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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP9 - Destroying Ritual Items (Viewer Request) · Random Heathen Ramblings

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So Helen welcome to everybody. I hope you have a been having, I
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guess, I a great week. Thus far, we are fast
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approaching the Spring Equinox time here in North America.
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You know, at least in the United States of America weather is
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beginning to feel much more like the springtime much unlike The
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Audacity Of Scotty last this this past weekend man like a
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week ago or almost a week ago, like Friday night, going into
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Saturday, where we, you know, went from like 70 degrees during
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the day and it like just took a barrel roll downhill into the
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into the 20s and the teens overnight.
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We got a little bit of snow and it stayed on the ground, you
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know, for like a for the, for a good portion of that day, but
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we're past that now, It seems and we are feeling much more
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like you know the spring time would be.
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I'm going to have to start cutting my grass again soon.
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And everybody else is grass. I cut my in-laws live, a few
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doors down and my wife's cousin lives.
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Next to them. So I cut my yard, you know, or
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our yard, and I cut theirs and her cousins yard.
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So here we go. I'm going to be starting to do
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that again. And What's going on with this
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here anyway? Yeah we're doing that.
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That's going to be coming up soon.
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You know the way the trying to get this lighting lighting right
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washed out over here. Oh well it is what it is but
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that's going to be happening soon. probably very soon if not
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already by now, I'll have gone out there and, you know, I think
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my father-in-law already started some spring clean up around his,
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his yard, he was getting the itch, you know, to get out there
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with the trimmer, or what they call it down here in the south
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is the weed eater weed eater They call it a weed eater back
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up north, where I'm from. We used to just call it a weed
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wacker. Which you would whack more than
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just weeds with it. I mean, I had a I had a Honda
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professional-grade commercial grade.
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I think it was called sucker weighed like 18 pounds was a
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heavy. It was heavy but I had this like
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shoulder harness thing. You know, and I would a with
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clipped him to the shoulder harness and I would have a you
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know, my dad had a about a seven seven or eight thousand dollar
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zero turn radius, Lawnmower Man, big 60 inch.
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My mother was called the grasshopper.
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I think that was actually the brand, it was a grasshopper and
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because we had you know, several Acres of yard to cut I think all
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total my parents property was You know, about two or three
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acres of grass. Maybe more something like that.
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It was it was I was a lot. I know that and then people on
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our same road, you know, homes and businesses and stuff like
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that. And they would you know, we they
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would charge us to mow their yard.
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So between my dad and I and then eventually just became me where
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I was you know, I was the lawn guy.
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I was the long guy from Long Island.
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I don't know if you guys know that or not, but I am actually
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from Long Island. So, I was, I was the lawn guy
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from Long Island. And I would go out there with my
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lawn mower and my weed whacker and I will trim the yards. and I
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would, you know, do all of that stuff.
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So, anyway, I weed whackers or weed eaters or whatever they
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call it down here, my father-in-law was out there
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terming around Summit, some stuff and just getting things
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cleaned up. And that's like, I'm looking
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around my yard too. And I'm like, yeah, it's getting
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to be that time. It's getting to be that time.
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So, you know, it's good, it's good, that, you know, life is
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starting to resurface things are starting to become much more
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awake and active. The days are pretty.
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Days are now longer, you know, we just had that stupid daylight
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savings time thing, kick in, you know, so now we got, you know,
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we lost an hours sleep that one night.
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And now we're back into the, you know, extra hour of daylight.
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So, you know, our days feel longer now, And just overall,
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generally generally speaking, you know, where we're moving
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towards the return of life and the return of the Sun and return
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of all these things, you know, the Spring Equinox, there's
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ostara for a lot of the other pagans that observe as as such.
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And of course, you know Easter, oddly enough Easter this year is
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falling on the same weekend as my tribes.
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Seager bloat celebration. So we've got two We got to make
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a commendations to be back from our camping trip where we're
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going to be doing our thing. We're going to have to be
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careful to be back in time to attend family functions, and
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things of, of the Easter side of stuff.
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So there will be that and, This this whole screen thing is like
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it's weird today. It seems to be like really don't
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know if it's the Liz at the lighting.
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Say, that makes me look like I'm freaking Ghostface over here.
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Anyway, not going to stress about it too much.
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You guys get it. I'm not worried about the visual
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aspects of it because it's a podcast.
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And who cares what's up here on this?
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You know, screen thing whatever. But um, so yeah, we got Got all
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this, all this newness, all this New Life coming around and with
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the newness of life, with the resurrection of life with the,
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with the resurfacing of things, you know, everything's waking
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back up again, from its dormant stage, we're starting to see
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some some intense intensity returning to this to this part
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of the world. You know, a lot of intense
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emotions, a lot of intense feelings, a lot of Lot of lot of
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strength, a lot of power, making themselves manifest in a lot of
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people's lives. It's a it's palpable.
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I can feel it. I can you know we a lot of us
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can feel it but interesting show today.
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I thought I was going to have a guest on here as it turns out
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doesn't doesn't look like that's going to work out but that's
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okay. Things happen, you know, life
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happens. Man we had a plan.
