Asatru Folk Assembly - 8⧸17⧸22 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 6

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00:04:00.000 welcome to the as true folk assemblies podcast victory never speaks victory never sleeps wow

00:04:30.000 first day uh filling in for the australia or go the and i already can't talks

00:04:35.520 welcome everyone to the podcast i have with us uh go the lane ashby from your top district

00:04:43.040 our newest ordained godar of the as true folk assembly welcome lane ahoy there

00:04:50.400 so i wanted to start off tonight uh talking a little bit about the dedication at york's

00:04:55.040 It was a real special event for the AFA and especially a special event for you.

00:05:00.000 Can you give us a little information on how that went?

00:05:04.160 It went extremely well. We had an amazing turnout, people from across the country,

00:05:09.680 not just leadership, but membership coming from far and wide to share this historic moment with us.

00:05:18.800 And how did that feel personally for you? I know it's been a long,

00:05:22.240 long road you know obtaining your top and and getting up to that dedication how did that feel

00:05:28.640 when that when that weekend finally came it uh it was a little surreal i have to have to admit after

00:05:34.720 after all the hard work that everybody has put in we've got a great team uh down here in the

00:05:39.840 north off district and everybody was pitching in uh we put a lot of effort in and having it come

00:05:45.520 to fruition and see the mural have our old savior go through there with us it was it was amazing

00:05:53.360 what was the uh else here ago these first reactions to the mural when he came in

00:05:57.840 he was he was impressed uh he was uh he many people have said that sivan's outdone himself and

00:06:03.760 he he really has uh the the figure of new author was amazing uh the the breadth of the mural is

00:06:11.280 something you pictures really don't do it justice you really need to come down and see this one in

00:06:16.240 person it's uh it's it's quite the panoramic view uh lots of uh hidden items uh the sons and daughter

00:06:25.120 of course of the authors there uh his wife and some other little trinkets as well it's it's

00:06:31.280 beautiful beautiful to behold and it's a three wall mural is that correct yes three panels uh

00:06:38.880 there's two side panels that kind of angle out from the main from the main view uh when swan

00:06:45.200 came by on friday or actually thursday which we kind of runs together um he came by and i mentioned

00:06:53.040 that it seems like every time i looked at the mural that week that the sun and rad and the uh

00:07:00.800 the trident the the gold pieces seem to be brighter and brighter each time each day like it was a

00:07:07.600 building for something and it didn't disappoint that's great to hear i know the mural is always

00:07:14.160 a very special surprise when we uh dedicate a hoff and that one i have heard is absolutely

00:07:20.000 magnificent and i'm so proud of witten spawn harold for that like i said it's uh he's done all the

00:07:26.720 murals that we have at all of our hoffs otan's hoff thor's hoff balder's hoff and now new york's

00:07:31.440 Hoff. And it's really special to watch those come together. And it's also very hard not to share

00:07:37.500 that, you know, with everybody until it's done. Did you get to witness any of the mural painting

00:07:43.620 itself? Yes, I did. I did make it up one of the nights that he was there doing the painting to

00:07:48.740 help get the Wi-Fi working. And yeah, I got to spend some time with him in the process. Yeah,

00:07:53.680 I wish I could have done it more.

00:07:58.100 So the journey to New York's Hoff was a little bit interesting and long.

00:08:03.520 How did you really keep yourself motivated and keep the folk down in Florida motivated for, you know, this past weekend to finally come to fruition?

00:08:14.120 Oh, yeah, it was quite the roller coaster ride.

00:08:17.420 I think the disappointments, the setbacks, if nothing else, motivated us more.

00:08:25.200 It made us even more determined to make this happen for New Arthur.

00:08:30.440 And I think that he played a part in that because some of the earlier Hoffs that we looked at,

00:08:38.660 some of the earlier properties, quite frankly, weren't as good as this one.

00:08:42.600 So, you know, it truly did work out for the best, without a doubt.

00:08:47.420 well we have uh the ability to ask questions on youtube and on entropy so if nick if you

00:08:56.780 could plug that link up there if you log into uh entropy you can go ahead and give us a donation if

00:09:03.260 you like also ask a question we will get that put up there if you have any questions for myself or

00:09:09.340 lane you can go ahead and visit that site log in there and ask your questions lane it was a really

00:09:16.780 good weekend for you um and you had the opportunity to be not just amongst your folk but to become a

00:09:25.020 real leader for your folk can you tell me about your ordination your thoughts and what went through

00:09:30.460 your mind it was a surprise to say to say the least or so you're going to i know that he likes

00:09:36.860 to do that but i i did not see that coming at all it was quite the it was quite a quite a shock i was

00:09:43.020 It was, I noticed, we had a video of it.

00:09:46.000 I noticed, I stuttered a few times and stumbled.

00:09:51.280 Just a lot of emotion, a lot of emotion.

00:09:53.820 Hearing all of the leadership's toasts,

00:09:57.840 it was quite a moving experience.

00:10:03.080 And I'm so proud.

00:10:04.080 I couldn't be happier and more honored

00:10:07.900 than to serve our folk in the AFA.

00:10:10.120 We're honored to have you here, and we're all looking forward to see what you do for

00:10:15.900 your folk and what you accomplish in the future.

00:10:18.360 So welcome to the ranks of the Gothar, my friend.

00:10:20.500 It's very well deserved.

00:10:21.500 You really are one of our best.

00:10:23.740 Thank you.

00:10:24.740 I do have a question for you since you're our newly ordained Gothi.

00:10:29.140 Could you just let our folk that are listening in and watching on Entropy and YouTube, could

00:10:33.380 you give us a little information about what our Gothar do for the Auschew Folk Assembly

00:10:38.840 and for our folk as well?

00:10:41.240 Certainly.

00:10:42.060 Our Gothar's main role is as a spiritual guidance.

00:10:47.280 We help our folk connect with the divine.

00:10:50.800 We also mentor the folk builders across the country and specifically in our districts.

00:10:59.600 We also do perform counseling, religious rites, such as baby namings, funerals, marriages.

00:11:11.300 Absolutely.

00:11:12.520 One thing I always really definitely want people to know is just because you don't have a Godar nearby doesn't mean that we can't help you out.

00:11:22.220 Doesn't mean you can't contact us.

00:11:23.620 We don't have to be in the same states.

00:11:25.920 You can speak to any of our Godar at any time.

00:11:28.600 the GODAR serve the As True Folk Assembly, so they are all available at your needs. So make

00:11:34.920 sure you contact us with any needs that you might have. Any questions on rituals or rights that need

00:11:40.480 to be done, information on the Hoffs, as we do have several of them around the four Hoffs that

00:11:45.500 we have, as well as just any questions in general that you might have about the As True Folk Assembly.

00:11:51.520 We do have a few questions. Pam McClaskey asked for Lane, what are you looking forward to

00:11:58.580 most as a gothi oh what am i looking forward to most as a gothi um well i've uh through necessity

00:12:08.260 uh we didn't have any uh gothar in florida for the longest time so i have uh like i said by

00:12:15.140 necessity i've been performing that function as best as i could for our folk that was one of the

00:12:20.180 reasons that i wanted to be a part of the program is to make sure that i was doing it to my to the

00:12:26.660 the best of my ability and in accordance with the AFA. I didn't want to just be flying by the seat

00:12:32.180 of my pants and, and, and doing anything incorrectly. So I was, I was honored when I

00:12:36.740 was accepted into the program and I look forward to continuing, continuing that role. I'll be honest.

00:12:42.480 I really look forward to my firsthand fasting. Excellent. Tony King of Cheese asks, sure. I've

00:12:50.300 got a question for the both of you. How are you both doing tonight? Well, I hope. Well,

00:12:55.240 As a matter of fact, Tony, I'm doing excellent tonight.

00:12:58.760 What about you, Lane?

00:12:59.600 How are you doing?

00:13:00.580 Doing well.

00:13:01.460 Excited.

00:13:01.980 I think I'm still running on the adrenaline from the dedication.

00:13:05.860 That'll happen.

00:13:07.060 That'll definitely happen.

00:13:08.240 That time with the folk and the time in the hop will definitely leave its mark and good feelings all around for quite a while afterwards.

00:13:16.920 Lane, I think this one's for you.

00:13:18.520 This one is from Sarah, and she also has a donation for us of $3.

00:13:23.720 Thank you very much, Sarah.

00:13:24.780 and she asks, are there any alligators in the ponds at New York's Hoff?

00:13:29.800 We have not seen any, but I have been told by a golf instructor when we first moved here that

00:13:36.640 if there's water, there are gators, but we haven't seen any. So my question for you is,

00:13:43.300 what is your contingency plan for the alligators, Colby? Give them a wide berth.

00:13:48.620 Sarah also has another question specifically for you sir

00:13:55.080 she says Lane what has your personal journey to the AFA been like

00:13:59.940 it's it's it's been magnificent um I have been practice a solo practitioner for many years

00:14:07.520 uh before I even thought to uh find find a group and when I was looking it was it there was no

00:14:15.240 there was no comparison. It was definitely the Assetu Folk Assembly. Most groups or organizations,

00:14:23.880 you could tell they defined themselves by what they weren't. The AFA was the only one that

00:14:29.760 defined themselves by what they are, what they stand for, and what they're for. It was a very

00:14:34.940 positive experience from the very beginning. Another question for you, Lane. They're coming

00:14:42.360 in pretty strong here for you tonight it's from amber c and she asked congrats go the lane

00:14:48.520 question what are some goals for njortzhoff uh short term just just doing some beautification

00:14:55.320 we've been we've been very fortunate um that there's not a lot of needful repairs

00:15:02.280 at our location uh we have a lot of land we sit on five acres at njortzhoff so we've got a lot

00:15:08.840 of potential for growth uh we definitely see a fellowship hall down the road um an outdoor ritual

00:15:16.360 space as well but right now we'll be we'll be focusing on beautifying the hoffs getting our

00:15:21.960 gables up uh getting those uh nordshoff colors uh decked out get the hall decked out in those

00:15:28.520 nordshoff colors for sure awesome and uh pam asks lane what if anything are you nervous about with

00:15:37.480 your new position scheduling time management

00:15:48.040 that's always a big factor trying to find the time to do all the things and create all the things and

00:15:54.840 perform all the rituals and at the hop scheduling is always always always difficult but it's always

00:16:01.400 enjoyable. And we've got a great team of Gothar down here with us as well. Gothar's, Anna and

00:16:09.420 Jason Plourd and Trent East. It's an amazing team. Absolutely. Some of our best down in Florida.

00:16:16.300 So I do have a question for you about New York's Hoff. I am always the inquiring mind when it

00:16:22.760 comes to what you had to build, what you want to build. What did it look like the first time that

00:16:29.400 you walked in. What were your initial thoughts the first time that you walked into the building?

00:16:35.300 Initial thoughts were, like I mentioned earlier, that it was in really good shape. I mean,

00:16:40.240 short of, you know, taking, converting it from Pentecostal church to a temple to one of our gods,

00:16:49.820 there wasn't a lot of work that had to be done. We did take on some beautification since, like I

00:16:58.680 there wasn't a lot of physical work that needed to be done but it was it was just amazing how

00:17:05.160 well laid out the half was um kitchen area was a little is a little tiny

00:17:12.600 it's probably four foot by five foot um that's we call it the kitchen closet

00:17:18.360 but our our cooks did an amazing job of the dedication the meals were were outstanding

00:17:24.040 uh breakfast lunch dinner uh a pair of breakfasts it was a couple of dinners it was uh they did such

00:17:30.920 an amazing job the timing and quality of food we couldn't have we couldn't have asked for more

00:17:38.040 i know after a dedication or event at a half it's it's hard to mention everybody and it's hard to

00:17:44.120 thank anybody or everybody but is there anyone in particular that uh has been amazing or outstanding

00:17:53.160 or a help and benefit for having them there.

00:17:55.760 I know they all are, but are there any superstars

00:17:58.560 that you'd like to point out to us tonight?

00:18:01.420 Well, apart from the Gothar that I've already mentioned,

00:18:05.300 I would have to say Pam McCloskey, 0.64

00:18:08.620 our recently Oathed-in Kindred member.

00:18:12.640 We had the honor of Oathing her in to our Kindred,

00:18:16.860 the dedication as well. 1.00

00:18:18.600 Well deserved.

00:18:19.640 She has been instrumental, been at every event.

00:18:22.340 they're helping out helping scheduling things uh working with the cooking her her and mike joyner

00:18:29.100 and her and uh his her and uh his wife katie did a did an amazing job but yeah pam pam is a she's a

00:18:38.340 she's a star she's a rock star for sure awesome i heard um raves and compliments and gushing from

00:18:48.240 from everyone that I talked to this past weekend about how amazing the food was.

