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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP21 - Approaching Secular Things As A Heathen & Gratitude "Blots". · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  All right, folks, hail and welcome back to Wren to the
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  random Heathen ramblings podcast, and midgard music
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  production. Hope you guys are having a great
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  week and enjoying this extreme heat wave.
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  Yeah, I'm not enjoying it at all one.
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  Bit the day that this podcast was recorded.
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  It broke triple digits. As far as the heat index goes
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  and We shall see what it's like when this podcast airs because
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  they're they're projecting it to just keep on climbing.
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  So when I say hope you're enjoying the Heat and what I
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  mean by that is I hope you're enjoying staying out of the Heat
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  and that you're able to have some comfortable cool
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  temperatures to chill out in this is the time of year where I
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  am the most thankful to not have a warehouse job or Job where I'm
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  like out in the elements all day because this stuff is brutal,
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  and it's very, very dangerous. So be sure if you are having to
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  be outdoors and whatever it is that you do that, you are being
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  safe staying hydrated protecting and covering up the sun will get
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  you man, it'll it'll it'll get you bad that you know, don't
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  don't neglect the things that you need in neglect, but at the
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  same time, be smart about it. So we are back again about to
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  light. This incense as we have become
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  custom to do here. I went really woodsy this week.
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  We've got Pine and we've got Cedar, these are cents or
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  Aromas. That are always like my
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  favorite. You know, reminds me of the
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  north where I'm from and reminds me of winter and those cold
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  months then my favorite times of the year so, you know, the the
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  Piney kind of Types of of incense and resins and stuff
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  where we are like my favorite. So anyway, we got Pine and Cedar
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  today. Maybe if we burn those Will
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  invoke some or evoke guesses whichever one it is.
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  Well we'll get some cold cooler temperatures I doubt it but
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  that's not really the way this works but I think we're in for
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  the Long Haul ladies and gentlemen, as far as the Heat
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  and all that goes. It's interesting.
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  I noticed this one. Doesn't produce as much clouds.
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  Or smoke I should say, they're not clouds or smoke, which is
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  fine. Still smells good.
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  Mmm. Yeah Baby.
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  Smells like a was like a Piney campfire, man.
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  It smells like arvai. Wow.
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  Flashbacks are very meaning, like the Sacred Space that our
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  tribe, conducts are, you know, rituals and stuff in.
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  It's all like Cedars and junipers and we burn a lot of
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  it. We burn a lot of though The
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  Deadfall that comes down and is Is the fuel for our ritual
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  fires. So I guess it's the Cedar and,
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  and the Piney Aromas that are really triggering some
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  Nostalgia, and me, you guys have anything like that.
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  You guys have any like, a Roma's tastes sites.
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  Of course, you know but little things like that that trigger a
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  memory, you know, sometimes maybe they're good memories
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  sometimes maybe they're you know not so good.
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  Memories. Hope they're good memories for
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  you. I remember for the longest time,
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  the aroma of Jim Beam triggered, some horrible memories of my, my
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  young and crazy days where I would drink an excessive amount
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  and get blackout drunk. And then not even know where I
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  was. And next day or whatever, those
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  are not some very fond memories. Those are Reminders of a time
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  pass that, you know, you learn from.
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  So maybe maybe we all have some things that even though they're
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  not the most Pleasant of memories, they are reminders of
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  kind of where we come from, you know, and where not to go back
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  to. So, That's it.
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  That's today's podcast. That just let some incense and
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  told you to have happy memories from smells just kidding.
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  We're not we're not ending it on that.
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  Note of matter of fact, we have a good episode to go in today
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  because we're going to cover a couple of topics.
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  I think to good topics, one of which I've kind of touched on
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  before. But I didn't want to go without
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  acknowledging the recommendation from a supporter of you are a
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  You know, these done these things are done as a as a labor
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  to do any of this because I will do this no matter what but it is
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  nice to know that people have your back and want to see you
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  you know value the time. That is spent because this is
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  time. This is time that I could be
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  spent doing other things. What?
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  I don't know yet because this is this is what I've got my time
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  spent. My extracurricular time,
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  speaking of extracurricular activities and things outside of
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  the normal work, life home life, what have you?
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  Don't forget this Saturday in Springfield Tennessee.
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  The Raven Moon Hearth Kindred is hosting their annual Sunnah,
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  bloat, event information for that is going to be shared also
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  in the description and show notes.
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  I've talked about it before and I will be there.
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  I will be there any very similar Ensemble.
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  As you see me in now, Casting rooms reading rooms for a
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  nominal fee. It is going to be a hot one so I
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  probably won't be dressed hooded for the entire duration of the
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  event. That would be ludicrous.
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  I will be dressed in somewhat traditional garb trying to get
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  into the spirit of it but a summertime Garb, you know, I'm
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  trying to keep and keep comfortable but I'll be outside
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  and burning incense burning resin, you know, Having the
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  runes available to be read for you.
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  So, consider coming out this Saturday day passes are $20, if
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  you're staying overnight to campus 25, which includes you
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  meal for the next day that is provided by revenue and how are
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  they going to be cooking or grilling or doing something with
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  food and stuff? They're providing for their
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  guests and attendees, which is really awesome gesture and
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  looking really forward to it, you know, with all the crazy
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  heat that we're having the one on here lately, the projection
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  For Saturday's, temperatures is actually going to be a cool 89,
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  87, 89 degrees, which in comparison to, you know, upper
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  90s and 100 degree triple digits.
