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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP3 - A Recap Of Jólaveizlu (Yule Feast 2022) for Hlórriðifólk. · Random Heathen Ramblings

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All right, folks, hail and welcome back to another random
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Heathen ramblings podcast. Hope you're all doing well.
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Hope you're all staying safe and healthy out here and 2022.
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I hope the first month of the year is not treating you too
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bad. There's always bumps in the
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road. You know what I'm saying?
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There's always little pitfalls. There's always, you know, things
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that you gotta get, get through. But I hope that It's not too
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much for you at this early juncture of the year.
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And so yeah. Here we are today, episode 3,
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kicking off the rotation things. Let me talk in today.
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A bit about you will At least our experience for you all my
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experience for, you'll my tribes experience for you'll that just
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occurred this past weekend. I've been talking a lot about it
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on the podcast so figured it would be a good to kind of
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lychees all know a little bit about kind of the way things
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went and you know, in an effort right to hopefully inspire And
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maybe educate a little bit, right?
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Course the Traditions, the things that we do specifically
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our are rooted in very, they're very purposeful, you know?
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It the things that we do may have historical backing or You
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know, stuff that we read about in the lore and this and that or
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other historical sources, but the purpose behind what we do is
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not just to be historical, right?
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The purpose behind what myself and my tribe all do, when we
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have these sorts of get-togethers and these, these
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sorts of celebrations, there there's purpose behind it that
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goes beyond, just what is it historically?
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Accurate and I always have, you know, I've said a lot on this
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channel on Podcast before that, I am not at least what I would
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consider a 100%, you know, hardcore Recon key that I'm not
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a Reconstructionist although I do really enjoy the learning and
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education parts of knowing as much as we can about the the
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historical side of how Heathen we may have been practiced or
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what we call Heathen re today, how it may even practice in Old
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Time. As and pre-christian Scandinavia
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and Germanic countries, Mainland Germania and and the surrounding
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you know, Scandinavian countries.
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I find it all very fascinating and I find myself more and more
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drawing from those you know, texts those sources to help
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build the modern tradition for my nearest and dearest.
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So you know, some of the things that I made talk about may have
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a lot of, you know, if anybody hears a historian or a
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historical Heathen, a lot of what I may say, have ring a lot
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of bells, right? But I guess I'm not what I would
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consider a Recon. He then for instance, right?
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Like the, you'll, the historical you'll is.
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When we celebrate it on the day and on the night that we
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celebrate it. This year was a couple of nights
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before, actually at the time of filming this podcast and
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recording this. And for my YouTube channel
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members, that by the time they get, this is actually the first
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night of you'll because the full moon is today on the 17th.
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So we are, we were a couple of days early, we celebrated are
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you on the 15th? And that was because again
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Purpose is to do it together. The purpose is to do it together
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as a tribe. And the tribe was not going to
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be able to do a Monday night going into a Tuesday, you know,
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all-nighter or or have a big celebration like that, our work
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schedules and our respective lives, just wouldn't work that
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way. So we made it work and we did it
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on the the 15th. And our tribe is very small
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right now and we had guests and friends that are guests of of
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the tribe, right? So he had his name is Greg.
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I've had him on the excuse me, had him on the podcast a few
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times. He's a Chieftain of the Raven,
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Moon Hearth Kindred up in Nashville and he's been coming
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to our Yule events for the last several years.
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So he was always a an honored and Guest and we had some other
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dear friends of ours attend as well that are not necessarily
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Heathen by any means, like they don't practice Heathen, react to
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any descriptive sense of the word, but one of those people
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is, is Richard McCune. He's also been on this podcast.
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So him and his wife, attend our Yule every year because we have
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done ritual together. We have developed a bond of
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Brotherhood Richard and I have and then he He has, of course,
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in his time, spent with me and with my other tribe, men's
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tribesmen have developed at that, you know, Bond of kinship
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as well to a degree. I feel.
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So I'm not speaking on behalf of everybody else in the tribe, but
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for me at least he's a brother to me, right?
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So he's always welcome him. And his wife are always welcome.
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But so Saturday, you know, we we had our thing and we do it here
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at my wife's and my house. So it's a very small closed
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Circle, sort of sort of deal. We don't have a large like high
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Feast with everybody and anybody we just first of all, we're not
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we're not in a rural enough area, to be able to host that
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many people. Firstly and secondly, I did
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something like that one time where?
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Had we had like, I don't know. Fifteen or twenty some odd
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people here, that we barely knew.
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And it was, I mean, it was a crazy night.
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People can say, oh, it's you'll, you know, it's going to get
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crazy. Yeah.
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Well, this is like the not-so-good kind of crazy and
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needless to say that was a lesson learned sort of thing.
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So, Over the last several years, we've only kept our tribal.
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You'll celebration to be submit very small and very, very, you
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know, contained to just the people that we are nearest and
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dearest to will see where the years down the road.
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Like, whether it's next year, or some years on down the road
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where we're all that and where the where the tribe is at how
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much the tribe has grown. Whether we continue to have
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these, you'll events Or at our place or whether we look to open
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it up to a bigger, you know, audience or a larger area, maybe
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rent to pay space out or whatever.
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But as it stands right now, we're keeping it here to our
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closest nearest and dearest and it's worked well for us.
