Patti Talks Too Much
Hi. I'm Patti and it's been said - many times - that I talk too much. I'm a teacher, author, nature lover and for ten years I owned a coffeehouse cafe where my faith in the goodness of humans was restored every day. This podcast highlights the awesomeness of humanity - er...outside the warmongers, globalists, tyrants and politicians in general. You know, the rest of us weird, quirky and sometimes hilarious humans.
We'll talk woo, probe mysteries and leave you thinking about something more interesting or entertaining or uplifting than your grocery list, or boss or that oil change your car needs.
I talk too much because I can't help my Gemini moon and Leo Rising nature. I do a podcast because it's cheaper, funnier and more productive than therapy.
Patti Talks Too Much
The Sassy Contrarian, Episode 1, From Far-Left Marxist to Trump Supporter and Navigating Life's Controversies
What happens when a far-left Marxist transforms into an independent voter supporting Donald Trump? Welcome to "The Sassy Contrarian," where I share my wild journey from one extreme to another, bucking conventional wisdom at every turn. This introductory episode is a rollercoaster ride through my personal evolution, filled with humorous, controversial, and thought-provoking stories that are sure to make you question everything you thought you knew.
From growing up with a dual religious background of Catholic and Protestant influences to ultimately rejecting organized religion in favor of spirituality, my life has been anything but ordinary. As a passionate teacher frustrated with a flawed educational system, I dive into my alternative views on sexuality, transhumanism, and the political undertones of the ongoing health crisis. Whether it's my critical stance on recent developments within the gay and trans communities or my skepticism toward vaccines, prepare for a no-holds-barred discussion that challenges societal norms.
Ever wondered what it takes to run a successful, passion-driven cafe? Listen as I contrast my vibrant, heart-centered cafe with Ed's profit-driven sports bar, highlighting the importance of personal connection and genuine passion in business. Wrapping up with a heartfelt thank you to our listeners, I muse about the frequency of future episodes and promise to keep you updated. Join me for a sassy, contrarian adventure that isn't afraid to offend and always aims to enlighten.
Thanks for joining me. Listen, I have another podcast, patty Talks Too Much, and I also do a podcast where I chronicle how I'm, I chronicle the journey of healing my arthritis and the arthritis that I have in my hands, and, naturally, without using regular medication. So I have these two things and, you know, honestly, and I do a live stream with a couple of friends who are like millennials every Saturday morning and that's a lot of fun. But I find that, you know, what I was thinking is that I don't have enough of an opportunity to be as sassy as I want to be, and so I just decided, you know, I'm just gonna do, I'm gonna just do a separate podcast where I'm just really, just, you know, balls to the wall, you know, out there with my sassy self. And so I called it the sassy contrarian, because I really am a contrarian and I'm not a Johnny come lately contrarian. I think I've been a contrarian for a very long time and for many, many years of my life. I thought, oh man, I'm just like, you know, I'm kind of, maybe I'm just like fucked up in the head or something, maybe I'm not thinking about these things correctly. Why is it that I'm always kind of moving against the grain.
Speaker 1:So I on this, on this podcast, and this is going to be a little shorter to this evening because it is a just an intro, but I'm going to get into politics, religion, education, the pandemic, the past and the pending new age. Spirituality, uh, you know, diet, dogma and and much more. You my experiences with all of this. I mean, I've been around the block, um, you know, for quite a while now and so I've had lots of different, uh, interesting experiences in all of these areas. Sexuality, you know all of that. So I'm just going to kind of lay it all out and give you just a little taste of some of the things that I will be touching upon in this podcast. And so, if it is, and thoughts, and they are quite, quite contrarian and so, but I'm going to be sharing all of my you know, controversial ideas and opinions on this podcast and I'm going to be telling stories and hopefully they will be a little funny. They might, you know, hopefully they'll be a bit humorous, sassy, maybe they'll make you laugh, hopefully you won't be offended, but if you find yourself being really, really offended by the things that I'm saying, then chances are this isn't a podcast for you. I'm never going to apologize for it. So you know you're going to just have to you know what is it? Put on your big girl or big boy panties and go find another podcast. So the main story that I want to share with you tonight has to do with the first time that I was ever called a contrarian. It was back when I owned a cafe down in South Florida. But before I get to that, I want to just kind of give you an overview, just an idea, of some of the things that I'm going to be touching upon in some of these categories on this podcast. So you have an idea whether this is a podcast you want to bother listening to or not.
