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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP1 - My Family Has COVID And I'm Not Happy About It... · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  Get this out of my way hail and welcome back to episode 1 of
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  going in true fashion, right? And true.
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  Wait, things just tend to normally go right when it, when
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  it rains, it, pours as they say. But 2022 is kicked off and
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  started off in a rather interesting, sort of way.
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  So this is going to be a pretty heartfelt and passionate
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  episode. I'm gonna be talking about some
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  things today that may lose me some subscribers or lose me some
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  followers or you guys are entitled to your own thoughts
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  and opinions about things. But you know, I've remained
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  pretty. Be silent about this particular
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  topic about this particular subject for about the last
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  couple of years now and things are just become way too close to
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  home for me, too. You know, I wouldn't say stay
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  silent but for me to just sort of, you know, Not be vocal about
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  it. And as you might suspect, plans
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  have been quiet about it for the last couple of years.
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  What could I possibly be referring to other than this
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  covid-19 pandemic? So yeah, it's going to be one of
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  those types of shows and I'm going to get pretty pointed.
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  I'm gonna get pretty, you know, Unapologetic with the things
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  that I've got to say about it. If you're still interested in.
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  Sticking around for that. Thank you so much and if you're
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  not and you want a bit, you know, dip out that's fine.
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  You don't want to hear me ramble on for the next however, long,
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  you know about this particular subject, I understand.
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  But it is something that I have to say.
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  Want to say, I'm going to be using my raspy voice to say it.
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  so, you know, look this whole, this whole Global pandemic
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  thing, this whole virus, whatever, pretty sore subject,
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  for a lot of people it specifically, when it comes to
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  the vaccine being vaccinated. Now, I'm not a doctor.
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  I'm not a medical professional. I am not a scientist and I don't
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  Buy into a lot of what the media says, but I do hear and I do see
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  things from both sides of the spectrum, right?
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  I do understand why people think that to get vaccinated is the
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  way to go and I understand why people believe to be
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  unvaccinated that it doesn't matter.
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  And that you know this and that what I'm going to be speaking on
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  today is where I'm where I've come to, you know, kind of where
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  I started out with my thoughts on the whole thing what led me
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  into Thinking the way that I think today and why stand
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  staunchly, you know, behind what I'm about to say.
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  So as I sit on this delicious single, malt islay from Ardbeg,
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  It's absolutely delicious, nice and nice and smoking ice and PD.
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  So you know, let's let's rewind a bit.
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  Let's rewind a bit to the end of 2019, beginning of 2020.
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  When all of this crap, hit the fan.
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  I guess it's probably the beginning of 2020 when we really
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  started hearing about it in the news and in the media you know
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  people were Talking about it and it was getting attention.
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  And next thing, you know, you know, there were mandated I say
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  curfews and you know, you can't go here.
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  You can't go there stores are closed down, businesses are
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  being shut down. Labadee, blah blah.
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  You know, people are dying and all this kind of stuff.
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  And there's been a lot of, you know, thoughts around the world.
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  And from a lot of different people about this.
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  This whole thing, I'm not going to get into that particular.
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  I'm going to be talking Civically about Where I Stood
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  and where I currently stand and what led me to this stance on
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  just the, the overall, you know, views on keeping people safe
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  myself, my loved ones and why this is a heathen podcast, okay,
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  I'm going to eventually get in come back and circle around to
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  the to that aspect of it. So just, you know, entertain me
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  bear with me as we go through. This is, you know, settle in.
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  If you will get comfortable, we'll get there.
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  So that, you know, beginning of 2020 when the World, As We Knew
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  It changed entirely, you know, things that I never thought I
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  would see in my lifetime things that if you're listening and
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  watching that happen, that you probably never would have
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  thought that you would have seen in your lifetime and the the
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  attention that it brought on focusing on family, focusing on
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  your loved ones, focusing on your nearest and Dearest.
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  And taking care of those close to you, and taking care of
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  yourself, taking care of your family.
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  Your home, like, all these things came into a very, very
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  big Spotlight during that time because people were scared and
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  people were reacting out of fear and doing things that they
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  normally wouldn't do because they were afraid, right?
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  So all of that was happening and you know, it was pretty much the
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  proverbial, you know? Prepare for the worst, you know,
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  stock up on things or make sure that your rationing certain
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  things to you don't know how long stores are going to be.
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  Without I wouldn't, you know what, the direction of things
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  are going to go in, you don't want to get caught with your
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  pants down, like, you know, all these kind of prepare Tory
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  measures that we would take. And it was it was basically
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  almost like, you know, the you know, you see in a lot of like
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  these movies or whatever, where their crops going on outside and
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  people are frantic and everybody's like reaching out
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  and shutting their windows and bolt in their doors.
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  And all that. That's kind of what it was for
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  me and the closest ones to me, you know, we got what we needed.
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  We took the precaution that we did.