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  That is a significant Lee lower temperature, so maybe maybe
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  we'll have some cloud cover. Maybe, we'll have some some nice
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  breezes but regardless it is a celebration of the sun.
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  It is, in fact, soon upload. So we will be celebrating the,
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  the Wonder the The life-giving energy of Sunnah and it is on
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  the weekend, leading up to the summer solstice, which means the
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  days coming after this past does this?
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  The next coming weekend will progressively start to get
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  longer? So we will load to Sunnah and
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  thank you for the blessings of of the Heat and of the son and
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  of the life-giving Rays. And send her on a warm Center on
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  her warm way as we part. Anticipate and prepare for the
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  dark days ahead. So what else?
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  Yeah. Before we get into the topic of
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  today's discussion, I figured I'd just give you guys some
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  updates on things. I've been posting a lot of stuff
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  on the YouTube channel that is very much outside of the, you
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  know, normal stuff that I hate that I even started midgard,
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  musings for you guys are subscribers to the channel, you
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  probably noticed there's been a lot more instrumental type
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  stuff, you know shamanic rudge drumming.
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  All's collaborations with Jam. Oleson over at a few of the tier
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  Workshop as long as well as some little short videos updates on
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  just things that I've had on my mind, hasn't been doing these
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  Barefoot nature walks and it's been a really interesting time
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  and today's, or I should say, Tuesday's update, you know, it
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  is, it is, it's Extremely hot. So if you're going to be
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  outdoors, you're going to be going to do anything in nature.
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  Whether it be hikes, walks working, what have you and be
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  mindful of how much energy you're exerting and be hydrated
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  and all that fun stuff but you know all I do is I just go on
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  his walks and and most of my walking Sure, you know, path
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  trajectory whatever is in grass and it's mowed grass.
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  So it's not too terribly precarious and you know, aside
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  from stepping on a few rocks here and there or whatever a my
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  God. And I don't have like the most,
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  I don't have hobbit feet, you know, my soul's the soles of my
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  feet are far from built-up or callous enough but I'm doing
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  these like every day and trying to just get more of that energy
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  from the earth, you know, getting my bare skin, my bare
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  feet touching ground. Going into the earth.
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  When I mean grounding, I mean, like really digging in, you
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  know, like walking along the creek Banks, the river banks
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  where it's muddy and stuff, and getting your feet dirty, getting
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  it in there, man. And I've actually now that, you
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  know, we've got a bunch of rain here and Middle Tennessee, and
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  it flooded the river. And it was, you know, a raging
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  River there for a while real dirty.
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  But it's been several days since it rained last and, and it in
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  the waters, come back down. So it's a much more typical
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  water levels and it's great to just get out there and walk.
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  Walk and Wade through the water. And let me tell you doing that,
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  Barefoot II did this with Patrick my tribesmen and lost
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  Baker. He's he spent some time with me
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  over this past weekend to do some crafting and stuff for some
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  tribal items of ours. Or one main tribal item of ours.
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  Something that he contributed to artistically.
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  But he came over and we went for a walk in and we waited through
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  the river ourselves and I was telling him afterwards.
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  I was like, it's not that you're like exerting a lot of physical
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  energy to walk through the river that you can.
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  Really feel, but when you're Barefoot and when you were, you
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  know, carefully placing your feet on things that way you
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  don't, you know, slip on a slippery rock or step on a, you
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  know, something that's Jagged or could potentially harm you like
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  your senses are so heightened your adrenaline's pumping, you
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  know, you don't want to slip and fall and and all these kinds of
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  things that I don't know. It like it heightens, all of
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  those senses and it energizes you even more.
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  So it's super invigorating, man. And so, I did that.
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  Today where I went down to the to the river, the river banks
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  and just wait it out into the water, you know, up to about my
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  knees need depth or so, sat out there for a little bit on this,
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  like, little island, you know, as it were, little little dry
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  spot of land that kind of cuts in between a section where the
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  river breaks away and just sat out there and listen to the
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  water, sat on the on the bare ground. walked on the bare,
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  ground, with my bare feet and I posted an update about the
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  thought that I had was, How adversity, how how tough times,
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  how, how things can really shape us as human beings as
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  individuals and that we can prepare for those things in some
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  sort of way. We can do things that in a way
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  condition, us for the tough times ahead, you know, like I
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  said that steel is hardened by being passed through fire.
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  Or iron is tested. You know this is passes through
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  fire. In adversity, is the thing that
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  breeds worth in all of us. And when those Hard Times come,
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  when you're faced with things, that can really challenge your,
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  your faith, even your resolve and life, not just your
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  religious views, but your spiritual views here.
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  You know, I've heard so many things from people, losing their
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  faith entirely too challenging, their faith, and challenging
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  their deity or deities. Feeling that the sacred have
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  abandoned them in some way because of being disheartened or
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  being discouraged and don't know, I just got it.
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  Got me thinking, you know, I'm out here walking around.
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  It's like 100 degrees outside and I'm barefooted.
