The lady who called our military “moronic, gun-toting rednecks,” and other tales from two-days in CA Episode 882
The Todd Herman Show
Radio America
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Talk about being in two-worlds . . .
I was honored to attend the Broken Science Initiative's meeting in conservative Aromas, California last weekend. Greg Glassman, the Founder and former CEO of CrossFit started the Initiative to help rescue the practice of scientific rigor from con artists and politicians. This particular meeting was held on the Castro family Ranch. Known in CrossFit communities simply as “The Ranch”, it where the first CrossFit Games were held in 2008. It was a joy for me to get to see the Ranch, talk with the Castro brothers, meet the many cops and former elite military there and watch Greg and Dr. William Briggs talk about fixing broken science.
But, it was what I observed off the Ranch that informs this Episode. While Aromas is conservative and hard-working, I spent most of my time in Santa Cruz, a weekend get-away spot for many San Francisco liberals. Believe it or not. I encountered masked-people still terrified of the unmasked, saw people obviously startled by my beard and general looks, and found myself doing my best job of being polite while confronting a woman who called our troops “moronic, gun-toting rednecks.” It was at the airport, though, where the fracture in our society became so clear and on the plane back where God convicted me.
At the Ranch, on the base “the Hill”, anyone who is a fan of the sport knows about the Hill.
Greg Glassman begins his address.
What does God’s Word say?
Proverbs 24:30-34
I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
Ezekiel 16:49
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
Episode 882 Links:
The Broken Science Initiative
The CrossFit Games - Men's Ranch Mini Chipper
Exquisitely Boredby Pete Townshend
The tissue box is emptyNo coffee for my creamDogs howl in the alleyCrazy women screamSome kids shout from their pick up truckThey’re stoned on life and beerFifty radios playing in this streetBut I'm still hardly here
Exquisitely bored in CaliforniaWe take our trouble to the CrestExquisitely bored in CaliforniaExquisitely bored, Just like all the rest
When the sun shines things'll get movingYou feel close to the starsThere are good times walking in LagunaBut it rains in my heart
The peasants here are starvingThey look out there barrels out in spacePray TV looks like pay TV to meIt's just a curse on the human raceI take a drive up to L.A.In my gas guzzling limousineThere's a whole lot of crazy people up thereLiving out a life in sweet ennui
Exquisitely bored in CaliforniaWe take our trouble to the CrestExquisitely bored in CaliforniaExquisitely bored, Just like all the rest
When the sun shines things'll get movingYou feel close to the starsThere are good times walking in LagunaBut it rains in my heart
Exquisitely bored in CaliforniaWe take our trouble to the CrestExquisitely bored in CaliforniaExquisitely bored, Just like all the rest
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| 0:00.0 | I promise to tell you about this, the two and a half days I spent in California. |
| 0:04.8 | Part of it was a blessing, being down in the aromis area of California, conservative portion |
| 0:10.8 | of the country. |
| 0:11.8 | You got to watch a guy speak, I truly admire, and meet people, I truly admire. |
| 0:19.0 | And then there was the time in the on-wee of California, it's the song I learned from |
| 0:24.4 | Pete Townsend of the Who Artists Word I learned on-wee, a form of boredom, exquisitely bored |
| 0:32.0 | as the song that Pete Townsend featured that word in. |
| 0:36.2 | I was in a very expensive hotel, you know, gifted to stay there, delicious food, nice setting, |
| 0:47.0 | and there was a couple snacking on a whole series of appetizers, probably a couple hundred |
| 0:54.0 | dollars worth of appetizers. |
| 0:55.0 | And as I said earlier, I don't bemoan anyone the right to spend money that they've earned |
| 1:03.4 | as they see fit, I've come to view money as something God grants us to steward. |
| 1:11.3 | And I just didn't give that much of a thought other than it's been a while since I've hung |
| 1:16.3 | out in a place like that. |
| 1:19.4 | And they're an older couple, really nicely dressed, and spending a gobbah money, which |
| 1:25.2 | just indicated to me that they have a gobbah money, or they like to be in credit card debt. |
| 1:30.4 | And then the lady began talking about her grandson. |
| 1:38.8 | And she said, I just don't think this military option is right for him. |
| 1:45.1 | I don't think he needs to be around a bunch of moronic gun-toting red necks. |
| 1:55.4 | And I was seated, or two seats away from them. |
| 1:59.0 | It was early in the evening, few people in that little restaurant. |
| 2:07.1 | And I struggled with what to do about that. |
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