Welcome back to the podcast. Today's guest is my new friend, Patty Cakes.

Patty was a, I believe, professional bodybuilder for a while, turned day trader who's been

incredibly successful and has had some pretty fascinating stories on his relationship with

the one we call God, the great spirit. And really cool stuff. He's also a good friend and an understudy

of Edmund Knighton who's been on the podcast, who is awesome. And now I'd like to say a regular on the show. I had a blast with Patty. We will have a follow-up conversation after our darkness retreat. We're going to a darkness retreat in June with Dr. Nathan Riley, the holistic O BGYN has been on this podcast a bunch and it'll be led by Edmund night so I'm super stoked for that

super stoked for what's the comment Dr. Nathan Riley, the holistic OBGYN has been on this podcast a bunch, and it'll be led by

Edmund Knight. So I'm super stoked for that. Super stoked for what's to come.

Patty, welcome the podcast. Thank you, man. Thank you. The last time you were on a podcast was four

years ago and that you're a different person. I was like, I think we'd all change in four years.

And I was thinking, even just the world was so different in 2021 with like the wake of COVID, you know, and so many people waiting for the shot to save the day and make the world go back to normal. And then it didn't go back to normal. Nothing happened. Yeah, exactly. And they're like, oh, it doesn't matter how many shots you get. We're still going to have lockdowns and still do all this shit and still make kids do the online education. And then finally it breaks when you states like Texas

and Florida, we're like, no, we're opening up everything. Yeah. Yep. That's the main reason why I didn't

actually finish college had nine credit hours left on a finance degree. And I had to do online school

with a vaccine. And obviously I was like, fuck that, right? With online school, they wouldn't let you. That's the pressure. Yes. Yes. So I told my parents that I'm going to drop. I was making money online. Luckily through TikTok, actually. So I was like doing fitness back then. And I think I was making like maybe $900 a month. But back then I was I was living

in like a section of housing basically. So I was paying a little under $400 a month in rent. So I could afford rent. I could afford food. I could still work out. And I said, okay, I'm not going to school. And that changed everything for me. That's when I really started to wake up. I always and he was a sham, dude. I always did. It was a total sham.

It was a sham. There's no doubt. Let's rewind the clock, though. I want to, because you've, you've done a lot of interesting things. I want to know, and you grew up, you know, according to yourself, kind of in the middle of nowhere, New Mexico. Talk about life growing up. Talk about your interests and, you know, take us up. Man, so growing up,

my parents were awesome,

right?

My dad, Talk about life growing up. Talk about your interests and, you know, take us up.

Man, so growing up, my parents were awesome, right?

My dad, at some point, he had a little bit of a drinking problem,

but he really, really, like, stepped up when I was a sophomore in high school.

And my interest as a kid, I wasn't really conscious.

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