On the front end here, I want to say a huge thanks to everybody who makes this podcast happen.

It literally exists because some of you support it at patreon.com slash the TMBH podcast.

That's awesome of you.

You don't have to do it, but I'm so dang grateful.

I love doing this, and it happens because of you.

All right.

High five.

Into the episode. Alliemen, yeah, if I'm leaving, yeah, fire leaving, yeah.

All right, I got a weird question.

It's a question that I really would like to know the answer to.

If we were sitting in person, I'd be all ears for this. But because of the one way nature of the media here, you're probably

just going to have to yell your answer into the air. But I'm going to tell you my answer to the

question here in just a second. Here's my question. Where are you from? What do you made of?

I don't mean like where do you live right now i mean what's your story

your people your family your cultures and all the layers of that that add up to make you you

here's an example of what i mean when i ask that question that is you know what can i answer

i'm looking for me uh i am a a Viking ethnically by way of Scotland and

Ireland with a few other things mixed in there along the way. Probably, you know, somewhere in the

high Middle Ages, the Vikings were raiding Scotland and then there was a whole Viking era in Ireland.

Then somewhere in there, my family formed up into a family. Eventually,

we moved to England, mostly from Ireland. And we were Christians there during the time of the

Reformation. And then in the 1600s, when King James of King James Bible fame was in charge, the patriarch of my family, a guy named

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