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I think I talked about last week we had a plan last this past
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Saturday, you know to meet up with some people and you know,
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Talk about some things and have lunch and whatnot and you know,
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largely due to other things. But you know, the weather may be
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played a little bit of a factor but there were some other major
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things going on on my end where I just I could not rightfully
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justify taking off and spending time with people that I've
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either never met before or, you know, only met once couldn't
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justify going off to do that without first, taking care of
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things within my inner yard, my inner In and got it.
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Talked about that a number of times on the number of videos
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and the concept of inner versus outer is very is very
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commonplace in any heat and worldview but the inner is is
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sacred and we take care of what's in and guard that which
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is within before we worry about what's without.
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So most of my focus had been over this weekend, you know, Ben
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Ben on things going on here with my inner yard.
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So, we didn't do our visit our luncheon thing.
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It has been rescheduled though to this coming Saturday.
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So we shall hopefully get a chance to meet some folks, and
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be reintroduced with some folks and have some interesting
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conversation and see where it goes from there.
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But I did want to. Still keep up with what I wanted
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to talk about this week. So last week I mentioned some
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things about You know, families are or whatever of differing
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faiths or families of opposing beliefs or you guys can check my
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back catalog and previous episode for that.
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And actually, during the YouTube Premiere last week's live from
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here, I got a call in from a gentleman.
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And we're going to listen to his, his call here, because it
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has to do with what we talked about last week and I think he
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Brings up some really great points.
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And that's what I love about sharing.
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You know, this type of stuff on whether it's YouTube or, or any
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other platforms, you guys are always welcome to call the
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midgard muezzins hotline 6, 1, 5 6, 7 1983 to, I don't care if
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it's 2:00 in the morning Where You Are.
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Or whenever just call in and leave a voicemail because just
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like this guy did, you know it was happening during the
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premiere? I'm not going to, you know, I
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don't have it set up to where I'm going to take calls live or
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whatever. Because I probably I record
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these episodes. Well, enough in advance days in
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advance, even for, you know, to schedule the premier's and
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stuff. So, but please, when you, when
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you listen, when you watch, when you see any of this stuff and
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you even if it's a past episode, So write his call in.
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Hey Jesse you know that one episode we were talking about
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this. It was episode number of
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blabbity blah or whatever. You know, you mentioned this.
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I want to talk about that. Here's my thoughts on, it
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doesn't matter. It was whenever it was whenever
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it is you go back and you listen to a bunch of my episodes.
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And you like, I think this would be a really neat topic of
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conversation. What, how do I get on your
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podcast? You can call me.
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Or you can write it into the show, midgard, musings Tian at
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gmail.com, especially if you're interested in being a guest on
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the podcast, would love to, you know, hash out some details and
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talk about some things as far as that goes.
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But yes, please definitely make sure that anything that you have
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thoughts wise, share it, you know.
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So let's, let's listen to, let's listen to this call because it
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really did speak to me. I think, It did a great.
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It did a great thing for the issue at hand, so this is a call
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from, I think it is a manual or man, well, either way Manuel or
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Emmanuel. Thanks for calling.
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And so, let's listen to what, what he has to say here, hello
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definitey. This is Emmanuel prayer, I'm
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Emanuele coming through your Premier also, and just a bit
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ago. They were talking about being
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human, the kind of Christian home and I just thought of this
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other aspect and my life personally that helped me as far
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as a Christian family. My family is very accepting and
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loving and I didn't have an issue with that.
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The biggest issue I felt like is probably a big problem for most
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of our people is dating and when you get into dating a Christian
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or a Baptist or a Jehovah's Witness, like I married and You
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know, when my past relationships, when I was first
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starting to get into the faith knowledge is really gung-ho
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about everything and I was a lot of us were cramming for this.
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Guy's that I praised Thor, and it like pushed my ex away from
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me. So, in this relationship, which
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I'm now married instead of inviting her to the bloat,
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instead of inviting her for ritual and doing You are
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cleansing your meditation instead of going to the cemetery
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for ancestor veneration, instead of doing any of that, I went out
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and I did my own thing, I would do a bonfire in my backyard and
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I would, I would hold the bloat. You know, I would go to my Altar
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and, you know, it's a little prayer burn my herbs and I would
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just leave it at that. I wouldn't invite them if they
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came up. Up to me.
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And my, the kids came up to me and they ask, you know, I would
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tell them, my wife came up to me and asked, I would tell her and,
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you know, eventually I want to say, you know, it only took
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like, six months for her too. Continuously ask me questions.
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Like it. Let her let her guard down and
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say, okay. Well, let me figure out what and
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he's coming from. Hmm.
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And at the end of it, she became a part of my Kindred, you know,
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she became a pagan. Wow.
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And I think our approach should just be the opposite of what
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like, Jehovah's Witnesses, do going door to door and trying to
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jam, our religion down people's throat.
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And people seem to be more accepting to that.
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That's awesome, dude. Anyway, I would love to be on
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one of your shows sometimes, man, I really enjoy.
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Oh, man, so that I guess the call cut off because that's all
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I've got. But, man, like, I, I 100% agree
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with you Manuel Manuel, Manuel Freire, so hail to you, where
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are you, where are you called in from?
