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
Cosmic Wonders, Empathy for Aliens, and School Safety Realities
Ever wonder how a rare cosmic event like a blood moon or a lunar eclipse in Pisces can mess with your emotions and dreams? Join us on Patti Talks Too Much as we explore the mystical influence of the recent celestial phenomenon, alongside a curious theory about a temporary second moon that might just be an alien mothership. We draw fascinating connections to guardians in "The Fifth Element" and discuss the critical role of empathy in understanding extraterrestrial intentions. This isn’t your average astrological chat; expect a blend of science, speculation, and some serious pondering about the unknown.
Switching gears, we tackle the grim reality of school safety with raw honesty. Hear Taylor’s gripping story of how a stock image of weapons forced her to make the tough decision to homeschool her children, reigniting the trauma of past school shootings. Our conversation covers the emotional scars students bear when schools fail to properly address violent incidents and the glaring lack of security across different regions. From personal anecdotes to broader societal critiques, we emphasize the urgent need for better mental health resources and security measures to protect our kids.
Hello and welcome to our live stream. This is Patti, with Patti Talks Too Much, and this live stream was recorded on Sunday, september 22nd. Oh man.
Speaker 2:A lot going on, a lot going on.
Speaker 1:There's a lot going on. We had this, we had the lunar eclipse this past week.
Speaker 2:It wasn't just a lunar eclipse. It was a blood moon, harvest moon, super moon, on a lunar eclipse that I feel like deserves all the recognition of its eight years long name. In.
Speaker 1:Pisces, I think, yeah, it definitely felt In Pisces yeah. Yeah, I mean it definitely. Like I felt it the day before, like I wasn't it really um, it seemed like it affected my sleep.
Speaker 2:You know, like I was so sad because of the gray weather. I was not overcoming the gray weather really well. Um, it was just gray, a little too long for my, my well-being, yeah, but the next day it was beautiful and like the third day of the full moon, because full moon cycles are usually three days, and so like the very last day of it, or whatever. It was freaking it was beautiful.
Speaker 2:The moon was still pretty. Like I didn't get to see it on the day of the eclipse because of all the clouds and stuff, but then it was. It was amazing the next day and I had a really good day. But I've been having weird dreams because I quit smoking and, uh, they're just like all over the place.
Speaker 2:You know, and then, I'm like I wake up, you know, and I'm like I don't want to do this, you know, and I wake up and and uh, and then I go right back to them. You know, like so I'm like all right, I have to like change this somehow you know, yeah, I've had that experience too.
Speaker 1:And, um, I don't generally remember my dreams, but there are these moments when I wake up where I remember, but I don't write it down these days and so it's gone.
Speaker 2:You know it's gone by the time I think about it never, never remembered, like like ever. But but since, like what's moving, I would have crazy dreams all the time. My ADHD is like off the charts, if you haven't already noticed.
Speaker 1:Well, you know the, but also I've been hearing that the you know that the astrological aspects have also been affecting people's dreams. So people you know, like different podcasts that I listened to you know the woo podcast people have been talking about like, wow, my dreams have been off the charts. I'm dreaming more, I'm remembering more and they're just really like these epic dreams. I don't really know if I'm yeah, I don't know if I'm having epic dreams.
Speaker 1:I just know that I think I'm dreaming more and I drop into dreams sooner. Like you know, like I can I won't go right back to a dream.
Speaker 2:You know what else is a really cool thing? We have a temporary second moon right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's going to last for about two months. It's an asteroid? Yeah, I don't think so, but it still has like a gravitational. It depends on what kind of rock it's made out of. You know, think about it if you threw a giant quartz up into the sky, you know.
Speaker 1:I don't think that's an asteroid.
Speaker 2:I think everything is.
Speaker 1:I don't think it's an asteroid no.
Speaker 2:I don't think it's an asteroid.
Speaker 1:I don't think it's a moon. I think that it's a cover for some kind of mother mothership, a mothership yeah, I think it's a mothership but I think that they're, you know, oh yeah, well, I think that they're technology they're there for a reason and it's interesting that they're close to the moon, because I've been saying for a long time that moon is artificial, that moon doesn't you know.
Speaker 2:I mean like we've, we've incorporated, I didn't see the face on the moon and I hadn't seen the face on the moon and the moon had been coming up where it was supposed to come up, where it wasn't coming up, where it was a lot of people for the last, like four or five months yep so maybe it. Maybe it fixed it, maybe it was like uh-uh, no, you're gonna throw off the whole universe fucking this moon up and it that mothership, like went over there and was like no, we're gonna, we're gonna fix this yeah, maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's. There have been a lot of reports that the moon has not been in the position it's supposed to be in recently, so there's a lot of things happening with the moon I think aliens are helpers, like like in fifth element.
Speaker 2:You know how like they had the guardians that came back, you know, and like she was, like this super being that was supposed to unlock the elemental power of the earth or whatever.
Speaker 2:Nobody really knows the like deepness that that movie was. You know everybody just thinks because it had that weird cyborg guy, you know, as the bad guy, and bruce willis is like a dude there they did. They missed the big message behind it. You know what I mean. But there was basically that. You know there are, there are guardians older than time, you know that that aren't here on the planet. They come back, you know, and they kind of reset things when it gets too far out of balance yeah, like maybe founder beings or whatever.
Speaker 1:But I think, like there, I think that the off-world beings are as diverse as humans. So there are some that have nefarious intentions and there's some that are benevolent. And it's really too bad that so much of it has been suppressed because we're at a humanity's at a bit of a disadvantage, because we're going to have to figure out how to discern between the two.
Speaker 2:You know, and and I honestly I think that's why empathy is important, because empathy, you don't need language, you know it is a language you know so like if you can read the energy of something going up to it, you know you're a lot safer of an element. You know, but like most people are just gonna have a heart attack and freak out and you think that we're all well, that's just thing.