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So for anyone that's, you know, thinking of you'll and right or
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whether it's, I know some people have already done their usual
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thing around the end of end of December.
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Uber. And then some have either done
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there. You will around the time that we
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did ours or they're about to because again of scheduling
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because of the reasonings of life in general.
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Right, there may be some that are waiting to the end of this
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month to get their people together.
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And I even heard some other people are not going to be able
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to hold their, you will Feast until like the beginning of
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February. So, I would like to just say,
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right? Like it really doesn't matter so
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much as to win, you decide to do it, like, what is the purpose?
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Why do you choose to do it around that time?
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We choose to do it around our time.
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Because it doesn't conflict with other potential family,
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get-togethers around the end of December, right?
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So around like the Christmas time and where everybody else in
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the families are wanting to have get-togethers and and dinners
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and whatnot. We've moved.
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Our Heathen, you'll have our usual celebration to the
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historical Reckoning time, framers close thereabouts in a
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way to prevent any conflict, so that could be a good reason.
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Why? But it's, you know, when you get
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to do it really doesn't to me, make a whole big, a difference
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and I think most people would agree that it doesn't really
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matter when you do it. If it's within a certain
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proximity of time, you know, that's semantics at this point
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and so there's Always a feast right involved in the way that
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the way that my tribe does. You'll every year is, there's
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always an opening ritual of bloat to the gods.
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The ritual is usually a combined effort written, something
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written either between myself and other members of the tribe.
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So like, for instance, you know, last year, everybody had a piece
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to say, around the fire this year.
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It was just myself that wrote the ritual and and and whatnot.
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So it kind of just Ends each year.
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How we how we are? Feeling what we want to focus
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our bloat to the gods and I say bloat in the turn, in the sense
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that it's a ritual to the gods, nothing that we do around for
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bloat, has anything to do with like eating or drinking for us.
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We're giving to the gods and there's There's going to be some
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that say, well, you can't do bloat without blood.
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I get it. I understand why?
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Because that's how it was done in historical times.
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It was, it was an animal, was sacrificed in the blood was
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caught in an used in the bloat, but needless to say, in modern
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times, especially in the area that we are right now, that's
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just not too convenient and it's not conducive to us in our area.
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I don't think the neighbors that live within spitting distance of
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us would appreciate You know, a bowl of blood being carried and
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sprinkled around. But anyway, we use Dale this
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time around because our bloat, our ritual was to Thor.
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So that that that seemed very fitting.
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There was some ale that I don't drink a lot of beer period.
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But I had a bottle of beer that my wife had gotten me like a
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pack of beer and it was one of those Porter's.
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Nice dark, you know kind of chocolate flavored beers or
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whatever and I had one left in the fridge that kind of like was
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just in the back there and I forgot about it and I looked in
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there the other day and I was like that one's going to Thor
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that one's going to be for Thor and Patrick and dingo.
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My tribesmen also had some beer that they don't really drink a
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whole lot in there like will bring some, you know.
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So we all had some, some ale that we could pour into the horn
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and do our ritual with so That's what, what was used for for
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blow. And it was dedicated to Thor
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because the name of our tribe is very the folk.
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Her really is a canning for Thor.
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The thunderer the the or thundering storm.
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So thoroughly folk is a people of the Thundering storm or
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Thor's people, the people of the thunder.
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So this particular year though, around this time of year, right
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now in the last several weeks has been very odd weather wise,
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like, we've seen more Fall this year and it's just January like
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we've seen like I think it was been three different snow falls
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at the at least at this point in time which is for this part of
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Tennessee is a bit rare. You know, sometimes we won't
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even go a year with seeing snow we might get like an inch or two
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dusting with mostly ice. But this year, particularly
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right we had a we had a good I'd say you know, the first snowfall
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we had we had probably about a good 78 inches on the ground and
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this go around. We have another 45 very wet,
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heavy snow, buddy, you know, stormy weathers and then prior
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to those storm that came in that all that winter weather was
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preceded by warm weather. I'm talking like unseasonable
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warm, I even remember hearing Thunders Thunders, thunderstorms
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Thunder Rolls, I'll get it out. Coming through the area, not all
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that long ago, right? So, it's been like, very odd
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weather wise and, you know, most of most of anybody that's lives
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in Tennessee or has lived in Tennessee for any length of
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time, at least in the Middle, Tennessee area will tell you,
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that's just normal. The weather is never, you know,
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solid from one length of time. There's a, there's a running
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joke that if you don't like the weather in Tennessee, just wait
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a day or wait, five minutes and it'll change to something else
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that you like, and it's true. There's R-Truth to that than
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there is joking but so we've had some Stormy Weather and so it
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felt a very appropriate to dedicate the bloat or opening
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ritual whatever you want to call it ceremony to Thor and it was
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done in the yard, our yard my wife's and my we haven't just,
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you know, a small lot that we live on and it's, you know, big
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enough for us and our pets. So but we had a Sacred Space set
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up you know outside in our yard. Of out of the main site of
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everybody, you know, a little bit, little bit of privacy
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behind the behind the unit here and we did our thing.
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Nothing big nothing. Elaborate.
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But just a good solid dedication to Thor before our feast.
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And then the feast inside was, you know, we generally every
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year will provide the main course and then ask attendees
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and guests right to bring something.
