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Random Heathen Ramblings: S6, EP26 [Monthly Live Stream - July 22, 2025] · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  Hello everybody, and welcome to the Random Heathen Ramblings
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  podcast where we discuss all sorts of things dramatic
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  beauty of Mountain Spirit. All right, everybody, Halen,
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  welcome to this week's, sorry, this month's live stream and
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  also this week's podcast. So it's a bit of A2 Fer usually,
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  you know, I do these once a month on Monday nights or a
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  Friday night if I happen to not have anything going on.
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  But I know not, not a lot of people get to view these things
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  live when they're happening during the week.
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  But this is this is when I'm going to do it.
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  So, you know, if you want to interact with me live, just know
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  that it'll be when I usually film for a podcast.
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  I, I have a busy life and I can't just, you know, do things
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  on the whim for the sake of, you know, a few people here or
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  there. But I hope you're doing well.
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  I hope you're enjoying this heat.
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  I guess it's, it's, I don't enjoy it.
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  It's it's quite miserable. And we're in for more of it.
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  We got temps to come in up this week and next week in, in, you
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  know, triple digit heat. So whatever it is that you do
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  for a living, please be safe, stay hydrated, you know, drink
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  plenty of water. I know that's what I'd be doing
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  nowadays. It's it's, it's, you know, I, I
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  filled this cup up 30 minutes ago and it's almost done.
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  I just stay hydrated. It's important.
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  Thank you for tuning in. This is again, a monthly live
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  stream. So if you have questions out in
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  the comments that you want to leave or thoughts about anything
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  that's on your mind, please feel free to do so and engage with
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  me, interact with me. This is my once a month
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  opportunity to, you know, get some FaceTime with you folks out
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  here in Facebook and YouTube lands.
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  And yeah, see what it is that's on your mind.
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  We do have something to to go over today from an e-mail that I
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  received literally just yesterday, kind of in a, in a
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  way for like a response in a way to A, to a blog article that I
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  posted. And we have our first comment
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  here on YouTube. Fun times at Ridgemont High.
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  How you doing there? Says you were the first even
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  podcast I started listening to. I appreciate your episodes a
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  lot. I'm a trucker and listen to them
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  often. Awesome, man.
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  Well, or ma'am, Sir, lady, I don't know, but whoever you are,
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  I hope you're having fun at Ridgemont High there and being
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  safe out there on the road. Thank you so much for tuning in
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  and listening while you're out there on the road.
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  I'm glad that we can keep the company out here.
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  I again usually do these on Monday nights, but yesterday my
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  bonus daughter was her water broke and she's been in the
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  hospital since yesterday doing the whole child birth thing.
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  So that's awesome. She's doing well.
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  Oh, hey, David, we got here. David Klan over there on
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  Facebook. Halen, welcome to the live
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  stream. David, good to see you again and
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  thanks for always popping in and saying hi.
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  I know you usually work nights and I appreciate you, you know,
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  taking the time out of your evening just to to say hey
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  there, hope, hope all is well with you and yours out there in
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  your neck of the woods. I will also be hitting on the so
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  today is Tuesday as it as it stands right now, whether you
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  know, we're we're we're streaming live.
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  For those of you that missed this during the live stream and
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  you catch this later on either Patreon or any of the other
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  audio platforms like you know, fun times at Ridgemont high
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  listens to the podcast. This will be airing on Thursday.
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  But for the for I will be on the road on Thursday.
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  I will be on the road very early heading up north, going back to
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  my home state of New York to visit with my sister.
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  We haven't we haven't gotten any FaceTime since our mother died
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  last year and no real quality time since our dad died a couple
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  years ago. So it's going to be good to
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  spend some time with with her and the family there.
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  Congratulations on the new addition to the family.
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  Thank you so much. It is a new addition to little
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  boy. His name is Elaine.
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  Hello there, Michael Thacker, Always good to see you here,
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  Sir. Joining on Facebook again.
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  Good to see you man and good to good to see everybody that's
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  watching right now. We got several people here and
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  throughout different places. So check in down below.
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  I'll get to you when I can, but as I mentioned, you know, on
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  Thursday when this episode airs everywhere else, I'll be on the
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  road myself. So probably by the time this
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  airs, I will hopefully be somewhere close to the Virginia
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  State line or just a little bit outside of Knoxville.
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  We'll see. So I'm going to be leaving very
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  early that morning because I want to.
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  I'm making just a straight shot and it's about a 13 hour drive
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  up there to the area of New York where I'm going.
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  We have an interesting thing to talk about today, but I will
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  also be glad to answer any questions or or comment on any
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  of your thoughts that you put down in the comments section.
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  So do feel free to do that. This is very interactive.
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  It's a a great opportunity for me to get to to know my audience
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  and reconnect with some folks. Right, Michael?
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  Thank you. Yeah, I'm just going up there
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  for a visit. He says hope everything goes
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  well on the travel back home. Thank you.
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  I'm not going to be there for very long and just a couple of
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  days really, but going to make the most of the time that I have
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  and then take it easy on the way back.
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  I've got a little bit of a detour pit stop on the way back,
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  some of which I might film, you know, or, or put out some
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  content. I'm going to a very familiar
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  place on the way back home to sort of break up the travel.
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  And that way I'm not so tuckered out when I get back to the
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  Tennessee at the beginning of next week.
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  So what are we going to talk about today?
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  Well, if, if any of you follow me on on Facebook, I don't think
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  I shared it to the YouTube platform because he doesn't
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  really push out like article links and stuff very well, at
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  least not for me. But if you head over to my
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  Facebook page, there's a there's a new blog article that was
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  posted day before yesterday. I think it was Thursday or
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  sorry, Monday night. Was it Sunday night, today's
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  Tuesday, So Sunday night about us being chosen by the gods, you
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  know, and how that can be more of a burden than a badge, you
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  know, in within dramatic Heathenry and and understanding
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  what you know what a lot of like modern heathens, modern people
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  when they especially when they first find Heathenry, you know,
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  we see a lot of you see a lot of people claiming to have been
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  chosen by the gods. The gods chose me to follow
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  them, right, And that is just simply not the way that this
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  world view works. Whichever dog is laying right
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  there. Go on, get get.
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  I said, go on, get. That sounded real sudden there
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  for a minute, but they get to be bothersome there by the door,
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  scratching and sniffing and and all that.
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  So shaking and baking. Yeah.
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  The, the whole like notion of, of the gods choosing us for some
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  reason or another. And that's why we are heathen.
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  I'm not gonna make, I'm not gonna say that this is the case
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  for all, for all people or for all situations, but for, for for
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  us to see it as much as we do. That is absurd.
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  I mean, it's just that's not how the gods have ever operated by
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  and large. There might be a few cases that
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  we can like read about in, in a saga or in, you know, such story
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  where a hero or a king or something was was, you know,
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  marked or, you know, noticed by the gods to be able to do
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  something of renown to do some great thing that the gods had
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  some sort of interest in. But you know, like a random
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  person who, you know, I don't know who, who, who, who drives
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  Uber or does Uber eats or, you know, works at Walmart or works
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  in a factory or works in ITI mean like the gods aren't don't
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  choose people that way. At least that's not the that's
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  not the way that the the the larger world view of things with
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  dramatic people's were or are or or have been.
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  And I got an e-mail following that article.
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  So anyway, I posted on my Facebook and, and check it out,
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  but it's on randomheathenramblings.com and
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  just go to my blog page there and you'll see what I you'll see
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  what I wrote. But this is an interesting
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  e-mail that I got. It's from somebody who their
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  name or their, their, their, their name in their e-mail is
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  spear carrier, the irreverent. So if that's if that's an
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  indication of, you know, what's to come, it's an interesting,
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  it's an interesting, you know, screen name to have but but he
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  wrote in, they wrote in again, I don't know.
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  This isn't this is not a very gender specific title or or or
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  whatever to have screen name to have.
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  But they wrote in and they said, you know, first, thank you for
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  thank you incredibly for that post.
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  It explains the past few months and I've been seriously needing
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  that. Talking again about the the blog
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  posts of being chosen by the gods, they say it also posted on
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  a day I've been I've thrown up my hands at the entire pantheon
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  and told them I was walking away.
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  Did they understand walking away?
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  So could you perhaps help explain how to get the roller
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  coaster ride to be less loopy? I'm not joking, I'm not making
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  fun, but I'm but a simple comic book maker that liked to dance
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  and ended up literally claimed. And when you said claimed, I
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  practically melted on my desk and said fucking gods yes that.
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  And although the gods were in the background my whole life, I
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  never dreamed I'd be following the dead shaman ways from the
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  family nearly every night using whatever music suits.
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  So yeah. So.
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  Spear carrier, the irreverent is, is feeling them some sort of
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  way. And I keyed in on the on on
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  their main question, which was again, explain how to get the
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  roller coaster ride to be less loopy.
