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Random Heathen Ramblings: S6, EP04 - Monthly Heathen Live Stream (January 2025) feat. Blake Russell of Skaldic Works & Patrick Walsh. · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  The. Hello everyone, and welcome to
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  first live stream of 2025. This is our first monthly live
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  discussion for, for people that that have, you know, questions
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  Dang, all the way out there in beyond America's heartland, man,
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  you're in, you're in, as they say, God's country or the gods
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  country. All right, so now that all that,
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  that housekeeping stuff is out of the way, I have two guests,
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  two guests lined up for us here today, 2 very esteemed men in
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  the community respectively. So welcome to the show.
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  We've got, we've got Blake Russell here of Scalded Works
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  returning to the show just just after a recent appearance here
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  on the show. So welcome to the show here,
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  Blake. Hey.
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  Welcome. Can you hear me?
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  Yep, can hear you nice and nod and clear.
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  And then we also have Patrick Walsh, who is in the the
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  Highland Spiritual Group community over there on Facebook
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  and a good friend and brother of mine.
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  So hail and welcome to the show guys.
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  Hail Patrick. Thanks for joining.
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  You might have to unmute yourself there, Patrick.
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  I think I may have or I can ask you to unmute because there we
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  go. Try that now there.
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  We go. There you are.
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  Perfect. Awesome.
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  All right, guys, how's everybody doing tonight?
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  Good. Not too shabby, thanks for
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  asking. That's great.
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  I'm doing well too. And I'm also I'm I'm glad to
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  have you guys here. Let me get some things set up
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  here that I need to get set up. So Blake, you didn't you, you
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  didn't know this, but obviously here Patrick is.
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  And but but you had asked to come back on the show here to
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  kind of kind of do a recap of some of the things that we may
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  have not gotten a a chance to to touch on last, last show.
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  And there's Josh W from the the the the Norse fox creation says
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  hello from North Carolina. Hail to you and welcome to the
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  show. Josh W thanks for being here.
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  So yeah, anyways, I'm going to do my best to keep up with the
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  comments, but Blake, if you want to kind of give us a little bit
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  of a, a recap of of what we were talking about last time, Sir.
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  Yeah, I believe we were talking, I believe we were talking about
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  the troubles of the of explaining our terms to other.
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  People who are. In the esoterical or Pagan field
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  that are not even or Norse Pagan or Astra true.
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  Yeah, so we were talking like, you know, using terms like weird
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  or like phrase or philia or some of these other like terms that
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  are very native or log weird, right, native, native terms.
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  But to heathenry that when you start throwing them around to
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  other people who are not heathen, that kind of
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  communication barrier can can make it kind of challenging,
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  right. Hello there, Luna.
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  Hail to you, Patrick, you I don't know if you heard or
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  listen or or watch that last episode with with Blake and I,
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  but that's kind of what we were talking about.
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  You know, 'cause he he ran into some kind of like situations or
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  scenarios where, you know, he's used to using certain terms.
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  Like we were just talking about things that are pretty native to
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  heathen conversations, weird or log Filia, you know, some of
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  these other terms and stuff. Have you ever had those types of
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  experiences yourself, Patrick, where you know, you knew what
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  you were talking about, but the people around you were kind of
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  like, say that again, can you dumb it down for me or can you
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  explain it or have you anything like that happen in your
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  interactions with people? Yes, absolutely.
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  I keep hearing echo. Is that showing up in the live
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  here? No, not on our end.
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  Awesome, happened here. So anyways, yes, absolutely yes,
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  I have encountered that, especially with sharing my path,
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  my passions and my interest, especially Highline.
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  That's definitely more alone. How have you have you been able
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  to, to kind of help bridge the gap with people, you know, So,
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  you know, giving people like a word and then they do, I've
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  never heard that word before. How do you explain it?
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  And how does that help? How How can you help give people
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  like a sense of belonging to a conversation when at times it's
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  it may be seeming like we're talking over their heads or
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  talking outside of their understanding of things?
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  I do my best to explain it in layman's terms and a way in the
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  context that it can understand and appreciate it.
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  Now, a bulk of those people will hear you, but then just kind of
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  look at the back of their head, whereas other people keep asking
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  questions and endeavor further into that interest.
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  So it's really just a process, you know, explain yourself the
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  best that you can and then follow up with those who are
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  interested and dive deeper into the set of topics.
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  I I found the second as well, like of the latter part always
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  seems to be the be the case over where I'm at.
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  I've always found people just absolutely just interested in
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  what, what I have to say and, and they ask me questions about
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  it and they're always, they're always like, they're like
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  children almost like when you tell them stories that that wide
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  eye of wonderment kind of look to their face.
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  Yeah. What about?
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  Yeah, go ahead. No, go ahead.
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  No, I was to say like, what, what, what, what about when
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  maybe the term that you're using, they have their own idea
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  of it. And sometimes that idea of what
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  you're saying is off, you know, like the first thing I think of
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  is, is how often sometimes we hear like the word weird get
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  compared to fate, you know, 'cause it's, it's, it's probably
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  the closest thing that, that most people that aren't heathen
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  would find a relation with. But it's not exactly the same as
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  as the concept of fate. It's a bit deeper than that, you
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  know what I mean? Yeah.
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  So yeah, I, I do run into that problem sometimes, but I do have
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  to sometimes we'll have to throw out that word fate to give an
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  example. But I do also say it's like
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  fate, but it's a whole lot more. It's also encompasses your own
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  choices that you have. And like I described it last
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  time, I see it as a like a Rd. filled with like obstacles and
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  crossroads and everything and the road.
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  You can't control where it leads to, you can't control what the
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  obstacles are, you can't control what the crossroads look like.
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  But you could choose which direction you go on the
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  crossroads or how to deal with the obstacle itself.
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  Right. So that's not, it's not that the
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  fate is, is like set in stone that you're just, oh, it's just
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  I'm, I'm fated to suck at life. You know, it's well, there's a
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  choice to be made here and where where fate kind of intervened
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  or, or, or made things happen or, or landed at a certain point
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  that you still have the, the, the, the, the weaving of of that
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  to, to, to take place. You know, like you still have to
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  be present with that. Yeah, yeah.
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  Fate is like the external factors that have take place.
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  Well, the the choices you make or your own personal, you know,
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  it's your own personal stuff. It's like that's like you
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  control, you can control. Oh, we lost you there for a
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  second, Blake. Oh, there we go.
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  Try that. OK, Try starting over again
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  there. OK, I was.
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  I was saying that. What fate is, is basically the
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  external factors that we can't control, and weird encompasses
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  both that and the choices that we make and how we react to
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  those to fade itself in a way. And I can't hear what you're
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  saying. Yeah, I hit a button that didn't
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  touch This, this this new setup, guys learning curves, right?
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  You're seeing it live, really happening.
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  It's it's I'm not, I'm not pantomiming.
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  I'm not asking you to read my lips.
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  This is not part of the live experience.
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  But what is part of the live experience is like when you hit
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  a button and it doesn't quite, it doesn't quite do the thing.
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  You don't, you don't hit the spot.
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  So you got, you got, you got to, you got to finagle it a little
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  bit, you know, sometimes hitting the spot, sometimes you got to
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  go back to it. That's what she said.
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  But anyway, see that's. What?
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  That's what Control alt delete is for.
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  That's what that's why we have post edit guys.
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  No, this is a live show. So you get to see it all
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  happening in real life. And then you know, if you missed
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  the live show, you can go back and watch it on my Patreon for
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  just a dollar a month and you get to to rewatch it and laugh
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  it all over again. So Patrick with with weird and,
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  and the concept of, you know, it, it being kind of like fate,
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  but also that you're not just fated to have whatever was dealt
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  to you. Like you have a you have a, a
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  hand in this, in this, you know, deck that you're dealt in a way.
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  Like you have to play the cards. You can't just hold them and and
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  not do anything with them, you know?
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  Harass the new hand. Or or yeah, I mean, but that's
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  part of it, right? Like you, you know, OK, well,
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  this is AII need a different hand.
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  So you got but you got to do something with you.
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  You can't just be like, well, I hope the hand turns out
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  differently or I'm just stuck with this hand.
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  No, you're not. You can cash, you can change
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  them out, you can cash them and you can do whatever it takes to
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  to, to to make the difference, right?
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  Absolutely and. Yeah, go ahead, man.
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  It it really hits on a deep level too, because a lot of
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  things happen to us outside and inside our control.
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  And now ultimately the die is cast.
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  What is happening is happening. But again, what matters most in
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  my opinion, is how we choose to approach it.
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  And this is a lifelong practice. This is something that's not
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  done in a matter of hours, days, or even weeks or months.
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  It's a lifelong journey of path. And there's going to be plenty
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  of times that we take three steps back and five steps
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  backward. And that serves as the purpose
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  is to know, you know, yes, things are happening the way
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  they are. And sometimes we need practice.
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  We need more hardships or setbacks to really humble us and
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  really put us in a position that we may not feel very comfortable
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  being in, but ultimately it's serving a purpose.
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  That's a keen observation. You know, kind of have, like
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  Luna says, like there's a control, you know, we can't
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  control what happened at the beginning of things.
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  And then we also have can't we? We can't control where the
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  ending of things land, but we have the in between the, the
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  present, everything that's happening.
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  So we we control how we get from point A to Point C or what
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  happens along the way. You know, the beginning and the
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  end are set, but what happens in the middle is up to us real
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  quick. Rebecca is just chiming in says
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  where is everybody from? We got a Washington State viewer
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  to from Rebecca Ferris over here on Facebook watching.
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  So Rebecca, I'm in Middle Tennessee.
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  Blake. I am from Athens, AL in central
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  and central North Alabama. St.
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  Louis, MO's the best reference I can give.
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  I'm literally about 30 miles north of Saint Louis.
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  Yeah, Patrick's in. Missouri, I'm from, I'm from,
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  I'm from near Huntsville, AL Basically, it's the Silicon
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  Valley of the South, actually. Oh, man, look at you, Silicon
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  Valley of the South. OK, well, Patrick, Patrick could
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  tell you where he's from, but he's from Missouri, so he
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  literally would have to show you, 'cause that's the Show Me
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  state, right? Right, Patrick?
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  You got it right. We got whispers from Midgard,
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  says Hailer. ACR got the docker everyone good
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  day to you too. Whispers from Midgard.
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  Thank you for tuning in and watching Josh W sorry there.
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  Josh W we got here is in North Carolina.
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  Josh West and his his partner Tanya.
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  They will be at the Viking experience coming up and I think
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  it's March just just a couple of months away.
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  So if you look at the Viking experience out there in North
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  Carolina, you can check out all what's going on out there.
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  And Josh W will be out there with his business, him and his
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  partner's business, the the Norse fox creations.
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  That's OK Luna, we understood we got you punctuations.
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  She said she forgot, she forgot a she forgot a punctuation.
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  Oh, parentheseses. We're we're not going to, we're
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  not going to Ding you for that one, Luna, It's OK.
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  We're not the very least. Yeah, I, I, I, I, I was talking
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  on mute before. So I think we everybody gets a
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  pass. And Luna is a very great friend
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  of mine too, just the FYI, very fundamental part of my group.
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  A great friend and just want to thank you Luna for being here.
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  Appreciate you. Yeah, thanks, Luna, who's from
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  Michigan, and yeah, she's very, very present and welcoming new
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  members to your Highland group there.
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  Patrick, Michael Thacker's in the mountains of Kentucky.
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  Very nice. Little bit, little bit of
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  everything. Little people from all over the
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  place. Rebecca says.
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  Rebecca has a question. Sorry, what do you do and how do
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  you respond when Christians approach you?
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  And oh, there you go, Patrick. We got you back here, buddy.
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  So anyways, Rebecca was asking what do you do or how do you
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  respond when Christians approach you and want to pray over you?
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  I have them knocking on my door all the time and it is so
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  aggravating and I don't know or I don't want to be rude or
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  anything. Blake, do you want to you want
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  to take you want to answer in your own way?
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  I'm sure that between the three of us, we'll have similar, maybe
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  different answers. So well.
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  I can't hear. Can you hear us, Patrick?
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  I hear you. I just can't hear Jesse.
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  Oh. What about now?
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  Can you hear him? Yeah, we can hear you.
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  I can hear. You.
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  I can hear you. OK.
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  Can you hear him, Jesse though you?
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  Can just watch. I can hear you too, Patrick.
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  Tell him I can hear him. He can hear you.
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  I can't hear him damn it all. Tell him to try to rejoin.
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  Tell him to try to to. Try to try to rejoin.
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  Yeah, I will. I'll be right back, guys.
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  All right. Let me just do this.
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  Go ahead, Blake. All right, well, it depends on
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  how I use a common joke. If somebody says have you found
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  Jesus kind of moment. I always I always do this.
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  No. Why don't you come in and help?
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  Come in and help me look for him.
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  Is he lost? Yeah.
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  But usually somebody asks me to pray over them.
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  I'll be like, yeah, sure, you can pray if you want to, but as
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  long as I can do my thing with you.
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  Right. Fair.
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  Yeah, it's a compromise. Yeah, I mean, that's, that's one
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  way of looking at it for sure. I'm I'm the type of person who
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  if, if anybody, I don't care what their religion is, if they
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  want to pray over me. I am the type of person who, if
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  I believe in my gods and my goddesses and my veytir, my
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  whites, my spirits, my ancestors, if I believe in all
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  these forces that exist in the seen and unseen, then I would be
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  remiss if I discounted or discredited the existence of one
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  other deity or being. So if, if, if you're, if you're
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  a Christian that approaches me and wants to quote UN quote,
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  pray over me, then by all means, I'll, I'll, I'll gladly accept
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  all of the blessings that are that are out there from, from
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  any deity that wishes to be engaged.
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  Now do I do I believe that your Christian God will do anything
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  for me? Probably not just because we are
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  opposed to one another in our you know what I'm saying Like
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  everything as as a former Christian myself, you know
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  anything, everything from the Christian doctrine abhors pagans
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  and heathens. It's it's oil and water.
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  So I. Think the effort on that though.
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  I think that that the Christian God would actually still bless
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  us regardless. OK.
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  Yeah. I will.
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  It's like just like how our gods will bless the the Christians
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  regardless. OK, Patrick, what about you?
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  I kind of agree with that, Blake.
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  It's tough. Jesse, you've heard me talk
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  about this several times is intentions.
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  Like there is times I was about to have a surgery and I was a
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  Pagan and so I'm Pagan obviously, but I asked for
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  prayers on my own personal page and people outside my faith
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  offer their prayers and I accepted it.
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  It's just, I think like that energy and that love transcends
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  any practice or faith. It's just who you are as a whole
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  and what you offer, what you stand for.
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  OK, that sounds almost like you know, what's the whispers from
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  Midgard says. You know, I let them pray.
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  I'll even bow my head with them be engaged in the moment with
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  them. You know, show so show some, I
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  guess, respect, reverence. I mean we are we are talking
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  about our dealings with the divine, our interactions with
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  the holy, what with that perception, with that, you know
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  how that manifests itself to different people.
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  There is AI think a a due amount of of benevolence and reverence
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  that to be given to the holy in whatever form it takes, and I, I
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  I'm not I'm not ashamed to to to do that either.
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  Yeah, go. Ahead my My challenge is though,
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  is the opposite when Christians ask me to pray.
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  For them or just like. Like in the context say like my
• 25:31
  my family's Christian, of course.
• 25:32
  And sometimes I always dread getting asked to lead the prayer
• 25:37
  for over the say the blessing over the meal because I'm
• 25:42
  tempted to give the heathen blessing over the meal and not a
• 25:47
  not a Christian blessing over the meal.
• 25:52
  Has that ever happened for you? How like have you been out of
• 25:54
  family get together and they ask you to pray and you and you
• 25:57
  don't give a Christian blessing of the meal or or has that ever
• 26:01
  happened? It's been a long time since I
• 26:03
  was asked, but I've always, I've always politely denied because I
• 26:08
  was like, you do not want me to do that.
• 26:10
  Yeah, right. I mean, I'll, I'll do it, but
• 26:13
  it's going to be done my way. And you might not, you know.
• 26:16
  Yeah. I don't want, yeah, sorry, go
• 26:19
  ahead. I don't want disrespect anybody
• 26:23
  in their own house though. Right.
• 26:28
  So my question would be, again, I'm I don't know you on a
• 26:31
  personal level at all, but hypothetically, how do you think
• 26:36
  they would handle offering your intentions and your own blessing
• 26:41
  that you see fit? Rephrase that, will you?
