00:10:43.600I thought I was having a stroke or perhaps some sort of diabetic episode because I do have type 2 diabetes.
00:10:50.460And within a minute or two, we were jumping in the van and headed down to the local ER.
00:10:56.940I only live about a block from the local hospital.
00:10:59.980And I go to the front desk, and there's another guy standing there arguing with the lady at the desk.
00:11:07.240And I remember kind of firmly asking him to get out of the way because I remember telling the lady at the desk that, you know, I need help.
00:24:52.560I want everybody to take from what I'm saying.
00:24:55.680You know, if you take one thing from what I'm saying is do your best to take care of yourself, you know, get your blood work checked.
00:25:01.820you know check check the cholesterols and a1c levels and all the stuff that you're supposed
00:25:05.900to check and if those things are out of sorts or whatever get it fixed um i pick on matt because
00:25:14.860matt eats like a like a like a like a monster uh and i then i told him the other day i said
00:25:22.540every time you eat a donut or uh or an ice cream sandwich you're slapping me in the face
00:25:26.860and while i'm saying this from now on every time i see you i'm gonna get a box of ice cream
00:25:32.800sandwiches and just mean mug you while i mount them down right uh but i want everybody to take
00:25:40.900their health very seriously uh in a 24-hour period i was literally staring to death in the eye and
00:25:49.080And it's shocking of how little time I actually had.
00:25:57.580And thankfully, my wife thought fast and the medical professionals that I went and gave myself over to did their work and did it good and did an exceptional job.
00:26:10.760And they did it fast. So, yeah, make sure you're taking care of yourself.
00:26:16.100uh make sure you have a will if you don't have a will you need to get it done if you've done a
00:26:22.260will and you haven't sent it to alan turnage then you don't have where's that link for us
00:26:27.060throw that link up for us mr nick so that's a good segue daniel um
00:26:34.260joking aside it's a really important issue um i'm very thankful that daniel didn't
00:26:42.740have need of this but he was really close to needing it and we also had a member that we
00:26:50.720celebrated a little while back but his funeral was this last weekend um
00:26:54.800getting your will done is super important daniel's not an old guy a little bit older than me but
00:27:03.680like what a year older than me um yeah i think so uh the member that whose funeral it was michael
00:27:11.120on he was what 30 um died in a motorcycle accident stuff happens um get your will done get your will
00:27:20.880done and send a um an original copy meaning fill out two in the original black ink so one's not a
00:27:31.680photocopy fill out two originals keep one and send one or however many originals you want but at least
00:27:38.800to and send one of those to uh our law speaker alan turnage for a number of reasons the biggest
00:27:47.440we want to make sure we can help you get what you want with your body with your any funeral services
00:27:54.320you want with your assets we want your will literally to be done out of respect to you and
00:28:02.240those you know those you leave behind so please make sure you do that it's really important and
00:28:06.480And I've seen too many people not have that.
00:31:29.180And to that degree, there are certain parts of the soul complex that are automated and can do their own thing without you having to be in the driver's seat sometime.
00:31:39.620And that's what I talked about, about, you know, throwing curses and, you know, maybe people have defenses they don't know they're using.
00:31:47.760But this is kind of an example of the thing we were talking about.
00:31:54.060So I wanted to kind of place an emphasis on some stuff, too, when it comes to physical excellence and and maintain your physical health.
00:32:04.160and this isn't a crack at the big man on the screen with me but it's not always about lifting
00:32:09.860weights it's not always about getting big it's uh it's also about you know training yourself to be
00:32:16.480athletic you know cardiovascular training has its place it uh it helps with insulin resistance
00:32:23.740it helps with cardiovascular health um you know well for years i was uh well i say for years when
00:32:30.580And when I was a teenager, middle and high school, I played point guard on a high school basketball team.
00:32:37.420And I met Heather not long after that.
00:32:40.300At the time when I met and married my wife, which was in a six-month period, I met her in November of 96.
00:32:51.360But I weighed 130 pounds, and I was maybe 6% body fat at the time.
00:32:57.720but i could run all day i could eat whatever the hell i wanted uh i did it used to be we would do
00:33:05.62060 minute half court uh sprints when i was uh at that age of course i'm definitely not doing that
00:33:12.660kind of thing now uh but yeah don't just place emphasis on aesthetics you know place emphasis
00:33:19.320on you know overall health aesthetics do matter beauty does matter and we recognize and admire
00:33:24.620beauty, but that's not the, that's not the end of it. Here's one of the cool things about it is
00:33:30.740depending on what you like to do, there is so much that you can do. Chances are most all of us
00:33:37.360listening to this program. If you go in there trying to lift weights to be bigger and stronger,
00:33:42.180you will get healthier. If you go in there to try to be an endurance athlete, you will get
00:33:47.860healthier. If you go in there trying to pursue anything and you stick to it, chances are you'll
00:33:53.140be healthier than where you're at now. And it's really good to encourage everybody to do that.
00:33:56.780It's kind of a side note. We have our newest AFA Goethe, Nate Erlandson up in Minnesota,
00:34:05.060just got done doing an endurance bicycle race. You know, he's really into doing that the past
00:34:10.440few years and he's got done doing one of those this last weekend. So a lot of options on stuff
00:34:17.580to do to help get in better shape. And we should always encourage each other to do what we can on
00:34:22.620that and now half an hour into our program because i don't want to shortchange the meister
00:34:28.860and i don't want to give you any more time to stall on this so those of you that may not know um
00:34:34.300we had a had a scheduling thing so daniel picked up this topic at the last minute and volunteered to
00:34:39.980come on and talk to you all about meister von list and without further ado please assume that
00:34:46.060our audience has never heard of him before and tell us a little bit about meister von list and
00:34:51.340the world that he existed in sure now you'll have to forgive me i'll be glancing off camera a few
00:34:59.420times i took pretty extensive notes and uh for everybody's reference um my primary source on
00:35:05.980this was uh the biography that uh dr stephen flowers does at the uh at the beginning of the
00:35:12.780secret of the runes which are in which uh dr flowers translated so if some of this sounds
00:35:18.460familiar that's where it came from and uh so yeah he was born uh guido carl anton list in vienna
00:35:27.180uh october the 5th of 1848 two parents uh his father's name was carl august and his mother was
00:35:33.900maria list uh they were his father was a prosperous leather goods dealer and we can assume that uh
00:35:41.420that Guido grew up in a fairly comfortable life. They were devoted Catholics, but at a very early
00:35:49.740age he started sketching landscapes of lower Austria and the cityscape of Vienna, which is
00:35:54.860where he was from. And we know this from the sketchbooks that date back as far, date as far
00:36:01.340back as 1863, and they were actually published much later in the German mythological landscape scenes
00:36:10.700in 1891. And, you know, despite his artistic and mystical interest, he was expected to follow in
00:36:19.900his father's footsteps and run the family business. And we have no reason to believe that he didn't do
00:36:26.100that dutifully. He took any opportunity to further pursue his passions and interests. And so, yeah,
00:36:32.980He was published in 1891, his sketches work, and in 1892, he writes himself,
00:36:40.200I was then in my 14th year of life when I, after much asking, received permission from my father to accompany him and his party,
00:36:50.320who were planning to visit the catacombs under St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, which were at that time still in their original condition.