Speaker 1:If you're, if you're in a, if you're in a sphere state because you're encountering something you've never encountered before, it's really hard to use accurate discernment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you don't know how to read it or feel where it's going, or tell the difference between something that has good intent and bad intent. I think empathy is the important part. You can walk up to an animal, you don't speak to an animal, and you can tell if you have empathy whether or not that's a good animal to be around or a good moment for that animal.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's normally a very dangerous animal, but it's sharing this case with you and exchanging an energy through empathy and and you can discern that. But most people block that out. Yeah, live in a fear state and go by what they're told instead of what they want to experience for themselves.
Speaker 1:You know, yeah, using our own um you know, like our own own abilities, yeah, our own innate ability to kind of figure this out. We've been kind of taught not to you know, not not to trust it, unfortunately yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's interesting because you bring up empathy, and I, um a fellow teacher shared this, um this article with me this week about how, um our young people don't read books anymore. Like books are. You know, like very few of our like teenagers will read a book, even in school, like the teachers will just do excerpts, you know, but they won't actually do a book from cover to cover. And one of the things there are a lot of things that young people lose when they don't read a book from cover to cover, but one of them is empathy, because when you read a book from cover to cover, you develop a relationship with the characters and you actually you get to empathy.
Speaker 1:The word and emotions to the word you get to exercise your empathy muscle and uh, and that's one of the the few ways that we get really funny.
Speaker 2:it's really funny that you say that uptick coming in his head. Um, it's really funny that you say that because yesterday I went to the salvationvation Army and I bought like 34 books. I bought like 34 books and I found some like cool, like I don't know, like witchy books, like I don't know I wanted like a cool you know a couple cool collections.
Speaker 2:I found this book called Wonder and it like seemed like it was going gonna be a good book or whatever you know, so I picked it up. And then I picked up some like books that looked like maybe they were like teen witch books or something like Blood Moon and stuff, and I was like, wow, that's really cool because we just had the Blood Moon, yeah you know. But like literally spent like 20 bucks on quarter books at the salvation army yeah that's awesome generally around game books too.
Speaker 2:We found a couple of the what to expect books too. You know this is gonna be jen's first go, you know, through pregnancy or whatever it goes, I love that.
Speaker 1:Um yeah, books are. Books are awesome.
Speaker 2:I highly recommend and so there's no better decor than books in the world.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they make the best decoration, you know? I just I had this really a book. I uh, yeah, okay. So I had this. Really, um, I don't even know how to describe this experience, but like I have this, this um new friend at work I know how to describe it.
Speaker 2:It's amazing too. No, but going to talk about um.
Speaker 1:It has read two of my three books, Right, and so the first one I read was um, perilous and beautiful, and it was so awkward, you know, like she's she's reading it and like her room is across the hall from me, and so it's kind of like I'm on chapter and I was like oh god, and I'd go home and look oh my god, she's reading her heart she's not the one, that's the one that's um and I, but you know to have to to hear someone respond to um, to my writing and to my book, because I outside of your inner circle outside
Speaker 2:of who you value their opinion, who's also an educator in literature.
Speaker 1:Yeah, more, more more educated than me and the thing is like she not just in a van outside of your house, did she? She had like really high praise for my writing and, um, I almost like didn't know how to. I didn't know how to handle it. It's not weird, I just didn't, you know you're awesome, you know and and you can.
Speaker 2:You can put faces to the, the characters in your books and stuff, because you describe them really well and you really put, put a put a persona to each person in there, you know and and, and that's great, it paints a picture for people to be able to empathize and relate and visualize as they're reading. You know, well, that was one thing she said, that displaying the full picture, yeah, the visuals of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that was kind of, you know, I was like, oh, okay, and then read um, wildflowers and present tenses, which was the memoir, which is interesting because a lot of the stories in my memoir and wildflowers and present tenses are kind of like the actual story of what's happened. And then you read, you read the fictionalized story and then you read the actual story and there's, you know, um, but it was uh, it that. So that was really quite, um, quite an experience for me and it's, you know, and because it's also everybody's excited for the next book's drop everybody's excited for the next book yeah, you've got a whole series going.
Speaker 2:You know I do. Well, I have a whole.
Speaker 1:I have a, um, a whole series I can't wait to see what happens to. Oh, the next, the next book in um after perilous and beautiful. Well, there's also, you know, wild flowers is a series too. So the third book in that series was supposed to be wildflowers and laughing crones, and I was. I was telling this friend of mine at work that I feel like I have to live into that more because it really sent me a little a little bit of right.
Speaker 2:That's the one that you sent me.
Speaker 1:A little bit there's still in it, right oh no, that that would have been the continuation of the perilous and beautiful. That would have been the next, that would have been an excerpt from the next book. Okay, yeah. So I've got, yeah, I've got, obviously, I've got a few irons in the fire and it's figuring out, um, you know where I want to, where I want to focus my, my energy, and then there's like the, the whole. I find it really interesting that the moon is coming up for a lot of people right now, because I have that whole idea, like that first story, that story that I wrote, that was the love story and it had to do with what, what happens, like the backdrop of it, is that the moon has fallen away, and like there are these people who are kind of living.
Speaker 1:I love that one, yeah yeah, so I was going to do a series of stories, um, that have to do with um, what, what love looks like, love stories after the moon has fallen away, because we associate so much of like falling in love with the moon. But is it? Is it really is it? Is it really that helpful? With love or um? Is it more the sun? So, uh, you know. So anyway, I'm just um, I'm just playing wrote a song um.
Speaker 2:it was called Paper Doll, but in the song part of her chorus is like we're all waiting to see what you do. We're all what I think it's. We're all waiting to see what you do. You know like we are waiting to see what you do. Yeah and excited.
Speaker 1:And excited for what? You do yeah.
Speaker 2:And excited, and excited for it. Yeah, yeah, hey, taylor Good morning, good morning, I was just responding. Good morning Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 1:We've just been all over the place talking about the moon, talking about, um, some of my granny talking about so did you hear it? Were you, did you hear it? I know we didn't see you, but did you hear any of what we were talking about, taylor?
