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Random Heathen Ramblings: S6, EP21 [Monthly Live Stream - June 13, 2025] · Random Heathen Ramblings

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Bro, I'm here. Yes, Sir, you are, bro.
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And I am here too. But I am not worried.
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I'm not. I am not.
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The here where you are. I am at the here where I am.
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So I am in your case, I am. I am there according to you and
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you are there according to me. But I am here according to me
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and you are here according to you, if that makes any sense.
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So Halen, welcome to the show, everybody.
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This monthly live stream. We've also got Michael Thacker
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checking in on YouTube just in time.
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But a thunderstorm may take you out.
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I know it's been storming on a lot of places.
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There's all kinds of rain and storms in the forecast here in,
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you know, Middle Tennessee at least and I'm sure other places.
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I was looking out east towards the Blue Ridge Mountains and
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there's all kinds of weather things.
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What's up? Christopher Miller on Facebook
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has Hale and howdy. Yes, Sir.
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And also the regular David clan checking in.
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Hello, David. Good to see you again, too.
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So good to see everybody. Good to hear from everybody.
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This is our monthly live stream, which ultimately becomes the
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podcast for the next week or the next, you know, go around, but
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we're here Live Today. Hello there, Chrissy, Hello from
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the UK. Awesome.
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Very cool. That's great.
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I'm glad we got some folks internationally being
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represented here. So these live streams are, in
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case you're new here or you're not commenting, you know, these
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are monthly sorts of things. They usually happen on Mondays,
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or at least they have in the past.
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But I've noticed that Monday nights just tend to be kind of
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a, a wash for most of the the audience.
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You know, we don't really get a lot of engagement this late on a
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Monday night, but it is a Friday night.
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And a lot of people, I think have, you know, at least here
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domestically in the US, they have most Friday nights are off.
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You know, they don't have to go to work the next day.
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Or if they do, it's kind of a late start.
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But for you, Chrissy, in the UK, it's you're up.
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Early or you're or. You're still up.
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I'm not sure what the comment is there, Chrissy, but I'm thinking
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that if if you did send us, you know, stars in your support of
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this show. I'm not really sure because the
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comments not showing up on screen, but if you did donate or
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send anything that way, thank you so much.
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I appreciate you being here and appreciate everybody else being
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here. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a
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pretty, just want to say very exciting time for the Midgard
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Musings social media sites, you know, especially Facebook
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because this time last week I think we've gained approximately
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and I can't say for sure. I have to go back and look at
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the stats, but I want to say that we've gained somewheres
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upwards of of 10,000 new followers this week over here on
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Facebook. So if you're new here on
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Facebook and you're watching, these are monthly things.
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Don't want to, you know, neglect everybody that's watching on
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YouTube too. But you guys are awesome.
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Thank you all for being here. Oh, wait, we got there with
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Christy. 2:10 AM. Yeah, here in England.
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So it's dark. Is it rainy?
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Is it is it cool? Is it warm?
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I know over here this time of year, at least in this part of
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the country where I live, it gets dark.
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It doesn't get really cool at night.
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It, it it just stays muggy and hot.
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And it it's it's it's it's very yucky.
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I don't like it. Michael's days off are midweek
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on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Yeah.
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You know, we're all we're all doing our own thing.
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But I do appreciate all of you coming here and listen to what
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we ramble on here about tonight. We got here on Facebook as well.
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Renita Moore, hello there from Texas.
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Very cool. I know some people, good people
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out in East Texas in the Tyler area, also up in the Arc Latex
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region of the country there, you know, so that sort of tri-state
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area, really good heathens out there.
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But we are going to be just rambling on for the next however
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long. Again, it's a Friday night.
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I got nothing else to do and I'm here to take your questions or,
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you know, listen to your thoughts, see what you got on
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your mind. But before we get into it,
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patreon.com/midgard Musings. Adam says neither do I.
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About the weather here. Yeah, it.
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Is he's he's. Adam's close to me, about an
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hour and a half away, a little bit closer to the Kentucky area,
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isn't like the north. It's we're still in the South
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And now for for this duration, I have another thing up which is
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It's actually for a member of my family.
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And I'm going to tell you all a little bit about that right now
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before we get into the meat and potatoes of this stream and of
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the show in general. So I want to talk a little bit
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about my mother-in-law and, and some of the things that she has
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going on. And I'm gonna be talking about a
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GoFundMe campaign that we have up for her.
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Some of you that are watching this know about this already and
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have donated to the, to the GoFundMe.
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So thank you very much for that. For those of you who do know,
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but just really quickly, my mother-in-law, she's 84 years
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old and she'll be turning 85 at the end of the year.
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And, and she's just going through that stage of life where
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it's tough to get around and it's quite dangerous for her to
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get around. Even with the assistance of a
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Walker. She's very uneasy on her feet.
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She's had a few very recent episodes where she's falling or,
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or has the propensity to fall. And the family collectively, my
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wife's side of the family is, is, is wanting to get some
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upgrades, some medical equipment upgrades in their house, which
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is a trailer just a few doors down from where I live.
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It's very nice, very cozy, but it has stairs that go up into
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it, you know what I mean? And using stairs with a Walker
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at her age is very precarious. It's, it's, it's a risk every
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single time she goes up or down them.
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So one of the big upgrades that we're looking to, to do is get a
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ramp built, a long ramp with a gradual incline, right?
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So it's not too she's not fighting gravity too badly to
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get up there. And we're also looking to get a
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a Hoyer lift. So when and as she does have
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falling episodes, she you know, her husband, my my father-in-law
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can in case none of us are around, you know, if we happen
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to be, you know, shopping or out of out of town or out of the
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immediate area to run down a few doors and help her up.
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The Hoyer lift is a medical piece of equipment that can
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assist with her getting up safely that, you know, my
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father-in-law can, can, can use. And then lastly, a, a sit to
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stand medical chair with like a remote control that can, can
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ease her up from a sitting position without her having to
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strain and push and, and, and, you know, again, fight gravity.
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So all of these things, as you can imagine, are quite a, you
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know, an expense. And the main thing is to get her
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set up with all of these things so that way she's safe and, and
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her quality of life is, is, you know.
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Easy as as possible. So we're working very hard to to
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get all these things in place. But to try and help recuperate
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the financial expenses of it all, we've set up a GoFundMe.
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And that GoFundMe, if you go to my Linktree link that I just
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talked about in my bio or in my about section or wherever you
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Linktree. Also, in addition to that, I
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Watching on YouTube or or on Facebook, that link is is is
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So any help with that is greatly appreciated.
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And I think that's everything that I wanted to talk about as
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far as housekeeping type things. So now that we're streaming
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live, I'll I'll, I'm just going to get into something that's
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kind of fresh on my mind and then I'll I'll happily take
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questions and answer them to the best of my ability if you have
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them. So just fire away in the
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comments. But one of the things, you know,
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that I, I recently had in my mind, I just got back tonight,
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earlier today rather well, yeah, tonight because it was after
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work and it was this evening. So you know earlier before the
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live stream. We'll put it that way.
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I went to have dinner with a friend of mine, Adam.
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I went to have dinner with Greg. So Adam knows who Greg is.
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He's a good friend of both of ours.
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He's actually the Chieftain of the Raven Moon Hearth kindred in
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here in Tennessee. And they have a couple of big
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events coming up here very soon, one of which is just less than I
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think about a week and a half away up in Hopkinsville, KY.
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It is their annual event called Suna Bloat.
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And it usually coincides with the, you know, summer solstice
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time frame. So usually at, at or around the
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summer solstice, one of those weekends near, near near abouts
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the the Hearth organizes and hosts a public event complete
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with, you know, games, workshops, vendors and a ritual.
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And Suna Bloat is one of their annual public events.
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So Adam's been working very closely and, and because Adam is
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a member of Braven Moon Hearth, so he knows who again, who Greg
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is their Chieftain. But anyways, Adam is working
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very hard to to help with some construction and modifications
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to the property where Suna Bloat is going to be held.
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So if you go on it's it's I know a lot of you are maybe watching
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this on YouTube, don't use, you know, like the Facebook platform
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or whatever, but that's where they have the event.
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So if you search for Raven Moon hearth, I think their Facebook
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page says friends of Raven moon hearth.
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But if you can go to their events, you'll find Suna bloat.
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And then again, they also have one public event that they host,
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same place, which she'll be hosting later in the.
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Fall called Shadowmoot and that's that that often that that
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that event usually coincides with the heathen winter nights
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celebration. So again, check them out.
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But anyways, my point was at that, as Adam's saying says
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splitting. Oh yeah, spitting a whole hog.
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So they, they, they're, they're, they're cooking a whole hog on a
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spit for this year, which is a new thing that this hearth has
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never done before this to my knowledge, at least not so long
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as I've known them. So that's quite a big
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undertaking. And that obviously is going to
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require some, some care and attention to, to preparing it
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and to feeding the people that are attending there.
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But again, public event, you don't have to be heathen or even
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a member of the Hearth to attend this.
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There's a, you know, ticket fees or, or, or whatever to, to, to
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show up there. It all goes towards the hearth
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and the expenses that they incur for hosting this sort of thing.
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And yeah, right, Adam. I mean, Shadowmoot is probably
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one of my favorite events that the Hearth holds.
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I've been to, to my knowledge, the Hearth has three events that
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they host publicly. They have the Feast of the
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Fallen event in the in the early spring, and then they have
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Cinebloat around summer solstice and Shadowmoot in the fall.
