Mike talks with Gary Randall Gary’s the host of straight talk with Gary Randall. This program is heard on our sister station KCBC at 10:30 AM, Pacific time. They discussed what happened in Boulder, with the attack on Jewish people, and the release of hostages in Israel. The left is influencing so many kids and young adults and they are lost. University college campuses across the country have a left-wing agenda.
It’s Mike Train with Crawford Media Group. I’m here with Gary Randall. Gary is the host of Straight Talk with Gary Randall. This program is heard at our sister station, KCBC. So it’s KCBC 770. And the easy way to go to the website and find out the airtimes, which include 1030 a.m. Pacific time. Don’t forget that. And 7 p.m. Pacific time is to go to the KCBC 770 website. And Gary? We’re so grateful that you’ve taken the time with us. You have a lot to say about what happened in Boulder with the attack on Jewish people that were basically asking for the release of hostages in Israel that have been kept there for a long time. And just tell us kind of how you set that up and some of the insights you brought into that topic.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, I’d be happy to. And it’s great to be with you. Thank you for the opportunity. Yeah, there’s a lot going. Boulder is a bit of a problem because they’re so far left and they’re influencing so many kids, you know, and young adults there. They’ve sort of lost it. That’s not unlike most places. university and college campuses across the country, but it seems like they’re a step ahead a lot of the time of some of the other leftist colleges and campuses. But recently, it was kind of over the top. I think they outdid themselves there. It was an individual that It actually did the terror, but it happened in that environment. You can’t argue that that environment doesn’t create activities or results from people. I did talk about that on our program a little bit. What I was talking about was I was telling the story of Owen Anderson. He’s a professor of philosophy and religion at Arizona State University. And he talks a lot about it. He said he and his wife and his kids had recently vacationed in Colorado. And he said, including they went to Boulder, Colorado. And he’s, as I said, he’s a professor of philosophy at Arizona State University. So they were on vacation. They came to Boulder and wanted to see. He said one of the things he wanted to see was the mountains and so on, probably wanted to visit the campus as well. But anyway, he was there on the same day that this Mohammed Solomon alleged act of terror happened. And he said he saw it as wanting to decolonize the city. the whole idea of what’s going on in our culture. And so he said he’s there with his wife and his children. He said, we came to Colorado for a vacation. And he said, we were there paying attention to the Creator. He’s a very devout Christian. And he said, our Creator, looking at the beauty and everything, and he said, which should awaken the gratitude, but the air smells more like weed. than wonder and then he launched into what what that day had had been for them and he said while boulder boasts that it welcomes all spiritual paths it slams the door on the word of god it tolerates everything except truth yes it marks itself as spiritual but it rejects any higher moral authority The kefegs glow with Himalayan salt lamps, bumper stickers push peace, pansexuality, coexistence. But behind every soft smile, the city enforces a hard orthodoxy, LGBTQIA absolutism, DEI dogma, and the gospel of oppression versus oppressed. He said, you can burn incense, you just can’t quote Moses. You can chant, you just can’t pray to the living God. He said bookstores warn visitors in Boulder against racism if it’s been a problem in there in the aisles. He said transgender flags flutter at the courthouse doors, rainbow crosswalks stretch beneath pride banners, but real justice doesn’t live there anymore. The place preaches inclusion and practices exclusion, particularly of Christianity. He said hours before the Sunday’s fiery attack on mostly elderly women, he said, we passed the Boulder County Courthouse on Pearl Street Mall. He said, my children strolled beside me laughing in the sun beneath the flags meant to signal that biblical morality and equal justice under the law are no longer welcome. That’s the way he set this up for this day. And he went on to say that that was the same day that this Mohammed Soleiman began shouting, free Palestine, allegedly hurling these Molotov cocktails at a peaceful gathering of people praying for the hostages in Gaza since October 7th, 2023. He said that it was an amazing thing for him to witness. And I think anybody who heard his account of that where he just happened to be there that day. He said it was striking because it’s so dark and so demonic, in a sense, the whole atmosphere of this. And he said Boulder’s decline isn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a larger collapse. said we buried two Israeli embassy workers gunned down in Washington, D.C. That was that young couple you may remember that were shot outside the embassy. They were planning to get engaged and married soon. Wonderful people. In fact, they were Messianic Jews. They had accepted Christ as their Savior and Messiah. And they were shot and killed because they were Jewish just outside the Jewish embassy. So… This thing in Boulder is not isolated, but it seemed to be a larger step downward than even some of the things we’re seeing in other places here. It is very, very sad. I think, Mike, what we’re experiencing is… It’s a result, it’s a consequence of what we’ve been teaching our kids over the last couple, several generations, particularly this latest generation. I mean, we are so indoctrinating them in everything that is evil and destructive in public education. By the time they get to college, they’re prepared for anything, and they’re open to almost anything that these professors put on them. These professors, you know, they become a fixed feature on the campus. They become tenured. They become stars. They can hardly be touched.
