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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP29 - Living Heathenry Through Music (feat. Skaldic Works) · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  Today, we have a guest who is a musician.
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  He has a YouTube channel as well, and is Norris even or
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  Norse Pagan, so we are going to be welcoming in.
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  Blake, Russell, who is better known by his online moniker as
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  skaldak works? You can find him for sure.
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  Here on YouTube, I believe you also has an Instagram page
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  There's a link to relink, I think to all of his social sites
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  and whatnot but he plays the bow harp tour the Cella harp.
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  I think it's called thing. I've heard it pronounced
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  differently in different languages or different dialects
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  but the Thiele harp you know, it's that kind of droning
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  sounding fiddle that a lot of individuals and musicians that
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  play. Lady Nordic folk style of music
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  plays. So he has again, videos up here
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  on his YouTube channel, which is going to be linked.
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  So be sure to check him out, subscribe to his channel, follow
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  along with he does and we're going to bring him on here today
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  to talk about. I'm sure that and just kind of
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  whatever else tickles our pickles and strike, sorry,
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  interest or sets our minds on fire or puts our ships in
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  Harbour or whatever the other phrases that you can think of
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  that. I mean, some of the things that
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  I just alluded to. So, for the first time on the
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  random Heathen ramblings podcast, please, welcome
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  sculpted works. All right, folks and as I
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  mentioned earlier, we are joined now for the very first time on
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  the random Heathen Ramsey's podcast with this is Blake
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  better known by his online moniker as skaldak works.
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  So thank you for tuning in and thank you for being a guest on
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  the show today. Blake.
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  Thanks for having me. So I mentioned earlier that you
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  are a musician. You've got your YouTube channel
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  and you play. I think it's pronounced T Allah
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  to Allah carp tell the top. I was adding maybe I was adding
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  a, I was dating annunciations but that didn't belong.
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  I guess. Evidently it's also
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  And how long have you been playing this for?
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  What's your musical background? Like what, what kind of brought
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  you into the pursuit of that particular instrument?
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  Okay, well, I have been exposed to music for since I was born
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  and I've been exposed to mostly the, like, the old country, like
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  noise on back to White by pressing.
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  OK, which, I can, which I can play those instruments as well
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  face my grandfather, but I did start to He's only playing with
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  me too and stuff as well. I guess I got the heavy metal
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  stuff and Pretty much throughout the it was like, I think it was
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  like around 2006, I think I got 47.
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  I got into heavy metal hard, rock and heavy metal and just
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  started leaning towards that. And I've been pulling off again
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  with the guitar and stuff. And But it's basically just a
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  HD. Thank going on.
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  But we have We had a band like right before it happened.
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  Around eight. 2019. Yep.
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  And that was a part of and I've played Rhythm on that that one.
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  And then we had our first show or first and only show at that
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  time and they wanted me to switch over later on after covid
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  hit. And we can't have the cancel one
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  of our shows that the It was a a a place in Huntsville, that's
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  why, when you say switch over, you mean like switch
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  instruments, or yes. After after that, they wanted to
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  switch the base. And my friends who played bass
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  was switching over to guitar gotcha.
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  But as slowly as it slowly progressed I just felt like this
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  is that direction I want to go and start.
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  I listen to like of course bands.
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  Like wow. Runa.
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  Hey, long gone Hime. It's not like you remember who
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  else cold as well. Oh, yeah.
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  And that's how I that's how I got into the toggle.
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  Harbour is the instrument because I was gonna try to get
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  me like a Lear and tried to get that down.
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  But it's like, oh, a boat Abode version of this.
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  Yeah. And the thing is, I have
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  actually Violent background. Oh, wow.
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  Okay, that came easy to me to learn this.
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  This is, I actually both played both.
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  Not only have violin lessons when I was young.
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  I also play fiddle style. Yeah.
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  So the Bluegrass influences and stuff that from your from
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  growing up. Yeah.
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  For sure. Yeah.
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  Oh, and they owe the from there. Also, I'm a competing used to be
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  a competing harmonica player. Oh yeah.
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  But I thought I felt like it was a relatively easy instrument to
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  learn how to play knowing where the blow on the Reeds and
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  whatnot. I mean I can't read a lick of
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  sheet music. Yeah.
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  But listening to a song I could like find the tone and whatever
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  on the harmonica is and play it with relative ease.
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  So as a child you know I was like oh this is a fun
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  instrument. Dad.
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  You know, he was a drummer and and so I've always kind of
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  picked up on the percussions, you know, type instrument.
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  So you know, like the drum and stuff is kind of like a
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  naturally gravitate toward that. I'm always, you know, tapping on
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  things and tap on my feet or bobbing my head or whatever.
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  So that like desire to just keep rhythm is always there and then
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  I have got was gifted a liar over you all this past year.
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  And II said, I, you know, I'm not, I've like, I think I've
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  learned like maybe one song on it and not even a full one, and
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  I haven't gotten the whole thing fully tuned it, because there's
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  so many. There's like different tunings
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  that you gotta play for different songs which I never
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  realized, I'm like, oh well, there's more to this than I
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  guess. When you get to the longer one,
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  some have longer ones and then you get to the Baseline.
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  Which that's actually more of a modern take on that asteroid.
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  So the base of cello range toggle Harbor.
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  Yeah, are they? I mean, so they have different
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  sizes, but as far as like the number of strings on them, I
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  I've seen ones that have. What looks like, just like maybe
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  three or four strings, like nothing.
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  Very complicated. And then I've seen others with
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  more, but traditionally, therefore, but a lot of them
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  have been using three strings lately because of, because of
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  either selfic pronouncing, Right.
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  And then, right again. Yeah, from we're doing now.
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  Yeah, yeah, he is is a three string, which he calls it a
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  toggle half of the earlier, one of his bottle.
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  The shape of it is more against the Euro, he go, right?
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  I think yeah, yahiko, I keep pronouncing it wrong as I got
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  called out one time trying to teach the lesson on that, but
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  they say it's actually smaller than what he was playing.
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  But the thing is the luthier that That created my instrument
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  his his versions are about a little bit bigger than the
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  traditional Finnish model. Okay.
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  But on he started so that's I guess that's how the three
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  spring came about. Won't go to sleep, but
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  traditionally, it's for Strings, interesting.
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  But the training is about the thing is about the same as the
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  three string. Except for the one closest to
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  your hand is to exactly the same as the, Level.
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  And I'm assuming well I miss a assuming, but I guess from like
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  watching, like folks like yourself and other players of
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  the instrument they're not fretted, right?
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  Like it's almost like a violin in that sense where you're, you
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  know, where you bend the strings or or or What the technical term
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  is the correct term but you know, it's not like a, where is
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  your AC G? You know?
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  Yeah, it's okay. Okay.
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  But it does not have a finger board either, so right.
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  Yeah, it's yeah, that would press down.