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  So what do we do? We'll put that into into terms
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  that we could all maybe understand.
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  You know what, for me, what it sounds like is this, this
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  experience that, that they're having is full of dips and turns
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  and, and loops and, you know, there's no real straight clear
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  path. It's, it's, it's, it's very
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  disruptive. You know, there's a lot of
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  things going on with them that they're asking for, for any
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  advice or, or, or suggestions on how to, to lessen that.
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  And, you know, I've thought about it since I responded, but
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  my initial response, of course, was saying thank you and, and,
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  and, and all that. But my initial response was to
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  say that, you know, I don't know of any way of controlling the
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  ride speed or trajectory. All I know how to do is do my
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  best to get used to it. And because the ride is what the
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  ride is, a lot of times the, the, the trajectory and the, and
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  the way that the things are going is there's a lot of
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  factors to, to, to take into consideration.
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  There's a lot of things that have put the, put things in
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  their course, you know, put, put things on course the way that
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  they're going. So if one person's path is
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  feeling much more tumultuous, much more unsettled, much more
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  like a, a crazy roller coaster ride than than others, I'm
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  inclined to, I'm inclined to, to, to reply with a, you know,
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  what has caused the ride to be this, this way?
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  Because I can't, I can't necessarily say for me that the
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  riot has been that disruptive. You know, I've not claimed or,
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  or made any claims that, you know, I'm on this path because,
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  because the gods have claimed me or the gods have chosen me to do
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  anything or whatever that that's, that's not a claim that
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  I'm making or, or really had think have made ever.
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  I think, I think, I think in the past I've used terms like I've
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  been called, you know, the gods called to me and I answered and
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  that sort of thing. But even then, you know, I
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  don't, I don't know if that was more of a, a hangover of, of
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  Christian baggage where, you know, the divine select the
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  chosen, you know, like that sort of thing.
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  Because of that, again, that was a mindset that I had very, very
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  early on in my Heathenry first coming into discovering all
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  this. But so I've never, you know,
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  been like I was chosen by Odin or Thor or Tear or whatever to
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  do this thing that or the other. I've never.
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  But I know other people have had their own UPG experiences that
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  gave them this notion or gave them this idea of being
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  selected, chosen, you know, marked, claimed, whatever by the
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  gods to be on this path. And their paths aren't as
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  tumultuous, you know. Is it?
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  Is it, you know, riddled with difficulty?
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  Are there things that make it tough?
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  Yeah. I mean, that's that really,
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  that's life. You know, it doesn't really
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  matter what your religious inclination is or your spiritual
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  path is. I mean, life is full of things
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  that are going to make it hard and make it difficult.
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  But I think I understand, you know, the the separation between
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  just regular life and the difficult things that come up to
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  make it as such. And the difference between those
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  that and this apparent or seeming crazy, unexplainable
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  almost, you know, disastrous chaotic existence that one has
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  after having been what they feel is to be, you know, chosen by
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  divinity or or marked by divinity in a way I can say.
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  And this again, this is this is my own you PG, that when, when
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  you stand up for something that is right, that is inherently
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  right. When when?
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  When you make a claim or when you stake a claim to do
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  something that is honorable. The path of the honorable.
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  Is, is, is objectively more difficult?
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  You know, most people that choose the righteous way of
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  doing things are on a path that is very difficult to maintain.
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  There's a lot of things that come up to tempt you away from
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  that, from that, you know, that straight path or from that
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  honorable way. There's a lot of things that
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  appeal to us as, as, as, as people, as human beings that are
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  not honorable things, behaviors, lifestyles, choices.
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  You know, you can weave those threads and the outcome will be
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  what it is. And that's what I think is, is,
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  is happening a lot is or maybe not a lot, but I think that's
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  what's happening when, when people are asking questions like
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  what how do I, how do I slow down this, this crazy roller
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  coaster of a ride? How do I make it less loopy?
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  How do I, you know, not have such a, a crappy existence?
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  You make different choices, you make better choices.
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  You, you make honorable choices and, and stop playing the blame
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  GameStop, blaming your destiny, fate, the gods, divinity,
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  whatever. Like stop blaming anybody except
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  the only one to blame and that's yourself.
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  There's, there's, I've seen way too many examples of things
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  happening for people that are as a result of poor decisions on
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  their part and they want to blame it on everything else
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  besides that. And then they're like, well, I
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  guess that's just it. It's, you know, because I've
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  made these choices. I'm just stuck in this situation
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  indefinitely, forever. There's no way out.
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  No, there is. And and quit.
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  Quit. Quit thinking that way.
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  Quit. Quit believing that you're just
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  stuck in this loopy roller coaster ride because of past
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  decisions or because of anything.
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  Make it. Make a better decision.
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  Make a better choice. Make better, you know, choose a
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  better path. And I've seen the opposite too.
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  I've seen where where people are struck with adversity, with, you
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  know, with, with things that they're making the best
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  decisions that they can with the circumstances that they've been
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  given, with the life that they've been dealt.
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  They're making the best decisions that they can make.
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  And there's still things that are hitting them that are making
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  it difficult. And some people give it, give
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  in, some people give up, some people revert to substance
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  abuse. Some people just throw the towel
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  in and, and say the hell with it, I'm not doing this anymore.
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  And they, you know, there's a lot of different ways people can
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  quit on life. And I've seen, I've seen a lot
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  of them, maybe not all of them, but I've seen probably most of
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  them that I can think of. You know, I've experienced, I've
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  I've, I've experienced a lot of the ways that could come to mind
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  of, of people exiting this life, checking out, all right,
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  whatever. And it again, it, it goes down
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  to what are you going to do with the, the hand that's been dealt?
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  What are you going to do with the time that's been given to
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  you? Are you going to blame other
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  forces? Are you going to not be
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  accountable right there? Yeah.
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  David, David, clan accountability is part of
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  growing. You know there is no growth
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  without pain. You're not going to grow in
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  comfortability. The hard things, the hardships,
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  the adversities of the, the ordeals that come.
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  These are the things that from a heathen perspective, from a
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  heathen world, these are the things that breed it worth.
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  Adversity breeds worth. Ordeal breeds worth.
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  If any of you people have been around long enough to know who
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  Eric Shervin is, the word Weaver over in East Texas or Fridgar
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  Chieftain, Chieftain, other Frigari and Gothi.
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  Eric was saying this before I was, you know, he was, he was
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  doing some heathen content a little bit before I started.
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  I found him shortly after I started doing, you know, YouTube
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  videos and all that. And one of the things that I
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  remember him saying is is adversity breeds worth.
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  Ordeal breeds worth, but there's a conscious choice that one has
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  to make for that to happen. You're not, it's not you're not
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  just going to go through, you know, you're not going to go
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  through shit and come out smell like roses.
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  I mean, you're going to have to clean up along the way.
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  You're going to have to understand what it is to be
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  burned and and to be tempered. You know, it's the thing about,
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  it's the thing about fire, you know, look at natural examples
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  of, you know, forging, right? Forging metal, forging steel,
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  burning things, right? For to burn impurities out of it
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  all, of all of the slag, all of the impurities that are
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  subjected to beatings and high heat and intense stress, It
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  brings the impurities to the surface so they can be
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  extinguished or they can be abolished.
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  They can be gotten rid of right a lesser and and that's
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  tempering that that is that is putting things through adversity
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  through through that process to make it better.
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  You have to bring that stuff out in order for it to for the for
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  the good to be revealed for the for the fine-tuned thing to be
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  to be revealed right see David says heading into work.
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  Have a good evening. Great, Thank you, David.
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  And be safe at work tonight and stay cool, man.
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  You know, even though you work at night, these, these nighttime
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  temps are no joke either. So stay hydrated, stay cool.
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  And thank you for for tuning in. But yeah, the how how do you how
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  do you so how do you get the ride to be less loopy?
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  Mr. or Missus spear carrier the irreverent again, I initially
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  said you get used to the ride, but as I've been meditating on
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  it and as I've been thinking about it and even talking over
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  through it, now you have a choice to bail.
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  You have a choice to get off the ride entirely.
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  You know, change course, change get get on a different ride.
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  Maybe, you know, maybe this rides not for you.
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  Maybe maybe you got stuck on this ride because it looked cool
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  to begin with. And then the more you sit on
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  that and and go through it, it's like, no, this isn't my ride.
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  Maybe another possibility is that maybe it is your ride and
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  you have to go through this uncomfortability to be tempered
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  for the purpose that you are to serve.
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  You know, I'm not, I use myself for as an example, a lot of
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  times when I talk about things that people ask to see if I can
• 28:02
  find a lesson in it that I've learned that can maybe, you
• 28:07
  know, be helpful to towards somebody else.
