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Random Heathen Ramblings: S4, EP44 - What Is Gefrain, And Why It Is (Or Is NOT) Important To Heathens. · Random Heathen Ramblings

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I saw a post on Facebook a couple weeks ago and it was it
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was a post. I can't remember exactly what
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the topic of it was, but the the mention of a word came up that I
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thought, you know, I think I've talked about this roughly, at
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least in several episodes or maybe more than just several
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episodes. I've know I've mentioned this
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particular word that I want to talk about today in other
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episodes, and I may have even done an episode like, you know,
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a couple of seasons ago. But I thought, why not revisit
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this topic and and talk about some things that I've learned
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since? Maybe even talking about this
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word on a on a podcast, and that word I am talking about is an
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old English word. I am not a old English speaker.
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I am a new English speaker. I'm not an English speaker and
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so I don't know all of the rules of the language in terms of what
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letter is emphasized, pronounced, but the word is
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gefrain GEFR. AINI don't think the G is comes
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across so hard. Don't.
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Think it's like gefrain. I think it's more of a softer G
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or or more or more of like a. An akhlaut.
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It's kind of sound to the G So yefrain Efrain, I don't.
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I don't know if if you're if you're native or not native, but
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if you're if you're a. Student of Old English and you
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know the correct pronunciation. Feel free to either write in
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call in comment down below. If you're watching this on the
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podcast, let me know. But yefrain.
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So for the sake of of everybody listening and watching, we'll
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just say that it's yefrain what kind of a soft yefrain?
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So anyway, this word yefrain I've wanted to talk about it on
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this. Week's episode and talk about
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some of the things that I've learned since researching a
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little bit more into this word and and and some other things
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surrounding this word and why it is an important thing or isn't
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an important thing amongst heathens.
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Now this particular word may not come up a lot in some of like
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the Norse true type heathen circles or groups.
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You'll probably hear more discussion around this
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particular topic or this particular word amongst.
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Some of the more like old ways practicing heathens Saxon
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heathens, Anglo-Saxon heathens foreign C the alt C do.
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I don't know it just it seems to me like some of these old
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Germanic words and phrases tend to come up more in those
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circles. From my experience, not so much
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more of the the new way kind of also true model that that seems
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to be quite popular. But So what does the word mean?
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And and what am I talking about? So this word you frame, I like
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to look at, I like to think of it as a word that means your
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Social Credit score or your Social Credit rating.
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And it basically means you're renown.
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You know what you're known for, How you are, what you're
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notorious for, what you're infamous for.
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It's your reputation. You know, but it's specifically
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come to find out, you know, does it does it contain your
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reputation within the confines of like your inner circle?
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Yeah sure it can. But it's it.
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It's more like the the, the the what you're infamous for or what
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you're known for on a on a on a grander scale on a broader
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spectrum. You know, so the kind of
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reputation that one might have in, I don't know, let's just say
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you know the the academic community for being someone who
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is, you know, particularly good at, you know, speaking in German
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or you know, he learned German, you know he learned
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conversational German, you know in half the time than the
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average student takes to learn this language.
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You know, and he is infamous for his ability to learn a second
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language, speak a second language and and pick up on it
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so quickly. Or it could be you know again
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some a woman who is particularly good at weaving baskets or or
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weaving threads or or or doing some sort of, you know.
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Any sort of any sort of skill, you know, I'm just I'm just
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throwing out examples here. Doesn't have to necessarily be
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restricted to. Something that a man, woman or
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child does, but anybody that has a reputation, you know that they
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have, you know, earned through their through their actions,
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through their deeds. This is what their gefrain is.
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And gefrain is one of those types of things that can be like
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torn down or or damaged. It can come and go.
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You know, it's not something that is because, you know, you
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were known for something 10 years ago, means that you're
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known for the same thing now that you have the same sort of
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infamy or renown, you know, recently as you did maybe in the
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past. And it's kind of again.
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But it is one of those things that can come and go and there
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are things that can damage ones gefrain or or harm ones gefrain.