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  Yeah. So from from from Bluegrass to
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  rock and heavy metal, which I think the transition from
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  Bluegrass into metal is is almost seamless because it's
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  kind of like black metal is is Bluegrass with like electric
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  guitars and distorted tones and things you know.
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  Like you can almost see like how the the ferocity and the
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  seemingly chaotic nature of Bluegrass has mirror or mirrors
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  into Extreme versions of metal is say like black metal.
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  Do you see the similarities there to, as a practicing
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  musician? Or am I just like talking out of
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  my butt here? Yeah, I see, I see some
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  similarities to it. There's some different
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  techniques, of course. All right, you are?
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  Yeah, I mean, they're not buying it like, Like Wendy, what do you
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  see Bluegrass musician? Play our patients.
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  Well technically if you look at that, my like banjo I'll go back
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  on Banjo has more and Madeline Styles and violins will probably
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  do more, our patients stuff than say, like a guitar replace and
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  bluegrass. Or a or dobro or yeah I've
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  always loved always love the incorporation of banjo anyway.
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  I mean I like the sound of a banjo.
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  I think it's very I don't know man.
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  It's just it's just like one of those sounds that you can't
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  mimic with anything else. It's so unique in it and it has
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  its own sound and you know, it's a Telltale sound kind of much.
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  Like the the toggle Harper, the tell Harper it's it's it has a
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  very distinct sound to it. You can't mistake it for
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  anything else. else and I think it changes also across the
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  different styles to because you have your traditional Angela
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  that dates back to the African times you have Minstrel banjo
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  Then you have your railing or clawhammer banjo sound, which
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  says, which is the open backs. Then you have your Scruggs style
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  which is your three-finger style?
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  Playing, do you go into mulatto banjo, which is the same thing
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  in the three-finger style format?
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  But just a little more complicated.
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  And then you have four string, Irish banjo?
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  Yes. You know, I think, you know, and
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  I never see. I'm learning.
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  Stuff here today, too. Because I never realized that,
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  as you said that there's history with a style of banjo, that is a
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  from the African continent but I learned so much about music and
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  instruments right? Like there's they don't sound
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  exactly the same but they have a very similar sound like don't
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  know what the correct term is but in like Mongolian folk music
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  there's like this huge bowed thing and it's got two or three.
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  There it is. Yeah that one You ever like are
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  you familiar with that instrument?
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  And yeah I actually like the band.
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  The Who? Yeah.
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  Oh yeah. Come on now.
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  Yeah, I can go down there. Yeah.
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  Tengger Cavalry only if you ever heard of them, they kind of were
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  like the who's almost necessarily predecessor, but
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  they I almost feel like Tanger Cavalry were the pioneers of
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  what we have now, in terms of Mongolian folk metal, because
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  the who started really making a stamp on On the music scene.
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  I mean I didn't find out about the who until I had already
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  heard of tender Calvary, so I don't know if it's harder than I
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  think I've heard them play. Yeah, man.
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  I'll, I'll I'll connect with you and send you some stuff because
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  when I saw the reason I found out about them is I was at the
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  time doing a lot of press for and like album reviews,
• 18:35
  publication four different bands.
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  And it just so happened that one of the labels or promotion
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  companies that I was doing. Work through sent me information
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  on Tanger Calvary saying that they were coming through the
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  area on a on a tour and wanted me to come by and interview them
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  and do an album review and all this other or do a review and
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  then in an interview and what was also interesting was at the
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  time. The, so, the pr companies who it
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  acted me the promoters who booked the show, where people
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  who I knew at the time in Nashville, so it worked out
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  really well. I was like, hey, Kayla Malcolm,
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  you know, like a I was contacted by, I can't remember the name of
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  the PR Company, but like the PR Company of adrenaline maybe that
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  they had like, ties to like some pretty major bands.
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  You don't limit God, Megadeth and some of these like pretty
• 19:33
  big names like, hey, I was reading.
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  You know, I was contacted by this PR Company When they come
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  by and they're like, absolutely just, you know, give it is your
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  name and a plus one will have you on the guest list.
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  So that's how I got turned on to tengger Calvary became friends
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  with their vocalist and then tragically about a year or two
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  after I met them or whatever. The vocalist tragically passed
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  took his own life which is really sad and again, you know,
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  got into their music. I was like man, this is like
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  this is groundbreaking, you know, like yeah Folk Music that
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  is turned into like extreme varieties of it and then next
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  thing you know like I think they ended up getting signed to
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  either. It was either nuclear blast or
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  Napalm records or some big, you know, extreme music label.
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  Yeah, one really heavy metal ones like that.
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  Yeah, yeah. And they you know with with
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  nature was the guy's name, the singer of the lead vocalist with
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  him passing, you know, the course, they pretty much just
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  put it to bed. But after that I like learned
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  about The Who and And that sort of thing.
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  And I was like, wow man, I don't know if I would have, I'm sure I
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  would have heard of The Who, but I wouldn't have been exposed to
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  that kind of music prior to that.
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  And so I feel, I guess, maybe like a almost an obligation to
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  mention the tanker Calvary folks.
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  Every time I hear about the who I'm like, yeah, you may not have
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  had that. We may not have been there with
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  that, you know, without tanker kalbarri first.
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  But yeah, that's fascinating. I had no idea that the banjo had
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  its place in Africa you know anything about that or it's the
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  style of music. I don't know if I've heard of
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  anything from me. It basically it, I can't
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  remember exactly all the details.
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  There is a what there's one famous woman who's trying to
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  revive that style music. And the banjo completely
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  different back then. Sure.
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  And it is that the oh it actually Branch all from
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  different instruments similar to it.
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  That had that one string that's up on the neck.
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  Okay, that whole High Street level high string there, gotcha,
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  what do some research to look into that, that's pretty neat,
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  actually started learning how to play like three-finger style
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  banjo last year? Yeah, how's that?
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  Bent of my time for aggressive right now.
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  I have put it down for a while because I've been focused on
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  this toggle Hopper and ya still doctoral work.
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  Yeah, I've been busy. I've been busy with that for the
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  past couple months. Yeah.
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  So let's talk about that then now that's a good segue into
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  into it. Also obviously, you know, a
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  pretty vibrant background in music.
• 22:25
  Has led you to producing music and sharing it with the world
• 22:31
  through. I guess you have YouTube.
• 22:34
  Any other platforms that you use to share your music.
• 22:39
  Yeah, I have. My music is actually on mostly
• 22:43
  all platforms that you can think of like Spotify. or as I call it
• 22:49
  SWAT, the fly Sighs, and I'm also on Deezer Nice and see.
• 22:59
  I'm on Apple music which includes items.
• 23:02
  Yep. And then I have I think Amazon
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  music and it's all I heart radio and it's supposed to be on
• 23:11
  Pandora, but I am still not seeing it on there yet they take
• 23:16
  a while because I know when I was kicking all this podcast, I
• 23:20
  felt like, I don't know if I have people that listen through
• 23:22
  Pandora, it took a while for me to get I don't know like
• 23:26
  approved or whatever to have my content distribute out, like I
• 23:29
  submitted my thing for it and it took them like a month.
