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.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Thanks for joining me .
Listen, I have another podcast,patty Talks Too Much, and I
also do a podcast where Ichronicle how I'm, I chronicle
the journey of healing myarthritis and the arthritis that
I have in my hands, and,naturally, without using regular
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medication.
So I have these two things and,you know, honestly, and I do a
live stream with a couple offriends who are like millennials
every Saturday morning andthat's a lot of fun.
But I find that, you know, whatI was thinking is that I don't
have enough of an opportunity tobe as sassy as I want to be,
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and so I just decided, you know,I'm just gonna do, I'm gonna
just do a separate podcast whereI'm just really, just, you know
, balls to the wall, you know,out there with my sassy self.
And so I called it the sassycontrarian, because I really am
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a contrarian and I'm not aJohnny come lately contrarian.
I think I've been a contrarianfor a very long time and for
many, many years of my life.
I thought, oh man, I'm justlike, you know, I'm kind of,
maybe I'm just like fucked up inthe head or something, maybe
I'm not thinking about thesethings correctly.
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Why is it that I'm always kindof moving against the grain.
So I on this, on this podcast,and this is going to be a little
shorter to this evening becauseit is a just an intro, but I'm
going to get into politics,religion, education, the
pandemic, the past and thepending new age.
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Spirituality, uh, you know,diet, dogma and and much more.
You my experiences with all ofthis.
I mean, I've been around theblock, um, you know, for quite a
while now and so I've had lotsof different, uh, interesting
experiences in all of theseareas.
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Sexuality, you know all of that.
So I'm just going to kind oflay it all out and give you just
a little taste of some of thethings that I will be touching
upon in this podcast.
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And so, if it is, and thoughts,and they are quite, quite
contrarian and so, but I'm goingto be sharing all of my you
know, controversial ideas andopinions on this podcast and I'm
going to be telling stories andhopefully they will be a little
funny.
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They might, you know, hopefullythey'll be a bit humorous,
sassy, maybe they'll make youlaugh, hopefully you won't be
offended, but if you findyourself being really, really
offended by the things that I'msaying, then chances are this
isn't a podcast for you.
I'm never going to apologizefor it.
So you know you're going tojust have to you know what is it
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?
Put on your big girl or big boypanties and go find another
podcast.
So the main story that I wantto share with you tonight has to
do with the first time that Iwas ever called a contrarian.
It was back when I owned a cafedown in South Florida.
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But before I get to that, Iwant to just kind of give you an
overview, just an idea, of someof the things that I'm going to
be touching upon in some ofthese categories on this podcast
.
So you have an idea whetherthis is a podcast you want to
bother listening to or not.
So, when it comes to politics,all right, politics is big.
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Obviously, in my 20s I was aleftist, communist, marxist,
leninist political activist.
All right, I was about as farleft as you could go, and that
was.
Those were my politics in my inmy twenties.
And now I am an independent andI am going to proudly cast my
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vote for Mr Donald Trump.
I, that's, that's how far I'vecome.
Now you might think, oh, my God,you have really, really moved
to the right.
Well, I'm going to talk aboutsome of the cray-cray on the
left.
That has a whole lot of peopleyou know.
Even you know Bill Maher islike hey, wait a minute, I'm
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still a liberal, but y'all havegone into the cray-cray zone,
which I think is true.
Now I got a glimpse of thecray-cray in my 20s and it's why
I didn't continue being aMarxist as the years went on,
because I got to kind of seefirsthand what Marxism is, and a
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lot of young people today it'slike I'm a Marxist, you know,
and all this bullshit.
And you know they don't really.
I don't know if they've readthe books, I don't know if
they've read Marx, I don't knowif they've read Lenin, but you
know the main focus of Marxismis basically the bottom line is
to smash the state and establisha dictatorship of the
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proletariat.
That's it.
That's the bottom line Smashthe state and establish a
dictatorship of the proletariat.
Now, there are probably somewords in that.
You know, in that vision, thatyou may be uncomfortable with.
And one of the things that kindof definitely took me off that
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political, political road when Iwas younger was the word
dictatorship, and you can reallysee it if you look around.
That's really what they want todo.
Right, they're doing a wholelot of smashing and a whole lot
of acting like dictators.
That's what they do.
The thing about Marxism, what Ifound, is that the vision is
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about is is about destroyingshit.
Yeah, we're just going to tearthis shit down, we're going to
destroy it, we're going to lightit on fire.
You know all of that, you know,and and that's pretty much
what's happened around the worldwhen communism has been
established you know, beauty isdestroyed, culture is destroyed,
people are destroyed, and butit's not like there's a whole
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lot of creating and buildingafterwards.
So it is not a politic, in myview.
That's really about buildingand creating.
It's really a politic that'sabout destroying and tearing
down.
We don't like it, we're goingto tear this shit down, and so
it doesn't have from what I'veseen, it doesn't have much of a
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vision beyond that.
So in my 20s, when I was reallyfucking 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 thatit was a lot of a lot of
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craziness.