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Their reputation, you know by doing something perhaps that is
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dishonorable or you know dastardly or or or something
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right. Their their reputation can be
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well he was known for being such a great person because they he
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did you know XY and Z and now he's you know turn around and
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done something and now his gefrain has has diminished his
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reputation has diminished. It can also be something that if
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someone speaks against you, right, if you, and I'm going to
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use some examples that I I think are are relatively close to my
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heart because of things that I've had happen to me over the
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years. You know, where as a, as a
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content creator, as a as a. Person with a persona on, you
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know, social media. People have said things over the
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years about me that for anyone else outside of of who I know
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immediately and and who are in my inner kind of.
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Circle or or in and garden right that that inner yard inner
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circle sort of societal structure.
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The things that have been said about me over the years that
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people outside that inner circle would see, would would go, wow,
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he's not a, he's not the type of person that I want to talk to or
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hang out with, right? His reputation is less than
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savory or he doesn't have a very good.
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Reputation and for a lot of us heathens, you know that's a big
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deal. And and why is that right?
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Why is gefrain? Why is our reputation so
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important? And probably one of the first
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things that comes to mind for not just me, but for a lot of
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other Edens and and folks listening or watching this
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podcast today is that infamous stanza in the Halva Mall, which
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you know, goes along the lines of, you know, cattle die,
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kinsmen die and you. Yourself also will die.
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One thing I know that will never die is the reputation or fair
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fame of one who has earned it right.
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So we. Talked about that in in in and
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we and we want to do things in our physical lives as heathens,
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where we want to live in ways that we become kind of
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memorialized or memorialized by our deeds long after our
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physical bodies are are are dead and gone.
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And therefore our reputation is the thing that keeps us alive,
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that that ensures that we truly never die.
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That is one of the, I think, the most, you know, important things
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about A-frame that we're talking about here today, that that
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makes it such an important thing, right?
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We want our deeds to be honorable.
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We want our things that we do to be remembered, even when we're
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not here physically to to to talk about them ourselves or
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remember them ourselves. Now one thing that I think is,
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you know, important to to realize is you know, we we, we
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go through life. Not just as heathens, not just
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as as pagans. Just we go through life.
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As people. And one of the things that we
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hear throughout our lives is that you know you can't please
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them, all right? You can't please everyone.
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You can please some of the people.
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Some of the time you might even be.
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Able to please all of the people some of the time, but you'll
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never be able to please all the people all the time.
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And I think that's a quote that it was penned by Abraham Lincoln
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maybe. But whoever said it, it's true.
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You know the things that you do, people will like, some people
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will like, maybe all people will like what you do.
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Some of the time. And then there's going to be
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things that you do sometimes that not all people will like
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And this day and age here in 2023, almost 2024 and this the
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21st century. You know, we live in a an era in
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a time where just when just because somebody does something
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that the that another person doesn't like, you know,
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everybody has an opinion about it.
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And if it's something that they don't agree with, if it's
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something that. They don't like it's jump on to
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their social media platforms, yell and scream, complain about
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it and try to, you know, cancel them, right?
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There's this whole cancel. Culture thing.
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I've had it done to me in, in ways before, you know, I
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remember like a year or two ago, maybe not even that long ago.
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It was in the last year or two I'd say.
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And I was doing these like short form reels or short form like
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the YouTube shorts or or Facebook Instagram reels about
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the 9 noble virtues. And I and I always, you know,
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when I, when I talk about the NNVI always make sure to to let
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people know like hey, this is not something that I think
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belongs really in Heathenry. Like this is not something that
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has its place in Heathenry to codify these buzzwords and to
16:20
make them into this, you know, sort of heathen 10 commandments
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as it were, right. I don't agree with that and I
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don't, I especially don't think that because of what, you know
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source they came through or or how they became codified as any
16:37
place in Heathenry. They were they were codified by
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known fascists, right. And and and white supremacists
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and so to to to have that connection right.
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There's a thing that talks and we talk about, you know,
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reputation wise, you know. Like that's a that's a that's a
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bad reputation to have that's that's that would.