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  Walking through the river walking through the woods, the,
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  through the, to the trails, you know, leading up to the to the
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  river banks. Taking that risk, taking that
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  chance of stepping on something or just anyway, like the risk,
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  the benefits outweigh the risk to me and I, you know, being
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  careful, being Mindful and that sort of stuff.
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  But doing the thing getting hot, you know, feeling that son beat
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  on me and cause me to sweat and just be uncomfortable and, you
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  know, walking through the river and feeling the sharp rocks,
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  touch my feet, you know, slipping a little bit trying to
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  catch my balance, you know. And just doing those things
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  where, you know, an average person might be like, looking at
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  you sideways going. What are you doing?
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  I'm like, you know, this is as much of a healing thing, as it
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  is for me. A prepare Tory thing.
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  I'm preparing myself. I'm conditioning myself.
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  I'm passing myself. Through the fire as it were to
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  whatever extent and I'm not you know, I'm not saying that
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  walking around in the sun is is a trial by fire.
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  Although in these temperatures it can be.
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  But what I am saying is that do something, do something that
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  challenges you, that pushes you to your limit.
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  And then when you reach that limit, maybe push a little bit
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  beyond, don't be stupid. Don't be a wreck.
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  Be Reckless, don't be an idiot, but try those things and
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  wouldn't you know it. I posted it and I get I see a
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  comment on one of my posts from guy.
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  Tyler, David Vasquez. David T boss.
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  Cos he's a he's written a lot of poetry for format Patriot Odin's
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  beard Woodworking and he's been featured on the channel once
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  before and in a live we got we had like a big room at virtual
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  room where everybody kind of joined in on his own and we
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  stream live for a bit but yeah he plays he posted a comment.
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  He's like, yeah I would but it's just it's like in the 90s here.
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  and I said, well, I mean I was outside and it was like 100
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  degrees and I did this His response was okay I'll do it but
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  I'm not going to like it. I'm going to complain it all the
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  way and I was like, hey I nobody told you in a direct way.
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  I mean I kind of made like a like I said, general statement
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  of. Hey go out there and push
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  yourself. Go push yourself to your limits.
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  But he took that as a challenge or you took that he took that as
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  a call to action and he did a post a little video tag me in it
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  and I'm like, in that great, isn't that great to see that?
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  Something that, you know, we say something that we do, it's not
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  just saying it's like showing it as an example.
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  Like I can sit here and talk to you about how great, you know,
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  drinking scotches. And if I'm never sitting here
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  with a glass of my hand, drinking it then.
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  You might question. What the hell?
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  I'm even talking about, right? But when I can sit here and
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  describe the the flavors, the notes, the what you get on the
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  knows what it's what the back end flavors are and all this.
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  It's like, okay, well, now that he's If he's doing the thing and
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  he's so it's, you know, same kind of way.
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  And I just use that as an example, consider the front
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  thing in front of my face jumps and I'm staring at but instead
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  of being like yeah you guys should do this because I think
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  it's a good idea and it's scientifically proven and
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  whatever I'm out here doing it and I'm feeling it myself and
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  I'm like why not share this with people, why not share this with
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  folks to give them some inspiration and the inspiration
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  may be happening. Unbeknownst to me.
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  I mean there may be people out here that take what I say and
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  you know, find inspiration in it.
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  Don't post about it and that's, that's great.
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  I mean, nobody's telling YouTube, that's your
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  prerogative, but the fact that, you know, David did, that was
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  really touching, you know. So David thank you for David,
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  Tyler. We're in the South, I can't
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  remember which one it is, but, you know, you are, it's the bosk
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  is thank you for your gesture of, and, and good on you, man,
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  like good on you for being for feeling that motivation, you
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  know, being Elevated to go out and do something, you know, and
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  that's where it starts, you know, wherever you are wherever
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  you're at, no matter what it is. If you're not where you want to
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  be, then the only way to get to where you want to be, is to take
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  that first step. You know, I'm not where I want
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  to be, but I'm also not where I was, you know, not a week and a
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  half ago. Well heck I wasn't even where I
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  was a week ago, you know, as far as like, my my weight, my, my
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  health, my mental health might just everything, you know, I
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  want to achieve a goal and keeping your eye on.
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  The prize focusing on that being dedicated being disciplined
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  enough to do that. You know, this is a great way of
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  honoring our ancestors because it took that very thing.
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  It took those types of things for our ancestors to survive.
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  You know, it took motivation, it took dedication.
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  It took discipline. And so when we do these things,
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  you know, we're not just, we're not just healing ourselves,
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  we're not just doing good for our self in the now, we are
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  honoring our ancestors. We are doing things that honor,
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  their struggle and their legacy that they left behind.
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  We are feeding from the well, right?
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  We are, we are pulling up from from the layers of or log the
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  Primal layers of luck that have been left down for us and we're
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  using that to grow our own luck and to end to add more layers to
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  the well. And then for our descendants
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  down the road, when we become ancestors for them to pull
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  strength from. So you see, it's very holistic
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  and it's a, it's a wonderful thing to be a part of.
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  So if you haven't yet, you know, and you're wondering what the
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  heck? We're talking about.
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  Just take a moment, doesn't have to be a very long while I could
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  just get outside and put your feet in the ground, put your
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  feet in the grass, which feet in the dirt get dirty, get sweaty.
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  You know, and just didn't feel what it's like to.