Speaker 3:yeah, I've been listening in and like laughing while I made my coffee because I overslept. It's per usual. First of all, I don't know how I would be so nerve-wracking for me to know that the person across the hall or my co-worker was reading my book. It's a little nerve-wracking. We're talking her into it.
Speaker 3:We're not talking her out of it and you're like I'm at chapter four and I'm like oh shit, that's a little, we're talking her into it and you're like I'm at chapter four and I'm like, oh shit, that's a chapter with dad. Fuck, I have daddy issues now. I'm like that's hard. It's really cool to be open because people accept you for who you are and you know, and she's getting her best.
Speaker 2:Reviews that are from an actual colleague that she respects, which is exciting, yeah, which is yeah, so.
Speaker 1:So it's kind of, yeah, it's all really really interesting. So I think I'm I'm kind of getting a little closer to finishing, like diving back in to, you know, getting some more writing done. I've been, you know, so busy in the kitchen doing all this other stuff, but I can find time for I can be good for you, I'm excited to hear.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, cooking and nurturing by day and then writing and inspiring by night, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and teaching at a. You know, teaching in a crazy, not for long, not for long. Yeah, probably not, probably not. I don't know, I don't know, are you right, the eclipse, whatever that was.
Speaker 3:I made everybody run outside. I was like everybody stop everything you're doing and go outside and watch the eclipse.
Speaker 1:Oh, you could see it we couldn't see it it rained for three days.
Speaker 2:That was the final day.
Speaker 3:That room was intense.
Speaker 2:Wow, wow. That was the final day.
Speaker 3:that was intense like wow, wow, I don't, I don't, um, yeah, yeah, I'm an emotional mess like I'll just blame the moon, fine yeah, so I'm, I had my.
Speaker 1:My sleep was off for a few days.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness, I know it's so funny the day of the full moon, eclipse, right? So the night before the night before the eclipse I'm I don't know if I slept at all, I mean like I really had a hard time falling asleep, right? So I'm sitting in this meeting, this effing meeting, Towards the end of the day.
Speaker 1:It's just one of those, I'm sorry, mindless, stupid weekly meetings of whatever where people stand up in front of the class and masturbate on uh, whatever new, um pedagogical bullshit that they're just that they've discovered or that we should be following, whatever right. And at one point and you know how, I show everything on my face, right? So at one point she looks at me and she says are you okay? And I was like yeah, I'm pretty tired.
Speaker 1:No, this is fucking painful for me, no but, you know what no but you know what I said. So I said I'm pretty tired and I don't like meetings it was a teacher meeting to clarify Future meeting, oh God. But you know what the thing is is since then she has been like she has made it clear in her body language and everything that she just doesn't have, like she's not happy with me.
Speaker 3:She really was and you upset her.
Speaker 1:I know I upset her poor little educator ego, yeah, oh God. But at any rate that's just. You know, so I'm kind of, and then you know and so, and then I have that experience and I think maybe you really do need to get out before they kick you out because your attitude is starting to really show.
Speaker 1:So I don't know, I don't know, so we'll, we'll see. I was telling a Nokia I applied to this online tutor thing that you can do. I told my boys out of school I know, let's hear all about that, I mean told me and I was so happy. Yeah. I know he said well, taylor took her kids out of school. I said what? But that's all I know, so let's hear it.
Speaker 2:Literally all. That's it, that's all.
Speaker 1:That's it. That's all there is to the story.
Speaker 2:Well, they had a Taylor. You're muted.
Speaker 1:You're muted.
Speaker 3:I'm on that weird screen on that weird screen where the church is in, and my dogs are barking at every church door with the bible oh okay, oh all right, but so anyways, yeah, so I didn't, I didn't hear the whole story, but yeah, yeah, let's hear it. It was a really stressful morning. I woke up to a text message from a friend that was an image. It ended up being a Google stock image. However, where I live, there is one high school in our city, one.
Speaker 1:You don't have options.
Speaker 3:The next time I'm over it. Over there is one high school now. You all know how I feel about school shootings. I've made it very clear I lived. I lived through one oh yeah, oh, yeah I have my very strong opinions about these types of things um and the prevention of such.
Speaker 3:That morning, um, I got this stock, it was. It was. All I saw was this image and it was ar-15s and handguns laid out on the bed and it said to a specific school such and you are next. It is the next town, over the sister high school, the closest high school to our high school, and they shut down the whole county. They shut down not the county, but the schools in that district. They shut down Whole districts.
Speaker 3:I have a big problem. My kids are getting ready for school. What am I supposed to do? I'm like well, all right, get dressed, let's go now. My kids are already emotional. My kids have already seen this shit on the internet. It's not like they didn't see it before. I saw it right. So they tell me what they saw. Now I'm upset.
Speaker 3:I have a co-worker call me my co-worker from from work. Our kids go to the same high school. She calls me and she's like Taylor. My kid is having a panic attack. He doesn't want to go today. I don't know what to do. This is terrible.
Speaker 3:There is more of a police presence. I've just read that there's more of a police presence, that they've pulled police from counties out of Virginia that are the most podunk, anyways. So they've got all of these extra police and they go to get out of the car. I'm still on the phone with my friend who's like, yeah, I just dropped him off. He's so worried and I'm like, all right, I love. Who's like, yeah, I just dropped him off. He's so worried and I'm like, all right, I love you. Bye, we get out of the car.
Speaker 3:And I looked in the rearview mirror. When I looked in the rearview mirror, all I could see was Peyton standing there becoming hysterical, and as he stood there and I watched tears start to run down his face you had already dropped him off I snapped Yep, they were out of breath, they were on the sidewalk. I snapped, I threw my car into park and I was like get back in the car, we're done, I'm done. Get back in the car, we're done, this is it, I'm done. Get back in the car. I went home and I signed them up for homeschool and I called the farm school and they were withdrawn the same day.
Speaker 1:They were what.
Speaker 3:Withdrawn the same day.
Speaker 1:I didn't hear. Did you hear what she said? They were withdrawn on the same day.
Speaker 2:Yep, she withdrew them, and they were withdrawn on the same day. We found all the forms that we needed to withdraw them and the decoration of the homeschool Done deal.