One brief story, though that'swhat kind of exemplify, kind of
even when I was in my 20s and Iwas, you know, doing the, you
know fist in the air, I'm a youknow, marxist, leninist, you
know political activist.
You know, even when I was doingthat, I was still unwittingly a
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contrarian.
And I'll give you an example.
So early on in my politicalcareer, you know, one of the
first things I did was, you know, I was, I was up in New
Hampshire and we were, we wereputting an independent candidate
on the ballot, and one of theone of the things that happened
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while I was, while I was up inNew Hampshire, you know,
trudging around in the in thesnow I think it was Portsmouth,
I think it was in Portsmouth,new Hampshire and I'm trudging
around and going door to doorand of course, you know, in the
winter it gets dark about, likewhatever 330 or some crazy shit.
So it's already getting dark,I'm freezing my ass off, I'm
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really kind of grumpy and I justwant to go home.
But there I am knocking ondoors and so I get.
Finally I get to a point whereI'm like, fuck it, this is my
last door.
You know, I don't care what myteammates you know, because we
were out there with in a wholegroup collecting signatures and
donations and stuff like that, Iwas like fuck it, I don't care,
this me in.
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And because my ass was freezing, I was.
I was very, I was very happy togo in and sit in one of her
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comfy chairs in her living roomand she even offered me tea.
And it turns out that thiswoman was Betty Hill.
So Betty Hill for those of youwho don't know, because I'm a
big UFO person myself.
You know like I've believed inthis shit since I was little.
It's like come on, man, we'renot alone, let's get over
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ourselves, right.
And even even as a politicalactivist, I was like you know,
we're not alone, but that wasn'tpart 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 eyesgot really big and I had all
these questions.
For anyway, I spent 45 minutesin Betty Hill's living room
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talking to her living room,talking to her.
Now she I'm sorry she and herhusband Barney were the first.
I want to get this right thefirst recorded case of alien
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abduction Very, very famous case.
It happened in New Hampshire.
They were driving home oneweekend from Canada and this
whole bizarre thing happened andthey didn't even realize they
had been abducted until monthslater.
They're having these wild andwacky dreams and they go into
Boston and they both gethypnotized separate sessions and
whatever and it finds out thatthrough hypnotism they recovered
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some of the memory of theseexperiences, anyway very widely
documented, and they had thethree-letter group people you
know, all over that case.
And you know, and it wasverified, you know it was real,
you know this, really it was, itwas real, you know these, this
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really did happen to this couple.
So at the time that I knocked onBetty Hill's door, you know,
barney had already died.
He died pretty young, he died.
And then I think it probablywas because of all of the stress
and everything from kind ofwhat happened.
They didn't want to tell anyone.
You know, they wanted to keepit to themselves, but it leaked,
it got out.
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And you know they wanted tokeep it to themselves, but it
leaked, it got out.
And you know, and then they hadthe media on their front, I
mean you can imagine, on theirlawn and it was, it was just
nuts and and they were also abiracial couple.
So she was white, he was blackand that was kind of, you know,
also unusual.
And they were, you know theywere political activists too,
you know they did.
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So I spent all that time inBetty Hill's living room sipping
on her tea and asking herquestions, and all of this just
with my eyes just wide, wide,wide open, and I was having the
time of my life spending timewith this very, very special,
quirky little woman.
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When I got together with myteammates they were like well,
where have you been?
What have you been doing?
And I was still really, reallyexcited.
I was like you're not going tobelieve this.
I got to, I sat in Betty Hill'sliving room and we talked all
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that time and of course they'rejust 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, howdoes that, you know, how does
any of this advance thecollective?
And I said, well, she did talkto aliens who kind of want to
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keep us from destroying thewhole planet with nuclear bombs.
Does that count?
We're advancing the collective,but we don't, you know, but
species that want to keep usfrom destroying ourselves and
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perhaps many other life formsalong the way.
You know, they don't reallycount in terms of advancing the
collective, and I think that wasone of those moments that
brought me a little closer tosaying, you know, man, you don't
think this is for me anymore,but at any rate so that was even
in politics.
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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, goingto a Catholic church and going
to a Protestant church, and Igot to tell you that was a
little rough, and so I justhandled it by running away.
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Every Sunday, sometime inbetween the nine o'clock mass
and the 1030 service, I ran awayand hid in the woods, I don't
know, I just couldn't take it.
But it turned out that, eventhough I was exposed to two
religions, I didn't chooseeither one of them.
So I ended up not being a veryreligious person but more
spiritual, and I have my myadventures and be in
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contrarianism.
That to tell you about when Ishare stories about my
experience within the new agespiritual movement.
Whoa, that was quiteinteresting.
So I will tell you this.
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You know, I'm a, I'm a teacherand even though I really like
teaching, I think from the verybeginning of my teaching career
I really thought I was going towork on a sinking ship Like this
.
System is horrible, right, andI 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 likedteaching, even though I was
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working within a system that Iabhorred.
I, you know I never liked theeducational system, but I did
like working with kids.
So that's kind of where I endedup.
Sexuality I'm definitely goingto talk about it.
Alternative lifestyle here.