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Be something that had damaged my gefrain because first of all,
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I'm talking about these things that were codified by a fascist
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organization, you know, years and years ago.
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Does that make them inherently fascist?
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No, not one, not not at all. But because of their connection
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to that, you know, group or groups, A lot of people, or at
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least a certain group of people. Didn't like the fact that I was
17:21
talking about them and went out and spoke out in their groups
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against me. They were they.
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They damaged my giffrain. You know, my reputation took a
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hit because I was again doing content online and I was on, I
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was publishing information out here talking about these things,
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coming at it from the angle of education, right.
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Well, if we're talking about, you know, truth or fidelity or,
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you know, industriousness or all these, you know, again, these
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buzzwords that the NNV have, have, have become and well,
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let's look at them from a, you know, an educational standpoint.
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Well, what does it mean to be industrious, you know, And then
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can we look at it from an old ways perspective, you know, look
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at the meaning of the word from its root in the Germanic
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language and all this kind of stuff.
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That was my angle that I was taking it from.
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But, you know, that was missed. And that was that wasn't the
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thing that caught people's attention.
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What caught people's attention or certain people's attention
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was that I, you know said something about the 9 noble
18:28
virtues and oh he didn't say that it was you know you know
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codified by the Odinic right. And this thing that and the
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other and that they're you know that that is a fascist you know
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hate group and all this. And he, you know, because he
18:41
didn't say that he's he's misleading people.
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Right. He's they, they, they said these
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things that for anybody who doesn't know me, right, Anybody
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who would maybe just be discovering me.
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Hell, I think there's even a there's even a Reddit board up
18:55
somewhere, or subreddit board. About me that, you know, again
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it's it's I don't take any stock to it because none of it's true
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or or you know it's it's it's all just people you know
19:14
flapping their jaws and and talking about things that they
19:16
don't know. But that's the type of.
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Thing that can affect and and have an impact on one's your
19:24
frame at least on the surface. You know you might think that
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those daggers that are being thrown, right.
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Those those poisonous words that are being mentioned right.
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All of that jibber jabber that's going on on these you know
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online forums that they would have an impact on on somebody's
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life and somebody's reputation. And really, ultimately what it
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boils down to is it it, it doesn't it.
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It really doesn't. And here's the reason why.
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What really and truly matters, OK, when we talk about
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reputation, and I think the thing that what we want to get
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into understanding more nowadays is it's not your reputation
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isn't important with regards to what everybody else thinks of
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you or or has an opinion of about you.
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Your reputation that matters is more.
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It's it's It's more defined in a word called orung.
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And again if that's and then if that's a mispronunciation on my.
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Part. I apologize, but it's orung
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ARUNG. It's an old English word, and
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orung is a word that is more like your honor.
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Or, you know, the, the, the, the reputation, the things that you
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do. Or the OR the OR the OR the
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honor. Not the honor, but the.
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What's the word I'm looking for? It's like respect, You know?
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You have someone's respect. You have someone's yeah, it's,
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it's, it's, it's. More akin to the word respect in
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the sense that it is, it is determined by what we do.
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Our our worth is the thing that calculates the RR autumn and
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that can only be done by the the the, the relationships that we
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have with people who we're closest to are in a guard in and
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guard, excuse me, are in and guard our inner circles, our
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inner yards because they're the ones that from you know our
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day-to-day experiences are going to see what we're saying, what
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you know hear what we're talking about, know what it is that
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we're doing and know what it is that we're truly about.
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You know, everybody else that that isn't a part of that that
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close inner circle of people. They don't know us.
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You know, they don't know us in in that sort of intimate way and
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so. All they have to go.
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By is just, you know, their their their opinions, the things
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that they think you know. Their feelings, right?
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Their feelings got hurt or that you know I'm offended, you know
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well. I mean, I guess then you're
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offended, right? Like the the, the the people who
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we are more closely established, you know are are ties with the
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people who we have proven our worth to right are all on our
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respect with them is what really determines our our reputation.
