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Random Heathen Ramblings: S5, EP15 - Hearth Above All.. When Isolation Pulls Us Away From Our People. · Random Heathen Ramblings

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Halen, welcome to this week's episode of the Random Heathen
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Ramblings podcast, a solo run for those of you who have been
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listening or watching my show for any length of time.
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That used to be the norm, You know, that used to be kind of
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the standard. That was what made this podcast
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what it was. It was a very isolated sort of
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just me speaking into the camera, speaking to nobody in
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particular, not really anything sort of conversational.
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But tapping back into those roots a little bit this week
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because the scheduled guest for this week's episode, as we say
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in the in the professional sector, no call, no show, right.
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And look I do my best to coordinate and plan with people
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who have expressed an interest or a desire to be on the show.
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You know we we we stay in communication.
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We confirm in advance of the show and even though I've got
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guests that are booked out, you know, sometimes weeks or months
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in advance, I always touch base with my guests close to time,
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you know, So within a week or so of our scheduled recording date,
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I'm always touching base and saying, hey, you know, just
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wanting to reconnect and make sure that we're all still good,
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which is what always happens. And so same thing happened for
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this week's guest, right? I was touching base with them
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last week and everything was good to go.
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You know got the got the e-mail back saying yeah I'll I'm
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booking it on my my calendar I'm I'm pinning it to my wall or
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whatever. The thing was that they said and
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sat around and waited in the studio for them to arrive.
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No, no, no arrivals, no communication as to why or
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anything and. I.
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Get frustrated with stuff like that.
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Just being honest with all of these because it does take, you
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know, I I I plan for these things.
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I even advertise in advance for you folks that are watching and
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listening this to be expecting something this in in the coming
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week, you know. And then when something pops up
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unexpected, like what happened this week and what's happened
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sometimes in the past where you know a guest that I had
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scheduled couldn't make it for whatever reason, It gets
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frustrating, you know. And I try not to think too
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deeply into it but to you know and and to give some grace where
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where there's like well you know things happen obviously life
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happens. You know you never know what's
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going on. So as frustrating as it is I try
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not to take it too personally and and and let it get to me too
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bad. But it does create a bit of a a
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challenge to have to think about.
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All right. Well, there's still content that
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needs to come out. And I am A1 show one, production
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one. I do it all right, I I I host
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the show, I produce the show. I book the shows with guests.
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This is not a team of people that runs vid Guard musings.
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This is not a team that runs the Random Heathen Ramblings
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podcast. What you see is what you got.
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So when, when, when there's things that are planned in book
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that that don't happen, it's up to me to kind of fill in those
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gaps and make sure that when there's something scheduled that
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we get something out here and something that's hopefully not a
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waste of people's time or or or whatever.
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So here I am just doing a solo run this week to give you guys
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something to to think about. And this is more coming from me,
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right? Like I was talking earlier about
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the old format of the show and how it was.
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It was more of a, you know, speaking into the void or
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speaking into the camera, not really speaking to anyone or
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having a conversation with anyone.
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Yeah, sure, speaking to an audience when the video comes
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out. But in the moment there is a
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just a just a camera, you know. So I think an advance of, well,
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you know, the audience that it's going to and and what might they
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want to hear. But a lot of that type of
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content that comes in that way comes from a place of my own,
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things that I'm going through or things that I may be meditating
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on or thinking about at the time.
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So here we are. I'm going into that bit of a
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solo headspace. What's been on Jesse's mind?
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What's been on the mind of this particular heathen in Middle
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Tennessee? So before we get into it, I do
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all the announcements, you know, the the housekeeping stuff and
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like that out of the way, here I am to talk a bit about.
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What's on my mind? You know when I got and I was
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sitting here waiting for my guest to appear.
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Emailing them to say, hey, you know, here I am waiting, are you
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coming? And you know, an hour goes by
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and I get, you know, it's nothing.
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And so I'm like, well, I'm going to call it right, We're not
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going to do it this week. We'll we'll we will reschedule
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for another time if you're still interested.
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You know. We can, we can figure that part
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out at a later date. I did put out like a little
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message or or a call out there like, hey, you know, this is on
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my social media. I said, yeah, I didn't have a.
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It was a it was a no call, no show.
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Any suggestions. I did have somebody reach out
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and say, hey reach out to this person on TikTok and I go, well
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I don't use TikTok but anyway, what's on the mind, What's on my
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mind? You know one of the things that
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I continually see happening with some of the people who are are
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are very near and dear to me. So this is this is getting into
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some territory of intimate. Stuff, right?
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Like talking about relationships between a tribe or or or or
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members of a tribe. Not mentioning names, not
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mentioning very granular specifics or details, but just
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kind of the things that we face as individuals who are
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interconnected at a tribal level to whatever degree.