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I genuinely want to say thank you.
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And I hope that this reaches your ears and eyes, and
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whatever, but thank you for calling in because, you know,
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you bring up some really good. with my headset over there, you
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bring up some really good points, you know, let things Be
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organic and let things grow as as they were, you know, you had
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an experience when you first got into a relationship with someone
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who was perhaps not lined up with your beliefs, you know.
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And you took a very aggressive approach, right?
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With the you know hailing of the Gods and being very you know
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there's nothing wrong. I don't think there's anything
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wrong with being transparent and and Expressing your dedication
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to the gods is in that way. There's also opportunity to
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understand that because of its approach because of it, all
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right. Like, there's there's
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opportunity to learn of respecting and showing some
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Temperance and, and dialing it back a little bit for the very
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reasons that you mentioned, write that first time didn't
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work. Well, it actually pushed your
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person who that you were in the relationship with away from even
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wanting to Perhaps think about it.
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Now it could be said that that individual was not at any in or
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in any sense of the word interested in wanting to learn
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about, you know, he then Heathen re or paganism or anything like
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that. And so I really wouldn't have
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mattered what you did and or what approach you took, if she
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was not willing or wanting to be a part of it and there was
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really nothing that you could do to persuade her but that that's
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where it goes back to you, right?
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Like your wife. Now, who you Entered into a
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relationship with while she was Jehovah's, Witness is now Pagan,
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right? Your approach was not to
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persuade your approach. Was, I'm going to do my thing
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and you're going to do your thing and we're going to live
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together peacefully, but I'm going to, I'm going to respect
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your path of your religious and your religious ways in your
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spirituality. I'm gonna respect that and you
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and in turn, I ask that you respect mine and it seems right
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just without knowing too much about your situation.
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It seems like that's how the relationship was was, was was
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experienced, you know, you guys respected each other and you
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went outside and you did your thing kind of away from
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everybody, right? Like it wasn't like you just lit
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a fire right? Outside of the back patio and,
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you know, started drumming and dancing and hailed the gods and
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everything like that, right? It was set off a bit said and
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wait in the Sacred Space and he did your thing and you made it
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open and available, right? You were it wasn't like don't
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come out and bother me, but you also weren't like I want you to
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come out here and experience this.
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You have to come out here and experience.
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This is our family. This is part of it.
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The ID audit, right? No.
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Instead you you did your thing and you left it open like, Let
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them come to me, Let It Grow organically, let it do, what
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it's going to do in, whichever way it's going to grow.
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Let whatever to be will be okay, and I love that.
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I love to hear that. And then, look, what happened,
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right? It's it, is it going to happen
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that way every single time with, with families, or with people
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that have relationships. I guess not.
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You know what I'm saying? But if there's a chance of it to
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happen, if there's a possibility.
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And and if you want to It the best chance that it has.
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I think your approach is 100% the way to go, right?
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Because you didn't force anything upon anybody.
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And you answered questions when they came to you about it, and
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you allowed them to approach you and then what happened, you
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know, they became so inquisitive and so curious, that they found
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a place to call home with their own spirituality.
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They realize, or they found that what you were doing felt.
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More like a place that they want it to be over something that
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they had been doing, you know. So there was like a call home
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and they felt invited. And yes, I 100% agree that there
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that the approach that, that heathens should take nowadays
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and pagans. And in general should take
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nowadays as if you're going to enter into a relationship with a
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partner of whatever, sort, whatever, kind of romantic, or
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whatever relationship that you enter into.
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It should be known and it should be, you know, there's there
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should be that level of transparency that this is who I
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am. And this is what I am, and this
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is what that means. But that but that if they aren't
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the same thing as you at that time that it should not
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necessarily. You know, dissuade you from
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pursuing a relationship with that person and if they are
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willing to give your relationship a shot, knowing the
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challenges that are faced or are knowing the challenges ahead
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that you They face, okay. Because again, a lot of
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especially Christians are, are fed the the, the dogma and the
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doctrine of the abrahamic. God, that that pagans Eagle the
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devil and heathens are the bad guys.
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And those are the ones that should be wiped out and
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eradicated and cleansed, or converted, you know, or are have
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had nothing to do with, you know, don't have anything to do
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with the filthy pagans. We read about it all the time if
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any if anybody has ever taken any time to read through Old
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Testament, writings weather, and whatever variation of the Bible
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you want to read from, but I know a lot of our audience is
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going to be, you know, pagans that were Christian so you've
23:04
ever at least read the Bible or hurt things about, just the
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general overall view of pagans amongst Christians.
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It's that, you know, Bueno. so, if you go into a relationship
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with somebody who is obviously Christian, And dedicated in
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their Christian faith. You love them for who they are.
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You don't love them for the religion that they that they
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follow. There are just some things that
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just inherently don't match up and as long as there's an
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understanding and a mutual respect for each other, like
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hey, I'm going to do my thing and you're going to do your
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thing. You might be able to make it
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work again. for manuals case here and his you know scenario
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that he presented it obviously is worked out because now his
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wife does share similar or same beliefs and is no longer
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Jehovah's Witness and his Pagan, you know, and it wasn't that he
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was trying to convert her Or change her for who she was?
