1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,560 Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of My Heart Radio do 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: as Elizabeth Dutton. Hold on one second? Yeah, okay, yeah, 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. What were you saying? Are you going to 4 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:16,240 Speaker 1: put the goose down? Okay, I'll talk to you both. Ridiculous, 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: Let me put it back in the box. Okay, fine, okay, Graham, good, Yeah, okay. 6 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 1: I had a quick question for you, and I saw 7 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: you standing over there. I wanted to ask you. Do 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: you know what's ridiculous? I do. I knew you would. 9 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: Now this may come as a surprise to you, but 10 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: it's a brand crossover. God get goose back out. Go on. Um, 11 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: did you know that there's an Xbox by Gucci? Yeah? 12 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: Xbox by Why would you? Okay? Go on? He teamed 13 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: up to Gucci in Xbox the crossover. Nobody wanted. I'm sorry, 14 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: everybody wanted. Well, let me read you the description. M 15 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: is this thing on inside of Vintage Gaming Space. DJ 16 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: Emerald Rose Lewis and music artist cog Radical. Both gamers 17 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: feature in a special video and images created in collaboration 18 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: with hype Beast to present I'm not making this up 19 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: as I go along, by the way to present the 20 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: Xbox by Gucci The collaboration consists of one numbered sets, 21 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 1: each comprising a black Xbox Series ten console laser engraved 22 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 1: with the g G pattern, two wireless controllers featuring the 23 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: web stripe, complimented by a hard case inspired by Gucci's 24 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 1: archival luggage. On the bottom of the case sit the 25 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 1: words good game, a motto that recalls the happy coincidence 26 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: that g G stands for the signature motif in Gucci's 27 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: decorative vocabulary. Um, this isn't funny, this is very serious. 28 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: So it only wind this back, so it's stand. G 29 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: G stands for the signature motif in Gucci's decorative vocabulary. 30 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: House Vander Guccio Gucci's initials, but also as the acronym 31 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: of this formula used sportingly by gamers as a way 32 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,279 Speaker 1: of signing off at the end of online multiplayer contests. 33 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: Did you say his name was Guccio Gucci? It sounds 34 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 1: to me like someone didn't watch House of Gucci. It 35 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: was just so overwhelmed. I just couldn't take anything in. 36 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: I was like a teacup is overflowing by the first 37 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: three minutes. House of Gucci, by the way, one of 38 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: the worst movies I've ever seen, which makes it one 39 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: of the best of the Jared Leto acting. Every time 40 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: he's on stage, it's like that's the spicy to meet 41 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: the ball anyway, So yeah, it's amazing. Um so, yeah, Gucci, 42 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:42,959 Speaker 1: what do you think the retail was on this? There 43 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: only a hundred maide, Oh, if I wanted to flex 44 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:48,519 Speaker 1: on him with my new Gucci xbox, I'm thinking of 45 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: dropping at least the two grand. Oh, Saron, it's ten grand. 46 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: A second, do you want to get the gug It's 47 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,399 Speaker 1: ten grand? But there are only a hundred. So now 48 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 1: I found one on I'm holding out for the Cardier. 49 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: Found one on eBay for fifteen thousands out the door. Okay, yeah, 50 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,959 Speaker 1: so you know I want I want the Duny and 51 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: Burke game boy. What's up eighties? I don't know. I'm 52 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: trying to think of names that I have an an 53 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: symbol in the middle of them. I got nothing, all right, 54 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 1: I want I want the Palm Pilot. I do that one. Okay, 55 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: so that's ridiculous, Yes it is. I've got something for 56 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: you if you got a second. Oh, I got plenty 57 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: of time. The case the goose is dead, so in 58 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 1: your shrod, Yes, Okay, imagine it's you know, we're getting 59 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: into the holiday season. So imagine, if you will, a 60 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: Christmas party for twenty five thousand people that last for 61 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: three days. And this Christmas party climaxes with a surprise. 62 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: An airplane flies overhead, dropping thousands of Christmas cards on 63 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: the party goers, and inside of each Christmas card is 64 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: a tab of acid made by the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, 65 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: the world famous Church of LSD. Oh no, yeah, this 66 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: is ridiculous crime. A podcast about him, sir, and that 67 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: rages capers, heists, and cons. It's all. It's not murder 68 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: free and ridiculous. You damn right. So Elizabeth, you're on 69 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: your own punch that. Thank you. I was listening to me. 70 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: I didn't know if you were. You're over there looking 71 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: at the goose. Okay, I wanted today what's left of 72 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: the I want to tell you more about the Brotherhood 73 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: of Eternal Love. Remember we talked about them before they 74 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: were the known as the Hippie Mafia. They were a 75 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: group of Orange County bikers and surfers who start this 76 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 1: church to spread the good word. L s D, now 77 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 1: the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. They become the most prolific 78 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,279 Speaker 1: manufacturers of acid in the nineteen sixties and early seer 79 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: They were in the episode about Jimi Hendrix and Stevenson brothers. 