Asatru Folk Assembly - 8⧸28⧸24 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 112 - Njörðshof Edition

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00:03:00.000 welcome all to another exciting edition of victory never sleeps got a special show for

00:03:18.180 you tonight we have a variety of leadership from the nordshoff district to

00:03:25.980 talk to you about a variety of topics um this evening and i think you know the lineup

00:03:35.460 may change and fluctuate as the night goes on um but yeah it's going to be a should be a fun

00:03:43.900 episode these have been really cool and i believe that uh folk builder tracy adler is going to join

00:03:52.920 us at some point. I hope that she does, because doing these district leadership-specific episodes

00:03:59.920 was her idea, and I think it was kind of a cool one. So hopefully she joins us. That's the plan.

00:04:09.060 Top of the show notes for folks. As always, if you like the program,

00:04:16.680 please like share subscribe wherever you find it um we release it you know it comes on live

00:04:26.840 at 6 pacific every single wednesday um on a lot of different sources but it also comes out

00:04:34.600 as a regular podcast on fridays actually a gentleman who's sharing the screen with me

00:04:41.680 this evening go through lane ashby is the guy that does that and loads those up um so you can

00:04:49.360 talk a little bit about that audience with us later if folks are interested um this is a

00:04:57.460 q a kind of show not just tonight but in general so as always we encourage your guys

00:05:04.060 questions and things you want to hear some of our amazing folks you know speak on

00:05:12.100 um it can be stuff related to the york's hof district the hof itself

00:05:18.520 also true or literally anything else you guys want to talk about

00:05:22.720 coming up very soon we have frayer's harvest feast in montana i'm excited to be at that

00:05:36.700 it's going to be a really cool event um some powerful pictures from that last year it's a

00:05:44.040 it's a really neat spot and i'm anxious to go to that and that's going to be coming up on september

00:05:48.260 the 20th through the 22nd if you are interested please reach out any of our folk builders can

00:05:55.300 get squared away on that um also in october we're going to have winter nights our annual

00:06:05.380 winter nights celebration for the first time ever in new hampshire i'm pretty excited about that i

00:06:11.700 have never been to new hampshire so i'm looking forward to it should be beautiful a perfect time

00:06:17.700 for really get the full effect of New England fall.

00:06:22.120 So I'm excited about that.

00:06:24.320 I hope to see many of you guys there.

00:06:26.060 Again, if you're interested, please contact Folk Builder.

00:06:32.380 If you're listening to this

00:06:33.760 and you are not a member of the AFA, why not?

00:06:37.860 We would invite you to join us.

00:06:39.580 Assuming you are a heterosexual white person,

00:06:43.320 we would love to have you with us doing

00:06:46.060 this amazing journey that we are on we'd love to have you help realize all of the dreams that are

00:06:53.660 manifesting around us it's an exciting time and we would encourage that um that brings me to

00:07:01.260 something else i wanted to talk about on the top of the show um as you know talking with a number

00:07:09.020 of afa leaders one of the things that i guess one of the biggest hurdles or things to address as far

00:07:18.860 as membership growth and development is so many of our folks that should be here with us simply

00:07:26.780 don't know we exist um so getting this message out as much as we can that's why i ask you guys

00:07:33.260 if you like what we're doing to you know tell a friend let folks know share it and uh in the

00:07:41.340 current climate that we're in sometimes some of the outlets we would normally use are not available

00:07:47.020 to us so we really count on you guys and word of mouth but something that has been really effective

00:07:51.980 that is available to us and i figured i'd throw this out there at the suggestion of witten cliff

00:07:57.660 erickson um one of the this show itself has been a big force in you know moving us forward and

00:08:09.180 helping out with things over the past what is this 112 episode 111 episodes because i suppose this

00:08:16.220 one's still left to be decided um but yeah this show's been awesome you guys as an audience have

00:08:24.780 been amazing and this has brought a lot of people home so one thing that's really helped that was

00:08:31.500 back for a time we had a whole bunch of shorts every now and again and the short video clips

00:08:37.980 were really really effective and they drew a lot of folks attention towards us to check us out to

00:08:45.260 come home and they brought a lot of people home so we're trying to do that some more but we need

00:08:48.860 your all's help we need some folks to help us in you know constructing said sort of shorts but

00:08:58.060 really and truly something that would be super helpful and for anybody really that wants to but

00:09:03.500 specifically for folks that listen to or watch this show regularly so if you guys can collect

00:09:09.660 time stamps of you know something you found particularly interesting or entertaining or

00:09:15.980 something that you really enjoyed those time stamps would really help us to get a bunch of

00:09:21.340 those shorts made and queued up and ready to put out at various times to get in front of some more

00:09:28.860 eyes so if we got anybody that wants to volunteer to help with that producer nick is who you want

00:09:35.020 want to talk to. And Nick can put up his contact info, but nrice at runestone.org. And he'd love to

00:09:45.860 have some assistance. But yeah, as always, we appreciate you guys. Last thing, and we'll get

00:09:53.000 into kind of the meat and taters here, but we have new merchandise this week. We got gym stuff,

00:09:59.340 this time baldershoff themed so ooh and ah over it because it's cool get yourself some

00:10:05.900 get them while the getting's good and uh yeah we appreciate you guys um and with that

00:10:16.220 i think everybody on our screen has been on before but

00:10:21.980 But, Nick, can you put up the graphic?

00:10:31.140 And for those that can't see it, Jordan, can you tell everybody what all makes up the Njordshof district?

00:10:40.760 I think everybody knows we've got the Hof in Florida.

00:10:43.640 But for folks that can't look on there, can you tell folks what states are in your district, please?

00:10:50.020 Yeah, of course.

00:10:50.560 so in addition to florida where the hoff is located we also have

00:10:54.160 georgia alabama mississippi arkansas louisiana oklahoma and texas

00:11:01.120 but wait what if we're in your top district and we're not in the united states

00:11:08.880 well that would expand to south america and also south africa for anybody that is interested

00:11:16.400 and the Caribbean, but we don't have any members in the Caribbean at this time. We do have a couple

00:11:23.260 of folks in South America though. So yeah, it's a big district. It covers a lot of ground and

00:11:32.780 there's a lot of different things that go on. I know the Hoff gets a lot of spotlight and just

00:11:39.020 like I said, Tracy has joined us. There she is. Appreciate you being here, Tracy. 0.99

00:11:43.180 um for folks that haven't met our guests before can you guys kind of briefly tell us who you are

00:11:52.260 where you're located and what you do and we'll start out you know as it appears on our screen

00:11:57.280 here uh gothi east yeah uh i'm trent east i'm the gothi as he mentioned i've been an afa member for

00:12:08.920 nine years. I'm in Northwest Georgia, Army veteran, 11 Bravo, and very proud to be at

00:12:21.420 Gauthjiv Njordtsov, and that's pretty much it if we're keeping it brief.

00:12:29.080 We can for now. Hopefully, some folks might have some questions or some interest later.

00:12:34.380 um we'll see if you are an interesting fellow or not next guy who is on a little

00:12:41.740 little bit less frequently tell us who you are lane

00:12:44.860 as well um i trent and i joined pretty similar times i joined in 2005 also um i've been uh

00:12:58.380 with my company for 20 years got a lot of uh anniversaries coming up and in fact i want to

00:13:03.600 raise a glass to start off to my wife. This is the 20th anniversary of our first kiss.

00:13:09.600 Oh, wow. Congratulations. So those that may not know, and I want to get back with him and talk

00:13:18.180 a little bit more about this later in the show, but Gauthier Ashby here was extremely important

00:13:28.960 in well in one in the decision on where to put newards off and also in those early days he was

00:13:39.620 kind of the point guy on finding property on scouting stuff out on running down all the

00:13:45.960 little local logistics on making it work and he was a huge force in getting the hof to become a

00:13:54.080 reality, and not only to become a reality, but one in the sunshine state, so we owe a lot of that

00:14:02.100 to Lane. Continuing in a sun-wise motion, Goethe Mayo, tell folks about yourself, if you would.

00:14:15.240 Yes, sir, I'd be happy to. I am Goethe Boethe Mayo, as most people watching and listening and

00:14:21.860 looking know i am from southwest georgia my brother go the east is up in northwest georgia

00:14:28.480 so between him myself and folk builder jordan there we've got the state of georgia or at least

00:14:35.360 this side of it pretty well covered um i have been an afa member i believe since 2012

00:14:41.480 Wells. Happy to be here. Happy to be of service to my folk.

00:14:49.480 All right. And then,

00:14:52.480 gentlemen who we spoke to earlier about the

00:14:57.480 depth and breadth of the district, Jordan,

00:15:03.000 tell people a little about yourself, where you're at, what you do.

00:15:06.680 Yeah. My name is Jordan. I'm a folk builder.

00:15:08.520 I'm located just outside of Atlanta and then I've been an AFA member two years as of this last July

00:15:15.940 and by day I'm an engineer. Excellent and last but certainly not least as I mentioned earlier

00:15:24.480 the lady whose idea was to have this particular round of shows. Tracy tell us where you're at 1.00

00:15:31.840 what you do and yeah a little bit about yourself well yeah no problem i'm tracy adler i'm a folk

00:15:41.280 builder i think i've been a folk holder i think since 2022 but somebody can correct me if i'm

00:15:48.960 wrong um at least as an apprentice and i live in florida i'm kind of north of orlando right now

00:15:56.800 I'm also a nurse, and I work the night shift, but I'm at home now, so that's good.

00:16:07.020 Fantastic. Well, welcome, guys. Thanks for joining us. I see over in the chat room is our law speaker.

00:16:12.920 If he is able, he is welcome to hop on anytime he would like it, especially in this broadcast, but it's cool that he checked in over in the chat room either way.

00:16:21.940 um so that's something really interesting about Njortzhoff district that is dissimilar to our

00:16:30.040 others we've got our highest um concentration of gothar in the Njortzhoff district

00:16:37.840 um I'm not gonna sit here and try to math cool so we got six uh ordained go well we got five

00:16:45.640 ordained gothees and one ordained githya in the new york's hof district and that's a a unique

00:16:52.280 resource that the other districts don't have um got some general stuff i kind of want to talk about

00:17:01.960 tonight but it looks like we've got our first question coming in oh awesome a subject near and

00:17:09.080 dear to my heart uh olivia would like to know could y'all talk about the new york's hof gator

00:17:15.640 what's his name story and favorite food uh lane tell us about that gator

00:17:25.320 lane you're muted his name is boots uh we saw him when was the first time we saw him that was uh

00:17:35.720 i want to say ostara or maybe the month after but yeah he's he's been there he's been there

00:17:41.720 every every month since so uh we've even seen him uh scoot around in the pond and uh attack a couple

00:17:49.880 of the fauna that is sharing the pond with him so it's a great mascot and uh he uh answered

00:17:55.880 he answered your wishes yeah i've we those of you that might not know about the uh

00:18:05.720 the layout of the property it's it's deceptive because there's a lot of trees on a lot of the

00:18:11.320 property so it may not look like it's big as it is but it's uh somewhere about five acres and

00:18:18.280 there's a decent amount of land there on it there's two ponds one's really prominent you can

00:18:23.800 see from the road up front and another one out back and you know i was assured by my wife who is

00:18:29.480 is from florida that everywhere there's pond there's gonna be gators there he is um

00:18:35.080 Um, but yeah, we didn't have one there for a little bit.

00:18:39.480 Uh, this guy took his time showing up.

00:18:42.260 Um, but I am, as someone who grew up in Alaska, I'm excited that we have Gator at, uh, at

00:18:48.880 New York's Hoff so far, he is not getting into trouble.

00:18:53.960 So that is, that's a good sign.

00:18:57.780 Um, so as, uh, I see Pam, hi, Pam.

00:19:04.520 I see that she brought up over in the chat.

00:19:08.380 It's been two years now since we've had New York's Hoff.

00:19:12.180 It doesn't seem like it's been that long, but it has.

00:19:26.420 So folks around the Hoff, and there's a couple of you want to ask this.

00:19:35.160 i guess starting with lane how

00:19:42.760 how is having a hoff different than i guess not having a hoff and then as a follow-up

00:19:53.480 how is having a hoff different than you expected that having a hoff would be

00:19:57.880 well from from a logistic standpoint it's we know where we're going to be every month

00:20:06.120 before the half it was crisscrossing florida uh they're trying to find places uh particularly

00:20:12.600 during 2022 with covid they would close parks with with no notice and we had to scramble so

00:20:19.800 that uh having that uh that rock with which we know where we're going to be everybody knows where

00:20:26.040 where we're going to be that third Saturday of every month. It's, it's amazing.

00:20:33.920 Fantastic. And in what way is it maybe different than you expected, or has there been any surprises?