• 26:47
  Sorry so. You're fine.
• 26:49
  So basically hypothetically, if you're given the opportunity to
• 26:53
  give your own heathen and take. I think he froze.
• 27:01
  Oh. I think what he was, I guess
• 27:05
  everything like with what Patrick was saying is like, you
• 27:07
  know, our intentions or the intentions behind was being
• 27:11
  said. Let's give him a chance to try
• 27:12
  and and rejoin. And in the meantime, I'll catch
• 27:14
  up. On some comments.
• 27:18
  So Luna said you're welcome. Yeah, The Viking Experience is
• 27:24
  March 21st, 22nd, 21st through the 22nd and the 28th through
• 27:30
  the 29th. So it's two weekends, so you
• 27:33
  guys can just find it online. Just look up the the Viking
• 27:36
  experience in North Carolina and you'll find details about that.
• 27:43
  Ha, ha. Can you hear me now?
• 27:46
  Yeah. We're having, you know, this is
• 27:47
  this kind of just, I guess, you know, part of the part of the
• 27:49
  experience nowadays with, with remote screen experiences, you
• 27:53
  know, sometimes people. I want to move him off here just
• 27:57
  till we get him back. Cowboy from Midgard says I
• 28:01
  always tell them in the nicest way to oh, sorry.
• 28:06
  Cowboy on YouTube says I always tell them in the nicest way to
• 28:09
  go away. Yeah.
• 28:10
  So I mean, sometimes people, everybody's different.
• 28:12
  You know, you're going to get different responses from
• 28:14
  different people. Sometimes people just don't feel
• 28:16
  comfortable with having another faith or, or belief or anything
• 28:23
  pushed upon them. So praying over somebody or
• 28:25
  praying on somebody might seem a bit pushy and that makes people
• 28:28
  feel uncomfortable. So respect that, you know, and,
• 28:31
  and Rebecca, to answer your question, you know, how we
• 28:33
  respond and how we deal with things with people is, is, is
• 28:36
  what's worked for us. You know, maybe it's it's
• 28:39
  something that you're having to find a way to to deal with
• 28:41
  yourself, But definitely, you know, don't necessarily take our
• 28:46
  word for for it, right? I mean, find what's if, if, if
• 28:49
  it if it makes you uncomfortable, then just be kind
• 28:52
  and upfront and say, Hey, I appreciate the thought, but I
• 28:55
  would rather you not or, or something along those lines.
• 28:57
  You don't have to be ugly about it.
• 29:00
  Voodoo Vikings says I just tell people that Jesus makes great
• 29:03
  tacos over at the taqueria. Jesus.
• 29:07
  Jesus. Yours too, huh?
• 29:12
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 29:14
  Well, it depends. Also, he also made some great
• 29:16
  churros too. Oh.
• 29:18
  Man, some, some. Hey, you can't.
• 29:20
  You can't knock a good mole, let me tell you.
• 29:23
  I think he also makes good lasagna over over at the Greek
• 29:27
  plate, or that's Italian. Close, but I mean, they're
• 29:31
  neighbors, you know? Yeah, I don't know of a Greek
• 29:34
  lasagna, but. Yeah, yeah.
• 29:37
  Where are they? Where are they?
• 29:38
  Agree. I don't know of much Greek
• 29:39
  dishes. So, so Rebecca was raised
• 29:44
  Jehovah's Witness. That's a, that's a, that's a
• 29:46
  wild sect of Christianity left when they were 14.
• 29:52
  So it's been hard to listen to all the Christian teachings at
• 29:55
  all. I listen to them and, and all,
• 29:57
  but when I ask them questions, they answer my questions with a
• 30:01
  question. I know exactly how that is.
• 30:04
  I was raised in a very cult, cult like Christian themed
• 30:11
  environment growing up. I know what that's like to be
• 30:14
  faced with. If you, you know when things are
• 30:16
  questioned, to be answer a question with a question.
• 30:20
  It's it's super frustrating to share a story similar with
• 30:26
  Rebecca, says Michael Thacker. He was at a he was at a store
• 30:31
  lately and a guy wanted to give me a Bible.
• 30:36
  He declined. And he asked if I didn't believe
• 30:38
  in Jesus and then started preaching out of text.
• 30:46
  Yeah. Oh, here he comes.
• 30:47
  Here. Jesus Christ.
• 30:48
  God damn. Hey now, we've been talking
• 30:52
  about Christianity. You always over here invoking
• 30:54
  invoking their their their main guy.
• 30:58
  Look at me. By Odin's beard, by by Loki's
• 31:01
  tanked or something, you know? What?
• 31:04
  Who should not be named? Yes.
• 31:06
  Who shall not be named Voldemort?
• 31:08
  Yeah, Harry. Potter just now.
• 31:11
  So yeah, I know you're on that kick, Yeah.
• 31:15
  Anyways, Blake, to go back to what I was asking you, how do
• 31:21
  you think your, your people and your family would handle you do
• 31:27
  your own opening prayer for a meal or anything like that based
• 31:32
  on your intentions? Well, I I really honestly don't
• 31:37
  know that because I had never attempted that.
• 31:40
  I've always declined, as I previously said, that I don't
• 31:45
  want to disrespect anybody out of their own home either.
• 31:49
  So that's the reason why I don't do that.
• 31:53
  My, my family knows about my, my heathen ways right now, all
• 31:58
  except for my one of my grandmothers who I don't think
• 32:01
  she knows, but she might. Who knows?
• 32:05
  Because a lot of my aunt, I think I have an aunt or uncle or
• 32:10
  cousins that follow me over on Facebook.
• 32:13
  So they know. And I think my birth mother
• 32:16
  knows somehow. But even though I don't talk to
• 32:19
  her as much but that's all I can speculate right now.
• 32:25
  But my my dad, my mom, and my grandmother on my mom's side all
• 32:29
  know that I am Pagan. And my grandpa, my grandmother,
• 32:35
  my grandmother who knows that I'm Pagan, knows it in the I
• 32:38
  told her in the most despicable way I could out of anger.
• 32:44
  I I did in response to something and I regret that, but it's
• 32:49
  done. Yeah.
• 32:52
  And but they support me no matter what, so I'm blessed in
• 32:55
  that much. And thank you for answering
• 32:58
  that. It's.
• 33:01
  I've had experiences too, with my, with my own, you know, blood
• 33:05
  family in the past. You know, I, I've learned a lot
• 33:10
  since since I did this. What I'm talking about, what I'm
• 33:12
  about what I'm about to tell you right now.
• 33:13
  But you know, my parents knew that I was heathen years ago
• 33:18
  because they asked me and I couldn't lie to them.
• 33:20
  And I said, no, I don't, you know, believe the way that you
• 33:23
  brought me up. I found something else.
• 33:25
  And when they, they, they probe and they ask, I had to tell
• 33:27
  them, you know, well, that obviously was, was met.
• 33:32
  I shouldn't say obviously, because not all situations are
• 33:35
  the same. But my parents did not respond
• 33:40
  with an accepting way about it. So when I go and visit them, you
• 33:45
  know, thereafter I'm like, well, at least I don't have to hide it
• 33:49
  anymore. And I would wear shirts that
• 33:51
  said heathen on it. I carried my hammer outside of
• 33:54
  my garments and I was very I wasn't shy about what I believed
• 34:01
  in in their very home. And I, you know, later on it was
• 34:08
  like, you know, how rude, like how disrespectful of you to, you
• 34:13
  know, So what you believe, what you believe, don't bring that
• 34:15
  into our house and flaunt it is what it felt like to them.
• 34:18
  And I got it. You know, I had to like, examine
• 34:21
  the situation. I got to go.
• 34:22
  Yeah, man. You know, that would be like,
• 34:24
  you know, if I invite people who are not heathen over to my house
• 34:27
  and they come in, you know, you know, quoting Bible verses and,
• 34:31
  and, and openly displaying their Christianity, it's like, I don't
• 34:35
  care that that's what you want to believe in.
• 34:36
  That's what you find, you know, a resolve or or you're you know,
• 34:40
  you feel comfortable with, but you know you don't have to come
• 34:42
  in my house and and and be all flaunty about it.
• 34:45
  And you know I. I I don't mind.
• 34:48
  To me, I don't mind them when they come in if they do mind,
• 34:51
  because I try to lead by example to them that I'm accepting of
• 34:55
  theirs in my own home and that but I don't, but I still respect
• 35:01
  their home enough. And I I had to have stopped
• 35:05
  wearing my shirt that says heat. And I think, I believe that it's
• 35:07
  the same shirt that you have. It was a grim Frost shirt.
• 35:12
  Yep, grim frost. Yep.
• 35:14
  Does your Does yours come with the holes as well?
• 35:19
  Well, mine was a no. I I mean, except for my neck and
• 35:22
  my two arms and where I put my body through like it came with.
• 35:25
  Yeah, but besides that, no. I mean, I've, I've somehow, I've
• 35:29
  got holes in mine in in the front somehow, but oh.
• 35:33
  Dang. But I do wear my millionaire out
• 35:35
  in public around them. But it's not a big millionaire
• 35:38
  anymore, it's a small millionaire.
• 35:41
  Yeah, well, in public is one thing.
• 35:43
  You know what I mean? Like I, you know, not
• 35:46
  everybody's the same and not every situation's the same, but
• 35:48
  I, I wouldn't go back. Like both of my parents are,
• 35:51
  are, are past now, but my sister lives in their, in their home.
• 35:54
  And I wouldn't, I wouldn't return to that place and I
• 35:57
  wouldn't go back with, you know, my hammer hanging out and a big,
• 36:00
  you know, heathen shirt that says, you know, till Valhalla or
• 36:03
  anything like that. Like I wouldn't do that anymore.
• 36:05
  And and I I shouldn't have done that to begin with.
• 36:07
  It was neither, neither me like near me, neither me either.
• 36:11
  I may wear some of the band shirts and stuff because they
• 36:13
  probably don't know what they are, but I still do.
• 36:17
  Again, I do wear my millionaire to my grandmother's house.
• 36:21
  I go there to my mom's house, but it's a small one.
• 36:26
  It's a tiny one. It's very hard to see see if you
• 36:28
  can't if you don't get up on close to it.
• 36:31
  And that's why I've always I've, I've actually downsized that for
• 36:38
  a reason, because I didn't want to just be that ostentatious
• 36:43
  about it with those big, big millionaires everybody has.
• 36:47
  Oh yeah. Any feathers or anything like
• 36:48
  that? Yeah, yeah.
• 36:51
  With my family, I feel very grateful and often don't mind me
• 36:54
  sharing. This, but yeah, please go ahead.
• 36:58
  Going back to when I first felt start following high lung is my
• 37:03
  parents beautifully enough were very very supportive of what I
• 37:09
  was doing and they knew full well that I was on my own
• 37:12
  practice, on my own path. They didn't ask questions and I
• 37:17
  respect that cause a lot of it would go over their head.
• 37:20
  But even still they know I was battering myself meeting great
• 37:26
  people and continue to do so every day.
• 37:28
  But funny story here is when I got back home from my first
• 37:33
  Heinlein ritual back in 2020, I changed my profile picture and I
• 37:39
  had my whole high lung gear on. I had my face pain.
• 37:44
  And then one of my uncles, one of those newborn Christian
• 37:47
  types, you know, if you know, and he left the comet, he's like
• 37:53
  Patrick, you need to come to Jesus.
• 37:55
  He's this all these, you know, attack on me.
• 37:59
  And I told my dad about this. He's like, that's messed up.
• 38:03
  I'm like, wow, my dad hardcore, the Roman Catholic.
• 38:07
  It's like, yeah, that's messed up.
• 38:11
  It's just like he he's just so my my parents.
• 38:16
  I love them very much for very several reasons.
• 38:20
  But just to have them again, they don't follow my path.
• 38:25
  That they respect it. Do they wish to know more?
• 38:27
  No. Yeah.
• 38:28
  But if on the off chance they do, I'd be more than happy to
• 38:31
  share what I have to share. But even still, it's that
• 38:34
  coexistence and that understanding, that unspoken
• 38:38
  rule of like, hey, if it doesn't harm the cows.
• 38:44
  Well, I mean, and, and to that point, you know, I would say
• 38:46
  like my, my inlaws are, are definitely not heathen.
• 38:49
  They don't know the first thing about it.
• 38:51
  They're, they're very, you know, they're, they're the boomer
• 38:53
  generation. They, they are, they're very,
• 38:55
  you know, conservative Christian types.
• 38:58
  But you see over here above, right up here, this, this the
• 39:02
  Midgard musings plaque right over here, right over my
• 39:06
  shoulder. It's, it's got, it's got matches
• 39:09
  that are burnt into the bind rune of, of, of Midgard musings,
• 39:12
  the double mono's bind rooms. You know, these are matches that
• 39:16
  were burned and glued to a plaque that were made by my
• 39:19
  father-in-law, who is a, again, boomer generation, conservative
• 39:23
  Christian type, doesn't know the first thing about what I do, but
• 39:26
  respects what I do and knows what something like that would
• 39:29
  mean to me. And he made that for me out of
• 39:32
  his own. You know, he took the time, he,
• 39:35
  he got the materials, he and he made that for me.
• 39:38
  And he's got something else that's that's further up out of
• 39:40
  frame. That's a Mjolnir done the same
• 39:42
  way burned matches. Patrick, you've seen it.
• 39:45
  Because. You've been here, you know what
• 39:47
  I'm talking about. I couldn't show.
• 39:48
  I could have to show my expression when you said that
• 39:51
  because I have mercy of that. It's very beautiful.
• 39:55
  And it's from a family member who's not heathen but who
• 39:57
  respects and doesn't infiltrate or try to sway, persuade me or
• 40:01
  sway me in anyone direction. I am very fortunate to have my
• 40:05
  have my mom, my adopted mom, because she, she isn't heathen
• 40:12
  either, but she very, very much, I mean, she's very much
• 40:16
  Christian, but she is very, very asking you questions about my
• 40:22
  belief system. And so far my answers have
• 40:26
  gotten a lot better over the years, you know, explaining it
• 40:30
  and explaining the animistic side of things.
• 40:34
  And she is like just blown away by how clear things are to her
• 40:40
  and it makes sense to her the what I believe in but she still
• 40:44
  does says she doesn't accept it completely but she does.
• 40:49
  She will accept the fact that this makes sense.
• 40:54
  And that's so damn beautiful. And again, I hope that I'm
• 40:57
  interjecting here, but just like what people outside of our faith
• 41:02
  and practice really see the harsh realities to a lot of
• 41:06
  other people. It's not devil worshipping.
• 41:10
  We don't acknowledge that figure, that archetype, that
• 41:14
  that person. Right.
• 41:16
  It's well there. There's not a singular, there's
• 41:18
  not a singular devil. Devil in the Bible mentioned,
• 41:21
  anyway. No, it's not, but a lot of
• 41:24
  people do see it like you can't believe in God without the devil
• 41:28
  and so on and so forth. I'm like it's very polarizing,
• 41:31
  but I'm not going to dive into that semantics there.
• 41:34
  But all the same though, just that awareness not beatable
• 41:38
  experience. Be a family friend, Co worker,
• 41:43
  those rare few who are like. I don't completely understand
• 41:48
  what you're saying but I know it's not as dark and abysmal as
• 41:53
  many people and their former self had a portrayed and it's a
• 41:58
  very beautiful experience. Got another former Catholic
• 42:03
  Whispers from Midgard. They said they were raised
• 42:05
  around Catholics or I get, sorry, not maybe, maybe not a
• 42:08
  former Catholic. I, I, I, I misrepresented there.
• 42:12
  They were raised around Catholics, but was encouraged to
• 42:14
  find your own path. Their grandma had them read some
• 42:18
  Bible verses, but she was OK if it didn't stick.
• 42:24
  So that's, you know, that's giving the, the, the person a
• 42:26
  chance to be educated about something, but to find their own
• 42:29
  way. And we got another Sarah O'Brien
• 42:33
  on YouTube says that they had a Christian friend ask them to
• 42:36
  pray for her and family last night very recently prayed to
• 42:44
  air for rain or she prayed for, to air for rain for them.
• 42:51
  And she just appreciated the prayer.
• 42:53
  So, you know, they grew up Christian and they know to just
• 42:58
  let them pray and, and bow, you know, like show that respect.
• 43:02
  I think that's, you know, it's a beautiful thing when, when, when
• 43:05
  2 differing beliefs can, can be be civil towards one another.
• 43:12
  And, and you know, like, yeah, I'm not trying to convert you
• 43:14
  or, or, or switch your mind or change your mind.