80 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: So Scott and his brother they travel the world making 81 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,359 Speaker 1: fake movies to be able to do a cover for 82 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: their hash smuggling operation that they're sending in v W 83 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: vans and their dad is schmoozing the Attorney General. Therey 84 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: are members of the Brotherhood. Okay, yeah, I thought I 85 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: remembered that from them. Yes, not good memory, Thank you 86 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: so much. The founder of the church you may recall 87 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 1: as a farmer, John Griggs. That was his full biker name, John, 88 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: and they were the Street Sweepers, right nice, look at you. 89 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: I made fun of that name, and then I was like, 90 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 1: oh my god, what if they're still a club and 91 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 1: they're going to come and find me beef. You have 92 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: to go down like they talk to like you know, 93 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 1: the Bay Dragons, like hey, and you guys, please, can 94 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 1: I can I take M now? The farmer John Griggs 95 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: of the formerly of the Street Sweepers bike gang when 96 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: he was still in a bike gang that still in 97 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: the Street Sweepers. They had gone to Hollywood and they've 98 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,040 Speaker 1: robbed the Hollywood producer. They saw all this answer from 99 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: the guy. They went out to the desert, they did 100 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: the acid. John Griggs has like a come to Jesus moment, 101 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 1: he sees the face of God. The next day he 102 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: goes back to the Hollywood producer's place and goes, here's 103 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: the acid back man, right, And the guys like what 104 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: And he's like, thank you brother for open my mind. Now, 105 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: if you'll excuse me, I have a church to start. 106 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: And he like bikes out of the right exactly. So 107 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 1: the names of the Brotherhood of Turn to Love. Now, 108 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: there's a journalist, Nicolas Show. He wrote a book called 109 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: Orange Sunshine, which details the whole rise and fall of 110 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: the Brotherhood of Return of Love. If you'd like to 111 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 1: know more. Now, according to Show, when farmer John Griggs 112 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: founds his new church, and I quote, he would recruit 113 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: everyone he knew, surfers, street fighters, pot dealers, and petty 114 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 1: crooks into a tribe of people who viewed acid as 115 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: a sacrament, a window into God itself. So the doors 116 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: open to the first Church of am I going to 117 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: always feel like this, And the bikers turn hippies and 118 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: the evangelists they kick into gear and they start their 119 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: mass producing LSD and their plan is to give it 120 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: away for practically free. They wanted to be like The 121 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: reason why I asked it was like a dollar a 122 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: hit is because of them. They established the pricing structure 123 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: because they wanted to be part of their gospel. If 124 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: you will now, Elizabeth, I told you about the hash 125 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: moving operation to Stevenson Brothers. You remembered it right this time, 126 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: we're gonna get into the other half of the Brotherhood 127 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: of Eternal Love Story, and I promise you it's just 128 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: as wild. We're gonna talk about Timothy Learry, the Black Panthers, 129 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: the p l O, Richard Nixon, and we're gonna check 130 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: in with Bruce Brown, the filmmaker who made they had 131 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: iconic stur film In Yes, I'm so ready for this. 132 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: Y seven farmer John Griggs doesn't know what's exactly what 133 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: to do with his future. He decided to become a 134 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: psychedelic cowboy. He wants to make his dreams come true, 135 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: so he turns to a book for stage advice. Can 136 00:07:54,120 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: you guess the book because everything's all Eastern. SOI chang 137 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: is question that he asked the I Ching He says, 138 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: should I send the brothers who Afghanistan to smuggle back 139 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 1: Hash and the the anagrams of the Chang apparently answer 140 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: his question, and the answer is crossing the great water 141 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: will bring supreme success. So he's like, brothers, So Gregg, 142 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: that's all he needs to read, right, he sends the 143 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: brothers overseas. He's like, come back with some primo, asked 144 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 1: Danny Hash. Now this marks the beginning of a new 145 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: chapter for the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. As one brother 146 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: put it, and I quote, if you knew us, man, 147 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: we were holy man, spiritual warriors. If you didn't know us, 148 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: we were a bunch of drug dealers. Do you know 149 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 1: what we were? Booked? Well, he gets it. They contained multitude, 150 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: just constantly covering this. Now the Brotherhood they have this 151 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: basically then utopian idea that's based on all this. Huxley's 152 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: book The Island, which is this drug book that is 153 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: kind of his counter to Brave New World. Grave in 154 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:55,439 Speaker 1: the World is like drugs are used to numb the population. 155 00:08:55,880 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: He does some some psychedelics inree He's like, I was wrong. 