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It was he just did what he did and allowed it to be an open and
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welcoming thing. And she was inquisitive, and she
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asked questions and now after so many questions were asked, and
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what not has become part of it. Also, there's that chance, so,
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that it could happen, but it needs to happen organically
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right guys? It needs to be something that
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plays out naturally and organically.
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We don't take the approach of. If you want to be with me, you
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have to be pagan. Right?
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If you want to be with me, you have to worship the old gods.
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You have to do it this way. Have to do it that way.
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And again, like I said, if that's your approach and if
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that's the way you're going to conduct your life, that's that's
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your hall in your call. Don't don't misconstrue what I'm
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saying as being like, you know, it ain't gonna work unless you
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do it this way or the other, I mean, again, your whole your
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call. But I I 100% agree, you know,
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with you a manual that you You should just do the thing.
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And, and if they want to be a part of it, then then then let
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him be a part of it and and if they don't then they don't and
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that's okay. So I really appreciate that.
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I really appreciate you calling in and sharing that bit of
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information that in being you know, that candid with not just
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me here. But now with everybody, you
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know, and then definitely you know, man I think that if you if
25:33
you want to ever in midgar musings Tian at gmail.com about
25:37
a possibility of Kind of being on a podcast with me to talk
25:41
about stuff. And again, I welcome it, I
25:46
welcome it to everybody and anybody at least two right in
25:51
and inquire about it. So yeah for sure it's the invite
25:57
still there and then it's open. But for anybody that does call
26:03
in just realized that if I say that, I fi get your voicemail
26:06
like, man, this would be great on a podcast that I'm gonna put
26:09
it. Here.
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And if you don't want to be on the podcast and just let me know
26:16
ahead of time like hey this is something.
26:17
I want you to consider want to remain anonymous that sort of
26:22
thing. So, It's there.
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It's out there. It's sweets for you all.
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But okay, so so now that we did that, I think that was a great
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you know introduction for this week's podcast, I didn't want to
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do. As I said, I would do last week
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and start this week off with another viewer request or
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another listener request that came in the form of an email.
26:53
So this this one is coming in from someone who I'm going to be
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linking. He's got a YouTube channel.
27:02
He's also on Instagram, not very active.
27:04
According to him doesn't post a lot of content but I'm going to
27:06
put it down there anyway so you know check him out he is
27:10
skaldak, skaldak works. So it's it's called it works on
27:15
YouTube and skaldak underscore works on.
27:18
Instagram information is going to be in the description and
27:21
also in the show notes. Of the podcast.
27:23
So if you're looking to follow, what what he does, those are the
27:28
platforms that he's offered. He did say, you know, you know,
27:31
feel free to share his his social media information.
27:37
He doesn't post a lot there, but he did say, you know, had two
27:43
questions for you. So, the, the, the the, This this
27:49
podcast is going to be dedicated to the first of two questions.
27:52
He has two questions and his email was titled destroying
27:56
altar objects and interrupted ritual spaces.
28:02
So it's a two-part. Now, part two is going to be a
28:05
next week's episode. So if you guys want to continue
28:09
and see what we talked about with relation to the second part
28:14
of scalded Works question, tune in to next week's episode.
28:19
But his email says Ago by Blake, his name is Blake and he goes by
28:23
scold. It works on YouTube and scalded
28:25
underscore works on Instagram again.
28:27
It's all in the description, show notes, whatever, check it
28:29
all out. He says he doesn't post there a
28:32
lot. But anyway he says he has two
28:33
questions to ask and he says I can answer them both in one
28:37
podcast or split them into two topics.
28:41
I like the two topics thing because again of what we had to
28:47
do, On the first half of the podcast or the, or the first
28:50
part of this of this week's podcast and I just think that
28:52
these two topics are they tie into one another well enough so
28:57
you could technically fit them into one but I feel like with
29:00
with more people involved. Hopefully next week I'll have a
29:02
guess we can talk more about this and get some more dialogue
29:05
built around. So as first question we're going
29:08
to be talking about today. It goes in hand.
29:10
He says, with what I have said about ritual objects on my
29:17
altar, He says on your altar ritual objects on your altar,
29:20
that no longer have a purpose needing to be destroyed upon
29:27
removal from said altar. So what I'm asking or what he's
29:32
asking is what happens if either the object can't be destroyed
29:40
and he says such as Bronze Statues.
29:46
You want to repurpose them, you know, you want to like repurpose
29:50
the bronze. I guess, you want to repurpose
29:51
the item as a sacred object elsewhere or keep them and move
29:57
them back into the realm of the profane world.
30:01
So, the question I'm gathering is, you know, you He's referring
30:06
to and I can't recall which video or which podcast I may
30:10
have talked about this song, so I apologize for not having a
30:13
point of reference for this but I know that I've talked about
30:17
this type of subject before and that is the destruction of
30:22
ritual items. Once they have served their
30:24
purpose, once they have, once they no longer serve the purpose
30:31
for which you use them and he's asking, you know, what do you do
30:35
or Happens. What can you do?