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You want to, you know, call it. So I've I've noticed or I've
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been exposed to things happening where people are really
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struggling it seems. With continuing to push or
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pursue their, say, responsibilities or their
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obligations with their respective tribes, there's a lot
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of things that come up in a person's life that call their
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attention to that thing that comes up.
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And some of those things that can happen in life, in an
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individual's life, take precedence over the other things
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that in the past they had put their the majority of their
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focus on, you know? Lifestyle changes, events,
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things that pop up, you know, just various things.
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I'm sure if you're watching or listening to this, this, this
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can resonate a bit. You know, you maybe found
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yourself in even at one time, you know, kind of committed or
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devoted to a group or a collective of people.
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And there was a lot of effort, a lot of drive being put behind
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what you were doing. And there was those those those
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efforts. And that drive was being
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recognized and noticed and it was doing good, you know, and
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then maybe something happened where you know it was like an
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unplanned sort of thing or the the impact if it was planned was
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more than what was expected. And then now all of a sudden
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that focus which was put on the efforts towards the group or the
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collective is now being shifted towards.
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What the individual needs, you know.
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So it can sometimes feel like there's a withdrawal from this
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group or collective feels like that person who was once so
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active or once so present in their way is now not as much.
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You know they're not, they're not.
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It feels like they're not invested as much anymore.
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And I think that can that can sometimes lead folks that maybe
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want to maybe jump to conclusions or you know come up
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with a a reason why without knowing the full details of
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things you know it it can really affect and impact the overall
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relationship that people have. With one another, you know, and
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I've I've, I've had to be exposed to things like this
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recently myself. And it's caused me to think of,
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well, how do we navigate through these moments, right?
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As a heathen myself, I look at what my worldview is on things
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and a lot of what my worldview is circulates around you know,
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we are our deeds. What we do is what solidifies
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our reputation. It's what solidifies our yeah,
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the reputation. But I mean by like giffrain,
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right. So that the the social sort of
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credit score that we're that we're known by.
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For lack of a better term, I think that giffrain and you know
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to use social credit score is a bit, I think that's AI think
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that's a good way to describe it for what gefrain is.
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So if you're new to this or you're not sure what I mean by
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that if you ever hear the word gefrain, that's basically what
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it is. It's it's the person's credit
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rating by you know a a broader audience what what people
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perceive you as what people know you as what your reputation is
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on a broad scale and that's it. That's an important thing.
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You know how heathens behave, should be done with, you know,
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with honor and and and should be done with honor in mind, right?
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What do I want to do? How do I want to act that
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preserves my honor, my luck, and then you know, the luck, the the
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honor of those that I'm interconnected with.
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When when when an individual heathen ties weird and and and
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becomes connected with other people, other heathens
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especially, you know, there's this, there's this thing that
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happens we've talked about before called Frith.
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Frith happens interpersonally. It happens amongst people.
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It doesn't happen long distance it doesn't happen.
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You know, or it doesn't really blossom or bloom into what it
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really is over long distance seeds might be planted, or
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there's, you know, things that can happen that can start.
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Action being you know, taken in that direction of securing and
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and maintaining and fostering that that Frith web, that first
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bond between people. But ultimately, even if, if, if,
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if, if something like that starts long distance, it has to
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happen ultimately in person, it has to be maintained in that
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way. You know, there has to be
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accountability. You know there's obligation
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involved with Frith. There's responsibility involved
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with Frith and you can't really hold people accountable or
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responsible to one another over long distance.
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It's hard to really measure that.
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It's hard to really quantify that.
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It's hard to preserve that degree of of a.
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Of a bond with someone or someone's.
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You know over over long distance.
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So when when things start out between one individual, 2
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individuals and then it expands and becomes you know several
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people or more, you know it's it's almost like it's impossible
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for it not to turn out where if if someone who was once focused
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or dedicated on the tribe, on the group and was putting a lot
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of their focus and their effort into it and who is now being
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pulled in a different direction or is being you know drawn into
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to to, to. Looking either towards
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themselves or toward other towards other interests, maybe
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within their own hearths and their own homes.
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You know, that type of thing can't help but impact the rest
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of the of the tribe. It's.
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When when one member rejoices, all the members rejoice.
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When one member suffers, all the members suffer.
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There's this thing that happens when you tie Frith tie weird
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when you when you establish Frith.
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And when you tie weird with people, there's this thing that
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happens that you know, without wanting to infringe on their
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private lives and without wanting to overstep the
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sovereignty of their own hearths, their own homes, their
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own space, their own lives. Regardless of that, you know,
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without wanting or or or wanting to do anything like that, you're
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still feeling an impact of what their choices, their decisions,
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their movement has made on you as a member of that body, you
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know, as a member of that tribe, you know.