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  The things that we needed to stay put for a while and we
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  stayed Vigilant just in case, anything went sideways and I'm
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  sure a lot of people did you know and then over the months of
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  you know some our 2020 and whatnot.
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  You know, we start seeing things happening where You know, it
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  gets crazier, you know, and then we start seeing eventually that
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  oh, well let's, you know, let's wear masks, let's do all these
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  things and that's a whole Topic in and of itself where, you
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  know, my body, my choice. So, you know, you can't make me
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  wear a mask and just like, you know, my body my choice, you
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  can, you know, make me that get vaccinated, it's my choice to do
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  it. If I want, you can't tell me
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  that I should have to do this to go places this net.
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  So, We start seeing all that take place, you know, and I was
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  when you know things started to quote, unquote, open back up.
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  You know what I'm saying? When, you know, you could go to
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  a restaurant when you could go to the stores a bit more freely
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  or whatever and there was you have to wear your mask and
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  there's people that were doing their best and they're doing
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  their jobs, whatever to enforce those rules.
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  I had no problem with wearing the mask, you know, and and did
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  for the longest time, you know, not going to get into what, you
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  know, the science behind it and does it work or not?
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  It's like look man, you know you're part of this world and
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  you know to go certain places in to do certain things like you
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  want to play the game. You gotta play by the rules and
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  You know, it's not me going, you know, I'm being the Sheep.
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  I'm just doing what I'm being told.
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  It's like, I gotta go get certain things and if I need to
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  wear a piece of paper across my face to go do it, I'll be fine.
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  You'll all be. You know, we'll all be fine if
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  we just shut up and do it right? No, big deal.
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  You know, and they said oh that's where it starts, you
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  know, they ask you this to tell you to do that and then next
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  thing you know it's boom they got you I got you by the balls,
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  you know as they say or whatever and I don't buy into that hole.
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  We call it conspiracy theories of, you know, government control
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  and whatnot. I just don't.
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  So anyway, we get to the point where, you know, 2020 is
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  wrapping up And you know, we start seeing things get more
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  relaxed and then we see all these different variants of the
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  virus appear 2021 was, you know, probably like 20 20 continued a
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  bit in that in that Arena. You know, there was a lot of
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  crazy stuff with with travel restrictions and, you know, you
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  can't fly unless you vaccinate. You can't.
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  Go into a music venue. People getting refused business,
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  right? Like you can't come here.
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  You can't participate in this event unless you're vaccinated
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  or unless you show proof of a negative test results, and all
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  this other kind of stuff, people are getting all up in arms about
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  it. You know, that's not fair, you
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  can't do that in this and then you know, thinking of just
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  themselves Thinking of just themselves and the end.
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  And in the inconvenience of, you know, not being able to just do
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  what they want, the way they want to do it, you know, you're
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  infringing on my rights and all this other kind of stuff, you
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  know, nobody's infringing on your rights.
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  It's just that they need to again, play.
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  Play play the game. You gotta play by the rules.
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  So, I guess it was about mid 2021, right?
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  It wasn't like right as soon as they came out with this vaccine
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  information, right? Which is considering how young
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  this variant of covid it is and although the flu virus or
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  whatever you want to call it, like how however new this virus
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  is right. The vaccine as I call it that
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  was that was that's been presented to the moderna, the
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  Pfizer, the jaw And Johnson the whatever, right?
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  It's all very, very, very new stuff.
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  And I understand where a lot of people are apprehensive and
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  like, no, I'm not going to take that jab.
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  I'm not going to take the job. I'm not gonna get poked, or
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  whatever for something that, you know, they haven't had enough
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  years and years and years and years, and years, and years of
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  testing to prove, right? So I was very skeptical of
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  taking the vaccine and that that is largely due to my upbringing,
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  you know, and how I was born and raised in the kind of an
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  environment that I was raised in.
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  Not a lot of focus or attention or or Value placed on medical
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  doctors and Physicians and things like that.
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  It was we we approach things in a very natural and holistic
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  fashion, you know, a lot of Eastern medicine practices and
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  stuff so you know no synthetic drugs.
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  No. You know, shot.
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  So I wouldn't even take so much as an aspirin for a headache or
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  an ibuprofen for headache. Nothing like that, all my life,
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  all my youth at least into my, you know, early 20s.
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  So there was that. There was all there was like
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  that, that that little thing that hung on the back of my
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  mind, I'm like, you know, I don't need this vaccine, my body
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  will naturally build up antibodies for this thing from
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  being exposed, you know, that's how you Build up immunities.
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  Think that's how your body is designed to function, right?
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  You're you're exposed to certain things, you get sick and then
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  your body at the time is figuring out what to do to fix
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  you, fix you fix the parts that are broken, you know, get you
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  better heal you and so you build up immunity as you build up
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  antibodies against certain things, you know, I grew up
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  working on farms and working out in nature all the time, you
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  know, climbing people's homes. Pairing chimneys and stolen
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  wood, stoves all these kinds of outdoor you know mowing yards
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  shoveling snow like I was Outdoors all the time.