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  Exert some energy and then push yourself past your comfort zone.
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  We are amazing, creatures human beings.
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  We are capable of so much more than we give ourselves credit
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  for. But all right, that's enough of
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  the inspirational. Woo type stuff.
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  Maybe not even woo but it's a Move on to the topic of
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  discussion for today or topics of discussion for today.
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  So the first one is going to be on a post that I made some some
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  weeks ago. And it was, you know, like a
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  call to folks a you know, what do you want me to talk about
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  here on the podcast or what are some things that we could talk
• 22:48
  about? What are some things that we
• 22:49
  could ramble on about? We got some really great
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  suggestions and one of them is from Cory Corey T.
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  I'll just for the sake of, you know, people's identities and
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  keeping people safe. We'll just say Corey T.
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  So Corey wants us to talk about the topic of dealing with
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  relatives or friends asking us to participate in something
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  which is mainly considered considered A secular thing.
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  So for instance, he's talking about being asked to be a
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  godparent or standing in a wedding and he says chaplain in
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  a hospital. So, you know, I think that what
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  I'm understanding at least from the nature of the question, or
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  the nature of the statement is to talk about how do we deal
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  with these things that are that are mainly secular that are not
• 23:49
  religious that don't necessarily have any religious, or spiritual
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  backgrounds. And, you know, I've even talked
• 23:56
  on this podcast enough or if they are religious that they are
• 24:00
  something separate from, from Heathen, read from from Pagan
• 24:04
  practices, pagan Engine religious practices, you know?
• 24:09
  And I've talked about this on this podcast before with the
• 24:12
  challenges that we can face of dealing with family members and
• 24:17
  friends that are of opposing beliefs.
• 24:20
  I have very close friends and people that I would consider
• 24:25
  brother, you know to me kin to me of opposing religious beliefs
• 24:32
  and it's never been a thing that has stopped us from developing a
• 24:35
  deep and And rooted bond with each other.
• 24:39
  The religious and doesn't religion is not the thing that
• 24:43
  prevents people from having meaningful relationships.
• 24:49
  Because if it were, I wouldn't have half of friends that I've
• 24:51
  had and still have. So, I've talked about that, you
• 24:56
  know, I've talked about dealing with spouses, or being in
• 25:00
  relationships with people of opposing, religions, are doing
• 25:04
  things like that. So this Seems a much like and
• 25:07
  those are some pretty you know, delicate and even challenging
• 25:11
  scenarios to navigate through, right?
• 25:15
  Because of so many variables that can take place and all of
• 25:18
  those types of things, this seems to be a very rudimentary
• 25:24
  easier response just based on the fact that we're talking
• 25:27
  about things, That are secular. They are what they are,
• 25:32
  regardless of your religion and regardless of what your beliefs
• 25:35
  and all that are. So, let's just use some examples
• 25:38
  right now. The Godparent thing that is a
• 25:42
  religious or at least has it has its connotations roots, or
• 25:49
  maybe, not Roots, but you're not going to.
• 25:52
  You're not going to ask somebody to be a godparent to someone
• 25:54
  unless you were intertwined somehow into the Catholic faith
• 25:59
  faith. At least not so much as I've
• 26:01
  heard, I could be wrong with that, but I think that being
• 26:03
  godparents is is a strictly. Catholic thing if I'm wrong I'm
• 26:11
  wrong but it's for some reason it sticks in my mind that it's
• 26:15
  just a Catholic thing. so, I don't know, you know, let's say
• 26:20
  I had I'll just use myself as an example and then you guys can
• 26:25
  assimilate, you know, however you want to about it with your
• 26:28
  own beliefs or your own approach to things.
• 26:31
  But if I were to be asked by somebody of my family and I
• 26:34
  don't have any family that are Catholics, but if I did, you
• 26:37
  know, and there was a request of me to be that child's got
• 26:44
  child's godparent. First of all, you going to ask
• 26:49
  me to be a Godfather then I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna swell
• 26:55
  up like this and I'm gonna tell you you just made me an offer
• 27:01
  but I couldn't refuse. I can I do that but I would I
• 27:09
  would I would look at the gesture.
• 27:11
  I would I would consider the gesture as being something of a
• 27:14
  very something. Something very meaningful,
• 27:17
  right? You don't just wake up one
• 27:18
  morning, look through, you know, your Facebook feed or swipe on
• 27:23
  the social media app and be like, alright, who do I want to
• 27:25
  be my godfather today, right? Like that's a really important
• 27:29
  position to carry some. That's an important
• 27:34
  responsibility and it carries with it, I think, you know,
• 27:37
  census of obligation. But I think that Because of that
• 27:44
  because of the importance behind it, I would feel very honored
• 27:47
  you know, and I would just want to know I guess, you know
• 27:50
  without knowing the specifics behind that I mean, is it just,
• 27:53
  you know, I'm your legal guardian.
• 27:55
  I mean, what are some, what are some of the quote-unquote
• 27:57
  requirements? I mean am I going to have to do
• 27:59
  anything specific? Like I guess, you know, I would
• 28:02
  I would consider that as long as it doesn't do anything to damage
• 28:06
  my Experience with my My Religion, right?
