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the beauty of mountain spirit None.
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None. Hello, hello and good evening,
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everyone. Random stream out of nowhere.
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Michael Thacker. Yeah, I'm going to explain kind
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of what's going on here in just a moment.
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Let some more folks across the world get notified of this
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hopefully. Again, this was not planned,
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this was not scheduled. You guys didn't know about this
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in advance, but thank you to Michael Thacker, Dragon Dancer
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and Zach on YouTube for first of all coming by and and and
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catching this live stream. I'm glad that the notifications
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worked and that you got that that little heads up that
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YouTube puts out here. But so yeah, this is obviously,
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you know, a very impromptu thing.
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So the reason why Really, Actually, real quick, before I
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give you the reason why, wherever you're watching this,
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if you're watching this on Facebook, hail and hello to you.
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If you're watching this on YouTube, go ahead and do a quick
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your own, your personal profiles, go ahead and give this
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this is going to be this week's Random Heathen Ramblings podcast
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episode. We're going to be taking live
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comments that come through here, post them up on the screen.
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So this is going to be an interesting change of pace for
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this week. I'm going to explain why here in
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just a minute. So Halen, welcome to you all.
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My name is. Jesse, this is.
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A Random Heathen Ramblings live stream for the Random Heathen
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Ramblings podcast, which I religiously and regularly post
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content on every week every Thursday mornings.
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If you guys have been following my my Socials for any length of
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time, the the podcast has been aired airing on Thursday
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mornings for years now. This is season five.
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Give this video a like, share. Do all the fun things you know.
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Just let the algorithm know that you know it needs to Kick It Out
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to some more people. Don't know exactly how long
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we'll be streaming for, but so why am I doing this live stream
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today for this week's podcast? I know a lot of folks watch or
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listen to my podcast on Spotify and all the other audio
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platforms, but the video version of the podcast is only for the
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Patreon supporters. So if you're a Patreon
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supporter, I know Michael is And anyone else on Facebook, what's
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up, Amelia? Amelia was just a guest on last
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week's episode. She is the.
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Gidia or the river pine Kindred there in Texarkana, TX.
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So Halen, welcome to you Amelia. Thanks for stopping by and
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watching. But so why am I doing this right
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now on a Monday or you know in in in video format.
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We're still going to get the audio for this out on the
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Spotify platforms and everything.
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So this will be the the episode for this week.
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But the reason why we're doing it live here right now is
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because the guests that I had scheduled to speak with today, I
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I mean I we we we had it planned, you know months ago for
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him to come on here. We've been in contact back and
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forth via e-mail for weeks. I sent an e-mail earlier last
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week just saying hey, just making sure we're still on.
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Even sent the thumbnail for the for the podcast to them and and
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asked you know, hey is this OK? They responded back with some
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feedback. Some like spelling errors or
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whatever, right? Got that?
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Approved said. All right, good.
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We'll see you Monday. Yep, we'll see you Monday.
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Sent another e-mail. Earlier this afternoon and said
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hey, here's your here's your link to join.
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See you at X time right? X time comes around and I'm
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sitting here with you know my thumbs up my rear kind of
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waiting. Sent a couple of emails saying
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hey I'm here ready when you are. Sat and waited for 30 minutes
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and nothing. Now listen.
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I understand right? And how things go you, you know,
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life happens, things come up. You know, you can't always plan
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for things to happen when they do, right?
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So I understand that there could have been a occurrence of, you
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know, something could have happened to have prevented my
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guest from coming on the show today.
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And I hope that it wasn't anything serious.
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And I hope that it was something that required their attention,
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you know, elsewhere. Nothing serious.
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Of course, I wouldn't want you know any ill or anything to come
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on anyone, but it definitely is. You know, I I I plan my schedule
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around when my guests come up here, right?
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What's up, Adam Cage? Hope you're having a great
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night. Hope you are too, buddy.
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Nice to see you here. Thank you for tuning in again,
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guys and gals out here. Just if you don't mind, please
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share this video wherever you're watching from.
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Get some more folks to come on here because this is the podcast
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episode for this week. We're going to be taking live
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chat, comments, questions, things that you might have on
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your mind that you'd like for me to ramble on a bit about.
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But yeah, you know, going back to the whole thing, you know,
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hopefully it's it's nothing serious.
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And I and I like to think that whatever it is, is is more
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important than coming on the podcast.
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But it just to put it out here, you know, I plan my life and I I
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schedule things around my life for guests that come on this
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show. And if much like when I do my
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once a month, you know, virtual Hangouts with my scald tier and
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above patrons on Patreon, much like that, if if you're pledging
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your support at that level, then I am obligated to be there when
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I say I'm going to be there. And if you're a guest on the
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show and you've, you know, scheduled yourself to be on
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here, what's up? Chris Martino, good evening and
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hail to you. Thank you for joining.
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If you're scheduled to be here, then you are then obligated to
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be on time. And I get again, I gave like a
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30 minute grace period and waited and sent a couple of
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emails to my to my guests this week and I never heard anything.
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So again, I I have to assume that there was something of a
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more pressing nature to come up that you know they they were not
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able to you know respond back in an e-mail.
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But it does it did present a challenge to me because it's not
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like, well, let's just do it tomorrow or Wednesday or
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whatever. I'm like I got a life and I got
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things that happen and right. And when I when I schedule stuff
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with people it it's it's on a specific day that works for me,
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works for them and you know that's up that that that's all I
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got to say. So what's up John Deeson.
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Good evening man. Hope all is well.
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Hate to hear that it was a cancel.
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I'm not cancelling it, like indefinitely.
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I just, you know, want to put that out here again, not, not
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not to bear any ill will towards anyone without knowing the full
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context of things. I I, I got the I got the
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impression that that this guest was very excited to come on the
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show this week because people are so excited to come on the
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show. However, I I do have a very long
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you know, I'm booked out into April, into the middle of April
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now. So you know, I'm like, I want
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you to be here, right? I want you to come on the show.
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I just, I can't sit here all night, but you know, with my
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thumbs up, my butt waiting and and not knowing if you're going
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to come here. So I need to make good.
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Use of the. Time that I have and I thought,
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well, I don't have any other guests that I can just
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impromptu, you know, You know, an impromptu like, hey, you want
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to come on and and talk about whatever and not have anything
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really planned for. So I thought, well, what's the
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best use of my time? Let's put some feelers out here
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into the interwebs, go live for a little while and see what
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folks have to say on this random Monday evening across 2-3
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platforms. Well, across 2 platforms and you
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know, a few different profiles. Here we've got about 14 people
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watching live, Hail, hail and hello to their Jason, what does
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it say? The baby heathen is here.
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Well, Halo and hello to you Jason.