• 43:16
  But, you know, let's, let's, let's both consult our, our
• 43:19
  divine, you know, figures. Let's both consult our sacred
• 43:23
  beings and and you know, I don't say channel that energy, but you
• 43:28
  know, it's all from from the same source.
• 43:32
  You know what, what name you want to put to it.
• 43:34
  It's all coming from the same source.
• 43:37
  I think. You know, Yeah.
• 43:39
  You go back far enough, it all originates from the same place.
• 43:43
  And coming from sorry, go ahead, Blake, go ahead.
• 43:46
  I was I was saying that most religions are are formed from
• 43:52
  the climate that they are in. Oh, for sure, yeah.
• 43:55
  Your environment absolutely informs your worldview.
• 43:58
  Absolutely. That's how that's how like Odin
• 44:00
  had been had absurd tier as the chief deity.
• 44:04
  There was a a need, a greater need for him to be that be that
• 44:09
  chief deity up in the north compared to mainland Europe.
• 44:16
  That's an interesting take on it for sure.
• 44:18
  You know, Crystal Dawn on Facebook says it helps not
• 44:23
  having local friends. So no one really has any
• 44:26
  problems. I guess that's one way of
• 44:27
  looking at, you know, you don't have people that getting
• 44:30
  offended by then you ain't got to worry about it.
• 44:33
  And. I was going to say, being part
• 44:36
  of the High Lung tribe and following them and being among
• 44:41
  many great people, you know, something I respect immensely
• 44:45
  about the opening ceremony to their rituals is, you know,
• 44:51
  remember that we all are brothers, all people and beasts
• 44:57
  and trees and stone and wind. And those words resonate very
• 45:02
  deeply with the me and many other people because a lot of
• 45:07
  people come from different backgrounds, celebrate different
• 45:10
  Sabbaths, holidays, holy tides, and collectively we're honoring
• 45:16
  the sacred we all come from the one great being that was always
• 45:22
  there before people lived and named it.
• 45:26
  And that really, again, it hits on a very deep root up this
• 45:31
  great tree. And those roots may spread out
• 45:36
  in various different ways, but all the same, we come to that
• 45:40
  great tree, that great understand, that great life
• 45:44
  experience that we're all trying to endeavor to understand,
• 45:48
  learn, and grow from. Yeah, yeah.
• 45:53
  It's a beautiful example that we see here.
• 45:55
  Sorry, sorry, Blake, I'll let you get in just a second.
• 45:57
  I just want to acknowledge there's there's there's some
• 45:59
  dialogue going back and forth between we got Sarah O'Brien on
• 46:02
  YouTube and Whispers from Midgard.
• 46:06
  You know, there was a typo made, you know, where, where Sarah
• 46:09
  said they prayed to air for rain.
• 46:10
  There was a typo. And she's oh, excuse me, I'm not
• 46:12
  a very good typist, but there's still this sentiment, there's
• 46:14
  this shared, you know, kindness in the comments here between
• 46:19
  these two folks, you know, saying, Hey, you know, I hope
• 46:21
  the people that are that are ill feel better, you know, sorry for
• 46:25
  this hardship. You know, and there's this,
• 46:26
  there's such kindness being shown in the comments, guys and
• 46:29
  gals. So thank you for being kind to
• 46:31
  one another and for not, you know, raising a fuss over a
• 46:34
  typo. Why'd you pray to air for rain?
• 46:36
  She's the physician of the gods. Why would you do that?
• 46:38
  Blah, blah, blah, right. No, no need for that.
• 46:40
  And you guys are doing great by by being so kind.
• 46:44
  So I do just want to, you know, kind of just give a, a
• 46:47
  acknowledgement of thanks to to whispers from Midgard and Sarah
• 46:51
  for, for, for showing their kindness in the comments.
• 46:53
  So good, good, good on you there.
• 46:55
  Thanks for bringing that to our attention too.
• 46:57
  That's that's early. Nice to see these comments
• 46:59
  because I can't see them. But yeah, having that.
• 47:02
  Yeah, they're just flashing up. They're just like flashing where
• 47:04
  I see. Yeah, yeah.
• 47:06
  You know, and I don't want to ignore people because it's, you
• 47:09
  know, they may be on a device and stuff, but I'm, you know,
• 47:12
  like a phone, like a lot of you guys are.
• 47:14
  So maybe you don't see it, but I do want to acknowledge it.
• 47:16
  We do have a lot of comments that are coming up.
• 47:18
  So in between our conversation, I'm trying to moderate as best I
• 47:20
  can. Thank you, Randy.
• 47:22
  It is a nice plaque, Blake. I'm not sure if I took you 2 off
• 47:25
  track there with your next thought.
• 47:27
  Did you have something you were going to?
• 47:28
  Yeah, I. Was going to be I was I was
• 47:30
  going to say something to Patrick here about Haylong.
• 47:34
  My mom likes Haylong. Haylong.
• 47:37
  Does that introduce her to her? She she likes the whole, that
• 47:41
  whole vibe, that whole mentality that the, the chanting and stuff
• 47:46
  that she was listening to with me one time going down the car
• 47:48
  and she said this is actually pretty good that.
• 47:51
  Bad ass. And speaking and Speaking of hey
• 47:55
  Long, Yakov Loons, the drummer from How Long, is going to be in
• 48:00
  Huntsville in May. I'm so jealous and I hope to be
• 48:06
  there. I got the play for him last
• 48:08
  year, I got the play just by myself for him last year and
• 48:11
  that was a lot of pressure for me, but I hope I get to do that
• 48:15
  again. We're doing the same thing that
• 48:17
  we did for our All Star event last year.
• 48:19
  We're doing a like a belting event, been doing the whole
• 48:23
  drumming weekend thing and that's going to be so awesome.
• 48:26
  Now I'm going to be I, I get the day off of on the on the ninth
• 48:31
  for that Friday, that Friday. So I'm doing the whole weekend
• 48:34
  non-stop. So remind me again, have you
• 48:38
  been to one of his workshops before?
• 48:41
  Yes, last year. I'm extremely jazz, Jacob again,
• 48:47
  stick for a personal hand experience.
• 48:49
  Yeah, yeah. And not to showboat or brag or
• 48:52
  anything, but I've got to hang out with Hilo three times and
• 48:57
  they're very great people. Jacob, especially he They're all
• 49:01
  very down to earth. Oh yeah, to.
• 49:03
  Talk to and something. He's a big nerd.
• 49:06
  He's a big, he's a big music nerd as well.
• 49:08
  He'll talk about drones with you all day.
• 49:12
  And I'm actually the works that tried to work out a payment plan
• 49:16
  of sorts to buy one of his drones.
• 49:18
  And I just I would love him a little bit more to have one of
• 49:21
  his works Department of Practice.
• 49:23
  But again, going back to the highline I Could Talk by, Jesse
• 49:27
  knows this. Yeah, yeah.
• 49:30
  Well, the me and him, me and me and Blake here attended our our
• 49:35
  both of our first high lung rituals at the same time.
• 49:39
  Like I was my first and it was his first and we were at the
• 49:42
  same venue. Like we've been talking online
• 49:45
  back and forth for for how however long.
• 49:47
  And then the first time he and I met in person was at a high lung
• 49:51
  ritual at the same high lung. We're both our first time.
• 49:53
  So we we got our we got our proverbial cherries popped
• 49:56
  together. Yeah, I wish we we should have
• 49:59
  planned. I wish we had planned that out
• 50:00
  where we're just like sitting next to each other.
• 50:02
  I'll be kind of. I was going to ask that too.
• 50:04
  Like how far apart were you guys?
• 50:06
  He was behind me a bit. I was.
• 50:07
  I was. I mean how?
• 50:08
  About 3 rows. I like what what 4-5 rows behind
• 50:12
  you? I think so is this like Aga kind
• 50:15
  of thing or like what a side seating or what?
• 50:16
  Because I Jesse, forgive me if I asked you before, but the the.
• 50:21
  They had, they had a front, they had a front pit and it was like
• 50:24
  a amphitheater. All for.
• 50:26
  The rest of it leveled. It wasn't like elevated like a
• 50:28
  theater. Amphitheater yeah.
• 50:31
  So like every, every row behind you got higher and higher and
• 50:34
  higher as you got towards the back.
• 50:37
  So so I was, I was in the very last row before the pit, before
• 50:43
  the standing room. So I was as close to the stage
• 50:45
  as I could get without being in the standing room.
• 50:48
  And the only reason for that was my wife was there and and she
• 50:52
  she wanted to be comfortable. So being in the standing room
• 50:55
  only space which she couldn't sit was, was kind of out of the
• 50:59
  question. But I mean, I was, I mean, I
• 51:00
  could I could reach out almost and and touch the stage.
• 51:04
  I was the the standing room, not a.
• 51:06
  Bad view in that house. There was not a bad view in that
• 51:09
  place. No, no, not, not at all.
• 51:11
  That's special. That's special.
• 51:13
  And the sound was just amazing. It was like I was right next.
• 51:17
  I was right over the speaker, the the right speaker and I was
• 51:21
  feeling every beat of the drums just hitting me like I passed.
• 51:26
  I'm like, dude, this is awesome. I'm.
• 51:31
  Going to get. Caught up some little highlight
• 51:33
  birds here wearing out. Yeah, the shirts I bought when I
• 51:37
  first hung out them. Take away from.
• 51:41
  The street too much to talk about high lungs.
• 51:43
  But you guys both showed up with your high lung gear on?
• 51:46
  You did no. Show me again.
• 51:47
  I didn't see it. Show them Blake.
• 51:49
  This is a tour T-shirt from. Yeah, I got the same.
• 51:52
  I got the same shirt. Turn around, turn around, show
• 51:55
  on the back. It's got the oh.
• 51:59
  Hell yeah. Yeah.
• 52:01
  That's awesome. I.
• 52:02
  Think I think the back of my shirt has the tour dates on it.
• 52:05
  Yeah, same mine. I got that one as well.
• 52:08
  This is the same one. It has the same emblem on the
• 52:11
  back of my shirt. I think it does.
• 52:13
  Yeah. And Jesse and I, we have some
• 52:16
  special high lung encounters too.
• 52:19
  One artist part of the band or the tribe.
• 52:24
  Jesse made a few videos about this artist.
• 52:29
  And. I have the honor and privilege
• 52:31
  of undertaking something very special.
• 52:34
  So after hanging out the high lung, I believe it was my first
• 52:40
  or second time, but Mira Seti, you know, Jesse made some very
• 52:47
  awesome videos about a couple of her videos and she really loved
• 52:51
  it and appreciate it. And I have the honor of passing
• 52:54
  a message on to Jesse. And I think it was far the
• 53:00
  mountain, my first experience the there we go there it is.
• 53:09
  It's just so special. You know, he never got to meet
• 53:12
  the the person yet. But again, carrying that that
• 53:18
  journey and that undertaking was very beautiful.
• 53:23
  And to be in the position to carry on that was just beyond
• 53:26
  amazing. I wish I would have known.
• 53:29
  I would have been, I, I wasn't hanging out with the owner of
• 53:32
  the meter at the time before then, but if I was like I am
• 53:36
  now, I probably would have got to go gotten to go to the after
• 53:39
  party because they had it at the metering and I actually get to
• 53:43
  touch the artwork that Kai did on the wall of the metering in
• 53:47
  Huntsville. Yeah, Kai painted a whole
• 53:51
  freaking wall of the metering. Yeah, it's it's.
• 53:54
  The warriors, the warrior sail. Yeah.
• 53:56
  And it's very. And I was like, they better
• 54:02
  frame that or something with they leave if they ever leave
• 54:04
  that place out of the mill. Wall down and bring it with them
• 54:08
  or something. Damn, yeah.
• 54:10
  Well, they almost lost their spot.
• 54:12
  The meter almost lost their spot last year because they were
• 54:15
  their production, their. Yeah.
• 54:18
  Kind of low so they because the elevator situation they're
• 54:22
  fixing to get that fixed by the way, but they finally because
• 54:26
  they're me storage area is down below because the floors can't
• 54:32
  support the way the. That'll do it.
• 54:38
  All right, let me catch up on some comments.
• 54:39
  So none of my family's understanding it all of my
• 54:41
  heathen ways. I'm OK with that, though.
• 54:43
  Not only think that it sucks is none of them talk to me.
• 54:49
  This is Rebecca again. So, yeah, it, it's, it's not
• 54:52
  uncommon for, you know, to have that, that disconnect between
• 54:55
  family, especially when it comes to beliefs.
• 54:57
  It's, it's, it's a, it's a tough reality that a lot of us are
• 55:01
  facing. You know, Crystal Dawn says that
• 55:05
  they got a Bible from their grandmother every Christmas.
• 55:09
  And I give it away to people who want that type of thing.
• 55:13
  You know, I still have my, my great grandmother's Bible.
• 55:17
  I'll never get rid of that, that, that, that that's still a
• 55:19
  sacred family heirloom. You know what I mean?
• 55:23
  I I keep it, you know, I don't. It's, it's it's sacred because
• 55:28
  it's a family heirloom. My great grandmother was, was 98
• 55:31
  years old when she passed away and I still remember her.
• 55:35
  And, you know, so that's, yeah, exactly.
• 55:40
  It is to you. Yeah.
• 55:42
  And I heard it that you choose. To give it away to anyone who
• 55:45
  pursues that faith. I love that respect that you
• 55:48
  give someone who can appreciate. But all the same though, is me.
• 55:51
  I'm a sentimental person. Very, very sentimental.
• 55:55
  If my mom or my dad gives me something Catholic or Christian,
• 56:00
  I'll keep it very close to my altar.
• 56:02
  Yeah. It's just, it's I look past the
• 56:06
  practice, I see them as who they are.
• 56:10
  They love me, they care of me. It's just like we're going back
• 56:13
  to talk about prayers. Like I see many of my friends
• 56:17
  and family who ask for prayers and I do.
• 56:20
  So I'm like sending healing energy, sending love and light.
• 56:24
  And it's very loosely translated, but I'll say though
• 56:29
  we separate and our practice, but we unify and our struggles
• 56:36
  and our accomplishments. Yeah, I do the same thing as
• 56:40
  well as with my Reiki as well. I'll send Reiki to people that
• 56:44
  for that love and light and that energy.
• 56:48
  Sure. We've got a great question that
• 56:51
  Michael Thacker posted about 12 minutes ago.
• 56:54
  So Michael, if you're still watching, sorry that we got to
• 56:56
  this a little bit late, but he asks, do you guys believe that
• 57:01
  long distance can affect Frith negatively?
• 57:10
  May I? Patrick, yeah, you want to go
• 57:12
  first? Absolutely.
• 57:14
  In my personal experience, strictly based on that, no
• 57:20
  'cause Jesse, you don't go with this.
• 57:24
  Me and you, we live five hours and 30 minutes on a good day
• 57:28
  apart and we first met. We never met each other.
• 57:35
  I just saw you on YouTube again. I've told the story numerous
• 57:39
  times, but I don't get tired of saying it.
• 57:40
  It's this. I saw you, I experienced you,
• 57:44
  and then I got to know you. And for the longest time we
• 57:48
  didn't get to meet in person. But then Gosby praised 2021 or
• 57:53
  2022 arrived and I finally got to see you.
• 57:57
  And then the next year and then the next year is just.
• 58:02
  So yeah, again, to answer that, no, I don't believe so.
• 58:05
  But I could easily see how it could potentially damage.
• 58:10
  But also it's going back to the engagement with the individual
• 58:16
  and that could vary wildly. It's just like any relationship,
• 58:20
  be it spiritual, romantically, professionally, distance could
• 58:25
  easily very well play a role. But again, going back to the
• 58:29
  meat potatoes, from what I was trying to say, in my personal
• 58:32
  experience, no, I don't. And I'm very happy to say that.
• 58:35
  And you know, to show that. I'm going to bounce off of this
• 58:41
  one here and say that I I again, as Patrick here said that I
• 58:49
  don't believe that it does. It doesn't negatively affect
• 58:52
  Frith as long as you are able to put the work into it as both
• 58:56
  parties put into the work in that relationship over the
• 58:59
  distance. That's only when that's when it
• 59:02
  still remains the strongest. But if no other y'all just say
• 59:05
  we're going to our separate rate, we're we're going far away
• 59:10
  and then all of a sudden y'all don't talk to each other as
• 59:13
  often or don't talk to or speak to each other or write or call
• 59:18
  at least a few times. You know then that Friv can die.
