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Random Heathen Ramblings: S2, EP7 - Heathen Hunting Rituals (Listener Question) · Random Heathen Ramblings

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Hi, Jesse. This is Crow.
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Loved your podcast. It was great as always and I
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like that, you can Pawn the stanza 140 it reminds me of
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growth, you know, like you whether it be personal growth,
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Excuse me and easily to Deeds. You know, you kind of put your
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feelers out to talk and You make things your own kind of like,
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how you touched on previously. The only question I have, which
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hopefully this will spark some further conversation, which
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would be awesome to you or your tribe have any rituals for
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hunting like before hunting, or as you have the game down, As
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always, hello didn't and drink plenty of water.
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So thank you Crow for that. Really appreciate the
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interaction, really appreciate. You asking questions that can
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spark more dialogue, you know? And he asked an interesting
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question. He asked if myself, or our, our
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tribe, has any sort of like pregame ritual for hunting, or
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if we do anything, provide do anything before going out there
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on a hunt, You know, so my response to that is, I don't
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have anything currently that I do because I haven't gone
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hunting in quite some time. Mainly just, you know, due to
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the fact that, you know, when I first moved down from New York
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state to Tennessee, I was I was very young and I was getting
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into a new life, I didn't really think out or have a whole lot of
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You know, understanding of what I was doing.
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I was thinking outside of my head, upside of my brain head
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when I was doing what I was doing back then, but be that as
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it may move to Tennessee and settle into a life and I never
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really quite settled in a place long enough to pursue hunting
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again. I used to do it a lot when I was
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a kid. And my young adult years while
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living in New York, small game, big game, you know, Turkey.
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Key Deer. Vermin control.
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You know like we would we would have a pretty bad problem with
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squirrels and coyotes and other types of called Vermin or pests
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and woodchucks. We called them to.
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They were like those gopher things and really fat chunky,
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boys. They would always dig up the
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yards in the fields and really wreak havoc on your on your
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crops to just digging stuff up. So between it all, you know I
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was very comfortable around fire.
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Her arms and my uncle and people that I grew up around, whereas
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it Hunters as well. So I was brought up around it,
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hunting, fishing, you name, it. Matter of fact, you know, most
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of my childhood, I can say whenever I was not doing
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anything that was, you know, school or work chores, that sort
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of thing. I was the kid that was out in
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the woods. I didn't sit for long lengths of
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time in front of the television. Or.
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We really didn't even believe it or not have internet.
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Until I was like a teenager So we did, you know, what computers
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we had was was you know, not connected to the internet.
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It was one of those old like boxy Apple, Mac computers, or
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whatever. It was that used to seeing like,
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the public libraries would take, like, 30 years for the darn
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thing to load up. No internet.
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So again, all my all my spare time, whatever time I had was
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spent. In nature learning things about
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nature, which is an interesting thing because I did not grow up
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heat, and I did not grow up with any sort of pagan or Heathen,
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you know, ideals. It was, it was a very strict
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strict and structured Christian environment that I grew up in
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and belief system and worldviews and all that kind of stuff, so,
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but regardless, I'm glad that I grew up around the people that I
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did and learn the things that I did about.
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About nature, melt surviving being self-sufficient to the
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point of growing, your own food, and raising your own livestock
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and all that kind of stuff. You know, work on a farm for
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years, probably a little actually was over a decade that
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I work on a farm, that we raise beef, cattle and cut our own
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firewood and all that kind of stuff.
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But so, you know, I never, I never resumed hunting or any of
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those extracurricular activities.
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When I moved down to Tennessee, Is moving around a lot when I
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seem to get settled somewhere. It was you know kind of in a
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more heavily populated area where like you knows inner-city
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type environments, you know they weren't very big cities.
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There was a lot of rural - to the areas that I lived across
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the state. And I could have taken the
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opportunity to get my hunting license and do all those sorts
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of things to get some get myself set up for hunting in my areas,
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but I just never did. Too many other things going on
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in my life, I guess that I'm in here.
