth he does

01:18:21.520 very good with like body language and stuff like that and when it was over he

01:18:26.500 I remember he had instructed us you know he was kind of adjusting his tie as he

01:18:31.000 gotten horse said the bloated ended and he said you know go find some quiet space

01:18:38.080 and unwind because he had wound us all.

01:18:42.920 Bodie remembers this.

01:18:44.400 Yep.

01:18:44.860 And I remember walking away from that literally shaking.

01:18:48.440 You know, I was trembling.

01:18:49.560 Me too.

01:18:50.620 And, you know, my son was there in attendance,

01:18:54.180 and he was going through some serious personal challenges at the time.

01:18:58.520 And I remember he looked at me and tears just pouring from his eyes.

01:19:04.240 And we shared some words I'm not going to share here.

01:19:08.080 It was a very beautiful thing.

01:19:09.580 It was kind of the beginning of my son's healing.

01:19:11.360 It was also a beginning of the healing of our relationship.

01:19:15.300 And that was a really profound and beautiful experience.

01:19:18.840 But I also wanted to point out that at that same weekend, and it may have been that same evening,

01:19:24.500 we had story time with Bode Mayo around the park.

01:19:30.480 Bode's already grunting over there.

01:19:33.020 I tell this story internally all the time.

01:19:35.980 But he was telling the creation story.

01:19:38.080 and he wasn't like you know saying it verbatim from from gilfaginning or many of our poetry

01:19:47.200 he was telling it like grandpa telling his grandsons the story of the uh creation

01:19:53.580 and i remember thinking to myself i'm gonna be just like that guy one day i want to be

01:19:59.740 just like that guy you know bode had everybody in that in that circle and there was

01:20:07.020 40, 50 people in that circuit

01:20:09.260 just eating out the palm of his hand.

01:20:12.420 Everybody's hanging on every word.

01:20:14.100 And I just remember thinking, you know,

01:20:15.400 one, he was so eloquent with his speech

01:20:17.180 and all that stuff, but he has so much command

01:20:19.800 of the room.

01:20:21.380 All eyes were fixed on him.

01:20:22.980 And I was thinking, you know,

01:20:25.540 if that's what a Goethe looks like,

01:20:27.540 I won't do it.

01:20:30.300 Appreciate it, brother.

01:20:31.840 And with that, guys, I'm going to sign off.

01:20:34.000 I've got to get up early.

01:20:34.880 Again, congratulations on 100 episodes

01:20:38.600 and Hail Victory

01:20:40.600 Good night, Dana

01:20:43.240 You guys have heard mine a lot

01:20:49.220 I would be remiss not saying it again

01:20:53.420 Nick mentioned

01:20:58.300 Winter Nights

01:21:03.620 at uh at Sigurheim this last year literally in a graveyard and for me it was like quadruple special

01:21:14.200 because as I said they set up the circle to where I was

01:21:18.780 standing with my mom in the circle that's where she's very um

01:21:23.120 that was extremely profound for obvious reasons um

01:21:29.900 Um, but the most, um, man, there's been so many, I've been so blessed to be at some amazing, amazing rituals in my life.

01:21:46.160 Um, most, the most just visceral was one in, I want to say winter nights, 2016.

01:21:59.900 um in the poconos where uh gethia patricia hall at the time um did the de sear blur and

01:22:14.780 there's a point where you're supposed to call one of your

01:22:18.060 female ancestors to be there in the circle with you and i called on my grandma and 0.82

01:22:29.900 For anybody just watching this or listening, this seems ridiculous and put on, and it's

01:22:35.360 not. 0.70

01:22:36.420 It touched me so viscerally.

01:22:41.500 Yeah, go ask Mama.

01:22:43.140 Go ask Mama.

01:22:44.040 My Mama, I think it was in there.

01:22:46.520 Okay.

01:22:47.260 Well, you've got to go wait for her, okay?

01:22:49.420 All right.

01:22:50.460 Anyways, sorry, somebody wanted to go play Bubbles outside, so she had to ask Mom.

01:22:55.260 Anyways, what I'm saying was I can't even think of it without tearing up because it bypassed everything, any rationality, any thought of doubt or skepticism or is this real or am I really, it bypassed all that.

01:23:18.140 i asked my grandmother to be in the circle with me and um you know i i say that she i believe she

01:23:28.580 passed in 2003 but the last time i was physically with my grandmother was in 2016 i uh i gave her a

01:23:45.200 hug and i could feel i could feel what it felt like to give her a hug 13 years previous i could

01:23:55.120 smell the old lady hair product in her hair because you know she was up to my chest um

01:24:06.800 i say and i pass any polygraph polygraph in this world my grandma was in that circle with me 2016.

01:24:12.720 hey most visceral most powerful bloat i've ever been in and it was i can't do it justice if you

01:24:25.360 haven't experienced that in your life but that was my most special bloke that really was just

01:24:34.160 absolutely blew me away and does to this day um welcome so we got a double team here because

01:24:42.400 people talk for a long time man that requires no introduction we got witness who's joining us and

01:24:53.040 is this the first time if it's the first time it's a damn shame we got folk builder

01:24:58.960 ashley mcstocker joining us it is how you doing good great first time long time watcher first time

01:25:08.320 appearance well i i apologize i've been remiss not having you here earlier

01:25:15.120 so tell us and this is what i do to anybody on their first time on the program

01:25:20.240 tell folks who you are and how you found ausitru and beyond that how you found the australian

01:25:28.240 sure yeah so um it's actually one of my favorite stories um so my name is actually next talker i'm

01:25:34.560 a folk builder in minnesota in faldersoff district um i had originally found um aussitrew through my

01:25:44.320 my um late husband um is who introduced me to aussitrew um very uh solitude practicing um

01:25:54.240 aussiturer so we were a part of any organization or really anybody else um so all my information

01:26:00.160 was from him and he had passed away when i was um about six weeks pregnant with my youngest rowan

01:26:07.280 and i had my nine month old tear um and i was in a very small christian town in in minnesota and

01:26:16.320 really really concerned that i wasn't going to have the right information to teach my children

01:26:22.480 what i wanted to teach them because my my guru was um you know no longer here um so i started

01:26:30.160 trying to to do a lot of reading which i found very difficult at first um and so i was um listening

01:26:37.120 to them on audiobook first and then reading them to try to retain the information and

01:26:41.040 and getting some some um you know making some news there but um all of a sudden i had um heard

01:26:48.320 through the grapevine of friend of the friend that there is these um this uh this scary group

01:26:55.040 of people opening a church you know in the area somebody had heard uh the name odin in it and then

01:27:03.120 they had told me about it you know they were like there's like an odin church opening i was like

01:27:06.800 what you know and so i googled it and um sure enough there's a um kind of a negative article

01:27:15.200 that came out and um you know you kind of you read through the nonsense and i found um you know the

01:27:21.200 the name and um i think website that was associated with the article and then i

01:27:25.040 um mapped it and it was 42 minutes from my doorstep was baldersoff at the time so so here i am in this

01:27:32.800 in this very very christian great community but nobody that i could go to with any questions um

01:27:39.840 in 42 minutes from my doorstep uh you know these terrible people and i had bought in a church in

01:27:46.400 in murdoch and um um and by that night i was a i was a member i had reached out and i talked

01:27:52.800 to jason gallagher right away um and we had a great long conversation and i was a member

01:27:57.280 um that night and it was truly curious speaking of yeah and it was uh it was just a truly

01:28:04.640 fundamental moment um you know there's so many people that um that travel so far and long to be

01:28:10.960 at a half you know when i was in such a time of need um to for for people and folk and information

01:28:17.560 and everything and it was right there you know and even though there was this this bad press

01:28:23.220 because people fear that that they don't know you know um you know i was able to to get connected

01:28:28.840 with my my people and the rest is history so well awesome welcome um we've got a nut because again

01:28:38.700 I think I should have planned for half-hour windows instead of 15, but this is fun, and we'll stack.

01:28:45.060 Everybody here is welcome.

01:28:46.140 We can have 10 people on at a time, and we will stay on as long as we got questions.

01:28:51.680 I promise you that.

01:28:52.740 I will be here annoying my wife, keeping her up by howling on here until 5 in the morning, if that's what I got to do.

01:29:00.380 And there's a whole lot stacking up, too. 0.82

01:29:03.040 Don't you dare hold me to that by asking ridiculous things on the tail end,

01:29:07.160 but i'm happy to ask answer all the questions it's a celebration so speaking of celebrating

01:29:13.160 and a man in a giant chair uh jason how you doing it's been too long having you on the program but

01:29:19.720 too long since i've seen you welcome yes it's been a little while how are you doing doing pretty good

01:29:28.520 looking forward to free fax coming up yeah the ninth one it's gonna be awesome it's gonna be

01:29:35.000 the first time that uh aubrey and mandy are going to get to see the hof yeah it's been quite a few

01:29:40.680 years since um mandy's been up here it was right before the pandemic so it's been a while that's

01:29:47.720 she went and had a baby that's the thing traveling with uh traveling with aubrey is

01:29:55.000 i think more more stressful in our head than it is in reality but uh yeah that's kind of got her

01:30:01.960 pinned down so i'm excited she hasn't she hasn't seen that one yet um let's get back to some of

01:30:07.080 our questions here i think nick's kind of giving me the subtle cue that i need to

01:30:12.200 get on that so a previous uh daniel asks of the previous 99 episode which are your favorites um

01:30:25.560 i don't know because they all run together so much of this is me talking to my very best friends

01:30:31.960 about stuff um i like a lot of them it's fresh in my mind so i really like the uh lore episodes

01:30:43.640 that i get to do with spawn because it's it's stuff that i think each he and i have each read

01:30:52.520 I don't know many times by ourselves but reading it and comparing it between peers on it is really

01:31:04.680 it's really neat it's really adding to my understanding it's really helping me I hope

01:31:11.220 it's helpful to you guys but it's you know it's causing me to go down different rabbit holes and

01:31:17.160 look at things in a little different way and it's really been a neat experience so I think

01:31:22.220 that's probably, but again,

01:31:24.180 that's fresh in my mind. We've had really good

01:31:26.240 episodes over the years.

01:31:30.400 As somebody that's on here lots,

01:31:32.540 Svon, is there an episode that stands

01:31:34.320 out that's your favorite?

01:31:38.220 It's kind of caught up between

01:31:40.300 Witten Daniel Young

01:31:44.380 and Go Get Trent East.

01:31:45.900 I think the Trent East episode

01:31:48.160 was pretty fun.

01:31:50.480 Just watching you guys kind of

01:31:52.180 cut it out a little bit

01:31:56.400 and have fun. That was

01:31:57.960 fun. I stayed up the whole time, watched the whole

01:32:00.520 thing. It was awesome.

01:32:04.880 All right.

01:32:06.720 So knocking off the

01:32:07.760 simple questions,

01:32:11.740 go to Trent East.

01:32:13.120 I'll tell you, Gophie,

01:32:14.420 what are the colorful drinks you have

01:32:16.540 there? So Trent

01:32:18.080 is not

01:32:19.240 a beer fellow so he might like these they are again i am not sponsored by the fine folks with

01:32:29.320 copper can or the fine people at costco but costco is selling a variety pack of

01:32:37.320 different flavored mules in the copper can don't believe the hype the can is not copper

01:32:44.920 they're lying to you but the beverage is delicious beverage is delicious and the beverage is coming

01:32:52.120 in at 10 alcohol by volume so uh a lot of bang for your buck with the uh the mules in the

01:33:04.040 copper can and they're delicious i recommend the pink one and the blue one that's like a

01:33:10.520 what is this a passion fruit mule and a blackberry mule uh also side note mules and mojitos

01:33:21.000 are amazing cocktails if you have not tried them i encourage you to do so

01:33:26.920 ah tell the people about your al sherry gothic dinner cocktails

01:33:31.000 um there's a wide variety so you know i'll throw in a plug uh on the 29th let me look at the handy

01:33:42.200 dandy calendar here yes on the 29th of june if you find yourself anywhere near reno nevada please

01:33:49.160 join me at my home for a monthly ulterior gothic dinner there will be a return of tropical schnitzel

01:33:56.680 which is delicious, and it will be accompanied at the very least by some pina coladas because

01:34:03.080 they're amazing, and we'll see where we go from there, but it will be a tropical-themed

01:34:07.980 dinner. I feel bad. So we're so backed up. Can't ask that question because Daniel Young

01:34:27.220 is not here to answer it. I'm sorry. Oh, so Lane, people love the Stolflex in the

01:34:37.960 background i noticed that too i approve well done sir we're gonna go around the room because it's

01:34:48.280 ridiculous and we'll do it this will be a lot less funny come two in the morning

01:34:52.760 but it's good right now uh what's your favorite breakfast cereal nick go 0.97

01:35:00.120 bran flakes

01:35:03.320 that's not fun get out of here um i did it with a straight face though

01:35:07.960 yeah that's even worse that if you're being ironic i can take it the fact that's the actual

01:35:12.920 answer makes me really sad for you um lane what is your favorite breakfast cereal

01:35:21.480 you're muted we can't hear you i am muted i had to get my turn in of being muted uh

01:35:27.640 growing up my favorite was quisp

01:35:29.320 tell us more about quisp it is a it tastes just like captain crunch except it had a an alien with

01:35:40.180 a propeller on his head as the mascot there you have it folks uh bode what what was favorite

01:35:47.340 favorite breakfast cereal uh mine is not crisp with a lisp it is uh the original captain crunch

01:35:54.440 because it hurts your face it cuts up the top of your mouth but it's like

01:36:03.000 fruit loops used to just rip up the top of my mouth yep uh favorite currently i like the crave

01:36:11.160 um thing about myself uh there's a couple different kinds of the crave i like the chocolate

01:36:15.960 on chocolate uh go big or go home um and a serving size is whatever the box of cereal in 0.99

01:36:23.080 front of you is so be that except for those little stupid ones those little individual service what 1.00

01:36:30.360 no it's the package of those you just mix it all together in a big bowl it's all good um other than 0.99

01:36:36.760 that if there's a costco size if there's two bags in it one bag at a time is reasonable we don't

01:36:42.920 need to go crazy but uh but yeah so that's what i got to say the chocolate on chocolate crave

01:36:49.480 swan what you got oh i i don't really eat cereal anymore but you know when i was a kid lucky charms

01:36:58.120 that was the that's the uh the holy grail it's the magically delicious yep you eat all the crappy

01:37:04.600 stuff and save the marshmallows for last and then you just lift up into an ecstatic sugar coma by

01:37:11.880 the you know by like eight o'clock in the morning i didn't have the patience i didn't i never thought

01:37:18.040 of doing it that way that does seem like the superior way oh yes it's the patience and the

01:37:23.400 wisdom to just wait and get all the cardboard out of the way um but no i mean now i own i own

01:37:31.480 chickens and i have raw milk so eggs and milk is like quino breakfast right there that's not fun

01:37:38.680 it's awesome though i feel very very good after i i you know that's fair enough i feel disgusting

01:37:46.920 after i eat yeah 45 servings of crave but i enjoy doing it

01:37:54.600 i'll trade in the feeling because yeah now i would be the boss that's the thing

01:38:01.000 ashley what you got um fruity pebbles kick lately that's that's different but they seem different

01:38:07.400 now they're like i don't know they seem different still good but not great but that's what i go with

01:38:13.160 no i salute you i didn't even think about that pretty pebbles are amazing i just got some at

01:38:18.360 costco and there's the two bags and i was like yeah i have loved those lately so put one in the

01:38:23.060 mail you know my address so they're awesome if they're crispy they're also awesome this is

01:38:29.220 controversial but i stand by it if they're super soggy i don't care they're awesome all the way

01:38:33.540 through oh yeah anyways terrific question who are they named i mean the easy answer i feel like

01:38:43.780 something flintstones related but yep yeah that was fred and woman's daughter was pebble i know

01:38:49.140 she's probably first of all not even considering the paleolithic time that she lived in but assuming 0.90

01:38:55.620 from whenever she's a like great grandma now at this point

01:38:59.140 if you're taking her to win the when the show's made so she's an old lady um but jason as a man

01:39:06.740 who i've gone to your house and devoured a box of your cereal what is your favorite cereal it was

01:39:12.580 gonna be what ashley said because of um what you did you you nailed a whole box at like midnight

01:39:18.980 picking you up trent and madison were in bed i went and picked you up i still got a box in the

01:39:25.220 in the closet waiting for you actually oh okay i've got your name on it it yells at me where's 0.60

01:39:30.900 that where's that eat me eat me oh we dropped the time on you there i will i will demolish

01:39:37.220 that that challenge and i appreciate you keeping me a box of cereal there thank you sir all right

01:39:43.300 what else we got here um ryan orion glad to see you're on the show uh question i've been collecting

01:39:52.660 some folding knives and pocket knives including vintage german ones however i haven't gotten any

01:39:58.820 pricey ones any suggestions 100's episode is awesome congrats thank you very much for that

01:40:06.340 i'm not that guy but you know what we've got

01:40:10.820 seven people on tonight so somebody raise your hand if you know about fancy knives

01:40:17.380 come on answer this man's question i was gonna say definitely go for uh i guess the my holy grail

01:40:27.700 the one i would love to to attain to to bring about would be uh the colorado knife company's

01:40:34.660 folding karambit i carry an an imitation version if you will but um if you could get that one that

01:40:43.700 one's a it's it's pricey but it's worth it so that's super awesome that we can ask the question

01:40:49.540 and swan just starts like flashing blades at us i got it in my pocket right now well done i salute you

01:41:02.020 so i wouldn't know in regards to those knives they did work really well

01:41:06.820 at sigurheim when we were cutting bags of quick creek with statues in i had it i was just slicing

01:41:14.580 them and dumping them in it was pretty good and it's it's all in compliance it's you know like

01:41:21.220 if you're if you're in a state that has a a a requirement as far as uh you know what kind of

01:41:27.940 kind of blades you can carry generally the folding the karambit ones they have like

01:41:32.820 you know a completely benign blade length but they're extremely dangerous that

01:41:38.820 you know if you really needed it and they're great at opening up boxes and utility

01:41:47.780 all right so i thought i was going to be fancy here and just run into our database

01:41:52.420 and figure this out um but i'm not quite as a quick draw as uh nick is our next question

01:42:00.820 up is about what percentage of members are paying hoff told

01:42:08.580 last i checked and this is so put an asterisk by this this is a guess because it's been a bit

01:42:18.020 i'm going to say close to 20 percent are paying by hoff toller those of you who may not know um

01:42:26.980 um for a long time the way this started out was in like a monthly or yearly membership

01:42:38.500 donation um hoftoller one of you guys might remember but time starts running together for

01:42:47.620 me i want to say about four years ago we instituted hoftoller and that's a percentage-based way of

01:42:55.540 beginning um and it's one percent or greater of overall income is what Hofftower is and we have

01:43:06.340 about 20 of our members choosing to donate that way and it's much appreciated that really

01:43:12.940 accelerated our ability to get Hoffs and to do some of the really special things we've been able

01:43:19.540 do um so i'm gonna say that nick you are on okay so next cool we're gonna go with my number because

01:43:28.020 nick does not have a better one right now i'm gonna look into it because i'm kind of like that

01:43:33.140 so maybe next week i'll have a better number for you i'm trying to be as honest as i can i'm going

01:43:38.420 to say about 20 i think that was last time i looked um while i'm hemming and hawing about

01:43:45.460 hoff toller numbers um ashley's uh fiancee gothi nathan arlandson has joined us nathan how you

01:43:57.860 doing i'm doing well guys thank you how's your how's your bicycle training going uh hit and miss

01:44:07.540 um we've moved so it's kind of put uh a lot of the extracurricular time on a back burner until

01:44:17.220 we get everything situated in the new house and whatnot um have a race coming up in a week and a

01:44:25.060 half uh over in wisconsin gonna head over to tell people about your uh long distance cycling endeavors

01:44:33.540 if you would absolutely uh so up on the north shore of lake superior

01:44:40.260 here in minnesota there's a yearly 100 mile mountain bike race um i had gotten into mountain

01:44:47.460 biking uh just a few years ago um as as basically a physical outlet for um just you know daily

01:44:57.780 stress, whatnot. And I got hooked right away. I was working at a place that my manager was really

01:45:09.080 big into it. And, you know, looking back, it was probably a joke that he suggested this 100 mile

01:45:17.000 bike race up on Lake Superior, being that I've never done anything like that. Well, I didn't

01:45:25.420 take it as a joke. I took it as a challenge. And so what I did is, you know, I got my mountain bike.

01:45:33.480 I picked up a road bike for some of the training of it just to get those miles under your belt.

01:45:40.520 Road biking is terrible, by the way. But it allows you an opportunity to actually get that kind of

01:45:47.200 distance when you're training for something like that. And, you know, first year, most people take

01:45:54.420 on maybe the 40 mile race or the 60 mile race at best. I would assume that he thought I would

01:46:02.780 have fallen out. And of course, I don't know how that works or what that means or what that looks

01:46:10.060 like to quit or give up. And so sure enough, I may have not been anywhere near the front of the

01:46:16.900 finishers for the race, but I wasn't the last by any means and finished the 100 mile mountain bike

01:46:22.860 race in about eight hours my first go at it so so side note you cannot tell um while he is clad 1.00

01:46:33.100 in a shirt but i'm going to put the asterisks up front no homo nate's probably the fittest

01:46:39.020 member of the astro folks simply right now i'll say that confidently um and also he is the reigning 0.93

01:46:46.540 high lord of one-arm push-ups

01:46:51.760 also trivia note gofi trennies cannot do one-arm push-ups

01:46:58.720 so uh putting that out in the ether maybe that's something you want to work on i don't know

01:47:05.200 but uh this man can destroy everybody in one-arm push-ups i thought i was all right i did a few

01:47:13.420 But, no, he can absolutely destroy me at the one-arm push-ups.

01:47:20.560 Told you it was going to be a little bit of a celebratory episode, 0.55

01:47:24.880 so we're going to get a little silly.

