Asatru Folk Assembly - September 24, 2026


9⧸23⧸26 Victory Never Sleeps, Ep 220 - Read a Book: Why History Matters

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00:03:00.000 Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's edition of Victory Never Sleeps.
00:03:11.400 We are joined for adulting tips with our law speaker, Alan Turnage.
00:03:18.200 It's good to see everybody here.
00:03:19.600 I hope everybody had an amazing house float.
00:03:22.220 um we are now officially in uh in the fall season and enjoying at least where i'm at a nice little
00:03:31.940 cold snap here for a few days which is appreciated um some top of the show things of interest
00:03:41.420 we have done a little bit of redistricting redistricting only really affects
00:03:46.620 Odenshoff District and Baldershoff District, but we kind of recalculated some drive times
00:03:55.260 and some distances, and same silly in retrospect, but I think we adjusted it to the way it kind of
00:04:02.840 should have always looked. So, Nick, if you could throw up a graphic if you have it.
00:04:09.780 we have moved um we have moved colorado wyoming montana alberta and the northwest territories
00:04:21.140 from the ogenshoff district into the baldershoff district that is
00:04:27.860 cutting right along the rockies there and each of those states and provinces has a shorter drive
00:04:35.620 time to get devolvers off than they would if they were trying to get two of us off so there you have
00:04:42.500 it um other news and notes uh thank you everyone who continues to donate towards our pavilion
00:04:52.660 project um with our payment processing struggle of last month and a couple of things that has
00:05:01.700 set back our timeline just a little bit we're still trying to do the best we can to have
00:05:06.740 something up by this year's time area blow that is the plan but we'll see what we can do um
00:05:15.140 as of now 31 per member would get that thing corrected immediately but this is where we
00:05:22.420 stand currently we are 32.4 of the way towards our goal we appreciate you guys very much
00:05:28.260 also update on phraseoff fundraising appreciate everybody who's been generous and donated to that
00:05:38.900 we're currently at 49.1 percent of the way paid off which is spectacular considering that we just
00:05:46.100 did the dedication on december 6th of last year if every member were to donate 84 right now
00:05:56.340 we would pay that off immediately pay that off tomorrow uh during the business day so there you
00:06:02.900 go appreciate everybody who's donated if you want to donate to any of our um causes uh runestone.org
00:06:11.860 slash donate and as always we really appreciate you guys um a note while we're talking about
00:06:18.740 phraseoff coming up next month we'll be celebrating uh veteran niter at phraseoff that is winter
00:06:27.060 nights at phraseoff that's going to be from october the 16th through the 18th that is their big event
00:06:35.300 of the year their big showcase event it is a um foundational event for the afa on the east coast
00:06:46.900 that was the big event that started it all with the transcontinental expansion of the austral folk
00:06:54.260 assembly it's a long-standing event and it's something that our current leadership of phrase
00:07:00.660 off the ericsons have been such a very big part of over the years so i'm looking forward to that
00:07:05.780 my family will be going up for that i know other afa luminaries will be there we would all love to
00:07:12.740 see each and every one of you if you guys can make it so be thinking about it now in lovely uh
00:07:19.540 austintown ohio it is bound to be beautiful that time of year and it is an amazing hof with some
00:07:27.620 amazing folk so do make do make the the travel if you can um that's what i've got off the top
00:07:38.980 of the program uh oh other than to appreciate our donors so tonight uh steven in japan donated ten
00:07:46.500 dollars towards paying off race off and an additional five dollars towards the pavilion
00:07:51.700 thank you so much steven and for your continued generosity on here we appreciate you
00:07:56.900 uh jeffrey in texas another frequent donor on here we appreciate you jeffrey donated 20 towards
00:08:03.060 the steeple reconstruction at balder soft much appreciated and gilbert as always gilbert you
00:08:10.740 are amazing we appreciate your generosity 150 towards your top so thank you very much for that
00:08:19.060 we appreciate all of you who've been such generous givers and continue to do so thank you guys y'all
00:08:24.900 are awesome. Oh, another kind of personal top of the show thing. I have endeavored to make
00:08:34.740 daily shorts and reels and whatever the kids call them on whatever social media platform
00:08:43.520 you find yourself on of NS Clips. I am feeling my way through that. It's a work in progress.
00:08:53.220 I'm always open to suggestions on it.
00:08:55.080 What I really need from folks, anybody who's enjoying this broadcast,
00:08:59.740 if you find something we say to be impactful or clever or funny
00:09:05.000 or particularly worth other people listening to,
00:09:08.940 if you could mark down the time stamp and let somebody know,
00:09:14.020 I would appreciate that.
00:09:15.580 That would be awesome and helpful.
00:09:18.900 Apparently, my cat Stella made an appearance, so there is that.
00:09:23.220 Yeah, if you guys can mark down any timestamps from here on out, much appreciated, and I
00:09:29.100 will continue to try to do those.
00:09:30.980 Also, like, share, and subscribe wherever you are consuming this, and if you see the
00:09:37.980 clips and the shorts and the things, please feel free to share those and spread the word.
00:09:43.860 As I've said a number of times on here, at present, the biggest hurdle for the growth
00:09:50.160 of House of True and the House of True Folk Assembly is that so many of our folk that
00:09:55.300 should be here doing this with us don't know that we exist.
00:09:59.700 So that is, you know, unfortunate, but it's also a tremendous opportunity that I know
00:10:05.600 so many people would love to come home to their native faith if they only knew about
00:10:11.140 it.
00:10:11.800 And I appreciate any and all the help we can get in spreading the word on that.
00:10:15.840 So thank you guys.
00:10:17.760 With that, law speaker, would you like to present your discussion for this evening
00:10:24.300 and tell us what we need to hear?
00:10:29.500 What we need to hear, well, I'm glad to open it up.
00:10:33.020 I've got one of the issues, of course, is that history is one of my hobbies,
00:10:41.740 And so it'd be hard for me to condense everything down into tonight's 30-minute segment.
00:10:48.400 But the reason I wanted to talk some about history broadly, but more particularly our people learning more about history, not just the history of our religion, but the history of how we ended up in this handbasket and so forth,
00:11:17.220 is a couple things. One, we all have kind of a general idea about a lot of these things, but
00:11:27.860 common knowledge, it turns out, is often wrong. Mark Twain said that the problem,
00:11:41.460 you're not hurt by the things that you don't know. What hurts you is the things that you know
00:11:46.900 for certain that just aren't so and so the you know there are a lot of things and you know
00:11:56.100 wikipedia even has a long list of common knowledge things that that are not you know that are out
00:12:05.400 there in the common understanding of things that are not true often they are generated by
00:12:12.600 some kind of news stories. And we know the vast majority of journalists don't have the vaguest
00:12:20.060 idea what they're talking about most of the time. You know, they know how to look pretty and read a
00:12:27.540 teleprompter. But, you know, for example, there was the widespread study that I still hear cited
00:12:34.400 that made headlines years ago that said your fingernails keep growing for three days after
00:12:41.720 you die. And that was touted as some proof that there is life after death or that your body
00:12:49.440 continues to live on in some way, you know, or maybe your soul. But further study revealed
00:12:56.820 that what was happening is that your cuticles are shrinking. It's not that your nails are
00:13:01.180 growing. It's that the rest of your body is pulling back. So that's a misconception that
00:13:06.920 most people still carry same thing about using 10 of your brain um you know that too was out there
00:13:14.360 for a while that people only use 10 of their brain most people a lot of the time only use 10
00:13:21.080 of your brain at a time but there are many tasks that engage 30 60 more percent of your brain
00:13:28.280 and over the course of a day or three you use a lot more of your brain
00:13:33.560 um it's those kinds of things like you know everybody knows that kansas city is the capital
00:13:41.720 of kansas and that's just plain wrong um and and it's
00:13:49.960 particularly um a problem when it comes to history because a lot of the forces that are arrayed
00:14:00.120 against us, use the history of Western civilization in juxtaposition to the history of world
00:14:13.980 civilization and use that as if white people are uniquely evil in the world in that we
00:14:24.220 conquered all these people um that were just trying to live their lives and get along with
00:14:30.540 their neighbors and you know and never hurt anybody really until we came along and showed
00:14:36.560 them how to sharpen a stick and start stabbing people um all of that idea of course is patently
00:14:44.060 false um it carries its way through um for several reasons one of course the
00:14:54.220 Leftist media has zero understanding of history, especially any kind of longer arc, meaning anything longer than the last couple of weeks.
00:15:06.520 They don't even remember that there was history before 2023, whatever.
00:15:15.180 And secondly, because most journalists have a degree in journalism, which teaches you, supposedly, how to write, although not many of them do it very well.
00:15:28.440 But you know how to journalism, but you don't know anything about anything.
00:15:33.500 You know, with a few exceptions, of course, there are some of the more reputable newspapers and news sources that have financial reporters who have degrees in finance or who have, you know, they have maybe architecture reporters who have some understanding of architecture or art or those sorts of soft sciences.
00:15:55.700 But another point, and I think I looked at it in regards to journalism, but it's certainly true of history professors, not history professors, but people who, teachers who teach history in high school and below.
00:16:17.900 I read years ago that history is the subject that is most likely to be taught directly out of the history book, the textbook that the students have.
00:16:33.600 And the teacher just reads out of a teacher's guide and tells the kids to read the pablum in the history book.
00:16:43.820 The reason is that even teachers teaching history in high school have never had a history course since high school.
00:16:54.960 um so they are their knowledge and understanding is governed completely by
00:17:05.920 this vague leftist tripe that passes for history um you know
00:17:14.840 and i could name some examples but really don't want to give them any publicity
00:17:20.720 But if you get, which is why it's important, it seems to me, that you have some greater understanding, that we have some greater understanding of traditionalist culture and why it is, apologize, why it is that traditionalism is the right approach to history.
00:17:50.720 It's the right approach to governance, it's the right approach to religion, and it's the right approach to family structure, so forth, and et cetera.
00:18:02.120 Because if you can understand how Western civilization, although unique in its manifestation and unique in its accomplishments, stellar, you know, go team.
00:18:21.860 But certainly the violence and so forth that is absolutely a part of Western civilization, the creation of our civilization and the creation of our countries, it is a part of our history, absolutely, no question.
00:18:43.380 It is also a part of every other tribe, country, valley, hillside.
00:18:55.880 You know, ever since there was two sharp sticks, people have been stabbing each other to try to take their stuff.
00:19:03.160 And, you know, the other tripe in there that infuriates me when you hear it is that violence never solved anything, you know, which is absolutely untrue.
00:19:24.300 Violence is the only thing that ever solves anything in any greater arc of things.
00:19:31.460 There have been a few movies and attempts to portray some of this arc in a more accurate light, you know, none of which is directly, of course, portraying our folk in a very decent way.
00:19:52.760 although the recent movie North Man at least didn't have, you know,
00:20:00.140 any DEI junk going on in there,
00:20:02.660 although I have some quibbles about the way the movie arced out.
00:20:06.920 But, you know, for example, Apocalypto, right?
00:20:11.040 Mel Gibson movie, the Incas going around
00:20:17.240 and capturing surrounding tribes
00:20:20.360 so that they could sacrifice them to their, you know,
00:20:25.220 to their son, God.