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Out of all three of those events that the hearth has held hosted
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over the last plus decade or so, I think Shadow Moon's probably
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my favorite. It's the time of year that is
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one of my favorites. It's it's again, winter nights
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in the in the Germanic or Scandinavian pre Christian
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heathen customs is the the, the, the start of winter, the
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beginning of winter. And it's it's, you know, cooler,
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much nicer for, for rugged camping and, and all that stuff.
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Hey there. Christy Hanson, who says sounds
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great. It is.
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It is absolutely great. I know people who have traveled
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all from all over the country because again, this is held it,
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it has historically been held in Tennessee just outside of
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Nashville in the Springfield area.
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Excuse me, but that has changed. And now they are going to be
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hosting. They're events it looks like, at
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least for the foreseeable future, maybe indefinitely.
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I don't know. Up in Hopkinsville, KY, roasted
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pig is delicious. I've had, I mean, I don't, I
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can't say for sure if I've ever had a hog roasted in like the in
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the ground, the way they they cook it in the ground or, or on
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a spit. But I've definitely, I mean,
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I've cooked wild boar on a, on a, on a grill.
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I've had wild game cooked. Over an open fire.
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There's something about game meat.
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Or livestock, you know, there's, there's something about the
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flavor of it when it's cooked over an open fire.
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It's that, that primal flavor that you know, that the taste of
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the smoke and everything. It's like you almost don't even
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need to you don't even need to season it much with anything.
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So except for, you know, the, the, the wood that you're, that
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you're cooking it. So anyways, the reason why I
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brought Greg up, that kind of went off a little bit on a
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tangent there, but the reason why I brought Greg up was to
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David Klein. Sorry, I want to just read this
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there. David on Facebook says that his
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kindred has has ritual and those, oh, he my kindred has
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weekend. Sorry, his kindred has ritual
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those weekends. Maybe someday.
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Yeah, I'd get it. You know, especially for a lot
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of pagans and heathens, you know, the summer solstice time
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of the year generates a lot of hubbub, I guess you could say.
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You know, a lot of pagans and stuff are doing things with
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their people in and around that time of year.
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So just again, just for people's awareness, if you're looking for
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something to do and you want to connect with other pagans and
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heathens in the area, that's one thing that is again open to the
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public. So, but anyways, why was I
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talking with Greg? Why did I have dinner with Greg?
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Well, I mean, he's my friend. He's a brother to me.
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We are oathed as brothers to one another.
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Even though I don't, I don't I'm not oath to the tribe of, of
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Raven Moon Hearth. I, I did enter into like an oath
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web with him at a, at a hearth event years ago.
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So we, we, we stay in touch. We, we, we obviously we talk
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almost every day in some form or fashion, even if it's just, you
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know, random messages back and forth, memes, you know, giving
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each other, you know, you know, giving each other shit,
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whatever, like brothers do. But anyways, it was nice to have
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that conversation. It's nice to have that, that
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time with him today because, and it made me think about because
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we, this is one of the things that we talked about was how we
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interact with with not just people and how we, we keep up
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relationships with people, but how we interact and keep up
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relationships with the divine. And I was talking to him about
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this, you know, we were, we were sharing this thought together
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about how when, when you, you know, go to ritual, however you
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label it, whether it's, you know, a traditional heathen
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bloat or whether it's just so, you know, a group gathered to,
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to give offerings to the, to the gods or, or to the spirits of
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the land or to the ancestors, whatever, whatever you want to
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label it as or however you want to frame around it, right?
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There's, there's a difference between the ritual, right, What
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we call bloat in Heathenry versus just a, a, a non
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structured offering, you know, and one of the things like we,
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we were talking about is what some of the similarities and
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differences of those two things are and how ritual has to have a
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structure to it. There is things in place, there
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is precedence, there are ways of going about doing it that make
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it ritual. And, and why is that?
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And it is because it needs to have that structure.
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So that way, when the people are coming to this, they are able
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to, you know, put themselves in that right, put themselves in
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that frame of mind and prepare for entering sacred space.
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You are becoming part of something that is outside of the
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profane space and time that we live in and and that we exist in
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regularly. So this is not just, you know,
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let's go hang out and hail the gods and, and whatever.
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No, this is, we are, we are, we are going into a place outside
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of a place. We are, we are experiencing time
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outside of time. And the ritual, it sets the sets
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that it is, it is structured in that sort of way.
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And we got to talking about how some people or how well we've
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noticed and how some people don't seem to understand or or
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appreciate or approach ritual with that understanding of that,
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with that mindset. And it's evident when they don't
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get anything out of it, They don't get anything out of the
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ritual. It's like they're they're,
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they're, they're showing up and they're being cavalier or
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they're being casual or they're not, you know, giving it the do
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benevolence or the do piety, you know, to the gods as it as is
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deserved. And then they, they, they leave
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and have, you know, it was nice. I just really didn't feel
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anything. I wonder why, you know, I wonder
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maybe if you'd put more focus and attention to dressing a
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little bit better or putting yourself in a mindset of I am
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going to now be in a space with divinity, with our holy powers.
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I I use the like the, the, the, the thing to say dress better
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because, you know, we've, we've all seen not rituals where,
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where people come and it's almost like they just, they,
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they left their job and they just came to ritual and they
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didn't care to take off their dirty shirt, put on a clean pair
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of pants, make themselves presentable.
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You know, and granted, this isn't, you know, the same as
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exactly, you know, like what you may want to compare is like your
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Sunday best if you were going to church or people that go to
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church. But Even so, I, I do think that
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there is, there is enough of an understanding that even among
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the pre Christian Germanic peoples and, and pagans that
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were, you know, that, that predate Christianity and then
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the formalities of the church and then this and then that,
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that there was still a very much, they were very much aware
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of, of where they were when they were in their sacred Groves.
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You know, they, they, it was sanctified, it was holy, it was
26:48
separate from the profane, from the mundane.
26:52
And they, they're even, I think Tacitus even documents it was
26:58
either Taxidis or or Adam of Bremen.
27:02
Pretty sure it was Tacitus who who says, you know, that they
27:04
were, there was precedence. There was, there was, you know,
27:06
they would approach things in a certain way.
27:07
If somebody fell, they were not to be picked up.
27:10
There were, there were certain things about their, how they
27:13
behaved and how they interacted within their sacred Groves that
27:18
separated it from outside of it. So, so it was something that we
27:22
were talking about and I thought, you know, man, what a
27:23
great, what a great thing to be reminded of.
27:27
I'm gonna get caught up on some of the comments and then I'll
27:29
pick it up here. Let's see, Christie is half
27:33
Puerto Rican and we do stuff like that all the time.
27:36
Yeah. The the Hispanic community
27:39
really knows how to get down with when it comes to to
27:43
cooking. Michael Thacker may try to go to
27:47
Hopkinsville for the event. Well, cool, man.
27:49
Yeah. If you're like I said, I don't
27:51
know if you're on Facebook or not, but the the event.
27:54
Oh, you're on Facebook. Never mind.
27:55
Sorry, used to seeing you over on YouTube.
27:57
But anyways, yeah, just go search for cinebloat or friends
28:01
of Raven Moon hearth and you'll see all the details and and
28:03
everything that you need to know.
28:06
Christie's so half Puerto Rican. The other half is, is Swedish
28:09
and Norwegian. So man, you, you are, you're
28:10
you're, you're half N half S almost as far apart as as you
28:16
can possibly be. Let's go.
28:18
John Deeson. What's up, man?
28:19
Hope you're still here watching. I just not caught up to the
28:21
comment. What's up, my man?
28:23
Good to see you here and looking forward to actually seeing you
28:25
in person tomorrow. We got a we got a little shindig
28:27
going on over here at Hegrihus, the the Heron's roost, as it
28:33
were tomorrow with some for some men of the community, including
28:36
Greg and John too. I believe Christie says they
28:43
don't take, they don't take it seriously enough.
28:46
You know, I don't know, like I'm not trying to lump everybody in,
28:49
but I've noticed it, you know, I've noticed people who don't
28:52
seem to take it seriously or they show up to ritual blitzed
28:54
off their butts, man. They're, they're drunk, they're
28:57
high or, or a combination of both.
29:00
And, you know, listen, I'm not trying to, you know, be a, be a,
29:03
be a, a stick in the mud or whatever.
29:07
But cause I've, I've, I've been respectful to the, to the ritual
29:14
and to the ceremony, but I've, I've leveraged certain
29:17
substances to enhance the ritual experience to maybe get myself
29:20
in a, in an altered state of consciousness.
29:23
Nothing unhealthy, but that can really open up some doors, man,
29:27
that can, that can really set the tone.
29:29
But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about people that
29:31
have just, you know, been drinking all day or doing
29:34
whatever all day. And then they show up to ritual
29:36
and it's, and it's, they're, it's obvious they're inebriated.
29:38
It's disrespectful. Yeah.
29:41
Always go to the ritual clean. I like, I like that.
29:43
Christy, thank you for for saying that Michael got lonely
29:49
on YouTube. Oh, man, yeah.
29:51
I don't know. I, I can't tell who's watching.
29:53
I know we've got 11 live viewers, which for 33,000
29:58
Facebook followers and 6 1/2 thousand, you know, YouTube,
30:02
I've advertised this thing, this thing here.