00:18:53.520 The Alshira Yargothi was so happy with the quality of food and the amount of food.

00:18:57.920 I mean, that's important to all of us.

00:19:00.220 But food and feasting is a very, very important part of what we do.

00:19:05.540 It brings us together.

00:19:08.720 I would like to know what you guys ate, just because it's important to me.

00:19:12.960 And I'm just curious because I'm one of the few.

00:19:15.760 I'm the only Witten that didn't make it this weekend, Lane.

00:19:18.040 and I apologize for not being there, but I heard all about the food.

00:19:22.780 Oh, this is going to take some time.

00:19:26.580 There was a lot of it.

00:19:28.160 I'll try to remember everything.

00:19:30.900 The first dinner that we had was just, you know,

00:19:35.920 we kept it pretty light that first night with just the leadership.

00:19:38.740 But the next morning they kicked it off with an amazing sausage and cheese

00:19:47.880 I think it was, I don't know if it was a quiche or, but what, it was, oh, it was so delicious.

00:19:53.460 We had sausages, many different kinds of fruits to choose from.

00:20:00.340 Lunch, we had many, we had three different kinds of sausages, all handmade by Mike Joyner.

00:20:13.080 Rice dishes, we had chicken.

00:20:15.500 Then we had, of course, the star of the show was the fish gumbo, the shrimp and crab, and that was delicious.

00:20:26.420 We also had chicken for some people, for anybody there that was allergic to shellfish or didn't like seafood.

00:20:33.220 So everybody was accommodated.

00:20:35.840 We had desserts, we had bread pudding, marvelous cookies by Githya Anna.

00:20:43.880 She had her famous cookies that appear at every event.

00:20:47.900 We wouldn't know what to do without those.

00:20:51.520 She is incredible. 0.78

00:20:53.100 She used to make us the most delicious cookies and desserts at Baldursoff.

00:20:58.140 And when she comes back to visit, she hasn't been told yet, but she can be told now.

00:21:05.200 So she'll have to definitely bake for us. 0.91

00:21:07.340 For those who don't know, she does amazing in the kitchen. 0.99

00:21:10.700 she makes the most wonderful cookies and she really puts a lot of her energy into it and

00:21:14.700 they're just they're magical they're amazing tanner has a question for us brandy and lane

00:21:20.620 what is your favorite flavor of mead and why is it apple cinnamon

00:21:29.420 oh i don't know that mine is apple cinnamon i'm uh i'm more of a melamel uh

00:21:34.540 person myself. I do like a standard straight honey mead, but the cranberry, elderberry,

00:21:44.760 the first real mead that I had was actually brewed by Jason Plort at the 2018 Ostara in the

00:21:57.460 South, I believe. Until then, I'd been drinking store-bought mead. And when I had that, I was

00:22:03.900 it was like oh so this is what meat is really supposed to taste like kind of moment and I

00:22:09.180 bought every and I and I bought every one that he had and uh and enjoyed that and then a couple

00:22:15.440 years ago my wife got me a a brewing kit so I started to I've started brewing my brewing my

00:22:22.540 own mead as well. Can you give us kind of a rundown on importance of mead and also is there

00:22:34.240 anything special that you do in the brewing process if whether it's for ritual or drinking

00:22:40.740 or if there's a difference? Well I pretty much only brew it for ritual. I don't do it. I don't

00:22:49.240 drink a lot outside of that.

00:22:53.620 But the importance of it is, it is the conduit.

00:22:57.500 It is the laguz that we use to transfer our offerings

00:23:02.460 to the gods and that we use to receive.

00:23:05.820 It's integral to the gifting cycle.

00:23:08.780 Meat is tested too in many of the sagas.

00:23:14.580 But you don't, of course, if you don't have access to meat

00:23:17.960 or you don't drink, there's many different forms

00:23:21.940 that can be used, milk, honey itself, even water.

00:23:27.580 For our bloat tenures that we've been doing

00:23:31.700 for seven years now, we do that on the beach

00:23:34.800 and we actually use seawater to receive the blessing

00:23:40.140 and to pass that along to the members.

00:23:44.560 That's really interesting, the seawater to be the receptacle

00:23:47.400 the the gifts of the god that's that's really in it's brilliant lane it really is thank you

00:23:53.640 so for for those of the for those who may just be starting out um and as a true do you have any

00:24:01.400 recommendations for how they would start their offerings to the gods and goddesses or to their

00:24:09.400 ancestors or to the baits here is there any recommendations that you would have

00:24:13.400 for them just starting that gifting cycle well just just starting keep keep it simple

00:24:20.600 um put out sit out something it could even be uh for instance for for free facts if you're

00:24:26.520 sitting something out for flavor it could be the loaf of bread uh that that you sit out any any type

00:24:32.600 of of food uh preferably something that you that you've cooked yourself that that you've put effort

00:24:38.680 into it um one of the things that i like to do when i make something uh for instance the the

00:24:44.760 hammer i'll i'll save the shavings from the carving and and use that as an offering to

00:24:51.720 symbolize the effort and this goes the same with you know with your your food offerings

00:24:55.960 it's something that you've cooked your effort going into that is part of the gift

00:25:00.440 when i first started uh out on in as a true one of the first things that i did i i like to write

00:25:10.380 poetry terrible poetry um but writing a poem specifically uh for one of the gods or goddesses

00:25:16.940 or to my ancestors i used to do that and then i would burn that as an offering because that was

00:25:22.540 my creativity my work my time um the time spent trying to make the calligraphy perfect

00:25:29.620 specifically for them. We do also have members that will do woodworking specifically as an

00:25:35.220 offering. They'll do a carving for a specific god and goddess and offer that to honor one

00:25:43.220 of the gods and goddesses as well. So there's always interesting ways. You just got to be

00:25:47.360 creative about how you can start that gifting cycle with the gods and goddesses or to your

00:25:51.580 ancestors. My grandparents loved coffee. They drank coffee from sun up until probably six

00:25:58.480 o'clock in the evening so i've always used coffee for them if i'm doing offerings with a morning

00:26:03.760 cup of coffee or something like that awesome yeah you we look at it you know they are our

00:26:11.040 our most distant ancestors so it's much like you know that gift that you get from a from a child

00:26:16.800 that's had that handmade card you know it's all the more special than than something bought at a

00:26:21.920 store yes definitely we have a question from storm chase mike ask lane how it will be now

00:26:30.880 being our new gothi how it will impact your life outside the hof so how will being a go

00:26:37.120 the impact your life outside of the hof uh well like like i said i've i've been i've been performing

00:26:46.080 the role unofficially because we had we had no leadership i was a as a folk builder because that

00:26:53.600 i was at that time i was i was that was the highest ranking person in florida so i think well um

00:27:02.720 i don't know how it will impact maybe uh just getting getting to do more things maybe now i

00:27:09.280 like it's like i mentioned the hand fastings i look forward to that was something that i i would

00:27:13.840 i would you even though i was doing the i would not have done that i would have made sure that

00:27:17.600 there was an actual we did an actual go through here so i think that would be will be the biggest

00:27:23.200 thing although that's not outside of the half so i'm i'm dodging the question

00:27:30.160 i i don't know i i think um one of the things that i that i took particularly from sheila's uh

00:27:36.000 interview last week was she'd mentioned the balance. And that's something that

00:27:43.860 I will work very hard on, finding the balance between personal life and my duties as a gothar.

00:27:54.660 Balance is very important. Sarah asks, the motto for New York's Hof District is the harshest winds

00:28:02.940 make the strongest wood could you speak on what that means to you personally and to our folk

00:28:09.820 well it it means it means a lot there's a lot of tie and i think with with the um and i didn't

00:28:14.860 come up with that by the way um that was something on one of our live chats uh with our also your

00:28:20.220 guilty uh somebody was somebody threw that in the chat and i'm like that's uh that's really good we

00:28:25.900 ran it we ran it by the rest of the leadership and everybody thought it was a good one it it means

00:28:31.180 many things here in Florida. Being the hurricane center for North America, it seems harsh winds

00:28:38.940 where we are the land of harsh winds. Our hero is Ralph the Strong, so the strength is there,

00:28:47.340 but I think it's through trial, through difficulties, we become stronger and better people.

00:28:55.500 a life a life of ease does not build a strong foundation

00:29:01.580 okay son of woden gave us a ten dollar donation and a message hail njord hail the afa thank you

00:29:11.320 very much for your donation we appreciate that very much tracy adler asks lane what are some

00:29:17.880 of your personal book recommendations? Well, here we go. Culture of the Tootin's. I've read that

00:29:25.380 three times. Our first study group was reading that. It really gives you a flavor for the sagas,

00:29:34.140 helps you understand how they speak, the use of cannings, the importance of honor, of frith.

00:29:41.460 it's it's invaluable um it's it's definitely one that i i go back to time and time again it's it's

00:29:48.060 so beaten up dog-eared highlighted underlined notes in the sides it's it's like an old friend

00:29:53.860 at this point those are the best books those are the best books to loan people as well as long as

00:29:59.980 they come back afterwards absolutely um another one is uh germanic heathenry by james coulter

00:30:07.560 that that's a a very good book not quite as in-depth but has a lot of very good information

00:30:15.000 particularly uh around like house rights uh the husinga and the taterman the out the land rights

00:30:22.600 and the house rights um it is a little tricky they do use the german terms for everything

00:30:27.800 as opposed to the norse so there's a bit of a translation uh going on there but it goes in

00:30:34.680 into at the end it goes into rituals prospect items uh much like deep ancestors another one

00:30:41.000 that i another book that i can't recommend enough yeah that book is excellent and anything by hilda

00:30:46.360 ellis davidson she is she is a research uh beast you read a book of hers and you realize there's

00:30:52.840 10 other books that she references that you may not have even ever heard of before let alone read

00:30:57.080 mm-hmm tanner asks brandy lane what sort of work do you guys do with runes do you have a daily

00:31:07.380 routine for example or do you or have you delved deeper into the subject i.e thorson

00:31:13.880 lane i'll let you take that one first i have read um fathark and alu and i was gifted several of

00:31:24.420 his books by our law speaker at the dedication. So I'm looking forward to getting into those.

00:31:31.400 I do have, I definitely do have a routine in the morning before I, before I start work,

00:31:37.300 after I get back from the gym, I will draw a rune, meditate on that galder and perform my,

00:31:44.240 perform my morning ritual, my morning prayer. So I, I don't tend to use runes necessarily for

00:31:52.800 divination or anything like that but i do use them as a guidance so i'll pull a rune um either

00:32:00.480 at my ancestor altar or my main altar and then i will just focus on what that message is meant to

00:32:08.880 give me for that particular day um i tend not to do divination with runes um i do try to go through

00:32:17.360 through the rune steps once a year and take them and evaluate my own personal spiritual

00:32:25.140 practice and as true in general and check in with myself and say, okay, so where am I at?

00:32:33.160 What is my belief? Where am I? What have I taken from the lore lately? Do I still see this rune in

00:32:40.500 the exact same way. I do take the time to meditate with that. I also like to do when I first started

00:32:48.520 learning the runes, I used a process for touch where I actually traced the runes on paper and

00:32:56.960 then poked holes in them and I would meditate while running my finger over the raised paper

00:33:00.720 like braille just to help me as a sensory assistant there. And I'll still do that when I go back

00:33:08.200 through the runes and check and then see if there's any way that I feel differently about

00:33:13.280 them or if there's any other messages that that I feel that I could benefit from with those.

