Who was Abbie Hoffman?
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- Abbie Hoffman was an American activist and revolutionary political organizer in the civil rights and anti-war movements who co-founded the Youth International Party (“Yippies”). He was arrested and tried for his role in protests that were confronted violently by police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention and began to write Steal This Book in jail while awaiting what became known as the Trial of the Chicago Seven. Hoffman continued his activism through the 1980's and remains an icon of countercultural movements today.
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I just happened to be on Chandler St in Worcester, MA on the day of Hoffman’s funeral service, at the temple down the street from his childhood home. Pete Seeger lead a procession down the street playing his banjo and singing songs.
What are bizarre world I’m sitting here on Chandler Street in Worcester right at this moment watching this video
That’s neat that you witnessed that moment in time. Hoffman spoke at my university a couple of years before his death. It was the Reagan years & the anti war protesters who became a part of US pop culture hadn’t yet found ways to make a living based upon their former lives. Hoffman was so big though that he was in demand.
The conservative backlash of the 1980s apparently bothered him. Can you imagine what he’d think of the left today? It’s like Reagan kids are protesting but don’t understand the issues & haven’t heard of a war they don’t like. I miss the world where the left was pro working class & anti war & the right was predictable in representing management issues. Lol 😂 Thanks for sharing your story about Hoffman’s funeral.
I guess it depends on where you live. I live in NJ and was 19 when Regan took office. We liked in the sticks and were anti war because of Vietnam, mostly farmers and commercial fishermen and we had stickers "No farmers no food" And Fu*k the UN"
What a terrific telling of history! Thanks so much for the laughs and covering Abbie
You guys rock! ✌️☮️
Are you That Beautiful Woman From That Woodstock Concert on Film You had that Daisy Painted on your Cheek ?
The wealth of detailed information from the past that you share, Mark, is immeasurable. Thank you for sharing.
Great story teller. I can't help cracking up when Mark starts laughing mid-story! Brilliant! What a guy to go for a few beers with no doubt...
I’m old enough to know these folks. I’m gonna smoke a joint and cry.
Not crying but smoking a joint with you friend!
I knew a friend of theirs. Sadly, he died, too.
Bittersweet for sure Michelle
@@davidflora8776 I watched a performance by Abby Hoffman in 1987-88 at Phoenix College. Not Phoenix university Phoenix College. It was a lot of fun. He was really ADHD. Lots of energy.
You can UA-cam Kim Clement Trump prophecy 2007 - in a 2014 prophecy he had a vision and described what sounded like the MAGA Movement - dry your tears drop The joint - God is right on time- the prophets in the body of Christ have prophesied exactly where we are now -
I didn't catch you live, but I so enjoyed your tellling of Abbie Hoffman's story. You so made me laugh, yet it was a sad story, too. Thank you for putting it up on YT.
Thanks Eric and Mark. Sending love and gratitude for your historical education (Brain food. ) Gentlemen, you are loved and appreciated. Too bad this is not taught in school. That is one reason Mark informs us of wonderful books. PEOPLE PLEASE like and subscribe. Notice how Government continues to grow , etc., since that time period.🎸🎼🎵🎶🔔🎙🎤🎧
Another amazing story! Keep them coming. You two make a great team.
Great show. GREAT show.
Thank you both very much.
From a woman in her thirties just outside of Chicago-
If you guys did a weather underground series that would be my birthday
Oh, you are taking me back with this episode! I remember when the money cascade at the Stock Exchange happened. Candice Bergen was also there. I could never get behind giving LSD to anyone without the person's knowledge, even if that person was Tricia Nixon. When Abbie either went to prison or simply abandoned them, Anita Hoffman and their son, America were left destitute. I have often wondered what happened to them and if America is still living. I know Anita died young of breast cancer. One of Abbie Hoffman's wives was Johanna Lawrenson, daughter of Jack and Helen Lawrenson. Her father was a founder of the Longshoreman's Union and her mother was a writer and managing editor of Vanity Fair in the 1930's. Helen wrote a wonderful memoir, "Stranger at the Party." The story of Abbie Hoffman is ultimately a sad one. I heard Abbie Hoffman speak at UCLA in 1968.
