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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP34 - Omens Or Coincidence? · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  podcast, enjoy hail to you all. Yes, yes, yes.
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  Hello to you all in the ladies and gentlemen.
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  All over midgard. Thank you so much for joining.
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  Me and soon-to-be us today here on this fine.
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  Fine, cool. Finally cool.
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  Autumn. Day evening morning, wherever
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  you are. Whatever time of day it is, I'm
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  projecting it to be a wonderful Autumn season and a crisp and
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  refreshing winter. I'm not the only one, I think
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  the Farmers Almanac actually predicts that it's going to be
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  one hellacious winter for the, for the North American continent
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  continent. And I welcome that with open
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  arms quite truthfully because this summer has been disgusting.
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  So yeah, back in the old normal Studio space as it were, which
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  is also my office to record this episode.
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  Last week, we had a really nice get-together, the Middle
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  Tennessee, heathens Park moot, which ended up at the case and
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  Trailhead Pavillion. One of The Pavilions there at
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  the case and Trailhead turned out to be really nice, not as
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  big of a turnout as we were expecting but still, you know,
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  enjoyable. Pleasant nonetheless got to meet
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  some new people, got to record the last week's podcast with
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  Patrick, which was awesome. If you guys haven't checked that
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  out, just go back through my catalog and you can see what it
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  is that we talked about, but it was a great time couldn't have
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  asked for, you know, much better weather and yeah, so don't know
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  what we're going to be doing for the next one because as we go
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  into the month of October, we're going to be pretty Busy between
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  my family, our tribe and the Raven, Moon Hearth folks hosting
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  their Shadow mood event here in a couple of weeks.
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  I'm going to be there, my wife, and I both be there.
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  We're actually definitely going to be there on that Saturday,
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  but we are contemplating coming in arriving on Friday night, to
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  Camp with the folks there, and then Camp Saturday night.
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  So we might even be there all weekend, so if you are coming
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  out to shout them would be sure. To say hi details for that will
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  be down in the description and the show notes of this podcast.
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  So check it out. If you're thinking about coming
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  out for that, I will be personally there to do ruin
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  readings ruin castings by the mound on the property.
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  There is a Mount there and due to the nature of the
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  celebration. This is going to be a, you know,
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  a celebration for the right around the winter nights as a
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  matter of fact, at the time that shadow me takes place, we will
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  be One week into the. Past I should say than one week
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  or so past the winter nights historical record recalling a
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  recollection of when winter nights was celebrated in
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  northern Europe and with the Scandinavian people and some
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  other Germanic tribes. So my tribe will be celebrating
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  our winter nights the week before, Shadow Moot.
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  And then shout a mood is going to be the public sort of Raven
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  Moon Hearth hosted, public event for said, thing and they're
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  going to be doing a hell bloat. Which if you want to find out
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  more about that, check out again, the description for the
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  shadow mood event, where the chieftain of their tribe.
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  Greg Strong talks a bit about, you know, the history behind
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  hell. The deity or goddess or Jonas
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  Yorkton? As well as the realm.
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  So there's a lot of cool information surrounding about
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  that. I almost suspect it will be
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  talking more about that here on this podcast in the coming
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  weeks. So, definitely check back here
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  every week. I'm sure they'll be topics that
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  we talk about, got some great guests lined up over the next at
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  least couple of podcasts. Today's guest is also a
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  Chieftain /, go the himself. We're going to be talking to
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  Trevor. Whoo.
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  Who is a, again, go the chieftain for a group out, in
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  the dictionary of Tennessee. I believe find out more about
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  they, their, you know, their group and kind of what they're
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  about. But he's, he's got some history,
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  I guess in logging or cutting down trees.
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  I'm going to be talking a bit about that type of activity,
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  that type of work. When it comes to like, I don't
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  know, maybe ship buildings and or building the building of
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  ships and find out more about Trevor.
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  But Trevor is very young and ambitious.
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  I got a chance to meet him and as I recall is either his wife
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  fiance or girlfriend partner at the last Raven, Moon Hearth
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  event in June, which was the soon upload event.
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  I got to read the runes for both of them.