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That never dies, you know? I look at, you know, your frame
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in in sort of a way as like, you know, look at it like you know,
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being a being a celebrity or or look back at some celebrities
23:01
who were big time celebrities, you know, 20-30 years ago, maybe
23:06
not even that long ago. You know, depending on how old
23:09
some of the folks that listen to this show are or watch this
23:13
show. You know, maybe just within the
23:15
last decade or or or so. You know maybe they were a big
23:17
deal back then and now you barely even know who they are.
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You know their reputation was there.
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They were known for something and now they're really, you know
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they're they're kind of forgotten about their they're
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they're they're not even, you know mentioned hardly anymore
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They're and for whatever reason that could be their reputation.
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They they they are. They are not as infamous as they
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once were. So that's the way.
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You know, and so does it matter? No, I'm sure that.
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You know it with with their inner people, with with the
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people that they're closest to. Right.
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They are known for what they're known for and and and their
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worth and their respect is, is determined based around those
23:56
activities, the things that they do with those people.
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It's not based or determined on so much, you know on the on the
24:03
grander scheme of things, on the broader spectrum of things.
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That part really doesn't matter much, at least not on the
24:10
day-to-day, you know, relationship sort of thing.
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Now that's not to say that you're just going to go, you
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know, and and say, well, the hell with everybody else.
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That's not my inner circle, right?
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I'm not going to come on here. You know, as a as a content
24:26
creator as a podcast host. I'm going to come on here and
24:29
just, you know be a jerk for no reason to to the public right
24:33
and call you call you all names and and and just be a general
24:39
jerk because I can or or because I feel like a will because no,
24:43
that that would be, that would be, that would that wouldn't be
24:47
right. You know that wouldn't be wise
24:48
and that wouldn't be the right thing to do, you know.
24:51
But if I come on here and I say something about, you know, use
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the 9 noble virtues again as an example.
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Right. Who?
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Let's just say that that topic on this podcast gets in the ears
25:08
of people. You know who who really think
25:13
something about the NNV. You know their kindred laws are
25:18
built around the NNV or whatever the case may be, right.
25:22
Well then they're going to go and they're going to, you know,
25:23
start flapping their jaws about what Jesse on the random heathen
25:28
Ramley's podcast or this Midgard musing schmuck or whatever, you
25:30
know they're going to say. Look what he's talking about.
25:32
He doesn't know his thing. He thinks that you know courage
25:35
and honour and truth and you know fidelity and
25:37
industriousness and all these things.
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How how can what do you mean they have no place in Heathenry
25:42
What kind of what kind of kind of softier are you right.
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Talking about, you know, so I'm saying like you know people can
25:47
you can go either way with it. And that's what I'm talking
25:49
about is if you if you're going to come out here and try to be
25:53
all things for all men and women and and and say things just to
25:56
try to be you know keep people from.
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And raising the fuss, It's impossible.
26:02
You can't please all the people all the time.
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And I'm not out here to try to. I have my.
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You know, beliefs on things. I have my views on things I have
26:18
my my approach to to things, how I how I live my my life.
26:23
And then some of those aspects of things get, you know, shared
26:28
in in to some degree with the world, you know, not in their
26:32
entirety. But certain aspects of the way I
26:35
see the world and the way I view the world are shared through my
26:38
content. You know, I'm going to talk
26:41
about certain topics in a, you know, in a certain way based on
26:46
my world views. And some of those things are
26:49
going to rub people the wrong way and they're going to take to
26:52
their social media, as people are often want to do.
26:56
And and and you know try to talk about you know we'll you know
27:02
he's got all these listeners and stuff and he's out here saying
27:04
all these things and and you guys, you should you shouldn't
27:07
you shouldn't follow him. You shouldn't subscribe.
27:08
You shouldn't support him in this way because of what he says
27:11
because of what he thinks. Again, the the people that know
27:17
me, that I've proven my worth to, that I continue to prove my
27:22
worth to, that I live in a way that proves my worth to.