Abbie spoke at my college about 1985. Most enthralling speaker that I ever saw. Never sold out. An activist to his last day. I'd love to see Robert Barnes do a hush hush on him.
I just did the Hush Hush bro. Barnes confused Hoffman with Rubin. Not his thing. I was a Yippie.
Saw Abbie Hoffmann in the mid 1980s during the Yippie vs Yuppie Debate tour at the University of Calgary , Canada. This being at the height of the neo-con 80s where wealth was worshipped , sixties scoffed at, Brooke Shields the professional virgin was the role model for university girls, and the War on Drugs raged. Times all that by ten in Calgary. When the debate began the argyle sweater rugby pants wearing audience automatically aligned with Rubin just on aesthetics alone . But Hoffmann by his wit and humour little by little warmed up the crowd even getting the odd laugh from the MBA crowd. By the end of the debate Hoffmann had dug himself out of that deep hole he was in at the start of the debate and had at least half the audience supporting him. In Calgary in the mid 1980s getting half of that straight campus crowd behind you was a very impressive achievement trust me.
Abbie Hoffman has just shot so far up my list of the coolest/most bad ass persons ever list!! Being a person who has been involved in and interested in punk rock and all of the aspects, besides the music(the DIY ethic, leftist politics, etc.)surrounding punk rock and it's history, I am now fully convinced that Abbie Hoffman, even though he was part of the hippie/yippie movement, was PUNK AS F**K. He was punker than 99% of people who would later fly under the "punk rock" banner. Abbie relentlessly called out the police, the government, the man, etc., along with their lies, deception, hypocrisy, etc. And he did it in an outrageous and comedic manner, which was what punk rock was originally all about. The punk rock that came out in the '77-'80ish era was full of outrageousness and sarcastic humor. And it had a no rules, be yourself, do whatever you're into just as long as you're upsetting the norm and calling out the status quo, feel and vibe. Unfortunately, punk rock soon evolved into bands and so called punk rockers who developed a kind of "I'm taking myself WAAAY too seriously" schtick, a holier than thou attitude that was filled with kinds of judgemental bs and rules. The hardcore and punk rock that came along later in the 80s, filled with all of it's rules and costumes and overly serious pretentiousness became a joke upon itself. It was not what punk rock is was really about....at all. In fact, most of it was in total opposition of what punk was really about. Not to mention, without bands like the MC5 and the Stooges there would be no punk rock. Great podcast, though. You guys are killin' it!!
Thanks a lot for this story of an American original freedom fighter. Unconventional certainly applies to Abbie Hoffman, but also genius, character, determination, guts, truther, probably held a few conspiracy theories as real...hats off to the man that was. We could use a few more similar activists/ stir-the-pot of culture types.. May he rest in peace.
Minor observation, not to be a troll. I had work with a guy from WORCESTER Massachusetts. And he pronounced it Wusteh. Glad you’re doing this project, thank you.
What did I say?
"Both pronunkiations are close enough for government work "
Popeye the sailor man
"0h, Popeye, that's the second hint of controlled opposition on this thread".
Olive's 0il
Kerouac from Lowell MA, not Worcester.
Ken Kesey worked & tripped at Menlo Park CA Veterans Hospital near my high school. He wrote " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" about
the experience.
The Merry Pranksters started in Menlo Park. The Grateful Dead & the first Deadheads started in & around my high school. Add LSD.
Google Garage 2 blocks from high school. First internet connection
across from high school. Siri, the mouse & computer banking.
The Phone Phreaking craze was down the road in San Jose & Cupertino.
I saw a lot of diff musicals put on by the S.F. Mime Troupe. They stopped
doing Mime, soon after they started. Bill Graham of Fillmore fame was the manager. The S.F. Diggers part of same scene.
Danny Glover was a student activist at S.F. State.
I think the Acid Tests by the Pranksters & Dead were the forerunners of lots that came later. The Whole Earth Truck Store & Catalog also in Menlo Park & part of the Pranksters.
The Bay Area Civil Right demonstrations & the Free Speech Movement
in Berkeley sort of mixed into the AntiWar movement.
Bobby Seale & Charles Garry, Bay Area duo.