Speaker 1:And you know what, taylor, you know you're not the only one.
Speaker 3:I'm not allowing the system. I'm not. I refuse to allow the system to break my children. Yes, the last straw for me. Yeah, it turns out that it was the same kind of scenario that you all had play out in georgia in georgia.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like a network.
Speaker 2:It was a network of children.
Speaker 3:That's what they said they had done a Google stock. You know it was a Google stock image, but again in my mind, you have to understand the way that I think. I think look where I live. There is one high school we live in a place that is indoctrinated by old headways and religious beliefs and racist bigotry bullshit. This place is. These high school students here are super conservative and oh my God.
Speaker 3:I like your green door. If I could finish, a thought, super conservative and just it's really for my kids who come from a multicultural, open gay welcoming. We come from a different place, so my open gay welcoming we come from a different place, so my kids don't necessarily melt into this soup the same way.
Speaker 2:The country is beautiful, but everything is different is stuck.
Speaker 3:It's like we're so many people here are decades behind in in the progressiveness of of thought. I don't know how to explain it, but not my kids, not anymore. So that same day, uh, somebody pulled a fire alarm they ended up.
Speaker 1:That's not cool imagine that's not cool then they wait.
Speaker 3:No, it gets better. The principal sends out. This is the same day that I pull them out of school. I would have still been coming to get my kids early because my kids would have had a panic attack.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 3:Somebody sets off a fire alarm. Yeah, but when they set off the fire alarm, the principal sends a letter out like a real time email that says we're so sorry. It must've been the dust. There was dust on the, on the pulley, and so it it triggered the alarm oh my gosh, you gotta be kidding me, man here, buddy.
Speaker 3:Uh, they still had so many people in the office picking up their kid that when my friend went back to pick up her son, who had the panic attack in the morning, was like I can't do this, come get me. The fire alarm went off. I'm hearing popping noises. She gets to the school to pick up her kid and the office is full of parents and they are. They are arguing with parents about removing their children. Well, your kid is faith. She's like my kid will get in the car now. You can go get get my kid now.
Speaker 1:Get my kid, call my kid down. I'm signing my kid out.
Speaker 3:Now it was really funny because within an hour of them getting my withdrawal notice, I got a phone call from the high school and they were like we don't need any of your records until you return our Chromebooks and I'm like, say less, I'm in the car, I'm on my way, baby, is there anything else? Library books Y'all got fees that I owe. What's up? Because there's one thing, hello, there's one thing. I know Y'all don't want my kids to leave because their test scores make y'all look good. Okay, so you lose that now.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I was just really big mad about it.
Speaker 1:You do not need to be outside well, this is what I you know and I've been. I've been talking about this and I've been hearing other people talking about how, um, our, our high schools are are going to like. I've heard this from several sources. Don't be surprised if the high schools go remote this year.
Speaker 2:I think, I think all of them, I think, I think they're even junior high and elementary Maybe because the statistics for arrest in Georgia this month or whatever for this particular scenario are 10 and 12 and 13 year olds. Two, like the majority of the kids that they arrested for making threats, were in middle school.
Speaker 3:We're not talking about high schoolers. I again, middle school, middle school. We're getting guns, we're bringing them to school, we're shooting teachers. I I was telling my friend from New York that at Lake Worth middle school I think middle school is the least stable time of all of my life.
Speaker 1:You know, I'd agree with you.
Speaker 3:It's the trauma of me having to live through the fact that the girl that I lived with that I called my sister that was in the classroom. I got firsthand accounts she watched it happen. I got firsthand accounts she watched it happen. I lived with that and her PTSD from that for years. Right. But following that school year after Barry Grinnell was shot in his classroom, I then was in that classroom the next year. They didn't shut the classroom down, they didn't make it so nobody ever had it. They didn't make it a memorial. No, they continued to make it a classroom. They put a picture over the bullet holes. It wasn't even in a frame.
Speaker 2:It was just a poster.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I had to then walk into that classroom and sit there every day and I am spiritually hypersensitive so I'd be in the middle of a test and just feel Mr Grunow around me and absolutely lose it. I couldn't walk through the threshold of the door. I would step over it because I knew exactly how his body laid. But my friend was like the fact that they kept that classroom open and just expected people to forget what the fuck happened and go on like the perpetuation of ignorance. It blows my mind.
Speaker 1:You know and like the lack of empathy the lack of being sensitive you know, like, oh, we don't have to be, you know, know, we don't have to take in consideration the impact you know that this has on kids and you know the thing is, it's like they teach sensitivity, like you know where we spend an awful lot of time, you know, um, talking about the mental health of our, of our youth, now, you know, and yet they're going to stand at that counter and argue with parents who are pulling their, their kids, out because they're having panic attacks because of the unsafety of the school, and it's like, oh no, they're safe. Oh well, where did all your sensitivity about mental health go, bitches? I had a friend, honestly, honestly.
Speaker 3:Yeah, michelle walked with me into science hill. She acted like she wasn't part of our group when I went to go return their chromebooks. She said I just want to see if I can get access. So she stood behind me and she pressed the button and they let her in and she stood there in that lobby and was not greeted. It was not. Who the fuck are you and why are you here? Do you have a student that goes here? Not a word was said to her. She's like I am flabbergasted that I just was able to do what I just did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah I'm aware georgia doesn't know, yep, we don't. We don't have no metal detectors in our school.
Speaker 3:No, there are no fences at our schools.
Speaker 2:My son's not even a person behind the front desk standing at it.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:They're asking you if you need something. They do not have security.
Speaker 1:They are soft targets and they continue to be soft targets. Now in Florida, when I was at Santa Lucia's they had they made all these changes. You know. They fenced it all in. There could only be one entrance in, one entrance out. And let me tell you, when we did a yellow, a code yellow and a code red, we took that shit Like people took that shit seriously. We just did a code yellow and a code red and I was like Are you fucking kidding me? This is a code red and a code yellow. Y'all are you know?