27:29
Because that's a thing that I never feel is is like once
27:31
you've once you've proven it, once you've established it, then
27:34
you can just kind of sit back, relax and not worry about it
27:37
anymore or not focus on it anymore.
27:39
No if if, if you have taken time and and deemed it right to have
27:45
worth, be a thing that is a part of your social orders, your
27:50
social construct, you know in it, within a within a group of
27:53
tribe, a kindred right, whatever you want to name your.
27:57
Group. Or whatever name your group has
28:00
if Worthing and if worth is a thing that you have an
28:03
understanding of with between you and your people.
28:05
And it's not a thing that you just you know, set and forget.
28:11
It's a constant work in progress.
28:15
You know you are always and constantly proving worth to one
28:19
another through your deeds. You're all wrong becomes
28:23
stronger between one another through the worth that you are
28:30
displaying, right? That's the indicator, that's the
28:33
that's kind of the thing that gets measured by and that's who
28:37
you're doing it for and with, right?
28:39
You're you're, you're, you're not doing this for the outside
28:41
world. You're not doing this for those
28:42
that are outside of that social construct.
28:46
You know, you're doing it for yourself, for your people and
28:49
then for you, right? There's that reciprocation thing
28:52
that is so important amongst heathens as well and it's not
28:57
for the outside, it's not for all these people.
29:00
So you can you know, you can the the the people that don't know
29:04
what's going on on the inside that aren't a part of it.
29:07
They're only going to see what what's happening on the surface
29:09
and they're going to draw a conclusion or they're going to
29:11
come up with a a reason why they feel a certain way based off of
29:15
what limited information they see.
29:18
They don't know all the details. They're not involved with those
29:21
intimate moments. So would would would somebody go
29:27
and then and say all these things be be a way of of
29:31
diminishing or or or damaging one's gefrain.
29:34
Yeah because I mean again especially when it comes to like
29:37
social media right these these online you know I have an online
29:41
presence. I have an online persona.
29:43
You know what you see here in front of your camera today is
29:45
not the the person that 85 to 90% of the people on my
29:50
day-to-day activities see. You know, obviously I'm not
29:56
sitting behind here all the time talking to people.
29:59
I'm I'm interacting with people. I'm, I'm not dressed this way
30:02
all the time, right. There's there's certain aspects
30:05
about me that that only are are what you see on the surface and
30:08
if that's the only thing that people draw their conclusion on
30:11
and then they're only and they're only getting a.
30:13
Portion of it, right. So the the, the, the reputation
30:17
that gets damaged, it doesn't really impact me on a, on a, on
30:23
a, on the, on the in the ways that it.
30:26
That it matters. You know what I mean?
30:29
You can get out. You can come out here and and
30:31
say all the things you want to about me.
30:32
But the people who are close to me and who I am, you know, worth
30:37
to and who have worth themselves to me, who have, you know,
30:40
exchanged oaths with with these people to in in in some aspects
30:46
and and in some contexts. You know, if they're my
30:49
tribesmen, if they're, if they're an extension of my
30:53
family, my kif, right? If they are brothers or sisters
30:56
of mine through through Worthing, through an oath,
30:59
through, you know, something like that, then they know the
31:04
real me, or at least the realer version of me than people that
31:08
see me on a, on a on a phone screen or on their laptop or
31:12
even on ATV. If they're streaming it to their
31:15
devices, right? They they they know me better
31:17
than you guys do from looking at me on a screen.
31:21
So that's who I am obligated to and that's what matters more is,
31:26
is, is that you know and and the thing that matters is that it.
31:32
When when I am wrong, right. If let's say you know something
31:36
that I'm doing out here on this, on this, on this podcast, right?
31:40
If I say something that is just flat out baloney.
31:45
Misinformation. Totally incorrect.
31:48
Very misleading, right. Just downright wrong.
31:52
The outside world says it. OK, you know, I might look into
31:58
it just to see. But if my people on the inside
32:01
are saying it, and they're the ones that are like, dude, what
32:04
do you, what do you what is, what is wrong with you?