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  Almost to get back to me but so that's cool man.
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  And The how often do you release content through like your
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  YouTube? I know you do our lessons kind
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  of teach every now. Yeah, I never had started that
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  series basically as a way to teach people because I felt that
• 23:58
  there was lack of Destruction in English on YouTube on YouTube
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  and that those who have made those videos.
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  Or say they said they were going to make them only met one video
• 24:11
  and it has been either months to a year before they called up and
• 24:20
  I usually release I try to release at least once a week
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  Bailey on Thursday. Okay, and I usually follow my
• 24:29
  analytics little bit so I can see when there are going to be
• 24:33
  around. So yeah, Lisa started glass.
• 24:37
  Started playing with premieres. And I supposed to release it on
• 24:42
  Thursday last last week and I kind of goofed.
• 24:46
  I said, we're I said for Friday, instead of Thursday self, like I
• 24:54
  was like, that was like, Gotta be kidding me.
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  Yeah, I've done that before with, with this stuff because,
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  you know, these these podcasts, you know, they are the same time
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  on Thursday mornings every week and I've in the past I've like,
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  you know, you look at a calendar for when do you want to Premiere
• 25:24
  it and you know, you're off a day or you think a certain date
• 25:27
  is on a certain date or you know, and I've it's classic, you
• 25:32
  know, that happens. So at least, you know, well,
• 25:35
  once a week for like, less than type videos, what about are you
• 25:39
  recording? I don't know an EP or an album
• 25:42
  or anything right now, or do you have nothing?
• 25:44
  I just want to release it once single time right now.
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  And then once I get enough, I'm a compile it to AEP.
• 25:56
  Yeah. And then probably to an album.
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  But right now, I've been, like I said, I've been in the process
• 26:03
  of moving right now, so it's kind of difficult for me to stay
• 26:06
  focused on. Yeah, recording anything.
• 26:09
  Yeah. And settling in for sure.
• 26:12
  Yeah, I'm a, I'm a deuce quick on record.
• 26:16
  Some of the old ones, the old videos I made, like there's an
• 26:24
  unnamed song I have that I really like that capped, I
• 26:28
  really have the name soon but I am trying to like revisit those
• 26:37
  And then my plan is to later on re-release, secret plot that
• 26:43
  song. I'm going to record that and
• 26:44
  release that probably at seek near see her books.
• 26:49
  Very cool again next year. Yeah, as a, as a full, full
• 26:52
  production release, so it sounds a lot, but I feel like lot
• 26:57
  better with more stuff like that if you don't mind.
• 27:02
  Like, what's your, what's your? I don't know.
• 27:04
  Like, writing composing. And And assembling process.
• 27:09
  Like, you know what? What gets you to the point of
• 27:14
  writing a song and actually releasing one, like, what's the
• 27:18
  what inspires you to do it? What you know, whether it's the
• 27:21
  naming of the song, The the composition of it.
• 27:24
  Like what's your, what's your process?
• 27:26
  Like, first of all, I suck at lyrics.
• 27:31
  I'm not Lyricist whatsoever, neither can ice speaking Old
• 27:35
  Norse fluently. I mean, I can Understand it, I
• 27:38
  can pronounce it but I cannot, I can't think of the words.
• 27:44
  Sure. And and I can't think of the
• 27:47
  words of the English either. So, it's like my mind's all jar
• 27:50
  build in there. So basically, my music process
• 27:55
  is more of like a freestyle music process.
• 27:59
  It's like, like using a drum astronomy drum, to meditate
• 28:04
  with. I will meditate with the toggle
• 28:06
  hop. I'll get this, I'll lose myself
• 28:10
  in this France until I find something that sounds good, or
• 28:14
  sounds correct, or sounds, right?
• 28:16
  And then I'll say, okay, I'm going to hang on to this,
• 28:18
  sometimes I have some record it and I'll be like sometimes I'll
• 28:23
  be in my like in my underwear sometimes it just hit record
• 28:31
  because I'm just jamming away on it.
• 28:34
  And Those were you won't see on YouTube at all.
• 28:39
  No, yeah. I mean hey do you want that kind
• 28:41
  of Premium content? You know, you might have to
• 28:43
  subscribe or something, you know.
• 28:44
  Get a, you know, a no Afghan for you know, underwear.
• 28:48
  Tala harp Tunes or something. I don't know.
• 28:50
  But yeah, I like it. Like a paid for yeah, yeah.
• 28:54
  You want you want this Fork? It over a little bit, you know?
• 28:57
  But yeah. Can.
• 29:08
  Like again that fuck. Yeah.
• 29:09
  That's when I find something. I like then I usually named it
• 29:13
  based on what it sounds like. okay for instance, for instance,
• 29:21
  call the ancestors which is my last big single when I first
• 29:26
  make single and full production, that came with me, creating the
• 29:34
  melody first and then I started adding drum like a drum beat
• 29:40
  Which is kind of can't you can't eliminate when you'll have one
• 29:43
  from. It's a 10 inch hoop is it's very
• 29:48
  high sounding that. Whoa.
• 29:50
  Deep sound yeah. So so what I did was I I played
• 29:56
  around with it and did a small. Segments with different drum
• 30:03
  beats and stuff that all sounded great.
• 30:07
  And I decided I would one of these drum beats.
• 30:10
  I can also duplicate and lower it and the doll so I did that.
• 30:16
  So it sounded like a lower drawn and it would turn out to be like
• 30:21
  a two minutes. 23 seconds. Peace.
• 30:25
  And I was like I'm well what does that sound like?
• 30:28
  Yeah, I was like call the answer just came to my hat head.
• 30:35
  The way I wrote Seeker bloat, it was like right after a star, and
• 30:40
  that was next holiday coming up. So, yeah, it's like this is
• 30:45
  appropriate. The timeframe of it all.
• 30:46
  Yeah, yeah. So that's neat that how and I
• 30:51
  was kind of like keying in on what you were saying, how the
• 30:53
  music can guide you into this trance like State, almost, where
• 30:59
  you let you get lost in the Rhythm, you get lost in the
• 31:04
  auditory parts of You know? Yeah, of course, drumming is
• 31:08
  always been a component of shamanic, you know, journeying
• 31:12
  and trance work late, just but I think music in general, has that
• 31:17
  ability to bring us places that we otherwise wouldn't be.
• 31:23
  You know, it'll, it'll trigger memories of things or it'll put
• 31:27
  us in a, in a state of mind that takes us away from our conscious
• 31:31
  selves, you know. Yeah.
• 31:34
  And being able to Play that music not just listening to it,
• 31:38
  but being able to be a part of that process, it's kind of like
• 31:42
  giving you that connection, you know.
• 31:47
  It's the it's the physical connecting of the transfer of
• 31:52
  traveling away from this physical place, you know.
• 31:56
  And so you've your arm don't want to assume but I mean with
• 32:01
  your aesthetic and the style of music that you play You Are
• 32:05
  Would you would you call yourself Norse pagan?