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We now, here we are now. Live in 15 years or here.
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I am now live in 15 years, in the state and haven't once gone
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gone hunting for like big game. But the sort of, you know, what
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Crow is asking about any sort of ritual or whatever.
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Beforehand made me, made me think, you know, because maybe
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the question was was pointed to the you any sort of religious or
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spiritual rituals before hunting a sort of, you know, sacrifice
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to the gods or prayer even or something to honor sacred before
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going out on a hunt, anything like that.
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And while that may have not been A anything like that when I was
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a young man and going from my youth, into my young adult
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years. There was definitely ritual
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elements to my preparation of going hunting.
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And some of that may have been offering a prayer to my deity at
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the time, praying for a successful hunts.
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Because the the the hunt was and always has been for me, you
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know, an action taken to provide for your family, provide for
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your tribe, your whatever group you want to call it and your
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loved ones. And those people who are nearest
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and dearest to to you because the fruits of your labor, you
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know, the game that you caught that was sore or killed in the
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hunt with Herbie. I say caught.
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I mean, like if you're trapping or if you're fishing caught
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something, if you took a life, you took the game out that you
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were going out for deer turkey, whatever it was, that was shared
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with the community that was shared with our, you know, it
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was a church community at the time but you know, you a
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different name to whatever it was.
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So you could say, Tribe to the Kindred or whatever you want to
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name. That was what it was for, it
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wasn't for sport, you know, it wasn't just to see, you know,
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how many tags you could fill for the air.
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It was for to provide for the community and everybody had
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their, you know, we we shared it. so the, the the aspect of,
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you know, appealing to a deity or praying for a successful
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hunt, it was to gift to the tribe, to gift to the community,
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and to provide for those that maybe didn't go hunting
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themselves, You know, so in that aspect in one one aspect I would
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say that that's one way that I would have had a sort of ritual
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you know before going hunting. Secondly they were literal
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physical things that I would do that.
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Have a very ritual aspect to it. I feel and it made me think
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because if you didn't put the name you know that this was a
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ritual part of things, you may not think it.
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For instance, I'm talking about preparing the night.
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For, or the morning of, you know, and the morning laying out
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your clothes in a certain area that you would go hunting in and
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your attire, everything that you are from your headgear to your
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camouflage, to the Footwear to the weapon that you took out
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your hunting implement. The would it be a rifle or a bow
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or whatever it was, you know, everything had a spot,
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everything had a place and I would prepare that way then.
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Night before. And so, I would get into this
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mindset that I am about to embark on a hunt either that
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night. The next day, the morning,
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whatever it was, and it would prepare me and would get me into
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a state of mind to know what it is.
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I was doing. I would get up that morning and
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I would know exactly where my things were and I would have you
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know, a small ritual of whether it be drinking coffee or have a
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bite to eat or read a little bit or something to change the kind
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of prepare my mind for things and then I would go out, you
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know, quite often Would be before the Sun never came up.
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So it was, you know, going into a dark and sometimes unfamiliar
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place. You may have scouted areas with
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wet. The other thing to scouting
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preparing yourself, physically for the hunt ahead.
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You know, we wouldn't just admit as many times as I can think of,
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you know, I wouldn't just decided I'm going hunting, you
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know, in this area, I'm going to go hunting in that area without
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first knowing that area, you know, knowing what the terrain
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was. Like, in preparing in that way.
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And I feel like those are some very ritual elements to
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preparing for for something that can turn out to be such a
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special thing, you know, something.