156 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: He writes there as a perception, and then he writes 157 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: another novel, hoping to be as big of a hit 158 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: as a Brave New World. It's his last book. It's 159 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 1: called The Island Shows Up Just in Time to become 160 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: the blueprint for the Psychedelic Revolution. Is about a bunch 161 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: of people going off to an island and creating this 162 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: magical paradise run by drugs, essentially, and it was like 163 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: everybody's blissed out and like feeling God in their energies, right, 164 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: and they're like, that's what we need to do, man 165 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: Hucksley New So they decide we're gonna make this utopian 166 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: ideal real for all the hippies, flower power kids, and 167 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: the children of the Age of Aquarius. That's what the 168 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: biker plan is, right spoiler alert, They didn't make it. Instead, 169 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: they became boomers, but that's much later. In nineteen sixty seven, 170 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 1: they were still young and still fully believing in utopia. 171 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,079 Speaker 1: So let's get into how the utopia went wrong. Elizabeth. 172 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: I told you the Early Brothers primary bikers, but they 173 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: also surfers. So as they start getting into the LSD 174 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,439 Speaker 1: and then the international hash smuggling, they often decided to 175 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: go celebrate on epic surf trips, so they kind of 176 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: become the early Pie in years of this new idea 177 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 1: of like, we're gonna go over to Bali, just see 178 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 1: what we can find dispers of this break, this one break, right, 179 00:10:07,679 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: So they go for one surf trip, this epic surf 180 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: trip to Sri Lanka that they'd heard that there's just 181 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 1: these breaks that were unbelievable, right, just peelers. So the 182 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: brothers they schedule the trip they had at Sri Lanka. 183 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,319 Speaker 1: They get there, they find some hidden surf spots. It's 184 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: super dope. They go they find some pot because they've 185 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: heard the Sri Lankan pot is amazing. It is they 186 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: could say, it's so out of this world that they 187 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: nickname it Mars. They're like, hey man, you got you 188 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: gotta tie stick. Now I got some of that Mars though. 189 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: So the Brothers of Eternal Love they asked this local 190 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 1: Sri Lankan dope growers because remember these are international drug smokers. 191 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: We may have a new line on some stuff. So 192 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: they go to the The Sri Lankan guys are like, 193 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: hey man, how much for a garbage bag filled with 194 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: some of that insane cosmic pot you guys grow? The 195 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: Sri Lanka pot farmers were like, oh, I'm still flat. 196 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: Would you liked our pot? But we're not interested. I'm like, yeah, 197 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: you know, the US money is no good here, and like, 198 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:58,559 Speaker 1: what do you mean US money is no good? What 199 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: would it take you guys to give us some of 200 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 1: that cosmic pot? Right? And the should we linka farmers 201 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: were like give us a second. They have a quick 202 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: little meeting and they come back the okay, we will 203 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: give you some of our pot for Levi's jeans. What 204 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: do you mean like blue jeans? They're like, yes, we 205 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: want jeans, Levi's blue jeans. And so this makes sense 206 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: of the brothers they call up Laguna Beachy're like, hey, man, 207 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:22,959 Speaker 1: go down to like you know, Sears and Montgomer Reward 208 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: and Mervyn's or whatever and get all the Levi's jeans 209 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 1: and send them over here in a shipping containers. So 210 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: they do buy up all the Levi's genes. So in 211 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: the summer sixties seven, if you were in southern California, 212 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: you most likely could not find. Yeah, they get some 213 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,319 Speaker 1: of that out of this world pot, but they can 214 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,599 Speaker 1: never seal the deal on getting smuggling, so they go 215 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 1: back to Primo Afghani hash with what you know brother Now, 216 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: after this little short break, Elizabeth, I will tell you 217 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,439 Speaker 1: about the Brotherhood of Eternal Love and how it became 218 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: the biggest acid producers in the world, funded by their 219 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 1: National Drug Operation, and how they begin to start working 220 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: with the Black Panthers. Elizabeth, you come from surfing people. 221 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: You grew up around the waves, the water. Yes, Now 222 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: do you remember the end of this era because it 223 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:30,679 Speaker 1: was a very different surf culture back then, you know 224 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: what I mean, Like you had much more drugs, were different, 225 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: the travel was different, the whole idea of like, man, 226 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: they let the waves be your guide. Man, Like they 227 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: were legit about that. It wasn't like, you know, tongue 228 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 1: in cheek or like do you remember any of those guys, uh, 229 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 1: peripherally like but when I was younger, it was like 230 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,679 Speaker 1: when I was really little, it was still like all 231 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: long boards and some surfers. Yeah, totally, That's what I'm 232 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,079 Speaker 1: talking about. It. So you have all the the the 233 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: like the Malibu longboarding community that goes all the way 234 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: up to like Sander Crew is essentially, and then you 235 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: have a kind of a different culture from Santa Cruz. 236 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: But you know, you were around the culture, so you 237 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: did you see any of this like whole like surfers, 238 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: but who are also kind of edgy and kind of 239 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: maybe like bikery. Yeah yeah, yeah, because like my dad had, 240 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: like he was all locals and they all hung but 241 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: like there were people around the edge of that who 242 