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So this year, we had a ham, I was like to cook a ham for
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you'll just because of the, the correlations to the Yule ham.
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And how in think it was in The Saga of Hawking, the good.
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I think it was where bows were sworn on the boar?
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You know, so the ham has been a tradition for us.
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Here and who doesn't love a good, you know, either it's, you
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know, this year was a what I call it a sweet or sugar ham,
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you know. So it had that kind of brown
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sugar glaze thing going on over it.
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Other years, we've done, I think a smoked ham but either way,
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it's always ham as as one of the mains and then I had made some
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meat pies, ground beef, seasoned meat pies, the recipe of which
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came from jmo. Listen, A wife, the obvious here
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Workshop, his wife had made us meat pies when we visited them
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last year November and they were so good.
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We're like we got to get that recipe.
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So I took a crack at him for everybody that was here that's
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watching or listening to this the the pie dough I apologize
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for that. I know next time to precook the
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do a bit and I didn't this time so word to the wise.
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You guys are going to get refreshed.
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Rated like Pillsbury dough, hi crust, do whatever.
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And you're gonna get the kind that are just, you know, that
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you put into a pan, not that might not like the Frozen cut
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kind or whatever word to the wise, precook it a bit precook
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it. And, you know, then put your
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filling and stuff inside. So the feeling was great.
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Everybody had great things to say about the feeling but you
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know eating some undercooked or chewy dough.
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Made it not as enjoyable. So I apologize to everybody for
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that but made the ham, made some meat pies, and homemade mashed
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potatoes, not the Frozen kind, you know, I mean I'm talking to
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you know, got the potatoes, peeled them, fresh cooked them,
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my wife help with that as well. So thank you to her and then our
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friend Patrick or my loss speaker the laws speak the
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tribes law speaker, right? He brought some venison.
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Some marinated and some just seasoned venison that he grilled
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and everybody got to enjoy some of that.
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We had some, you know, Donuts brought as dessert and it was,
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it was, it was a simple spread, you know, guys.
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It wasn't anything. Elaborate, the biggest, I guess,
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the most important thing. Like, the biggest thing that
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stood out to me about the feast was that.
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It's simple but it's meaningful, right?
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Like, okay. So like Just say like the ham
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was already cooked. I do was just heating it up but
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like the potatoes and we we peel the potatoes, you cook the
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potatoes, the meat pies, you know, like you put your hands
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everything's mixed in together, you put your heart, you put your
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love into it, it was a lot of things were made by Patrick.
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He may he grow his meat and that he brought in and it was season
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and it was marinated in something that he did.
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And, you know, all these things that had loved and thought put
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into them. You know, it's quite literally
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the, the the Judges side of you land and, you know, some of the
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things that we do at. You'll, you know, tying weird
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with each other sharing in luck with each other and all these
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kind of things. Like, that's the there's
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metaphysical aspects. This is the literal physical
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aspect of like, you putting all of your love, putting your
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intent, putting your heart, your soul, your feeling into what
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you're doing into cooking and it you know, whether it comes out
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the greatest like for me, you know, even though the Is it in
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come out 100%? The way, maybe they should have
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because I, you know, first time doing it, it was, you know,
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people liked it and we got to enjoy it regardless.
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It wasn't perfect. Perfect.
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It wasn't, you know, Gordon Ramsay came and he probably shit
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the bed, but I don't care about that.
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I care about what my folk and my people and my loved ones feel,
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right? So that experience is, what
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means something? And then again, just hope it
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goes back to the purpose of why we're doing.
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What we're doing course, were there, too?
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Joy. One another's company, eat good.
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But the, you know you could you could cater you land, it
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wouldn't feel the same, you know, I mean, you could cater
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the feast but because nobody made anything that, you know,
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you didn't have your hands and if you don't have your, you
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didn't get up early in the morning to prepare and do all
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this kind of stuff like that means more and having it be
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something simple yet. Thought-out and meaningful means
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a whole lot more than just having, you know, the best of
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everything catered and whatnot. So, That was a, that was our
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feast. And then following our feast, we
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always exchange gifts. So I had made a had a handmade
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gift for everybody. That was a guest there.
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So everybody got a handmade gift of sorts.
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And and it was just like a wood wood wood burning projects,
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right? So I go the, in my law speaker,
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they each received like a I guess you could call it a wine
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box but it's a tall wooden box that will fit, you know, a
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standard 750 ml bottle of anything.
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But we are whiskeys. We are Whiskey's guys.
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Whiskey's where whiskey drinkers.
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Gosh, where whiskey Drinkers and bourbon Junkies.
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Our bourbon Drinker is, you know, like we love those types
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of Libations and so I gifted this to them to, for them to
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keep, you know, maybe their favorite bottle of something or
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switch it out, or you or keep something meaningful in their to
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them for for whatever that they are where whiskey bottle
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holders, their Whiskey Bottle boxes, right?
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But they're they're burned. They were burned in such a way
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that the what do you call it? The They look aged. you know,
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they look like they're, they've been around the block have been
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it and so that's what my lost speaker in my my go they got The
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chieftain fellow Chieftain, Greg from Raven, Moon Hearth.