• 28:12
  How I, how I experience life with the gods and of a tear and
• 28:15
  my ancestors and all that, then for sure, I would except I mean
• 28:19
  it doesn't hurt if anything it allows us to especially for
• 28:23
  something like this, right? I mean be the Godparent of
• 28:27
  somebody's child. Adoption was a very commonplace
• 28:33
  thing and dramatic Society in pre-christian times and no, no.
• 28:36
  It's been a very obviously common thing in many.
• 28:39
  It's not just isolated to Germanic culture but adoption
• 28:44
  was a thing that you know, when you are adopted into a family,
• 28:48
  you were a part of that family became part of that family.
• 28:50
  That was your family and all of the luck and all of the things
• 28:56
  that that family benefited from now became Available to you
• 29:02
  through again. This whole thing we talked about
• 29:04
  for the the concept of we are written or log and all these
• 29:07
  things. So in that way, you know, to be
• 29:11
  to be asked to be someone's Godparent.
• 29:13
  I would consider that in my acceptance or decline of the
• 29:19
  offer. Right?
• 29:20
  Because who am I time myself to what am I?
• 29:24
  What are my bonding myself with whom?
• 29:26
  I bought it myself with. How's it going to, you know,
• 29:29
  perpetuate and extend and manifest well for my look.
• 29:34
  So there's that thing to consider but, you know, it
• 29:38
  doesn't, it doesn't Something like that wouldn't be the thing
• 29:42
  that that harms our hurts, not that I know of anyway your your
• 29:47
  experience and your relationship with the gods, you know what I
• 29:50
  mean? Because first of all, the gods
• 29:51
  aren't going to be up there being like, Oh no, you know,
• 29:53
  Jesse's over here, you know, becoming the Godparent, you
• 29:57
  know, that's a Christian thing, we don't like him now, I don't
• 30:00
  care. You know what I mean?
• 30:03
  And they are the ones that people seem to be cared about
• 30:05
  the most was the gods going to say.
• 30:06
  They gonna be mad at me my, you know, my am I betraying the
• 30:09
  gods? Are they, are they going to, you
• 30:13
  know, Withdraw themselves from my life, and these sorts of
• 30:17
  things. The Vets here and our ancestors
• 30:21
  and those are, those are the snow.
• 30:22
  The spiritual relationships that we have of the beings that exist
• 30:28
  near and around us. That's what I'm more concerned
• 30:30
  about. You know, what am I going to do?
• 30:31
  That's going to be good for my relationships with them since I
• 30:35
  share space with them, the gods are on their level.
• 30:38
  And yes, I do things with myself and with my tribe to get the
• 30:43
  God's attention to appease the gods or to appeal to the gods,
• 30:47
  even and time. Is when, and when, and when it
• 30:50
  is appropriate and but, you know, being someone's Godparent,
• 30:57
  doesn't hurt my relationship with the Gods in that sort of
• 31:00
  way. I think, if anything limiting
• 31:04
  myself to reasons of not accepting it because it's not a,
• 31:10
  it's not a key than thing. It's a Christian thing or it's a
• 31:12
  Catholic thing. You know, if I were to limit
• 31:14
  myself based on that and, and not look at the overall picture
• 31:18
  then And I think I would be doing more damage by not.
• 31:22
  You know, becoming a godparent to somebody.
• 31:25
  If, if the situation called for animal and it was right and it
• 31:28
  was good for the situation, you know, for all parties involved.
• 31:35
  you know, in some of the other examples that Corey gives right
• 31:38
  standing in a wedding, His chaplain in a hospital.
• 31:41
  I'm assuming, you know maybe funerals can also be tossed into
• 31:48
  their baptisms. I'm going to throw baptisms in
• 31:51
  there because that is a very specific religious experience.
• 31:57
  You know that or that that is a very specific ritual.
• 32:00
  I've got the Christian religion and I do say ritual because it
• 32:02
  is very, it is a ritual. I had the opportunity to attend
• 32:09
  my nieces Baptism a couple of months ago.
• 32:16
  And yeah, I I went to church, you know and guess what I didn't
• 32:20
  burst into flames and and in the Christians there didn't try to
• 32:25
  burn me. You know, at the stake they
• 32:27
  didn't try to throw me out, whatever.
• 32:29
  They didn't try to kill me there in the at the altar.
• 32:31
  It was, it was really nice. It was it was a nice experience
• 32:35
  to be a part of and and just seeing the Actually, learned
• 32:39
  some things, you know what I mean?
• 32:40
  Like, you can learn something, you can learn anything from
• 32:43
  anywhere. It's, you know, wisdom is wisdom
• 32:45
  regardless of where it comes from.
• 32:50
  And the reason I did it is because of the amount of
• 32:53
  connection that I have with my niece, through my wife and how
• 32:58
  much of a bond I've established with my niece.
• 33:01
  You know, she's not going to remember her own baptism because
• 33:05
  she's less than a year old, right?
• 33:09
  She's going to have video, she's going to have a memory.
• 33:11
  She's going to have something to look back on pictures of herself
• 33:14
  as an infant right later on down the line.
• 33:17
  She's going to have pictures of that and she's going to see
• 33:18
  pictures with her aunt and her uncle, my wife and I and you
• 33:26
  know, she's not going to see pictures with other people who
• 33:28
  weren't there that were or should have been there, you
• 33:32
  know? And when I when I think about
• 33:38
  the impact That has when I think about what it means to somebody
• 33:42
  to know that they had a person in their life that cared enough
• 33:45
  for them from such a young age to want to be there to be a
• 33:48
  positive presence, in a positive influence in their life.