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  I was exposed to a lot of things growing up that I feel just help
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  condition me into being a relatively healthy, young adult,
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  and into n into my later adult years where I'm now mid mid
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  adult years, So I didn't think that the vaccine I needed to do
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  it, you know what I mean? And I'm like, I just, you know,
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  not worried about it. If I get it I get it and it's
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  what happens, whatever. And I was very singular.
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  It was very, very singular. Focus was very selfish Focus.
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  If you think about it, right? Well I'm fine.
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  It's not going to hurt me. I'm healthy me.
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  Me me, you know, I'll be fine blabbity blah.
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  Well. Because I'm Heathen because I'm
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  a heathen that, that follows the path that I do write a large
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  part. That made one of the biggest
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  parts of my belief structure in the way that I believe is that
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  tribe is is where the the heart of heathen realize, right?
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  The heart of heathen, realize at the tribal level at The Grass,
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  Roots level. And what that means is that
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  there is more To my existence than just me, there is the
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  people that are near to me. My wife her parents are near and
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  dear friends are extensions of family, right?
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  Our kith nor kin other clans that we share in Thai weird with
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  that, make up our tribe and As soon as I started to sit back
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  and realize that it's not just about me it's about and
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  protecting me it's not just it's not about that, it's about them
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  and it's about doing what is best for them.
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  You know, and we see examples of this probably most famously in
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  the lore with regards to like tear and how tear is seen as a
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  god Of Justice, right? Action and sacrifice, and
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  sacrifice. That is done for the greater
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  good, for the good of the tribe. You know, Odin himself was as
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  was, his is known for sacrificing himself to himself
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  and yes that is a sacrifice, he gives up you know he gave a died
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  at the well in mirrors well to receive that wisdom or that
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  knowledge and then he hangs himself for major seal.
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  Nine days and nights to receive the power of the knowledge of
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  the runes. So there's a sacrifice but it's
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  a, it's a, it's a sacrifice of himself to himself for something
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  that yes, you can argue and say that throughout the Lord in
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  stories that that those gifts. Those things were used to help
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  the aesir and help his tribe. But they were very much gifts to
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  him for him, like things that he would benefit from greatly.
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  You know, now look at tier, look at the sacrifice that tear gave
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  the thing that Had to sacrifice was his hand.
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  He had nothing to gain. By losing his hand, other than
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  retaining, his honor paying that Shield, paying that debt as a
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  were, paying that recompense for allowing the wolf to be to be
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  bound. And it was a pretty deep thing
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  if you think about it. But, you know, the gift that or
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  the, or the gift, that that's the stat sacrifice, that tear
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  gave. And I'm not trying to compare
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  myself to the gods, but it's almost like to me You know, if I
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  had nothing but myself to consider, then I wouldn't care
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  and I wouldn't have gotten vaccinated but because I had
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  others to consider right. If I'm going to be around other
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  people and be around my elderly in-laws I'm going to be around
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  my infant nieces and nephews you know if I'm gonna be around
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  other people in the community to try to build build more on our
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  tribe 2222. To nurture and grow our
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  community in our area, then it would require me to, you know,
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  again, take that put myself out of the equation, put myself out
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  of the equation for others. So soon as I started thinking of
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  that and I'll never forget this. But as soon as I started
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  thinking of that, my whole approach to things changed, you
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  know, it was, it was like, I'm not, I'm not so concerned about
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  me getting this, this virus or whatever anymore.
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  But I am concerned about being a carrier of it and potentially
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  hurting harming or yeah hurting or harming, someone else that I
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  love and I care about So once that happened it, I said it,
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  never forget. It changed my entire approach.
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  It changed my entire view on this whole thing.
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  It wasn't so much about what is the media say.
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  What is the you know what is fauci say what is you know the
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  who say what are all these organizations?
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  It was a media saying. None of that matters, right?
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  None of that mattered. But a large part in a large
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  portion of, you know, the information that that we were
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  receiving is that this will Not prevent you from getting the
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  virus. That's not what this is about.
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  It's not going to prevent you from getting it but it would
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  Lower the chances of spreading it.
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  And when it does get spread, or as it does get spread, as you as
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  you do, carry it, the the impact that it has would be way less
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  severe than if you were unvaccinated.
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  You know, and I also took the approaches.
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  Okay, what harm is it coming to me?
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  What harm is it doing to me to get vaccinated none?
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  I'm a healthy individual, right? I understand, there are some
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  people who have pre-existing, you know, they are
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  immunocompromised. They have other things that
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  could potentially put them at risk.
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  Higher risk of getting, you know, getting the vaccine versus
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  not getting the vaccine and just staying isolated and staying
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  away. Understand that, take all those
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  things into consideration as we as we as I'm talking about this,
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  and as you're listening, You know, my my condition, my my
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  stance on it was that I am a healthy hearty individual who
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  has nothing to lose from, you know, from from taking this.