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  So bit of a test as it were to see if the readings that were
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  done back then have resonated. So I hope to talk a bit about
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  that and then we might talk a bit about something that has
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  been on my mind. I actually had something
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  happened this morning at the time of The recording of This
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  podcast. So earlier in the week for you
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  folks that are listening and watching right now.
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  But I had something happen where I kind of, you know, had a
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  meaningful pendant of mine break and very simple sort of thought
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  of like, oh well, it's you know, if it broke it, then it's, you
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  know, it it just wore down and, you know, it was, it was time to
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  get a new one. But some of the other things
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  that go through one's Minds when you suffer a damage or loss or
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  an injury of something, that And something to a trinket a symbol
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  that sort of thing. I did want to talk about that
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  today with with Trevor where we found ourselves moving in that,
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  you know, directions. So without further Ado again, be
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  sure to if you are listening and watching this podcast on any of
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  the platforms that you listen and watch on this, watch it on.
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  I should say, then be sure to engage comment, share, like,
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  upvote, whatever the thing does to help boost the algorithm to
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  be like. Oh yeah.
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  The way I need to. You know, get more people out on
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  this. So again, thank you all for your
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  support. Let's bring in Trevor and see
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  what is that we get to ramble on about today.
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  All right. Well, change of plans as things
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  tend to go in life. You know, you know you the best
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  made plans, right? You don't always you don't
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  always get what you plan for and that's okay.
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  You make do. Yeah, you make do otherwise.
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  You know, you may do the best you can with the circumstances
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  that lay out in front of you. And the circumstances that are
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  laid out in front of me today are too, I think yep, are to
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  move on without out without Trevor for this week. and, Like
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  I said, that's okay. We're going to rock it solo
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  today. And have them back on here at
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  another time. For another episode.
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  No harm, no foul, not a big deal.
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  So we do have things to talk about or I do have things to
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  talk about at least and you have things to listen to me, talk
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  about. So I mentioned before I stepped
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  away for, you know, to bring in Trevor that I had something
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  happened to me, this Time of this podcast being recorded the
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  morning of today. So Sunday night probably it was
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  actually early early Monday morning was still dark but I was
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  you know in bed waking up Monday morning and I wear around my
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  neck all times a couple of things.
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  I have a bone, an elk bone, that Myself and other members of our
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  tribe. Have that was part of a gift
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  from Jim Olsen. Papa, Ellison from the over to
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  your Workshop. I have a a from the, from the
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  Disney movie. Moana the the fishhook that Maui
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  is known for. I have that hanging around my
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  neck. That was actually just like a
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  gift from a little girl that my wife used to babysit Her name is
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  Evelyn and she she thought I would like it and I did and I
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  still do so I wear that it kind of like I don't know, I'm not
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  Polynesian, I don't appropriate any thing like that, but I do
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  have an affinity tour to the ocean because growing up as a
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  kid, you know? And for for the most of my
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  childhood I lived Near the ocean.
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  I was, you know, 10 15 minutes away from the Long Island Sound.
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  I was, you know, within an hour or so.
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  From the Atlantic Ocean, I grew up going to the ocean and being
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  in the ocean, or the or salt bodies of water, the sea, you
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  know. So, anyway, there's there's
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  there's that kind of connection and I and it means something to
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  me to have that sort of representation of.
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  And it wasn't, it was a kind gesture from her, you know, I
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  thought. Oh, that's sweet.
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  So I had that and then on the same chain that the elk bone
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  pendant has has been on. Before the elk bone was there, I
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  had a rune at ewaz room as a reminder.
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  And as I sort of dedication to tear way back in the early days
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  of midgard musings, when I was first starting to really push
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  the brand and and try to, you know, make make this whole
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  thing. Work.
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  You know I was doing a lot of YouTube live streams and other
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  sorts of you know videos but at one point in time I had actually
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  a couple points in time I got what was called or what is
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  referred to as swatted. So for anybody that's listening
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  or watching who are maybe Gamers or no Gamers that stream their
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  games, Swatting is a is an activity that is very very
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  dangerous. It's it can get people hurt and
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  even you know, have to have their lives risked.