• 32:08
  Very much Heathen I do Venture into the dramatic as well.
• 32:17
  Take a look. Like
• 32:46
  yeah, that's a lot of us. And I have some other Britain
• 32:52
  and stuff and some Irish. Yeah, so for like, sorry good
• 33:00
  I'm saying I just get from the Anglo-Saxon roots to incorporate
• 33:05
  a lot of different dramatic beliefs.
• 33:10
  Yeah, that's what I was going to try to touch on is, you know?
• 33:12
  So there might be folks. Listening that are confused when
• 33:15
  we say, well, Norris dramatic. Like, isn't it all the same?
• 33:18
  Thing, it is, but it isn't. There's Regional differences
• 33:20
  because the Norse are strictly Scandinavian and the
• 33:25
  Scandinavian countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway Iceland
• 33:30
  pulled from Mainland, Germania, which is where the Saxons are
• 33:36
  from. So you talking like, you know,
• 33:37
  Britain Ireland Scotland, some of the, some of the countries
• 33:40
  that are what they are today. And originated in the mainland
• 33:46
  Germanic region And have separated out from there.
• 33:49
  So that's why, you know, we see even in certain Slavic countries
• 33:53
  the, you know, we see the Slavic ruse, you know, which are the
• 33:58
  the or the Swedish ruse, excuse me, that were the founder, you
• 34:05
  know. So that's where like you're
• 34:06
  Russian people and all that come from the Slavic people.
• 34:10
  But so that's what we, that's what he's, you know, folks.
• 34:13
  Like, you know what he's talking about bart being dramatic and
• 34:16
  Norse to like, having The ancestral ties to different
• 34:20
  parts of the world. It's not.
• 34:22
  And so when it comes to like the religious practices or the
• 34:25
  spirituality, yes, there are some very close similarities to
• 34:31
  the names of the Gods, you know, Wilden versus Odin.
• 34:36
  Don't order versus door, you know, to versus tear and some of
• 34:42
  the likes and then, so the practices, I think the, the
• 34:46
  Traditions Maybe Made their way further north to into the
• 34:51
  Scandinavia and that's why we you know see a lot of those
• 34:57
  those religious practices similar in those respective
• 35:01
  areas, a Celia's lead primarily use the Norse names mostly, I do
• 35:08
  use sometimes interchange even in my prayers of my rituals.
• 35:13
  Personal rituals alcohol. For by many names as many things
• 35:18
  like I call him Donner doing our.
• 35:22
  Yeah. And then I called tier like to
• 35:25
  sometimes. Yeah.
• 35:26
  And I called um, Troyer ink ink. Yeah, I've done the same.
• 35:31
  We've have a similar. So are you know little group
• 35:35
  here is clearly the folk and clearity is a name for Thor.
• 35:40
  It's it's thunderer, you know, it's I think attested to in one
• 35:43
  of the sagas or Somewhere don't remember exactly where, but it's
• 35:46
  a name that refers to him. And so, you know, we are Thor's,
• 35:51
  Fokker Thor's people, people of the, it's who really I think is
• 35:54
  probably most closely translated to or Loosely translated to as
• 36:00
  thundering storm. Like it, it's definitely
• 36:03
  connotated to Thor, but 3D is thundering storm.
• 36:08
  So people of the Thundering storm but I've used donor as a
• 36:13
  name during a specific. Cific Anglo-Saxon bait or
• 36:18
  prayer. So I've used like a fire
• 36:22
  blessing ritual or land blessing ritual with fire where the name
• 36:26
  of floors is summoned to bless the area but it's said in Old
• 36:29
  English and yeah, Old English is a Germanic language just like
• 36:34
  Old Norse has its its old Germanic protein, they all have
• 36:39
  roots in proto-germanic language.
• 36:41
  So they are cognate in ways they have similar words for similar
• 36:45
  things. He's but yeah, I've done a lot
• 36:47
  of the words that we live of the world's that uses heathens are
• 36:49
  mostly on Old English as well. Yeah, exactly.
• 36:54
  I think I talked about this one. One particular word, I talked
• 36:58
  about it on a very recent podcast and that was the word
• 37:01
  for of Faith. So first is a word that we see
• 37:06
  cognate to the English Modern English word of friend.
• 37:11
  So, it's weird. Where does the old English?
• 37:15
  Yes. Yeah, weird Old English is weird
• 37:18
  but weird is Old English. I know what you mean.
• 37:20
  Yeah. Be Wai Rd like we had.
• 37:22
  Yeah yeah. Yeah.
• 37:24
  But it's pronounced like it's all well.
• 37:25
  That's weird. You know like as it is in its
• 37:27
  pod. Well that's where that's where
• 37:30
  we are came from though. Our Modern English for weird
• 37:33
  came from that but the Old Norse kind of a probably ordered Yeah,
• 37:41
  so that. Yeah so you know, there's
• 37:44
  there's that concept of and so that's another interesting thing
• 37:46
  too. Is I've used that term weird.
• 37:49
  And and some of the metaphysical things about Mainland dramatic
• 37:54
  Heathen re like so, like Saxon even re I've used an end and
• 37:59
  still adopt some of those beliefs were as I don't think
• 38:02
  they are quite. So largely recognized in
• 38:05
  Scandinavia is that the concept of The web of weird and or the
• 38:11
  well, the well concept, you know, like there's this
• 38:15
  understanding of what gets fed into the well, is going to feed
• 38:22
  the future. So you know The Well of food is
• 38:25
  wiz is what we it, you know, it's what contains order log or
• 38:30
  orderly. And in Old English.
• 38:32
  It's what contains the past actions in the past Deeds that
• 38:36
  build into the, to the here and now and then, what we Adhere and
• 38:39
  now comes for the future, the, the school, the future, the what
• 38:45
  should or what shall be? Yeah, but I think those are
• 38:48
  those are I think that the whole concept of, you know, adding
• 38:50
  luck to the well, that is that is mainland Germanic beliefs.
• 38:55
  That is a Saxon Heathen, re I think through and through.
• 38:57
  I don't, I don't know of a tried-and-true documented
• 39:02
  Source, at least. Anyway, that that suggests that
• 39:05
  Scandinavians had Identical or similar things, I could be
• 39:09
  wrong. Again, I'm still picking up and
• 39:10
  learn on a lot of it but well. So am I have still?
• 39:14
  I'm still young. Yeah.
• 39:17
  How long have you been Eatin? I would say when did you first
• 39:26
  realize? So it may be self-proclaimed
• 39:28
  like when did you first realize that this is kind of who you
• 39:32
  are. You know, the old gods were what
• 39:34
  we're calling to you or your ancestors like you can talk
• 39:37
  about that if you want. So I would say, yeah.
• 39:39
  Self-propelled. Okay, here's the history of
• 39:41
  that. I started out back in 2013 so
• 39:48
  that'll be Errol Flynn's, late, 2013 about fish at that.