• 59:26
  Yeah, I think I would. I would add to what you both
• 59:29
  have said with with the sentiment that distance is not a
• 59:37
  thing that can impact Frith just the same as closeness, right?
• 59:46
  So, so long distance, short distance, you know, the, the,
• 59:49
  the road between friends is, is frequently walked.
• 59:51
  You know what I mean? And there's there's something in
• 59:53
  the hall of mall about this where you know, long is the way
• 59:56
  and winding is the road. You know, you know, like that
• 1:00:00
  whole thing. But when it when it comes to
• 1:00:02
  Frith, right, First of all, it has to be established.
• 1:00:06
  With, with the understanding of what Frith really is.
• 1:00:11
  This is a hot topic at least in, in, in the, the local
• 1:00:14
  communities that I'm connected with.
• 1:00:17
  There's been stuff I think shared recently online about,
• 1:00:21
  oh, this is what I think Frith is.
• 1:00:22
  And I go, listen, Frith is what it is.
• 1:00:26
  It's not what you think it is. It's not what I think it is.
• 1:00:28
  It's not what he or she or they think it is.
• 1:00:30
  It is what it is. Let's stop with this, you know,
• 1:00:34
  let me, let me come up with my own idea of this.
• 1:00:36
  No, it is what it is. And what it is is this.
• 1:00:42
  Yeah, yeah. Understand what what what it
• 1:00:43
  meant in an, in an arch heathen or an old ways concept, right.
• 1:00:47
  Frith meant kinship. It meant inviolability, like
• 1:00:51
  sacred inviolability, reciprocal inviolability.
• 1:00:53
  I have to protect you because you're my kins person.
• 1:00:56
  You're my kinsman, my kinswoman. I have to be at your side.
• 1:00:59
  I have to protect you regardless of whether I like you or not.
• 1:01:03
  You are my kin and I am oath bound.
• 1:01:06
  I am, I am Frith bound with you. It it was more about security
• 1:01:10
  and protection than it was about love and peace and everything
• 1:01:13
  that people like to try and associate it with nowadays.
• 1:01:16
  So if the if, if the rudimentary and and by the way, if, if, if
• 1:01:20
  people are looking for an understanding of what Frith is,
• 1:01:23
  you have to there's no question. You have to read the culture of
• 1:01:27
  the tootens by by by by grown Beck Vilhelm Groenbeck, volumes
• 1:01:34
  one and two. You have to read it.
• 1:01:35
  It's it's fundamental reading. You have to read it.
• 1:01:38
  It's free if you if you Google it, there's APDF online.
• 1:01:40
  You can read it for free. You don't have to buy the
• 1:01:43
  culture of the Tutens. But if you want to understand
• 1:01:46
  what Frith is from a from a real Archie, then you know pre
• 1:01:51
  Christian dramatic person's worldview.
• 1:01:54
  That's essential reading. It's essential knowledge, but
• 1:01:57
  anyway, going back to like, it has to be established first and
• 1:02:00
  foremost. So once it's established, the
• 1:02:02
  distance doesn't really matter because your, your understanding
• 1:02:08
  of what Frith means doesn't. And that doesn't make a
• 1:02:12
  difference about what the distance is.
• 1:02:14
  You know, I'll make a way, I'll find a way to, to make good on
• 1:02:17
  my Frith with this person and their Frith with me like and,
• 1:02:20
  and, and it's reciprocal. You know, it's not a one way St.
• 1:02:25
  Yeah, it it's understood and it's realized and it's and it's
• 1:02:29
  a social construct that it that exists between people that are
• 1:02:33
  existing in a kinship relationship.
• 1:02:37
  So I don't think that it's yeah, I don't yeah, I don't Yeah,
• 1:02:39
  that's fine. I don't think that it's really
• 1:02:41
  distance bound or or not bound. I think that, you know, once
• 1:02:45
  it's established and it's and truly established that the
• 1:02:48
  distance doesn't make a negative or or whatever impact.
• 1:02:51
  So, yeah, go ahead, Patrick. And I want to say it will be
• 1:02:54
  tested. Sure, yeah.
• 1:02:56
  Long distance. Or short term, it's always going
• 1:02:59
  to be tested and what's important is going back to the
• 1:03:03
  roots and being real with yourself.
• 1:03:06
  And the other party will last. And those are questions you need
• 1:03:10
  to ask right away. But consider that like Jesse, in
• 1:03:14
  a way. Talk to one-on-one here.
• 1:03:17
  I'm very grateful we've met long distance because I feel like
• 1:03:21
  that was like the test, so to speak, like really seeing where
• 1:03:26
  this is going to go. Like we chatted for a little
• 1:03:29
  bit, became friends on Facebook, and then it just took a life of
• 1:03:33
  its own. And that's my personal opinion.
• 1:03:36
  It's the best way it could have gone, you know, from a distance.
• 1:03:39
  And though we live 5 1/2 hours away from each other distance, a
• 1:03:46
  lot of times, Jesse speaking one-on-one here again, is it
• 1:03:50
  feels like you live like 5 minutes away from me.
• 1:03:53
  A lot of the time. Your spirit is with me.
• 1:03:57
  And that's something that could be Avon sought after.
• 1:04:00
  But again, it has to be organic. And you can't chase after it.
• 1:04:05
  You can't pursue it too hard. It this meant to be?
• 1:04:07
  It's meant to be. Yeah, you have to nurture it,
• 1:04:10
  right? Like it like anything.
• 1:04:12
  Just like any plant or any kind of like relationship really.
• 1:04:15
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree. So let's see what else we got.
• 1:04:22
  Speaking of prayers, Rebecca Ferris is following up on
• 1:04:26
  prayers. Is there any way that I could
• 1:04:28
  get a prayer for my health? I haven't been feeling very well
• 1:04:33
  at all. I have vascular issues,
• 1:04:36
  seizures, and all week my body is just not having it.
• 1:04:41
  Thank you. If so, otherwise I'm just going
• 1:04:45
  to sit and listen Rebecca again, this is this is a comment that
• 1:04:50
  that Rebecca posted a little while ago.
• 1:04:54
  So I'm, I'm, it's probably about 15 minutes.
• 1:04:56
  So, Rebecca, if you're still here, thank you for, for this
• 1:05:00
  comment and thank you for, first of all, you know, kind of being
• 1:05:05
  vulnerable in, in, in this context, you know, I mean, we're
• 1:05:08
  here talking, we, we, we, we guys 3 here know each other, but
• 1:05:12
  we're also streaming live publicly.
• 1:05:14
  And you know, to come forth and to and to be vulnerable like
• 1:05:17
  this in this way is, is very courageous, I would say I.
• 1:05:22
  Respect them, Italy. Yeah.
• 1:05:24
  So whatever I can offer in, in, in, in, in, in terms of, you
• 1:05:32
  know, healing and, and comfort for you, for your
• 1:05:36
  courageousness, I, I would, I would be happy to, to send that.
• 1:05:46
  I'll light some Paula sounds out for her.
• 1:05:49
  Thank you, Patrick. And thank her for again, like
• 1:05:54
  Jessie said, having the courage to be vulnerable, feeling aware
• 1:05:58
  and feeling and feeling safe to share with us.
• 1:06:02
  I myself very humbled and very grateful to be part of this
• 1:06:07
  first live stream for Mick Art Musings, but also this being
• 1:06:11
  company with Blake, my brother Jesse and all of you guys
• 1:06:16
  participating. It is great and we've been going
• 1:06:20
  for an hour or so now. We're going to keep rolling.
• 1:06:22
  If if either one of you gentlemen need to drop or you
• 1:06:25
  want to drop it, by all means go right ahead.
• 1:06:29
  I'm going to keep trucking along here.
• 1:06:30
  We got a few more comments to go through.
• 1:06:31
  Thank you, Patrick for that. Crystal Dawn is responding, I
• 1:06:35
  think to to to Rebecca. It says, of course I will light
• 1:06:38
  some instance for you before I go to bed tonight and I hope
• 1:06:40
  that you feel better Say man, this is what I'm talking about
• 1:06:42
  guys and gals. I'll say, I'll say Reiki as well
• 1:06:45
  and. Everything.
• 1:06:46
  Thank you. Thank you, Blake.
• 1:06:50
  Actually, I'm actually in the process of doing it right now.
• 1:06:52
  I can do it like subconsciously that's.
• 1:06:56
  What's up? That's what's up, yeah, she
• 1:06:57
  says. I've also had a a mini stroke or
• 1:06:59
  two since last year. Tried my hardest not to let it
• 1:07:02
  get me down, even though I'm having a, or having to, to, to
• 1:07:07
  relearn a lot of the runes and such.
• 1:07:11
  And it stinks, but I'm getting them through slowly and surely.
• 1:07:15
  Rebecca, I got to give you props.
• 1:07:18
  The runes are a lifelong study anyway.
• 1:07:20
  And the runes are mysteries. You know, that's what rune
• 1:07:23
  means. Rune are our mysteries are, are
• 1:07:25
  these secrets, you know, so the symbols, the, the staves, the,
• 1:07:30
  the, the symbology, you know, whatever you want to call them
• 1:07:33
  are, are, yes, they, they are lessons.
• 1:07:35
  They are things to be learned and memorized and recited or
• 1:07:37
  whatever. It's a lot and and with the the
• 1:07:40
  attacks of of the mind that that a stroke can can, can impart the
• 1:07:47
  fact that you're still here and, and chatting with us and, and
• 1:07:50
  everything and being a part of this is a testament to the
• 1:07:53
  resilience of your spirit. So it's very good.
• 1:07:56
  You're on the right path. I just have to say this.
• 1:07:59
  I mean, despite what you're dealing with, again, I don't
• 1:08:03
  know you on a personal level by any means, but it just, you're
• 1:08:07
  doing good. You're doing fantastic.
• 1:08:10
  Face your feelings, embrace it and ask for help.
• 1:08:13
  It's a great step in the right direction.
• 1:08:16
  And again, not to sound like a record, but I'm very happy you
• 1:08:19
  feel safe and sharing that with us.
• 1:08:23
  It's it's very honorable. And I'll be doing my very best
• 1:08:27
  to keep your name and my heart and upon my altar this evening.
• 1:08:31
  And I wish you the very best. And thank you, gentlemen, for
• 1:08:36
  being so kind with your with your, with your words and with
• 1:08:40
  your thoughts. There's some back and forth, I
• 1:08:43
  think looking like with between Rebecca and Crystal about the
• 1:08:46
  Bibles. And they were, they were like
• 1:08:47
  dollar store, you know, or Dollar Tree fines or whatever.
• 1:08:51
  But let's see, Rebecca had a Russian neighbor from the old
• 1:08:56
  country, but she, her dad passed away, gave her Bible.
• 1:08:59
  Yeah. So, some more heirloom things.
• 1:09:04
  I'm going to hop off screen, but I'll be very much hearing what
• 1:09:07
  you're saying. Yeah, yeah, sure, man.
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  Do you think? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:09:10
  If it was something like that, yes, of course I would keep it.
• 1:09:12
  But the Dollar General Bible she gives me is hoping I'll convert
• 1:09:15
  back. Yeah.
• 1:09:16
  So there's intent behind those actions.
• 1:09:18
  You know, there's there's intention with, with getting
• 1:09:21
  something that is, is is not, you know, an heirloom or
• 1:09:24
  whatever. It's, it's it's it's got like an
• 1:09:26
  ulterior motive, right? Yeah.
• 1:09:28
  So I mean understanding that the spirit behind what is being done
• 1:09:31
  or the intention behinds what's being done.
• 1:09:34
  Crystal Dawn says, I'm glad that you explained what Frith was.
• 1:09:37
  I'm not heathen and was too embarrassed to ask.
• 1:09:40
  Listen, everybody that may be watching this, you know, I, I, I
• 1:09:43
  get we, we make it people that are not necessarily heathen.
• 1:09:47
  No question is a dumb question. Please feel free to ask.
• 1:09:51
  This is not this is not a space and this is not none of the
• 1:09:56
  people here are are going to shame you for for asking
• 1:09:59
  questions, myself included. If I have anybody on here that
• 1:10:03
  that tries to be that way, I'll I'll catch it real quick and
• 1:10:06
  I'll and I'll cut it down. So everybody here right now is
• 1:10:09
  just definitely not like that. So feel free to ask any
• 1:10:13
  questions that you may have. One of my guilty pleasures in
• 1:10:17
  life though is I would like to would actually just own a Bible
• 1:10:22
  like but it would be like like original Latin Bible like an old
• 1:10:25
  one. Oh, really?
• 1:10:28
  I would just just just to have on my bookshelf just that
• 1:10:31
  because I'm kind of I'm kind of like a book ward a little bit.
• 1:10:34
  Well, not as much, but I do like to get I collect books a little
• 1:10:38
  bit so. I see that.
• 1:10:42
  Yeah, I couldn't read the Latin, but even if I couldn't read it,
• 1:10:44
  I'll just be like, I have it there, you know, because.
• 1:10:49
  I could fake my way through. Some of those old Latin Bibles,
• 1:10:53
  they're so beautifully done. Oh, for sure.
• 1:10:56
  I mean, and they have like some have artwork in them.
• 1:11:00
  Oh yeah, You got to think like what was put into it, like the
• 1:11:02
  work that was put into. Oh yeah.
• 1:11:05
  Describe it in that calligraphy or the the artwork and
• 1:11:08
  everything it's beautiful. Just acknowledge Randy real
• 1:11:12
  quick says culture of the tootens is good.
• 1:11:13
  It's organized in a way that builds on itself, which makes it
• 1:11:18
  fairly easy to read. And when it comes to academia
• 1:11:20
  guys and gals, that I think is one of the biggest hurdles that
• 1:11:25
  people find hard getting over is the unreadability of academic
• 1:11:31
  work. It's so tedious and it's so
• 1:11:34
  uninteresting, right? Culture of the Tootens, as Randy
• 1:11:36
  points out again, it builds on itself.
• 1:11:39
  It is, it is, it is written in a way that that makes it easy for
• 1:11:43
  the non academic to to follow. So you know, essential reading
• 1:11:46
  aside, it's, you know, don't be deterred by the fact that it's 2
• 1:11:49
  volumes. Oh my God, I can't think about
• 1:11:53
  reading 2 pages or or let alone 2 volumes.
• 1:11:56
  It is, just Google it like you can find APDF online that that's
• 1:12:00
  free and scroll and you'll see just how readable it is.
• 1:12:05
  But it's hard to. It's hard to find the actual
• 1:12:06
  physical copy of that though. Last I checked I think Amazon
• 1:12:12
  had some copies, but I don't know what they're going for,
• 1:12:14
  what the prices are. A lot of times those academic
• 1:12:16
  works tend to run up the the the bank as it as it will as it
• 1:12:23
  will. Yeah, it's on my.
• 1:12:24
  It's also on my reading list as well, but I haven't gotten
• 1:12:27
  around to it. Let's see what else here.
• 1:12:32
  So Rebecca says after my last mini stroke I honestly forgot
• 1:12:35
  what Frith was. And thank you for explaining it.
• 1:12:38
  Well, I'm glad that you were here to be a part of the
• 1:12:42
  revisiting of that concept. It is a deep one as it were.
• 1:12:48
  What else we got here? If anyone who wants to add me,
• 1:12:51
  they always my kindred in my life near or far.
• 1:12:54
  So Rebecca's kind of putting it out here.
• 1:12:56
  Guys, please and everybody please, you know, when, when
• 1:12:59
  stuff like this is shared or posted, please be respectful of
• 1:13:02
  the person. I don't want people, you know,
• 1:13:04
  creeping on people for, for, for for unnecessary reasons.
• 1:13:08
  But when somebody says, hey, feel free to add me, they're
• 1:13:10
  doing so because they feel comfortable.
• 1:13:12
  So please be respectful when doing so.
• 1:13:14
  But the invitation is there. And Rebecca, I just want to
• 1:13:17
  interject here upon you, gentlemen, is my mental health
• 1:13:22
  Highland group. You know, Rebecca, you have a
• 1:13:24
  place here. If you see to join us, you're
• 1:13:27
  going to be among very great people, great, great friends of
• 1:13:30
  mine and mutual, you know, supporters if you feel so
• 1:13:35
  inclined. You're more than welcome in my
• 1:13:38
  group and you'll have the best intentions and support.
• 1:13:46
  Thank you, Patrick. I'll be sure to so so Patrick's
• 1:13:50
  group is what is it? What?
• 1:13:51
  I think you recently renamed it to Hylung Tribe.
• 1:13:56
  Hylung, what? Was it?