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So sacred, even if you don't take anything during the hunt,
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even if you don't, even if you come back empty-handed, you
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know, the experience. Gives you a lot of
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opportunities. You know, I can remember going
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out on hunts and sitting still and, you know, for hours as you
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want it to blend in. You wanted to be part of the
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force, you want to part of your surroundings and to blend in
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with the natural wildlife and things that would happen and go
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around, you know. So there was, yes, there may be
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scouting yesterday be tracking that you would do, but then
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there was also time for you to sit still Eight and to be
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patient and enduring those times, you know, your mind gets
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to thinking, you get to your senses, get to be heightened
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with the things that you see the things that you hear, you know,
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you look and you scan your landscape and you see things in
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a way that you maybe hadn't seen before, you know, the woods look
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a lot different at 5 a.m. when the sun comes up and it does at
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High Noon or even at 6:00 in the evening when the Sun is setting
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or whatever. You know, those those are He has
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those terrains, Shadows cast, different images, and sounds and
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the atmosphere, you know, things, feel different things,
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look different in a lot of those ways.
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And so I feel like there's a lot of ritual elements to reaching
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the the hunt and before you start your hunt up to and
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including the haunts, you know, never mind the fact that you
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know, when you see that animal Coming that you are hunting for,
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you know, receive the opportunity to raise up your
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your firearm and place the cross hairs on the body of the animal
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and harvest it, or Draw back your bow.
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And, and those seconds, it takes to steady yourself.
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Relax yourself is so many different things about
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everything leading up to and including the hunt that is very
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ritualistic. I feel You know, so maybe in
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some ways I didn't for many guys, you might say a ritual,
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you know, laying things out for the gods or sacrificing
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something and gift gesture to the sacred to bless the Hunts or
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whatever. But in my own ways as, and at
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those times, I feel that there were many ritual elements to the
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hunt and everything leads it, that leads up to it.
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I don't really know what the rest of my people do or have.
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Done in their lives. I don't know of anybody right
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now. That is currently a an avid
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hunter or active Hunter. That's part of the tribe, you
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know? But the tribe is still young and
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it's still new and there's very few members and we're slowly but
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surely growing so that could be something that we develop as you
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say. You know, words lead to more
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words and deeds lead to more deeds and as tribes grow as
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people grow as we determine or develop traditions, That could
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be come something that is a part of said Traditions, you know,
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the areas that, you know, most of the people that I know live
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in are closer to the city, but there are family members of
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those people that live in more, rural error areas that are way
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out kind of in the sticks, you know, barely any cell phone
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service, you know, neighbors are far apart and there's land and
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property too. That they have permission to
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Hunter or whatever on. So sure, I mean it's definitely
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something that can become more part of our tribe Traditions or
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individual Traditions. So I think it's a great question
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and I think it's a lot of, you know, give some food for
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thought, especially coming from like a heathen perspective.
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You know, the Hunt is such a sacred thing, hear about stories
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in the lore, like the wild Hunt. You know what that all means?
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Of course, you know, actual hunting and sting of animals is
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something that is very, it was very common for our ancient
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ancestors, maybe not even. So ancient, you know, folks that
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grew up in your areas within the last century, you know, that
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would not have food on the table.
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If they didn't catch it themselves, or grow it
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themselves, you know, all that sort of thing.
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So I think it's great. I think it's a great thing to
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think about There are even certain deities in Norse
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paganism and Norse Heathen ring. I think think of older has one
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of them got of that is that is often attested to in the lore is
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having things to do with hunting and Sport and competition and
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things of that nature that no, your yes you may be going out to
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to, you know, harvest food for your family, but there's a,
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there's a game involved. It's you know, there's Smarting,
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the wildlife and being silent, and concealed, and all these
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various things that just while you may be trying to provide a
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meal for your loved ones, it's not just a simple as driving him
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to the store to the market, or to the Butcher and saying, give
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me a pound of this. Give me a pound with that, you
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know, there's skill involved. There's there's mental and
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physical skill involved with something like that.