• 33:51
  You know, that is some really strong luck to lay down boy,
• 33:56
  that is some really strong. You know, it goes into your
• 34:02
  refrain you know your reputation I think it goes into a lot of
• 34:05
  things your main, you know, Oh, the might the kind of the power
• 34:10
  that you have, that, that that gets built on or over time and
• 34:15
  through certain deeds and through certain actions.
• 34:20
  You know, you just need to leveling up and like, all right.
• 34:24
  So, you know, standing it and a wedding, you know, you've been
• 34:27
  asked by someone whether it's the groom or the bride, even ask
• 34:32
  someone on their very, very special and important day to be,
• 34:35
  not just an attendee, but to be an honored member of their
• 34:39
  wedding party, right? And to stand with them at their
• 34:42
  wedding, you know? So I think every situation is
• 34:47
  different, you know? I mean, sometimes a situation
• 34:49
  might be like, hey, you know, this is a totally irrational
• 34:52
  thing to be doing this is not a cause for celebration.
• 34:56
  I I 100% do not support this. I don't think that stuff like
• 34:59
  that. Those those situations don't or
• 35:03
  they might have, you know, religious purpose and reasoning
• 35:08
  behind the decision making, but, you know, be careful of it.
• 35:12
  I think, you know, be be aware that That sort of thing can.
• 35:19
  Perhaps Cloud your vision and and keep you from thinking
• 35:25
  rationally and logically. If you fall you're thinking
• 35:28
  about is, you know, the gods and then stuff that are in here
• 35:32
  present with us, you know, if you want to think about anything
• 35:36
  is you know, what would You know, how well does this reflect
• 35:40
  on my luck and win? How much, how much is how?
• 35:43
  Well does this reflect on my ancestors?
• 35:46
  And then, what would they would, they be pleased?
• 35:50
  Am I honoring their legacy that sort of thing?
• 35:52
  Those are those are honestly a lot of what I'd look at.
• 35:56
  It's not what my ancestors would think.
• 35:59
  Because I mean, It's better to do things whether it's right or
• 36:05
  wrong then to not do things. So at some point in time, you're
• 36:07
  going to do things that your answers are going to be going.
• 36:11
  What did you just do? Right.
• 36:13
  But at least you did something so I, you know, I don't know.
• 36:16
  I think it's a mix of doing something that I know what I
• 36:20
  think my answers would be proud of and that I am honoring their,
• 36:24
  their life and their legacy. But also, then that I am doing,
• 36:28
  is that what am I doing now? That's going to, you know, set
• 36:32
  me up good later on and add good luck to the well.
• 36:36
  Now, so I hope that that's where the question or where the topic
• 36:43
  was meant to go Cory and if it wasn't, maybe feel free to DM me
• 36:47
  or shoot me an email. Or call into the midgard musings
• 36:51
  hotline 6. 1, 5 6, 7 1983 to in case I miss something or in case
• 36:57
  I that's where I saw that that comment coming from you know and
• 37:02
  that's that's what I thought of when when when you wrote it I
• 37:07
  hope that answers it and hope that it's worth all your time to
• 37:10
  consider the other topic that I did want to briefly touch on
• 37:15
  before we wrap this up. Though is another Are supporter.
• 37:20
  Luke, Luke h. So thank you, Luke.
• 37:24
  Who says, is there such a thing as a gratitude bloat?
• 37:29
  How to say thank you to the gods, rather than requesting
• 37:34
  things of them? And this one I thought was very
• 37:37
  interesting because there's differences between bloat and
• 37:46
  what might be called a fainting or an offering, you know what I
• 37:48
  mean? Like there's there's there's
• 37:49
  very there's significant differences to what those things
• 37:53
  are but they are often just lumped into the being the same
• 37:58
  thing. Oh you know, I'm going to love
• 38:00
  you, I'd even settle on the podcast before, you know, for
• 38:02
  Sunnah bloat. You know, there's going to be
• 38:04
  bloat. There's going to be a bloat.
• 38:07
  I don't think that bloat is going to be done in the
• 38:10
  historical lie. Accurate sense.
• 38:13
  I don't think that there's going to be animal blood used in an
• 38:21
  animal sacrifice and that sort of thing for for this event and
• 38:25
  has an in the past. So I don't think so.
• 38:28
  So what what makes a bloat upload is, is the is the
• 38:33
  presence of blood and there's a whole debate on on that amongst
• 38:37
  various heathens and such. But from what I understand, from
• 38:40
  what I know from when I I've research is that bloat?
• 38:43
  In the historical sense, was held to the gods.
• 38:47
  That's very specific times for specific events and for specific
• 38:50
  reasons, doing very specific things.
• 38:54
  Now give ting to the gods often faintings, the offerings.
• 38:59
  That sort of thing, things that don't consists of animals, it
• 39:01
  could be Libations. It could be smoke fire as a
• 39:06
  means of sending the the gift and that sort of thing time.
• 39:12
  Study the our time is valuable, right?