00:36:59.320We climbed down, and everything I saw and felt excited me.
00:37:02.980The kind of power that today I'm no longer able to experience.
00:37:07.000Then we came, it was, if I remember correctly, to the third or fourth level, to a ruined altar.
00:37:14.340The guide said that we were now situated beneath the old post office.
00:37:18.700And at that point, my excitement was raised to a fever pitch.
00:37:21.880And before this altar, I rang out loud the ceremonial vow.
00:37:26.200Quote, whenever I get big, I will build a temple of Wotan, unquote.
00:37:32.520as a few members of the party said, that a child should not belong in such a place.
00:37:37.380I knew nothing more about Wotan than that which I had read about him.
00:37:43.880So that was an interesting quote that I want everybody to kind of hold on to,
00:37:48.780because it's going to kind of segue into Meister von List's position at Odinshof.
00:37:54.560so from 1870 to 1877 this is when uh in the secret of the ruins of the violin there called
00:38:05.120this uh stage of his life when he was the mystic wanderer he took many business trips that also
00:38:12.600afforded his passion for hiking and mountaineering this seems to have been foundational for his early
00:38:17.940mysticism while it was unclear what underlying mystical tradition he was most familiar with
00:38:23.680Two things from this period are abundantly clear, that he embraced the idea of his native land as being sacred and the idea of nature also being sacred, which he referred to as the All-Mother.
00:38:36.920This was probably motivated by his early passion for Germanic myth and lore.
00:38:45.160His love for mountain nearing nearly cost him his life.
00:38:47.780He was climbing a mountain in May of 1871 when ice gave way and he fell a considerable distance.
00:38:55.560Afterwards, a safety rail and chain system was put in on that mountain, and it was named in his honor.
00:39:05.340Around this time, he was also published in the New German Alpine Paper and became the editor of the yearbook for the Austrian Alpine Association and became a secretary of that organization.
00:39:15.500While at this time he largely pursued a mystic or esoteric path, he would also occasionally perform impromptu group rituals, the most well-known being at the heathen gate in the Roman city of Carpenter.
00:57:27.740But y'all are doing this for the public, right?
00:57:29.740I can learn with you folk. So first, well-meaning people.
00:57:34.740People, yeah, anybody's welcome to consume this podcast, to listen to it, to watch the video, and to come on and ask questions.
00:57:44.340Like I said earlier, even the questions of somebody who's a troll on here can be useful for other people that may have similar questions.
00:57:51.940And any well-meaning question, I mean, I'd love to have Christians, any other kind of folks come on here and ask serious questions because we're very happy to answer them.
00:58:04.740And to go to a completely different person, we got our weekly, good evening, how are you gentlemen doing? I'm doing fantastic. Doing pretty good all around.
00:58:20.240I am feeling, feeling old because I had a invitation only jujitsu black belt session this last Saturday.
00:58:31.740And yes, I said Saturday. It's Wednesday and I'm sore and I'm still hurting and I'm still feeling it.
00:58:38.700I can't find a position at night to sleep in that's comfortable. But honestly, I'm doing great.
00:58:43.920I look forward to doing this every week and I'm able to be here and talk with you all fine people.
00:58:48.620and one of my very best friends, Witten Daniels, so I'm doing all right. Daniel, how you doing?
00:58:54.780I touched on earlier, and if I had to say it in a single word, it would be grateful. That's how I'm
00:58:59.960going. There you go. I'm back to the troll. I think this is the last one, and this is one
00:59:08.780that's important. I was actually thinking about this on the way home from the gym today.
00:59:11.700uh what's the relative value proposition in joining the afa the troth is only 25 bucks a
00:59:20.600year and they're great also wrong yeah first they're not great they're awful um
00:59:27.580secondly and this is a little bit of semantics but they're important
00:59:35.100very often people save value when they mean money and monetary
00:59:48.340exchange like goods for goods and services for funds
00:59:53.500there's not that's not what we're doing here this isn't a transactional thing
01:00:00.520that's not how this is set up you are not buying something for your membership dues
01:00:06.520your membership in the afa and this is why we've tried really hard to transition from a
01:00:12.280membership dues model to a percentage giving model which is our hoff toller
01:00:17.480for those of you that may not know in the past
01:00:22.920three or four years the afa has been doing the hoff toller which is a minimum of one percent
01:00:29.560now there's people that give you know i think the highest i've seen is 10 of their income
01:00:34.680to the astro folk assembly but giving a percentage of your income is much more
01:00:39.560donating to your church than paying a flat fee every month um it's how we've been set up since
01:00:48.280you know since this was founded by i was harry goethe mcnalen back in 1995 and it's the way the
01:00:55.080the lights still stay on, but we're very much trying to move towards that model so people get
01:01:01.260that whole idea out of their head. You're not buying something for your membership dues.
01:01:06.360You're donating to your church. You're donating to your gods. You're donating to us as stewards
01:01:12.380of those funds for the gods in the trust that we will use those to further the mission of the AFA
01:01:20.380and to further the worship and glorification of our gods and if you are looking at well what do
01:01:27.280I get for my money certainly there is a value to it because our gods appreciate your gifts
01:01:35.020those of us in the AFA who are part of the AFA family that you're joining appreciate your
01:01:42.900participation in that, you get all kind of benefit in that sense. But in sense of what does the AFA
01:01:50.480owe you for your 25 bucks or your 10 bucks? Absolutely nothing. If that's the way that you
01:01:55.440want to look at it, please do not join. If that's the mindset, it's very wrongheaded. It's not what
01:02:01.480we're doing here. We're engaged in worshiping the gods and doing things to glorify them and to
01:02:06.620spread our faith, not to provide goods and services for money that's not, we're priests,
01:02:15.080we're not merchants. And just to add further comment, our sitting also here in Argothie
01:02:23.020does an amazing job of using those funds in the best way possible. He's continued to grow our
01:02:31.720church uh by establishing more physical locations in which we gather for worship and he's done an
01:02:40.680amazing job with that i mean they're not just existing they are also thriving well i appreciate
01:02:45.900you saying so um and the trope of gay that's well and that's that's the other thing um if they even
01:02:59.840exist do they that they exist anymore well so here's here's the thing existing
01:03:07.200existing becomes esoteric when you deal with that subject because
01:03:12.400i mean i think technically on paper somewhere uh they have virtual troth moots now that are a
01:03:20.960rogues gallery of very unhealthy people physically and mentally um
01:03:29.840um we had a there was a member that that kind of snuck into their their troth mood that they
01:03:39.920had a few years back and it was it started out funny to see the just very
01:03:49.520like glowing with mental illness people on the screen
01:03:56.700but it very quickly moved from funny to just being very sad and tragic and so I think that
01:04:05.700they exist in a way but I think they're very very unhealthy I don't believe they do things in real
01:04:10.360life in any way and last I checked most of their high read which is their you know their leadership
01:04:19.380are people who, and I use the term loosely, who are various other things and also claim
01:04:31.300to be some form of heathen, Germanic, pagan, something along with their Wiccan high priestess
01:04:39.100ship that they hold and their various other strange and degenerate things that they're
01:04:46.240a part of. I think over 50% of their leadership is actively homosexual. I know that, you know,
01:04:55.780last I checked, at least a quarter were not our folk. Yeah, it's a very, it's a very messed up
01:05:06.980organization. And if, if the thought of being part of the, if you were trying to decide whether
01:05:11.700to be in the AFA or the Trove, by all means, go join the Trove. If that's, if that's even a
01:05:16.740question, if you see the both of us and you question, then this is clearly not the place
01:05:23.800that you're ready to be. If you want to make changes and get involved in something better,
01:05:30.260then we would love to have you as long as you're eligible for membership.