30:05
I did it on a Friday, 'cause I knew, you know, it was, it was
30:07
better for, for the engagement. But this just goes to show you,
30:12
you know, we're at the, we're at the, the whims of, of the
30:14
algorithms. I'm excited for tomorrow too,
30:17
John. I'm, I'm super stoked to see
30:20
people and, and yeah, definitely hang out and just, you know,
30:27
sharing some, I've got some, you know, some chicken and some
30:30
sausages and some, some good meats that we're going to be
30:33
going to be cracking on with. That's a, that's a term that I
30:39
haven't heard a lot of. I don't hear it over here, but I
30:42
used to talk to a guy years ago at my work at my job who is,
30:52
who's British. He lives in England, he works in
30:56
London, and we used to have like weekly meetings with this guy
31:04
and his team. And so like, when the meeting
31:07
would start, we'd all be, you know, just small talk, you know
31:12
what I mean? And then when it was because it
31:15
was his meeting or whatever, he'd be like, all right, then
31:17
let's crack on, shall we? And I'm like, God, I love it,
31:20
man. I want to talk like, don't want
31:21
to use terms like crack on and shall we?
31:23
And you know, and, and this and I think it's great.
31:27
So yeah, we're going to, we're going to crack on some of them.
31:31
And then then bangers, anything that what they call sausages
31:35
over in the UK, Bangers, bangers and mash.
31:42
All right. Anyway, Michael, what we got,
31:46
what was the hardest? So Michael's got a comment or
31:48
question, he said, what was the hardest?
31:49
What was the hardest things to adjust to when you started in
31:53
Heathenry? Asking mostly because I'm still
31:56
having trouble after, after these years.
32:00
I'd be curious to know, Michael, like what are you having
32:03
challenges with or what do you find, you know, as you say,
32:08
having trouble with? I think for me, you know,
32:12
because I came into Heathenry with, with very limited
32:17
knowledge about it. I didn't know that this was a,
32:20
that this was an actual religion or a folkway or, or, or
32:24
spirituality or belief system that, that, that exists and that
32:28
existed among people. And so I guess when I came into
32:36
to Heathenry, one of the challenges that I had, you know,
32:44
or I guess one of the hardest things to adjust to was the
32:47
world view of, of Heathenry. You know, and it's not to say
32:51
that there is an old, a universal thing that, you know,
32:54
every heathen does everything the exact same way.
32:57
For example, there's plenty of heathens that choose to not
33:00
adopt A historically accurate approach to when they celebrate
33:04
certain things. Some heathens like to follow a
33:07
Wiccan wheel of the year model of Heathenry where they, you
33:10
know, observe Wiccan Sabbaths instead of the historical pre
33:16
Christian heathen holy tides of Germanic people.
33:20
I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about, you know,
33:23
realizing that the gods weren't, they didn't act in the same
33:27
agency as the Christian God, you know, as, as what I was raised
33:31
and to believe. So there's all of that, you
33:34
know, dogmatic stuff that was difficult for me to, or
33:41
challenging for me to, to, I guess, unlearn and reprogram
33:45
myself, if that's the right way to put it.
33:49
You know, learning and practicing and, and, and, and
33:52
stuff is, is what helped with that.
33:58
But I was willing, you know, I mean, like I was willing to, to,
34:00
to take the challenge on, you know, head on and get through
34:06
it, I guess. And, you know, the other thing
34:08
that was probably hard for me was because I was dedicated in
34:13
that endeavor to learn and to adopt this way of of a belief.
34:18
Probably the hardest thing when I first got into it was knowing
34:23
that I was going to be ostracized and excommunicated by
34:30
my family, you know, my mom, my dad, my sister, my uncles, and
34:34
everybody that I grew up around and all my life.
34:39
Because again, I, I, I, I grew up with this feeling like I
34:44
don't want to let them down. You know, I don't want to
34:46
disappoint them. And I had already up to that
34:49
point when, you know, I had made, you know, life decisions,
34:51
you know, moving away from New York and, and having a life in
34:54
Tennessee. And then all of the things that
34:55
they didn't approve of, I was already living with that sort
34:58
sense of guilt. Like I let somebody down.
35:01
I let the people I love down. They, I didn't live up to their
35:03
expectations of what they thought I should be.
35:07
So, you know, as a, as a baby heathen, you know, when you're
35:09
getting into those things and you don't have the support of,
35:11
of your family, you're trying to find your way.
35:13
That's tough. So I would probably say that
35:16
that was the hardest thing that I had to face when starting in
35:21
Heathenry and and you know, you say hardest thing to adjust to.
35:29
Yeah, I think that was the hardest thing for me to adjust
35:32
to. Thank you for the question.
35:36
Irish guacamole, says John. Yeah, mashed potatoes.
35:38
Yeah, they call it Irish guacamole.
35:40
Man, you ain't lying. Man, you ain't lying.
35:42
You almost can't go wrong with some good old mashed titers.
35:48
Christopher Miller says that. Speaking of the Heron's roost,
35:51
how did you go about connecting with your Filia?
35:54
Did it reveal itself gradually, or was it a sudden revelation?
35:59
Great question, Christopher. So for those of you that maybe
36:03
don't know or, or new to this, I mean, I, I said earlier on the
36:06
on the show there, the stream there, I said, you know, men
36:08
have men coming over to Hagre Hoose, which is just the House
36:11
of the Heron. You know, so like oof or hoose
36:13
you might see or hear or Kravan hoose, you know, Raven house and
36:17
wolf house and you know, Bjardin hoose or whatever.
36:20
You know, the hoose part is house and hagre is the, the
36:24
Norse word for for Heron. So Hagre hoose is the heron's
36:28
house or the heron's roost, as I say, because that's what herons
36:31
do. They, they, they roost in trees.
36:34
So he's asking how did I go about connecting with my fidia?
36:39
So the fidia is again a Norse term, an old Norse part of the
36:44
complex of the self, right? It's part of our soul complex
36:47
in, in the Norse belief that reflects a, a, an animal many
36:53
times or, or it is an animal entity or an animal spirit, part
36:58
of our, our self. But Filia is the word that means
37:01
basically follower. So the Filia follows you, it
37:05
goes ahead of you. It is, it is said, I think in
37:08
the stories that you know, if you see your Filia in a dream,
37:10
it's, it's kind of like a bad omen.
37:13
Or if you see the Filia real life, it's a bad omen.
37:15
But I, I use the term Filia cause again, it, it, it relates
37:20
to the Norse heathen or the Germanic heathen.
37:22
I, I, I say Norse, but I mean, I'm not, I don't know of any,
37:25
like I don't think I have any Scandinavian, Norwegian or, or
37:29
Icelandic or or Swedish ancestry.
37:32
I am Germanic. Most of my ancestry that I know
37:35
on the Germanic side of things are are, you know, on the
37:39
continent. So, but it speaks to me and it
37:43
and it and it relates to me. So anyway, how did I go about
37:46
connecting with my Filia? And did it did it reveal itself
37:50
gradually? It's hard for me to place.
37:54
I really like an exact moment in time when this happened.
37:59
But I live geographically near a river.
38:02
My house is positioned some several 100 yards away from the
38:07
Stones River in in in Murfreesboro, TN.
38:10
The Stones River battlefield is is down the road for me.
38:13
It's a very infamous area for US American, you know, Civil War
38:19
history. And so living on a river or
38:25
living near the river, you know, you, you see all kinds of, of
38:28
animals and, and fowl and you know, herons are, are water
38:34
fowl. They, they, they live near and
38:35
around water. But I noticed that I was, I was
38:42
finding my way through my heathenry to be leaning in into
38:45
the animistic side of things, really connecting with spirit in
38:51
the land, you know, really finding my place in and, and
38:56
feeling at home at the river, you know, So I would go in the
39:00
river to, to walk or I would sit on the, on the riverbanks and I
39:03
would drum or I would burn incense or meditator.
39:06
I would just, you know, find my myself at peace connecting in
39:11
the river. And the more I was doing that,
39:13
the more I was seeing the heroin appear and it would appear in,
39:19
in, in ways that were what what I felt like to me in the moment
39:25
were acknowledgments. They were, it was, it was, it
39:27
was an encounter that I was having with this spirit that was
39:31
acknowledging my presence in its space.
39:34
And as I learned more, and as I became more aware of this
39:38
animism, it, it, it became apparent that not only was the
39:43
Heron connected to me there at the river, you know, where I
39:46
would be connected with it, but that it would go with me.
39:49
I would go places and it would, it would or, or or other people
39:53
even would that I wasn't with would see it.
39:56
You know, I would I would be talking with them and they would
39:58
have an encounter with a Heron and there was a lot of, you
40:03
know, you could say unexplainable such encounters.
40:09
So I, I think it was like I didn't have, I guess I can say
40:12
that I didn't have like a profound dream or vision or
40:15
anything that said, you know, a Heron came to me and was like, I
40:18
am your Fulia now. You know, Luke, I am your
40:23
failure. No, wasn't anything quite like
40:25
that. It wasn't a, you know, a kind of
40:27
epiphany moment. It was gradual.
40:30
But it was very clear to me that I, I, I am the Heron that flies
40:38
to hell. It was a name that was given to
40:39
me by a very near and dear brother to me.
40:45
And, and that name was given to me some years ago after
40:48
discovering the connection with the Heron and as as, as a person
40:52
of American lineage. Obviously I was born here.
40:57
Most of my immediate ancestors are from here.
41:00
I think some of my great, great grandparents on my mother's
41:03
side, great, great, great grandparents came from from
41:06
Europe. But most of the people on my
41:09
dad's side of the family on on the still wagon side.
41:12
You know, we've been we've been in this country.
41:13
I can, I have, I can document myself back to like the 1600s,
41:18
my family, I mean, I can document many of the family line
41:21
back to the 1600s. One of which connections I can
41:25
100% for sure say I have is through marriage and through so
41:32
not like birth per SE, but I have marital ancestry that goes
41:39
back to Pocahontas. The Pocahontas.