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  So basically what it is is you know people make fake 911
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  emergency calls blocking their numbers, I can't get traced and
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  they call into the 911 emergency dispatch saying that some sort
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  of You know, unspeakable crime has happened at the location of
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  the person who's streaming, there's people out here.
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  That'll, you know, grab, you know, your IP addresses and it's
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  in, it's a very nefarious tactic to, you know, have police show
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  up while you're streaming. So, you know, inevitably get,
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  you know, law enforcement showing up to your house,
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  potentially putting you in handcuffs and because they're
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  responding to what they think is a brutal.
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  Violent crime. The two times that it happened
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  to me, a 911 call was made saying that me, you know,
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  somebody called in and said I've stabbed my grandmother, I've
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  stabbed my. Yeah, it was, it was one was I I
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  stabbed my grandmother and other one was that I that I killed my
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  wife or my girlfriend or something like that.
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  It was my girlfriend. The first one I think in the
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  second one was my grandmother. And, you know, they were they
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  were part. Parts of the first one was The
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  first time I was swatted obviously I didn't know what was
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  happening, all I knew is I was sitting streaming, I wasn't even
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  gaming or anything. I was just talking about even
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  related stuff you know and and the the cops showed up banging
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  on my door and I'm like hello. And they came in because the
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  door was unlocked. My dogs are going crazy.
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  My wife wasn't even home at the time so they came in you know,
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  cameras are on them. I got it, I didn't stop the
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  stream because I didn't know it was happening.
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  I just realized that, you know, I opened my door.
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  I come out, open up the door and You know, I got flashlights
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  Firearms, everything point in my face, in my own house and you
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  know, is this is the police and everything.
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  So not, you know, needless to say, it freaked me out, they
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  explained to me what was going on, and I think they look
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  around, they do their job. And I was like, look, man, I'm
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  not, first of all, I'm married. And second of all, what is even
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  going on? They explained to me what it
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  was. And I was like, oh wow, and all
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  this is, you know, not inside of the camera, but my stream was
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  still going. So there were some bits of audio
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  that translated into the To the stream and people are like, oh
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  shit, you know, like they were people were worried.
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  So anyway, I came back on the stream on like I'm here.
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  I'm guy, you know guys, I'm back and I learned a bit more about
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  what that was. So, I thought, well, this is
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  this is odd. You know, I'm like at the time I
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  mean I'm still I'm not even a big presence here, you know.
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  So to think that somebody took the time and the effort to go,
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  all go through all that. For somebody like me.
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  Streaming doing what I was doing.
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  I'm like you're not going to get much out of this, you know.
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  So it was like it was it seemed like a very pointed and very
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  focused attack on me and as a my safety, right?
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  So I thought it while it's, you know, it's a one-off a week or
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  two later. You know, and I went down the
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  hole. Security measures, you know,
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  like make sure my IP was mastered VPN.
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  I was, you know, doing all of the technological precautions,
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  taking all the technical technological precautions
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  against having something like that happen again.
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  Well, you know, get one if you get an IP address one time, you
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  save it, you know, you got it forever.
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  So they did it again. Presumably the same people that
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  they did the first time. Only this time.
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  I knew right? I was streaming doors, knocked
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  and dogs are going crazy. Hello, you know, and it's, you
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  know, obviously my wife wasn't home for that either.
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  Thankfully, I'm glad you know, because that would have been a
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  very traumatic experience for her to be a part of.
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  So, I actually think I stopped the stream at that point.
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  Yes a guys I got to go, I'll be back whatever because I wasn't
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  going to give anybody the chance to see what was going on on the
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  camera case. Something went South Anyway came
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  out hands up new, the deal on like it's this again.
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  You know, they're going what? Again I said you know, look at
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  you guys came here once before. So obviously something's
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  happening. What can I do about this?
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  They're like, well you really you know if a 911 call comes in
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  we have to respond. So now I get that.
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  I said, but what can I do about this because obviously somebody
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  is doing this is the second time.
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  It's happened to me within a month, right?