Looking forward to Paul Krassner.
@Eric Hunley
My wife's boss found Abbie dead. He knew him during his last days. She came home from work and told me that Abbie had ODed. This man (Bob Robinson) who knew Abbie would tell us that Abbie would sit in his yard drinking and tell them all about his (Abbie's) life and then Bob would tell us. These were the the days of Grunge and looking forward to the new millennia. I was a young man back then and knew of Hoffman and his exploits. He was a hero to people like me. Not so much the Right Wing as he hated them.
I'm surprised you took a look at Abbie's life. I'm impressed. Well done Mr. Hunley. I must say this was your best show ever. And that is coming from your worst critic ever. I tried to share on Twitter but they shot me down. I hate Twitter. But I shared on Facebook.
Ok, back to your insane hatred of the truth.
A bit later on in life here, close to Fineview NY ( the hangout). But I caught your drift regarding the co host. You can see the disgust expression on his face the first 1/4 of the show as if to say “ this man was a hippie liberal commie future anti trump punk”
Thankfully mark, being as great as he is snd as funny, kept it going non stop. It appears around halfway through Eric lighted up a bit then enjoyed marks recollections like we all were. The pentagon story is hysterical, I do vaguely remember that. Most of his bravest antics occurred when I was young but I DO remembered my folks talking about their summer friends telling them they were acquaintances of Barry Freed ( Abbie) my parents were sworn to secrecy as he was still on the run secretly up here on the st Lawrence.
He was instrumental in the development of what’s called “ save the river” an environmental group which has grown substantially and has made a huge difference lobbying the two overseeing agencies to maintain proper flow levels, stricter pollution protection laws etc as the river flows by Montreal on its way out to the Atlantic.
The Barbara Walters interview while he was still hiding out was 20 minutes away from my place.
What an amazing, influential, FUNNY, brave soul !
I had a copy of 'Steal This Book' at the age of about 10 years old. Loved it!
I remember this all came back to me listening to this. A take off of steal your face which I’m sure you know was drawn up as an emblem after a show to stick to the Dead’s stage equipment boxes which were always coming up missing.
I can’t think of his name,but the guy who was with the band who drew up all that unbelievable obviously lsd driven artwork. I wish I could go back to the time as a older teen early 20’s yr old rather than a 3-5 yr old. What an exciting, free, creative time
One of the best shows in my opinion and all are great.
Really?
@@wassupwithlordbuckly1218 Yea. I've seen all so far and I really enjoyed this one.
Memories
'60s was a waste of time - they asked Dylan Bob what the 60s was about and he said blue jeans
Except for the Jesus movement in SoCal
What a class act, this program. You provide a real public service.
A good friend in New York, who writes for an art magazine I publish here, excellent writer, gave me a copy of an Abbie Hoffman book, with a special inscription.
I knew vaguely his story. This deep dive is on a whole different level. Thanks!
After all these years… this was the guy on Forrest Gump when he was talking about ‘Nam in DC! 😂😂😂 the guy with the American flag shirt! Lol
That's why many of us hated the movie.
I’ve just found your channel and I’m absolutely fascinated with the period in history you talk about. Thank you both so much. Best wishes from Scotland 🏴
Totally fascinating stories here. I 'just' missed being a part of all of this. Living at Minnewaska in New Paltz (illegally, in one of the hundreds of unused rooms, as an employee there in Nov. '75.) We had no heat so, left and hitchhiked to Florida that month to escape the cold. Have read both 'Steal this Book' and 'Steal this Drug Test'. (May have one or both in a box somewhere). I thought I read somewhere many moons ago, that his son had claimed it was a massive overdose of Lithium (enough to kill an elephant) and his son allegedly said "my Dad didn't kill himself. If he'd have killed himself, he would have rapped himself in the American flag and jumped off the ITT building." That was many years, and joints, ago; so I could be mixing up stories at this point. Mark, this is a fantastic retelling of so much important history. Can't wait to find the time to go thru you guys other videos.
Found this channel 2days ago….love it…Mark’s ease at telling these stories that I very well remember being as a baby boomer
Love the sarcastic humor thrown in…hooked on the channel now! Thank you fellows!