41:42
I can prove it. I have the papers that that that
41:45
show it. My, my dad's side of the family
41:48
is, has one of one of his cousins was a genealogist with
41:54
the daughters of the American Revolution years and years ago.
41:57
Lots and lots of time and energy have been spent to to trace our
42:00
sides of the family back that far.
42:04
So the reason I say that is because even though it's it's
42:06
way, way back, and I mean, listen, I'm not delusional.
42:08
I'm not trying to say like just because I have, you know, 1
42:11
three thousandth of a percent of, you know, Pilotin and I'm
42:16
and I'm blanking on the rest of it, but it's all, you know, that
42:18
side of of of the Native American East Coast tribes.
42:24
They were, they were very close to the to the marshes in the
42:26
inland waterways, you know, so the Heron was it was an
42:31
important part of the culture there too.
42:34
And so anyway, knowing that and and finding connection with that
42:37
spirit is, is what really set it in for me.
42:40
There was no question to me and I've grown with the Heron and
42:45
the Heron has grown with me and and together we have have shared
42:48
many meaningful things. So it's a it's a great, you
42:51
know, story I could tell. I have a saga out that matter of
42:54
fact, a couple year, a couple episodes ago, I read the saga of
42:58
the Heron that flies to hell on the podcast.
43:00
So if you all are interested and you want to listen to it, you
43:03
can find it on Spotify or Apple podcasts or wherever else you
43:07
stream your podcasts, or you can watch it on Patreon when you
43:11
join at the Carl tier. So thank you Chris for that
43:13
question. Let's see.
43:16
Oh, question nihilism on YouTube.
43:17
Hey, we got another YouTube on here.
43:18
What's up, man? Oh, going back to Dippy
43:23
soldiers. Oh, we're talking about food
43:24
again. Yeah, sorry, I'm, I'm catching
43:26
up the comments again. Sorry, all they call them dippy
43:29
soldiers. What are some other crazy things
43:30
that Britain, British people say when it comes to food, You know,
43:33
like, oh, you know, or when you're drunk.
43:35
I'm knackered or not. What is it?
43:37
Knackered. Knackered, I know knickers.
43:39
Those are pants, Nick. I'm not going to say it again.
43:43
I'm going to be cancelled if I do anyway.
43:46
What we got Michael Thacker says just getting in the mindset and
43:50
grounded lately. So the challenges that you're
43:53
facing getting in the mindset, maybe your next comment here,
44:03
Let's see. So lately I feel as though
44:04
nothing has been going correctly.
44:07
That or it's the 60 to 80 hour work weeks.
44:13
And I know there's some other people commenting probably in
44:15
response to this. John says I've been there.
44:18
It's the constant grind that wears on us.
44:20
Makes time. Make time for yourself and take
44:22
the time to reconnect with yourself.
44:29
This is great advice, but yeah, Michael, to to your, to your
44:34
last statement there where you said, you know, I feel as though
44:37
nothing has been going correctly.
44:41
You know, that that that's probably a relative term to you,
44:44
you know, because what is going correctly for you may not have
44:47
any meaning to me or to anybody else, you know, so correctly is,
44:52
is a relative term for you. And if you feel that you're kind
44:57
of again, not able to connect and, you know, 6080 hour work
45:02
weeks, dude, that is, that is a hustle.
45:06
I'm not saying that, you know, take a break.
45:09
I mean, I am, I'm saying take a break.
45:11
Like, I don't know, like that's brutal.
45:13
That's not sustainable. I mean, it, it, this isn't it.
45:18
It's the, the world we live in is built around the grind.
45:22
You know what I mean? Like everything I grind to, you
45:25
know what I'm saying? Like, I mean, I'm, I'm hustling
45:28
in different ways, but ways that that really wear on my mind.
45:33
And you know, it's every, every situation's unique, every
45:37
situation's different, but you have to take time for yourself.
45:41
You have to take care of yourself.
45:44
I've, I've noticed that people that don't, when they, when
45:48
they're feeling disconnected, that's the reason it's, it's the
45:50
biggest reason why they don't feel connected to their
45:52
spirituality, to their religion, to their, you know, life,
45:56
whatever they feel like, you know, everything's against them
45:58
or it's not going correctly or it's things aren't going well.
46:04
It's because there's, there's, there's neglect present.
46:08
You know, you're so focused on the work, work, work, work,
46:10
work. You're you're, you're putting
46:14
out so much that you're not feeding back in to, to take care
46:17
of that ability to work so hard. So yeah, I would say I would, I
46:22
would kind of echo what John says is, is, you know, take
46:25
time. Make time.
46:28
Don't just take, make it. I mean, whatever.
46:30
Just make time for yourself. It can be, you know, touch skin
46:37
to grasp. Put your put your bare skin, put
46:39
your bare feet, put your hands, lay down, right.
46:42
But just connect, be on the ground and just pause.
46:44
Just stop and just let yourself be present with yourself without
46:51
anything else going on. And just because once your mind
46:56
quiets down and once you have nothing else to worry about,
46:59
then you can think clearly about how to approach it going
47:04
forward. But you have to start with that
47:05
first step, right? You have to make time for
47:08
yourself. So I do hope that helps and I
47:13
hope that you are. Hope you're OK, man.
47:18
Thank you for for opening up. Christopher says that they
47:21
sprinkled they call sprinkles hundreds and thousands.
47:24
That's that's just what that's OK.
47:28
I mean, that's literal, but like, what's up with that?
47:32
Oh, yeah. Give me a bowl of vanilla ice
47:34
cream with hundreds and thousands on it.
47:35
Hundreds and thousands of what? You know, suggestions, thoughts,
47:42
ideas. Like what do you want hundreds
47:43
and thousands of? That's, that's, that's funny,
47:50
crushing nihilism. And thank you everybody for
47:52
being here on this Friday Night Live stream for those folks that
47:56
listen later on, you know, the again, these are monthly things.
47:59
So just follow me on social media to know where and when
48:01
these are happening, that they're always usually streamed
48:04
to Facebook and and YouTube simultaneously.
48:06
It's just a matter of when, what day of the week and and then all
48:09
that. So thank you all for being here.
48:12
Crushing nihilism on YouTube says that my biggest challenge
48:15
as a heathen has been the quote UN quote orthodox heathen
48:19
community. And to them, Christian nihilism
48:23
is a heretical boy. Yeah, you know, and, and this
48:29
goes back to the whole like world view of things or mindset
48:35
of things. Like, you know, some, some
48:37
heathen come, some people as, as, as heathens don't see there
48:43
being any orthodoxy and heathens and others do.
48:48
And orthopraxy, orthopraxy. These are these are pretty
48:54
important topics to talk about too.
48:56
I've talked about them a bit. But there are definitely, I
49:01
guess arguments to both sides. The orthodox or the orthopraxic
49:07
ones are, are, are going to think that that's it, you know,
49:11
and it's, you know, if you're, if you're going to be heathen
49:13
and then this is the way you got to do it.
49:14
And if you're not, then you're, if you don't, then you're not,
49:19
which can deter a lot of newcomers, especially,
49:22
especially folks that are trying to learn and, and you know, come
49:26
into that way. It can be a deterrent.
49:31
I've got another Facebook comment here from UNK Heathen.
49:35
What's up? UNK He says hail Jesse, Uncle
49:39
Heathen here. Just wanted to say thank you.
49:41
Your words on Midgard musings lit the path for me when I was
49:43
just finding my way. And I've learned a lot about
49:45
honoring the old gods from you. Appreciate all you do Hail and
49:49
thank you. I appreciate that UNK Good to
49:51
see you here. And yeah, I hope you stick
49:54
around and, and and continue to, to see what it, what we do here.
49:58
I I I appreciate that man. Very, very kind words.
50:01
You know, I'm glad to have been a, a sort of jumping off point
50:07
for you. That's really humbling.
50:09
So it's good to have you here. Thank you.
50:15
Let's see. David Klenn says that one thing
50:19
I did for myself this year is get healthy.
50:22
This goes back to taking care of ourselves and making time for
50:24
ourselves and making, you know, making our ourselves a priority.
50:27
So David says that one thing he did for himself this year is to
50:30
get healthy. Lost 35 lbs, five inches on his
50:34
waist, feeling better and more connected than other, more
50:37
connected than ever. First of all, David,
50:39
congratulations. I know what it's like to
50:41
struggle with weight gain. Weight loss it especially as we
50:45
get older. Some people have a have a have a
50:49
higher metabolism. They don't have as big of a
50:52
problem maintaining their weight.
50:53
But I've noticed that as I've gotten older, I can't, you know,
50:58
my metabolism isn't the same as it was when I was in my 20s.
51:04
You know, I could, I could eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, not gain an
51:08
ounce. Plus, I was, you know, working
51:10
out and working a physical job, you know, I mean, so I was, I
51:12
was burning the calories more than what I was consuming.
51:15
But I was still, you know, my parents, one of the things that
51:17
they used to call me or, or say about me was I had a hollow leg.
51:20
They're like, where does he put it all?
51:22
But you're right, David, it, you know, taking care of ourselves
51:25
physically, it, it, it, it has a direct connection to our overall
51:30
health. You will feel not just
51:32
physically better, but you will feel emotionally, spiritually,
51:36
mentally better when you start really paying attention to the
51:41
type of substances you put in your body, the way you take care
51:45
of yourself as a being right, whether it's, you know, going on
51:51
walks, working out, doing push ups, whatever, you know, you got
51:55
to think, you know, our ancestors, they, they worked for
51:57
everything that they had. There was no sit and call of a
52:01
pizza in, you know, or, or, or order Uber Eats on an app you
52:05
know, or, or or even, you know, open a refrigerator and and make
52:09
a sandwich. You know, not all that long ago,
52:13
if you wanted to eat, you had to work for it.
