00:00:00.000hello thank you guys for joining me again this month um i'm excited i'm shocked the
00:00:19.960year's going by as fast as it is but i am excited to spend the evening with you guys
00:00:25.100here and then a couple hours after i get off here i'm getting on a plane and i'm heading to
00:00:32.140fall fest in minnesota the first ever fall fest at balder's hof i'm extremely excited about it
00:00:39.260it's going to be a great event everybody's coming out we're getting you know this probably is going
00:00:44.220to be our biggest attended fall fest yet so i'm really excited really excited to show off to the
00:00:50.140people haven't been there are our beautiful new hoff to balder um yeah if you are if you are in
00:00:57.580the area please reach out please reach out um on here or to any of the area folk builders brandy
00:01:05.180callahan those people will get you set up if you can at all make it there's still time but uh yeah
00:01:12.300we'd love to see you guys out there if you can't make it to balder's off or even if you can uh
00:01:18.220coming up in october we have winter nights in the poconos this will be the 10th winter
00:01:22.700nights in the poconos it's amazing we love the camp we do it at it's a great time of year it's
00:01:28.060it's a really great event um looking forward to that as well so if you can or if you can't
00:01:34.540make it to baldershoff this weekend please do what you can to make it out to winter nights
00:01:40.140next month. We'd love to see you there in Pennsylvania. Um, so we got a lot of stuff
00:01:53.860going on in the AFA in the past little bit here. Um, it's been amazing to watch all the
00:01:59.720pictures. Everybody's fray faxy events. It's been fantastic. Everybody's been really, really
00:02:04.600active this last month. I'm doing a lot of good things. Something to, I hope you guys caught the
00:02:14.200interview I did on the Expedition Truth internet radio program. It was a great interview. The host
00:02:21.740Reverend Ashcraft did a great job. Those people were excellent hosts and it's a neat program if
00:02:27.760you want to check it out. It's live on Thursdays and they've got, you know, they've got replays
00:02:32.260whenever you want to listen to it. But I have been invited back on the program. I believe that'll be
00:02:39.560Thursday, the 23rd of this month. And I'm looking forward to that. Like I said, those people were
00:02:45.440great last time. It's really nice to do an interview about Ausatru and about what we believe
00:02:51.260and about our values. And I think this next one is going to focus on Ausatru ethics. So I'm looking
00:02:56.640forward to talking to his audience. And yeah, stop on by and join us there if you'd like to.
00:03:09.120So as always, guys, go ahead and pop your questions up in the chat, and I will do my
00:03:15.000best to get to them and answer them as best as I can. I'm driving Mandy and some other people a
00:03:23.900little bit nuts. And the reason is because I'm extremely excited about moving ahead with New
00:03:30.820York's Hoff. And, you know, one thing that always gets asked in these, these live chats is how we're
00:03:37.460doing on that next Hoff, where that project is at. Well, I am very happy to say that this is moving
00:03:45.500forward faster than I think a lot of folks thought was possible. We had kind of a three-stage
00:03:53.840process to getting yours off. The first stage was to pay off the additional loan amount that
00:04:05.060we had still outstanding for the last two offs. You guys have been extremely generous. We paid
00:04:09.940that off. Second piece was we needed to make sure that we were making enough every month to
00:04:16.900to support the Hoffs because there's an initial expense obviously in getting a Hoff
00:04:24.160but there's all kind of monthly bills that we take for granted and don't think about like
00:04:28.840insurance and garbage and electricity and heating or cooling and things like that
00:04:37.740but you guys have been great we've done that too we have one remaining thing and this is
00:04:43.260this is the big one. Securing the funding with some folks to be willing to either co-sign or
00:04:51.100loan us money to get the initial payout for putting money down on Yordshoff. We have, I'm
00:04:59.440happy to say as of this broadcast, actually as of a couple of weeks ago now, maybe a week and a half
00:05:05.040ago, we have secured from several sources the money to go ahead and move forward. So right now
00:05:13.040we're in the process of looking at, uh, looking at and doing walkthroughs actually of Hoff
00:05:18.180properties. So we've done two, uh, say we, our folks in the area have done two walkthroughs so
00:05:25.380far. And on one of the properties, we've got a contractor slash appraiser going out to, uh,
00:05:33.000to check that out and evaluate what that looks like a little bit more. So we're moving ahead.