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And sometimes it can feel like you know, you're, you're being
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neglected. Like, what about me?
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You know, what about the rest of us?
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Why aren't you putting all your why aren't you giving us some of
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your attention? Why aren't you giving us some of
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your, you know, focus and stuff like that?
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And it can be, you know, I I think that there's a bit of a
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human tendency, you know, in us all to feel when attention has
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shifted away from us as an individual, whether we're part
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of that group or not. But if if, if focus is being
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shifted away from us as in any sort of way that we're, you
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know, there's there's this tendency in us to to feel
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selfish. But well, again, what about me?
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Why aren't you doing this thing? And I and I, it's it's a
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dangerous path to go down to, to to think that the person who is
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shifting their focus or shifting their thoughts, their attention,
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their energy somewhere else, you know it's dangerous to think
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that they're doing so to neglect you as a person.
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If if we get towards thinking that too much, then I think
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where we where we are as individuals is, is not where the
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tribe should be. And why that?
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I mean, yes, the tribe is is a collective of individuals.
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It's it's an amalgamation of smaller units.
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So there's clans, there's there's families that make up
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the tribe. You know, ultimately where an
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individual's obligation and responsibility lies should be.
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At their hearth? In their clan?
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At their home. And that hearth or that clan,
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that home could be them and themselves or them and their
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partner, their spouse, their mother, their father, their any
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other sort of construct of the family unit that is ultimately
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where their responsibilities lie.
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And if they're neglecting those responsibilities or if they are
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finding themselves putting too much effort into something
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outside of that, then they're not feeding their own roof tree.
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They're not. They're not.
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They're they're not tending to feeding and and nourishing.
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What is their first and foremost responsibility, you know.
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And so if we if, if, if a person who is a part of a tribe has
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maybe a bit more freedom because of their hearth structure,
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right? Maybe they're not devoted to
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another individual. Maybe they don't have a a
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partner or a spouse, a family member or anything like that.
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Maybe their hearth is just themselves, you know?
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So maybe that person is a bit freer, you know or or or more
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available to invest their time and towards, you know, other
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things, other tribal affairs, a bigger picture sort of scenario.
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Or maybe they've. Doing that for so long that that
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sort of set a precedent, that sort of set an expectation for
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the rest of the tribe where they're like, well we know that
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this person is reliable and and expected to do XYZ, you know,
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whatever that thing is. And and then when something
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comes up where they have to shift or they're they're feeling
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a bit out of balance and they're like, well, I need to go back
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over to this side and then focus more on these things.
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Well then, well where does the responsibility go that you once
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had to do these things? You know let's say for example,
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you know, I don't know a no. Let's let's let's let's say for
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example like a Chieftain has responsibilities to the tribe to
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be able to you know, plan events and and host events you know and
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and provide for for the rest of the group by means of food and
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drink, for for events, right. Maybe that's their
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responsibility just using hypotheticals here and that's
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been their responsibility because that's what's been you
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know required of them and they've met those
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responsibilities. They've met those obligations
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time and time and time again. And then maybe that Chieftain or
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chieftess, whatever right, has a life experience or has a thing
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happen in their life that requires them to focus more on
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their inner hearth, their inner yard, their immediate can or
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their immediate family. And then because of that the
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things that the tribe once expected that Chieftain or
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Chieftain to perform or do is is is falling a bit behind or there
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is there is a lack there, there's there's there's a bit of
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an imbalance going on, you know. So what happens in those
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situations? Well, a well ordered tribe, a
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well ordered unit like that realizes and recognizes when one
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of its members, one of its key members is in need.
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You know, they're not just going to sit back on their asses, you
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know, they're just not going to lay back on the laurels.
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And they're like, well, he'll figure it out.
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She'll figure it out. We'll just sit here and wait for
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them to do it. No.
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What does the tribe do? The tribe comes together and
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says, well, how can we help, right.
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What can we do to provide for food or drink for an event?
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How can we help plan an event? What do you need us to do?
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Where can we help? They come together because they
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see the need is there to perform these functions right and and
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and they're not just going to expect that performing body,
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that functioning body, that functioning limb of the body
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maybe to carry all the burden when it's having to shift its
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focus elsewhere. How do we come together?
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How do we find a solution? What can we do again to to
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accomplish what's needing to be accomplished.