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So great question, Goethe Crow from the death, Landers over
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you gave things to me to think about and hopefully all of the
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Interesting. So continuing on I wanted to
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kind of give you a recap of things over the last week or so
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since you've you know last heard from me, the last podcast that
31:18
went up was See, was on the 27th, just a few days before the
31:25
tribe that I am part of celebrated, are you love, it's
31:30
zoo or the funeral Feast modeled and fashioned a bit after the
31:36
more historical, he than the view of Yuletide celebrations.
31:41
So, while we did not celebrate, you'll for three nights.
31:44
Nor did we have our, you will Feast on the first night of
31:47
you'll instead, we rather held, are you, will Feast on the The
31:50
third night, we made some you know, modifications to that
31:53
because let's face it, right? Not everybody can afford to take
31:57
you know three days straight off from work and schedules are
32:00
being what they are and Lifestyles and such.
32:05
We found it more expedient and beneficial to have it on a
32:10
weekend, just, you know, on the third day of you'll.
32:13
So it worked out well enough for us.
32:17
And boy. Oh boy, was it a great?
32:19
Was it a great time? My wife and I hosted it at our
32:23
house, at a small group, of those of our tribe and the
32:28
nearest and dearest to us those that we would classify or say as
32:33
part of art Inner Circle are in and guard.
32:37
We held our ritual year out the property that was put, that was
32:43
kind of fun because it was, it was windy.
32:46
There was some challenges getting our fire started for the
32:51
ritual and and stuff and there was just a whole bunch of, you
32:55
know, seemingly like roadblocks that would pop up for us to
32:59
start our ritual, but it did, it did go over.
33:02
Well, we had a wonderful. Wonderful time.
33:05
I was busy all day. All day, cooking and preparing
33:09
we made, we had ass like a hickory smoked ham in the oven
33:14
Mayday. It's called a Travelers stew.
33:19
The recipe came out of like a Dungeons and Dragons cookbook,
33:22
but I love the name of it travelers to because it makes
33:25
makes me think of Odin and 0, then being one of our, you know,
33:30
one of the deities that we always hail and make sure to
33:33
give an offering to during during you'll, it's been a
33:36
tradition now for the Last couple years.
33:39
So we want to maintain that tradition.
33:42
So we made a travelers to it's basically like a beef stew,
33:46
hearty beef stock and you add whatever you want to it.
33:48
This one has tato's and carrots. You know, so it's just a really
33:55
hearty beef stew and it hit hard.
33:57
Like, I mean, are like a hit good, you know, it was, it was a
34:00
good hearty stew for a somewhat cold Mid Winter night, in
34:08
addition to that. I made a neat, mushroom soup.
34:11
First time ever making it it was very simple.
34:14
It was you know I use basically the sum of the stock from The
34:18
Travelers stew for four additional flavor but you know
34:21
had some course Mushrooms. There was celery, carrots
34:26
potatoes, as well. And other seasonings need added
34:32
some non-traditional Seasons because the recipe that I was
34:35
pulling it from was very, very Bland.
34:37
It was like four or five ingredients on.
34:39
Like I got a doctor this up a little bit, you know, I got to
34:41
give it some sort of oomph said, whatever that is.
34:45
I don't know. But some, some Gusto, you know
34:47
what I mean? So throwing some rosemary and
34:51
garlic and shallots and things like that.
34:54
Give it some nice flavors to cook in just slowly slowly cook
34:57
that in the afternoons. We got a mushroom soup,
35:00
travelers to. We had our ham, had some roasted
35:06
potatoes oven, roasted red potatoes, which were just
35:09
delicious. I made a Nordic nut loaf or
35:14
Stone Age, nut loaf, it's pretty cool.
35:16
You can Google it. If you go there to the old
35:19
Google machine and just Nordic nut bread or Viking nut bread,
35:24
even you do that. You'll find a bunch of different
35:26
recipes, but essentially it's a variety of nuts and seeds.
35:29
I think recipe that I used is has almonds.
35:33
Pecans, pecans ending them where you're from, it's either pecan,
35:37
or pecan, or pecan. I think I'm in the South so I
35:40
got to say, pecan, walnuts flax seeds, sunflower seeds.