00:05:38.200We're moving ahead really quickly. The reason that we're able to do that is you guys have
00:05:42.380been really generous and really enthusiastic in your support. And from the bottom of my heart,
00:05:47.200thank you very much. I appreciate it. Your AFA family appreciates it. And I know that Njordr,
00:05:55.080he appreciates it. This is the first Hoff. Certainly it's the first Hoff dedicated to0.95
00:06:01.860Njordr in a thousand years. I'm not sure of any archaeological evidence of Hoffs before then or
00:06:11.060when those might be i'm certain that he had temples at one point but this is the first that
00:06:16.180we know about it's the first in a thousand years and it's certainly the first in the western
00:06:20.560hemisphere so this is a huge thing and it's really exciting thing to be a part of and to share with
00:06:25.160you guys all right well we got lots of folks in the chat does anybody have any questions tonight
00:06:35.920or anything they want to, I don't know, hear me talk to them about.
00:06:50.080Trying to think a little bit about what we've got going on.
00:06:57.820One thing that I uploaded right before this chat tonight, while on the topic of New York's Hoff, we have special limited edition T-shirts that we're selling for $30 a piece.
00:07:13.680It's not $30 for the T-shirt, it's $30 for the donation to New York's Hoff and making it happen, and then you get a T-shirt.
00:07:21.900so the idea i know 30 is a lot for a t-shirt but the idea is to to raise a little bit of
00:07:26.620money to help this project it's a great idea this was given to us by the generosity of
00:07:32.300uh one of our folk builders tim dumas in ohio this was his baby and uh he wanted to donate
00:07:40.060these shirts to us so that we could raise some money for for nyorder and for his hof so that's
00:07:45.980what we're doing we've already sold some of those so get them while they're available because they
00:07:50.300They are limited edition. Appreciate you guys. It's on the store at www.runestone.org.
00:08:02.460There we go. Yep, Tim, those shirts went on sale.
00:08:06.380I want to say 25 minutes ago. We already sold four.
00:08:13.700there are some lovely shirts indeed Anna I am bringing yours and Jason's up to you when I
00:08:24.280when I see y'all this weekend at fall fest
00:08:27.440as of this broadcast this very moment the ask well we got somebody on the side asking how many
00:08:39.700members the AFA has. As of right now, we have 721 members.
00:08:51.940Joel, if you put in your order before I leave here, I can go ahead and pack you up a shirt as well.