01:47:26.120 That's okay. 0.80

01:47:26.800 It's what we do.

01:47:28.100 While we're here, real quick, 1.00

01:47:29.360 we do have an answer to that hop collar percentage, 0.97

01:47:31.700 and Ash actually beat me to it. 0.97

01:47:35.720 I know.

01:47:39.060 26.74.

01:47:41.580 Yes.

01:47:41.940 there's a rookie numbers we got to pump those numbers up no but it's better than what i guess

01:47:46.660 i was happy if i was going to be right i was worried that i was overestimating at 20 26

01:47:52.980 ashley you are amazing thank you for figuring that out and everybody out there who is donating

01:47:57.860 by hoftoller thank you so much we appreciate you guys um and if you are listening to this

01:48:06.740 and you would like to pay by hoftoller to donate to what we're doing

01:48:12.420 we would love it we would appreciate it what's more i believe the icr would appreciate it so

01:48:17.700 if you want to do that get with your fault builder they can get you set up and if i can't just psa

01:48:23.060 it for a second there boss it is not that big of a deal it really isn't like you know none of us are

01:48:32.020 no those are multi-millionaires one percent of your income is not going to kill you

01:48:38.340 one percent if you were a multi-millionaire one percent still one percent right that's the thing

01:48:45.540 it uh what's cool and i'll okay because bode kind of opened the door what's cool about it

01:48:51.220 is that we rise and fall together if you're having hard times and you know one percent zero zero

01:48:57.540 if you're if you're broke if things aren't working one percent keeps that very reasonable

01:49:05.180 in your hard times but if you're out there killing it and you're day trading or you get

01:49:11.340 a movie role or whatever you do one percent can be huge for the rest of us too so we rise and fall

01:49:21.840 together if we're all doing that and that's that's really the best way to go and we didn't just make

01:49:28.000 up that name that's the thing that our ancestors did i was reading um elder gods by stephen

01:49:33.440 polington recently and our official of york wolfstan lamented and he like you know angrily

01:49:44.160 preached this at his congregation, he talked about how Alcetur of the time would lavish

01:49:53.160 support and funds upon their gods and their temples and their priesthood. And in contrast,

01:50:01.500 the Christians were being cheap and they wouldn't pay their tithes. And he was, you know, he was 0.98

01:50:07.440 like, how are we going to get shown up by these heathens that are, you know, taking care of their

01:50:13.000 temples and their gods. And we're out here being cheap. And it was a shame to the Christians

01:50:18.280 because at that time, they were killing it. They were out there fully as a point of honor

01:50:26.520 giving to their gods, which is really kind of a cool thing to find. Now, also another slam at

01:50:33.080 Goethe East. I don't know why I'm bullying Trent tonight. I apologize. I love Trent.

01:50:37.920 Because he's not here right now.

01:50:39.880 He's talking on. 0.74

01:50:41.380 I'm going to bully Trent to his face.

01:50:43.340 No, no, I mean, he's got to get on to defend himself.

01:50:45.460 I wish he would be on here.

01:50:47.360 Anyways, that said, he tried to talk about Anglo-Saxon superiority,

01:50:53.880 but no, Wolfstand was later than that.

01:50:55.840 This was Norsemen that had taken York. 0.80

01:50:59.720 This was a different round of folks. 1.00

01:51:03.280 Anyways, I digress.

01:51:04.980 Also, in my long-windedness, we have taken on,

01:51:07.840 another guest on this program. Allie, how you doing? I'm doing good. Thank you. I'm excited

01:51:13.760 to be here. I mean, this was a show that brought us home, so it's nice to be back. Have I had you

01:51:18.740 on before? Yes, I was on last year to talk about Alexander Redmills. All right. I knew you were.

01:51:23.820 There we go. Cool. You said your dad's in the audience tonight? Yes, he is.

01:51:32.020 Well, awesome. I'm really glad to get a chance to meet him. I'm glad he's on. Hi, Allie's dad.

01:51:36.560 He will be at Freyfaxi this year. If anyone's coming to Freyfaxi, you get to meet my dad.

01:51:41.040 You get to understand why I am the way I am. We have a lot of fun.

01:51:44.440 It's funny. You guys really, I definitely see the resemblance and his sense of humor is awesome.

01:51:50.620 And it was really cool to get to meet him.

01:51:54.420 Joe Drotos asked, folk builder Joe Drotos, if you guys don't know, he's one of our folk builders in Ohio.

01:52:02.080 As we've grown, we've developed loftier goals.

01:52:05.760 where do you see us in a decade and you know what this i'm gonna send this around lane decade where

01:52:13.200 do you see us you're muted again hopefully hopefully with anti-mute technology we'll

01:52:27.340 have automatic unmuting in 10 years right

01:52:29.700 10 years, I was just seeing there was a graph online I saw showing the decreasing church

01:52:41.300 attendance. And I think it was specific to the United States. I'm not sure about that. But

01:52:46.760 in 10 years, I see them having to report on the increasing church attendance for Ossetru.

01:52:54.220 the numbers the numbers are going to force them to recognize us

01:53:05.020 all right bode what do you see more halls more people

01:53:11.420 i think we'll have a i think we'll have a good uh we'll have a good head of steam built up at

01:53:16.540 sigerheim i think we'll have phrase off by then i think we'll have tears off um at least started

01:53:24.220 I don't know. Maybe Nick or somebody

01:53:27.940 smarter than me with math can tell me

01:53:29.760 how many episodes of Victory Never Sleeps that will be

01:53:31.960 in 10 years.

01:53:34.880 Probably a lot.

01:53:38.820 I'll be super

01:53:39.900 old. 10 years from now

01:53:41.940 is another 520.

01:53:44.640 Look at there.

01:53:45.860 So 620?

01:53:47.980 620.

01:53:51.060 So

01:53:51.540 So, I feel it is appropriate.

01:53:56.500 I'm going to do it anyway. 1.00

01:53:57.900 I used to work with, I think they call it mentally challenged is the right word today, folks. 0.99

01:54:08.500 I was a wrangler of said folks. 1.00

01:54:11.440 and

01:54:12.060 this one guy

01:54:16.420 everybody thought he had this special power

01:54:19.460 of being able to tell you when your birth

01:54:20.960 like what day of the week your birthday would be on

01:54:23.200 in X number of years or whatever

01:54:24.920 and everybody would

01:54:27.100 ooh and aah and he would like

01:54:28.480 you know, do a fawn over him and he'd get

01:54:31.180 goodies and whatever else

01:54:32.560 and he was doing this a lot

01:54:34.960 but I had a lot of time on my hands one day

01:54:36.860 I ran the numbers

01:54:39.380 he was just making stuff up

01:54:41.420 He was just making stuff up.

01:54:44.380 But I say that, no, that's a smart con.

01:54:47.100 Good on him that he was able to run that game for as long as he did.

01:54:51.340 But, yeah, he's just making stuff up.

01:54:54.620 So, Con, 10 years from now, where do you see us?

01:54:58.940 Look.

01:54:59.660 Look what you did.

01:55:00.680 Look.

01:55:02.540 I have summoned him.

01:55:06.680 With the back of the arc.

01:55:09.120 He said his name three times.

01:55:10.280 All right.

01:55:11.420 Yeah, it's on. First, we're going to ask Vaughn where he sees us in the next decade.

01:55:15.860 I don't know. A lot of people may or may not know this. I live in the Norfolk, Virginia Beach area.

01:55:20.900 And there's a kind of a about it in the sense that this is the home of the 700 Club.

01:55:29.520 It's a prominent, you know, Protestant denominational Christian church.

01:55:35.480 But the one thing that I can honestly say is like looking at the way that they've organized themselves

01:55:40.900 and what they've attained one of the biggest things is is like they they built a college

01:55:44.960 they have a regent university um they did insurance like they have insurance companies

01:55:50.040 for their members to be insured and being taken to be taken care of they've got um uh like i think

01:55:58.660 a phone um uh like a subscription thing where they get their members to like they have their

01:56:06.380 own phone network basically instead of Verizon they have I don't know like Jesus chat or whatever

01:56:11.580 it is but um they that is like lofty goals that is what I think we should be looking at we should

01:56:18.580 be looking at also true as as um a faith that's going to bring back more people like everybody

01:56:23.900 said more temples uh hopefully groves to the oust veneer in the in the 10-year time and

01:56:29.700 you know big goals like all of our kids that are in the AFA academy now they're going you know

01:56:35.900 up and higher and into higher education and having a place where they're not going to have to feel

01:56:41.220 like they have to tiptoe on eggshells around like communist professors and stuff like that

01:56:45.280 we can actually instill some of our moral um you know inclinations and strong faith in our

01:56:51.140 in our gods through the education system so i would really love to see some of that stuff

01:56:56.240 like at least even maybe just the groundwork of it maybe even an online college or or what have

01:57:01.740 that'd be a really cool um thing to go but you know just yeah horizontal big ideas like that i

01:57:09.100 think it'd be really really good well to see that as a side note we've kind of got the proto steps

01:57:14.220 towards a little bit of that with our full services um program to help take care of some members that

01:57:19.820 are struggling having a hard time we've also got the house true academy where we just graduating

01:57:28.700 or i say graduating is not the right word um we're finishing the second year of those studies

01:57:34.540 we've currently right now finished up or are finishing up k through third and so i'm not sure

01:57:43.500 where we'll be sitting this time next year but i believe we'll be adding fourth at a minimum so

01:57:48.380 we'll see what that looks like but we're trying to make some progress towards that ashley where

01:57:53.580 where do you see it for 10 years?

01:57:57.160 Well, touching on the Ossetree Academy,

01:58:00.900 I'm just thinking 10 years from now,

01:58:02.980 we'll have this whole group of,

01:58:07.120 this whole generation of children

01:58:08.580 that have known nothing other than Ossetree.

01:58:12.060 You know, a lot of us, especially in my family and whatnot,

01:58:17.260 had de-Christianized before

01:58:20.340 and taken on this new information. 0.77

01:58:21.640 And there's this whole generation of kids

01:58:23.560 that this is what they've been brought up in.

01:58:25.860 This is what they know more than anything else.

01:58:29.160 And the amount of just knowledge

01:58:32.420 and everything that they're gonna have just instilled

01:58:36.180 in them is gonna be, I mean, just unbelievable.

01:58:38.980 So it's gonna be really cool to see a whole high school

01:58:42.080 full of these kids that are just so knowledgeable.

01:58:44.240 So that's it.

01:58:47.980 Excellent.

01:58:49.320 Jason, where do you see us 10 years from now?

01:58:52.720 Multiple generations of AFA members, you know, right now where we have three, four generations, or I'm not sure, but it would be great to see several and more and more descendants of them.

01:59:05.300 And, of course, more hops, more properties, more places for our folk, for people to go to.

01:59:15.520 Nathan, what do you see next decade for us?

01:59:18.380 I'm kind of going off of Jason and Ashley both. I think it would is absolutely feasible

01:59:26.540 to start seeing some of the younger members that had families here for some time now and

01:59:37.100 start to build their own families in that time. So brought up in the AFA and then creating families

01:59:46.700 of their own in the afa

01:59:52.940 allison what you got well i think and you know 2024 uh the women are starting 0.86

01:59:59.420 to come into our own with a lot of our own practices a lot of 0.91

02:00:02.380 our own um style of worshiping especially the

02:00:07.420 goddesses and i think that in the next 10 years we're going to see that

02:00:10.780 really develop and i just think that's going to be a beautiful thing especially

02:00:13.740 for the girls that are coming up to have a basis where they belong always

02:00:23.180 so trent stepped into the arena i think he think i think he heard the the tone of remarks

02:00:30.300 and needed to make his presence felt where do you see us the next 10 years trent

02:00:36.540 um bare minimum the austro academy will be k through 12 i'm sure

02:00:43.740 oh hops in many more places than we have now hopefully one or two outside of the u.s

02:00:51.740 uh membership in the tens of thousands i would hope

02:00:58.300 uh so many so many um more like niche things in our doctrine and stuff kind of figured out like uh

02:01:08.220 The Trula Mall is, you know, a great start, obviously,

02:01:12.240 but I think we'll have so much more fleshed out by then.

02:01:16.120 It's hard to say for certain where we'll be.

02:01:18.440 I know it's just more and more victory on the horizon, 10 years of it.

02:01:25.880 Nick, 10 years, what do we got? 1.00

02:01:29.620 Well, 10 years from now, I think the Sigerheim is the biggest thing

02:01:35.100 I'm focusing on right now, being out here, living here. 0.99

02:01:38.220 And I think we're going to be well on our way to the visions that we've set out for it

02:01:45.820 and probably all of the changes to those visions that we come through in the next 10 years.

02:01:54.360 Off on a Hill and a lot of other great stuff.

02:02:00.920 I think that's a pretty good answer.

02:02:02.680 I am going to bow off of here because we have a very special guest coming up.

02:02:06.680 and uh unfortunately are we're full so somebody's got to go problem to have well yes sir to that

02:02:16.440 point i've got early calls with people halfway around the world in the morning so i will be

02:02:20.360 dropping off too all right lane it's been great to have you congratulations it's awesome all right so

02:02:26.760 um thrown out there 10 years i'm gonna try to keep it succinct but some very realistic

02:02:32.200 benchmarks I think are going to happen. So what Trent said, yeah, K-12, absolutely with the

02:02:39.320 House True Academy. I think we'll get there much, much sooner than 10 years. 10 years,

02:02:45.900 I would imagine we would have Frazehoff, we would have Tiershoff, which is going to be at

02:02:51.380 Sigerheim, and Braggieshoff as well by then. And we've got some idea of what we're going to do

02:03:01.120 that but it all depends and that's going to depend on what the landscape looks like probably

02:03:06.880 six years from now or so is when we're going to be looking at that um 10 years from now we're going to

02:03:12.960 have a bunch of people should have a minimum of four families living at siggerheim i think we'll

02:03:28.240 also have at least a start on the great hall at sigerheim by then in addition to tiershoff like

02:03:36.000 i said it's going to be there in the road that's going to get us up to tears off um

02:03:45.840 i think that's a for sure kind of thing in the next 10 years or a very likely thing

02:03:51.520 um i think tens of thousands of members is awesome i really hope we get there in 10 years

02:03:56.240 think realistically 10 years from now we could very well have two or maybe even 3 000 members

02:04:02.160 which would be really cool um yeah i'm looking forward i think we got a lot of great things

02:04:10.480 also amongst those families i uh mandy myself and aubrey will be out there in 10 years easily i'm

02:04:16.640 really hoping we'll be out there a year from now i know that's a little bit wish for thinking i

02:04:21.760 I think two years from now, we'll be there for certain.

02:04:24.300 I hope a year from now, we'll be there.

02:04:28.700 We've got a lot of good stuff.

02:04:29.980 I know we're going slow on the questions, so everybody wants to stick around.

02:04:33.140 We will get to you guys, and you'll get more screen time.

02:04:35.560 I appreciate y'all being here.

02:04:37.240 And I want to welcome, and just a random side note, Sheila, you are amazing.

02:04:46.480 Githya Sheila McAllen is joining us.

02:04:49.200 you are welcome to butt in on any of these calls whenever you want at random if you show up nick

02:04:55.400 will put you on doesn't matter when you show up you can pop in and you are certainly welcome to

02:05:01.540 and it goes without saying but i have not said it as an invitation i probably should

02:05:06.920 um your husband our founder is also welcome to pop in whenever he wants and he immediately has

02:05:12.640 the floor that in my mind it is a given perhaps that's not the case in his because he is more

02:05:19.920 polite than that but please you know do let him know that's the thing we'd love to have you on

02:05:24.320 how are you doing sheila i'm doing great tonight i've enjoyed this immensely um you talk asked me

02:05:33.840 about 10 years from now i'm going to be sitting in my rocker at siegerheim i've no doubt it's

02:05:38.800 going to be at least two decades of that so that's kind of where i'm seeing myself

02:05:44.960 but i i have to look at the uh the rate of growth in in growth and i mean um

02:05:53.600 proficiency um preciseness all those things that you have built in as kind of the corporate model

02:06:01.360 that we could never do you know steve and i did really well that kindred the individual

02:06:07.360 members and all that but it was really hard to ever make that leap into something bigger and

02:06:14.560 you immediately started that and you had the witten and then you got the cadre of folk builders and

02:06:22.480 gave people responsibilities and as we all know everybody is a folk builder now um there is no

02:06:28.400 rest it is ongoing but it's it's wonderful it's exciting it is um dynamic and

02:06:37.360 And because of that, there's a lot of work, but it shows. It shows in our progress. And sometimes, you know, the numbers aren't really showing, but we're kind of preparing ourselves for big growth. We've got things in place. You know, we've got the structure in place. The model is there.

02:06:55.340 and it can be expanded sideways to have more folk builders so at some point we've got these

02:07:00.740 various tiers of people who are there to step in as all of a sudden there's a breakthrough you know

02:07:08.220 Tucker really wants to talk to Matt and when he does we end up with a thousand members overnight

02:07:13.700 how do we do that Matt is the guy who could get us through that and there's no doubt that's why

02:07:20.240 I think we're all here. We support Matt entirely, and as Steve and I do. Besides being friend and family, you know, I truly admire his methodology of leadership and loyalty he has in all of us and his decisiveness.

02:07:39.520 um matt and i almost share a birthday his birthday is one day after mine and i'm always kind of

02:07:46.240 amazed at how sharp how clear he is in his in his viewpoints you know you ask a question

02:07:53.840 matt has it it's it's never a gray area i tend to be one of those really wishy-washy great people

02:08:00.480 and so i really admire that when i'm around people and i have even leaders in this district

02:08:06.320 odenshof district where i am where i truly admire the clarity of thought that they have that they

02:08:10.960 give me so that's kind of where i'm starting today guys a little a little verbose but i'm

02:08:16.240 happy to be here be as verbose as you want i am that's why we're stacking all these people um

02:08:24.560 so for those that don't know um first thank you sheila all those things

02:08:32.320 if a rando person said that to me it means a lot coming from you it it means the world um

02:08:44.560 i am able to be confident and to stand

02:08:53.040 firm for this because of the rock solid foundation that you and steve built over so many years

02:09:03.200 sheila is the prototype for folk building and still is today even as a githya i've never met

02:09:10.000 somebody that had a like one of the things that always impressed me in the way back is sheila

02:09:17.680 at random if you asked her about any member of the afa she could tell you like what sports their

02:09:26.960 kids were involved in and it was it was mind-blowing and it still is um

02:09:36.640 literally the beating heart of the afa sheila mcnellan it always has been

02:09:40.960 um that's why we can't stand tall today as we've got those foundations

02:09:47.760 um but yeah we're glad that you're joining us we've got a question and i asked trent in um

02:09:57.840 I'm a little bit emotional this evening.

02:10:00.040 I'm sure that the copper can has assisted me.

02:10:02.840 It's not copper.

02:10:03.700 Don't believe the hype.

02:10:06.980 But so we got a question by A. Rachel.

02:10:09.420 I asked Trent.

02:10:10.040 He didn't look at his phone.

02:10:11.660 I don't know if this is tall Rachel or not.

02:10:13.820 Is this tall Rachel?

02:10:16.100 Yes, it's tall Rachel.

02:10:17.940 All right, so Bodie's got me.

02:10:19.260 Trent just sits there, stares at the screen.

02:10:21.300 That's okay.

02:10:22.380 I still love you, Trent.

02:10:24.240 So tall Rachel says, 0.68

02:10:25.840 question, is there a good time to be an apprentice folk builder? Yet again, not saying I'm doing it

02:10:32.580 now, but a large possibility of stepping up in the future. Yes, there is a good time. That time

02:10:38.180 is right this instant. That time is by the time I am off this program, you stepping up and wanting

02:10:43.900 to be a folk builder. That said, we will gladly take your help anytime you decide something you

02:10:49.600 to do but we so often put off things we want to do until some kind of idealized perfect time in

02:10:59.600 the future if the question were is there a perfect time to be a full builder no

02:11:05.600 and that will never come if you wait on it but the perfect time for you to become a full builder is

02:11:12.720 right this second and anytime we get you that'd be great but if you wait until your life is perfect

02:11:21.280 for it that'll never come oh i love you too baby good night you want to say hi to people

02:11:31.840 oh she's trying to escape all right good night baby i love you all right anyways

02:11:42.720 so yeah no perfect time to be a folk builder is right now that's always the answer to the

02:11:50.320 question it's absolutely no pressure but we would love to have you anytime that you want to but

02:11:56.320 okay so i'm gonna i'm gonna wax deep here for a second because it's kind of something that went

02:12:09.500 on for me this week i found out that a mentor of mine just passed away i just found out i guess

02:12:17.820 he passed away on the 17th um guy that really taught me a lot about myself and a lot about a

02:12:25.500 lot of things i've told bouncer stories on here a lot but the guy that taught me everything i knew

02:12:31.580 about that was a guy named Barry Ingalls Jr. And, yeah, he passed away in his early 50s,

02:12:44.740 mid-50s, I guess. Wasn't long, and I have no idea the circumstance of his passing. I haven't

02:12:50.700 talked to him in years, but he taught me so much. He wore a hammer. He wasn't Alistair,

02:12:56.600 true but he was um believe Norwegian in descent and he really identified with the warrior ethos

02:13:06.960 but I think his family was very uh very Christian um but he wore a hammer and he had it kind of

02:13:13.240 under his shirt and under his stuff and I went to my uh interview with the best job I ever had

02:13:17.800 job that taught me so much about myself and what would happen would was we would go to these

02:13:25.540 we'd go to the job interview it'd be sunday morning and at that time there'd be a we'd be

02:13:33.660 fighting probably five or six times every friday and every saturday so these guys were coming in

02:13:41.300 sunday morning after a rough saturday night of just fighting and brawling and whatever else they

02:13:48.540 were doing to do these interviews so they're all sitting there and they're grumpy and they're

02:13:52.800 staring you down and they sit you in this stool where they kind of circle around you and like

02:13:57.500 just mean mug you and look angry the whole time. Well, I guess I had

02:14:02.340 no, the YouTube rules, but I had resting disgruntled face, I suppose. And they were not

02:14:20.700 going to hire me because they thought I was trying to like flex on them I don't know they were just a

02:14:24.620 bunch of angry dudes looking at me so I was you know I was down for mine I guess anyways they

02:14:30.360 were not gonna gonna hire me but Barry noticed that I had my hammer and he pulled his out of

02:14:35.540 his shirt and on that alone they hired me and that was the most best job of my life taught me

02:14:42.340 so much and uh he was that guy he was like a 0.95

02:14:50.180 it was crazy he was this makes him sound like he's retarded and i don't mean that but he was 0.93

02:14:54.420 like a bouncing savant to where everything else in his life whatever at bouncing he was the perfect 0.93

02:15:01.700 like apex predator at it he he had a boxing background he was like six seven and he had

02:15:09.540 these long monkey arms and he was like a one punch knockout artist and he would let into us every

02:15:16.260 night about all the ways we should have done stuff better we didn't want to deal with it we'd been

02:15:22.100 fighting all night dealing with whatever but he'd lecture us and we couldn't say anything because he

02:15:26.820 always won and he was always on top so all right but his whole thing was i don't care what the

02:15:32.740 other guy did i care what you did wrong because that's what you can fix next time to do better

02:15:38.940 And he was just such an inspiration.