30:37
If the ritual item can't be destroyed or you want to
30:40
repurpose it for other things? So I do just want to say that
30:45
the thing of which that it's called it works here is is
30:49
talking about, can definitely be looked into from a lot of
30:54
different ways there has been and I've seen them before
30:58
historical archaeological digs and finds of items that were
31:03
used as As a ritual item. We don't know necessarily what
31:10
the ritual was but they were real.
31:13
They were recovered or discovered through
31:16
archaeological means as items that were used by an ancient
31:21
Society. for the purpose of ritual and they were obviously
31:26
visually and, and everything else destroyed the most, the
31:32
most I'm trying to think the most Obvious one that I can
31:38
think of is I've seen an old spearhead that dated back to
31:43
like 500 BC or something. It was it was it was traced to
31:46
like a Celtic tribe somewhere. I don't remember exactly where
31:50
but it was a spearhead. Now obviously Spears are
31:53
straight and obviously, you know, pointed and whatnot.
31:55
And the spearhead had been burnt or melted and bent Beyond like,
32:02
Beyond 90 degrees. It was almost like a 100.
32:04
He was like a you at that point. They had They had taken the
32:08
bronze or the or whatever the metal was that they had made and
32:13
crafted the spearhead out of. It was a metal, they had, they
32:16
had melted it to the point of being able to ritually destroy
32:21
it. So that's spear as now being in
32:24
the shape of like a, you no longer served its purpose as
32:28
anything. It, you could not use it for
32:30
hunting. You cannot use it for for
32:32
Warfare defense, anything. It was it was rendered useless.
32:37
In the realm of the profane. And we see this sort of
32:40
practice, we see this sort of thing being done in a variety of
32:42
cultures, and archaeological, discoveries support that this
32:48
practice existed in many cultures.
32:51
So I think I've talked about this thing before, in other
32:55
videos or podcasts, where you craft something or you make
33:00
something for the sake of a ritual.
33:03
Right? And it could be anything, it
33:05
could be that, I'm just going to use some examples that I know
33:10
of, right? I've written, I've written
33:13
ritual, I've made by and runes, I've, I've crafted certain
33:21
things and others that I know in my tribe have have done the same
33:25
thing. One of our tribe members, whose
33:29
who serves as our law speaker is very skillful.
33:33
In the formation of mandalas, right?
33:37
So he's got a lot of intuition and a lot of experience with
33:41
putting symbols together in a very aesthetically appealing
33:48
format and he's made mandalas and stuff for certain rituals
33:52
that that we perform. And it fits our tribal
33:57
Traditions, it fits the way our tribe works.
34:00
And he's made those things, and then he has ritually.
34:03
Destroyed them in fire. Now, again the reason behind it,
34:10
goes back to the purpose of what you do, right?
34:14
Your intent is to and I've talked about this before again,
34:18
intent and purpose. If you guys are interested in
34:20
wanting to see about the differences between intent
34:23
versus purpose and just go back through my podcast, episodes
34:29
catalog, and look for the episode that jam all of sin.
34:32
And I Did together talking about the very thing about intended
34:35
purpose? But, you know, your intent is
34:38
one thing in the purposes. The other the purpose behind
34:42
what you're doing is is to achieve a certain result, right?
34:49
And once that purpose has been served, once you have gone
34:51
through those motions. Once you've done the thing that
34:55
item that you use in your ritual, now has been rendered.
35:01
Of no more use for you. In the profane, you have, you
35:04
have sent it off. You have done what you've done
35:06
through your ritual and now it needs to be, or least to the
35:11
sacred ritual e. So this, the, this next part
35:17
kind of goes into a lot of different.
35:20
I think anyways, not going to go on record as saying this but I
35:24
think the the, the method of destroying something.
35:27
Ritually the Three B's, right? Barry, it bhagat or burn it or
35:35
are utilized. Maybe not just in Germanic
35:37
Heathen or Norse Heathen circles, but in a variety of
35:40
other polytheistic Pagan practices, You know, if you
35:46
can't burn it, then bury it. If you can't bury it, then bog
35:51
it which is kind of like burying in a way but it goes into the
35:54
bog, goes into the swamp, it's water, there's water involved,
35:58
it's not just burying it in dirt.
36:01
That goes into this and there's this whole water water carries
36:07
things that the it has a metaphysical meaning to it as
36:11
well as the same as fire. But either way, whichever way
36:16
you choose to ritually destroy the item.
36:19
It is rendering it of no more use to the to the profane world.
36:25
So, like, in comparison with that spear that I was referring
36:29
to earlier, that spear was bent Beyond its physical use, its
36:34
profane use, it could no longer serve as a weapon of war or a
36:39
hunting item, it was strictly used in a ritual for the gods
36:43
and it was Destroyed as such and by destroying it, you are
36:47
originally ritually. Releasing it from its profane
36:51
use and sending it off to the sacred realm.
36:56
So he says, you know, what's to be done about items that can't
37:00
be destroyed. Now, I don't know, the mechanics
37:04
of things to the, to the extent of bronze.
37:06
He's using Bronze Statues as a as an example, right?