• 39:52
  I started, I was I was breaking off of Christianity for the
• 39:58
  second time because I try it again, advice about it was not
• 40:03
  for me. Like a lot of the things they
• 40:06
  said was just not connecting. If I could, I will, I could not
• 40:11
  agree with, you know. Yeah.
• 40:13
  Like for us it's the church that was going to.
• 40:15
  They were saying that if you hit somebody would not convert that
• 40:23
  it's best to not associate with. Hmm.
• 40:27
  And I'm like, what happens if you're married to that person
• 40:32
  Yeah, and you and you don't want to break it off.
• 40:35
  Like does that say condone divorce?
• 40:39
  Which they also condemn. Oh yeah.
• 40:43
  So the contradictions Yeah, I kind sections.
• 40:46
  Yeah and then so I sort of look into a little bit more.
• 40:50
  I I mean, I came across all across the y of, I also, I
• 40:55
  listen to a lot of music and stuff that contains songs about
• 40:59
  the deity's Amon Amarth. Oh yeah.
• 41:03
  Oh yeah. But that's one thing that got me
• 41:06
  into and then Vikings, dig into me to me for a while, and I do
• 41:11
  admit that for quite a few, but one, or two year, one the half
• 41:16
  to two years, probably, I was frozen true.
• 41:21
  But they were they Cerberus true, but I started realize
• 41:23
  like, wait, Valhalla, doesn't sound like the only way to go.
• 41:27
  Yeah, and I started looking into it more.
• 41:32
  I hadn't read that much at first, but I did watch some
• 41:38
  videos and stuff on it open of the Mythos.
• 41:42
  And For some time, we like, but I moved back to where I live now
• 41:50
  from, I used to live in Pulaski Tennessee.
• 41:54
  Yeah, I know exactly where that is.
• 41:57
  Yeah, that's how much do up there.
• 42:00
  No. There's not much to do.
• 42:01
  Unless you're part of the clan, I'll just put it that way.
• 42:05
  Yeah. Well they have good food.
• 42:07
  Well yeah, I mean hey it's the South man.
• 42:10
  You almost you're hard-pressed to find bad food.
• 42:13
  Even the South, you know? But yeah.
• 42:15
  But there are some there's I have fallen some bad times up
• 42:18
  there so I decided to move back and For a while, I was still
• 42:24
  self-proclaimed, you know, that's a warm meal near.
• 42:27
  I I did not go to any events or anything, I wasn't.
• 42:33
  I have a friend of mine and she invited me to Advance my never
• 42:38
  to go because I was I was mostly focused on music again but the
• 42:43
  heavy metal stuff. I just too focused on that
• 42:46
  trying to, you know, start a band or join a band or get good.
• 42:52
  Sure. And then covid hit hit and then
• 42:57
  that's when I started looking inward.
• 43:04
  That's wild man. Just to pause for a second and
• 43:06
  think about how something that is so earth-shattering and so
• 43:11
  life-changing for everybody like there's not literally person on
• 43:13
  this planet that hasn't been affected some way or form or
• 43:16
  fashion. Bye-bye covid.
• 43:18
  Yeah. Right.
• 43:18
  Yeah. And, and, and that was for you,
• 43:21
  at least a thing that kind of Caused you to shift your focus
• 43:26
  into something that has. I'm going to let you finish your
• 43:30
  story, but I did just want to say lead you in a different
• 43:32
  direction or move you in the direction that yeah, it's better
• 43:34
  for yourself. So, and that's what I started.
• 43:38
  I started reading the poetica and some other books.
• 43:43
  I mean, I got one of these basic books, like you get like a
• 43:47
  Barnes and Noble and I started reading that for a while, then I
• 43:52
  ordered a copy of the start. Reading that I'm still working
• 43:58
  out. I've been working on this for
• 44:00
  two about a year-and-a-half, the second copy of the second volume
• 44:05
  of its growth. Okay, one thing I always say to
• 44:11
  myself, I am a terrible Pagan, but I'm a damn good.
• 44:13
  He's sorry about the language. Some people use those terms
• 44:19
  interchangeably but you know, not all heathens, not all pagans
• 44:23
  are heathens, but all heathens are pagans.
• 44:25
  Yeah well the reason why I say this the reason why I say this
• 44:28
  is because I can't stay focused on my reading so much And stuff.
• 44:34
  And I'm always distracted by like, say like social media and
• 44:38
  stuff. Oh yeah.
• 44:40
  Like and I do neat and I do get out every now and then I don't
• 44:44
  get out enough. And the way I do, I feel
• 44:47
  rejuvenated Which meant, that's what I, another way I want it
• 44:50
  made sense because I've always liked used to hike a lot and I
• 44:55
  realized I can go for hours in the woods, but if I'm outside,
• 45:01
  if I'm out like cutting grass in a field, I just dogging, like,
• 45:06
  yeah. It's just like so hot and I can
• 45:09
  get my energy is like, whoa. Yeah.
• 45:11
  And I'm like, I like trees by trees are like small bodies of
• 45:16
  water. Mmm.
• 45:18
  Rivers in. Yeah, rivers, lakes and streams.
• 45:24
  Same, but not very big on the ocean.
• 45:30
  I mean, that's where I grew up front.
• 45:31
  Like, so I'm from, you know, the Northeast, I'm from New York and
• 45:35
  I literally grew up near very large bodies of saltwater.
• 45:39
  I mean, I was an hour away from the Atlantic Ocean.
• 45:41
  I was 10 minutes from the Long Island Sound, which is a, it's
• 45:45
  the body of water that separates the North Shore to Connecticut.
• 45:48
  So but it's salt water. And it has, you know, it's title
• 45:50
  and it has, you know, all of the things of the salt, the Percy,
• 45:55
  you know. So there's there's that I think
• 45:57
  deep down connection for me but I grew up in the woods man.
• 46:01
  I grew up whenever I want it to play or do anything.
• 46:04
  It was, you know, I didn't care about the video games, I didn't
• 46:06
  want to go watch movies. Going to be out in nature, man.
• 46:09
  I wanted to climb trees. I wanted to, you know, walk
• 46:13
  through the swamps and stuff. So the so, you know, the
• 46:16
  hardwoods the the upstate, and then the forest, you know, the
• 46:20
  streams, the rivers of that sort of thing.
• 46:21
  That's where I feel the most like, at home.
• 46:24
  When I'm in nature, is there? I always have this, like, this
• 46:27
  bill, but go ahead. They always have this, like,
• 46:30
  maybe yearning, perhaps for the for the see, you know, just
• 46:33
  because I think it's yeah, close to me in my heart from where I
• 46:36
  was born and raised, but But yeah, it's not nearly as it's
• 46:40
  not nearly, as prominent for me, as just being out, amongst the
• 46:43
  trees and in the river and that sort of thing, I think I'm
• 46:47
  always called to the mountains myself.
• 46:50
  But the thing is, I do for myself enjoying a good Ocean
• 46:57
  Walk or something like that. Around the oh yeah.