02:15:40.660 He passed away young.

02:15:41.860 So that's a diversion.

02:15:43.260 But I say that to say, we all think that we've got decades and decades ahead of us.

02:15:48.880 And I hope that we do.

02:15:51.420 But that's not promised to us.

02:15:53.020 So the time is now.

02:15:55.400 The time is always now.

02:15:57.580 Do what you can do now.

02:15:58.800 And hopefully you get 40 more years than now.

02:16:02.080 But just in case you don't, don't leave anything on the table.

02:16:08.180 Can I say something? Of course you can.

02:16:11.180 So for just in the aspect of when a good time is for folk building, you know, we always have life things that happen and what we plan usually never goes that way.

02:16:23.180 Right. But I think the core of it goes back to just how fundamental folk builders are.

02:16:29.180 are. You know, Jason Gallagher was available and ready and excited to talk to me that night that

02:16:37.280 I found, you know, this golden, you know, shining beam of hope. After reading that article and

02:16:45.060 finding everything, I got to speak with Jason and it really just propelled my ambition and

02:16:51.000 just the core of everything forward. And if there weren't folk builders, there wouldn't be that 0.99

02:16:57.600 um that bridging there in the middle and that that um that path to to bringing everybody home 0.95

02:17:03.680 you know so it is a lot of work um but it's such fulfilling work that um that you know it's it's

02:17:14.240 it's tiring but it's not draining you know it's um there'll be there's hard days and there's good

02:17:19.600 days but at the end at the end of it you're you're full of so much purpose that it's um just so very

02:17:24.880 much worth it so that's what came to mind when i mean i heard the question excellent well i

02:17:31.200 appreciate you jumping in so finn wraith asks and this is silly but it branches off into stuff that's

02:17:37.200 not um anybody who doesn't know he is tuning in in the wee hours of the morning over there in finland

02:17:46.000 to be part of the program and we appreciate you doing that so much i'm not a morning guy so i

02:17:50.800 I know that's probably not easy.

02:17:52.320 Thank you for being here.

02:17:53.860 You're a big part of the success of Victory Never Sleeps.

02:17:56.840 You're on here all the time.

02:17:58.820 He wants to know what kind of wrestling are you guys into,

02:18:00.940 like WWE or real wrestling or something else like boxing or MMA?

02:18:07.740 So, WWE is fun and exciting and it entertains me

02:18:14.720 and it's an escape for my brain to do something else

02:18:17.240 and it kind of harkens back to my childhood.

02:18:19.280 so yeah i like that a lot um obvious things of big superstars that i grew up with like

02:18:25.420 hogan and macho man and stuff that was big i don't know influence on me as a little kid

02:18:30.800 realistically you know what else is awesome is vader vader's amazing it's vader time um

02:18:38.080 but that being said as far as other stuff i just recently two weeks ago maybe three now got my

02:18:47.960 black belt in the danzen rue um jiu-jitsu and that's a real big accomplishment for me and one

02:18:56.280 of the coolest things about it i mentioned earlier in the show all the different ups and downs with

02:19:01.840 the afa but it's almost meditative but it's meditative in a warrior sense getting to do a

02:19:09.640 martial art to where you're you have to be focused and you have to be present and in the moment and

02:19:15.100 you're doing something physical and something martial but it completely focuses your mind

02:19:21.160 because if you're not paying attention then you get hurt or somebody else gets hurt and getting

02:19:27.420 my black belt in that has been a really cool process for me and I'm very thankful that I

02:19:34.320 found a good dojo to train in and so that's what I do and I think some others on here probably have

02:19:41.220 a martial art or a some sort of combat oriented thing that they do or are familiar with so we'll

02:19:47.940 we'll send it down line um does anybody have anything to contribute on this if you do raise

02:19:54.420 your hand if you would ashley raised her hand but i don't think it was for that purpose

02:20:02.260 spawn you're sitting there not raising your hand but tell us about it anyway

02:20:05.780 you're still muted

02:20:11.100 yeah i was shifting between uh some windows real quick um yeah no i i'm a fan of bare knuckle

02:20:33.780 boxing right now is like the thing i've been watching on um on youtube a lot watching these

02:20:39.620 these uh bare knuckle boxing is becoming a thing again um and that's it's just fascinating to me

02:20:44.980 uh their style is way different uh than average boxing but um no yeah i did martial arts from

02:20:51.540 nine years old to about 18 and then i went into the marine corps and they had the marine

02:20:57.620 corps martial arts program was a thing and uh it was kind of goofy at first but when you get up into

02:21:02.340 the higher echelons it's it's basically brazilian jiu-jitsu mixed with like military uh core fighting

02:21:09.380 dynamics like you know bayonet and knife fighting and and riot control and things like that whatever

02:21:15.780 you might be called into and uh and then after that i i pursued lots of different um things i

02:21:23.380 wanted to try out i you know i tried hema i i even tried um jaoga kung fu which is like a tiger claw

02:21:31.380 kung fu but from the family of jow um i went into that uh for for like a year i did like filipino

02:21:39.220 kali eskrima because uh there's a big filipino community here where i'm at because of the navy

02:21:43.940 so learning like uh knife and stick fighting um yeah i just kind of been all over and all of that

02:21:50.660 i don't really go in talk about that that much but yeah i've been like a martial arts um like avid

02:21:58.660 practitioner for a long time but then you know having kids and stuff i kind of stepped back and

02:22:04.520 now my kids are doing jiu-jitsu uh brazilian jiu-jitsu ground fighting stuff like that so

02:22:10.000 i'm really into a lot of the uh the um you know brazilian style jiu-jitsu as far as competitions

02:22:16.400 go my son was in a tournament did really well um things like that knife fighting all that stuff

02:22:23.980 it's cool i'm into all that watch what you do svan will break you this is a thing so that said

02:22:32.140 jesse shaffer first time on the program i'm glad that you're on here please tell us about yourself

02:22:38.380 and how you found aussitrew and the austral folk assembly if you would uh jesse shaffer here i

02:22:45.500 currently live in minnesota um i found first found the aussitude folk assembly i'd say

02:22:54.780 i'm horrible with dates but i want to go with 2008 i was a member for about a year and

02:23:04.220 i didn't do a whole lot then i wasn't on the computer there was a lack of community at the

02:23:09.820 time so we were very solitude practice my family and i which was just two of us at the time um

02:23:19.900 fast forward and i would say about 15 years ago or so was another solo practice and we were actually

02:23:34.700 started our family um had five kids and then we were moving to alaska

02:23:45.660 covet hit i'm like really fast forwarding otherwise i will get stuck down a rabbit hole

02:23:50.060 and we will be on here forever no you gotta tell the alaska story i didn't know that

02:23:54.620 okay i was pregnant with my fifth kid and we were going to be moving um just wanted to drive to

02:24:06.560 alaska find a place up there and homestead it more or less because i love the outdoors i've

02:24:13.720 got a degree in natural resource management and i've always wanted to just live on a mountain

02:24:19.280 by myself with my family and you know live off the land more or less so covet hit you know right

02:24:27.520 after i had bjorn and they shut the borders but my house was still packed so i was like well

02:24:34.880 i'm tired of living in cornfields and bean fields so i want a little piece of land out of town

02:24:43.680 and it took me about six months to fall upon my house now, which is Ortonville, Minnesota.

02:24:50.720 And there was a newspaper article about this church that was just not far off my beaten path.

02:24:59.680 And lo and behold, it sparked my interest because, you know, the press is the press,

02:25:05.200 and I always like to get my own opinion on things, especially in that aspect. So

02:25:12.880 i reached out and that was right before the facebook like crash happened and you know weeks

02:25:22.160 passed and you know i forgot about it but then i ended up reaching out again and ashley mcstalker

02:25:30.560 called me back she was my folk builder and you know long story short winter nights was my first

02:25:39.200 event at the half and it was also a wedding the next day there was like so many people there

02:25:47.440 and like i got to meet everybody and i was just like low so it was just a great feeling you know

02:25:54.960 right at right away i felt that home you know i was in the kitchen i was like what can i do

02:25:59.280 what are we doing here how can i help and you know just blow with the desire and brandy and

02:26:06.640 anna githya anna she was it was just beautiful you know i felt the presence of my ancestors

02:26:12.960 and just right away i knew i was home um you know shortly after that it was i don't even know how

02:26:18.800 long but i wanted to be a folk builder it was like how can i help what can i do and yeah here we are

02:26:29.200 well excellent um also random side note because it's what we were on do you have any martial arts

02:26:34.320 experience um boxing i actually have like a mini boxing gym of the sorts i've got two heavy bags

02:26:46.800 like a uppercut water bag a bunch of speed bags and i get my boys out there and just let them go

02:26:54.000 to town awesome fantastic well welcome we're glad to have you here finally should have had you on

02:27:01.840 sooner would love to have you on more um looking at stuff here and um i want to start with you

02:27:10.400 sheila on this if you would uh corey says the afa and its members routinely face open

02:27:16.240 discrimination it never uh falls into a victim mentality to what do you attribute this positive

02:27:23.440 attitude and spirit of resilience you have been at this longer than any of us sheila

02:27:31.840 There we go. Unmuted. Well, one thing my husband has always said, pick your own battles.

02:27:38.180 We just do not let the naysayers, the evil ones, the evildoers, the mean people thwart us and keep

02:27:46.500 us from doing what we're doing. We stay positive. We stay forward looking. And every once in a while,

02:27:52.380 you kind of slip back and just think on someone and say, not a good person, not a good time. But

02:27:57.900 we're not vindictive. And I realize that there's a lot in the lore about, you know, getting

02:28:04.700 retribution, vengeance, and all that. But I think we feel that, I know my husband feels we're going

02:28:09.500 to get our vengeance, but it's not going to be right here and now because we have work to do.

02:28:13.080 We're not going to be waylaid by problems that other people make for us. That's my thoughts on

02:28:20.780 um

02:28:27.020 jason what do you think about it you've been kind of in the

02:28:31.900 center of the storm up there in minnesota a little bit you guys it's funny because so as

02:28:36.620 a side note corey to the question a bunch of people on this program are here because of

02:28:43.340 the open discrimination because once we get a major news article attacking us it's never

02:28:51.020 comfortable and we're not going to showboat to get the attention but when we do i mean several

02:28:57.660 people on this call are here because of it uh so jason what what do you say as far as

02:29:04.620 why why do we have the spirit of resilience that we have what what are you attributed to

02:29:09.700 Well, first of all, our folk, we come from strong, strong roots, from our gods, from our ancestors.

02:29:16.320 We're a hearty bunch.

02:29:18.320 So we don't run.

02:29:19.380 We don't cower.

02:29:21.640 So when diversity, bad things come at us, you know, we take it head on.

02:29:28.920 We don't run.

02:29:30.400 We take it.

02:29:31.540 We take that negative, that bad energy, and we turn it into good things.

02:29:34.880 Like I've always said, I don't listen to the people that are running their mouth about me.

02:29:38.860 when i was running events by myself around here i i ignore it you just keep going you

02:29:43.980 keep doing great things you keep planning things you you forget it you just um ignore all that

02:29:49.100 and you focus on the positive the future of the children all the great things

02:29:55.580 and also i'm going to jump off here in a minute i just wanted to say good night to everybody before

02:30:00.140 i do it real quick hey you're amazing so somebody asked earlier how's this how's sass doing um

02:30:07.660 um frazier than ever she's almost 10 and she's got a whole new um attitude pugs when they get

02:30:14.440 older maybe it's just because they've been around me forever they get a little crazy so yeah she's 0.99

02:30:19.800 getting uh even bolder where's she at i haven't i haven't seen her running around what's she up to

02:30:25.300 uh she's uh upstairs i'm downstairs so yeah otherwise i'd be chasing around or i'd have to

02:30:31.760 it in a plug timeout fair enough well we're glad to have you on here jason you you're awesome and

02:30:38.560 you're a testament to this you've thank you you've built on be part of it that area and in large part

02:30:46.400 the work you've put in is why we have boulders off there um and it started from really humble

02:30:53.200 beginnings but just the the stuff that you do and the tenacity you put in is why we have off there

02:30:59.280 now so thank you and uh yeah i don't i don't think the folks that have never met you on here

02:31:08.880 if you guys get a chance if anybody listening to this can ever get to minnesota

02:31:14.880 if that's just in your stuff you can do go to baldersoft and if you come through the twin cities

02:31:24.800 meet jason gallagher

02:31:29.120 um one of the best men i know um hilarious hilarious guy and somebody that has given so

02:31:37.980 much themselves to to us to this and to the ice here uh thank you for being here jason

02:31:45.640 appreciate it for all you do everybody have a good night i'm gonna take off

02:31:50.400 all right you have a good night jason snuggle that dog i will that's where i'm heading thank you

02:31:56.700 all right fair enough so also to note uh blaine bought us five coffees for 25 dollars thank you

02:32:05.560 we appreciate that very much thank you um and for nick and i know that he's listening over on the

02:32:13.800 side question um from russell what is your favorite children's book and which book will

02:32:23.640 you read to us kids at midsummer thank you you're muted nick

02:32:29.340 of course i am russell awesome i know you've listened to a lot of the academy story times

02:32:38.080 buddy so um my favorite children's book is where the wild things are it was an awesome book and i

02:32:47.600 totally love it um if you have it bring it and i'll read it to you but i don't have it right now

02:32:55.760 so i am bringing a couple awesome books that you may have already heard me read uh we have

02:33:01.920 thor is my friend and another book in that series by the same feller and we'll be i'll be bringing

02:33:10.960 those and if we can get some time we'll read you we'll read you some stories i'm really looking

02:33:15.440 forward to it buddy all right thank you nick so random thing i need to confront you about here

02:33:25.600 how's your last name mayo and you don't like mayonnaise seems like you would push through

02:33:31.920 thank you for bringing up childhood trauma i'll share you go the i appreciate that um

02:33:38.240 despite my last name i uh do not actively put said condiment my eponymous condiment

02:33:46.540 on anything if it comes on something i will eat it but um may shock you to know i don't know if

02:33:54.260 it's technically considered cannibalism but when i was a when i was a young lad i would eat mayonnaise

02:34:00.180 sandwiches just bread and mayonnaise and i distinctly remember that and i also distinctly

02:34:06.580 remember some point around six or seven going okay this is gross i can't do this anymore so

02:34:12.660 yep so speaking of gross and mayonnaise my uncle used to do this thing when i was a kid

02:34:21.700 this was his thing anyways um 0.73

02:34:24.660 he would get a mouthful of mayonnaise puff out his cheeks and say look i'm a zit

02:34:34.800 and then it would explode out the mayonnaise so uh that's from animal house

02:34:41.020 i didn't watch that because i don't like comedies

02:34:44.880 i don't like comedies comedies if it sneaks up on me i will enjoy it but i have to be tricked

02:34:52.740 into it random side note with jason uh bodie and jason are both that guy that if you ride with

02:34:58.740 them they're listening to like raw dog comedy or whatever on the satellite radio i would never do

02:35:04.980 that but if i'm a passenger i'm not going to be a jerk so i sit there and i listen and then i'll 0.81

02:35:09.220 get really into it and it's hilarious but i've got to get like tricked into it you gotta you won't 0.90

02:35:14.500 drag me there willingly lightning round we got all these people and i feel like everybody's not

02:35:19.140 getting a chance to say much i'm sorry about that favorite type of cheese bodie go smoke gouda it's

02:35:30.900 you're muted uh sharp cheddar ashley pepper jack nathan muted

02:35:40.900 Havarti. Allie. Anything funky. Sheila. Havarti. Jesse. Baby bells. My daughter would agree with

02:36:01.400 you. Oh, yeah. I like a really sharp cheddar or a smoked cheddar. If I could get a smoked

02:36:08.340 charp cheddar that's my jam um i need to taste it white cheese doesn't taste like much to me

02:36:15.700 um on the funky note for ali i don't like feta that's gross

02:36:21.860 i'll just leave it there but i don't like it anyways

02:36:24.900 so Ashley really typed in reference to Bodie's not liking mayonnaise that's just laminaise 0.96

02:36:40.220 that happened folks that's see that's that's the thing we're still going to keep her as a folk 0.95

02:36:46.380 builder just barely so all right question from the wolf throne back to some serious house of truth

02:37:02.060 things are the mythic heroes of our lore sentient and can they participate in the gifting cycle do

02:37:10.780 Do they exist in mythic time like the gods, like the gods do, or are they just characters?

02:37:18.460 That is a really interesting question. Svan, what say you?

02:37:23.220 I'm just making sure I'm not muted. Okay.

02:37:26.580 You're not muted.

02:37:27.580 Absolutely. They're ascendant. Remember too, in Skirnismal, when Skirner goes forth to

02:37:39.420 with with gerda um she asks are you an elf or are you uh a god and or or you know he she asks are

02:37:49.740 you an elf or a god and he says no i'm i'm none of these um she asks if he's a human as well and i

02:37:55.500 think what this is really alluding to is that he is an ascendant and i think that our heroes are

02:38:00.140 ascendant and you can absolutely commit to the to the gift cycle with them i mean you could look at

02:38:05.100 it in two ways one their ancestors and ancestor gift cycle is clearly established but i like to

02:38:13.100 think of them as being ascendant being brought in uh you know and some some of them we you know

02:38:20.300 might be questionable and i think that's on the faith of the of the person like i personally like

02:38:24.780 to um hail widokind who fought against charlemagne and um uh but widokind might have actually been

02:38:32.940 like a robin hood character before robin hood and it might have been multiple people but we don't

02:38:38.540 know so you know i generally i i i look at widokind as the ascendant self um but yeah i believe that's

02:38:45.980 it's absolutely possible that um our heroes are in that cycle and that you can look upward and

02:38:52.220 and see their fame and see their greatness as um that which you know brought them into the heavens

02:38:58.140 with the gods that's the thing it's kind of an interesting thing i don't you know i often wonder

02:39:04.460 where to place them yes i absolutely think they're ascended and i think they can participate in the

02:39:09.260 gift cycle they exist somewhere between our um heroes and we're working about we're working on

02:39:18.300 that nomenclature but our celebrated us true heroes that are historical personages that we can put

02:39:25.100 time and place to and the ones told in our epic lore cycles are almost in a

02:39:34.860 don't quote me on this because i'm just kind of spitballing because it's something i've

02:39:40.880 thought on too they're almost in a demigod stat stature as in they're an ascended being that's

02:39:47.520 something more and i don't know quite how to phrase that or where to put that yet but do they

02:39:54.040 exist yes do they exist in our gifting cycle yes very often i think we try to figure out

02:40:01.480 where they exist in the historical period and i think that's a natural inclination but it

02:40:07.480 doesn't take away from their majesty um nick says matt's running behind uh obviously and he said

02:40:14.840 that roughly an hour and a half ago and i'm just now getting to the question so i'm about an hour

02:40:20.920 and a half behind that's what i do but we've got a beautiful young lady that has joined us

02:40:28.040 um wearing what would jason gallagher do shirt uh mandy welcome i assume you are downstairs

02:40:37.800 how you doing

02:40:41.880 mandy appears frozen and looking off screen

02:40:44.120 i see it's like lagging all right you're muted and you're lagging this is underwhelming you 0.61

02:40:55.880 should come up here and join me anyway well maybe gets that figured uh the wolf throne asks would

02:41:03.960 you say that germany is the aryan fatherland similar to how israel is the jewish fatherland

02:41:11.160 um no yes and no i think we all hearken back to europe because it's very obviously where a lot

02:41:22.840 of our ancestors came from i think that in a very primal way i think our like point of origin place

02:41:31.560 is a little bit different but i certainly think that's one of our our fatherlands so much of us

02:41:38.440 especially here in the united states where we have the majority of our members are of you know

02:41:45.720 anglo stocks so it's a little bit different but i'm curious what do folks think uh bode

02:41:52.840 germany is that our aryan fatherland go negative i don't believe it is i believe that um

02:41:59.960 to say that there is to pinpoint now in 2024 an area in fatherland i don't know if that's possible

02:42:10.280 um because i know is witness fawn is giving his consternation look at me um it's because

02:42:18.120 bode hates german people well you know you heard it here folks if you if you follow if you follow

02:42:25.160 the miscreants and riffraff on telegram i hate a lot of things um that's what i heard it's word 0.56

02:42:30.600 on the street some of our old friends elsewhere ago they used to talk about you know when folks

02:42:36.440 refer to us as caucasians and we say ah the old homeland of caucasia yeah uh you know deep and

02:42:44.040 deep in caucasia um you don't know um as a student of history i like to say that who knows where we

02:42:51.000 We made that giant right or, excuse me, left hook up into Europe.