00:08:57.680hmm okay we've got a question about when the new hof njords hof happens how's that going to change
00:09:10.860our current folk building districts for those of you that may not know um we've got the world split
00:09:17.840up right now into three regions corresponding with each of our three hofs our international
00:09:23.680members are kind of shuffled in there the best way they can it doesn't always you know work the best
00:09:29.440for our international folks until we start having some international hoffs but as it is now folks
00:09:34.320in the west and in the mountain regions of the united states all the way up alaska australia
00:09:39.280new zealand hawaii as well are in odenshoff region right through the middle of the country
00:09:45.120up into the middle of canada and all of south america currently are in the baldershoff district
00:09:50.960and then east of the mississippi and including um illinois our european members and our folks
00:09:59.200in south africa are in our thorshoff region with njortzhoff going in in florida it's going to
00:10:07.040change that up a little bit odentopf's going to remain exactly the same um let me look at my map
00:10:13.520here to lay it out for you on what the new hoff reed our new hoff district i'm sorry we used to
00:10:19.600divide the af afa but the afa up by region but since we're doing the hoffs it's districts and
00:10:26.880it takes me a little while to get used to the new nomenclature on it um so new york's hoff will
00:10:34.000encompass florida georgia alabama mississippi louisiana texas oklahoma and arkansas as well as
00:11:17.280thank you Jason I appreciate that when did the AFA get rolling the AFA got rolling
00:11:40.500in 1996 i'm sorry 1995 in january at the beginning of the year in 1995 the afa started
00:11:52.900we just celebrated our 25th anniversary we've been around for almost 27 years now
00:12:03.300um okay we've got connor asking what's the status on an
00:12:07.300house true version of of scouts for our kids uh status is we've got kids too far spread out now
00:12:16.100families in the afa have really taken off i'd say in the last six years we've had just this huge boom
00:12:22.580of families and new babies being born into the afa trouble is so far geographically we don't have
00:12:29.780a big enough number of kids in a comparable age bracket to make up something that looks like a
00:12:36.020traditional scouting structure we're certainly open to that we look forward to that when we get
00:12:40.900people closer together where that's more of a real thing we have been talking to some of our people
00:12:46.340about some kind of at a distance stuff you could do but one of the best things about scouting is
00:12:52.820interacting with the other kids and really getting that that interaction so until we've got the right
00:13:00.660age range of children in the right areas that's going to be on hold for a little bit but it is
00:13:05.460something we would love to do in the future when it's when it's a feasible thing
00:13:13.940um so we got do we have contacts in iceland every now and again we'll get uh somebody that reaches
00:13:20.100out to us from iceland uh not a ton we certainly don't have contacts in in their official uh
00:13:27.300aussitur over there uh they are very they're coming from a very very different place and
00:13:34.340they're very differently oriented than we are but some icelanders who want to authentically worship
00:13:40.180our gods have reached out to us we have talked to those people we don't currently have any members
00:13:44.580in iceland but if you're listening and you're in iceland we'd love to have you join our afa
00:13:48.180family and have you be part of what we're doing that's great that you would like to see a hof
00:13:56.340in newfoundland we would we would love to see that too we'd love to get a hof in every state
00:14:01.140and every province um we would certainly need to to beef up our membership there and if you know
00:14:08.740folks and if you want to be a part of what we're doing we would love to have more canadian members
00:14:13.780trouble is we get uh population in canada is so spread out that when we get a canadian member
00:14:20.740and we have some very successful areas a lot of it in british columbia we've got some
00:14:24.580good folks in ontario but when we get uh canadian members they find themselves alone
00:14:30.660and then they kind of drift away and if they stuck around and helped us they'd be around when
00:14:35.060that next guy joins and we could we could build a solid base to grow from so we'd love to see
00:14:39.940that in canada and yeah as soon as we get a good enough mass of folks up there to support it we'd
00:14:46.420love to have a hof up there how many members in scandinavia um
00:15:00.020So, without trying to run a search here while I'm running this with everybody, I'm going to go ahead and say that we have approximately 25, 30 members in Scandinavia currently.
00:15:30.020Okay, we got, we got Dracula asking, what's the AFA's position on animal sacrifice and
00:15:41.400why I think that's sacrifices have decreased over time.
00:15:50.100So fundamentally, the AFA doesn't have a great, a great problem with animal sacrifice.
00:15:57.780say one of the reasons that folks don't do that in this day and age is because we're very few of us
00:16:07.340are involved in the raising of livestock back in the time of our ancestors livestock was a was a
00:16:14.300common profession of of so many of our people and people were very connected to that there was a lot
00:16:19.960of herdsmanship and that was that was very connected to people's livelihood in their daily
00:16:24.040life. That certainly has decreased over time. Obviously, in the intervening thousand years of
00:16:31.560Christianity, we've, as a people, become very unfamiliar with that idea. And when people talk
00:16:38.040about animal sacrifice, I think they mean a lot of different things. So let me clarify, the AFA
00:16:44.280is certainly okay with the humane and responsible slaughtering of an animal for a sacred purpose.