• 28:12
  And you know, I've been, I've been doing videos, I've been
• 28:19
  doing this podcast for, for a while now.
• 28:24
  You know, this is season 6. Every, every year brings in a
• 28:28
  new season where we're over halfway through season.
• 28:35
  We're we're over halfway through, you know, season.
• 28:38
  Did I say season 6? Is that right?
• 28:43
  Season 5, whatever the heck season we're in.
• 28:47
  But I mean, I've been doing this, you know, for for 6-7
• 28:49
  years now, content creation. I can't believe I just blanked
• 28:56
  on on what? I can't believe I just blanked
• 29:05
  on what season we're in. Got to be season 6 because this
• 29:14
  is the 6th, 6th year. Yeah, I'm, I'm tripping.
• 29:18
  It's season 6. So anyway, six seasons and got
• 29:22
  off track there for a second. Sorry, we're we're when, when I,
• 29:27
  when I look back on my journey that led me into doing content
• 29:33
  creation, You know, I'm by no means great at it.
• 29:39
  I've I've gotten better, but there's so much that goes into
• 29:43
  this that that not a lot of people know about or see that
• 29:46
  that that I could have let get to me and and I could have
• 29:51
  stopped doing this a long time ago.
• 29:53
  Had I let it get to me. Had I not had I thought that the
• 29:56
  ride was too loopy? Had I thought or felt that the
• 29:59
  ride wasn't for me? You know, get off this, let me
• 30:01
  off this ride. I'm not I don't want to play
• 30:04
  anymore. You know, if I'd given up
• 30:07
  instead of seeing that, hey, you know, I made a choice.
• 30:09
  I made a decision to do something and what does it look
• 30:18
  like if I just give up when it gets too hard?
• 30:22
  What does it look like when I throw the towel in, when things
• 30:27
  just get a little bit too uncomfortable or when I feel a
• 30:30
  little bit too stressed, you know?
• 30:33
  Now, it's not to say that there's times when I've needed
• 30:37
  to take a break and I've needed to, you know, hey, I'm getting a
• 30:40
  little woozy or let me off the ride and I, you know, whatever,
• 30:42
  get sick and then I'll feel better afterwards.
• 30:44
  But then I get back on the ride, you know, get back to doing
• 30:48
  things. And then through that
• 30:50
  conditioning through that, through those experiences of, of
• 30:53
  not feeling the greatest or feeling like I'm being worn down
• 30:57
  or I'm being defeated, I'm, I'm learning lessons and I'm getting
• 31:02
  something out of it. Is it the same as what, what is
• 31:05
  being talked about in this e-mail?
• 31:07
  Again, it, it, I'm not trying to compare, but it's, it's the
• 31:10
  closest thing that I can come up with is, you know, if I wanted
• 31:13
  to stop doing all of this and, and get off the ride because it
• 31:18
  got just because it got hard and, and, and whatever, I
• 31:22
  wouldn't be the man I am today. I wouldn't be involved with the
• 31:24
  things that I'm involved with. I wouldn't be capable of working
• 31:32
  through things that I've had to work through, not just by
• 31:35
  myself, but with others. You know, some of the some of
• 31:39
  the moments in a person's life where they're faced with
• 31:43
  hardships and you know, they need, they needed somebody, a
• 31:51
  strong somebody to, to lean on, you know, I mean.
• 31:58
  We have we have responsibilities of people do, but I'm saying
• 32:02
  like we men, you know, men have have a lot of responsibilities
• 32:09
  that they have to to answer for, you know, and.
• 32:14
  Sometimes it just, it really sucks and I, you know, sometimes
• 32:17
  I sit and see what's going on at, at any given moment and I
• 32:21
  go, how did this happen? How did I, how did this, how did
• 32:26
  I end up here? You know, how did I get to this
• 32:30
  point? And it's not, it's not saying
• 32:33
  that and regretting things. It's it's, I guess being honest
• 32:39
  with myself and realizing, man, I.
• 32:43
  I've got a lot going on, you know, and I don't think about it
• 32:47
  sometimes because I'm in that constant state of mind of, of
• 32:52
  being present, you know, getting it done, making it happen,
• 32:57
  working through whatever the, the difficult thing is, the
• 33:00
  harsh thing is, and just making it happen.
• 33:02
  Don't don't let the the don't let how bad something sucks ruin
• 33:08
  the trajection, you know, and the trajectory of of the way
• 33:11
  things are going. You I have a.
• 33:13
  Purpose and I need to serve that purpose and I need to learn as
• 33:19
  much as I can along the way. And if that sometimes means I
• 33:22
  need a break, I need to get off the ride, I need to just collect
• 33:24
  myself here. You know, there's a moment in
• 33:27
  time that I need to, to kind of slow down a bit or, or or
• 33:32
  whatever and, and be ready for the next thing.
• 33:35
  But those moments become less and less the stronger we become,
• 33:39
  the more capable we become, the more able that we are, the more
• 33:43
  prepared we make ourselves. Those moments are are needed
• 33:47
  less and less as we grow, as we advance and as we mature.
• 33:53
  You know, as we take accountability of things, like
• 33:55
  David said, that's where growth happens is in, in
• 33:59
  accountability. And as you grow, you know,
• 34:02
  you're going to be able to withstand more storms because
• 34:05
  the tree that grew as a sapling was very young and it bends and,
• 34:10
  and it's getting pushed around by all the storms and
• 34:12
  everything. And then as it withstands that
• 34:16
  and it, and it makes it into the, the strong oak that it is,
• 34:20
  you know, that sapling is, is no longer that it is now a strong
• 34:24
  oak and it can withstand the storm and it's not going to be
• 34:27
  swayed and beaten down by those things.
• 34:29
  So, you know, but you got to go through that.
• 34:34
  You got to go through those storms in order to get to that
• 34:36
  point. You know, I thought too about
• 34:39
  this whole analogy that we give to storms and, and how we, we
• 34:47
  tend to like put in an analogy of storms as, as, as trials and
• 34:55
  as adversities. You know, storms in our lives,
• 34:58
  the hardships, they're storms, right?
• 34:59
  That, that's what we'd like to put as an image or to compare
• 35:04
  to, is that when times are rough, it's because we're in a
• 35:09
  storm in our life. Well, that might be.
• 35:13
  But I've also adopted a thought of of, you know, storms are also
• 35:21
  bringing, bringing life. You know, the things that
• 35:25
  happened in the storm are bringing rain, the ozone in the
• 35:29
  air, the, the, the, the, the energy that storms bring and all
• 35:33
  that. Like it doesn't look like it at
• 35:34
  first because of its high intensity, destructive things
• 35:40
  that are going on when it's, you know, windy and Thunder and it's
• 35:44
  loud and it's, you know, high winds and all these things that
• 35:48
  can do so much. But it's but it's also bringing
• 35:51
  life and it's bringing growth. So are we are we too consumed
• 35:57
  and are we too like narrow minded or focused sometimes with
• 36:00
  these storms that we're experiencing and seeing them
• 36:03
  only as a means of breaking us down and challenging us and
• 36:07
  testing us and then putting us to our breaking point in order
• 36:12
  to persevere and be, you know, forged in the fire and to to
• 36:18
  have that or ordeal breed worth in US?
• 36:21
  Yeah, I mean, that's the obvious thing.
• 36:24
  But are we also? Seeing what's happening, that's
• 36:30
  a bit more subtle. You know, the rains that are
• 36:35
  beating in on us are, are watering our trees.
• 36:38
  Are they are they are nurturing us to be able to grow through
• 36:41
  this. You know, it's an interesting
• 36:45
  thing to think about. At least it is for me.
• 36:47
  And, you know, maybe, maybe, maybe it's something that's
• 36:51
  worth considering, you know, for, for others, too.
• 36:58
  And then, yeah, like I, I, so, you know, I don't know, whoever
• 37:02
  this person is, you know, spear carrier, the irreverent or the
• 37:07
  spear carrier, whoever you are, maybe there's just some things
• 37:10
  to think about. If you saw my article the other
• 37:13
  day, hopefully you'll see this. If you didn't see it live, you
• 37:17
  know, it'll, it'll be up on the podcast audio platforms on
• 37:21
  Thursday and over on Patreon on Friday.
• 37:23
  Sorry, Thursday as well, which by the way, if you folks are
• 37:26
  watching this and on your live now and watching this with me,
• 37:30
  you'll see at the bottom of the screen, you know the Patreon
• 37:32
  link there, patreon.com/midgard Musings.
• 37:35
  Normally my podcast videos are only up on on Patreon, so if you
• 37:39
  want to ever watch them, you'd have to join at the Carl tier.
• 37:43
  I don't do much on Patreon besides that.
• 37:47
  I don't share much over there because I want the, the, the
• 37:50
  videos to be the thing that people come to and see.