00:20:43.260 Maintenance. You know, you always, you were always finding things that need a little tweaking here

00:20:49.860 and there, and we have to get in there and get it done. But we were fortunate. I know we have no

00:20:56.560 place to complain. I know Baldur Shop had to go through a lot more to get ready and have a lot

00:21:02.260 more hurdles than we have had. We've been very blessed with our building and our land, as you

00:21:08.620 mentioned well on that um how old is the building the building was built in the 80s i do believe

00:21:23.540 um they had they had been running it um up pretty much right up until we bought it they were still

00:21:30.800 holding services in there um and and left us a ton of things that we had to had to get rid of

00:21:38.400 a band equipment drum sets keyboards and the plethora of tambourines

00:21:45.200 that we had that we had to clear clear out but yeah it it's been amazing it's the the power that

00:21:53.120 we feel going there having that sacred space not having to hollow it every time we go there

00:21:58.480 knowing that it's it's always sacred even when we're away knowing that we have that it it i

00:22:04.720 think it just amplifies um everything that we do here in this district and in florida particularly

00:22:12.880 fantastic um

00:22:19.120 so

00:22:23.200 trent how

00:22:28.480 I guess, what have you noticed since you guys have a Hoff down there? 0.94

00:22:34.000 How has it made anything different? 0.99

00:22:35.840 And is there anything unexpected that having a Hoff has brought? 0.98

00:22:41.060 Is it different than you expected in any way?

00:22:45.820 So for anybody who doesn't know, I was heavily involved at Thor's Hoff before we got in Yord's Hoff.

00:22:53.900 So I was used to the Hoff culture a bit. 0.94

00:22:56.600 the biggest difference it's made here in the uh deep south is apparently we have 20 something

00:23:03.760 members in georgia and previous to njord's hof i thought we had uh three or four so uh it it really

00:23:12.840 does bring out more people uh more members uh you know a lot of people uh you see online will

00:23:19.580 kind of complain about having hoffs they'll say things like you know nature is my church

00:23:23.860 etc but no in real life when hoffs pop up uh more members pop up and they attend things and

00:23:31.420 I've gotten to meet a lot of awesome people just because the hoff is there that I otherwise

00:23:35.520 apparently would not have met so that's the uh that's the only real difference I've noticed

00:23:41.220 and it's a good one so I think that comment you made in some ways is you know what do the

00:23:47.680 kids call it these days it's it's a cope um i think it's easy to rationalize you always want

00:23:56.820 to paint something as the brightest thing and it's easy to like celebrate when you don't have

00:24:00.740 nice stuff but it's it's really self-evident that it's very special to have hoffs and i've had some

00:24:08.660 amazing amazing times worshiping our gods and gathering with our folk in the woods and in parks

00:24:15.340 in various other places and that's beautiful and there's a lot of cool stuff to it but there's

00:24:20.700 something very very special about having temples to our gods and i'm so very happy to be in a time

00:24:28.220 where that's a thing um so bode how is you've been around a little bit um you've been involved

00:24:40.380 and also true for a long time how is having a hoff i don't know what's what's the difference

00:24:50.700 as you see it or or any difference you'd like to point out between

00:24:55.660 those long days of not having a hoff and now having one and then i guess in what ways is

00:25:01.500 it different than maybe you imagined it might be uh that's a polite way of saying i'm old i'll share

00:25:07.500 go the thank you um yeah so go the east likes to you know joke around with me about you know

00:25:13.500 tell me tales of the history of early 2000s also true um it was what we have now and i know

00:25:22.620 it can be quite an emotional thing for those of us in leadership

00:25:25.900 to those of us like me who've been around a while um that all of what we have now 20 years ago seemed

00:25:34.460 like a pipe dream it seemed like something that we would never achieve it seemed like something

00:25:39.980 that we would always sit around and talk about and the australia go that can tell you guys who

00:25:44.300 were listening and watching that there are always people who said man one day one day one day we're

00:25:50.380 gonna have a half and it's gonna look like this and it's gonna be awesome and we're gonna get

00:25:54.140 together and do all sorts of activities but it really never came to fruition but there were a

00:25:59.740 certain group of people who said that's not good enough and they put their heart you know

00:26:07.340 their heart and soul and their blood sweat and tears into making it happen and it has been

00:26:15.260 for me it has been what we always knew ostrich could be we always knew that we were better than

00:26:22.860 being relegated to state parks and to you know campgrounds that we could rent with cabins and

00:26:28.940 stuff like we always knew that we were better than that and that we could be bigger than that

00:26:32.700 and now we are um the way that i think it has changed that i didn't foresee or is is a surprise

00:26:43.900 is that it's it's a missing piece of the puzzle you know we we have so much to offer our folk

00:26:50.140 so so much to offer them and back then back before we got all of our hops we didn't have

00:26:56.940 have this piece we didn't have this piece of the puzzle because you know people want to

00:27:03.140 they want to know where to go they want somewhere to go the number one question i get whenever

00:27:09.160 people's like oh you're a member of a church what church on the austral folk assembly okay what's

00:27:15.080 that and after all those are you know all those niceties are satisfied they will often say so

00:27:20.960 do you have actual churches and i can say yes yes we do we currently have four we're working on

00:27:26.860 five and six and uh it's it's in large part to a lot of people uh my brother go the lane

00:27:35.360 couldn't have done it without him getting yords off there are a lot of people who are

00:27:39.360 instrumental in getting all the hoss um but it's the it's the drive of is the drive and

00:27:46.860 determination and vision of the guy to my left on the screen there who kind of shepherded us

00:27:54.860 into and making it happen. So, yeah, that's the difference.

00:28:00.420 I didn't know Jordan was so influential in us getting the Hawks.

00:28:08.340 No, I don't know if our screens and the little Brady Bunch thing are different there.

00:28:12.900 But, no, NIT is only because Jordan's come in newer than all that.

00:28:18.160 But we've had a really great team, and it's neat when we get Hawks places because

00:28:23.500 because each one of them has a different a different kind of story you know they're

00:28:31.100 so i'm starting to get i'm starting to get questions here backed up and there's a number

00:28:37.860 of them that i want to get to first before we do all that um ronald blake is back with

00:28:46.300 a hundred dollar donation to our current folk services uh push to help one of our members family

00:28:53.500 Thank you, as always, so much for your generosity. It is so very much appreciated.

00:29:01.700 Anybody that may be tuning in for the first time or may not take note, Mr. Blake is an example to us all as far as generosity goes and just steadily giving and helping people.

00:29:19.400 And his contributions have helped a lot of folks.

00:29:25.240 Also, GW Farnsworth, another very dedicated, generous soul, has got us five coffees.

00:29:34.660 I think that's 25 bucks.

00:29:35.920 We appreciate that.

00:29:37.880 Appreciate all you guys that are willing to give and help us accomplish stuff that we're trying to get done and make this stuff happen.

00:29:45.220 And it's nice that we're at a stage to where a little bit can go a long way on making these things happen.

00:29:53.620 It's one of those things that picks up momentum when we're getting Hoffs, when we're ideally when we're walking in harmony with the way things ought to be,

00:30:09.920 which is so much of the reason that the rhido rune is the symbol of our priesthood is trying

00:30:17.260 to get in the flow of the right way. The gods want this thing that we do in this universe that

00:30:23.780 we live in ordered. Really amazing things happen. A lot of blessings have come our way. We're very

00:30:31.240 appreciative. Sometimes those come in the form of you find people in the audience. So thank you,

00:30:36.440 guys. What I was going to say is each Hoff is real different. We got a, we got a relevant

00:30:44.360 question coming up. Actually, we'll get this first, but remind me, and I'm going to get back

00:30:48.260 to this. Before we get to that question that came up from Vril the Barbarian, Tracy, do we ever have

00:30:55.240 anything like an open house for those who are interested? Well, anyone who's interested and

00:31:02.980 wants to come out to one of our Hoffs, they could just reach

00:31:07.580 out to one of us, one of the folk builders, and we could get

00:31:12.640 that set up for them to where they can, you know, accompany us

00:31:16.960 to, you know, to see like the Hoff and see how things are done

00:31:22.180 if, you know, if, if that is something that they would like

00:31:26.320 to do. So it can be arranged, but it's not really like an open

00:31:30.160 house wouldn't they it's not definitely not open but it can be arranged that they can

00:31:37.440 you know you know see what we have going on that's important it's

00:31:45.360 it may sound silly but just on a personal note

00:31:51.440 it's really cool to me when we the first time i saw an afa hoff on google maps like people are

00:31:59.360 asking for directions there's some it's it's it's funny and like i said it may seem you know tried

00:32:08.400 or insignificant but it's neat to be able to tell folks like no just look it up on google maps it'll

00:32:16.240 it'll get you right there and the little blue line will take you right to the hof

00:32:20.080 um or something that just feels very official about that and i think that our people have

00:32:28.320 just knowing our struggle to get these things happening and to get a physical place for

00:32:35.360 our folk and you know more importantly for our gods in midgard is it's neat to see that be a

00:32:42.800 very real thing so i say that to say this it's there it exists you guys can all find it they're

00:32:48.240 not hiding and they're not going anywhere folks are welcome to stop by and say hi anybody listening

00:32:54.880 anybody in the community and we have folks in the community to stop by um so you know anybody knows

00:33:01.760 where we're at is welcome to stop by and say hi and you know folks can kind of show you around and

00:33:06.800 whatever if we have a worship service going on then you know that may be abbreviated and you

00:33:13.120 know we're we're doing something as a folk together but we also uh all right so i will i

00:33:20.320 we'll do this a lot of stuff stacking up i thought of a lot of things i want us to talk about tonight

00:33:25.760 lane can you tell us a little bit about the um the food pantry that goes on there

00:33:34.000 what what is that how long has it been going on what does it look like if folks you know if folks

00:33:42.240 are just hearing this fresh what is what doesn't your top food pantry look like your top food

00:33:48.960 pantry is doing well we fed 70 families uh tray faxy and five pets with our uh feeding pets of

00:33:57.280 the homeless partnership as well and that's something that we've just started we've actually

00:34:02.240 been doing the fed food pantry since our uh i do believe our first month we did not do it at

00:34:08.640 the dedication but our first month event we had the food pantry up and running and that's so important

00:34:18.960 We had. So any any of you fine folks, you are welcome to to Google us either right now or later.

00:34:29.860 Not always the best things show up because, you know, media is fake news going to do what fake news does.

00:34:37.260 But understandably, sometimes folks in the community have, you know, questions or concerns or or whatever.

00:34:45.160 what's been really really nice within that first month there was a number of um members of the

00:34:53.240 community there that had questions or concerns and they were they were very polite about it

00:34:59.640 we were setting up times for me to talk to them and address those and as soon as we had that first

00:35:05.560 food pantry those completely disappeared um yeah we had folks in the community

00:35:12.280 mildly concerned slash curious for three weeks or so and then they found out very quickly who we were

00:35:22.040 and any of that concern has at least from where i can see uh evaporated and that's a question that

00:35:29.400 that is coming in to us how well has the hawk been welcomed into the local community um

00:35:37.160 Tracy, do you want to address that or how does that look from your point as far as how

00:35:43.880 well we're accepted in the community?

00:35:46.040 Well, I don't think there was really that much doubt about us being accepted in the

00:35:52.040 community because we do have a lot of, like Lane was saying, we feed a lot of members

00:35:58.920 with the food pantry.

00:36:01.140 single time that we do have a food pantry everyone is you know very excited and accepting of you know

00:36:09.160 us being there and it's almost like they they miss us when we weren't there you know the previous

00:36:15.100 weeks and stuff like that and it looks like you know to me that everyone's really really excited

00:36:21.740 that um we just got lucky because it looks like everyone's really excited that we do what we do

00:36:27.560 And, you know, we're just proud of who we are and, you know, we, we accept them and, and it's just been working out really, really well.

00:36:37.860 Trent, how, uh, how many local families would you say is a usual quantity that we end up feeding at our, our monthly food pantries there?

