{"id":55932,"date":"2014-10-21T09:05:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55932"},"modified":"2014-10-21T09:05:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T13:05:45","slug":"the-other-side-traveling-tree-hugging-liberal-wants-to-meet-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55932","title":{"rendered":"The Other Side: Traveling Tree Hugging Liberal wants to meet you"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I got out of college I went to work for the NRA. And within a year this dude came to work there who became my best friend. It pretty much started as a dare between us when one said \u201cI will go out drinking every night you do.\u201d About 35 days later we were both on the verge of liver failure and decided to take a night off. From there out we were best friends, and I got adopted by this clique of people he knew in DC. It turned out that basically his entire HS from Cortland, New York had moved to the DC area. It definitely was not a monolithic group. Everyone liked to party, but just all over the place politically.<\/p>\n

Anyway, through them I met a bunch of other Cortlanders (and still refer to Cortland as my favorite hometown I never lived in.) One of them was this dude named Boise Thomas. Or maybe Thomas Boise. I don\u2019t know, because dude changed his name every few weeks. At one point he was going by some Indian Guru name. Anyway, the first time I got to meet him was on leave from Afghanistan when the whole group decided we should go to Vegas.<\/p>\n

Now, Boise had sent some weird ass emails. I still remember one he sent about Planet X, this undiscovered planet that you couldn\u2019t see that would spell our eventual doom. (Not really clear on how it worked.) He was obviously a very well meaning guy, but about as far from the combat mentality as you could get, and that\u2019s where I was when I met him.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I was slightly nervous to meet Tom because he was so different from me. He came in wearing these like bright pink Crocs, and some sort of very bright clothes. But hey, dude was a struggling actor in Hollywood, of course he\u2019s going to be odd. The thing was, he walked up, said hello, shook my hand, and thanked me for my service. It was kind of weird, just totally unexpected. I realized I had totally stereotyped this guy, and it was wrong.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ve followed Tom on Facebook and on TV. For a while he was on some green living show on HGTV, and then he did some crazy thing going cross country with some dudes and a hot chick on a bus. Not in 18 million years would I have watched it, but Tom was awesome if you knew the guy, so I watched every episode. We couldn’t be different in any possible aspect of life, but I’m actually fascinated by his life for that very reason.<\/p>\n

Anyway, to the point of this. Tom has a buddy out in LA who is a budding video guy. And this was what Tom sent me to see what this guy was doing:<\/p>\n