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 1: did like the big surf safari trips and who were right. Yeah, Okay, 243 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: Now this isn't a test or anything, but as somebody 244 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: who grew up around surf cultures, you had to name 245 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: the most iconic surf film ever, what would you know? 246 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: Endless Summer? Right, it just just changed everything as far 247 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: as I mean, there's a lot of better surf movies. Yeah, 248 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 1: what's the one Wednesday? Any Big Wednesday? And yeah there's 249 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: a bunch of like you know, step into water and 250 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 1: in liquid, there's a like it doesn't matter, but there's 251 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 1: like Endless Summer. Those the one like for whatever reason, 252 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 1: Bruce Brown nailed it with that, and he kind of 253 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 1: captures a feeling that surfing has always been replicating since, 254 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: which is this like freedom, the sense of being on 255 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: the pursuit of trying to find the perfect wave, being 256 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: in can concert with nature, the whole nine, right, But 257 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:10,839 Speaker 1: it didn't have as much of the drug culture as 258 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: some of the other things well into Mike Hinson. He 259 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:17,679 Speaker 1: was the blonde cat in Endless Summer, and what we 260 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: didn't know was the drugs were there. He was just 261 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: smuggling them around while they were shooting. So in nineteen 262 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: sixty six they make the they released the surf film. 263 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 1: Actually they were shooting in like the earlier sixties, but 264 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: this it's basically, if you've never seen it, a surf 265 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: documentary and it follows these two surfers, Mike Hinson and 266 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: Robert August as they travel around the world trying to 267 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: find the perfect wave. They go to Tahiti, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, 268 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: which in not places a lot of people were going 269 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: to at the time. It opened up Africa as an 270 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: dream destination. And then in Africa they find the perfect 271 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: wave in South Africa at Cape St. Francis. Now the 272 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: film drops in the summer of sixty six and launches 273 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: a million copycats surf trips. This is why the Brotherhood 274 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: of Eternal Love wants to go out. They're doing everybody 275 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 1: who's surfs. It's like this is man now. But Hinson, 276 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: the guy who's at the center of it. He's a 277 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: California surfer kid, right, He's probably like some of the 278 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: guys you're pop new, right, Orange County kid. Though. He 279 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: lived in the apartment above Bruce Brown's garage, and in 280 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 1: fact it was he and Bruce Brown's idea to dream 281 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: up this whole surf safari movie. And he got together 282 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: like man finding the perfect way of a movie about 283 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: that would be so cool, will be best better, and 284 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: all these like yeah, let's go film this surf contest, 285 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: which is what most of the movies had been. So 286 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: at the same time, as I told you, Mike Hinson 287 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: was also secretly getting in deeper to the drug culture. 288 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 1: Hinson was best friends with farmer John Griggs. He's best 289 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: friend as the head of a biker guy. You know, though, 290 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: he's like, uh and I quote this is how Hinson 291 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: described Griggs. Griggs had gold flashing out of his eyes 292 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: and tongue these words. He was just like a magical 293 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: little guy, magic a little He's like, you know what, pal, 294 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: you're just my magical little guys. Want to put you 295 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: in my pocket, take you. Hinson went out and he 296 00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: dropped acid with the brothers the first time at black 297 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: speed in Lahoya, and he didn't quite see the face 298 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: of God the way farmer John's Griggs did, right, But 299 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: he did open up his mind to new ideas like 300 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: drug smuggling. He's like, oh, I could get into this. 301 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: He didn't go. He just got it cracked open a 302 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: little to the drug smuggling. That's the game. Just shine 303 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: the light here and oh look I see crying. So 304 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:22,160 Speaker 1: and I quote from Hinston's memoir, One day I walked 305 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: into his warehouse with Johnny and saw fifty tons of pot. 306 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 1: I wasn't supposed to see it, but I was there, 307 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: and I remember thinking, it's not gonna get any better 308 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: than this, and it's not gonna get any worse. Wait, 309 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: fifty tons. Fifty tons of pot. And he didn't tons 310 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: of looks like, I think that's an exaggeration. I don't 311 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: think it was sitting by the scale and it could 312 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: have been like he's just counting them. I don't know. 313 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: I mean, maybe it was fifty tons. I have how 314 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: many palettes? Is that? Yeah? Exactly? I mean it wasn't 315 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: the same weird so it was like it was like 316 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: twenty pounds. It's like fifty tons. You guys. It's like, man, 317 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: I don't know anything about Matt bro It's like it 318 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:07,199 Speaker 1: was like a thousand billions. It's a million of eleventy pounds. 