00:33:19.300 Yeah, that's very that's very interesting. I'd like to I'd like to try something like that as

00:33:23.520 well. I don't use them for divination either. But I will. I write them on my calendar each day that

00:33:31.360 I do. And I do like to go back and kind of just look at the month, the weeks and see the see the

00:33:37.240 see the patterns there and see if you know if sometimes you may get a meaning from the rune

00:33:42.200 itself but in the context of what you pulled that week or that month it may uh shift its meaning or

00:33:49.400 emphasize it depending on on what else you're pulling i was pulling kinahs and durazas a lot

00:33:55.960 back to back even uh three times you know those two runes three times within a week and you know

00:34:02.440 i got to thinking you know about okay you know this is you know that that of course key now is

00:34:07.880 you know the transformation through fire going through the going through the gothar program

00:34:11.400 getting the half that was that was clear and thurizas you know grabbing grabbing the thorns

00:34:16.200 you know not just being comfortable within them but actually grabbing them and and then using

00:34:21.240 them against the the evil and chaos of the world we also do use uh the rune wunyo at uh baldursof

00:34:31.400 specifically in our start to rituals that's something that we do and i do believe anna

00:34:36.440 uh githia anna plort has done this for you guys over at norshop as well we'll actually comb the

00:34:42.200 rune wuneo as part of our ritual to bring our people together with you know joy and frith and

00:34:48.360 in unity um so that's something that we do specifically at balder's hof and i also do

00:34:53.720 use that more of a galder though what i'm doing crafts or or something that's related to thread

00:34:59.880 work uh rather than watching tv or or listening to a book or something like that i'll actually

00:35:06.040 uh gold or one of the rooms while i'm creating something especially if it's specifically for

00:35:10.200 an individual um things that i want to put into that that craft or that blanket or that project

00:35:17.160 that i'm working on yeah ryan oranson wilson question do the gothis and githyas learn the

00:35:27.400 deeper meaning of the myths indo-european comparative mythology study for example

00:35:32.440 what about astral theology go ahead lane i'll let you start with that one yes we definitely do

00:35:39.560 comparative studies um the deep ancestors for example it does look more into the indo-european

00:35:45.640 side of things and touches on on the vedic uh something else i've uh i'm interested in learning

00:35:51.960 more about in this process as well one thing i do want to add about um when we look into the deeper

00:36:01.480 meaning of myths um it's it's very easy to ask a go the argithia for the deeper meaning of of lore

00:36:09.480 but i'm a very very firm believer as well that you will always get the message from the lore

00:36:15.240 that you need at that time you can read um any of our any of our lore any anything in the eddas

00:36:23.240 and you'll get something different every time you'll understand something a little bit differently

00:36:27.960 uh you'll pick up on something that you didn't see before and i'm i'm a firm believer that you

00:36:32.360 get those in the times that you need them the most or the times that you're most ready to understand

00:36:36.600 them i couldn't agree more when i when i first started the first lore that i read was the

00:36:43.480 the Heimskringle. And, you know, looking back, that is the book that I needed to read, because

00:36:49.340 I came at it from a very Hugh Hammerist point of view. You know, they say that, you know, that that

00:36:54.580 was used to lead our folk away from the gods. Well, the gate goes both ways. And for me, I wasn't ready

00:37:03.120 to accept them as divine beings at that time. If I'd read anything else, I may not have, I may not

00:37:07.940 have continued on the path. So you're exactly, you're absolutely right. You get what you need.

00:37:13.480 when you need it when you need it and when you're ready

00:37:16.840 tony king of cheese he wants you to uh repeat the name of the book what was that book again

00:37:23.800 sorry the one talking about the housewives and such he wants to look for it uh germanic heathenry

00:37:29.180 it is no longer in print but you can you can find it out there but yeah it's germanic heathenry by

00:37:37.120 James Coulter. Thank you, sir. Tanner Anderson asks, you mentioned in brief a main altar and an

00:37:47.140 ancestor's altar. Do you mind expanding on this? I find this especially interesting as someone who

00:37:52.580 ran out of space at one altar, and I like that idea a lot. Lane, I think I'm going to let you

00:37:58.480 take that first. Do you have any altars set up at your home that you would like to describe a little

00:38:03.720 bit sure i actually my my my main ritual space if you will is is outside i have a ring of pine trees

00:38:12.440 that i've planted that i galled her over and they're growing nicely one of them is almost

00:38:18.360 over my head but my altar my indoor altar is actually has three levels the first level is is

00:38:27.320 is my indoor ritual space and then the second level is my ancestors and then the top level

00:38:33.880 is the gods so i've got it set up um in in that uh it was sort of uh pillar to the to the between

00:38:43.160 the gods and midgard with the ancestors there in the middle sure so i have a main altar um and i

00:38:51.640 have a space for ancestors specifically so my main altar is um pretty big and i i don't like clutter

00:39:01.960 on things so my altar is pretty sparse i have my my bare minimum of things that i have i have my

00:39:07.520 horn a specific um a cup that i use for offerings to the goddess saga um i have a bowl i also have

00:39:17.720 on there a spool of roughly woven together thread and a pair of rituals scissors on that

00:39:27.920 I like to work with thread a lot when I'm you know stressed out have things to work through

00:39:33.340 I'll tie knots in it and and undo them you know to me to me that's working out you know the knots

00:39:38.880 and knots in my weird and in my tapestry and then I do have a few separate bowls that are for

00:39:45.080 ancestors or Veitir. And I also have one little spot that's got its own bowl, its own incense.

00:39:52.580 It has a postcard from one of our recently departed members on it. And that's where I

00:39:58.820 give my ancestors their specific space. And then I have my ritual space, which is for

00:40:04.880 the Veitir as well as for the gods and goddesses. I also do have little, I wouldn't necessarily

00:40:12.720 call them altars, but little spots in my home that are for the bay tier. I have a spot outside

00:40:19.760 that's for the land bay tier and I have one in my house as for my house bay tier. So I do have just

00:40:25.500 little spots kind of set up all over the place. I have a little spot just in my computer area

00:40:30.920 that I use when I'm working with creativity or if I get stuck writing on a project or something like

00:40:37.140 that, I have a spot for an offering for someone in particular there. So I kind of just have little

00:40:42.940 pods of worship set up around the house in different areas. It's not so much for worship,

00:40:49.040 but we do have, we do leave our nutcrackers out year round. And that's one of the things that

00:40:55.020 Coulter talks about in Germanic heathenry is that as we went, as we left having hearths in our homes

00:41:02.060 And the stove kind of became that central place. 0.99

00:41:06.180 And the Nutcrackers were a home for the Husinga. 0.93

00:41:12.520 I remember when I was first starting out in Azatru, and I had a big, beautiful, elaborate altar.

00:41:19.780 And I had all the statues, and I had all the candles, and I had all the bowls.

00:41:24.800 And it was just overflowing with things.

00:41:27.020 You know, every beautiful rock that I found on a walk or something like that, I put it on my altar.

00:41:34.080 And it really, to be honest, got to be a lot.

00:41:37.400 And I found that my spiritual practice and my worship of the gods and the goddesses and of my ancestors has actually become more meaningful as I've scaled back down.

00:41:47.780 know. I can't speak for everybody, but for me personally, I found as I've decluttered that space

00:41:54.700 and really focus on myself and my own personal worship and the offering that I'm giving that

00:42:01.260 the things around me, I was able to put them away until I really needed them.

00:42:07.880 Yeah, no, that makes sense. I was just saying about a cluttered desk, you know, for work. It's

00:42:12.920 the same I'm sure it's the same concept yeah I still have all those things don't get me wrong

00:42:19.200 you know you accumulate a lot of things over the years but I tend to just bring them out when I

00:42:23.980 want to use them in particular um and I think it was just uh me being overzealous and wanting to

00:42:30.220 have all the things for all the reasons but yeah I really like the the decluttered space that I've

00:42:36.520 got is it's just a lot easier I think for me spiritually to work with um also Tanner you

00:42:42.220 mentioned that um you're kind of short on space one thing i've seen a lot of people do and some

00:42:47.820 of our godar do as well is they'll actually make layered altars shelves you know you have your main

00:42:53.400 altar but you may also have bookshelves that you can hang on it or regular shelves that you can

00:42:58.820 hang above it making tiered altars i've also seen some of my personal friends that have used

00:43:05.060 those little cubes the six cube where you can put baskets in but they don't have baskets they just

00:43:10.200 have little pods for different gods and goddesses so there's always ways to get creative with space

00:43:15.740 and definitely reach out to your folk if you're on any of those me we groups throw that up in in

00:43:20.940 the groups and you know ask to see if anybody has any pictures they'd like to share with you

00:43:25.920 you know about how they've managed their space and how they've for example like me accumulated

00:43:31.120 way too much stuff and had to put it away or or how they're they're stacking their altars or

00:43:35.320 moving them around the house. Tony King of Cheese asks, Brandy and Lane, what are your thoughts on

00:43:43.540 culturally specific practices as far as the AFA is concerned? My heritage is largely Scottish,

00:43:50.800 for example, but the AFA is largely Germanic in practice, which I understand. But what do you

00:43:55.660 think about incorporating practices from our heritage into our worship and practice? Do you

00:44:00.820 think there are any issues with that or that it could cause problems forgive the wall of message

00:44:06.100 no problem tony king of cheese elaine why don't you go ahead and take that one first sure well

00:44:11.580 we definitely want to incorporate our our heritage that's that's kind of the whole point uh once you

00:44:17.380 start doing that i think though you'll see that a lot of there there's more similarities than

00:44:22.600 differences between them uh the names may change locations may change but the themes are the themes

00:44:29.120 are the same. I think that's the whole point, you know, from the British Isles and Ireland

00:44:37.980 all the way to the Slavic countries and the Caspian Sea and the Baltic Sea. The themes

00:44:45.300 are the same. The stories are the same. I don't like to say that they're the same gods

00:44:51.340 with different names um i see them more as cousins um they they have the same functions

00:44:59.180 but they're not necessarily the same deity i like to keep let let our let let our gods be our gods

00:45:07.500 there's a lot of you know we are we are europeans you know we are we are all one

00:45:13.820 folks so if you have your your slavic deities in your your north your north deities your celtic

00:45:19.980 deities you know they're all the way that um the asherah go they explains this and he does it

00:45:25.320 really really well he does this really really well he says imagine a table and chairs they're

00:45:30.880 all made out of the same wood they're all of the same origin um you know that they may look a little

00:45:37.240 bit different they the names may be a little bit different but they are all of the same material

00:45:43.420 know they're all the same thing so as far as um the practices of specific cultures and things like

00:45:53.340 that you know always remember that our culture is you know our music our food our gods our ancestors

00:46:01.380 you know those are all things that we incorporate into as a true um you know your if your scottish

00:46:08.960 grandparents may have may have appreciated maybe some some music you can give that as an offering

00:46:13.920 when you're giving your dedications you know definitely definitely use those cultural

00:46:21.040 you know those cultural things into what you're doing and especially when you're doing you know

00:46:25.120 ancestor worship you know those are things that your ancestors would recognize you know whether

00:46:29.440 it's the music or a specific food um you know those are things that they would recognize and appreciate

00:46:34.640 Okay. Corey asks, I think a library bookshelf at each Hoff or some sort of book exchange would be

00:46:42.540 a really cool idea. Thoughts? What do you think, Lane? Book exchange at New York's Hoff?

00:46:49.700 Yes.

00:46:50.520 Yes.

00:46:52.780 We were gifted our first book from Michelle Raynard. She brought down a nice children's

00:47:01.120 book. So we've got our first entry to the library. Excellent. And Corey, I know there's a lot of

00:47:08.900 people probably have some extra books laying around, and I definitely think that's something

00:47:14.040 that you could coordinate with Baldur's Hoff. So I would say reach out to Nathan Erlinson at

00:47:21.600 Baldur's Hoff and talk to him about that kind of project and see if that's something that you can

00:47:27.640 get taken care of. Tracy Adler asks, Lane, aside from your top dedication, of course,

00:47:33.940 was there ever any AFA, a favorite AFA event or bloat for you, local event or national events?

00:47:43.600 National event would have to be Ostara in the South, 2020.

00:47:50.280 2020 yeah 2020 uh also your goal he did his that was the last odin's bloat that he did uh at star

00:48:04.360 now he now he does a thor boat since it's a thor soft but that was that that odin's boat was was

00:48:09.860 amazing it was it was moving it uh it woke the forest local local event at it's our it's our

00:48:18.860 beach boats and yours. We love that. We love being there on, hearing the crashing waves,

00:48:23.860 the salt air, and giving honor to our divine ship captain.

00:48:31.340 Finn Wraithaus, I'm sorry if I said that wrong.

00:48:36.680 Finn Wraith, does the AFA encourage reading other myths from Europe, like the Greek Odyssey or

00:48:42.160 the Finnish Calvallo. Read them all. Read all of them. Read everything. Absorb everything.

00:48:50.760 Enjoy everything. Read them all. I joke I'll have to be buried with my books in order to finish

00:48:57.500 everything that I have already. Do you have a book problem there, Lane? I do. I do. I do.

00:49:05.380 Proud of it. Yes. I had a problem when I moved. I had to leave some of the books behind.

00:49:12.160 so I had to be very careful about what I was going to take with me and I had to prioritize

00:49:16.840 my books and that's that's a lot harder than it sounds that sounds done right painful it is

00:49:23.140 it is between books for for personal reading and entertainment and and books for you know education

00:49:29.820 and books for Oztru I came with like six boxes of books and we had to put a stop to the number

00:49:35.620 of boxes that were going into the U-Haul so the trick I learned is you cannot have too large of

00:49:41.860 book boxes because they get heavy fast they do they do i made the mistake of storing a very large

00:49:48.940 box of books in a cardboard box in a basement at one point in time and they were very much

00:49:56.320 destroyed in a flood so yes definitely put your if you're storing your books tip of the day put

00:50:01.560 those into a plastic tote of some sort they're easier to carry and they're easier to store

00:50:07.120 We did receive a $10 donation from Derek Tidwell.

