I did my first and last LSD trip the night before I left for Basic at Lackland AFG in 1970. The airplane ride, in 1970, was great. Not so great went the drill sgt ordered "HAAAARCCCCHHHH RIIIGGGHHHTTTTT!!!!!!!" and I went left. LOL. Thanks for the memories.
When I was a kid growing up in the 1980s, I hung out with an older crowd because I found them to be more interesting than kids my own age. The man in this video reminds me of the coolest of the Baby Boom generation, people who I admired when I was growing up. One of those people was a guy named Tom. My friend and I met Tom when we were both 13 years old and walking past his house. Tom was a 35 year old housebound parapalegic, due to having Polio when he was a kid. He called out to us as we were walking by, since he was out of smokes and was having a nicotine craving, and wanted us to buy him some unfiltered Camel cigarettes, which we happily did for him. For years afterward, I'd go over to his house and talk to him for hours. He loved telling stories of growing up as a hippie in the 60s, listening to psychedelic music, smoking dope, and enjoying free love. He'd tell me about people he knew who had overdosed, became burnouts, joined cults, or lived in communes. He knew all about Eastern religions, spirituality, tarot cards, crystals, astrology, the whole nine yards. Tom was a real treasure trove of information, and a great storyteller, just like the guy in this video. I haven't seen him since the 1990s, but he left an indelible mark on my childhood. Good times back then.
I bet you’ve got so many memories and the stories to tell of Tom’s! That is truly a treasure you’ll hold on to forever! Maybe you’ll see him again one day ❤
I hope one day you have the chance to see Tom again and tell him how much his stories meant to you. I bet that would mean the world to him. Thanks for sharing part of your journey.
Aww, I hope Tom had a great life after. People are better for having people like that in their lives. Glad you got to know him, I'm sure he had great fun with you guys. Thanks for hanging with him.
@@OlafProtfor me it was the glades and Forrests of Oregon and Washington. Every weekend, and most of my 90s summers at community-focused pop up psychedelic festivals of 30-2000 trippers all speaker humping and acting autonomously.
Sometimes I feel like I never stopped.. maybe one day I will wake up and be young again.. and then I feel sorry for thinking the good people in my life are not real.
Last of a dying breed. I don't think people today can tell stories.Or are as adept at the art of conversation as those of previous generations in my opinion.
@@Shinobi33People don't read anymore. How can you tell a story if you aren't exposed to any? I'm a firm believer in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis- a native speaker's language dictates how they think. If your syntax, grammar, and vocabulary are basic and you have bad writing style, your thoughts will be basic and have no style.
@@joelglanton6531 You can pin the blame on Social Media for our regression. Yet here we are communicating on a social media forum. Only having been able to watch and learn about this gentleman's story because of Social Media. Quite the conundrum.
David this guy is Far Out Man! I have seen other interview clips of this guy that you have posted on your channel what a fascinating life he had led I'm glad his suicide attempt failed and found a meaning to live and talk about his experience in the 1960's and 70's I hope he has never lost the joy he has found in life.
Yeah, this was the way things went for so many of us back in the 60’s … and some of us are still hanging out in this plane of being. Love Peace and Joy! Our goals seem so mainstream now😇🤗🙄
And that was definitely a contributing factor in your generation embodying the egocentric, borderline narcissistic views of self and overestimation of their own wisdom which lead to actions and movements who's negative repercussions are still felt today. Glad you enjoyed things while they were great, if only yall cared enough to preserve it for the rest of us
@@LateNightRewrites - Wow! Such an amazing and strong response. Positivity and gratitude for all the good things that happen everyday really does help us all cope with the challenges of these times; I hope your future builds on the good things that have happened to you, too.
@@elisabethm9655 at least I don't take for granted the benefits afforded to my generation as being permanent and indestructible despite foolish policies pushed in pursuit of momentary self gratification. Glad you could own a home on a high school grad's single income though.
@@LateNightRewrites - I’m sorry you were not born into a world of codified institutional racism, antisemitism, sexism and forced pregnancy (no birth control either). That was the US in the fifties and sixties that I inherited. What would make your world better? What would free you from your anger and resentment of my generation?
Army-retired psychonaut here. I love mushrooms. I went from being an extremely conservative war-supporting fuckface to being a total hippie and humanist in a matter of weeks upon trying amanita muscaria. I'm just glad that I retired before I ever tried it or I would have been extremely uneasy with myself given my occupation, had I come to realize some of the things I have since tripping.
I thought that I knew some real hippies. But they seem as straight laced as can be next to him. This guy is a REAL hippy. He may not look the part. But he definitely conveys it in every facet of his personality.