• 1:13:58
  I don't think I renamed just eight time recently, but it's
• 1:14:00
  the Hylung Metal Holes Sport group.
• 1:14:03
  OK, I'll, I'll I need. To rename it though, that's a
• 1:14:06
  great idea. It's a long one.
• 1:14:07
  Well, no, I don't think. I don't think it was.
• 1:14:09
  But anyway, yeah, I'll, if you guys are so Rebecca, you know,
• 1:14:14
  you're on my obviously you're watching on Facebook.
• 1:14:17
  I tagged the group. I tagged Patrick's group in my
• 1:14:19
  recent post announcing that he's that he's joining this live
• 1:14:24
  stream. So if you go to that post in the
• 1:14:25
  event, the live stream event, you'll find the tag group that
• 1:14:29
  he's talking about. Just send the request to join,
• 1:14:33
  answer the basic, very basic questions to to, to add, to be
• 1:14:36
  added. And yeah, you'll, you'll be,
• 1:14:38
  you'll be there. It is a great space.
• 1:14:41
  It is a safe space. A lot of good people there.
• 1:14:43
  Just it's also an admin of this group, so you're in good company
• 1:14:47
  right off the bat. Also for Rebecca that may not
• 1:14:51
  have seen we got some viewers on YouTube, Sarah O'Brien, one who
• 1:14:55
  says that they will pray for you and that hope that they hope
• 1:14:58
  that things improve, you know, for you.
• 1:15:02
  So you got folks across the platforms that are acknowledging
• 1:15:06
  this and coming together in solidarity for you.
• 1:15:10
  So she says, Rebecca says y'all got me crying in a good way.
• 1:15:13
  Thank you all for the support man.
• 1:15:14
  That's what that's what it's about man.
• 1:15:16
  You know what I'm saying? Build each other up there there.
• 1:15:19
  You know, there's there's too much destruction, there's too
• 1:15:22
  much, there's too many walls being put up everywhere.
• 1:15:26
  Let's build some bridges, guys and gals, right, Let's let's
• 1:15:29
  build those bridges like some instance for Rebecca too.
• 1:15:36
  Michael Thacker's is is joining in solidarity as well for
• 1:15:40
  Rebecca. Your ancestors watch over you.
• 1:15:42
  That's beautiful, you know, and, and a lot of times that's,
• 1:15:46
  that's, that's, that's what it takes.
• 1:15:48
  At least that's a start. You know to, to to know that
• 1:15:51
  people are that are there for you.
• 1:15:56
  You know the the the book Jesse mentioned has an excellent
• 1:15:59
  section on Frith as well. Yes, sorry guys, just catching
• 1:16:02
  up on comments. Rebecca's they'll be right back
• 1:16:07
  4 minutes ago. Crystal Dawn says I may not be
• 1:16:11
  Christian, but damn I love the art in old bibles and
• 1:16:14
  cathedrals. It's amazing.
• 1:16:16
  Look, you don't have to be. Christian to.
• 1:16:17
  Appreciate it. You know what I'm saying?
• 1:16:19
  Like that's just like, I don't have to be, you know, I'm a
• 1:16:24
  metal head, but but damn it, I appreciate the the the
• 1:16:27
  composition of some of of classical music and and and and
• 1:16:31
  opera. You know what I'm saying?
• 1:16:32
  Like I like the extreme music type sides of things, but I can
• 1:16:36
  appreciate talent and art when it when it.
• 1:16:39
  I was born and raised on bluegrass, so.
• 1:16:43
  So you. I can still play, I can still
• 1:16:45
  play bluegrass still. And I like know like nearly
• 1:16:48
  every song that I was taught and picked up so.
• 1:16:52
  Beauty is beauty. All right, Blake, let's.
• 1:16:54
  Hear it? Yeah, man.
• 1:16:55
  Pull out that banjo, man. You're talking about toggle harp
• 1:16:58
  this and toggle harp that and drum this and drum that.
• 1:17:00
  I want to hear that jaw harp and that banjo baby, you know?
• 1:17:03
  But upon that though. I have a banjo, but I have a
• 1:17:06
  guitar. Upon that, though, being raised
• 1:17:10
  from the Catholic, I'm very grateful for MyHeritage, my
• 1:17:14
  upbringing for a couple reasons. And one most important is
• 1:17:18
  something I respect about the Catholic faith, aside from the
• 1:17:22
  Christian faith. Again, personal observances here
• 1:17:25
  is with Catholics, they hold a high sense of reverence and the
• 1:17:30
  Catholic mass as a kid bored me to death, but as an adult and
• 1:17:37
  especially as a Pagan, it's that sense of reverence.
• 1:17:43
  Oh yeah, just like, OK, we're creating our sacred space.
• 1:17:47
  You have people create sacred face with fire, with
• 1:17:51
  frankincense, just saying, you know, but again, the Christians,
• 1:17:57
  again personal authorization. I I recently got a chance to
• 1:18:01
  attend a Catholic Mass. Yeah, that's true.
• 1:18:05
  I recently other other, you know, like again that's blaming
• 1:18:09
  that dissing, but other ones like, you know, dancing, playing
• 1:18:14
  the guitar and all that jazz like.
• 1:18:16
  The tambourine. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:18:17
  Like, no, no, we're good. We're good.
• 1:18:19
  I'm not. I hear a piece out.
• 1:18:21
  But like Catholic Mass though, it's like, OK, you come.
• 1:18:26
  As you are. I, I, I recently got a chance to
• 1:18:30
  by the way, Voodoo Viking says that some of the recent Amazon
• 1:18:34
  copies are going for around 30 bucks for for culture of the
• 1:18:38
  tootens, I believe. Well, thanks.
• 1:18:40
  That's not at all. Yeah.
• 1:18:42
  And there's John Deason. Great to see you too, John.
• 1:18:44
  John is a great fella here in the Middle Tennessee area.
• 1:18:48
  I believe he's he's kind of close to like the Dixon
• 1:18:51
  Clarksville, TN area. He's he's kind of up a further
• 1:18:54
  bit north of of me, but I've I've met him and and some of the
• 1:18:59
  my recent firewood, my campfirewood is thanks to Jon
• 1:19:02
  Deason here. So good seeing you here, Jon.
• 1:19:05
  Thanks for tuning in. But yeah, no, I, I did, I got a
• 1:19:08
  chance to recently attend a Catholic Mass because a friend
• 1:19:13
  of our family who has been very involved with just some, some
• 1:19:20
  recent inner family dealings, one of my wife's friends from
• 1:19:24
  high school, his grandmother had passed away and his mother, they
• 1:19:30
  are, they are, they are from Louisiana.
• 1:19:32
  But I mean, I'm talking they're, they are Cajun as fuck, right?
• 1:19:38
  No, no, no disrespect. But I mean, like his mom.
• 1:19:41
  It's, it's, you know, she, she, she's got that, that Louisiana
• 1:19:44
  Cajun thing going on with, with her accent.
• 1:19:47
  Yeah, man, just and, and their, they had invited us all to come
• 1:19:52
  to, to Mass one night. And it was, again, it wasn't a
• 1:19:58
  funeral, it wasn't awake, it wasn't anything like that.
• 1:20:00
  But they invited us to come to Mass and my wife had never been
• 1:20:04
  to Mass. My bonus kid had never been to
• 1:20:07
  Mass. They didn't know what they were
• 1:20:09
  in for. I had.
• 1:20:10
  And I said, listen, you're gonna, you're, this isn't like
• 1:20:12
  your normal Southern Baptist church.
• 1:20:15
  You're gonna be doing some work. You're gonna be sitting, you're
• 1:20:17
  gonna be kneeling, you're gonna be standing, you're gonna be
• 1:20:19
  kneeling, stands up, down, right.
• 1:20:23
  But man, like when, when they, when they start it all and when
• 1:20:25
  they go through the procession and you smell the frankincense
• 1:20:28
  in the cathedral. I mean, and, and you and you
• 1:20:31
  behold the ritual theater of what they're doing.
• 1:20:36
  It's, it's, it's I, I mean, like, like Patrick, what you
• 1:20:39
  said, you know, like it kind of tugs on your heart when
• 1:20:42
  especially viewing at it through a Pagan lens.
• 1:20:44
  Like This is why I've said for so long, like these Catholics
• 1:20:47
  like it, it's, it's paganism, but they're in denial because
• 1:20:52
  they're pagans in denial. They, they just, they just don't
• 1:20:55
  want to call it that, you know, praying to the paints, you're
• 1:20:57
  praying to the gods. OK, call it something else, but.
• 1:21:01
  Are they in denial or are they just confused?
• 1:21:04
  I mean, I don't know, like, I think they're, I think they're
• 1:21:06
  convicted. I think they're convicted enough
• 1:21:08
  to to say what they're saying. But I'm like, OK, well, if
• 1:21:10
  you're, if you're praying to the Saints, isn't that just another
• 1:21:12
  name for the gods because you got these different embodiments
• 1:21:15
  of divinity, You know, whatever. I don't know, I'm not trying to,
• 1:21:21
  but that was my whole thing. Like Catholics, they're just
• 1:21:23
  pagans in and out. Go to a Mass, attend the
• 1:21:26
  Catholic Mass and tell me differently.
• 1:21:30
  You know, everybody's opinions are different, but but hey, you
• 1:21:33
  know, it is what it is that that's my.
• 1:21:36
  See those? It's great to see those
• 1:21:39
  observations when you're in the my state to appreciate it again,
• 1:21:43
  twitch their own. You know, different strokes,
• 1:21:45
  different folks. We all see things differently,
• 1:21:47
  and that's what makes this universe very beautiful and
• 1:21:51
  challenging. Yeah.
• 1:21:54
  So Rebecca is in a kindred that is, I guess in Washington.
• 1:21:59
  It's called Odin's Peaks or Odin's.
• 1:22:02
  Yeah, Odin's Peak. They have a lot of outdoor
• 1:22:05
  activities, very heathen. Sacred Grove veneration is very
• 1:22:08
  heathen. So to be outdoors and to have
• 1:22:11
  sacred space held outdoors is a very heathen approach.
• 1:22:15
  But Sarah just can't get, can't do the cold.
• 1:22:18
  It's hard for me to get out. In general, I try to do what I
• 1:22:22
  can, but sometimes it feels like it's not enough.
• 1:22:26
  I love learning. It might be challenging, but if
• 1:22:30
  it's boring, it's no fun for me. Well, spice it up again, within
• 1:22:38
  reason, you know, this brainstorm, that thing kind of
• 1:22:42
  thing. Just think about it like there
• 1:22:44
  are ways that you could potentially help it.
• 1:22:47
  There isn't, there isn't anything that is not enough, you
• 1:22:51
  know, You know, double negative aside, everything.
• 1:22:58
  If, if you've done it in that moment, it's enough, It's
• 1:23:03
  acceptable. It's it's been put into the
• 1:23:07
  ether, it's there. I'd love that.
• 1:23:12
  Yeah, yeah. You come, you come, you come
• 1:23:15
  forth to do what you can with the best of what you got.
• 1:23:18
  You know, you give everything you got and if the, if the best
• 1:23:20
  is what you got is, hey, I can give you 5 minutes because my
• 1:23:24
  body, my, my, my joints, my, this, my, that I can't handle,
• 1:23:26
  but I'm gonna give you everything I got.
• 1:23:28
  And if all you've got is that, then, hey, that's what you've
• 1:23:32
  done. And, and I think the gods
• 1:23:34
  recognize that. I think your ancestors recognize
• 1:23:36
  that. I think everything that you go
• 1:23:38
  into with your spirit fully integrated, you know, you, you,
• 1:23:42
  you come to it with purity, you come to it with genuineness.
• 1:23:48
  You know, like it, it's going to show itself real quick.
• 1:23:52
  Just let Rebecca know. Sorry, Patrick, I'll let you
• 1:23:55
  chime in. So to answer your question,
• 1:23:57
  Rebecca, myself and Blake over here, Skaldick Works are on
• 1:24:02
  YouTube. Blake is a musician, so his
• 1:24:04
  channel is Skaldick Works. They're and, and, and my channel
• 1:24:10
  is Midgard Musings. Patrick doesn't have a channel
• 1:24:12
  on YouTube because he's not really putting content out here
• 1:24:16
  per SE in that fashion, at least not yet.
• 1:24:19
  So him, Blake and I, you know, we, we, we share content on our
• 1:24:24
  YouTube channels when and as we can.
• 1:24:26
  Patrick is primarily on Facebook, but hopefully then.
• 1:24:29
  I also I also have a secondary Facebook account as well we call
• 1:24:34
  Sacred Roots Holistic Services. Sacred Roots.
• 1:24:38
  Holistic Services. I think I've seen that before.
• 1:24:43
  Let me see if I can find it on here.
• 1:24:51
  It's, it's got a longer name than that, but it's.
• 1:24:53
  Let's see. Yeah, if you can't find it right
• 1:24:59
  now, yeah, go ahead and post it down in the comments if you can.
• 1:25:02
  Otherwise I'll add it to the post.
• 1:25:08
  Some well-being. Yeah.
• 1:25:12
  Is it on your link tree? Have you added it to your link
• 1:25:14
  tree or no? No, I was separately free for
• 1:25:18
  that. It's, yeah, Sacred roots,
• 1:25:20
  holistic service and spiritual guidance, actually.
• 1:25:28
  OK. And that's that's where I do all
• 1:25:29
  my my healing, my healing work and my room readings and stuff.
• 1:25:35
  OK, did you post it down below? Let me see, yeah.
• 1:25:43
  Edit to the comments if you want to to Blake.
• 1:25:45
  Otherwise, we'll we'll we'll add it later.
• 1:25:49
  Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll play here.
• 1:25:50
  It's. I'm on this.
• 1:25:58
  I don't have to. I don't have to find it.
• 1:25:59
  Let me see if. I can, that's OK.
• 1:26:02
  OK, so I did get me off. Yay.
• 1:26:05
  OK, there we go. I'm going to log into my
• 1:26:08
  Facebook here and we can see if I can find this.
• 1:26:11
  Awesome. What's up there?
• 1:26:13
  Kevin Dunn on Facebook just. Kevin Dunn.
• 1:26:17
  Yeah, Kevin. Kevin, come back.
• 1:26:22
  Come. Back it's like home alone, you
• 1:26:25
  know Kevin, what would you do to.
• 1:26:27
  A little jerk. He says I'm there with you
• 1:26:29
  Patrick. Kevin knows Patrick I guess.
• 1:26:32
  Or y'all know each other? Yep.
• 1:26:35
  A recovering Catholic, he says. He's got.
• 1:26:43
  Yeah, Buddha, Viking says. Raised Catholic and his father
• 1:26:50
  is in the Grand Knights of the Knights of Columbus down there
• 1:26:54
  in Louisiana. Great group.
• 1:26:56
  Yeah, they do good things. They really do recovering.
• 1:27:02
  I don't I don't know how to send this so.
• 1:27:06
  That's all right, man. If you put it, there's a comment
• 1:27:13
  section on on where we're where we're streaming from.
• 1:27:16
  If you couldn't. Find it by the tried.
• 1:27:20
  It's like so Mike, so while you're doing this, by the way,
• 1:27:23
  anybody that that's this will be this will be annotated in in the
• 1:27:27
  after show notes too. So Blake, you know, is
• 1:27:29
  mentioning the site or a page that that he does holistic
• 1:27:33
  healing room, Reiki room readings this and that it'll be
• 1:27:37
  it'll be shared after the the show as well, in case you miss
• 1:27:40
  it here in the the live stream. I'm gonna send it directly to
• 1:27:44
  you here. Paste.
• 1:27:45
  OK, there we go. Yep, I got it.
• 1:27:48
  I'll put it down here in just a second.
• 1:27:50
  Let me get to Michael Thacker's comment says.
• 1:27:54
  Hate to ask this on the current happy topic, but what symbolism
• 1:27:59
  should be avoided besides the obvious swastika?
• 1:28:05
  He's asking due to getting 2 tattoos a while back and them
• 1:28:10
  getting the wrong attention. Oh boy that's tough one.
• 1:28:17
  I like the toughness though. I like it.
• 1:28:19
  I like the toughness. What room what?
• 1:28:21
  What symbols should be avoided flat out?
• 1:28:27
  Anybody want to? I think I have.
• 1:28:29
  I think I have one in mind. It's the debris, Black sun.
• 1:28:34
  The black sun symbol, yes. Not to be confused with the with
• 1:28:38
  the Slavic sun wheel sun wheel Slavic symbol because the that's
• 1:28:42
  that's two different things. They may look similar, but they
• 1:28:45
  are not. Yeah.