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Thank you for joining. As a reminder or as a kind of a
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recap, the Random Heathen Ramblings podcast for this week
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that usually airs on on Thursday mornings across Spotify and and
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all the other audio platforms. This is what the podcast will
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be, right? So it's going to sound very,
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very rambly. Much like a live stream tends to
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be. So for those folks that usually
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don't get a chance to see the video format of the podcast
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because it's on Patreon now, you got to become a patron on
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Patreon. Which you know, by the way, if
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you do become a patron on Patreon, you can follow me there
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for free. But if you want to watch the
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video versions of the show, you need to pledge just a dollar,
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OK? And the dollar gets you access
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to current videos that have been posted and all of my all of my.
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You know video content in the podcast forms, so if you don't
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want to, you know, continue that every month, $1.00 a month is
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all it takes. That if you want to just, you
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know, pledge your dollar, get your access, watch a bunch of
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videos and then not continue anymore, that's totally fine.
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But a dollar a month is all it takes for you to keep access to
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be able to see the videos. That versions of the podcast,
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OK, normally every week they are aired on Spotify and everywhere
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else in audio format only this will be aired on Spotify and
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everything in its audio format. So for those that are listening,
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when this comes out on Thursday this week, you know it'll be
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like, whoa, who's he talking to? Well, this is a live stream.
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We are live on YouTube and Facebook, so if you want to
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watch the recap of everything, you can either go to the Midgard
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Musings YouTube channel 'cause it'll be up there, or you can
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watch it on Patreon. Will there be live streams?
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Will this be live streamed, saved on YouTube?
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Yeah, Michael, I don't take down the live streams, you know, when
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they go up. So like I said, this one will be
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kept on the channel or indefinitely, right?
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I'm not going to just take it down after after tonight's
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broadcast, Adam says if you ever want to do a podcast about the
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coming of age ritual we did at Shadowmoot last year, let me
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know what you want to know and we will get it done.
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Adam, that is a that is a great offer for you.
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I mean, I I never would have thought to have asked you for
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that because. Being a part of it.
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At Shadowmoot last year was was something very special.
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But if you ever want to, if you want to, you know, talk about it
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again. Like I said, I'm booked out into
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April so you can shoot me an e-mail.
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The e-mail address is midgardmusingstn@gmail.com.
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I'd like to keep everything podcast related to e-mail rather
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than private messages on, you know, the various social
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platforms that I'm on. It's just easier for me to keep
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track of of things. I can put it on my calendar, I
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have a paper trail, as it were, to go back on.
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But yeah, I would love to. If you're comfortable with
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talking about it, we can. We can rap about.
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You know what? We go over what we talk about,
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what we don't talk about, etcetera, things like that.
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So, yeah, I would definitely love to recap that with you Sir.
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Thank you. Hello.
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Leon has a question. He says, what does it mean when
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a rune appears in a dream? Great question.
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So for me, I've had, I've had some experiences, you know in my
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practices over the years where runes have appeared in dreams to
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me in different contexts or they've appeared in a sort of
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like not necessarily a dream state but I was definitely like
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asleep. And then I was woken from my
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sleep and and rooms or a room was was was present.
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OK, so I always like to take the context of the dream or or or or
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what was happening, what was going on in the dream?
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You can talk with somebody who is a dream interpreter or has
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the the skill set to kind of do a deep dive into the dream
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itself. I would definitely suggest going
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down that road too, because dreams can mean different
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things, you know, and they can having an.
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Outside perspective, having a, you know, kind of like a third
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party perspective on things can maybe shed some light on on the
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dream for you that. You know you you may have
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overlooked or or again gives it a different perspective and I'm
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talking down to like some of the and and every dream you know
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every every dream that's interpreted you know I'm sure if
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you were to get several people who.
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That is their area of expertise. If you were to give you know a a
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group of those type of people the same dream to interpret, you
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might get some similar you know, responses, similar things that
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they that they kind of deduce. And you'll also probably get
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individual things or feedback from those dream interpreters
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that are unique to to to what that that person sees.
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So like for example I I did a podcast with with a guy one
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time. His name is Benjamin Davidson
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and on his YouTube channel he is he's referred to as Benjamin the
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Dream Wizard Davidson. He's done several books.
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He's got a YouTube channel. I've had him as a guest on my
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show before we've he's had me as a guest on his and I've given
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him a dream to interpret, you know, and one of which was
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involved having a rune appear and it was a Urus Rune.
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So what does the rune mean? Right.
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What is the meaning of the rune? And bear in mind, right this guy
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is not a runer. He doesn't follow Germanic
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heathen. Reed doesn't know anything about
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the runes. He just interprets the dreams.
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So he asks certain questions. He tries to get as granular as
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possible and he will give you his, his interpretation of the
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dream. And it was really insightful to
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be given that information and to have his insight on it.
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But you know, what does the rune mean?
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What was happening in the dream? Where were you?
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Were there any other people there?
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Right. There's there's so many
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different things that can go into the dream itself that you
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would need to pick apart I think before you could answer the
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question of what does it mean when a rune appears in your
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dream. So that's my answer to that
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sounds like a kick ass episode. Aaron.
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Adam Yeah, John says that the talking about the the coming of
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age ritual that I was a part of at Shadowmoot last year.
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What's up there? Voodoo Viking from southeast
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Louisiana. Thank you for tuning in again.
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This is a live stream that will later on be appear be this
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week's episode of the Random Heathen Ramblings podcast.
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So it is very random, true to its namesake because we were
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taking live comments and questions, you know, things from
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people. We got James Robinson.
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I was asked an interesting question by a guy who is just
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getting into Norse paganism and I wasn't sure how to answer.
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He wanted to know how Yortmangander has relevance on a
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globe. As in does it just wrap the
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continents or something more complex?
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I think maybe the. You read the Lord and and hear
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what is he how he's described in the Lord he you know he's the
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Midgard serpent and he encompasses Midgard.
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Midgard not being you know flat or whatever obviously so you
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know encompassing the the the world I guess.
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I guess being a serpent, you know, you could you could say
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that he probably is definitely hugging certain areas closer,
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you know dips and and crevices and stuff like that.
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So if you, if you want to explore the, the, the visuals of
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of what a serpent would be like wrapping itself around a globe,
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around a, you know, a sphere, you would have to picture the
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sphere being, you know, having depth, right, Not not like a
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flat surface, not like a like a basketball or something with no
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texture or depth to it. I'm sure that as a serpent would
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wrap around you know say a rock that's that's more round and
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square or something. I mean there's going to be parts
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of the serpent that are dipping into lower areas and higher
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peaks etcetera etcetera. So we got the heathen nerd here.
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You guys stay tuned for a guest spot with with this feller.
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He's going to be coming on the podcast soon, relatively soon.
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So be be sure to subscribe to his channel.
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He says that in an era where new heathens love to see signs
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everywhere, how do you decipher the mundane from the magic when
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interacting with the divine? That is a That is a great
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question and I appreciate everyone coming here and asking
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questions to make this week's podcast such an interesting one.
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I'm going to try to get through them and give good answers as
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best I can. But also you know with with
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consideration of everyone's time right you're here you have a
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question you want it to be heard.
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Bear with me as I go through and and and read the comments as we
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go. But deciphering between you know
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between what you would call like the mundane versus the magic.