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  So they talked about, you know, you can file a report probably
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  won't go very far. We'll go anywhere but you don't
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  see what you can do. So I realized like okay well
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  this is it's kind of like I'm going to war now you know
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  against something that is an injustice and so I took a very
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  specific focus at my, on my Heathen, re at the time to tear
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  to your being, you know, very Clearly having ties to, you
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  know, Justice Wright action. Sacrifice the greater good,
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  right? So I'm like, I can focus on tier
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  and so I got a pendant of a tear room.
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  T was the T was room to to ruin and I kept around my neck ever
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  since then the long story short is that, you know, yes I did
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  file a report, I did speak to detectives.
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  I did not get any where I listen to 911 recordings of Both
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  instances of when it happened couldn't recognize the voice.
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  But basically said, okay, well, we did was much as we could do,
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  but rest assured that this will not, this will not deter me.
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  This is not, this is not stopping me from doing what I'm
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  doing. Obviously, I'm still here.
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  I've I've streamed a whole lot since then you know, this is
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  this is nothing. You think you're going to scare
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  me away from doing all this. You think you're going to try
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  to, you know, strong Army off of this platform?
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  Whatever, not going to happen. And so, here I am here, I am
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  still well anyway that tea was ruined that that pendant again
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  has not. I've never taken it off, except
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  to add like the bone and stuff to it.
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  It's a small piece of bone that I just added to the chain.
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  So, other than that, it's I shower with it.
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  I go in the river with it. I / slept, I sleep with it, you
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  know, it's always on me. And it's almost become just kind
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  of like a I don't even think about it being there.
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  Well, this morning, when I woke up, you know, at the time of
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  this recording. So Monday morning, when I wake
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  up or before I actually wake up, I didn't even wake up to notice.
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  It was gone. I'll I woke up in the middle of
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  the night and I'm laying on my side and I just kind of like,
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  put my hand, you know, where my chest is, but I didn't touch my
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  chest. I just laid it there and right
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  there on the bed between my wife and I I felt the pendant.
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  And I was like, oh, I fell off, you know, like somehow, but I
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  realized it couldn't fall off because it's a loop that goes
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  through the chain. I felt the chain was still on my
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  neck. And as I, you know, in the dark
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  as I'm touching the Rune pendant, I realized it broke
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  off. I rolled, I did something.
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  Anyway, it snapped and it broke off of the the chain.
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  So, you know, I roll over, I put it on my nightstand and go back
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  to bed and whatever, but I like this is interesting, you know?
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  Now, wake up the next day. I did a little, like, me, call
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  him things like YouTube shorts, or whatever, just to kind of put
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  it out here as like, a guy's this happened, right?
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  What are your thoughts on it? And I wanted to get a pole from
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  the community and just get a feedback from people, you know,
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  I put it on my Facebook page on the reels feed and then I put it
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  on YouTube channel on the shorts feed.
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  Just to see what people would say about it.
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  And I love all the responses that I got because some of the
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  things that I got some of the responses that I got were things
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  that I hadn't quite really thought about.
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  I'm a very practical and logical individual.
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  And when things like this happen, I look at it.
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  Usually from a very practical and logical perspective, right?
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  Why did this happen? Why did the room pendant that?
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  I, you know, had as a dedication to to a god break off from my
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  neck and break away from my necklace, you know, now for some
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  people and I think the reason why I want to talk about this is
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  that I think some people Rightly wrong and or indifferent.
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  We'll look at something like that and go, oh no, I fallen out
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  of favor with the gods or I being abandoned by tear you know
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  or something very like distinct or tragic like that.
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  And while that may be a perspective to take and while
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  there may be something to think about for me, and my case, that
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  wasn't it because I knew that it broke because I got the thing
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  from wish we were know what I mean.
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  Like, I'm not going to try and fake anything of great.
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  Ali, like, I know where I got it from, and I know that I've worn
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  it now. For four years.
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  Probably close to 44, 25 years, I'm guesstimating.
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  But, I mean, it's, you know, for something that I got off of, you
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  know, off of wish, you know, like surprisingly that it lasted
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  as long as it has. So that there's that, you know,
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  I realize like, hey, you know, it's cheap material, it's not
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  meant to last forever. It's obviously been through a
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  lot, I've showered with it, I've gone in the river with it.