Interesting.It had the effect on me of wanting to close myself off.1 trip,I couldn't speak for a day.I could think of retort in conversation or reply to questions...I just didn't want to or wouldn't talk.I did it a couple more times but it just made me bum on people and want to be by myself (especially since the circles that I'd become associated with turned out to be not worth any of the time invested). Don't recommend it but if you do it, remember allways that you've taken a mind altering psychotropic substance, so as to come out of it w/o losing something cerebral that you may want for later. People and environment have a real influence after it dissolves and is absorbed, which in wrong combination,can make a trip "bad". (Bad trip can be rolled out of,but hysteria will prolong negative thought effect).
@curtiskretzer8898 you're absolutely on spot with that. Bunch of charlatans in this chat only referring to the good portions of it. However, people that are smart understand that the good isn't worth the risk of the bad.
This guy is fantastic to listen to. I must say he definitely tapped into some extra portion of the brain lol. But, hey, whatever it takes to stay alive. He also looks genuinely HAPPY.
Hi David, is there a longer interview with him? It seems to end adruptly . What an amazing man, very articulate and paints a vivid picture when telling his story !
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Thanks for the reply ! Can’t wait! I’m sure you can tell I binge your videos all the time by all my comments I leave, haha. Looking forward to the full video.
I was just barely old enough to get to a couple Grateful Dead shows just before Jerry died, and it was just like he's describing. I've never seen tens of thousands of people all act like they love each other, other than at those shows. It's infectious, although I personally couldn't live like that 24/7. I actually like my work, and I also like stuff.
You know David you really seem to focus on the most interesting and uncommon topics especially as seen in respect and alongside of todays world filled with celebrity culture and ultra consumerism. And you do it so lovingly and without judgment. You are probably my favorite documentarian and a much needed voice in today's sterile, cut and dried, know it all society hellbent on division of class and culture, devoid of tolerance. What the hell happened to live and let live and love for those less fortunate. Everyone seems so hard and humourless anymore. I feel underwhelmed by the lack of real love and overwhelmed by rules and laws.
Fascinating. Anywhere I see the whole interview? His experience really resonates with my experience in Rave culture 1994-2010. The subculture-associated affilial love, particularly. There was a real moment, seemingly, where both our experiences were horizon-to-horizon real, before straight culture co-opted and commodified that experience to sell cars and lifestyles.
So where was Taos? This guy was a San Fransisco hippie. I lived in Taos at the time. Family Commune. Thanks Chic! I owe you some bulk organic oats and pinto beans.
I see comments talking about “this man seems like he still tripping.” I guess that’s what speaking articulately and being secure in yourself is known as now. We tripping dawg.
Quite an honest, heartfelt and insightful interview indeed. Yet, the hippie movement of the 1960’s was a rebellion against traditional moral and social values. Young people in particular searched for happiness and the meaning of life through mind-altering drugs and the philosophies of the movement’s so-called gurus and high priests. Nevertheless, the hippie movement failed to bring genuine happiness. Instead, it helped to produce drug addicts and promiscuous youths, accelerating society’s downward slide into moral confusion. Morally, we can clearly see the cumulative heart wrenching results in today's increasingly decaying society.
lol no. I’d say the government screwed over this country more than anything. Literally selling drugs to its own citizens to fund foreign rebels. A country that jams buy, buy, buy down our throats. A country that will shove in anything in your face, that they approve of, to distract you from actually thinking or dissenting from the “norm”. America was never a utopia. Maybe for white people it was and I’m white. Where was the traditional moral values that you speak of when people of this country lynched/harassed minorities or other groups who didn’t fit in. You see the US was never a bastion of moral integrity. Not when the government overthrows democratically elected governments of foreign nations, not when they sell drugs to their own citizens to fund wars, not when they spy on us and violate our rights without cause, not when they collude to kill minority leaders or spy on them. They knew traditional moral and social values ARE ALL BS in this society. People who grew up with traditional moral and social values created the countries problems we have today. So don’t blame the hippies, at least they saw the matrix and realized it’s BS. Traditional moral and social values my fucking ass. Ya they were a little wacky. I couldn’t live their lifestyles and do that much amount of drugs, even though I’ve dabbled to say the least but ya they saw the world for what it is. On the surface it’s shallow, fake, and frankly bull shit. But then there’s all this values stuff that doesn’t even matter cause ppl will sell their soul for money and often go against their “supposed” values. The government doesn’t like that these people saw the world as an economic machine devoid of any real happiness. You’re just a body meant to produce wealth for someone else. Can’t have hippies living in the middle of nowhere, practicing mini communism in communes while doing drugs and rejecting traditional social norms and values. Now can a society be run like that. No probably not but at least they tried something else. Tried to escape the economic machine that has caused all the problems I think your placing on hippies or whoever else you blame it on. This world SUCKS. The leaders of this world are literally stealing from us and then make us fight over shit like traditional values and morals, WHEN THAT SHIT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LIE used to make us fight and segregate one another. The US government and its cronies are to blame. So controlling and subtle yet we are so “free”.