02:42:56.360 I do like to clarify when people ask where I believe we come from. 0.72

02:43:00.200 Certainly wasn't Africa. 1.00

02:43:02.140 I don't believe that was the cradle of civilization. 1.00

02:43:05.620 Still don't. 1.00

02:43:08.640 Arian fatherland.

02:43:09.600 I mean, somewhere in Europe, somewhere on the steps, maybe somewhere in between.

02:43:17.300 Could be Transylvania.

02:43:18.540 Who knows?

02:43:18.900 there you go pro dracula anti-germany spawn what do you got

02:43:25.660 um the uh the answer as far as germany goes i would say that's the fatherland of the teutonic

02:43:40.660 branch of aryans but it's i don't think it's by means the the fatherland of all aryans i think

02:43:46.920 that you know when we look at language and we look at our our um spread and where we come from

02:43:52.600 you know the romans or the i would say the mediterraneans uh the the gauls and then like

02:43:58.440 even the you know the hittites and louisians and and then in the east you know they all come from

02:44:03.640 somewhere and that that's been speculated as caucasia if you will but um at this point you

02:44:10.440 know i don't really know i think the only i kind of have the idea is that uh heimdall the the one

02:44:17.160 who has elevated us to the folk who's made us the folk um whether that's referring to the home dale

02:44:23.960 the home valley or what you know i've speculated on that a lot but i think ultimately um when he's

02:44:30.680 invited into the home of you know great grandmother and great grandfather and every generation

02:44:35.160 thereafter uh those generations advance so the true fatherland or or is is the is the icier is

02:44:44.740 the faith itself wherever we might go whether we're in you know in space or anywhere in the

02:44:50.320 world um that if we reclimate that as our homeland it you know we the land we tread the land we take

02:44:58.560 the land we make sacred but it has to start first with our souls so i don't know yeah i mean that's

02:45:04.280 of a funny way of going around saying it but um our homeland is the land we conquer that's that's

02:45:11.960 what i heard yep pretty much all right ashley arian homeland go can i pass you can have no

02:45:23.480 you took my answers they took your answers that's fair that's fair nathan what you got anything

02:45:28.920 additional yeah i'd uh i agree along the lines with uh witten spawn there um as far as the aryan

02:45:39.960 homeland it stretches back so many thousands of years uh from the steps and through multiple

02:45:48.440 migration periods um at the recession of the last ice age around that time that it's it's more of a

02:45:59.720 faith people and a mindset of our folk as opposed to being a concrete location of origin

02:46:12.040 all right so that is an artful side step of location allison what you got

02:46:22.120 well i almost feel like the there's so many generations between wherever we originated

02:46:28.120 in us that it's not that it's worthless to me to think about it but it doesn't

02:46:33.400 it's not something that i do think about because i mean first and foremost i am here i am moving

02:46:38.840 forward i would rather look that direction and honor the ancestors that i do know

02:46:43.240 and can pinpoint it does not matter where they lived they were my ancestors i will honor them

02:46:52.600 fair enough

02:46:53.240 All right, Sheila, what do you think as far as the fatherland of the Aryan race of people?

02:47:05.640 I don't have anything new to add. I'm curious about what people have said, and I see all the

02:47:12.460 various parameters. I think a lot of it works, and it certainly is still in our soul. We brought it

02:47:18.080 back it's here with us we're in its infancy again so in a way this is the father land the motherland

02:47:25.120 and it's where we are right now all right and i think there's certainly something true to that

02:47:31.600 jesse you got something to add on this um i'm gonna say ditto and in the name of my grandfather

02:47:40.480 there'd be some what of a skandahoovian descent in there all right all right so i think very

02:47:51.360 compellingly i'm big you know i'm a big fan of the the polar origin situation i think that's the

02:47:59.760 thing big fan of that i think that archaeology tells us where we pick up on it is in the

02:48:07.920 caucuses around the black sea but realistically i do think there's a strong case for a

02:48:16.240 far north if not polar homeland for our folk but again europe's where our people you know really

02:48:24.880 call home and spend a lot of our time i think that's certainly one of our homelands honestly

02:48:30.800 think we've got a lot of different homelands and not just one that is supreme and i think

02:48:38.560 wherever we plant our flag is our homeland we need to take ownership take stewardship and

02:48:49.200 make it ours one of the cool things i think is our people have always found it meaningful to take

02:48:58.080 take holy sites and make them our own that's part of who we are as conquerors

02:49:07.040 when we take a space we claim the sacred space and we make it ours

02:49:13.840 and i know that there's some criticism out there about us taking over christian churches and making

02:49:19.280 them hoffs as if that's inauthentic or whatever but i think that's highly authentic and certainly

02:49:25.760 what our ancestors did and it's absolutely what people have done throughout times you take holy

02:49:32.960 space and you repurpose it there's an energy there and we take that we own that and that's part of our

02:49:41.200 that's part of our conquest that's part of our victory it's part of our success 0.99

02:49:46.400 um so the lovely young lady has joined us again let's see if she's laggy this time 0.70

02:49:53.920 welcome mandy how are you doing

02:49:59.200 you're muted 0.96

02:50:07.200 okay mandy this is ridiculous walk up the stairs 0.99

02:50:11.280 come sit on your husband's lap and hang out with him and be on the program 0.99

02:50:18.960 no we're married it's all good um

02:50:22.960 All right. So, Finn Wraith, always one for the good questions, is having a patron guide

02:50:32.000 historical. Is that something people did in history? Sheila, what do you want to add about

02:50:38.760 patron guides? You're muted. Yeah, I'm unmuted now. I know a lot of people feel that,

02:50:51.360 um feel that they must have a patron god before they can even start practicing aussitur i think

02:50:57.760 that oftentimes you just have to kind of let it see if there is one that seems to rise above others

02:51:03.040 that's there all for you um that you know you're connecting with better obviously my husband always

02:51:10.880 had odin and so odin's part of our life every single day there's no doubt about it and for me

02:51:18.560 when i'm at odin's hof um i always connect very much with frig and you know it's it's not

02:51:26.240 his hof without her being there too so she has always been my patron as well but i love honoring

02:51:32.560 all the goddesses when i have opportunities to do so haven't really done i don't know if i've done

02:51:38.320 any bloats to the to the uh gods to our male uh deities um because i'm not just not that comfortable

02:51:47.120 I know we always have either Matt or Steve or even Thorgren when he was, well, could do that.

02:51:52.340 But I love honoring our goddesses.

02:51:55.100 I feel that we women do have a strong connection that way.

02:51:58.280 And we need to bring as much of that in to our folk as we can.

02:52:02.040 So it's a very important role.

02:52:05.120 But it's not necessary to have a patron god or goddess.

02:52:08.140 I feel that just be open to whichever one is there reaching out to you in that gift cycle.

02:52:14.400 So absolutely, that's a thing.

02:52:17.120 You can do that, certainly, but I think that what I've always thought, and I think is a real thing, is that people, we go to what we know that's familiar.

02:52:35.220 And if we're used to monotheism, sometimes, and this cuts both ways, and I'm not criticizing anybody.

02:52:47.120 If we come from, you know, I don't know, 20, 30, 40, shoot, 70 years of monotheism, wherever we are in our life and we find out so true, maybe our way of doing that is we pick one of the gods and we go whole hog, that's our God, and that's how we get into this.

02:53:07.360 That's not wrong.

02:53:08.420 That's not wrong, and I'm not criticizing anybody.

02:53:10.680 And I think the full expression of polytheistic faith is to embrace and to build a relationship with as many of our gods as you can.

02:53:23.380 And one thing that I found doing this for 23 years or so now is you have a different relationship with different gods and goddesses in the different seasons of your life.

02:53:40.680 there's times where maybe one is particularly relevant to who you are at that moment or where

02:53:50.560 you are in your life and at different times and in different places you find yourself

02:53:56.480 very much more drawn to uh to different gods and goddesses and you don't have to choose one over

02:54:04.200 the other i always draw it back to building relationships with with people and any other

02:54:12.360 sentient thing you interact with just because you're friends with one doesn't mean you can't

02:54:18.120 be friends with a few if they're aligned just because you have a relationship with

02:54:25.080 your mom doesn't mean you can't also have a relationship with your grandma

02:54:29.480 and your grandpa they're not mutually exclusive um so don't feel compelled to but yes it was a thing

02:54:36.440 we have a lot of people that were you know the name that's come down to us were you know so-and-so

02:54:42.200 thors go for your so-and-so phrase go for your so-and-so you know you'd name your kid you know

02:54:49.480 thorsten as the stone of thor or thor bjorn the bear of thor you name you often we see in a naming

02:54:58.520 tradition devoting your child in a respectful way at naming to a particular god or goddess

02:55:07.480 so that's a thing um so time out hi everybody clearly i'm not going to be staying i'm having

02:55:15.480 some computer issues we're already outside of my depth i was told we're talking about wrestling

02:55:21.080 um so already I'm out of my league but medium show is here and he can help us but uh

02:55:32.240 um anyway I just wanted to pop in and say hi I know that space is limited so I don't want to

02:55:37.580 keep anybody important sitting in the waiting room especially since my computer we got room

02:55:42.920 for two more people you're not keeping anybody off I'm super disappointed when I came on and

02:55:47.960 nine it didn't it didn't arrange just like the brady bunch look see we got it moving now because

02:55:54.840 i played with the camera and i didn't turn it back on um so it does crazy stuff no that's fine

02:56:00.760 i'll adjust it no i didn't i didn't do makeup for this here's a story of lovely lady bye you guys

02:56:09.080 All right.

02:56:13.280 So we'll readjust.

02:56:16.380 All right, kids, this is a program from the 1960s and 70s

02:56:20.300 you might not be aware of.

02:56:22.840 It's called the Brady Bunch.

02:56:24.720 The father was a homosexual, but he did not portray one on the TV. 0.72

02:56:30.220 So we have the lovely Tracy Adler joining us from sunny Florida, 0.56

02:56:35.740 sunshine sunshine state but it's like midnight there how you doing tracy

02:56:46.700 okay i was muted but i'm doing good i just wanted to stop in and say hi to everyone

02:56:54.460 from new york's hof and beyond yep this is my first time you're awesome this is your first

02:57:02.220 time on the show tell everybody how you found australia how you found the australian folks

02:57:07.740 well i mean starting back from childhood i really you know i lived with my parents just like everyone

02:57:16.220 most people do and they were not religious at all so i never went to any church or anything like that

02:57:24.140 that and then I basically felt like that was just not for me because I had gone once to a church

02:57:34.340 with like a friend after I slept over at their house and like went to church with them and I

02:57:40.640 was just like okay this is definitely not for me but I knew I was missing something

02:57:47.120 fast forward to being an adult and i just was still you know nothing against them but it just

02:57:55.720 appealed to the masses and it just didn't seem like it was what i wanted to do so i just stayed

02:58:02.400 knowing that there was more but didn't know what it what it was i was looking for until you know

02:58:10.520 i met my husband and it was that he was telling me i have a cat here by the way move it he was

02:58:17.100 telling me that that's what you know that's what he's all about that's what he does and i that was

02:58:23.180 in 2017 and i just automatically knew that was that was what i needed to know and so i ended up

02:58:30.540 joining the afa in 2018 and here i am so so hey don't don't sideline that cat bring that cat back

02:58:43.340 here who is that that cat well here she comes this is actually my mom's cat let's see if she'll come

02:58:50.060 back okay she doesn't like this is my mom's cat named baby girl there's a little baby girl smile

02:59:02.460 yes i appreciate you making the effort she came back because she's like

02:59:09.340 yep no we appreciate it uh we're fans of animals here um i can picture of our

02:59:16.700 cavernus in norway just pulling on his beard so angry that we love cats so much grumpy gentleman

02:59:25.660 one thing a baby girl would agree let's see how do i get this there we go goat cheese you guys

02:59:33.260 were asking about cheeses goat cheese yes uh so people who speak french what is the the goat cheese

02:59:41.580 word the chevro but not really it's like brett farve that's not spelled farve how do you make

02:59:54.300 there you go ali knows about the goat cheese

02:59:58.220 when you put the dried fruit around it that's awesome around uh yule time big fan

03:00:06.460 so joseph key asked spawn's got his hand up what you got spawn oh i was gonna say just um

03:00:14.760 on the side note about uh troth to or or full truey to the specific god i did want to say

03:00:22.720 there's three examples that came to my mind and i you know i made sure and double check

03:00:28.240 in rap nakel the saga which means raven call that's the the the name of the man where we

03:00:34.800 get fray faxy from he was uh he was phrase govi or phrase goda um and we have otar in the uh

03:00:45.520 hindlioth where he ride his horse he's got to kill you yes he would dedicate his horse and if

03:00:51.600 you wrote on it which is the the the caveat of the entire story is killed um otar made the horde 0.76

03:01:01.120 to freya shiny because he laid so much blood upon the stones um and he held you know full

03:01:08.320 true to to uh late or the holy freya and um of course ale skala grimson and his loyalty to lord

03:01:15.920 odin uh is you know mentioned repeatedly um throughout his saga but full trui like you'll

03:01:24.560 hear it on the on the internet where i think like the the redditor you know kind of uh smelly

03:01:31.920 sorry to insult goat cheese but the goat cheese uh um drudges of the of the basements will say

03:01:38.160 you know i've got full trui with the with you know with loki and with this and with that and

03:01:42.960 they they call it friendship but full truly is not friendship it's it's devout loyalty to the point

03:01:48.480 of like absolute ism like in the sense that like if you bear the valk not if you if you're you're

03:01:55.040 willing to like with uh fresco he was willing to kill a man for going against his decree of of

03:02:02.320 riding a horse that he had dedicated to that god so here is something you can't understand 0.98

03:02:08.080 yeah it's kill a man yeah you real um mandy has given me an assortment of cats

03:02:18.640 it's like a conveyor belt was that too she's trying to find the third one right now he's being 0.77

03:02:23.920 elusive um but i had the dangerous one and she did not hurt me and i appreciate that

03:02:29.840 no full truly is an absolute it's a thing it happened doesn't have to be all the time but

03:02:36.880 it's not just like you know loki is my homie that's not the thing yeah devotional relationship

03:02:45.840 to where you have loyalty to the point where you are willing to go to extreme lengths for that and

03:02:52.960 i think that means a lot more than what some people would uh would propose that it means back

03:02:59.280 to a little bit of seriousness so what i want somebody to do and i'm gonna i'm gonna set the

03:03:05.600 challenge not me or spawn somebody tell people about our flood legend joseph mckee asked does

03:03:12.960 your faith have a flood legend can i pick this one because it's my dad oh hello uh

03:03:22.960 you can if you're gonna get it right go for it okay i will do my best to get it right i would

03:03:27.680 have that idea let's see what you got all right so we do have a flood um when odin filian vee

03:03:35.280 slay the giant ymir his blood spills in such volume that it does create the oceans

03:03:41.920 and then again at ragnarok we have a second flood that uh when thor and jormungand are fighting

03:03:48.720 the thrashing of the giant serpent

03:03:52.080 will flood

03:03:54.060 the land with the ocean

03:03:55.920 and from that

03:03:58.440 it will recede and the new world

03:04:00.040 will rise up

03:04:01.520 but yeah we do have two floods

03:04:04.240 I guess

03:04:04.680 and

03:04:08.400 somebody tell me about the giant

03:04:12.240 that escapes

03:04:13.160 who's got it

03:04:18.060 wants to a boat he told me do you mean the giant that the giant and his wife that escapes

03:04:26.280 because it is bergamir and his wife and they escape their forebears their progenitor's blood

03:04:34.660 torrent which becomes the seas of the world and a hollowed out tree trunk canoe

03:04:39.100 And there's a very famous, famous to me, English storyteller who uses quite the amount of alliteration, O.P.D. Brown, where he says that they rode the rapids of gore.

03:04:54.900 And the way he says it in his English accent, he just kind of he makes you see that they rode the rapids of gore.

03:05:03.720 And then he adds on the tagline that from them two, from those two, the race of Frost Giants would rise again.

03:05:12.960 So, yeah.

03:05:14.540 So, Bodie is absolutely a lore master, and it's cool to have him on.

03:05:21.880 It's cool to have you on for so much of this broadcast.

03:05:24.360 No, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine.

03:05:25.520 I keep telling you people, I keep telling you people, that next to Witten Harrell, I'm like that gorilla that can make the sign for grapes.

03:05:33.520 He knows way more lore than I do.

03:05:35.760 I keep telling you guys this.

03:05:37.680 Like, I know, like, I can say grapes and I'm hungry or I hurt, you know, fun.

03:05:43.680 You guys need to have a wizard battle like on the story of the stone.

03:05:48.960 That's what I want to see happen.

03:05:51.260 So, that said, what's been the most ridiculous critique of the AFA you've heard? 0.59

03:05:57.060 For me, it was the stories or the stoles equal Hebrew situations.

03:06:03.000 So I'm going to throw this out there first. 0.95

03:06:06.040 One of the dudes that said that's like, who did it better? 0.96

03:06:09.160 And he posts this Hebrew gentleman in his little prayer shawl and nose and whatnot.

03:06:17.280 And then he posted a picture of myself.

03:06:20.380 And he got big mad when I just said as a response, I did.

03:06:26.040 Because my stole is awesome.

03:06:27.440 Um, Ashley, what's the biggest, or what's the most ridiculous AFA critique you have heard?

03:06:36.180 Um, I think, um, one of the big critiques that I saw in the midst of COVID was, um, that we would

03:06:45.240 share a horn, um, knowing full well that, um, you know, my parents were going to mass and,

03:06:52.080 um, still being offered, um, you know, their communion and everything. Um, you know, and so

03:06:58.500 just it being us, you know, us being, um, around each other was, it was the bigger deal because it

03:07:04.440 was us. Um, but the, the biggest thing I think was, um, in our, one of our bigger articles in,

03:07:11.300 uh, I don't want to name drop them and give them any attention, but, um, a liberal international

03:07:17.180 outlet that um did a video article on us um and said that um these people are proud of their

03:07:28.320 heritage in the most negative connotation ever and it was and it was so scathing and and mean

03:07:34.960 um that you felt like it was a bad thing just just the way that they they said it and that's

03:07:41.080 that was right at the beginning when i started and it was just they weren't saying anything

03:07:44.820 incorrect or wrong bathing it brought us 30 plus members yes um so point i want to make

03:07:54.980 i am so proud that we did get together all through 2020 we got two hoffs

03:08:02.820 we gave each other hugs we shared horns we built fellowship 0.99

03:08:10.820 where's the stack of dead afa members

03:08:14.820 No, where a lot of people didn't get to experience their faith fully, we did, and I'm very proud of that.

03:08:23.680 Nathan, what's the most ridiculous AFA criticism you've seen?

03:08:28.880 I guess that would probably have to do with the local communities being told that we would drive them out of their residence, 0.60

03:08:39.740 that we would dislocate them from their homes and just a whole list of terrible things that

03:08:49.840 could happen. How many Minnesotans have you run out of their home, Nathan? All of them. No, no,

03:08:55.020 no. You got to get up the game. What are we talking about? We have a very, very productive,

03:09:02.940 friendly community relationship around Baldershof. Thanks and largely due to the efforts of

03:09:12.220 folk builder Ashley McStocker, my fiancee, who does a lot of the community outreach around there.

03:09:19.500 But ultimately, you know, what it comes down to is they're going to continue to say all these

03:09:25.300 things until you show it differently, until you show who you are. And it's going to be your deeds

03:09:31.220 that the people will see eventually that will come out, as opposed to people that don't know

03:09:37.600 what you're about saying, whatever random crap that they can come up with. But lots of things

03:09:43.980 have been said, and it's all been proven nonsense based on our actions and our deeds.

03:09:52.520 Well said. Allison, what you got?

03:09:54.900 i think the most absurd one is that we hate people who are disabled or have any any sort

03:10:03.400 of physical difference when i've personally seen more than half the people in this room accommodate

03:10:07.420 exactly that situation and be very welcoming and very hospitable to

03:10:13.140 to people that are you know having physical differences we love our cripples exactly

03:10:20.680 no joking aside everybody's so damn sensitive we've always been that way we'll continue to be

03:10:29.720 all of us have different stuff that's broke down and we all love each other and take care of each

03:10:37.100 other we're always going to do that we always have and we always will um sheila what do you

03:10:43.720 thinks the most ridiculous one you've heard um but we had the sac b interview by uh reported that

03:10:54.920 said he was gonna tell us the truth and they put together the um the video accompaniment and it 0.95

03:11:00.440 starts with charlottesville as if we were right there let our people were involved in any way

03:11:05.800 whatsoever that is so typical of what they've always done is to spread fear about us and yet

03:11:13.080 as we've just been saying, it's, it's our deeds. We are our deeds in our community of Brownsville,

03:11:19.780 even though they still, some still fear us. They're very, very Christian people out there.

03:11:25.440 And some call us, you know, Satanists, or we are known as the Viking church for one thing, 1.00

03:11:31.440 and that's okay. We can get by with that. But we really have made a lot of alliances there 1.00

03:11:36.480 with individuals and people look forward to us coming every month. And that's really what it's

03:11:40.860 it's a slow progression to build their trust but they know who we are they know we're like them

03:11:48.220 and um we treat them not only fairly but with warmth and caring and so um yeah all that negative

03:11:55.260 stuff that steve and i all the garbage for all these decades you know it really doesn't harm us

03:12:01.020 nobody comes to our home nobody breaks in nobody does anything when we're driving around we've been

03:12:08.780 in a way very protected i think because of the uh sacrality of our hofs we built so much

03:12:16.620 spiritual power and connection with our gods that we truly are protected there i mean i know that at

03:12:22.140 odin's hof people don't come and mess with us at all they could we're very very visible but nobody

03:12:28.220 ever does so so you know it's all it's it's what they think they're gonna do to either raise money

03:12:34.940 or harm us in either way they're not harming us because we just carry on jesse what's the most

03:12:42.460 ridiculous thing the criticism that you've heard level at the astro folk assembly um i don't

03:12:53.100 read a lot of papers and whatnot but one thing that really hit home was

03:12:57.180 like my kids have been ridiculed at school for their faith which is not anything that i would

03:13:06.680 ever imagine you know back in my generation but you know the sense of pride that they have

03:13:12.640 and questioning them just like i don't know it's ridiculous in the fact that they have all these

03:13:21.260 assumptions about us because of what comes up on google and therefore my children are judged for it

03:13:31.260 but they have you know i feel a strong enough head on their shoulders to well for the most part

03:13:39.660 but um yeah they're not falling into you know religion should not be in school but it is and

03:13:47.900 And they're still there.