• 37:53
  So if you just join at the free level, that's great, but you're
• 37:56
  not going to see the videos unless you join at the Carl
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  $1.00 pledge. You know, that's a once a month
• 38:02
  thing. And and you get to watch these
• 38:05
  videos. So that way when, because a lot
• 38:08
  of times these, these, these, these platforms, dogs that'll
• 38:16
  scare them away. Shoo, go away, Quit sniffing by
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  the door. Get in there thank you sorry
• 38:24
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  is the best way to to show your support.
• 38:35
  So anyways, the the, the spear person spear carrier they I, I
• 38:39
  sent what I sent the other day and then they replied back with
• 38:42
  some other odd things. You know, I mean, I try to read
• 38:48
  people's messages as best I can, but sometimes people put me to
• 38:51
  the test with what they say and how they say it.
• 38:54
  They say I have other things. I hope you'll you'll ponder and
• 38:57
  answer eventually as I sit in my own tears and snot this morning.
• 39:02
  And I'm sorry, whoever you are that is going through something
• 39:07
  to feel so, so broken down. I hope it.
• 39:10
  I hope things get better for you.
• 39:14
  So like, I guess some of the things that they are having
• 39:19
  thoughts about is that, you know, when people attack us for
• 39:22
  being quote UN quote, tricked into the roller coaster.
• 39:30
  I mean, which are I mean, which were attacked, which were
• 39:35
  attacked, which were attacked, maybe because they didn't like
• 39:41
  the God that bit your face or something.
• 39:43
  Makes make that make sense. I mean, I don't know what that's
• 39:46
  supposed to mean. You're you're upset that people
• 39:49
  attack you for being tricked into this seemingly this this
• 39:53
  roller coaster the heck of them. Why?
• 39:56
  I mean, I don't know. And then they also say when
• 40:00
  people actually get angry, that you didn't want to be claimed
• 40:03
  and are looking for a way out early into the roller coat,
• 40:09
  looking for a way out early. Into the roller coaster ride
• 40:13
  because the gods in your personal because it's the gods
• 40:19
  in your personal autonomy. WTF is that?
• 40:24
  It's only. Your body, your.
• 40:26
  Choice when it's not a spirit or God.
• 40:31
  Again, I'm I'm, I'm, I don't know what to make of this.
• 40:34
  I don't know how to respond to this.
• 40:36
  Why are people getting angry that you didn't want to be
• 40:38
  claimed? Like who's actually out?
• 40:40
  You're getting angry at people for saying I didn't want this.
• 40:43
  I mean that like that's, that's a lesson that's being learned.
• 40:47
  You know, like there's, there's something going on with somebody
• 40:49
  that they're, they're wanting out.
• 40:50
  They're they're, they're struggling with the feelings of
• 40:53
  I can't do this, this is too much for me or whatever.
• 40:55
  I mean, at least that's what it sounds like.
• 40:57
  Who's out here getting angry at people for that?
• 41:01
  I mean, I know that there's been toxicity in the heathen
• 41:04
  community for for a very, very long time.
• 41:08
  I see it. I, I don't really get involved
• 41:12
  online much with healing anymore because of the toxic and it's
• 41:17
  there's a lot of people that think they know stuff that don't
• 41:19
  and I'm just not, there's a lot, there's plenty of people who do.
• 41:21
  Don't get me wrong, I'm very picky and very choosy about who
• 41:24
  I get involved with online, like far as online groups, but I do
• 41:28
  know that, you know, people, people are mean and when they
• 41:34
  can get a rise out of you and they can, you know, troll you in
• 41:38
  a way that that they see you're bothered by it.
• 41:43
  That's how they get their rocks off, man.
• 41:45
  That's how they there's they're that bored with life.
• 41:48
  They're that unfulfilled and they have such minimal purpose
• 41:53
  in their own life that they're that they're wasting their time
• 41:57
  trying to tear others down. So I don't know if that's the
• 42:02
  kind of thing that you're talking about is when people are
• 42:04
  are behaving that way or, or something else.
• 42:11
  And then he said or they said finally or nicely, I had to do.
• 42:16
  Now this one, I think I understand very clearly.
• 42:19
  They said when you try to do the traditional thing and find an
• 42:24
  elder to tell the beginning to so you can go to the most, go to
• 42:29
  the next step, and then you get turned away by more than 30
• 42:34
  people, one of which was a friend.
• 42:38
  But now you wonder about the guy.
• 42:41
  That one's a big one. In my honest opinion.
• 42:43
  Being claimed hurts. It literally hurts, yes.
• 42:47
  I mean, listen, if you, if you're, if we're going to talk
• 42:51
  about like this is all you PG stuff, OK?
• 42:53
  Like if, if being claimed by the gods, if you've had enough
• 42:57
  things happen within your own unverified personal notice and
• 43:00
  your own experiences on things that it is without a shadow of a
• 43:04
  doubt for you that you are marked or claimed by divinity,
• 43:11
  then that means that you've been called.
• 43:12
  To a higher. Purpose you've been you've been
• 43:15
  seen or been been been identified as the person for the
• 43:20
  job. And and most of the time, even
• 43:24
  in the stories, the the heroes that that that happened to
• 43:28
  didn't believe it. They were not prepared.
• 43:30
  They were not, they didn't see greatness in themselves.
• 43:34
  They didn't see worthiness in themselves.
• 43:38
  But it's a challenge. It's it's a test and it's
• 43:41
  something to rise to. So I think I understand this
• 43:45
  particular sentence is that when you are trying to, you know,
• 43:50
  follow a more like traditional way where there's, you know,
• 43:53
  everything's researched and maybe you have more of a
• 43:56
  reconstructionist type person and, and things are more, you
• 44:03
  know, built around that sort of mentality.
• 44:07
  Maybe you've just been around the wrong people.
• 44:09
  And I don't know, man, like 30 people, 30 some people and an
• 44:12
  elder to go to and, and be turned away.
• 44:16
  That says, you know, this is one of two things.
• 44:19
  Either you're in the wrong crowd or they saw something that was
• 44:27
  like this isn't it? And you, are you willing enough
• 44:33
  to face the music and be honest enough with yourself that when
• 44:38
  30 people say something, that's, that is a there, there's,
• 44:47
  there's, there's, I'm more inclined to, to think that that
• 44:50
  whatever is going on that 30 different people are saying, it
• 44:57
  might be true. It just might be true.
• 44:59
  I don't know this situation. I don't know the details of
• 45:02
  everything that's happening, but I do know that when you start
• 45:09
  getting into those numbers, when people are that you're involved
• 45:15
  with that many are turning you back or turning you down or, or
• 45:21
  saying all the same thing. And hey, it might be true and
• 45:24
  you might need to examine yourself.
• 45:28
  What else did they say? So then finally, after having
• 45:32
  tasted the freedom of the skies, waking up this morning, knowing
• 45:35
  this roller coaster ride is over, your kin are blocked or
• 45:39
  gone, and you're alone without the skies.
• 45:45
  Just like you knew would happen in the beginning when everyone
• 45:49
  was angry at you for wanting to avoid this day.
• 45:54
  That one especially maybe get some a hole to justify why it's
• 46:00
  OK to better to fetter someone who was taken simple joy in
• 46:10
  waking walking on the sun and lost the pant size he said.
• 46:18
  Or they said it again. They these are outlandish
• 46:21
  issues, but after what I've experienced and heard from
• 46:24
  others, they are big ones. This is, I mean, it is
• 46:30
  outlandish what I'm hearing. It's it's, it's wild to think
• 46:32
  that this is, this is anything like this is going on and trying
• 46:36
  to decipher or read the message and and understand.
• 46:39
  I've reread it several times and I'm even, I'm left scratching my
• 46:42
  head like, what are you even like?
• 46:44
  What is this even talking about? But after what I've.
• 46:51
  Experienced and heard from others.
• 46:53
  They're big ones because when you're desperately when you
• 46:56
  desperately seek guidance and help for this, you're told to
• 46:59
  quote, send out love or go to the witch forum or I'll get back
• 47:08
  to you on that. By someone that who one minute
• 47:11
  claims they don't know what the they don't know the Lord and
• 47:15
  then the other day admit that they know it all and they just
• 47:19
  decide to let you get near suicidal all alone because
• 47:24
  tribalism. So, yeah, there's a lot of,
• 47:31
  there's a lot going on here, man.
• 47:37
  Look, I understand that people are try that people try their
• 47:42
  best. And then, and then when they're
• 47:44
  faced with a difficult task, like when they're faced with a
• 47:49
  difficult circumstance through somebody's behavior, right?
• 47:52
  Some people are a lot to handle and, and, and not everybody can
• 47:56
  handle them. I have run into plenty of people
• 48:02
  where I'm just like, you're too much for me.