01:05:34.380But what we do and what they do isn't remotely related.
01:05:41.700the next question. First, I'm glad you're okay, Mr. Daniel. You made it to see your grandson's
01:05:52.280birth. Why do you think it was Svon's hammer and not his philia that came to you in the hospital
01:06:00.620Well, that conversation, or I'm sorry, that realization happened during my conversation with us on a day or two later, whenever we did, we did talk and we talked on the phone for two hours that day.
01:06:28.160But there exists, beyond our understanding, forces that I don't think we'll ever quite fully understand.
01:06:38.360And I actually brought that same question up.
01:06:40.600You know, Spawn, do you think it could have been your field gear or maybe it was mine?
01:06:43.760And it just, you know, appeared in the form of a familiar and dear friend.
01:06:50.260And that very well could have been the case, but Svon's retort to whether or not it was Svon's filgia is that it's rare for a filgia to appear in the form of a living person, according to him.
01:07:03.060And he is much more educated in that field than I am.
01:07:07.560And I'm okay with not knowing what, not fully understanding.
01:07:11.300What I do know is that I came away from it very comforted.
01:07:15.340And through that, my family was also comforted.
01:07:18.440and strange thing about this one i'm now i'm close to spawn but i'm not as close to spawn as i am to
01:07:27.140some other people uh i look up to spawn in almost like a big brother way even though he's only a
01:07:35.540couple months older than i am but i look up to him uh on a personal level and on and and a priestly
01:07:43.060level like if if they had asked me if i wanted a priest to come and perform rites you know for me
01:07:50.740because i was going to die uh if i were pressed you know of course i would say matt's my priest
01:07:57.860but on the like more local or regional level uh spawn has filled that role for me and my family
01:08:03.780for a very long time since, you know, since we rejoined the AFA in 20 years on my primary
01:29:40.820every innovation in our faith happened because some guy somewhere decided this is this and that's
01:29:51.900that and like daniel said if it was some viking dude in the way back then we would all ooh and
01:30:00.840ah over it and talk about how profound it is but when it's some someone more you know close to our
01:30:07.980time, then we become immediately much more distrustful of it. I think that's natural. I
01:30:14.700think we all have that tendency in us. But, you know, play that out in your head. In our ancestors
01:30:22.760day, at what point did Odin ride down on Sleipnir and go up to some ancient Gothi or ancient
01:30:32.280vidki and hand him a bag of carved sticks and said here you go here's the runes i don't think
01:30:40.200any of us seriously think that that event ever happened exactly like that what probably happened
01:30:48.040was learned spiritually devoted ancestors of ours gothar of their day
01:30:55.560had inspiration had a vision had a dream went through some kind of trial went through some
01:31:04.480kind of you know hardship in their life and emerged from it like hey there's you know i've
01:31:10.140got this idea i i have this thing in my mind that i've got to get out
01:31:14.240But if you took, you know, Viking guy or shoot caveman guy from from that, and all of a sudden something happened and he wakes up and he can't see for a year.
01:31:32.240And then miraculously, he can see again.
01:31:35.160And he says, hey, and when I was blind, the gods gave me this this thing.
01:31:41.220So we would now ooh and ah over it. Just because it happened 100 years ago doesn't make it any less legitimate than something that happened 1,000 years ago or 10,000 years ago.
01:31:55.900And so I very much, very strongly believe in Meister von List and his runic visions.
01:32:03.460Like I said, his speculations about what ancient Germanic religious practice was like are just not accurate.
01:32:13.980A lot of his understandings were incomplete.
01:32:16.540He was working with information that's very much incomplete compared to ours today.
01:32:22.360As I really hope in the future, we have even a more complete set of information.
01:32:27.160I mean, we have fragments now, but his spiritual understanding of those runes and their relationship to the runatal that stood the test of time, it sparked the runic reawakening.
01:32:43.620I really doubt that Svan and I would every other week be having shows about the runes right now if Meister von List hadn't received that vision from the Allfather and started that into motion.
01:32:54.640Up until the 1980s, the Arminen runes were the runes that anyone practiced.
01:33:03.320Dr. Flowers, who is responsible for, you know, 90 some percent of our modern runic practice,
01:33:11.420he was originally going to write his Futhark book about the Arminen runes until well into
01:33:16.740the writing process, he became familiar with the Elder Futhark and chose to go that route.
01:33:23.300But the Arminen runes are what awoke our folk to the runes, to their heritage, and what esoteric runology was entirely based upon until, like I said, the 1980s.
01:33:37.300um patricia hall the githya that we've talked about that performed that really powerful dsir
01:33:46.880bloke some a woman that i am completely you know in awe of and look up to spiritually
01:33:53.380she was taught the armen and ruins by her grandfather who was was born in germany
01:34:02.080in the way back, and she, you know, she's probably well into her 70s today, and so her grandfather
01:34:14.000was, you know, a contemporary, his life probably overlapped with Meister von List, and those rooms
01:34:20.220were carved subtly into, you know, the underside and the joints that weren't exposed of her crib
01:34:27.820and something that was practiced in her home and that set her on this path and so, so many people.
01:34:35.780So I absolutely believe in the power of Von List, his vision of the runes. I think that's
01:34:42.300absolutely legitimate. And again, I was like you, I thought it was BS at first too, because like I
01:34:48.000said, I wasn't ready for it. Sometimes when we think things are completely nuts, it's because
01:34:53.720we're not ready to fully understand them yet i found that a number of times in my life
01:34:59.800i think a lot of times the things we think are nuts are actually nuts but there is uh there's
01:35:04.840exceptions and meister von list and his his room work is certainly one of those in my own life
01:35:11.560i think we can also draw parallels too that uh you know modern houses would we be where
01:35:16.600we're at with not if not for the inspiration that uh our founder father stephen mcnalen had
01:35:21.960from using himself you know that's something i ponder and who's to say yeah you know i think
01:35:27.960that our gods if they tried with someone and it didn't work hopefully they would keep trying until
01:35:35.080it did right um would it look the same way it does i don't know would we be as far along as we are
01:35:43.880Probably not. I think that it's a combination of very, very special men and our gods recognizing. Again, I come back to this cheesy New Age namaste thing, but the idea of the divine element in a person recognizing the divine element in another person is really at the core of a lot of this.