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He got a box that I did sort of in the same fashion that wasn't
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a whiskey bottle box a smaller box just to keep, you know, a
23:29
keepsake box basically. And on the, on the lid of the
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box was burned the Raven Moon Hearth by and room.
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The style of the box was also done in a way to make it look
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weathered. You know, it was stained dark
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and it was kind of burned around the edges too.
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You know, make it make it look like it had said, like I said,
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been around the block or two, Richard got a box that I made
23:56
with his name on it to keep, you know, he's Keepsake think he's a
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big D&D guy. He's got some Crystals and
24:02
Stones and various things. I'm like, hey, you know,
24:04
something for you to keep your things and it's got his name
24:09
burned into the top of it. Can't remember what his wife
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got, it was something my wife had made, it was another
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handmade item. And and then I've got I'm not
24:19
reviewing it yet because in case my other brother who couldn't
24:22
make it to you all this year big Jean, right?
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If he if he sees this or watches this and listens, I don't want
24:28
to spoil the surprise, but I got you, you will give to your
24:30
brother and we'll make sure that you get it hopefully, before the
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end of this month at least. But, um, Everybody got a
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handmade gift and I got some pretty cool things.
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And I actually wanted to show you guys and gals out here for
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those that are catching this on the YouTube and that are
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watching the video version on on Spotify, right?
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See if I can get them to pull up here.
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Let's see. Is it this one?
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Yeah, that'll work. So this is the this first one,
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right? Obviously, it's a small flag
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Banner flag, right? That is as many people know, is
25:26
the infamous. They called Viking prayer.
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It was made popular in this TV TV in the movie and the film
25:36
with Antonio Banderas The 13th Warrior and it has the phrase
25:42
that was spoken amongst the Swedish roofs throughout that
25:45
movie at least once or twice and the cool thing about this and oh
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and it also came this. So this was a gift to me from
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Richard and Charlie his wife and the pendant.
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That's there. Is a Palo Santo wooden pendant
26:02
around some cord for like a necklace, but it smells great.
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And it's, you know, got a tree Motif burned onto it or stamped
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onto it. But the phrase of course is got
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Thor's hammer and we're going to talk a bit about that in just a
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minute because they thought, oh, they're like oh, I'm sorry.
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If it's cheesy but I'm like no it's absolutely not cheesy.
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And there's actually a bigger story behind that phrase which
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we'll talk about and I told him that during during you'll when
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we were exchanging gifts, that was a neat.
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Thing. And then the next one, you know
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that I got, is this one of these beautiful things.
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So this came to me as a gift from JM Olsen and this is of
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course, his handiwork. So you know, you guys have heard
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me talk about fee, all of it here Workshop, I'm going to
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leave information in the show notes in the description in case
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you're new and you never listen to my podcast before.
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You don't know on, you know, who I'm talking about.
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But if y'all with your workshop jmos and makes items just like,
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This and many more. And they're beautiful.
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They're stunning. So what you see here is a smoke
27:05
wand. That's the, that's the item.
27:08
That has three black feathers on it.
27:09
Those are turkey, feathers on a maple.
27:13
Wood Branch with you know blacks in you bindings for it and it's
27:17
for its again, it's a smoked one, it's meant for ritual smoke
27:22
sessions to help spread the smoke around or if you want to
27:25
do a blessing of smoke, you know, it'll help wave the up
27:30
there. So very, very cool.
27:31
We actually used it that night at you'll, for a, for a smoke
27:35
session. We did.
27:36
A once there was a frankincense. Yeah, it was a frankincense and
27:39
Palo Santo smoke session. Very relaxing.
27:44
And then beneath the the wand is a scotomas scoffs grunts Karma
27:50
socks if I'm mispronouncing it but it's a dagger that is made
27:54
from Deer bone and red oak. Now, the blade part is the Oak
27:58
and and the handle Is the deer bone, of course, it's got sinew
28:04
bindings on the handle to, you know, improve your grip.
28:08
But the really cool thing about that is it's red oak on the
28:11
blade but that, that Oak, that piece of Oak is not just like
28:16
glued or whatever to the top of a bone know.
28:18
The, the whole blade, it's like tits tanked.
28:23
You know what I'm saying? So like there's there's up about
28:26
halfway down that handle into that bone is the rest of that
28:29
Oak. so, even though it's ceremonial and in meant for, you
28:34
know, ceremonial work the way, J input it to me said, you know,
28:39
if you, if you had the right, You know, grip or if you have
28:44
the right tools to do. So it could, it could definitely
28:47
Pierce armor. It could pierce the side of a
28:50
car. He said, I mean it's thick, boys
28:52
thick. So those are very nice, very,
28:56
very special. The next item that will see here
29:00
is this Beautiful Liar. Lyre lyre or harp, right?
29:06
So it's what it is is a lyre or harp that Greg gifted, not sure
29:12
where he got it from, but it's really pretty.
29:14
I don't know the first thing about playing these instruments
29:18
or this instrument and, you know, going to try to learn but
29:22
it came with a nice travel case. You know, it's got tuners and
29:27
instructions and picks and stuff.
29:28
So I'm going to do my best to learn how to play or just fool
29:32
around on. You never know what might come
29:33
out here on the channel, or what?
29:35
I might just put up as far as like, a short video here or
29:38
there on my other social media platforms.