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  I've, you know, rolled over in my sleep with it, I've put it
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  through its, it's use, you know what I mean?
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  It's seen its days, and it's that's it, as far as a necklace
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  goes. So again, remember a logical and
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  practical standpoint I said alright well that's why It
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  broke. But I'm also the type of person
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  that looks at things that happen like this, you know?
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  Because it could have been the fish hook, right?
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  Could have been the fishhook. I've been wearing that for years
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  now to and maybe not as long, but still nonetheless.
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  I mean it's starting to the the the corridor whatever.
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  Starting to fray a little bit I'm like well eventually that's
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  probably gonna fall apart too but this particular thing was
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  the Rune and it was tears room so I just am like well I kind of
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  think I might know maybe why but I want to hear other people's
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  thoughts and again just looking at it from a very practical and
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  logical standpoint. And I got some of that feedback,
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  you know, people like well you know, you broke, you know, why
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  did it happen? Is because it broke, you know,
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  like again, the little of the literal reason why it's worn out
• 23:43
  its use. And then some of the other
• 23:46
  things that I got some of the other, you know, responses that
• 23:51
  I got from one one person. As a matter of fact is not
• 23:56
  Heathen, but he's someone who I have had on the podcast before
• 23:59
  Richard He's a brother to me. His response as to, you know,
• 24:08
  what had happened. Yeah, he his thoughts.
• 24:11
  Were that and I'm kind of like Paraphrasing.
• 24:16
  You know what he said? Was that?
• 24:20
  You've been released from. You know, your devotion is no
• 24:25
  longer required. He'd been released from your, I
• 24:28
  don't know service or so as it were to that particular God, you
• 24:33
  know, and it's interesting because like I never would have
• 24:36
  considered myself to be a tears. Men.
• 24:38
  You know how like you here in some Pagan circles at your
• 24:42
  Thor's men. Are you an old UNS men or you're
• 24:45
  a, you know, freya's minori whatever.
• 24:47
  I was never, I never quite consider myself to be a tears
• 24:51
  men, even I've always really valued and admired the traits
• 24:57
  and the and the characteristics, and the lore behind tear, even
• 25:02
  the the stuff that goes back, that predates, the Viking age
• 25:07
  and that predates. The head is Right 2 to tier
• 25:11
  being the predominant. Sky god of the Germanic peoples
• 25:16
  across, you know, northern Europe, that tier 2 and the
• 25:24
  various names across, you know, those cultures that probably
• 25:28
  predates and is probably the origin of the all-father that is
• 25:34
  that has become Odin or whatever.
• 25:35
  And some of the talks and things that I've had about tier of the
• 25:38
  years. Like, it's very fascinating for
• 25:40
  me to think about it all and so beyond that, like, I've never I
• 25:43
  have Some pieces that are dedicated to tear.
• 25:45
  Like, I have a blade that has his Rune on it, on my Altar and
• 25:52
  the the room necklace, you know, but in but in terms of like
• 25:56
  other items, other things that I would and I don't have a lot and
• 26:00
  I never had a lot because I always felt like that was the
• 26:04
  thing that needed to be closest to me for those types of those
• 26:07
  things. For the, for the, for the
• 26:08
  actions that I was seeking the right action Seeking Justice,
• 26:12
  you know, regardless of the outcome.
• 26:13
  What is the right action? Doesn't matter if its benefits
• 26:15
  me, doesn't matter who it benefits.
• 26:17
  It needs to benefit the overall Collective, right?
• 26:19
  What is the overall good going to accomplish?
• 26:22
  What do I need to sacrifice? What do I need to learn and know
• 26:24
  this to achieve that greater good?
• 26:26
  And that was the main thing about it.
• 26:29
  And, and so hearing Richard say like well, maybe you've been
• 26:32
  released Of your Devotion to tear your Devotion.
• 26:35
  To tear is no longer needed, and that's maybe a symbolically.
• 26:40
  The Rune breaking away from you is that, you know, something
• 26:47
  else that was said, you know, and I got some other like, I
• 26:54
  don't know, ideas or thoughts from people about what to do
• 26:58
  with it, you know? Well, you can always repurpose
• 27:00
  it, right? You can Seal it and put it on
• 27:03
  your altar. You can bury it.