00:36:50.760 uh it's kind of grown over the last year or so i don't remember the numbers starting out but i know

00:36:57.700 it uh it was you know 54 a couple months ago then it was 63 it was 59 then it was 72 i think

00:37:06.140 and then 70 this month so uh for an average i would say 60 but that's based on me not

00:37:14.260 remembering the earlier months numbers sounds about right um

00:37:20.900 so lane you mentioned well actually while while we're on this because we have another uh question

00:37:29.680 about it and i think it kind of follows up a raven asked what challenges new yorks have faced in

00:37:36.080 serving local community and how they've been overcome to ensure that it remains a hub for

00:37:41.420 our outsiders um so if you have more to add on that feel free to address it but i'd also kind of

00:37:51.980 go on along with it um i don't know who interacted with it the most that month but

00:38:02.780 i guess elaine would you like to tell the

00:38:05.260 i don't know talk about the time that the community reached out to us because of

00:38:12.700 um i believe a hurricane that went through do you recall that one point with that

00:38:20.460 yes they they did and we held a we held a special um we got together and had a special pantry just

00:38:27.020 just to help with that in fact this last pantry one of the reasons we helped so many was because

00:38:33.260 of the storms hit jasper really hard and they were without power for more than eight days and

00:38:38.780 lost a lot of their food because of that so people were coming over from jasper

00:38:42.700 and we were helping them out this time as well um so i'm going to come right back to you here

00:38:50.140 in just a sec lane but it's always such a such a great opportunity and also a great

00:39:02.220 i guess sign of how things are going when the community itself reaches out to us for

00:39:09.580 help and support because we've shown a willingness to participate in local charity and uh you know

00:39:17.500 an eagerness to be a part of the community and so you know we've had that at a couple of our

00:39:21.420 hops but it was very meaningful to me that the local community asked if we could do you know an

00:39:28.460 extra food pantry that month and uh really wanted to connect folks with us and trust us to

00:39:36.380 i don't know be a source for helping out folks in the area that

00:39:41.660 i think that speaks volumes for us and for the folk we have there representing us and being our

00:39:49.500 face in that area and just for our deeds uh over time i'm really very proud when a local community

00:39:58.940 wants our help and i was going to say with that lane we've been reached out to recently you

00:40:03.900 mentioned feeding some pets can you talk about the organization that reached out for our help

00:40:09.020 with that and kind of a little bit about what that's about absolutely yeah the organization

00:40:14.060 is called feeding pets with the homeless and they take donations to feed dogs and cats of people

00:40:19.740 that are uh without a home and having trouble feeding their pets they also take monetary

00:40:26.300 donations and will help with vet bills and like but we've been collecting food now for three months

00:40:32.220 and passing it out for two and it's been it's been very well received a lot of the families

00:40:37.260 actually will will come by and when they would line up and have their pets with them so they're

00:40:42.940 they're very excited to be able to help feed their animals as well

00:40:50.060 anything exotic in those pets not not yet not not from just just from our members

00:40:57.260 are you keeping them well away from boots yes we need we need a sign don't feed the gator

00:41:05.340 you know i've been when when i was down in florida uh bouncing at the place i was working

00:41:10.220 out. I remember we'd have guys come by with like parrots and a guy came by with some kind of big

00:41:16.100 constrictor that, you know, get some exotic pets in the state of Florida. I'm sure some exotic

00:41:22.680 owners as well. So one thing I was going to ask you, Trent, you mentioned that you

00:41:40.200 you'd, you know, been very active at Thorshoff. For folks that don't know, it kind of, kind

00:41:46.860 of is equidistant from where Trent's at. Thorshoff there in Linden, North Carolina, and now

00:41:53.520 Njordshoff in White Springs, Florida. Each hoff's a little bit different. What,

00:42:00.760 what do you see as differences between stuff at thor i guess the hof itself the

00:42:12.620 i don't know the feel of it the atmosphere the folk the stuff betwixt thor's hof and uh

00:42:22.460 in Njortzhoff?

00:42:26.760 So Njortzhoff, thanks to Gothi Lane,

00:42:30.500 already had a kind of a thriving local community

00:42:34.000 that already met up very often

00:42:35.640 and had their own ways of doing things

00:42:38.860 and a successful way of doing things, I will add.

00:42:43.280 And Thorshoff, on the other hand,

00:42:47.300 Witten Svon and Witten Young 0.94

00:42:48.860 uh had sort of had to build that area up from scratch because the previous folk builders

00:42:55.720 just were not as good at their job as Witten Young was and so that had to be built up and

00:43:03.720 we were able to kind of shape and mold that area into uh this sort of uh Dixie True as Witten Young

00:43:13.840 calls it uh a kind of southern piety that it resembles the local christian church culture in

00:43:25.680 in the way that all the folk there take it very serious and we have that at nordshoff as well

00:43:32.500 but it was a little bit of a an interesting situation when we got in nordshoff because

00:43:39.800 we had myself coming from Thorshof and Gothian Githya Plora coming from Baldershof, and we had

00:43:46.440 to sort of strike this balance of, you know, hey, all these people from different districts are

00:43:52.140 coming to Laneshof, essentially, and we have to not step on each other's toes and insert each

00:44:00.140 other's Hoff cultures into this new Hoff and uh it was a little tricky but we ended up able to

00:44:10.840 really you know use what Lane had already sort of built the infrastructure of and turn it into its

00:44:17.120 own culture as far as interesting things that Jords Hoff has that other Hoffs don't uh pretty

00:44:26.580 much equally pious people that love our our icer and our folk except they show up in flip-flops

00:44:33.820 on occasion that's the only real difference nowadays good deal um

00:44:43.140 so kind of question for all three of our gothar on tonight from rachel with so many gothar at

00:44:56.360 one half how do you decide who leads which bloats uh what a wonderful amount of talent you guys have

00:45:04.360 so how to and that's that's kind of an interesting thing i mentioned the benefit of having so many

00:45:10.360 gothar in one area but also it's an interesting challenge because you know that's not an option

00:45:16.200 a lot of spots and you guys have quite a bit of of gothar in comparison to the rituals and stuff

00:45:25.880 that needs to get done so how do you guys figure that out bode that counts a hand raise how do you

00:45:31.020 guys figure that out we have this arcane system where we all get together and rope no we quite

00:45:38.480 honestly we just we have our own back channels where you know go these being the half manager

00:45:44.500 and whatnot says all right you guys events are coming up um who would like to do this one uh

00:45:51.120 Sometimes Lane will say, I would really like to do this one if it's if it's OK with the rest of you guys.

00:45:56.180 So just a lot of brotherly and sisterly camaraderie and just spreading out the division of labor evenly.

00:46:03.200 You know, when we like when Trent or myself can't be there or if Lane can't be there, then we just pick up the slack.

00:46:09.020 I mean, you know, many hands make light work.

00:46:11.420 We try to be brother and sister Godar to each other and help each other out and spread the love and spread the wealth.

00:46:19.420 I know that I know that we all talk about how getting to do bloat is one of the best.

00:46:29.000 Oh, Kitty, I have ADD. Sorry.

00:46:32.920 One of the best parts about being priest of the ice here is that we get to do bloat.

00:46:41.000 It is a responsibility of ours to our people, but it is a responsibility that we take much joy.

00:46:46.700 and I know I can speak for all three of us that we we take much joy in it and you know we have

00:46:52.140 said amongst ourselves that you know if I believe Whitney Young said this if there's ever comes a day

00:46:59.300 when I am not excited slash nervous to do a bloat then I should probably stop and I don't think that

00:47:07.500 I ever will because I always get excited slash nervous every single time and it's not a bad

00:47:12.900 nervous. It's a, you know, wow. You know, I want to do the best job for you guys. I want to be the

00:47:19.680 best go the I could be. I want to do my best go the end in front of my folk, of course. And it's

00:47:25.160 just, it is one of the greatest privileges of my life that I get to do this. So anyway, I hope that

00:47:33.660 answer your question you know another um interesting thing you know different any of

00:47:43.800 our goats are are fully qualified to do a bloat to any of the icer but they're different and I

00:47:52.140 think that the way the way a gothe does a bloat to a goddess is different than the way that a 1.00

00:48:02.820 githia does i think the way that a githia bloats to a god is different than the way that a gothi

00:48:08.320 does i think that an old you know well-seasoned elder gothi does bloat in a different way than

00:48:19.440 than a young um prime of prime of their life on the on the come up gothi does things

00:48:28.460 and it's neat to be able to have that pool to choose from and i think it's relevant in what

00:48:36.200 the folks see as far as bloats go as you know as we mentioned uh githya anna plurge she's there

00:48:44.840 and she can you know there is a githya present so if they need a githya to do a particular ritual

00:48:50.840 that's available to them where it's not everywhere um but also something that i think is

00:48:59.520 less seen and maybe the folk don't notice until they're in a moment of crisis but

00:49:06.740 the the different you know certainly the three men you see in front of you i mean shoot anybody

00:49:15.640 can call me so four men you see in front of you but also those that aren't here that minister to

00:49:22.440 our folk there there's such a different there's a deep well of experience that helps in terms

00:49:33.320 of counseling and in terms of helping our folk work through the challenges in their life

00:49:40.040 and you have people with a wide range of experience both in their own lives and also

00:49:49.160 in counseling our folk from so many different vantage points that it's a real strength that

00:49:55.400 that district has and certainly any of our members are you know we'll we'll do whatever we can to set

00:50:01.880 up the very best gothic counseling from you know across the afa we live in a world we can do that

00:50:09.640 but on hand locally we've got some really really powerful forces in that counseling

00:50:15.880 they're available so that's a real real benefit that district has um

00:50:25.320 uh so jordan metal for life wants to know will you have anything going on in san antonio texas

00:50:33.560 uh san antonio at the moment i'm not familiar with any moots scheduled right there but uh

00:50:41.640 certainly point well taken of where the interest is in hosting a moot there and i can certainly

00:50:47.000 pass it along don't know why we couldn't um so for anybody listening

00:50:59.160 this is kind of a i suppose a good time good time as any to bring it up

00:51:03.560 A lot of people wonder about that, and they see area that they wish there was more activity, and they're like, man, why isn't there more stuff going on in my area?

00:51:13.380 and there was a time where there were zero things going on in any area

00:51:21.460 and the way that it moved from zero to something was most often one

00:51:32.180 one guy just starting out or maybe one gal just starting out and saying hey

00:51:36.980 i wish something was going on how can i help and one of our you know existing leaders saying cool

00:51:44.500 this is how you can help let's make it happen and that can be anything from volunteering to folk

00:51:50.180 build to just simply being willing to to host something even having one of these fine uh folks

00:51:58.020 in front of you here like jordan say hey jordan i'm in san antonio i'd love to have something

00:52:02.820 happen. How do we do this? Well, if you're a member and you want to have something happen,

00:52:08.880 the best way to do it is, hey, you know, where's a cool place to go in town that's fun? I like to

00:52:16.460 have a beer over here. Great. Let's have a moot there. You want to have a beer with so-and-so

00:52:21.800 at Billy Bob's Tavern on 5th Street. Cool. Can you be there at, you know, next Friday at 7? Cool.

00:52:32.820 let's do it and then our folk builder can help you advertise can help get other members in your area

00:52:38.640 there but having that point person in the area can be such a huge catalyst in making stuff happen

00:52:44.700 and that's why you know it's it's funny we talk about the age of Hoffs that we live in and you

00:52:51.540 know this grand Hoff to norther that we have but that's because some different people at different

00:53:00.600 in the state of florida said hey how about we get together and do something and uh it's because

00:53:08.520 gothe ashby here but well before he was a gothe he was like hey let's get together and do some

00:53:14.280 do some bloats on the beach to nyorther let's let's do that and build that consistently over

00:53:21.000 time so a lot of these things start from really small seeds and big and build up question about

00:53:26.280 san antonio we got quite a few people and lots of people in texas i will tell you i'm i'm glad

00:53:33.720 that you asked about san antonio instead of el paso a lot more of our folk tend to be in the

00:53:41.400 eastern half middle to the eastern half of the state i'd say i was just looking at our map

00:53:48.120 we got a member in san antonio we have a cluster of members up a little bit closer to austin but

00:53:54.840 but that's still a decent drive to get to something in San Antonio or even meet somewhere in between.

00:53:59.820 So we can absolutely make some stuff happen there.

00:54:02.540 And I know folks see the interest on here, and it's kind of the idea to maybe see if we can get something like that going.

00:54:09.760 But it's really important. I know we get going and we're talking a lot about the Hoff.

00:54:13.820 And most of the people on the screen here are in Florida or very close to it or in an adjacent state.

00:54:20.740 but it's it's a wide district and one of the things about um texas is we're really waiting

00:54:28.260 for it to take off texas is a very promising place for a future hoff it's kind of in the

00:54:36.020 at the far distant reaches of a bunch of different districts but it's far enough away from a hoff

00:54:43.700 that it's really a strategic point that we would love to have a hoff in and there's been a lot of

00:54:49.460 talk about perhaps braggieshoff being in texas

00:54:54.660 but you know time will tell and we're looking forward to doing that but it's

00:54:59.860 definitely an area that is vibrant there's tons of interest and we

00:55:03.620 really want to see some good things happen

00:55:13.380 next question is for gothe east lane and bode

00:55:19.460 Could you share an event or ritual at Neurtoff that made a significant impact on an attendee or group, perhaps leading to a profound experience or an awakening?

00:55:32.740 In the order that they ask, Trent.

00:55:37.760 Hopefully every ritual, every bloat, sumble, meal, prayer, hopefully everything has a profound effect on all of the attendees.

00:55:46.380 but uh there's various ones that all the gothar here on the screen as well as the plorers and

00:55:53.940 the law speaker have uh done where somebody's come up to us to them and uh you know thanked

00:56:01.000 them for the experience with you know tears in their eyes or saying they really needed that

00:56:05.480 uh i you know it every bloat has that effect on someone in some way i don't really have any

00:56:15.020 specifics for you that I can think of at the moment. But every bloat that I've attended at

00:56:20.320 that hof or any hof, really, I've seen someone, you know, come away from it with that, like,

00:56:26.060 wow, this is real. I'm really doing this. This is great. You know, look in their eyes.