29:41
But those are some of the items that that really stand out.
29:47
You know, I got some body wash and and nice stuff and an Amazon
29:51
gift card from Patrick of course, dingo provided.
29:55
Some really, really awesome whiskey like some like movies,
29:59
say like rare stuff, we're talking like a unicorn bottles
30:01
of stuff. It was a midwinter dram that he
30:06
brought and it's a man, I think it goes for a few hundred bucks
30:11
a bottle and we all got to share in that at you'll absolutely
30:16
delicious one of the best rise. I think it was a rye bourbon
30:21
Rye. I want to say anyway, whatever
30:23
it is. It's one of the greatest things
30:24
that I've ever tasted and then so that's what I got in the last
30:30
thing that I made for. They're one of our tribe members
30:34
who's not on the social medias on the Instagram.
30:36
So Ken dude, my brother this is go.
30:42
The dingoes cousin. He got a room set I made him a
30:46
birch ruin set for you'll so we all did our gift exchange things
30:53
you know we did our gift giving and then following that we held
30:59
our symbol now. it's been awhile since I've talked about The
31:07
specifics of sambal, and a lot of people may be wondering what
31:12
I'm talking about, but sambal is, is a ritual in and of
31:15
itself. And it's a ritual that involves
31:18
drinking but not like a drinking game.
31:24
One of the, I mean, there's plenty of other sources that
31:28
that talk about some of the, probably the most popular one
31:31
that you could read about what sambal is, is Is the Beowulf
31:37
Saga, it's an Old English Saga but and there and then the way
31:42
that they do sambal, there is one of the sources Source
31:46
material that a lot of reconstruction.
31:49
And he Reconstructionist heathens will go to as how
31:54
sambal should be executed House. Humble should be done.
31:58
There's like I said there's a lot of other reading material
32:02
that I have yet to fully absorb I've caught It's in pieces of
32:07
things from you know, lady lady with the me Cup and the Mead
32:11
Hall. But the those books are rare
32:16
finds and a matter of fact, I think I may have lady with the
32:20
meat cup. No, I don't think I do but
32:24
they're rare finds in their expensive.
32:26
It's not like, you know, you just go on Amazon and drop 20 30
32:29
bucks. Like no, you're going to be
32:31
spending a lot of money on Amazon or any places if you're a
32:34
very even able to find these books but um, suffice it to say
32:39
the the ritual of sambal is again, a ritual that is that
32:44
involves drinking so there's a law or whatever libation that's
32:50
that's typically used. Can you use?
32:52
Non-alcoholic beverages for sambal, why not?
32:55
I mean again it goes back to the purpose of why we're doing what
32:58
we're doing. If you are in a mixed audience
33:01
or mixed crowd and there's health concerns or other social
33:08
restrictions that prevent you from drinking alcohol or for the
33:14
safety and well-being of others consideration of others.
33:16
That sort of thing can some will be held without Alcohol being
33:23
used, I say yes. Reconstructionist May disagree
33:26
with me on that point but I will stand by what I say and say that
33:31
the purpose behind what we're doing, does not require us to
33:34
have alcohol, it can be a old, it could be Mead, it could be
33:39
water and point. In fact, the rare case in point
33:44
our sambal ritual included, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic
33:48
beverages. Because there are some that were
33:52
Part of sambal that do not choose to consume alcohol or
33:58
were too young to drink alcohol. And even in a social setting,
34:02
right? Like if it was a in your home,
34:06
in your house sort of thing and you wanted to allow someone
34:09
underage to drink, that's one thing, but in this application
34:13
and for our children, for our tribe and our audience, right?
34:15
She was just way too young dingoes daughter, right?
34:18
So anyway, where where are Our symbol is is held inside.
34:25
We will always do sambal indoors.
34:27
Sambal is not sambal, unless it's indoors.
34:30
And on that part, I will, I will staunchly standby and agree.
34:34
You can't have some below outside unless maybe you have
34:39
like a tent with walls and a roof over your head.
34:44
And the reason why I say that is because of the inherent
34:49
metaphysical. Meaning behind what sambal is
34:53
all over the metaphysical representations of what's being
34:56
done the containment of the well, what we're doing at
35:00
sambal, why we're doing it which I'll try to get into here before
35:05
I get done with all of this completely.
35:07
But so anyway it's done indoors. And in the past we had a cup or
35:14
horn filled with a beverage that everybody drank from.
35:18
So it was usually at a time Mead and everybody would get the the
35:24
horn past to them and would drink out of it and we would
35:26
drink after each other well, ever since covid, right ever,
35:30
since we went through this whole thing, We don't do that.
35:38
So instead, what we do is we have a centralized cup we have A
35:45
well of sorts that sits in the center of all of us.
35:52
And I'll just show you for everybody that's watching,
35:57
right? This is this is our Well, this
36:01
is this is not used for anything other than sambal.
36:06
So I think the lighting got that.
36:08
Yeah, but this is used just for sambal. and, Nothing else.
36:17
So what that represents is the well that we speak over during
36:23
the rituals are doing the sambal ritual.
36:28
So like I mentioned before in the past, we had a horn that we
36:30
would pass around to each other. Now instead, what we do is we
36:33
have this cup that stays stationary except when moved by
36:38
a designated individual will get into that in just a moment.