319 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:10,879 Speaker 1: So nine three. Bruce Brown, Mike Kinson. They're traveling the 320 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: world shooting this film that would become endless Summer right now, 321 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: full blown acid head. At this point, Mike Hinson is 322 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: also the psychedelic surf cowboy, and he decided it would 323 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: be a good idea to bounce around the world shooting 324 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: this big movie while also smuggling drugs. So he decides 325 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: to once again, I'll return to Hinson's quote, I was 326 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,439 Speaker 1: young and stupid and loaded. I smoked pot everywhere. I 327 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 1: had a roll of Benny's which I took with me also, 328 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 1: so when we had to drive somewhere, Yes, who stayed 329 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 1: up all night. So he's just like dirt bag, drugged 330 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: speed pills and and spoken pot and just basically trying 331 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: to keep that out of the becoming a problem for 332 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: the surf film. He doesn't want to get arrested and 333 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 1: basically right up everything. But he also ends up under 334 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 1: Bruce Brown's request, he smuggles the literal film that they're 335 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 1: making out through customs because they were convinced when they 336 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: were filming in parts of like Indonesia so far that 337 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 1: they're Tahiti, that they're gonna try to capture the film 338 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: because they don't want, for whatever reason, film to be 339 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:11,639 Speaker 1: getting out because they think the tourists are recording holy 340 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: things that they shouldn't be shake. So they're like, oh, 341 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:16,640 Speaker 1: we just take cameras, so we knew this enough. So 342 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 1: he smuggles it by taping it to his body. This 343 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:21,159 Speaker 1: convinces him when he gets back to l A that 344 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: he can tell the brother's from the Eternal Love like, 345 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: hey man, I'm a smuggler too, I've been smuggling pot 346 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: around the world. I smuggled film out. So there's like 347 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: he gets home and he's talking to his boy, farmer 348 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:32,439 Speaker 1: John Griggs, and he's like, you know what, you know 349 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,479 Speaker 1: how you want to grow the church? I got an 350 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:38,360 Speaker 1: idea for you. No. Hintson is chilling in a room 351 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 1: basically road testing his idea with a couple of their 352 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 1: brothers from Eternal Love, and they're getting high. You know, 353 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,919 Speaker 1: there's puffing tough like blazing a slipper in it and 354 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: just talking crime. You know. But the brothers treat this 355 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 1: golden boy surf film star like what he is. They 356 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: don't treat him like that. He's one of them. They 357 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 1: you know that he's like them. So but he's tired 358 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,479 Speaker 1: of that. He's like, I'm changing, I'm allow me man, 359 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: I'm becoming a criminal. So he exactly he records it 360 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 1: a memoir. You can tell he thought that I was 361 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 1: just a pretty boy and fully, but since Henson had 362 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 1: already done his international smuggling, he's got this confidence, right, 363 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: So he decides to tell the guys, I'm not admitting anything, 364 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 1: but traveling through India with Bruce and Robert was where 365 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: I smuggled the film footage through customs. And they're like, okay, 366 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 1: so what does that mean. He's like, what I'm saying 367 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 1: is is couldn't you guys just use surfboards to smuggle 368 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 1: in some primo Afghani hash from Afghanistan or Pakistan and 369 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: Morocco arc wherever you get it. Now this we will 370 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: go back to Henson with a direct quote for the 371 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: rest of this story. And then I quote that got 372 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 1: their attention. Suddenly they were all ears. Then I winged it. 373 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,199 Speaker 1: I took them through the process of carbonata surfboard with 374 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: hidden chambers. David even perked up. The brothers had never 375 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 1: thought about using surfboards. Finally, I offered to make a 376 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: special board for concealing drugs. Hopefully they would see that 377 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: I was the I who could patch and glass aboard 378 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,439 Speaker 1: fulla hash. He's in a hotel room in the middle 379 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: of the Paul broh like, so for a trial run, 380 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,880 Speaker 1: he loans them aboard, says, go Toto, Paul, carve it out, 381 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 1: put your hash in their glass it up. Come back 382 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: and he teaches a brother who say he's a surfer. 383 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,360 Speaker 1: He knows how to do it. He's do a dank repair. Basically, 384 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 1: that's like okay, And as Henson puts it, He's like 385 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: like this is gonna be great man. You guys like 386 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: I'm believing in it. So they send the brother off, 387 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:29,919 Speaker 1: you know, Barbara John Griggs like, let's pay for it 388 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: to do it brother, And then it goes off a 389 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: few weeks past nothing They're like, well maybe he didn't go. 390 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,719 Speaker 1: But the dude returns and he comes back with the 391 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: surfboard and to mind meltingly, Primo cracked it open. Christmas 392 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,160 Speaker 1: crack to break the board. So Henson's like, see, man, 393 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: I told you guys you could listen to me. They're like, 394 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: so farmer John Griggs like, hey, Hanson, you want to 395 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: go next time? He's like, now, and I quote from 396 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: his memoir, I wasn't gonna sell it or anything. I 397 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 1: just gave it to the those guys and it bankrolled 398 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: Mystic Guards. It was an honor, you know. So he's like, 399 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: I'm down. He decides to go and do it. Mystic Guards, 400 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 1: by the way, was the bookstore and unofficial headquarters of 401 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 1: the Church of Brotherhood of