00:20:28.080 Thousands and thousands and thousands of people
00:20:30.940 that, you know, like for the,
00:20:35.020 as far as the anchor was concerned,
00:20:36.120 it was just, you know,
00:20:37.680 blood that could be spilled down their temple.
00:20:40.420 And if you want to see something truly horrific,
00:20:43.020 I mean, that film seems to pretty accurately portray that, you know, the real story of Thanksgiving.
00:20:58.360 You know, why did the, I almost had the name of the tribe, but, you know, the tribe that helped the pilgrims were being hunted by the Iroquois.
00:21:07.680 so you know and not because they just for sport you know they were just trying to clear those
00:21:15.760 lands so that the Iroquois could have more hunting land so they were exterminating all the local
00:21:21.620 tribes so it's it's just wrong-headed and I you know we can um blame Rousseau and his
00:21:32.460 I misplaced idea of the native, the noble savage.
00:21:36.840 They were savages, all right, but not noble in any meaningful sense of the word.
00:21:44.720 You know, they were at, there were constant warfare between and among all the native tribes,
00:21:52.220 even, and I'm reading very slowly, a book called War and Civilization.
00:21:59.000 And that book points out that like even the Inuit people who are, you know, sparse population in the remotest part of the coldest part of the world who had been inaccurately reported as being peaceful and living together in harmony and all this other junk.
00:22:15.720 um it's because they have so few excess calories that all you know that their feuds take place at
00:22:23.920 a much they take place at an arctic pace so um the but at the same time you know they are in
00:22:32.600 constant warfare killing each other over fishing grounds and um uh you know who gets to kick which
00:22:42.900 pee in the ice hole. So it's
00:22:45.260 wrong.
00:22:50.900 But it's easy to believe all of that
00:22:53.740 if you don't know the underlying story.
00:22:59.040 And I'll say this too.
00:23:02.940 When I'm talking to us,
00:23:06.200 I recognize that
00:23:08.660 But we are in the great most part, and I realize that broad labels don't have a lot of meaning.
00:23:19.260 They're not necessarily precise, but I think of myself as conservative, radically conservative, radical traditionalist.
00:23:26.900 So the people that we talk to in a public sense, our employers, our fellow employees, our family, our population is roughly divided in thirds, right?
00:23:52.360 Like there's a third of us are conservative, a third of people are liberal, and there's a third in what I was called the fat middle, right?
00:24:00.400 And they swing with the wind.
00:24:04.660 The left, you're not going to persuade.
00:24:06.260 I mean, you can watch any YouTube debate between people of the left and normal people, and it's going to be – they start with feelings.
00:24:22.360 and argue backwards, and you're not going to affect them.
00:24:26.980 I've given up arguing with anybody who identifies as in that quadrant.
00:24:34.640 But who you can impact, the people you can influence, are the people in the middle,
00:24:41.320 especially us old-timers who remember how the country used to look
00:24:48.800 and how it, you know, how things used to be good when you could leave your door unlocked and all that sort of stuff.
00:24:55.440 I mean, that was, you know, those, all those ideas are very real and all that, all those facts are very real.
00:25:05.640 But, so, if somebody brings any of this sort of jump to your attention, I mean, you could always discuss in the form of a debate
00:25:17.900 or whatever that you're talking to, recognizing that your real audience is the audience.
00:25:24.320 I mean, you're not going to persuade a lot of people to our,
00:25:31.120 but there are people who can be swayed to be sympathetic and understanding to where we're starting from.
00:25:38.120 Now, all that being said, you don't have to know everything about everything.
00:25:42.700 I have read the alternate version of history for several decades now.
00:25:51.400 For example, you know, years ago I was a member of the League of the South.
00:25:59.880 I met the twins, I can't think of their name right now, the Kennedy brothers, who wrote the book The South Was Right.
00:26:06.660 um during the the war secession um the south had every right to secede the north had overwhelming
00:26:15.020 industry and uh population and um the criminal intent to prevent the south from seceding
00:26:25.080 had nothing to do with slavery uh you know but people in the current era look they it's called
00:26:36.440 presentism presentism we look at the the things of today we judge the past as if it were happening
00:26:44.860 today okay um slavery's wrong but it had existed since there were two separate tribes of peoples
00:26:56.620 okay the um the bible is rife with slavery western civilization is the only um
00:27:04.880 civilization that has ever voluntarily given up slavery slavery is still practiced
00:27:11.340 throughout the middle east all over africa most parts of asia um so they beat us with that
00:27:22.060 trope as if slavery started in 1860 but it's just or 1619 or whatever that
00:27:30.400 garbage was that they started with so the um but if you have the understanding to argue from
00:27:40.560 a rational viewpoint and can be reasonable and persuasive with the way that you discuss these
00:27:48.240 things then you can overcome the uh the resistance that many people have to uh you know to seeing
00:27:59.540 things from a rational perspective. That's just one thing. I mean, read about the history of World
00:28:07.720 War I, how, you know, Woodrow Wilson and the other communists who
00:28:15.820 caused
00:28:21.200 such terrible suffering
00:28:23.900 in Germany
00:28:25.280 England
00:28:27.180 and its food blockade even after
00:28:29.980 the armistice was signed
00:28:31.460 for months
00:28:33.340 not when it was signed but there was
00:28:36.000 an armistice
00:28:37.300 declared that was November 11
00:28:39.280 when the guns fell silent
00:28:41.260 but the Brits kept up
00:28:43.080 the food blockade and starved
00:28:47.300 certainly hundreds of thousands, probably millions of Germans in the intervening time
00:28:53.220 period in order to pressure the German delegation to accept
00:28:57.480 the onerous, irrational, and
00:29:01.200 factually incorrect version of
00:29:05.760 the origin of World War I that was contained in the Treaty of Versailles.
00:29:13.080 And on and on, I could go and often will, but, you know, that gives you a starting point for, you know, the types of things that can lead, that can sway people.
00:29:28.080 It seems to me, like, how, because I think in my moments of introspection, how did I end up here?
00:29:39.040 I mean, why couldn't I just go with the flow and be, you know, be an NPC bouncing around off the walls and, you know, out of the golf course at night instead of reading these books and all this stuff.
00:29:58.300 But, you know, and essentially it is that I believe in the truth.
00:30:04.860 I believe the truth will out.
00:30:07.480 And the truth is that history has been hijacked for malign purposes.
00:30:18.640 The powers that be, however you want to describe those, are certainly in a posture where they control the narrative of history in much the same way that they control the narrative of media.
00:30:34.560 And so in order to resist that overwhelming force, you've got to do some homework.
00:30:42.540 um and funny i was uh at a concert with one of my sons and one of his friends and we had a discussion
00:30:52.680 about some of these topics and you could see like because i knew the statistics and i knew
00:31:01.920 the numbers and i knew the the way that all this stuff unfolded i mean i didn't persuade him but
00:31:08.360 I definitely got him to see that there is a different version of the truth
00:31:16.560 than what he has been sold.
00:31:21.120 So, and if you need a list of books, you can email me.
00:31:27.380 Be careful what you ask for because I, and I'll start,
00:31:31.820 I'll start with any topic that you want and we'll, you know,
00:31:36.600 how much time do you have
00:31:40.600 all right that's you brother all right well so
00:31:48.720 truth is
00:31:54.840 go ahead sorry i was like like i think that we um first we need to get
00:32:04.920 be active in our local school system. I know a lot of people homeschool in order to avoid the
00:32:09.640 public school system, rational response. But we, if we had a way to direct people to try to correct
00:32:18.880 this particular issue, the issue about history, textbook committees and local schools, local
00:32:25.980 school, school boards, you know, you can have more influence on the school board than you can
00:32:31.840 in congress sorry i'll stop talking now for a second no you're all good um truth is a core value
00:32:38.800 in house of truth and you know yes we would like you to
00:32:47.520 hold certain opinions on the truth or to take certain sides on issues
00:32:54.000 um but the first step is to honestly be able to figure out where you stand on issues being
00:33:06.080 informed by accurate information and that is as alan pointed out a lot in his uh talk
00:33:14.000 that used to be i think it's always been colored by things but i think that it's worse now
00:33:28.000 i think that it's worse 15 years ago than it's ever been
00:33:33.200 right now we have a rise in alternative media and alternative sources the back of
00:33:39.040 of mainstream media has been broken to where more Americans now are consuming news from
00:33:47.940 other sources than the admittedly governmentally fed media outlets that have been the only
00:33:56.780 voice in news for so long, or certainly the overwhelming one.
00:34:02.040 that were once you know derided as conspiracy theories are now being taken more seriously and
00:34:09.320 at least giving you know people are looking into them some of them are silly nonsense some of them
00:34:17.640 are absolutely true a lot of them are somewhere in the middle but we're having an opportunity
00:34:24.120 to discuss them more openly now than we have in quite a while but finding that objective truth
00:34:30.040 is a really hard thing uh i've noticed that this is a struggle in my own family with with my
00:34:37.160 stepmother it's one thing to argue about issues when we know you know when our premise is true
00:34:48.200 and maybe we have really different solutions for problems that we both recognize or problems
00:34:53.560 but now we don't have that now one side genuinely believes a completely alternate truth than the
00:35:04.200 other side believes and not knowing the facts it pollutes everything downstream because it's you
00:35:14.840 know you're making a decision based on a certain data set and if that data set is wrong it skews
00:35:20.760 all of your actions and everything you built on that data set and i don't think that if you read
00:35:26.440 any one book that alan or that i recommend it's going to fix all of that but the more you have
00:35:33.480 a wide depth and breadth of knowledge on things the more you're able to discern things that match
00:35:41.160 up things that make sense things that are supported by evidence things that are supported by
00:35:47.800 contemporaries who share a common view of things at the time you know statements of
00:35:55.720 in a lot of things especially within the last few hundred years you can have um
00:36:01.800 diaries memoirs and correspondences of people who participated in the events at the time instead of
00:36:10.280 you know some purple pink-haired liberal feminist reflections on them 200 years later you can have
00:36:19.720 you know objective data from different people you can we are so blessed with an abundance
00:36:26.840 of information you can find that from multiple sides you know i was talking about civil war you
00:36:32.600 can read you know you can read countless addresses and letters and any number of things from you know
00:36:42.040 from the confederacy and from the union and from you know soldiers and politicians and uh you know
00:36:51.480 families and any number of things and get a much greater sense of what those folks thought they
00:36:58.360 were fighting about as opposed to what in 2026 is politically convenient to suggest they were
00:37:04.360 fighting about same in world war one you can find british correspondents you can find german
00:37:10.920 correspondents or austro-hungarian or italian or russian or american and you can judge those
00:37:17.960 things against one another you can see the attitude at the time and the attitude that's
00:37:21.800 developed when we look back at it in retrospect so those things make a huge huge difference
00:37:28.360 and it's important to be able to argue from a point of knowing what you're talking about.
00:37:35.440 But truth also builds a earned self-confidence in who you are and what you believe and what you stand for.
00:37:46.300 If you heard it somewhere and you parrot it, it's very easy to have that thrown into question
00:37:52.460 if you're not sure and you don't know the things that make it up.
00:37:55.920 But when you're supported by knowledge that you've read and that you've exposed yourself to, you have a context that you wouldn't have otherwise. You have a confidence that, like, no, I've thought about this. I actually believe this. This is not something I'm just regurgitating. I can support it with reasons why I believe it.