36:43
So what that well represents is again that The Well of weird,
36:48
and everything that we speak over the is going into that.
36:51
Well, Right. Metaphysically we are speaking
36:54
over something. Like I'm speaking over this
36:55
microphone my words are going into the microphone.
36:58
Lala the words that we speak over the world are going into
37:01
the well in addition to that we all have a cup, we all have our
37:04
own horn, we all have our own chalice, we all have our own
37:07
goblet whatever we're drinking out of that night.
37:09
Some of us were drinking whiskey.
37:10
Some of us are drinking juice. Some of us were drinking water
37:15
and everybody had a drink. So whenever your piece to speak
37:19
came around, whatever your time to say, your piece came. you
37:22
would speak your piece, you would drink and you would pour a
37:25
portion of your drink into the well, In a ritual a
37:32
manifestation of completing that Roman Rite.
37:35
What I'm saying right now, what I'm doing right now I'm speaking
37:38
I'm drinking it and I am now pouring it into the well as and
37:41
that's our way we do some how you guys do it and when nobody
37:46
else does it, that's you but that's what we do to live that
37:52
thing out. So the next thing that we talked
37:55
about or what sambal is for is is usually a time for us to Of
38:00
toasts boasts and Oaths, this may be very non-traditional in
38:08
that sense, but we've found great success and we've had good
38:12
luck from from doing it this way.
38:14
So we usually start by opening the the sambal ritual up for
38:20
those to give toasts to people. Now, we don't start at one
38:24
particular area of the room. And go in a circular motion.
38:29
We don't necessarily start with the most senior person there and
38:33
go to the youngest. We don't really have a
38:36
continuing format of who goes first for what the way it is
38:41
determined for who goes when to say their thing is not
38:46
determined by anyone. That's like four, no words.
38:51
If I were to go first, it's not my decision to decide who goes
38:54
next in traditional sambal in any historical.
38:58
Somebody the person to dictate the flow of things was the lady
39:04
of the hall and there was a reason for that.
39:07
The reason being that she is the metaphysical representation of
39:13
the bearer of the well, like the norns as it were, like, she's
39:16
that representation of The Keeper of the well.
39:18
So the cup doesn't Move the the horn doesn't move, whatever you
39:21
were drinking out of or pouring her drinks into does not move
39:23
until. And unless the lady of a hall
39:26
moves it now for some like four in our case, right?
39:33
The lady of the hall, my wife, right?
39:35
Was like I don't really feel like I want to do that and it's,
39:38
you know, she's just, she wasn't comfortable like being that kind
39:41
of like center of attention. So we adjust, we make
39:44
adjustments. We do things.
39:45
Slightly different to make it work for us.
39:50
And instead of that, she just was the drink poorer.
39:53
Like she would pour the drinks out and and Dole them out to
39:57
the, to the guests. So that way she's still
40:01
partaking in the sambal ritual, by carrying the cup of drink
40:05
that the person is partaking of and giving it to them, and then
40:10
they're putting their own drink into the cup.
40:14
But the cup doesn't move until Whether it's her or whether we
40:19
had another designee to do, that moves the cup and decides who
40:25
goes next. So, when the designee the, you
40:34
know, when someone was done giving a toast, like the next
40:37
part, the next person to whom the cup would go, right?
40:40
So let's say this was the, the, the, the main cup that we were
40:44
all pouring our drinks into, right?
40:46
Like if this, if I was, And I wouldn't move the cup myself.
40:49
The designee that we had moved the cup from me to the next
40:53
person and it was up to that person to decide who was next.
40:58
So that's how we worked around the thing behind it again, going
41:03
back to the purpose. Why are we doing what we're
41:06
doing? We're not doing it just to be
41:08
for the sake of being historical.
41:09
If it doesn't fit us in our demographic of doesn't fit well
41:13
for us, if someone feels uncomfortable doing something,
41:15
where I want to force that upon anybody to that, Extent.
41:18
So, what we do? We adapt, we still made it close
41:22
enough to the traditional symbol ritual.
41:24
Why it was done back, then, it was done a certain way, right?
41:27
But we're doing it now for that certain purpose and for that
41:30
certain reason. So we still kind of had the
41:31
elements of the old, but made it modern and made it workable for
41:36
us in the here and now, so we do that.
41:39
We do usually start with toasts then move into boasts.
41:44
So once everybody is Done giving a toast.
41:49
To whoever, whether it's the gods, our ancestors, the the
41:53
Forgotten, not the forgotten Fallen.
41:55
But the Fallen we do not wash wish to forget.
41:57
We want to raise a toast to them and remember them fondly, and
42:00
especially well at, you'll, so whoever we wish to toast.
42:05
That's, you know, once that's done, we move into boasts.
42:08
So any greatness that is achieved across the tribe, you
42:13
know, any stories of success, you know, Fortune, good fortune
42:17
that, you know, that sort of thing.
42:19
Those are good things that we wish to share and be joyful
42:22
about with each other. And we want to hear your boast
42:26
about that. You know, what did you get to do
42:27
this year? That makes you better now than
42:29
you were before and you know, however, big or small doesn't?
42:33
You know, it's not, it's not a competition.
42:35
It's just we want to hear that. And we want that goodness.