03:13:49.520 So it's just hard having them having to deal with the criticism.

03:13:54.100 You know, it should be us because they're, you know, 9 to 11.

03:13:59.460 And, you know, shouldn't have to deal with that yet.

03:14:04.480 So, Jesse, I'm sorry they have to deal with that. 0.72

03:14:09.680 That's ridiculous in this world.

03:14:12.840 That's what they got to do. 0.97

03:14:14.460 really proud that they have a good head on their shoulders and that they can stand tall during it 1.00

03:14:19.580 but that's it's really unfortunate they got to deal with that um tracy what's the most ridiculous 0.95

03:14:28.700 afa criticism you've seen leveled and then we've got a new person to introduce

03:14:34.140 well i don't really go on to a lot of like those types of websites but i guess the only criticisms

03:14:44.940 that i've ever come across or any that make it seem like we're not like really family oriented

03:14:51.860 or you know like we you know just kind of like allow people in that are you know might not be

03:15:00.220 the best fit for the AFA.

03:15:02.980 And so other than that, I really haven't heard much of any criticism,

03:15:07.220 but that's just because I don't really get on those websites.

03:15:14.020 Fair enough.

03:15:15.360 So welcome to the game, Cody Clausen.

03:15:19.560 Better half or depending on who you ask?

03:15:24.580 I'm the prettier one.

03:15:27.420 She's the smarter one.

03:15:30.220 there you have it folks hey cody how you doing this first time on the show

03:15:35.500 how'd you come home to alsatru and how'd you find the alsatru focus in

03:15:39.360 oh so i came home to alsatru

03:15:43.480 what was that that would have been about nine years ago now um 10 10 years ago um so i i was

03:15:57.460 agnostic at the point trying to kind of find what you know what i believed and started doing some

03:16:06.180 digging and you know discovered um you know also true through looking into germanic heritage

03:16:14.340 and all of that and then married ally and

03:16:21.780 she had talked about wanting to join the afa for a while and i had concerns because i had like

03:16:27.460 you know high security clearances for my job and so things i'd heard i was kind of nervous about

03:16:36.260 that and then finally i it was the first episode of victor never sleeps with witten brandy facet

03:16:47.300 and something she said stuck with me it was um also true is your birthright

03:16:55.460 and i was actually on my way home um you know driving my truck home and i pulled into a rest

03:17:04.320 area filled out my application and then got back on the road because i just that moment i just felt

03:17:11.620 i needed to be part of this glad you did glad you're here shout out to my homie brandy

03:17:21.140 And she cannot be here tonight because she is out at the Hoff doing some much needed work out there. 0.99

03:17:29.380 She was on the first episode. I think every now and again, people appreciate that their host is a pretty lady and not myself.

03:17:40.120 And we appreciate Brandy. We always get good feedback when she is hosting on here.

03:17:45.380 I talked earlier about how Nick is, you know, top five of the people that do the hard work of the AFA.

03:17:54.240 So one of them's not here, and that's Brandy.

03:17:58.320 When I said top three, so Nick's one of those guys.

03:18:04.380 Brandy is certainly one of those people that's one of the hardest working people for the AFA.

03:18:08.580 And the other one, I don't know how your screen looks.

03:18:11.540 I assume it's like my screen. It's kind of in the bottom corner here.

03:18:15.380 But Githya Sheila MacNallan is squinting all funny into the screen, which is kind of odd.

03:18:22.160 But she, for 30 years now, we're in the 30th year of the Astrofocus Center.

03:18:31.340 She has been the force making this thing work.

03:18:33.940 She is the reason that Odinshoff is successful.

03:18:38.960 She has some help.

03:18:40.160 Right now we're at a really good point where we've got a lot of really good volunteers out there.

03:18:44.120 but so much of this is built on the back of Steve's vision

03:18:52.300 and Sheila's blood, sweat, and tears.

03:18:56.780 And we thank you for that.

03:18:59.060 I can't ever thank you enough.

03:19:02.260 That said, can one of you,

03:19:08.600 So, Bodie, can you tell us about, can you delve, Ryan Skinner asks, in on the concept of frith and its deeper implications within both personal and community contexts if it is built or broken?

03:19:28.160 So, Bodie, tell us about frith.

03:19:29.960 I can tell you this used to be one of my favorite topics to talk about as far as new folks getting it slightly wrong.

03:19:46.380 In the early days, my early days, in the early days of the internet,

03:19:53.400 hospitality internet i would say for me is that people would think that frith is the absence of

03:19:59.080 all conflict and that is completely and utterly wrong frith is not the absence of any and all

03:20:05.560 conflict it is keeping that conflict gentlemanly or ladylike for the women um it is not the absence

03:20:16.040 of all conflict hello hello steve hello founder mcdalen hello so it is not the absence of all

03:20:25.120 conflict it is the being fair and square with each other and not delving into depravity or

03:20:34.520 delving into you know malignity with each other it is keeping the communication lines open

03:20:42.940 it is being forthright and honest with each other you know if uh they'll show you go that does it

03:20:49.460 all the time when he's talking to us um in our back channel leadership chat you know if one of

03:20:56.680 us says something that's not quite correct he'll say pause time flag on the play you know that

03:21:02.120 is incorrect you know fix yourself you know whatever and you know us all being adults and

03:21:08.500 forthright with each other we don't well who does he think he is telling me i'm incorrect blah blah

03:21:12.840 You know, we don't delve into that. So by way of definition of what Frith isn't, like I said, that's one of the things I used to harp on was that it is not the absence of all conflict.

03:21:24.860 It is. Keeping your head about yourself and not letting your emotions take hold when there is interpersonal conflict, when you do have a problem with one of your folk that you deal with it as an adult and that you deal with it as a level headed adult who hopefully has a at least a modicum of common sense so that you cannot devolve into just unnecessary arguing.

03:21:54.860 You know, it is, you know, frith is everyone getting together and getting along and being able to speak your mind freely without fear of gross and misguided retribution.

03:22:10.480 So I think Witten Swan could give a much better answer.

03:22:14.360 I'm just kind of rambling because it's midnight 30.

03:22:21.040 Now you know how I feel sometimes.

03:22:22.700 east coast rambling it's it's like you know almost one in the morning for us it's like

03:22:30.760 uh it's all fuzzy no i would say you're absolutely correct i'd say the only only addition to that is

03:22:38.320 a lot of people don't know the the the other word that kind of mirrors frid is strid in old

03:22:45.140 norse and that meant it's exactly what you're saying strid is conflict to to stoppage conflict

03:22:52.080 and aggression everything kind of boils down into a stagnation and a stop three is peace with

03:22:59.600 movement forward and that is where that action of of maintaining that peace comes from um so you know

03:23:06.560 you i think in modern icelandic now street there just means war and fried means like peace but

03:23:12.080 it's more about the the motion of it peace to create amicability and movement whereas three

03:23:18.800 this like conflict that creates stoppage and blocking. So yeah, what you said, I was going to

03:23:25.580 say, I'm going to bow out for the night. Speaking of the time, and I wanted to say thank you all

03:23:32.500 for having me on here. And I get to, it's not reading lore, it's getting a chance to hang out

03:23:40.920 with everybody. And this has been really, really fun for me. So happy 100th. And I'll

03:23:48.320 I'll see you guys next week.

03:23:53.520 Good night.

03:23:54.520 Good night.

03:23:57.340 Am I next then for Frith?

03:24:01.720 I'll just go.

03:24:03.760 So I'm just reading the full question here

03:24:07.880 just so I answer what he was asking.

03:24:10.280 So the implications within both personal

03:24:12.080 and community context, the concept of Frith.

03:24:15.580 So being in Baldurtov, we have the great advantage

03:24:19.700 of Witten Passett, you know,

03:24:23.760 and really delving into those core concepts 0.98

03:24:28.260 of what the magical powers of women are.

03:24:32.860 And Frith being one of those specialties, you know, 0.95

03:24:36.660 if you will.

03:24:38.940 And I guess how I have seen Frith is, yes,

03:24:43.360 a peaceful way to go about things, but also on the other side of that, so initiating that connection,

03:24:53.280 you know, of bringing, of really weaving our beings together in a positive, meaningful way

03:24:59.920 has been fundamental to everything that we do, especially at Baldur's Off. And I say,

03:25:06.820 especially just because that's where I am and that's what I know. But so, yes, dealing with

03:25:12.900 things in a in a way that doesn't break the bonds that we've created but also initiating those bonds

03:25:18.180 to begin with because we laid down that that um you know all the work for what those relationships

03:25:26.100 will turn into and and what um everything that we we weave and build in all that forward grade action

03:25:34.660 so this doesn't move quite as fluid and as quick as i thought it might when we scheduled folks

03:25:42.020 and i apologize about that but i love this episode i think it's awesome um

03:25:49.620 i remember the first time frith really clicked for me because when i was first

03:25:57.140 i guess coming to an understanding of the concept i was you know in my 20s i was a young man

03:26:02.820 and the idea of like peace goes against i don't know the the warrior the warrior ethos that kind

03:26:13.060 of drives young men to embrace house of truth at the time and peace by itself sounds kind of

03:26:21.700 i don't know kind of weak for lack of better but reading culture of the teutons and i remember it

03:26:27.940 It was Tuesday night, slow, bar I was working the front door at.

03:26:32.760 So I was reading Culture of the Tutans there.

03:26:36.600 And I had to put the book down a number of times in the fourth chapter because it was just so powerful.

03:26:42.720 And I had to stop and digest it.

03:26:47.300 Because it wasn't like peace in a passive sense.

03:26:52.360 It was an active peace. 0.97

03:26:53.740 It was, you know, me and Bodie are at peace because if you mess with Bodie, I will destroy you.

03:27:01.660 Like it was a mutual defense pact much more than it was just, hey, everybody, let's just have peace.

03:27:11.760 It was, no, we have peace because I have his back and he has mine.

03:27:17.880 I mentioned earlier in the show about my friend and one of my mentors that passed.

03:27:22.360 But one of the biggest, it sounds really stupid in retrospect, but it was really important to me as a young man.

03:27:31.560 So this guy, Barry, who I talked about, that was my bouncer mentor. 0.78

03:27:36.860 Sometimes we'd go out to eat after the shift.

03:27:41.420 And everybody else would go out to the same few, like Denny's, places that were open at that time after Barclose.

03:27:48.420 but you end up there with a bunch of people that you tossed out, you know, sometimes quite

03:27:54.920 unpleasantly. And so you got to keep your head on a swivel. Barry would not put, and this is

03:28:03.220 something that you can ask Mandy, I do this now. I don't like my back to the door. I want to see

03:28:10.420 who's coming. I want to see what's going on. Barry would never have his back to the door.

03:28:15.240 and like he would make you get up and move

03:28:19.340 if that was the case

03:28:21.260 and there was one day I remember

03:28:23.820 that he trusted me enough

03:28:26.600 that

03:28:27.780 he showed up late

03:28:31.720 the only spot available was back to the door

03:28:34.720 and I was across from him

03:28:35.980 and he looked at me

03:28:36.920 it's the first time I ever saw him do it

03:28:40.700 he looked at me

03:28:41.560 and he nodded and he sat there

03:28:45.240 I mean, in that moment, he trusted that by frith, I had his back in, like, I literally had his back, and that meant a lot.

03:28:57.360 And so that's kind of, frith isn't just about not being offensive.

03:29:03.060 It's about actively taking care of the people that you're in a frith relationship with to make sure you're not in that spot.

03:29:11.160 So, random side note, just because I'm being rhapsodic about my friend Barry that passed away.

03:29:20.440 The moment that he developed a frith relationship with me, we're closing down the bar one night.

03:29:29.520 And one of the things we had to do was I had to go out and clear the parking lot.

03:29:36.800 And that was a real crapshoot. In the bar, we could control the environment. We knew what

03:29:44.460 you're coming in with, at least to a degree. We knew the environment. We were in control. We go

03:29:49.720 out in the parking lot. There's all the X factors. So we went out. It was, again, it was like a

03:29:55.600 weekday night. Barry's sister was closing up inside. Me and Barry were doing the parking lot.

03:30:00.620 and there was this dude that uh there was a ebbing huge gentleman that was walking by he

03:30:09.900 was not a patron of the bar but he was walking by on spenard boulevard in anchorage alaska

03:30:16.300 and he decided to try to engage barry and myself in a rap battle

03:30:21.340 he did not have bars and uh me and barry were not interested in engaging him in said rap battle

03:30:31.720 he took umbrage at this so when we you'd have to know the front of the building but

03:30:40.900 there's kind of it funnels into this doorway that happened to be locked and there's kind of this like

03:30:49.240 um i guess walkway with like kitchen post in front of it it's an old like log cabin bar

03:30:57.880 and so we were okay we're gonna go back inside parking lots clear and the uh

03:31:04.620 the ebbingu gentleman decided to charge at us decided to charge at us while we were going in

03:31:11.500 he ran and jumped because again my buddy barry's like six seven he jumped and punched barry in the

03:31:18.040 head and then he thought he would escape into the bar bar is locked you're not escaping into

03:31:24.520 the locked bar no sir but you find yourself i've been facing barry and myself

03:31:32.840 so i remember barry had this i had the dude hemmed up and barry proceeded to uh

03:31:40.760 uh deliver blows to this dude's mince midsection while we're up against the door so the bar staff's

03:31:48.040 inside and they just keep hearing this door like wow wow wow up against the door and they're

03:31:54.640 wondering what's going on so the guy's subdued and he's no longer fighting us he's on the ground and

03:32:02.400 he decides to get up pull his pants up and uh i don't know he was out of his mind or whatever

03:32:13.260 he's like no no cuz i'm your favorite son i don't know what that means barry didn't know what that

03:32:20.000 either but he put on his pants we said get your pants up go home he went home but barry at that

03:32:27.740 moment like knew that i had his back when stuff went sketchy in the parking lot that's the moment

03:32:33.740 we established a frith relationship went back inside nobody knew what was going on but uh yeah

03:32:42.300 it's a random side note but i will take it ah ashley and jason jason's not here so you're

03:32:49.580 answering on behalf of the state of minnesota ashley what made you become a folk builder

03:32:56.540 and do you have any advice you would give to apprentices or those interested in becoming a

03:33:03.460 folk builder um what made me become a folk builder um is called nathan and brandy

03:33:11.500 but um no in all seriousness it was um it was something i did push back a little bit at first

03:33:19.880 just because um i wasn't sure i could that my life would open up for what it entailed um and

03:33:29.480 then i saw um what especially like nathan was doing and i wanted to too and so then um

03:33:39.240 sidebar i i did introduce do stathan into membership of the afa just just for her note um but

03:33:47.240 But then I started with apprenticing and it was much differently structured than it is now when you first start out.

03:33:56.380 But it was a really good time for somebody to start doing that because we were booming at Baldershop and it was there was such a need for us to kind of find our our structure and our groove there.

03:34:08.580 and it really just my life did open up for it you know um and I think I have I have one

03:34:17.480 lifestyle you would say of how people go about folk building so in my life my my whole family

03:34:26.460 in my life revolves and is included um as AFA so my partner is in AFA my kids are also true you

03:34:34.620 know, it's all conducive. But I also know a lot of people in leadership where that's not

03:34:40.720 necessarily the case. And it's a nice balance for them in their lives and how it works out. So I've

03:34:45.980 seen it work well in scenarios where it's not necessarily the belief system of everybody in

03:34:54.100 their life. I am fortunate enough where that is what we do. But we also have to find our own

03:35:00.600 balance, too, where we're not viewing things as a job over spirituality. And I found this out

03:35:10.860 two midsummers ago that I had been doing this incorrectly for a bit of time. I had come to an

03:35:19.560 event and realized that I had been to the Hoth 12 times in 30 days, and I had not walked into

03:35:26.780 sanctuary one time because i was busy you know i was doing things i was running to to get donations

03:35:32.060 and drop them off and doing stuff downstairs and i i had hadn't gone upstairs at all and i was it

03:35:37.580 was the one it was probably the most stress that i had been before an event and i couldn't quite

03:35:43.820 figure out why and it was apparent then why you know i didn't take the moment to be in it you

03:35:49.660 know i was just doing the busy work and so having that balance of yes we have these these tests to

03:35:55.420 to do in these you know spreadsheets people to call and like all that all of that is fine and

03:36:00.580 good but we're doing that so that we have the opportunity to walk into the sanctuary and take

03:36:05.880 a moment and then to to bring our our folk home and and spend all the time with the people that

03:36:10.880 we love so so i think the advice that i would um give for people that would want to start doing

03:36:16.720 this is to you know really see the big picture of it always and don't get lost in the um in the

03:36:24.160 very important um day-to-day things but it not be all consuming

03:36:35.760 as a side note and i appreciate everybody in the chat um we just looked and we have uh

03:36:42.960 ashley telling us that 26.74 percent of our people pay hoff dollar two hours ago

03:36:55.120 for those of you catching up so that's how far uh behind we are uh so sheila i want to

03:37:01.600 ask you this first what was your favorite event that you have been to oh

03:37:07.520 Oh, I've loved the events out at Winter Nights in the Poconos, and I think that doing first

03:37:23.920 Winter Nights Bloat with Katie Erickson was really powerful for me.

03:37:28.020 She adds the theatrics to it, but not in a way that it is oppressive or it takes away.

03:37:34.320 but she taught us our song that even though she's changed it and she does different ones

03:37:40.520 she has a couple of different versions or different songs she does for winter nights

03:37:44.560 and calling in the deezer our ladies all do that one song i will never not do it to me it is

03:37:51.520 it's truly sings to our mothers and honors them so i got so much out of that and i have used that

03:38:00.260 kind of as my model for winter nights which is my favorite time of year that connection with

03:38:05.460 mothers and that the autumn the color the all the things that happen the shadows the dark the

03:38:12.780 candles everything the fires um are just very very it's a very dark but passionate time of year

03:38:20.000 And I appreciate Katie Erickson for helping me realize that.

03:38:35.780 Bodie, what's your favorite event you've been to?

03:38:39.960 The first winter nights in the Poconos.

03:38:43.180 That was a legendary event in my mind.

03:38:50.000 Lots of fun things happened there. Lots of powerful, spiritual things happened there.

03:38:57.240 I don't know if you would be chagrined at me mentioning your old nickname, but that was back when I was introduced to Matt Flavell as the man, the myth, the mountain, Matt Flavell.

03:39:09.780 so you know he was he he came um he came uh highly highly front-loaded as far as reputation goes 0.92

03:39:20.640 like you got to see this guy he's super swole he's like big as a mountain and you know he's 0.97

03:39:26.040 very imposing and um we um when we were in the cabins that came to team us you know it's 0.99

03:39:33.940 October. And there was no heat in those cabins. And so we were all in our sleeping bags and kind

03:39:42.300 of huddled up. And it was quite interesting, the after hours culture. You know, folks staying up

03:39:51.380 late around the fire and getting to see Steve and Sheila again. It was a pretty good time.

03:40:01.980 pretty good time that was my favorite

03:40:06.460 ashley what's your favorite event you've been to

03:40:13.340 well i have two um the first one being um the last uh winter nights at the poconos i don't i

03:40:21.340 don't believe that we anybody knew it was going to be the last one at that location

03:40:24.940 um but it was and it was just magical um you know we ended up um at the end of it accidentally

03:40:33.420 leaving a bag somebody loaded our ride to the airport and left the bag out which had the keys

03:40:41.340 in it to the truck that was at the airport you know it could have been a spiraling problem

03:40:46.940 and it wasn't we were like whatever it's fine we'll figure it out and we did and it was just

03:40:51.500 there was just so much peace that was you know had come over from that weekend um really

03:40:56.220 indescribable it was when um uh now witten young and trent and i and gothe's dam all um were

03:41:05.900 ordained it was that um um that event and that was my first national event away from bouldershaw

03:41:12.460 and it was just magical and great and there were just so many people there and um really quite

03:41:17.580 powerful um and then my my other oh i'm sorry were you gonna say something no i was just gonna ask

03:41:23.820 what year it was because they all start to run together for me when i go to all of them

03:41:30.700 would have been 2021 yeah i think 2021 yeah right after the first what we used to call

03:41:40.220 Well, free facts, you know, what used to be Fall Fest. But, and then the other one being the

03:41:49.980 our last tweets at the IGR out in South Dakota, there was lots of

03:41:57.180 changes that happened right before putting that all together and running a national event. It

03:42:01.900 takes a lot of time and planning and lots and lots of things to figure out and get ready.