37:10
But I feel like with enough fire with enough Heat, Right with
37:15
enough Force. Anything can be destroyed you
37:18
know and and if you want to repurpose that item for
37:24
something else, then the item is no longer what it was, you've
37:28
changed its structure and you've changed the Integrity of it.
37:33
You you've made it something else other than what it was used
37:37
for in that moment. And so it is not the same thing
37:41
anymore. So there's always a way where
37:45
there's a will there's a way you can burn something to it to its
37:48
incineration. You can, you can bury something
37:51
to the point where it is lost to the this profane world and
37:55
without, you know, conscious efforts of resurfacing it and
38:02
retrieving it. It's it is done.
38:06
It is no longer used for here in this profane space, same way
38:11
with baggage. And, you know, it's gone, it's
38:14
washed away, it's consumed by the bog.
38:16
And it's in. It's made one with it's no
38:21
longer part of this profane space and to be used in this
38:24
profane world, you know? So You know what, what, what if
38:31
or what? What if you can't destroy it?
38:34
I mean show me something that you really you really can't
38:36
destroy you unless we're talking about items that are so precious
38:41
that in none in Destruction come by diamonds or whatever, you
38:44
know, we're like you literally can't destroy it.
38:47
I mean Send it off, you know, cast it into a lake, I mean,
38:53
it's out of your reach now, right?
38:56
It's a and that's the whole bogging thing.
38:58
You know, it's out of your reach now and good luck to ever trying
39:02
to retrieve it. But fire for me, has been the
39:06
one that I have actually become close most closely, you know,
39:12
associated with fire and smoke. Me and my ritual practices I've
39:20
ever since probably the last like, five months or so.
39:22
I went off into a spiritual journey last November, I've
39:29
talked about this alluded to this, a number of times with the
39:34
number of guests on the show, and I've talked about it, you
39:37
know, pretty pretty openly, but might that, that shamanic
39:40
journey of mine, you know? I spent a lot of time In the
39:48
East and the South, the South, and the East, were my places,
39:55
that I would hang out a bit and talking like Compass points, you
40:01
know, points on the compass, in the South and in the East and
40:05
then the fire and the smoke are something that I'm drawn to
40:09
really ever. Since then, honestly, I've
40:12
always loved a good campfire, I've always loved a good
40:14
bonfire. But a lot of my spiritual
40:17
practices as of late which, which for anybody that follows
40:19
me on social media, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
40:22
You'll see a lot of my, my photo posts and some of my.
40:25
Even my video posts might include me partaking in a smoke,
40:31
a smoke session of sorts of resin, burning smoke session,
40:34
and very therapeutic. It's very helpful for me in my
40:38
spirituality. Really helps me tune in and then
40:41
kind of get into that ritual state of mind.
40:44
So fire is a This is the thing that I'm always drawn to and I'm
40:48
like, if I can get somewhere, then I can burn it and destroy
40:51
it. Ritually through fire, then then
40:53
that's what speaks to me. Other people might have, you
40:57
know, some restrictions, we are, in fact, of course, modern
41:02
pagans, you know, living in modern societies and in, you
41:06
know, apartments and City living and all that kind of stuff are
41:10
not always welcoming or conducive for fires to be lit.
41:15
Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
41:16
So you might not have that ability to in your space, in
41:20
your home, on your property, be able to do stuff like that.
41:22
Fortunately, where I live while it is pretty Rural.
41:26
And I've got neighbors, you know, very close by.
41:29
Fortunately I have the ability to have an outside area of to
41:32
burn things and I also live close to the Stones River and I
41:38
have places that I Venture off into off of the beaten path near
41:42
the water. Where, if I want to send things
41:44
off, I've done this before ritually as well, right?
41:46
I sent things off that are not, first of all they when I when I
41:51
when I send things off like that into the water, or bhagat, or
41:55
whatever, it's non-toxic, I don't send things off that way,
42:00
that that would potentially be harmful to the environment to
42:02
the vet here to anything like that.
42:05
So, you know, biodegradable items things that are of Natural
42:10
Resources, you know, when I send things off, that way, it's done.
42:16
I've done that before with fire, you know, you can pretty well
42:19
burned almost anything that that's, that's naturally
42:22
occurring. It's not going to hurt the
42:23
environment. Anything it's going to burn it
42:25
down to ashes. That can be used to nourish the
42:29
Earth. So, again, it goes back to the
42:32
whole, the purpose, the why, why are you doing what you're doing?
42:35
You're, you're doing it to seal the deal as it were, you know,
42:41
your words that you spoke in the the efforts that you've made the
42:44
things that you've done. Now need to be finalized and
42:48
sent off in this item, this thing, whether it's be something
42:51
that you made, whether it be something that you hold near and
42:53
dear true to yourself. It's something of value, you're
42:57
dedicating it to the sacred, you're dedicating it to the
43:00
gods, and to get rid of that item to destroy that.
43:03
Attitude, no longer have that thing be used for its purpose
43:07
anymore and whether it be you you change its construction, you
43:11
you change its material makeup to be something else.
43:14
That's still ritually. Drawing the item, you know?