00:50:12.340 Hail.

00:50:12.800 Thank you very much, Derek.

00:50:14.140 That is very much appreciated.

00:50:17.080 Dan M. asks, which god or goddess has guided your path the most?

00:50:22.580 Lane, would you like to take that one first?

00:50:25.180 Sure.

00:50:25.660 When the question often comes up, you know, who's your patron god?

00:50:30.400 I would always say that I just worship all the gods, you know, depending on what was needed.

00:50:36.780 but uh you know the last time it was actually in telegram and i think i think it was uh

00:50:42.620 stephen mcgowan was commenting on it while he was on there and it made he made me think well

00:50:48.860 maybe i do and i come to realize you know i found the asa truth on the pacific coast on the shores

00:50:55.580 in california in san diego and i found the afa here on the east coast on the shores of the

00:51:01.020 atlantic and every every major spiritual moment that i've had the ocean's been there so and the

00:51:08.620 first public bloat i i did was tenured in in 2017 so he's whether i realized it or not he's

00:51:16.220 his hands been on the helm i myself was um pretty partial to um saga um as well as froggy for a long

00:51:29.020 time um again i worship all the gods and goddesses every day but i was pretty partial to them um but

00:51:38.300 since since i especially since the opening of balder's hof um and in my ordination um as the

00:51:46.460 The Gythia for Balder at that Hoff, I've really, being closer isn't necessarily the right word.

00:51:58.340 My personal dedication to Balder and to Nana has definitely grown.

00:52:04.700 And I think that's natural for Godar who are attending altars of specific gods and goddesses at the Hoffs.

00:52:11.960 Now, we do worship and honor them all, but we tend to spend a lot of time specifically with those gods or goddesses or the gods of the Hoffs and the associated goddesses there.

00:52:24.740 Tracy Adler asks, Lane, how important is physical fitness to you and is physical fitness part of the Gothar program?

00:52:33.100 It's very important.

00:52:34.240 um it's not i don't think it's it's not officially part of the gothar program but i i think that

00:52:40.640 everybody that participates realizes you know part of the the body is part of the soul complex

00:52:46.520 you can't be healthy in one without being healthy and in the others they they're they're all

00:52:52.320 interactive you can't be healthy spiritually if uh as healthy spiritually you can be but not

00:53:01.240 you know it's impacted if you're not healthy physically or mentally or you know ego or wit

00:53:08.260 it all it all ties in together absolutely sir tanner asks gotta ask every show do either of

00:53:18.360 you have any advice for young as you are looking to meet someone and start a family yes join the

00:53:24.800 afa meet someone and start a family that is my best advice as far as the steps to get there

00:53:30.980 I'm always going to give the same advice of be the best that you can be. Be the best you that

00:53:38.220 there is to offer that person. If there's something that you need to overcome or you

00:53:42.600 need to work on, work on that and concentrate on that. The rest will follow. So be the best you

00:53:49.640 that you can be. Join the AFA. Meet a spouse and start a family. What about you, Lainey? Any advice

00:53:57.320 for our young folk look i i i agree i would i would just add excellence draws excellence

00:54:02.760 so so like benny said be the be the best that you can be and you will draw the best to you

00:54:09.400 speaking of young as a shore lane could you tell us a little bit about uh your journey

00:54:15.000 to discovering the gods of your folk and what that looked like well my it was an odd it was

00:54:21.720 an odd path it started it started with philosophy um oddly enough i watched a movie called a fish

00:54:29.240 called wanda and in it uh kevin klein's character misquotes nietzsche often and at the end he gets

00:54:35.960 called on it and that kind of intrigued me so i started reading it and that one thing led to

00:54:40.360 another and i started listening to classical music and going going to the orchestra and and just

00:54:46.520 just engulfing myself in our culture.

00:54:50.860 And that is how I came,

00:54:53.360 and that eventually led, of course,

00:54:54.780 to the gods themselves,

00:54:56.600 the progenitors of our culture.

00:55:00.640 What did those first few years as an Azur look like for you? 1.00

00:55:07.280 Oh, just consuming as much as possible, 1.00

00:55:10.520 just a ravenous hunger to learn more,

00:55:14.920 it was all it was all so new it's like something something that had been been hidden that are lost

00:55:24.280 that that you had and you've been looking for but you didn't realize it um of my best friend

00:55:30.360 from high school we had made up when we lived in california we made a blood brother pact um

00:55:36.200 thinking oh native american uh you know why why why didn't we know of our own ritual

00:55:43.560 and that just it it saddened me and and just made me made but made me hunger for for learning more

00:55:50.580 it's like what what could we do if we had if we had this growing up and now we get to see our

00:55:56.660 children uh growing up in in the faith and having this from as a foundation not something that they

00:56:02.740 have to search for later in life it's it's such a such an amazing thing to see

00:56:06.340 If there was any advice that you would have for someone who is stumbling upon this path for the first time and they're not quite sure where to start, what would you recommend as that stone that you need to step on first?

00:56:27.580 Is there any recommendations that you have for someone who's just finding what we're doing?

00:56:32.500 I would say, you know, like we've mentioned earlier, start with the ancestors, you know,

00:56:39.600 a simple shrine to communicate with them. A lot of people do that already. They don't realize

00:56:44.480 that it is a ritual practice. People will talk to their, you know, their dearly departed,

00:56:51.240 and if either at a gravesite or just in their daily life, you know, doing something that

00:56:57.720 reminds them, like you've mentioned, working with Thread or something like that, you're doing

00:57:02.480 something that your that your grandparents did you you talk to them and you don't you may not

00:57:08.560 realize that that is an act of an act of ritual an act of communication beyond the veil you know

00:57:14.560 reaching in reaching back to the well to to learn and that simple that simple act is is so empowering

00:57:21.600 once you once you're conscious of what you're doing you know you realize that oh yeah this is

00:57:26.000 this is natural and it and it feels it doesn't it doesn't feel like you're something well like a lot

00:57:32.240 of us didn't grow up in this in this faith so it's it's new but it isn't we've we've just

00:57:39.760 disassociated the religiousness from it but we do these practices just by by nature

00:57:51.440 tanner asks lane you mentioned philosophy as an early part of your journey

00:57:56.080 did any other existentialist philosophy have any influence on you

00:58:00.080 i was i i really enjoyed uh hess herman hess was one of was one of the early early things that i

00:58:07.840 read um i've recently uh been introduced to evola i'm surprised i didn't find that sooner

00:58:13.600 uh with with what i was reading but i really enjoyed enjoyed reading his as well um heidegger

00:58:21.760 by way of of cleary um so that that's on my list is to is to start delving into some some martin

00:58:30.320 heidegger folk the rude gave us a 25 donation thank you very much and he asks i have been

00:58:42.480 trying to find information on european pre-christian fasting traditions but have been

00:58:49.040 unsuccessful do you know anything about this i can't say that i do no i don't know of any

00:58:56.320 any fasting traditions uh of european uh origin i am unfamiliar with that as well sir but if you

00:59:06.320 send us an email lane ashby at runestone.org or b callahan at runestone.org we will

00:59:15.440 get together with our fellow godhar and get you an answer how about that

00:59:20.960 Tracy Adler asks Lane you mentioned the soul complex how would you describe it and do you

00:59:28.440 believe having a strong soul complex helps one with their connection to the gods I think it

00:59:34.740 helps with everything I mean it helps it helps with with you work with relationships with I mean

00:59:42.200 it literally is what everything you are stems from. So yeah, of course, it would also apply

00:59:48.620 to your connection to the gods for sure. Absolutely. So at this point, I'm going to

00:59:54.860 ask Nick to go ahead and put up our link for your top websites. And we did speak a little bit

01:00:01.520 earlier about, you know, the Godar that you can contact and things of that nature. Also on

01:00:06.640 yorkshoff.com as well as our other uh hoff websites there you can find information on to

01:00:13.500 contact your folk builders you can contact your godhar and there's also a really great spot for

01:00:19.060 all the events that are going on we regularly post events on there as well as a calendar you can see

01:00:27.020 all the upcoming information on all the events going around in that district now lane there

01:00:34.400 always seems to be going something going on in your top whether somebody is having a moot somewhere

01:00:40.720 or a bloat on the beach what is your upcoming events at new york's off itself north off itself

01:00:48.480 we have freight faxy coming up a week from this saturday next month we will have our winter

01:00:55.040 finding in october of course winter nights and yule our first yule and always always a big event we

01:01:03.040 usually roast a whole hog. That's been a tradition that we've done for three years now,

01:01:06.880 is roasting a whole hog for Yule. So I'm sure we will carry that on at New York's Hof this year.

01:01:12.720 And who should they contact if they are interested in attending any of those events at New York's Hof?

01:01:19.120 They can contact myself, Jason Plourd or Anna Plourd, as well as our new folk builders,

01:01:26.160 Tracy Adler, Mike Joyner, or Otto Refuse.

01:01:32.560 Excellent.

01:01:34.220 While we're speaking at events, the reason you all have me tonight is because Eroshia Argoldi is currently traveling to our national event this weekend at Baldur's Hof, which is the oddly named Fall Fest in August.

01:01:50.940 August. The name was Kept for Tradition, but this is going to be an August event that is going to

01:01:59.560 run Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, starting at eight o'clock in the morning on Friday, and it

01:02:05.280 will run until about noon on Sunday. We do have about 65 people so far who have said that they're

01:02:12.700 going to be there, so we're really looking forward to that. It's always a great event.

01:02:17.380 If you have any questions about accommodations or you need a ride or looking for somebody you can stay the night with or see if there's any openings and with anybody or just any questions in general about what's going to be happening at Fall Fest, you can contact Jason Gallagher at jgallagher at runestone.org.

01:02:39.420 He is our veteran Fall Fest coordinator.

01:02:43.040 He has been a part of Fall Fest since the very first one,

01:02:46.920 and I think we are on year number seven, I believe.

01:02:51.500 Jason will correct me if I'm wrong because he will know.

01:02:54.720 So, yes, please, if you do plan on coming,

01:02:57.460 tickets are available on the store, runestone.org store,

01:03:01.600 and you can find information for tickets at Baldur's Hall,

01:03:04.460 under the Baldur's Hall Fall Fest.

01:03:07.800 Also, if you're coming and you want to pay at the door, that's totally fine.

01:03:11.440 Please get a hold of Jason Gallagher if you do intend to do that.

01:03:15.020 This is for members and vouched for guests only.

01:03:18.800 So please get a hold of Jason Gallagher if you plan on paying for your ticket that way.

01:03:23.860 We do have five bloats and super excited about those bloats coming up.

01:03:28.860 Also going to have High Sumble.

01:03:30.400 We've got an auction.

01:03:31.160 We've got Baldur's Ball and we've got games for the kids, games for the adults and several

01:03:36.680 discussions and classes that we're going to be teaching.

01:03:42.800 Roy Dannen asks, Lane,

01:03:44.640 will there be any chance of being able to attend Yule at both Thorshof and

01:03:48.720 Njordshhof? I don't know

01:03:52.580 what, I don't know. I'll have to check and see what Thorshof's

01:03:56.640 schedule is. We may be, there is a

01:04:00.680 chance it could be happening on the same weekend since we had this schedule

01:04:04.700 before we had Nürnzhoff, so we're trying to stick to it for those that had planned time off from

01:04:11.780 work, etc., and it does work out with our schedule. We did have to push Freyfaxi back a week

01:04:17.620 because after the national event of having the dedication, everybody kind of needed a week to

01:04:24.620 decompress, and so we did push that back a week, but otherwise we're on the third weekend of the

01:04:31.260 month throughout the rest of the year. Fantastic. Roy, if you can reach out to Lane at laneashby

01:04:37.680 at runestone.org as well as go the Daniel Young at Thorshof. If you are looking for information

01:04:47.320 on the Thorshof schedule, you can go ahead and check that. Or you can also take a look at those

01:04:52.680 handy dandy websites for Thorshof and New York's Hof and take a look at their schedules there and

01:04:57.520 see that and see if you are able to make both and I sure hope that you can. All right. Lane,

01:05:08.760 is there anything that you have to add tonight? Anything that you want to discuss? Anything on

01:05:14.560 your mind that you want to tell your folk tonight? Just how excited I am for what we have ahead of

01:05:21.580 us we've got work to do but we're growing we have a strong core group and it's amazing getting to

01:05:29.340 meet new people even before the half every every week we would have new people at events and that's

01:05:34.360 that's what I'm so excited about is seeing more of our folk come home and getting to uh share

01:05:39.880 and sharing as a witness and says sharing their uh their inheritance their birthright

01:05:46.100 mm-hmm josh asks you touched on ego and such go the ashby could you expound on self-introspection

01:05:56.900 and personal growth for the azure from your perspectives as spiritual leaders

01:06:01.640 i it's it's it's imperative it's you know odin uh sought wisdom uh he sacrificed himself to

01:06:11.080 himself and we need to do we have to do the same in order to in order to grow we sacrifice our time

01:06:17.540 to learn we we sacrifice to better ourselves and that that's not just like we mentioned the

01:06:25.280 physical realm but like in the in the ego and ego is a healthy thing it's it's not pride is not a

01:06:31.020 sin to us it is a healthy thing to have but on on the flip side of that as as most things are

01:06:37.180 dualistic in our faith from the runes to the gods themselves, you have to know when to let it go

01:06:43.720 also. You have to know when to sacrifice that ego for the folk. Tracy has a question for you.