Speaker 2:and I even had a conversation Because in Florida we know All students return to your classrooms immediately. All students return to your classrooms immediately.
Speaker 3:We turn to your classrooms. How about?
Speaker 2:all students go high. That's what they fucking told all the kids at Appalachee High when it started. They made an announcement over the PA that told all the kids to leave where they were and go back to their classroom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like just a complete like. They have no idea the opposite of everything you're supposed to do. Yeah, and I don't think like, and we just did a code yellow, code red, and they did it during the change of class.
Speaker 2:What, oh, my God.
Speaker 1:Are you kidding me? You're going to initiate a code yellow and a code red. Code yellow at first, during the change of class, where students are out of classroom, they don't really hear very much, like what's going on. It was a very, very confusing, you know. And then the principal's like, yeah, well, we don't. You know, we could do better. On getting into the classroom afterwards, like most people didn't even know Code Yellow was happening. So it was, it was kind of screwed up, but it was screwed up on the part of the administrators.
Speaker 1:And here's another thing, taylor, I just want to share with you, because it's just happened on friday, so there was supposed to be a walkout, um, regarding gun violence in schools, right? So, yeah, I wanted to ask you about, yeah, and there were. So there are a lot of high schools who are doing it, right. So they were going to do a walkout first thing in the morning. Well, thursday, towards the end of day, there was this very loud and aggressive announcement by our principal that this is how it has to go you have to come to your first period class, leave your things in your first period class and then go to the gym and you will be blah, blah, blah. And the reason why is because attendance. You see, attendance is the most important thing, so they wanted to make sure that the students participating.
Speaker 1:So then the next morning, on Friday morning, right, you get this another announcement and it's like, if you're participating in this, you know you need to be in the gym. No, you have to check in with your class, and then you, you have to be in the gym no later than 815. And if you're not there by 815, then the door is closed and you have to go back to class. It was like this really controlled thing, and so we all got this notice. It's like this is what's going to happen. You know, we got this email and it's so funny. One line in the email said we want this to unfold naturally, and all of this. And it's like, really you do, because you're saying, oh, if we're going to control every aspect every single aspect of this protest of yours.
Speaker 1:And you know, and I was telling a colleague, it's like if you really really want to disrupt, then disrupt the attendance. That's when they sit up, because that's their wallet. If you really really want to disrupt, then disrupt the attendance. That's when they sit up, because that's their wallet?
Speaker 2:Yep, that's their wallet. People pulling their kids out of the school.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you they're freaked.
Speaker 2:People making sure their kids don't go? Yeah. When in the entire history of your teaching career have they shut down an entire fucking district? Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's nuts, have you ever seen that before now no, I mean, you know, and I think about.
Speaker 3:I think about a hurricane not for 9-11, not for any of that what their response was in lake worth to uh, barry gruno dying was uh, clear backpacks, clear backpacks. That was the solution that was going to keep all of us safe. Clear backpacks. So you take all of our privacy, like you know for a middle school girl, you've got your tampon, yeah, but that's.
Speaker 1:That's crazy, because how many of the shooters actually carry a gun in a backpack?
Speaker 3:nobody's putting their gun in a bag.
Speaker 2:Most of them have just walked into the school with a rifle hanging off of their shoulder.
Speaker 1:Uh or you know, or it's taken apart and it's in their pants or whatever it is, but like, usually not in backpacks and if they have, one of my kids was just talking about somebody in the bathroom with a gun, talking about he was going to shoot so and so and blah blah.
Speaker 3:It's not like they're not in school. I understand that parents out there. In case you're wondering, no, there are guns already in your kid's school yeah, there are guns, I assure you of that, especially if you live in places where gun laws are lax, and especially if you live in a place, like I live, where guns are what's the word I'm looking for? They are ubiquitous. They are ubiquitous.
Speaker 3:They are necessity for these folks. They are, you know. Second Amendment baby, I have a right to bear, not in school, you don't, and it's just like the kid in Georgia. Don't fucking give your kid a gun, oh, but you give them a gun anyways. Cool, this is how this shit happens. It's just perpetuating. Another one, another one, another one, because people love guns around here and they let their teenage kids have guns around here. These kids are shooting deer, these kids are doing all of that shit, wiping blood. That's all everything that happened with that kid in Georgia. That is normal here. Normal, what do you mean? All these high school kids are doing that shit.
Speaker 1:What do you mean, like hunting? Yes, I think that there's a big difference between hunting and shooting up kids and teachers.
Speaker 3:But if you live in a home where guns are already honored in such a way, you know how to use them, because you hunt yes, you've taken life, you know, and you spend hours on end playing video games where you're like you know, brutally prepared to to go on the hunt.
Speaker 2:You know it wasn't until like the, the prairie days, when everybody had to fend, you know, and they didn't have like communities or whatever, um, like, like, like in native culture. You know you prepared to be able to go on the hunt. It was a big honor. There was a lot of education that went into it prior to you being able to do that and so when you did that, it was an honor, but you were honoring what you were doing as well it makes me think of a sundance, because, and then the red rider bb gun came out, you know and and you know people?
Speaker 2:people had their kids out hunting for squirrels while their husbands were in coal mines. You know? Yeah and it became a younger thing, you know. But throughout history, you know you had to come of age to join the hunt, you know in pretty much every culture.
Speaker 3:Yes, and they were expected to go through a rite of passage yeah, like you had to earn that, men had to earn it.
Speaker 2:We don't like the government took away this ritual of doing a sun dance.
Speaker 3:You know that the government took away this ritual of doing a Sundance. You know that the government took away the right of Sundance rituals because it was, it was, you know, savagery, but essentially the rite of passage was that, you know, I think it was from sunup to sundown, to a tree, um, and? And the men had to live that way for a certain amount of a certain period of time for their ritual to be completed in order for them to be honorable enough to hunt with the men different clans had to do different things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, some had to go up, you know, up high on the mountain, you know, and and converse was serious, some'm had to do peyote ceremonies. I'm not to do, you know every, every clan was different. But yeah, you had to go through some extreme tests and some extreme control, self-control bodily control mental control.