• 39:14
  So gifting of our time to, to achieve something, you know,
• 39:20
  with no, well, not even to achieve it, but just a gift it
• 39:23
  right here, I'm giving you my time and you don't have to pay
• 39:27
  me back for, it's a gift, whatever, these types of things
• 39:31
  are to be that, that's really mostly where it's at, like the
• 39:35
  bloat thing. Like, yes they are.
• 39:37
  They are sacrifices to the gods to hope for better.
• 39:41
  Things or to pray for those things or you know, blow to
• 39:45
  Victory, a blow to, you know, the gods for a good harvest or
• 39:51
  for success and victory in battle and all these other
• 39:53
  things that we read about in the Sun.
• 39:55
  So the sagas and sources but just a feigning a gift, an
• 39:59
  offering that's more of what happens.
• 40:01
  I think especially at like the Hearth and individual home level
• 40:05
  like our cult level is you know, those things are gestures of
• 40:09
  gratitude those things. Gifts to say, thank you.
• 40:13
  Thank you for, you know, your presence in my life.
• 40:16
  Thank you for my success in life.
• 40:19
  Thank you for my home. Thank you for my health.
• 40:22
  Thank you for my children. Thank you for my wealth,
• 40:24
  whatever it is, right? I mean, I think that most of the
• 40:28
  time, if we're talking about percentages or whatever, I
• 40:32
  think, the percentage of time that people talk about
• 40:34
  gift-giving to the God's offering to the gods below, to
• 40:37
  the gods is really just a gift to the gods to be.
• 40:41
  Awful right, for four things. And to show that gratitude by
• 40:49
  You know, pouring out some Mead, some some nice whiskey.
• 40:53
  You know, burning a home-cooked meal or leaving fresh fruits and
• 40:58
  vegetables out to the veterinarian.
• 41:01
  Oh those are gifts, those are gestures of that engage Us in
• 41:05
  the gifting cycle. Reciprocation, which is one of,
• 41:11
  if not the most important things about being Pagan and a lot of
• 41:14
  different practices but Germanic paganism, Nordic paganism, Some
• 41:18
  specially the gifting cycle, the gift exchange reciprocity is a
• 41:25
  big part of our spirituality and religious practices because a
• 41:29
  gift, seeks a gift. you know, we gift Or in things we gift and
• 41:36
  hopes of returning or having that gift return back to us.
• 41:40
  And that's what we understand it to be.
• 41:42
  Is we do not enter into that exchange with any less than an
• 41:48
  expectation that something is going to come back from to me
• 41:52
  you know so yes it is a way of asking for something I think or
• 41:56
  hoping for something but it's also done I think mainly out of
• 42:00
  the heart of it all is to Be thankful be gracious and show
• 42:07
  gratitude. So you know as far as like the
• 42:11
  actual question goes if I were to read that again and he says
• 42:14
  is there such a thing as gratitude bloat.
• 42:17
  That's a fainting than man that I think that's a good.
• 42:19
  That's a gift below. Tis for again, very specific
• 42:24
  reasons at very specific times doing very specific things.
• 42:30
  And, you know, one could say that that that was done in the
• 42:36
  spirit of gratitude, right out of thanks.
• 42:39
  Thank you Odin for giving us victory in the last raid.
• 42:42
  You know, we now sacrifice this whatever it was to you for
• 42:48
  victory in the future. You know thank you for are for
• 42:51
  the Bountiful Harvest of summer in allowing us to you know reap
• 42:56
  the fields and Bounty. Now we are thankful and we give
• 42:59
  to you in our time of, you know, the the harvest season, you
• 43:05
  know, to bless our crops, you know, So there's I don't know,
• 43:13
  there's absolutely gratitude blowed if you want to call it
• 43:18
  that, but I mean it's feigning. It's offering gifts to receive
• 43:23
  gifts in return and then once you mean, once you enter into
• 43:26
  that gifting cycle, it's you don't lie, it doesn't stop, you
• 43:33
  don't let it stop, you know? It's a and it's a beautiful
• 43:38
  thing to be tuned into that, knowing that that's how the
• 43:44
  universe around. Us Works reciprocity is, it's
• 43:48
  cyclical and we live on a freaking sphere.
• 43:54
  The middle of this vast emptiness of nothingness, that
• 43:58
  is only growing exponentially into more nothingness.
• 44:00
  So the nothingness is expanding into more nothingness.
• 44:06
  You know, make sense of that and here we are.
• 44:12
  Making a ripple. And making change.
• 44:18
  Doing things engaging with sacred beings and spirits around
• 44:24
  us because that's what we are. We are, we are sacred beings.
• 44:27
  We are, we have that level of sacredness of within us.
• 44:30
  We have that sacred and divine inspiration.
• 44:33
  Through the older orders, I think it is, is that it sort of,
• 44:38
  yeah, ordered that that sacred divine inspiration.
• 44:43
  That was one of the things that in the creation myth and more to
• 44:47
  paganism is you know Odin vili and ve a in part do three
• 44:52
  different things to mankind. One of those things is that
• 44:55
  Divine breath at the vine inspiration, the cognitive
• 44:58
  abilities and such so yeah, absolutely there is and the more
• 45:04
  you engage in it. Now, you know, I guess it's to
• 45:06
  be considered that, you know, it's better not to gift.
• 45:10
  Much or anything than to gift you know, too often or too much.