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And I say earlier that you know a well ordered tribe, that's the
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mark of a well structured, a well ordered unit, A well
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ordered tribe. You know the people are there
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for one another. You know there's there's not
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really this, sure there might be order in the sense of, you know,
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structure, hierarchy, right. There may be people with titles
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or or or positions of responsibility, and in those
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positions of responsibility comes titles and all this and
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that. But when it comes down to the
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brass tacks of things, those titles kind of get pushed aside
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when it comes down to the real nitty gritty stuff.
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And that's where I go back to with acting with honor.
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Why would a tribe, Why would a well ordered tribe do these
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things without having to be asked to do it?
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Without having to be prompted to do it?
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Why would this be something built in?
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It's because their honor and their luck, everything's like
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it's on the line, right? Well, if I fail to do this, it's
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not just my honor that is damaged.
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It's not just my gefrain that's damaged, it's everyone else.
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It's the whole tribe's reputation, right?
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So if one member is doing something kind of fishy or or
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not meeting their expectations, well, that's a reflection on the
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whole tribe. That's a reflection on the unit,
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especially if it's done by somebody of a in a position of
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leadership, you know. So if the chieftain's not
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fulfilling their duty or the go of the isn't fulfilling their
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duty or the, you know, the law speaker, the fuel, the, you
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know, whatever your unit might have, you know, the the, the
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naming, the namings of their positions, their titles.
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If those people in those positions aren't fulfilling
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their obligations, that's a bad look.
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That's bad luck, That's that doesn't look well.
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That doesn't bode well for the tribe and the tribe.
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The members of the tribe expect more of their leaders and it
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then that's how it should be. I think you know that if if
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you're in a position of leadership, then there's, you
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know everything that the tribe is expected to do, you are
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expected to do and then some like you have a you kind of set
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at a higher standard than everybody else.
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But that doesn't take away from the fact that when things happen
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or when there is a need, that it is recognized by everyone else
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and they and they want to come together and they want to help.
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It's like, look, I'm not trying to overstep here, but there is a
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need, right? Like we need to procure the meat
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for the feast, right? We need to have a space for our
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bloats. We need to have someone to, to
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lead the ritual, right? We need to, you know, whatever
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the case may be, what can we do? How can we procure the need when
28:09
things arise, when things happen?
28:15
I know there's going to be some people that listen to this or
28:17
that, watch this or both that are probably going to be like, I
28:24
know what it is that you're talking about.
28:27
And to be honest, there's a lot of things that are inspiring me
28:30
to want to talk about this. It's not one particular thing
28:34
because I do see a lot. I do observe a lot.
28:36
There's not just things that I'm personally or intricately
28:39
involved in, in the in the capacity that I serve in, in my
28:42
community and with my tribe. But there's other things that I
28:45
see and observe that are happening on a broader scale, on
28:50
a much wider spectrum. So if the chute fits, you know,
28:59
as they say, then then wear it, I guess, right.
29:04
If if if something is of what I'm saying resonates, then it's
29:12
probably because that's the facts, right?
29:14
Like it's, you know, things are happening there.
29:16
There's things going on that I'm not the only one observing it.
29:20
I just may be the only one right now saying it.
29:23
And I I surely can't be, you know, I'm sure that there are
29:26
other creators or there are other people, whether they are
29:30
creators or not on on on content platforms, right.
29:33
Whether their social media platforms are used for content
29:36
creation. I'm sure that they have
29:39
experiences with what I'm talking about right now where
29:41
they're feeling this pull away from or or they're feeling like
29:47
maybe some of their people are are feeling a pull away, you
29:50
know? And it's not like a pull in in
29:52
the sense of they want to be severed, you know.
29:57
It's not that they want to be done with the group.
30:01
It's that maybe there is a a need for them to to heal or to
30:07
focus or to discover certain things themselves that they
30:12
can't do while also being held to this responsibility, this
30:20
obligation. And so, in a way, them stepping
30:25
away or or or moving aside or or figuring things out is an act in
30:30
itself of honor. You know, it is an honorable way
30:32
to realize, like, hey, I know what my responsibilities are, I
30:37
know what my obligations are, and I'm in a place right now
30:41
where I just can't fulfil that. I want to be.
30:43
I know I need to be. I owe it to everyone else, not
30:47
just myself, but I owe it to the tribe right to to get there.
30:53
I just need some time to figure it out.
30:56
And so I feel like if it's done in that sort of way, if it's
30:59
done with transparency and you know speaking to the to the
31:04
people that need to be spoken to and you know things shared as
31:09
much as needing to be shared, that again, that transparency,
31:12
that honesty that goes back to the Frith thing.