• 47:00
  As long as it's not like a desert Beach like area, where
• 47:03
  there's a bunch of people. Yeah.
• 47:06
  Yeah. Where you have a sister?
• 47:08
  See kind of deal. I like Cliffs or something like
• 47:10
  that. Like like see some Seaside
• 47:12
  Cliffs or even like when it's like Crystal and, you know,
• 47:19
  she's like Crystal like in the Caribbean, for sure, for sure.
• 47:23
  I like you go down here to go Shores and like me or for de
• 47:30
  Panama City Beach. Like I've been there so many
• 47:33
  times and that's pretty nice because it's the Gulf Coast.
• 47:35
  But yeah, you know, there's a certain areas.
• 47:38
  That just speak better to you or speak more to you.
• 47:41
  So yeah. I mean self-proclaimed Heathen
• 47:44
  for almost a decade now you'd say because I mean you're
• 47:46
  talking don't you know, late 2013, we're going to be in 2023
• 47:50
  soon so you know, you've been you've been dabbling at least a
• 47:53
  bit for the best part of a decade and how much is, how much
• 47:58
  is your music helped with the whole / progress in your
• 48:03
  paganism or you're even read whatever label you want to put
• 48:05
  to it as like how much is that? Been a part of your part of your
• 48:09
  path because, you know, I look at some of the examples of
• 48:12
  skaldak. I mean, it's called it poetry is
• 48:15
  a big thing in Norse in Germanic culture.
• 48:19
  Its they were the storytellers. They were the ones that that
• 48:22
  presented things to Kings and the Royal courts.
• 48:27
  And they had, they had a very, very prominent place in society.
• 48:33
  Has that been a part of your like practices?
• 48:37
  Like this D, do you get? I feel like there's any ties to.
• 48:41
  I don't know maybe groggy or some of the other like it's
• 48:45
  called yeah. Gods or yeah bro, he is one of
• 48:49
  my was like look to I don't often Tim as much but I do he
• 48:56
  flow heat flows through me whenever I play this.
• 48:59
  Yes the only thing is sometimes I think my music is also kind of
• 49:03
  distraction for my history. Practice like like sometimes,
• 49:08
  like I have, I feel like I have to practice more than I have to
• 49:10
  breed. Yeah.
• 49:14
  Practice meaning like practice music or practice as a heathen,
• 49:18
  practice music and that over over reading something.
• 49:23
  Yeah, but I want to, I want to be in on that though because,
• 49:26
  you know, you're, you're, you're doing it.
• 49:28
  You're it's the living part of your beliefs, you can sit and
• 49:32
  read, you know, all 700 and some odd different Icelandic sagas.
• 49:36
  And you could read the Highland Haley end.
• 49:38
  And you could read all these different texts and become book,
• 49:42
  smart, but how are you living it?
• 49:43
  How are Because live even re is a living religion.
• 49:46
  This is a living folkway. Yeah, yeah I've been working.
• 49:50
  This is why I say But I, yeah, exactly, yeah, I understand the
• 49:58
  social constructs of the Heat and the he thinks he can cause
• 50:01
  Strokes of a used like the whole idea of tribe and Kindred and
• 50:11
  can. Yeah, that's funny because I
• 50:14
  got, I get, I get asked a lot of times, well, maybe not a lot,
• 50:17
  but I got asked recently by very close friend of mine.
• 50:22
  He's like, so you read any good books lately?
• 50:23
  And I was like, No, I don't really read a lot, I'm too busy
• 50:27
  doing stuff, you know, and I felt bad in a way because I'm
• 50:30
  like, wow, you know, this guy's pretty into reading, you know
• 50:33
  what I mean? Like, and he's always looking
• 50:34
  for, you know, really interesting reading materials
• 50:37
  and stuff. And I was like, I got nothing
• 50:38
  for you man. Not least not right now, because
• 50:40
  I'm not, that's not where my head is.
• 50:41
  That's not where my focus is. I'm not too much interested in
• 50:45
  getting stuck in a book, not that there's anything against
• 50:47
  it, I think it's great, but I that's not where I was at.
• 50:50
  So I was like, I really got nothing to offer you man.
• 50:52
  I'm sorry. Now, if you're looking to, you
• 50:53
  know, talk About what it's like, you know, walking in a river for
• 50:57
  three quarters of a mile. Then I'm your guy, you know.
• 51:00
  Yeah. Or or understanding the
• 51:03
  construct of the Heat and booze and stuff.
• 51:09
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 51:11
  And yeah like I think there might be value to a mix a
• 51:16
  healthy mix of all like I mean there's there's definitely a
• 51:19
  place for taking time to study and learn.
• 51:23
  I mean I think there's not Enough of that to go around for
• 51:26
  for a lot of us and then you know, there's some people that
• 51:29
  that's all that they do, that's all that and they are so smart
• 51:32
  and they're so giving of their knowledge.
• 51:34
  You know, there's a lot of content creators that do that.
• 51:37
  And I'm like, man, you know, if that's like a full-time job,
• 51:39
  just to be in the Academia, give me a parts of it all, you know,
• 51:44
  like you are a walking Encyclopedia of Northern culture
• 51:50
  and archeological findings and languages and such like, Like
• 51:55
  that's a full-time job if you if you want to make it such.
• 52:00
  Yeah have time for that you know that's great.
• 52:07
  And then there you know the ones that want to share it than for
• 52:10
  folks like us that don't have the interest or the desire to
• 52:14
  get you know, buried in a book. We can go to those guys.
• 52:18
  Yeah. And you can play your music and
• 52:20
  I can, you know, go wait in a river for hours or Whatever.
• 52:24
  Yeah, you know. So yeah, man.
• 52:29
  Yeah, good. That's good stuff.
• 52:31
  Yeah, it's a crazy where like they are past lead.
• 52:37
  Yeah definitely and I'm sure you're probably, I think all of
• 52:43
  us have a similar story in that, you know, the Heathen or the
• 52:47
  Pagan, you know, whatever the person that we are today is not
• 52:51
  the same person that we were yesterday.
• 52:53
  It's not the same person that we were last year's, not the same
• 52:55
  person that we were. I don't practice the way that I
• 52:58
  do. I don't live As a heathen, the
• 53:01
  way I do the same way as I did even last year or five years ago
• 53:07
  or whatever. Right.
• 53:08
  Like, I've evolved and I've grown so much and I'm growing
• 53:12
  and evolving every day and it's really, I think a lot of us have
• 53:16
  a similar story to tell, you know, like you were saying
• 53:20
  starting things off where you ended up at a point where you
• 53:23
  were pretty, bro. So true, I've never talked to
• 53:26
  anybody that openly admitted to that, you know.
• 53:30
  And so that's that's, that's like, oh, that's reality man.
• 53:32
  Like that's refreshing. And yeah, that honesty is no.
• 53:36
  I carry that. I care that same with me.