42:38
We want that look, that strong look that came from with you
42:41
into this year to continue and which so we added to the well,
42:44
you speak your piece, you you boast about it and then you pour
42:48
it into the well, And then, once everyone's done with their
42:51
boasts is the time for Oaths. Now, Odes, especially around.
42:55
You all are very, very powerful and and, and, and particularly
43:01
more powerful around you'll and they are also binding oath.
43:08
Son in Henry are binding, which is why, you know, there was such
43:12
a strong penalty to pay of being an oathbreaker.
43:18
So The north is more than just a promise I did a video about this
43:22
a while ago which I will annotate in a card for the
43:28
YouTubers that are watching and then link it in the show notes
43:31
and then down in the description of course to for everyone else.
43:34
That's absorbing this on the podcast platform but check it
43:37
out. It's the power of the oath and
43:39
why we do what we do. Why we do it the way we do it.
43:42
So the oath is more than just a promise, right?
43:45
It's not. It's more than just me saying, I
43:47
promise to be better, right? II promise to lose weight, I
43:50
promise to you know finish this essay or whatever.
43:55
It's more than just that right? An oath is something that is a
44:01
social. We enter into a social contract
44:06
when owes are given because not only is the person who's giving
44:10
the oath held responsible but everyone around who's present
44:15
and witness to that oath being given is responsible.
44:19
Well, so it's very, very important.
44:21
If you guys are, are looking to incorporate the boasts host and
44:26
toasts thing it's humble into your you'll, or whenever, you
44:32
know, when you are, should you decide that an oath is going to
44:36
be given by anyone? It's very, very shy.
44:40
Very, very strongly recommend that you talk about it prior to
44:44
doing it. Don't just throw it out onto the
44:47
table and be like, all right, guys.
44:49
Here's my oath. Talk to your tribal leaders,
44:53
talk to your kin, talk to the people in your tribe about it.
44:56
Prior to the fact, don't spring something like that on them
44:58
because at that point, they're kind of in it to went there in
45:03
it. Now there, that that, that weird
45:05
has been especially tied and if something were to happen where
45:09
you don't fulfill your oath, not only are you dishonorable for
45:13
but you're bringing bad luck on the rest of the group. so, we
45:22
had I had an oath to give this year, which I'm not going to go
45:30
into details over here because it was done sacred.
45:35
You know, what we was done was very sacred and then I'm not
45:39
going to give it out here to tie myself, to anything else.
45:41
I did it amongst My Tribe and I did it in their confidence and
45:47
they are going to hold me accountable.
45:48
As I hold myself accountable, they are now ritually bound and
45:52
inbound. An Action that we've entered,
45:54
that, that social contract together and and everyone that
45:59
was present agreed to that. And so just be aware, right?
46:04
And be mindful of that. It's very, very good.
46:07
It can be, it can be very, very good for your tribe or for your
46:11
Gap, you know, for your Gathering of people your
46:13
Kindred, whatever, when toads are given.
46:16
And it's a great way for the for the tribe to be to become close
46:22
together like that because And it's not just not just my neck
46:26
on the line, right? It's not just my reputation,
46:29
it's not just my honor. Everybody else has a vested.
46:32
Interest was like, hey dude, if you, if you don't fulfill your
46:35
oath, if you fall short on here, you're messing with my weird.
46:39
Now, your mess with my luck and I ain't having that so everyone
46:43
is vested in it and, you know, makes makes it that much more
46:48
powerful. So, by next, you'll get the oath
46:52
that I gave. EV.
46:55
By next, you'll I will be able to give a Bose that I fulfilled
47:00
it and I'll have something to show for it.
47:02
In the rest of the tribe can be rejoice and feeling that good
47:07
luck and Fortune as well. So after after after we do
47:15
sambal, right? Like, once all of the rounds are
47:17
done and we finish it all off, the, the contents of our cup are
47:22
not consumed by By the tribe because I mean at that point
47:25
there's you know whiskey beard juice why.
47:28
I mean it's a mean-looking cocktail at the end of it all
47:32
that gets added to the well. And so what it does do though is
47:35
it gets we always have like this past year like this past you
47:40
all. I mean we made it a very
47:41
conscious effort to always have fire burning.
47:46
I started the fire early in the afternoon to make sure that we
47:48
had a hot bed of coals. And despite the rain that came
47:51
through, later on that night, the fire.
47:54
Going like, we kept that fire hot and roaring outside.
47:57
And so, at the end of sambal, the contents of our cup that
48:02
went into that. Well though, the condoms of the
48:03
well, get given back to the sacred, and that sort of seals
48:07
it that seals it for us, we're done speaking.
48:10
What we're speaking, it's in the well, and now we ritually
48:13
destroyed in the fire and send it to the sacred to solidify
48:17
everything and that's our sambal.
48:18
That's how we do it. So maybe there's some
48:21
inspiration for you guys out there.
48:22
Just always remember, There's there's purpose behind what
48:25
we're doing and what my purpose, or our tribes purposes.
48:29
May not be the same as your tribes purpose.
48:32
Do what you do with purpose, your intention means a lot, but
48:37
know what your purpose is, Right?
48:39
Know what it is that you're doing and why you're doing, what
48:42
result are you looking to achieve?
48:44
What is the purpose behind? What you do in the way you do
48:48
it, right? So always remember that.