00:16:52.160and as our ancestors always did you take that animal and then you share it in a feast amongst
00:16:57.940the folk um the difference between that and the dinner that most of us certainly all of us who
00:17:05.660are are not vegetarians eat is that that animal would be slaughtered in a sacred environment in
00:17:11.580a sacred way with with holiness to it and then uh shared amongst the folk as opposed to you know
00:17:19.360know in a factory farm setting like so much of our meat comes from but i think people become very
00:17:24.480distant from that um just in the past few few generations here in the united states and and
00:17:31.120in europe few people hunt anymore few people fish so many of us now have very little connection to
00:17:40.000the food that we consume or to the act of of taking a life so that we can eat and i think
00:17:46.080that that's made us quite disconnected from you know the the headspace of our ancestors when
00:17:51.600they performed animal sacrifices got a question about the homeschooling project how's that coming
00:18:02.720along slowly slowly but surely we've had a lot of great people working on that brandy callahan
00:18:09.440has made some progress we now have some significant resources certainly for kindergarten age students
00:18:16.080and we're working on building that up it is going slowly but it is moving forward and i love seeing
00:18:22.280that i know we've got very many of you interested i know especially in the situation we're facing
00:18:27.240the world today so many of us don't want to have our children in public schools and are very
00:18:33.120concerned about that myself included so we're working hard on it and we're going to keep pushing
00:18:38.060that forward if you want to volunteer you want to help or you want to take part in in those
00:18:42.440resources please reach out to brandy callahan b callahan at runestone.org she would love to have
00:18:50.600help and she'd be happy to to share with you what we have so far
00:18:56.440Okay, we have somebody mentioning that they feel like they're walking on eggshells talking about
00:19:13.320how's true with Europeans because Europeans tend to be so very liberal. I completely understand
00:19:19.240that. Europeans tend to be much more liberal, and people who identify as pagans in Europe are
00:19:28.960extremely liberal often. But our AFA membership that we found are not that way. I've been
00:19:36.000fortunate enough to travel to Europe twice now with the AFA, once to Denmark and once to Sweden.
00:19:43.440And the folks we ran into there and our membership there are not like those folks.
00:19:47.480they tend to have traditional values and be very traditional people. And we've got some great folks
00:19:53.380over there. It's hard and you got to know where to find them, but there's some great
00:19:57.000Asitru in Europe and I'd encourage more of them to join us. But yeah, I see what you're saying
00:20:02.940and it is difficult. We've all probably had negative experience with Europeans that claim
00:20:08.400to be Asitru and have values quite askew to ours.1.00
00:20:17.480Tim, everybody's loving your shirts. They look great. I'm excited. I'm glad you guys are coming out and supporting Yord and getting those shirts. Thank you so much. And thank you, Tim, for making that possible for us.
00:20:31.980Great. We got somebody in the chat that's going to show up to Baldershoff this weekend.
00:20:46.920it's a good point so one of our folk builders uh pointed out in the in the chat wanted me to touch
00:21:05.580on this we live in a really important time we have the ability now to set patterns of growth
00:21:16.480for the for the future of our folk for our children for our grandchildren for our grandchildren's
00:21:21.600grandchildren we're in a time now where we're establishing these hoffs we're building this
00:21:27.520afa and making something truly amazing and we're planting seeds for the trees that are
00:21:33.920our grandchildren will be able to take shade under sometimes literally that's what we're doing
00:21:38.480it was a huge thing for me. I had coming into Austertru when I did, been Austertru for about
00:21:49.12020 years. The dream of having Hoff, a Hoff, one Hoff was this distant goal in the future that0.91
00:21:57.340maybe someday we could have. I wanted that so bad for myself. I wanted it for us. I wanted it for0.95
00:22:04.360the future. And to be living in a time where we have three, almost soon to be four Hoffs was0.50
00:22:12.300really special on this last year to watch my daughter. She's been able to make it to two of
00:22:18.080our Hoffs so far, but to watch her playing at Odin's Hoff out in the, out in the yard of that
00:22:23.800property. And it just, it just dawned on me like this, we're living the dream. My daughter grows
00:22:30.760up in a world, and she'll never know a world that doesn't have Hoffs to our gods. That's a really
00:22:36.260special time that we're part of, and we're building that for the future, and we're doing it together,
00:22:42.340and I'm excited to share that with you guys. I'm excited to be part of that with you guys.