32:07
You know, why did you do that? I'm going to take what they say
32:11
closer to heart because that's I'm obligated to them, you know,
32:17
My, my, my, my worth is determined by them and if the
32:20
thing that I've done has. Made it to.
32:24
To them, for them to feel like I am not worth as much as I once
32:28
was because of something that I did, that my worth is diminished
32:31
or whatever, right. If it's something I said,
32:32
something I did, my deeds have to have have impacted.
32:36
My you know are are the the autumn that I've that I've that
32:43
I've earned and that I've won then I need to take that to
32:47
heart and I need to focus on yeah I I I really did you know
32:51
screw up because now you know these these people they're my
32:55
friends. They're my family.
32:56
They're my they're they're they're the extensions of my
32:58
family perhaps they're my tribe right there.
33:00
These all these things that mean something very close to me.
33:04
And if I've done wrong for to them or against them then I need
33:09
I need to make that right. I need to.
33:11
I need to fix that wrong immediately, right?
33:14
If I offended somebody out here in in, you know, Facebook land
33:17
or on YouTube or wherever the heck you know it might be, Oh
33:22
well, you don't like it. You can go somewhere, right?
33:25
You You don't have to follow me anymore.
33:26
You don't. You don't have to subscribe to
33:28
what I'm doing. You can unfollow me.
33:31
You can unsubscribe. You can block me on your social
33:34
medias, right? You can.
33:35
Forget about it. You can forget about me.
33:37
I don't care. It doesn't matter that.
33:39
Much to me, my reputation is more valuable and it is more
33:42
important as contained within the ordering of my of of of my,
33:48
of the shared experiences with my people.
33:52
So I wanted to, you know, bring this up this week because when I
33:57
saw that post on Facebook, it got me thinking about, you know,
34:03
at one point in time I was like, well, gefrain is just
34:05
reputation, right? It's in it.
34:07
And we need to do everything we can to preserve our reputation,
34:11
right and to make sure that our reputation is is strong and in
34:14
that you know in that way we will never die, right Going back
34:16
to the hub mall stanza that I mentioned earlier and I think
34:22
the more I've you know read into it a bit and and and.
34:25
Realize that this is yeah, there's some importance to it.
34:29
But on a, on a, on a in the ways that it matters the most, it's
34:33
it. It's not.
34:38
It's it's on a smaller scale, you know what I mean?
34:41
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they do and I love what they do. And I want.
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To see them continue to be successful in what they do.
36:52
I want their fair fame to never die, you know?
36:57
But yeah, guys, you know, I, you know, one of the one of the
36:59
funny things is like I've I've been doing this online thing now
37:06
for a number of years now, over five years, 5-6 years and that's
37:17
probably let me think now 2003. Yeah.
37:21
So you know, at least six years that I've been doing the, you
37:24
know, doing videos and and and but even before that, you know,
37:29
before I was doing this heathen thing, I was doing you know,
37:32
music promotion and and and stuff in our local metal music
37:37
scenes. And then you know, so I mean I'm
37:38
no stranger to being a persona online and and and having a
37:44
presence online and having a following online, you know.
37:49
So this was like, you know, old hat for me to kind of just move
37:51
into this and then and do it in, in this sort of way, you know?
37:56
The trolls that are out there. You know, don't feed them.
37:59
I I've had to I've had to remind myself that a lot even more even
38:04
recently you know I've had to take a a stance and look back at
38:11
myself and go what am I even doing by engaging these people
38:15
that are just out here to pick a fight just out here to get a get
38:19
a reaction from me. You know I I create content you
38:29
know but this isn't a job for me.
38:30
I'm not I'm not out here trying to earn a living.
38:32
I'm just trying to keep you know what what time I spend doing
38:37
these things for people and and talking about these topics right
38:41
and then taking the requests and and doing that.
38:44
I'm just trying to to make the time spent doing it.
38:48
You know see you see some sort of you know return on my time
38:52
because time is is valuable. I'm not out here again trying to
38:58
earn a living. I'm not.