01:06:53.420 Lane, what is your stance on the Norena Society and their attempt to make our faith more organized

01:06:58.060 and dogmatic which which most seem to dislike um i don't have an issue with being dogmatic i mean

01:07:09.500 even even we have things that we believe and we have precedents that we carry and we that we are

01:07:16.220 building um i think the difference is between practicing and studying the theology and theocracy

01:07:26.140 you know do you do you are you are you doing it or are you are you learning it um the knowledge

01:07:32.800 is important it is it is good but you have to get out there you have to commune with the gods you

01:07:37.600 have to commune with your ancestors and your folk that's that's where the magic happens um you can

01:07:43.060 always pick up learning something along the way but don't don't think you have to study for 10

01:07:48.940 years you have to read this book that book or this book to to be awesome true like like we'd

01:07:54.900 mentioned. It's your birthright. Do it. I have a great deal of respect for Mark Pierre. He's done

01:08:02.220 a lot of great things, and I do enjoy his take on things, and I do like to read him and converse

01:08:09.640 with him. But the Neuron Society, they're more of a study group to me. They're more focused on

01:08:20.160 the book learning and the the intricate uh translations and like i said it's good it's

01:08:26.920 good to have access to that so i i appreciate the work that he does but i don't think it's the

01:08:31.320 the end all and be all and to be honest i don't know that he does either i i don't know him

01:08:35.680 personally but he seems to be a very um from watching him and reading of him he seems to be

01:08:41.360 a very spiritual man and i i know that he does practice in in his in his personal life

01:08:46.660 I don't want to sound lecturing because I tend to get on a, on a soapbox on this particular topic, but despite popular belief, whether that is on YouTube or, you know, the latest podcasts or the internet sensations, as a true is not and never will be a solitary practice.

01:09:14.340 It is very difficult to do. If you are stuck in a situation where you don't have anyone to share frith with, you don't have anyone to worship with, you don't have that community, that's something that is very hard to do.

01:09:30.560 being solitary is very very difficult to do our faith is definitely something that is shared

01:09:38.560 you know it it is reciprocal with our folk whether it's building frith whether it's celebrating a

01:09:45.360 feast getting out there and actually worshiping the gods and actually practicing as a true and

01:09:53.600 actually being a doer and getting things done for the gods for your church for your folk that's

01:09:59.200 important to your spiritual path. You know, just sitting at home reading a book is, it's going to

01:10:04.740 be real difficult to find the same connection as you would if you had a group of people to share

01:10:10.780 it with. So if you haven't joined the AFA yet, you definitely need to. And you can do that by

01:10:18.760 going to runestone.org and taking a look at that application process. And if you, if you feel the

01:10:27.020 need to continue your spiritual path and really live it with your folk go apply talk to a folk

01:10:35.680 builder reach out to any of the folk builders in your area and really find that community

01:10:40.060 connection because if you're a solitary practitioner of as true that is going to be

01:10:44.780 something that you're not going to find in a book so please reach out to your folk builders please

01:10:49.840 go apply for the afa and really come home to your folk come home to your gods come home to your 0.60

01:10:54.740 ancestors. And you made a good point, Brandi. You said celebration. And that's really what it

01:11:01.620 boils down to. Our faith is a celebration. And you can't celebrate alone. You can't have a

01:11:09.540 birthday party by yourself. You need people to celebrate with you. Absolutely. Finn Raith asks,

01:11:17.380 if we want to join the AFA and attend events in Northern Europe around Scandinavia, who do we

01:11:22.500 contact and what do we do good question so we do actually have a folk builder in scandinavia

01:11:29.700 and nick if you'd like to put up eric's email address you can go ahead and send him an email

01:11:37.380 and get in touch with eric i'm gonna have a hard time saying your name my friend

01:11:41.700 eric lugnet lugnet um get a hold of him he is holding moots and he is very active in the afa

01:11:50.740 um you know even over in scandinavia he's always in contact with us over here he's always trying

01:11:55.780 to bring people together over there um holds events and post the most beautiful pictures

01:12:01.220 you've ever seen they are absolutely amazing um so yes he is very active over there in sweden

01:12:08.820 so please uh get a hold of eric he can help you out and get you in touch with with other

01:12:13.940 folk that are in your area um all over the place over there so yes we definitely do have active

01:12:19.940 AFA folk over there in Northern Europe and Scandinavia. Tanner asks, have you guys seen

01:12:26.700 anything in the Ash community at large that you're particularly excited about, and is there anything

01:12:32.440 that you'd like to see more of, whether it's music, films, creative stuff, courses, etc.? Yes,

01:12:39.500 I am. I am very excited about several things. The first thing that I'm really, really excited about

01:12:45.160 is the AFA Homeschool.

01:12:49.360 I am so excited to see this.

01:12:51.900 The AFA has a youth program

01:12:54.260 and that has naturally and organically evolved

01:12:56.940 into the Ashtore Academy.

01:12:59.360 Gauthier Robstam has in his team that he has

01:13:01.680 has done an amazing job of putting together a curriculum

01:13:05.160 and they have got kindergarten enrollment

01:13:08.200 still going down there.

01:13:09.980 It says it ends soon.

01:13:11.160 So get ahold of Gauthier Robstam.

01:13:13.820 take a look at the website as true academy.org get your child enrolled into that program um it is

01:13:20.780 i'm super excited about that we are now raising a generation of young men and women who

01:13:28.360 have the very beautiful ability to be raised in this faith a lot of us that come to as true do

01:13:38.540 so from christianity or any other religions or we've tried this or that and it didn't fit so we

01:13:44.360 finally came home to as a true we have the opportunity to raise our children in this faith

01:13:49.780 to raise our children worshiping our gods um to raise our children within our church and going

01:13:55.420 to hops you know as the al-shara godi says our children these days will never know what it's like

01:14:00.180 to live in a world that does not have a hop in it they will never know that loneliness or

01:14:06.000 that loneliness that a lot of us have spent as we milled around looking for the AFA or milled

01:14:14.180 around looking for our community. So that is one of the things that I'm very, very excited about.

01:14:19.300 What about you, Lane? What are you excited about that you see going on?

01:14:23.340 That as well. And just the excitement. I see,

01:14:27.640 in even in even in more secular circles i i've i've been hearing also true mentioned

01:14:37.540 the the gods the old ways um even even talking about our our founding fathers they're always

01:14:45.520 referred to as as the the america was founded on judeo-christian values but thomas jefferson

01:14:53.660 stated that we were founded on pagan anglo-saxon law he wanted um he wanted the the symbol of the

01:15:01.340 united states to be horst and hengist and he and there's there's just so much there they were deists

01:15:08.620 but they had a strong connection uh ben franklin many of his quotes directly parallel lines from

01:15:16.300 the havamal you know his early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise that's

01:15:21.900 he must early go forth if he feigned the blood or the goods of another would get the idle wolf

01:15:26.380 with a little meat on a sleeping man's success i mean the second amendment is literally stated in

01:15:32.140 in the half and also and i we're seeing people touch on these points and and realize that you

01:15:39.660 know this is this is our birthright this is our connection and just to see it filter filter more

01:15:45.500 and more into the mainstream where people that maybe wouldn't come across our podcast or our

01:15:52.140 literature or our website can be introduced to it uh for the first time and maybe the the ability of

01:15:59.020 for even more people to find their way home it's it's an exciting time the hoffs it the the

01:16:04.140 also true academy just thinking 2035 will be our first graduating class that is it seems so soon

01:16:11.500 so right around the corner it's just it's just exciting i just it's hard to contain yourself

01:16:18.140 absolutely there's so many good things that we've got going on you know we've got um fall

01:16:22.540 fest coming up this weekend um we just opened up our fourth half um we're gonna keep pushing

01:16:29.820 through until we have another one you know these are things that are powerful and they're exciting

01:16:34.060 um and they're fulfilling and it's the support of our folk and um the competency of our leadership

01:16:41.500 that has really gotten us there you know without without the folk that we have as members of the

01:16:47.020 afa you know they're they're behind making all these all these things happen just by joining

01:16:53.800 the community you know just by taking part in that community by showing dedication to their church

01:16:59.860 You know, our leadership that we have is really, really pushed hard to move forward in the future, you know, not allowing us to sit still and watch the world pass by us.

01:17:14.440 You know, we're setting the example and we're forging away ourselves.

01:17:18.260 You know, if the world catches up with us, great, but we're moving forward.

01:17:21.500 you know so for for each and every member of the as a shoe folk assembly know that you are

01:17:26.500 important and you are a huge part of the reason why this organization is so successful um you

01:17:32.120 know all these things we do we do for our gods and we do for our folk as well so you know always

01:17:36.720 remember that you are part of something forward moving and hard pushing and something that is

01:17:44.540 just paved in the way for you know the future that we want to enjoy but also for the future

01:17:48.620 for all of these children that are graduating in 2035 you know so every single one of you

01:17:54.920 yeah some of you haven't been born yet you know just the the amazing amount that the families

01:18:00.420 that we have and the beautiful children that you know still have not even been born they're going

01:18:05.400 to be coming into a world that the path is is really laid for them and with our forward motion

01:18:14.180 they're going to be pushing it even further we're really setting our children and our children's

01:18:18.600 children up for success and being a member now, you are directly a part of that. So we can't thank

01:18:26.120 all of you enough and our leadership enough, but especially our membership, we're doing this for

01:18:30.920 you and we're doing this with you and we appreciate all of you. Let's see, Roy Danton sent us a $10

01:18:39.900 donation. Thank you, Roy. Appreciate that so much. The long drive back from Yorkshire finally gave me

01:18:45.660 time to listen to all the previous episodes in replay. So very powerful and inspiring, especially

01:18:51.100 those questions about how to start practice at home. Having won that custom-made horn at the

01:18:56.180 auction also really inspired me to build an altar, right? That's great to hear. So, you know, we've

01:19:02.120 talked about this before that, you know, your first step is really making the start of that

01:19:07.400 gifting cycle. One thing I always want to remind our folk is don't underestimate the power of the

01:19:14.240 home feast. And what I mean by that is gather your family around a table and, you know, pass that

01:19:20.860 horn around that you have and hail your, hail your God of choice. If it's a day of remembrance

01:19:27.760 is coming up, you know, research that, that hero and hail them and talk about what you can learn

01:19:33.280 from them. Um, on a Friday night, gather your family together, pass the horn around and talk

01:19:38.000 about your ancestors, especially if you have children, um, tell them the stories about the

01:19:42.800 grandparents that they would never be able to meet. If you have grandparents of your own,

01:19:48.360 go see them and learn from them. Sit with them and share a meal with them and share frith with

01:19:54.680 them and learn about your ancestors. Learn about the customs that they had. Some of them, you know,

01:19:59.580 may have only been first, second, or third generation, you know, in this country. They

01:20:04.820 have a lot of history for you if you're just willing to listen to them. And you're never going

01:20:09.360 find a more captive audience than your child so definitely celebrate around your tables even if

01:20:14.720 just you and your family pass that horn around that table lane do you have any advice for those

01:20:21.840 um how they can involve their their families or or anything like that and what they're doing and

01:20:27.440 how they're getting started with this i think uh like you mentioned the meals uh blessed blessing

01:20:33.360 the meal i think is a good way to to introduce them to it uh we keep we keep mentioning the

01:20:39.520 ancestors you can never you can never go wrong there but yeah i think that is good um and and

01:20:45.600 relating relating the gods and goddesses to to everyday things uh air for example is a is you

01:20:52.640 know because every everyone knows someone that's sick or maybe is is getting getting older and

01:20:58.560 struggling you know making offerings to air is who who could who could oppose that you know who

01:21:04.880 could oppose asking a goddess to to help their loved ones feel better to heal faster absolutely 1.00

01:21:14.320 tracy asks lane it seems like florida has a lot of women at events do you think the female 1.00

01:21:19.360 element had was important to the growth of the florida afa community how do you get the female

01:21:24.880 members to come out yes yes and um i think them them it's a it's a self-perpetuating thing um

01:21:37.680 it's it's odd because you're doing doing some digging we we had 30 people at our yule last

01:21:43.040 year which at that time was was the most uh the largest florida event um amandy has said uh and

01:21:49.040 And we're 50-50 with the children.