Good interview. I was right with him all the way up to him saying “the spades”. I grew up in the midwest at the time this was all happening and all my friends were as active in the war protests as the civil rights movement. I knew Yippies and Panther Party members as my equals… haven’t heard the term since them days, thankfully. Maybe it was a “cool” alternative to the N-word. Never used it, myself. Glad it fell out of fashion.
So upon watching this interview, ive found "the spades" is not only a racial slur but was apparently also a community advocacy group/self policing community in Brooklyn or the Bronx. I've only ever heard it used as a slur my whole life (im 26, so it hasnt disappeared entirely apparently) but on the same note my entire life i had never learned about this group, let alone heard it mentioned in school. Ive seen a good bit of comments alluding to that group being what hes referring to. But this is the internet so ill have to take everything with a grain of salt, not to mention this was recorded in very different times.
In the 60s, "spade" was nowhere near the level of the N-word, and was barely pejorative, if at all. It was more used to describe AA/Black people in almost a "don't mess with them because they are tough" category, i.e. spade was a subset of black people that were particularly badass and in charge of groups, like one would describe Hell's Angels or something. It eventually fell out of wider use and if used today would definitely be a racist slur. But I gave him a bit of a pass at the time of the interview, 1989, and in describing the 1960s, both white and black people would use the term as way down the pecking order of pejoratives into the realm of a descriptor of someone tough and in the know in an urban setting. The interviewee definitely had his mind re-wired by LSD use, but I am not going so far as to say for the worse, because I don't know what he was like beforehand. He also clearly had plenty of sexual encounters with all types and although he may consider himself heterosexual, he would the type of heterosexual that has had multiple homosexual experiences as a product of lifestyle and had no judgements on it, but "preferred" or likely didn't have that essential gene that leads someone to understand they are in fact gay. He is certainly a great snapshot of how someone of above average intelligence could become quite articulate just through going to public high school back then. To me this is also an illustration of how a high school education in the 60s is likely equivalent to a bachelor's degree today. Oh, how far we have regressed.....Super great and interesting interview, thank you.
hey this was amazing. wonder what this dude is up to now. all those hippies gotta be so old now you would never get the colorful story telling that you got from this man
Amazing that Bear's finest made it all the way to Florida from SF. But he really was producing in such mass quantity that he could supply the whole U.S. #Owsley
@@RAEckart22 between him and Sands (and sands partner whos name i cant recall) didnt they produce enough hits of acid to dose the world population like twice over?
@@100GTAGUY Someone's biography I remember them talking about Owsley & mentioning he was cooking up a batch (in liquid form that would later be applied to tabs). The liquid quantity would supply 10 million tabs, though!
What I find most interesting about this movement is the majority of the hippies involved became the very generation they so vehemently protested against back then.
@@LionhartM I didn’t realized that the documentary was from over 30 years ago… 😊 I was thinking he looked pretty good for being decades older than I 🤣😂🤣
I get some of the things this guy was talking about. I remember not trusting straight people which to meant to me short hair, no facial hair and no bell bottomed pants were straights. Anyway thanks for sharing the video.
Hi David Hoffman good afternoon, did you just hear on the news that former first lady Rosalynn Carter has pass away today she was 96. She was at a hospice place were they say "At the end of life is part of living" 😢
🤔🤨💬> When I was 12 I bought joints for 25 cents from migrants picking potatoes in S/W. Mt. in 1959 They seemed to enjoy it so much. I thought it was Bull Durham. I never learned it was hoot until high school 🤠Yup❕ G~G.
San Francisco was a wonderful flowery place as imagined during the Summer of Love in the 1960's but it devolved into a lawless open sewer where drug addicts lie.
So true revolutionaryhamburger, a friend who had lived that life once lamented: "I have seen many previously dedicated healthy surfers end up on the human scrap heap of degradation and addiction."
@@dantzmusic- the introduction of heavy addictives like heroin and coke was actually part of a govt strategy. It became the 70’s and he’ll ensued for so many.😢
"We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel."
It's Howdy Doody Time. It's Howdy Doody Time. Bob Smith and Howdy too Say Howdy Do to you. Let's give a rousing cheer, Cause Howdy Doody's here, It's time to start the show, So kids let's go!
Our recent 3rd house mate here in Santa Fe was raised by wealthy Taos Hippies that smoked a lot of pot. Their now 35 yr old daughter is emotionally 14 who does not know how to take care of herself. She's been here since Thanksgiving and is on her 6th job. Daddy keeps her $$$ afloat.