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I like to you also use the term well I think mundane and and
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magic is is probably the best way of of describing this right
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here. But I've also looked at you know
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what is profane versus sacred the idea of what exists in the
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profane space and then what exists in sacred space.
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There are barriers there are separations between the two and
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not everything that you see the sign is a is a sign or an omen.
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The signs and the omens and stuff that are that are captured
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are are meant for the individual that that is receiving them.
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Right. So like, as an example, right?
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Like not just just because you know, you've got, you know, a
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guy sitting by a river and you know he sees, you know, 2 Ravens
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or or or two crows or something fly overhead, right?
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It doesn't mean that Odin is is coming to him necessarily.
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But there might have been something that this man or this
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person was doing by this river or in the forest or in the
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mountain or wherever he or she was or wherever this person was.
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Maybe they were doing something of a of a of a ritual to connect
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with the divine, to connect with the sacred and they were putting
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forth that magic, You know, they were, they were, they were
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executing the action to hopefully get a get a response
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from from the sacred, from the divine, you know.
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And so when things like that are happening and you see this, you
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know the Ravens or or or or any other sort of like animistic
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response to things like you know is it every single time?
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Probably not. But maybe in that context it it,
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it was a acknowledgement of sorts by the gods right.
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It's hard to say. You know we we, I don't think we
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can def. I don't think we can put a
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definitive answer to that. But I think in terms of your
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question, how do we decipher the mundane from from the magic, I
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think a quick answer would be as well you know what was what was
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happening or you just you know walking nearby and there happens
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to be you know a dead deer and and there are you know corvids
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and stuff flying around and and that's why they're they're
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present that could be the the simple mundane reason why
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they're there doesn't mean anything magical you know so.
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Probably something worth going more into deep detail, deeper
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detail with, but that's my quick response.
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Hopefully gave some good answer. For you there, Voodoo, Viking
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says. How much do you think the
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Catholics? How much do you think that the
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Catholics to took? I'm assuming you're saying took
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from the Celts and the Norse in regards to practice in
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livelihood and religiously religiosity.
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I've always made the joke that Catholics are pagans in denial
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because if you've ever attended a Catholic Mass, which I have,
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the the methodology is very Pagan, right?
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The everything about the the ritual of mass there there's
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nuance to with that to to you know Pagan rituals.
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You know what I mean? I think that they took a lot
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because again, when you look at the structure of their belief,
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you know they they're real big on Saints.
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Of course they're being a, you know, one supreme God and all
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that. But they they had, they pray the
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Saints and they have various Saints for this thing, that of
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the other to pray to. That sounds eerily familiar to
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other polytheistic or even henotheistic beliefs where you
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have specific gods or goddesses to devote a prayer or or an
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offering or something to for specific reasons.
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You know, you might pray to Frere for fertility and you
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know, you might blow to Odin for victory and battle and all these
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various things, you know. So there's nuance to that and I
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think you know how much they stole.
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You want to use the term stole from Celts or or from north
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from, from again from, from non Christian belief systems, from
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the from the Pagan beliefs of the of of those areas.
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I think that there's a lot of nuance to all of that and that
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there is a shared shared things. So let me get over to the next
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thank you for commenting that voodoo Viking.
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Amelia, I'm just going through comments now, says that normally
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when it comes to to dreams, it is best to write the dream down
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and take your time to understand the meaning of the
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interpretation. Absolutely.
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You can definitely go through your own dream process and and
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stuff, but if you're really wanting to explore some deep
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dive stuff, again, I've spoken multiple times with Benjamin
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Davidson. He is he's got a he's got he's
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got a a more like not a not a religious approach or spiritual
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approach. Again he's not heathen or Pagan
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or anything like that. I believe he's last I checked
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anyways he was atheist or maybe even agnostic.
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I don't want to speak out of turn or incorrectly but he's
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he's unbiased when it comes to things.
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So he he he's giving a very you know almost like psychological
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approach to things. I believe he has background in
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psychology too so he is available.
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He will put you, you know you can get in contact with him and
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and he'll, if you want to come on his podcast and and talk
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through the dream and he'll read kind of interpret the dream for
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you there. But I I agree with Amelia.
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You know if you can record the dream yourself document it down
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as much as you can remember, that's great.
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Hello there to Devonshire Heathen.
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Good evening from the OR good morning.
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Sorry from the United Kingdom. I know it is morning now.
28:55
It's a very early morning. So, Alan, good morning to you.
28:59
Thank you for commenting, Jason says.
29:01
I've had some runes in my dreams, but the thing that is
29:05
more concerning is this one dream that has occurred to me
29:09
three times before I dreamt of what I perceived to be Ragnarok.
29:16
That's a pretty common theme of dreams when it comes to like
29:23
recurring dreams, like I I, I know people and I've had some of
29:27
them myself, where you it's very apocalyptical, very doomsday,
29:32
you know, end of the world, destruction of the world, that
29:34
sort of thing. So I don't think they're very
29:38
uncommon there you know and and being a Pagan yourself being a
29:42
heathen yourself associating that sort of you know
29:45
apocalyptical event with with Ragnarok kind of tracks and
29:49
makes sense. What am I burning Leon I'm
29:52
burning incense first of all I got a candle burning over here
29:56
and then the incense that I'm burning is a it's a pine blend
30:03
aroma. So that's what you see kind of
30:06
burning off to the side here Oh my my my my pouch fell.
30:13
I'm wearing I don't know I was you'll you'll notice too if you
30:16
if you guys are used to watching my my my content.
30:19
I've got these you know arm band braces and stuff on definitely
30:23
not my normal aesthetic. My wife had gotten me these for
30:27
for for Yule and and the shirt that I'm wearing and she's like
30:30
I want to do it like you know not like a photo shoot because
30:32
like I want to see the whole ensemble on you like dress up
30:36
for me kind of thing. So I'm like, all right cool.
30:38
And then because it was a podcast recording evening I'm
30:41
like, well, I'll just I'll just keep it keep it normal.
30:44
Hey, we got Scott Shell. Sorry you guys didn't show
30:50
Jesse. Lame.
30:51
Well, we make the best of things right, Scott?
30:53
I guess time being, you know, precious for us all.
30:56
I was trying to think of a way to give people something
31:00
valuable for this week. I thought, well with, you know,
31:03
I don't know anybody right off the rip that I could reach out
31:06
to and be like, hey, let's you know, shoot from the hip with
31:08
this content this week. So we're doing a live stream and
31:11
answering questions. So thanks for being here.