31:15
You know, we can't be Frith bound to one another if we're
31:21
keeping secrets, if we're hiding things, if we're not being
31:28
transparent and open enough with the interest of the group's luck
31:33
in mind, you know, there's not to say that everything needs to
31:38
be shared, that we need every little nitty gritty detail
31:42
opened up to about. But when it comes to certain
31:46
things, it's like you know if, if, if a group is is seeing
31:49
their respective leader, whether it's their Chieftain, their
31:52
Ghazi, their Ghia, whatever it is.
31:56
You know, if if the people are seeing that person kind of
32:02
withdrawing a bit or not getting as involved, it's going to raise
32:07
questions. They're going to want answers.
32:10
There needs to be a healthy way to work with respective leaders
32:18
and and those leaders communicate transparently with
32:21
their with their tribe. You know again there should be
32:26
no secrets and and because again what that what that does is that
32:29
fosters the community that fosters the bond and it
32:33
strengthens the bond that should have been there to begin with.
32:37
Hey this is what's going on. We have a member.
32:40
We have a part of our body who is in need right now and while
32:46
they are figuring things out, it is on the rest of us to kind of
32:50
pick up the slack, you know, and this, this this can't be
32:54
something too foreign for a lot of folks.
32:56
You know what I mean? I'm sure there's people that
32:59
have worked in in a you know certain industries maybe that
33:03
have even served in the military that that know this this this
33:08
sort of thing that I'm talking about.
33:09
You know the the chain is only as strong as its weakest length
33:14
and and and so when when there's a broken chink in the chain or
33:19
or link in the chain is broken, it's you got to get to you got
33:27
to you got to put attention to that and you got to, you got to
33:31
give attention to that and you got to come together to, to help
33:35
carry some more of that burden. You know, like, yeah, I
33:42
remember, I remember growing up in New York working on a farm as
33:46
a kid and you know, we raised beef cattle.
33:52
And there was, there was a time that I can remember where the
33:58
population, the, the community that we were a part of was of
34:03
such a size that we would need to, you know, we would need to
34:09
have enough beef for the year. 2.
34:14
Two steers were slaughtered in the spring. 2 steers were
34:18
slaughtered in the fall and I I think even before that, before I
34:25
was old enough to start doing that, that there were sometimes
34:28
more. You know, sometimes you do three
34:31
in the fall and two in the spring.
34:32
Why? Well, because, you know, winter
34:36
was a longer season of of where you didn't have a garden and you
34:42
couldn't, you know, do stuff like that.
34:44
And so you'd want to have more meat in the freezer.
34:48
And so you you, you tend to do more towards the end of the year
34:50
to have enough to last until the next slaughter.
34:54
You know, I remember there were certain people in the the
34:58
community that was raised in who were, you know, designated
35:02
individuals for those activities.
35:06
You had a person who was dedicated to putting the animal
35:11
down. You had a person who was
35:14
dedicated to going in there and so the way that the way that the
35:19
steer slaughters would work is you would you would you would
35:23
render the animal unconscious usually with with a with a tool
35:26
or with a with a low caliber rifle you would pop in their
35:31
head either the the the round from the rifle which is like a
35:34
22 and all it would do is just knock them unconscious right.
35:38
There's other non like ammunition means to do it, but
35:44
we had just like a either a small, you know, 22 pistol or 22
35:49
rifle and all it does is just knock them out.
35:53
So there was a designated person for that and he had designated
35:55
person that would go in and they would you know slit the animal's
35:59
throat to bleed it out. And the reason why is because
36:02
the animal's still alive and the heart's still pumping and you
36:04
want to get all that blood out of the system, right?
36:07
Anyway, designated person for that designated person to start
36:11
do and everybody had a role, right?
36:13
There was a there was a very well ordered structure to when
36:19
we would do these things. Everybody knew their place,
36:21
everybody had their place. Everybody knew where to be, when
36:23
they had to be there, what they had to do.
36:27
And there were times where you know, you know at at one
36:30
particular event, you know one particular slaughter, that you
36:35
know that person who was designated for it was, you know,
36:39
not there. For whatever reason, they were
36:41
unable to be present. Maybe it was an illness, maybe
36:44
it was an injury, maybe it was just whatever the case was, they
36:48
weren't there. And So what ends up happening is
36:52
that responsibility gets delegated or shifted to somebody
36:56
else. In that moment, we still were
36:58
able to accomplish what we needed to accomplish.
37:02
We were still able to fulfil our obligations as a group and we
37:05
were still able to do what we had to do.
37:08
But it was due to us knowing that and having that Frith bond
37:13
between one another to step up and be like, what do you need me
37:17
to do? You know, that means I got to do
37:19
a little bit extra work or if I need to, you know, wear many
37:22
hats, that sort of thing, right? What can I do?
37:26
How can I help and just be accessible that way and we get
37:29
it done. And I love that.