03:42:07.980 and we were kind of back to square one um in not enough time before that um

03:42:14.620 we would measure it in weeks you know it was about uh six or seven weeks beforehand um but

03:42:19.580 we did it we pulled it all together and it was it was awesome it was great i think everybody had a

03:42:23.500 really really good time um and we were so lucky with the the weather too it was november in south

03:42:29.100 dakota and it was great you know so um it was really a true show of of the root in the core of

03:42:38.300 afa no matter what you guys did awesome um anybody who doesn't know nathan and ashley hosted uh

03:42:47.820 feces the iron hero last year and it was fantastic gives you a great job you guys

03:42:54.700 uh bought me gummy worms like sour gummy worms and i appreciate that that was amazing

03:43:00.460 you guys got me this enormous bag that should have lasted a long time

03:43:04.700 it didn't make it through the event but it was much much appreciated um you guys did great it

03:43:12.380 was awesome uh jesse what was your favorite event you've been to

03:43:16.860 i really enjoyed the larger events but you know like ashley said a lot of the times you're so

03:43:27.500 busy doing everything or attending to the children that you just kind of get lost so

03:43:32.940 i want to say my favorite was probably my first moot that i held as an apprentice folk builder

03:43:41.840 um it was at the room kensington runestone site and museum and there was snow on the ground

03:43:51.840 i had my kids couple kids with and one person showed and i tell you you know the conversations

03:44:00.080 and you know just the meaning and what happened there you know it really really you know meant

03:44:09.440 a lot to me at the time um the individual is unfortunately not with us anymore so i'd like

03:44:15.440 to just say hail martin rojas because uh yeah he was a great man and he did a lot for our hoff and

03:44:23.920 yeah he was there for my first moot so it was quite memorable

03:44:29.680 hail martin rojas

03:44:30.960 your folk remember no that's really cool jesse thank you for sharing that with us

03:44:39.600 uh tracy what's your favorite uh event you've been to

03:44:45.760 well i think back to one of the more memorable events which i know sheila and matt really can

03:44:55.120 remember my first midsummer which was in what was it 2022 yeah and um it was just because you know

03:45:07.360 everything just started off really insane like my flight got canceled and i was in charlotte north

03:45:16.720 carolina trying to figure out how to get out there and and it was just the craziest idea ever

03:45:26.160 but i ended up getting a flight to reno and then i don't even know how it even worked

03:45:34.880 because somehow an uber took me all that way

03:45:38.400 and so that's so i'm just getting to you know i just suddenly get to uh the hotel room and the

03:45:48.560 uber driver has to pee i let him just pee in the hotel room you know in the toilet but it was just

03:45:54.720 like at that point it was like five something on friday and i'm just like i'm gonna walk over to

03:46:01.520 the half and i just start walking like the one mile or whatever that it is and it was just like

03:46:09.040 i walk in and i'm like i'm finally here and i felt like it was just like this pilgrimage to even get

03:46:16.880 there that like i'm wearing these crazy clothes i didn't have any clothes no shampoo nothing i mean

03:46:25.840 i had clothes that i was wearing i didn't have any suitcase or anything else so it was just like the

03:46:31.120 most it was the most crazy way to get to odin's off but i made it and so for me it's like a story

03:46:39.200 that i'm always going to remember for like life and you should have you had such a good attitude

03:46:49.680 through all of it it was it was ridiculous but you kept your head up you went out there

03:46:58.080 it was awesome and i'm so glad that you did i'm glad it all worked out cody what's your favorite

03:47:04.720 event oh side note before you do that cody i'm sorry welcome plurds we have the plurred family

03:47:11.360 with us they're beautiful little baby daughter she's up she's up so late

03:47:19.040 does she see me wait i don't know she sees her phone right now

03:47:33.520 cody you were interrupted by a small child oh that's not the first time

03:47:39.920 so cody what's your favorite event you've been to i would have to say fray faxy 2023 um

03:47:49.040 First off, Allie and I took our oaths there.

03:47:53.040 But also, I was actually on Victor Never Sleeps the night before doing my presentation on Stubba.

03:48:02.360 So that was a really cool experience.

03:48:04.760 You know, taking my oath with my wife was amazing.

03:48:10.840 um unfortunately i had to miss it but uh gothi erlinson took his oath there or his ordination

03:48:18.740 there um but i was busy doing a children's bloat with a folk builder sarah alt which was a really

03:48:27.200 cool experience for me and then just all the people that ended up showing up um i got to meet

03:48:34.340 tracy there uh that was a great time danced with her that was fun um but yeah it was just a

03:48:41.740 it was just such a fun time and seeing so many people there even in the 110 degree heat inside

03:48:50.980 the hof it was wild um your uh balder's float you did and seeing the like the smoke come out

03:48:59.660 of your mouth during that was absolutely amazing so there was just so much cool stuff that went on

03:49:07.640 and it's just so memorable to me keep going around but before we do sierra has joined us

03:49:19.680 welcome sierra glad to have you on thank you i'm so glad to be on first time we've had you on

03:49:26.280 yes it is all right so pause for a second

03:49:32.680 tell us how you came to ask true and how you found the astro folk assembly if you would so

03:49:39.640 in 2020 i was going through a separation and i came back home to california um i had some friends

03:49:48.680 back east who were in the afa and they were telling me about you know all the good things

03:49:54.440 about the afa how they're very family oriented and were telling me that like in the time that

03:49:59.320 i was going through that this was something that would probably really benefit me and i kind of

03:50:03.320 dragged my feet for a while because you know california is a big state the hawk can't be that

03:50:08.840 close you know there's probably nobody near me which is crazy because i'm in sacramento you know

03:50:12.760 one of the main hubs um and february of 2021 or january of 2021 i reached out i applied february

03:50:23.800 2021 Charming of the Plow was my first event um I was like a little loner off in the corner which

03:50:30.860 if any of you know me that's not who I am at all that I was off in the corner kind of quiet taking

03:50:36.260 getting to a feel for things and um Stephen McNallan came and talked to me for probably

03:50:44.440 about two hours just sat there and we just talked and talked and talked um and then I made my way

03:50:51.460 into the kitchen where I met at the time Folk Builder Crystal and Githia McFallon and I was

03:50:57.460 helping out in the kitchen and I just remember feeling like this is home this is where I need

03:51:01.940 to be and not even two months later I applied to be an apprentice folk builder and haven't

03:51:09.440 looked back since it's just kind of where I've been. Excellent we're glad to have you. So we've

03:51:16.920 a question came up uh do you guys support races like native americans possibly being involved

03:51:23.240 with the afa if they had interest in learning about the gods and ways of life um

03:51:32.360 i think involved is a

03:51:36.840 very broad thing if native americans want to know what us white folks do that's

03:51:46.920 fantastic. I'm happy to talk to them about what we do and who we are and what we're about.

03:51:54.600 As far as joining or participating, no, of course not. They have their own, you know,

03:52:00.820 their own proud ethnic tradition and their own faith in their own gods that they ought to have

03:52:07.780 a relationship with. And many of them do. There's a very strong movement towards Native Americans

03:52:16.080 getting back to their gods we would certainly support them in doing that and uh i don't know

03:52:23.120 share notes and i don't know share notes and have a drink of some fire water or whatnot and

03:52:34.720 talk to each other about points that we have in common but as far as

03:52:38.560 being involved in house a true no and that would that kind of defeat the purpose um

03:52:48.400 i'd love to know about what they do and you know their ceremonies i think it's fascinating if

03:52:53.440 they're interested in what we do absolutely we're an open door we'd love to talk to them about that

03:52:58.880 but i think that you know perhaps unlike many other groups of people they very keenly appreciate

03:53:07.840 their uh connection with their ancestral gods that's how a lot of um a lot of our folk came

03:53:17.600 home to australia was through first i don't know when they rejected christianity kind of exploring

03:53:24.960 what native americans do and being advised by the native americans to quote unquote drink from our

03:53:31.280 own well and to embrace our own native spirituality so i i think that's very much how it works

03:53:43.120 i appreciate that cat um

03:53:49.760 this is a random question if you've got something to add please you know throw in your two cents

03:53:55.200 i do not have anything to add to this uh ryan orion of wotenson asks question what folding

03:54:04.240 knives do the gothar here use um edc wise i don't typically carry a folding knife though i have

03:54:15.520 a number of pocket knives and i couldn't tell you anything about them other than they cut nice and

03:54:22.720 I like them. What else you guys got? Anybody here have a particular folding knife preference?

03:54:30.320 The one that Nathan has in his pocket is the one that I use.

03:54:36.440 Okay. So Nathan does have a folding knife preference. He also has a sleep preference,

03:54:43.640 which has taken him away from this broadcast. Got very limited use of Gauthier Erlinson

03:54:49.780 tonight and i apologize oh tracy is showing us a folding knife

03:54:54.660 okay so it goes like that i only got it because it has a butterfly on it

03:55:03.880 you see so i don't know the answer is the preference of the gothar is the kind with

03:55:11.520 the butterfly on it i'm not gonna be confused with the butterfly that would actually make it

03:55:16.440 a Benchmade brand, and those are actually pretty good quality, expensive, like $200 folding

03:55:23.320 knives.

03:55:24.320 So to clarify, you said Bench, B-E-N-C-H, made, correct?

03:55:30.200 Yes, sir.

03:55:31.200 All right, because ain't about that other kind of life.

03:55:35.940 All right.

03:55:36.940 So, somebody asked again, what is Hofftoller?

03:55:47.600 Oh, Sierra, tell us about Hofftoller.

03:55:50.280 What is Hofftoller?

03:55:52.540 Oh, okay.

03:55:54.280 So, Hofftoller is the way that we're trying to get most of our members to push their donations to the church

03:56:02.340 because it is a percentage-based donation as opposed to like a tier level so if you think

03:56:08.740 about the tithings that the like christians do they all do percentage-based because they're

03:56:14.480 giving a percentage of their earnings to their god and so that is essentially what our what our

03:56:21.120 hoff dollar is is any what you earn you can pick a percentage to give as tithings to the gods

03:56:27.400 goddesses and the afa as a whole and um all of it goes towards the betterment of the hoffs in

03:56:32.440 general i know here at odin's hoff we definitely put it to good use there's been some great upgrades

03:56:37.720 uh come see it at midsummer there you go um who wants this uh question how do you interpret the

03:56:47.800 interplay between fate and personal agency in ausitry and how does this understanding influence

03:56:56.440 your daily life and decisions can i just add down that and then i i have to sign off and go to bed

03:57:04.600 here absolutely you can so um this this ties into a lot with with um what myself and um

03:57:16.680 apprentice folk builder uh ryan skinner um are pushing through with our virtue recovery meeting

03:57:23.240 So we recognize the kind of common knowledge of the terms of fate and what people fall in line with.

03:57:38.440 If anybody has any knowledge of or experience with anything AA or NA related, all very much, you know, based on a Christian mentality of that there is one plan for you.

03:57:53.860 Every single step that you have is planned out for you.

03:57:56.700 You give your will and your everything over to your God and you're their puppet.

03:58:01.240 and they you know you give your your will and yourself over to a god and it it kind of takes

03:58:05.720 the um the burden of choices off of your off of your chest um that being said we do appreciate

03:58:12.920 and respect everything that um the Tulsa program has brought forward and how far it's gotten people

03:58:19.080 however there's that aspect of of having this absolutely defined fate and um kind of a storyline

03:58:27.720 of our life that is laid out that doesn't necessarily fall in line with what Asitur

03:58:32.940 believe. The fates that have been laid forth are what could happen. The steps that are taken,

03:58:44.500 we have our own will. We do what we want. We're so exciting that the gods come to Midgard just

03:58:50.080 to watch, right? Because we have this will and we do these extravagant, ridiculous things, 0.77

03:58:57.480 all the time because we just make these choices and i think that's a component that's really

03:59:01.640 really important in faith so as to not get lost in a a group of people that are that you're

03:59:11.080 supposed to turn your will over to them um and it's it's the the being in in the now um being

03:59:20.040 your own person taking responsibility for yourself um in the good and the bad and i think that's how

03:59:25.640 how it turned, you know, the, the question that he asked me, how that ties into kind of the

03:59:31.760 definition of fate. And I think ours is a little bit more realistic and, and honestly beneficial

03:59:38.000 for the greater good, because we don't have anybody to blame our trips and our falls on.

03:59:45.380 Excellent. And Sheila, can you add, add your two cents on this, please?

03:59:51.520 oh the uh the more i do baby namings the more i feel like we're connecting with the norns

04:00:01.280 we do connect with the norns um there are um messages that come to us through the runes

04:00:10.320 and with that um there are indications of where we should go but we always have that

04:00:16.560 that ultimate decision of the fork in the road and what we do and i i don't feel like we're

04:00:24.000 necessarily faded but sometimes you just have to wonder the way things fall into place and

04:00:28.240 the people we end up with on the other hand we have all these terrible things that can happen

04:00:32.960 in life but they still move us along to this point don't they and we grow through them it is so

04:00:37.920 important to understand why we do have the travails we do what we learn from it what others learn every

04:00:44.400 time we know someone who loses a close friend or relative we feel for them but we also somehow feel

04:00:52.480 the loss for everybody you know those are just important things we learn and um it's just

04:00:59.120 important to uh to move on to not give away our own personal will to anything but to make the best

04:01:09.040 choices we can just uh as ashley was saying it's up to us to really um develop ourselves and be

04:01:17.040 better every day that's kind of our thing in our family um yeah we make mistakes we put it behind

04:01:22.960 us and move forward and this is pretty much where my philosophy comes from uh plurds what you got

04:01:32.400 i look at it uh very much like an onion but like at the core of it you know our mythic cosmos we

04:01:40.720 got the tree and the well and that well is huge um so there's all sorts of forces that are going on

04:01:48.640 that might not even have anything to do with you it could involve your ancestors

04:01:52.720 but things are being placed in that well and there's nothing you can do about it

04:01:56.160 it however what you can that's that's kind of the fate as in things should be right if they're not

04:02:04.020 changed or a different course or some outside influence is applied it's going to go a certain

04:02:10.120 way however we have our agency here in the moment where we can make that decision to go a different

04:02:18.980 direction or how we're going to handle ourselves and that in turn is also going to put something

04:02:23.240 back in the well um very much often you know i i look at that as like a process of um you know

04:02:31.000 things happen there's nothing you can do about it however you can choose how you're going to react

04:02:35.640 about that and if it's not something that can be completely removed from the well or stamped out

04:02:41.240 you could at least reintroduce it in a mitigated way so that the next time it has to come out

04:02:47.640 it's it's less so and less so and less so um and much in that same sense you know we mentioned

04:02:54.920 that outside influence is going to affect that that fate that's going to come back out um being

04:03:01.420 mindful of one's actions as well you know because you you're contributing to that well and i think

04:03:08.060 that's a lot of um it kind of spreads out through a lot of undertones and also true like looking out

04:03:14.200 for your folk, being there for your kin, you know, making sure you're a good, sturdy fence post

04:03:21.100 when you read Culture of the Teutons about Prith. So it's a very layered and complex thing. But at

04:03:29.280 the end of the day, as far as we're concerned, whatever comes out of that well at us, we have

04:03:34.780 a choice to either be a victim or a hero in how we're going to handle it and put it back in the

04:03:41.420 well or improve the situation so you know yeah things are going to happen you can't do anything

04:03:46.760 about it but you do have a decision you do get a choice in how you're going to deal with it

04:03:51.700 all right hey man i have to sign off it's late my husband's gonna wandering around waiting for

04:04:01.360 me to go to bed so it's been lovely guys thank you all for speaking here good night

04:04:08.220 send steve our appreciation and you have a great night sheila you are amazing you are such

04:04:14.940 we're here doing what we're doing and we appreciate you guys both so much

04:04:19.500 thank you i love you all bye-bye good night

04:04:29.100 so donald hudson asks do you have to pay hoff toller or are there other dues amounts

04:04:35.500 Jesse, do you want to take this?

04:04:42.860 No, you do not, but it is a good way to give back. There's other tiers. I'm not sure of the

04:04:50.940 exact amounts, but anywhere from 15 to, I'm sure you could give a thousand if you're that generous.

04:04:58.140 i myself can't afford that but um yeah i'm on half taller myself and it works i do a yearly

04:05:05.980 one instead of monthly just to get it over and done with so i don't have to worry about it coming out

04:05:11.020 so that's what works for me yeah you can certainly do that um you know so you know the lowest like

04:05:20.140 she said is 15 a month but that's i mean that the lowest depends so if you're broke then hoff toller

04:05:31.420 is the lowest if you're one of our international members and you live in a very poor country then

04:05:37.580 one percent is a much more reasonable thing to do perhaps of 15. in the united states 15 is the you

04:05:45.980 You know, that's the kind of entry level.

04:05:49.360 And it's not about that.

04:05:51.040 People go through hard times.

04:05:52.620 People go through stuff, and that's fine.

04:05:55.120 We're not about, you know, chasing you down and twisting your arm for do's.

04:06:02.180 But it is about contributing or not.

04:06:04.860 And there's something that just exists as a thing of something either is of value to you or it isn't.

04:06:12.320 what we've learned over time that free equals of no value not a hundred percent of the time but

04:06:23.200 very often when you're in a position where you do contribute it does you you are putting something

04:06:29.400 you do have stakes in then it matters and then you're part of contributing we want you know

04:06:36.920 nobody likes hassling people about money that's not what we're about it doesn't feel good it's

04:06:43.980 it's whatever but if we didn't then we wouldn't have hoffs we wouldn't have sickerheim we wouldn't

04:06:51.640 be able to do the thing the things that we do and so it's it's it is what it is

04:06:58.120 hoff tollers are really cool way to do that because like i said earlier in the broadcast

04:07:02.900 it rises and falls with you know excuse me it is getting late but with your successes and your

04:07:11.880 failures in life so we can kind of rise and fall together and it's one percent of you know if you're

04:07:19.980 broke one percent it's really small and if you're just killing it and you're a movie star then one

04:07:25.480 percent is huge to the rest of us but still one percent the guy doing one percent um but yeah

04:07:32.580 there's other ways to do it uh some people do 15 a month some people do 25 some people do 50

04:07:38.740 or some people do those you know extrapolate it out over the year and do a one-time yearly payment

04:07:45.340 but you know money shouldn't be a reason to not uh not join and be part of what we're doing so

04:07:54.060 you're having a hard time reach out to your folk builder and we'll see what we can do to make that

04:07:58.060 work for you because that's not what it's all about but it is kind of a necessary thing to

04:08:03.580 move us forward um yeah go ahead yeah that's like as a folk builder that's probably the hardest

04:08:13.660 part of the job for me is reaching out to folks about about uh donations and dues because it's

04:08:19.900 an awkward conversation the worst part of it is though is when people essentially ghost us and

04:08:25.980 don't answer us or leave the afl together under the radar because they don't have the money

04:08:31.900 instead of speaking up and talking to a folk builder about it or to a go thar about it we

04:08:36.380 are more than willing to you know extend you give you you know give you time help you get on your

04:08:41.980 feet i know sheila she has like job listings for people in places to help people get jobs you know

04:08:49.020 we we are here to support you even though we're reaching out because you may have gone expired

04:08:54.140 it's not because we want the money we want to see how we can help you like hey you went

04:08:57.820 expired for a reason what is that reason is it because you don't have the money and we need to

04:09:01.900 help you in some way or is it because your car just went expired or you do a yearly membership

04:09:06.460 your year is up it's not always a bad thing and we're here to help um yeah absolutely

04:09:19.020 um yes there's a lot of options it's not about that but what it is about and what I think is

04:09:35.400 an active thing is whether you are participating or not so often when contributions uh dry up and

04:09:45.660 nobody can contact you it's very often a kind of a slow disinterest in being part of the community

04:09:52.800 if you're active and you're participating nobody's going to shut you down because you can't pay

04:09:56.880 something that's not it's not we're trying to do it's not about that so yeah it's kind of a long

04:10:03.480 answer to a short question but there's a lot of people listening um finn ray fast is there an afa

04:10:11.040 member who is rich um rich means different things to different folks we have lawyers in the afa

04:10:24.480 and they're doing pretty well we have professors and they're doing pretty well we have some people

04:10:30.640 that are doing really well um we have people kind of all across the spectrum i don't know that we

04:10:38.320 have any like venture capitalists or you know ceos of fortune 500 companies or you know actors or

04:10:48.640 you know superstars but you know as far as the normal spectrum of people we got members

04:10:54.320 kind of all across that um jesse what's your favorite memory from the afa

04:11:08.320 My favorite memory would be when I first got to meet the McNallans. It was the Feast

04:11:21.100 of the Iron Harrier down in Oklahoma. And we, meaning my kindred members, Ashley and

04:11:33.540 nathan drove down in her lovely subaru i have another name for it but i won't say right now

04:11:41.300 um great car and uh yeah getting to just be in their presence and you know hear founder

04:11:50.340 mcnellen's stories and the life that he just brings with you know talking about ireland and

04:11:57.540 and everything and, you know,

04:12:00.240 getting to almost experience it with him

04:12:03.300 by just the bigger in his voice, you know,

04:12:06.720 you can't really get around that.

04:12:08.540 And Freya's bloat with Sheila was, you know,

04:12:13.620 she really has her heart into everything she does

04:12:16.540 and just being able to be in their presence, you know,

04:12:20.420 I just felt so humbled and, you know,

04:12:23.060 that was a very great experience for me.

04:12:27.540 excellent uh tracy what is your favorite memory of the afa well i have a lot of favorite memories

04:12:40.320 because i feel like i make a new favorite memory like every every time i get together with anyone

04:12:46.820 from the afa you know from just meeting you know members of my kindred for the first time

04:12:54.320 You know, one of the really good memories was, was it Yule 2021? And that was like the first AFA event I actually went to. We didn't even have Njortzhoff at the time. And it seemed like that was, that was a really good event.

04:13:17.440 you know I met a lot of people that I still you know know now and I love them and appreciate them

04:13:25.660 and talk to them every day that's my first time meeting Lane and after talking to him on the phone

04:13:32.180 for like a few years even you know but um that was a good that was a good memory also um one of

04:13:40.900 one of the nice memories is like meeting new members when they first come for the first time

04:13:48.680 and especially meeting little Irene that was one of my favorites

04:13:54.260 you know and I even remember we had like a little shower at the Hoff like a baby shower for Anna

04:14:02.420 that was very nice so it's just like everything I think all all of my memories are my favorite

04:14:08.820 with my favorite all right jason what's your favorite and fade memory

04:14:14.720 well i mean you got you got anna over here just being like so um

04:14:22.720 yeah i wanted to say the barbershop that you and swan i think we're talking about that um

04:14:29.120 that that last week actually that was that was actually something really special but um

04:14:35.020 probably one that's pretty close to it um i hate to go on to an event that i hosted but

04:14:41.960 it was the auction at ostara 2017 um it just really stood out because there was some tension

04:14:50.100 in the beginning and we all kind of came together pulled it off um and it ended up being really

04:14:55.740 great but there was this this horn right um that i could blow through and i thought it was it was

04:15:03.840 super awesome because there's no extra

04:15:05.780 parts attached

04:15:07.700 to it. It was all carved into

04:15:09.720 the horn and everything. I'm like,

04:15:11.620 you know what? This is going to be really cool just to call

04:15:13.780 folk over for all the meals

04:15:15.740 with this. It seemed it was kind of spread

04:15:17.880 out and I'm like, cool.