52:16
You had to hunt it, grow it, trap it, fish it.
52:19
You know, you had to do something.
52:23
And our society has has grown so far away from that that it's,
52:28
you know, it's no wonder so much so many of us are struggling
52:33
with that. So.
52:34
But good on you, David. And that's very inspiring.
52:36
Thanks for sharing. Yeah.
52:39
John says that's what's that is a win.
52:41
Exactly. You know, making time, caring,
52:44
taking care of yourself. We can't be there and show up
52:47
for others if we can't show up for ourselves.
52:49
Louder for those in back, John. That's what I'm talking about.
52:54
You know, you can't be there for others and show up.
52:58
You can't pick up somebody off the ground if you yourself are
53:01
laying down, you know, in a ditch.
53:05
There's a, there's a, there's a pretty common, a dog is
53:11
scratching herself and she's like, it's knocking on the door
53:13
and it's hilarious. It sounds like she's knocking.
53:15
No, you have to book an interview with me on my website,
53:20
please and thank you anyway. But to John's point, you know,
53:24
you can't be there and show it for others if we can't show it
53:26
for ourselves. There's a, there's a pretty
53:28
popular thing in, in a parable, you know, and, and this is
53:34
Christianity, but you know that the parable of, of, of you can't
53:40
pull the mote out of your brother's eye if you have a beam
53:42
in your own. You can't, you can't help
53:43
somebody else if you're fucked up.
53:45
You know what I'm saying? Just to be like blunt about it.
53:49
And it's a philosophy. It's it's a teaching.
53:51
It's, it's, it's something that you know, doesn't, you can't
53:56
bottleneck it into just Christianity.
53:57
Sure, it's the thing that got mentioned in the Christian
54:00
Bible, but I think it's, it's, it's worth leveraging into our
54:03
own beliefs. It's, you know, you can't pick
54:04
somebody else up if you yourself are, are, are, you know, down in
54:10
a ditch, you know, like John says, you know, you can't be
54:13
there for others and show up for others if you can't show up for
54:15
yourself. So I don't want to take away
54:18
from that from you, John, but man, what a, what a very great
54:22
way of, of, of, of making that distinction.
54:25
So thank you. Crushing nihilism as have you
54:29
read Steven Brink's paper on the uniformity of Norse religion?
54:32
I have not. And I'm not familiar with who
54:35
Steven Brink is. It's not a name that I've come
54:41
across doesn't mean anything inherently, but I'll I'll
54:45
definitely check it out. I'm always interested in hearing
54:49
what people are are reading these days or researching these
54:52
days. So Stephen Brink, I will, I will
54:56
take note of that and look into it and might be something that
55:00
gets used for for for for something on a on a future
55:05
podcast. Michael Thacker.
55:11
Sorry. Michael Thacker says lately I've
55:12
taken to a cigar and evening on the front porch.
55:16
We're down four people at work, which means extra stores for
55:20
everyone. Oh, you work at a soda company,
55:23
So you're doing all of that. Yeah.
55:26
And that's, you know, that's that's great.
55:29
I have to take care of this. Go lay down somewhere worrying
55:34
me to death over here with that knock.
55:36
And she's scratching herself and it's like knocking on the door
55:38
anyway. Yeah, a nice, you know, and, and
55:42
that's great. That's a great way to wind down
55:44
and kind of take your mind off of the stress of things.
55:48
But I get it. You know, you've got all of that
55:52
in the moment, you know, and you're thinking about it later.
55:55
It's tough. I get it.
55:56
You're thinking about later on, like, oh, you know, we're down
55:59
four people. I got to wake up tomorrow and do
56:01
all this extra stuff, you know, and it's, you know, rinse and
56:04
repeat and the cycle continues. I, I, I can totally relate to
56:10
that. I think one of the things that
56:17
has helped me when it comes to this, this work life balance,
56:22
you know what I'm saying? One of the things that has aided
56:28
me in, in not getting caught up in that is living in the moment.
56:35
All right, this is what I got to do today.
56:37
Don't worry about what it's going to be tomorrow.
56:41
It may not be here, or I mean, I may not be here for it.
56:45
I'll worry about it when I get there.
56:47
I'm going to. I'm not going to be oblivious or
56:50
ignorant to planning and being prepared.
56:54
And I'm also not going to let the this is a conscious thing,
57:00
man. Like this.
57:00
This takes work. This takes real work.
57:03
This takes inner work. This takes some shadow work, if
57:06
you want to call it that, to sit with yourself and realize I am
57:10
not going to let these things, these unknown things, the future
57:14
worry me because you know what the future is.
57:16
That's what we call anxiety. You know, I'm not a professional
57:24
psychologist, psychiatrist, mental health person.
57:27
I don't have any formal training in this, in this field.
57:30
I just know that when we worry about things that haven't yet
57:35
happened, that's what anxiety is.
57:38
You're thinking about it too much.
57:40
You're worrying about something that doesn't even exist.
57:44
It hasn't manifested yet. That truckload of soda that's
57:49
going to where the hell ever tomorrow.
57:51
You're not in tomorrow. I mean, you know, all of these
57:54
reports that I have to run for this, for this client, you know,
57:58
next week. Well, I'm not there yet.
58:00
I'm here now. I finished what I had to do
58:03
today and that thing is not, is not, I'm not letting it worry
58:08
me. I will deal with it when I get
58:10
there and I know that it will be there when I get there.
58:13
If I get there, whatever, I'm not worried about it, though,
58:16
I'll deal with it when I get there.
58:18
And, and it honestly, that's one of the toughest things to, to
58:20
really embrace because we have so much on our plates,
58:26
especially as men. Like we have so much that we,
58:29
that we ponder about that we have, you know, we, we take on a
58:31
lot as providers. We, we, we, we carry the weight
58:36
of the world, of our own worlds on our shoulders.
58:39
And we feel like it has to be us.
58:41
We have to do it alone. We have to do it.
58:43
Nobody else is going to do it for us.
58:44
And, and that's man, that that has been the downfall of, of so
58:48
many, so many men, so many good people, not just men, but I
58:52
mean, you know, I would just maybe just, you know, as a, as a
58:57
edification for you there, Michael.
58:58
I mean, it's don't worry about it.
59:03
And I listen, you know, I'm used to hearing responses of, of when
59:07
I say stuff like that. Some people really don't want to
59:12
hear that. You know, I'll, I'll, I'll get
59:15
responses of such things as like, you can't say that.
59:18
You can't just tell me to not worry about it.
59:21
It's not that easy. It's not that simple.
59:27
Why not? I mean, nobody's the same.
59:31
We're not the same. I, I, I, I realize that
59:34
everybody is going through their own things.
59:36
Some people have way more mental hurdles to go through in their
59:42
life and that and that plague them and that they're, that they
59:44
struggle with. But if you, if you sit in the
59:48
moment again, be present, sit in the moment and think about it
59:51
and just, and just realize why not?
59:55
Why can't, why isn't it that simple?
59:57
It, well, it's not that simple because I'm not, I'm making it
1:00:00
that way. I'm complicating it.
1:00:03
The reality of it is what it is. Your perception, the way you
1:00:07
perceive The thing is what makes it makes you anxious or, or
1:00:12
makes you worry or this or that, right.
1:00:15
So inherently the reality of it is, is, is what it is.
1:00:19
You know, the way you feel about it doesn't change what it is.
1:00:24
And that's a tough thing to people for some people to.
1:00:27
To accept, Adam says you can't, you can't help others when you
1:00:33
yourself are broken. It's another good point, Adam.
1:00:37
Thank you for sharing that too. That's another good way of
1:00:39
putting it. You have to mend the wounds, you
1:00:42
know, and it's you know. Have a good night to you too
1:00:47
there, John. Just I'll see you tomorrow.
1:00:51
Thank you, man. Proud of you too.
1:00:53
Thank you for being in my life and and thank you for showing up
1:00:56
to the show tonight. But what was I going to say is
1:01:02
yeah, you know, mending the wounds, you know, and and that's
1:01:05
a that's an ongoing process, you know what I mean?
1:01:06
Like just because you are wounded, you know, mending those
1:01:14
wounds, it it doesn't take away from the fact of what had
1:01:16
happened. You know, you're still going
1:01:17
through that healing. You're still going through those
1:01:20
motions of healing it, it, it doesn't erase what had happened
1:01:27
that caused it, but tending to it and being present with it and
1:01:32
actually sitting with those wounds and, and, and learning
1:01:36
everything you can from them. It is, it's it that is part of
1:01:38
the healing process as part of the work.
1:01:42
Take it one day at a time. Like Adam says.
1:01:44
The gods will show us what we need and have to do tomorrow.
1:01:48
Things will provide for themselves, right?
1:01:51
You know, worry not for the tomorrow.
1:01:53
It is sufficient. There are sufficient things to
1:01:56
worry about that that the tomorrow worries for itself, you
1:02:01
know, and there's plenty of things going on today that can
1:02:05
that that need to be addressed, right?
1:02:06
There's plenty of of things to be cared for here now present
1:02:10
that require your attention. So take it as he says, one day
1:02:16
at a time. The gods, your ancestors,
1:02:20
spirit, whatever you know name you want to put to that is is
1:02:24
going to be there when the next thing comes right?
1:02:32
Crushing nihilism. Continuing on here says for
1:02:34
those struggling with anxiety, I would check your diet first.
1:02:37
Here we go. Great great follow up to what
1:02:40
David Klenn was saying. You know a lot of times food has
1:02:42
mental effects. 100% accurate true yes.