48:53
Don't jump, just, you know, take what I say, or what, anyone on a
48:57
podcast or YouTube channel, or whatever, think of that, don't
49:00
just take what we say and be like, oh good because he said
49:02
it, that's the way I'm gonna do it.
49:04
Hey if you like the idea and you want to make it your own and you
49:07
want to work it into nobody copyright.
49:09
We're not copyright and anything here.
49:10
It's not say no, you can't do it that boot because the holy
49:13
really folk, were the only ones that can do it.
49:15
Like, no, we came up with this based off of ideas that we heard
49:19
about or saw a red or learned ourselves and made it our Our
49:22
own. So however you wish to You know
49:28
incorporate those ideas with you and yours and by all means,
49:32
right? No, no no issue whatsoever and
49:37
again after sambal that's it like nobody has to go home.
49:43
Let's let's see. You know, be safe, let's be
49:44
responsible. Continue drinking have
49:46
Fellowship sing play music. We did some.
49:49
Drumming that night. We did a great smoke session
49:51
like I mentioned earlier that that smoke one that I showed you
49:54
all. Was used for a Palo Santo and
49:57
frankincense. Smoke session.
49:59
So, I got this really nice resin charcoal burner for you'll, from
50:06
my wife, we gave our gifts early to each other closer back to
50:10
like the Christmas time frame because we had a bunch of gifts
50:13
that we get for each other. You know, we always get a small
50:17
group of gifts and So, I had that in with that resin burner
50:26
came, a whole bunch of resin. All different kinds, and
50:28
frankincense myrrh. Copal, great Palo, Santo Pine,
50:34
all kinds of stuff. So, I opened it up.
50:36
I said, guys, we want to smoke on tonight.
50:38
Literally, what do you want? What do you want to breathe in?
50:39
And let's read about, you know what, these certain things are
50:42
good for and Patrick are lost speaker.
50:43
He said Palo Santo and I'm a big fan of Frankincense.
50:47
Just the the sense of calm And the sense of clarity and chill
50:53
that comes over me when I'm breathing in frankincense.
50:56
So, we did some Palo Santo and then before it finished burning,
51:00
added some frankincense on there and just got a nice smoke
51:03
session going, man. We just breathe in those, you
51:07
know, those resins and had a few more drinks and whatnot that
51:12
night and then people just started to, you know, eventually
51:16
leave. It was a it was a winter weather
51:18
advisory for that night. So People that did come, you
51:22
know, it was, you know, make sure that you guys first of all,
51:25
aren't drinking so much that you can't leave, right?
51:29
And we made, sure everybody was sober enough to that was
51:32
drinking. They either had enough time to
51:35
sit and be be sober enough to drive or stay the night which
51:40
nobody needed to do that. It wasn't, there wasn't that
51:42
much being drunk, that night, it wasn't as Intense, or a crazy
51:46
over. You all, as I've said, as I've
51:48
been a part of in the past, there's been some year.
51:50
Years and some uol's man where I'm like, we went nuts.
51:54
That's okay. Just be responsible about it.
51:57
But yeah. So I hope that, you know, you
52:00
all enjoyed me talking to you, pumpkin Tolkien talking to you
52:07
about our tribes, you'll Feast for 2022.
52:11
This year for this podcast. It felt like a good time to kind
52:15
of summarize. It show you guys some of the
52:17
things that I had got tell you about the things that were Two
52:20
others in a little bit about what we do, what who really folk
52:24
does for you. so, not a very philosophical episode, still
52:35
working to get, you know, plans, some more guests coming into
52:40
into the podcast periodically, you know, I may actually have a
52:44
different format of doing that at least doing podcasts like
52:49
this, when I'm not With a guest. I don't know yet.
52:57
Don't know yet but we shall see. It depends on the time that I
53:02
have to learn something new, learn some new technology and
53:09
stuff. So will we shall see.
53:10
But at the very least, this will be here and we'll just keep
53:15
rocking with it. So, thank you all very special.
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Thanks to my YouTube channel, members, and my patrons for your
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these shows means a great deal to, you know, want to want to
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kick off the New Year, hot and heavy strong and then keep that
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momentum going. Another big thank you to Josh
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groom scogan Mar is dropping our track on January 28th which is
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at the end of this month, of course.
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So Friday. I think But he's dropping that
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song. It's a full track is being
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dropped on most streaming apps and most streaming platforms.
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So as we cut and get closer to that, I will be talking more and
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more about it, but he's the one who is responsible for the intro
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music. I did tell you guys that there's
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going to be something that I put out with that song.
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It may will be after his song is dropped, because we've been
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getting a lot of snow and rain and part of what I want to do,
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involves being outdoors. And most of the places that I
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want to do all that stuff in is flooded or muddy mess or
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whatever right now. So it might be, you know, down
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the road a month or two. We'll see.
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But at least the song will be out in.
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You guys will get to hear it. I love it, it's absolutely
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fantastic. Can't wait for you all to hear
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it, but that'll wrap today's podcast up.
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Thank you all so much for tuning in again and watching listening
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So thank you all. So very much for tuning in today
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hail to each and every one of you.
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Until we talk again, stay safe, stay healthy and may your gods
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and your ancestors continue to walk by your sides have a great
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day.