• 48:03
  I, you know, there, there's, there's something about your
• 48:06
  energy, there's something about your ways that just I, I, it's
• 48:11
  too much for me, at least at that moment.
• 48:14
  And I try, you know, I protect my peace to protect what I'm
• 48:18
  around. And that's what a lot of people,
• 48:19
  I think ultimately are, are trying to do.
• 48:21
  They, they may mean well, trying to help, you know, giving
• 48:25
  suggestions, whatever. And then there's, but the,
• 48:29
  what's really needing to happen is something more than what
• 48:31
  those suggestions can offer. And so I get it.
• 48:34
  There's a frustration that you're feeling when you're, you
• 48:41
  know, you're at your wit's end. You, you, you, you feel a
• 48:43
  certain way about something and nobody either believes you or
• 48:46
  nobody's giving you that validation or that credibility,
• 48:52
  or they're trying to solve the problem for you in their way.
• 48:55
  Instead of listening to what's going on and just being there as
• 48:57
  a support and, and, and whatnot. It's, it's, it is, it is a very,
• 49:08
  it's, it's, it's a treacherous field to, to be in when you are
• 49:16
  faced with the thing like being marked, you know, being claimed
• 49:20
  by divinity cause who, you know, it's not something that you can
• 49:34
  open up in a book and be like, see, I'm feeling these exact
• 49:36
  symptoms. This was what this means.
• 49:37
  La, la, la, la, la, you know, all week, all you can go by is
• 49:40
  what you're feeling. And in many, in many cases, a
• 49:47
  lot of people don't want to accept that.
• 49:50
  They want to, you know, look, you're just, you're, you know,
• 49:53
  need to get back on your meds or you need new meds or you're off
• 49:56
  your rocker or, oh, you just need to make better decisions.
• 50:00
  I mean, I don't know the whole situation about every, every
• 50:05
  e-mail that I get. And I clearly don't know enough
• 50:07
  about what's going on here to, to, to really dial in a well
• 50:12
  thought out response. I'm I'm talking through it a lot
• 50:15
  myself, as you can tell, because I'm the only one talking.
• 50:18
  There's nobody else in the comment section asking any
• 50:22
  questions. So I'm so I'm filling in this
• 50:24
  time trying to understand what spear carrier the irreverent was
• 50:30
  saying. I hope I'm doing it just as I'm
• 50:33
  hope I'm doing well enough with just A1 sided view of things,
• 50:39
  but it's tricky, you know, I don't know, does anybody else,
• 50:42
  or has anybody else ever ran into a situation where a person
• 50:47
  in your life came to you and they, they were, they were
• 50:52
  troubled beyond trouble. They, they were maddened by the
• 50:56
  things going on in their life? I've had a touch of that, You
• 50:59
  know, I mean, I've, I chose to pursue a path of, of heathenry
• 51:04
  that, that had a lot to do with things that Odin is known for.
• 51:11
  And there's a madness that comes with that.
• 51:14
  You know, it can take your mind. I believe it's one of the, the
• 51:19
  things that that makes Odin so fearful of losing his mind, you
• 51:23
  know, over his thoughts is, is, you know, yes, he fears for the
• 51:27
  loss of his thought, but he fears more for the loss of his,
• 51:30
  of his memory, his, his, his sanity, his, his, you know, his
• 51:33
  mind doing the things that are involved with, you know,
• 51:40
  esotericism, magic, the runes study, travelling, like the
• 51:47
  various things that, that Odin is known for, right.
• 51:50
  And then really embracing that that is a, that is, that is a
• 51:57
  madding experience. And if you're not, you don't
• 52:00
  play around with stuff like that 'cause it will take, it will
• 52:03
  take the weak minded, it will, it will put you in places.
• 52:08
  And I, you know, I wonder half the time if people are just not
• 52:12
  respecting the process, they're not respecting things well
• 52:15
  enough. And they're just dive of all
• 52:17
  Willy nilly. And you end up with situations
• 52:20
  like this where people are out here desperate to try to find
• 52:24
  someone that can make sense of it all.
• 52:25
  And everyone's like, talk to you later, Looney Tunes.
• 52:28
  You know, I don't know what's up, Michael Lee says.
• 52:35
  Not exactly sure what advice I can add to this.
• 52:37
  I'm confused on what they want. OK, so I'm not the only one.
• 52:40
  I mean, I hate to, I'm reading it as they sent it to me, you
• 52:45
  know what I mean? So I mean I, I, I can only go by
• 52:47
  what they, they sent. I know it initially, at first I
• 52:50
  got the, I got the thing I got, I think I got a good dial.
• 52:53
  I think I dialed in well enough on the initial e-mail where
• 52:58
  they're like, hey, you know, that that article really spoke
• 53:00
  to me. And you know what, how you get
• 53:01
  off this, You know, how do you make the ride less loopy?
• 53:04
  And I, I got that. But then, you know, after my
• 53:06
  initial response, and I'm saying what I'm saying, they they they
• 53:09
  fired back with this just, it was like they just threw a
• 53:13
  grenade in there and everything just went to pieces in the end.
• 53:18
  I'm going over there. I'm like, OK, first of all,
• 53:23
  what? You know, OK, I'm not the only
• 53:27
  one. At least I'm at least I'm not,
• 53:30
  at least I'm not crazy. But what else, man?
• 53:36
  Yeah. So I'm going to, I'm going to be
• 53:39
  going to New York. I mentioned this before, I'm
• 53:42
  leaving the day after tomorrow, very early in the morning before
• 53:48
  the sun comes up. So I want to, you know, I want
• 53:51
  to see East Tennessee by daylight.
• 53:55
  Yeah, I'll see more than I'll see Middle Tennessee when it's
• 53:57
  getting sun's coming up. But anyway, it's going to be in
• 53:59
  the middle of the night when I leave.
• 54:01
  And why am I going up there? Like I said before, my mother,
• 54:06
  you know, she passed away last June on Father's Day.
• 54:10
  And then my dad, he passed away two years ago in April, 2 months
• 54:16
  apart. My parents died a year away
• 54:20
  from, you know, a year apart from each other.
• 54:24
  So like, dad was April 16th, mom was June 16th in 23/20/24
• 54:33
  respectively. And, you know, I was up there
• 54:36
  after my dad passed and it was a very odd time to be interacting
• 54:42
  with people. And and then when mom passed, I
• 54:47
  didn't know about it that until the day it happened.
• 54:50
  So there was, you know, there was nothing that I needed to do
• 54:53
  or be there for at the time it happened.
• 54:58
  So, you know, it's been over a year since then and you know,
• 55:03
  I've been talking to my sister and I'm like, we should we we
• 55:05
  need to get together, man. Like we need to, we need to sit
• 55:07
  down, we need to break bread. We need to just talk about
• 55:11
  things, you know, get some clothes or get some healing
• 55:15
  between the two of us because we don't, you know, we have our own
• 55:18
  lives now. And, and you know, I just turned
• 55:21
  40 this past year and, and she's about four years younger than
• 55:24
  me. You know, she's got a daughter
• 55:26
  now. I don't, you know, we didn't, we
• 55:32
  didn't, we didn't really heal together as, as brother and
• 55:39
  sister when our parents passed, you know, we were, we each went
• 55:42
  through our own thing and we each experienced our own grief
• 55:45
  and still do to you know, I'm sure you know, my sister, she
• 55:48
  still has, you know, days where it's tough just like I do and
• 55:52
  whatnot. But we never got, we never got
• 55:55
  the chance to grieve, to comfort one another as siblings, you
• 55:59
  know, And I feel like that's a really important process,
• 56:02
  important step if at all possible.
• 56:04
  And I'm thankful to be able to get the chance to go up there
• 56:09
  and do that. Michael Thacker says that from
• 56:12
  what I gathered regarding the e-mail and everything that I was
• 56:16
  saying is that from what I gathered is they want out of
• 56:20
  Heathenry, but they also want much deeper and quick connection
• 56:25
  with the gods. And I mean, that very well could
• 56:27
  be. Maybe they want the yeah, maybe
• 56:32
  they want the cake, but they don't want to make it or they
• 56:34
  want the, the things that go with it, or they want something
• 56:37
  outside of Heathenry that that connects them to divinity.
• 56:43
  Cause yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't even, I don't even, I
• 56:48
  mean, the name spear carrier, the irreverent spear carrier
• 56:51
  kind of has connotations of being somebody that is heathen.
• 56:58
  But I don't get any real indication from their e-mail
• 57:04
  that they even are, because I hear terms just like, you know,
• 57:09
  the gods. And that could be anything that
• 57:11
  could be any gods, you know what I mean?
• 57:13
  Like, I know this is a heathen platform that I'm, you know, or
• 57:16
  heathen when I put heathen content out.
• 57:19
  So I have to assume that they're referring to heathen divinity,
• 57:24
  you know, when they say the gods.