1:02:46
And if it's not food related, then get a regular banishing
1:02:49
practice. You know, I'll let you zol in a
1:02:57
little bit on just something that I do some work that I do.
1:03:08
It's a bit of a cultic individual cultic practice,
1:03:11
right? It's my own hearth cult.
1:03:12
So I'm not, I'm not suggesting this for you to now adopt it,
1:03:18
but if it inspires and you want to maybe consider this, then
1:03:24
fine. I mean, I don't, it's fine.
1:03:27
So anyway, what I regularly do in my spatial areas, my house,
1:03:34
you know, is I, I burn certain things, certain resins and which
1:03:42
by the way, certain resin smokes, like for example,
1:03:45
frankincense and benzoin and and myrrh.
1:03:49
You know, these don't just, they don't just smell good when they
1:03:52
burn. You know, the actual resin rocks
1:03:55
when, when you put them on like the Colt, a charcoal sensor or
1:03:59
something, right? They don't just smell good.
1:04:03
They actually have a bit of a mildly psychoactive components
1:04:10
to it. And maybe not psychoactive is is
1:04:11
probably not the right term for it, but it's the closest thing I
1:04:14
can think of. You know, like breathing in the
1:04:15
smoke of frankincense can actually calm your mind.
1:04:21
You know what I mean? And it's no wonder then that
1:04:25
this particular resin is burned in cathedrals and and stuff
1:04:29
during Mass, you know what I mean?
1:04:30
Or is used in letters in other cultures for ceremonial
1:04:34
purposes. It is has a common effect that
1:04:36
calms your mind and calms your heart comes your spirit.
1:04:38
You know what I mean? So for example, you know, like
1:04:43
there are regular things that I do to keep the spatial areas of
1:04:47
my home and my land and the property around my space, you
1:04:51
know, for my wife and I to keep it welcoming, to keep it clean
1:04:55
both physically and spiritually. So the smoke is an offering to
1:04:59
the spirits of we welcome you. But it also is a shield.
1:05:05
It is a ward. It is a banishing of baleful
1:05:09
whites of of of those who would wish to invade or do harm.
1:05:15
And it works. It has worked for me when done
1:05:18
with the right, you know, with the right purpose behind it, it
1:05:23
is definitely working. So to your point, you know, to
1:05:24
crushing nihilism's comment here, I 100% agree.
1:05:28
Right. Don't go just jump into the pool
1:05:30
of woo woo magic stuff and then think that that's going to solve
1:05:33
all your problems. Take care of your physical self,
1:05:35
change your diet, look at what you're eating or consuming then
1:05:39
putting into you that could be having a negative effect and
1:05:42
adjust that accordingly, right? Make those course corrections
1:05:46
and in tandem figure out your, your spirituality practices and
1:05:53
maybe work towards creating a wholesome environment, a
1:05:57
wholesome space for benevolence, for benevolent spirits, for the
1:06:02
whites that, that you know, inhabit the space around you
1:06:04
that are there for your, for your good.
1:06:07
And then coexist peacefully and work to banish the baleful ones.
1:06:14
All right. Christopher Miller says that the
1:06:17
unwise man is awake all night worrying about everything.
1:06:20
He's fatigued when the morning comes and his problems remain
1:06:23
unsolved, which is the 23rd stanza.
1:06:25
We have them all. Thanks for the quote there,
1:06:27
Chris. You've, it's funny that you
1:06:29
mention that. I've, I've, I've talked about
1:06:31
this stanza. I've mentioned it, I've
1:06:32
referenced it many times to people.
1:06:35
And I was thinking about it kind of in the back of my head, but I
1:06:37
just couldn't like break train of thought on what I was
1:06:40
thinking. So I'm glad you brought it up
1:06:42
And it it's, it speaks for itself.
1:06:44
It is a very timely thing to mention here, but it is so true.
1:06:52
You know, I can't, I can't add really much to anything on that.
1:06:57
So thank you. All right, David, heading out.
1:07:01
Have a great evening. Hope to meet you in person soon.
1:07:04
We got to figure something out, David.
1:07:05
I mean, we're I, I was, I was actually thinking about you the
1:07:11
about a month or so ago I had to, I had a visit a a dear
1:07:14
friend of mine at the Murray Regional Medical Center.
1:07:18
He had been admitted to the hospital and he's OK now.
1:07:20
He's back home in Lewisburg, but he had been moved out there to
1:07:24
to Murray County. And I was like, man, here I am,
1:07:27
you know, under these circumstances, I don't have time
1:07:29
to, to hit somebody up just randomly.
1:07:31
But you were on my mind. So we do.
1:07:34
We got to we got to coordinate something.
1:07:36
We got to figure something out. All right.
1:07:39
Adam says, yeah, Say it out loud.
1:07:43
Say it out loud. Say my name.
1:07:45
Say my name. Anyway, what am I drinking on
1:07:48
tonight? There I am, drinking whiskey.
1:07:53
Whiskey, as Stewie Griffin would say.
1:07:57
Quill Wheaton. It is just just a just a a
1:08:02
blended Scotch. Glenn McGregor, I think.
1:08:07
Or it might be, I don't know. It's black velvet.
1:08:09
Sorry. Black velvet, if you please.
1:08:15
Yeah, I know it ain't. It ain't top shelf, it ain't
1:08:17
fancy, but neither am I. I'm a I'm a, I'm a, I'm a baddie
1:08:23
on a budget. It's a good Scotch, you know it.
1:08:30
Listen, I, I do enjoy good Scotch and I and I enjoy not so
1:08:36
great. I don't, I don't, you know, I'm
1:08:38
not a, I'm not a lush. I don't just buy the cheapest
1:08:40
thing off the shelf. But, but you know, Clan
1:08:45
MacGregor is is not top shelf. It is a blended Scotch, black
1:08:50
Velvet's a blended whiskey. It's you know it, but it gets
1:08:54
the job done and I enjoy it. You know, I'm I'm, I'm not
1:08:56
bougie. I don't have to have a a single
1:08:58
malt every every night. Not sharing with the group.
1:09:04
Hey, man, you know you, you were invited.
1:09:07
Let me, let me just let me just let me just say, you know, you
1:09:10
got the invite to come out here tomorrow and you have, you know,
1:09:16
you had other obligations, but for everybody that's here that
1:09:19
that feels like I'm not sharing, here's to you here.
1:09:22
Drink my transparent glass of whiskey because I have a
1:09:27
background that's not here We go do this.
1:09:29
Boom, I'm gone now. Boom, there I am again.
1:09:33
OK, Skull Schlancha post not as little of you.
1:09:40
I don't know how many different languages do you know how to say
1:09:44
cheers or to your health? That was Old Norse.
1:09:49
That was Gaelic, I think maybe, and it was German and it was
1:09:55
Russian. I don't know.
1:10:00
Did anybody else know anything, any other ways to say, you know,
1:10:03
like cheers or to your health in another language?
1:10:10
There's there's this term in Japanese that I, that I, that I
1:10:13
hear people say like when they eat, eat the dakimasu.
1:10:15
I don't know if that's, if that's something like to your
1:10:19
health. I don't know what we got here.
1:10:25
Oh, Swedish. Well, I'm probably going to
1:10:27
butcher this. I'm going to try my best.
1:10:30
Oh, Serbian. What the heck?
1:10:31
I can't read Serbian. Yeah.
1:10:36
Why is there an umlaut? Is that an?
1:10:38
What is that? What is that?
1:10:39
A over the Z Givelli. Givelli, maybe?
1:10:45
All right, that I am totally guessing Givelli.
1:10:50
Givelli. I don't know.
1:10:52
I'm almost sound like it. Givelli, that's Italian too.
1:10:56
What is it in Italian? Not Bona Petito.
1:11:06
That's like about to eat, mind ya.
1:11:08
No, that's that's that's bon appetito.
1:11:11
Yeah, to to your appetite. But what they they say the God.
1:11:16
What do they say? I'm sure I should know this.
1:11:18
I'm like my my grandfather, like bop bop.
1:11:21
I'm sorry. You know, he he bacigalupo over
1:11:24
here can't remember how to say basic things in Italian.
1:11:27
He was he was, he was from Italy.
1:11:29
Not from Italy, but his parents were from Italy.
1:11:31
He was born here. The Potenzas, which a Potenza,
1:11:36
right? That's an Italian name.
1:11:38
It's also a city in Italy. Oh, OK, I got it right, Chris.
1:11:43
Cool. Hey, that was I was I was
1:11:47
totally shooting from the hip on that one, but OK, so in Serbian
1:11:53
Givelli. Oh, Salut.
1:11:59
What the hell? Why did that escape me?
1:12:01
Salut. Yeah, Salut is the Italian.
1:12:05
There we go. And Chris just read as I said
1:12:07
it. Yeah.
1:12:10
Salute to health. Yeah.
1:12:18
What's up, Nick? Wait a SEC, Bongiorno.
1:12:23
Why did I read that in Lieutenant Aldo, the Apache's
1:12:28
voice from Inglourious Basterds when you said that I speak the
1:12:34
most Italian, Bongiorno. Good to see you, Nick, though.
1:12:41
Thanks for commenting. Thanks for showing up.
1:12:44
Kampai, according to to Michael Thacker, is the Japanese phrase
1:12:49
Itadakimasu is just the saying before eating.
1:12:52
Oh, you were a huge weeb in high school.
1:12:56
OK, well, thank you for the education.
1:13:01
So Kampai, Kampai, Japanese phrase for in in itadakimasu is
1:13:10
the before you eat. OK, So it's kind of like the
1:13:12
Italian way of going bon appetito or manja aorta Z manja
1:13:17
is what they say. And now we eat, you know, bon
1:13:22
appetito. But yeah, so all of it.