00:38:19.860 that's one of the things I think all too seldom we ask ourselves in this day and age is enough
00:38:27.980 of the why questions. We do a lot of who, what, where, but the why really matters. And it's
00:38:36.000 something I try to get to when we're studying our lore. Viking history is really cool because
00:38:41.880 history is interesting and it's fun and you can learn a little stuff, but the big lessons are why.
00:38:49.860 people did things because the who and the what and the when is often very contextualized
00:38:54.820 but the why tends to be transcended has some principle it has some thought process to it
00:39:01.420 that can be applied in other situations and used to cross reason on if they did that then
00:39:08.080 they may have thought these other things similar um another thing i was going to say um once
00:39:16.460 you know things you know barring senility once you know things you can't unknow them
00:39:25.820 that's a blessing and a curse but once you you know something it makes it builds a defense
00:39:33.980 within you to stave off nonsense and dishonest revisionism because you were backed up by facts
00:39:44.380 and you're you know you can call you call nonsense on things you know to not be true
00:39:51.500 and that adds a lot and it kind of go kind of goes into you know one of the other points i was going
00:39:56.060 to make it makes you effective if you are able to know things about a subject that the person
00:40:08.940 you may be discussing you may be arguing you may be ranted at by notes if you know the subject
00:40:16.700 better than they do you immediately have the upper hand and there's a cause for pause
00:40:22.220 and ideally a cause for them to reconsider their erroneous views
00:40:29.340 that sounds like wishful thinking but i've had that happen numerous times
00:40:34.380 in my life where people regurgitate some lefty nonsense to me and i bring up specifics that
00:40:45.180 they hadn't considered or hadn't thought about they usually don't immediately join the team and
00:40:52.540 you know correct their life but it often has caused a pause like okay i'll talk to you later
00:40:59.420 and that's often led to a better discussion it's led to agreement in things that we would not
00:41:06.540 normally have had agreement and a lot of people have woken up that way you can be a part of that
00:41:11.420 if you educate yourself on on these things and history is fascinating one of the things i'd like
00:41:20.620 to throw out as far as reading history and history books and history stuff some people really like
00:41:27.500 reading chronicles and like facts and figures and history presented in that way i very much
00:41:35.580 prefer reading stories that's why i love biographies i love reading through the
00:41:43.020 perspective of a person in their life and also it's a way to often celebrate heroes
00:41:51.900 it is inspirational to read what real people with similar capabilities to any of us
00:41:59.420 were able to do and accomplish with their life or you know great deeds they did or great times
00:42:05.500 they lived through the perspective that they have on it and i found that a very engaging
00:42:11.340 way to engage with history if you know if that's something that that would help enhance your
00:42:18.300 experience and the other point that i had i was just taking notes while i was talking um
00:42:25.580 again i think that there has always been propaganda and all all things are written
00:42:31.740 from a perspective things that claim to be objective are perhaps written from the most
00:42:37.740 extreme project perspective as at all if people who can be honest and say full-throatedly what
00:42:44.380 team they're on you can at least go into it knowing that respecting it there is a thing now
00:42:51.100 where so much is sanitized and written with a faux objectivity to reinforce
00:43:00.860 liberal academia that it takes all of the passion out of the things that you read
00:43:08.620 i would say you know different time periods have different themes that way
00:43:15.240 but certainly things written before the end of the second world war
00:43:19.520 are able to be written full-throatedly passionately about manly virtue about national pride about
00:43:32.100 just honest science
00:43:34.080 and not agenda-driven science,
00:43:37.140 I would
00:43:38.240 encourage not only to read
00:43:40.180 and read history material,
00:43:42.540 but I would
00:43:44.320 put a particular emphasis on
00:43:46.100 material written before
00:43:48.120 1945.
00:43:49.940 Things after that seem to have
00:43:51.680 definite
00:43:54.000 zones that you're not allowed to
00:43:56.000 enter into in the discourse, but also
00:43:58.220 a leveling of
00:43:59.880 the passion you can write about things certainly as they relate to our folk and
00:44:07.320 traditional values that we all appreciate
00:44:13.480 and the the one thing that you mentioned in there that i that i think is important
00:44:17.880 especially in relation to why people should study history i've
00:44:22.280 I've given some thought to why it is that people listen to celebrities.
00:44:30.560 Like, who cares what Whoopi Goldberg thinks?
00:44:34.380 I mean, she doesn't know anything about anything.
00:44:37.800 But what celebrities have is confidence.
00:44:43.660 They know nothing, but they are dead certain about it.
00:44:48.280 So they are comfortable speaking to people and they have an air of certainty that comes from total ignorance for most of them.
00:45:03.440 But if you have the confidence that comes from knowing the topic, whatever it is that you find most offensive in the way that history is perceived, whether it's the American Civil War, the 1845,
00:45:33.440 revolution in northern europe the protestant reformation the boxer rebellion you know
00:45:40.800 whatever it is that's your thing you can know a lot more about that than anybody else
00:45:49.040 and the more you dig into this stuff mostly now sometimes you know the received narrative is right
00:45:58.320 i guess i'm not sure i've ever found an instance but i mean theoretically
00:46:02.720 like the common knowledge might be what actually happened um
00:46:12.560 but you know for the most part if you can argue with confidence against somebody who doesn't know
00:46:18.880 anything then again typically the person you're arguing with is not going to be persuaded but
00:46:24.720 everybody else that's listening will so um on that and then i've neglected to acknowledge
00:46:34.960 a donation so on that there's a thin line this may not be related at all but it's worth noting
00:46:40.560 between confidence and stupidity and i think that it overlaps oftentimes and i know it sounds
00:46:47.840 it sounds condescending but i genuinely mean that there is
00:46:59.520 there are some people that are so full of self-confidence that they don't have the
00:47:05.440 hesitancy that many of us would have and that commands a certain amount of authority in social
00:47:11.920 situations or in the quote-unquote marketplace of ideas that they are able to full-throatedly
00:47:22.080 uh make a proposition or state a position and stand by it and that is commendable
00:47:29.200 there's also an element of people that are so lacking in introspection they genuinely it did
00:47:36.080 not occur to them to care what other people think about what they say and there's a freedom in that
00:47:40.400 as well the one's better than the other but they both often have a similar effect um what i would
00:47:46.880 say is kind of a no i'm gonna do this first so don't forget it ron donated 30 towards phrase
00:47:52.160 off thank you ron appreciate it along with this note at work today we were bsing and death came
00:47:59.760 up one of the guys asked me what i think which led to other general house true questions that
00:48:06.000 led me to talking with celts and slavs and rome and greece and of course germania and charlemagne
00:48:13.440 after being able to explain outside true beliefs and our folk history the questions became more
00:48:20.240 pointed as the lads took more interest in what i was saying good interested questions
00:48:28.240 at the least knowing our lore and history added more layers of respect and validity
00:48:33.120 to us from everyday hold that's the thing if you open your mouth on something the more you have
00:48:42.560 uh substance to say to the argument
00:48:48.720 it's surprising and especially in an age where so few we are not short on people having very strong
00:48:54.960 opinions but we're woefully short on the people expressing those having definite knowledge that
00:49:02.160 is a tremendous opportunity for people who are willing to make the effort to know what they're
00:49:07.360 talking about to have a tremendous effect and there's something instinctual about the confidence
00:49:14.800 that comes with truth and with knowing what you're talking about that bypasses a lot of mental
00:49:22.640 hurdles a lot of people have subconsciously you know if you're a well-developed sociopath
00:49:30.560 sociopath or something else maybe you can fool people but in general we have a built-in ability
00:49:38.640 to detect sincerity and detect dishonesty and i think that if you have genuine knowledge about
00:49:47.760 what you're talking about that comes across there's a momentum to that also nick in kentucky
00:49:54.000 donated forty dollars to the pavilion and ten dollars each to the south africa fund
00:49:59.520 and to this broadcast so thank you so much nick we appreciate you very much
00:50:04.640 i hope we get to see you this weekend um
00:50:10.400 oh i was going to go on another on another tangent there and then i
00:50:14.000 then i lost my momentum but that's okay i'll come back
00:50:16.240 okay well i'll play off of what you're talking about it because one thing that brought to my
00:50:24.500 mind is it's also okay to say i don't know you know that was one of the things as a much younger
00:50:32.340 person um which couldn't have been all that long ago but i uh you know i would try to argue my way
00:50:41.140 in you know about stuff that i had no idea about really so it is perfectly fine if somebody says
00:50:49.300 you know what about these facts or what about this relationship say oh i had i had no idea
00:50:56.180 you know we need to so and sometimes it will cause you to um rethink your assumptions and
00:51:04.100 rethink your conclusions what it also does if you respond in that way in a way that
00:51:09.380 that reflects a desire to get actually to the heart of the thing and a willingness to reconsider
00:51:25.880 your conclusions. If there are facts you haven't taken into account, you know, then that may let
00:51:32.060 the other person do the same thing. And it may let your audience, you know, say, well, you know,
00:51:38.440 you're taking into account everything,
00:51:41.260 not just the stuff that bolsters your opinion.
00:51:44.080 So that too is a, you know,
00:51:45.640 is an important way to evaluate history.
00:51:49.220 You can't go through and just read the stuff that bolsters your conclusion.
00:51:54.840 You have to read the, you know,
00:51:58.340 objective truth is in a lot of these things is, is maybe illusory,
00:52:03.880 But, you know, we've gotten so much from the other side that we need to have an understanding of why we're right.
00:52:15.480 On a note on idiot celebrities.
00:52:21.440 Every celebrity is not an idiot, but they often talk about things they don't know anything about.
00:52:27.360 It's another reason that I like biographical material or autobiographical material.
00:52:34.440 they can tell really cool stories about the time they were on the set of whatever movie
00:52:39.960 they filmed and something cool that happened they have a life of experience but so often that
00:52:45.720 experience is siloed in a very very narrow slice of industry people they deal with or a very
00:52:54.120 particular experience that's often removed from the world that you and i live in so i say that
00:53:01.400 because it there was a time where celebrities were not movie stars and rappers and sports ball
00:53:11.160 players the time where celebrities were um soldiers and knights and nobility and you know
00:53:22.760 great aviators and inventors and people that did cool things that know a lot in their field
00:53:30.440 but may not be an expert on geopolitics maybe they just know about aerodynamics and how to
00:53:37.240 make an airplane work there's a lot of stuff to be learned but context matters and experience
00:53:42.200 matters so it's really valuable i found when you can you know i mentioned the letters and
00:53:48.280 the the memoirs and stuff earlier but when you can read first person accounts of things that
00:53:55.960 that they've witnessed or things that they're doing,
00:54:01.120 it may not change your opinion,
00:54:03.060 but it may at least give you a very clear impression
00:54:05.700 of at least why that person did the things they did
00:54:09.880 or felt the things they felt,
00:54:11.520 or maybe why that person's comrades or their generation
00:54:14.820 or people who shared their experience
00:54:16.520 might have felt in that scenario.
00:54:18.880 I think that we do historical figures of this service
00:54:22.640 because not only do we try to judge them
00:54:25.040 by 2026 political correct nonsense,
00:54:32.440 but we also project on them either hero or villain,
00:54:36.720 and they're like a two-dimensional caricature of humans.