04:15:19.860 I'm already running around. I can do

04:15:21.660 this. It's an old

04:15:23.660 white people thing. It'll be super cool. 1.00

04:15:26.540 I took it off the auction table,

04:15:30.460 figured out how to blow on it.

04:15:31.960 Apparently, I was halfway decent.

04:15:33.840 folks showed up for meals but um you know come saturday night the auction's going i'm like man

04:15:40.800 i love that horn so much this weekend and you know they're just people were bidding and bidding and

04:15:46.880 bidding and i'm like got down to two people myself and one other guy and i'm like hey

04:15:52.960 yeah you know that horn you heard all weekend going for like meals and everything that was me

04:15:58.160 slobbering all over it and then i immediately won the horn um but like the origin story right is um

04:16:07.460 you know it's it's fun for me but all of the memories from every place that i've carried that

04:16:12.380 to and then like sharing that with folks and perhaps the luck that's that's kind of grown in

04:16:19.020 it um just kind of moved forward from that day forward and it was just kind of the start of

04:16:24.580 something, just one more little thing that just makes the, the AFA something richer in my life

04:16:29.480 and brings back fond memories. So, um, next to that barbershop, that's, that's what I got.

04:16:36.700 Fair enough. Uh, Sierra, what's your favorite AFA memory?

04:16:44.940 Okay. So most recently would definitely be my daughter's baby naming. That was something very

04:16:51.220 beautiful to be a part of. I was a blubbering mess, very near and dear to my heart. But

04:16:57.500 on a different note, my all-time favorite AFA memory is midsummer 2021. Specifically

04:17:06.860 after auction, I had won an Africaners flag and I had decided to adorn it around me like a little

04:17:15.000 dress and mr flavel was behind me and he made that exact face and i took a picture

04:17:23.400 that picture has become a giant meme within the afa and is now the tell your go think this

04:17:29.240 approval t-shirt that was the gift that kept on giving and i think about it all the time i made

04:17:35.480 matt so let me back up for about dude like a year of me being in the afa i love matt and i like to

04:17:43.960 think matt loves me and every every time i took a picture he was behind me making the most sour

04:17:51.240 face like as if he could not stand my presence so i took every photo i had with matt in the background

04:17:57.880 cut his face out of it and put it on a cup and i gave it to him for yule 2021 and um

04:18:05.800 doll's hair disapproval was on there probably about seven different times and it's just become

04:18:10.920 a giant meme in the afa and i think that's like my favorite memory because nobody knows really

04:18:16.360 the origin other than the actual folk builders and so it's kind of funny when i see people like

04:18:21.560 buying the shirt or or putting it up somewhere i'm like i remember that day it was right after

04:18:26.920 i became a folk builder and matt had the look of oh great this is what we're bringing on the team

04:18:31.400 okay so the next question um from eric the red light do you have advice for a parent

04:18:48.920 and does that advice change for the two genders i have a daughter and expecting a son soon

04:18:58.040 So, Jessie, what are your thoughts on this?

04:19:06.880 There are definitely masculine and feminine things you need to teach each of your children.

04:19:14.420 I have three daughters myself and two sons, so you have to make sure they're balanced

04:19:21.820 and, you know, have mother-father figure is definitely important in their life.

04:19:30.780 As far as a different upbringing, you know, I run a tight roost here and, you know, rules are rules.

04:19:44.260 There's those golden rules, you know, treat everybody the way you want to be treated or, you know, pick up after yourself, simple things like that.

04:19:51.820 But, yeah, you really want to instill those masculine and feminine aspects in your boys and girls, for sure.

04:20:00.740 How about you, Tracy?

04:20:05.720 I am probably the wrong person to ask because I only have one child.

04:20:12.420 And how about Jason?

04:20:15.160 He has a little one.

04:20:17.280 He can answer this one better.

04:20:20.660 Fair enough.

04:20:21.380 one when you guys were gonna pick on me um so there's there's i don't want to say it's a lot 0.52

04:20:26.900 but there's there's several things right um yes there are only two genders period like that's

04:20:33.380 considering our audience i don't think that needs to be harped on right so uh boys and girls have

04:20:38.580 different needs different rites of passages um as far as that goes i would you know consult your

04:20:44.020 gothar and geethias you know gothies and geethias um to see exactly what that might be um when

04:20:52.500 they're old enough to kind of maybe participate and understand as well founder mcnowen had written

04:20:58.660 a booklet called living also through that has a cool kind of format in it for um like family

04:21:04.020 meetings for like at dinner right you know like we do at a holiday with our folk i mean it should

04:21:09.700 be doing that kind of every day on a micro level at home you've come together how's your day um

04:21:16.180 is there anything that needs to be addressed something that the man needs to take care of

04:21:20.180 something to me needs to get off their chest um and it kind of provides that healthy outlet to

04:21:26.740 communicate with your child you know when they're ready to you know because there's various stages

04:21:31.700 um you know i've heard plenty of comments about you know teenagers they're gonna they're gonna

04:21:35.460 give you a hard time but if you build that rapport when they're younger then they know it's there

04:21:39.700 Right. And it's kind of what the family does. So when they are ready to open up.

04:21:44.760 You know, the rapport is there and it's less awkward. Right.

04:21:50.380 Another thing, too, is I know you see lots of pictures of it at.

04:21:56.580 There's the Tumblr, especially with some of our lady folk.

04:22:00.880 And I see a lot with Sheila. Get your get the kids involved in, like, the children's folks.

04:22:06.540 right um socialize them into the afa at the hawk um let them play together they're going to figure

04:22:13.540 out kind of naturally like one from soaking up what the men do and the women do um you know

04:22:19.820 what's expected of young young women and young men and then they're also going to kind of build

04:22:25.180 that rapport and have that play where that kind of becomes ingrained into the next generation's

04:22:30.600 know social uh structure and it becomes more and more natural and it produces healthier kids so

04:22:39.800 um yeah get with the go thar about rites passages as your kids mature get them to the hops interact

04:22:47.080 with other kids and um you know get with your your your growth your geeky who's leading children's

04:22:52.600 flow and um check out that um that segment there like the family meetings from steven

04:22:59.560 downs uh living also for book but that would be my uh my best advice to kind of give you

04:23:05.240 some direction and start forming some traditions in your home cool enough

04:23:16.200 So, W. Ulf asks, next plans for Sigurheim.

04:23:32.060 So, I don't know how next you mean with next plans for Sigurheim.

04:23:36.520 So right now, real next-next plans are getting it ready for Sigur Bloat coming up in a little bit over a month, a month and a half.

04:23:52.400 So we want to cut down some area.

04:23:55.320 We've got some fencing that we're trying to remove, mostly just barbed wire and stakes.

04:24:02.640 got some overgrowth in the ditches out front that we're trying to cut down

04:24:09.640 we also have a project that we're working on some folks don't know we have a

04:24:16.880 very old graveyard there and so we want to

04:24:22.480 so what i want to say on that let me kind of pull up random side note gw farnsworth bought us five

04:24:36.360 coffees hail the doers hail to you gw farnsworth we appreciate that very much thank you so i'm

04:24:43.900 pulling up something here to kind of so i know what i'm talking about because people ask questions

04:24:50.920 I want to give you all specifics if I got them.

04:24:55.120 All right.

04:24:55.840 So that said, we've got a graveyard at Sigerheim.

04:25:00.200 We want to get that squared away to where it's nice.

04:25:05.580 It has not received a lot of love over the last, say, the last century.

04:25:13.120 So we're trying to work with that to get it nice.

04:25:18.000 so what we want to do is clear ground around the graves that we have so that's spaced out

04:25:27.520 hopefully in doing so we might find a couple of the missing graves so as far as we know in the

04:25:37.200 In the graveyard, we got one guy, one gentleman who was interred there, and his dates are even off, but the records have it that he was in an unmarked grave in the graveyard, so that's going to be kind of hard to come.

04:25:57.300 No, we do know the dates of this guy. I apologize.

04:26:01.120 He passed away in 1936, and I think that his grave is unmarked.

04:26:07.340 So we may find some kind of something for that.

04:26:12.760 We still have three other graves that we'd like to find to make sure we know where they're at.

04:26:24.760 There's kind of two sections where folks were buried, so we're working at cleaning that up.

04:26:29.920 In the landscaping and cleaning up process, I think we may discover stones that we haven't already found.

04:26:36.820 And the other thing is we also have a couple of, we have three stones right now that are broken that we are going to repair.

04:26:54.680 And we've looked into that process as well.

04:26:57.840 It's a very old graveyard.

04:26:58.820 graveyard. The oldest burial there, according to my records that I have, is 1857. We actually have

04:27:11.440 a Civil War, or I'm sorry, a Revolutionary War veteran who is buried there. So we're trying to

04:27:18.640 take care of that and kind of cut in a path there that makes that a little bit easier for folks to

04:27:25.440 get to. Those are the real next developments. I think maybe for the bigger phase that you're

04:27:30.800 talking about, about a year from now, two initial families are looking at building by having a

04:27:40.080 house built on site. We're also looking at building a road that goes from the

04:27:46.580 Hunting Creek Road, which is the road that runs out front, all the way up to the top of this ridge

04:27:54.400 where we're eventually going to build tiers off when the time's right so getting the irrigation

04:28:00.880 and you know cutting in phase of that road developed i say road i don't really mean road

04:28:07.360 i guess i mean really long driveway so we're looking at that and i think those are the next

04:28:13.920 projects on the horizon there if that brings it forward a little bit

04:28:18.800 Ryan Harlan says that he would like to say hello to folks and that he would if he was

04:28:31.280 not so technologically impaired. So hello from Ryan. Svan is no longer here, so he can't

04:28:42.300 ask, answer the questions directed at Svan, because we're running two hours behind on our

04:28:48.960 questions. But it do. Maybe Nick can write that down. We can ask Svan about Gleema next time we

04:28:57.840 have him on, which will be next week. Hmm. All right. So from Finn Wraith, have you guys ever

04:29:09.460 watched medieval mma like mma but with swords and shields and dress like knights they do that in

04:29:17.540 russia and it's really cool so i have watched some of that and it's awesome because it is just

04:29:24.180 completely brutal and um realistic the russians go hard on that uh jesse have you watched any of that

04:29:34.980 ever i have not unfortunately

04:29:43.940 sad day all right tracy have you seen any of that unfortunately i haven't

04:29:52.260 jason what about you of course i have and it makes sense that you mentioned the russian thing

04:29:59.220 because shortly after i got a whole stream of slap fights which also caught my attention

04:30:08.900 all right uh sierra you ever seen me that seemed like tournament of the kings like where they do

04:30:15.380 like the jousting and stuff i've never seen them like actually mma fight though oh you're talking

04:30:20.500 about like okay like where they dress up as knights and they're like yeah that's like dinner theater

04:30:27.140 no this is legit like they go hard and they beat each other until they quit

04:30:33.700 with well i know we need to put on the next ulterior gothic dinner then

04:30:37.700 like instead of wwe put on the medieval knights well maybe we should maybe we should i'll butt in

04:30:45.300 and talk about it because i used to be in a group and i it wasn't a group of this but one of the

04:30:53.220 guys who ran the kansas branch of the group he did this he did this they did um and yeah no you put

04:31:04.420 on full like knight armor and you've got swords and maces and axes but they're all like you know

04:31:12.820 blunts but they're still giant chunks of metal and you'll beat each other with them and then

04:31:18.980 there's also like punching and like some people like shield punch or if you don't have a shield

04:31:24.180 you'll just punch with your bare gauntlet with your gauntlet and fist and they just go hard

04:31:31.140 and it's basically just you know you don't get seriously hurt you might get a little hurt but

04:31:36.820 you've got you're covered in metal you just go until people get so tired they can't throw a

04:31:41.780 punch anymore yeah like just to get a little excited about that um i mean that used to be

04:31:48.180 a real source of entertainment when there wasn't

04:31:50.260 a war to fight. You get these

04:31:52.200 young knights with nothing to do, still trying to

04:31:54.180 go out there with glory and fame, and

04:31:56.020 they'd be like, cool.

04:31:58.660 Mr. Lord, would you like a battle

04:32:00.120 royale in the field over there?

04:32:02.840 Bet some money, and all your vendors

04:32:04.260 are going to make bank, because we're going to buy all the

04:32:06.180 food up in town. So there's some

04:32:07.900 historical precedents for that actually

04:32:10.200 being a thing.

04:32:13.340 I just think it's

04:32:14.220 cool. Figured I'd share that.

04:32:15.400 all right so next up this is for you jesse uh kevin t i just realized your ermine soul you

04:32:25.780 have jesse what meaning does it have to you that you would get it tattooed

04:32:30.380 uh well first off it is my profession i'm a tattoo apprentice um i have many

04:32:41.180 many many symbols of our faith um and this is just one um you know the great pillar cosmic pillar

04:32:50.700 many have seen it wood stone and mean there's controversy behind it as with many of our

04:32:58.160 symbols that aren't i mean it is in some lore and history but as to what it actually looks like

04:33:07.640 is kind of still up in the air. Mine has both stone and wood represented in it.

04:33:17.000 It's a totem to our gods, Odin and Thor in my eyes. And, you know, many can run along

04:33:24.980 correlations of the Romans and being like Jupiter pillars. They were taken down. I'm horrible with

04:33:32.800 dates at some point in history, around 700, 800-ish, but do not quote me on that because

04:33:40.900 I am horrible. I'm probably wrong, but yeah, just another one to add to my collection.

04:33:48.040 And actually, I had seen another ermensel on another member out at Sigerheim, and yeah,

04:34:00.040 I thought it was beautiful there on her as well.

04:34:05.580 Howdy, Ryan.

04:34:07.520 How's it going?

04:34:08.900 Odenshoff is getting some good representation tonight.

04:34:11.700 There you go.

04:34:18.400 One second. 1.00

04:34:30.040 sorry about that all right um question for any females still on what would you say to a woman 1.00

04:34:45.960 who doesn't understand why any woman would want to be part of the afa jesse let's start with you

04:34:51.560 oh hey ryan welcome how's it going matt

04:34:55.320 what would i say to a woman that doesn't understand what a woman does in the afa is that

04:35:04.800 kind of yeah like why would it why would a woman want to join the afa says this um really i mean

04:35:11.080 why wouldn't you um the women that i've met in the afa have been like some of the most grounded

04:35:19.780 and, you know, I've got your back. 1.00

04:35:22.900 You don't got to have drama women in your life 0.99

04:35:26.200 because, you know, we want to help each other. 1.00

04:35:30.120 We don't want to compete with each other.

04:35:32.180 And, you know, yeah, if you are worried about other women, 0.98

04:35:39.420 you know, that is one place that they're there to welcome you,

04:35:43.400 not to, you know, judge or anything like that. 0.99

04:35:45.980 So, yeah, there's definitely a place for womenfolk 0.69

04:35:49.980 in our doors in our church and everywhere so there's no reason you know to shy away

04:36:00.380 say you tracy i wonder where this person lives and i wonder like what what they think like if

04:36:09.180 they're near a half or if they have a lot of afa members because i remember way back when i first

04:36:15.820 joined the afa and there was a long time where i didn't go out to moots or anything but i was um i

04:36:22.780 was really busy every single weekend so once my schedule cleared up that's which took several

04:36:30.540 years that's when i finally went out to uh to yule in 2021 but it was nice that that yule was actually

04:36:39.900 like at a house because a lot of people probably think that the afa is just going to be like not

04:36:47.980 for women because it's just going to be five guys in the woods and then like one woman like hi i'm

04:36:55.100 just here by myself and it's really not like that in in a lot of areas so if that's what they're

04:37:02.700 worried about i mean they could probably get um some reassurance that it's not like that in that

04:37:10.060 area because you know we have hoffs it's definitely not like that at the hoffs and um if the folk

04:37:18.140 builders in those specific areas have their moots and their their events in places that are like 0.94

04:37:25.500 mom friendly and kid friendly and woman friendly then those women shouldn't you know feel like any

04:37:32.940 kind of hesitance about joining because um it will be a great experience for them but i can

04:37:40.540 understand where maybe some people would be if they'd shy away if they thought it was just like

04:37:44.860 five guys in the woods type of thing from the olden days fair enough what about you sierra

04:37:52.780 so my experience i'm going to speak on from odin's hof perspective um like women are so

04:38:01.240 celebrated at the hof like without us the hof probably wouldn't run as smoothly as it does

04:38:07.140 i mean odin's hof all of our folk builders aside from ryan are women and we have a githya and you

04:38:14.200 know we we are celebrated there we i cook pretty much all of the meals whenever i'm there and when

04:38:22.320 when it comes time for dishes, I don't touch a single dish. The men come in there and they're

04:38:25.560 like, you've done enough. Like you've been working hard. I'm going to come in. I'm going to wash

04:38:28.480 these dishes. I'm going to clean up, you know, um, the women go and we, we, you know, we bless 0.75

04:38:33.120 the mead and the men, sorry, I'm at a loss for words. Like the men there don't treat us like,

04:38:39.940 oh, you belong in the kitchen and you can't be a part of what we do. Like women are an integral 1.00

04:38:43.960 part of everything we do. If we weren't there to bless the meat, we wouldn't have 1.00

04:38:47.080 need for the bloat. The need needs to be blessed. The women bring in that home feeling when you're

04:38:55.300 at the Hof. I mean, not to say that men couldn't do it, but they don't have the same softness that 0.98

04:39:00.320 women have. So we're that smiling, shining face when you come in. We're the ones walking you into

04:39:04.680 the home. I think because Odenshof has mostly women in leadership, we tend to do things a little 0.94

04:39:12.540 bit more feminine like with the desire bloat that's supposed to be towards women you know we 0.59

04:39:17.000 were like okay we're gonna wash your hands we're gonna dry them off we're going to do this and that

04:39:21.240 it's the women are put in especially in leadership we're put into so many different role roles that

04:39:27.340 make us see be seen and feel as equal to the men we're not seen as beneath them we're not treated

04:39:33.360 as if we're beneath them we're treated as equals and i think that a lot of people who aren't

04:39:39.380 familiar with the AFA and they're coming into the AFA with the mindset of things that they may have

04:39:43.800 heard, you know, maybe on a more political side of things, think that the women aren't going to

04:39:47.760 be treated fairly or nicely or in any way, shape, or form as an equal. And that's absolutely not 1.00

04:39:53.520 the case. And if we weren't, I wouldn't be here, you know. All right. Cool. So Ryan joined us for

04:40:05.060 the first time. Ryan, tell us about yourself. What brought you to Ausitru and what brought

04:40:13.200 you to the Ausitru Hope Assembly? Thank you for having me, Matt. So I've been practicing

04:40:19.280 Ausitru since about 2015. I discovered the AFA about 2016. At the time, I lived in Fairbanks,

04:40:29.360 alaska very remote where i lived another alaska 907 guy um i spoke to it was folk builder eric

04:40:38.960 wisman at the time uh we interacted on it was facebook uh i've been with the afa since 2017

04:40:49.840 and from there in 2021 i moved down to california for a number of reasons but i am located only

04:40:57.840 about an hour and a half away from Odin's Hof, so I'm there quite frequently, and I see one of my

04:41:04.400 folk builder sisters I see over there all the time, and Sierra. Yeah, and I love the atmosphere,

04:41:12.120 I love the camaraderie, the people that I deal with are just the top tier, most genuine people

04:41:18.700 I've ever met in my entire life, and I have great appreciation for the AFA, and I would like to give

04:41:23.980 back all right um okay that said i'm gonna sneak off for the night you guys all right

04:41:39.020 thank you for coming on everything congrats victory have a good night we'll talk to you later

04:41:53.980 Okay, so Raven asks, question, how do you navigate the teachings of Ausatru in developing an ethical framework that addresses contemporary moral dilemmas, i.e. abortion, public anti-white rhetoric, LGBTQ+, push?

04:42:14.760 Okay, so what I've tried to say a lot is that principles are timeless.

04:42:36.040 Specifics are based on condition, their condition.