But yet I will tell you that,even though I've lived an
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alternative lifestyle, I don'tthink that I think that I might
have, of all of the friends, gayfriends that I've had over the
years, I probably have only two,two, because I don't agree with
anything that the gay communityhas done in the last 10 or 15
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years.
Um, and I've been kind of quietabout it.
I'm not going to be quiet aboutit anymore.
I am not trans forward.
Um, I, I think that it's, it'suh, it's demonic and moves into
transhumanism.
And I'll say and I don't give ashit what I get called I know
all the names I don't care, Idon't, I don't agree with that
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at all, I will never support it.
And it breaks my heart when Isee people that I knew many
years ago, who seem to bereasonable people, but they've
got the trans flag on there.
It's like, oh, I have, I'mgoing to virtual signal by
having the trans flag on myFacebook page and it just like I
just can't, I can't.
So I just can't believe it.
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I have some funny stories aboutthe pandemic and the medical
system.
Listen, I was one of thosepeople, you know.
I, I got some, I got COVID andI treated it with that thing
that they called horse paste.
Yeah, that I treated it withthat and I did quite well, I did
not go for the jibby jab.
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So I was one of those you knowdidn't go for that.
So I have, you know, someinteresting perspectives on the
medical system.
By the way, the pending, thepending.
Have you know some interestingperspectives on the medical
system.
By the way, the pending, thepending pandemic you know is is,
you know they're they'retalking about it Again.
Of course, it is anotherelection year, so it's to be
expected that we would haveanother pandemic and the bird
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flu, and they're trying to whipthat up really good.
And of course, bill Gates is,you know, whipping up some
vaccines for us, so I guesswe'll be okay.
Gates is, you know, whipping upsome vaccines for us, so I
guess we'll be okay, you know,for people who want to, who want
to take the Bill Gates fundedvaccines, have at it if you'd
like.
But if you take a look at therecord of the vaccines that are
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out there currently, you mightwant to think about, you might
want to think twice about that.
I have had lots of fun because Iowned a cafe for 10 years.
I had a lot of experience withinterfacing, with food dogma,
and so I'm going to have a lotof fun talking about that.
I have stories.
I have stories about vegans,vegetarians, people who follow
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the carnivore diet.
It's really, you know, it'skind of great.
You know, we humans are so damncreative.
We have so many ways that wecan be cray cray, and so we are
cray cray in politics.
We're cray cray with oursexuality, in religion and
education, when it comes to, youknow, dealing with pandemics,
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and when it comes to ourspirituality, and even with the
food we put on our plate.
We just, you know all kinds ofways to be cray cray and I,
honestly, I think that for me, Iget, I have a lot to say about
our food and our food, or the,or the not health of our food,
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or the, what would you call it,the poison Our food is is closer
to poison than it is food, andI think that we're going to be
seeing more and more proof ofthat.
Um, so we need to, we're goingto have to do, we're going to
have to do stuff about that, butI've been following that very
closely over the years, and soI've got, I certainly have
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things to talk about when itcomes to our, our, the quality
of the food that we eat in ourcountry, which, you know, I mean
when, when we're eating thingsand drinking things that are
literally banned in most othercountries.
What does that say about, youknow, the regulatory
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organizations that are supposedto be looking over, looking
after the safety of our food?
So, anyway, yeah, when I ownedmy cafe back in South Florida.
I was called a contrarian forthe very first time.
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And I was called a contrarianby this business guy named Ed
and he had a sports bar acrossthe street and Ed would come
into my little cafe every dayand get his espresso.
And the reason why Ed thoughtthat I was a contrarian was
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because I was the opposite ofhim when it came to running a
business.
So Ed had lots and lots ofmoney and he invested this money
in a business across the streetthat he figured he would make a
lot of money at, because thenumbers were there.
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I mean, how can you go wrongwith a sports bar, you know?
I mean like you can just makemoney hands over fist.
The problem is is that Ed didit solely because it was a
moneymaker, but he didn't likeit at all.
Ed didn't even drink, ed didn'treally go to sports bars.
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It was so not his scene that hedidn't even like being in his
own business.
So we hired a bunch of peopleto kind of run his business for
him, because he didn't reallywant to be around, because he
didn't, his heart was not inthat business at all.
He really didn't, he didn't, hehad no passion for his business
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.
Now me.
I'm across the street and I'min a little 800 square foot
coffee house cafe and I'moperating on a shoestring budget
.
I didn't have any surplus money, so I was scratching to pay the
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bills every month.
But when he came across thestreet, he noticed that people
were there and I was starting toget busier and busier and
busier, and that he liked thevibe of the place and he liked
the way that it seems to begrowing and expanding and there
was just something very vibrantabout my tiny little cafe, even
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though I had barely any money toput into it.
But the difference was it.
But the difference was and Iwould try to point this out to
him was that I really loved whatI was doing.
I really loved my cafe.
I loved decorating it.
I loved coming up with the menu.
I loved all the different fooditems that I could create and
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the different drinks that Icould create.
I liked interfacing with thepeople that came into my cafe.