Abbie Hoffman's radicalism manual "Steal This book" change my life I became a college drop-in student at San Diego State Berkeley and University of Michigan Ann arbor. My associates in Michigan were all white panthers.
The "free phone" also causes the name of the "phone phreaks" journal - "2600" This was the tone frequency which the old plain old telephone system (POTS) would enter into ENGINEER mode, and could be used to do all sorts of interesting things to the phone. This included free long distance, and output of various useful information about the system.
I just got the connection to the guy wearing an American flag for a shirt in Forest Gump. Holy crap, these are great stories.
Every time I see a new video I think "im not gonna find this interesting" and every time Mark delivers!
Thank you guys great episode tonight!!
wow- from one really amazing, funny--well told tale to the next---absolutely riveting!! thank you so much. i am grateful for this.
Please subscribe mg
This episode only having 24K views as of now is insane. You guys should have a million followers, not just 50K.
I watched Steal This Movie a while back, with Vincent D’Onofrio playing Hoffman, and that movie was okay, but not really great. Mark’s telling of this story is a lot more interesting and compelling.
I got to meet Abbie Hoffman in Worcester around 1980. Met him through my cousins they used to work at Worcester State hospital together.
GREAT story. Wow. What a character he was. As a true child of the 60’s i can say, they don’t make em like that anymore.
Thank you.
Really cool that Mark played with Wayne Kramer. I have a lot of respect for Abbie Hoffman. His death was a tragic loss.
TheWHO actually knew the MC5 well. so Townshend probably had a rough idea what was happening 'cause he probably knew Sinclair. they'd had band competitions in Detroit. also, Townshend has subsequently said he agreed w/ what Hoffman's message turned out to be. (WHO fan here, as well as theMC5). but because in the middle of a rock 'opera' nobody is gonna be the first person to grab a mic during a Woodstock set. and Abbie was. later, it became clear to PT. and according to Country Joe, who you also probably know, Mark, PT sort of tapped Abbie's head w/ the headstock, sort of shoving him. and PT says the short guitar strings probably punctured his skin. Townshend at BETHEL '98 does a whole bit on it. in closing, he was badgered by the promoters to sign for Woodstock, back in May '69, got there in a station wagon stuck in mud amongst rumors the promoters were out of money. TheWHO was out of money, also. the LSD, the mud, the waiting, the rain, and his wife & daughter made Woodstock difficult for Pete. BTW, the reason it's not on film is that they were changing reels after 'pinball Wizard', when a stranger grabs his mic and starts a speech.
Gentlemen, Bravo!! 🥰
This focus on "recent" modern history is so neglected. Thank you!
Steal this book, and soon to be a major motion picture. Both excellent reads.
Nice restrained and tasteful electric blues from Wayne Kramer which hits the spot nicely for the talented singer to augment.
That was Mark Groubert and the Blues Prose at Ghenghis Cohen's in Hollywood.
BRILLIANT!! BRAVO BRAVO !🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Encore! oncore!
Performing Arts Eric & Mark .play house....
RIP
HOFFMAN
i'm so glad you pronounced worcester right mark!!! born and raised here!
Slight correction: Kerouac was actually from Lowell, MA, 40 miles northeast of Worcester. Thanks, guys for all the great info.
😍 STEAL MY ❤️ HEART 😎 MARK‼️🎼🎤HOW DID I MISS THE BEGINNING OF THIS THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS EPISODE⁉️💋 😎 YOU AND 🤓 HUNLEY ARE MY VERY FAVORITES EVER ON THIS POD CAST 🎪 CIRCUS 🎪 YOU TUBE‼️THANK YOU 🤝 BOTH FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK AND BRILLIANT CONTENT‼️ 🙌👍 👊 ☮️ FOR 💪 ABBY 🗣📢✌️
Love this. I must have been 10 when Abby was big. But he was great.
Wow. That harp player is another level
This dude was brilliant! Exactly my type of humor.
An American original is exactly right, Mark. A story that deserves to be told.
Incredible
Absolutely
Incredible
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Bloody good intro, that. And the rest too. Thank you, folks!