31:14
Was Michael saying that? So I've recently met another
31:17
heathen at one of my job sites. What's the best way to see if
31:23
they are someone worthy tying weird with making sure that
31:28
they're not folkish. I mean as I mean I I think
31:32
honesty and and just and just being you know blunt when it
31:36
comes to stuff like that. I mean if that's not your job,
31:38
if that's not your thing, if you don't want to be around or or or
31:42
tie your weird with anybody like that just flat out ask you know,
31:47
say hey, you know, I, you know, I first of all a lot of people
31:51
wear hammers and stuff and they don't necessarily, you know,
31:55
they don't practice they're they're they're not practicing
31:58
heathens. You know they wear it as a
32:00
fashion statement sort of thing. If as long as you've established
32:04
that they are heathens, that they are practicing heathens,
32:06
maybe you've had conversations talk with them about the gods or
32:11
other similar topics that you can find you know kind of common
32:17
ground with. It might just it might just be
32:20
the time at that moment to just flat out be like hey, look I
32:23
don't know I'm not about focus heathen stuff and you know.
32:29
All right. You know what do you think about
32:30
that I'm I'm especially I don't know for for for me you know my
32:37
age I'm I, I I just want it upfront man.
32:41
Like just give it to me straight.
32:43
Let's not beat around the Bush when it comes to stuff like this
32:46
and and and if you're you're talking to people who could
32:49
potentially you know waste your time because that's not the
32:51
thing that you want to be involved in then just better get
32:54
it up you know straight up out of the way.
32:56
I think Emilia says that in the mundane settings the the gods
33:03
leave us messages. Magic is everywhere, but not
33:07
everyone sees those signs in the everyday mundane.
33:13
That's good. I like that.
33:15
Magic is everywhere. You know, we live, we live in a
33:18
magic gold realm. Just, you know, you stop and
33:21
think about things that are going on scene and unseen.
33:25
It's pure magic. Raised in southern Louisiana.
33:28
Catholicism, Voodoo Viking. With a name like Voodoo Viking.
33:33
I I could. I could see the voodoo part
33:35
being, you know, southern Louisiana.
33:39
The the Catholic thing kind of is like one of those spicy
33:43
little editions of life that I wouldn't have called out.
33:46
But yeah, he the nerd has a question said what advice do you
33:49
wish someone give you when you were new to the path?
33:55
Oh wow. Ah, man.
33:58
I I think that's a great question.
34:01
I don't know. I've actually never been asked
34:02
that before. So what advice would I what did
34:06
he say? What's the what advice do I wish
34:10
I would have gotten from someone when I was new to the path?
34:18
You know, I wish that I would was given more than just the
34:22
Eddas as as as a source of of knowledge to go to.
34:27
You know, because that's lore that's that that's mythology and
34:33
and yes, they're there. You know there's great stuff in
34:38
the Eddas that you know like the hall of them all and and but
34:41
it's so much centralized around the stories and the myths it it
34:45
doesn't really cover anything to do with morals, ethics,
34:49
worldviews of the Teutonic people of Germanic people of pre
34:54
Christian Europe. You know, you got to think too,
34:59
when the Eddas were written, it was during and after the Viking
35:05
or you know, right around and during the Viking age.
35:07
And so by that point in time, you know the the native
35:11
indigenous heathen beliefs and Pagan beliefs had been all but
35:15
wiped out and replaced with Christianity.
35:18
So much of all of that stuff that is written in those sources
35:22
were written by Christians. So you can't help but know that
35:28
there's bias from the Christian side being imparted into those
35:32
stories, right? So much of the stories that
35:34
exist in in the lore, by the time they were written down, you
35:39
know, it was several 100 years later than when people were
35:44
actually actively, openly practicing things.
35:48
So I think I wish that people would have kind of pointed me in
35:51
the direction of good source, you know, good material to to
35:55
research, good learning material to to to explore beyond the
36:00
Ettas stuff to do with you know, everyday life the the world
36:07
views of of of these people knowing the difference between
36:11
how the various tribes would have you know viewed the world
36:17
because and again you you know we hear like heathenry is this
36:20
kind of umbrella term of well N heathenry yet Norse meaning like
36:24
Scandinavian you know. So you got your Scandinavian
36:27
model of Heathenry. You've also got your your your
36:33
continental Germanic approach to Heathenry very which which which
36:40
is where things kind of started in the South, right.
36:42
You know Saxony and everything that goes back to the Germanic
36:45
tribes that hazardous documents and writes down.
36:50
So yeah that would be my answer to that.
36:55
I wish I would got more pointed in the direction of of of other
37:01
source material besides just the lore.
37:03
What's up, John? Right.
37:04
Rechi Rechi, sorry. Halen, welcome to you.
37:07
This is again a live stream that will be published in audio
37:11
format on the Spotify and all the other audio platforms for
37:16
the Random Heathen Ramblings podcast this week.
37:18
It will remain here on YouTube and it'll go up on Patreon too
37:21
guys. So.
37:22
So don't worry about that. What's up?
37:25
Patrick Walsh, my brother from another mother out there in
37:28
Misery, Missouri. Good to see you here, man.
37:34
All right, Jason. So I would like to get some
37:36
Norse tattoos. However, what's your opinion on
37:40
that regarding what your what you'd recommend and where it
37:46
would be. So I mean, go for it, I guess.
37:52
You know, like be careful with rooms though I guess would be my
37:56
only cautionary comment when it comes to that there, Jason.
38:02
Because a lot of folks like to get runes tattooed on them.
38:07
And what they'll do is they'll take Elder Futhark runes, try to
38:11
spell out a modern English word. And then like one of the one of
38:17
the most popular ones I think is, is this image of like either
38:21
the either a Vegasir or an Agasiomer, one of the Icelandics
38:25
that's kind of like what you see behind me.
38:28
You know they'll they'll put that and then they'll spell in
38:33
Elder Futhark rooms. Right.
38:35
Not all who wander are lost. That's a very popular thing and
38:41
it's a nod to to Tolkien. You know, the JRR Tolkien, the
38:46
author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
38:48
Because there's a there's a line in in the book or in one of the
38:52
books referring to Aragorn being the heir of the throne of Gondor
38:58
and talking about, you know, not all that.
39:01
All that is GLOW, all that is gold is not glitter and and I
39:07
don't remember all the rest, but you know, not all who wander are
39:10
lost and they'll put it in Elder Futhark runes.
39:14
But it doesn't translate properly.
39:16
Modern English does not translate correctly with with
39:19
Elder Futhark runes. Elder Futhark runes were
39:25
traditionally used to write in Proto Germanic languages.
39:27
The the, the language that predates even Old Norse, right?
39:31
So if you're looking to get Norse tattoos and you're looking
39:35
at any sort of runic inscriptions or runic writing, I
39:39
would definitely pause with that.
39:42
Because it, you know, unless you have a good source of knowledge,
39:46
somebody who is either a runologist or knows the
39:49
difference between when the elder Futhark runes were used,
39:52
when the younger Futhark runes were used, or any other of the
39:55
Germanic runic letters, right? Whether they're Anglo-Saxon
39:57
runes on and on and on. You're wanting to definitely
40:02
make sure that if you're going to use the runes that you're
40:04
using them correctly, especially when you're writing anything
40:08
out, spelling anything out, you don't.
40:11
You don't. You don't technically use Elder
40:13
Futhark runes or even younger Futhark runes To write in modern
40:17
English. You would use Old Norse.