I liked creating new events tohappen 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.
Even though it was an enormousamount of work, it was also the
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source of a lot of joy because Iwas able to be as creative as I
wanted to be and really justhave a great time running this
little cafe, even though youknow it wasn't a big, you know
it wasn't a big moneymaker.
I was able to grow thisbusiness over.
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You know I had it for 10 yearsand the only reason why it
closed was because the buildingwas sold and so forth, and so
you know it was sad, but it wasa really good 10 year run and
you know that was longer thanyou know.
That was, I think, two or threetimes longer than what Ed was
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able to do with his sports barthat he had invested a whole lot
of money in and that really,for all intents and purposes,
should have been making a wholelot of money.
But he wasn't in it.
He, he didn't, he didn'tunderstand how important it was
to be connected, you know, to tohave a passion for something
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and to have it be heart centered.
And so he often would come inand look around and be just
amazed at how things weregrowing 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 peoplewould say do this, do this in
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order to make money, and you dothe opposite and you're able to
be successful.
You are a contrarian, but itwas something really, really
simple.
It was just you gotta love whatyou do.
Ed, if you really feelpassionate about whatever it is
you're doing, whatever thatbusiness is, then it's going to
grow because it is you're doingwhatever that business is, then
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it's going to grow because it isan extension of you.
And so if you just do businesslike, oh well, I'm going to make
a lot of money on this becauseit's a no brainer, these kinds
of businesses make a whole lotof money but you really don't
have any connection to it, youdon't really have any passion
for it, then chances are it'snot going to be as successful as
you think.
So, at any rate, that was myexperience.
But it was the first time in mylife that I was called a
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contrarian.
So as a business owner, I was acontrarian.
I was not, you know I wasn't.
It was my first real businesslike that, aside from the
businesses that I had when I wasreally young young, like you
know painting houses or likelawn care or things like that.
This was an actual bona fidebusiness and you know there were
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.
You know, if I did it again, Iwould do it differently.
I would, I would do some thingsdifferently just because you
know, because I learned a lotfrom the experience and so I
might be wiser in some ways.
But overall, the most importantthing in the bottom line, what
seemed to make me a contrarian,was that the decisions that I
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made in my business had more todo with doing things that really
inspired me and excited me,like I followed my excitement
about something.
I didn't follow a bottom lineor a profit line, and I think
that made me like the polaropposite of Ed and so, and
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therefore, a contrarian when itcame to running a business.
I actually think that, lookingforward into the age of Aquarius
, I think this is definitely theage for contrarians, and I also
think it's an age for newbusiness models.
I think that the kinds ofbusinesses that are really
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really going to thrive willreally be about cooperation, you
know, working cooperatively,collectively, together, not
collective in the way of likeMarxist, but, like you know,
working, working in very, verydifferent ways as businesses,
and I'm looking forward toseeing what blooms as we move
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forward in terms of, uh, the,the businesses that really um,
that really take off.
I think they're going to lookvery, very different um in the
in the age of Aquarius, and Iwould love to be involved in
that in some way.
Um, but, um, uh, definitely, Iwas a contrarian business owner
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and so very proud um, contrarianand and, honestly, that was the
first time that I actuallystarted thinking about how I'm a
contrarian and in what ways Imight be a contrarian, and it
turned out, as I reflected on it, more and more, um, I've been a
contrarian in just about everyaspect of my life.
More and more I've been acontrarian in just about every
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aspect of my life.
What's really exciting is thatthe age of Aquarius is all about
us contrarians.
So if you consider yourself acontrarian, well you know what
your party is just starting.
So it's, it's our time.
It's time to start speaking upabout things that maybe we were
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a little reluctant to speakabout because, you know, in past
years it's been a little moredifficult to be a contrarian.
Now it seems that if you speakout, you're going to find that
you will be able to connect withother contrarians, other
like-minded people who are justas contrarian as you are.
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So that's it.
I think that's where I want toleave it for today.
I wanted to just kind of keeptoday's kind of brief, but
that's what I'm going to doShare stories, try to be
humorous, try to be funny, tryto be snarky and sassy, but just
kind of be myself.
So I'm not going to exaggerateor be untruthful.
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Hopefully it'll be somewhatentertaining for you and if you
like it, please subscribe, likeor 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 hadbecause I felt like I needed an
outlet to be a little more sassythan I've been.
So I'm frailing kind of sassy,so I'm going to keep that
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rolling.
Anyway, thank you so much forjoining me.
If you're joining me on any ofthe, on any of the, the other
sites that we're streaming, andI'm going to leave it there, All
right.
Have a great week everyone.
I'm not sure how often I'mgoing to do this, I don't know.
We'll see, you know.
Well, we'll see, maybe weekly,maybe every other week.
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Anyway, have a good weekeveryone.
Thanks for joining me .
Listen, I have another podcast,patty Talks Too Much, and I
also do a podcast where Ichronicle how I'm, I chronicle
the journey of healing myarthritis and the arthritis that
I have in my hands, and,naturally, without using regular
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medication.