37:32
I love that. I was given that opportunity in
37:35
my youth to grow up and learn those types of values because it
37:39
is really first of all just shaped me into the individual
37:44
and to the person that I am. But it's also given me a lot of
37:48
a of of a good foundation for my from for me to grow as a heathen
37:54
you know, to to to realize and know what some heathen values
37:58
are. When you say you are going to do
38:03
something, you don't say things lightly.
38:06
You don't put your word into something and then just shrug it
38:10
off. Oh well, oops or oh, I don't
38:12
feel like it or whatever. If you say you're going to do
38:14
something, you stand behind it. And it may not be so severe or
38:19
as you know, heavy duty as, say, like an oath.
38:26
But nonetheless your your word kind of establishes that
38:30
expectation. And if you're negating on your
38:33
word, if you're not following through on what you're saying,
38:36
then that doesn't do well for your your frame.
38:40
That doesn't do well for your reputation, because nobody can
38:42
rely on you if you can't follow through and do the things that
38:46
you say that you're going to do. Your your your trustworthiness
38:54
goes down, your worth diminishes, your your frame is
39:01
damaged. So you know, one of the things I
39:08
always go back to when I talk about Tribe and and Heathenry
39:12
and write the grassroots Heathenry, you know, the the
39:14
Hearth you've heard me mention before, Hearth, Hearth is the
39:20
home, you know. And Eric Shervin, who has been a
39:27
guest on my YouTube channel before, he has a YouTube
39:30
channel. Eric Shervin, if you look on
39:32
YouTube, just look up the Ravens call.
39:35
Eric Shervin. And it's spelled SJERVEN.
39:44
Believe I spelled that correctly.
39:47
But yeah, Eric Shervin, the Ravens call, he's talked about
39:50
this before too. And I think he's really the one
39:52
that, at least I've heard it said this way is, you know,
39:56
heathenry is where the hearth is.
40:01
It all goes back to the hearth, ultimately, you know.
40:04
So yeah, sure we like to talk about you know heathen tribes
40:08
and heathen groups and and all of this, you know, sort of big
40:12
scale. You know we've got you know
40:14
50-60 whatever, 30 people gathering and we're all you know
40:19
assembled together and we're doing bloat and it's this big
40:21
assembly. It's this big gathering that
40:22
looks impressive. That sounds cool and it's great
40:27
but Heathenry is where the hearth is your people you know
40:34
and and and that's where it comes down to is who your people
40:38
are. Who are your akin.
40:40
Who are your kith. The extension of your maybe your
40:42
blood relatives are even stronger ties than than your
40:45
blood relatives are in some cases it's very small.
40:51
It's it's it's small groups. You know, I've I've talked in in
40:58
a lot on different episodes and just thought about it myself.
41:02
You know how great it would be to have this sort of like a you
41:06
know, confederation or or yeah, just all the heathen tribes.
41:15
You know, however big they are, whether it's, you know, 3A group
41:19
of three or four in one section of the state and then a group of
41:23
15 or 20 in another state and then a group of 50 in another
41:27
region, you know, and now we all can come together and meet and
41:30
how great that would be. Yeah, sure, it looks great and
41:32
sounds cool, but ultimately Heathenry is where the hearth
41:38
is. You know, you start branching
41:41
out too far away from the hearth and you know, there's there's
41:44
too many factors that can come into play.
41:46
There's too many. Some things just don't blend,
41:52
you know, Some things just don't mix and they shouldn't.
41:58
There's some things that just shouldn't mix.
42:01
You know, gasoline and fire don't mix.
42:06
They work well in their own way for their own reasons.
42:08
But you don't mix the two. Why 'cause boom, you know what I
42:13
mean? So there's there's that.
42:18
But, but it does like when it comes to the the the
42:22
structuring, the the, the building, the the, the fostering
42:25
of a tribe, right? It is an extension of family.
42:28
And you do run into these times and these moments where it
42:32
becomes challenging. Like, man, you know, you may be
42:38
sitting back and going, you know what, the Frick is wrong with
42:40
you people. What is?
42:41
Why won't you do this? Why can't you do that?
42:43
What is? Why can't you pull your head out
42:45
of your own ass, this sort of thing, because of whatever's
42:50
going on and, you know, there's that emotion that comes in
42:53
because again, you feel like you're you're being neglected in
42:55
a way. Why aren't you doing this?
42:57
Why can't you put your focus back in here like you used to,
43:01
you know, or whatever, or well, bigger picture stuff.
43:05
Maybe there's some grace that needs to be exhibited, you know,
43:09
an understanding. And that's that's an important
43:12
part of I think, being an honorable person, being a human
43:17
with honor, you know, is not being so reactive to things.