00:56:33.700 So, Lane, let's see if you can redeem this here. Can you think of any specific

00:56:38.720 instance that has occurred at that

00:56:40.880 half that has caused

00:56:42.860 an awakening or a profound

00:56:44.760 experience.

00:56:47.680 You are

00:56:48.720 once again muted.

00:56:51.180 The last dish here

00:56:52.680 blowed by Gythia Ford 0.65

00:56:54.360 was amazing.

00:56:56.700 They always are, but

00:56:58.620 I think that one was particularly

00:57:00.780 special. A number

00:57:02.700 of people within

00:57:04.660 our community had lost members

00:57:06.680 of their family that year.

00:57:08.720 and it really hit people and everybody came together.

00:57:15.260 I'd like to add it, it's not limited to bloat.

00:57:19.240 I think symbols at our Hoff

00:57:21.840 have been some of the most amazing moving,

00:57:24.760 coming together of our folk that I've ever seen.

00:57:27.780 It's powerful in a different way than bloat,

00:57:34.220 but I think it is every bit as important.

00:57:38.720 um excellent as you know anybody who's listening to this broadcast for any amount of time knows um

00:57:46.720 dc or bloats are have been some of the most profound experiences of of my life so uh

00:57:54.400 those are really really powerful anybody who doesn't know or isn't familiar the dc or the

00:58:00.480 spirits of our dead female ancestors that look on and care for us after death um and it's a really

00:58:09.040 powerful time to reconnect with uh you know mothers grandmothers great grandmothers

00:58:19.040 that uh maybe haven't i've felt that connection in quite that same way in a long time and it's a

00:58:26.240 can be a really special thing.

00:58:30.000 Bodhi, is there anything that you can think of

00:58:32.560 that's occurred at Njordshof

00:58:34.500 that has caused profound experience or awakening?

00:58:42.420 Let me take my, I'll share your gothic.

00:58:46.020 You can have two people in front of you to think of something.

00:58:49.680 I know, but we're all a fan of your gothic.

00:58:53.520 So yeah, I forgot about my answer.

00:58:56.240 um sitting here um there have been a lot of things uh just just seeing all of us being able

00:59:07.780 to be godar in the hof has been a very good experience um i had an experience with one of

00:59:14.220 our members he was going through some tough times and um hope he doesn't mind me i'm not going to

00:59:20.400 name him but i hope he doesn't mind me sharing because it was very awesome to me uh one of our

00:59:25.080 guys that's a regular down there was he was going through some stuff he'd had some some family loss

00:59:30.200 and whatnot and he was just you know he was there at the Hoff and he was present and he was doing

00:59:35.860 what Go the East has always told our folk down in York South like you know when you're going through

00:59:40.660 it don't turn away from the folk turn into us come into us like as a group and a family and

00:59:46.400 let us help you um so that guy that member he was standing out in the parking lot he was just going

00:59:54.380 through it and he wasn't having a very good time even though he was trying to and i just went out

00:59:59.120 and talked to him and he was talking about wanting something to read that would really buoy his

01:00:03.620 spirits and um so i just went over to my car and got my copy of the spear because he said he didn't

01:00:10.880 have one and said here you go because i can always get another one and so he later told me that that

01:00:18.000 was one of the best one of the best things that could have happened in that moment for him and

01:00:22.360 And I was just being the nice, lovable guy that I always try to be.

01:00:27.060 And it paid off.

01:00:28.980 So that was great.

01:00:32.020 So it's – I'm glad.

01:00:37.600 First, any cool experience that you were going to relate that was profound

01:00:42.960 or causing awakening would have counted and been awesome.

01:00:45.900 But it's nice to highlight that it doesn't always have to be a bloat or any grand ritual.

01:00:55.040 Sometimes the moments of awakening can come from a very, very simple interaction.

01:01:03.640 One of the biggest things, I think it's a really important point.

01:01:06.720 I did see Trent's hand.

01:01:08.040 I think he might have thought of something, but I will get to you.

01:01:13.800 What I was going to say is it's amazing when our Gothar are able to facilitate

01:01:22.600 and be part of making that happen.

01:01:27.020 And it's our job to do as much of that as we can to the best of our abilities.

01:01:33.520 And sometimes we do through ritual.

01:01:36.360 Sometimes we do through counseling.

01:01:39.640 Sometimes it doesn't come through us.

01:01:41.880 you know that part of that equation

01:01:49.160 it's strange and i say this on here and i don't say it to be aloof or anything it's um

01:01:57.960 sometimes it's really hard to explain we view the world through the lens of our experience

01:02:05.240 and you mentioned uh you know an awakening

01:02:09.160 once you've been fortunate enough to have that experience where you've

01:02:20.260 encountered the divine in that way

01:02:24.460 you can't really go back and I can't argue it to anyone here I can't you know like debate you into

01:02:33.700 spiritual epiphany but when it happens you know and then once you know you can't

01:02:40.900 unknow but i don't say that as some kind of strange gatekeeper-y way of of dealing with

01:02:47.140 stuff but when you go to a hof with a open mind and an open heart and you are

01:02:56.420 i wouldn't because if you go thirsty for it i don't think you get it it's if you go open to it 0.99

01:03:03.700 some really beautiful things can happen and sometimes it's facilitated by a gofi

01:03:09.700 sometimes it's a member sometimes it's you know just norther himself sometimes it's

01:03:19.620 something that you happen looking at the mural or in a quiet moment by yourself you're in a holy

01:03:26.900 space and holy things happen there. And so it's really neat to see that and to hear about that

01:03:35.620 and be able to celebrate when that happens to one of our brothers and sisters. Trent, what did you

01:03:40.540 have? So the first charming of the plow that we had at Yortsoff, Gothiplord and Githyplord had

01:03:51.400 COVID. And so they opted to stay home from the event, which we appreciated, even though we missed

01:03:56.300 him. And so I got to take Goethe Lord's place doing the main bloat to Lord Frayer. And before

01:04:04.860 I tell the funny part, I will say that I had people come up to me and say that was their

01:04:08.900 first bloat and they loved it, et cetera, et cetera. But the best part was the ulterior

01:04:14.940 Goethe had eaten some bad Chinese food or some such. And he looked kind of angry sitting

01:04:23.200 the corner after the bloat so i said was my bloat all right sir and he said no it made me sick

01:04:29.680 so that was a profound impact i think i've never had anybody

01:04:34.800 tell me that my bloat made them sick wow all right see what you did there um

01:04:48.160 yeah no that was unfortunate i think that

01:04:53.200 cheap and abundant Asian soul food fusion cuisine in small towns in the the rural South might not

01:05:05.320 always be a best bet but I went to this location a couple of times just to make sure and didn't

01:05:14.980 didn't always win those endeavors. So Dean bought us six coffees, and I appreciate the generosity.

01:05:27.820 That's a $30 donation. Thank you for it. He says, good evening. I know the AFA has some

01:05:33.520 ebolethanes, as am I. Do any of you have any thoughts on his Against the Neo-Pagans essay?

01:05:41.580 I think the AFA meets and counters his criticisms, but I could see an essay like that being a stumbling block to potential members.

01:05:52.920 Has anyone on this call read that essay by a show of hands?

01:06:01.580 I see no hands, so I'm going to take this one.

01:06:06.480 I am a big Ebola fan.

01:06:11.580 But I think we, I don't know, owe it to ourselves and one of our virtues is truth.

01:06:21.780 So I think that even if you're a fan of a thinker, you need to be able to critically analyze why they think what they think.

01:06:33.700 And I don't know, there's a lot of different angles on this.

01:06:41.580 So first, I absolutely agree with tons of that essay. That's why I would never describe myself as a neo-pagan. People that do that are, it's one of those little, if you're new to, I guess, this sphere of stuff, it can be really confusing.

01:07:03.800 because there's subtle word differences that have a lot of in-group implication but if you're just

01:07:10.520 coming in you may not know the difference of but most people who consider themselves pagans and i

01:07:17.080 say this this is entirely here in the united states i'm sure it translates really different

01:07:22.600 other places by the literal definition of course we're pagan um but i think most of the

01:07:29.640 The conception of that revolves around people who, I don't think this is entirely fair,

01:07:44.040 but I do think we're talking in generalizations.

01:07:46.360 And I think when you use labels, it invites generalization.

01:07:51.820 A lot of the time, not necessarily coming from the most serious place, a lot of the

01:07:57.940 time in this day and age when someone identifies as that it's a reaction to something else as

01:08:04.660 opposed to a positively formed identity it's uh all the things they're not or the things

01:08:11.300 they're reacting against as opposed to the things they are and i think that it

01:08:18.820 there's a lot of silliness and a lot of

01:08:21.060 excuse for either not having to behave to a standard or to you know let their freak flag

01:08:32.340 fly as the kids would say and be degenerate i think that's very often what you encounter

01:08:38.260 and i think it's something that you encountered to a degree in evola's day as well um so i think

01:08:46.580 a lot of the larpy nonsense and he would have used a very different term for that but i think

01:08:54.260 with a similar theme is insincere and of little value from a traditional in the term that you know

01:09:04.740 evelyn would have used the school of tradition value um but one of the

01:09:10.340 a you know when I when I think about his writing on that he makes an interesting point about

01:09:21.740 initiation and as if as if once something's broken it can't be reforged and I think that's

01:09:33.980 thing is trying there was a really big current of thought certainly in ebla's day and i think

01:09:41.340 it persists in some circles of you only have legitimacy if there's like an unbroken lineage

01:09:48.700 since some ancient time and i don't think that's always i don't know well thought out or well put

01:09:56.540 together because we falsely deify something that's really old and i don't think we take

01:10:08.460 into account how old really old is you know our gods created our folk as our folk the line of our

01:10:18.860 folk is thousands of years old. I think when people look for an unbroken lineage, they look

01:10:26.940 for something hundreds of years old, but just so far in the way back that it's cool. I also

01:10:33.720 logically think there's a fallacy that, you know, everything starts somewhere. I don't think a

01:10:41.340 religious tradition is more valid if it starts today than if it starts 100 years ago, than if

01:10:47.940 starts 100 years from now because it was day one for every religious tradition at one point

01:10:54.820 um and those come at various points in time and i think it's a fallacy of you know your

01:11:00.580 historical perspective there's something to be said for longevity absolutely but everything's

01:11:05.620 got to start somewhere and that doesn't negate truth but something that i've always

01:11:17.940 It's always seen as a kind of a symbol of the rebirth of Alcetru in the middle of the last century as the reforging of the sword, you know, the taking the pieces of something ancient and divine that has been shattered for whatever cause and reforging it into something stronger.

01:11:45.560 and that's a tradition that's you know well entrenched in our in our legend um they talk

01:11:50.600 about that extensive where this you can find the story in a very complete version in the volsung

01:11:56.360 saga but i've always looked at that as you know kind of how i see the reforging of the sword of

01:12:04.680 ausitru uh with the awakening of our founder steven allen um and it connects to the ancient

01:12:13.800 lineage because our gods are real something with evola

01:12:21.560 and i think this has to do with time and place when you read his essays before the second world

01:12:26.440 war and you read his books that were you know earlier in his career there's a lot of hope

01:12:31.080 there's a lot of optimism there's a lot of building and then once he watches you know

01:12:38.440 currents that he was very passionate about and a world that had looked so rosy to him

01:12:45.640 crumble all around him and as he himself became paralyzed

01:12:54.200 it crushed a lot of that hope so he his life became one of theory and ideas and not one of

01:13:03.160 practice some of that was limited by his physical situation and some of that was limited by you know

01:13:09.880 what he had access to there wasn't a valid you know also true you know there wasn't announced

01:13:19.400 true folk assembly for him to fairly evaluate at the time or for him to come and take part in

01:13:25.000 and i think that from his perspective the stuff he wrote made a lot of sense

01:13:28.520 but there wasn't a lot of practice to it the other thing is he had a very dismissive attitude of

01:13:34.600 devotional religion and his idea of the divine was so very impersonal and so very isolated

01:13:45.480 and i think it's a

01:13:49.880 i think you make a mistake when you confuse religion for philosophy or if you look at

01:13:56.280 religious life uh rights as just symbols of some internal transformation process and i think that's

01:14:05.800 something that evola had a tendency to default to the idea of interacting with real gods in a

01:14:15.320 devotional relationship and in the gift cycle in a you know simple warm-hearted way

01:14:24.840 I was really foreign to the schools that I think Evelyn came to his philosophical thought through.

01:14:36.240 But yeah, I love the work that he did, what I'd invite anybody to do,

01:14:40.660 and what I would invite the Baron to do where he's here would be to come out

01:14:44.680 and to open himself up to experience and see what happens.