So I have these two things and,you know, honestly, and I do a
live stream with a couple offriends who are like millennials
every Saturday morning andthat's a lot of fun.
But I find that, you know, whatI was thinking is that I don't
have enough of an opportunity tobe as sassy as I want to be,
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and so I just decided, you know,I'm just gonna do, I'm gonna
just do a separate podcast whereI'm just really, just, you know
, balls to the wall, you know,out there with my sassy self.
And so I called it the sassycontrarian, because I really am
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a contrarian and I'm not aJohnny come lately contrarian.
I think I've been a contrarianfor a very long time and for
many, many years of my life.
I thought, oh man, I'm justlike, you know, I'm kind of,
maybe I'm just like fucked up inthe head or something, maybe
I'm not thinking about thesethings correctly.
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Why is it that I'm always kindof moving against the grain.
So I on this, on this podcast,and this is going to be a little
shorter to this evening becauseit is a just an intro, but I'm
going to get into politics,religion, education, the
pandemic, the past and thepending new age.
(02:01):
Spirituality, uh, you know,diet, dogma and and much more.
You my experiences with all ofthis.
I mean, I've been around theblock, um, you know, for quite a
while now and so I've had lotsof different, uh, interesting
experiences in all of theseareas.
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Sexuality, you know all of that.
So I'm just going to kind oflay it all out and give you just
a little taste of some of thethings that I will be touching
upon in this podcast.
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And so, if it is, and thoughts,and they are quite, quite
contrarian and so, but I'm goingto be sharing all of my you
know, controversial ideas andopinions on this podcast and I'm
going to be telling stories andhopefully they will be a little
funny.
(03:04):
They might, you know, hopefullythey'll be a bit humorous,
sassy, maybe they'll make youlaugh, hopefully you won't be
offended, but if you findyourself being really, really
offended by the things that I'msaying, then chances are this
isn't a podcast for you.
I'm never going to apologizefor it.
So you know you're going tojust have to you know what is it
(03:28):
?
Put on your big girl or big boypanties and go find another
podcast.
So the main story that I wantto share with you tonight has to
do with the first time that Iwas ever called a contrarian.
It was back when I owned a cafedown in South Florida.
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But before I get to that, Iwant to just kind of give you an
overview, just an idea, of someof the things that I'm going to
be touching upon in some ofthese categories on this podcast
.
So you have an idea whetherthis is a podcast you want to
bother listening to or not.
So, when it comes to politics,all right, politics is big.
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Obviously, in my 20s I was aleftist, communist, marxist,
leninist political activist.
All right, I was about as farleft as you could go, and that
was.
Those were my politics in my inmy twenties.
And now I am an independent andI am going to proudly cast my
(04:38):
vote for Mr Donald Trump.
I, that's, that's how far I'vecome.
Now you might think, oh, my God,you have really, really moved
to the right.
Well, I'm going to talk aboutsome of the cray-cray on the
left.
That has a whole lot of peopleyou know.
Even you know Bill Maher islike hey, wait a minute, I'm
(05:01):
still a liberal, but y'all havegone into the cray-cray zone,
which I think is true.
Now I got a glimpse of thecray-cray in my 20s and it's why
I didn't continue being aMarxist as the years went on,
because I got to kind of seefirsthand what Marxism is, and a
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lot of young people today it'slike I'm a Marxist, you know,
and all this bullshit.
And you know they don't really.
I don't know if they've readthe books, I don't know if
they've read Marx, I don't knowif they've read Lenin, but you
know the main focus of Marxismis basically the bottom line is
to smash the state and establisha dictatorship of the
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proletariat.
That's it.
That's the bottom line Smashthe state and establish a
dictatorship of the proletariat.
Now, there are probably somewords in that.
You know, in that vision, thatyou may be uncomfortable with.
And one of the things that kindof definitely took me off that
(06:13):
political, political road when Iwas younger was the word
dictatorship, and you can reallysee it if you look around.
That's really what they want todo.
Right, they're doing a wholelot of smashing and a whole lot
of acting like dictators.
That's what they do.
The thing about Marxism, what Ifound, is that the vision is
(06:35):
about is is about destroyingshit.
Yeah, we're just going to tearthis shit down, we're going to
destroy it, we're going to lightit on fire.
You know all of that, you know,and and that's pretty much
what's happened around the worldwhen communism has been
established you know, beauty isdestroyed, culture is destroyed,
people are destroyed, and butit's not like there's a whole
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lot of creating and buildingafterwards.
So it is not a politic, in myview.
That's really about buildingand creating.
It's really a politic that'sabout destroying and tearing
down.
We don't like it, we're goingto tear this shit down, and so
it doesn't have from what I'veseen, it doesn't have much of a
(07:25):
vision beyond that.
So in my 20s, when I was reallyfucking 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 thatit was a lot of a lot of
(07:47):
craziness.
One brief story, though that'swhat kind of exemplify, kind of
even when I was in my 20s and Iwas, you know, doing the, you
know fist in the air, I'm a youknow, marxist, leninist, you
know political activist.