01:36:10.880our gods recognizing something special in the souls of men that they have looked favorably
01:36:18.180upon to be our heroes and to inspire and to give their blessings to that combination
01:36:26.080is what's brought us to where we are and what's going to bring us to really beautiful places in
01:36:32.880future uh next question i tried to buy the spear by mcnallen but the site didn't work fully
01:36:43.840couldn't choose the state where i can buy the book that will work uh i couldn't choose
01:36:51.200couldn't choose state where can i buy the where can i buy this book that will work
01:36:55.680i don't know steve's website and that's all run separately i talked to sheila about getting the
01:37:04.160spear on our site the way they're doing their publishing
01:37:08.820and i don't want to over speak and i don't know all the details on it but the way they're doing
01:37:16.980their publishing i would love to carry it on our site and i think that we will end up doing that
01:37:22.600we're just trying to figure out the way that's going to benefit Steve the most. If Steve makes
01:37:29.020more money off of it, everyone just buying from his site, then we will just push all the traffic
01:37:35.360there. I want him to have the maximum benefit for his work and the book that he's written.
01:37:43.260If it will benefit him economically for us to sell it as well, we would love to. Absolutely.
01:37:48.840So we'll see where that goes. I would imagine it'll be on our store shortly. I also imagine
01:37:54.180anything on their site will get fixed. We will certainly pass on your, you know, mentioning
01:38:01.280that that's not working and hopefully they can get that fixed on the back end. Okay. So
01:38:10.000mattflavell at runestone.org. If you don't get this figured out, bug me on there and I'll make
01:38:17.820sure you get taken care of and it gets figured out for you, okay? Next question.
01:38:32.440Okay, so similar to the question that we've answered, but I think it's worth restating.
01:38:36.940Question. Are we to really take Guido von List seriously? It would seem that these runes were
01:38:43.860revealed to him which strikes me as odd
01:44:12.440If you are 20 and you want to join the AFA, but you've been super woke for your teenage years.
01:44:21.600Unfortunately, I think that's probably very common amongst our young people.
01:44:25.700They are bombarded literally since the day of their birth with messages that try to lead them away from what's right, good and noble.
01:44:38.100So we're going to get a lot of folks that have seen and been involved with the other side of things and that life has red-pilled, for lack of a better term.
01:44:51.960it depends on whether or not they have burnt the ships if they have taken steps that remove them
01:45:03.660from the ability to rejoin us that's very unfortunate but for the good of the community
01:45:08.860they would not be allowed on some things
01:45:12.680if they you know if they have a bunch of kids that are of mixed race
01:45:21.380they wouldn't be allowed to join the afa if they
01:45:25.820were young men that chose to be homosexuals and then they regret it and want to not be
01:45:35.800we wouldn't allow those people into the australia folk assembly um
01:45:40.920you know some of those things with the sex changes and stuff to that degree are just going to make
01:45:48.760that not a possibility. If it's just a matter of ideology and they finally, you know, got their
01:45:56.020head right because they grew up and saw how life was, we welcome those people. And we have a lot
01:46:00.920of those people that have joined the AFA and really grown with us. And we want to bring all
01:46:09.380our folk home, all of them that are eligible to come home. We want to bring those people in.
01:46:15.140And we look forward to all of these people that have been led astray by the woke nonsense out there.
01:46:21.540We want that light bulb to go off and for them to come back home, assuming they haven't already crossed lines that they can't uncross.
01:46:31.920So, yes, those people would be allowed in with with a few exceptions.
01:46:37.080What are your thoughts on that, Daniel?
01:46:39.640Well, that's the thing. I think Matt touched on it much more eloquently than I can.
01:46:43.860that assuming all things are equal and and to be clear in the austral folk assembly we don't
01:46:48.500believe in equality a lot of these things be taken by at a case-by-case basis um you know
01:46:56.260matt gave some uh some examples that are uh pretty poignant but i think i think matt touched on
01:47:04.660something about the um you know if someone in their 20s were woke and decided to turn this uh
01:47:11.300turn their lives around woke to a 20 year old now versus woke when i was in my 20s is two very
01:47:17.620different things um well i grew up in the rural south i've always been aware of differences
01:47:24.100between different peoples uh culturally and otherwise uh but in the past as i understand it
01:47:33.140uh universalist also true um existed more like a there was kind of a live and let live ideology
01:47:44.820and as the woke ideology has has accelerated into into more degeneracy uh there's been a much bigger
01:47:53.140gulf between the two ideas um so in the past it was the universalist would just accept someone
01:48:02.740who happened to be a African tranny alien Viking, now it's almost encouraged that they be a trans
01:48:10.900African alien Viking and that they're celebrating as heroes. And to touch on the homosexual question,
01:48:18.180particularly when it comes to men, I think it needs to be stated that a lot of that happens
01:48:25.860as a result of abuse, and that can sometimes devolve into a mental illness that, you know,
01:48:37.800we certainly can't cure, and once that abuse happens and a man turns that way,
01:48:43.820it's more often male homosexuals that become predatory rather than females.
01:48:50.340So, unfortunately, I don't want to make it silly, but it's self-replicating, the homosexual thing in men very often.
01:49:20.340The homosexuals that I've known in my life that are open and honest enough with me to have that conversation, it's been pretty much 100% that they trace, that they were victims of homosexual sexual molestation as children.
01:49:45.880um if that has happened to the point where they have chosen to make that a lifestyle
01:49:54.440that is a strange thing about that type of trauma but it it's self-replicating
01:50:05.240um and it's passed on by the people who were once victims they very often victimize uh victimize
01:50:13.800others. And I don't claim that every male homosexual is going to molest kids. I don't
01:50:24.320pretend that's the case. But the odds of them doing it is astronomically higher than anyone
01:50:31.960else. And it is so high that we can't have them around our children. And that's just
01:50:38.160kind of the truth of a very unfortunate situation um looking at our questions here and you guys have
01:50:47.360had some good questions tonight i appreciate that is stephen flowers folkish i hear some say he's
01:50:55.920folkish uh and he even translated some of guido's books but he was one of the founders of the troth
01:51:03.680which is universalist so a couple couple things
01:51:22.880my understanding and he and i aren't aren't buddies like we don't communicate that way but of the
01:51:30.240things that i've read and of my understanding and my talks with people who do know him he's not woke
01:51:35.760either um originally when the troth was founded and i this is an important point too and i something
01:51:44.240i want to talk about and it kind of leaves us leads us outside of the the realm of this question
01:51:48.960But. No, originally, the troth wasn't this super woke, universalist engine of degeneracy that it is now.