00:22:55.000We do not have a motto locked down for New York's Hoff yet. It's something those guys have talked
00:23:00.140about. We've had a few, few locals there with some suggestions. If you've got ideas or suggestions,
00:23:05.720you can reach out to Lane Ashby. He's our point man on it. He's also in the chat tonight.
00:23:13.380And yeah, he can, he already did respond over there.
00:23:17.040Henry, I will try to remember to bring your shirt to, to fall fest. If you remember to send me an email about it, you've got a better chance of me remembering.
00:23:33.040a membrane. Okay, we have somebody asking if there's any thoughts or plans on establishing
00:23:46.680or preserving groves. Not at this time. Not opposed to that, certainly, and I think there's
00:23:55.660opportunity for that. I think so far we've, though I don't know of any sacred groves that
00:24:02.860we've had dedicated in a very long time. Our folk have been able to practice Ausatru in nature and
00:24:10.920in the woods a lot. And that's great. And I hope folks continue to do that. The real change is for1.00
00:24:17.720the first time in a thousand years, we're able to practice with actual temples, with actual
00:24:23.900Hoffs to our gods. So that's certainly our focus right now. But no, I think it'd be great if people
00:24:30.500had some groves. And I think there's a lot of beautiful things you could do with a grove space
00:24:35.160for worship. So there's no plans for that right now, but I don't think that's a bad idea at all.
00:24:42.500Crystal makes a good point. We do have outdoor worship spaces at some of our
00:25:00.380Hoffs, and it depends on what we're doing. At Odin's Hoff, we have a great ritual
00:25:03.840outside, and it's surrounded by beautiful redwoods. I don't know if it doesn't count
00:25:08.780as a grove per se, but we do have a space out there to worship our gods amongst amazing,
00:25:15.700amazing redwoods and amongst the trees and in that nature space. And I know a lot of us have
00:25:21.120come up worshiping the gods out in nature. Certainly when I lived in Alaska, there was a lot
00:25:25.720of times that we did bloat and ritual outside in just majestic surroundings. And there's something
00:25:33.340very, very special to that. Roger, thanks for asking. The fires always encroach on Odin's
00:25:50.760Hoff and they always get close. It seems like every year we've got fires within 10 to 20
00:25:56.160miles of the Hoff. Fortunately, we've been very lucky. Not only have we been lucky, but
00:26:02.060believe that we've been blessed and odin's office has been spared and been safe for the fires not
00:26:06.540only has it been safe for the fires but we have used it as a space when people are forced to
00:26:11.500evacuate from their homes in california that they can come and take shelter at odin's off
00:26:18.140it also is a space that the folks there in brownsville have used as a staging area for
00:26:23.580fighting fires so it's as far as things go in that area it's pretty well well defended
00:26:32.060But yeah, every one of these summers until California gets it straightened out, we do have fires that get uncomfortably close to our half there.
00:26:53.940Okay, we got an interesting question over on the side.
00:26:57.280So when did you guys start doing memberships?
00:26:59.220We've been doing memberships as far as I know back to 1995. Membership model is what's allowed us to to advance and to grow and to be successful. And then he says, I'm confused about membership. Can we become a member? Just a recognized follower without a monthly payment? Or how else can we be involved? Just asking.