04:42:42.180 so one of the biggest things is to learn the larger truth from our lore and our relationship

04:42:51.620 with our gods and you have to apply that to different situations one thing that's very

04:42:59.060 uncomfortable is everything isn't black and white there's very clearly some things that are

04:43:05.780 absolutely evil and that are absolutely glorious and righteous there's a lot of things in between

04:43:14.260 and the principles in our lore help us address those um you're never going to have a complex

04:43:23.540 listing of every possible permutation of political and social developments that's just not realistic

04:43:31.380 but you can have principles that guide you in making those choices and i think our lore when

04:43:38.500 viewed fairly helps us quite a bit to navigate those things in ways that make sense something

04:43:46.260 else i want to say is the lore doesn't exist in an ancient encapsulated viking era

04:43:53.780 uh our the collected wisdom of our folk and our spiritual leaders goes well before the viking age

04:44:05.480 and exists in the age we live in today um to discount that is

04:44:14.720 illogical and a little bit disrespectful and disingenuous we're not attempting to

04:44:21.200 ate what the vikings once did or pretend that we're vikings we're not our gods are eternal

04:44:28.720 our folk is eternal we're practicing ausitru in 2024 and the political and social ramifications

04:44:38.000 of that are likely very different than they will be when folks are practicing ausitru in

04:44:44.400 you know 30 24 but the principles will remain the same um

04:45:03.360 looking a couple things we're still really behind in the chat i'm sorry about that guys

04:45:07.840 uh somebody i wish i would have gotten to this when sheila was here how is the founder doing

04:45:15.120 these days oh so sheila could have told you how steel steve's doing a little bit better than i

04:45:20.320 could um but he's doing good as of when i talked to him two weeks ago at the hall sounded like he

04:45:33.600 was doing all right he led one of the best men's groups that i've had i've been part of it at an

04:45:39.840 event for a long time talking about the alfar seems like his health is doing really well

04:45:46.880 uh he did a really nice uh alfar bloat on friday night so i think he's doing pretty good i'm sure

04:45:56.160 he would appreciate you asking and we'll pass that along um anna i got a question githya anna

04:46:03.440 plurred uh can you delve into the difference between how we view our holy powers versus how

04:46:12.080 abrahamic monotheists interpret theirs

04:46:20.320 yeah um

04:46:29.200 we view our holy powers as

04:46:33.440 we're directly connected to them um a lot of modern day monotheists like the abrahamic faiths

04:46:44.320 it's not so much a god or divine being that they're connected to

04:46:48.960 it's a god or divine being that they are beholden to that's not to say that we're not

04:46:55.440 we don't owe our gods our gratitude, but we have a connection. For somebody of the folk

04:47:07.300 to be honoring their gods, there is a connection there. For a lot of people that honor the

04:47:12.740 Abrahamic gods, there is no connection whatsoever. They are from land that has nothing to do 0.99

04:47:22.440 with their blood they their ancestors didn't honor those gods they're just

04:47:30.840 kind of it's the difference between having wearing your skin and then

04:47:38.040 wearing a coat. The skin is yours. And there you go. I'm sure there's lots of differences in how

04:47:55.260 we relate to our gods versus how. So one thing that I want to say that I think is fundamental

04:48:03.960 in the difference between the two.

04:48:09.660 And this is one of the biggest things

04:48:11.860 that was instrumental in me coming home to Alistair True

04:48:15.680 as opposed to staying in Christianity.

04:48:25.120 Our gods want us to be winners and to succeed.

04:48:31.380 need we want to make them proud of us through our excellence and our achievement

04:48:42.180 one thing that is very important in Abrahamic faiths is that man is saved

04:48:54.420 by faith alone and not by works that none should boast

04:49:01.380 and that's very very fundamentally different um there is an emphasis in the abrahamic faiths

04:49:09.140 on making yourself as

04:49:16.100 small and irrelevant as possible and giving it all to their god whereas in ours you want

04:49:23.620 to make yourself as great as possible so the gods take notice of you and are proud of you

04:49:29.860 and i think it's just so polar opposite we want to boast our boasting draws the attentions of

04:49:38.260 the gods to judge us and hopefully to deem us worthy we want them to be proud of us it was one

04:49:45.720 of the fundamentals um when i was in christianity i it really rubbed me wrong and they

04:49:53.960 by describing their god as you know the heavenly father if a human father did that to their son

04:50:06.620 they would be considered a terribly abusive person you know if your child went up and won

04:50:14.960 an award for something for them to have to like present you the award and tell the audience that

04:50:22.580 they're only able to do good things because you're so awesome and you gave them life and you fed them

04:50:29.140 man you know having a daughter now and it's different i wouldn't want her to do that i'd

04:50:35.540 want to celebrate her winning something and i would be so happy and so proud of her doing

04:50:40.580 something good um and that's a really fundamental difference between our relationship to our gods

04:50:49.780 and the abrahamics in relationship to theirs

04:50:55.700 but there's a lot of different ways uh ryan do you see a difference fundamentally in how we

04:51:04.180 our relationship with our gods versus the abrahamics with their god uh yeah so just to kind

04:51:12.020 of piggyback off of what you said uh the the way that the monotheistic abrahamic god is is viewed

04:51:20.740 in my opinion i'm not a goatee so take that with a grain of salt uh is that everything that you do

04:51:28.900 as an individual is not yours it's you have no credit to be taken there's nothing to be earned

04:51:36.740 everything you do is in the glory of that god and our gods my perspective want to see you to

04:51:44.580 succeed they created order in in they created us to maintain order and the more that we succeed the

04:51:54.180 more that we advance the more that we accomplish brings um brings a good reputation to them

04:52:04.660 It shows that they're worthy to be followed. And I feel that our gods have the ability to bestow an example for us to follow instead of orders. And that's why I find Alcetru to be a lot more fitting for me.

04:52:24.740 Yeah, I'd like to make the point, and I feel like this is kind of a, I don't know, I don't

04:52:42.140 make the point to be rude, but to directly answer the question.

04:52:49.080 If you listen, and this maybe doesn't speak to Judaism or Islam, I don't know.

04:52:54.740 speaks very specifically to Christianity.

04:52:59.760 The Sermon on the Mount and the fundamentals

04:53:02.900 of what has come down to us about Christianity 0.94

04:53:06.200 is celebrating failure and weakness.

04:53:11.600 You know, blessed are the meek,

04:53:14.040 blessed are those who mourn,

04:53:15.600 blessed are the long-suffering.

04:53:18.300 It's basically a celebration of

04:53:21.120 of losers and i don't mean that in a disrespectful way but our focus has always been a celebration of

04:53:31.420 winning we celebrate heroes we celebrate victories we celebrate success theirs is very

04:53:39.540 much a you know and the least shall be made greatest it's a um celebration of all the

04:53:47.800 downtrodden somehow through the majesty of their god being elevated to positions of greatness

04:53:57.020 ours is about struggle and about your acts of heroism or effort or great accomplishment

04:54:07.240 bringing you reputation and that making our gods proud of you and you ascending through

04:54:14.460 through deeds. One of the common refrains in Ausatru that has always rung true and rings

04:54:21.700 true today is that we are our deeds. If I may comment on that too, I mean, when you

04:54:30.980 think about the concept of sin and the epistemology of the word, it means to miss the mark, right?

04:54:37.900 And there's a cultural difference where, you know, the God of the Christians, the Abrahams,

04:54:44.460 want you to ask for forgiveness, right?

04:54:47.420 It's okay that you failed

04:54:48.640 just as long as you ask for forgiveness

04:54:50.600 and if it was something bad, don't do it again.

04:54:54.140 Where also

04:54:54.820 true, it's more like, you know, the gods are

04:54:56.760 like, okay, so you tried, you

04:54:58.720 failed, right? Cool, pick yourself

04:55:00.700 up and do it again.

04:55:02.340 Because that act of perseverance and pursuing

04:55:04.820 victory is a deed in and of itself

04:55:06.580 as well. And

04:55:08.560 you know, Odin also being a god

04:55:10.600 of wisdom shows, you know,

04:55:12.700 learn from the mistake, right?

04:55:14.460 So as long as you're learning, you're growing, you're pushing yourself forward, you're going to find that heroic moment.

04:55:21.080 You're going to build your might, your main. And there's no there's no out for that.

04:55:25.460 Right. You either do it or you don't. As opposed to as long as you keep your head down, keep yourself small and go through the right motions.

04:55:35.960 It just doesn't seem like a way to live. It doesn't celebrate life like Asuku does.

04:55:41.440 yeah the story the stories of our ancestors inspire the heroes of our future

04:55:49.220 absolutely so tracy what's your favorite have them all stanza

04:55:56.580 oh i wasn't even on mute well i was thinking about that recently and um i think it's like

04:56:08.020 stanza i think it's 23 it goes something like um like a fool is the person who stays up all night

04:56:17.780 worrying only to wake up and find out everything is like the same as it was something like that

04:56:27.300 with the addition of and they're tired yeah they're tired that's that's a really a really

04:56:35.540 Google and I like as well. Jason, what's your favorite

04:56:38.520 have them all stands?

04:56:41.620 My favorite one is with half a cup and half a loaf

04:56:44.760 I made forever. But I did a lot of travel

04:56:47.600 and sometimes between paychecks, sometimes

04:56:50.700 you're with strangers. And it

04:56:53.120 really echoes through the ages that

04:56:55.760 positive attitude and a little bit of hospitality

04:56:59.840 and generosity, you never know where life's going to take you.

04:57:02.740 so all right what's your favorite have them all stands of sierra

04:57:13.860 recently probably stands of 43 the enemy of my enemy is my friend

04:57:19.220 i think that's a pretty good one that i like to take and reflect upon a lot

04:57:23.540 yeah i

04:57:27.860 ryan what's your favorite um i would say uh stanza 15 has been resonating with me

04:57:37.940 uh lately um it's essentially the a noble man should be um silent and bold in battle

04:57:46.100 but kind and happy throughout his the remainder of his days

04:57:49.460 you know that's the question is interesting and it's one of those ones that i overthink

04:57:59.040 all depends on what you know what i'm facing in my life at the time there's a lot of a lot of them

04:58:08.320 really stand out um when people offend me with their lack of loyalty i think the one

04:58:22.800 sierra was getting at about how um to be friends with the friend of your friend but never to

04:58:29.280 be friends with your friend's enemy is really important um a lot of the time i mean i think

04:58:41.300 we're all kind of buttressed by the you know cattle die and kinsmen die but one thing that

04:58:49.420 doesn't die is Reputation World 1. I think that spurs us all on. There's a lot of really

04:59:05.080 good ones. One that stands out to me a lot when I do management stuff as far as volunteers

04:59:10.820 in the AFA and other things are concerned. This may sound snarky and I don't mean it

04:59:18.960 that way but it talks about how you know even the lame can ride a horse you know crippled folks can 0.99

04:59:27.520 do x y and z it talks about how a number of people who have different levels of ability 0.70

04:59:33.280 are still very useless but a dead man can do nothing and so i think it's important to see

04:59:41.120 that all of our folk have different capabilities but even if they're limited in some ways there's

04:59:46.320 still ways for them to contribute so there's always a challenge to figure out what ways those

04:59:53.360 are and help them maximize those okay another question is there going to be a sigerheim in

05:00:01.680 the western states tennessee is kind of far i mean i live in nevada i don't think tennessee

05:00:08.320 is further from you than it is for me unless you live in you know a very few number of states

05:00:14.880 field in hawaii or alaska maybe um one of those things you know sometimes you may have to travel

05:00:22.560 to get what you want what i would like to see over the course of decades is for communities to

05:00:33.920 be established and sprout up throughout the world i would love to see that and i hope that

05:00:39.040 but Sigurheim is an example for those who come.

05:00:42.640 What I'd really like to see right now

05:00:44.960 is folks move closer to the Hoffs.

05:00:47.620 You say Sigurheim is very far from you

05:00:49.700 and you're asking for one in the western states.

05:00:52.620 What about moving to Brownsville, California,

05:00:55.520 where we have Odin's Hoffs?

05:00:57.440 Love to see a community develop around there

05:00:59.660 and the closer we have people, the better we are.

05:01:02.780 I'd really like right now to see a community

05:01:05.280 develop around each of our four Hoffs

05:01:08.060 as well as but hopefully if you know when we get people out there and we can make

05:01:14.860 make our dreams come true i would love to see similar things happen throughout the world

05:01:20.780 and hopefully we get to a point we can help make those happen um can i jump in you sure can

05:01:29.260 if you're interested in moving close to the hop in brownsville reach out to me because i'm always

05:01:33.340 looking at houses up there and the house directly behind the hoff goes for sale quite often

05:01:38.060 Just saying.

05:01:41.500 Well, if Matt continues having those awesome Odin bloats, 0.94

05:01:45.320 yeah, I can see why.

05:01:47.160 You should come to Midsommar.

05:01:49.580 We are surrounded by a mountain range,

05:01:51.260 and when we get loud enough, we can hear ourselves

05:01:53.560 echo off the mountain range.

05:01:55.220 It is absolutely amazing.

05:01:57.380 The community reaches out and tells us

05:01:59.000 that they can hear us like a town over, basically.

05:02:02.820 Brownsville's not small, but it is.

05:02:05.720 You should all come out to Midsummer if you can.

05:02:08.560 It's a really special event

05:02:10.240 and we can't possibly sell it to be as cool as it is,

05:02:14.860 unless you go there and experience it for yourself.

05:02:17.200 We'd love to see you there.

05:02:20.480 Question, Daughter of the West,

05:02:22.080 how do we pray to our gods?

05:02:24.040 Is there any literature or videos

05:02:25.960 that can point those new to House of Truth

05:02:28.280 in the right direction?

05:02:30.080 So we've talked about that on Victory Never Sleeps a lot.

05:02:35.720 um and i know that this is a thing and i would like to do them is kind of an instructional

05:02:46.600 video to make people feel more comfortable but realistically as an individual or as a family

05:02:57.960 how do you pray to the gods

05:03:05.720 piously and honestly um i know that's not the answer you're looking for but realistically

05:03:13.880 go before your altar and talk to your gods there's a million different ways that you can do it better

05:03:24.000 or more right or whatever but at the end of the day doing it is what counts

05:03:33.520 and doing it in an attitude of piety

05:03:37.500 and respect and worshipfulness is what's important.

05:03:47.180 I say that.

05:03:48.560 I'm not one of the I see her.

05:03:49.820 I can't tell you exactly what they think

05:03:51.960 from the other side of the veil as far as your offering.

05:03:56.580 But in my experience,

05:03:59.620 I mean, I say a prayer before I go on the show every time.

05:04:03.520 just about every time um i did tonight it's a matter of standing in front of your altar

05:04:10.720 or wherever that might be if you don't have an altar go to a quiet place in your home or in your

05:04:16.320 yard or whatever reach out to the gods and just just speak to them open your heart to them and be

05:04:23.840 honest be honest and be respectful and i think if you do that you're not going to go wrong

05:04:30.400 you can make offerings of of incense or of you know pouring a shot to them or offering you know

05:04:40.960 some of your some of your dinner or whatever whatever the case is it's not about that as

05:04:48.400 much as it's about your intention and the state of your heart and your mind when you approach them

05:04:55.040 but just go out there and do that in the meantime we'll work on some you know

05:05:01.960 video you so you can see how other people do it the best way to do it is to attend something and

05:05:09.220 see it that way and you can really get the get the feel of it i know it's intimidating if you

05:05:14.800 haven't done it before in your head on getting it right but kind of but our last question of the

05:05:20.320 is you know what percentage of AFA members practice house a true in real

05:05:28.560 life versus just participating online and Jason as somebody who's been doing

05:05:40.780 this for a very long time what what would you say that percentage is

05:05:51.200 i would say it's 100 in real life because if you're doing it online you're not doing also true

05:05:56.400 if i'm being honest um i've seen many would you say are doing also true in that equation

05:06:06.480 say again what percentage of our members are quote unquote doing also true in your conception

05:06:13.360 i mean i can speak from my region since i'm most you know closely in tune with that but

05:06:20.500 sure i i would say 90 we got a few that we're still we're still telling come out or else come

05:06:29.920 on um we're not scary we're here for you um but um i like to believe that they're they're probably

05:06:36.600 doing something that they're alters and that's still something in real life so i just can't

05:06:40.620 environment so i okay i'm hopeful and i can't speak to what they're doing at their altars

05:06:46.780 as far as people that come out to events and gatherings and who do stuff and are

05:06:54.540 known quantities that meet other people to practice af or house true together

05:06:59.420 i'm going to guess 35 percent of the afa and i say that that may sound low but i think that's

05:07:11.520 probably an all-time high i think if you go through most people who consider themselves

05:07:19.080 christian in the united states don't actually attend church regularly but they identify with

05:07:26.180 something and they kind of believe but they don't really do a lot i think in also true we struggle

05:07:33.220 and we still struggle with geography a lot of our members are really spread out

05:07:39.300 and our folk builders work really hard to have moots and meetups and gatherings near them

05:07:48.820 i think that 35 of our members is still a really big number of people actually going

05:07:55.940 out there and participating in house the truth i hope i'm underestimating it and it's much more

05:08:01.380 than that but i do say it's bigger now than it's ever been every weekend you know i probably okay

05:08:10.980 so i can say this so far this year as of right now i've got because i make slideshows every time

05:08:22.900 somebody posts a like hey here's a group event picture look we're doing afa stuff got 270 and 17

05:08:31.060 pictures of that so far we're not quite halfway into the year say each picture is an average of

05:08:40.420 i don't know five three to five members that's a lot over that time we got some of those big

05:08:48.420 group pictures of big events with you know 50 60 75 or more members this midsummer shaping up to be

05:08:58.340 you know triple digits we'll see but

05:09:04.740 yeah it's so large number of people but it's a relatively small amount of our membership

05:09:10.820 and the more we get hoffs and the more we have folk builders that are hosting

05:09:14.820 things locally the more people will come out and participate and really get the full benefit of

05:09:20.580 what we're doing um but it's better now than it's ever been and i watch that increase every year

05:09:29.220 you know i mentioned that number so last year we had like 400 and some odd pictures in our

05:09:37.700 the afa in 2023 video year previous i think we had 300 and change so it's it's getting better

05:09:47.140 all the time and uh it's a matter of proximity and it's a matter of people taking the effort to

05:09:54.340 step out of their comfort zone and make stuff happen but i appreciate everybody being here

05:10:02.180 tonight thank you so much to our guests that are still here and uh late at night with us does

05:10:10.500 anybody have any last stuff they want to say it sounds like tracy does this is butterbean and

05:10:15.700 one of the members at newertoff wanted to see butterbean on camera so here's butterbean cam

05:10:21.380 hello butterbean

05:10:26.020 i'm actually going to jump in real quick and give you an example i've been working on a combined

05:10:32.100 calendar for all of our districts and to see uh what and that's this is for this month on the 15th

05:10:43.020 look at how many events we've got going on that is craziness so uh just saying we're doing our

05:10:51.200 best to get as much stuff out there for the folk as we can yeah and that's the thing that's just

05:10:58.220 kind of a random snippet at any given saturday that's very much what it looks like for afa

05:11:05.980 activity if not more and of those pictures i mentioned that's people who remember to get their

05:11:11.340 stuff in there's probably another 20 that don't have it in on time or whatever so we got stuff

05:11:19.340 doing all the time we've got more activity than we've ever had uh thank you very much all of our

05:11:25.500 guests who've been on tonight matt i have just one thing that i wanted to jump in and say she wants

05:11:30.940 to say to everybody what you got well i just was waiting for a good time to jump in and i

05:11:35.580 didn't want that was the time the time is now here we go i have the floor um just kind of touching

05:11:42.060 back a little bit on the question about prayers and such i think one thing that people fail to

05:11:47.900 realize because they might be stuck in love with a christian mentality is that we don't have set

05:11:52.700 prayers. Like Christians have the Our Father and stuff like that. We don't have that. We have

05:11:58.660 however you feel you need to speak to the gods. We don't have a book of prayers of Asatru. You

05:12:05.180 know, we don't have a book of Psalms or what have you. So I think people need to go into it with more

05:12:09.880 of an open mind and however you feel you speak to the gods is how it needs to be done. We don't have

05:12:14.420 an outline, a right way or a wrong way. It's whatever works for you because no two person's

05:12:19.440 relationship with the gods is the same and then also when talking about like the people in real

05:12:29.260 life versus online at Odense Hoff being the Hoff historian I keep track of like how many people we

05:12:36.640 have at each event and and Midsommars and things like that and we have seen exponential growth

05:12:43.620 pretty much every single year last year we you know we had a little bit of a setback but it became

05:12:48.480 quality over quantity and since then our quantity still has been growing as well as the quality

05:12:54.680 within that quantity so i would say like in real life asitru it is definitely growing every single

05:13:01.100 day and that number i hope continues to climb um you know doing the doing the cooking at the

05:13:07.260 events it gets really tough when there's a lot of people but it's amazing because now i'm like look

05:13:11.900 we just fed you know 120 people for three days straight and somehow me ryan and daniel pulled

05:13:17.580 it all off it's it's amazing to to see that and so i think the real life ositru when you are more

05:13:24.840 centralized to a half is a lot easier to to like see it tangibly as opposed to more remote areas

05:13:32.100 but there is always something going on you just have to be willing to put forth that effort

05:13:36.620 you know um a folk builder is not going to come and do a moot on your doorstep right unless they

05:13:41.580 have to they might but we're not going to do a moot on your doorstep we're going to make it

05:13:44.900 somewhere where everybody can come and so you have to be willing to put in that effort we will at

05:13:50.260 least in my experience we will try to make it you know a centralized location to where everybody

05:13:54.820 kind of has an equal drive if we can but you need to put your foot forward and do your part as well

05:14:02.260 absolutely we're always looking to get new hops in new areas as time goes on they'll get closer

05:14:09.300 and closer but we need you guys to come out and make that happen but sierra mentioned that we

05:14:14.180 don't have set prayers like in our father or uh you know hail mary or or whatever those

05:14:23.380 writ are in catholicism at least what we do have and somebody asked for a historical resource on

05:14:30.980 it we do have one example of prayer in the elder uh house true period i think we'll end tonight

05:14:40.180 on that thank you guys all so much for a hundred episodes worth of

05:14:48.580 laughter and tears and questions and just

05:14:54.580 amazingness there is infinite more to come i'm so very blessed and appreciative to be a part of it

05:15:01.780 And it's the Sigdrifamal prayer by Valkyrie Sigdrifamal.

05:15:12.620 Hail day, hail sons of day, hail night and her daughters.

05:15:18.280 Look on us now with loving eyes and waiting, grant us victory.

05:15:24.940 Hail you gods, you goddesses, hail, hail the earth all giving.

05:15:28.440 grant us wisdom goodly speech and healing hands throughout our lives thank you guys for everything

05:15:38.900 i love you hail the gods hail the folk hail the afa and remember victory never sleeps

05:15:48.400 hail hail

05:15:58.440 We'll be right back.

05:16:28.440 We'll be right back.

05:16:58.440 We'll be right back.

05:17:28.440 Thank you.

05:17:58.440 We'll be right back.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - June 06, 2024

6⧸5⧸24 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 100 - 100th Episode Special

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