00:54:43.260 Our ancestors back, at least to the Ice Age and further,
00:54:48.260 they got the same brain size as the rest of us there's no reason to think that their thoughts
00:54:54.880 were any less complex that their moral decisions in life had any less nuance or ambiguity that
00:55:02.740 they were any more you know one-dimensional than we are it's worth affording people that
00:55:10.740 when trying to understand historical events
00:55:13.560 from either and all sides.
00:55:22.720 Although the only thing I would,
00:55:25.500 the only footnote I would add to that
00:55:28.000 is that autobiographies too can be self-serving.
00:55:35.160 Oh, absolutely.
00:55:35.720 and it's important to have their perspective before you
00:55:43.800 uh make a complete judgment how about that sure and even in that is that really i think that's
00:55:52.600 i think that's the point of all this exercise right is rational discernment what's true what's
00:55:58.280 false how did we end up here where are we going how do we get to a better place as we develop
00:56:04.280 perspective and context there's a lot if you wrote an autobiography there is a lot i can learn if you
00:56:15.960 are being an honest broker and giving me the facts of what you felt at the time and the facts of
00:56:21.880 events i can either learn the facts or what is also a fact i can learn what you want me to know
00:56:28.680 and if you have a perspective there's like layers you can get why did this person write it this way
00:56:35.960 this is the agenda that this person wanted me to have you can pick up those tones too
00:56:40.880 that is also a important um perspective and an important truth to understand about something
00:56:50.100 and one of the cool things and i say this i know a lot of people listening probably already on this
00:56:57.820 page with a lot of things but i don't know that everyone is and i don't know that a lot of the
00:57:02.860 younger audiences i think our younger audience a lot probably are but there's a lot of young
00:57:10.700 people out there that don't have that same absorption of knowledge in the same way one
00:57:22.460 thing that's cool is if you're in our subject and you read about the historical facts and you read
00:57:30.220 the letters and you read biographies and things surrounding it you can point out when there's
00:57:35.420 something that's incongruent or when something smells off because it stands out as being askew
00:57:42.140 from the rest of the things and maybe that's one that has a particular element of wishful thinking
00:57:48.780 to it or of dishonesty the more you have context the better able you are to discern those kind of
00:57:55.180 things the other thing i wanted to encourage people on and i feel at a loss because i don't know
00:58:02.620 i think that this can be built with intentional habit
00:58:07.180 i think it was a hard thing to teach and it is much easier when it comes naturally
00:58:11.340 one thing that is so very very important and I would encourage everyone who has
00:58:21.180 children and everyone who would like to better themselves
00:58:28.380 encourage as much intellectual curiosity as possible we live in a day and age where you
00:58:36.360 you know all of us carry around all day a tool to where you can waste time on nonsense which
00:58:43.640 we all do myself included or you can instantly look stuff up hey alan used a word i never heard
00:58:52.760 before huh you can find out what that word means you can find out the etymology the etymology of
00:58:59.240 that word and you can do it with minimal effort and maximum result hey they're all talking about
00:59:06.600 something everybody seems to know what this thing is i've never heard about it rather than looking
00:59:12.360 dumb don't google it for a second and get some perspective and read something about it we're in
00:59:17.560 a time where you can you have such easy access and i want to say you we all do this that's something
00:59:24.840 that i'm very that i really love about my wife and that i'm very happy about us as a couple
00:59:33.320 we're watching something and we have this just random curiosity on stuff so we look things up
00:59:38.840 be driving down the road and listening to rat man mandy what's right up to these days
00:59:46.120 seconds later she can tell me where they're touring or what band members are dead or what's
00:59:51.240 going on you know we we see a sign like hey what's this town i never heard of this place before
00:59:57.800 well cool did you know and then you there's little facts about when it was founded or something cool
01:00:03.240 about it figuring out those little things there is something inherently about people who like to
01:00:10.760 learn things and lacking in people who and just kind of don't care be in the first group if you
01:00:21.560 can and um yeah i would highly encourage everybody to try to be in that first group and uh i appreciate
01:00:29.880 that's something that i will always be very appreciative that my parents and specifically
01:00:34.760 my father really really instilled in me very very young and i'm doing the best i can to try
01:00:40.680 to instill that in my daughter because i think that's so important
01:00:51.000 just know that when you're looking stuff up you got to go below beneath through the
01:00:58.600 you know the summary you got to read stuff um you got to read those articles especially if it's
01:01:04.760 the why stuff happened,
01:01:08.700 the AI summary or the Wikipedia page
01:01:13.000 is going to have a slanted perspective.
01:01:16.580 So you've got to dig into it
01:01:18.300 before you start making conclusions.
01:01:25.140 Don't make life judgments,
01:01:26.920 but Wikipedia is pretty good about telling you
01:01:29.320 if rats still touring or not.
01:01:35.640 To be fair, if she hadn't passed away, I'd just tell you to ask my mama.
01:01:39.100 She was a touring rat group.
01:01:40.540 That's a big upgrade from Journey, though.
01:01:42.200 I'm happy for you.
01:01:45.280 So, audience, sometimes I think Alan just says stuff to get a rise out of me.
01:01:50.620 I'm going to hope that favorably comparing Rat to Journey was just that.
01:01:55.960 Even, like, the new Filipino Journey is superior to the best days of Rat, but okay.
01:02:04.760 with that oh somebody commented on my facial hair coming back yes indeed the
01:02:14.780 autumnal equinox was last evening and as I do every year I start letting my
01:02:21.560 facial hair grow in and I try to maintain a beard until the vernal
01:02:26.000 equinox when I become bored with it and my face becomes itchy and I decided to
01:02:30.560 shave it off and go all summer clean shaven i wish there was a really cool esoteric reason for it
01:02:38.320 there's not a number of years ago all my gray hair comes in on my sideburns and in my beard
01:02:46.480 and i've been clean shaven for a while and then i got lazy and noticed i was getting some gray
01:02:51.520 coming in and i decided to see where that journey took me and how it was progressing and every year
01:02:55.920 I kind of look forward to seeing how that grain has affected my beer.
01:03:02.400 So we'll find out here in the coming months.
01:03:07.620 Law speaker, you made me work and prep some quotes.
01:03:10.500 Let's talk about them.
01:03:13.720 I blew through those already.
01:03:16.540 I guess you were doing some technical stuff.
01:03:18.940 Sleep effort.
01:03:20.900 You've got to call it out.
01:03:22.700 Be like Chris.
01:03:23.820 Nick, throw that up.
01:03:25.920 sorry alan would you like to revisit any of those next of next quotations or would you like to do
01:03:36.400 something different this is this is your baby tonight i i think it certainly is important to
01:03:43.360 revisit um first of all mark twain's quote um who said you know a lot of the things that is
01:03:51.040 the theme for the opening part of my discussion it's not what you it's not what you know that
01:03:57.520 gets you in trouble it's the things you know for sure that just ain't so um so you know to the
01:04:05.600 extent that you know what caused certain things in history you know that things are you know that
01:04:16.240 equality is a good thing you know all those sorts of things um if you don't have any idea how it all
01:04:24.320 happened um you know you're just you know you're just dead solid wrong and the other point since
01:04:34.800 we can use them both i know nick puts in a lot of work getting this stuff ready um violence is the
01:04:41.120 only thing that ever solves anything and some idiot a long time ago said violence never solved
01:04:47.920 anything it is an unattributed quote but whoever said that sure doesn't know much about history
01:04:58.000 yeah that's yeah so last quote first
01:05:04.160 don't mistake it it's not an advocation for you know excessive violence but the
01:05:18.240 looming reality of violence is definitive in fixing so many things it doesn't always have to be
01:05:28.480 but it's not like it's the only thing that moves the needle but it is
01:05:31.760 definitive and it definitively solves lots and lots of lots and lots of problems
01:05:39.360 i think we all can understand the truth of that either the exercise of violence or the
01:05:49.600 looming proposition of violence if things are not done a certain way or if certain order is not
01:05:56.080 maintained that we all understand that that's true except for some commie that made that
01:06:03.280 idiotic statement um but the other thing we'll say old people every year i move closer to joining
01:06:12.240 your ranks and something that i genuinely am very aware of and i want to do joking aside is keep my
01:06:23.280 brain malleable to where i can learn things to where i can reevaluate my positions reevaluate
01:06:32.400 things that i thought i knew for sure if something new came up or something you know there was some
01:06:38.080 interesting fact that i had not been aware of before consider those things staying mentally
01:06:46.640 agile about exploring and reasoning things is so important to stave off many forms of age-related
01:06:58.160 dementia um for you know a variety of reasons my grandmother had dementia in her final years
01:07:11.120 and unfortunately my mother had dementia for you know probably about a decade
01:07:17.440 or more before she passed to one degree or another and one thing that i
01:07:26.480 seemed very true watching the progression of those things and was steady advice from doctors
01:07:34.400 and resources that i looked into on it keeping your brain active with problem solving and with
01:07:42.080 you know thinking out positions on things and re-evaluating facts and
01:07:50.000 actively using your brain to reason things is a very effective way to keep your brain active
01:07:57.520 to keep your neural pathways doing stuff as alan mentioned earlier
01:08:05.360 10 of the brain is mapped to where we know exactly what it does you don't just use 10
01:08:10.560 of your brain that's a misunderstanding your brain atrophies if it is not used
01:08:18.960 use your brains all the more as you age don't ever stop using your brains
01:08:24.880 And if you have loved ones that are up there in years, do what you can to keep, you know, deep and scintillating conversation occurring, because that is helpful.
01:08:43.920 We do have some questions lined up this evening.
01:08:48.860 First one, I think you may have some perspective.
01:08:51.400 one, Alan. Does fasting function as a spiritual discipline in Ausitru, or is it just a secular
01:08:58.180 practice with no spiritual aspect? Well, I'm finishing up day four of my five-day fast.
01:09:11.740 this particular fast is
01:09:15.500 primarily secular in purpose
01:09:18.520 although it
01:09:20.340 because I'm tired of carrying around the rest of this weight
01:09:26.020 but it certainly
01:09:29.000 I think any fasting like that
01:09:32.840 or
01:09:36.840 just conscious dieting and, you know, diet is anything to eat, but, you know, conscious
01:09:49.980 awareness of the way that you treat food and your relationship with food
01:09:54.420 absolutely has a spiritual component. First of all, it keeps your mind active because you're
01:10:02.620 deciding whether you should poison your body with junk food or take the time to learn how to cook
01:10:10.540 or eat a salad or whatever so there's uh you know so that part of it definitely has a spiritual
01:10:18.620 component um passing to me when i uh when i do it like this this or at least this time the spiritual
01:10:29.260 aspect is merely one of discipline like i you know can i go five days without eating a calorie
01:10:37.020 so far so good um i drink electrolytes i take supplements um but zero calories now since uh
01:10:47.020 the fine folk up there in montana were hosting me up there for that event so um i
01:10:53.420 I, and happy birthday, Isabel, nine, 14 days ago.
01:11:03.000 So, yes, discipline at the very least is a, you know, is a spiritual aspect of fasting.
01:11:11.840 You could certainly do it as a spiritual practice.
01:11:18.380 I think that at that level, it's mostly a matter of emphasis.