00:27:23.220um no right now in order to be a member and to be part of what we're doing we do need our folk
00:27:29.600to contribute um it's not something that a lot of our folk like to hear or that everybody's
00:27:38.000very comfortable with but money lets us do things it's how we can grow it's how we can have these
00:27:44.880hoffs it's how we can be a force in the world and it's not just money but a lot of the dues
00:27:49.740is about commitment we have people putting when there's a value on something and they're
00:27:54.620contributing to something it's a lot more real and we find a lot higher level of participation
00:28:01.740but what instead of the standard membership dues model what we've done for the past few years
00:28:07.420that's very important and been a huge key to our success has been the hoff toller the idea with the
00:28:13.100hoff toller is that you're paying a minimum of one percent of your income now we have some people
00:28:18.300paying significantly more than that to help. And it's very appreciated. But if somebody's in an
00:28:24.040economic situation where the membership dues right now start at $10 a month, and if $10 a
00:28:31.120month is more than 1% of your income and you're having a hard time, 1% is 1%. 1% of a dollar is
00:28:38.400a penny. So there's ways to, if you're struggling, there's ways to do things very differently.
00:28:44.680um but yeah we do we do ask for our members to be contributing members that are that are helping us
00:28:51.000move forward that way okay Cody's asking how can anyone help with building our fame and our luck
00:29:05.980um with those who haven't come home yet a lot of things first participating in the AFA and being
00:29:13.840part of what we're doing, helping us get these Hoffs going is a huge thing to the world to see
00:29:18.940that we're real, that we exist, that we have a tangible presence here in Midgard. That's huge.
00:29:26.160If you are known as an AFA member and people associate you with the AFA and with AUSA True,
00:29:31.100one of the best things you can do is be a noble, good person. Be somebody that we would all be
00:29:39.000proud of. If you look a little bit better than the guy next to you, if you're a little bit nicer,
00:29:45.080if you treat people a little bit better, if you say, sir and ma'am, please and thank you,
00:29:49.400if you have manners, if you do simple things, but if you always try to be your best and try
00:29:56.520to present yourself the best, it helps all of us grow in our luck and our fame. And it helps bring
00:30:02.060people on the outside that haven't found ousetree yet. It helps bring those people home because
00:30:07.280when you're successful and you're happy and you're doing good things and you got a happy healthy
00:30:11.920family they want a piece of what you have they want to know how you've been able to accomplish
00:30:16.320that and if you can you know honestly tell them that the austro folk assembly and also true and
00:30:20.960our gods have have made that a part of your life or allowed you to make that part of your life
00:30:26.800that's powerful and it's brought so many people home to the austro true folk assembly
00:30:31.520and the more you do it the more of our folk are going to come home and not only are they going
00:30:35.920going to come home and swell the AstroFolk assembly, but they're going to have better
00:30:40.000lives. They're going to have better families. They're going to have better relationships.
00:30:43.900They're going to feel better about themselves, and they're going to accomplish more.
00:30:47.560So always do your best and always represent the AFA as best as you can.
00:30:52.520oh absolutely you can contribute yearly um either through the hoftoller like i mentioned can be a
00:31:08.120yearly thing or your membership dues can be done yearly absolutely whatever works best for you that
00:33:19.540who's struggling who's hungry who needs food and it's made such a positive impact on the community
00:33:27.940but so a couple of things about that not only is it a great thing for the community
00:33:34.420and something that really does help people who are in need but it helps us um
00:33:43.140think in the world that we find ourselves in i think a lot of people feel this way
00:33:47.060there's there's all these huge problems and in a really big sense there's a lot of things in
00:33:52.100the world that aren't the way that we want them and there's a lot of things that we're frustrated
00:33:56.660by that we really don't have an accessible way to fix and so we're stuck with with that
00:34:03.700need inside to try to make stuff better well when you go and you hand out food to poor people that
00:34:09.060are hungry you are literally making something better you are doing something and to be part