It’s so weird, being a 24 year old adult who loves psychadelics now. I grew up around San Francisco. It’s funny to me to imagine that these may have been common faces that I may have seen while my mom was rushing us down the street or something. I sort of feel like he looks familiar. But at the same time. I’ve seen countless of people in my lifetime. Nonetheless I think that we seriously need to consider
This dude seems like the real life Richie Cunningham, except after leaving Wisconsin he joined the Air Force and started trippin out on acid! Far out man!✌️
Another great stoned hippie interview from Taos -
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😁💯👌👀❗ G~G.
I did my first and last LSD trip the night before I left for Basic at Lackland AFG in 1970. The airplane ride, in 1970, was great. Not so great went the drill sgt ordered "HAAAARCCCCHHHH RIIIGGGHHHTTTTT!!!!!!!" and I went left. LOL. Thanks for the memories.
I fucking love acid so much. It's changed my life in so many positive ways. I only wish that it wasn't so difficult to get ahold of.
TJ Miller has a father. This is him
Is his name Tao or Taos? My name is Tao and I’ve never met one that wasn’t Chinese haha
This dude is absolutely secure in himself.
I wonder how you came to that conclusion 🙄
@@sosinati3358way to bust some balls for someone making an observation you’re a super genius!
not gon lie all of yall are some fkin losers.
I was going to like this but I’d seen the number so you get this instead 👍
@@sagitarriulus9773gentleman
i love his phrase: "i was very attractive to gays, i wish i was to women" this guys awesome!
Cause he attracted to men he’s awesome? Oh I don’t know that. Thanx. 🤦
@@congibaemyahta4947your reading comprehension is wild
@@congibaemyahta4947cringe 😬😬😬
This is literally me lol. I’m straight but for whatever reason guy guys seem to like me and I get hit on pretty often
@@DNightNinja nice pelican brah that's pretty outdoorsy guy❤
That guy is a great story teller. He must have been a blast to drop acid with
Yeah until he starts talking about how much he hates the "spades". Yikes. Dude is pretty damn racist for a hippie flower child.
he is
@@brentlyday2728 🤟😛
"i was outta acid. I was outta hash. And I was outta there."
That's what's up!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I liked his way of talking a lot
Yes his cadence and dynamics are superb
Ye interesting
Ya, shits fucking annoying. The dude needs to grow a pair.
When I was a kid growing up in the 1980s, I hung out with an older crowd because I found them to be more interesting than kids my own age. The man in this video reminds me of the coolest of the Baby Boom generation, people who I admired when I was growing up.
One of those people was a guy named Tom. My friend and I met Tom when we were both 13 years old and walking past his house. Tom was a 35 year old housebound parapalegic, due to having Polio when he was a kid. He called out to us as we were walking by, since he was out of smokes and was having a nicotine craving, and wanted us to buy him some unfiltered Camel cigarettes, which we happily did for him.
For years afterward, I'd go over to his house and talk to him for hours. He loved telling stories of growing up as a hippie in the 60s, listening to psychedelic music, smoking dope, and enjoying free love. He'd tell me about people he knew who had overdosed, became burnouts, joined cults, or lived in communes. He knew all about Eastern religions, spirituality, tarot cards, crystals, astrology, the whole nine yards.
Tom was a real treasure trove of information, and a great storyteller, just like the guy in this video. I haven't seen him since the 1990s, but he left an indelible mark on my childhood. Good times back then.
I bet you’ve got so many memories and the stories to tell of Tom’s! That is truly a treasure you’ll hold on to forever! Maybe you’ll see him again one day ❤
I hope one day you have the chance to see Tom again and tell him how much his stories meant to you. I bet that would mean the world to him. Thanks for sharing part of your journey.
Great story. Thank you
I wonder who sold a 12 year old unfiltered camels? 😂
Aww, I hope Tom had a great life after. People are better for having people like that in their lives. Glad you got to know him, I'm sure he had great fun with you guys. Thanks for hanging with him.
He talks like he never quite stopped tripping
@@OlafProtfor me it was the glades and Forrests of Oregon and Washington. Every weekend, and most of my 90s summers at community-focused pop up psychedelic festivals of 30-2000 trippers all speaker humping and acting autonomously.
Sometimes I feel like I never stopped.. maybe one day I will wake up and be young again.. and then I feel sorry for thinking the good people in my life are not real.
@@88camaroTTwhat
I like how he talked
@@codyrodriguez1056 I apologize for the late response. What are you confused about😉
When a natural story teller, telling his OWN story....
Captivating
Last of a dying breed. I don't think people today can tell stories.Or are as adept at the art of conversation as those of previous generations in my opinion.
@@Shinobi33 you're absolutely right.
@@Shinobi33People don't read anymore. How can you tell a story if you aren't exposed to any? I'm a firm believer in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis- a native speaker's language dictates how they think. If your syntax, grammar, and vocabulary are basic and you have bad writing style, your thoughts will be basic and have no style.