35:48
I think the recipe also called for pumpkin seeds but I could
35:51
find any that were, you know, Shelled and not, you know,
35:56
flavored in any sort of way, so they're all like raw nuts, you
35:59
know, raw nuts and seeds and then to make the loaf Stick
36:02
Together, The Binding agent is just oil, olive oil.
36:05
I use olive oil and eggs, so there's no flour.
36:09
No, starch is a whatever included in this and you bake it
36:12
in the oven for like an hour. And of course, some of the oil,
36:17
whatever will separate and rise to the top, you have to kind of
36:22
remove some of that or whatever. But then It comes right part.
36:25
You let it set, you know, for like 20, 30 minutes, whatever
36:29
and it falls right out of the love.
36:30
The love the loaf pan. So, yeah, you put it on the loaf
36:33
pan. Pack it down, nice and tight,
36:35
and you've got a dense nutrient Rich.
36:39
Nut / seed, bread loaf, whatever you want to call it.
36:44
Of course, we also had some other things as well.
36:47
One of our tribe members brought a apple crisp, which was
36:50
delicious. He actually made it from scratch
36:52
and use me. Millet seeds instead of like a
36:57
crumble crust or whatever. It was really, really good.
37:01
One of our near near and dear friends, brought a cinnamon bun
37:06
cheesecake or a cinema and cheesecake or something like
37:08
that. It was really awesome.
37:10
And then, of course, there was meat, you know, there was me,
37:13
there was Scotch, there was wine.
37:15
There was all kinds of delicious drinks.
37:17
We drank ourselves, silly plate games.
37:20
We played this thing called, that's what she said.
37:24
Kind of like if you've ever watched that TV show the office,
37:28
which I'm a huge fan of, by the way, Michael Scott, you know,
37:32
that's what she said. But the game itself is like,
37:35
basically like a, even, well, I wouldn't say more raunchy
37:40
version but it's like, you know, it's like Cards Against
37:44
humanity' like a version of Cards Against Humanity.
37:47
But with the focus of, you know, more like sexual innuendoes and
37:51
related, things like that of an adult theme.
37:53
So it's Really fun and good time.
37:57
And also, we had like a meat, meat meat and cheese tray, like
38:05
prosciutto and salami sausages and all kinds of great things.
38:11
It was awesome. Your the feast part of was a lot
38:13
of work that I put into it all But it was a, it was, it was
38:17
well worth it. Everybody seemed to really enjoy
38:20
it. So you know, we did our ham for
38:23
a reason, we made ham because one of the big things for us for
38:27
you Liz to venerate and honor frere.
38:34
So, we wanted to have, we talked about menu items, and I shared
38:38
some ideas and everybody liked it to make things that were that
38:44
we're like a nod to freyr that seemed, you know, really wears
38:48
an honor to him. So, of course, ham, you know, a
38:51
little bit of gulen thirsty to bless the feast with, you know,
38:58
it was Tradition at least at one point to swear, Oaths verb or
39:03
so. While we could not perhaps
39:05
Harvest or consume wild boar, we got the next best thing.
39:09
And it was a hickory smoked ham, the nut and seed bread was also
39:16
in, in respected honored to for are because of the fertility
39:19
aspects of for are, you know, nuts and seeds are where the
39:24
life of the tree. The thing that grows from is
39:28
from the nut, or the seed portion quite often.
39:30
So it was a symbol to consume and eat things that are Are very
39:34
fertility and things for good crops, that sort of thing.
39:40
We want to make sure that that was part of the part of the
39:43
feast as well. And so there was a lot of
39:46
thought not to go into this whole thing.
39:50
Another great thing that happened this year that hadn't
39:53
happened before was our Goethe, who's been on this podcast
39:58
before, Bingo? You go back to my podcast
40:03
catalog and just look for the one of those rambling with a
40:05
dingo. That's that thing.