• 53:38
  Everywhere I go. I mean Iceland I slip and fall
• 53:47
  down a laugh about it. Well, you almost have like no we
• 53:58
  were and here I am. I mean it could have been worse.
• 54:28
  You got to learn from your mistakes.
• 54:30
  I think it's. Yeah, you know it's the mistake
• 54:33
  is only bad if you don't learn from it and however big or small
• 54:37
  you want to consider right? Obviously, I think the whole you
• 54:44
  know, brochure. True thing is largely due to
• 54:45
  Pope, pop media, and pop culture and things that just really
• 54:51
  strike certain people's fancy and nerve, you know, they're
• 54:54
  like, yeah, you know. I'm at the Sending of Ragnar,
• 54:57
  and they're sending over all over you and like, literally 90%
• 55:01
  of Scandinavia or whatever, like, you're nothing special
• 55:03
  buddy. I mean, get over yourself and
• 55:06
  just exactly to that to that point, right?
• 55:12
  Like that was a Gateway for you. It was it was something that led
• 55:14
  to where you are now and and it's not the end point but it
• 55:19
  was a point and the point being is that you use that as a means
• 55:24
  to figure things out. For yourself and actually find
• 55:28
  where the living even re resides that's not in, it's not, it's
• 55:32
  not necessarily in the stories on hundred percent.
• 55:36
  It's not, it's not in the mantras, it's not in, you know,
• 55:40
  it's in living it. It's in doing it.
• 55:41
  It's in being about it and to whatever, and that might be, for
• 55:44
  some, it might be very shamanic for some, it may be animistic
• 55:47
  for some, it might be music. Yeah, yeah, for others.
• 55:50
  It might be crafts, you know, Craftsmen and women, that people
• 55:53
  that we've people that. So people, that carve people
• 55:55
  that Do you know what? If you cancel, you know what I
• 56:00
  mean? Like it's yeah.
• 56:01
  Rrr Heathen. Communities are so diverse and
• 56:08
  and Encompass so many different walks of life that's I think one
• 56:11
  of the beautiful things about You know, just paganism, but he
• 56:15
  even read as a whole. Like there's so many things
• 56:18
  going on that that fits so many different.
• 56:20
  Like, you don't have to be the warrior, you know, you don't
• 56:23
  have to have badass, you can be Weaver, you can be the musician,
• 56:27
  you can be a quiet herbalist, you can sit at home and just,
• 56:30
  you know, garden and be a good, he than, you know what I mean.
• 56:33
  Like, there's no Dogma. There's no, like you have to be
• 56:36
  that. You don't have to be a rune
• 56:37
  reader. You don't have to do any of
• 56:38
  those things. It's whatever you are inspired
• 56:41
  and called to do and then you how you live it, It how you live
• 56:44
  it, sincerely. Yeah, and that's one of the I
• 56:46
  think that, you know, just the most refreshing things, you
• 56:49
  know, you're sitting here talking about the decade or so
• 56:51
  that you've been Heathen and then how much of that time has
• 56:54
  been sent spent around music and and expressing your Heathen, or
• 57:01
  through song or through music? Yeah.
• 57:04
  It's beautiful. You know, but I can't event that
• 57:07
  I still am into like some some pros truetype things.
• 57:11
  Like I do, enjoy. Historical combat like him.
• 57:17
  Oh yeah. I mean that's because it's a
• 57:20
  science. It's martial arts.
• 57:24
  Yes martial art and one point before, before I was into the
• 57:28
  Viking thing, I was mostly in the samurai stuff like the
• 57:33
  katanas and stuff like that. Yeah.
• 57:36
  And then oh yeah, then I started getting more into like European
• 57:40
  martial arts and stuff. Don't realize that this Is just
• 57:43
  as good, you know, I was always, I used to be the old guitars
• 57:47
  better than the in the, the long sword.
• 57:51
  Yeah. Yeah, they were, they were
• 57:57
  crafted for certain purposes. To be used in a certain way and
• 58:00
  they, you know, in the right hands.
• 58:02
  Yeah. Culturally regionally, I mean,
• 58:05
  in in the right hands. They're all equally deadly.
• 58:09
  Yeah, in the right. Train hands are all equally
• 58:11
  deadly. So I don't think it's a matter
• 58:13
  of, you know, which one's better than the other.
• 58:14
  It's which one was? Because you got to look at that
• 58:16
  too. Like the katana was designed as
• 58:18
  a slash and stuff type wet and because of the armor that was
• 58:22
  used at the time like yeah. You could slice open things with
• 58:27
  the katana. And then, you know, you look at
• 58:29
  the, the heavy and weighty European broadswords, are long
• 58:33
  swords, like those things were meant to not necessarily / as
• 58:36
  they much were meant to pierce into Crush, but he had other
• 58:39
  yeah. Yeah.
• 58:46
  Yeah, true. You're right, yeah.
• 58:50
  Right. But it was they were more
• 58:54
  flexible as well so that they can stall for you.
• 58:59
  That's the other thing is it has a little bit more brittle when
• 59:02
  it came to this? Well yeah, the thing is they
• 59:06
  were bamboo versus steel you know or the type of armor that
• 59:12
  they had to cut through, you know, I mean yeah, different
• 59:16
  different style, different different sort of thing.
• 59:18
  Yeah. But it also the steel was
• 59:20
  passed. Passed down because it was so
• 59:22
  rare in that country. Yeah, that's true too.
• 59:26
  And it's, it's interesting though.
• 59:30
  The only thing the interesting part about guitar though is it's
• 59:33
  held in by 110. You talking about the Tang, how
• 59:39
  it's how? It's like?
• 59:40
  Yeah, yeah, it's it's held in to it's handled to the hilt by when
• 59:48
  pin is made of bamboo, I'll tell you what man, bamboo is some of
• 59:52
  the lightest and most durable material.
• 59:58
  Like I mean literally homes are built out of this stuff in.
• 1:00:02
  It's incredible how lightweight but how strong it is, you know?
• 1:00:07
  So that doesn't surprise, they were using steel for at one
• 1:00:09
  point that 10 but they changed the bamboo because the damage
• 1:00:14
  the blade would wiggle and forth that pain.
• 1:00:19
  So they away just use bamboo so they can just see the easily
• 1:00:23
  snap it and replace it. Yeah.
• 1:00:26
  And I mean it's readily sourced because it's indigenous to the
• 1:00:30
  land so you know that they can make their own right simmer.
• 1:00:33
  I made their own. Yeah.
• 1:00:36
  That's all. I just learned it now because I
• 1:00:42
  didn't realize that it was. I didn't realize that either.
• 1:00:46
  So I learned another thing today.
• 1:00:48
  Yeah. He always, well, I'm always
• 1:00:51
  learning. I like long.
• 1:00:53
  You got to man. You can't say whether it's a
• 1:00:55
  book or whether it's through life practices, you know?
• 1:00:57
  I mean, yeah, if you haven't learned something new, Today and
• 1:01:02
  then don't learn something new tomorrow.