@@joelglanton6531 You can pin the blame on Social Media for our regression. Yet here we are communicating on a social media forum. Only having been able to watch and learn about this gentleman's story because of Social Media. Quite the conundrum.
@@joelglanton6531I've never heard of that hypothesis but it makes total sense
I can’t help but like this guy
Gotta hand it to this guy! 👏👏👏He was certainly a colorful storyteller!
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Can we all pause to appreciate that he made his hiding spot in the middle of a gym?
i want this dude to be an audiobook narrator
We need a longer version of his story
Ya this is super interesting
Reminded me of my hippy days, tea time and tons of experiences with a family of friends.
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What a great story teller about his life.( No judgment.) It's his journey. Thank you, David.❤
Oh thank god you didn't judge !!! Whewwwww
David this guy is Far Out Man! I have seen other interview clips of this guy that you have posted on your channel what a fascinating life he had led I'm glad his suicide attempt failed and found a meaning to live and talk about his experience in the 1960's and 70's I hope he has never lost the joy he has found in life.
what's his name?
Yeah, this was the way things went for so many of us back in the 60’s … and some of us are still hanging out in this plane of being. Love Peace and Joy! Our goals seem so mainstream now😇🤗🙄
And that was definitely a contributing factor in your generation embodying the egocentric, borderline narcissistic views of self and overestimation of their own wisdom which lead to actions and movements who's negative repercussions are still felt today. Glad you enjoyed things while they were great, if only yall cared enough to preserve it for the rest of us
@@LateNightRewrites - Wow! Such an amazing and strong response. Positivity and gratitude for all the good things that happen everyday really does help us all cope with the challenges of these times; I hope your future builds on the good things that have happened to you, too.
@@LateNightRewrites perfectly said!! At the end of the day they only cared about themselves
@@elisabethm9655 at least I don't take for granted the benefits afforded to my generation as being permanent and indestructible despite foolish policies pushed in pursuit of momentary self gratification. Glad you could own a home on a high school grad's single income though.
@@LateNightRewrites - I’m sorry you were not born into a world of codified institutional racism, antisemitism, sexism and forced pregnancy (no birth control either). That was the US in the fifties and sixties that I inherited.
What would make your world better? What would free you from your anger and resentment of my generation?
I really enjoy listening to him and his poetic descriptors. I need him to start voicing audiobooks
Was thinking the same thing, especially when he said "no thanks, baby" talkin bout McDonalds lol
This guy has euphoric recall in a big way.
I always liked Ron Howard. Didn't realize he was a hippie though.
This dude is lit af
“I began to start to hate the Air Force”
Army-retired psychonaut here. I love mushrooms. I went from being an extremely conservative war-supporting fuckface to being a total hippie and humanist in a matter of weeks upon trying amanita muscaria. I'm just glad that I retired before I ever tried it or I would have been extremely uneasy with myself given my occupation, had I come to realize some of the things I have since tripping.
Psychedelic drugs will definitely do that lol
You Mr Hoffman, are an absolute legend for providing this treasure trove of amazing vintage footage for everyone to enjoy.
Thank you.
David Hoffman Filmmaker
I thought that I knew some real hippies. But they seem as straight laced as can be next to him. This guy is a REAL hippy. He may not look the part. But he definitely conveys it in every facet of his personality.
Hugs are everything... We're a hugging family... Even if we're mad at each other, we hug.
Right On Brother I can dig what you’re saying Man
This guy is a trip.
The man is a poet
He was really far out! Thanks David for reminding me of my youth...😎👍
as im a poet & lyricist this was beautiful - he seems at peace ✌🏼
This guy is a phenomenal storyteller, wish he had memoir or something lol
Once you've turned On,you never turn Off. Its a powerful tool for transformation,dissolves boundaries.
Yeah...that's the problem - some folks never turned off..
@@TheMidoriDreams i think you are refering to psychotic people, op is not talking about that
Not having boundaries is a horrible idea
Interesting.It had the effect on me of wanting to close myself off.1 trip,I couldn't speak for a day.I could think of retort in conversation or reply to questions...I just didn't want to or wouldn't talk.I did it a couple more times but it just made me bum on people and want to be by myself
(especially since the circles that I'd become associated with turned out to be not worth any of the time invested).
Don't recommend it but if you do it, remember allways that you've taken a mind altering psychotropic substance,
so as to come out of it w/o losing something cerebral that you may want for later.
People and environment have a real influence after it dissolves and is absorbed, which in wrong combination,can make a trip "bad".
(Bad trip can be rolled out of,but hysteria will prolong negative thought effect).
@curtiskretzer8898 you're absolutely on spot with that.
Bunch of charlatans in this chat only referring to the good portions of it.
However, people that are smart understand that the good isn't worth the risk of the bad.