01:14:50.040 You know, if he were here today, I would love to have him at at an event or to, you know, participate in any of our ritual.

01:14:59.700 And I think it would give him an opportunity he didn't have in his lifetime.

01:15:03.580 And I wish he had that opportunity.

01:15:09.260 And I appreciate you guys sitting by. I know a lot of the questions have gone to the go.

01:15:12.800 Sorry, I appreciate this question specifically aimed at our folk builders.

01:15:17.080 A question for folk builders, Tracy and Jordan.

01:15:20.040 are there any specific tasks or challenges unique to the district that you serve

01:15:28.760 well um i'm not sure if it's unique to the district but i think that one of the challenges

01:15:36.360 that the folk face and one of the reasons why having a hoff has made things so much better

01:15:42.920 because it's basically the loneliness that we probably have you know in our mundane life out

01:15:50.840 here because you know it's just i can't i keep thinking about it how i wouldn't have necessarily

01:15:59.640 even met some of these people that are a big part of my life um i would have never even known them

01:16:07.320 we didn't walk you know the same path in life maybe they lived six hours away and there's a

01:16:14.120 you know there's just like so much distance between everyone and when we get to go out to

01:16:20.040 the hof it's like we we kind of come together we kind of forget about this real world and we're

01:16:27.480 we're there together and it's kind of like a family reunion every time i'm not sure if loneliness is

01:16:32.280 just unique to our hof or our area but um i do think that maintaining like healthy relationships

01:16:40.600 and everyone's mental well-being is probably pretty important and i think that's kind of what

01:16:47.960 we get from going you know out to the hof i'm not sure if i answered that question at all i kind of

01:16:54.760 want to add to that also is kind of to the point that we made earlier about the breadth of our

01:16:59.560 district. And more on that, that we have a lot of members in the eastern part of our district,

01:17:05.520 Florida, Georgia, Alabama. And then it's like we have sort of a gap right now between us over here

01:17:11.060 in the east and in Texas over there. And I have the opportunity to meet a lot of people from

01:17:15.880 Florida, a lot of people from Georgia, hosted boots in Alabama before as well. But I just don't

01:17:20.460 get to see our folk from Texas as often. So it's important when I'm able to reach out to them,

01:17:25.780 i mean at least over phone calls texts you know whatever it is on a more regular basis but

01:17:30.900 just that distance for sure i know other districts will deal with that but for me at least that's one

01:17:36.820 issue absolutely um so lane and i wanted to ask this earlier in the show but we don't have any

01:17:53.140 questions currently in the in the line over here could you tell folks a little bit about

01:18:06.740 i don't know the story of

01:18:12.740 the development of afa culture in florida there how we came you know from where we started to

01:18:20.900 having yours off there well i was fortunate that one of the first events i went to you actually

01:18:29.540 attended it was uh i i believe i believe that was uh chopping up the plow um at washington park

01:18:41.140 um but the when i have but you moved shortly thereafter and it became a little less optimistic

01:18:52.900 uh a lot of a lot of just people sitting around an apartment complaining about their life

01:18:58.980 not there was there was no positivity and i think that was the thing that we we really needed to

01:19:05.140 change is we had to be for something not just not just oh woe is me life is hard things aren't

01:19:12.740 working the way i want them to but but to get together and and look to the future and make

01:19:20.660 changes in ourselves and build ourselves up build each other up to make our lives better not to just

01:19:27.380 not to just wallow in the in the in the hard times but to forge to uh as our motto says

01:19:35.940 harsh winds make strong wood and we we we become very strong here in florida

01:19:47.460 so washington park was that up by the uh fairchild oak there yes okay

01:19:57.780 yeah i used to i missed that spot um it was amazing we had a deer come through uh it was

01:20:03.460 a very i remember that exact yeah i remember that exact event because you got a picture of it crossing

01:20:08.580 the path that was really neat that's one of the special things about florida and something that we

01:20:20.580 have at least a couple one by the entryway that's just really beautiful they got the the live oaks

01:20:30.420 down there and they're just such majestic trees um that one uh that we would do you know the

01:20:41.620 ritual land was talking about we'd meet out regularly when i was down in florida the fair

01:20:45.940 child oak there it's i mean guessing they were guessing it's you know 2 000 years old or something

01:20:55.460 absurd they are such old trees and they'll have these limbs that will dip down sometimes into

01:21:03.300 the earth and popping back out because they're so old and they are hanging with that spanish moss

01:21:09.700 and they're just beautiful and anybody who hasn't been in your top they've got some

01:21:15.220 really beautiful scenery there and some of their trees are just amazing

01:21:26.180 anybody else got any questions this evening questions are running dry over in the comments section

01:21:39.700 So, can you talk about, so Florida's membership has been really interesting because it's

01:22:06.080 grown for a long time and it's it's spread out florida's a really interesting state because

01:22:12.560 there's so many different kinds of florida you know there's northern cuba and there's you know

01:22:26.080 various various kind of folks from uh the new york area that end up populating a lot of the coast

01:22:34.800 then you got a lot of old south you know crackers and people have been there for a long time in the

01:22:40.440 middle of the state and up further north it's an interesting convergence of stuff

01:22:46.100 um tracy you're a little bit further south uh

01:22:51.180 how is that what's that like folk building in the center of the state and dealing with members

01:23:01.960 in, I guess, the southern half of Florida. Well, see, one of the things that you have to try to

01:23:09.060 remember is that for someone who maybe lives like in Miami, I think it would take them about

01:23:15.340 five, five and a half hours to get to the Hoff. So it is, it is quite a big state. I live north

01:23:25.140 of orlando and when we you know we have a pretty good sized membership you know kind of centrally

01:23:34.100 located and um you know this is this is orlando kind of area so there's a lot of people who like

01:23:42.180 to eat eat out at restaurants and so we do find plenty of things to do um like that but

01:23:50.180 what was the question again no you're doing it I was trying to say there's a different character

01:23:58.180 in different parts of Florida and the further east you go as I've found people seem to have

01:24:06.400 different understandings of time like it's nothing out west to drive a number of hours because

01:24:12.180 everything's spread out as far as it is the further east you get like you mentioned five and a half

01:24:17.240 hours and i think that's extremely doable you know certainly a few times a year at the very

01:24:23.240 least but i know some members that's kind of a long haul and you're you know shoring up the

01:24:29.480 southern half of the state because you know i don't think there's much i don't think we have

01:24:35.240 many leaders south of you i think we've got a couple that are kind of parallel to you but

01:24:42.360 yeah just kind of what your experience is folk building in central florida

01:24:45.960 um you know we've we've had some tampa area um moots and you know i think what it is is that

01:24:56.320 when people don't expect to have a moot in that area um they may not have been accustomed to

01:25:02.760 actually coming out and um they might be more like isolated like i said like um and not really

01:25:10.100 kind of adventurous enough to actually even show up um because that that's still a couple hours

01:25:17.720 away even from me even though some people in the tampa area still sometimes do make it out to the

01:25:22.660 but um a lot of the a lot of the moots and and people that i see are pretty much it could be from

01:25:32.540 the east or the west coast across the board but we you know either meet up for like a kind of a

01:25:40.840 meal type gathering or you know i've had a moot at um halloween horror nights before actually was

01:25:47.460 it halloween horror nights it was the other one hollow scream you know we have like theme parks

01:25:51.600 we could go to um there's there's actually like tons of state parks that people could have moots

01:25:58.240 at um and a lot of things that you could really do out in this area it's not all just about bars

01:26:06.320 we can go and and do things you know out in nature the only problem is it's so hot outside

01:26:12.320 that most people can't stand it um but it's really nice getting together with with the people

01:26:19.920 in this area and especially people you know sometimes do take their vacations down here

01:26:25.120 from other districts and then we do sometimes you know host moots and and have them get to interact

01:26:31.360 with some of the members that are around here too so that's always nice as well all in all it's a

01:26:37.120 very rewarding experience and it's and i find joy in and it makes me really happy that i get to do

01:26:44.320 that good deal um so a question for the gothar and i will go last how would you like us to use

01:26:59.120 the trulamow to guide our practices in understanding about the true today and in

01:27:06.240 what ways do you see it uh its influence shaping the future of our faith trent

01:27:16.080 um i think if i were to choose how for the members uh to use it i would say read it refer

01:27:25.280 back to when you have questions uh i think something that'll be really helpful is the

01:27:31.440 part kind of near the beginning where it talks about how we use the old Norse nomenclature for

01:27:36.560 things as often as possible just to sort of build a kind of cohesion. And so that as well as just

01:27:46.740 kind of understanding as much AFA doctrine as possible, the more members and leaders especially

01:27:54.820 to understand that the more it will make us a force to be reckoned with more than we already

01:28:01.740 are in the future and i think of course as we go into the future and we release more documents

01:28:07.460 similar to that and kind of following that one's footsteps it will really bind us to this faith

01:28:16.300 in a way that will just make a lot of things easier for us make a lot of things more clear

01:28:22.400 for new people, rather than, you know, the kind of sometimes jumbled mess we might have where

01:28:28.400 people are hailing Odin by eight or nine different names and different Germanic languages and things

01:28:35.560 like that. It'll just really solidify things. It'll make us look more professional. And it'll

01:28:41.160 it'll just make this all so much more relatable to a lot of newer people.

01:28:45.920 so and that's just the start of it really oh same question lane yeah i think i think its biggest

01:28:55.700 impact is is it's going to be a touchstone this is going to be something that lets allows us to

01:29:03.540 all speak in the same language to understand one another to have a foundation to build upon this

01:29:10.460 I think that this is a very important step in our in our evolution and the growth of our faith.

01:29:24.620 Same question. Sorry, a little bit random question. Random question. I think it's

01:29:34.140 uh like my brother gothees have said i think it's it's um it's kind of it's a very good resource

01:29:40.540 for folks it's uh something that we have been sorely lacking for a long time and we recognize

01:29:45.580 that lack we were just trying to figure out how you know to particularly you know tackle this task

01:29:51.740 and get it accomplished i know that the alceria gothe was very concerned with its with its you

01:29:58.460 you know, publication and coming forth and development.

01:30:01.780 And it really is going to be, as Gozi Lane said,

01:30:07.020 it's really going to be one of those things that we point to in the future

01:30:10.380 as, you know, that's when we, pardon the pun,

01:30:13.800 that's when we turned a page and, you know,

01:30:16.220 really kind of accelerated our growth because we have a lot of folks who are

01:30:23.220 adults who don't have the education and experience in the lore and the way

01:30:31.680 Alcetru works yet so this is a very good step in that direction and

01:30:37.140 and closing that gap of of not having that knowledge

01:30:42.440 yeah i'm first uh thank you guys for you know for for your thoughts on that and uh

01:30:54.260 raven uh thank you for uh asking the question um

01:31:00.560 And most of the things in that document, and I certainly had help with it, but it was something that I wanted to do and know was needed for a very long time.

01:31:25.700 And it was really important to me to get that done and out there.

01:31:31.000 And most of, you know, you'll notice most of the things in it aren't, you know,

01:31:36.200 they aren't things that, you know, someone who's been around this for any amount of time would be, you know,

01:31:42.300 shocked by or that are greatly different.

01:31:45.940 But what's always been a struggle for us is a place to start and a willingness to say, you know, this is this and that's that.

01:32:03.620 um there's been such a hodgepodge of well kind of this but sort of that but and it's a natural

01:32:12.420 thing and i've been as guilty at different times in my my life and also true as anybody else

01:32:17.320 as kind of hemming and hawing and not really knowing where to start and there's so many

01:32:23.620 different facets to our faith to try to explain to somebody who comes in with very little familiarity

01:32:29.520 I don't I can't think of an analogous situation that most of us are familiar with

01:32:41.340 a lot of people are very aware of of Christianity very aware of many of the

01:32:47.700 I guess those things so if you're a sect or a version of that it's very

01:32:56.880 you have a common understanding of a starting point and then you can work from there without

01:33:02.960 the truth there's so many different places to start so many different well some people do this

01:33:08.320 and you know some other people think this and sometimes we say this and sometimes we do that and

01:33:14.480 that diversity is not our strength so unifying what we do what we think what we believe

01:33:27.360 in a comprehensive in a common way to start and build upon provides a lot of clarity going forward

01:33:40.540 I think that when we get bogged, so one of the details to the question was, you know, what ways we see it shaping the future and, you know, how we want it to guide the practices and understanding the folks.

01:33:58.380 it to be something to hearken back to there's a lot of different ways that are right to do a lot

01:34:07.080 of things but this is kind of a way to check back in like is it congruent with this this is the core

01:34:15.260 fundamental principles of our religion and how the afa practice is also true is what we're doing

01:34:24.260 in harmony with that if it's not let's bring it in and make it in harmony with it and let that

01:34:31.460 be a guide post to check things against to make sure that they're harmonious and to understand

01:34:37.860 the practice of you know your brothers and sisters in the house to focus on you when you

01:34:42.460 find yourself you know that's our point of commonality to work from and you know everybody

01:34:50.240 for a very long time in modern Alistair True

01:34:52.800 has been at a phase of becoming or figuring out

01:34:59.060 or wondering what if, and we're past that phase now.