01:21:51.860 It was half men, half women.

01:21:53.240 But the membership doesn't reflect that.

01:21:55.560 We're 20-something percent women and 70, I think 70-something percent men.

01:22:02.740 But the women show up. 0.78

01:22:05.060 So that's the challenge to you, men. 1.00

01:22:08.340 You're paying your dues.

01:22:10.100 Get to the Hoff.

01:22:11.180 Get out to an event. 1.00

01:22:12.760 The women are definitely outshining you in that respect. 1.00

01:22:15.920 They come to events. 1.00

01:22:17.160 and and the more they the more they do the more they do um because that's that's really an

01:22:21.960 introduction because everybody knows that's been in this for any time that it was not always that 0.97

01:22:27.400 way right tracy for uh for advice on how to get those female members to come out call them 1.00

01:22:37.160 call those ladies up in your district in your local area pick them up and bring them so let 1.00

01:22:42.680 them know that this is the place to be and the place to find your sisters and your friends and

01:22:47.480 your family um yeah call them invite them out they'll never they'll never want to go home

01:22:54.200 they'll always want to come back nobody ever wants to actually leave the hof doors nobody wants to

01:22:58.600 walk out ever it's the obligatory hour and a half of goodbyes you have to tack that onto your travel

01:23:04.280 time absolutely please remember to do that at least an hour and a half travel time you gotta

01:23:09.960 say goodbye to everybody more than once because nobody ever really wants to leave or you can do

01:23:14.600 what i did to tracy and threaten to hold a bloat on their sidewalk outside their house yes absolutely

01:23:22.760 tanner asks what advice would you have for folks with families who outright reject as true

01:23:28.440 and whose advice wouldn't be conducive so my advice to you on this one um

01:23:35.560 always be the example of the best of yourself. Number one, the best of your gods. Number two,

01:23:44.820 the best of your ancestors and the best of your folk. Always show them the benefits

01:23:50.960 of what you're doing, how it's improved your life, how it's made you a stronger person.

01:23:56.940 Because I've never, I have never personally talked to anyone that said, I am not a better

01:24:03.500 person since i joined us true i've never once every single one of them have that i know personally

01:24:10.460 has taken either the nine noble virtues the lessons that they've learned from the lower um

01:24:17.580 the discussions that they've had in a group um and taken those and turned them

01:24:24.300 help them help turn them into a better stronger more industriousness more passionate person

01:24:30.460 i've never met anyone that said i i shouldn't have done this it was a bad decision everyone

01:24:35.260 always says it feels like coming home and you'll find the best of yourself if you follow

01:24:42.380 you know the advice of the lord um the nine noble virtues if you get involved in your community

01:24:48.860 and do beautiful things you're not going to suffer from that and your family will see

01:24:54.300 how you're growing if you just show them. Always be respectful. One thing that I've found is if you

01:25:04.000 go out blazing about how they are wrong and you are right, no matter whether, even if you are

01:25:11.480 right, don't be insulting. You know, you wouldn't appreciate them insulting your religion. Don't do

01:25:18.480 the same to them. Show them the benefits for you personally and for your folk by being a member

01:25:25.400 of the Ashtore Folk Assembly. Lane, do you have any advice? I couldn't agree more. I recently

01:25:34.040 built this bookcase for all our lore. And in the process, it was a learning process.

01:25:42.400 But my wife noted how calm I was. And when things didn't go the way I wanted them to,

01:25:48.960 i did not get upset i merely adapted and trudged along she she saw that that i didn't i didn't throw

01:25:57.440 the hammer i didn't i i didn't curse i i figured out what was wrong and how i can fix it make it

01:26:04.720 better stronger whatever and yeah it'd be be the best be the example set set the standard absolutely

01:26:12.560 tanner asks on a more fun note can we get an as a true country album sooner rather than later

01:26:18.520 you know if i was a singer i would but you don't want to hear me sing

01:26:22.680 but i myself would appreciate it as a true country album so if you know somebody who can

01:26:28.620 write i think they should reach out to you tanner i personally i personally like dancing so anything

01:26:34.320 that i can dance to i'm a little partial to polka i'm not gonna lie um i like that so yeah tanner

01:26:42.460 go ahead and write that country album and run it by your al-shari or godi

01:26:47.160 i'm gonna i'm gonna give that to you what about you lane what would you like to see music wise

01:26:53.160 for uh afa or these wonderful it started off with uh thor's off had the thor's ball at ostara

01:27:00.840 and we're having balder's ball uh at uh fall fest what would you like to see with that lane how

01:27:07.700 you like to see that evolve music i'm very eclectic musically i like just about every genre

01:27:14.260 of music but i like very few people very few artists in the genre um and many so i i could

01:27:21.140 i could go with anything i like i like the bluegrass that rob uh that go through rob

01:27:26.100 with stan was talking about i really enjoy that uh its roots in the the more uh traditional european

01:27:33.940 folk music um but i like uh i like just good old good old rock music too some nice some nice hard

01:27:41.060 driving 70s guitar uh riffing music so yeah i'd like to maybe maybe see something like that

01:27:47.620 something along the lines of uh of uh you know our old uh zeppelin uh jeff beck uh something

01:27:57.060 something along that the hard hard rock epic genre anything that uh invokes emotion or gets

01:28:04.580 you moving is going to raise the energy right tracy adler asked lane during bloat on exchange

01:28:12.580 of energy during bloat an exchange of energies takes place blood sacrifice was the means of this

01:28:17.860 exchange is mead being alive and charged with a life a suitable sacrifice for proper exchange

01:28:24.420 Absolutely. And like I said earlier, so would milk. Milk is another good one. It is lagu,

01:28:33.140 it is life. The yeast in the mead, the milk comes directly from a living animal.

01:28:44.820 So you had mentioned previously about other offerings that you would recommend. So for those

01:28:50.660 like just starting out where would you find that and how would you conduct that specific offering

01:28:56.260 do you have any advice for our folk just starting out on that sure if you don't uh if you're just

01:29:01.940 starting out and you don't have a horn or something um any bowl uh we would prefer something

01:29:08.660 of an organic nature either ceramic wood or or even uh a hammered some kind of hammered metal

01:29:16.020 something something organic something of a natural of a natural nature um if it if it's going to be

01:29:23.140 manufactured um try to get something that's that's this manufactured by our folk if you can but if 0.84

01:29:29.220 not you know you use you use what you have uh the the indo-europeans traveling across the steps 0.78

01:29:35.380 they didn't have the they didn't have the convenience they would use the same bowl that 0.76

01:29:39.700 they ate out of for ritual they would just you would you just want to cleanse it before ritual

01:29:45.540 to to wash away the mundane and to prepare it and then again clean it again when you're done before

01:29:52.260 you would use it for any mundane um uses but just you know a bowl to pour the offering in

01:29:59.460 uh when when you're done take it out have pick a tree have a tree that you find

01:30:04.820 a special connection with in your yard pour it at the base there to to release the offering

01:30:10.260 or the same could go for hard food like we we mentioned bread as well this is the same thing

01:30:18.040 you take take it out take it outside once once it's it's been on your altar take it out to that

01:30:24.120 tree and leave it there birds can eat it and birds carry our messages between our world and

01:30:31.180 the world of the gods I know Anna Githya Anna Plur does beautiful bloats that involve flowers

01:30:39.800 she always has the most beautiful flowers and i know she offers those and that's a really just a

01:30:45.560 really beautiful sentence sentiment you know she she does beautiful things with flowers and i know

01:30:50.040 she works with those a lot as well sierra asks lane aside from obviously oating in what was the

01:30:55.880 most memorable memorable part of the dedication for you um oh that would um that would be old thing

01:31:04.360 uh pam into our kindred ryan orion wilton's son asked question i can't find a good ritual hammer

01:31:15.560 big one where can i order one you know i've got some recommendations on that i would you know

01:31:23.160 check etsy and and check out check the buyer make sure that you're going to support that specific

01:31:27.480 buyer um also as far as a big ritual hammer i have seen people make ritual hammers out of some really

01:31:36.440 interesting things whether it was wood that they carved um i've actually seen people um they found

01:31:42.440 an old blacksmith hammer and wrapped it with leather and made a beautiful hammer out of that

01:31:47.720 um lane what do you think i've seen people use a common sledgehammer like a handheld a mallet

01:31:54.840 But, yeah, whatever you can, whatever suits the purpose.

01:32:01.740 I've also seen people have just the cutout of a hammer symbol itself.

01:32:07.980 You know, it's not necessarily a physical hammer, but they do have, you know, a hammer that could even be used as a wall hanging.

01:32:13.940 You know, you can use that as well.

01:32:15.780 There's all kinds of ways to get creative with, you know, your tools and your symbols and your altar pieces and things like that.

01:32:22.860 So think outside the box.

01:32:24.420 if you can find an old hammer at a thrift shop that you can spruce up and and dedicate for that

01:32:30.100 use and make it beautiful by all means do that or if you have one maybe an old tool of your father's

01:32:36.980 your grandfather's that would be amazing a lot of people even just just do that you know use the

01:32:42.500 hammer sign yeah absolutely roy asks lane how about possibly having a longer event once a year

01:32:51.700 maybe even a full week well we definitely want to we definitely want to do uh we'll definitely do

01:32:58.900 a longer event for our for our national event uh when we when we decide what that's going to be

01:33:04.740 we hope to have that uh figured out by the by the end of this month uh know what our our national

01:33:09.700 event is going to be going forward we have a lot of a lot of great ideas and it's hard it's hard

01:33:14.180 to choose because we would like it to be all of them of course but uh we're working on that uh

01:33:20.900 a week that is that that's let's let's say that's a goal

01:33:28.500 whack-a-mole asks how does personal revelation figure into as a true faith

01:33:35.060 well i'm going to start out with that one personal revelation so a big part of um

01:33:40.100 a big part of my spirituality and my path on as a true was discovering, you know, what true north

01:33:49.580 was to me. And that is the, um, the motto of Baldur's Hoff guided by true north. And a big

01:33:55.560 part of being guided by true north is knowing yourself and having faith in yourself. One of

01:34:02.000 the very first things that I did, um, and I continue to do as I evolve is I will check in

01:34:08.380 with myself. I will check in with, am I growing as a person? Am I better than I was last year?

01:34:15.060 Is there anything that I'm doing that I need to correct either for my gods, my church, my folk,

01:34:20.720 or my family? Is there anything that I personally need to work on? As far as personal revelation,

01:34:27.460 you know, like I talked about with the lore, read your lore on a regular basis. Don't just read it

01:34:31.480 one time. Don't read the Eddas one time and then put them away on a shelf. You know, don't use them

01:34:37.460 as a tool to memorize and then you know be able just to spout them off if you need them what you

01:34:43.380 need to really do is read them continually read them often and find out what it is that they mean

01:34:51.720 to you find out what you read the read now that you missed before and what does that actually mean

01:34:58.620 and how can you apply it to what you're going through at that time you know you may find

01:35:03.660 something that really hits home for you in a certain spot if you continually pick up that

01:35:09.180 lore and read it um the same with the runes you know you're always going to find something new

01:35:13.620 the more you work with them lane yeah i would also add um as far as as far as to add is read

01:35:21.580 read multiple translations because one you know it may not it may not can you may not connect

01:35:29.380 but you could connect to another you can get you can get you can get something out of one

01:35:33.280 trying to get something out else out of another that you may not get that you may not find it can

01:35:38.480 it can affect you in different ways uh i i i agree look the as far as the retrospect you know i do

01:35:45.520 that like i said looking at looking back over the the week the month of the runes that i pulled and

01:35:50.720 and how did i how did i implement that how did i focus that energy and and focus on those

01:35:56.560 ideas, those concepts in my life. And it's a spiral. It's a constant improvement. It's a cycle,

01:36:07.040 but it's a cycle that has to keep going up. Josh asks, often many of our men have expressed

01:36:15.520 hardships starting families. Any thoughts about what things our fellows could be doing to put

01:36:22.020 their best foot forward for the women of our folk. First of all, join the AFA. There are lots and lots

01:36:28.940 of outstanding menfolk in the AFA that if you do need to work on yourself, they are excellent