I love this guy! What a legend.
So interesting. Unapologetically himself!
This guy is fantastic to listen to. I must say he definitely tapped into some extra portion of the brain lol. But, hey, whatever it takes to stay alive. He also looks genuinely HAPPY.
This guy is something else, too cool for school!!! Nothing but LOVE!!! `-;
The fact they were all watching this is crazy to me. We all just decided to watch this at at this time lol
Hi David, is there a longer interview with him? It seems to end adruptly . What an amazing man, very articulate and paints a vivid picture when telling his story !
I have not posted the full interview as yet. It is on my list. Thank you Noah.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Please post!
I can't WAIT for this, thanks David. This guy is something else.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Thanks for the reply ! Can’t wait! I’m sure you can tell I binge your videos all the time by all my comments I leave, haha. Looking forward to the full video.
PLEASE do so. Really. This is just so totally captivating. This guy is like poetry, the way he talks.
Amazing story teller.
I was just barely old enough to get to a couple Grateful Dead shows just before Jerry died, and it was just like he's describing. I've never seen tens of thousands of people all act like they love each other, other than at those shows. It's infectious, although I personally couldn't live like that 24/7. I actually like my work, and I also like stuff.
You know David you really seem to focus on the most interesting and uncommon topics especially as seen in respect and alongside of todays world filled with celebrity culture and ultra consumerism. And you do it so lovingly and without judgment. You are probably my favorite documentarian and a much needed voice in today's sterile, cut and dried, know it all society hellbent on division of class and culture, devoid of tolerance. What the hell happened to live and let live and love for those less fortunate. Everyone seems so hard and humourless anymore. I feel underwhelmed by the lack of real love and overwhelmed by rules and laws.
Thank you Chris.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Guy from Taos. Life emerged somewhere near Taos
This sounds like a Rodger from American Dad monologue
Well now I can't take this serious anymore
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who heard it
duuuuuuuuude fuck yeah
😂
Best comment!
Once you heard it, you can't unhear it 😄
Fascinating. Anywhere I see the whole interview? His experience really resonates with my experience in Rave culture 1994-2010. The subculture-associated affilial love, particularly. There was a real moment, seemingly, where both our experiences were horizon-to-horizon real, before straight culture co-opted and commodified that experience to sell cars and lifestyles.
Very true. 95 -00
So where was Taos? This guy was a San Fransisco hippie. I lived in Taos at the time. Family Commune. Thanks Chic! I owe you some bulk organic oats and pinto beans.
New mexico
Yes, those were the days! Turn on, Tune in, drop out!
This guy is the greatest narrator of all time. Genius x
I'd not seen this segment of this great storytellers hippie experience! I believe him for his self label of HIPPIE!
Amazing. Captivating.
Wonderful story! I really enjoyed listening to this. Truly, David, thank you so much for sharing this ❤
Great story telling. I appreciate your time.
Thanks for sharing this, that guy shur can really talk lol a real story teller. You have a peaceful day Mr Hoffman ✌️☮️
I’m not gay, but this dude seems fun to be around.
He’s said he wants women multiple times
Thinking another man would be an interesting friend has nothing to do with sexuality. No matter what you've been told!
Go eat some acid & you can be like him … once you trip your forever changed
@@ljones6717Possibly the comment was a joke about how the man says gay guys were all over him
Dude's a trip, some heavy shit man.
I just watched this whole interview, of all your interviews etc, THIS is the guy Id love to see or know how he is now.
I see comments talking about “this man seems like he still tripping.” I guess that’s what speaking articulately and being secure in yourself is known as now. We tripping dawg.
This man is a great storyteller! I could heard him all day 😊
Quite an honest, heartfelt and insightful interview indeed. Yet, the hippie movement of the 1960’s was a rebellion against traditional moral and social values. Young people in particular searched for happiness and the meaning of life through mind-altering drugs and the philosophies of the movement’s so-called gurus and high priests. Nevertheless, the hippie movement failed to bring genuine happiness. Instead, it helped to produce drug addicts and promiscuous youths, accelerating society’s downward slide into moral confusion. Morally, we can clearly see the cumulative heart wrenching results in today's increasingly decaying society.
Maybe You 🙂👀❕ G~G.
lol no. I’d say the government screwed over this country more than anything. Literally selling drugs to its own citizens to fund foreign rebels. A country that jams buy, buy, buy down our throats. A country that will shove in anything in your face, that they approve of, to distract you from actually thinking or dissenting from the “norm”.
America was never a utopia. Maybe for white people it was and I’m white. Where was the traditional moral values that you speak of when people of this country lynched/harassed minorities or other groups who didn’t fit in.