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  But I have everything to gain for my people for my loved ones
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  for taking and if I don't take it then it's a neglect on my
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  part of their safety. So I, you know, went through the
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  double Jabs, you know, did the Pfizer, one, whatever?
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  And that was, like I said in the mid 20, 21, something like it
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  was last year. I think it was, it was in the
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  summertime because remember, it was hot matter of fact, my
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  second round my second dose. I didn't have a ride to get to
• 24:46
  the place where I was going to get vaccinated.
• 24:48
  Get the second do. So I walked I walked there.
• 24:53
  Was about. Five miles round trip, maybe
• 24:57
  nothing long. But anyway, That happened that
• 25:02
  was at the end of August, beginning of September when I
• 25:04
  got my second dose. And so Here we are now.
• 25:13
  Very beginning of 2022. We just had our families.
• 25:18
  My wife's side of the family, had their Christmas celebration
• 25:22
  family dinner, whatever the end of December.
• 25:24
  Of course, our my mother-in-law, my wife's mother, her birthday
• 25:30
  was was either the day before New Year's Eve or New Jersey.
• 25:34
  Something like December 30th friend around.
• 25:36
  There had big, we had a dinner, you know?
• 25:40
  And then, just a few days ago, We get a group text message from
• 25:47
  my sister-in-law. Saying that her and her husband
• 25:52
  have both tested positive for covid.
• 25:56
  And that everybody needs to get tested.
• 25:59
  Everybody including my wife myself her cousin, her nephew's.
• 26:04
  Nice. Her elderly mother and father.
• 26:11
  And so here we go. Right?
• 26:13
  We all start making those arrangements and stuff as it
• 26:17
  stands right now. Her father has covid.
• 26:22
  Her nephew has covid. Her mother may not sure yet
• 26:28
  waiting for the test results, come back.
• 26:30
  I'm not sure yet, because I'm waiting for my test results to
• 26:33
  come back. My wife was rapid test.
• 26:35
  If she did the rapid tests and stuff and she's fortunately was
• 26:38
  - but they'd say that the rapid tests, right are not always 100%
• 26:44
  accurate. So they always send them off to
• 26:46
  the lab just for that second test right to make sure that
• 26:50
  that they got it. So, you know, wait to see in a
• 26:53
  couple of days when the test results, come back.
• 26:56
  What that says. So, you know, that time you're
• 26:59
  listening to this things may change.
• 27:01
  But as it stands right now, several members of our family
• 27:05
  who are all, by the way, Who are all fully vaccinated, have the
• 27:12
  virus. Now one could say, yeah, you see
• 27:17
  the vaccine doesn't do Jack squat.
• 27:19
  You know what I mean? Getting the shot doesn't matter.
• 27:22
  You still got it. Well, true, never once said that
• 27:27
  the vaccine was going to prevent you from getting it.
• 27:30
  Well okay let's look at the definition.
• 27:32
  What a vaccine is located at reader Buster's dictionary all
• 27:35
  day long, right? Back to the matter is is that
• 27:38
  whether you get it or not? Well you know they were
• 27:40
  vaccinated or not whether you get it, it's going to depend on
• 27:42
  a lot of things. How severe the reactions that
• 27:46
  you're going to have our You guys even listen to my voice
• 27:51
  over the last couple of weeks on the podcast and it's raspy, who
• 27:55
  knows? If I got it?
• 27:56
  I don't think I do, because I don't feel any other sort of
• 27:58
  way, I've just got this cough, and I have a fever.
• 28:01
  My throat's, not scratchy, it's just this upper respiratory
• 28:04
  thing. And this is indicative of what
• 28:08
  usually happens to me this time of year in Tennessee, because it
• 28:12
  goes from 75 degrees. One day to 40, 30 degrees the
• 28:15
  next day and it's this temperature flux is bipolar as
• 28:17
  heck. And you know, You're, you're
• 28:20
  bound to get upper respiratory illnesses and stuff.
• 28:23
  It's like Tennessee is the worst state to be subject to things at
• 28:30
  will. Mess with you like that, right?
• 28:35
  So anyway, why am I bringing all this up?
• 28:39
  What does this have to do with Heathen?
• 28:40
  Or you ask? What does it have to do with?
• 28:44
  Anything, you know, Heathen views on whatever?
• 28:49
  I mentioned before about the importance of community and that
• 28:53
  for me, he even re is going to thrive and continue to live and
• 28:58
  Thrive at the tribal level. And that tribe is everything in
• 29:00
  that tribe needs to be needs to grow out of your family, out of
• 29:06
  your kin out of your kiss. That's where tribe comes from.
• 29:09
  It's an organic growth out of those things that are already
• 29:12
  established. You have to nurture, you can't,
• 29:15
  you can't nurture something that is dying and you can't.
• 29:19
  You know, have that kind of growth if you don't have the
• 29:26
  opportunity to nurture it. And so I looked at it as this,
• 29:29
  right? I can't meet new people, I can't
• 29:32
  be a part of things in the community, if I'm not taking
• 29:34
  precautions to the best of my ability, you know?