01:36:36.120 examples on how to be forward-facing as true, how to be better men, how to be strong men,

01:36:44.320 how to better yourself. There's all kinds of outstanding role models for young men and

01:36:52.420 any man who wants to improve himself within the AFA. Secondly, how to put your best foot forward

01:36:58.940 is to be honest with yourself. Look for those things that you can improve upon. And when needed,

01:37:06.520 find somebody to help you do that, whether that's a mentor, whether that's a goatee that could give

01:37:11.100 some sound advice or whether that's a folk builder that can bring you into an event where you can

01:37:16.140 meet a whole bunch of other men that you can rely on and that you can take advice from

01:37:21.260 lane what are your thoughts sir yeah and if you're already a member we have our we have our men's

01:37:26.140 group and on me we that you can ask questions too it's a it's a space uh for for for male folk to

01:37:35.020 to have these kind of conversations uh the ladies have theirs as well but this is a this is you know

01:37:40.300 we have ours to to help to help our young men with these hurdles um also it it doesn't appearance

01:37:47.420 you know as much as as much as we are a spiritual organization a church uh and we we focus on our

01:37:53.980 faith appearance matters so you know you know take take take care of your appearance not just

01:38:01.740 you know how how you want how you dress but your your physical appearance you'll be be healthy

01:38:06.620 mm-hmm absolutely sc asks how many folks showed up for the dedication do you feel as if a good

01:38:16.460 majority of those will continue to be monthly attendees from your top several of them came

01:38:21.740 from very far away so i i don't know that they will be regulars but i i do hope i have heard

01:38:27.500 from most of the people that attended that they definitely will be will be coming back um we're

01:38:33.420 we're trying to get a final tally uh we were we were we think we were in the mid-80s um just

01:38:39.340 trying to confirm uh some some some numbers here but we'll we'll have that to announce for our

01:38:44.700 for the rune stone uh we're thinking it was we were thinking it was in the mid-80s unfortunately

01:38:49.580 we had some people leave uh before we got our group photo so it is not not a full representation

01:38:55.580 but still the a very healthy amount of people in our in our group photo

01:39:03.900 sc also asks how is growth happening in florida is it booming since the hof has been announced

01:39:11.500 we had we we've been growing steadily for for the past couple years uh but yes when

01:39:17.020 the hof was announced we definitely had a growth spurt without a doubt and we continue we continue

01:39:23.660 that we continue that that steady uh that steady increase in growth

01:39:31.420 sc also asked what was one challenge during the preparation for dedication of the hof

01:39:36.620 itself that you faced

01:39:41.180 drive time we're all uh i think hour and a half is probably the closest person we had to the hof

01:39:48.380 so we we put a lot of miles a lot of a lot of road miles uh getting up there and getting up

01:39:53.900 there and back uh every every weekend and the last week even even during the week going in and

01:40:00.300 making sure everything was uh was ready for the dedication tanner asked do you guys do you guys

01:40:08.220 think the show would benefit from a set time limit haha no i do not i will talk to mr lane all day

01:40:14.940 long he is my friend and my fellow godar we'll go as long as we have questions here

01:40:22.220 all right tracy asks lane did someone already ask you about your patron deity yet in our

01:40:27.020 are there a few gods you feel a better connection with but we we did discuss we did discuss that

01:40:33.660 um when i originally when i originally found asa true i did lean towards thor uh and again that

01:40:42.060 stemmed from the heimskringla because uh i knew that my maternal side was from germany so in the

01:40:50.220 heimskringla it tells how odin uh went on and moved just went on to scandinavia left his sons in

01:40:56.540 in saxony to rule so i was uh i did i did start with i did start with thor at that point but like

01:41:04.060 i said um then i i just tried to learn as much as i could about all the gods and worship them

01:41:10.140 properly i try to um if not worship them an equal amount of times at least give them an equal amount

01:41:17.900 of reference seller door asks if it's question time what importance would you put personal

01:41:26.140 appearance and addiction and how do you think it could improve the afa standing amongst the

01:41:30.380 public in the future thanks so i'll take that one um you should put your best foot forward in all

01:41:38.860 you do because we are our deeds so you should take you yourself are a personal rep are a personal

01:41:49.180 representative of not just yourself but your family your ancestors your gods if you're a member

01:41:55.980 of the afa you are a representative of the afa of your church one thing i always remind my children

01:42:02.940 of when they go somewhere if they're if they're leaving for a weekend or they're going out

01:42:06.940 somewhere where i'm not around i always remind them remember who you belong to because you're

01:42:12.060 not just representing me you're not just representing yourself you're representing

01:42:16.380 your ancestors you're representing your gods when you wear that hammer around your neck

01:42:21.900 everything that you do

01:42:25.500 shows your dedication and your worship of your gods and your support of your folk

01:42:30.860 um how do you think it could improve the afa standing amongst the public it already has

01:42:34.700 us um you can definitely see the difference between members of the as true folk assembly

01:42:41.580 and those that are not members of the as true folk assembly um we have a very specific um way

01:42:48.060 that we hold ourselves at bloat we have um we always dress to dressed in the best that we have

01:42:55.100 when we represent our church or when we go before our gods um you know you don't you don't see us

01:43:02.540 out there trying to be offensive or or stand out like a store of thumb just for the sake of standing

01:43:07.900 out so um we won't always put a best foot forward because we are representations of our church and

01:43:13.660 of our gods lane what do you think sir i i think the point you made about that it already has is

01:43:19.740 is is key it it really has we stand i think our membership stands head and shoulders above uh

01:43:27.820 certainly any other um people any any other groups that that that portend to follow our gods

01:43:35.820 um and i and i would say we we stand uh shoulder to shoulder if not uh head and shoulders above

01:43:42.860 any others our our folk know that that they have we we have to we have to hold ourselves

01:43:49.500 to a higher standard because there are so many that would look to tear us down

01:43:54.060 auto asks brandy why are you attracted to saga so um i initially was very very much pulled to saga

01:44:05.000 um for a lot of of reasons that are my own personal understanding of her so my own personal

01:44:11.220 upg but i've always seen her as reliable you know she's she's someone that is always there

01:44:18.160 to lend an ear and listen you know she's always someone there to serve the need um to listen to

01:44:24.780 the stories um that you can tell something to that you can trust with that information um she's

01:44:32.220 always been someone that i've always looked to for that and that's just my personal understanding

01:44:36.380 of her and i've always tried to be that person you know to to be that confidant if you need one

01:44:41.980 to be that person who will listen to your story and get it written down so that no one would ever

01:44:46.600 forget your name, um, to be that person that will serve you that need when you just need someone to

01:44:52.120 talk to you or pour you that glass of wine or make you that cup of tea. Um, that's the person that I

01:44:59.260 want to be. And I, and I saw that in her. So I've always tried to emulate that with what, with what

01:45:04.760 my personal understanding of her was, uh, Don asked, get the brandy. How do you think it's best

01:45:11.580 share as a true with those like my sis who might see it as bros a true my fault all right dawn

01:45:18.060 first of all you need to get your sister to an event um contact your local folk builder and let

01:45:23.500 them know that you would like to bring her as a guest and get her around some normal and upright

01:45:33.340 people that are not going to treat this as bros a true because this is not bros a true

01:45:40.060 We don't do that in the Attitude Folk Assembly. My best advice to you on that is to show her

01:45:47.740 pictures of all the women at our events. All of us ladies like to get together and take a big 1.00

01:45:52.660 picture. If you go onto any of the district websites at any of the major events, you can

01:45:57.840 probably see pictures of just our women and our children. The biggest thing that you need to share

01:46:03.100 with her is that there are women here and that the women here matter. And I think that is probably

01:46:10.300 going to be your first step. But my best advice after that is to take her to an event and show

01:46:15.060 her what this really is. That's my best advice. I would add, show the wonderful videos that are

01:46:21.480 always here, both the events. Those really do a great job of giving you the feel. And you

01:46:28.060 definitely see the women and the children running around and having fun.

01:46:34.700 Tanner asks, do you think camping could be a good way for folks to gather in areas not close to

01:46:41.340 Hoffs? Yes, so we do actually do that in quite a few areas around our Hoffs. There is definitely

01:46:48.940 campsites available for that and we do actually have people camp at events, not necessarily

01:46:53.420 at the hop itself, but folk do gather together and camp together. There's also a lot of folk

01:46:58.760 that actually have camping bloats or camping moots together where they do that. So that's

01:47:04.020 definitely something that you can do. Lane, do you have any other recommendations for folks that

01:47:09.000 just want to get together, you know, whether it's camping or holding a moot on their own? I know we

01:47:14.120 get that question a lot is, how do I get people together? Do I have to be a folk builder to get

01:47:18.960 people together? Absolutely not. No. All you have to do is be interested in doing so. A folk builder

01:47:25.380 is more than happy to put you in contact with other members that have chosen to the referral

01:47:31.100 to be a referral or be referred to in the application. So no, you do not have to be a

01:47:35.900 folk builder to do this. We encourage everybody to hold up gatherings. One of the, you know,

01:47:42.160 there's a ton of things. Go bowling. Get a bunch of people. We've had a bowling mood.

01:47:46.660 do something in the community. We adopt roads, but there's always cleanup activities,

01:47:56.080 especially if you live near parks or waterways. We do an intercoastal cleanup once a year here

01:48:05.480 in Florida to clean up trash along the intercoastal waterways, something that we 1.00

01:48:11.900 dedicate to New York to clean up Midgard. 1.00

01:48:15.980 Do something like that. 1.00

01:48:17.360 You get to do something, maybe you'll meet somebody else,

01:48:20.260 but you also get to gather with your folk

01:48:22.480 and do something productive and beneficial.

01:48:26.420 I know we've said it before and several times

01:48:28.960 during this almost two hours that we've been talking,

01:48:33.920 Lane, I know we've said it many, many times,

01:48:36.120 this is not a solitary religion.

01:48:39.020 Get out there, contact your folk,

01:48:41.060 get a folk builder look them up on the websites find your folk find your community and find your

01:48:46.500 way home you know that is going to be so much more enriching than trying to stay home and figure it

01:48:53.540 out on your own it's it's like lane said previously it really is a celebration so get out there with

01:48:59.220 your folk if you don't have a folk builder within driving distance of you contact them see if they'll

01:49:03.700 meet you in the middle or get with them and have them get you in contact with people close by

01:49:08.820 and see if you can get a move going whether it's just in the park or dinner at your home or

01:49:13.220 whatever it is i had someone reach out to me or that you know there's nobody around me there's

01:49:18.580 nothing they had they literally had a member on the same street within a walking distance to them

01:49:24.340 and all we all we had to do is put them in contact and then they were off and running

01:49:30.260 absolutely so for those who have not yet applied for the afa but need to there is always that

01:49:36.260 option to say, Hey, I want to, I want to meet people near me and we'll get you in touch with

01:49:40.240 the folk near you so that you can meet your folk and get together. Tracy asked, the field thought

01:49:46.100 is one of our oldest and holiest symbols. Do you believe it is important to implement the use of

01:49:51.400 such powerful ideograph, ignoring the backlog, the backlash such use usage causes? What's your

01:49:58.700 take on it? I believe that that is a, a holy symbol and a cultural symbol. And I believe that

01:50:05.760 we should use it for the intent that it was created for yeah use it with reverence that i

01:50:13.280 think that's the key word um you know you're not going to put it on a t-shirt and go down to the

01:50:17.360 mall that that's not being reverent you you treat it treat it with the respect it deserves

01:50:24.240 absolutely now i will say if you're using it surely for the shock value of using it then

01:50:29.600 you need to reevaluate your use of it you know but it is a holy symbol it is our symbol

01:50:35.860 you know use it in the reverence that it deserves use it with the intention that it deserves

01:50:40.900 jason gallagher asks what are the different events that your kindred has hosted over the

01:50:46.660 years in florida well we've done we've done the 12 we've done the 12 major uh holidays uh it's

01:50:55.840 funny how our uh beach bloat came to be i had been doing it in may um and then once i started uh once

01:51:04.560 i started getting i had i took a hiatus due to extreme work conditions and when i started getting

01:51:10.080 involved again i was asked to do a mayday bloat and i started doing some research and realized

01:51:16.320 that i had been doing that for years but instead of nerthus we were honoring york because the sea

01:51:23.760 was so um important to our our lives here it it impacts everything that we do in the state so

01:51:30.800 it was just it was always there but we we you know so we we'd always called it just the beach bloat

01:51:36.640 you know but after after a while it's like well this is just this is just our mayday it's it's

01:51:42.480 nothing it's it's just how we how we practice it and that kind of goes to uh another question about

01:51:48.800 heritage. That's kind of our heritage, the sea here in Florida. So we just incorporated that.