Speaker 1:So, when it comes to politics, all right, politics is big. Obviously, in my 20s I was a leftist, communist, marxist, leninist political activist. All right, I was about as far left as you could go, and that was. Those were my politics in my in my twenties. And now I am an independent and I am going to proudly cast my vote for Mr Donald Trump. I, that's, that's how far I've come.
Speaker 1:Now you might think, oh, my God, you have really, really moved to the right. Well, I'm going to talk about some of the cray-cray on the left. That has a whole lot of people you know. Even you know Bill Maher is like hey, wait a minute, I'm still a liberal, but y'all have gone into the cray-cray zone, which I think is true. Now I got a glimpse of the cray-cray in my 20s and it's why I didn't continue being a Marxist as the years went on, because I got to kind of see firsthand what Marxism is, and a lot of young people today it's like I'm a Marxist, you know, and all this bullshit. And you know they don't really. I don't know if they've read the books, I don't know if they've read Marx, I don't know if they've read Lenin, but you know the main focus of Marxism is basically the bottom line is to smash the state and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat. That's it. That's the bottom line Smash the state and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat. Now, there are probably some words in that. You know, in that vision, that you may be uncomfortable with. And one of the things that kind of definitely took me off that political, political road when I was younger was the word dictatorship, and you can really see it if you look around. That's really what they want to do. Right, they're doing a whole lot of smashing and a whole lot of acting like dictators. That's what they do.
Speaker 1:The thing about Marxism, what I found, is that the vision is about is is about destroying shit. Yeah, we're just going to tear this shit down, we're going to destroy it, we're going to light it on fire. You know all of that, you know, and and that's pretty much what's happened around the world when communism has been established you know, beauty is destroyed, culture is destroyed, people are destroyed, and but it's not like there's a whole lot of creating and building afterwards. So it is not a politic, in my view. That's really about building and creating. It's really a politic that's about destroying and tearing down. We don't like it, we're going to tear this shit down, and so it doesn't have from what I've seen, it doesn't have much of a vision beyond that.
Speaker 1:So in my 20s, when I was really fucking angry, I was like, yeah, man, tear the shit down. You know, because I'm angry, let's do this shit. And of course, when I, you know, kind of got a little maturity under my belt, I realized that it was a lot of a lot of craziness. One brief story, though that's what kind of exemplify, kind of even when I was in my 20s and I was, you know, doing the, you know fist in the air, I'm a you know, marxist, leninist, you know political activist. You know, even when I was doing that, I was still unwittingly a contrarian. And I'll give you an example. So early on in my political career, you know, one of the first things I did was, you know, I was, I was up in New Hampshire and we were, we were putting an independent candidate on the ballot, and one of the one of the things that happened while I was, while I was up in New Hampshire, you know, trudging around in the in the snow I think it was Portsmouth, I think it was in Portsmouth, new Hampshire and I'm trudging around and going door to door and of course, you know, in the winter it gets dark about, like whatever 330 or some crazy shit.
Speaker 1:So it's already getting dark, I'm freezing my ass off, I'm really kind of grumpy and I just want to go home. But there I am knocking on doors and so I get. Finally I get to a point where I'm like, fuck it, this is my last door. You know, I don't care what my teammates you know, because we were out there with in a whole group collecting signatures and donations and stuff like that, I was like fuck it, I don't care, this me in. And because my ass was freezing, I was. I was very, I was very happy to go in and sit in one of her comfy chairs in her living room and she even offered me tea. And it turns out that this woman was Betty Hill.
Speaker 1:So Betty Hill for those of you who don't know, because I'm a big UFO person myself. You know like I've believed in this shit since I was little. It's like come on, man, we're not alone, let's get over ourselves, right. And even even as a political activist, I was like you know, we're not alone, but that wasn't part of the narrative, you know, that's not that. You know Marxist Lenin is. Don't give a fuck about that. So anyway, there I am. And when she told me my eyes got really big and I had all these questions. For anyway, I spent 45 minutes in Betty Hill's living room talking to her living room, talking to her. Now she I'm sorry she and her husband Barney were the first.