Mystic Arts. Yes, now before 402 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: the honor, I can smell the nog chomp up from here, 403 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: heavy fixed to the skin. Yeah, heavy incense going on there, No, Elizabeth, Yes, 404 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: the Hinson like plan. He sends the first guy over right, 405 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: that one they it went well. They said, let's go 406 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 1: bigger and Hanson, We're gonna send you over and Hanson's 407 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: gonna go and do like a real load. So he's 408 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 1: like one giant surfboard. Yeah, like tons nine ft. Why 409 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: it's like a it's a multi person surfboard. It's a 410 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,440 Speaker 1: new prototype or working out. Your kids are thinking it's cool. 411 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: So Elizabeth put down like a rug on top of 412 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: it for chilling. I'm sorry, I've just got this picture 413 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: of a giant surfboard. I want to get a giant surfboard, 414 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: maybe to trap a cup of my surfboards together and 415 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:07,400 Speaker 1: invite a family to go with me. Perfect anyone's sitting 416 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: there on the sands called kidnapping whatever, Elizabeth. I had 417 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: to get you deep inside of the Hinson smuggling, so 418 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: I need you to close your eyes a picture it. 419 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 1: You're in New del You're sweating down in the pool 420 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 1: of your own perspiration. You get up to see if 421 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,719 Speaker 1: you can find something cold to drink. The city outside 422 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: your window is alive with life, and the air is 423 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: sweltering with heat. You've been traveling with a surfer, you know, 424 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: but after a really bad bout of food poisoning, he's 425 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 1: ditched you here in a hotel room that's a friend 426 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: of his hotel room. But he went off to go 427 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: chase a swell and he's like, I'll be back man. 428 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 1: You're like, oh, girl, be fine. Now. When you wake 429 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: up on the couch in a strange hotel room, you 430 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: spot seated on the floor a blonde California surfer and 431 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: you're like, I think I recognize that cat, but you're 432 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 1: not quite sure because you can't quite see his face. 433 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,199 Speaker 1: He's busy doing something he's been over. He has a 434 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 1: spoon in his hand, Like you recognize the spoon. It's 435 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 1: from the hotel, like I I used by this morning. Right. 436 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,199 Speaker 1: The surfer looks like he's about to dive into a 437 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: bowl of ice cream, but you see no ice cream. 438 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:13,439 Speaker 1: All you see is a surfboard in front of him 439 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: and a few other surfboards surrounding him. You're like, that's odd. 440 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: And then you watch him dig a spoon into the 441 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: surfboard just like it's a bowl of ice cream, and 442 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 1: he carves out a spoonful of surfboard. It looks like 443 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 1: he's gonna eat this mouthful of foam, but then instead 444 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 1: he's tape taking a bite. He just dumps it really 445 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: carefully though, on the floor to his side. Then he 446 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 1: digs a spoon back in for another bite of surfboard. 447 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: Once he's satisfied, he grabbed some premu afgany hash and 448 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: he shoves that into the hole in the surfboard. I 449 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 1: mean really shoves. It's really just. Now you're watching all this, 450 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, press harder, Yeah, I looked the way 451 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,159 Speaker 1: you press it, so you were saying you're still asleep. 452 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: You're like squinting through one eye open because you're assuming 453 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: that this is something that this person does not want 454 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,640 Speaker 1: any witnesses. Yeah, I really slept in the wrong room. 455 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 1: So the surfer wants you. He thinks I've died of dysentery. 456 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: He thinks, like, that's what the smell is is like, 457 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: we're renny to get rid of a body. Was I 458 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: get rid of these drugs? Now? The surfer casually closes 459 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: up the hole and puts a chip of phone back 460 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: in the one that you chuck out with a spoon, 461 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 1: and then he seals the board reglasses it. No one 462 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 1: would be the wiser. You pass back up, still not 463 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 1: feel probably the hotel room like this is not the 464 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 1: place to do that. So in the morning, you don't 465 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 1: wake up in time to see the surfer get ready 466 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: to leave by taxi to the airport with his bags 467 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 1: of doctored surfboards. You don't see him bouncing with confidence 468 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 1: that no one from the customs will be the wiser 469 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: because they don't know how much a surfboard way. You 470 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: also don't see the surfer getting ready for his run 471 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 1: to the airport, when he put on a brown wig 472 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: and a matching fake mustache. A mustache both were required 473 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: to match the photo on his fake passport, so he 474 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: looked in the mirror. He checked to see if his 475 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 1: wig was straight, his fake stash was on and could 476 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: trick a casual observer. Then he muttered to his beastie 477 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 1: boy looking music video reflection, Oh, I'm really doing this real, 478 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 1: so you can believe it. You just watched the first 479 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 1: attempt by Mike Kinson to actually smuggle drugs and if 480 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: you can double believe it, it worked. That was awesome, right, 481 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 1: But I'm really dehydrated. You really need to get something 482 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,160 Speaker 1: and you need to get a new hotel room because 483 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,679 Speaker 1: he did not pay for tomorrow. The Doctor's sports. They 484 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 1: make it through customs, they make it back to America, 485 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,360 Speaker 1: and the Brotherhood of Love is super stoked. They're like, man, 486 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: we can start smuggling hash. And they used this smuggled 487 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 1: hash as basically the currency for the meteoric rise of 488 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: their LSD ministry. Elizabeth, remember the Jimmie Hendricks movie when 489 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:49,400 Speaker 1: we talked about last Time. Yeah, not the dogs, not 490 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: the dead Pets, but yeah, documentary which is explained to 491 00:25:54,440 --> 00:26:00,400 Speaker 1: us on Instagram messages multiple times. Well, Henston's go friend. 