• 1:01:05
  Then you've wasted a day, always always look to learn something
• 1:01:08
  new is, I think is a good. Whether it's a word or a
• 1:01:12
  historical fact, or how to do something learn, a new skill,
• 1:01:15
  learn a new word, learn something new man like open
• 1:01:18
  trade. Yeah, broaden your knowledge to
• 1:01:22
  be of better service to the community around you to the
• 1:01:25
  people around you because you never know when that yeah
• 1:01:27
  knowledge could get put to use and you could help.
• 1:01:30
  You know people near to you and dear to you.
• 1:01:32
  Yeah, just like this late last year.
• 1:01:35
  I think it was either last year the year before It may be the
• 1:01:39
  last year. And I've only made a very bad
• 1:01:48
  but made. Yeah, yeah, that's a fun.
• 1:01:53
  That's a fun process. Yeah, the thing is I know my
• 1:02:00
  ratios now, because That's not something card.
• 1:02:05
  My second-best conked out like at seven point eight, six
• 1:02:09
  percent is like way they quit and I'm like, okay, this is
• 1:02:14
  gonna be really sweet. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:02:17
  Those handy volumes than to be a bit more lockjaw.
• 1:02:20
  See ya? Ya ya then but the thing is I
• 1:02:23
  used one pound too much and that, and that, and this, and
• 1:02:29
  the third badge as well. I was using a 3 2 1.
• 1:02:34
  And I was making it in big badges like 5 gallons. and, The
• 1:02:42
  I went 16 pounds for the five gallons of 15.
• 1:02:47
  Whoa, they go real bit sweeter. Yeah, yeah yeah.
• 1:02:52
  The first the one conked out the other one went to 12 live and
• 1:02:57
  learn, right? It's Alchemy, it's chemistry.
• 1:02:59
  It's you got to figure out that sweet spot.
• 1:03:01
  You know and you learned a skill, you learn, you learn
• 1:03:03
  something out of it, all, you know, you know what, the ratios
• 1:03:06
  are what the right proportions are and then Once you figure
• 1:03:11
  that part out, you're Off to the Races.
• 1:03:13
  You're good to go. Yeah I was kind of slow down on
• 1:03:16
  that because of my music and my shorts and stuff.
• 1:03:20
  Yeah. You have too much because it
• 1:03:21
  going on it, you know, get a bit overwhelming.
• 1:03:23
  But so for this, for the folks that want to keep up with your
• 1:03:27
  scholarly Works thing because that seems like a really focused
• 1:03:30
  effort on your part, of course. Yeah.
• 1:03:33
  Is there like I mean we're going to we're going to put the
• 1:03:36
  YouTube channel Link in the description and in the show
• 1:03:38
  notes of the podcast, we're To put as much as we can do you
• 1:03:42
  guys do you have like a you know, like a link tree or
• 1:03:44
  anything that way everybody can go to and then find all your
• 1:03:46
  stuff there? Yeah, I've only tree now sweet.
• 1:03:50
  Like I can send that to you or you can copy it from my okay.
• 1:03:58
  Great. Yeah.
• 1:03:59
  So anybody that watches your videos knows that it's there.
• 1:04:01
  But we'll definitely annotate that in the show notes and in
• 1:04:04
  the description of this podcast. So that way people that want to
• 1:04:07
  know more about your music and Be learned, right?
• 1:04:11
  Maybe they want to pick up the instruments themselves and they
• 1:04:13
  can learn from watching your videos.
• 1:04:16
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:04:16
  There you go. Yeah.
• 1:04:18
  And I also they all have created merch Okay good merchandise.
• 1:04:23
  That's I love. I love merchandise the you know
• 1:04:26
  so yeah. Yeah I'm going through Auntie
• 1:04:28
  spring or it's now spring I think now.
• 1:04:31
  Yep. That's that's where I do my
• 1:04:32
  merch to man. Yeah very cool thing is the
• 1:04:36
  thing. Family figure out how to get the
• 1:04:52
  blood of my black logo to version two.
• 1:04:55
  Oh yeah they go. That thing is like well can we
• 1:04:58
  make a white one and a red one? Please nice.
• 1:05:01
  That's always good to have those hookups.
• 1:05:03
  Yeah, the reason why I want to do a red window if I do like
• 1:05:06
  what a great look like the young old runestones.
• 1:05:10
  Very cool. Very cool.
• 1:05:12
  So we have, yeah, you have merchandise.
• 1:05:15
  So people can definitely support you in that way.
• 1:05:17
  And as I said, it is a great way to support because not only are
• 1:05:20
  you getting Do you know monetary Kickback from the sale of your
• 1:05:24
  merchandise but people are advertising your brand you know
• 1:05:30
  so people like oh that's cool where do I get that?
• 1:05:32
  And then they can, you know, it would point you back to that
• 1:05:35
  whole thing. So yeah, that's actually this
• 1:05:38
  week order me a sample. Oh yeah.
• 1:05:46
  I've done that before too. And I actually have some stuff
• 1:05:48
  on my own store that I'm like, I want to order me something like
• 1:05:51
  that. I want to be able to wear it.
• 1:05:52
  Yeah, I'm terrible about. Yeah, advertising my own brand.
• 1:05:55
  But that's, that's a job in and of itself.
• 1:05:57
  You get it, you get it. But yeah, the spring spring
• 1:06:00
  hoodies are so soft, though. They are man their great
• 1:06:03
  quality. So I mean, here we are, right?
• 1:06:05
  I mean not a sponsor. Yeah.
• 1:06:08
  You know, spring.com and like, if you're going to look to make
• 1:06:10
  your own merchandise. So for anything, it's I've
• 1:06:13
  gotten tons of good reviews on the quality of the hoodies and
• 1:06:17
  the t-shirts. I own one of my own t-shirts as
• 1:06:20
  well and it is, it's good quality.
• 1:06:21
  Leti. It's well-made.
• 1:06:22
  Yeah, the logo looks great. You know, yeah, but once I get
• 1:06:26
  the white like the white or red logos, I can start doing darker
• 1:06:29
  color first. And then yeah.
• 1:06:32
  So looking forward to this as well.
• 1:06:38
  Perfect. Well then we're gonna, we're
• 1:06:39
  gonna put the links relink definitely in the show notes and
• 1:06:42
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• 1:06:45
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• 1:07:15
  doing a lot of this stuff out of the Labour of their own heart
• 1:07:17
  and the love behind it, considered offering Your money
• 1:07:21
  as well that definitely helps. But Blake, I'm going to wrap
• 1:07:25
  this up. If you have anything else that
• 1:07:27
  you want to add before we send the people on their way.
• 1:07:30
  You hang out for just a minute so I can properly bid you
• 1:07:33
  farewell. But anything else that you want
• 1:07:35
  to say before that much? Actually, it's pretty much the
• 1:07:40
  same with Seth. Yeah.
• 1:07:43
  All right, then I appreciate your time and thank you for
• 1:07:46
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