01:35:04.480 Now we have a direction, we have a course,

01:35:08.460 and we're following that course.

01:35:10.840 We have a foundation and we're acknowledging it,

01:35:14.520 we're owning it, and we're building upon it.

01:35:16.700 and so this is kind of the fundamental building blocks that can direct the flow of that in the

01:35:22.980 future um as i mentioned you know you asked how this is going to shape things in the future how

01:35:29.360 we'd like it to but i'd like it to serve as a foundation as something to build upon um something

01:35:35.440 that's plagued modern house of truth for a long time is a lack of confidence to set roots and

01:35:47.460 move forward and build for it and then a variety of things that have made a consistent cycle of

01:35:56.080 okay this is gonna sound stupid to some people some people may get it i hope it's beneficial

01:36:03.360 but it's something that comes to mind and something to put it out there my cousins and i

01:36:10.400 and jokingly and kind of joking at ourself would talk about playing bass so we get all our action

01:36:17.040 figures and all our little army men and stuff we build these elaborate fortifications and we build

01:36:22.960 all this stuff because we're gonna have this it's gonna be epic all of my toys versus all

01:36:27.600 your toys it's going to be awesome and so we'd spend forever setting it up but by the time we

01:36:33.520 got it all set up it's bedtime we never got to have the big you know the big thing we were

01:36:38.400 planning with it because we spent all the time endlessly pondering the what ifs instead of

01:36:45.360 actually getting to the doing and i think that modern house true spent a lot of time

01:36:51.200 I'm endlessly going over the what ifs and then every new person wants to start back from square

01:37:00.040 one and in doing so never make progress we're past that stage it's not just about becoming

01:37:07.580 it's about being and doing house of truth and so we're we're at a stage where we've been

01:37:15.180 bequeathed a responsibility and a legacy to build upon and to move forward and really nice

01:37:24.860 foundations to step forward on. Our gods have blessed us with a certain amount of success and

01:37:32.700 insight and continue to do so as long as we stay the course and have the piety to listen

01:37:40.860 to their instruction to the best of our ability and i think that this is a a foundation for us

01:37:49.020 to build upon and to guide our direction forward with it um dean donated uh well he bought us a

01:37:56.460 coffee which is a five dollar donation we appreciate that so i know this question is way

01:38:01.580 early but are there dates picked out for charming of the plow next year uh any of y'all show of

01:38:07.940 hands. Does anybody know when it's going to be? Trent says he knows when it's going to be.

01:38:12.840 When's it going to be, Trent?

01:38:14.340 February 21st or the 23rd.

01:38:22.260 Checking the orthodoxy of Trent's statement.

01:38:26.020 It checks out to me, sir.

01:38:33.060 Sounds good. Looks like that's the plan. Mark your calendars now. Make your plans.

01:38:38.660 get out there be there be square i will be out there i will try to avoid soul food chinese fusion

01:38:48.340 i went to a different buffet this time and the colloquial expression of it is not suitable for

01:38:55.620 the broadcast but it's got pigs on it and it's an awesome buffet and it's very close by and

01:39:01.460 that's where i will be going this year once again but i i was there at random when uh used to live

01:39:08.340 in florida for a time anybody doesn't know i was born and raised in anchorage alaska but i moved down

01:39:13.780 to florida i actually moved down to saint augustine where my wife mandy is from

01:39:19.060 in order to secure that relationship and

01:39:22.980 start building my life from that and worked out well. It was a good gamble. We got a beautiful

01:39:32.660 daughter now and we're seven years into a wonderful marriage. I'm happy about that.

01:39:38.340 Worked out. But a part of that, I was driving across to where our law speaker lives over in

01:39:45.120 Panhandle there at kind of a stopping point, which turns out to be very close to our office.

01:39:52.020 I think the buffet I'm talking about is in, I think it's in Lake City.

01:39:56.780 It is delicious.

01:39:58.420 And they have an amazing selection of Southern food there.

01:40:02.140 The fried catfish is awesome.

01:40:03.880 I can eat a shocking amount of it, and I plan to next February.

01:40:09.880 And I did this past February.

01:40:12.120 It is delicious.

01:40:13.620 And I highly advise anybody to go there.

01:40:15.980 met up with alan there had to have been 2014 way back when but uh always remembered the spot and

01:40:25.820 i would encourage you to do business at that location i can't remember the name of the buffet

01:40:29.960 now so frustrates me i'm gonna have to look it up after the show um which brings me to another one

01:40:38.620 of our questions is anybody eating gator if so what do you think trent have you eaten gator what

01:40:43.840 you think of it yeah i had it once at a uh like street festival in my town here in georgia and

01:40:51.200 this couple from florida came up and they were selling fried gator bites and uh it it's a cliche

01:40:58.080 but it tastes like chicken a little bit it was a really tender i don't know if it's usually tender

01:41:03.440 if that's just how this couple made it but yeah it didn't wow me or anything it just kind of tasted

01:41:10.240 like chicken um all right lane gator how'd you have prepared uh do you recommend or not

01:41:20.080 i have had gator and my and i and i rate it meh

01:41:26.160 fair enough it did not impress all right bode what's your gator experience as far as consumption

01:41:34.240 uh unlike my brothers i did not find it meh or taste like chicken

01:41:40.240 And it was one of the, so I'm going to let the cat out of the bag, and I hope I don't get barred from the Hoff for this, but I am a priest at Njortzhof, yet I do not like seafood.

01:41:53.080 Cannot stand it.

01:41:54.340 However, however, I know I get the thumbs down.

01:41:57.320 People think I'm an alien.

01:41:58.780 Why don't you eat seafood?

01:42:00.000 I'm allergic to the smell, the taste, the texture, all of it.

01:42:02.580 However, I have eaten more exotic things than most people have eaten that eat regularly seafood, such as alligator, rattlesnake, rabbit, things like that, which are far better.

01:42:14.980 But gator, gator tail, very, very nice.

01:42:18.260 Very nice.

01:42:21.020 All right.

01:42:22.240 Jordan, gator, do you recommend or not?

01:42:24.740 Have you had it?

01:42:25.400 Have you had it?

01:42:26.200 And if so, how have you had it prepared?

01:42:28.360 Yeah, I had it once when I was a kid in a restaurant in New Orleans.

01:42:32.000 i thought it was pretty good i don't know i'd probably have it again there you go what about 0.65

01:42:37.760 you tracy well it was actually one of the more ironic things that has ever happened to me because

01:42:46.560 i hadn't eaten literally any meat for like i don't want to say how many decades but it was

01:42:54.080 multiple and then i started with this new strange diet idea like this just new like a new philosophy

01:43:03.600 on eating pretty much and so i was starting to eat more seafood and we actually had a moot that was

01:43:11.280 out um out by where pam mccloskey lives out i don't even remember the restaurant but they

01:43:17.840 actually had gator on that menu and i believe that was the only time i've had it so what did i think

01:43:25.280 of it um i thought it i don't know what chicken tastes like i thought it was pretty good

01:43:36.480 okay that is it that is a unique view we have some some mixed views here so

01:43:43.920 i i too have had gator on a couple of occasions i think and

01:43:51.360 obviously within reason but i think if you fry up most anything it's delicious i think uh

01:43:59.280 oftentimes some things are a vehicle for the fried goodness whether it is the thing that's

01:44:07.200 being fried or not i had gator tail i don't know if different parts of gator are different

01:44:14.480 gator tail is pretty good it's all right again i've had better things fried it would probably

01:44:20.640 not be my go-to for fried stuff but it's pretty good i think it was chickeny in a sense

01:44:31.360 i think it lacked the flaky goodness of catfish which i prefer for my my fried

01:44:37.200 southern cuisine um yeah it was good um look forward to trying to have more of it at some

01:44:45.840 point if anybody was offering me some fried gator tail i would definitely not turn it down

01:44:50.880 on any occasion um but uh stay away from boots that's all i got to offer on the gator situation

01:45:01.800 um another question that came up from producer nick as a matter of fact why white springs

01:45:11.400 uh lane in your in your view why why did we get the hoff in white springs

01:45:20.040 well a lot of things uh steered us in that direction it was not our first

01:45:26.200 place we looked at it wasn't even the first place that we put an offer on

01:45:30.280 but it worked out because none of the other places had the room that nordshoff does there

01:45:37.240 was no kitchens nor did it have did any of them have anywhere near the land we would not have

01:45:43.320 been able to have a place to uh lay our lay our folk to rest at any of the other places we looked

01:45:49.480 at um it was it was fortunate that the troubles that we had because it steered us to a really

01:45:55.880 a perfect location yeah that's something i don't think people necessarily anticipate i know i didn't

01:46:08.440 when we've gone through and

01:46:12.120 you know i was i was a part of getting odenshoff but a much smaller part that was a find

01:46:21.640 between githya sheila mcnalen and uh gith our gothe thorgrin odin who recently passed

01:46:31.600 they were working with some folks in the area there as to where to get what to get a lot of

01:46:38.680 stuff went into it but i my involvement at the time was very peripheral um i was there

01:46:46.060 i happened to be there because we found what became odin's off we actually looked at it the

01:46:52.420 sunday right after a midsummer so i was out there for midsummer but i was further away and and my

01:46:58.460 role in the austral folk assembly was you know less significant than it than it currently is at

01:47:05.420 the time but when i became officer here it was very important to me to keep up the mission of

01:47:11.320 getting hoffs and so you know going into them you always have a have an expectation and i think it's

01:47:20.840 not reasonable to do this and not have a lot of expectation build up of you know what you

01:47:26.520 want to do but you got to be flexible um there's a number of things that come into play as i've

01:47:36.520 learned finding you know you have an idea in your mind of a building that you want and everything

01:47:47.160 the building needs to have but then you're like ah but what does the property need to have

01:47:52.840 where does the property need to be okay yeah but what kind of price point can we can we manage

01:48:01.240 what's realistic and then you have all of the challenges that come in you know between here

01:48:07.880 and there uh how long has it been on the market can we get funding fast enough can we get it

01:48:14.200 figured out and make stuff work is the you know seller going to work stuff when we do the

01:48:20.040 inspection is it going to come back with something that really changes the deal on

01:48:24.680 on whether it's a good deal or not so as lane mentioned we had a number of properties we had

01:48:30.920 one that we're very serious on really in the you know making an offer and trying to get it approved

01:48:37.640 we even tried to get a traditional lending situation from the bank that at the last minute

01:48:42.680 they pulled out of we ended up not being able to make that work there's a certain factor to where

01:48:48.440 you gotta do the very best you can and you know go where the gods take you in a certain way and

01:48:58.840 looking back on it i couldn't really imagine this being any other place it's it's amazing where it

01:49:04.200 is but you know the dream takes a lot of different shapes before you get there initially

01:49:13.400 we had some options on where where we were going to do this off um it needed to be a state that

01:49:20.360 that was coastal um you know getting it on the beach was you know that would be awesome but it

01:49:26.840 wasn't really something that was a super reality we had one spot we looked at that was you know

01:49:33.320 right across the street from the water and that just proved to not really be an option but getting

01:49:39.640 it in a state that had coastline was important i think this very serious front runners were

01:49:46.600 washington state and florida it also looked up in the northeast a little bit and we would

01:49:52.680 we had looked at texas there was a spot in like between houston and galveston that was a really

01:50:00.680 nice idea for it too so there's a lot of things that went into play looking but one of the big

01:50:07.080 things that made it work where it did was as i said at the top of the show was laying in his

01:50:13.080 kindred and the amount of you know work they were putting in the infrastructure and the devotion

01:50:20.360 that they had established where they were at for us to build around and that was a huge factor in

01:50:28.040 making that happen um and looking around it just so happened you know white springs was a really

01:50:33.960 inviting idea and it turns out one of the most foundational moots that got some of the momentum

01:50:41.880 in that part of the south going for the afa way back when took place you know a stone's throw

01:50:49.960 from the hoth which is really kind of cool that was my wife's first afa moot she'd ever been to

01:50:58.440 she had met our law speaker allen there at that moot and it was it was right there in the same

01:51:05.320 town and uh you know that didn't factor into our decision but it was a really

01:51:12.200 you know fortuitous synchronicity it was really the working of earth and that tapestry

01:51:17.720 and it's right where it should be i love where our office it's an amazing spot and

01:51:24.700 what we don't ever want to do is

01:51:29.680 and it's the thing it's frustrating we want to once we make a commitment to one of our gods that 0.99

01:51:36.000 we're going to get them a hof somewhere and i want to do everything i can to make it happen

01:51:41.920 and if it doesn't happen fast enough or it doesn't happen in the way that i envision 1.00

01:51:47.300 And, you know, I feel bad.