U guys are the greatest!..a national treasure..don’t ever stop telling it like is & was..thanku..mark ur Abbey story is remarkable..ur storytelling recall & details are incredible for a fun loving stoner..ur a true artist ..the zeitgeist seems to run in ur veins..i grew up watching all this unfold from afar but ur unique impassioned delivery puts us all in the front row..much appreciated & tnx again..i’ll send$asap..peace&luv from rok rok rockaway beach!..surferjoe
He was labelled 'bi-polar' This seems an accurate diagnosis. He clearly was 'unusual'.
HEY IT"S VIVA !!!
Kudos !! Well done. More, more !!!
'Ring O Leveo', best book ever (!) Yes, please do a show on the Diggers.
Steal This Book by Hoffman was my favorite of my father's vast library!
Still have my copy of Steal this book
Just the best guys. Thank you.
Omg this is why we have laws that make no sense…😂 you guys are too funny.
Chicago also played in Lincoln Park in 1968. It was two hours of abstract psychedelic jazz.
"Welcome to America"
Hoffman and Rubin did a tour together as Yuppie and Yippie. They were on the Phil Donahue Show on that one.
I would do anything for them to do the entire transcript!! Hunley played judge well! And Mark is great and the fact he has insight and finds it as hilarious as it is, as he reads is amazing..😂😂😂
Here's what happens ... "ohh there is an episode I have not seen ... well, Abbie Hoffman , I don't really care about that bullshit. This won't be great but I will check it out " ... Then , an hour and a half later " Holy Shit ..that was fantastic!" .. happens every time !
Love you guys!
The Who incident at Woodstock is covered in detail by Pete Townshend in his biography Who I Am.
Worcester is my town. Called woo-stah or wis-tah by us mass holes
Could you do an episode(s) on SDS, Weather Underground, John Sinclair, Tom Hadyn -Port Huron Statement, New Left etc. many hrs of subject matter eh?
I was a kid during this era here in southeast Michigan.
Shortly before he committed suicide, can you imagine how Abbie felt? The rock music that we (ludicrously) thought was going to change the world had become just another corporate product. Young people were caught up in the nationalism and greed of the disastrous Reagan era which, according to the BBC, presided over the largest transfer of wealth in American history- from the middle ad working classes to the rich. His fellow travelers in the Movement had mostly become buttoned down corporate shills, one (Renee Davis) became a shill for a 14 year old guru! The parts of the Counter Culture that could be converted to dollars were absorbed into the culture at large.
We miss you Abbie. And it wasn't all in vain. Racism is no longer acceptable, acceptance of gays, skepticism of the governments, legalized weed and acceptance of other drugs, all these grew out of or were helped along by the movement. Yippie!
He was also bipolar and went off his meds.
Yes, I heard that. Do you know when he was diagnosed and started on the meds?
I only wish I could like it again . . . Once is never enough!
They're starting your videos on 480p by default to make them unwatchable. Have to swith manually to 1080p. I have a 1GB internet wired. It's your channel, and others like yours it seems. Other channels that YT is fine with start directly on 4K for me.
Another super podcast!
Bravo Mr. Hunley!
Way to go Hunley
How do y'all not have A BILLION subscribers?
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Kerouac was from Lowell Massachusetts
Once I was a hippie, then I was a stockbroker, now I am a stockbroker again… “The Washington Steps”
If Abbie Hoffman was alive today, he would hate what’s happened to New York City.! 😏😢
Do either of you guys have a copy of Abbie's book "" Steal This Book"" ?? Do you have any plans on a show about the "" Weather Men "" and their story??? Thank you both as always fantastic show, you make a Great team together. Ps. All mark touches on starts ringing bells, Dave peel and the lower Eastside "" up against the wall"" happy veterans days"". Albums I bought " fireside theater troupe, amazing
The Motherfuckers. The Diggers. I have my copy of steal this book of course.
If you google steal this book there’s an abundance of free pdfs online!! I don’t think Abbie would have wanted it another way 🥹
the big ragu from laverne and shirley was born in worcester
Came to speak at the University of Kansas in 1969 and the following three day all heck broke out. ROTC building burned. Student Union building set afire. Riot at a popular bar and the police ended up shooting a male student who died outside the bar.
in 'the USA vs. John Lennon', his song for Sinclair really was big time for reefer laws gone crazy, and got John Sinclair freed. I was in Jr. High when the "Hoffman" trial was going on, before I even knew who wrote 'Pinball Wizard,' so your point is well taken, Mark. TheWHO were insane, but I became a big fan.