00:34:15.860of that and to make their day to help feed their families and their children it's a big thing and
00:34:23.060you feel good you feel good doing it and it's something for us in a holy context at our hof
00:34:29.300with our folk with our afa family to be part of that and part of helping these people is an
00:34:34.020amazing thing it's very important to us to be noble it's what the word arian means is it means
00:34:42.580shining with nobility it's not just some kind of inner nobility but you're noble and other people
00:34:47.700can see it you're shining with nobility and for us to help out in our communities and to be good
00:34:53.460neighbors says something about who we are says something about who we aspire to be and it shows
00:35:00.020our neighbors that we're a good part of your community that we're good people that do good
00:35:04.980things and that's been great now um at thor's hoff and at balder's hoff we also do monthly
00:35:12.740food distributions that's helped both of those hoffs in murdoch and in linden it's helped those
00:35:21.460communities and families in those communities eat and as soon as we get in york's hoff we're
00:35:26.260going to do food distribution there as well something else that we do um around yule time
00:35:32.340we try to have a, we collect toys and give toys away to local children and have them in for some
00:35:39.660cookies and some hot chocolate and some story time and some Yule things. Unfortunately, there's a lot
00:35:45.920of kids out there that may not get a present because the families may not be able to afford it
00:35:49.740or they may, you know, may not get a lot of that Yule spirit. And so we're going to do our part,
00:35:56.080be the best we can to spread that around and to to cheer up some kids at Yule and give them a present, put a smile on their face, put something warm in their belly.
00:36:05.980And yeah, we're looking forward to doing that. We also have talk that we may do some fall things this year as well.
00:36:11.220Some like Halloween harvest time carnival things. So we're looking into that also.
00:36:26.080So somebody asked if it's an encouraged thing for people to post marketing stuff like flyers
00:36:51.840and stuff on bulletin boards. Yes, but be very careful. We would love that, absolutely, but
00:36:59.660make sure you're doing it in a place that it's welcome. We don't want to post things on bulletin
00:37:04.940boards in places that are not used for that publicly. We certainly don't want to litter.
00:37:09.260We don't want to become a nuisance, but if there's any spot that's welcome for those kind of community
00:37:13.560posts, absolutely. We would love, you know, any opportunity that you can, either written or
00:37:18.920with word of mouth, talk about the AFA, encourage people that should be with us to become here with
00:37:25.320us, to be part of what we're doing, to become members of the AFA. And yeah, we appreciate
00:37:29.880a thought on that, certainly. Well, J-Link, you can't buy handsome. So if you got that,
00:37:53.060you're ahead of the game. Money comes, money goes. As long as you got the good looks,
00:37:57.040you're ahead of the game on that. Good luck to you, and I hope you make that income to get a
00:38:02.980woman and some babies, too. Sorry, guys, just looking on the side, catching up with our
00:38:17.220conversation here, making sure I'm answering everything that I can.
00:38:27.040Looks like you guys are having a good conversation over there on the side.
00:38:40.780Does anybody else have any questions or things they want to talk about tonight?
00:38:50.120I'm trying to think of some other stuff we've got going on.
00:38:53.000As of today, we've got a new apprentice folk builder in eastern Pennsylvania, Jane Malseed.
00:39:01.400Her and her family have been active AFA members for a long time.
00:39:05.100They're part of the Lansdale True Folk kindred over in that part of the world, and they're fantastic.
00:39:10.620Lansdale True Folk has Witten Clifford Erickson, Githya Katie Erickson.
00:39:17.820It's got the winner of the Folk Building Excellence Award for 2020 in Adam Hudak there.
00:39:24.820And now it's got folk builder Jane Mousied. So they're doing amazing stuff.
00:39:28.820If you're in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey area, she would love to help you get going and make some outs of truth happen there.
00:39:39.820Can I talk a little bit about Newerther?
00:39:43.820Sure. So we have every reason to believe that Njord was a very significant god to our ancestors.
00:39:56.360Not a ton of lore has come down to us, but we have reason to believe, you know, when there's just a few toasts mentioned, he's always mentioned to somebody who's toasted to.