1:13:30
Cheers to your health to life, Lehayim.
1:13:34
I think that's maybe Hebrew or Yiddish, I don't know.
1:13:41
Speaking of Hebrew, you guys see that Spaceballs is coming back
1:13:46
for a sequel after 40 years. Mel Brooks is supposed to be in
1:13:50
it. The Schwartz returns, they don't
1:13:56
call it that. Or the return of the Schwartz,
1:13:59
they don't call it that. I don't know what I'm going to
1:14:02
do. I'm still going to watch it, but
1:14:03
I don't know what I'm going to do.
1:14:08
You know, I'll be all right. I'm definitely going to watch it
1:14:11
because and and Rick Moranis, I think is is supposed to be
1:14:14
coming back for that too. So going to take a quick short
1:14:24
break, give everybody a chance here to kind of stretch their
1:14:31
legs. Dude, I can't believe, listen, I
1:14:34
was it's wild. Matthew, Sarah is here.
1:14:38
Matthew, what's up, man? I, I was literally just about to
1:14:42
take a break and I was going to play your song, your music video
1:14:48
for Varun Natal for the break. Because we've been streaming now
1:14:53
for an hour and 15 minutes. And it's, you know, about time
1:15:00
to kind of just get up, stretch our legs, make sure that we're
1:15:02
not, you know, sitting here vegging out.
1:15:08
Yeah, saw me on. That's right.
1:15:10
I'm, I'm, I'm on, as I say, it's on like Donkey Kong here in, in,
1:15:15
in the, in the thing. So yes, ladies and gentlemen,
1:15:19
boys and girls, Matthew Serra is actually the composer the, the,
1:15:23
the mastermind behind this song that you're about to, to hear.
1:15:28
We collaborated in a very minor in a, in a way, you know, he had
1:15:32
asked for some visuals to go along with this, to go along
1:15:40
with this, this song that he wrote.
1:15:44
Yeah. Mel Brooks is 98.
1:15:45
Yeah, he'll be he, he would be. I think they're saying that it's
1:15:48
supposed to be released in like 2 years.
1:15:52
So hopefully they've already filmed it because he'd, he'd be
1:15:55
like 102 or, or, or 100 years old or something like that by
1:15:58
the time it, it, it releases. So yes, how weird indeed.
1:16:04
Matthew, Sarah, that we're going to play this song when we come
1:16:11
back. I will catch up on some more
1:16:12
comments. Thank you all for being here.
1:16:14
Just take a break. You know, I'm not going
1:16:15
anywhere. We'll come back and we'll,
1:16:16
we'll, we, we will revisit some of the comments.
1:16:22
But again, this song by Matthew Cera is called Runetal there.
1:16:28
It's going to have some lyrics and stuff on the screen, but I
1:16:30
think it's a really beautiful song.
1:16:32
So enjoy. Thank you all for being here.
1:16:34
We'll be right back after this, so stay tuned.
1:17:39
The. The.
1:19:39
The. All right, folks, welcome back.
1:20:14
Hope you all enjoyed that. I love that song.
1:20:16
I love the the the composition of it.
1:20:19
I love what Matthew did with the liar harp, I guess, or if I'm
1:20:26
Lear liar. So great job Matt, and thank you
1:20:32
for presenting that to the world and sharing it and hope you all
1:20:37
enjoyed it. Crushing nihilisms here.
1:20:42
So shout out to Eyrich and Scott Eyrich Westcote and Scott Shell.
1:20:46
For those of you who don't know, Eyrich also has the the skaldic
1:20:55
eagle is, is his online, I guess moniker or what he goes by.
1:21:00
So the skaldic eagle, Irick Westcote.
1:21:04
I've had him on the show before last season and I've had Scott
1:21:08
on the show a couple of times. They were actually on an episode
1:21:11
with me together when I had when I had Irick on.
1:21:16
I, I got Scott on too as well. And they're both amazing
1:21:21
gentlemen, very knowledgeable rune masters of their own,
1:21:28
masters of the rune Guild. Or at least I know Scott is.
1:21:32
I don't want to speak out of turn.
1:21:33
I think Irick is a is a master of the rune Guild.
1:21:37
If he's not, it would surprise me.
1:21:39
But anyway, check him out. The skull, the eagle skull
1:21:41
theeagle.com. He's on like on Instagram, maybe
1:21:43
Facebook and maybe YouTube. Yeah, pretty sure he's on all
1:21:47
three. And then Scott has a YouTube
1:21:51
channel. But if you just go on YouTube
1:21:52
and and search for Scott Shell, he has a YouTube channel.
1:21:56
It's a bit the name of it is something to do with Dramatic
1:21:59
Heathenry. But yeah, very knowledgeable.
1:22:06
So check them out. Michael Thacker once again.
1:22:10
Hello Sir says got a drop out of here.
1:22:13
That's OK. Got to be at work at 4:00
1:22:15
tomorrow. Take care of yourself, Michael.
1:22:17
Remember, make time for yourself and be safe out there with all
1:22:22
the sodas. Hope you enjoyed the song.
1:22:30
All right, brother Adam, great to see you.
1:22:33
Thank you. I appreciate the support.
1:22:35
Just keep up the great work. I'm doing my best, Sir, and you
1:22:39
do as well, you know? I know what you do.
1:22:43
I'm proud of you. Keep it up, Christopher.
1:22:48
Miller Yes, wonderful work. Indeed.
1:22:51
Glad you all enjoyed it. Yeah, you're welcome.
1:22:57
Matt, thank. You, I'm glad you enjoyed the
1:23:02
the atmosphere of the art, he said.
1:23:04
Love, love the atmosphere that you created with the art.
1:23:07
We tried to, you know, Matthew was looking for something that
1:23:10
kind of represented the World Tree IGRA seal.
1:23:14
And, you know, we had tossed around a couple ideas and we,
1:23:17
we, we kind of landed on, or he did land on something.
1:23:21
Nothing too elaborate, nothing too, you know, crazy simple, but
1:23:29
sometimes simple is best. So just the atmosphere that that
1:23:33
that, you know, kind of misty cosmic tree kind of put you in a
1:23:40
in a mindset, you know, and that that's like an interesting kind
1:23:45
of. Touch to.
1:23:46
One of the things that we talked earlier about before when when
1:23:49
the stream was, was just starting out talking about
1:23:53
ritual and approaching ritual in the right mindset.
1:24:00
You know, music is a great way to help achieve a a healthy
1:24:10
altered state of consciousness. You know, rhythm and and sound
1:24:14
are are definitely tools that can be imparted to change your,
1:24:22
you know, perception of profane space.
1:24:24
You can, you can almost be entranced or not almost.
1:24:27
You can you become entranced through sound and through
1:24:32
rhythm. You know, This is why so many
1:24:35
cultures that that have the shamanic practices amongst it
1:24:39
have the implementation the use of the drum, certain other, you
1:24:46
know, cultures that that that you implement that that singing,
1:24:49
you know, throat singing and then certain tones, you know, it
1:24:53
certain hurts are are are attained through through that.
1:24:58
Sound and and then that. That allows for the.
1:25:04
For the mind to. To sort of I wanna say like
1:25:07
disconnect from. From what?
1:25:09
From itself, but but to. Be but to again be transported
1:25:11
or or transferred into that ritual state of mind.
1:25:14
You know what I mean? To kind of be very present in in
1:25:24
in the ritual. State.
1:25:26
And so like for, for I was when I was talking earlier about when
1:25:29
people come to ritual and they're inebriated, they, they,
1:25:32
they went too far, You know, they got lost in the sauce.
1:25:34
They, they went hard in the paint, as the saying goes, You
1:25:39
know, that that abuse of, of, of substances, you know, can, can
1:25:43
really ruin things. And it's, it's not, it's not
1:25:48
nice to witness. It's.
1:25:49
Not good to be around. It tarnishes the the space so.
1:25:59
I love it when. You know, we have people that
1:26:01
are, are creators themselves, whether you know, it's artisans,
1:26:05
craftspeople, you know, Matthew with his with his music and that
1:26:10
talent, you know, that is that is a craft and crafting that
1:26:15
that art and, and sharing it with the world.
1:26:18
This is a really healthy and good way to help people, you
1:26:25
know, get into that. State of mind it's, you know.
1:26:27
Meditation, relaxation, you know, Michael, if you catch this
1:26:32
afterwards or or later or some other time, you know, you talked
1:26:36
earlier about how smoking a cigar is, is like kind of your,
1:26:39
your downtime. You're, you're winding down,
1:26:41
you're smoking a cigar and that gives you moments to contemplate
1:26:44
and to think and, and to just be present with yourself.
1:26:47
You know, some good music is another great way, you know,
1:26:50
like preaching to the choir, I'm sure.
1:26:53
But it's don't forget it. You know, some of that.
1:26:55
Sometimes the simple things are are what we forget.
1:27:00
You know, we forget what it's like to to engage with the
1:27:04
things that gave us joy and gave us fulfillment when we were
1:27:09
children, even, you know, the things that made us happy, the
1:27:12
things that gave us joy, the way we played.
1:27:15
You know, I was I was talking to this fella.
1:27:22
I know we're just kind of like online friends or whatever
1:27:27
acquaintances. And you know, he sent me this
1:27:30
picture of these two Bobcats. It was, it was like, I guess a
1:27:35
mother in in her, in her cub. And they were like standing up
1:27:39
on it was it was obviously, you know, an in motion kind of
1:27:43
photograph. You know, they were, they were
1:27:45
kind of standing up on their hind paws with their other, with
1:27:50
their front paws kind of up and over them facing each other.