01:52:03.160When it was founded, it was for more of an esoteric and a scholarly practice of Alcetru.
01:52:10.220It was OK. So history, when the Alcetru Free Assembly, that was Steve McNallan's organization that he founded.
01:52:17.860When he dissolved the Austro Free Assembly and took his walk in Midgard to collect himself, that Free Assembly broke into two groups.
01:52:35.540The Ausatru Alliance, which was very folkish and all about ritual and group practice, whereas the Troth, the Ring of Troth at the time, was Edred's group for esoterics and more of a scholarly think tank kind of approach to things.
01:52:58.600Now, very, you know, very rapidly, because both of those organizations were democratic in their organization. So democracy has a tendency to devolve things very quickly and to radically move them away from what their foundational points were.
01:53:19.440So very quickly, Edred and those he founded the Ring of Troth with were voted out of the Ring of Troth and kicked out of the organization they founded.
01:53:30.220And from that point until today, they have almost been in a competition with one another to see how how woke they can be.
01:53:42.640And those of you that may have witnessed this in the world around us, you can never be woke enough.
01:53:50.860So they constantly are eating each other because they're not quite as all encompassing in their wokeness as the guy next to them.
01:54:00.220And that cycle has continued and ramped up their intensity over the last 30 years.
01:54:06.040but no when i'll say that dr flowers isn't focused he gets that a lot of our faith is ethnic
01:54:14.340and that most of the people who should practice house the true are are ethnically white people
01:54:20.880and he gets that he just doesn't draw a hard line on it like the rest of us might
01:54:27.340But yeah, he understands the Volkish movement. He understands Volkish Ausatru. The Ausatru Free
01:54:40.440Assembly was certainly a Volkish organization, which he was a part of, in which he actually
01:54:44.500received his Gothic ordination from Steve McNallan in the Ausatru Free Assembly.
01:54:54.180Now, over time, he's had a lot of different events in his life and things he's been involved in.
01:55:00.880And I certainly don't hold him up as some kind of great folkish icon, but he's certainly not as woke as the troth.
01:55:09.420You know, he's nowhere near what the troth is.
01:55:50.600Not at all. So the thing that I wanted to mention was kind of the inherent.
01:55:57.680A number of people, especially because we live in a world where the standard practice is voting and democracy, and that's very.
01:56:13.840That's celebrated as a value in and of itself in the Western world.
01:56:17.320So we do not feel that that is a value in the House True Folk Assembly. And it's one of the reasons that I want people to understand why that we are a, we are a theocratic autocracy.
01:56:31.580And that is because it's a whole lot better to find good, find and try to cultivate and maintain good leaders than it is to get the majority of people to be of an elevated stature to where the majority can rule things effectively.
01:56:56.560We've seen democracy kill all of the good things that have tried to be started in House of True in its early stages.
01:57:06.040They're choked out in the womb. We see that all the time.
01:57:11.260Mob rule doesn't help. And what we saw really recently, and the reason I bring it up today, the House of True Alliance, who I mentioned, they were very, very folkish.
01:57:20.980They were an extremely folkish organization for a time, and their leadership was extremely
01:57:27.860But because they are really excited about having the assembly, the thing, and having
01:57:33.140voting, they very recently completely disavowed anything folkish, disavowed their foundational
01:57:41.240principles and all of those things, and they went completely and totally woke.
01:57:45.320um it was really shocking to read their declaration of cuckoldry and wokeness
01:57:53.760um it was shocking and disgusting um the guy that is their current quote unquote alas harry
01:58:02.020gothi used to be an afa member and told me to my face that what i was doing was great and he
01:58:10.020agreed with everything i was doing and everything the afa was doing he was in complete agreement
01:58:14.800And as of issuing that statement, he signed his name to the complete disavowal of all those things that he knows to be true and right in order to bow down before the woke society.
01:58:30.340And it is a shocking act of cowardice, and it's just disgusting.
01:58:36.080But that's what happens. And it's one of the reasons that we are so adamant about our disavowal of equality and our hierarchical structure that we have.
01:58:51.800It's really important to us because it preserves the integrity of what we're doing.
01:58:55.540And I realized that sitting in my position, that is very easy for me to say, but it's something I've always believed, believed since I was a kid.
01:59:06.460It's the way the AFA has always functioned since the AFA was founded in 1995.
01:59:11.840And according to a kid I went to school with, Kevin Heideck, who jokingly named me Monarchy Matt in world history class.
01:59:21.520It is something that I believed way back then in ninth grade.
01:59:25.240so it is something that we believe in it's one of the things that helps keep us from
01:59:33.080bowing into mob rule and to cucking out to the wall to the world crowd uh
01:59:42.840you have anything to add on that daniel just kind of co-signing what you just said really i mean we
01:59:50.040operate as the theocratic monarchy as it were i think what it does do uh the way that our
01:59:55.960hierarchical structure is set up is it it keeps the uh the goals the same the goals don't change
02:00:02.120i think our ideals don't shift and and one quick note on democracy and then i'll have said all i
02:00:09.160need to is keep in mind that austro was killed by democracy by democracy uh in the year was it
02:00:17.6401,000, I believe, in Iceland, they voted out the gods. Viking warpers that want to celebrate the
02:00:24.900all thing, the all thing officially disavowed our gods. Yes. So people would keep that in mind.
02:00:33.220And a lot of people hear these terms that we're using when we're talking about theocratic
02:00:38.140autocracy and monarchy. And a lot of times they equate that to tyranny of some sort. You know,
02:00:45.500You've got one guy that's just doing things because he wants to.
02:01:40.020I've only been on the Witten for a little while, but at least one case where the Witten asked for a certain thing and Matt did exactly what we asked for.
02:01:48.140And, you know, it wasn't necessarily resistant to it, but he just wanted to understand why we wanted that thing.
02:07:52.560But I think there's a, again, this isn't meant as a personal attack to the person asking the question or the people that have done this.
02:08:04.620There's this idea that, especially in the folkish sphere, that, you know, many of us have biblical names and that we need to reject that and change our names to something that sounds way more Viking.
02:16:24.240um so yeah it's it's one thing to learn about the gods and to study them and it's quite another to
02:16:34.080establish a relationship with them i think the best way to do that is through authentic practice
02:16:38.800and what is authentic practice is the practice that you know brings you closer to the gods and
02:16:44.640closer to your folk i certainly would encourage anybody who is wanting to further their understanding
02:16:51.040to understand that Ausatruz is not found in a book. It's found in the bloat circle.
02:16:57.740Ausatruz is found in action. We are our deeds because it's about what we do rather than what
02:17:02.920we know. As I sit here right now, I am not Swan Harrell. I'm not as educated as he is.