01:51:49.600 Like this is a responsibility and I don't want to mess it up.

01:51:53.060 So all we can do is the very best that we can and make sure that if we don't get it, it's not because of any of our fumbling.

01:52:00.940 And from there, be willing to.

01:52:02.880 And this is something that I recall asking very specifically at the altar.

01:52:08.400 I've done this, you know, with our Hoffs.

01:52:11.300 is for the help of the god involved the help of northern in this case to help get us the hof

01:52:19.460 that he wants help guide us to a spot that would make him happy that he would approve of

01:52:25.440 and it's really special how those things all work together to

01:52:30.020 get us something really special i think that happened in this case certainly

01:52:34.740 have you considered doing online services on youtube to reach members

01:52:45.220 um

01:52:46.980 so yes um and this was asked by odin's beard we have considered that and

01:52:58.660 there's a couple of thoughts on it we know that we have folks that are isolated

01:53:07.480 and we know that we have members that are at a great distance sometimes

01:53:12.040 and we want to make sure the spiritual needs of those members give them that

01:53:20.520 but we also don't ever want to cheapen

01:53:26.100 the ritual or the purpose behind it or the religious experience of it

01:53:33.780 and it's not something that you can do at distance in the same way

01:53:39.240 um and what i've seen with other groups of people that wanted to do online rituals

01:53:50.160 very quickly all of their rituals became online rituals because it's just easier to kind of phone

01:53:57.600 it literally phone it in in that instance we would love to engage with all of our members

01:54:06.380 online on video calls on conference calls we'd love to build relationships with them that way

01:54:13.840 and talk them through spiritual things and spiritual practices.

01:54:19.860 But it's really important to us that our rituals are done in the real world with real connection.

01:54:30.000 And we don't want that not to be the case.

01:54:33.680 Now we can synchronize.

01:54:35.660 We can do a ritual here at the same time.

01:54:39.180 So I can do a ritual here in Nevada and synchronize it with these people that you see on the show today in Florida, in Georgia, in wherever Jordan's at.

01:54:54.860 I apologize.

01:54:56.400 He's also in Georgia.

01:54:58.780 But we can do that and make that work to synchronize and do them simultaneously.

01:55:06.880 and I think there's something valuable there but we don't want to do the online ritual and I know

01:55:14.760 that for someone who's very isolated that might be disheartening but no you know if you know I have

01:55:22.380 no idea who Odin's beard is but if you're if you're a member please reach out to any of our

01:55:28.260 folk builders or please reach out to me because I want to find you people to do ritual with that

01:55:36.700 are near you. I want to do everything I can to make that happen for you. Doing it online just

01:55:43.640 isn't, it's just not the right thing to do. But I want to help you experience that in your life.

01:55:51.480 And if you reach out to us, we will figure something out where you can experience it

01:55:56.820 because it's important. Question for folk builders. 0.99

01:56:06.700 I didn't ask you, Gothar.

01:56:08.900 So, Jordan, who makes the best meals at Njortzhoff?

01:56:12.680 Go.

01:56:13.740 Oh, you cannot put me in that position.

01:56:16.920 You're going to make me pick a favorite, and I can't do it.

01:56:19.140 It's my show.

01:56:20.260 So can I pick a favorite meal and the person that's attached to it?

01:56:24.420 I think I'll go with that.

01:56:25.460 So the famous grits, breakfast grits at Njortzhoff from Mike Joyner.

01:56:32.680 That's got to be my favorite meal that I've personally had.

01:56:36.700 Fair enough. Tracy, favorite. Who makes the best meals?

01:56:42.580 Well, I think what's really nice about Njortov is that we kind of collaborate on the meals.

01:56:50.560 And so, like, currently what we have is a lot of participation because a lot of the, you know, the ladies and gentlemen that come, because even the men like to bring their delicious offerings for us.

01:57:03.960 um and they they kind of create a menu and they all collaborate and some I've even brought a salad

01:57:10.580 I'm not a big cook but I've even done this myself and we end up with some of the most delicious

01:57:16.440 um large arrays of really fantastic food um especially the last few months for these um

01:57:25.260 you know because when we provide these foods um for these rituals um it's a really important part

01:57:32.200 of the experience um because i think a lot of a lot of these um holy days are based off of um

01:57:41.800 you know there's always a meal involved when it comes to it so it's actually like really important

01:57:48.040 for us to bond and so it's really nice that you know i don't want to name names it's all of them

01:57:54.760 they all provide really great food and they take you know turns and they share the the load and

01:57:59.960 it's just really wonderful to see it all happen and take place 1.00

01:58:06.920 so the astro folk assembly we don't believe in equality 0.99

01:58:13.160 is there a name that tops your list of who makes the best meals okay let's see hmm i have to have a

01:58:22.280 name my favorite my okay i have a favorite of each thing because okay kaylee's yule cookies

01:58:35.640 were fantastic but if we're talking about cookies we know get the applause um

01:58:41.960 famous cookies she has a couple different ones those are delicious

01:58:47.560 they really are i can attest to that i shouldn't have to name them but we know what they're called

01:58:54.200 um the white privilege cookies um what else do we have she has a whole bunch of really good cookies

01:59:02.040 actually one of the most wonderful um desserts that um rachel vashon made was the eclair cake

01:59:13.880 the eclair pie or the eclair cake that one i just really like the desserts

01:59:20.440 um i like all of it actually pam pam's made some of the okay for one thing the best meal of all time

01:59:30.200 the best hoff event food was the dedication and we had a lot of help from i believe pam mccloskey

01:59:38.840 and even Mike and Katie Joyner, but there was also help with Kaylee Watkins and a lot

01:59:46.040 of different, I'm sure Madison was helping too, not me as much, but there's a lot of

01:59:54.600 help in that situation too.

01:59:57.420 So we have a lot of very good meals.

02:00:01.660 If anyone who comes to Njordzov, I can guarantee you, I've been to all the hops.

02:00:06.820 i think it's going to be more delicious than all the other hops just so just so you know

02:00:13.860 because we are

02:00:21.620 but i love you all even at the other hops i'm just saying

02:00:28.980 so raven wants to know are the afa flyers that members can print and

02:00:34.660 spread spread on our own locally no but it's shameful that there's not it's something that

02:00:40.820 we've wanted to do needed to do and not done as of yet and we really need to so there are some

02:00:51.300 in the works i want to make that happen for you i don't know who you are with um you know with

02:00:59.700 your moniker but reach out to me privately and let's make that happen it's a priority for me to

02:01:06.500 get some flyers i know a lot of people have asked for them i do think we have some stuff but we need

02:01:12.420 to fix that so get with me and let's do that it's okay i'll tell you who it is afterwards

02:01:19.220 okay cool you can always send it to me over on the side something we do all right so uh next up

02:01:30.580 folk builders any cool or particularly meaningful stories of recruiting people to the afa jordan

02:01:38.420 cool or meaningful stories about afa recruitment um this one's not bonding particularly but it's

02:01:45.540 one that had happened where we had a member who was no longer with the afa that we had been

02:01:51.220 reaching out trying to get back into contact with them turns out that phone number was not theirs

02:01:57.540 anymore but the person who's was attached to that phone number was someone who was also true

02:02:04.820 and was looking for a group for so such a long time but what are the odds of just this person

02:02:10.900 getting this phone number from another former member that just was also true and looking for

02:02:17.220 a group of people to be with and that was a very weird moment in the proper sense of the term

02:02:22.100 yeah that i remember that story and that's really

02:02:32.260 it's really special that that happened the odds are astronomical i can't even conceive of the odds

02:02:38.340 yeah no that's that's awesome and i appreciate you sharing that tracy do you have any uh

02:02:44.980 any meaningful uh or interesting stories in afa recruitment well one of the things about

02:02:56.740 i guess i just i mean they're so busy with just work and the afa i don't know i feel like i don't

02:03:04.420 really know a lot of people that i just like want to like recruit in the way that it sounds like

02:03:13.540 i'm not just trying to convert people and bring them into the afa but um there has been a lot of

02:03:20.260 members you know over the years and sometimes when some of them leave it has been you know kind of

02:03:28.740 heartbreaking and difficult but i do find it really nice like i one that i'm thinking of who

02:03:35.540 came back to the afa and it's just um i don't want to say everyone's name but it's just really nice

02:03:42.340 when when they say like you know they reach out to you and it's like you're part of the reason

02:03:47.220 why they came back it really does um make for very special memories and stories and you know

02:03:54.580 then you get to share more memories with their family and you know since we all do consider each

02:03:59.860 other family it is kind of nice when some of these members might go and then come back and

02:04:05.700 they think of you and that's part of the reason why they came back so

02:04:12.340 so if you're not out there trying to just increase the afa membership and bring people

02:04:16.420 to afa then you step up the game tracy um but i will say this um no i know what you

02:04:22.660 meant i'm just being silly but i mean this a lot over the years um for a variety of reasons

02:04:32.100 you have people that you know leave and you know like i said it literally a big variety of reasons

02:04:42.600 it's really beautiful when those people come back and

02:04:50.860 some of our very best members have left for one reason for it or another

02:04:58.460 and seen a different perspective of, you know,

02:05:06.020 the grass is always greener until you get there

02:05:08.840 and then maybe you see things from the outside looking in.

02:05:12.940 And when those people come home, it's a really, really nice feeling.

02:05:21.040 And, yeah, I'll certainly say that.

02:05:23.440 We got a couple of people I just want to acknowledge over in the chat.

02:05:37.560 All right, so you guys got to get some easier to pronounce names so that I can properly acknowledge you without sounding silly.

02:05:53.440 red regitius that's not the way your name is meant to be pronounced so i apologize

02:06:00.400 but he wanted to say hi and that it's expire inspiring what we're doing uh along with the

02:06:05.120 rest of the austral folk assembly i appreciate you saying so and i appreciate you being here

02:06:09.520 and joining us tonight and i apologize for butchering your name and

02:06:14.080 And Baja Volvo, perhaps, is a lurker and just wanted to say hello.

02:06:24.640 Howdy.

02:06:25.300 Glad you're joining us tonight.

02:06:30.680 And...

02:06:31.200 In case you didn't see it, Sierra, and you're paying attention,

02:06:42.940 Trent said that your food was awesome when he was out at Odenshoff.

02:06:47.720 And, yeah, you make some good stuff.

02:06:49.900 The pasta salad thing at Yule – or not Yule, I'm sorry,

02:06:53.180 midsummer this year was awesome.

02:06:55.220 A lot of us were talking about it.

02:06:57.000 I know that I had – I think I had seconds,

02:06:59.860 but I loaded up pretty heavy on it.

02:07:02.380 Sierra can make some good stuff.

02:07:03.820 oh and uh clisty's joining us tonight good to see you on here glad to see you joining us so

02:07:19.180 what plans are there for mjortzhoff for the future uh trent

02:07:33.820 uh we don't have anything too grand planned for it it was uh when we purchased the building it

02:07:42.360 was already in pretty great shape you know uh it recently got a paint job that's like

02:07:50.420 you know the most exciting thing that's happened to the building as far as the land uh you know

02:07:56.680 we've got our our cemetery in the back um we've already got a couple of our our folk interred

02:08:04.880 there and uh you know we plan to kind of keep that area looking nice i believe githya plourd

02:08:12.240 was talking about planting some flowers in the area like sunflowers and orange blossoms

02:08:17.300 if i'm not mistaken uh you know eventually we're gonna have to do something about boots

02:08:25.420 I would think.

02:08:29.200 Other than that, we just plan to keep growing

02:08:31.400 and keep making our events better and better.

02:08:34.480 Like make special clothes for him?

02:08:36.900 Or like...

02:08:38.720 I don't know, man.

02:08:39.720 I'm from Georgia, not Florida.

02:08:41.240 Gators get, you know, they have like...

02:08:44.500 He's not a problem.

02:08:45.820 He's our gator.

02:08:46.860 We'll see.

02:08:47.620 We'll see.

02:08:48.780 He's obviously a baby, though,

02:08:50.480 because he's probably going to end up like eight feet long.

02:08:55.500 That's insane.

02:08:56.660 That's what I'm talking about. We'll see what happens.

02:08:58.720 We could have a gator tail 0.71

02:09:00.420 half

02:09:01.460 meal. If he runs

02:09:04.580 a fowl, if he's a cool gator, 0.99

02:09:06.660 then he can look out for things. 0.98

02:09:09.940 We'll see

02:09:10.540 what happens.

02:09:12.460 We're just joking. He will also be in

02:09:14.600 charge in the future.

02:09:16.000 Folk builder discipline.

02:09:17.100 That's what I'm saying.

02:09:19.360 There's a lot of options.

02:09:22.180 I don't know that

02:09:23.120 We're free to really do anything to him or even relocate.

02:09:26.100 So, you two mind your P's and Q's and all the other apprentices because otherwise you have to go talk with Boots.