• 27:06
  I heard I saw somebody say bury it by your hoger.
• 27:11
  And there was one particular, there was one particular thing
• 27:17
  though that I did want to to read.
• 27:22
  And I'm going to find it because this one actually stood out,
• 27:25
  aside from Richards, like this, this particular comment is the
• 27:29
  one that probably stood out to me the most.
• 27:35
  So let me just find it real quick because this is worth it.
• 27:39
  It was on the Facebook reels Let's see here.
• 27:54
  So when he oh yeah, it protected you.
• 28:01
  And took the hit for you. This is this was this was a
• 28:03
  comment that somebody left a talking about the Rune pendant,
• 28:07
  right? That it said, he said that, it
• 28:09
  protected you and took a hit for you.
• 28:11
  Somebody may have been sending some sort of magical or
• 28:17
  spiritual something against you. And that you know, this was like
• 28:25
  a test or something and that it you know it broke away from you
• 28:28
  has a thing of like I took the hit and now it doesn't need to
• 28:31
  be a part of you anymore. You need to repurpose this and I
• 28:34
  thought that was very interesting because again it
• 28:35
  goes into some real like, woo Realms of thinking.
• 28:41
  And Again, I didn't I didn't deduce that 100% And I think out
• 28:51
  of all the things that I've read and heard it aside from, just
• 28:55
  the simplistic answer, right? It it happened because it was a
• 29:00
  week. you know, trinket, it wasn't good quality, it was
• 29:06
  bound to happen at some point and that point happened to be,
• 29:09
  you know, then the, the parts Beyond it, you know, I think one
• 29:14
  of the things that probably stood out to me, the most was
• 29:16
  that was, what was what Richard said, you know, was that he
• 29:22
  thinks that You were no longer. What is he saying?
• 29:32
  No longer needing your Allegiance. and I don't know man
• 29:38
  like that that part is the business thing that stood out to
• 29:41
  me is because allegiances to God's how we As pagans different
• 29:51
  pagans different. Different paths, how we
• 29:54
  dedicate. whether it's our lives, whether it's our actions,
• 30:01
  Spaces. Our work different things.
• 30:05
  Right? What how we dedicate things to
• 30:06
  our align ourselves to be an allegiance to a to a deity
• 30:11
  again? Tear was never one that I
• 30:12
  consciously like swore fealty to like as being like a tear as
• 30:16
  men. Like I will give you x, y, z
• 30:19
  types of sorts of gifts, or whatever.
• 30:22
  But I have, you know, in my life and in my careers, have nearly a
• 30:28
  decade worth of law enforcement or Corrections background right
• 30:32
  before. I've been in the Line of work
• 30:34
  that I'm in. And I did have a period of time
• 30:37
  that because of that, I felt like I could invoked here and
• 30:39
  actually make a make make make enough noise for him to notice
• 30:44
  what I was trying to do. And so to hear the here at said
• 30:49
  that, you know, it was like a gesture of Your Allegiance.
• 30:53
  Your attention to me is no longer required, and I'm sort of
• 30:55
  releasing myself from you and you from me, focus on other
• 30:59
  things, right? It's not that it was On the I'm
• 31:03
  forsaking you I'm abandoning you.
• 31:05
  I'm done with you because you didn't hold up your end of the
• 31:08
  bargain. It wasn't anything like that.
• 31:09
  It was like a physical breaking away of.
• 31:14
  We're done with each other. You're you can focus on other
• 31:18
  parts and that's really interesting because of the, some
• 31:21
  of the things that I have going on right now, in my spiritual
• 31:23
  life, things that extend beyond my personal practices, my
• 31:29
  individual cultic practices, things that Now, we're going to
• 31:33
  extend beyond my inner Hearth, right?
• 31:37
  Because of the growth of our tribe, the progression of our
• 31:42
  tribe, the inclusion of the community beyond the tribe.
• 31:47
  Like just so many things are happening.
• 31:48
  That Maybe the maybe the focus or maybe the attention to tear
• 31:57
  because again being it having it been around my neck for so long.