00:40:07.720Lord is a God of of wealth and of prosperity of success so much of that to our ancestors and to
00:40:18.240us today comes from the sea and uh he's he's a God of the sea but not not in the deep scary ocean
00:40:26.180sense but in the in the welcoming sea the shore and the uh the prosperous sea that you fish in
00:40:32.260and that you extract things from and that you become wealthy from.
00:43:30.160What do I think of the Norena Society?
00:43:36.180What I think of the Norena Society and what I think of Mark Puryear are two very separate things.
00:43:40.900I have a lot of respect for Mark. He's always been a great guy. He's been great to me. He's
00:43:48.540treated me very well. I have a lot of respect for Mark Puryear personally. I'm not a fan of
00:43:54.520the Norana Society. I think it's a lot of people that would rather criticize and theorize than
00:44:04.120actually practice Ausatru. In my understanding, the vast majority of those people just sit around
00:44:09.760and bicker and pick on finer points of obscure lore and don't actually get out and worship our
00:44:18.760gods and actually get out and participate in things. I found that a lot of their membership
00:44:23.240are very cancerous, very toxic people that you don't want to be around. And so they'd rather be
00:44:28.960in their basement or their mom's basement and again, criticize the folks that are out there
00:44:34.180in the arena doing things. So I'm not a fan of arena society, but I'm a fan of Mark Perry. He's
00:44:39.720a good guy. He's a swell guy. Hmm. American Beowulf. I'm not sure I understand the question.
00:44:56.500We do not have a Hoff in Colorado yet. I would love to have one there. I'd love to see that
00:45:01.280happen. We have Odenshoff in Brownsville, California. We have Thorshoff in Linden,
00:45:07.600North Carolina. We have Baldershoff in Murdoch, Minnesota. And we're going to have Njordshoff
00:45:15.000in somewhere in the great state of Florida here sometime very soon.0.97
00:45:31.280T-shirts are going to be up until they sell out. What we've got is what we've got. So get yours now while supplies last. They're a limited time special thing to raise funds. So they'll be there until they're not. But yeah, we're going to keep them up until all of them sell.
00:46:01.280Alright, so somebody is getting a question over on the side about my thoughts on situation
00:46:18.560in Afghanistan and long term ramifications for our folk who are veterans and then moving
00:52:25.860All right, guys. Well, I have certainly enjoyed talking to you this evening.
00:52:35.360I got to get packed and get ready to head to the airport here shortly.
00:52:38.700Is there anything that you guys wanted to ask or any last things that you wanted me to speak on tonight?
00:52:45.440As always, I love doing this. I appreciate you guys being here.
00:52:49.920I look forward to talking to you guys like this every month, and I'm going to be back talking to you guys again in October, hopefully seeing a bunch of you guys here in a couple of days at Baldershoff, and hopefully seeing you guys again at Winter Nights in Pennsylvania next month.
00:53:16.360Oh, absolutely, it's possible to perform blow by yourself.
00:53:19.920A lot of us started out that way. I would go so far as say most of us did their first offerings, their first rituals, their first bloats by themselves.
00:53:33.040Once you do bloat with a group. It's not the same to do it by yourself, though, doing a doing a ritual, doing a bloat by yourself.
00:53:42.920There's a time and a place. Certainly there's personal rituals, you know, little mini bloats that I think we all do in front of our altars.
00:53:49.920by ourselves or just with our family, but it is profoundly important to us. It was profoundly
00:53:57.600important to our ancestors together with our community, with our folk, with our AFA family
00:54:03.480to stand as one before our gods and give that offering. And it's so much more powerful that
00:54:09.660way when we stand as a people. So by all means, please worship the gods, worship your ancestors,
00:54:16.640worship our heroes in in bloats by yourself in offerings by yourself but don't let that stop you
00:54:24.000from being part of the community and worshiping with a group because it's
00:54:27.680it's hard to describe if you haven't experienced it but uh that's when this becomes really real
00:54:37.000is when you're able to to be there in that ritual circle with your afa family with your tribe with
00:54:43.680your folk. It's a really special experience