02:09:36.080 Boots talks with his teeth.

02:09:39.000 So, this is as good a time as any.

02:09:45.220 Plans for Njortsov.

02:09:47.560 We plan to pay off Njortsov.

02:09:50.780 you guys have been awesome on that so far but i'm going to make a plug right now anyway because it's

02:09:56.860 important to do so

02:10:03.900 so we have uh a remaining balance of 79 401 on our loans that sounds like a lot it is a lot

02:10:16.700 but we've already paid off 165 599 so we've made tremendous progress towards that goal

02:10:27.420 we have made tremendous progress this year towards that goal producer nick might know if i'm i'm

02:10:35.820 mistaken on it but you know we were still owing more than a hundred thousand on it at the beginning

02:10:42.860 of the year i believe if not more um we've made a lot of progress really quick if you guys

02:10:50.620 you know factor in the initial cost was 245 we've we've done very very well so the sooner

02:10:58.380 we pay that off the sooner we can start moving towards making phrase off happen

02:11:04.140 um i would encourage anybody who can to please donate if you are able and we will continue to

02:11:11.100 bring this total down and move towards paying it off. In just two years, we've been able to knock

02:11:20.680 out almost 68% of the debt that we've incurred over it. So that's fantastic. That's a huge

02:11:28.920 amount in a short amount of time. But we appreciate your help in getting a little bit more right now.

02:11:35.860 If every AFA member donated $104.50 thereabout, we would have this thing paid off immediately.

02:11:48.080 We'd pay it off tonight.

02:11:51.200 So, yeah, if you're able, we would love to have your help with it.

02:11:54.700 I figure this is a good time to plug it.

02:11:56.720 So, therefore, I'm doing it.

02:11:58.440 And that is absolutely a plan.

02:12:00.080 And a lot of the other plans on cosmetic things or other stuff with the Hoff are waiting on the payoff of it.

02:12:08.360 Because until it's paid off, unless it's an immediate thing that's necessary, it's important that we take care of that debt first.

02:12:18.720 But yeah, sky's the limit on it.

02:12:21.060 We've got a lot of land there, a lot of things that we'd like to do with it, a lot of ways that we'd like to beautify the things that we have.

02:12:29.180 It's already a really nice space.

02:12:31.300 As Lane mentioned earlier, it wasn't like it sat derelict for a long time.

02:12:35.220 A number of our Hoffs did and really needed a lot of love when we got there.

02:12:40.060 This one was, I would say, more turnkey than any of our previous ones.

02:12:46.220 So that's really nice.

02:12:54.780 So our next question is interesting.

02:12:57.040 Would there ever be any Hoffs opened outside of the States?

02:13:02.620 Absolutely, there would be.

02:13:04.680 I say that a thousand percent sure.

02:13:07.680 Trouble is when, where, and how, because we would love to do that.

02:13:12.160 There's nothing stopping us right now from doing that conceptually.

02:13:18.180 The issue comes with we need a few things.

02:13:23.440 So there was a time where the biggest hurdle was being able to, how could we possibly get enough money to get a Hoff?

02:13:36.280 And that's no longer the big concern.

02:13:39.240 But what is a concern is when we get a Hoff, we make a commitment. 0.98

02:13:44.720 When we get a hof, we are building a home in Midgard for one of our gods. 0.97

02:13:55.700 We're giving them something very special, and we're making a commitment to maintain it.

02:14:01.100 So it's not just getting a hof, but it's taking care of that hof and being good stewards of it in the long term,

02:14:08.520 which means we need membership in the area that we can trust to take care of it.

02:14:14.720 We need leaders in the area that we can trust to build and manage our folk there and host rituals and perform all of the sacred services that are necessary for a temple to one of our gods.

02:14:31.640 So that's what we're waiting on in some of these international locations.

02:14:38.600 There was a time when we were seriously looking at Sweden.

02:14:42.200 we had a very vibrant membership there and then when the whole world seemed to shut down for covid

02:14:51.160 unfortunately we lost some momentum there so we would love to get that back we still have quite

02:14:55.960 a few members over in sweden i'd say that's the first most likely spot but truly wherever we you

02:15:04.040 know if you're listening to this broadcast and you're outside of the united states there's

02:15:07.800 There's nothing stopping you guys from having a Hoff there.

02:15:10.860 Get together, make stuff happen.

02:15:13.640 You know, dive in and really try to make it happen.

02:15:16.900 And we will work with you and we will do the very best we can to help you build.

02:15:21.600 And if you build and you got something going there, we would love to have an international Hoff.

02:15:28.140 We will in the future, 100% sure of it, but I can't tell you when.

02:15:33.460 And the more we get help from local people to make that happen, the closer we get to knowing when that might be.

02:15:42.180 have any of you guys had

02:16:03.060 okay this is something i think that we should mention

02:16:12.180 And this is the second of our Hoffs that we now have loved ones of ours that remains interred at.

02:16:25.080 Do you guys want to talk about that at all?

02:16:29.520 I don't mean to put you on the spot, but Tracy, would you like to talk about that?

02:16:37.160 Well, like what part of it?

02:16:42.180 you know what part of it we got two we've got two people that are special to us that are

02:16:50.760 um their remains are interred at our half and I don't think it's something that maybe folks are

02:16:58.760 aware of so you can talk a little bit about that that would be great and if not somebody else can

02:17:06.420 that's fine also well um you know i don't know i'm sure it's gonna be a bigger cemetery you know

02:17:15.680 right now we just have two um people laid to rest and at njordshof and one of the um one of them is

02:17:24.120 my mother and um she passed away in november so we're getting close to a year i guess um

02:17:33.680 And, you know, I just right away felt like she she belonged at Njortsov.

02:17:41.780 So, you know, it wasn't a difficult process and the ceremony was beautiful.

02:17:50.260 Gioti Mayo helped out with that.

02:17:53.280 It was very special and it was just a very nice way to lay her to rest with, you know, everyone.

02:18:02.400 And, you know, all my family and friends, you know, because it was just like very meaningful for me, especially.

02:18:11.340 And, you know, I know my family really appreciated it as well.

02:18:15.280 So it's always, you know, for people who might, maybe they don't have their will in place or anything.

02:18:21.740 But it's something you can think about if that's what you might want to do in the future with yourself or someone in your family.

02:18:32.400 Yeah, that's, um, thank you for a couple of things, Tracy. Thank you for, you know, telling folks about that, but also thank you for entrusting your mom's remains with us at one of our hoffs.

02:18:54.960 Um, that's another thing that, uh, has a lot of implications spiritually.

02:19:06.420 Um, so I mentioned that we have two that have, you know, our loved ones at them, but that's

02:19:14.420 not really the whole story.

02:19:15.560 So in very short succession at Odenshof, we've added two more to our cemetery.

02:19:27.900 So we have three folks whose remains are in our cemetery at Odenshof.

02:19:34.440 We have one gentleman that we inherited at Thorshof, and we've tried to do our best to beautify and care for his grave and to honor him when we're there.

02:19:52.100 And it's, you know, we're we stand ready for any of our people that want to have their remains interred at that Hof.

02:20:02.120 uh we're ready for that at Baldr's Hoff as well should that occur um at York's Hoff we have a

02:20:09.480 a member and then we have um a member's a member's mother and at uh Sigerheim

02:20:16.800 we inherited a graveyard with 13 uh 13 people already interned there all right good night

02:20:27.140 i love you anyways so we had 13 there and then um i buried my mom's ashes there as well so having

02:20:39.620 the remains of our folk and our loved ones at these at these holy places really enhances the uh

02:20:50.660 the power of the place and more than that it speaks to the commitment i talked about earlier

02:20:56.580 Once we get a Hoff, we're not going anywhere. That's, that's holy ground for us and not something that we're willing to, to part with easily. Um, once it's our space and we put our loved ones in the ground there, that's, you know, that's ours.

02:21:20.760 so we need to maintain it and take care of it into the future and we have to be well prepared

02:21:25.880 for that so that's a big step too that we have people that um you know every year we have

02:21:37.640 lots and lots of babies uh that are welcomed in to our house true folk assembly that we perform

02:21:46.040 uh asuvatni for which is our baby naming ceremony we have marriages in the afa

02:21:56.360 and we see our folk all the way through we help them we care for them and then we have a place

02:22:01.720 so that they're with us um eternally when they pass away so the timelessness of the institution

02:22:11.880 that is the austro folk assembly is extremely important to us and that factors into all of

02:22:18.280 our decisions on how we do what we do because we have a tremendous responsibility and so it's 0.98

02:22:25.400 really important we make a decision on off and that kind of all factors in um

02:22:33.640 another uh another couple things over on the side

02:22:41.880 If there is a deviled eggs competition, you guys need to mail me one or several, because they're delicious.

02:22:56.440 All right.

02:22:58.060 Looks like we've got...

02:23:06.680 So here's another thing, and I suppose this is the time, and I brought down the mood and didn't mean to.

02:23:11.880 But I want to mention this because it's really important.

02:23:17.880 Get your will done.

02:23:19.940 So I have pushed this a lot and I will continue to do so.

02:23:26.500 Make a will.

02:23:28.020 We have found a resource.

02:23:29.760 If you are in the United States and several other places, get your will done.

02:23:37.500 DoYourOwnWill.com.

02:23:40.000 It's legit.

02:23:40.920 our law speakers looked it over it's legally binding it's a completely legitimate deal

02:23:46.120 it's free there is no reason and no excuse not to have your will done no matter how old you are

02:23:52.440 stuff happens get your will done and once you have it done get two notarized copies one for

02:24:02.760 however you're doing with you but send in a original notarized copy to our law speaker

02:24:09.240 alan turnage so we can make sure you get what you want as far as the treatment of your remains

02:24:16.520 and the you know settling of your final affairs it's we there's no ulterior motive there's nothing

02:24:27.720 sketchy this is legit it's legally binding our law speaker is an actual attorney we want to help

02:24:35.320 you have what you want done known a number of our folk i've known some who are old men

02:24:42.280 with terminal diseases that didn't have their stuff taken care of and i've known a lot of young

02:24:48.120 folks who didn't imagine something would happen to them that didn't get what they wanted when

02:24:55.000 they passed because they did not have a will or if they did they did not have it with someone who

02:25:01.080 could make sure that their wishes were advocated for and we want that for all of you so do this

02:25:11.400 send it to allen make sure it happens um we had one of our members very much on the team everything

02:25:25.080 you know he's all on board made his wishes really clear well his parents had converted to judaism

02:25:34.840 and his remains now rest in a in a jewish cemetery and i know that's very

02:25:41.400 askew from what he would have wanted but unfortunately he didn't have a will taken care of

02:25:46.920 so get your will done I say that I promise you I used this service to get my will done

02:25:58.200 and I had it with Alan it's not something I'd ask you to do if I wasn't willing to do it myself

02:26:02.940 um with that that is that is the questions uh Nick claims he's done it too I'll have to check

02:26:15.240 with our law speaker and make sure he hasn't registered with him um no good i'm glad you've

02:26:20.740 done that uh he claims alan has a copy we'll see no nick that's awesome i'm glad that you did i

02:26:26.160 wish more people would because it's far fewer than than i would like um no thank you guys so

02:26:32.100 much for joining us tonight thank you guys you know even more for taking care of our sacred

02:26:40.180 that you guys are stewards of and appreciate all that you do.

02:26:46.180 Thank you for being here and thank you for being awesome.

02:26:50.180 Also, thank you to our audience.

02:26:52.180 You guys are fantastic.

02:26:54.180 Been a nice time sharing it with you this evening.

02:26:57.180 Join us next week as Svon and I will continue our ETA study.

02:27:09.180 study and um yeah I think we're going over the uh

02:27:21.900 volunderskvida so the the lay of voland um

02:27:30.780 we'll be doing that a week from today so we'd love to see you there

02:27:34.780 if you can get out to frayers harvest feast it's going to be fantastic i am looking forward to it

02:27:42.560 it's going to be a really cool thing for our folk up in montana if you can make it there

02:27:48.360 it's awesome we have one guy i know coming in from

02:27:52.980 uh north carolina so we got people from far afield you don't just have to be in the pacific

02:28:01.220 Northwest to make it there.

02:28:03.240 But yeah, we'd love to see you guys there if you can get there.

02:28:05.600 If not, I'll talk to you.

02:28:07.040 Well, I suppose I still got time, so I'll talk to you all next week.

02:28:11.660 Until then, hail the Eysir, hail the folk, hail the AFA, and remember, victory never

02:28:19.280 sleeps.

02:28:31.220 We'll be right back.

02:29:01.220 We'll be right back.

02:29:31.220 We'll be right back.

02:30:01.220 Thank you.

02:30:31.220 We'll be right back.

02:31:01.220 We'll be right back.

Asatru Folk Assembly - August 29, 2024

8⧸28⧸24 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 112 - Njörðshof Edition

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