• 57:25
  But in terms of all the other things that they're talking
• 57:27
  about, there's no, there's no verbiage.
• 57:29
  There's no indication that what they're referring to is even
• 57:32
  related to heathen. So you might be right, Michael.
• 57:34
  Maybe they are, maybe they're in Heathenry and they they wanting
• 57:37
  out of it because yeah, I just, I keep rereading over this and I
• 57:46
  probably will again from time to time just to see what the heck
• 57:52
  did I miss if I missed anything. But I mean, like I said, I've
• 57:55
  read over it several times and it just, it reads like, what is
• 58:00
  it was? It reads like, you know, radio
• 58:05
  putting together like a, you know, an IKEA furniture set.
• 58:08
  It, It, it reads like that, which is not a slight to this
• 58:13
  person in any way. Don't get me wrong.
• 58:14
  They, they hear this or watch this.
• 58:16
  I mean, I'm not, I'm not putting you down for this.
• 58:19
  I'm just genuinely trying to understand.
• 58:23
  And it's a little bit it's, it's a challenge.
• 58:24
  So did the best we could, right? And but yeah, so I mean, you
• 58:31
  know, I'll be, I'll be in the, the, the lower Hudson Valley
• 58:34
  area. I'll be getting there Thursday
• 58:36
  evening because again, it's about a about a 13 hour plus
• 58:43
  drive from from where I live to where I'm going.
• 58:48
  And there's an hour time difference and all that.
• 58:51
  So it'll be, you know, in the evening, early evening when I
• 58:56
  get up there, and then I'll be there all day Friday and all day
• 58:59
  Saturday. And then I get up early Sunday
• 59:01
  morning and I start the trip back.
• 59:04
  But I'm not heading back to Tennessee on Sunday.
• 59:06
  I'm making a pit stop along the way.
• 59:08
  I'm not going to tell you where I'm going yet, but you might see
• 59:12
  some, you might see some stuff that reveals that when the time
• 59:19
  comes, I'll put it this way. It's been a place that I've been
• 59:23
  that I've shared content from before, been there several
• 59:30
  times, and I've shared content in different formats from this
• 59:36
  place on this channel on this page before.
• 59:44
  So vague post is vague. Find out that that'll be
• 59:49
  sometime, you know, Sunday. So I'm so that way I don't get
• 59:53
  back late on Sunday or actually, you know, when my initial plan
• 1:00:00
  was, I'm just going to stay set Friday, Saturday, you know,
• 1:00:02
  Thursday, get up there Thursday, say Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
• 1:00:05
  leave early Monday morning and then get back on Monday and have
• 1:00:09
  to like get right back into the gear swing, you know, get, you
• 1:00:13
  know, back into the swing of things, kick it into gear for
• 1:00:17
  work on Tuesday. And I'm like, I'm not doing
• 1:00:19
  that. I'm taking it slow because I
• 1:00:21
  don't know how it's going to go. While I'm up there with my
• 1:00:24
  sister, you know what I mean? Like, I don't know how it's
• 1:00:25
  going to play out. And I want to be able to the
• 1:00:28
  chance to sort of integrate and, you know, take it easy.
• 1:00:34
  Go on the way back. Your guess is the Carolinas.
• 1:00:39
  OK, we'll see what's up there. John Deeson, who says hello,
• 1:00:44
  darling, nice to see you. It's been a long time.
• 1:00:52
  Just something or another, I forget.
• 1:00:55
  Conway, Conway Twitty, he's the one that sang a song.
• 1:00:57
  Let's keep it that way. What's what's up there?
• 1:01:00
  John? Good to see you.
• 1:01:01
  Thanks for tuning in. We're just rambling, man.
• 1:01:03
  You know, it's a casual Tuesday Night Live stream and just got
• 1:01:08
  done going over this really interesting e-mail from a feller
• 1:01:12
  or person. And I don't know, there was a
• 1:01:19
  lot of questions to be asked with with with less answers to
• 1:01:24
  be given of anything solid, but some interesting things that
• 1:01:27
  come up. So, you know, you just have to
• 1:01:30
  to rewatch and it's a low audience viewership tonight.
• 1:01:34
  And I expect that because, you know, it's wild.
• 1:01:39
  I think it was like last month. There's one particular thing
• 1:01:44
  that I share that I posted on this page like months ago,
• 1:01:48
  somehow ended up getting going like semi viral and it blew the,
• 1:01:53
  the, the followers up on this page of, you know, like 6000 new
• 1:01:57
  followers within a, you know, a couple of weeks and then, you
• 1:02:02
  know, four more 1000 followers after that.
• 1:02:05
  And it was like the Facebook platform just 12, almost 13,000
• 1:02:11
  new followers within a couple of weeks.
• 1:02:13
  Pages was getting like 3 million views on it.
• 1:02:16
  It was nuts. And now it's, it's levelled off.
• 1:02:20
  It's back to, you know, barely any interaction anymore because
• 1:02:24
  it's not stupid irrelevant content.
• 1:02:27
  It's, you know, I'm sticking to what I'm doing with with
• 1:02:31
  Heathenry related stuff and nobody's engaging with it.
• 1:02:38
  Nobody's interested, nobody cares.
• 1:02:41
  It's interesting you know 37,000 followers on Facebook, a 6 1/2
• 1:02:45
  thousand followers subscribers, whatever here on YouTube and
• 1:02:50
  there are 6 people watching this right now.
• 1:02:54
  I announce it, I plan it. Everybody knows I'm not.
• 1:02:59
  I feel like it's just a ghost banners.
• 1:03:00
  I don't know if that's even a real thing, but the platform
• 1:03:03
  must must hate me. So you know I do these things to
• 1:03:07
  to have interaction with you folks and and none of you folks
• 1:03:10
  want to show up. Well, not none of you, some of
• 1:03:13
  you. Thanks Michael, thanks John.
• 1:03:16
  He said I definitely will wanted to pop in.
• 1:03:19
  I feel I love you Bubba. Love you too man.
• 1:03:21
  And thank you for everything you do.
• 1:03:22
  It's good to see you here. Don't mind my my little rant
• 1:03:26
  right there. Don't mind my, you know, grumpy
• 1:03:28
  old old man man rant about social media and algorithms and
• 1:03:36
  all that BS is what it is, you know, and we've been going now
• 1:03:42
  live for over an hour. So for, for it to be what it is,
• 1:03:48
  it's, you know, we've got some interaction.
• 1:03:52
  We've got some people here. Michael's been sticking it out
• 1:03:54
  like a trooper. John showed up, said, hey, had
• 1:03:57
  David Klan pop in. We had fun times at Ridgemont
• 1:04:03
  High. Another trucker out there
• 1:04:05
  keeping it, keeping things rolling on the road, listening
• 1:04:07
  to the rambling. So that's pretty cool.
• 1:04:12
  Appreciate all of you. Well, OK, Michael always showing
• 1:04:16
  up clutch with the with the topics with the subject.
• 1:04:18
  So he says on a rambling subject.
• 1:04:20
  Not sure if I'll try plant medicine again.
• 1:04:24
  Bad first experience. Well, I mean, I've, I've talked
• 1:04:32
  enough about plant medicine and with not just, you know, myself,
• 1:04:36
  but with others, you know, we've had, we've had some
• 1:04:41
  conversations and the Ridgemont High trucker drivers still here.
• 1:04:45
  Well, hey, hey, good to see you there.
• 1:04:47
  Thanks for checking. But yeah, as far as plant
• 1:04:50
  medicine goes, you know, the, the, I get it, like when you
• 1:04:52
  have a bad trip or you have a bad experience that can really,
• 1:04:58
  you know, turn you off from trying it again.
• 1:05:07
  So, but you know, that again, it usually goes back to what was,
• 1:05:11
  what was happening in the moment, usually the moments
• 1:05:15
  leading up to the consumption of the plant medicine that caused
• 1:05:21
  it to be a bad experience, you know, because I'll tell you, you
• 1:05:26
  know, I've had, I've had wonderful experiences with plant
• 1:05:30
  medicine, but part of that wonder, you know, part of the
• 1:05:35
  the wonderment of those experience have been terrifying.
• 1:05:39
  I wouldn't say that they were bad experiences.
• 1:05:42
  I would say that they were experiences that left me with
• 1:05:46
  very, very strong lessons. You know, I went into the
• 1:05:53
  experience with the right, with the right purpose, with the
• 1:05:56
  right intention, but there were things that had to be revealed
• 1:06:00
  that the medicine did help me confront and they were
• 1:06:03
  terrifying, you know, So that's, that's sometimes that's, you
• 1:06:08
  know, that's part of it. Yeah.
• 1:06:10
  It depends on what plant we're talking about.
• 1:06:12
  No experience should be considered bad.