Speaker 1:I want to get this right the first recorded case of alien abduction Very, very famous case. It happened in New Hampshire. They were driving home one weekend from Canada and this whole bizarre thing happened and they didn't even realize they had been abducted until months later. They're having these wild and wacky dreams and they go into Boston and they both get hypnotized separate sessions and whatever and it finds out that through hypnotism they recovered some of the memory of these experiences, anyway very widely documented, and they had the three-letter group people you know, all over that case. And you know, and it was verified, you know it was real, you know this, really it was, it was real, you know these, this really did happen to this couple.
Speaker 1:So at the time that I knocked on Betty Hill's door, you know, barney had already died. He died pretty young, he died. And then I think it probably was because of all of the stress and everything from kind of what happened. They didn't want to tell anyone. You know, they wanted to keep it to themselves, but it leaked, it got out. And you know they wanted to keep it to themselves, but it leaked, it got out. And you know, and then they had the media on their front, I mean you can imagine, on their lawn and it was, it was just nuts and and they were also a biracial couple. So she was white, he was black and that was kind of, you know, also unusual. And they were, you know they were political activists too, you know they did.
Speaker 1:So I spent all that time in Betty Hill's living room sipping on her tea and asking her questions, and all of this just with my eyes just wide, wide, wide open, and I was having the time of my life spending time with this very, very special, quirky little woman. When I got together with my teammates they were like well, where have you been? What have you been doing? And I was still really, really excited. I was like you're not going to believe this. I got to, I sat in Betty Hill's living room and we talked all that time and of course they're just looking at me with blank, blank faces. And I said you know betty hill. And I explained to them what, you know what, who betty hill is. Basically they said, uh, yeah, that's, that's fine, you know. But something like well, how does that, you know, how does any of this advance the collective? And I said, well, she did talk to aliens who kind of want to keep us from destroying the whole planet with nuclear bombs. Does that count? We're advancing the collective, but we don't, you know, but species that want to keep us from destroying ourselves and perhaps many other life forms along the way. You know, they don't really count in terms of advancing the collective, and I think that was one of those moments that brought me a little closer to saying, you know, man, you don't think this is for me anymore, but at any rate so that was even in politics.
Speaker 1:I was not, you know, I was. I was a bit of a contrarian, but kind of an unwitting contrarian, you know. In terms of religion, you know, I'll just tell you this I grew up with two religions. I grew up in, you know, going to a Catholic church and going to a Protestant church, and I got to tell you that was a little rough, and so I just handled it by running away. Every Sunday, sometime in between the nine o'clock mass and the 1030 service, I ran away and hid in the woods, I don't know, I just couldn't take it. But it turned out that, even though I was exposed to two religions, I didn't choose either one of them. So I ended up not being a very religious person but more spiritual, and I have my my adventures and be in contrarianism. That to tell you about when I share stories about my experience within the new age spiritual movement. Whoa, that was quite interesting. So I will tell you this.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm a, I'm a teacher and even though I really like teaching, I think from the very beginning of my teaching career I really thought I was going to work on a sinking ship Like this. System is horrible, right, and I felt that way right from the beginning. And it is. It's a terrible system. It is kind of falling apart. So I but you know I liked teaching, even though I was working within a system that I abhorred. I, you know I never liked the educational system, but I did like working with kids. So that's kind of where I ended up.
Speaker 1:Sexuality I'm definitely going to talk about it. Alternative lifestyle here. But yet I will tell you that, even though I've lived an alternative lifestyle, I don't think that I think that I might have, of all of the friends, gay friends that I've had over the years, I probably have only two, two, because I don't agree with anything that the gay community has done in the last 10 or 15 years. Um, and I've been kind of quiet about it. I'm not going to be quiet about it anymore. I am not trans forward. Um, I, I think that it's, it's uh, it's demonic and moves into transhumanism. And I'll say and I don't give a shit what I get called I know all the names I don't care, I don't, I don't agree with that at all, I will never support it. And it breaks my heart when I see people that I knew many years ago, who seem to be reasonable people, but they've got the trans flag on there. It's like, oh, I have, I'm going to virtual signal by having the trans flag on my Facebook page and it just like I just can't, I can't. So I just can't believe it.