02:17:11.200I'm not as educated as a lot of people are. But I certainly have a deep, deeply rooted,
02:17:17.500intense relationship with our, with our divine beings. I, I, I am closer to knowing them than
02:17:25.500someone who just reads about it. So I would, I would suggest that, uh, next time I'm holding
02:17:32.480something here at the house, you should come join us. Absolutely. Um, there's, if your question
02:17:43.700we're refined to specifics there's tons of different stuff i could advise you to go read
02:17:50.020or whatever but daniel's absolutely right also true is about doing not about knowing
02:17:58.740if you are the greatest scholar in the world on ancient germanic religion
02:18:05.780you are not an outsider you are a scholar and that's cool there's nothing wrong with that but
02:18:11.620it's not a religious practice it's something you're interested in any of us have interests
02:18:18.340that we may know a ton about it doesn't mean we have a religious bond and relationship
02:18:25.060and worship the subject of that interest as gods um also true is fundamentally broken down by the
02:18:37.700gift cycle and the gift cycle is fundamentally building relationships it's offering of yourself
02:18:46.580to our gods and them bestowing something of themselves to you it's us offering of ourselves
02:18:54.020to our folk them offering from themselves to you and your family it's building relationships with
02:19:02.900With the folk, the people who are gathered to practice Ausatru, and with our gods, and with our ancestors and heroes like Meister Von List.
02:21:37.120Well, I mean, it is just him, you know, there's Bret Hart and others.
02:21:40.360Anyway, but we could talk about it, and, you know, we see, like, in the modern presentation of the sport, it looks very rehearsed, and we spot that thing.
02:21:50.780Does that mean that both of us could get into that ring and do better at it?
02:21:54.800No, because we don't have any experience, but we have been casually observing it for decades now.
02:22:00.900I think that applies to a lot of things in life.
02:22:03.400yeah it implies to the the dude that sits in his couch the like 400 pound dude with the jumbo
02:22:10.300reinforced chair because you got to hold him up and he says he talks about football and complains
02:22:16.760about these professional athletes all day every day and he's never been on the field right it's
02:22:21.640all about the man in the arena um see the same thing with mma stuff too like you know you'll
02:22:26.980hear people shouting out you know flip those hips and do this and that you can't do half that
02:25:22.000I got up every time. None of these were three one minute rounds at a local tough man competition. This is not real boxing or real MMA or anything. But I didn't stay down. I kept getting back up and the ref tried to stop the fight twice. And I, no, no, let me at him.
02:25:44.620i made the standing 10 count i was up i made it i went to distance and i was really proud of myself
02:25:54.040because internally this is where it actually relates back to the story internally i didn't
02:25:59.840want to be that guy that sat on the couch and criticized all these other people and then when
02:26:03.620it was my time to show up i didn't live up to all the criticism i'm giving these other guys and
02:26:08.920And that's what made me keep getting up.
02:26:12.180I will be forever grateful to the bouncer, Chip Green, out of Anchorage, Alaska, fighting out of whatever corner he fought out of.
02:29:58.540They don't linguistically work out very well for Galder.
02:30:03.360In my experience, the Elder Futhark runes are the best suited for Galdr and intoning of elongated vowel sounds.
02:30:18.520And I think that's where the real magic of Rune Galdr comes in.
02:30:22.600But I have no reason to believe that Von List used the runes for Galdr practice.
02:30:32.660i assume he used them for divination but i don't know for certain
02:30:38.980um last question for me i swear now i have not mentioned this person's name i assume it's a guy
02:30:52.980and i also assume his name is a po reference but he's been asking a lot of these questions
02:30:58.660um thy raven nevermore uh i appreciate you and i appreciate all your questions tonight
02:31:06.180they have helped elongate this show and make it and made it uh good and interesting
02:31:14.180von list was affiliated with the theosophical society and uh madame helena blavatsky what
02:31:20.820are your thoughts on the book masks of odin i ask because i think that book comes from the
02:31:27.780the Theosophical Society. Daniel, are you familiar with that book? I am not, and I'm not
02:31:36.060terribly familiar with Theosophical Society, although I do know that he was affiliated with
02:31:42.960them. That was actually part of the bio that I crammed on from Secret of the Ruins. But no,
02:31:52.120the mask of odin i'm not familiar with it sorry so i know a lot of people like that i have not read
02:31:58.200that i wish i could give you a better answer on that um random because it's something that always
02:32:11.080comes up when people mention that book i always get it confused with this other book that i do
02:32:15.320like quite a bit is The One-Eyed God. The One-Eyed God is a really good book if you get a chance to
02:32:22.560read it. And I can vouch for that one. I've read it. It's awesome. As far as the one thing that's
02:32:32.600interesting and really kind of fascinating, and it's very easy to look back on it with modern eyes
02:32:40.300and see all the things that are goofy or cheesy or things we know better now than we did then.
02:32:48.460But around the turn of the 20th century there,
02:32:51.960there was such a resurgence of esoteric societies of groups of people that had rejected Christianity largely
02:33:05.560and had tried to rediscover the metaphysical, the esoteric, and their divine birthright.
02:33:16.820And it took so many different shapes and forms.
02:33:21.920Some of those people were luminaries and were heroes on a quest to resurrect our folks.
02:33:31.540So some of them were charlatans trying to make a buck off of conning rich people into believing ridiculous things.
02:33:40.640It's hard to tell where that line was and where it wasn't, especially when it comes to Matt and Blavatsky.
02:33:45.560I think in my understanding, I tend to associate her a lot with the trend of seances at the time.
02:34:07.760And I think especially where women are concerned, the idea of reaching out beyond the veil and bringing those spirits through a medium into our world, there's absolutely something to it.
02:41:38.560I have done the runic poses or the stava of runes.
02:41:44.460But I know that our founder is, you know, he does the runic yoga, and that's all I know about it.
02:41:50.980As far as, like, a runic martial art, the martial arts stuff, when it comes to, I've been asked about Gleema a few times and things of that nature.
02:42:05.140I don't know how any of those things apply to modern needs of hand-to-hand combat.
02:42:10.320So I've never heard of any runic martial arts.
02:42:33.120So I want to separate these two things.
02:42:36.740Runic martial arts, I'm going to call BS on.
02:42:43.560That's silly. That was never a thing. That's not effective martial arts.
02:42:53.260I promise you, if you try to use rune martial art, if you use if we're both inside the confines of a steel cage and you want to come at me with stabber and I want to come at you with jujitsu, I will destroy you.
02:43:08.860I promise you. You know what? If Daniel wants to come at you with jujitsu and you want to come at
02:43:14.660him with Stavr, he will destroy you. I promise you that too. Yeah, because it's just an afterthought
02:43:21.200on the thing. Now, this is the caveat though. If the point is doing runic gymnastics or runic yoga
02:43:31.500And the idea is using your poses and your runic stuff for meditation and for energy flow.
02:43:41.480I don't do that. I haven't found that to be meaningful to me.
02:43:47.220But I do know people who do that, that do find it beneficial.