• 45:14
  So there's a balance there, there's modesty there.
• 45:17
  There's you know, you got to be everything in moderation, right?
• 45:23
  But yeah, it's definitely definitely a thing there is such
• 45:27
  a thing as that Luke, you know, and then find that place, find
• 45:32
  that opportunity to do it and there's nothing, something to be
• 45:36
  formal, you know. I have gifted things randomly to
• 45:41
  people, just because, and I've had things gifted randomly to
• 45:44
  me, just because you know, and that's very refreshing is very
• 45:47
  nice and it really and it secures something, you know,
• 45:52
  that first step that step to just randomly gift to someone
• 45:55
  out of thanks, I appreciate what you do.
• 45:56
  Here's, you know, here's something to show my gratitude.
• 46:00
  What does it do for you as a human being was I do for you as
• 46:02
  an individual, right? It really like wakes you up and
• 46:05
  go. Wow!
• 46:06
  That made me feel really good and I want to go do that for him
• 46:08
  or her. Them you know, or in and keep
• 46:11
  that thing going because it made me feel good, it's going to make
• 46:14
  them feel good, same kind of thing, you know.
• 46:18
  Yes. The gods with the gods and they
• 46:20
  are, they are sacred, and they are Divine.
• 46:23
  And yet they have they have made themselves accessible to us, you
• 46:28
  know? And and when we do certain
• 46:30
  things, you know, no matter. Whether we are in the profane
• 46:34
  and they are in the sacred Realms.
• 46:37
  You know, when we connect them, we were able to Are moments with
• 46:40
  each other. I can't help.
• 46:43
  But think that, especially of the moment as it is for us to
• 46:47
  feel that it is special in a way for them, to feel our presence
• 46:52
  with them. You know, some people may not
• 46:56
  think about that. They may put the gods too far
• 46:59
  above Humanity mankind, which is fair.
• 47:04
  They are again, they are, they are sacred, they are gods.
• 47:08
  They have the powers, they have, they have things that are not
• 47:10
  the same as what we do. And we have powers as well.
• 47:16
  We have things we can do. and, You know. not to not to again
• 47:26
  compare ourselves to the gods as it were, but I can't help but
• 47:30
  think that there are times when the exchanges that are Done
• 47:36
  between the profane and the sacred, leave an impact on both
• 47:42
  sides of the veil as it were, you know.
• 47:46
  So yeah, man, I hope that that a lot of different things that we
• 47:51
  talked about on today's podcast and we still got plenty of other
• 47:54
  things to talk about in the next few episodes and stuff. of
• 48:01
  season 3 going to be, I think I haven't decided yet how I'm
• 48:08
  going to break up the seasons. I'm done thinking of doing it
• 48:11
  summer and winter, right? Winter and summer but since
• 48:16
  that's the kind of That's the Nordic thing to do, right?
• 48:20
  They had they didn't have four season.
• 48:21
  They had they had winter or not winter and that's things like
• 48:25
  what it's been like here in Tennessee.
• 48:27
  There's, you know, the we really didn't go from Winter to Spring
• 48:30
  to Summer. It was like, okay, it's winter
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  and then it's summer. And then half half winter.
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  And then now it's full summer now.
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  It's really summer summer. And then we'll probably have
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  this on and off until about November, when it gets cold
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  again. So, I don't know.
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  But anyway, the rambling on now into things that don't matter to
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  you. Folks out here, regardless of
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  what season 1 episode, we're going to keep doing this thing.
• 48:57
  And try to maybe some bring out some more guests.
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  I know, I keep saying that. And I've talked about having,
• 49:02
  you know, dingo on here. We're just not there yet, we're
• 49:06
  just not there yet, but I hope you guys have been enjoying
• 49:08
  these podcasts. Open enjoying the other content
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  that I've posted on the on the YouTube channel.
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  Don't forget if you do, like what you see and hear that,
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  giving that video or that episode, whatever thumbs up
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  favoriting, It sharing it around engaging with it.
• 49:24
  Letting the algorithm know that this isn't An of interest to you
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  does a lot of good and it helps, you know, grow this this podcast
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  and add to this audience and virtual family as it were.
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  So I do want to thank all of you for attending today's Premier
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  and for all the listeners all over the world.
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  Thank you so much special. Thanks to Janet King and M Darby
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  on patreon for continuing to be a yarol and Chieftains here.
• 49:57
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  that's posted at the in the description and show notes of
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  it'll give you the option to click on that patreon link along
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  with other things, you know, social media, merchandise
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  donations the works. All right, so check it all out
• 50:21
  when you have time. I hope to see you at soon.
• 50:24
  A block here in a couple of days if you're in the area.
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  I will definitely try to see about maybe shooting some
• 50:29
  content while we're there. Don't know if I'll have enough
• 50:32
  service to go live but I'll definitely do my best to maybe
• 50:35
  film some content and talk to some people and get some, get
• 50:39
  some faces here on the up, the podcast, but the YouTube
• 50:44
  channel. So we'll see.
• 50:45
  We'll see how it all will work out.
• 50:47
  But in the meantime, Thank you to you all hail to you all and
• 50:53
  until we see each other. Again May the gods continue to
• 50:56
  look upon you. And notice, you and may your
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  ancestors always walk with you and smile upon you.
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  Thank you all.