Speaker 1:But you know, this is, this is I I think that the biggest issue because guns have been around, I mean, like kids have had guns for a really long time but the big issue is that is our, is our mental health among young people it's like we. We don't like we have our. Our children are losing their minds. There's an incredible amount of rage.
Speaker 1:There's there's a lot of mental health issues and you put a gun into a crazy person's hand, they're going to do crazy things and so, but I think when you don't have those kinds of mental health issues, then guns are used for what they're supposed to be used for. You want to, that's fine. You want to have it to protect your home? That's fine, because I do. I do think that there is value in being able to like enoki, you were in that situation recently.
Speaker 2:You know where you you needed to protect your home and your child and your property, and so and I was glad that we had a weapon, and I'm not against like taking all weapons from from people, but I do believe that there's no fucking reason for me to have an ak-47 ever, unless we're in a time of war. And then at that point you know they should be divvied out among the citizens to protect themselves, you know, from that same kind of weapon being provided you know, or being being you know, in the, in the community, but I don't think I think.
Speaker 2:I think like, like my uncle was on the bomb spot and stuff he's got, like you know, he's got a bazooka, like like what.
Speaker 1:What do we?
Speaker 2:need. What do we need?
Speaker 1:what do you need? A bazooka.
Speaker 2:You know well, you know that's he's educated and he would never misuse that. You know right, he would never misuse that privilege because he had been educated it was properly trained, exactly you know, but at the same time like, like, he doesn't really need it, he's never really fired it, it's not a necessity. You know other than sword swinging?
Speaker 2:you know what I mean right, like so, so like in in the situation that I had, where I came home and there was a man in my house like that had a eight inch nail in his pocket, you know, like that was definitely not for anything. He was building.
Speaker 2:You know, I'm, I'm 100 positive that he had that for harming someone or defending himself. You know, I I'm, I'm 100 positive that he had that for harming someone or defending himself, you know, but we, we did hold him to gunpoint and I did, you know, make him empty out his pockets and I did check him all out. I made him throw away the liquor bottle that he had I, you know, I I went through all that and then I drove him to the other end of town.
Speaker 2:I got in a car with him, without a weapon, and I drove him to the other end of town and dropped him off. You know, but, but if we didn't have the weapon, you know, if I didn't have my sister here with her gun, you know, then yeah, and it could have gone a lot different.
Speaker 1:You know, like do I feel like he would have?
Speaker 2:hurt me with that nail? No, maybe he would have stabbed me. Then it could have gone a lot different. You know like do I feel like he would have hurt me with that nail?
Speaker 2:No, maybe he would have stabbed me, but nothing he could have done to me would have hurt me beyond my own repair you know, and it wouldn't have been something that I couldn't push through, you know, but because I had my son there and you know mother lion instincts, you know, kick in, you know and, and, and I'm sure that I would have protected my son and my home, you know just fine, without it, but it was, it was a relief to have that there and not worry about it, you know. But at the same time I didn't need to run out and get a rifle, an automatic rifle, to defend him from his, to defend me from his nail. You know what I mean. Like, like I didn't know what he had at first, you know. So it was nice to have the weapon to, you know, see what he had, you know, because he probably wouldn't have emptied his pockets, you know right exactly and he probably would have walked off.
Speaker 2:He probably would have come back you know and it did intimidate him and let him know that we were defended, right. But but I didn't need an hk-47 to do that. She had a purse, a purse block like a little tiny purse 38, you know I mean and that's all I've ever had as a weapon.
Speaker 2:You know, I had a 22 and I had a 38. I did have a military issue um pulled out shotgun at one point, but that was a shotgun which could be used for hunting and it was just more compact so I could fold it up, you know, and and fire it with one hand.
Speaker 3:A hummingbird, yeah, I mean, I grew up learning how to shoot clays and um, I was holding guns at a very young age and shooting guns at a very young age in loxahatchee.
Speaker 2:But I don't know, I'm not, I'm not a gun, was reminding me that, that we should, we should base our our more love into our into our conversation. It literally just like buzzed into my face. He was like right here.
Speaker 1:He was like it's so funny and okay Because I have a. I have a hummingbird at my feet, or at the same time. No way. Right outside my window. Yeah, but I mean, same time, no way right outside my window.
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, but I mean I think like, yeah, I think we're living in really confusing, um fearful, fearful times you know, very suspicious and people are going to respond to the that kind of fear in different ways, and I think that, um be there, there are a lot of people of all ages that are kind of losing their minds, and so we're dealing with a lot of that and really in uncertain times, and so I think it's a lot to navigate.
Speaker 3:Emotionally, spiritually, it's just a lot to navigate I was discussing with my kids the death of childhood and how, you know, the suicide rates in teenagers are so high, and I wanted to explain to them that that everybody has some sort of that feeling. There is this process that you go through during between childhood and adulthood and there's a part of you that has to let go of that childhood in order for you to move on that feels so wrong.
Speaker 1:It's like death.
Speaker 2:It's a form of death we all have to experience the shaman death and it's a process, a rebirth of life in a new way but those feelings are so right it could be the most rewarding experience too, you know, depending on how we live through it, you know so yeah it's important to let them know. You know, some things in life, some feelings that you have, may may die, but they never go away.
Speaker 3:This new ones come about they just evolve they just but it was important for me to say that, like, you need to know that these feelings are normal. It's it's it's how we process them, right, and the inaction, not not the action of acting on those feelings, right, um, but but it's so important to to know that before you become an adult, you're going to feel so many different things, and I just want to be a parent that allows my children to feel those feelings and allows my children to process those things and can be a guardian to them while they do those things, um, and just kind of hold them up because you'll get through it. Yeah, um, we just got to be there. For these kids, man, the presence is what really matters, really matters. It's all about our presence as adults, any, any, any youth that you can reach out to do it. They need us, they need us.