40:20
If you're going to be writing something in the Old Norse or
40:22
even Old Icelandic, you you would use the younger Futhark
40:25
rooms because that is the runic alphabet that was used to write
40:28
in those spoken languages. Anything older than that, like
40:31
the Proto Germanic languages, you would typically use your
40:35
Elder Futhark rooms. All right.
40:41
Hello, Patrick. Hello, John.
40:42
Hello. Hello.
40:43
Hello, Halen. Hello, everyone.
40:45
What's up? Misty Dissler?
40:46
This is Richard's wife, Richard's wife.
40:50
And congratulations on your newborn child Misty and and and
40:54
Richard, if you guys are watching still congratulations
40:56
and thank you for being here. Guys.
40:58
Please do be sure. If you're not, if you don't
41:01
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41:04
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41:06
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41:12
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41:16
I don't know what happened early, but my normal, the guest
41:18
that I was supposed to have this week just didn't show up.
41:22
And so hopefully everything's OK and we get them on at a later
41:26
time, maybe in April because I'm again, I'm booked out all the
41:29
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41:32
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around. Let's get some, get some good
41:39
dialogue. Lots of good questions going on
41:41
here. James.
41:44
Rob. James Robinson.
41:45
Yeah. Runes terrify me because I don't
41:49
want to to to use the wrong thing and I don't totally
41:53
understand them yet. I think you're in a good space
41:57
to feel that way, especially being, as you put it, a baby
42:00
heathen. Don't feel like you have to rush
42:03
into runes early on. I think you have a a healthy
42:10
respect, OK, terrifying you. That's a strong term.
42:15
But hey, if that's how you feel then that's how you feel.
42:18
Being cautious of using rooms is, is good for you early on.
42:24
If they call to you, if they if it's you know there's something
42:26
that you feel drawn to that you want to explore.
42:30
You know, Scott Shell was here earlier in the in the comments.
42:34
He's definitely somebody if you want to.
42:37
He's got a YouTube channel. Scott, if you're watching, I
42:43
don't remember the name off the top of my head, but anyway, he's
42:45
on YouTube. He's also got a daily have them
42:48
all page. So he's a good source to go to
42:51
when it comes to learning more about the rooms in the in the,
42:57
in their application, right where they've appeared in in
42:59
certain rune stones and and how to pronounce them and and so on
43:03
and so forth. You can always hit me up.
43:07
You can e-mail me midgardmusingstn@gmail.com,
43:10
follow me on my socials, you know the Midgard Musings page,
43:13
the YouTube channel. You can always shoot me a
43:18
message there. If you have any questions about
43:19
things I'll I'll do my best to to get you the best answer I
43:22
possibly can. But yeah, good on you for being
43:26
cautious about it. Sagas of the Icelanders is a
43:30
good book says Voodoo Viking. The complete set is even better,
43:36
however. It's like $400.00.
43:38
There's a lot of sagas, guys. There's like what, 700?
43:42
Some odd different sagas? Just the Scandinavian ones,
43:47
right? Lots of normal everyday
43:50
livelihood and and ritual in them.
43:52
Yeah, absolutely, Amelia says from the river pine.
43:58
Kindred says that there is several good books on Futhark
44:04
about spelling words correctly. It is also good to get opinions
44:12
from someone who is an expert on the Futhark.
44:17
Yeah. You know I I kind of echoing
44:20
that comment earlier when I said you know it it's good to be
44:23
cautionary and and you know if they terrify you or if you're
44:26
you know I said don't let it. Don't necessarily let it deter
44:29
you or keep you from pursuing an interest in wanting to learn.
44:33
But definitely if you're new and early on kind of like you say a
44:36
baby heathen it's best to consult with people who know
44:41
what they're talking about. With that thank you very much.
44:49
Rich is here watching too. All right.
44:50
Cool. Misty Misty Dissler and and and
44:53
Richard Dissler. I'm up there in Kentucky,
44:57
northern neighbors of I'm down here in Tennessee, but I'm I'm,
44:59
I'm definitely not a Southerner, but you're north of me so you're
45:02
the Northerner right now respectively speaking so nice to
45:06
see you guys here in the in the comments Patrick Walsh says.
45:10
So my question brother is have you done any cold plunges since
45:18
the last day that we did it. I have not been down back in the
45:22
river so for those of you watching or listening, don't
45:26
know what we're talking about. Myself, Patrick and some other
45:30
close friends and and and kinsmen of ours, we were all
45:34
charged with a a challenge 9 days leading up to to Yule, the
45:39
historical heathen. Yule to to do a a cold plunge
45:43
every day for 9 days for as long as you could stand it.
45:47
But you know trying to get up to about 3 minutes it it could be,
45:50
you know a cold shower an ice bath.
45:53
We ended up getting sub zero temperatures, freezing
45:56
temperatures and like six to seven inches of snow here in my
45:59
part of the country as well as other parts of the country where
46:01
other of our brethren were and are.
46:05
So there was snow on the ground. We did, you know, several of us
46:08
did snow baths. I have not done another one
46:14
since then, brother, because mainly again the last day ended
46:18
on the first night of Yule and then everything leading after
46:22
that. I had to prepare our space, our
46:25
grounds, our home or our Yola bloat, right?
46:29
We had guests over and everything like that.
46:31
So today is Monday and I went back, you know walked out here
46:36
to to see what the river looks like.
46:37
And with all this rain and the snow mountain of anything that
46:40
we got it is a it is a raging river down there, the stones
46:44
over here. So I haven't gone back down to
46:46
the river since then and I haven't done another cold
46:50
shower, but I I have considered continuing on in that endeavour
46:56
and making cold plunges or cold showers or cold water exposure
47:00
at kind of a regular part of my health and well-being
47:04
repertoire. All right, Michael Thacker's
47:07
next in the queue. Which songs would you recommend?
47:12
Saga. Sorry, which which sagas would
47:14
you would you recommend to read first to develop worldviews and
47:19
sense of ritual preparation? First one that comes to mind is
47:26
the Saga of Egil, Scala Groomson.
47:32
That's a good one because it talks about, you know, the the
47:36
use of runes in magical senses and and Egil was a he was a
47:41
runer. I mean he was a he was a rune
47:43
master. Erlas he, you know, Vicky,
47:46
whatever you want to call him. He was known for his efficiency
47:49
proficiency with the runes. But outside of that, like if you
47:56
want to look at like sources for you know, good information on
48:00
like worldview type stuff. Culture of the Tutans by Wilhelm
48:08
Gronbeck is a good good source. Both volumes one and two.
48:15
I have a a a reading list which after this broadcast I will put
48:20
in the comments section And for those that are going to be
48:22
listening to this podcast after the fact I will share some like
48:27
recommended readings that goes into cultural type stuff.
48:31
Right. World views how the dramatic
48:33
people in in the north would have viewed things like death,
48:37
the afterlife their their their concepts of what is wholly other
48:44
things along those along those lines.
48:46
I will come back to this Michael with with a kind of a a list a
48:51
recommended reading list that I would would would share with
48:54
people. But to start with.