You know, even when I was doingthat, I was still unwittingly a
(08:11):
contrarian.
And I'll give you an example.
So early on in my politicalcareer, you know, one of the
first things I did was, you know, I was, I was up in New
Hampshire and we were, we wereputting an independent candidate
on the ballot, and one of theone of the things that happened
(08:31):
while I was, while I was up inNew Hampshire, you know,
trudging around in the in thesnow I think it was Portsmouth,
I think it was in Portsmouth,new Hampshire and I'm trudging
around and going door to doorand of course, you know, in the
winter it gets dark about, likewhatever 330 or some crazy shit.
So it's already getting dark,I'm freezing my ass off, I'm
(08:51):
really kind of grumpy and I justwant to go home.
But there I am knocking ondoors and so I get.
Finally I get to a point whereI'm like, fuck it, this is my
last door.
You know, I don't care what myteammates you know, because we
were out there with in a wholegroup collecting signatures and
donations and stuff like that, Iwas like fuck it, I don't care,
this me in.
(09:12):
And because my ass was freezing, I was.
I was very, I was very happy togo in and sit in one of her
(09:33):
comfy chairs in her living roomand she even offered me tea.
And it turns out that thiswoman was Betty Hill.
So Betty Hill for those of youwho don't know, because I'm a
big UFO person myself.
You know like I've believed inthis shit since I was little.
It's like come on, man, we'renot alone, let's get over
(09:56):
ourselves, right.
And even even as a politicalactivist, I was like you know,
we're not alone, but that wasn'tpart 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 eyesgot really big and I had all
these questions.
For anyway, I spent 45 minutesin Betty Hill's living room
(10:20):
talking to her living room,talking to her.
Now she I'm sorry she and herhusband Barney were the first.
I want to get this right thefirst recorded case of alien
(10:42):
abduction Very, very famous case.
It happened in New Hampshire.
They were driving home oneweekend from Canada and this
whole bizarre thing happened andthey didn't even realize they
had been abducted until monthslater.
They're having these wild andwacky dreams and they go into
Boston and they both gethypnotized separate sessions and
whatever and it finds out thatthrough hypnotism they recovered
(11:03):
some of the memory of theseexperiences, anyway very widely
documented, and they had thethree-letter group people you
know, all over that case.
And you know, and it wasverified, you know it was real,
you know this, really it was, itwas real, you know these, this
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really did happen to this couple.
So at the time that I knocked onBetty Hill's door, you know,
barney had already died.
He died pretty young, he died.
And then I think it probablywas because of all of the stress
and everything from kind ofwhat happened.
They didn't want to tell anyone.
You know, they wanted to keepit to themselves, but it leaked,
it got out.
(11:45):
And you know they wanted tokeep it to themselves, but it
leaked, it got out.
And you know, and then they hadthe media on their front, I
mean you can imagine, on theirlawn and it was, it was just
nuts and and they were also abiracial couple.
So she was white, he was blackand that was kind of, you know,
also unusual.
And they were, you know theywere political activists too,
you know they did.
(12:10):
So I spent all that time inBetty Hill's living room sipping
on her tea and asking herquestions, and all of this just
with my eyes just wide, wide,wide open, and I was having the
time of my life spending timewith this very, very special,
quirky little woman.
(12:30):
When I got together with myteammates they were like well,
where have you been?
What have you been doing?
And I was still really, reallyexcited.
I was like you're not going tobelieve this.
I got to, I sat in Betty Hill'sliving room and we talked all
(12:51):
that time and of course they'rejust 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, howdoes that, you know, how does
any of this advance thecollective?
And I said, well, she did talkto aliens who kind of want to
(13:17):
keep us from destroying thewhole planet with nuclear bombs.
Does that count?
We're advancing the collective,but we don't, you know, but
species that want to keep usfrom destroying ourselves and
(13:38):
perhaps many other life formsalong the way.
You know, they don't reallycount in terms of advancing the
collective, and I think that wasone of those moments that
brought me a little closer tosaying, you know, man, you don't
think this is for me anymore,but at any rate so that was even
in politics.
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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, goingto a Catholic church and going
to a Protestant church, and Igot to tell you that was a
little rough, and so I justhandled it by running away.
(14:20):
Every Sunday, sometime inbetween the nine o'clock mass
and the 1030 service, I ran awayand hid in the woods, I don't
know, I just couldn't take it.
But it turned out that, eventhough I was exposed to two
religions, I didn't chooseeither one of them.
So I ended up not being a veryreligious person but more
spiritual, and I have my myadventures and be in
(14:42):
contrarianism.
That to tell you about when Ishare stories about my
experience within the new agespiritual movement.
Whoa, that was quiteinteresting.
So I will tell you this.
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You know, I'm a, I'm a teacherand even though I really like
teaching, I think from the verybeginning of my teaching career
I really thought I was going towork on a sinking ship Like this
.
System is horrible, right, andI 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 likedteaching, even though I was
(15:31):
working within a system that Iabhorred.
I, you know I never liked theeducational system, but I did
like working with kids.
So that's kind of where I endedup.