Thanks!
Thanks so much! Glad to see Abbie getting some love.
MC5 and "Iggy" The Stooges were signed at the same time and place!
Iggy is the official Godfather of Punk
George Edgerly Harris was the protester placing a daisy in rifle of solder at Pentagon protest (Wikipedia) not Super Joel the acid dealer with a private plane. Are all your facts wrong or just this one. Please clarify! Just say'in.
Hi Eric,
How about doing a show about Larry Doby.( I think Mark is a baseball fan).
He was the American League's Jackie Robinson and despite being in the Hall of Fame as a player, has been forgotten by history.
I remember Abbie Hoffman from the Chicago convention. Very violent Mayer Daley hated him the used his power to prosecute Abbie Hoffman and the Chicago Seven Finally went to, I think, the Supreme court it was overturned. I was 17.
That levitation of the Pentagon involved Kenneth Anger, or so he says. Or at least he put a curse on the building at the time. He also says that while he was there, Bobby Beausoleil stole all the tapes from Lucifer Rising that were at the Russian Embassy in the vicinity of the Haight and took off for the Spiral Staircase down south, where Bobby met Charlie.
The mail thing doesnt work [anymore?] I got a post and it had "postage due" stamped on it
Sorry for your brutal loss. As I indicated many of these things don’t work any longer. Mg
@@AmericasUntoldStories LOL 🤣 .. i was just adding to the conversation!!!
Today it's Julian Assange.
Damn Viva does look like him, specially in the Lenon photo.
The first phone phreaks were blind kids that had perfect pitch and they would whistle the tones into the phone. The captain crunch boatswain whistle was the right Hertz to get a open line. John Draper aka Captain Crunch the software engineer met the blind kids because he had a pirate radio station and asked for people to call in and tell them about the quality of the signal. He at first would play the correct tones on a Hammond organ then started building the Blue boxes. Wozniak knew him from the Homebrew computer club and told him how to make one. Draper also wrote a lot of software for Apple including their first word processor. And yes they did work on any phone line. Fun fact Ike Turner was busted in 74 because the genius was using blue boxes at his recording studio Bolic sound. Which is why the Phreaks used them on payphones
I’ve got to read more about the Chicago 7 or 8 . Always been interested in history. I was like 10 years old . That was a huge thing. But I’m like 10 . So I don’t know shit . Thanks for your research
Kerouac was from Lowell MA
Great show!!
As a teenager I used these pay phone techniques to stay in touch with a boyfriend in another state
There were networks of anonymous snail-mail remailers in the 1960s and 1970s, I read about one in 2600 Magazine that was still operating 20 years ago or so. You put your letter in successive envelopes with the address of the next remailer on the inner envelope. When the remailer got it, they opened and then brought it to a mail box and sent it to the next one.
I did it with my mother.
@@AmericasUntoldStories How many hops were you able to do?
We’re all Bozos on this bus… Firesign Theater
Viva sent me.
Worcestershire sauce in Australia = Wistersheer sauce. It be an English thing.
Down the Navyard in Philly , there was guy who would sell you a machine to get free long distant phone calls.
I've still got that book somewhere it used to belong to my brother
i had the book, but it got horked
RIP y Sherman H. Skolnick
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Here's an idea for an episode, how about the Weather Underground?? My apologies if you have already done one. I mentioned a possible episode on Smedley Butler and someone pointed out you already have one, but if I'm not mistaken that episode was about the Bonus Army and not about Gen Butler specifically. Old Gimlet Eye was surely one of a kind, even I don't agree with everything he stood for. The man told the truth, as he saw it, like very few have ever done.
You should consider subscribing. You seem to be insync
@@AmericasUntoldStories Been subbed for months now, if I could Id subscribe 10 times though. You guys have some of the best content on the internet, and its always nice to hear such stories from like minded individuals. Thank you for all you do!!