43:21
It's, you know, there there, there are times when it's
43:27
necessary to be like Thor and then not to think so much before
43:34
action. It's just to do and just to
43:35
execute and just to, you know, lay the hammer down and and and
43:38
be that sort of brute, unbridled strength and and force.
43:45
You know, there's times for that, but I think more often,
43:51
you know, there's a bit more finesse, there's a bit more
43:54
grace, there's a bit more wit, you know, at times, what can we
44:03
learn from some of the sagas? What can we learn from some of
44:05
the stories? There was talking about sagas
44:10
and stories like there was a recent example, and I'm not
44:12
going to give too great details, but there was a recent example
44:15
that I was exposed to that kind of fits the discussion.
44:19
And there was a it was, it was, it was regarding a cartoon.
44:25
And you know, this person didn't want their child to be exposed
44:31
to this particular cartoon because they said that this
44:35
cartoon was promoting, you know, a lifestyle amongst its
44:41
characters that they didn't agree with.
44:45
You know, we're living in a time now in the world and in society
44:49
where people's lifestyles are under attack, you know, people's
44:54
way that they feel comfortable existing and being identified in
44:57
the world are are regularly put in in, in under attack, you
45:05
know, And this person was not wanting their child to be
45:07
exposed to a cartoon because they felt that this cartoon was
45:11
portraying its characters in a way that they didn't agree with.
45:15
You know, it's sort of like an identity thing.
45:20
Well, come to find out, right, that the context of everything
45:24
was that this, this particular cartoon has an offshoot, you
45:30
know, sort of like an extension of its main production in the
45:35
form of a film, you know, a movie, you know.
45:41
And in that movie, there was a scene where this, this, this
45:43
cartoon character, you know, makes a choice on a very off the
45:49
cuff on a whim sort of decision. You know, they were, they were
45:52
faced with a decision and instead of taking the time to
45:56
think about their decision, they acted on impulse, They reacted
46:01
out of emotion, they reacted out of a desire or or whatever.
46:06
And they're they're what that reaction caused Was them to be,
46:12
you know, transformed or or looked at in as as as a
46:16
different creature has a different version of themselves
46:19
than they were before. And like people like to twist
46:23
things like that. Oh, there's some sort of
46:24
subliminal message, you know, be happy in the skin you're in.
46:29
You know, it doesn't matter what it looks like.
46:31
It doesn't matter. Just be happy.
46:35
Well, the context of that scene wasn't about that.
46:38
It was about, well, look what you did.
46:39
You you reacted too quickly. You you didn't think about the
46:45
repercussions of your actions. You didn't stop to think about
46:48
it. You reacted hastily, you know,
46:53
and now you have to deal with this awkward moment.
46:56
And that was what the message was really about.
46:58
It was be patient, you know, and this is a children's cartoon,
47:01
right? This is, this is a cartoon that
47:03
was geared towards children to teach them certain values of
47:08
wait your turn, be patient. These types of things that we,
47:11
you know, as adults now, we look back, well, these are things
47:14
that we teach our children, you know, to be better suited for
47:18
them growing up and and interacting with other children,
47:21
their age and other people and stuff.
47:23
Right. Be patient.
47:23
Wait, your turn. And it was just a, it was
47:27
interesting to hear the argument about this isn't what I want my
47:31
child to be exposed to because I I don't want them to to think
47:34
that they can just, you know, you know, put on this set of
47:38
clothes or be this type of person and and think that it's
47:41
OK And it's like, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
47:42
That's not what this is about. First of all, that was a movie,
47:46
a scene from a movie that was trying to teach children a
47:48
certain value of patience, right?
47:55
And you're going to misconstrue it and be like, I don't want
47:57
them watching this cartoon, period.
48:00
The cartoon that has nothing to do with this.
48:02
It's a series. It runs concurrent.
48:04
It has, you know, weekly or daily, whatever new episodes
48:07
that come out and you're going to, you're going to, you're
48:10
going to take that bigotry, that hatred, that that closed minded
48:15
view of things, of of of a scene that I guarantee you they
48:20
probably never even saw the movie.
48:22
They just heard about it on an article from, you know, some,
48:26
some, some, some news site or something, probably somewhere
48:28
trying to push an agenda. You know, Propaganda's a thing.
48:31
But I don't, I don't even know where I started with where I
48:36
went off. It felt right at the time.
48:38
It felt like a good segue into that.
48:39
But anyway, you know, like it's not everything is what it seems.
48:44
Sometimes reacting just out of reaction doesn't doesn't get you
48:49
anywhere except into more hot water it puts you.