Speaker 1:I have some funny stories about the pandemic and the medical system. Listen, I was one of those people, you know. I, I got some, I got COVID and I treated it with that thing that they called horse paste. Yeah, that I treated it with that and I did quite well, I did not go for the jibby jab. So I was one of those you know didn't go for that. So I have, you know, some interesting perspectives on the medical system. By the way, the pending, the pending. Have you know some interesting perspectives on the medical system. By the way, the pending, the pending pandemic you know is is, you know they're they're talking about it Again. Of course, it is another election year, so it's to be expected that we would have another pandemic and the bird flu, and they're trying to whip that up really good. And of course, bill Gates is, you know, whipping up some vaccines for us, so I guess we'll be okay. Gates is, you know, whipping up some vaccines for us, so I guess we'll be okay, you know, for people who want to, who want to take the Bill Gates funded vaccines, have at it if you'd like. But if you take a look at the record of the vaccines that are out there currently, you might want to think about, you might want to think twice about that.
Speaker 1:I have had lots of fun because I owned a cafe for 10 years. I had a lot of experience with interfacing, with food dogma, and so I'm going to have a lot of fun talking about that. I have stories. I have stories about vegans, vegetarians, people who follow the carnivore diet. It's really, you know, it's kind of great. You know, we humans are so damn creative. We have so many ways that we can be cray cray, and so we are cray cray in politics. We're cray cray with our sexuality, in religion and education, when it comes to, you know, dealing with pandemics, and when it comes to our spirituality, and even with the food we put on our plate. We just, you know all kinds of ways to be cray cray and I, honestly, I think that for me, I get, I have a lot to say about our food and our food, or the, or the not health of our food, or the, what would you call it, the poison Our food is is closer to poison than it is food, and I think that we're going to be seeing more and more proof of that.
Speaker 1:Um, so we need to, we're going to have to do, we're going to have to do stuff about that, but I've been following that very closely over the years, and so I've got, I certainly have things to talk about when it comes to our, our, the quality of the food that we eat in our country, which, you know, I mean when, when we're eating things and drinking things that are literally banned in most other countries. What does that say about, you know, the regulatory organizations that are supposed to be looking over, looking after the safety of our food? So, anyway, yeah, when I owned my cafe back in South Florida. I was called a contrarian for the very first time. And I was called a contrarian by this business guy named Ed and he had a sports bar across the street and Ed would come into my little cafe every day and get his espresso. And the reason why Ed thought that I was a contrarian was because I was the opposite of him when it came to running a business. So Ed had lots and lots of money and he invested this money in a business across the street that he figured he would make a lot of money at, because the numbers were there. I mean, how can you go wrong with a sports bar, you know? I mean like you can just make money hands over fist. The problem is is that Ed did it solely because it was a moneymaker, but he didn't like it at all. Ed didn't even drink, ed didn't really go to sports bars. It was so not his scene that he didn't even like being in his own business. So we hired a bunch of people to kind of run his business for him, because he didn't really want to be around, because he didn't, his heart was not in that business at all. He really didn't, he didn't, he had no passion for his business.
Speaker 1:Now me. I'm across the street and I'm in a little 800 square foot coffee house cafe and I'm operating on a shoestring budget. I didn't have any surplus money, so I was scratching to pay the bills every month. But when he came across the street, he noticed that people were there and I was starting to get busier and busier and busier, and that he liked the vibe of the place and he liked the way that it seems to be growing and expanding and there was just something very vibrant about my tiny little cafe, even though I had barely any money to put into it.
Speaker 1:But the difference was it. But the difference was and I would try to point this out to him was that I really loved what I was doing. I really loved my cafe. I loved decorating it. I loved coming up with the menu. I loved all the different food items that I could create and the different drinks that I could create. I liked interfacing with the people that came into my cafe. I liked creating new events to happen at my cafe. It was just an extension of me, in a way, and so I was able to express myself in so many ways.