40:07
Go right there. He's my goalie, he's my brother,
40:09
he's just an awesome awesome person, his daughter, his young
40:14
daughter came, and she was part of the ritual, and she was part
40:18
of he, you know, the whole thing which was a first and that's,
40:22
you know, that's that's what really, really just touches.
40:25
Our hearts is, when we have our children and the children of the
40:28
tribe, you know, I'm part of things and she was right.
40:30
Right there. You know in the fire and it was
40:32
so cute because we got you know my wife was outside of the
40:35
ritual area which was just in our yard for the for the sake of
40:39
logistics. We couldn't really do it.
40:40
Anywhere else. She was taking, you know, some
40:42
pictures of what we were doing outside of our ritual space.
40:48
And dingoes daughter was so cute because she was standing there.
40:51
And she has this, this handmade one that her dad made by thing
40:55
go made for her. I believe it's made out of Cedar
40:58
little Branch, you know, and it's sanded and it's smooth and
41:01
it's got like a leather lanyard. So it's her one and she brought
41:04
it and she was standing there by the fire.
41:06
And we were reading our ritual and we were going through our
41:09
oceans and picture that my wife caught was of heard standing
41:14
there with holdin holdin her wand high in the air and Going
41:18
up to the sky and stuff and it was just so awesome to see her
41:24
being involved in the ritual. You know, she knew what she was
41:27
doing. You could tell you could look at
41:28
her face from the pictures, you could see her face her
41:30
expression and she was doing her thing man, like she was doing
41:34
her thing and she knew exactly what she was doing.
41:36
Whatever it was, you know, I can't necessarily say, for sure
41:41
what it was that she was doing. But by the gods, you know, she
41:43
knew what she was doing. And I'm sure that because of
41:46
that sincerity, because Of that, genuine focus on intent that the
41:53
gods noticed as well. So we did that, we had our
41:57
Feast, we had, we exchange gifts, or we gave gifts, you
42:00
know, as host and Hostess my wife.
42:03
And I we each got gifts for for all of our attendees and our
42:08
guests to of the guests, are gave gifts to my wife, and I got
42:13
a bottle of me and she got something cool for.
42:16
She's a big like Nightmare Before Christmas fanatic, and
42:18
she loves that. So, she got something cool
42:21
Nightmare Before, Christmas themed and then after that,
42:23
we'll all that was done. We Cleaned up a little bit to
42:27
prepare for our sambal ritual, which is as some of you may
42:30
know, I've done some podcast episodes about what sambal is
42:32
but it's, you know, toasts posts and Oaths.
42:35
We had a really long round of toasts and very long round of
42:39
boasts, no owes this year, which is okay.
42:43
I never pressure anybody into feeling like they have to oath
42:46
anything because of the severity because of the solemnity of an
42:51
oath. It's a joyous thing.
42:54
It's a wonderful thing. It carries a lot of weight and a
42:56
lot of power, but I never pressure anyone into doing it.
43:01
And so nowhere. No.
43:03
Oh, those given or taken at you'll this year but you've got
43:07
the rest of the year. We've hopefully we'll be doing
43:09
some more you know tribe Gatherings and things where you
43:13
know, oath can be incorporated. It's not an uncommon thing to
43:17
have toasts boasts oats and sambal a part of other major,
43:22
you know, holy tides, and events that we might hold.
43:24
So it could happen. 2021 is just starting off.
43:29
And so, yeah, that's the recap of our you elevate Sue or you
43:34
will Feast for this year. So there you go.
43:41
If you guys and gals out there is also celebrated you'll in
43:44
your own ways, you know, recently, right around that last
43:48
full moon that just passed then. Go the old the you and yours as
43:52
well. So let's get into wrapping up
43:56
this episode with our random stanza from the Hall of them
44:01
all. Today's stanza is going to be
44:05
stanza 120, which depending on the translation of the have a
44:11
mall that you're reading from. It might be numbered as stanza.