492 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: She was the one at the time who suggested to 493 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 1: the filmmaker that he should make a concert movie about 494 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: Jimmie Hendrickson shooting in Hawaii, and he's like, that's a 495 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 1: great idea, and then later on she's like, you also 496 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: should put Mike Hinson in it, and so he ends 497 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 1: up being in the movie and he plays himself as 498 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: a surfer. Right, It's like surf footage and stuff. There's 499 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,880 Speaker 1: one notable scene in the film that made the Brotherhood 500 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: of Eternal Love really nervous because Hintson revealed on camera 501 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,199 Speaker 1: how they've been smuggling drugs. I want to brag about it. 502 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 1: So he's shown in Rainbow Bridge and he has one 503 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,399 Speaker 1: of his Rainbow surfboards because that's his brand. He starts 504 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,200 Speaker 1: with this other guy from the Brotherhood. Of the Brotherhood 505 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: they started surfboard company, so it's called Rainbow Surfboards. He's 506 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: got his own surfboards sitting there and Hinson is sitting 507 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: there with a poster of then President Richard Nixon and 508 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: on the poster is his question. It said, would you 509 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: buy a used car from this man's think like a 510 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:55,719 Speaker 1: big jocular Nixon. Anyway, under Nixon's watchful I Hinson reveals 511 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,160 Speaker 1: the trick of the hollow surfboard. He just breaks open 512 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 1: a rainbow surfport and pulls hash out from the secret 513 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: Heidi hole inside, like look weedian man. And then they 514 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,639 Speaker 1: just they light up and it's just like, yeah, they 515 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 1: can't use a surfboard. That's a rookie mistake exactly. But 516 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,959 Speaker 1: by then the Brotherhood of Eternal Love had moved on 517 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: to V W vans and so forth, so they really 518 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: didn't like, do you not get what we do here? Like, 519 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 1: I mean, how many times have I been in a 520 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 1: Jimmy Hendrix movie and people are like, tell me about 521 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: your criming and I stopped myself. I'm like, I can 522 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 1: either walk them through this goose step theft or I 523 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,359 Speaker 1: can just keep my trap shut. Maybe I just found 524 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 1: the bird. Maybe the bird found me. It was like 525 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 1: it was that way when I found it. Well, this, 526 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 1: by the way, brings us to our next star crossed 527 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 1: drug lover, the orbit of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. 528 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: You right to have your wig flipped every day? Okay, 529 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 1: other than Mike Hinson, can you guess who Farmer, John 530 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,119 Speaker 1: Griggs's other best friend was in this era in this 531 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: and you know who this name? So I just know 532 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:02,479 Speaker 1: it's a famous person and it's a drug thing. Timothy Leary. Yes, 533 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,200 Speaker 1: I figured you'd get this one. No, Timothy Larry, do 534 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: you like him? Respect to him? I have thoughts about him. Well, 535 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: we were friends for a really long as a good 536 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 1: peanuckle player. Yeah, No, I mean I don't have anything specific. Well, 537 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,680 Speaker 1: Griggs revered Timothy Larry, absolutely revered him. He believed that 538 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 1: he was leading humanity into a better age. And remember 539 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 1: when he saw the face of God during his first 540 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,880 Speaker 1: acid trip, Well he saw it again in the personage 541 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: of Timothy Larry. This guy is going to take humanity forward. 542 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: Like the Big story, Grigg's traveled out to New York, 543 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: where Larry was living at the time, and the two 544 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: hit it off, and he Larry had lost a job 545 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: at Harvard where he got a professor, and he starts 546 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 1: doing his besting around with acid, loses his job. Grigg's like, 547 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: you gotta come out to lagoona beach brother he's lived 548 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: with us, and Timothy Larry's like, okay, I'll do it, 549 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 1: and so he does. He moves out to California and 550 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: he lives with all the bikers surfers at the LSD Church. 551 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 1: And there's one problem with having Timothy Larry living with 552 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 1: you at your brotherhood is that he brought massive heat 553 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 1: with him, right. Oh yeah, the FBI is tracking everybody's 554 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 1: on him. Some of the heat was good, like you know, 555 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,480 Speaker 1: celebrities and so forth. Suddenly the Brotherhood is now at 556 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 1: the center of the psychedelic movement and have all these 557 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: celebrities to prove it. There's this one cat, Robert Stubby Tierney. 