Sexuality I'm definitely goingto talk about it.
Alternative lifestyle here.
But yet I will tell you that,even though I've lived an
(15:54):
alternative lifestyle, I don'tthink that I think that I might
have, of all of the friends, gayfriends that I've had over the
years, I probably have only two,two, because I don't agree with
anything that the gay communityhas done in the last 10 or 15
(16:19):
years.
Um, and I've been kind of quietabout it.
I'm not going to be quiet aboutit anymore.
I am not trans forward.
Um, I, I think that it's, it'suh, it's demonic and moves into
transhumanism.
And I'll say and I don't give ashit what I get called I know
all the names I don't care, Idon't, I don't agree with that
(16:41):
at all, I will never support it.
And it breaks my heart when Isee people that I knew many
years ago, who seem to bereasonable people, but they've
got the trans flag on there.
It's like, oh, I have, I'mgoing to virtual signal by
having the trans flag on myFacebook page and it just like I
just can't, I can't.
So I just can't believe it.
(17:03):
I have some funny stories aboutthe pandemic and the medical
system.
Listen, I was one of thosepeople, you know.
I, I got some, I got COVID andI treated it with that thing
that they called horse paste.
Yeah, that I treated it withthat and I did quite well, I did
not go for the jibby jab.
(17:24):
So I was one of those you knowdidn't go for that.
So I have, you know, someinteresting perspectives on the
medical system.
By the way, the pending, thepending.
Have you know some interestingperspectives on the medical
system.
By the way, the pending, thepending pandemic you know is is,
you know they're they'retalking about it Again.
Of course, it is anotherelection year, so it's to be
expected that we would haveanother pandemic and the bird
(17:47):
flu, and they're trying to whipthat up really good.
And of course, bill Gates is,you know, whipping up some
vaccines for us, so I guesswe'll be okay.
Gates is, you know, whipping upsome vaccines for us, so I
guess we'll be okay, you know,for people who want to, who want
to take the Bill Gates fundedvaccines, have at it if you'd
like.
But if you take a look at therecord of the vaccines that are
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out there currently, you mightwant to think about, you might
want to think twice about that.
I have had lots of fun because Iowned a cafe for 10 years.
I had a lot of experience withinterfacing, with food dogma,
and so I'm going to have a lotof fun talking about that.
I have stories.
I have stories about vegans,vegetarians, people who follow
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the carnivore diet.
It's really, you know, it'skind of great.
You know, we humans are so damncreative.
We have so many ways that wecan be cray cray, and so we are
cray cray in politics.
We're cray cray with oursexuality, in religion and
education, when it comes to, youknow, dealing with pandemics,
(18:51):
and when it comes to ourspirituality, and even with the
food we put on our plate.
We just, you know all kinds ofways to be cray cray and I,
honestly, I think that for me, Iget, I have a lot to say about
our food and our food, or the,or the not health of our food,
(19:16):
or the, what would you call it,the poison Our food is is closer
to poison than it is food, andI think that we're going to be
seeing more and more proof ofthat.
Um, so we need to, we're goingto have to do, we're going to
have to do stuff about that, butI've been following that very
closely over the years, and soI've got, I certainly have
(19:38):
things to talk about when itcomes to our, our, the quality
of the food that we eat in ourcountry, which, you know, I mean
when, when we're eating thingsand drinking things that are
literally banned in most othercountries.
What does that say about, youknow, the regulatory
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organizations that are supposedto be looking over, looking
after the safety of our food?
So, anyway, yeah, when I ownedmy cafe back in South Florida.
I was called a contrarian forthe very first time.
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And I was called a contrarianby this business guy named Ed
and he had a sports bar acrossthe street and Ed would come
into my little cafe every dayand get his espresso.
And the reason why Ed thoughtthat I was a contrarian was
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because I was the opposite ofhim when it came to running a
business.
So Ed had lots and lots ofmoney and he invested this money
in a business across the streetthat he figured he would make a
lot of money at, because thenumbers were there.
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I mean, how can you go wrongwith a sports bar, you know?
I mean like you can just makemoney hands over fist.
The problem is is that Ed didit solely because it was a
moneymaker, but he didn't likeit at all.
Ed didn't even drink, ed didn'treally go to sports bars.
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It was so not his scene that hedidn't even like being in his
own business.
So we hired a bunch of peopleto kind of run his business for
him, because he didn't reallywant to be around, because he
didn't, his heart was not inthat business at all.
He really didn't, he didn't, hehad no passion for his business
(22:03):
.
Now me.
I'm across the street and I'min a little 800 square foot
coffee house cafe and I'moperating on a shoestring budget
.
I didn't have any surplus money, so I was scratching to pay the
(22:24):
bills every month.
But when he came across thestreet, he noticed that people
were there and I was starting toget busier and busier and
busier, and that he liked thevibe of the place and he liked
the way that it seems to begrowing and expanding and there
was just something very vibrantabout my tiny little cafe, even
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though I had barely any money toput into it.
But the difference was it.
But the difference was and Iwould try to point this out to
him was that I really loved whatI was doing.