44:16
122. It might be 119. so, I'm going
44:24
to read as usual from A number of versions odd.
44:28
And in Taylor starting off with Hollander, move over to, you
44:32
know, Bellows Brave, Thorpe even and then the Jackson Crawford
44:37
Wanderers, all them all to wrap it up.
44:40
You know, so starting off with in the hall under translation.
44:44
Now this is one of those stanzas that, you know, the first like
44:47
five six lines or whatever it is is the council to load fafnir,
44:51
you know, heed my words, heed them.
44:53
Well learn it it will end you it will Bode you.
44:56
Well if you listen it will serve you well if you follow the steps
44:59
and that's not. So I'm going to kind of skip
45:02
past those parts because each translation reads basically the
45:05
same way with just a few variations you know instead of
45:09
like here thou it might be here me or counsel thee or read the
45:16
or whatever. So the Hollander translation
45:18
after that, you know, admonition to whoever this load fafnir
45:24
character is Odin is speaking in these stanzas.
45:27
So in the hall under translation.
45:29
After that intro, it reads is a good man seek thou to gain as
45:34
thy friend and learn to make thyself loved All right, the
45:43
forget his first name of Terry the Terry translation rejoice
45:49
and talk with a man, you respect and learn healing spells, all
45:53
your life. Or an inhaler is with a good
45:57
man. It is good to talk.
45:59
Make him your best friend, but waste no words on a witless oaf
46:04
nor sit with a senseless tape. And then the other see, we got
46:11
Thorpe and Bellows. So the Thorpe is a good man
46:15
attracted easy and pleasant Converse and salutary speech
46:21
learn while thou lovest that was the Benjamin Thorpe translation.
46:28
The Bellows translation reads A Good Man.
46:29
Find to hold in friendship and give heed to his healing charms.
46:37
The Oliver Bray translation might as well just run with that
46:39
one as well. In sweet Converse call the
46:43
righteous to thy side, learn a song while that live assist.
46:49
And then the Jackson Crawford translation is.
46:54
Get a good man to join you in joyful, talk and learning and
46:58
learn a healing spell, while you live.
47:04
You know. So I like this one and I think
47:06
it's a good one to be to come across.
47:11
It fits well for the times that come after you will for for me
47:16
specifically and maybe others as well, in case you've been
47:20
spending time with your loved ones. celebrating, as you may,
47:27
but I think it's great because, you know, some people nowadays,
47:30
especially with social media, people tend to be more concerned
47:36
with, you know, their their quantity of friends as opposed
47:39
to Quality and I believe I've done a podcast episode about
47:42
something like this before, but it seems to be a recurring theme
47:45
that it's, you know, it's not about how many friends you have
47:48
Zahn a bit quote friends, you have Your social media followers
47:52
or subscribers your listeners. Your how many likes you have on
47:58
a post? How many retweets you have on a
48:01
tweet or whatever the heck, you know, it's not about the
48:04
quantity. It's about the quality of life
48:06
is not a race of seeing how many humans we can collect, you know?
48:13
Yes, it helps. We're for things like this
48:14
because we live in a society, we live in, we live in a society,
48:18
we live in a day and age. So much about what things are
48:22
being done is to get into, you know, into popularity.
48:30
I'm going to take a quick breather.
48:31
I have to take a quick breather on this.
48:32
I'll be right back. Don't go anywhere.
48:43
All right folks, sorry about that brief Interruption.
48:46
I was receiving an inbound call from the wife so you know how
48:50
that goes, whenever she calls. It's never know what's going to
48:53
happen and always want to make sure that I'm taking time for my
48:56
lovely wife. So getting back to the the
48:59
stanza. You know, that we just listened
49:00
to or that I just read quality over quantity.