• 31:59
  It's like you can't help but notice that you know, you're
• 32:01
  showering or whatever. It's you know it's there well
• 32:07
  that that visual that, that physical reminder of it not
• 32:10
  being there almost Allows that space to be filled with other
• 32:17
  things. And now, the only thing that's
• 32:19
  there, besides, that fishhook is is the is the bone, the elk
• 32:23
  bone, Which has other members of our tribe that that own similar
• 32:32
  or like peace. My wife has one law speaker has
• 32:35
  one that other people in the tribe have an identical or close
• 32:39
  enough to identical piece of elk bone.
• 32:41
  And it's like, now that's the only thing that I need to to
• 32:44
  worry about as far as when I see it around my neck on the, on
• 32:47
  the, on the Chain, you know. And I don't know.
• 32:50
  It's it kind of gave me and it's still, you know, up to this
• 32:54
  point Point now talking about it and talking through, it gives me
• 32:59
  a lot of things to think about. I do think it was interesting to
• 33:03
  hear that one comment about you know, taking a hit for me, you
• 33:09
  know, we're being kind of almost like that, deflector that that
• 33:13
  the thing that absorbed A potentially lethal blow or
• 33:18
  whatever and that and that's very tear like you know, I mean
• 33:21
  like tears that is in the stories, the one that takes the
• 33:23
  hit. You know, he's the one that took
• 33:27
  it for the team again for the greater good.
• 33:33
  And again, I'm not I'm not delusional to think that that
• 33:36
  would be actual, you know what I mean?
• 33:38
  Like, I don't think I'm anything worth a god intervening for me
• 33:43
  on, but nonetheless it's still an interesting concept to the
• 33:49
  think about. So whether it's, you know,
• 33:50
  whether it's that or more like you know, just then again could
• 33:53
  be nothing. But for me, I think it's other
• 33:58
  things and that's when it goes back to you.
• 34:00
  I've talked about before. Omens.
• 34:07
  And signs. You know, and then the reading
• 34:11
  of such things, you know, somebody had made a comment on
• 34:14
  the YouTube channel because I posted again on the YouTube
• 34:19
  channel as well. Same video, Same Same short clip
• 34:25
  you know, someone and said you know that A raven showing up her
• 34:31
  Ravens showing up to people, you know, or crows are other
• 34:35
  animals. You know, things in the animal
• 34:36
  kingdom that are going to be there.
• 34:39
  You know, Ravens fly, wolves roam.
• 34:43
  You know, herons myself, again, I've talked about the Heron
• 34:47
  playing times, you know? They, they are going to do what
• 34:49
  they're going to do regardless of whether we see them or not.
• 34:52
  So just because we see them just because with a cross, our
• 34:56
  patches because we notice them doesn't mean that there's
• 34:59
  something to be learned every single time.
• 35:04
  But if it's something as profound as let's say, you know,
• 35:06
  a crow up or Raven or whatever the animal approaches, you are
• 35:09
  gets Unusually close to you or perform some sort of gesture.
• 35:14
  Yeah. Like I can remember the times
• 35:16
  with the Heron, you know, being on the river and having the hair
• 35:20
  and literally follow me whether it's flying over me or Landing
• 35:24
  in a tree and then flying on down, we're getting in the water
• 35:26
  and walking ahead of me like keeping a close watch like those
• 35:30
  types of things. Like, yes, I think that those
• 35:32
  were meant for me. To see and to experience because
• 35:37
  I was in that moment, you know? So for you know, others that
• 35:40
  have moments like that. Definitely, you know, those,
• 35:43
  those types of signs are meant for you and you alone and
• 35:45
  they're not meant for, you know, just everybody.
• 35:48
  And then the same thing goes for dreams.
• 35:49
  Same thing goes for something like this, what I'm talking
• 35:52
  about right now. It's, you know, Could be nothing
• 35:55
  very well, likely is, however, why do I feel a certain way
• 36:00
  about it? Well, it's probably because
• 36:02
  there was something else in it for me to ponder and to consider
• 36:05
  and, you know, here are some things for you to consider.
• 36:08
  So, have I nailed it down. 100%, exactly.
