Big Bird's Adventures

A very bizarre message came across the family IM feed this morning from Daughter #2. She came across this video posting which occurred on the LSU campus and posted May 19th this year. As soon as I saw this woman, I knew I knew her. To say “knew” is maybe a little too much. I “knew” of her. Once I listened to the recording, I knew “That’s her!”.

Who is her? This is Cynthia Lasseter who started appearing with Jed Smock as he travelled campus to campus in the 80’s preaching against the “sins” that was considered a “Healthy College Experience” then, and probably still is considered healthy, but that statement may depend on your perspective. As long as we are talking consenting adults, then healthy. I think Jed showed up at Penn State in the Spring of 1980, on his own. He set up, at that time on the steps of Willard Building, as that was probably the highest concentration of College-aged heathens to be found anywhere on campus, and considering State College was surrounded by Mennonites and Amish, at least for 150 miles in any direction.

Jed, was sharply dressed, telling the flock “God rewards the faithful”. “God doesn’t want us to walk in rags when we preach his greatness, so that is why I preach in $1000 suits and wear a Rolex. God wants me to be on time.” Jed appeared towards the end of the Spring Trimester each year, guessing that he saw a need to preach hard at Penn State, and then one year, yes, I was there for a while, he showed up with a partner. Sister Cindy he called her. I don’t think they were married at the time, but eventually she did marry Jed, bearing them 5 girls which apparently grew up travelling campus to campus in their parents ministry. If you told me that Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of their girls, I wouldn’t be surprised in the least.

So, Cindy was there, and as I recall, Jed was doing his normal spiel when suddenly he would refer to a saved soul he was responsible for, and then Cindy would take the stage and talk about how she had been a college sinner, how alcohol had numbed her sense of self, and she was a sex toy to many an undergraduate, and maybe a professor or two. She went on for hours about how she had “whored and whored and whored” and the crowd ate her up. Our crowd in the 80’s was not unlike this crowd in 2023.

So, Cindy is still active, and after 40 years of practice has her act down pretty well. Along comes a female comedian who takes this twitter capture, and turns it into a Tik Tok Summer hit. This is the You Tube link. It doesn’t end there either, a the New York Times caught wind and produced an article written by Madison Kircher.

Back in 1980, this all seemed “Very Bizarre” even then, however today, Cindy Smock seems like just another regular crazy Evangelical Christian nut case, who like the “Freedom Caucus” and pretty much any GOP member of Congress, is bent on dragging this country backwards into the hot hell of biblical brimstone. I hope at least one of their daughters made it out with some sense of humanity and normalism (new word), but I doubt it.