01:11:23.420 like um i i do feel sharper right now than i often do is absolutely a thing that um you know the
01:11:37.260 the term is logi after you've eaten a big meal you know you just feel that washed out feeling
01:11:42.700 and the reason is that so much of your body's energy is going into digesting food and well
01:11:48.940 you know when if you eat constantly as many americans do then a large disproportionate part
01:11:58.220 of your body's energy is being directed toward putting that food away and you don't have time
01:12:06.940 for the higher functioning things you know there's uh there's a lot more to be said i
01:12:14.700 And I, you know, I'll tell you, I've never gone, at least unsupported, I've never gone much beyond five days of fasting.
01:12:23.960 I would think, like, to get into the deeper spiritual stuff, you'd have to go a little further.
01:12:30.840 I read a lot more about it before I did any of that.
01:12:34.300 But, you know, even to go, like, even a two, three-day fast is definitely an exercise of discipline.
01:12:44.700 yeah i think that i think that expresses it nicely there's no like official out of true
01:12:58.220 fasting sacrament or you know demand that you must fast but a number of people do
01:13:05.980 fast as an exercise of their discipline um some will do a fast as a
01:13:12.700 a worshipful act towards uh both in who hung on the world tree for for nine days without without
01:13:23.660 food um without food without mead there's times that you know people will do that as a devotional
01:13:31.980 act um there's times where groups of men will fast as a kind of a bonding challenge to see if
01:13:39.660 they've got the discipline to you know test themselves in that way so i
01:13:49.500 like a great many things it can take on a spiritual significance and a um application
01:13:57.660 that's absolutely related to house of truth but i don't think that it has that inherent to it
01:14:03.340 that's something you have to apply to it or you know willfully
01:14:12.300 imbue it with that to to make that happen
01:14:19.820 what is the best book or even video to learn how to practice aussitry i'm familiar with the basics
01:14:27.420 and morals slash ethics but not familiar with the actual practice of it
01:14:36.060 alan what are your thoughts on that
01:14:44.380 the best book you know certainly um mr mcnallan's book um also true the native american sorry the
01:14:55.020 The native European spirituality is an excellent start.
01:14:59.840 I think it's a concise directive for the practice of Ausatru.
01:15:07.440 Our truth, the revised and updated version that I think we still have for sale, right, at the store.
01:15:15.920 I think that, too, is a very good introductory addition to, you know, to how to do also true.
01:15:32.780 And, of course, part of the issue of it, as we've talked about several times, is there's no one right way to do it.
01:15:40.100 There are lots of wrong ways to pretend to practice all the truth, but if you have the, you know, if you have noble bearing and respect for tradition and respect for your ancestry and love for your gods and your people, that's 88% of it right there as far as I'm concerned.
01:16:08.760 And yes, now beyond that, also true, I've been, here's what I've come to say.
01:16:24.300 I've been also true all my life, but I found the formal practice of the religion in 2005.
01:16:30.740 So I've been I have known what to call my attitude and practice for a little over 20 years in that time.
01:16:47.620 I have seen our faith, our practice mature in a way that that is frankly surprising.
01:16:57.880 looking out just over the past 20 years, you know, how sloppy we were in the beginning
01:17:04.640 and how we have tightened up practice and formalized many aspects of our faith.
01:17:13.620 It's quite heartening, actually.
01:17:16.380 And, you know, and Steve McDonnell's book gives a great introduction
01:17:23.580 and you can follow that book and nothing else.
01:17:27.640 and have a really deep and meaningful understanding
01:17:32.860 of the practice and meaning of the host of truth.
01:17:43.760 Sure.
01:17:46.620 It's such a broad question
01:17:50.060 that I absolutely understand why you would ask it.
01:17:54.520 And it's a very valid question to ask.
01:17:57.200 It just becomes a much more difficult question to answer.
01:18:04.620 I don't know that we've done a standalone, like, how to do Alcetru episode of VNS.
01:18:17.860 We talk about it all of the time, but I know that's difficult,
01:18:22.220 as this is the 220th episode to kind of sort through and try to find it.
01:18:26.980 is overwhelming, and I understand that.
01:18:34.880 Our founder, Steve McNallan's book, I think is good.
01:18:37.640 I don't know that it tells you what you're asking,
01:18:40.860 because, again, it goes into what we believe
01:18:46.080 and kind of how Steve came to that and what that looks like.
01:18:52.660 But as far as the practice, it's so very important that you practice with others.
01:19:02.160 If the question is, like, how does one do a bloke or how does one do a somber, that's something that we can talk about.
01:19:10.700 Maybe there should be a guide out there to that.
01:19:14.500 I don't know the resource you're going to find in that in a way that's going to help you.
01:19:19.540 but i advise i don't know where you find yourself and distance still is a problem though it's much
01:19:26.020 less of a problem that once was i can't say this enough also true isn't a singular
01:19:35.700 spiritual thing that one does by themselves at least not in an optimal way it's very much a group
01:19:44.500 you know it's a religion it's a group practice it's not just a personal devotion it's a
01:19:49.860 participation in a larger faith community of the folk i would encourage you as much as i possibly
01:19:57.380 can to find a group of people near you and go to something the best option is go to one of our
01:20:06.180 haws um this last weekend all five of our haws we got together to celebrate house bloat to do a
01:20:15.060 variety of bloats symbols and practice house and truth together as a group in all those places
01:20:24.020 also um a number of different smaller local groups got together in their area to have
01:20:31.460 of gatherings, some to do bloat,
01:20:35.040 some just to get together and share a meal,
01:20:37.740 but it's very much practiced in a community context.
01:20:40.960 And that's gonna give you the best,
01:20:43.640 that's gonna give you what you want,
01:20:45.020 but I know it's not a question that you ask.
01:20:48.200 Again, if it's about core beliefs,
01:20:50.240 I think all of those are good resources.
01:20:52.120 I would also encourage the House of Truth Trulog Mall
01:20:54.700 from the AFA website, welcome to purchase it there,
01:20:58.580 it's also a free pdf to read and familiarize yourself with but again that talks a lot about
01:21:05.380 what we believe it talks a bit about what our ritual practice and structure is
01:21:14.340 but it's not the how-to that was kind of describing the question
01:21:21.140 now i'm glad you mentioned coming to the hall because that's the the best way to um first of all
01:21:27.380 to understand why we are all so excited about this the practice of this faith because because
01:21:38.260 to see it and to participate in it to participate in it um is you know just a moving experience
01:21:47.940 it's a wonderful thing that we are doing um
01:21:50.980 hundreds and hundreds of secondary resources out there many of which have influenced my belief and
01:22:02.600 practice but you know come to the hoff talking to all of us everybody is you know we're worse
01:22:10.720 than crossfitters about talking about how awesome our stuff is so ask any of us we'll tell you
01:22:19.380 we'll tell you until you're tired of listening absolutely and i'll throw this out there too
01:22:24.060 if you have any additional questions on that feel free to ask them also feel free to email
01:22:28.740 uh gothar at runestone.org or you can email me personally matt flabel at runestone.org and
01:22:36.880 be very happy to try to help you narrow down on questions you may have um
01:22:43.040 AFA is in Canada? Yes, matter of fact, we are. We have, so we have members in 11 different
01:22:56.900 countries. We do absolutely have members in Canada. I don't want to quickly, I can try
01:23:05.400 to quick find it out for you, but I wasn't quick enough on the draw to have a really
01:23:08.780 cool number for you we have quite a few members in canada canada is our you know second biggest
01:23:15.900 membership uh the biggest membership outside of the united states we have a folk builder
01:23:21.820 in new brunswick canada jordan wardrode he would be really happy to kind of
01:23:29.260 answer any questions on that or get anybody who's interested in canada dialed in
01:23:34.700 uh nick can throw up his email address but j wardrobe at roomstone.org
01:23:43.100 he would be he'd be happy to get his countrymen uh all dialed in so we do have members of canada
01:23:50.620 as well as australia united kingdom denmark spain italy sweden norway and russia
01:24:07.260 And Argentina and Belize
01:24:15.360 Worldwide
01:24:18.220 There you go
01:24:19.660 I apologize for our
01:24:22.440 Belizean Argentinian
01:24:25.540 membership
01:24:26.140 for neglecting you in that
01:24:28.360 My bad
01:24:29.660 To be fair the Belizean is
01:24:32.220 actually a Canadian family
01:24:33.780 Ah. It's a technicality. So, is there ever any interaction between our gods and those of other pantheons?
01:24:48.660 i don't know um it's an interesting question and it depends on what you mean
01:24:59.880 we've gone through on this show numerous times that our gods are the north the north expression
01:25:08.860 of the aryan pantheon of gods that looks different in different descendant cultures
01:25:15.280 view that they're different geography linguistic tradition and experience over millennia with the
01:25:23.360 gods they know them with slightly different stories or different nomenclature but these
01:25:29.920 are the area gods that said do they interact with uh mongoloid or negroid gods or aboriginal gods
01:25:41.200 or things that way i don't know i suppose that's fun to think about that's certainly not something
01:25:46.800 that's discussed or attested in our lore i can't say that they do or they don't um but
01:25:57.280 i don't have reason to believe that they do um and i think that our existence is completely
01:26:05.360 and totally separate in a spiritual and theological way from the relationship to other
01:26:16.640 other creatures on earth and their relationship with their uh their conception of divinity
01:26:24.160 so we try to leave maximum opening for those uh those folks to determine what that is in their
01:26:33.600 in their race and in their conception of divinity and to work that out between them
01:26:39.520 and their gods. But I suppose that's not an impossibility, but it's certainly not something
01:26:45.780 that's a fundamental part of our belief structure. Oh, I've got a beard growth question. How fast
01:26:58.180 does it grow? Because it was clean on Saturday. Exactly this fast, because I have not shaved
01:27:04.200 since Saturday. This is how fast it grows. And I will extend this to you also because
01:27:16.680 I think it's an interesting question. Matt, do you think that the AFD's electoral success
01:27:22.540 in germany or in german elections speak to the slow revival of german pride almost like
01:27:29.700 owen slowly making himself in them within the german folk
01:27:33.240 yes i think it's a symptom of that or i think it's an expression of that in a lot of different
01:27:39.800 ways i think that you can watch with a lot of different social and political movements
01:27:48.220 in europe and in other white populations of
01:27:53.340 a desire to reassert power reassert pride in themselves reassert
01:28:03.140 tradition and dignity and i do think that that's part of a spiritual awakening i don't think that
01:28:11.200 necessarily is specific to you know anybody's political platform but i think as a as a general
01:28:18.400 rule an embracing of a more traditional more pride in oneself and one's nation and one's race
01:28:26.640 that awakening amongst our folk is a is a beautiful thing to see to the extent that
01:28:31.680 we see it i do think that's probably a reflection of it alan do you have thoughts on that
01:28:35.680 much the same as what you said um i certainly take it as a hopeful sign that um that maybe the
01:28:46.320 blood libel has finally expended itself and we're back in a point where we can
01:28:52.560 have pride of place in our own nations and our own civilization um
01:28:58.160 You know, and I don't follow it extremely closely, but, you know, I've certainly watched, you know, with growing hope as that, you know, as populism has begun to finally take hold again in Europe, you know.
01:29:25.240 So and again, if you if you look at it in a historical way, it was it was always, you know, immigration was always closely monitored and tightly vetted.