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  The Black Sun? Yep.
• 1:28:49
  There's a lot more, there's a lot more little staves around
• 1:28:51
  that one around Black Sun than the the Slavic 1.
• 1:28:55
  Yep, you're good, Patrick. You just the foot in Othala.
• 1:29:05
  The foot, yes, the boots on the Othala room yeah.
• 1:29:08
  So Othala with a wing if it if it if it looks like it's got
• 1:29:11
  feet kicking off at the bottom stave XNA on the follow OA.
• 1:29:19
  Just go with a straight Othala. Don't do the Othala with wings
• 1:29:23
  or boots or whatever they call it.
• 1:29:25
  That's a big one. There's a.
• 1:29:26
  Five room. It has an axe like a canas.
• 1:29:34
  The camera's messing me up right now.
• 1:29:38
  You want to draw it? You got a paper I remember.
• 1:29:42
  What it looked like. I just know there's the X, and I
• 1:29:50
  regret even talking about it because I can't recall it, but
• 1:29:54
  it's originally it's a Catholic symbol for the reborn of Christ,
• 1:29:58
  but it looks very much like a fine rune and a certain aspect.
• 1:30:01
  So it's acts again, I have to share with you every time.
• 1:30:07
  But yeah, what is it called? Come to mind to a void.
• 1:30:13
  What is it called Reborn of Christ?
• 1:30:20
  I'm going to try to draw it here.
• 1:30:24
  Well. This this can take too long.
• 1:30:27
  That's. OK, I another one's called the
• 1:30:31
  the wolf's angle wolf's angle is is is basically a an Aquas rune.
• 1:30:39
  So the rune that has like that, it's a straight axis with with
• 1:30:46
  with one thing going this way and the other one going the
• 1:30:48
  other way. It's a wolf's angle, Wol FSANGEL
• 1:30:57
  wolf's angle and then a line going through the middle of it.
• 1:31:00
  That's a that's, that's a, that's one that's, you know, you
• 1:31:04
  shouldn't appropriate in, in in any sort of heathen context.
• 1:31:09
  It's not a heathen symbol. They they quote Adam Sandler's 8
• 1:31:13
  Crazy nights. That's a technical foul.
• 1:31:16
  Yeah, yeah, I would say like the S S bolts obviously like double
• 1:31:23
  solu, double Solu runes are are are clearly alt right, you know,
• 1:31:30
  fascist symbology. Unless you put unless you put
• 1:31:34
  them in something like like a meaning like between the couple
• 1:31:38
  characters. It's tough to, it's tough to
• 1:31:40
  though, because like even with the swastika, because the
• 1:31:42
  swastika is a sun wheel, it is a, it is a Hindu symbol.
• 1:31:46
  It. Predates what the Nazis
• 1:31:48
  appropriated it as. So let's just be real like it
• 1:31:51
  it, you know, but but if you put that on you, if you wear it,
• 1:31:54
  obviously people are going to. Well, there's also.
• 1:31:58
  There's also a version called the Three.
• 1:32:00
  The three fought is A33 sided version of that.
• 1:32:07
  Yeah. But I don't think that's, I
• 1:32:09
  think that's a little bit more less challenge challenged.
• 1:32:17
  It's tough when you talk about symbols, you know, because even
• 1:32:19
  the tee waz rune tears rune, the the tee waz rune has been
• 1:32:24
  appropriated by Nazis in the past and, and, and the algaes
• 1:32:29
  has been appropriated by Finland.
• 1:32:32
  You know what I mean? Like that's been appropriated as
• 1:32:34
  well. Like, but but like blatant
• 1:32:40
  misappropriations. Oh, the peace symbol.
• 1:32:46
  Yeah, you got algaes on a circle, but you, you put you,
• 1:32:49
  yeah, you put you, yeah, you put the peace symbol.
• 1:32:50
  Like you invert it and you've got the peace symbol, but you
• 1:32:53
  got algaes in a circle like. This is the opposite of peace in
• 1:32:57
  my personal opinion. You think so?
• 1:32:59
  Oh, I know. So my, again, personal
• 1:33:01
  experience, you know, UPGI think it is.
• 1:33:04
  It's just this is unified peace, you know, connected to the
• 1:33:10
  sacred. This again, as a teenager, as a
• 1:33:15
  kid. Oh, peace, man.
• 1:33:17
  Yeah. Now it's like no peace, little
• 1:33:20
  rocket peace. Yeah.
• 1:33:21
  Exactly. No.
• 1:33:22
  What? I found a weird word.
• 1:33:25
  I had a Christian person I used to go to a Bible school as a kid
• 1:33:30
  that my teacher there would say that the they turned the cross
• 1:33:35
  upside down and broken the arms. OK, there was like a form of
• 1:33:46
  satanic symbol or some of that. I'm like grief.
• 1:33:51
  Welcome to the South, people. They'll make anything satanic if
• 1:33:54
  they want to. Yeah.
• 1:33:57
  All right. So Crystal Dawn says maybe
• 1:34:00
  they'll attend one of the Saint Louis Basilica's masses someday
• 1:34:04
  just to see. I, I visited once and was in awe
• 1:34:08
  of the building. So a basilica, yes, that's
• 1:34:11
  that's obviously would be a a Catholic holy site and and the
• 1:34:17
  one in Saint Louis, the Saint Louis Basilica apparently has
• 1:34:20
  some pretty impressive architecture maybe or.
• 1:34:24
  I might have to go visit there. Yeah.
• 1:34:27
  There's there's one, there's one, I'm not sure if it's
• 1:34:29
  Catholic or what a church it is, but it's like the oldest church
• 1:34:33
  in downtown Charleston. And we, we were, we were on the
• 1:34:41
  bus tour. They were showing that as well.
• 1:34:43
  You could, you could. I don't.
• 1:34:44
  Not sure if we could got into it, but you can see that you
• 1:34:47
  were showing that they had the doors open where you can see
• 1:34:50
  straight to the to the back stained glass window.
• 1:34:53
  Yeah. There's a lot of.
• 1:34:59
  Oh, sorry. Go ahead, Blake.
• 1:35:01
  There's a lot of different denominational churches in
• 1:35:05
  downtown Charleston. Sure there are.
• 1:35:09
  It's a melting pot, Luna. Luna says that they're up there
• 1:35:12
  past their bedtime and but I must surrender to the Z's and
• 1:35:18
  goodnight, yes, goodnight to you Luna.
• 1:35:19
  Thank you for being. Here.
• 1:35:20
  In case we missed your comment, you get to watch this later.
• 1:35:24
  Thank you for being here. Let's see, let me Scroll down a
• 1:35:29
  little bit more if I can find it.
• 1:35:32
  Here we go, John, Jason says. Here in a second.
• 1:35:35
  Jesse. Jesse cracked the Catholic code.
• 1:35:38
  I don't know about that man, but you know, Patrick may have
• 1:35:45
  disappeared. Isn't St.
• 1:35:48
  Brigid and the Goddess Brigid. Brigid.
• 1:35:54
  Brigid. Yeah.
• 1:35:55
  Brigid. Or the sacred goddess of the
• 1:35:56
  goddess Brigid and the Saint Brigid the same entity.
• 1:36:00
  I can't. I can't.
• 1:36:02
  Say that's very complicated. I think I think they're based
• 1:36:11
  off the same, but. Maybe I I would have to come
• 1:36:17
  back and and and research. It more yeah, because I've heard
• 1:36:24
  of some, I have heard different wild stories about that one that
• 1:36:27
  I don't, I haven't dialed down into that rabbit hole yet.
• 1:36:32
  More to come on that Crystal Dawn.
• 1:36:34
  I'll, I'll try to maybe find a better answer for that.
• 1:36:38
  I don't. I can't say for sure.
• 1:36:40
  Names, you know, to, to say that that a name is is the same as
• 1:36:45
  another name is, is a stretch unless we have our historical
• 1:36:50
  documentation to to to to tie the two together.
• 1:36:53
  You know what I mean? And and you're, you're, you're
• 1:36:55
  asking about heathens here, a, you know, Celtic question.
• 1:37:02
  This is also true, you know, having, having the two names be
• 1:37:08
  similar, you know, Brigid as a goddess is, is not found in the
• 1:37:12
  Germanic pantheon or, or, or, or culture of things.
• 1:37:18
  Yeah, Rebecca went to an Episcopalian church once.
• 1:37:24
  They all started flopping around and speaking some weird some
• 1:37:32
  weird start and and speaking some weird language.
• 1:37:35
  I guess younger it it freaked me out.
• 1:37:38
  That doesn't sound Episcopalian. That sounds Pentecostal.
• 1:37:41
  But what do I know? I'm not an Episcopalian.
• 1:37:43
  Never have been to an Episcopalian service.
• 1:37:45
  But but but speaking in tongues seems seems very Pentecostal.
• 1:37:51
  Yeah, Voodoo Vikings says you don't say that to Catholics.
• 1:37:57
  It don't end well. Oh, yeah, being being pagan's in
• 1:38:02
  denial. Yeah.
• 1:38:04
  I say it loosely. I'm not trying to stir any
• 1:38:06
  feathers. Well, or maybe I am.
• 1:38:10
  Maria. Maria bakes to venerate.
• 1:38:15
  OK. Oh, Maria, that's that.
• 1:38:17
  That's Randy's Randy's life. Randy's significant other.
• 1:38:21
  Maria bakes to venerate. Hey, welcome back, Patrick.
• 1:38:23
  Good to have you back. Yes, Maria Morrow bakes to
• 1:38:27
  venerate. Can't beat fresh bread, man.
• 1:38:32
  I'll tell you what, you really can't.
• 1:38:34
  You cannot beat fresh. Bread.
• 1:38:35
  Absolutely. Let me tell you, I will.
• 1:38:38
  I will show up to your house ready to to do anything you ask
• 1:38:42
  me if I smell freshly baked carbs in out of coming out of
• 1:38:46
  your window. You can, you can, you can.
• 1:38:48
  You can beat it when you before you before it's baked.
• 1:38:52
  Yeah, they said. They said that baking is
• 1:38:55
  venerating. Is baking.
• 1:38:57
  Sorry, baking is venerating the gods to be baked.
• 1:39:02
  Is that venerating the gods too? Or are we talking about two
• 1:39:05
  different things? What kind of are we talking
• 1:39:06
  about? That's what I'm saying.
• 1:39:07
  Are we, what are we talking about here?
• 1:39:09
  Are we baking bread or what are we baking over here?
• 1:39:11
  No, I I know what you're saying, Crystal.
• 1:39:13
  I know what you're saying, Crystal.
• 1:39:14
  Don. Yes.
• 1:39:16
  Because here's the thing. When when you get into the
• 1:39:19
  kitchen, when you put ingredients together in a bowl
• 1:39:23
  or a pan or this or that, right? What are you doing?
• 1:39:27
  It's alchemy. You're you're mixing elements.
• 1:39:29
  It's magic people. It's you, you're, you're, you're
• 1:39:33
  conducting a a spell when you when you put this together and
• 1:39:37
  that together and boom, what happens?
• 1:39:38
  You, you, you, you create something out of base elements.
• 1:39:43
  It it is it's magic and so. And some of the same spices and
• 1:39:47
  and herbs are are used in baking and cooking are actually used
• 1:39:51
  also in herbal remedies. Rosemary.
• 1:39:56
  Sure. I know.
• 1:39:58
  I know of a the woman who my Reiki teacher, my Reiki master,
• 1:40:03
  she runs a apothecary and tea shop here locally in town that
• 1:40:09
  also has sells like crystals and all the other wee, wee stuff.
• 1:40:13
  But yeah. And a lot of these ingredients
• 1:40:17
  have terpenes. If anyone who enjoys cannabis
• 1:40:22
  offers very healing properties. And that's outside cannabis too.
• 1:40:27
  You know, you have different, you know, foods, different
• 1:40:31
  plants that offer healing properties like lavender.
• 1:40:35
  It's wonderful for sleeping, relaxing, you have basil, you
• 1:40:42
  have time, you have multiple different things that so many
• 1:40:45
  purposes too. It's it's very pitiful.
• 1:40:47
  And baking. Again, hats off to anyone who's
• 1:40:50
  baking. I can't just.
• 1:40:53
  Save my own life. But that is a that is a
• 1:40:56
  dedicated. It's a size.
• 1:40:58
  Really. It really.
• 1:40:59
  Is yeah, in a way I can, I can, I can mean I can whip a mean
• 1:41:02
  thing. I can, I can whip up a mean dish
• 1:41:04
  in the in the kitchen. I can't bake to save.
• 1:41:06
  My like some scrambled eggs with the Worcestershire sauce maybe?
• 1:41:10
  Perhaps. Yeah.
• 1:41:11
  Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
• 1:41:12
  I'll give you some Gordon Ramsay level scrambled eggs, baby, You
• 1:41:15
  know what I'm saying? Don't ask me to bake cookies
• 1:41:18
  because I'll bake you a cookie. I'll put, I'll put.
• 1:41:20
  Instead of 12 cookies, you'll have one giant sheet pan of a
• 1:41:22
  cookie that you'll have to eat. So like Brownie?
• 1:41:26
  Cookie Cake. I can make, I can make a mean
• 1:41:29
  pork Stew. I can make a mean pork Stew.
• 1:41:32
  And that's what we've we've kind of dubbed that artificial yellow
• 1:41:36
  bloat kind of dish. OK.
• 1:41:40
  Because it turned out what so well, the first year I was like,
• 1:41:44
  well, we're doing this again next year.
• 1:41:45
  But we did not end up doing it again next year, this year
• 1:41:48
  because we we have the finances, of course, but you know.
• 1:41:53
  Sure, sure. Well, Rebecca's asking that, she
• 1:41:56
  says I got to write these down or I'll forget the time I go to
• 1:41:59
  look. Unless someone can message it to
• 1:42:01
  me. Rebecca yeah, this, this, this,
• 1:42:04
  this live stream is is recorded. You can rewatch it.
• 1:42:06
  But if it makes it easier for you, if you want to, I'll just
• 1:42:11
  put my information out here. If anybody wants to reach out to
• 1:42:14
  me directly and ask a question, emailing me is the best way.
• 1:42:18
  So my e-mail address is midgard.musings.tn.liketennesseesomidgardmusingstn@gmail.com.
• 1:42:31
  Or you can DM me on my socials, you know, so I have a Facebook
• 1:42:34
  page. Obviously you're watching this
• 1:42:35
  on. I have my YouTube channel, but
• 1:42:37
  my, my link tree link is posted. So all of my socials are linked
• 1:42:39
  there. If you want to DM me on my
• 1:42:41
  socials, that's fine. But my, my preferred method of
• 1:42:45
  contact is, is to e-mail me midgardmusingstn@gmail.com.
• 1:42:50
  Ask me anything. If you're looking for something
• 1:42:52
  that you don't want to, you know, just say, hey, there was
• 1:42:54
  something we were talking about on this live stream and and I'm
• 1:42:57
  looking for information about XYZ.
• 1:43:00
  I mean, I get back to you right away.
• 1:43:02
  May take me a day or two to get back to you, but I will respond.
• 1:43:05
  So there is that. Also, Rebecca has a joke.
• 1:43:14
  Why do people in Greece like waking up at dawn?
• 1:43:17
  Why do they don't? Cause dawn is tough on Greece.
• 1:43:25
  Get out of here. Come on, get out of here.
• 1:43:28
  Damn it. Dang it.
• 1:43:37
  Oh, goodness. That's good, Rebecca.
• 1:43:38
  That was great. Jesse, tell the wife you sharp
• 1:43:41
  good there today. Oh, OK, I like.
• 1:43:43
  That. One, so this, this is one if
• 1:43:47
  you, if, if you're dramatic heathen, you know, there's a,
• 1:43:50
  there's another name for the spirits of, of the land and it's
• 1:43:56
  white and it's spelled Wight. But it sounds like you're saying
• 1:44:01
  the, the, the, the color, the absence of color white, but it's
• 1:44:04
  white. So another name for, for the
• 1:44:06
  dramatic spirit of, of anything is white.
• 1:44:09
  So land White, House White, you know, and, and the joke was,
• 1:44:13
  what do you call a heathen who thinks that the land spirits are
• 1:44:19
  above the gods? Blake, what do you call those?
• 1:44:26
  Any idea? Sorry I I was doing something.
• 1:44:31
  Else oh so so so so so. What do you call a heathen who
• 1:44:34
  thinks that the land spirits are above the gods?