48:57
Yeah. Ego Scala Grimson.
48:59
The saga of Ego Sala Grimson is a good one.
49:03
Hello. Yep the voodoo Viking is
49:04
welcoming Patrick there. Get getting caught up on some
49:08
more comments here. So forgive me guys, but Scott
49:10
Shell says yes. Runes are way more nuanced and
49:15
complicated then they appear. Also, divination should be the
49:19
last thing you do with the runes.
49:21
You need to know them and create relationships with them.
49:24
First, 100% agree you need to. You know it's even, it's even
49:30
recited in the Hava mall, right? You know how to carve.
49:34
You know how to paint. Do you know how to bless?
49:36
Do you know how to send? Do you know how to do all these
49:39
things with the runes? Do you know how to do this with
49:43
them? Do you know how to do that?
49:43
Do that with them. There's also in the Saga of
49:48
Iguil Scala Grimsson, there is a kind of a famous, famous line,
49:56
and if I can find it, maybe I think I may have seen it appear
50:03
recently. So as you guys are bearing with
50:07
me, I'm going to filibuster a little bit and try to find the
50:13
thing that I was saying. People are probably going to
50:17
beat me to it in the comments. Oh man, let's see here.
50:31
But it's basically, how do I find this?
50:37
No, this is all right, Quick, Quick thinks, Jesse, Quick
50:41
thinks. But it's basically, you know,
50:43
the the stanza says is, you know you, you should not paint runes
50:51
unless you, you know what you're doing.
50:58
I'm going to come up with it. I know this is a bad filibuster
51:02
right now. Probably not going to find it
51:08
anytime soon. Yeah, probably not going to find
51:21
it. Well, you know what?
51:34
See what we can do here. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
51:52
I think this is the one. Hold on a second.
51:53
Y'all. Hold on to your horses.
51:57
Hold on here. Like nuts.
52:11
Yeah, so in in Egil's saga, you know he's he meets a farmer who
52:17
has a daughter. She gets sick.
52:19
Come to find out that there's been runes painted on a whale
52:23
bone that were painted wrong. So the runes were were used
52:30
incorrectly and Eagle has to fix it.
52:39
All right. So one of the things that he
52:43
says is and I you know I'm not I'm not a student of Old Norse.
52:51
I've I've listened. I've I've I've done my best to
52:53
try to say it in the best way possible but it says or he says
52:59
Scarlet Mother Runa Rista Neymaroda Velcuni Potvezer
53:05
Morgamani is of Mirkovan Stavilisk which is to say that
53:13
you let me get the English translation here if I can find
53:19
it. You ought not to carve runes
53:22
unless you do them. Well it happens to many carvers
53:26
that they make an error. All right.
53:29
So now that I did all of that in the last few minutes wish I had
53:36
that on the cuff, ready to go. Just fired off on the hip so so
53:41
there you go. I'm going to get caught up on
53:46
some of the comments here. This is great.
53:50
Says Jason shared the live. Thank you so much for sharing.
53:56
Not everyone can or even should be a Rune master.
54:00
It's not for everyone says Scott.
54:01
Scott of all people know. And yeah I I, I 100% echo the
54:05
sentiment. Scott.
54:07
Kentucky women are hot. Voodoo Viking.
54:09
All right. Well, you heard it here first.
54:12
Probably not last, Patrick says. Thank you for answering.
54:16
I'm thinking of reintroducing myself from time to time.
54:20
It's so good. Talking about cold plunges, live
54:24
streaming guys, random rambling, random heathen ramblings.
54:27
I mean, we are, we are capturing the epitome of of random
54:31
ramblings for sure. You couldn't pay me to do a cold
54:35
plunge. I bet you, John, you're in
54:38
Florida too, right? You got that southern Florida
54:41
blood pumping through your veins, so it would be a shock
54:44
for sure. But let me tell you what, here's
54:48
the interesting thing about it, and you're in voodoo, Viking
54:51
Louisiana land. There you you agree?
54:56
Hello there Shanda. Shanda, a reading list.
55:00
I will do my best again to go well, I won't do my best.
55:02
I will after the live stream is done and and for those that are
55:06
listening afterwards, because again this live is going to be
55:08
rendered into audio format for Spotify and everybody gets a
55:13
chance to listen, I will be providing my suggested reading
55:17
list. OK, don't don't just stop with
55:19
what I do. Definitely explore more but I'll
55:23
be coming back to that. But for all you really deep
55:25
Southerners, Florida, Louisiana stuff, folks in the Gulf area,
55:30
I'm, I'm from New York. OK, maybe it's my northern
55:33
blood, but I tell you, getting into cold water is a shock.
55:38
I was like breathing heavy, you know, just having a hard time
55:43
with it the first day. By the time that the, you know,
55:45
3rd, 4th, 5th Day and beyond came around, I was like just
55:48
chilling in that water and finding my little happy place
55:53
and just enjoying it. Like yes, it's cold, yes it's a
55:56
shock, but after the first few seconds you'd be amazed at how
56:02
resilient we are as people and and with the right train, you
56:07
know, training with the right going on, you know,
56:10
repetitiveness of it, it's definitely beneficial.
56:14
Patrick says I'll be getting ready for bed soon but wanted to
56:18
make sure I stopped by. Brother Hope the podcast gave
56:22
great and everyone goes great and hope everyone has a great
56:26
night and stays frosty. Absolutely brother, you too.
56:28
Thank you so much voodoo Viking says.
56:32
Stay frosty, Patrick Rothgar scope responding to Michael
56:40
Thacker Ayeboga Saga has some stuff on Ritual.
56:48
So does Hawken, The good Saga. Yeah, the Saga of Hawken, the
56:50
good good one there too. Beowulf is a good one.
56:56
Thank you for for for mentioning Beowulf.
56:59
There's a lot of important parts of things like sumble that are
57:04
laid out in Beowulf. So if you're looking to kind of
57:07
model your approach to Sumble Beowulf is a great, great saga
57:14
to to go off of. Scott is going to jump over to
57:18
the Daily Havemall account, share the stream.
57:20
Hopefully that'll get you some more views.
57:22
Yes, guys, thank you. Thank you very much, Scott.
57:25
As I get caught up on comments, Scott does have the Daily
57:28
Havemall page, which I will be linking in the after stream
57:34
description and podcast show notes for those of you that are
57:37
listening to this when it airs on the audio waves on on
57:41
Thursday, Scott has a Facebook page called the Daily Havemall.
57:44
I know if you go onto Facebook and you search for the Daily
57:46
Havemall, you'll you'll probably find a bunch, but this is his
57:53
one right here. And I'll be sure to link all
57:56
that in the description and the show notes for those of you
57:59
listening and and then stuff to know which one it is that we're
58:03
talking about. All right, great, great
58:06
dialogue. Thank you all so much as we
58:08
continue on here. Jason's got to go now but thanks
58:12
for having me on and and definitely be listening this for
58:17
for the info, especially the reading list.