49:05
It's not about how many people we collect but but in the
49:08
today's day and age as I said before it, we live in a society
49:12
that a Lot of what people do for whether it be a hobby or whether
49:18
it be some sort of residual income or whether it be their
49:21
livelihood is based on social-media followings, you
49:26
know, and how many people you get?
49:28
So you get this, you know, sometimes I think people can get
49:30
a false sense of The the type of people, the quality people had
49:37
to get based off of the numbers of subscribers listeners,
49:45
whatever. Like yeah.
49:46
Oh, that's neat. And all that school in it and it
49:49
may it has its place and, you know, a business setting or in a
49:53
business context or in a you know in certain contexts it has
49:58
its place for sure but it never should replace The you know good
50:06
friends good human context that we can have by actual
50:10
interactions. It's not it's it shouldn't be
50:13
the gauge that we measure our quality against.
50:18
You know what I mean. People who truly care and will
50:21
be there for you. Like the reason why I feel like
50:24
the stanza hit so well from for me specifically around this time
50:27
is because you'll write and I got just got done talking about
50:32
Small event for us, you know, very small event, nearest and
50:36
dearest, and that's how I like it.
50:38
And that's how we like it. That's the way we operate right
50:41
now. We don't want a big huge thing
50:43
going on and it feels better when we've got, you know, in
50:48
small numbers and the quality is there.
50:50
No, if numbers increase and more people become a part of it.
50:53
It's because they have proven themselves to be good types of
50:57
people to tie are weird with, and to share our lives with
51:01
because those good types of People and good friends are hard
51:05
to come by and I feel like cherishing.
51:08
Those relationships and nurturing those friendships and
51:12
making sure that the grass doesn't grow too high, between
51:15
the, you know, the roads between us that we communicate often
51:19
that we share in good speech and learn healing spells.
51:22
And we learn all these wonderful things, too that they can learn
51:26
from us. And we can learn from them what
51:30
by spending actual time with them.
51:32
Not giving up those quality things in those quality times
51:39
for other seemingly. You know, well, I can't spend
51:45
time with you tonight because I gotta, you know, I got to record
51:49
this video. I got to put this video out or
51:52
if it's not, you know, if it's like I said, if it's not your
51:54
livelihood, if it's not your If it's not winning your bread you
51:59
know I'm saying if it's not bringing you the meat on your
52:02
table and providing for your family.
52:03
Like if that's a feature job that's one thing that's your
52:06
career if that's thing that provides and it's one thing you
52:10
have an obligation to your family to do that sort of thing
52:13
would be like going to any other job but if it's you know Hobbies
52:19
like just now for instance you know I'm reading stanzas I'm
52:22
talking about things to the listeners across all the world
52:26
but my wife calls and guess what happens?
52:27
I What I'm doing. I pause the podcast and I come
52:30
back and this is real time. So you see and you understand
52:34
that what I say I do so I try to be that way as much as I
52:41
possibly can. I I am not the type of person
52:43
who would feel good about saying one thing and then Define what I
52:50
say and doing another thing, you know, going against what I say,
52:55
Never been like that. I think it's a horrible way to
52:58
be leaders and great people lead, by example, and they do
53:03
things and then they don't have to tell people what to do.
53:06
They don't have to say, go do this, go do that because they do
53:09
it themselves and people follow, by example, people.
53:13
Learn, by example, I feel as well and I'm by no means saying
53:16
that you guys should follow me or whatever.
53:18
What I do. It's I mean that's how you
53:20
support midgard. Musings is great, it's
53:23
appreciated, you know? I am very fortunate to have the
53:28
opportunity to do these, so these types of things and these
53:31
sorts of things for my audience, wherever you may be, and I
53:35
greatly appreciate the feedback, but I don't want it to be
53:39
misconstrued as that, I Neglect everything else and you guys saw
53:43
an experience that physically saw are visually saw.
53:46
But you listening heard and experienced this exact thing
53:49
that I'm talking about right now just a few minutes ago.
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