01:29:41.320 But it's only been in the last few years and accelerating over the last five or ten that these mass waves of immigration are allowed into the United States and into Europe.
01:29:57.680 It's based on an utterly wrong notion of history, utterly and entirely wrong notion of sociology.
01:30:07.780 so yeah hopefully
01:30:12.380 AFD can gain a
01:30:16.480 toehold
01:30:17.200 I forget what the party
01:30:20.340 is in France, Le Pen's
01:30:22.140 movement
01:30:22.940 but you know man
01:30:25.360 we need
01:30:27.760 something
01:30:29.320 Trump's election of course
01:30:32.400 was a kind of hopeful sign for
01:30:34.320 many of us who wanted to staunch the bleeding
01:30:36.160 here as well
01:30:37.000 He's made some mistakes lately, but, you know, the idea of protecting your own civilization from rampant infiltration by those who are vowed to overturn it does not seem like a radical idea to me.
01:30:59.940 okay so i think that flows into this a little bit law speaker turnage for folk who may not
01:31:13.760 be up to snuff yet on things of the world currently how best may we help them decipher
01:31:20.600 for healthy arguments uh and people addicted to pill
01:31:29.480 people addicted to what pill pull p-i-l-p-u-l
01:31:37.080 intellectual curiosity i also don't know what that word meant and i had to look it up on the
01:31:41.640 side when i saw it come up um speaking of things that have gone kind of awry in current
01:31:47.480 administration apparently that is commentary text on the talmud
01:31:59.800 ooh uh well
01:32:07.400 that too is the subject of a potentially extensive dissertation um
01:32:12.520 you know that surprisingly I've learned a few things about the Talmudic and
01:32:27.760 second temple Judaism that surprised even me the now as far as getting a start
01:32:40.480 on
01:32:42.840 that
01:32:45.120 exploring that question
01:32:47.840 the book that I would recommend
01:32:50.040 if you're so inclined
01:32:53.540 if you want to read a book
01:32:54.720 I had actually a good friend of mine
01:32:56.300 gift me a copy of
01:32:58.500 The Culture of Critique
01:33:00.200 now
01:33:03.380 that book is
01:33:05.740 400 pages
01:33:10.240 but all you have to read is the introduction to the second edition
01:33:15.820 because in the introduction to the second edition
01:33:18.440 I can't think of the author's name now
01:33:20.840 but in the introduction to the second
01:33:23.600 and I met him recently
01:33:24.680 in the introduction to the second edition
01:33:27.320 he addresses the criticisms of the first edition
01:33:30.140 so I mean if you want to decide
01:33:33.040 if you want to read about
01:33:34.680 and have so that you can have
01:33:38.320 So, again, so that you can have structured, cogent arguments against why certain elements in Western civilization are actively working toward its destruction.
01:33:51.100 That is, you know, that is as good a resource as there is out there.
01:33:59.340 Now, again, there's lots and lots of secondary material out there.
01:34:04.420 There are many YouTube channels that brush against this question. It's finally becoming, it's finally coming around to the point that we can talk about these things in the, you know, in so-called polite society.
01:34:24.380 Um, Julie Sevilla has a pamphlet sized book on it that I've read that is a pretty good introduction.
01:34:36.280 Um, you know, or you could come to the Hoff and apply any of us with six or 12 beers and we will wax on about, uh, that sort of instruction.
01:34:49.780 Now, if you want to, interesting question, though, about videos, and I haven't looked for it in this way, but if you, but the Frankfurt School, the Frankfurt School is where these forces turned avowedly against Western civilization.
01:35:14.780 So, and I don't know that they're, and I haven't looked, but if you got on YouTube, or you might have to go to Rumble to get a, you know, to get a video that summarizes the Frankfurt School and its aims and implementation.
01:35:30.780 implementation yikes is all you can say because that's uh you know that is a
01:35:39.740 it's it's it's frightening how active and open these forces that have arrayed themselves against
01:35:50.280 western civilization how they you know they just came out and said we're gonna we're gonna destroy
01:35:57.060 the family and but you know the we're going to destroy the patriarchy because that's the thing
01:36:04.600 that keeps preventing the one world government um is patriarchal families and way we can unwind
01:36:14.020 all that stuff is by uh destroying the family by um destroying by destroying normal sexuality and
01:36:25.320 promoting um transgenderism and all the other um abnormal expressions of biology so you know
01:36:38.180 and that was like in the 1920s and so you know it's been around for 100 years you know the other
01:36:44.420 um i there's a couple of good videos that i did watch um and it's not
01:36:51.340 directly on that point
01:36:53.860 Yuri Bezmenov
01:36:56.220 was a
01:36:58.400 Russian
01:37:01.280 KGB agent who
01:37:04.100 defected and then
01:37:06.600 did like this
01:37:07.900 speaking tour where he
01:37:09.760 went around and you know and this
01:37:12.200 was like in the 1970s
01:37:14.540 I think 60s or 70s
01:37:16.100 and he
01:37:16.820 appeared on several prominent talk shows
01:37:20.440 and said, you know, here's what, here's what we have done. We've planted these seeds in
01:37:26.260 Western civilization. If you don't do something about it, your civilization is going to come to
01:37:32.140 an end. And that's what he was talking about. Deviant sexuality, rampant divorce, all these
01:37:38.720 other things that we see that is destroying the social family. Because as the, as the saying goes,
01:37:44.660 politics is downstream of culture and if you you know and if you don't have a normalized culture
01:37:51.460 if you don't have children who grow up with men in the family as guides and disciplinarians then
01:38:00.580 you're going to end up with the crazy off the rails idiocy that we see taking hold in our country and
01:38:09.940 And it, you know, I realized that it's not directly religious, but, you know, to me, all of the, everything that we do as a people is a part of our folk and our folk way.
01:38:22.340 And ultimately an expression of who we are, which also true is the natural expression of the religious faith that underlies those values.
01:38:38.720 And so the fact that the forces of chaos have been working actively to undermine those things for at least 100 years, probably longer than that, you know, it's a great wake-up call for all of us to get started on doing something about it.
01:39:01.320 did that answer the question i got i lost yeah no i think
01:39:12.600 the question heavily implies current events and
01:39:19.320 helping people sort out healthy arguments uh in opposition to uh
01:39:26.680 uh i'm assuming jewish-based arguments by the the term used there and i think it
01:39:34.680 with current events and things relating to
01:39:41.080 jewish populations influence on things that people are actually talking about now which is
01:39:47.080 nice that we can have real and open free discussion as you know was the promise of our nation
01:39:53.560 and geopolitics with Israel.
01:39:58.620 I know that a lot of people,
01:40:00.960 especially in the United States,
01:40:04.000 there's a lot of otherwise very conservative people
01:40:07.880 that their churches, their Christian churches,
01:40:11.080 have leaned heavily into Zionism
01:40:15.900 and a israel philia that has you know a lot of people are asking questions about that and i think
01:40:27.620 it's beyond just making fun or being crass i think it's it's a very real and topical discussion that
01:40:35.360 people are talking about and it is one that we're now able to have a little bit more you know as a
01:40:41.580 society more and more people are able to ask certain questions that way
01:40:45.980 based on real things yes you know i don't know if the house i'm take the question at face value and
01:40:53.500 i know especially expanded on in the talmud are a lot of strategies about um
01:41:05.100 asserting for lack of better word jewish supremacy in the world
01:41:10.060 and, you know, methods and things involved in that.
01:41:14.640 And it is something to be aware of and it is something to think about.
01:41:17.880 And, you know, he asked about best ways to help them decipher those arguments.
01:41:28.720 So, again, as we've kind of talked about on the show, read things.
01:41:34.800 Know what they're talking about.
01:41:36.340 if you know some of the most compelling and i i found this this is going to be a segue but
01:41:46.420 as a gofi doing counseling or resolving conflicts between people
01:41:56.740 it is always very difficult when it becomes a he said she said and you don't know who to believe
01:42:04.340 When you have one party telling you emphatically about their victimhood and how the other side
01:42:12.580 is the essence of evil, and you have the exact inverse coming from the other party, sorting
01:42:20.120 that out is very, very difficult.
01:42:22.680 is always a very the most informative tool is making of what judgments can you make based upon
01:42:34.280 what a party admits to doing or claims that they've done if within their own testimony
01:42:43.400 and you can see the right and wrong of the situation
01:42:48.100 that is a much more informative and more solid thing
01:42:54.880 to base your opinions and your thoughts on.
01:42:58.620 That said, I think with a fair mind, reading Jewish material,
01:43:05.620 some of which is very open about things,
01:43:09.000 is very enlightening on what you believe and what you don't believe.
01:43:12.680 I think that your argument, if you were having it with ethnic Jews, would be very different, and they may be in a really different spot about things that are good for them and might not be good for other people.
01:43:27.480 But I think it is very helpful to read that from people that may not know and may not understand their view of other groups of people around the world that are not ethnically Jews.
01:43:40.460 so the more you know and consume of that and see from you know their own writings and their own
01:43:49.180 literature on that i think that helps to get a good bearing on where that stands
01:43:57.980 um also question came in thoughts on thomas rousel of survive the jive's ritual course
01:44:15.660 alan do you have any thoughts on that
01:44:20.060 i'm not aware that he has a ritual course um you know
01:44:24.620 I know that he, generally, from what I know of Survive the Jive, he is mostly on the right track.
01:44:35.640 I haven't looked at his stuff in any great deal of detail, mostly because, like, my AusCru practice is with the AusCru Folk Assembly.
01:44:45.480 So I'm not sure what his ritual course entails.
01:44:49.980 To the extent that it agrees with our practice, I would say it's good.
01:44:54.620 to the extent that it formalizes something that is slightly different i you know i wouldn't be
01:45:00.300 offended by it i don't guess unless he has some uh you know some part of it that is
01:45:09.020 you know has displayed some markedly different understanding of our relationship to the gods
01:45:14.700 and to each other but no i i don't know don't know
01:45:20.060 so real the uncivilized i apologize i was more trying to work my way around youtube standards
01:45:28.160 yes we're obviously talking about the jews and the jews relationship with other people in the
01:45:33.540 world i think it is worth noting that there's the nation state of israel and then there's
01:45:38.300 international jewry and they're connected a lot of the time and sometimes they're not
01:45:43.100 but i think we're kind of clear on that's what we were talking about but i was trying to be
01:45:47.500 delicate and I don't want to be over much. It wasn't really so much a 501c3 issue as
01:45:53.460 it was a YouTube, not wanting to get afoul of the YouTube censors issue, but it is an
01:46:01.160 honest thing. But, well, courage is one of our virtues, so fair play. Okay, also holding
01:46:13.220 back a resource that i did not mention uh henry ford wrote a four-part series called the
01:46:19.060 international jew that i think is also an interesting and informative read on
01:46:24.740 those kind of tactics and i think it kind of stands the test of time if you take a look at
01:46:31.620 but that's it um i as far as thomas rousel survived the jive ritual course
01:46:38.980 i don't know i will say this i think that he is very well educated as far as archaeology and
01:46:50.580 um old uh you know lore source material and things i have not looked in any great deal
01:47:01.300 of detail on his course so i don't want to uh you know speak out of turn on it or criticize
01:47:10.900 something that i really don't know that much about um
01:47:17.060 i
01:47:20.900 i will say my reservations are
01:47:26.500 and i've mentioned this on program a lot of times
01:47:28.500 things gain spiritual weight oftentimes over tradition
01:47:39.820 it is surprising to me how much people notice when they go on the grounds of odin's hof
01:47:49.460 how powerful of a place it is and it wasn't that when we found it
01:47:56.100 but we've had odin's off now for 11 years and just 11 years worth of dedicated
01:48:06.640 gift cycle and ritual and participation and gathering of the folk and deep powerful devotion
01:48:14.320 there has made that place powerful we are fixing to conclude our i mean we're
01:48:25.280 However, nine months into our 32nd year as the Austrofulpa Assembly, it is built on a ritual tradition that goes back to our founder, Steve McAllen's awakening by the Allfather in 1968.