You see the US was never a bastion of moral integrity. Not when the government overthrows democratically elected governments of foreign nations, not when they sell drugs to their own citizens to fund wars, not when they spy on us and violate our rights without cause, not when they collude to kill minority leaders or spy on them.
They knew traditional moral and social values ARE ALL BS in this society. People who grew up with traditional moral and social values created the countries problems we have today.
So don’t blame the hippies, at least they saw the matrix and realized it’s BS. Traditional moral and social values my fucking ass. Ya they were a little wacky. I couldn’t live their lifestyles and do that much amount of drugs, even though I’ve dabbled to say the least but ya they saw the world for what it is. On the surface it’s shallow, fake, and frankly bull shit. But then there’s all this values stuff that doesn’t even matter cause ppl will sell their soul for money and often go against their “supposed” values.
The government doesn’t like that these people saw the world as an economic machine devoid of any real happiness. You’re just a body meant to produce wealth for someone else.
Can’t have hippies living in the middle of nowhere, practicing mini communism in communes while doing drugs and rejecting traditional social norms and values.
Now can a society be run like that. No probably not but at least they tried something else. Tried to escape the economic machine that has caused all the problems I think your placing on hippies or whoever else you blame it on.
This world SUCKS. The leaders of this world are literally stealing from us and then make us fight over shit like traditional values and morals, WHEN THAT SHIT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LIE used to make us fight and segregate one another.
The US government and its cronies are to blame. So controlling and subtle yet we are so “free”.
too many leaps and assumptions here dantz...your mileage may vary
who ordered a yappacino?
no such thing as anything u say
drugs are good
💓 Thank you David.
he told this like he was reading for an audiobook. great voice
Really great interviewee, he is totally honest and very entertaining.
This guys so chill
Good interview. I was right with him all the way up to him saying “the spades”. I grew up in the midwest at the time this was all happening and all my friends were as active in the war protests as the civil rights movement. I knew Yippies and Panther Party members as my equals… haven’t heard the term since them days, thankfully. Maybe it was a “cool” alternative to the N-word. Never used it, myself. Glad it fell out of fashion.
So upon watching this interview, ive found "the spades" is not only a racial slur but was apparently also a community advocacy group/self policing community in Brooklyn or the Bronx.
I've only ever heard it used as a slur my whole life (im 26, so it hasnt disappeared entirely apparently) but on the same note my entire life i had never learned about this group, let alone heard it mentioned in school.
Ive seen a good bit of comments alluding to that group being what hes referring to. But this is the internet so ill have to take everything with a grain of salt, not to mention this was recorded in very different times.
In the 60s, "spade" was nowhere near the level of the N-word, and was barely pejorative, if at all. It was more used to describe AA/Black people in almost a "don't mess with them because they are tough" category, i.e. spade was a subset of black people that were particularly badass and in charge of groups, like one would describe Hell's Angels or something. It eventually fell out of wider use and if used today would definitely be a racist slur. But I gave him a bit of a pass at the time of the interview, 1989, and in describing the 1960s, both white and black people would use the term as way down the pecking order of pejoratives into the realm of a descriptor of someone tough and in the know in an urban setting. The interviewee definitely had his mind re-wired by LSD use, but I am not going so far as to say for the worse, because I don't know what he was like beforehand. He also clearly had plenty of sexual encounters with all types and although he may consider himself heterosexual, he would the type of heterosexual that has had multiple homosexual experiences as a product of lifestyle and had no judgements on it, but "preferred" or likely didn't have that essential gene that leads someone to understand they are in fact gay. He is certainly a great snapshot of how someone of above average intelligence could become quite articulate just through going to public high school back then. To me this is also an illustration of how a high school education in the 60s is likely equivalent to a bachelor's degree today. Oh, how far we have regressed.....Super great and interesting interview, thank you.
We're to the part where we're going w/ninjas and nickles
@@jaybee7890very well stated! Yeah he’s definitely had a full spectrum of experiences..nothing wrong with that though!! ❤
hey this was amazing. wonder what this dude is up to now. all those hippies gotta be so old now you would never get the colorful story telling that you got from this man
Interesting, and a glimpse into the hippy time period. "Spades," never heard that term....
He sounds like a racist hippie to me.
@@Catlily5looks like he had his reasons for it, as most people do.
@@timharper4246 In my experience most reasons for racism are Not good reasons at all.
@@Catlily5 crazy no one else is calling out his casual racism and just praising his stroytelling
@@AllenSmithe Yeah, it is disappointing that more people don't see it, aren't bothered by it or both.
I also loved to discover the intricate patterns of the weeds too 💙🦋
I'm glad you included the full video I love this dude
"I was frozen" smoothly said
White Osley? Wow! We only had purple Osley!
Amazing that Bear's finest made it all the way to Florida from SF. But he really was producing in such mass quantity that he could supply the whole U.S. #Owsley
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@@RAEckart22 between him and Sands (and sands partner whos name i cant recall) didnt they produce enough hits of acid to dose the world population like twice over?