• 29:39
  And for me, getting vaccinated was the best of my ability to
• 29:43
  keep other people around me. Safe, not just myself because I
• 29:47
  could care less what I want. Keep everyone else as safe as I
• 29:50
  can and I don't want to be the one that you know is responsible
• 29:54
  for infecting others. Now, this is where it get.
• 29:59
  This is where it's going to get a bit heated on my part because
• 30:05
  When we were over at my, you know, in-laws place during the
• 30:10
  holidays, and when we had our dinner, they knew they knew that
• 30:14
  they had been exposed least my sister mod that she knew that
• 30:17
  she had been exposed to somebody at her job who tested positive
• 30:22
  and rad covid. And she refrain from telling us
• 30:27
  until just the other day like two days ago. you know, so for
• 30:34
  the last week and a half We've all been floating around hugging
• 30:40
  on each other, wishing each other.
• 30:43
  Happy Holidays, happy New Year, happy birthday this, and that
• 30:47
  right? Without any knowledge about it,
• 30:51
  except for her. She knew she kept that from the
• 30:55
  family. She kept that from us, you know,
• 30:58
  and I can't say for sure why someone would have such a
• 31:04
  Blatant. Disregard of common sense to say
• 31:07
  something that important to your family, to your family, to your
• 31:13
  loved ones, you stand there and you hug me and you tell me that
• 31:16
  you love me. And then you refrain from
• 31:19
  telling me and the rest of us that you've been exposed to
• 31:23
  covid. Not knowing if you got it yet,
• 31:26
  but that you've been exposed, don't you think in the frickin
• 31:30
  base common sense of everybody's skull to do the basic things?
• 31:34
  Is that allow us to be more intelligent than Apes?
• 31:39
  That you would tell somebody this.
• 31:40
  That you would tell them that it's possible.
• 31:43
  I have covid. I've been exposed.
• 31:45
  Let's not have a holiday dinner. Let's not have a big dinner with
• 31:49
  everybody for the birthday. Let's postpone it.
• 31:51
  Let's just not do it whatever you know.
• 31:56
  Kind of idiot. Do you have to be what kind of
• 31:58
  mental case? Are you?
• 32:03
  To keep that information from your loved ones and you have the
• 32:05
  audacity to stand there. Look me in the eye.
• 32:10
  Look me in the face and Brace me.
• 32:13
  Tell me that you love me. That isn't love.
• 32:18
  You know, I don't care if you don't care, if you were waiting
• 32:22
  to see if you were positive or not waiting for the test results
• 32:25
  to come back. Because that ain't no good
• 32:28
  enough. Excuse man.
• 32:29
  That's not a good enough. Excuse.
• 32:32
  I'ma tell you right now, my tribe.
• 32:35
  In 10 days has arriola Bateson our, you'll Feast our annual
• 32:40
  you'll fees coming up. And if me, or anybody else
• 32:46
  that's coming was exposed to covid and knows about it.
• 32:50
  They're gonna know, we're not going to have our thing.
• 32:53
  We're not going to have AR get together, that's just it, right?
• 32:56
  Because I'm not going to put anybody at risk.
• 33:00
  I'm not going to put anybody In Harm's Way, just for the sake of
• 33:05
  A party. And it's an important one.
• 33:07
  Right? It's more than just a party.
• 33:09
  It's a very important pivotal thing for us.
• 33:14
  But I'm not going to put anyone at risk.
• 33:17
  You know if you know until you look back to the matter is I
• 33:20
  don't know if I have it. I could get a call tomorrow or
• 33:23
  an email tomorrow or Friday, you know, whenever and and it says
• 33:27
  that you tested positive, you got a quarantine for 10 days or
• 33:30
  whatever. Guess what?
• 33:32
  You'll you are not doing our. You'll thing guys, sorry.
• 33:37
  Well, postpone, it will move it to the week after will have it
• 33:39
  after whatever the case, maybe we'll do what we need to keep
• 33:43
  people safe but I'm not gonna keep that from people just so we
• 33:46
  can have our get together. You guys how irresponsible it
• 33:49
  is, how much of a breach of frith but that is, I've talked
• 33:53
  about first on this podcast, a number of times before, right?
• 33:56
  Guys, and I've said that frith is more than just being all
• 33:59
  happy-go-lucky peace and love and getting along.
• 34:05
  Fourth is about trust. Fourth is about obligation for
• 34:12
  it is about love and it's about maintaining peace but it's about
• 34:15
  all those other things that I already mentioned.
• 34:19
  That. You are obligated to each other
• 34:22
  like that. Like it's like an unspoken an
• 34:26
  unspoken rule. It's an unspoken oath.
• 34:31
  Almost, you know that you will. do what it takes to keep the
• 34:36
  frith and then to maintain that frizz and what a freaking breach
• 34:41
  of Faith was this Manta to I just can't get away from
• 34:47
  realizing that I was standing there.