01:51:56.900 But yeah, we do all the major holy days here in Florida. We've been doing them for over two years.

01:52:06.640 Nick asks, Lane, what was the GODI program like? What did you learn the most about? Anything you

01:52:12.960 were surprised to learn? What are you looking forward to most as a GODI? Anything you're

01:52:17.080 nervous about? Wow, Nick, that's a lot in one question. Go ahead, Lane, give that a go.

01:52:22.700 Well, what I learned the most about was myself. It was a very intense look at myself and what I

01:52:33.800 knew, what my intentions were, and how I can be of benefit and what my weaknesses were,

01:52:39.940 where I needed to make improvement. And that is a never-ending process. But

01:52:45.400 the the gothar program put that into a very stark uh image for me to to work on

01:52:52.760 what were the what were the other questions was there anything that surprised you

01:52:59.880 um no i can't i can't say that i can't say that anything surprised me

01:53:08.280 um you know i i did learn a lot um there were some things that there were some some books that

01:53:17.060 i that i hadn't read or even heard of like deep ancestors i think that was probably the most

01:53:22.520 eye-opening um that i wasn't um it was it was unique it was it was something that i hadn't

01:53:31.460 anticipated at all but was was very glad to have been brought to my attention

01:53:40.660 tracy asks lane this is this weekend is a weekend off from the hof what if anything do you have

01:53:46.020 planned this weekend undefined what do you like to do in your free time well this weekend sleep

01:53:53.620 i i i need some sleep i i joked that um while we were getting the half ready that uh

01:54:02.420 i wondered if my if my uh health insurance would put me in a medically induced coma for about a

01:54:07.300 week so i could just just leave and get some rest recover right yes but uh oh on on my time off we

01:54:16.420 i like to i like to go i like to just get outside unplug i like to do yard work i i find yard work

01:54:22.260 a very uh meditational thing i i'm in i.t so i'm constantly surrounded by screens and computers and

01:54:29.540 i got four different screens on my on my desk going at all times so and not that's not even

01:54:34.820 counting my phone so i like to unplug i like to to get offline get out in nature saturday mornings

01:54:40.900 are my favorite i get out there before anybody before the neighborhood's awake before there's

01:54:46.340 anybody with the birds out there and just sit out on the front porch and read and listen to the

01:54:51.380 listen to the birds yeah all right whack-a-mole asks are either of you familiar with colin cleary's

01:55:00.260 work he's a member of the room guild don't know if he's a relationship with the afa his essays

01:55:04.980 are pretty cerebral and worthwhile i would say are you familiar with him lane because i am not

01:55:09.380 overly familiar very familiar in fact that's who that's who i was mentioning uh my uh tangential

01:55:15.380 introduction to Heidegger was through Comic Theory. Jesse Parton on behalf of Tabitha here

01:55:24.680 asks, how can we celebrate our holidays with our children? Lane, do you want to take that one first?

01:55:31.780 Well, I don't have any children, but that's one of the things that I enjoy the most.

01:55:37.840 Our kindred, most of our kindred has children, having them at the events.

01:55:43.780 uh it was so uh it was amazing when one of our members daughter came up uh had her cigarette

01:55:50.320 bloat uh last year or earlier no it was last year and and she just walked out and said i'm also true

01:55:56.920 and i was just i was like dad was so proud i could just just see it in his eyes and that was

01:56:02.620 just an amazing amazing feeling just that they'll you know just don't don't force it on them let

01:56:07.820 let them come to it they they'll come to it naturally because it is a natural thing it's

01:56:12.980 And it's in them every bit as much as it's in us.

01:56:16.340 And I think it might even be easier for them to connect to it because they don't have all the static of however many years on this earth you've been.

01:56:24.400 They can they can connect to it right away.

01:56:27.940 Absolutely. Now, when we have our bigger national events, we do like to have, you know, at Boulder Soft,

01:56:35.840 we do have a small children's bloat specifically with the kids and some adults to help wrangle the kids in there.

01:56:42.260 but we go through it very specifically right now this is what we're going to do and this is why

01:56:48.500 and the kids participate in their own little bloat so we definitely like to do that

01:56:52.420 um but crafts you know age appropriate crafts for the kids um telling a story that kind of relates

01:57:00.400 to that specific feast or holiday um and and teaching them the story in a way that they can

01:57:06.860 repeat it so one thing that i found with with smaller children and i found with my own you can

01:57:11.600 read from a book all day long to them, but they understand it more and it means more to them when

01:57:16.520 they can repeat that story to you. So even though you might want to read this, you know, elaborate

01:57:21.960 book on mythology, break it down into real simple terms because it's things that they can retain

01:57:30.180 and then they can tell that story themselves. And they're more likely to enjoy it and they're

01:57:35.460 more likely to be active if they can actually tell that story themselves and they get more

01:57:39.940 excited about it that way. Um, so that's one thing that I like to like to do with the younger kids

01:57:44.680 as well as literally break that story down into very short pieces and very simple, very simple

01:57:50.980 verbiage and words that they can use themselves and tell that story to their back to their parents

01:57:55.680 or, or back to their little friends. So I like to do that as well, but age appropriate crafts are

01:58:00.240 really, really great. Um, also on that, um, children's symbol, children's symbol is a lot

01:58:08.020 fun it can it can be like herding cats sometimes but it's a lot of fun it's always wonderful to

01:58:14.660 hear what comes out of a child's mouth because you never know what it's going to be um we used

01:58:20.260 to we have a little horn that we we use and we use just some you know juice or grape juice or some

01:58:25.540 sparkling um juice of some sort and and take the kids through take the kids through symbol you know

01:58:33.380 let them hail one of the gods let them hail one of their ancestors and if they don't aren't familiar

01:58:38.660 with their ancestors let them hail all the ancestors um and hailing each other is always

01:58:44.900 really cute you know when when they hail their their teacher or their their favorite pet is

01:58:50.020 always a fun one to hear or one of their uh siblings or their mom um you never know what's

01:58:55.220 going to come out of their mouth and it's always really fun and and a lot of fun to hear that has

01:58:59.940 has to be magical i i can't wait to we we definitely need to do that at york's off that's

01:59:04.920 yeah it's a lot of fun especially if you let the if you get the kids together for their own

01:59:09.920 symbol you know if you if you surround them by a bunch of adults they're they're not as likely to

01:59:14.340 to open up but if you surround them by a bunch of other kids they're going to be a little more

01:59:18.460 open to it so that's going to be awesome very neat um you know craft ideas for holidays i mean you

01:59:26.260 can, there's so many different things that you can do. I mean, if you're unsure on specifically

01:59:31.780 for a specific feast, you can never go wrong with seasonal crafts, you know, like for fall or for

01:59:38.340 winter, summer, spring, you can never go wrong with those. And you can always have them make

01:59:43.200 two of them, you know, make, make one of the crafts for them, make the other craft for the

01:59:48.300 God or goddess that you're giving the bloat to at that particular event. And let them make that

01:59:54.060 offering you know that's something that's meaningful for kids when they can actually be part

01:59:57.180 when they can actually participate in the events amber c asks how would you define the afa

02:00:05.500 it what it what the afa is to those who have never heard of as a true my definition would be

02:00:11.420 a church dedicated to the worship of their gods ancestors and um the support of their folk lane

02:00:19.420 what would you say yeah i would just just say it's our it's our ancestral it's our

02:00:24.620 ancestral religion it's what our ancestors practiced it's what they knew it was it was

02:00:30.140 an organic faith of brought of our people for our people and uh and the the tie into the ancestors

02:00:38.460 always all right cellar door asks i've heard that as a true is the religion that comes with homework

02:00:48.860 do you think this would be you think this could be a negative don't most people deeply crave a

02:00:53.580 clear direction and could get lost in the academia yes and no the academia has its place and it is

02:00:59.820 important um the knowledge base is important to understand the culture the traditions and the lore

02:01:07.180 i think people can get lost in it though they can make that the priority um learning all they can

02:01:13.500 and knowing the most when the most important thing is the connection with your ancestors and

02:01:20.140 with your gods and act actively practicing in that worship um the academia is really really

02:01:26.460 important but it's not the most important thing and always caution people don't don't get lost

02:01:33.660 in the books don't let the book suck you in and never let you back out lane what are your thoughts

02:01:38.620 said i i agree and i i almost think that that that phrase itself that that that we're a religion with

02:01:45.900 homework it's it's almost it almost seems to me that people say that to make it seem more exclusive

02:01:54.860 than it is to the to almost like oh you know you don't want to do this it's it it it has homework

02:02:01.900 it's like well why would you say why would you even say that and sure we do we don't we don't

02:02:07.340 grow up with it but no nobody nobody else says that but there's there's there's there's more

02:02:13.980 written about other religions than than ours even but nobody would ever say that oh you have to read

02:02:21.100 you have to read these texts or these texts or these texts unless you're unless you're maybe

02:02:24.940 you're an orthodox uh faith of some sort but i i just i've just that that phrase has always puzzled

02:02:31.340 me that it's it's life life is is is homework you know and every everything takes knowledge and

02:02:38.300 learning and growing to to single out asa true it just it's it's never felt right to me

02:02:49.260 ketla asks what about the book deep ancestors was so eye-opening i haven't heard about that one

02:02:55.500 laney just recently mentioned that book do you want to go into that a little bit

02:02:59.820 sure it really the the origin uh the origin story um if you will of of our of our faith or at least

02:03:08.780 a large part of it granted um there were gods and goddesses in northern europe before the indo

02:03:15.180 europeans arrived but it really goes takes takes you back and shows how closely there's there's

02:03:21.980 related and influenced and influenced our what our faith would ultimately become and just just how

02:03:28.940 they how they lived like for instance the the that they were they were nomadic they didn't have a

02:03:34.140 word they didn't have a word for pig because pigs couldn't travel and just the the etymology of some

02:03:41.660 of the words that we use today and and the the gods and how how they how they related to them

02:03:48.700 the whole um looking you know looking to the east to the rising sun there's just there's just so

02:03:55.020 much rich history there that that uh and and how they're really the origin story too their

02:04:02.220 their origin story of uh the twins and this and the sacrifice uh for for there to be uh to control

02:04:10.380 chaos it was it's it's not it's not a big book but there's there he packs a lot into it it is

02:04:17.900 a very good book we're actually reading that right now with um the boulders huff ladies and

02:04:23.340 And for those who look at it, if it's ever referred to as the wheel and the donkey book, this is what it looks like.

02:04:30.460 This is the book he's talking about right there.

02:04:34.100 So it is a very good book.

02:04:36.900 There's a lot of good information just on the evolution of things and the progression of things.

02:04:43.040 So definitely this is the book you're looking for right there.

02:04:46.660 All right.

02:04:47.920 Find it.

02:04:48.540 It's not hard to find.

02:04:49.980 I think I found mine on Amazon, I believe.

02:04:52.300 Yeah.

02:04:52.440 no that's still in print yeah you do have to get by the introduction though it's a little it is

02:05:00.040 i guess necessary in these days but it is yeah always remember to read everything at page value

02:05:06.360 right all right mr uh mr lane do you have anything else that you would like to add tonight

02:05:14.120 before we wrap up i would like um you know having having our half here i've gone to thor's off a

02:05:20.920 a couple of times. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of our Hoffs. I'm looking forward to

02:05:25.760 meeting the rest of our Gothar in person and just growing our faith. I can't say how excited I am

02:05:33.440 to be a part of this journey. Oh, somebody wants to say hi. Cat showed up. But yeah, I appreciate

02:05:44.720 this opportunity, Randy, to talk with everybody. I'm ready to get to work after a good weekend's

02:05:53.500 sleep. Oh, and you do have a visitor looking for your attention there. This is snagglepuss.

02:06:01.620 Well, Blaine, I'm just going to congratulate you again just on your... 0.91

02:06:05.360 Nobody wants that here. Taking your oath as a goatee, that's not an easy path,

02:06:12.800 and I commend you for it and I appreciate the hard work that you've put into your church and

02:06:17.480 I really do look forward to what you can do in the future and congratulations on the dedication

02:06:22.560 of New York Toph. I know that it was a long road and I know how much work that you personally put

02:06:28.080 into making that happen as well as all the folk around you so congratulations on both fronts.

02:06:34.680 Thank you so much. I can't I can't wait to see you again. All right. I think that'll wrap it up

02:06:40.880 for tonight, folks. Make sure

02:06:42.720 that you

02:06:43.320 catch the next episode of

02:06:46.780 Victory Never Sleeps, which is

02:06:48.820 going to be same time, same place

02:06:50.620 next Wednesday.

02:06:52.860 And everybody have a good night.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - August 18, 2022

8⧸17⧸22 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 6

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