38:58
I'm not a, you know. I'm not Tank Tolman, man.
39:01
I'm not, you know, Thor Roseland.
39:05
I'm not, you know. These, these these people that
39:08
you know, look apart, look a certain way, adopt A mantle, put
39:15
on a put on a costume, as it were, and pretend to be
39:19
something in character for. For Views, you know that's why
39:29
this podcast You know why Midgard Musings, why the Random
39:35
Heathen Randlinks podcast is never going to be huge, you
39:42
know? I I I sort of strayed off of the
39:45
path. When I say straight off the
39:50
path, I mean I I strayed away from doing it doing this stuff
39:55
for the reasons that I started doing it.
39:58
When I started, you know, going into like posting all of these
40:04
shorts or reels, you know these, these, these these minute long
40:08
blurbs about, you know, the Norse gods this or you know, you
40:14
guys know the ones I'm talking about.
40:17
And man, they were. They were, you know.
40:18
It was cool to see. All the shares, all of the, all
40:25
the reactions, you know, the comments, people enjoying and
40:27
having a good time. And I'm like, yeah, I'm going
40:29
get somewhere, I'm get some traction, I'm blowing up now,
40:32
this is great. And then my, you know, the, the
40:37
stuff that I would do with like the podcast or whatever, it
40:39
would get hardly any attraction, not hardly any interest, hardly
40:45
any interaction. I thought, well, that's
40:54
interesting, you know, stop. I had.
40:58
I had stopped chasing that attention, you know, nobody told
41:07
me. I had to.
41:09
Nobody called me out or said anything about it really.
41:14
But it was. It was.
41:15
It was becoming obvious to me that this isn't what I'm about.
41:24
You know, this isn't why I'm doing this.
41:27
This is not why I sit in front of a camera, you know, once a
41:31
week or twice a week or however long, however many hours a week.
41:34
But this isn't the reason why I do what I do.
41:37
This is not to be an entertainer, right?
41:40
I want the content to be entertaining enough to keep your
41:42
attention, right? Give you guys some visuals, you
41:47
know, the audio, the music, whatever you know, give it.
41:49
Give you something like a show to watch.
41:53
But I want it to be real. I want it to be genuine.
41:55
And I and and that's that's what I had told everybody from the
41:59
beginning is what I had told myself that was loud stupid Dell
42:05
command center updates. But yeah I I told everybody that
42:12
and I told myself that that that's what it was going to be.
42:14
You know from the beginning and at as time goes along and as you
42:20
know you, you start getting immersed in the culture, you
42:26
know the online culture, the social media, content creator
42:29
culture, you start being a part of all these various things and
42:33
you're like, well, I got to stay relevant.
42:34
I got to do this to stay relevant.
42:35
Otherwise I'll get lost. I'm like, but do I really do I
42:39
do I really need to stay relevant to to not get buried?
42:47
It goes back to the gefrain thing, right?
42:49
If if my reputation is, you know, 5 followers because
42:58
they're close to me and they mean something to me and they
43:01
are I mean something to them and then the content that I produce
43:05
is valuable to them, all right, That is a much better audience
43:10
to to work with And and that is a much better reputation to have
43:15
than 500,000 followers that just want to, you know, watch
43:21
something for three seconds, laugh and then scroll on to the
43:24
next thing and not learn any damn thing.
43:26
You know what I mean? So, you know, it's like, it's
43:32
cool, I guess you could say, to be like.
43:34
I got you know, however many hundreds of views or however
43:39
many thousands of. Subscribers or followers or
43:43
whatever. Right.
43:44
Like that sounds cool. That doesn't really mean
43:50
anything, you know, because I don't talk to those people, you
43:57
know, I don't, I don't have interactions with the thousands
44:01
of of folks that that subscribe the 10s of thousands of folks
44:05
that that follow my content across three or four different
44:09
social media platforms, you know?
44:15
You know the the percentage of people who I engage with.