I really loved my cafe.
I loved decorating it.
I loved coming up with the menu.
I loved all the different fooditems that I could create and
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the different drinks that Icould create.
I liked interfacing with thepeople that came into my cafe.
I liked creating new events tohappen 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.
Even though it was an enormousamount of work, it was also the
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source of a lot of joy because Iwas able to be as creative as I
wanted to be and really justhave a great time running this
little cafe, even though youknow it wasn't a big, you know
it wasn't a big moneymaker.
I was able to grow thisbusiness over.
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You know I had it for 10 yearsand the only reason why it
closed was because the buildingwas sold and so forth, and so
you know it was sad, but it wasa really good 10 year run and
you know that was longer thanyou know.
That was, I think, two or threetimes longer than what Ed was
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able to do with his sports barthat he had invested a whole lot
of money in and that really,for all intents and purposes,
should have been making a wholelot of money.
But he wasn't in it.
He, he didn't, he didn'tunderstand how important it was
to be connected, you know, to tohave a passion for something
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and to have it be heart centered.
And so he often would come inand look around and be just
amazed at how things weregrowing 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 peoplewould say do this, do this in
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order to make money, and you dothe opposite and you're able to
be successful.
You are a contrarian, but itwas something really, really
simple.
It was just you gotta love whatyou do.
Ed, if you really feelpassionate about whatever it is
you're doing, whatever thatbusiness is, then it's going to
grow because it is you're doingwhatever that business is, then
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it's going to grow because it isan extension of you.
And so if you just do businesslike, oh well, I'm going to make
a lot of money on this becauseit's a no brainer, these kinds
of businesses make a whole lotof money but you really don't
have any connection to it, youdon't really have any passion
for it, then chances are it'snot going to be as successful as
you think.
So, at any rate, that was myexperience.
But it was the first time in mylife that I was called a
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contrarian.
So as a business owner, I was acontrarian.
I was not, you know I wasn't.
It was my first real businesslike that, aside from the
businesses that I had when I wasreally young young, like you
know painting houses or likelawn care or things like that.
This was an actual bona fidebusiness and you know there were
(26:10):
.
You know, if I did it again, Iwould do it differently.
I would, I would do some thingsdifferently just because you
know, because I learned a lotfrom the experience and so I
might be wiser in some ways.
But overall, the most importantthing in the bottom line, what
seemed to make me a contrarian,was that the decisions that I
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made in my business had more todo with doing things that really
inspired me and excited me,like I followed my excitement
about something.
I didn't follow a bottom lineor a profit line, and I think
that made me like the polaropposite of Ed and so, and
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therefore, a contrarian when itcame to running a business.
I actually think that, lookingforward into the age of Aquarius
, I think this is definitely theage for contrarians, and I also
think it's an age for newbusiness models.
I think that the kinds ofbusinesses that are really
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really going to thrive willreally be about cooperation, you
know, working cooperatively,collectively, together, not
collective in the way of likeMarxist, but, like you know,
working, working in very, verydifferent ways as businesses,
and I'm looking forward toseeing what blooms as we move
(27:39):
forward in terms of, uh, the,the businesses that really um,
that really take off.
I think they're going to lookvery, very different um in the
in the age of Aquarius, and Iwould love to be involved in
that in some way.
Um, but, um, uh, definitely, Iwas a contrarian business owner
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and so very proud um, contrarianand and, honestly, that was the
first time that I actuallystarted thinking about how I'm a
contrarian and in what ways Imight be a contrarian, and it
turned out, as I reflected on it, more and more, um, I've been a
contrarian in just about everyaspect of my life.
More and more I've been acontrarian in just about every
(28:21):
aspect of my life.
What's really exciting is thatthe age of Aquarius is all about
us contrarians.
So if you consider yourself acontrarian, well you know what
your party is just starting.
So it's, it's our time.
It's time to start speaking upabout things that maybe we were
(28:41):
a little reluctant to speakabout because, you know, in past
years it's been a little moredifficult to be a contrarian.
Now it seems that if you speakout, you're going to find that
you will be able to connect withother contrarians, other
like-minded people who are justas contrarian as you are.
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So that's it.
I think that's where I want toleave it for today.
I wanted to just kind of keeptoday's kind of brief, but
that's what I'm going to doShare stories, try to be
humorous, try to be funny, tryto be snarky and sassy, but just
kind of be myself.
So I'm not going to exaggerateor be untruthful.
(29:26):
Hopefully it'll be somewhatentertaining for you and if you
like it, please subscribe, likeor 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 hadbecause I felt like I needed an
outlet to be a little more sassythan I've been.
So I'm frailing kind of sassy,so I'm going to keep that
(29:49):
rolling.
Anyway, thank you so much forjoining me.
If you're joining me on any ofthe, on any of the, the other
sites that we're streaming, andI'm going to leave it there, All
right.
Have a great week everyone.
I'm not sure how often I'mgoing to do this, I don't know.
We'll see, you know.
Well, we'll see, maybe weekly,maybe every other week.
(30:13):
Anyway, have a good weekeveryone.
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