Speaker 1:Even though it was an enormous amount of work, it was also the source of a lot of joy because I was able to be as creative as I wanted to be and really just have a great time running this little cafe, even though you know it wasn't a big, you know it wasn't a big moneymaker. I was able to grow this business over. You know I had it for 10 years and the only reason why it closed was because the building was sold and so forth, and so you know it was sad, but it was a really good 10 year run and you know that was longer than you know. That was, I think, two or three times longer than what Ed was able to do with his sports bar that he had invested a whole lot of money in and that really, for all intents and purposes, should have been making a whole lot of money.
Speaker 1:But he wasn't in it. He, he didn't, he didn't understand how important it was to be connected, you know, to to have a passion for something and to have it be heart centered. And so he often would come in and look around and be just amazed at how things were growing and how vibrant it would be, and he would say you're, you're a contrarian, you're just a contrarian, you go. You know, like business people would say do this, do this in order to make money, and you do the opposite and you're able to be successful. You are a contrarian, but it was something really, really simple. It was just you gotta love what you do.
Speaker 1:Ed, if you really feel passionate about whatever it is you're doing, whatever that business is, then it's going to grow because it is you're doing whatever that business is, then it's going to grow because it is an extension of you. And so if you just do business like, oh well, I'm going to make a lot of money on this because it's a no brainer, these kinds of businesses make a whole lot of money but you really don't have any connection to it, you don't really have any passion for it, then chances are it's not going to be as successful as you think. So, at any rate, that was my experience. But it was the first time in my life that I was called a contrarian. So as a business owner, I was a contrarian.
Speaker 1:I was not, you know I wasn't. It was my first real business like that, aside from the businesses that I had when I was really young young, like you know painting houses or like lawn care or things like that. This was an actual bona fide business and you know there were. You know, if I did it again, I would do it differently. I would, I would do some things differently just because you know, because I learned a lot from the experience and so I might be wiser in some ways. But overall, the most important thing in the bottom line, what seemed to make me a contrarian, was that the decisions that I made in my business had more to do with doing things that really inspired me and excited me, like I followed my excitement about something. I didn't follow a bottom line or a profit line, and I think that made me like the polar opposite of Ed and so, and therefore, a contrarian when it came to running a business.
Speaker 1:I actually think that, looking forward into the age of Aquarius, I think this is definitely the age for contrarians, and I also think it's an age for new business models. I think that the kinds of businesses that are really really going to thrive will really be about cooperation, you know, working cooperatively, collectively, together, not collective in the way of like Marxist, but, like you know, working, working in very, very different ways as businesses, and I'm looking forward to seeing what blooms as we move forward in terms of, uh, the, the businesses that really um, that really take off. I think they're going to look very, very different um in the in the age of Aquarius, and I would love to be involved in that in some way. Um, but, um, uh, definitely, I was a contrarian business owner and so very proud um, contrarian and and, honestly, that was the first time that I actually started thinking about how I'm a contrarian and in what ways I might be a contrarian, and it turned out, as I reflected on it, more and more, um, I've been a contrarian in just about every aspect of my life. More and more I've been a contrarian in just about every aspect of my life.
Speaker 1:What's really exciting is that the age of Aquarius is all about us contrarians. So if you consider yourself a contrarian, well you know what your party is just starting. So it's, it's our time. It's time to start speaking up about things that maybe we were a little reluctant to speak about because, you know, in past years it's been a little more difficult to be a contrarian. Now it seems that if you speak out, you're going to find that you will be able to connect with other contrarians, other like-minded people who are just as contrarian as you are. So that's it.
Speaker 1:I think that's where I want to leave it for today. I wanted to just kind of keep today's kind of brief, but that's what I'm going to do Share stories, try to be humorous, try to be funny, try to be snarky and sassy, but just kind of be myself. So I'm not going to exaggerate or be untruthful. Hopefully it'll be somewhat entertaining for you and if you like it, please subscribe, like or whatever, and we'll see where this goes. Subscribe, like or whatever, and we'll see where this goes. It was just an idea I had because I felt like I needed an outlet to be a little more sassy than I've been. So I'm frailing kind of sassy, so I'm going to keep that rolling.
Speaker 1:Anyway, thank you so much for joining me. If you're joining me on any of the, on any of the, the other sites that we're streaming, and I'm going to leave it there, All right. Have a great week everyone. I'm not sure how often I'm going to do this, I don't know. We'll see, you know. Well, we'll see, maybe weekly, maybe every other week. Anyway, have a good week everyone.