• 1:06:15
  It's always something to learn from.
• 1:06:16
  Thank you for saying that. There are fun times at Ridgemont
• 1:06:19
  High, the trucker. Thank you for saying that.
• 1:06:21
  It's almost exactly what I just said it, you know, I wouldn't
• 1:06:23
  call what I had is a bad experience, but it was
• 1:06:27
  definitely something to learn. And it terrified me.
• 1:06:28
  I've been scared out of my boots, you know, on, on, on
• 1:06:33
  certain things. Not paranoid, but I mean, what,
• 1:06:37
  what what the lessons that the medicine were teaching me were
• 1:06:41
  harsh lessons. Yeah.
• 1:06:43
  So just, they just got to figure out what the plant was trying to
• 1:06:45
  tell you about your inner self. Yeah.
• 1:06:48
  There's, you know, you're in a state of, of heightened
• 1:06:52
  consciousness, some say altered consciousness, but again,
• 1:06:58
  depending on the plant. And, you know, a lot of times
• 1:07:03
  when we talk about things like this, we're talking about
• 1:07:05
  fungus, we're talking about psilocybin or we're talking
• 1:07:08
  about, you know, dimethyltryptyline, you know,
• 1:07:11
  DMT or LSD or these other psychoactive, hallucinogenic
• 1:07:15
  things. Alaska, you know, ibacaine,
• 1:07:20
  ibacaine's becoming a thing now. Notice they've seen a lot of
• 1:07:22
  talk around that. I believe there's a, a lab or
• 1:07:25
  something in Texas that is working on, I don't know, either
• 1:07:33
  manufacturing it or, or producing it or something 'cause
• 1:07:35
  it's, it's the Iboga plant that ibogaine is, is, is from, You
• 1:07:41
  can't get it here. It's, it's, it's African, it's
• 1:07:45
  native to Africa. And up to this point you can't,
• 1:07:47
  you can't get it here. What's up?
• 1:07:51
  Ryan Williams, he says keep doing what you're keep doing
• 1:07:56
  what your continent is very international and insightful.
• 1:07:58
  My wife and I are watching you live stream together tonight.
• 1:08:01
  Thank you for doing what you do. Well, thank you, Ryan.
• 1:08:05
  You say international that you know, I know I've got a few
• 1:08:07
  people that watch or that that catch this stuff from like
• 1:08:11
  Europe and the UK. Just curious if you're willing
• 1:08:14
  to to say where, where are you watching from tonight?
• 1:08:16
  And first of all, thank you very much for that.
• 1:08:19
  Appreciate you you commenting and I'm glad that you're
• 1:08:22
  enjoying the the live stream or the OR the content, everything
• 1:08:25
  that I do. Let's see here fun times.
• 1:08:30
  I've been stuck on certain things to the point that I felt
• 1:08:32
  in a constant loop for hours. Once I calmed myself down and
• 1:08:35
  started to and started a self-assessment, then things
• 1:08:41
  made sense. Yeah, if you, I mean if you're
• 1:08:44
  talking again, you know, sometimes like I know, like I'm,
• 1:08:48
  I'm by no means a what do they call those?
• 1:08:56
  What's the term used for where you are going?
• 1:09:04
  Psychonaut, Psychonaut, maybe the psychonaut mentality.
• 1:09:08
  I'm not like I'm not at the type of person that's, you know,
• 1:09:12
  micro dosing mushrooms everyday and, you know, going on, you
• 1:09:16
  know, week long ayahuasca retreats twice a year and, you
• 1:09:21
  know, drop an acid once a month on like I'm definitely not one
• 1:09:26
  of these, you know, types. I've done some pretty high
• 1:09:29
  dosages of psilocybin that have have taught me some, some very
• 1:09:34
  wild and and like I said before, kind of terrifying things, but
• 1:09:40
  it was all done in the context of it being as medicine.
• 1:09:43
  I don't, I don't call them drugs, you know, and, and, and
• 1:09:51
  that's just a personal thing for me.
• 1:09:52
  I, I don't look at them as a drug, 'cause I don't know, like
• 1:09:55
  when I say drug, maybe it's just me, but that word has negative
• 1:10:04
  connotations. It's bad, it's bad for you.
• 1:10:08
  You know, now I know that that's not technically true 'cause, you
• 1:10:13
  know, if you want to look at coffee, you know, it's a
• 1:10:18
  stimulant. Can you get addicted to
• 1:10:20
  caffeine? Sure.
• 1:10:21
  The caffeine is, is a drug, alcohol is a drug, nicotine is a
• 1:10:26
  drug. Nicotine, you know, the
• 1:10:27
  addictive thing found in cigarettes or whatever, you
• 1:10:30
  know, but is, is drinking alcohol, you know, bad for you?
• 1:10:37
  Yeah, I mean, I think in any, any in great context, you know,
• 1:10:40
  if you're doing too much of something, it can be bad for
• 1:10:42
  you. So, you know, moderation is key,
• 1:10:44
  but I don't look at things like mushrooms and, and, and
• 1:10:50
  ayahuasca and, and the other plants as plants are medicine.
• 1:10:53
  They've been used by different cultures for, for literally
• 1:10:58
  thousands upon thousands of years.
• 1:10:59
  They knew what the plants did. They learned what the plants
• 1:11:04
  could do from a medicinal perspective for your spirit, you
• 1:11:09
  know, for your, for your, for your soul, for your, for your
• 1:11:11
  inner self. So that's what I refer to them
• 1:11:15
  as. That's just me, you know, so I
• 1:11:20
  don't know. Fun times says that.
• 1:11:23
  Yeah. They're they're they're tools,
• 1:11:25
  right. Healing tools.
• 1:11:28
  I like that. Healing tools, you know,
• 1:11:30
  medicine, same thing. They also say that drugs are
• 1:11:34
  bad. OK.
• 1:11:35
  Drugs are bad. And plants that were put here
• 1:11:38
  for us to be able to enlighten and heal ourselves with, that's
• 1:11:40
  another story. Yeah.
• 1:11:42
  Most of the time, you know, things that are manufactured in
• 1:11:45
  a lab, I don't mess with now, you know, that's not to say that
• 1:11:50
  if I'm, I'm having a, you know, a terrible pain, you know, that
• 1:11:55
  that's, you know, a headache or something really bad.
• 1:11:57
  You know, I mean, I'll try to go through most anything without
• 1:12:00
  synthetic drugs. You know, I even don't, you
• 1:12:03
  know, I, I do if I have to, but you know, I don't even like to
• 1:12:06
  really take a lot of, you know, like ibuprofen and advils or
• 1:12:11
  aspirins or, you know, things like that.
• 1:12:13
  I'd rather find a natural solution, you know, if, or just
• 1:12:20
  rest, you know, and, and, and you know, I'm, I'm not, I'm, I'm
• 1:12:25
  fortunate, I guess, that at my age, I'm not having to be on a
• 1:12:28
  long list of, of synthetic drugs.
• 1:12:32
  You know, I'm, I'm relatively healthy enough that I don't need
• 1:12:38
  to be on, you know, medication for my blood pressure or my
• 1:12:42
  cholesterol or my blood sugar or any other sort of thing, you
• 1:12:49
  know, whether it be physical or mental.
• 1:12:53
  You guess I'm blessed. They're fortunate in that way.
• 1:12:54
  You know, this is no dig to anybody that is or, or, or has
• 1:12:57
  to be. Trust me, it's not.
• 1:13:01
  But I do. I see what the, what the, what
• 1:13:03
  the Pharmaceutical industry is doing to people and it's not
• 1:13:07
  helping people. It does not help people to be
• 1:13:11
  prescribed 1 drug that could quote UN quote, fix something,
• 1:13:17
  then it ruins something else in your body that you then have to
• 1:13:20
  be prescribed another drug for. And then you're in this endless
• 1:13:24
  loop of, of drugs until you know, you're like a Pez
• 1:13:26
  dispenser knocking back pills all day long.
• 1:13:30
  And it, and it's, it's ruining people, man.
• 1:13:32
  It's, it's, it's shortening our lifespan.
• 1:13:33
  It's, it's, it's reducing our quality of life.
• 1:13:37
  This is trap. This is true, this is fact.
• 1:13:38
  Why do you think, why do you think we have people that are
• 1:13:40
  that are so depressed that nowadays, you know, addiction is
• 1:13:45
  that an all time high Depression is that an all time high?
• 1:13:47
  The world is off is, is crazy. There's a lot of bad things
• 1:13:52
  happening in the world around us.
• 1:13:55
  But you know, I was listening to some you're talking about like
• 1:13:59
  things in the world or whatever. You know, Ozzy Osbourne died
• 1:14:02
  today, you know, 76 years old. You know, man, when I was, I
• 1:14:06
  grew up listening to Ozzy man. And my parents did too.