58:18
Yes, definitely check back in the description after the stream
58:22
is over. I will be sharing a recommended
58:25
reading list in the description area.
58:29
So again when when this goes up on the audio waves for those of
58:31
you that are listening, just check the show notes for all
58:34
that the heathen nerd is firing back.
58:37
Coming back here says, with so many heathens turning to social
58:41
media to find community, do you think you can build Frith
58:50
online? Or do you think Frith is made
58:54
into Frith in person? No, I do not think that Frith
58:59
can be made online. And yes, I think that I believe
59:04
that Frith has to can only can only happen in person.
59:11
All right, this is a big thing that I've talked about in the
59:14
past when it comes to the the false sense of community that
59:19
that social media gives. We are so separated from real
59:30
connections with people, real human connections because of
59:33
social media. It's a double edged sword.
59:35
It has its, IT has its benefits. It has its uses, obviously.
59:40
You know, doing stuff like this. Reaching people, talking,
59:44
getting dialogue, that sort of stuff.
59:48
Because of social media, I've been able to, you know, have
59:52
have the podcast become what it is and then have guests on and
59:55
stuff like that. So again, there's benefits and
59:56
there's good uses for it. But there is absolutely no way
1:00:00
that Frith can be established just online.
1:00:05
I've known Patrick Walsh, who was here earlier for many, many
1:00:09
years. And I I I would not.
1:00:14
And I and I talked to him about this.
1:00:15
You know, I would not exchange the title of brother with him
1:00:21
until we had gotten the chance to share moments together and
1:00:25
and determine what our obligations to one another was,
1:00:28
which is part of what Frith involves.
1:00:31
Frith has to happen in person. There's things that have to
1:00:34
exist and happen in person. That establishes the boundaries
1:00:40
of Frith and the obligations of Frith and all that.
1:00:44
Wilhelm Grombeck. Wilhelm Grombeck is a great he
1:00:48
has a lot of great insights on that in his book Culture of the
1:00:52
Tutans, if you're interested. So while online communities,
1:00:58
social media, forums, whether it's Facebook, YouTube, Twitter,
1:01:02
Instagram, Google Plus your sister's ass, the Pony Express,
1:01:05
Discord, I don't care. While all of those things can be
1:01:09
great for building a, you know, connection with people, Frith is
1:01:14
not something that can exist online.
1:01:17
It has to happen in person. OK, Amelia's got a big long
1:01:28
comment here. I'm not sure.
1:01:32
So there's there's some, there's some numbers notated, but it
1:01:35
says you will find runes, runic letters to read, Very good
1:01:39
runes, very powerful runes which Odin painted.
1:01:42
And oh, is this stanza 142 of the Hava Mall?
1:01:45
Yeah, you will find runes, runic letters to read.
1:01:48
Very great runes, very powerful runes, which Odin painted and
1:01:53
which the holy gods made and which Odin carved, and then
1:01:57
stands at 143. Odin carved for the gods, and
1:02:01
Dane for the elves, Dwalin for the dwarves and Oswitz for the
1:02:07
giants. I carved some myself.
1:02:11
Stanza 144. Do you know how to write them?
1:02:14
Do you know how to read them? Do you know?
1:02:21
Do you know how to Do you know how to read them?
1:02:23
Do you know how to paint them? Do you know how to test them?
1:02:27
Do you know how to ask them? Do you know how to bless them?
1:02:32
So on and so forth. There's various things that you
1:02:36
should know how to do with the runes, and those are the
1:02:38
stanzas. So this starts with 142 one
1:02:40
43144 of the Hava Mall. There's various and numerous
1:02:45
translations. I know some people have
1:02:47
preferences of whether they like the Bray translation.
1:02:50
The the the Hollander translation Thornton
1:02:54
translation. Jackson Crawford has a
1:02:56
translation right. There's so many different
1:02:58
translations out there of the Hava mall but thank you Amelia
1:03:00
for sharing that. Definitely check that out for
1:03:04
For more information on that. It is the Hava mall stands as
1:03:07
1424344 in that area. No Frith is not online in
1:03:14
person. Nate too Jesse it says Krothgar
1:03:17
scope. Thank you for sharing your
1:03:19
thoughts on that. I think I, I, I it's it's a
1:03:23
pretty definitive line that I draw there.
1:03:27
You can't have Frith online, It's just not possible.
1:03:32
Online is ideal for outreach. It does not replace actual human
1:03:37
interaction or activity and you need to establish community 100%
1:03:44
Voodoo Viking funny enough. Amelia who just shared the the
1:03:48
stanzas from the Hova mall again she's the go the for the River
1:03:55
Pine Kindred in Texarkana TX. She has a Facebook group called
1:03:59
Architex, the Architex Heathen community I think it is but she
1:04:05
was just my guest on the podcast last week.
1:04:07
We talked about Heathen community and outreach and
1:04:10
things like that and how social media, you know, she's over the
1:04:13
years been able to leverage and and and put people in contact
1:04:16
with others to find people in their area to connect with at
1:04:23
the grassroots level. So again, it has its benefits,
1:04:26
it has its uses and it's good for those things.
1:04:29
It does not replace, like you said, what actual connection
1:04:37
with people can do, right? Michael Zaska says what kind of
1:04:45
what kind of preparation should one make before going to a Pagan
1:04:52
meet up. I mean I guess depending on the
1:04:56
nature of the meet up some some, some meet ups are like potluck
1:04:59
style gatherings, you know. So what will end up happening is
1:05:04
they'll be like a, you know an event made on on online or
1:05:08
something or or or people on like an e-mail list will get a
1:05:11
notice like hey, you know we're gathering together on this day
1:05:15
at this time please bring a dish, you know, so in terms of
1:05:19
preparing for a heathen meet up or a Pagan meet up if it's a
1:05:23
potluck thing, obviously you wouldn't want to prepare a dish
1:05:28
right some some sort of contribution to the to the menu.
1:05:34
I mean aside from that I think you know all of the Pagan
1:05:36
meetups that I go to around here in Tennessee.
1:05:41
It's just a bunch of people hanging out talking like it's
1:05:43
not. Sometimes there's topics of
1:05:45
conversation, sometimes there's topics or areas of focus.
1:05:49
Sometimes there's, you know, very specific things that we
1:05:52
want to like use as a theme for the, for the, for the meet up.
1:05:56
But I mean, if you're, if you, if you have a vision and you
1:06:00
want to have people gather together for something or
1:06:04
something very specific, then go into it prepared to deliver and
1:06:11
provide those specific things, right?
1:06:13
If you want to have a meet up to, you know, hear people's
1:06:18
opinions on a certain series of stanzas from the Hava Mall or,
1:06:22
you know, I don't know, just whatever, right.
1:06:24
Certain stories from the lore then come to that thing, prepare
1:06:30
to contribute in that way. Otherwise it could just be like,
1:06:33
hey guys, we're hanging out. We're talking, you know, let's
1:06:35
grab a coffee, you know, whatever the case may be, it can
1:06:40
be pretty casual in that sense, right?