Speaker 3:So, having my kids at home, um, they're done with school in like three to four hours. They, uh, I have them in an accredited program that Anoki helped me sign up for. So anything outside of that, we went and we've done a couple field trips. We went to the fossil site, saw where they're digging up the fossils here, mastodons and we went to the museum and we've done things already in a week and had you know more fun figuring out how we were going to navigate this together.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:It seems like such a big, worrisome thing. And then, when you do it, it's like every other thing you realize, wow, we have the time to be a family to go places, we can move things around and there's a pliability instead of a conformity, you know, to educating your kids at home with yourself, you know and there's lots of programs and it's really important to un-indoctrinate them.
Speaker 3:So CJ was like I want to go get a job. And I was like, full stop, I just pulled you out of a prison system. I am not about to then throw you into another prison system where you're going to work 30 hours a week and lose all of what I'm about to teach you. I told the two big boys and I it's not that I don't want them to work, you can go work, but you're not going to be working 30 hours a week. I want them, the two bigs. By the time PJ graduates, he's got a year and a half. You guys need an LLC. I'm going to buy you the LLC. You're going to come up with your own business or businesses. You're going to give me startup costs. We're going to start your business Before you graduate high school. You're going to have a business in your name In two years. You don't like it? Fucking sell it. But in the interim of that, you're going to learn how to run a business.
Speaker 3:You're going to start a business and you're going to navigate that.
Speaker 1:What that feels like, because be an entrepreneur, first, absolutely, and now you got. You have to, you have to create a website.
Speaker 2:You have to like you know even you before you commit to other things, and other people and other places.
Speaker 3:And you can still tap into the matrix. But it's all in how you do it, as long as you have a lead that can pull you back out. You know what I mean. Like we can tap in but we have to be able to tap back out.
Speaker 1:Right, right. So, depending on what they like, what, what lights them up, you know like what do they want to do? What does Peyton want to do? Does he want to do something with gardening? Does he want to do something with food? Does he want to do something with lawn care? Does he want to do something with graphic art? Does what does he want to do? And then he can create. You know, both of both your boys can create a business around a passion.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I just you know. By the way, I just registered my my own little business in Georgia, taylor. I told you last week Patty's Cottage Kitchen.
Speaker 2:Oh I love it. Last week um patty's cottage kitchen oh I love it, you can tap in for just a little bit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, listen, I'll follow your laws, but just your cottage walls, you know what I mean. Like, yeah, there are ways to do both exactly exactly. But yeah, I'm I'm really excited. I'm really excited for the opportunity for them to unschool a little bit.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:And back into the earth.
Speaker 1:And being sovereign, like you know. What does that mean? You know, to be sovereign young men, you know, is really, really important.
Speaker 3:And learning financial literacy and that was another thing I was discussing is really, really important and learning financial literacy. Like and that was another thing I was discussing it's like how about we learn taxes today? We're going to go pull taxes, we're going to go balance checkbooks. I'm going to give you $50. This is the grocery store money. Make this happen for a dinner meal, you know what?
Speaker 1:here's another lesson the real lab. Yeah, um know, I was thinking, you know, because I, I'm um, I I'm setting it up and then I'm doing all this r and d with like the kinds of things that I'm going to offer at farmers markets and stuff, but I would like to, by next spring, figure out how to also like to take money as payment, but also crypto as payment, like I want to. I want to figure out. Yeah, take, take crypto yeah, I haven't done it yet but it's like I want that.
Speaker 3:I want to figure out how to take yeah, take take crypto.
Speaker 1:I haven't done it yet, but it's like I want that option. I want people.
Speaker 3:We went to a coffee shop in Asheville that that accepted crypto and it's becoming. Listen, on the way to Greenville you can. There's an ATM, a crypto ATM machine at a little gas station in Podunkville, like it's coming. Yeah, it's coming, it's coming, yeah, it's coming.
Speaker 1:It's coming. So those are the things that I want to learn how to do before I actually go out to farmer's markets and start taking money. It's like, well, I want to be able to do that.
Speaker 3:I'm thinking about getting into a farmer's market myself, If I can, while the boys are in school. Now start getting some products going.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Get busy and what really really matters yeah, I'm all about the farmer's markets and actually there's really this, this real serious like tsunami of awakening happening across the country about food and about what's in our food, and people are waking up, like everyone. I taught you like I go to this farmer's market out in Dawsonville, taylor, and that's the farmer's market I'll probably start at and you know, and I get, I'm getting goat milk. I'm actually I'm in the process of making goat cheddar right now, but, um, uh, you know, the woman who who sells me the goat milk was saying she can't believe, like almost every person who comes up to her little booth at the farmer's market, there are people who are who have recently awakened to the truth about our foods, to the truth about, like, raw milk, to the truth about, you know, like how we're kind of being slowly poisoned you know, like how we're kind of being slowly poisoned.
Speaker 3:well, it's really funny. So being an herbalist has become a fad, right? Like where I live, everyone is an herbalist, everybody knows and and it really pulled me out of it to think like I'm I'm not a type to do what everybody does. I love that. I have that knowledge. What I do with that knowledge is for my future and my children's survival. There's a reason that I wanted that knowledge in this lifetime Because when the world goes to shit tomorrow, I know the 2,000 plants that I can use medicinally in my area Exactly is that every day, there is a wave of new people who need somebody to be like hey, come here, let me show you this, let me educate you on something. Right, there's all this information out here. So my point is is there's always a place for another herbalist? There's always a place for somebody to come learn this knowledge and and in the ways of plant medicine, because people need this knowledge.
Speaker 2:somebody wakes up for this knowledge, that's like in 2012 there was a really big awakening spiritually you know where people started accepting more things spiritually and it was like for those of us that were already there you know it was.
Speaker 2:It was like you know, all right, is this becoming a fad? You know, but you could tell the people that were just joining a fad and the people that were really learning things and me and patty were talking about earlier, you know, like, like, when you can recognize and have an intuition about what's right or wrong or good or bad.
Speaker 2:You know and and can practice empathy in a way. You know that, that it deciphers it for you. You know, then you know who's who's being uh lot lotty dotty about it and who's like really a part of it and who's like breathing it and being it, you know like it reminds me of that one yoga guy who used to get so nasty about his burger and we were like does he know that he's a frog?