• 34:49
  Giving you a hug. You gave me a hug.
• 34:51
  You told me. You loved me.
• 34:52
  And I told you that I loved you. And you knew that you were
• 34:56
  exposed. You didn't have the common
• 34:58
  sense. You don't have the mental
• 35:00
  presence. The tell us ahead of time and
• 35:06
  now look what's happened. You got your family, infected.
• 35:12
  Your 74 year-old 73 74 year old, father is ill.
• 35:18
  And as we all know this particular sickness, it can be
• 35:23
  pretty rough on the elderly. you know, your young nephew is sick,
• 35:32
  my wife, watches children, Runs a daycare.
• 35:40
  If you could have been exposed, she could have gotten those kids
• 35:42
  sick. We don't know what those kids
• 35:44
  that she watches. The kind of immuno compromised,
• 35:48
  is that they they may have right?
• 35:52
  See how it all trickle was down and all for what off because you
• 35:56
  don't want to. Miss a holiday dinner.
• 36:01
  And again, I can't say that. That was the case.
• 36:03
  I can't say that she consciously was like, oh, I better not say
• 36:05
  anything until I know or she's just so stupid that she didn't
• 36:08
  realize it. I'm thinking it's probably the
• 36:10
  latter. But man.
• 36:16
  So, the whole thing like what, how does this, you know, relate
• 36:19
  to Heathen reorder? That's how it relates to
• 36:22
  Heathen. Ryu, look out for your people.
• 36:24
  You look out for your tribe, you look out for your clan.
• 36:29
  You look out for your folk. You look out for your people,
• 36:32
  you take care of them and you do the thing that is going to Be
• 36:37
  safe for them, even if it means. A sacrifice for yourself.
• 36:46
  And I mean, you know, this is this is one of those things man.
• 36:52
  Wear Went forth is breached. You know, there's always now
• 36:59
  what, you know, can it be repaired and the Damage that was
• 37:03
  done be fixed. Is there anything that can be
• 37:06
  done to remedy this? And I and men that that Torn
• 37:12
  Thread and when you talk about stuff like this, I mean, I don't
• 37:22
  know. And now, some people may say,
• 37:25
  you know, while you're overreacting, Jesse, you know,
• 37:27
  you're overreacting, everybody's, you know, you're
• 37:29
  going to get sick and, you know, things are going to happen.
• 37:32
  I get that, I understand. As a matter of fact, I firmly
• 37:36
  believe that this virus is going to just be like another annual
• 37:43
  flu thing, right? Just like you can get the option
• 37:46
  to take your flu shot every year.
• 37:47
  Take the flu vaccine every year. This is going to be that you're
• 37:51
  going to get the option to be vaccinated every year for covid.
• 37:54
  Just like you can for the flu just for the for the common flu.
• 38:00
  This ain't going anywhere. So we say, oh, I'm just going to
• 38:03
  get it. And then, I'll build up my body
• 38:05
  will build natural antibodies antibodies to, you know, combat
• 38:08
  the virus. Sure.
• 38:10
  Go, right ahead. I mean, I don't get the flu
• 38:12
  vaccine every year. Matter of fact, I can't tell
• 38:14
  you. The last time I was, I opted to
• 38:16
  get the flu vaccine. It's been that long decades.
• 38:21
  I would say, yeah. The Lisa at least over a decade.
• 38:29
  I don't remember the last time I got the flu vaccine have I ever
• 38:33
  gotten the flu. Not that I know of.
• 38:36
  I had pneumonia a couple of times in my life.
• 38:41
  You know, as a very young child or infant as a child and then
• 38:44
  once in my adult years, it was walking pneumonia and how that
• 38:50
  could be what I got right now? I don't know.
• 38:51
  I don't kill, get checked out. I just take care of myself, the
• 38:54
  best that I can, that's me, but I also, you know, went to get
• 38:59
  tested when I found out that I was exposed to something that
• 39:02
  could potentially be spread to others and impact them
• 39:06
  negatively hurt them, people that I love people and I want to
• 39:09
  be, you know, Continuing my life with and preserving my life with
• 39:15
  right. So I guess what I'm trying to
• 39:21
  say is, first of all, don't be an idiot and if you've been
• 39:27
  exposed or you think you've been exposed or somebody around, you
• 39:30
  said I have I've been exposed to Let your people know, right?
• 39:34
  Don't be complacent about this whole thing, let your people
• 39:38
  know get tested. It's free.
• 39:42
  You know, you may wait in line, you may have to get a make an
• 39:44
  appointment right, but just check yourself.
• 39:49
  Get yourself checked for the love of the people around you
• 39:51
  for the well-being of your loved ones.
• 39:53
  And all you've got is yourself and you don't care.
• 39:57
  I mean, everybody's free to do what they want to rest in here
• 39:59
  telling anybody that they have to do one thing or the other.