• 1:14:09
  You know, they're the ones that my dad was the one that turned
• 1:14:11
  me on to, to Oz. And, you know, I was, I was, I
• 1:14:18
  was reading the, the lyrics to one of the songs that I guess it
• 1:14:25
  became, you know, a Sabbath, a Black Sabbath song.
• 1:14:30
  But it was originally a song that was that when he was in
• 1:14:34
  Earth, and it's called Wicked World.
• 1:14:38
  This song came out in 1969 or 1970 I think it was when lyrics
• 1:14:44
  says that the world today is such a wicked thing.
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  Fighting going on between the human race.
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  People got to work just to earn their bread while people just
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  across the sea are counting the dead.
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  And I go, I sent this to a buddy of mine who, you know, he's
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  another Sabbath fan. I said, man, not much changed,
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  has it since 1970 or 1969? Not much has changed.
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  It's almost like those lyrics are written about today.
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  So the world's been a, you know, been a, been a, been a terrible
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  place. A lot of bad things have
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  happened for a long time. This is nothing new.
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  We're just more, we're just more, it's, it's more in our
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  faces now because of things like social media and, and everybody
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  with a phone has a voice now and they think that they can, you
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  know, you know, their opinions matter and blah, blah, blah.
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  All's I'm saying is that, you know, the, the, the sicknesses
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  that, that people are facing. It's not, you know, it's not
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  because the world is in such a terrible place.
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  It's because the things that are in place to try and control
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  people are not helping them. These drugs are not helping
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  people. They're not building them up.
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  They're tearing them down. They're tearing down their
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  ability to deal with these challenges with these things,
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  with these trials that that life throws at you, You know, Oh, I'm
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  having a hard time. I just pop a pill.
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  It's dangerous slope to go down. Yeah.
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  Michael Thacker says. Yeah, on the record.
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  It was mushrooms. Not sure if I had an allergic
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  reaction. Heart rate went crazy the whole
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  time. Well, that is a that is one of
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  the things that happens when you consume psilocybin.
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  And if you are see this. And This is why it's so
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  important to treat them as, as medicine because not all
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  medicine is for everybody, you know what I mean?
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  At least not in certain dosages. You know, I don't know how much
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  you took, but you know, if, if you have a, a condition, a heart
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  condition, you know, if you have naturally high blood pressure,
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  you know, whatever man, if, if, if you pop a few grams of
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  mushrooms, you might be in for a rough time because your heart
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  rate's going to go up. I mean, I don't have, I have,
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  you know, a good cardiovascular health.
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  I don't have any pre-existing heart conditions that I know
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  that when I've been rolling on, you know, a good dose of that
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  medicine that I have been feeling it.
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  Now I know what's been going on. So it's not, you know, it
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  doesn't freak me out. But even marijuana does that too
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  for some people, you know, people that I know.
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  I know a guy that one time he's like, I hadn't smoked in like 15
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  years or something like that. He hadn't smoked since high
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  school and he was in his 30s. We, we, you know, he took two
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  hits off of a little bowl or whatever.
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  And next thing you know, he's like, he's freaking out.
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  He's like, my heart's ripped me out of my chest and I'm like,
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  dude, calm down, man. Just calm down.
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  It, it'll be OK. Stop, stop thinking about it and
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  stop, you know, stop letting it get to you.
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  It'll be OK. But with the mushrooms, it's a,
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  it's a very different story because your, your mind is your
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  mind, your spirit like it, it's, it takes over your, your
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  function out there. There was a study and I forget
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  who did it or, or where it was, but there was a study.
• 1:17:59
  It's like your, your basic motor skills, like the very things
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  that you're, that you rely on every day to solve problems, to
• 1:18:07
  figure things out. When your brain is subjected to
• 1:18:10
  the psilocybin, it shuts down that part of the brain shuts
• 1:18:13
  down the part that part of your that, that that part of your
• 1:18:16
  computer goes offline. The mushrooms are are doing what
• 1:18:20
  they're supposed to be doing. And it can be, again, it can be
• 1:18:22
  terrifying if you're not ready, if you don't know, if you're not
• 1:18:24
  prepared, if it's, you know, foreign to you.
• 1:18:28
  Hello. Becky Earnest says truth.
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  Not sure what which truth was you're referring to, but thank
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  you for commenting. Good to see you there.
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  So it's so. Yeah.
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  It's just, you know, not saying that what you had was was a
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  inherently bad experience. I don't understand that it could
• 1:18:45
  be bad for you. Yeah, dude, 7 or 8g.
• 1:18:49
  Come on now. Yes, now, now you're speaking my
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  language. My very first time consuming
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  that medicine was was it was the penis envy strain and it was 6g
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  like in one night, which for the first timer, you know, that's
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  like, you know, literally jump in the deep end and you sink or
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  swim. So if that tells you anything,
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  and then I've, since then, I've done probably upwards of seven
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  or 8G at least once or twice. Yeah.
• 1:19:23
  Not sure how much it took. The cousin gave you the same
• 1:19:25
  amount. And that is again, another
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  indicator of, of just a word of caution, you know, if I can, if
• 1:19:32
  you don't mind me saying so is, is, is, you know, it's it, it
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  should be very carefully done, controlled environment, you
• 1:19:40
  know, trusted people, pure intention.
• 1:19:44
  If it's just like here, take this and knock it back and let's
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  go. I mean, that's, that's, that's
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  not what I would, I would not want to consume it in that
• 1:19:53
  context. I would not want to be, I
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  approach it with some piety. I, I, you know, many cultures,
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  or at least, I don't know, say many and, and be talking out of
• 1:20:03
  turn. But you know, at least in the I
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  think it's the Toltec Amazonian cultures, you know, they're
• 1:20:09
  they're shamans refer to mushrooms as as.
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  The flesh of the gods, that's what the, the translation
• 1:20:19
  English is flesh of the gods, you know, So it's, it's it's
• 1:20:23
  looked at as and it's approached with piety, with, with
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  sacredness, with, with, with, with respect.
• 1:20:33
  Oh, not all medicines for everyone.
• 1:20:34
  Yes, Becky. Yeah, sorry about that.
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  And I was talking about a bunch of different things and catching
• 1:20:38
  up on the comments. So thank you for clarifying.
• 1:20:44
  You like what? Who is that?
• 1:20:47
  Oh, fun with fun times. Like, yeah, the freshies.
• 1:20:51
  I mean, I I do the, you know, dried out, but fresh.
• 1:20:55
  You know what I mean? Like grown that that season or
• 1:20:58
  whatever. Make honey with them.
• 1:21:02
  Yeah, you can do, you know, you can consume them in different
• 1:21:05
  ways. Obviously there's some people
• 1:21:07
  don't like the taste of them when they're freshers or newly
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  dried out. They they have a very distinct
• 1:21:15
  taste that, you know, not, not a lot of people like I actually
• 1:21:19
  kind of like the taste and the texture, you know, especially if
• 1:21:22
  you're, if you're a texture type person.
• 1:21:24
  So infusing them in a tea, making honey out of them,
• 1:21:29
  putting them in a sandwich on a, you know, whatever.
• 1:21:34
  But again, it's, it's, those are, those are less, I think
• 1:21:38
  the, the things to be necessarily concerned about or
• 1:21:43
  worried about, if you want to put it that way.
• 1:21:45
  More so is the how it's being administered, how it's being
• 1:21:50
  approached, how it's being treated.
• 1:21:52
  You know, it's a again, I don't want to speak for, for all
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  people and, and on on behalf of everyone, but my, my, my, my
• 1:22:10
  take on it all is, is they, it is medicine.
• 1:22:12
  It is, it is the food of the gods.
• 1:22:15
  You know, it is the flesh of the gods.
• 1:22:18
  And as such, they should be handled appropriately.
• 1:22:24
  They should be approached with the degree of, of sanctity, of
• 1:22:28
  piety, of, of respect, you know, for what they are.
• 1:22:34
  And going into it with that state of mind will, I think
• 1:22:39
  prepare you for a better experience.
• 1:22:41
  And then going into the experience with a, with a mind,
• 1:22:47
  with intention. You know, this isn't like, oh,
• 1:22:50
  it's just a, a quiet Friday night.
• 1:22:51
  Like I don't have to go to work tomorrow.
• 1:22:53
  Let me know, you know, drop, you know, 6 or 7 grams of of of
• 1:22:59
  mushrooms, you know, not like that not to me at least.
• 1:23:08
  But anyways, folks, I think that'll just about do it.
• 1:23:11
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• 1:23:13
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• 1:23:15
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• 1:23:20
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• 1:23:22
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• 1:23:25
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• 1:23:28
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• 1:23:31
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• 1:23:36
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• 1:23:48
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• 1:23:51
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• 1:23:53
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• 1:24:52
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