43:18
So sure if you burn something down or melt something down to
43:22
be something else, then it's something else at that point,
43:25
it's no longer the thing that you had before that it was
43:30
intended for its purpose has been served in that moment and
43:33
now you have destroyed it by either rendering it useless and
43:38
and 100% either incinerating it or or bogging it or whatever you
43:43
want to call it or you've repurposed it to the point of it
43:46
becoming something else. And now that new item that new
43:49
thing, the thing that has been repurposed has a new purpose,
43:54
the repurpose Creates a new purpose. so, you know, a lot of
44:05
the, a lot of the things that I feel that that people may get
44:10
focused on, or hung up on is mechanics of it all.
44:15
What do I do, when I do it? How do I do it, right?
44:21
You'll know, you'll know it's going to feel, right?
44:25
And you're going to do it in sincerity. and, That want that,
44:33
that's the one that I don't think.
44:35
I mean, if you have someone that can kind of be your guide to
44:39
kind of show you to learn from, I mean, I feel like, you know,
44:44
platforms like this, and this is just one of many guys.
44:47
I mean, if you're listening and watching to midgard musings, I
44:50
hope you're listening and watching to a lot of other
44:51
really good content. Creator creators that are
44:54
Heathen out here. Recently.
44:57
I've been, you know, I don't collaborate with them a lot
45:00
because they're on a different level than me, but Like ocean
45:03
Cal, toy wolf, the red, those folks, tremendous influencers in
45:08
the Heat and community community doing wonderful things.
45:11
If you could, if you could. I mean, if you haven't been
45:13
following them on social media, their Twitters and, and, and and
45:17
their YouTube, I mean, they just raised.
45:19
I think it was close to 10 grand, 10 thousand dollars for
45:24
Ukraine, right? Big-time stuff.
45:28
I mean put your big-boy pants on and run with the bulls kind of
45:33
stuff you know they have they have a focus and they have a
45:39
reach and they have a community and they do great things with it
45:42
and I applaud them for that. You know, I'm not on that level
45:46
and I don't know if I ever will be because that's not my angle,
45:48
that's not my Approach. I 100% applaud and support them
45:51
for it and I think it's absolutely amazing and
45:53
incredible that, you know, heathens come together to do.
45:57
Great, things like that. And I want to see that and I
46:00
love seeing that I love having the visibility to that.
46:05
I don't do that. If that's not, that's not my
46:08
angle. I'm very closed off with when it
46:11
comes to the things that I do or that I share.
46:13
I don't, I don't use this platform to really reach that
46:16
far at least not yet again. I'm constantly growing.
46:19
I thought, you know, if I had to look back and see, you know,
46:22
when midgard musing started, which actually, if we were to do
46:26
some A chelating I think by the time this podcast airs it's
46:30
either right at or close to the four-year anniversary of midgard
46:34
musings as a whole, right? So Random Heathen ramblings is a
46:38
podcast that me I do midgard. Musings is, it's a it's a
46:42
midgard musings production but might the channel, everything,
46:45
the brand, you know what I'm saying.
46:47
Been around for four years and I Look At You know guys like ocean
46:51
Kel toy and Wolf the red and even Eric Sherman.
46:53
Derek Sherman just broke three thousand subscribers on his.
46:57
Show tremendous amount of good content out here online for
47:02
anybody that feels like they're tied, you know, or closed off
47:06
for that. Their connections are are are
47:09
broken to the rest of the world because of where they live.
47:11
There's a huge Community out here.
47:14
You just need to tap into and you never know who's right in
47:17
your backyard you know? And and and Matt Petrie Odin's
47:21
beard, woodworking Jam all of a sudden, see all of its here
47:23
workshop and they were gone all the friends and Associates.
47:27
Assets that I've come to meet a lot of great people out here
47:30
that are doing wonderful things in their own way.
47:32
And I don't want to compete with people, I Ocean or wolf, the
47:36
red, let them do their thing and let them be good at it.
47:38
That's not me. That's not what I'm trying to
47:40
do. You know, let me do my thing.
47:42
Let me learn. Let me let me help people and
47:44
educate and be a source that people can, you know, find a
47:49
home at or whatever. I don't know, but whatever it
47:51
is, let me be that. I'm not going to try to compete
47:57
with anybody else. I want them to be able to do
48:00
good with what they're doing. I want y'all to your Workshop to
48:02
do great things, with all the ritual items, the tools, the,
48:07
the physical tangible items that that help us in our paganism.
48:13
I want them to excel at that. I want Matt Petrie to sell all
48:16
the god, pulls that he can possibly carve out to give
48:19
people the items in their homes and in their Sacred Space too.
48:25
To venerate the gods and to into focus on the gods with you know
48:27
and I want you know all these others that I may be having
48:31
much. Eric shervin specially man, I
48:32
want I want that man to to be able to relax, you know?
48:39
And and and and have a have a good time with his folk and with
48:43
his family with his kin with his kids.
48:45
And and, and just, you know, Put on some content.
48:51
I mean he does. He does everybody does it?
48:53
Everybody here has a place and they all have a lot to offer for
48:59
this community, you know, man. And I say this community as if
49:03
it's like one giant thing, but there's little cliques and
49:07
there's little subsets of within this community that we all may
49:10
find ourselves dipping in without you know.