• 40:01
  I'm not I'm just giving you guys my insight my perspective on
• 40:06
  this whole thing and how pissed off I've been over and it's been
• 40:12
  a while since I've been this royally mad about something just
• 40:17
  because I don't let things get to me too badly but when it
• 40:20
  comes to tribe man when it comes to my family, when it comes to
• 40:23
  Ken and comes to that sort of thing, it I get fighting mad
• 40:29
  about it. You know.
• 40:34
  And the crazy thing is, you know, this whole group text
• 40:36
  that's going around with, with members of the family.
• 40:40
  You know, the person who's the reason why we're all in this
• 40:43
  predicament to begin with is trying to tell people what to do
• 40:48
  to get out. Take your vitamin C, drink,
• 40:50
  plenty of water, get out, walk around it, shut up.
• 40:54
  It's your fault that we're here. It's your fault that we're doing
• 40:56
  so much. You sit down and learn a thing
• 40:58
  or two yourself to try to tell other people what to do.
• 41:01
  You got no freaking right. You know.
• 41:06
  And I'm not apologetic about that.
• 41:07
  People might be like oh, you know, gotta go easy.
• 41:10
  You know, it was a mistake. We've been dealing with this
• 41:14
  thing for the last two years now.
• 41:15
  Almost Where's your common sense?
• 41:19
  Where's your brain at? Where's your head?
• 41:22
  In or not thinking. You know, it's tough like this
• 41:26
  where I feel that shame is is absolutely warranted.
• 41:33
  Yeah, she should be ashamed of herself and she should be felt
• 41:37
  she should be made to feel shame.
• 41:44
  Oh, there it is. There's my harsh first podcast
• 41:51
  of of season 3. What a way to kick it off.
• 41:54
  Huh? What a way to kick it off.
• 41:56
  So let's end it on a good note, right?
• 41:58
  What has happened recently that we can end on a good note with
• 42:04
  like I said you loved it was coming up art our tribes.
• 42:07
  You will see sweet. We hold our, you'll celebration
• 42:12
  all around the traditional historical.
• 42:15
  You'll When I say traditional historical and talking about
• 42:20
  when the Germanic tribes celebrated, you'll that we know
• 42:24
  of historically, prior to the christianisation, period, prior
• 42:27
  to the Viking age prior to win. Scandinavia in all these other
• 42:33
  Germanic areas were converted to Christianity.
• 42:36
  When would during this like the time of haakon the good when
• 42:40
  you'll was moved to December 25th time, I way before, then.
• 42:45
  So we hold our, you'll as close to the historical date of when
• 42:51
  Ewell was held and briefly, right?
• 42:56
  You'll was held on the first full moon after the sorry, the
• 43:03
  third full moon after the was it.
• 43:07
  It was held on the 3rd full moon after the last new moon of
• 43:15
  winter solstice, so that that makes sense. you're going to
• 43:23
  have to really gain, but basically, when winter nights,
• 43:28
  when winter nights was held, typically sometime in around,
• 43:31
  october/november, somewhere around there, when that full
• 43:34
  moon hit, After that new moon, it was three full moons
• 43:42
  thereafter. So, it falls on a different.
• 43:44
  It's lunar base, right? So, it falls on a different day,
• 43:48
  every year, I think, last year, it was towards the end of
• 43:53
  January, and then this year it's January, the full moon falls, on
• 43:57
  January 17th, which is like a Monday or something during the
• 44:02
  week. It's weird.
• 44:03
  So we're holding ours going to be planning to hold hours.
• 44:07
  Are you a feast on on the Teeth, which is a weekend Saturday.
• 44:10
  Yes, it's a couple of days before the full moon, but we're
• 44:14
  close enough for right around it.
• 44:15
  And the weekend just works better for everybody in modern
• 44:20
  diet in modern times, you know, and in modern day, we got to
• 44:22
  kind of work around every each other's bit.
• 44:24
  You know, busy lives work schedules, when where you can
• 44:27
  get time off, that sort of thing.
• 44:30
  So, and we're going to have, you know, a bloat of sorts to the
• 44:36
  gods before our feast. And then after Feast, we
• 44:38
  typically, Would you know, do some gift giving and then sambal
• 44:44
  we hold a symbol ritual where we allow members of the tribe to
• 44:50
  you know give toasts boasts. And if they Cho choose, Oaths,
• 44:56
  Around the Horn, around the cup, we do ours, a little bit
• 45:01
  differently than maybe other people do, but we have a pretty
• 45:07
  solid structure. And to our sambal.
• 45:11
  And is it? Exactly?
• 45:13
  100% like sambal was held historically?
• 45:17
  No not exactly. But the reason that we don't
• 45:21
  100% keep to that particular things because of the members of
• 45:26
  the tribe who are involved to that capacity.
• 45:29
  You know that are maybe just not comfortable with being a part of
• 45:32
  it, in that sort of way. So we find other ways around it.
• 45:37
  But it is, you know, it is, we do keep it indoors which is kind
• 45:41
  of a requirement for sambal. You have to be indoors.