02:43:56.180all right so something that uh Svan and I talk about on our rune shows
02:44:02.720is getting to where you adjust how you see the world through the lens of the runes
02:44:13.360there are a lot of different ways to learn something or to internalize something
02:44:18.880A lot of us do that through reading about it. Maybe you need to read about it and write down
02:44:26.700stuff. The act of just writing it down, even if you never look at your notes, the fact that you
02:44:31.140wrote it down can help internalize it. Some people need to perceive that differently and maybe need
02:44:38.300to put their body into the shape of a room and that helps them internalize that. And that's valid
02:44:44.780and that's good if that helps them um some people do like runic hand signs and they make shapes of
02:44:54.380the runes with their hands and that helps them incorporate the runes into their world view and
02:45:01.740how they see things and see through that lens if this is going to help that then it's great
02:45:07.660and it's a really good thing for you to do it's not what works for me it's not what helps me to
02:45:15.580understand the runes better but if it works for you that's great i know i know a couple of people
02:45:22.060that really like runic yoga work and all right so book recommendation that's completely random
02:45:30.940and not about runic yoga is the yoga of power by julius yeah and i there is a method to my madness
02:45:43.260bear with me um it is one of the books that a lot of people criticize from evola it's also
02:45:52.300one of my favorite books that i read from them um and i think it comes in the title
02:45:58.700because yoga isn't yoga does not equal soccer mom stretchy poses that is one way of doing yoga
02:46:12.020but that's not what yoga means the physical form yoga is one style of yoga practice
02:46:23.080Just sitting and doing a certain breath pattern is a different style of yoga practice. Yoga means a lot more than soccer moms doing warrior pose or whatever else. And those are awesome. I'm not criticizing any of that, but it's, it doesn't, it's so much bigger than just that.
02:46:46.140In that sense, runic yoga is more than just, you know, doing the YMCA dance.
02:46:58.700It's about incorporating the energy flow with those practices.
02:47:06.120If you see the diagrams, it's about the flow of energy through your body.
02:47:10.840It's also about internalizing these runic concepts and training yourself to see the world through the lens of the runes, which is essential.
02:47:22.660And if runic yoga helps you do that, by all means, do it all day, every day.
02:47:28.940I have tried it. It doesn't help me at all.
02:47:33.320But I find other ways that do work for me to do that.
02:47:37.780So if this is a way that works for you, absolutely. Please don't think that Stavr is going to protect you from somebody trying to harm you, unless maybe it just completely befuddles them and they don't know what you're up to and so they give up.
02:47:57.320But I do not feel that it is an effective martial art. It is perhaps an effective meditative art.
02:48:07.800i'm looking over at the chat just one last time to check to see if we got anything
02:48:19.640and we don't daniel do you have oh i think we do one just popped up
02:48:26.800uh what books have you read that have been recommended by the chat
02:48:34.040It's a good question. I'm stopping and thinking. Daniel, have you ever have you read any books that are amazing audiences recommended?
02:48:45.200No, but a book that you touched on a little while ago in our conversation, The One-Eyed God by Kershaw.
02:48:54.320That's a phenomenal book. It is another one of those that had I read it early on in my also true journey, I probably would have tossed it.
02:49:04.040Um, but as my, you know, learning through discernment, you know, evolved, that book made much more sense. And it actually came to me at like, almost precisely the right time, like I was precisely ready the minute I read it. And to be, to be honest, too, I don't see a lot of the chat, just from the questions that we've had.
02:49:25.220i have not read any of those books that i can remember from the uh questions but i do want to
02:49:31.160check out that alfred uh avery book uh the armen and marines and the black sun i want to check that
02:49:36.860out so i have and i don't so i i don't think that i've picked up an entire book off of it but i have
02:49:43.580picked up like hey check out these videos check out what this guy says check out this stuff and
02:49:48.800i'm trying to think and off the top of my head it's just not coming to me but i i absolutely
02:49:53.400have. And I know Svahn has as well. There's been a number of things we've been curious about that
02:49:59.080people pop into the chats. I know you're calling me on it and it's hard for me to like, uh-oh,
02:50:07.260Matt doesn't really read our, take our book recommendations. I do on some of this,
02:50:12.000on some of the stuff, on the actual reading of the full book. I haven't on a couple of things
02:50:17.640about the uh i wish i could remember the exact source a couple of things about the um
02:50:28.760oralinda book i have looked into because of suggestions on here there have been a couple
02:50:33.880of things certainly youtube videos and youtube channels that i have looked into from the chat
02:50:40.520on the specifics of them man it's been a little bit i'm constantly trying to consume that stuff
02:50:45.880so it's hard for me to remember there have been some but i don't think there's been like a book
02:50:50.520that i've ordered from it yet but i look forward to the day that happens you guys do have good
02:50:55.560suggestions all right so in the next question last question that has popped up in ron mcvan's
02:51:05.560book creed of iron he associates a god with each day of the week um sunday equals fray monday
02:52:57.000I don't always like that stuff, and it seems a little bit cheesy to me, but that's just me.
02:53:12.780It's like what I said about runic yoga or anything else.
02:53:18.400one thing that early practitioners of modern alsatru did a lot
02:53:26.220was they needed to change every normal thing that anybody does to put a viking coat of paint on it
02:53:35.420and make it you know the alsatru version of it looking back that looks silly at the time
02:53:45.280how much of that silliness, and I'm using the air quotes, but I just realized
02:53:52.380you couldn't see them in my camera. How much of that quote unquote silliness though
02:54:00.160brought us to where we are today? So much of what I mentioned earlier is training yourself
02:54:06.340to see things through an altitude lens, to see things through a runic lens.
02:54:13.100If you are trying to break drastically away from what you've done before and reshape your world to be Ausitru-centric and to reinforce Ausitru with all of the things that you do, some of these things are helpful for that.
02:54:33.820And I think they were helpful for our predecessors who laid the foundations to do that.
02:54:40.500But if, you know, if them, you know, instead of being Bill Smith, need to be Ragnar Odinson and wear a tunic and some chain mail and rename their year to runic year, whatever.
02:55:01.380And if all of that helps them to re-see their existence through the lens of our folk and our gods, that's good.
02:55:15.480And maybe some of that, what seems cringy to some of us, myself included, maybe some of that helped us get where we are today to where I don't need to do that.
02:55:27.980maybe some of the work they put in on doing that has made it to where we don't have to go through
02:55:33.900that phase because they laid that groundwork and if that's the case then you know hats off to them
02:55:41.680thank you for it and i think that's really the the best way to look at that i think you touched
02:55:49.620on something though i think that was a that was possibly what was needed at the time uh to fully
02:55:55.460separate them from uh i hate saying the word trauma like this but you know whatever uh negative
02:56:03.140feelings i had toward christianity and stuff uh so real quick uh i went to an aman marth show if you
02:56:11.860uh back in november and i gotta tell you uh walking in there as an also true let alone being
02:56:20.420an oustry priest, and seeing the guys with the
02:56:24.540Ragnar haircuts, and there were actual guys
02:56:28.340walking around wearing pelts and stuff like that, and it just
02:56:31.440it was so hokey, I found it insulting, and
02:56:36.460I remember commenting to the guy that I went with who's an AFA member
02:56:40.020that, you know, we were the only ones in this building that actually believe in the gods.