• 1:44:43
  I do not know about that. 10 White surprised.
• 1:44:47
  Oh, oh, that's, that's, that's funny.
• 1:44:53
  I didn't keep that. Beautiful.
• 1:44:56
  Yeah. Mike Glass just broke.
• 1:44:57
  So about sight, we're like a broke try.
• 1:45:01
  Yeah. You're ready.
• 1:45:02
  So dude, what the heck you doing over there?
• 1:45:05
  We're just live streaming over here.
• 1:45:07
  Yeah, last like. Three weeks.
• 1:45:09
  This ain't that serious, my guy. What average?
• 1:45:12
  They they don't make him like they used to.
• 1:45:13
  I could hate. That though, they don't.
• 1:45:17
  Booty Viking asks. We all should.
• 1:45:19
  Should all of us recovering Catholics start a group of our
• 1:45:21
  own? I don't know sure why not.
• 1:45:24
  Why don't you? Why don't you start one voodoo
• 1:45:25
  Viking? If I.
• 1:45:28
  Cathaholics Anonymous kid. I love that heck.
• 1:45:34
  Dude Blake showing up clutch with the with the with the with
• 1:45:37
  that man. Alcoholics Anonymous.
• 1:45:40
  Alcoholics. Anonymous for 12 years.
• 1:45:44
  Years all right Bad. Golly, Michael Thacker says this
• 1:45:50
  is this has gone back to one of his his things about symbols.
• 1:45:53
  He says, for the record, I got a Volknut and Horns of Odin, the
• 1:45:57
  Triskelion like the like the like I.
• 1:46:00
  I have the horn triskelion as well over my mule near.
• 1:46:03
  I show that to you the last in the last episode.
• 1:46:05
  Yeah, and I have a Volknut on my chest.
• 1:46:07
  I I get like the Volknut can like OK, so we we know that the
• 1:46:12
  Volcan it's been it it appears on some rune stones.
• 1:46:18
  You know, whether it's inherently heathen, old ways,
• 1:46:20
  heathen, pre Christian or not, but but I have a valk nut on my
• 1:46:24
  chest. I'm I'm not ashamed to say it
• 1:46:27
  was my devotion. It was my dedication to Odin.
• 1:46:30
  Now that comes with its own thing and that's that's a that's
• 1:46:34
  a that's a conversation for another's time.
• 1:46:35
  I'm. Very, very wayward about that
• 1:46:38
  because as something I will have to say, do deep research before
• 1:46:41
  I did that. Yeah, well, I did research and I
• 1:46:46
  and I committed and I and I, I'm, I'm in it now.
• 1:46:49
  So it's, you know, it is. Yeah, that's the reason why I'm
• 1:46:53
  very careful about the symbols I put on my body.
• 1:46:57
  Rebecca says that they have runes on their chest that say
• 1:47:02
  truth, runes on your chest that say truth.
• 1:47:06
  So I'm assuming we're talking about runic characters that
• 1:47:09
  spell out the word for truth. Perhaps they get crap all the
• 1:47:15
  time for it. Or even if my hammer is showing,
• 1:47:18
  I get yelled at for being Aryan Nation.
• 1:47:25
  Wow. So I just reply to them to go
• 1:47:27
  read a book and educate themselves.
• 1:47:30
  I think that this is very indicative of the area that a
• 1:47:34
  lot of people are in. This, this is this is an example
• 1:47:36
  of why in North America, at least in the United States
• 1:47:40
  specifically, not every place is as accepting or as welcoming to
• 1:47:47
  symbols as others. Clearly in Washington.
• 1:47:50
  Or as now. Or as knowledgeable or, or
• 1:47:53
  whatever, I mean like perfect, like to, to have runes carved on
• 1:47:57
  you or to have a, a, a, a, a mule near carrying like have it
• 1:48:02
  on your body to, to, to, to have it be related as, as something
• 1:48:07
  of, of an alt right hate group is unfortunate.
• 1:48:12
  It's it's the reality in some places, but it's unfortunate.
• 1:48:15
  And I'm sorry that you're having to go through that, Rebecca.
• 1:48:18
  It is because unfortunately with this day and age prior to the
• 1:48:24
  origins of the ruins, Yeah, again, going back to Naz
• 1:48:30
  Germany. I've been watching
• 1:48:32
  documentaries. Can't explain why but I realized
• 1:48:38
  I was like oh very much off topic there but it's fine.
• 1:48:41
  It's not. Only actually on topic.
• 1:48:44
  It's just. Hank Booty was, you know.
• 1:48:48
  Christian and well, sorry Catholic.
• 1:48:52
  I was trying to appease Catholic churches and his endeavor I
• 1:48:58
  guess, but was very much uttering paganism at the same
• 1:49:04
  time. Well, he also, he also, he also
• 1:49:09
  had a lot of the influences of Guido von List, who was an
• 1:49:14
  occultist. So you have the Armanden runes
• 1:49:18
  that, that Guido von List. And that's a whole thing in and
• 1:49:23
  of itself. If you want to look at the
• 1:49:24
  history of, of what Guido von List discovered through dreams
• 1:49:29
  and through ecstatic states of, of this and that and his whole
• 1:49:32
  runic system, it is a mind blowing discovery.
• 1:49:37
  If you want to go down that route to say that the Nazis were
• 1:49:40
  socialists and that they were, you know, on the, on, on the,
• 1:49:43
  the far left. I, I, I don't, I don't use this
• 1:49:47
  platform to discuss semantics of, of political agendas and
• 1:49:51
  things. So I'm just going to leave your
• 1:49:52
  opinion at that Voodoo Viking. And we can discuss it offline
• 1:49:57
  privately if you want to, but I'm not going to, I'm not going
• 1:50:00
  to, I'm not going to go down that path just for the sake of,
• 1:50:04
  of everyone's audience. Jon has a Raven tattooed, I
• 1:50:10
  guess they always get looked down on when it's shown why it's
• 1:50:14
  a bird or birds. Like why, why, why would a Raven
• 1:50:18
  be looked down upon? There is always a time to
• 1:50:20
  educate after I explain my beliefs like, you know, like,
• 1:50:23
  like what, what what is wrong with people that you're going to
• 1:50:25
  put some sort of derogatory negative twist on a spirit of
• 1:50:31
  nature like a freaking bird. At the very least it's a bird.
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  Like come on. Like get.
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  Well, maybe they're not. Maybe they're not looking down
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  upon them for the image, but for the tattoo itself.
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  That's what I mean. Maybe, maybe, maybe just.
• 1:50:51
  Yeah, just like we live in the South, in the South, a lot of
• 1:50:56
  people here are just so diehard. They're admit that they look as.
• 1:51:01
  Yeah, yeah, people with tattoos, like, oh, you're going to hell.
• 1:51:04
  Whatever. OK.
• 1:51:05
  Oh, yeah. All right.
• 1:51:06
  Crystal Dawn, thank you. You have to go to.
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  It's past your bedtime. I know it is late.
• 1:51:10
  And for those of you hanging around chilling out, you know,
• 1:51:13
  Blake and and Patrick, thank you all.
• 1:51:15
  Wish you the best, too. There.
• 1:51:17
  Crystal Dawn, thank you for being here.
• 1:51:20
  Let's get Patrick back on here. There he is.
• 1:51:23
  Oh, my God damn. That's all right.
• 1:51:27
  And then we got Kevin that says Latin Mass will make you feel
• 1:51:32
  like you're in a time machine. Catholic Mass does it.
• 1:51:36
  It kind of puts you in a state of mind that recalls, you know,
• 1:51:41
  something of, of an ancient or, or older way.
• 1:51:45
  Like I could, I could agree with that.
• 1:51:48
  Well, certainly without a doubt, yeah.
• 1:51:50
  Voodoo Viking says that the peace symbol is the flag symbol
• 1:51:54
  for nuclear deterrence. Yeah, given, given the fact of
• 1:52:02
  when it rose. Reading that.
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  Yeah, I mean, like I said, you know, like it when it happened,
• 1:52:10
  like when, when the peace symbol, when the peace, when,
• 1:52:12
  when it, when it, you know, look at what was happening in the
• 1:52:16
  country, look at what was happening in the world.
• 1:52:18
  It was, it was, it was iconic. You know, So to, to, to, to use
• 1:52:22
  that symbol and to make it a thing, appropriate it maybe for
• 1:52:27
  their own vision, I guess. Could be.
• 1:52:32
  Oh, Jesus. Wow.
• 1:52:33
  Yeah. OK, let me read this one.
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  So Rebecca Ferris says, to be honest, I left the Skinhead
• 1:52:39
  movement 20 years ago and had waited 20 years to get bolts
• 1:52:45
  covered. I was young and, well, didn't
• 1:52:49
  really know what I was getting into at first.
• 1:52:52
  When my mother before she passed away, she told me to read a book
• 1:52:58
  and educate myself. Long story short, I did.
• 1:53:02
  Then I cussed a few of the skinheads out before I left the
• 1:53:06
  group. Best choice I ever made.
• 1:53:09
  Then I started studying the runes and old ways and learned a
• 1:53:12
  lot. I gave my kids, who are now 25
• 1:53:15
  and 23, the choice of a youth group at a Baptist Church or
• 1:53:22
  study heathen ways. My kids are smart, so they
• 1:53:25
  studied both for a long while. Then when they were ready, they
• 1:53:30
  both chose the heathen path. I also just found out I'm going
• 1:53:36
  to be a grandma of twins. Congrats.
• 1:53:39
  Wow, that's amazing, Rebecca. You know, we all, we, we, we do,
• 1:53:44
  we make decisions sometimes in our youth through influence of
• 1:53:49
  others, through, through informed visions of, of, of
• 1:53:52
  things at the time, you know, and we have to go back, we have
• 1:53:54
  to, you know, revisit those, those things.
• 1:53:56
  And it sounds like you did so, so good on you for realizing,
• 1:54:02
  hey, man, this was not a good move, you know, and then giving
• 1:54:06
  your children and future generations a chance to learn on
• 1:54:13
  their own right, be informed and, and, and find their own
• 1:54:16
  way. So that's great.
• 1:54:23
  Voodoo Viking says Catholics took took.
• 1:54:29
  I think this may be back to the Brigid, Brigid Brigid comment.
• 1:54:33
  Yeah, yeah, one of the same because the Catholics took her
• 1:54:35
  as a form of conversion of the people.
• 1:54:37
  That tracks. You know that that's that makes
• 1:54:40
  sense. What did Kevin say when you when
• 1:54:45
  was your heathen baptism? When did you guys decide to
• 1:54:52
  become heathen? That's a great question, Kevin.
• 1:54:56
  Thank you for asking. I know it's 17 minutes ago, so
• 1:54:59
  maybe you're still here. I'm trying to catch up on
• 1:55:04
  comments. There he is.
• 1:55:05
  I just so so when was when you know, so you guys here like
• 1:55:12
  let's let's reflect a little bit.
• 1:55:13
  I'm trying to catch up on comments.
• 1:55:15
  These are almost 20 minutes old. When was your heathen quote UN
• 1:55:18
  quote baptism? When did you guys decide to
• 1:55:22
  become even? Who's going first?
• 1:55:30
  Blake. OK, I was waiting for everybody
• 1:55:35
  else to start, but. I was going to start, buddy.
• 1:55:38
  All right. Yeah, yeah, I was.
• 1:55:41
  I didn't want to be the first, the first one to suggest so.
• 1:55:44
  But since Jesse's the maestro here, my first time, I've
• 1:55:52
  explained, I've probably explained this once before on
• 1:55:54
  this channel or the podcast that I kind of followed the Barossa
• 1:56:01
  true path for a while. Kind of like, you know, I grew.
• 1:56:06
  Up. Yeah, many, many moves ago, I
• 1:56:12
  was listening to, I, I listened to, I was listening to.
• 1:56:15
  I still do listen to Aman. Marth got me into there.
• 1:56:22
  Then I watched a bit of the show Vikings, which I never did
• 1:56:25
  complete. By the way, the whole what I
• 1:56:29
  I've I've left it at season 3 for some reason that I haven't
• 1:56:33
  come season one season 3. Yeah, yeah, the, the first
• 1:56:42
  original season, the I've at season 3 I've, I have or, or I
• 1:56:48
  kind of like dipped out after that season.
• 1:56:52
  OK. So it was like going to season 4
• 1:56:56
  and I just hadn't caught back up.
• 1:56:58
  And so that kind of got me into interested into things as well.
• 1:57:05
  Then I started reading more into it and I was like, OK, this is
• 1:57:09
  pretty decent religion here. But for about 5 years, I guess
• 1:57:15
  it was from 2013 to to 2020, twenty, that I was like not
• 1:57:22
  inactive, I was inactive. I was just like saying,
• 1:57:25
  declaring that I was Pagan. And then 2020 is when I started
• 1:57:30
  really buckling down, looking inward and following the path.
• 1:57:34
  That's when I started doing my research, doing the reading,
• 1:57:38
  going to my first bloats and then getting involved in the
• 1:57:45
  community and stuff. And then here I am today.
• 1:57:51
  So very, very short. OK, well, here you are today
• 1:57:58
  doing some great things, talking with us here on the podcast.
• 1:58:01
  Thanks for sharing that your your origins, as it were.
• 1:58:05
  Patrick, you go next. I would go next but Wi-Fi is
• 1:58:10
  being very messed up right now. I thought any given moment I'm
• 1:58:15
  going to get kicked off from the live again so I'm scared to say
• 1:58:19
  anything. Well, you better hurry up then,
• 1:58:21
  damn it. All right.
• 1:58:22
  Damn it can't see the video it's.
• 1:58:25
  Not the same right now all. Right, all right, here we go.
• 1:58:29
  Here we go. Loki, show the fuck out.
• 1:58:33
  But anyways, so me me Patrick. Right on cue.
• 1:58:48
  Right the fuck on cue. Right the fuck on cue.
• 1:58:52
  He had to say it. He had to say look, he had to.
• 1:58:54
  I was out laughing over here. Nope.
• 1:58:57
  Geeks things, man. I mean, I'm laughing over here,
• 1:59:00
  but I'm also. But you said OK, right?
• 1:59:05
  Right. Yeah.
• 1:59:07
  It's just, it's just, it's funny, Kevin, I, I started off
• 1:59:14
  almost 10 years ago as a heathen.
• 1:59:17
  I, I, I've, I've had a Mulnar tattooed on my arm for, for
• 1:59:21
  almost 20 years before, since before I was heathen.
• 1:59:26
  But I, I, I found the heathen path right around the time when
• 1:59:29
  Vikings came out. I, I saw that there was pop
• 1:59:32
  culture that was putting attention to the whole thing.
• 1:59:37
  My ancestry is, is deeply rooted in, in, in Germanic.
• 1:59:42
  I, you know what, Patrick? You know what?
• 1:59:45
  You say the name, you say the name.
• 1:59:47
  And I and I go. You listen.
• 1:59:49
  You, you, you got to wonder. You got to, you got to go
• 1:59:51
  listen, you know, all right. We'll have the time, we'll have
• 1:59:55
  the chance. Get answer the question.
• 1:59:57
  Don't say the L word. Don't say good.
• 2:00:04
  Crash course here, but being born the way it was the way.
• 2:00:11
  I am what awesome and all. Thank you.
• 2:00:15
  It's just different, yes and awesome, without a doubt.
• 2:00:18
  But it's a very great question. It takes great time and energy
• 2:00:27
  to answer SO and do my best in this circumstance, but I've
• 2:00:34
  always been aware of something sacred, something meaningful.
• 2:00:40
  And not to play a pity card, but being born the way I am, more or
• 2:00:47
  less I can't accept it. I've been forced into this
• 2:00:51
  predicament. I never wanted to be in this
• 2:00:55
  situation but I've been given it and I'm doing my best.
• 2:00:58
  So anyways, this is my train of thought now.
• 2:01:12
  Yeah, what made you decide to go heathen?
• 2:01:14
  Thank you is my draw and pull to the sacred and that's this earth
• 2:01:25
  mother yard. The things we don't have to
• 2:01:30
  question or understand, they're provide to us, they offer what
• 2:01:39
  they do indiscriminately and that goes just as well as our
• 2:01:46
  well many friends and family members.
• 2:01:55
  So I. Poor fella.
• 2:02:04
  It's one of those nights. Yeah, Yeah.
• 2:02:06
  Just to answer your question there, Kevin, you know, I, I, I
• 2:02:11
  was in a, in a time in my life about a decade ago where, you
• 2:02:16
  know, my, my, my life lessons, everything that I was brought up
• 2:02:22
  in. I was, I was in a space or in a
• 2:02:25
  time where I was questioning a lot of things.