01:48:46.040 date it's not centuries it's not millennia but it is many years many
01:48:58.440 people's lifetime put into imbuing our ritual our structure our practice with a collective might
01:49:08.120 with a aminia with an egregore with a with a collective gravity to what we do
01:49:19.720 my biggest criticism of mr rousel has been a disregard for the existence of alsa true
01:49:29.960 before his you know very in the scheme of things recent involvement and his desire to reinvent the
01:49:39.560 wheel i think we are far better served building upon our existing tradition that so many people
01:49:47.720 have put blood sweat and tears and you know i don't know how you measure the weight of devotion
01:49:56.600 but tonnage of devotion into i think we're better served with that than
01:50:04.280 trying to start fresh as if we haven't established a gift cycle relationship or ritual
01:50:12.280 structure which we very much have so you know i'm going to always advocate for the austral folk
01:50:18.600 assembly's way of doing things and for learning from the afa but that's not to say there's no
01:50:24.360 value in uh thomas rousel's course i don't know like i said i think he is very well read on um
01:50:31.800 and like we use some of these terms interchangeably so i look for words on uh
01:50:39.640 ancient house of true practice certainly as it was done in the united kingdom and i think that you
01:50:45.400 know again he's a smart guy and i think he's very familiar with how people practiced house
01:50:51.480 a troop in England 15-1600 years ago I think you're better served with the AFA as far as how
01:51:04.280 folks practice house a troop now and for the last you know 50 some odd years
01:51:11.080 oh what else we got here uh how do i address these type of questions
01:51:20.500 was that you nick
01:51:26.520 okay the ghost in the machine anyways how do i address these type of questions when people
01:51:35.220 are upset because I don't support the LGBTQBS. I'm made out to look like a monster. I'm trying
01:51:44.640 to tell them it means the end of humanity. Alan, what say you? Well, again, there's a
01:51:58.160 strong subset of the people who raise that question that are just not ever going to be,
01:52:04.940 they're not going to hear you whatever argument you make um for those caught in the middle
01:52:13.180 um i think the way to say it is that um that it's called normal for a reason right like
01:52:24.300 normality should be the default setting especially for something biological like sex sex while
01:52:32.300 pleasurable is evolutionarily about procreation and procreation is only between a man and a woman
01:52:44.700 and so uh to then have sex to divert that evolutionary urge into some path other than
01:52:59.500 And its intended coupling is to display a form of mental illness.
01:53:11.480 And that was recognized for thousands of years.
01:53:14.760 And certainly the transgenderism thing is just so utterly disconnected from reality that it's hard to even form a cogent argument against it.
01:53:38.700 I did find a video, which you can probably find, I have it bookmarked, but it's the, you know, there was a study done early on when they first were allowing gay couples to adopt children.
01:53:59.920 And like the plurality, the amount of sexual predation, child abuse that goes on, and certainly not all, but it's most, maybe it's not most, but it's certainly in numbers that are astronomically higher than among straight couples, couples who adopt especially.
01:54:29.920 So the facts and statistics are that deviant sexuality is a mental illness, number one.
01:54:44.640 And number two, facts and statistics, if you can find them, because they are actively suppressed, but the facts support that conclusion.
01:54:57.220 And the other thing it goes back to, and many people just, you know, again, they're not going to hear this kind of argument, but it goes back to something that I've talked about before, which is Chesterton's fence, right?
01:55:09.480 The evolution of a culture is equally as valid as the evolution of a species, right?
01:55:22.420 The way that a culture evolves, the way that its family structure is set up, the way that its hierarchy in leadership is set up, those evolutionary responses to interior and exterior pressures are the absolute valid
01:55:52.420 means of dealing with these questions. So the fact that we addressed these questions
01:56:02.240 hundreds and thousands and millions of times over the eons, I mean, this is not something that
01:56:09.040 somebody, you know, that we, you know, that we decided, you know, in 1952,
01:56:13.540 we were going to start um oppressing these people it's it's been for the entire evolution of western
01:56:25.380 civilization um and so to to disrupt that absolutely valid response to um degeneracy
01:56:38.500 is to disrupt the entire nature of uh of what the family is for of what civilization is for
01:56:47.220 and again goes directly back to the frankfurt school why why is this even a question that's
01:56:52.820 being talked about in 2026 it's because 100 years ago our enemies set out to destroy western
01:57:01.620 civilization and that's what they're doing and this lgbtq alphabet people culture is just the
01:57:13.060 most visible at the moment is the most visible um aspect of that or one of the most visible aspects
01:57:19.700 of that and you know we and you know just as a to the extent that there are genuine homosexuals
01:57:29.460 okay i understand that i don't think that transgenderism is a thing other than
01:57:35.220 mental illness but we should not have to conform our fully evolved and functioning culture to
01:57:47.700 something the genuine expression of which is vanishingly rare actual gender dysmorphia as a
01:57:57.060 biological psychological condition is you know what like one-tenth of one percent of the population
01:58:06.020 and you know what they need to sit down shut up because this is my culture and my civilization
01:58:13.220 if you don't like it move to pakistan and see how they react to you walking around in a dress
01:58:20.980 so your concern is discussing this i'm not looking like a monster and i get that
01:58:30.180 uh oh sorry i went the other way oh no you're fine but what i'm saying is they're
01:58:39.140 the people who are rabidly in support of those degeneracies are not susceptible to reasoning
01:58:48.260 anyways but things of note all of those things are severe mental illnesses that have very severe
01:59:01.460 consequences in the i guess best case scenario those consequences are only felt by the practitioners
01:59:12.580 of those things and those consequences are dire and result in a very high suicide rate
01:59:20.980 but all too often it goes very far beyond that we've talked on this show a lot before about
01:59:28.180 gay vampirism and it's a funny title but i mean that in the sense that that particular phenomenon
01:59:36.500 is i mean i don't know that we'll ever know the true number because it's one of those things that
01:59:45.320 so often people won't admit to or it's very uncomfortable to answer honestly
01:59:50.920 but even so statistically it is shocking how often homosexuality is
02:00:00.380 a cycle of abuse from gay man to child to that person growing up with that psychological
02:00:12.820 malady and then inflicting it upon children later in life and so on and so forth
02:00:20.720 that is absolutely a thing and the same lobbies and the same groups of people that are pro
02:00:27.340 all of those things they like to add other letters and they like to talk about minor
02:00:32.760 attractive persons they like to talk about pedophilia in the 1990s when i was in high
02:00:42.280 school i was you know made fun of about you know like i'm some kind of jerk because i just don't
02:00:47.960 want gay people to have equality and let their boyfriend visit them in the hospital as next of
02:00:54.040 can of some or something no i knew it would very quickly become no then we're supposed to treat
02:01:00.540 them like gay marriage is the thing no then they're going to try to take over all of society
02:01:06.460 because they are broken within and they have a ravenous appetite for acceptance because they
02:01:13.340 are fighting against their internal nature to know that what they're doing is deviant
02:01:17.120 there's no end to the amount of celebration and acceptance they will demand because they're
02:01:23.240 seeking an external cure for something that's broken internally but that has come for our
02:01:30.560 children very quickly decades ago when i was you know being made fun of for my hard stance on this
02:01:38.760 nobody would ever thought that we would have drag queen story hour in schools and in libraries and
02:01:45.360 in places with small children nobody thought we'd have gay pride parades where
02:01:49.960 naked homosexual men would be flopping their genitals at children and in the presence of
02:01:57.220 children um none of those things things seemed like remotely something we would see happen
02:02:04.300 the idea that we would think you know that we're somehow unclear about what a man is and what a
02:02:11.000 woman is literally if you said that and when you said that it was the punch line of jokes it was
02:02:18.780 definition of insanity now it's something that's being force-fed to us um no it's it's it's terrible
02:02:28.300 thing one of the things again the consequence to children is a huge huge part of it you mentioned
02:02:33.820 people being monstrous parents that make their children a billboard for their you know proof
02:02:43.420 of liberalism to the point where they're mutilating their children
02:02:47.980 and abusing them in ways that they do not heal from
02:02:52.460 is tremendously sad. As a Goethe, I've had to counsel people who have
02:02:57.580 come to me for advice because their parents talked them into making
02:03:01.580 surgical choices that now they can't unmake and so
02:03:06.540 they're miserable and their life is forever destroyed in
02:03:10.380 very fundamental ways you're not the monster for trying to save this off and i wish that i
02:03:18.780 can give you a perfect uh method to make them know that unfortunately
02:03:25.660 many of them won't admit that or know that until it's far too late
02:03:29.820 right so a couple things hopefully i'll keep these three points in mind you know one it's like you
02:03:43.100 said it's the um you know there's that psychological malady out there called
02:03:52.540 Munchausen syndrome by proxy, where parents, usually the female, the mother, makes her child
02:04:02.900 sick in order to receive sympathy and attention from other people. I think that, you know,
02:04:13.820 I think that's portrayed in the movie The Sixth Sense, you know, where the mother makes her
02:04:21.160 daughter sick and ultimately kills her because that generates sympathy from all of her friends.
02:04:26.520 And I think all this transgender stuff, especially among, you know, junior high, elementary school,
02:04:40.240 even high school is a form of, you know, it's that Munchausen syndrome by proxy. It's exactly
02:04:45.720 what you said that you know these women have been brainwashed into thinking that this is the
02:04:56.600 thing to do and so you know my you know i'm as good i'm good it's virtue signaling
02:05:03.140 i am a good person i am so good that my child is transgender you know that's how awesome i am
02:05:10.680 It's just all total garbage.
02:05:18.020 I think if you're in a room, like if your entire family is going to just berate you, the only way to do this and not come off like a monster is just say, I'm not having this discussion.
02:05:32.640 I'm not going to talk about this with you guys.
02:05:34.660 You don't want to know what the truth is.
02:05:36.920 And so, you know, I can't remember.
02:05:43.660 There's a Latin phrase.
02:05:44.740 It's non-interferum.
02:05:46.480 You guys go be crazy on your own.
02:05:50.920 And that'll be one of two things.
02:05:52.520 They'll either, you know, say, no, we're willing to listen to you.
02:05:57.000 We want to hear your argument, in which case they have a forum for a couple of minutes.
02:06:01.360 But, you know, the facts, the statistics, the history are all bolster the fact, bolster the idea that the traditional approach to these questions is the right one.
02:06:23.420 You know, ask them, what would your grandfather say? What would your grandfather say if your daughter wanted to become a boy?