1:06:45
He the nerd is saying, you may get some.
1:06:49
What does it say? You might get some.
1:06:52
Sorry guys. Oh, you might get some mileage
1:06:55
out of this one. Snorri versus Saxo apples and
1:07:00
oranges I think because Saxo Grammaticus is you know, his
1:07:06
his, his whole thing was was very different than than
1:07:08
Snorri's. So you know the gods, the names
1:07:14
of the gods, I guess with with Saxo Grammaticus and his history
1:07:18
of the Danes and whatnot is is is is is focused more on
1:07:24
deifying people, right? So like the names of Odin,
1:07:27
Freyr, Brabalder, like all the various names of the gods that
1:07:32
we read about like Snorri's Eddas, these are, these are
1:07:36
figures in in Saxo Gramaticus's source material.
1:07:42
You know, they, they are royalty.
1:07:45
They are people. They are heroes.
1:07:46
They are, they're different. So to measure them up or to try
1:07:52
to pin them against each other like versus one versus the
1:07:55
other, yeah, I don't really have a an immediate answer for that.
1:08:05
That's a good one though. Cool.
1:08:10
On their Facebook page. Voodoo Viking on the architects
1:08:13
group. I'm assuming that's an evil
1:08:19
question. Snorri versus Saxo.
1:08:22
Yeah, that's a fun one. Hello there, Norm.
1:08:25
I feel feel energized after a cold plunge.
1:08:31
I do too. I I, you know, I've gotten told
1:08:34
you know I'm nuts. I'm crazy.
1:08:36
What is wrong with you? The the cold plunge thing, you
1:08:39
know, cold water treatment, it does it.
1:08:41
It revitalizes you, It energizes you.
1:08:43
It's like one of the best things for your body to, like, put you
1:08:48
back into, like, a position of focus, right?
1:08:55
Prothgar is a feel that Saxo is the Danish version of England.
1:09:00
A saga? Yeah.
1:09:03
Oh, God, we got the Northwoods Kindred tuning in here.
1:09:06
Hello. I thought it would come in and
1:09:08
show support that he the nerd told me that you were doing a
1:09:11
live event. Well, hail to you, Northwoods
1:09:13
Kindred. No bold bar.
1:09:15
I believe the good Chieftain slash Goli of your kindred up
1:09:18
there. Not sure who's running the
1:09:20
channel, but it is nice to see you here on the live stream.
1:09:23
You're featured here because we're doing a live in lieu of
1:09:28
this week's. Well, not in lieu of.
1:09:29
We're actually going to turn this live stream into the
1:09:32
podcast this week. My my scheduled guest was was
1:09:36
absent. We were supposed to have a guest
1:09:39
on this week that we were going to be recording tonight.
1:09:41
Couldn't get him to come on. And so I thought, well, what,
1:09:44
what? How can I best utilize my time?
1:09:47
Because I can't just reschedule for a later time or or whatever.
1:09:51
I'm booked out all the way through April.
1:09:54
So if you're if you're coming here and you're and you're
1:09:56
commenting, then it is going to be featured on this week's
1:10:00
Random Heathen Ramblings podcast.
1:10:04
All right, it's Baudvar. Sweet Baudvar.
1:10:07
Just while we're here. And for the listeners and
1:10:09
viewers that do get a chance to watch or listen to this later on
1:10:12
in the week, I know we've been in contact over e-mail in the
1:10:16
years past. I'd like to reconnect and
1:10:19
schedule something for you to come on the show here and do an
1:10:22
actual recording. Not a live stream but but but
1:10:25
get something planned maybe in April or or beyond.
1:10:31
I'm booked out through April now or into the middle of April and
1:10:33
would love to have you come on and record an episode on the
1:10:38
random Heathen Ramblings podcast.
1:10:40
So we'll be in touch I think I still have your e-mail but yeah
1:10:44
thank you for for for tuning into the live stream and and
1:10:47
coming and saying hi. We're going to be wrapping it up
1:10:49
here soon so I can get a chance to get into the post editing
1:10:54
studio for all of you listeners and viewers out there.
1:10:58
Amelia from the River Pine Kindred's is normally meet ups
1:11:01
will be posted on social media. The host will post it there, or
1:11:07
post if there will be a potluck, drum circle lecture and rules
1:11:11
etcetera. Normally you have to be mindful
1:11:14
of the groups having the event or hosting the event.
1:11:19
Sorry, some some meetups are laid back where others are
1:11:24
uncomfortable because of host rules and the location.
1:11:28
Yeah, there's there's there's you know there's all kinds of
1:11:31
variables and stuff to to consider.
1:11:34
If you're the host, you kind of have a little bit of a control
1:11:37
over things. If not then just maybe ask some
1:11:42
questions, you know? If it's an online event post
1:11:46
your question into the to the online event link and and and
1:11:50
the host hopefully will be vigilant enough to to respond
1:11:56
Booty Viking says instead of comparing apples to oranges.
1:11:59
I always viewed it as which variety of apple do you prefer.
1:12:05
Yeah because you know not everybody likes the you know,
1:12:08
Granny Smith's you know and people like them other ones.
1:12:15
But all right I think this is great.
1:12:17
I think we've got a great we got a great video to to to release
1:12:23
later on in the week and and and great information to put out
1:12:26
here on our audio platform. Spotify, Apple podcast, Google
1:12:29
podcast, Pandora. I think iHeartRadio.
1:12:33
There's like a bunch of others like nearly a dozen different
1:12:35
platforms. If you're into podcast listening
1:12:38
versus watching, you can definitely find me on Spotify
1:12:42
and nearly a dozen other platforms.
1:12:45
So that will be airing on Thursday this week.
1:12:48
Hello Kyle. Thanks for the inspiration to
1:12:52
start the cold plunge challenge. I will be starting mine very
1:12:56
soon and look forward to the results.
1:12:58
Well, I'm glad that we could be inspiring for you and hopefully
1:13:02
others to think about. It definitely has benefits.
1:13:04
It's good if you have, you know prior health conditions.
1:13:07
I know one of the one of the guys in our in our tribe are
1:13:11
Argosy as a matter of fact. You know, you know he's diabetic
1:13:15
so you know his feet, limbs, toes, things like that you have
1:13:20
to be careful with. He's also has a propensity
1:13:25
towards seizures. He's on medication for that.
1:13:28
So when you put your body into a shock like cold icy water, if
1:13:32
you have any pre-existing medical conditions, do your due
1:13:36
diligence, Speak with your medical professional.
1:13:38
Please do not take what I say or what anybody else says online as
1:13:42
the end all be all authority of doing something.
1:13:45
Just realize that there are benefits to it.
1:13:47
Consult with your medical professional before making a
1:13:50
decision. Should you decide that you want
1:13:52
to go in that direction, be cautious, take, you know, do
1:13:55
your research. Make sure that if you have
1:13:57
something that could, you know, cause conflict or or or anything
1:14:01
that you're being mindful of that.
1:14:04
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1:14:10
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1:14:13
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