• 2:02:28
  The, the, the life, the path of my ancestors came to me through
• 2:02:32
  pop culture at the time, but it was, it was a seed.
• 2:02:34
  It was a seed that got planted and it forced me to investigate
• 2:02:38
  and learn more and and realize what the reality of this path
• 2:02:44
  was that it wasn't. The Internet gods do not agree
• 2:02:48
  with you, right? Now, but I'm bouncing back and
• 2:02:51
  forth, man. I'm like, all right, when he,
• 2:02:52
  when he drops off Dylan, you know it.
• 2:02:54
  Works out so thank you. But all my life I've been a
• 2:02:59
  black sheep and saying that I questioned things.
• 2:03:04
  I thought there's a greater purpose, a greater pool, a
• 2:03:07
  greater gravitation to each unique individual as who we are.
• 2:03:14
  So respectfully, I was raised as a Roman Catholic and then middle
• 2:03:20
  school, high school, started questioning things, advocating
• 2:03:22
  the Satanists. Well, terminology is very loose
• 2:03:26
  there. Jesse, I told you about this a
• 2:03:29
  few times, but I'll classify it as a spiritual Satanist.
• 2:03:33
  And ultimately though, that's what led me to the gods, cause
• 2:03:37
  spiritual Satanism wasn't about Satan, it was about Lucifer.
• 2:03:44
  It was about other archetypes. You know the Greek gods, you
• 2:03:48
  know the Roman gods, the Pagan gods, all the Mesopotamian gods,
• 2:03:53
  the cradle civilization before the world started.
• 2:03:57
  And that's where my heart truly lies, is before these became
• 2:04:02
  truly organized. And a lot of that can.
• 2:04:07
  So as myself, I've been born different before these became
• 2:04:11
  organized, but I'm still in that commercial state of developing
• 2:04:16
  and understanding myself. In fact, that really can
• 2:04:19
  coincide with a lot of us today and the past and the future.
• 2:04:24
  We're trying to figure things out.
• 2:04:26
  I try to figure myself out like, why was I Born This Way?
• 2:04:30
  Why is this happening the way it is?
• 2:04:33
  Again, these are questions I'm not asking myself, but we're all
• 2:04:36
  asking ourselves at some point or another.
• 2:04:39
  So anyways, already Long story short is I got the spiritual
• 2:04:45
  Satanism and then I eventually got to Norse paganism.
• 2:04:50
  Now this is back in like 2012 and I re entered into this path
• 2:04:58
  earnestly, wholeheartedly and late 2019.
• 2:05:04
  And you know like Blake what you were saying like watching
• 2:05:07
  Vikings experiencing Highline my first time and they share with
• 2:05:12
  them from a good friend of mine at the time.
• 2:05:16
  It just, it took us live and it just went from there.
• 2:05:21
  It just again going back to Highland reentry and Norse
• 2:05:26
  paganism. It's been nothing but a blessing
• 2:05:29
  without a doubt. And thank the God.
• 2:05:32
  So it's still part of this life right now, not getting kicked
• 2:05:35
  out. Just yet, but just.
• 2:05:36
  You know, we'll come and let's go.
• 2:05:38
  Ahead. Don't say it.
• 2:05:38
  Don't chase. It don't chase it.
• 2:05:41
  I still got, I still got listen, I still got comments that I'm
• 2:05:44
  trying to get from almost 30 minutes ago, guys.
• 2:05:46
  Sorry I. Just these four people.
• 2:05:47
  Walking over here yeah, Missouri or Misery or I believe, but
• 2:05:54
  thanks guys for. Yeah, we got to do, we got to
• 2:05:58
  do, you know, this is kind of it when, when we got people, you
• 2:06:00
  know, in different areas of the country.
• 2:06:03
  Thank you for sharing your, your origin stories.
• 2:06:05
  Patrick and Blake, real quick there Rebecca was asking, you
• 2:06:10
  know, like what rune books do you gentlemen read and which
• 2:06:13
  ones do you suggest? This is this is a topic that
• 2:06:16
  could be dedicated to a whole podcast or a whole thing without
• 2:06:19
  health. I have some that I can recommend
• 2:06:23
  to you, Rebecca. Again, my, my e-mail is
• 2:06:25
  midgardmusingstn@gmail.com. I actually did an interview with
• 2:06:30
  a guy who has one of my highly highest recommended books, one
• 2:06:36
  of which I own is called The Call Call of of the Runes, and
• 2:06:41
  the author's name is Walter Mcgrory MCGRORYI think you can
• 2:06:47
  find him on Amazon, but it's a Call of the Runes by Walter
• 2:06:50
  Mcgrory. The reason why I recommend it is
• 2:06:54
  because he, he goes into, into, into very detailed explanations
• 2:07:00
  of the etymology of the runic names in both the Norwegian,
• 2:07:08
  Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon rune poems, where these runes have
• 2:07:13
  been found in archaeological finds, the esoteric or magical
• 2:07:16
  meanings behind the runes, etcetera.
• 2:07:18
  It's a very it's, it's great for the the, the detailed or studied
• 2:07:23
  ruiner or ruinologist, but also for people that are just wanting
• 2:07:27
  to break the ice and find their way into rune study.
• 2:07:32
  It's it's readable, It's it's studyable.
• 2:07:34
  You can find a lot of good information.
• 2:07:36
  You can e-mail me if you want the link, but I'll try to come
• 2:07:38
  back after the live stream and post the link down in the
• 2:07:42
  comments after as well. If anybody has anything that you
• 2:07:48
  know that you want to say about rune books guys feel free to
• 2:07:52
  comment, but I'm going to try to breeze through these comments
• 2:07:54
  because we've been streaming live for a couple of hours and I
• 2:07:57
  want to try to I'm actually pretty soon here but.
• 2:08:01
  Yeah, with that said, I'm going to address you to specifically
• 2:08:07
  Blake. It's been a pleasure being part
• 2:08:12
  this live stream. With you.
• 2:08:14
  Oh yeah. Again, I don't know you're on a
• 2:08:16
  personal level if I'd like to, but hopefully.
• 2:08:19
  One day, hopefully one day, one day.
• 2:08:21
  Absolutely. But Jesse, I don't have to say
• 2:08:26
  it, but you know it. But out all you're watching this
• 2:08:30
  live stream. Thank you for supporting my
• 2:08:35
  brother. This man I've known for several
• 2:08:39
  years, He offers what he cans. He suffers just like all of us.
• 2:08:46
  We go through hard times, great, wonderful times.
• 2:08:50
  Even so, though, this man, he didn't ask me but in the
• 2:08:58
  comments after the fact, let's give some praise.
• 2:09:03
  A much needed love to this man to make this channel started
• 2:09:09
  despite his adversities, his setbacks and again celebrations
• 2:09:14
  too. Just his life.
• 2:09:16
  This man, he's come so far facing many adversities just
• 2:09:24
  like we do again, all who are watching right now, give some
• 2:09:29
  special love to this great man, my special brother who has
• 2:09:33
  helped me tremendously again and the best words of times and all
• 2:09:38
  you guys watching again, you could catch my link after this
• 2:09:43
  live stream. Join my group if you want to.
• 2:09:46
  But again, stay true to yourself.
• 2:09:50
  Keep challenging yourself asking those hard questions.
• 2:09:54
  And no, no question is stupid unless you don't ask it 'cause
• 2:09:58
  then you want to find the answer to it.
• 2:10:01
  Absolutely 'cause this'll get, this'll get aired on on the
• 2:10:04
  audio platforms too, you guys, you know, so, so for those that
• 2:10:07
  haven't watched this, if you're just listening to this for the
• 2:10:10
  first time, you know Patrick's group is going to be linked down
• 2:10:12
  below. Blake's social media over here
• 2:10:17
  is going to be linked also. Check them all out and thank
• 2:10:21
  you, Patrick for your kind words and thank you for the everybody
• 2:10:25
  that's that's here. I know, Patrick, if you're going
• 2:10:27
  to drop it is late on a Monday, you know, a lot of folks have to
• 2:10:30
  get up and work, myself included.
• 2:10:33
  I got I got, I got to be present at my at my day job.
• 2:10:35
  You know what I mean? Let's work.
• 2:10:38
  So I mean, I, I do want to just, you know, you don't have to
• 2:10:42
  stick around, but I am just going to kind of breeze through
• 2:10:44
  and thank you, Patrick, for your kind words.
• 2:10:46
  It is it is great. I appreciate it.
• 2:10:47
  And for everybody that's listening to this or watching
• 2:10:49
  this later on, you know, like check out Patrick's group guys,
• 2:10:53
  if if you're looking for a safe space, if you're on Facebook and
• 2:10:56
  you just you want to have a safe space that you can feel
• 2:10:59
  comfortable being yourself in Patrick's group is is a spot for
• 2:11:04
  you to be that it is Highland focused, obviously for for
• 2:11:09
  because of the name of the group, but it is not.
• 2:11:11
  Just Highline very laid back with that kind of thing because
• 2:11:14
  I have some very special AD meds and moderates for Sherry.
• 2:11:19
  Unrevelant information. But you know, it's just they
• 2:11:23
  they cry sometimes. We need some laughs and
• 2:11:26
  inspiration, some support. You know you come as you are.
• 2:11:29
  Absolutely. And thank you, Patrick, for
• 2:11:31
  creating that space for people to feel safe and, and
• 2:11:35
  comfortable to, to, to reveal their true selves in because
• 2:11:39
  it's a tough world out here, ladies and gentlemen, like we,
• 2:11:41
  we, we live in a time where it's, it's dicey.
• 2:11:45
  So to, to find a space where we can feel comfortable with our
• 2:11:48
  fellow people. It's appreciated.
• 2:11:50
  So thank you for doing what you do.
• 2:11:52
  Patrick well, thank you for the shout out, the acknowledgement
• 2:11:56
  and the the kind words I mean. Ultimately though, again, before
• 2:12:03
  I get off, I have to give thanks to Hailong, of course, a journey
• 2:12:11
  I started and never anticipate the results that I've gotten so
• 2:12:17
  far. Again, seeing them five times,
• 2:12:20
  hanging out them three times, and just meeting all the
• 2:12:24
  special, wonderful people in my life.
• 2:12:27
  And that coincides with any path we choose to follow earnestly
• 2:12:32
  with our good intentions and well deserve research and
• 2:12:37
  knowledge of what we choose to pursue.
• 2:12:41
  It's, it's imperative to know yourself and your intentions and
• 2:12:47
  again, before you could help anyone else.
• 2:12:49
  Again, I'm saying this to myself as well as anyone else who needs
• 2:12:52
  to hear this. You have to heal and help
• 2:12:55
  yourself for you're any good to anyone else.
• 2:12:59
  But again, keep fighting, keeping your true wonderful
• 2:13:05
  self, no matter how hard and amazing it is, just keeping you
• 2:13:12
  because ultimately that's all we can do.
• 2:13:15
  Just as as well as my brother Jesse and this, well, amazing,
• 2:13:21
  great man Blake, just keep being you 'cause that's what's Nick in
• 2:13:27
  this universe. This Nick guard that we all
• 2:13:31
  dwell in. Special the way it is.
• 2:13:35
  Yeah, it does. So that's that my friends, my
• 2:13:38
  brother, take it easy. Thank you, Patrick.
• 2:13:43
  We'll let you go and Blake and I will.
• 2:13:45
  We'll send everybody else off here in just a moment.
• 2:13:48
  But thank you for being here and thank you for contributing.
• 2:13:51
  Have a great night, brother. I love you.
• 2:13:53
  We'll stay in touch all. Right.
• 2:13:56
  Take it easy. Guys you.
• 2:14:00
  Too. All right, folks, let me just
• 2:14:02
  get caught up on some of the later comments.
• 2:14:05
  I know we're getting late here and I guess I do just want to
• 2:14:08
  acknowledge folks, I've put some some comments up on screen that
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  acknowledge Patrick and you know, Sarah's here saying, you
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  know, goodnight all have to take care of some stuff in the
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  morning. Yeah, it is it, it you know,
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  these are these are these are monthly live streams that that
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  happen on a Monday night. And I understand that that
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  impacts people's work schedules, right?
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  Because when we talk about, you know, 8:00 on the, on the, on
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  the central time zone, you know that that's 9:00 on, on the East
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  Coast. And then, you know, hours later,
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  you know, like, I mean, that's late.
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  So thank you everybody for being here.
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  Let's see here. Rebecca said, How would someone
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  join your live group? Just wondering, Rebecca, if
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  you're still here or watching these these live streams happen
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  once a month. And I and I and I share the live
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  stream broadcast with people to, to, to talk with me being here
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  present in the comments and commenting like that is a great
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  way to engage with these. But I, but I do share these live
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  streams like, like what Blake has been doing and, and Patrick
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  with those trusted individuals, you know.
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  So if, if you're ever interested in wanting to, to participate in
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  live stream like this on screen, just send me an e-mail again,
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  Midgard musings tn@gmail.com. We can talk about it and we can
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  figure out a thing to do with with this for the maybe next
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  month's live stream. I guess.
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  Michael Thacker, you know, they left a while ago, got to go to
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  bed, right and got to work at 3:00 in the morning.
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  That's that's freaking early, dude.
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  That's that's that's. Lovely hours I had to I go.
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  I get to work about 5:30 so. 5:30 Yeah.
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  So listen, Blake, I don't want to keep you any more than you
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  have to be. I've got your links.
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  I, I didn't share my, you know, we had a lot of conversation.
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  All of the links that, that Blake sent me, Scaldic works
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  and, and, and Patrick's group, like everything's going to be
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  linked afterwards. So guys and gals, please be sure
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  to check them all out. Support these men in any way
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  that you can. I know I talk about what I do
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  and, and this and that, but these, these men are doing their
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  own thing. So please support them.
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  They, they, they, they took time out of their lives to be here
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  and to talk about things. And it was greatly, I think we
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  had a great time. I mean, I had AI, had a lot of
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  fun. And please go check out my
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  newest single. Oh my God dude that newest
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  single we talking about he was it a.
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  Healer's Chant. Healer's Chant.
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  Yeah, I have that added to a playlist on my Spotify and plays
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  on repeat sometimes from Because it is.
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  It is so. Just share the just share the
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  hell out of that because if everybody shares it, I can get
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  that like up. Yeah, everything.
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  I'm still working on some new stuff that well, some old stuff
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  that has been written but hasn't been released yet fully as a
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  piece. I tell you the world about it is
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  just challenging. So I'm like.
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  Booty Viking says that I'll be checking them out for sure Kevin
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  says good night, fellas Yeah links for for for that so you
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  know again, scaldic works he's on he's on Spotify he's on
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  YouTube. The links for his his music are
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  going to be linked after this episode so so check it all out
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  support him any way that you can thank you Rebecca again, you are
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  enough we're all enough, right? You are enough to, to whoever
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  needs to hear the world is a better place with you.
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  No matter who you are, never give up and never give in.
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  Be, be present, right? Be, be, be a part of this
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  experience that we're all in. You're you're all experiencing
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  your own individual moment in time and be a part of it.
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  Be present in it. Embrace it.
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  Well said, Rebecca, thank you very much.
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  Whispers from Midgard just got out of work a little bit ago,
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  right. So people are sometimes they're
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  ending their day. They're starting their day.
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  Thank you, Randy says good night, everyone.
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  So I guess, you know, I, I, I, I do want to catch up on some
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  comments later on, but I, you know, I'm, I'm going to review.
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  I think there was there was one from gosh, who was it?
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  I think it was one from, from, from Voodoo Viking talking
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  about, I don't know, something about younger food that runs.
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  I don't know, but I guess we'll just have to, you know, it's
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  late now, so we're we're just going to have to revisit it at
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  another live stream because I want to be respectful.
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  Blake, thank you for being here, my man.
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  Oh, yeah. I hope you had a great time.
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  And I hope that that everything that.
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  Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
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  It was fun to hang out with you and Pat.
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  Yeah, I had a great time. We'll have to do it again, maybe
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  next. Month.
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  Yeah, yeah, I'll just let me know.
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  Just hit me up. All right, well, ladies and
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  gentlemen, boys and girls, friends and and familiars of all
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  Thank you for tuning into this live broadcast of Season 5 of
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  the OR. I think it's Season 5 or Season
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  6, Episode 5. Yeah, Season 6, alright, Episode
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  4 episode, Whatever it is we're in here, we're doing it.
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