02:06:31.360 so that's a nice book in on some of this
02:06:35.840 read read old books read about history
02:06:44.500 to reinforce the world was not always like this
02:06:49.040 it's so strange to me if you were
02:06:53.160 if you were born this century
02:06:59.180 i can see by the time you're a teenager if you're in a liberal progressive household how you might
02:07:09.020 not realize no we were all pretty solid on what made a man a man and a woman a woman and you know
02:07:17.400 we we knew what genitals meant what and we all even the most liberal states but against gay
02:07:27.160 marriage except for hawaii until it was forced on us by the federal government um
02:07:36.520 you know this is related i suppose you watch tv commercials and you would assume that
02:07:44.280 a hundred percent of american couples are either gay or interracial and that you know there's like
02:07:52.200 50 gays in the country that's just not true and it wasn't true and it's so very recent
02:07:59.880 that this has just been forced as something we must accept it is something you pick up when you
02:08:07.480 read history is you know even up into like the 70s and the 80s and the 90s like no these are
02:08:15.320 all things that have been true since the dawn of of mankind it's only the last you know 20 years
02:08:23.000 or so that all of a sudden we've decided to pretend they're not true and the spread of it
02:08:30.920 is unique to our time because of the resources for the spread but you had similar lunacies in
02:08:37.960 you know the bolshevik revolution and the french revolution where people all of a sudden decide to
02:08:42.760 And just get rid of everything that society was built on.
02:08:46.360 Let's try something else.
02:08:49.840 You didn't even mention the Weimar Republic.
02:08:53.380 Yeah, there's been tremendous upheavals of these things.
02:09:00.440 One thing that is heartening is truth and nature tends to win out.
02:09:06.740 there is a clear understanding of right and wrong in a lot of things in a lot of ways that's hard
02:09:14.280 wired and when people are left to their own devices without um nefarious thumbs on the scale
02:09:23.740 we tend to revert back to what this is natural what is traditional and what makes sense that's
02:09:31.780 why those things are so timeless. But no, don't stop advocating for the right thing to do. Just
02:09:38.480 know that there's a lot of people that don't want to hear your argument and aren't willing to
02:09:45.060 listen. And I think one of the things that subconsciously makes the very loud LGBTQ lobby
02:09:53.880 so irrational is they can't afford to stop and listen to you because you make too much sense.
02:10:01.780 So if they don't keep up a steady and they'll shout you down instead of listening, well, they have to, because if they listen, even for a second, they're forced to face their own inadequacy and face the overwhelming.
02:10:18.480 that's a thing and
02:10:24.800 yeah it's gross yeah it's something we don't want to be associated with yeah it's something that
02:10:32.420 makes you ineligible for membership in the afa but on just a sadness of the thing
02:10:39.420 you have these very mentally ill people and instead of being treated for mental illness
02:10:47.800 and helped they're used as mascots for a degenerate social destruction agenda and as soon as the
02:11:02.260 cameras go off those liberals don't want to spend time with these people you know you don't see
02:11:08.520 hollywood leading men dating trans women or whatever they want to call themselves no that's
02:11:14.760 gross. Nobody wants that. But they only find that out after they make life-changing decisions that
02:11:22.400 they can't take back. That's why their suicide rate is astronomical. And they've never been in
02:11:31.440 a time where that stuff is more accepted and more championed and more cool. It's not that.
02:11:38.060 it's a deep internal thing
02:11:40.940 that they know is broken
02:11:42.200 and unfortunately we have
02:11:44.880 created a system where they make decisions
02:11:46.720 they can't unmake
02:11:47.680 and a lot of sadness
02:11:50.980 especially when it's inflicted
02:11:53.140 upon children
02:11:53.800 but
02:11:55.680 that is what it is
02:11:58.880 do we have
02:11:59.980 no, that's the questions that we have
02:12:02.680 for this evening, are there any parting thoughts
02:12:05.060 you would like to leave the floor with Alan
02:12:06.880 so i was texted a question that i uh that i just want to say yes to um
02:12:17.340 um who was the greatest villain of the 20th century and why is it winston churchill
02:12:26.500 um i would say he's in close running with woodrow wilson um and maybe fdr but um you know that just
02:12:40.340 goes to show that the people that you think the people who are touted to us as heroes um are not
02:12:48.360 I mean
02:12:51.160 ask yourself this
02:12:55.300 you know
02:12:56.160 and it took me a long time to come around
02:12:59.440 to this realization but
02:13:01.200 like if
02:13:02.220 Britain won World
02:13:05.380 War II
02:13:06.160 how did
02:13:08.800 Russia end up owning
02:13:11.380 all of Eastern Europe
02:13:13.620 and
02:13:14.840 Britain withdrew from all
02:13:17.340 of its empire like if they're the winners shouldn't shouldn't Britain have had Poland
02:13:24.560 and Czechoslovakia and Hungary I mean
02:13:28.520 it is patently absurd to have those two thoughts in the same head right that's cognitive dissonance
02:13:41.380 to say we won and then we gave up
02:13:44.880 all these countries
02:13:49.160 and if you look at the history of how
02:13:53.580 World War II started the
02:13:56.420 Churchill's certainly the lead villain and all of that
02:14:01.600 and the way that World War I
02:14:05.640 ended up is all Woodrow Wilson's fault
02:14:09.220 and
02:14:11.380 FDR exacerbated a downturn of the business cycle to create the quasi-socialist economy that we have now.
02:14:30.200 FDR is not a hero. He's a villain.
02:14:32.800 And, you know, okay, here's an interesting aside, right?
02:14:41.340 And knowing history, and I don't know that anybody else has really talked about this very much,
02:14:48.040 but, you know, recently Donald Trump went to Japan in order to try to get support from the Japanese government for the Iran war.
02:15:02.800 And he was publicly said that, well, you know, the Iranians are cutting off your oil supply.
02:15:16.040 And, you know, when someone who, when someone, when a country is actively depriving you of the resources that you need for your survival and for the survival of your economy and for your culture, then you are absolutely justified in attacking them.
02:15:42.420 Okay?
02:15:46.040 Do you know why that is so paradoxical or ironic?
02:15:50.300 Whichever what it is, I get those two.
02:15:52.060 They overlap.
02:15:52.960 You know why that's so ironical?
02:15:58.580 Because that's exactly what we were doing to the Japanese in the 1940s.
02:16:04.380 And that's why they bombed Pearl Harbor.
02:16:06.180 because the american fleet was keeping japan from getting the fuel and material that it needed
02:16:17.300 for its economy so you know i don't know whether you trump is playing 4d chess like some people
02:16:28.080 think he is.
02:16:32.620 But, you know, for him to make
02:16:34.220 that statement in an
02:16:36.360 unironic way, I'm just not
02:16:38.140 sure
02:16:38.460 how things
02:16:42.260 continue to make sense.
02:16:45.100 I think so many people
02:16:46.100 are just so big in the picture.
02:16:51.580 No, it's
02:16:52.580 but it's kind of the purpose
02:16:54.200 of this show. So many people are
02:16:56.380 what they've learned of history that's been fed to them just isn't true.
02:17:03.460 And without the intellectual curiosity to challenge some of these things,
02:17:09.500 we find ourselves in some of the situations we're in.
02:17:12.720 You mentioned all the evils of Churchill.
02:17:16.380 He was responsible for that naval blockade you mentioned at the end of the First World War
02:17:20.600 that starved hundreds of thousands of Germans.
02:17:23.780 that was his job in the navy that was his thing he advocated for
02:17:30.240 um we have a couple of other questions that popped in one was matt what kind of wine is that
02:17:39.440 it is california heritage sweet red
02:17:44.800 there's a young wine it's a sweet wine there's a screw-off top wine
02:17:54.560 So probably got a really nice price point on it.
02:18:00.140 And Alan, do you have thoughts on meditations by Emperor Marcus Aurelius
02:18:07.160 and Stoic philosophy in general?
02:18:13.000 I have read and contemplated the thoughts of Marcus Aurelius.
02:18:18.680 I think they are magnificent.
02:18:21.000 I think it's a shame that our folk in ancient time did not have more access to ink and vellum so that they could record their thoughts and attitudes for posterity.
02:18:43.040 It would have looked a lot like the ideals of Marcus Aurelius.
02:18:51.000 I consider myself to some degree a Stoic because I think it is about dealing with life as it comes and not being, although I'm also, you know, sort of romantic.
02:19:03.320 But to the extent that I know and understand it, and I don't know, like, I couldn't define stoicism in a very precise way as opposed to some of the other ideologies and philosophies that revolve around similar ideas.
02:19:23.060 But I think stoicism is a is a very valid, very worthwhile approach to to the ways of dealing with life, the universe and everything.
02:19:40.280 I think
02:19:42.720 Mark
02:19:44.420 has a lot of valid things to say
02:19:46.540 about the human condition and about how to
02:19:48.400 deal with your own
02:19:49.820 crazy stuff that comes up in your
02:19:52.460 head because that's really you know they were he was
02:19:54.360 writing that to himself
02:19:55.820 you know he would write down you know
02:19:58.260 I need to do I need to
02:20:00.020 be better about not being
02:20:02.260 angry at small things
02:20:04.020 and you know that's exactly the right way
02:20:06.400 to approach the universe
02:20:08.700 the emperor was a genius um i think that specifically meditations was really really
02:20:18.480 good i think other stoic philosophy first took it too far i don't like stoicism in the sense of
02:20:29.000 removing oneself from participation in the world around oneself i don't think emotions are bad i
02:20:36.940 think having a mastery of self to where you are not at the whim of emotionality all the time
02:20:48.300 is very important and i think there's a distinction between like not being affected
02:20:55.260 or not feeling emotions versus not allowing those emotions to
02:21:02.300 dictate your action and your behavior unchecked i think that's very important and i think that any
02:21:13.420 of us that read meditations and give it thought see a lot of application for that in the world
02:21:23.820 around us and in our existence in the world especially when we deal with things that are
02:21:30.060 beyond our control or certainly beyond our direct control there is a empowerment in
02:21:37.260 discipline and control of oneself even and especially when you have limited control
02:21:43.900 of the world around you and the things that stir your emotions in an unpleasant way
02:21:54.060 so yeah there you have it
02:21:56.940 next week we have a special Speckinger Trent East episode it is the fifth week
02:22:08.400 of the month and he's got something special for you so please tune in to
02:22:12.240 that Alan thank you so much for joining me once again and look forward to
02:22:17.880 talking to you as you give us your adulting wisdom next month Nick thank
02:22:24.700 you for all that you do good folk listening to this program thank you for working so hard to
02:22:31.220 make the afa so successful it is a it is an awesome thing that you have uh you have turned
02:22:38.160 the wheel for all of us well thank you for saying so uh it means a lot um i am very very blessed
02:22:48.060 that i have the opportunity to to affect things that way it's uh something very special i've
02:22:53.740 been entrusted with and I appreciate it every day of my life. Nick, thank you for your efforts
02:22:58.600 on making this happen and everybody out there, go out and read a book. Go out there and read
02:23:06.800 a non-fiction book preferably and acquaint yourself with your history and stay intellectually
02:23:12.700 curious. Learn things that you don't know. Take a deeper dive in things you thought you
02:23:20.880 Until next time, hail the ICER, hail the folk, hail the AFA, and remember, victory never
02:23:29.140 sweeps.
02:23:50.880 We'll be right back.
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