1:27:54
And it almost looked like they were dancing, you know, like
1:27:56
they were in this sort of freeze frame movement of dance.
1:28:02
But it looked like the, you know, you could say that or you
1:28:05
or you. I, I, I took it as they were
1:28:07
playing. You know, there was, there was
1:28:09
play happening that was captured there.
1:28:13
And I thought, man, what a great reminder for all of us to to see
1:28:18
something like that and to and to go.
1:28:19
And when was the last time we played?
1:28:22
You know, it's 'cause as we grow older and as we mature, games
1:28:28
and play is something that sometimes gets forgotten about
1:28:32
and it gets pushed aside and it gets pushed back, you know, And
1:28:36
this particular fellow, when he sent me and I said that thing
1:28:38
about play, he said, you know, I, I don't even know how to
1:28:41
play. And I said, yeah, you do.
1:28:43
Maybe he didn't say that exactly.
1:28:45
He said, but I've forgotten, you know, I've, I've, I've gotten in
1:28:51
the, the way that I've grown and the way that I've matured in
1:28:54
this and that, you know, it's, it was almost like he was saying
1:28:57
he had forgotten how to play and I.
1:29:02
Thought man, it's Denu, you know, like it's, it's there.
1:29:04
You just have to reconnect with that.
1:29:09
That inner. Child that, that, that
1:29:10
playfulness and how good is that to be reminded of?
1:29:15
We learned so much as children during play, you know, we
1:29:19
learned how to respond to to situations.
1:29:23
We learned, you know, skills, you know, we, we, we learned.
1:29:28
But but at the and then other times it was just the the
1:29:33
carefree moment to not be responsible for anything
1:29:39
important, you know, and. Then how much of even?
1:29:41
That as we grow older and as we become adults and as we, you
1:29:44
know, establish our lives with, with whether it's ourselves,
1:29:47
with our, our, you know, our loved ones, our families, our,
1:29:50
our, our relationships with people, we become so.
1:29:58
Wrapped up in the hustle. In the grind, you know,
1:30:02
sometimes we just need to play. Sometimes we need that carefree
1:30:06
moment to just be playful. I've been guilty of getting kind
1:30:12
of like agitated, you know, at times when like my wife wants to
1:30:17
poke fun or play or, you know, whatever.
1:30:19
And it's like, stop annoying me. Quit, you know, and I'm like,
1:30:25
well, this is, this is play, you know, like, look, that's let's,
1:30:30
let's, let's rethink this. Like, like, let's, why, why am I
1:30:32
so annoyed at this playfulness? Stop.
1:30:36
Stop being so serious. So yeah, maybe, folks.
1:30:41
That's that's another thing to take away as as we've been.
1:30:43
Talking tonight about taking care of ourselves, making time
1:30:48
for ourselves, don't forget that one of the things that is good
1:30:54
for us to do in our adulthood is to find the sense of play in our
1:31:02
lives and to be playful, not to be, you know, complacent and
1:31:09
then forget about our responsibilities and, and
1:31:12
become, you know, again. It's it's a balance.
1:31:21
But that's just it. You have to balance it it.
1:31:23
Has to be there in order for you to balance it, you know?
1:31:30
And don't worry about the way. You look or how it.
1:31:32
You know, oh, this. Is silly.
1:31:34
This is ridiculous. No.
1:31:35
Why is it ridiculous? Why is it so?
1:31:37
So what if it's silly? So what if it's ridiculous?
1:31:38
Is it hurting anybody? Is it making you feel good?
1:31:40
Is it, you know, making you laugh?
1:31:41
Smile. Those are good things for
1:31:44
ourselves to experience. This is it.
1:31:46
It's kind of like medicine in a way.
1:31:49
You know, there's that old saying like laughter is the best
1:31:53
medicine. Well, it's the saying is because
1:31:56
it's true. All right.
1:32:00
When, when you're, when you're laughing, you're, you're in a
1:32:02
good mood, right. It's it makes you feel good.
1:32:04
So I don't know, just go play, go outside, dance, find
1:32:15
something for you to to be lighthearted about.
1:32:17
So, but yeah. I think that that.
1:32:22
Pretty well, yeah. That is the spice of life,
1:32:26
right? Matthew, Variety is the spice of
1:32:30
life. You know, if I can go to the
1:32:30
store and pick up a variety of pack a variety pack of something
1:32:35
up instead of just the, the the, you know, sometimes I want the
1:32:39
one thing, but really I want. I want some choices, you know?
1:32:44
What I mean, so yeah, be playful.
1:32:48
Variety is the spice of life. Yeah.
1:32:51
And. And like, you know, you say, you
1:32:52
know, they do it while you can, you know, one day, you know,
1:32:56
things are going to slow down. We're saying I'm seeing it first
1:32:59
hand. And I've and I've experienced it
1:33:01
not really directly with my own mom and dad, but I'm I'm seeing
1:33:09
the natural progression. Of our lifespan.
1:33:15
With, with people around me, you know, I, I can't do half the
1:33:19
things that I used to be able to do in the way that I used to be
1:33:22
able to do them when I was a kid, You know, you know, I'm and
1:33:27
I just turned 40 and I'm sure that I won't be able to do the
1:33:30
things that I can do now when I'm, you know, 60 or whatever.
1:33:40
Make it that far, however long. But like you say, you know, live
1:33:44
in the moment. Do it, do it while you can
1:33:49
because you know, you live long enough and one day you won't be
1:33:52
able to those, those functions won't the functions won't
1:33:58
function, you know, but so I think that's what we'll wrap it
1:34:05
up on. Don't have any underlying
1:34:07
comments anymore. So I do appreciate everybody
1:34:10
being here. Those of you that have stuck
1:34:13
around for the last, you know, hour and hour and a half a
1:34:15
little bit over this is really nice.
1:34:18
Good way to connect with people. I hope you've all had a good
1:34:21
night and yeah, just as a last thing, you know, if you need to
1:34:25
go. Back and and look through the.
1:34:26
Comments or just go to my link tree link that the link tree
1:34:29
link has my mother-in-law GoFundMe posted at the very top.
1:34:34
So when you go to my link tree link the very first thing that
1:34:37
you'll see at the top is is the GoFundMe for my mother-in-law.
1:34:41
It's to raise money so that way the expenses for getting all of
1:34:45
her medical equipment and and enhancements to her living, you
1:34:50
know, the, the wheelchair ramp, the the the Hoyer lift, the the
1:34:55
medical chair, this the sit to stand chair.
1:34:59
You know, all the things that the family is coming together to
1:35:01
get to be able to recover financially from that.
1:35:04
And if you want to help, it's it's in that GoFundMe.
1:35:07
So just just for everybody's awareness of you, if you didn't
1:35:10
know about that, there it is. And at the very least shared
1:35:15
around, you know, as always. You know you don't have to feel.
1:35:17
Obligated people have got a lot of other things going on in
1:35:21
their lives, but I did want to make sure that I was mentioning
1:35:25
it here on on my platform with with all of you to give it the
1:35:31
most visibility. And we've we've gotten several
1:35:33
donations from a lot of people very generous to to help out
1:35:38
with that. So if again, if you've done that
1:35:41
already, thank you very much for your for your generosity.
1:35:44
The family appreciates it. I appreciate it and I appreciate
1:35:48
all of you. I appreciate everybody coming in
1:35:50
here that did tonight. Some brothers of mine, you know,
1:35:54
Adam, brother, I, I, I appreciate you taking time out
1:35:56
of your night. A good friend of mine, John
1:35:59
Deeson, you know, for showing up.
1:36:01
Matthew Serra. I, I recognize a lot of names
1:36:03
and, and stuff that came across the screen.
1:36:04
Michael Thacker, David Klen, crushing nihilism.
1:36:09
Nick Daniel, Chris Miller, Some new faces.
1:36:14
Or some new? Names that have just kind of
1:36:17
joined the the Midgard Musings community.
1:36:20
I think we got, we got Christie, you know, we got what was it?
1:36:26
I think her name was Renita. So we have people in the UK, we
1:36:31
had people in Texas. Chrissy I think was the one in
1:36:38
the. UK so everybody man like just.
1:36:40
A whole great group of people that, that, that tuned in
1:36:43
tonight. I thank all of you for being
1:36:45
here and for showing your support.
1:36:47
And just again reminder, these are monthly.
1:36:49
We we do these things once a month, so just follow me on my
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social media so that way you know, you know when I'm doing
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it. I usually try to announce the
1:36:57
events a week or two at least in advance.
1:37:01
That way you can plan accordingly if you want to be
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here and hear what we're talking about.
1:37:06
But the nice thing about it is that if you don't make it for.
1:37:08
The live stream. This will go up on the next
1:37:11
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you can listen on Spotify. So that's all I'm going to talk
1:37:21
about right now. That's that's repeating a lot of
1:37:23
everything that I've already said.
1:37:25
But thank you all for being here tonight.
1:37:27
Appreciate all of your support. I had fun.
1:37:32
Be safe out here, folks. The world's a crazy place.
1:37:34
There's a lot of wild things going on across the world.
1:37:38
So be mindful, be at peace, you know, and be safe.
1:37:45
So thank you all for being here for the live stream, and thank
1:37:48
you for your ongoing and constant support with Midgard
1:37:50
Musings and the Random Heathen Ramblings podcast.
1:37:53
Until we see each other again, may the gods continue to notice
1:37:57
you, and may your ancestors smile upon you.
1:38:01
We'll see you in the next one.