SPEAKER 01 :
Right, Gary?
SPEAKER 02 :
Kind of. Yeah. And so these guys can say anything and get away with it pretty much. And so you have this. And these are the kinds of things that we begin to see as a result of that. Boulder’s decline is not isolated, but, boy, it’s sure leading the pack. I mean, it’s awful.
SPEAKER 01 :
We’re speaking with Gary Randall. He is the host of Straight Talk with Gary Randall. You can find out more at Gary’s website, faithandfreedom.us. So faithandfreedom, all spelled out, .us. Or at 770kcbc.com. Heard at 1030 a.m. Pacific Time. Important to note the time there. And 7 p.m. Pacific Time. And Gary… We don’t hear about it. I have a feeling this is going on on a lot of campuses. Boulder, of course, one of the more darker and evil. However, this is not isolated, right?
SPEAKER 02 :
No, not at all. I was a youth pastor for a number of years. Then I became, as my friend said, a real pastor. But I was a youth pastor longer than most guys are. I really felt called to be a youth pastor. God blessed it, and we had some success. But I really enjoyed being a youth pastor and we just, my wife was all in with me and we just kept doing it, you know? And so we were a youth pastor for a number of years and, uh, in, in North Hollywood as well as in Seattle. But, um, I saw the beginnings of this back in the 60s and 70s, but man, the way it has developed, that’s what evil does. It metastasizes like cancer and it just gets worse and worse and worse. And so each generation has been a little more aggressive and a little further left and a little further into the dustbin of history. It’s not a theory. It’s just, I mean, that we get bad things happening in our culture. I mean, it’s happening as we speak. And this is the result of what we’ve been teaching our kids. Sam Harris, he’s an atheist, kind of a poster child of the old intellectual left. He was recently claiming that it would be worth ending democracy to stop a Trump presidency. Well, I mean, if you could look back a generation or so, how do we get to that point where it’s worth it to get rid of a president, kill him or whatever? I mean, that’s the implication that I see here. Right. but how do we get to that point it’s layer upon labor layer brick upon brick is how it’s built and these kids they start out being you know introduced to transgenderism when they’re five and six years old they grew up in this complete negative environment and so i mean i guess what would one expect but you know there is another side to this another part of this i mean this guy in in boulder i mean he he probably hadn’t read ibram x kindy or something but he did he wasn’t He was full of the spirit of what’s happening, the spirit of lawlessness that’s happening in our world today. So it isn’t a coincidence. It fits into this anti-Semitic, anti-Western pattern sanctified by academia. I mean, that’s what’s happening. and the democrats own this i mean they really do it i don’t mean to get political but you can’t talk about the culture without having politics you know infused into it because that’s the structure that we use but ultimately it’s a spiritual warfare and and i mean that’s what’s happening it’s played out through politics and you got one party that’s kind of for that and another party that’s against that But it’s much more than that. It’s kind of we’re not fighting against flesh and blood. We’re fighting against, you know, powers and principalities. That’s right. So you shouldn’t be surprised. I mean, by you, us, we shouldn’t be surprised when we see these things like in Boulder. But we still are. We’re shocked. Because each time we ask ourselves, how could this happen? I mean, how could this be? I mean, these people, I mean, one of them was 88 years old or 83 years old, this one woman. And, you know, she was saying, I mean, she survived the Holocaust, and she’s looking at this saying, How can this be? How can it be? What the X with is going on, I think is a quote of what she said. It’s just the result of godlessness. And you remember Patrick Henry was one of our founding fathers, very outspoken, homeschooled, by the way, and very outspoken, a great orator and a godly guy. And he said a lot of things that are quotable, you know, give me liberty or give me death. But one of the things that he said has stuck with me over the years, particularly as a youth pastor and then as a pastor. He said, when people forget God, tyrants forge their chains. And I’ve heard over my years in ministry and my life, I’ve heard the clanking of chains and being put upon people, particularly younger people, college age, high school, college age, but all people, adults as well. And I hear the chains being put upon them, and sometimes we’re like, Barna’s illustration of the frog in the kettle, you know, they’re turning up the heat. It’s feeling comfortable, and that’s no big deal. I mean, that’s where we are today. The culture has changed and all that. No, the culture has. It has changed, but that’s not a reason to affirm it. We have to take a stand against this. And one of the ways we take a stand is not by hating the other side. I mean, Jesus said to love them, and we do in the Lord. But we do not love them by affirming them. We love them by taking a stand against what is destroying them and other people in the culture.
SPEAKER 01 :
So encouraging. Well, Gary Randall, the program’s called Straight Talk with Gary Randall. Gary’s leading us to Christ. That’s where, that’s the only place those answers are. You can go learn more about Gary at faithandfreedom.us. That’s faith and spelled out A-N-D, freedom.us. And also listen to Gary on our sister station, 770 KCBC at 1030 a.m. Pacific time or 7 p.m. Pacific time. Gary, thank you for taking the time with us.