02:56:46.160Not that the show wasn't entertaining, but just
02:58:58.500like it physically existed, but I don't think that's existed in almost 30 years now.
02:59:10.600Okay, so all right. Obsidian Skull, question for Matt. Have you seen the Sasquatch people yet? I'm
02:59:18.480not talking about the movie. I'm talking about the real ones. No, I have not seen any Sasquatch
02:59:23.640people on film or in real life. I'm unfamiliar with the Sasquatch people. I've tried to look
02:59:30.580into the Sasquatch people as per your original instructions. I've yet to find them or to learn
02:59:37.320about the Sasquatch people. I would be interested to learn about Sasquatch people because I do find
02:59:43.760it fascinating. And, you know, joking aside, I do find that subject of Sasquatch to be kind of
02:59:50.360interesting um and my wife keeps bothering me about stuff so i will i will answer it she wants
02:59:58.280to know she believes that there's some kind of imminent return of john cena to wrestling and
03:00:03.640wants to know what daniel and i think about the return of the doctor thuganomics um i think that
03:00:09.880if he reappears as the doctor of thuganomics and busts some sick rhymes of people that would be
03:00:15.560entertaining. I think if he comes out as cheesy John Cena that like salutes people and pretends
03:00:21.860he's in the military or whatever, I think that's cheesy and obnoxious and don't like it. But if
03:00:27.000he's got some really slow like rhymes about people, I find that hilarious. And I hearken
03:00:34.060back to 2002 and I find a humorous. Side note, friend of mine at the time drove me down fishing
03:00:41.520and he was he had john cena's rap album that he insisted on listening to in the vehicle on the on
03:00:47.840the trip daniel daniel see daniel doesn't have faith in john cena's rapping abilities honestly
03:00:55.680wasn't as terrible as you would think that it would be some of it was was was all right and
03:01:00.960would stick in your head and kind of does to this day a little bit um guilty pleasure though uh and
03:01:11.520All right. So if you Anna wants to ask, people are going to ask dumb questions and they're going to get an answer that scares them at some point.
03:01:21.120She wants to know, have I ever seen any?
03:01:30.860I know, but let me tell you about the story of the woodsman of Ruby.
03:01:35.240Actually, first, before I do that, Daniel, have you ever encountered a cryptid?
03:01:40.020I have not. And to answer Mandy's question about am I excited about the doctor of thugonomics, I agree with Matt. If he shows up as the doctor of thugonomics, then yeah, I think that's pretty cool. But I've never seen a cryptid. We have a strange cryptid story from the Carolinas, though.
03:01:55.860Word life. Word life. So Woodsman and Ruby. All right. My uncle was a fish and game biologist
03:02:10.660up in Fairbanks, Alaska. And I mean, he was far ranging in the interior of Alaska with his,
03:02:17.360with his job and he worked with this guy and this guy was you know a professional i think he had a
03:02:28.560master's if not more in biology or whatever he was doing and he was doing a i believe a fish count
03:02:38.240survey because you'd have to go to these different rivers and streams and do like take account
03:02:44.800periodically of the amount of fish that passed by a certain point to determine like fishing limits
03:02:50.640and whatever else so he went to a very remote place in the interior of alaska and he was doing
03:02:59.600this fish count there was a fishing game cabin there that he would stay at um a real bad storm
03:03:06.640came through and he got uh snowed into this cabin for longer than anticipated for like a week or
03:03:13.760something and so this guy high functioning well-educated master's degree normal dude by all
03:03:26.240accounts comes back and he tells this story and story goes on something like this so
03:03:36.720not to make it humorous but to get the vision in your head like midget bigfoot
03:03:42.000he was attacking him there was these little
03:03:46.880midget proportioned but otherwise described like big bigfoot that would chuck firewood cut firewood
03:04:03.360they would is that the woodsman that's my cats they're coming for you anyways they would chuck
03:04:10.880firewood at his cabin and you know they would like they had him under siege during this whole storm
03:04:18.320they would like terrorize him they wouldn't let him sleep and they would chuck these uh
03:04:24.240logs at his cabin and just terrorize this guy for his whole time out there
03:04:29.920he came back and as far as i know he told this story and he was dead serious about it for the
03:04:35.920rest of his life he was an older guy i think he's passed by now but he was real serious he never
03:04:43.520you know let on that he was joking or pulling anybody's leg and he wasn't one of those guys
03:04:48.960that oh i saw bigfoot and i've seen some aliens and this and he was completely normal other these
03:04:56.160than these woodsmen and they were around ruby alaska the woodsman of ruby so if you find
03:05:02.640yourself in ruby alaska beware of the woodsman that's what i got
03:05:10.320and we have another question that's popped up question for matt
03:05:18.320how does it feel being a based giga chad also how long did it take you to get jacked
03:05:25.680so thank you for your amazing question
03:05:31.160appreciate that you are a font of wisdom and discernment
03:05:37.080long time so when i was in high school i was lame i was i was like skinny fat i think i
03:05:50.500graduated and I was like 185, but again, I was skinny fat. Um, I hit a point where around the
03:06:01.920year, around 2000, around the turn of the millennium, I, uh, something's got to change.
03:06:10.380I don't want to be a loser. I'm lame. I'm going to do different with my life. All of my heroes
03:06:17.260growing up in the 80s and the early 90s are you know these larger than life action hero
03:06:24.700hulk hogan sylvester stallone arnold these like dudes while i was idolizing these people i was
03:06:34.380nothing remotely similar and i wouldn't even try because how could i ever be like them
03:06:39.660and it occurred to me you know what maybe i won't but if i try real hard i'll get a lot closer than
03:06:45.580i am now and so i started going to the gym i started eating i started doing stuff and
03:06:53.820took me a long time the hardest thing ever was for me to get over 225
03:07:02.220to put on enough muscle and other things to get over 225 was really really hard for me
03:07:09.260I would say to get from 185 to 225 took me from 2000 to 2003 or so.
03:10:59.340But I'll say this, though, that it's the celebration of Yule and its absence in first century Christianity that started steering me toward Alcetra.
03:11:13.160Before, my mother was never baptized as a witness, but she was a student of Jehovah's Witnesses for a number of years, and we ceased to celebrate Christmas.
03:11:26.920But I did have some experience with Christmas.
03:11:28.860It was my favorite holiday of the year, and I truly believed in the magic of it.
03:11:33.160When I grew up and had my own kids, my only religious experience was through that expression of Christianity.
03:11:40.760So this is what Heather and I did for a little while.