44:19
Even on this, you know sort of thing in in this sort of way is
44:25
is much less than that. So they can they can say all the
44:33
things that they want to say. People can put me in a, you
44:36
know, subreddits and and post about me in groups or whatever
44:40
for all I care my my ordering is strong with.
44:46
With those that. I am closely tied to and I and I
44:51
work hard to make sure that that is the case.
44:56
You know, I don't want to do anything that's going to to
44:59
damage what we've worked hard together to build and and to and
45:04
to attain, you know, and I also don't want it to, you know and I
45:09
and I feel that if that's the if that's the purpose, if that's
45:11
the reason. Why we do what we do?
45:14
Then you can't. You can't help but to reflect
45:18
beyond that, that inner circle, you know, people outside of that
45:21
are going to see, hey, he's genuine, he's real.
45:25
He ain't out here just putting on a show for the likes or for
45:28
the views. He's not just out here trying to
45:30
be famous. He's not out here just trying to
45:32
be cool or you know, be the next, you know, heathen
45:37
sensation, influencer person or anything like that.
45:41
No, he's he's being genuine. He's being real.
45:43
And I know some of you that listen and watched my stuff that
45:47
have told me that and it's it's humbling to hear that because I
45:53
I, I try to be as genuine as I possibly can.
45:58
You know I don't over share or try not to over share with when
46:02
when things aren't, you know, supposed to be.
46:05
But, you know, I come on here and I talk in in ways that are
46:13
not too different than than the ways that are, you know, with
46:17
people face to face. This is not scripted.
46:20
I don't, you know, I don't change a whole hell of a lot in
46:25
front of the camera when I'm delivering this stuff.
46:30
And that's why it's and that's, you know, that's why when I was
46:35
getting into the the habit of just posting content just to to,
46:39
well, I got to post a video today.
46:41
I got to post it at a certain time.
46:43
I got to find something to post right.
46:45
It was like it was it was taking all of the the genuineness out
46:49
of me and I was becoming another one of these just you know and
46:53
nothing against people that can earn or make a living by doing
46:56
what they love in that way and being that entertainer, right.
46:58
You know everything has a has a place and some of these people
47:03
you know are are are doing good stuff for for for the world.
47:07
You know they're they're making people laugh.
47:09
They're they're giving people smiles, You know, they're
47:14
they're they're they're brightening people's lives.
47:16
And that's great. You know, we need more of that.
47:22
And whatever little thing I can do along the way, I'm just going
47:29
to keep being genuine. I'm just going to keep being
47:32
authentic to what I am, what I believe and not straying into
47:38
this, you know pretender mindset or trying to be something that
47:49
I'm not, you know, just for the for the reputation for the
47:53
renown. Remember Me.
47:56
I mean shit like there's enough videos on the Internet now that
48:00
I don't think that you know again, for the people that that
48:02
that that matter to me and that I matter to them, you know, I'm
48:06
not going to be forgotten. Like, there's enough content out
48:09
here in the Internet that that for years to come you'll be able
48:13
to Remember Me by. But anyway, that's the that's
48:17
the thing about your frame that I wanted to talk about.
48:19
You know, don't don't worry so much about what what everybody
48:23
else says or thinks. Don't think that that's going to
48:26
be the thing that damages your reputation.
48:28
It's going to come, it's going to go.
48:30
It's going to up. It's going to down.
48:31
It's going to in, it's going to out, you know, focus on the
48:34
areas that are closer to you with the people, with the people
48:39
that are closer to you and that you're closer with and that
48:43
you're closest with. So yeah, there's my thoughts for
48:48
that and that's all I've got to say on it.
48:52
Would be anxious to hear what your thoughts are, you know, so
48:55
if you guys want to. Those of you.
48:57
Patrons on Patreon here. Thank you again if you want to
48:59
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49:02
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49:06
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49:09
regulars in the comments up there.
49:11
Thank you guys so much for being present and being active in that
49:14
way. It's good to to hear your
49:16
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51:08
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51:13
And you know where our reputations matter and what we
51:18
what we do with people that matters.
51:23
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51:35
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51:38
See you the next one.