49:12
So there's a lot out here. If you're, if you take the time
49:18
and kind of siphon through the minutiae, you're going to find
49:21
great people and and tie yourself to those, you know,
49:26
connect with those people, learn some things.
49:31
And I know, I know, I know that a lot of people that I'm friends
49:36
with online or that I'm friends with in the real, you know,
49:39
Community the real world, you know, face-to-face by tribesmen,
49:44
my mic in my kiss, you no speak. Well of me and, you know, I
49:50
don't, I don't, it doesn't like it doesn't always sink in to me,
49:58
you know, like I'm at this point in my in my journey and my heat
50:01
and path right now where I'm taking a huge.
50:08
It's taken a turn. It's taken a big turn.
50:16
I'm 6 years now. Going on seven years into my
50:22
Heathen Journey, which is not a very long time, but when you
50:26
break it down into increments, right?
50:28
And you look at nine as being largely recognized as a sacred
50:32
number. You know, the nine Realms.
50:37
Odin hangs for me to go to seal from for nine days and nine
50:40
nights, you know, and and and all the various implications of
50:45
the number 9 as being something sacred, you know, I'm The
50:49
threes, the six, the nine like for my for my first three years,
50:53
to my next three years, which is what I'm in right now.
50:55
Now transitioning from those last six, you know, the the
50:59
collective six years into my next three years to equal 9.
51:02
These next three years from me have we are going to become
51:05
very, very interesting and very impactful and I don't talk a lot
51:10
about my personal approach to things because it is it is
51:13
personal. But guys, if you stick around
51:16
and stay, Tuned for things. I mean the next three years from
51:21
are going to be wild and I will be keeping a lot of stuff close
51:28
at least initially, but eventually things will come out.
51:32
And if you stick around and you want to, you know, if for all
51:34
the people that that say you man, you've been such an
51:37
inspiration, you've taught me a lot, you've shown me a lot.
51:39
This is not any other thank you. First of all, thank you but I do
51:43
I get very I'm humbled by it all because I'm still learning.
51:47
And I mean, when you consider six years, ain't a hell of a
51:51
long time and it's really not what I've picked up.
51:56
What I've learned, what I'm willing to learn and or what I'm
51:59
willing to shoot to share as far as knowledge and when willing to
52:03
teach, it's like I'm still a student.
52:07
So, come along with me, right? Let's learn things together.
52:12
Don't take what I say and have it be the end-all be-all.
52:16
But take what I say and learn things yourself, right?
52:21
I'm learning stuff, I'm going off and I'm finding things and
52:24
I'm taking the time to learn and read and live it and be it, and
52:29
do it. That's where I think a lot of
52:32
the the, the growth comes from is is get out of the books,
52:37
right? There's a place for that.
52:39
There's a time for that and it's the time is never to stop, you
52:43
know, don't ever stop searching. I think is is, you know, be
52:49
careful with how much you learn. Because, you know, you know,
52:54
medium wise, never too wise one should be, but You know, take
53:02
that experience, take, whatever experience that you have and use
53:08
it to your benefit. And then, who knows where you
53:11
might find yourself. You might be the one that
53:13
someone comes to you and says, hey about that.
53:15
What do you think? Can you help me with this?
53:17
I have some ideas. I need to bounce off here,
53:19
whatever. Who knows?
53:22
Who knows? Where we'll be in the next three
53:23
years, guys, world's crazy. We're all crazy for being here.
53:32
But but yeah man thank you manual for, for calling in and
53:37
sharing that and thank you scold.
53:40
It works for writing in again. Check the description and show
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notes for his social medias. You know, give him a give him
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some support, even if it's just a subscriber follow to whatever
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he does, but part 2 of it's called it works.
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Questions he had. He had a second question, which
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I'm not going to reveal today on this episode of random heaving
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ramblings. It will be back on next week's
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episode of rain and even ramblings.
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And I will hopefully have a guest to talk about it and maybe
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we will revisit some of what we talked about today and hash it
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over again. Like a good old-fashioned.
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Waffle House 3 in the morning scattered smothered and covered
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hash browns, baby. Let's get these ideas scattered
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smothered and covered with some I'm capped if you if you will
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get them, get them. Get them diced.
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Get them all over man. Just get him get him every which
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way get the I get the idea scattered.
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Smothered covered dice chunked. You name it.
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So that's going to conclude today's random Heathen ramblings
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podcast, I'm getting. So old that all of the, the I
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keep doing this number here is because I feel like my nose is
55:00
tickling. I'm getting sold at, I got the
55:02
nose in my hairs, in this is TMI, but all the noses in my
55:05
hairs are tickling me and making me.
55:06
He So I'm sniffling and I'm, I'm rubbing my nose, and it's in,
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it's irritating. So this is this is what you have
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to look forward to boys and girls as you get older, right?
55:18
You learn some things. And then hair grows out of
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places that they didn't once grow out of and it becomes
55:23
really annoying. So anyway, that being said, you
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all are wonderful. I appreciate your constant and
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ongoing support. Don't forget.
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may the gods continue to walk with you and may your ancestors
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always smile upon you until next time.
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Take care.