Bradley Walker
I called my Dad the other day and we chatted for a bit.
My dad and I never fear to skirt the most controversial topics. We are not afraid to debate in other words. We both like it. My Dad is old school, he is nearly 80 now and I am 45. He grew up poor and he was the first child in a large family to graduate college and then go on to get and graduate degree and eventually he became a college professor. So, my father is contradiction in terms… a country boy from Muskogee that grew up hunting and fishing (and is, in fact, an expert at both), played minor league baseball and coached professionally, was from the “don’t ask for help… just suck it up and survive†WW2 generation, and he spent 30 years in the collegiate world. So, he is like an old hippie, leftist, enviro wacko, redneck, jock, and I wouldn’t have it any other way… You can imagine that a lot of my ideas about the rise of Satanist world globalism, communism, and our impending enslavement don’t jive with his utopian idea of the Star Trek type government run environmental Big Brother super state… So, to say we have lively debates would be an understatement.
So, I have been working very hard to get in shape. Three years after my divorce (I was married 22 years) I decided I looked like crap. I applied the same logic to diet that I apply to politics and the world. Everything you are being told is a lie… Everything you think about yourself is a fraud, and a manipulation. Including the very food going into your mouth and the person you see in the mirror. So… I was talking to my Dad. I said “I’ve lost 50 lbs but I want a six pack. I want to look like a Marine in boot camp…â€. He said, “Well that will never happen you are not 20 years old!!! At your age you can’t look like that…â€
I said, “I doubt your father wore a different size pants at 45 than he did at 20…â€
He said, “You know that is actually correct.â€
I continued, “You know 50 years ago men did not die fat. For the most part, they stayed the same size their whole lives. They were lean and strong, they didn’t worship food and there were lots of 50 year olds with six packs… It’s just become acceptable that we are all fat now… and that we are supposed to get fatter and sicker the older we get… This is a lie. It’s programming… It’s the post Oprah, big Ag lobbying world saying “eat this and you will be healthy… Corn flakes are good for you but Doritos are bad for you and in fact they are the same fried corn crap… but we know what’s best for youâ€.
People laugh at me when I eat a bowl of skinless chicken for lunch… Well they used too… Not so much any more… Four months and 50 lbs later… Oh, but that will kill you… Eat your corn flakes… or Doritos… they are both good for you…
That was the first time in a long time I told my father something that disagreed with his world view and he had nothing to say… It was quite satisfying. Brad
My dad and I never fear to skirt the most controversial topics. We are not afraid to debate in other words. We both like it. My Dad is old school, he is nearly 80 now and I am 45. He grew up poor and he was the first child in a large family to graduate college and then go on to get and graduate degree and eventually he became a college professor. So, my father is contradiction in terms… a country boy from Muskogee that grew up hunting and fishing (and is, in fact, an expert at both), played minor league baseball and coached professionally, was from the “don’t ask for help… just suck it up and survive†WW2 generation, and he spent 30 years in the collegiate world. So, he is like an old hippie, leftist, enviro wacko, redneck, jock, and I wouldn’t have it any other way… You can imagine that a lot of my ideas about the rise of Satanist world globalism, communism, and our impending enslavement don’t jive with his utopian idea of the Star Trek type government run environmental Big Brother super state… So, to say we have lively debates would be an understatement.
So, I have been working very hard to get in shape. Three years after my divorce (I was married 22 years) I decided I looked like crap. I applied the same logic to diet that I apply to politics and the world. Everything you are being told is a lie… Everything you think about yourself is a fraud, and a manipulation. Including the very food going into your mouth and the person you see in the mirror. So… I was talking to my Dad. I said “I’ve lost 50 lbs but I want a six pack. I want to look like a Marine in boot camp…â€. He said, “Well that will never happen you are not 20 years old!!! At your age you can’t look like that…â€
I said, “I doubt your father wore a different size pants at 45 than he did at 20…â€
He said, “You know that is actually correct.â€
I continued, “You know 50 years ago men did not die fat. For the most part, they stayed the same size their whole lives. They were lean and strong, they didn’t worship food and there were lots of 50 year olds with six packs… It’s just become acceptable that we are all fat now… and that we are supposed to get fatter and sicker the older we get… This is a lie. It’s programming… It’s the post Oprah, big Ag lobbying world saying “eat this and you will be healthy… Corn flakes are good for you but Doritos are bad for you and in fact they are the same fried corn crap… but we know what’s best for youâ€.
People laugh at me when I eat a bowl of skinless chicken for lunch… Well they used too… Not so much any more… Four months and 50 lbs later… Oh, but that will kill you… Eat your corn flakes… or Doritos… they are both good for you…
That was the first time in a long time I told my father something that disagreed with his world view and he had nothing to say… It was quite satisfying. Brad
We eat mainly boneless white meat and salads, although I do like my chocolate.