@@100GTAGUY Someone's biography I remember them talking about Owsley & mentioning he was cooking up a batch (in liquid form that would later be applied to tabs). The liquid quantity would supply 10 million tabs, though!
Interesting to listen to Thanks David❤️
What I find most interesting about this movement is the majority of the hippies involved became the very generation they so vehemently protested against back then.
@@Applecider-Poetry take a look at your own ignorance. I can see spelling isn’t a strong trait in your arsenal. Ppfffttt be gone with you.
Prove it?
@@briansosacolman5063 What an idiotic question that only a keyboard warrior would make. Let me come down to your level; prove I’m wrong.
It’s because they were wrong. At least I think mostly wrong. Hippie culture bore good fruits, but was a HUGE overcorrection.
Cause they didn't keep evolving with drugs and new discovery. I take high dose srooms
I like old stories like this... mentally, I don't think he never left that era, he probably lives that everyday???
Ive done loads of acid back in the 90s. Im still straight but my perspective on life changed drastically. This dudes alright in my book.
I have to keep reminding myself that he’s not 45!👀😊 Great story 💐💐
He was 45 when this was filmed in 1989
@@timharper4246 Oh 😂😂 That makes sense, I thought it was all that acid 🤣😂
I don't get it.
@@LionhartM I didn’t realized that the documentary was from over 30 years ago… 😊 I was thinking he looked pretty good for being decades older than I 🤣😂🤣
I like this guy alot
He looks great for being so old
As my description says, this was recorded in 1989.
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I get some of the things this guy was talking about. I remember not trusting straight people which to meant to me short hair, no facial hair and no bell bottomed pants were straights. Anyway thanks for sharing the video.
This looks like it was filed in the 80s or 90s maybe, it would be great to see an update, he is so interesting
"No thanks baby", thats how I feel about society
Ryan Reynolds needs an Oscar for this
Thanks!
Thank you.
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Man I need more of this guy
Hi David Hoffman good afternoon, did you just hear on the news that former first lady Rosalynn Carter has pass away today she was 96. She was at a hospice place were they say "At the end of life is part of living" 😢
He looks like how Ron Howard would look if I looked at him while I was tripping
Idk…I kinda like him lol. Thank u for sharing.
🤔🤨💬> When I was 12 I bought joints for 25 cents from migrants picking potatoes in S/W. Mt. in 1959 They seemed to enjoy it so much. I thought it was Bull Durham. I never learned it was hoot until high school 🤠Yup❕ G~G.
Man this is so cool! Thanks for sharing this interview
The Ryan Reynolds-Gary busey love child is back!!
Dude looks like my old pe teacher, he also definitely took tabs in his youth😂
Thank You David for sharing
Healthy looking and smart guy, wonder if he's still around.
Omg. That’s Terry Northway. Owsley White Lightning. He’s a good soul.
San Francisco was a wonderful flowery place as imagined during the Summer of Love in the 1960's but it devolved into a lawless open sewer where drug addicts lie.
So true revolutionaryhamburger, a friend who had lived that life once lamented: "I have seen many previously dedicated healthy surfers end up on the human scrap heap of degradation and addiction."
@@dantzmusic- the introduction of heavy addictives like heroin and coke was actually part of a govt strategy. It became the 70’s and he’ll ensued for so many.😢
@@elisabethm9655 Didn't know that, but it certainly had a diabolic influence!
"We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel."
@@TheMidoriDreams TOO WEIRD TO LIVE, TOO RARE TO DIE!
CANT STOP HERE!!
Mr Hoffman, what is this guys name. His energy is awesome! Didn’t even realize it was filmed in 89. Great video!!
I do not share the names of the people interviewed back then without their permission and I do not have his.
David Hoffman filmmaker
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Our recent 3rd house mate here in Santa Fe was raised by wealthy Taos Hippies that smoked a lot of pot. Their now 35 yr old daughter is emotionally 14 who does not know how to take care of herself. She's been here since Thanksgiving and is on her 6th job. Daddy keeps her $$$ afloat.
It’s so weird, being a 24 year old adult who loves psychadelics now. I grew up around San Francisco. It’s funny to me to imagine that these may have been common faces that I may have seen while my mom was rushing us down the street or something. I sort of feel like he looks familiar. But at the same time. I’ve seen countless of people in my lifetime. Nonetheless I think that we seriously need to consider
Love it
Fascinating interview
1000% guaranteed Forrest Gump got inspiration from this dude for Jenny's hippie start. "Try to love one another right now"🎸
This dude seems like the real life Richie Cunningham, except after leaving Wisconsin he joined the Air Force and started trippin out on acid! Far out man!✌️