• 45:43
  We do have a central cup or horn that we You know, work over
• 45:49
  speak over. That sort of thing.
• 45:52
  We've done a couple different ways over the years, but the
• 45:55
  last year, we had really good success with the way that we did
• 45:59
  it. And we're going to continue
• 46:00
  that. We're going to make a slight
• 46:01
  modification to it this this year, but it's going to be done
• 46:06
  in a way that kind of is an odd or in a Maj to the historical,
• 46:12
  historically documented way of how it was done.
• 46:16
  I did a podcast. Actually, a long time ago, like
• 46:20
  during season one, when things weren't, even when it before, it
• 46:23
  was random even ramblings. It was just who I want to make a
• 46:26
  podcast and I'm just going to go call it midgard, musings,
• 46:29
  whatever, I did something on sambal.
• 46:34
  A while back matter. So if you like go through my
• 46:39
  catalog, my podcast catalog and you'll have to do that.
• 46:44
  It's like, it's not I'm here on YouTube, but it's in all the
• 46:47
  other podcast platforms if you just look through there.
• 46:50
  And it's like, it's how to stumble and that's like a part.
• 46:54
  One, two or three. I think it's, at least a two
• 46:56
  part. Podcast.
• 47:01
  Check it out. It's there are some things that
• 47:04
  I need to probably go back and revisit But it's pretty close.
• 47:10
  It's pretty close after Consulting with some very
• 47:13
  reputable sources that know the source material, you know, on
• 47:20
  how someone was done historically and having those
• 47:23
  Books themselves, some of those. Some of them tear like, you
• 47:26
  know, lady lady with the meat Cup and the meat.
• 47:32
  All some of those books are really hard to come by or if you
• 47:35
  can find them there like astronomical and their price.
• 47:41
  But anyway, rambled on a bit longer than I expected to about
• 47:44
  that. But anyways, that's some good
• 47:45
  things that we have looking forward to coming up.
• 47:48
  Assuming everybody is healthy and able to to attend safely,
• 47:52
  you know. So we're going to do that.
• 47:55
  My wife and I just finished giving each other gifts earlier
• 47:59
  this evening that we had under our tree.
• 48:03
  We still have, you know, members of the tribes gifts there for
• 48:07
  our event that we're going to give to them.
• 48:09
  But I got some nice beard oil. I could use all the help that I
• 48:16
  can get. So she got me some nice, you
• 48:18
  know, beard oils. Scott me Beowulf, the The The
• 48:23
  Saga Beowulf, The Saga. She got me a book that I've been
• 48:29
  wanting for quite some time, it's called Lund know, my book.
• 48:33
  It's about the settlers and And Iceland in and stuff.
• 48:41
  And being, it's a really reputable Source material for
• 48:45
  understanding like the Land claiming land, taking ceremonies
• 48:50
  things that were done prior to Christian times and Iceland and
• 48:54
  then some of the historical foundings of of Iceland and
• 48:59
  stuff like that. So I'm looking forward to
• 49:00
  reading that got this really neat Funko, Pop thing, not a big
• 49:07
  collector by any means. But let me let me kill my sister
• 49:11
  from Motorhead, right? She got me to, he was bronze
• 49:14
  Funko, Pop thing that she got me.
• 49:17
  She also got me this really awesome.
• 49:18
  Resin burner chuckle, resin burner, and it with a wide
• 49:22
  variety of different resins, you know, frankincense myrrh and
• 49:25
  Pine and Palo, Santo and lot of different beautiful.
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  You know, scented resins and things I'm going to be using to
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  for meditation, for rituals for that sort of thing.
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  And so yeah it was it's been a really nice, you know, way to
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  kind of bring in that good. See.
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  And for us here with our tribe, you know.
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  So we did that and then we got our you'll feasting to look
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  forward to. So let's let's go ahead and just
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  call it that. Let's just call it season. 3,
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  episode 1, my rants, on the whole covid thing and chewing my
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  sister-in-law new one, a probably not going to let that
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  one go for a while, but suffice it to say ended on a good note.
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  so, Again guys, stay keep your eyes peeled.
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  For when the rest of that song that you hear at the intro of
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  hopefully be in the coming weeks.
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  I'm not exactly sure yet. There's some other people
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  involved I need to coordinate time and stuff with two.
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  Do what we want to do for you to hear the rest of this song.
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  So whether it's, you know, weeks from now or a month from now is
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  food, it'll be very soon like it as it sits on the agenda, things
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  to do very soon, and I'm really looking forward to having you
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  all here, big, thanks again, to Josh groom and your projects, go
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  go more for writing this piece, man, it was.
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  It's awesome. It captures everything about
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  this channel. Is podcast beautifully.
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  And I think what we have planned to reveal and the entire song is
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  going to also help you. Not just listen to the song and
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  feel what we're feeling that, visually capture, the emotion
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  behind it. Also, very excited about that in
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  the meantime, you all. Hopefully you're enjoying your
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  All again hail until we talk again in the Gods in your
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  Bye-bye.