Speaker 3:he's like the chosen one.
Speaker 2:He said that he was like siphoning the sun into his pineal gland. Yeah, this guy hadn't eaten like his whole life. He's just been eating his boogers from his from his brain.
Speaker 1:That sounds so disgusting, but you know I also but along the lines of what you guys are talking about, I also think that there's a big. I think there's going to be a big return to the kitchen. You know how people kind of stepped out of the kitchen and a lot of people's kitchens got dusty because nobody was cooking, and now I think if people really want to take their own health into their hands, they're going to have to go back into the kitchen. Yeah, grow it, make it.
Speaker 2:it, make it like you can't really buy anything from the store. That's not.
Speaker 1:That's not toxic you know, I mean and they put sugars in everything and everything like this way.
Speaker 2:Everybody is is is diabetic, you know like and and I realized, you know like there's not a lot beyond growing my own stuff or, you know, going to a farm where I see it come out of the dirt what they're using to fertilize it yeah, to be able to, to do that, you know, and and it's tougher, but you know what like, at the end of the day, I want to live. You know, I don't want to poison myself and die yeah, and we want to be healthy you know, we want to live.
Speaker 1:You know, I don't want to poison myself and die. Yeah, and we want to be healthy.
Speaker 3:Diabetes. You know we want to be healthy you know, Tender gardens, lovely Tender gardens. Water your seeds. This is a time of cultivating all sorts of things whether it be in the garden or in our mind or or in the lives of our children.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:I really want to work on a greenhouse here. I want to get one of those clear greenhouses so that I can grow all year, like I could in Florida, you know. Yeah, put some humidifiers in and you know, or a mister in it, you know, that's just constantly running you know and some kind of a drip irrigation that runs the water back to where the pump is pumping for the mister so that, so that I could do that, because you know, anything outside of outside of greenhouse farming is is also being contaminated by the chemtrails and all this stuff that's going on, you know.
Speaker 2:So that's going on, you know. So it's like you gotta do it yourself, but you gotta do it yourself in like a quarantined way yeah, almost like. Yeah, it's true yeah, you gotta grow your children at home you gotta grow your food at home, you gotta. You know watch what your chickens are eating. And you know watch.
Speaker 1:You know who you're getting things from and how they're growing and taking care of things yeah, yeah, yeah, you have to safeguard everything that comes into your home physically, emotionally, energetically, ethereally. Yeah, so did you want to taylor? I see you have your cards so we're gonna, we're gonna do a pull. So this is we're looking for. We're looking into um, we're looking for the best guidance for you know, the coming weeks. What are the? What are the cards want to tell us? You've got the archetype cards. I do.
Speaker 3:I'm feeling this guy right here.
Speaker 1:All right, let's see it. Wow, what is that? The box. I've never seen that before.
Speaker 3:Okay, I immediately think about Lauryn Hill. I'll get out, I'll get out. Of all your boxes I'll get out, I'll get out of all your boxes. I'll get out. I'll get out.
Speaker 1:All right so let's Google it.
Speaker 3:Okay, google it, it will. It's a big one, she said. Take off your bed and walk. Okay, the box, because it's what we've not been speaking about all morning being stuck in this box, the cage, the rules, the norm. We all live to some degree within the confines of the box. This archetype represents everything that is known, anticipated and expected. It holds us in place while simultaneously hiding us back, holding us back from our greatest vision. The box is sneaky, insidious and everywhere, limiting us at the most unconscious levels. It is built of layer upon layer of social constructs and pressures. Breaking through its confines requires awareness, continued effort and bravery. The box may appear as expectations from parents, a well-paying but heartless job, the pressure to look or behave like others or to simply stay small. There is a box around you now, made of some type of confining thought. What is it? The box shifts and morphs as we grow. This is part of its multi-layered nature. Once you break through one layer, another will present itself to you. Keep going.
Speaker 2:Whoa, your comfort zone will kill you Break through An exquisite life requires it.
Speaker 3:Everything within the box is known. Everything outside of the box is unknown. That is why it is more comfortable to stay within its walls. Choose freedom. Moving outside of the box is exhilarating and expansive, but destabilizing. Others will wonder what you're doing and why, and you will too. This is part of the process.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, so many boxes, yeah, so many boxes.
Speaker 1:That's really perfect for right now, it really is, it really is because you can say, oh, I don't, I don't want to, I want to think outside the box or I want to be outside the box and whatever. But just being a rebel is not enough, you know you, you have to. It requires a lot more effort. Like being a rebel is just being reactive and stuff, but it's not really. There's not a lot of deep thought in it. You really have to go deep and and uncover the layers of how you have been kept in that box. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:It's not just being everybody to go listen to. Um, I'll get out by lauren hill is the most symbolically uh appropriate song for being in a box and how to get out of said box, and just the way she words it in stating knowing my condition is the reason I must change. Highly recommend. There, you go, get out of the boxes.
Speaker 1:Self-awareness, yes, self-awareness, self-awareness. You know you can many many layers, many layers, um, so that is a lot of um food for thought for this week. Um, I think we've, you know, we've talked about a lot of what's going on in our world and and with us, and, and I think it's sobering times, you know, but there's also a tremendous amount of hope, because I think we should never underestimate the power of human intention, and you know what we are, what we're capable of.
Speaker 2:So Intention, intuition ability. Like don't think you can't, don't say it's too tough or what's gonna happen. If something in your heart is telling you to do it, you need to do it, you know don't fight the flow of the river that you're on you know, yeah, float down it and enjoy the current and where it takes you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, beautiful, any last words Taylor.
Speaker 3:Just be present Think about the kids.
Speaker 2:man, you know, my last words every week are always that I love you guys.
Speaker 1:I love you too. All right, you guys have a great week. Yeah, this has been awesome. Lots to think about and lots of nourishment to carry us forward, so always appreciate it. Love you too. Have a good day. Bye, you guys.