48:52
You know, I've I've, I've run into situations myself where I
48:55
saw something, I reacted out of it, and then I learned more
48:58
about it afterwards and I go, I should have thought more about
49:05
my actions before I took them. That was not a situation at
49:10
that, you know, particular juncture of my path that
49:12
required me to just jump and not think.
49:18
So there's, you know, there's repercussions to things like
49:20
that and taking, you know, responsibility when it calls for
49:26
it is is necessary and it's important.
49:29
So in conclusion, there are things going on with people
49:34
nowadays. A lot of people, myself, others,
49:38
everybody's got things going on in their own lives sometimes.
49:43
Those lives that you know were once intertwined and interwoven
49:48
more deeply or more intricately outside of their hearth, cults
49:52
outside of their hearth, their their family units right there,
49:55
their individual clan structure, whatever.
49:58
Even if it's just themselves in an apartment or in a home,
50:06
they're having to shift their focus more and learn more about
50:11
themselves, or figure more about themselves, or get through
50:14
things themselves. It's not, it's not right for for
50:21
for us to jump to conclusions and think that they're, you
50:25
know, failing in in in some sort of way.
50:32
If anything we should be accessible, right?
50:37
I don't want to pry. I don't want to push not trying
50:38
to and and and and respect boundaries, right.
50:42
Respect the boundaries that those people set up and also
50:46
respect ourselves to set up certain boundaries.
50:49
You know, because if we just want to oh, I'll help you any
50:51
which way possible, right? You can lean on me.
50:54
You can cry to me. I'm an I'm an ear I'm a
50:55
shoulder, right. That's all well and good.
50:59
If if if some of us are more empathetic and and some of us
51:02
have more of a tendency to feel things from others.
51:05
What is their plight What is what are what are things that
51:08
they're going through doing to us too.
51:10
And and are we then capable of of being that that rock or that
51:13
that positive influence in their lives or are we going to take
51:17
what they're saying or hearing what they're saying and and you
51:20
know twisted in some sort of way that that that makes it feel
51:24
personal to us. All sorts of things that go on
51:27
with individuals and in the way that I'm Speaking of that are
51:31
are worthy of of consideration. I think, you know not every hat
51:36
is is suited for every head, OK? Not every suit is suited for
51:43
everybody. So, you know, live with grace,
51:49
realize that there's a lot going on with people and be there for
51:53
the people that we need to be there for and respect boundaries
51:56
and respect their own boundaries and step in when you need to
52:01
step in, you know, if there's a group or there's a an extension
52:06
of yourself that you know of your or of your clan or of your
52:09
tribe that you're, you know, bonded with in some sort of way
52:12
and you see another member struggling, don't hesitate to be
52:17
like, hey, I don't want to overstep, but I'm here to help.
52:19
What can I do to help? How can I help?
52:22
And then listen to what those people say.
52:26
Don't try to do things your way. Gosh I've I had to learn that
52:31
lesson hard and I'm and I'm and I'm so hard headed.
52:33
I've had had it beaten over my head countless times.
52:37
You know don't try to help that person your way.
52:40
Help them their way. Listen to their language and and
52:47
and do what they need you to do in their way.
52:50
If they're literally laying it out in front of you and telling,
52:52
well, this is how you can help me, well, don't be deaf in this
52:57
ear. And and and do it your way and
53:01
on on on the other you know, help people the way they need to
53:05
be helped. Such a delicate thing.
53:09
Right. It's like, yeah, you want to
53:13
help people but you're like, oh, I think you could really benefit
53:16
if you did it this way. It goes back to the whole grace
53:19
thing, you know. And it's a delicate dance that
53:25
we all dance that way that we all go through.
53:27
You know, we it's wild, wild times, man, wild times we're all
53:34
living in. So I feel like if I just don't
53:38
shut up now then I'll continue to make less sense than what
53:41
I've made-up to this point. So hopefully this has been an
53:46
episode that you're going to find interest or value in.
53:49
Again, sorry for the the the missing guest this week.
53:52
One of those things where, you know, make do the best we can
53:57
with what we've got and you know hopefully the guests that I had
54:02
scheduled this week, we can reschedule for a later time
54:04
because I know it was a topic that got a lot of interest
54:06
circulated around it on my social medias.
54:08
There were some comments and stuff in in the in the post that
54:13
I had made on Facebook about it and I was really looking forward
54:16
to to going into it some more. But things happen for a reason,
54:19
you know, everything happens for a reason.
54:21
So if it happens, it happens and if it don't then it don't and we
54:25
just keep on keeping on. So thank you all so much for
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itself. So thank you so very much for
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doing that. That's about all I think I've
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got, ladies and gentlemen. So until we talk and hear from
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each other again, may the gods continue to notice you.
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May your ancestors smile upon you.
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See you in the next one.