• 36:11
  No, am I leaning a certain way when I when I think about how it
• 36:15
  felt and what it could potentially mean.
• 36:18
  Yes. You know things that make just
• 36:20
  the sense that they make to me thinking about That side of
• 36:24
  things. Yeah, sure.
• 36:27
  And I would I would I would encourage everybody that has
• 36:32
  such things, you know happened, I don't don't just shrug them
• 36:36
  off, don't be nonchalant about Any sort of happenings that that
• 36:42
  you may encounter, you know, be open enough to and be aware
• 36:46
  enough. Be awake enough to realize that
• 36:49
  it could be something could be nothing, but if it is happening,
• 36:54
  What could be the lesson? What could be the point of it?
• 36:58
  What could I take out of this? You know, scenario?
• 37:03
  What could I take out of this moment to benefit from or to
• 37:09
  learn from? And I almost guarantee you'll
• 37:11
  find something may not be your shattering, may not be profound,
• 37:16
  but it'll definitely be weird. And I mean that as in w, yr, d,
• 37:21
  you know, weird. The web, how things are
• 37:25
  intertwined. How things?
• 37:26
  How are we? Where we find ourselves in that
• 37:29
  whole Cosmic Dynamic, right? It's definitely a thing and
• 37:37
  we're are we are parts of many things and many things are part
• 37:41
  of us. And so when we have these
• 37:43
  moments when we have these experiences, it would behoove us
• 37:46
  not to pay attention and learn as much as we can from it.
• 37:50
  Also, there you go. There's there's my breakdown of
• 37:56
  A seemingly simple. you know, again, could I have woken up in
• 38:03
  the middle of the night that that's that's kind of what
• 38:08
  Really still stands out to me, is that I could have just, it
• 38:11
  could have broken, I could have woken up that morning to go get
• 38:16
  ready for work and not have noticed, it not have seen it
• 38:18
  until much later on. But I literally woke up before I
• 38:24
  needed to in the pitch-black dark of the room, lay my hand to
• 38:30
  next to my chest, not on my chest.
• 38:31
  Like I mean, I was laying on my side so you know, I lay it on
• 38:33
  the bed and boom. There it is.
• 38:36
  It's on the bed right next to me.
• 38:39
  Like that's that's what made me. Want to be like, okay let me set
• 38:45
  this out of the bed and then I'm going to think about this, you
• 38:47
  know? And I'm I think I do is back off
• 38:50
  to sleep or at least some sort of state of them, you know,
• 38:53
  semi-conscious State, don't think.
• 38:56
  I went 100% back asleep but it was it was, it was something
• 38:59
  that stayed in my mind and on my heart and That significant
• 39:06
  again, if it had been the other way around, where I just, you
• 39:09
  know, noticed it. Oh, wow, I broke off and I
• 39:11
  didn't notice it was gone. Maybe I would have been a
• 39:14
  different thing to learn from her or it wouldn't have been as
• 39:17
  impactful or profound of an experience.
• 39:19
  For me. The thing that made it as
• 39:21
  profound as it was is that I woke up out of his sleep.
• 39:28
  For no other apparent reason and just had it laying right there
• 39:33
  and I put my hand on it and there was, you know, so all the
• 39:39
  things everything from that moment on and getting some other
• 39:44
  people's feedback, you know, hearing about it, hearing what
• 39:47
  other people thought. Was great.
• 39:52
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• 39:56
  about her giving me their thoughts.
• 39:57
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• 40:24
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• 40:29
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• 40:33
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• 40:38
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• 40:41
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• 40:44
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• 40:45
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• 41:02
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• 41:05
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• 41:12
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• 41:26
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• 41:29
  glitch, interact and up. And so it may take me a while
• 41:33
  until I get back to like my computer and stuff to respond to
• 41:36
  you. So it's not because I'm ignoring
• 41:38
  you it's just that the technology is, is acting all
• 41:42
  wonky. But yeah.
• 41:45
  So I think the Instagram thing is finally figured out at least
• 41:49
  where I can post Pictures. I did post a video last week and
• 41:52
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• 41:57
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• 42:20
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• 42:26
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• 42:28
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• 42:33
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