558 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: He was an original member of the Brotherhood, and I quote, 559 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 1: we were totally spiritual religious people. Acid and marijuana were 560 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,720 Speaker 1: sacraments to us. We were so upset about Vietnam. We 561 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: were like soldiers. We brought Timothy Leary to us to 562 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 1: approach famous people like Crosby Stills and Nash, Grateful Dead, 563 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 1: Jimmy Andricks, Jefferson, Airplane, all the San Francisco bands. So 564 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 1: they used Timothy Leary as like a calling card we 565 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 1: throw in. We were so upset about Vietnam, we just 566 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 1: had to do drugs about it. Yeah, I'm so bad. 567 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,760 Speaker 1: I could do acid. I can do a headful accid 568 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: about this. Meanwhile, people are laying down on the railroad 569 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 1: tracks to like going to prison for the Yeah, they're like, 570 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do asked about it. I'm wait, you guys 571 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: a good fight. I'm gonna be over here and talk 572 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 1: to this paper bag now. As uh, Timothy Leary, he's 573 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 1: obviously more focused on the limelight than being a true 574 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,719 Speaker 1: leader of the psychedelic revolution. But maybe the Brothers kind 575 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: of caught onto this pretty quick and they sawed through 576 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: his whole carnival esque KP. Charlottean character. So this led 577 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 1: to a front time. Yeah, so after this short break, 578 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you all about how Timothy Larry 579 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 1: broke up the brother returnaloge alright, Elizabeth, Timothy Learry has 580 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 1: entered the picture. Things are about to get side, I 581 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 1: would imagine. So, so what do you think the first 582 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: thing he does when he gets down to Laguna? I mean, 583 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: not like the exact first thing, but I mean, like 584 00:30:58,160 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: the first big thing he does when he gets down 585 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: to take a step out of the car and he 586 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: walks forward. Does he take acid? Norse, he takes acid. 587 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 1: But like the Brothers are like, hey man, we want 588 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 1: you to lay low and just bring the celebrities here. 589 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: We want you to be a magnet for like the movement. 590 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, totally. And then instead he goes and 591 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: announces he's going to run for governor of California against 592 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 1: then governor Ronald Reagan nineteen sixty nine or sixty eight 593 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: sixt Okay, yeah, yeah, alright. Larry's announcement brings way more 594 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 1: police pressure, and so things are getting bad, right, and 595 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: was like, well, come on, guys, don't worry about it. 596 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 1: I got this all figured out. They're like this bozo. 597 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,880 Speaker 1: But things get worse when Larry gets busted. So yeah, 598 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: Larry is sitting there and uh ninety nine, right on, brother, 599 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,160 Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm sorry, I gotta back it up. It's 600 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 1: the last week of nineteen sixty is technically when he 601 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: gets busted. On the evening of December twenty six, the 602 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,360 Speaker 1: day after Christmas, Larry was in an argument with his 603 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: wife and they're sitting there in a parked car, the 604 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 1: station wagon, smoking a joint. I guess that's how they 605 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 1: don't bow guard it, Timothy about the kids. So this 606 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,719 Speaker 1: cop spots him in the car arguing and smoking, and 607 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 1: he walks over because he can hear the fighting, and 608 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 1: he taps on the window. Timothy Larry, like you know, 609 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: passes the joint back to his wife, looks over and 610 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: see a cop staring at him. He's like, oh crap, 611 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 1: they're busted dead or right, So he's screwed. He's arrested 612 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 1: on January one, nineteen seventy. Takes a year of trial, 613 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 1: Timothy Larry is convicted. The sentenced to ten years in prison, 614 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 1: ten years for the joint charges to the They compile 615 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 1: a lot of charges in response. The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, 616 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 1: who they still see him as a de facto new 617 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,960 Speaker 1: leader if you will immediately begin to conspire with fellow 618 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: radicals to try to free their psychedelic pied piper. Right, 619 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 1: So that dude I told you about before, Stubby travels 620 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 1: north to Oregon up to this ranch of the Brotherhood 621 00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 1: had bought and was growing pot on and stuff and 622 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 1: sells the ranch to some other pot people into here. 623 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 1: How much for all the pot in the ranch? Are? 624 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 1: They go? He gets fifty grand and then I quote, 625 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 1: we topped sixty dollars and gave it to this guy's 626 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 1: saying he represented the Black Panthers and that the weather 627 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:18,440 Speaker 1: men would get the money, so everybody. So these bikers, 628 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: most of the biker gangs were a little bit more conservative. 629 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 1: They were a lot of former veterans, like the Hell's 630 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: Angels were hardcore conservative. So you're saying conservative, racist, racist, 631 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 1: in these are Orange County not known for its progressive 632 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,560 Speaker 1: especially not then. So they're now getting involved in the 633 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,920 Speaker 1: new Left and in radical militant politics and Black Power 634 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: and so forth. So the Weather Underground, as they told 635 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: you the case you don't know, they're a militant, radical 636 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 1: group and they had been in this time involved in 637 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,760 Speaker 1: a bombing campaign against the United States Military industrial complex 638 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,480 Speaker 1: and the bankers who backed it. And this group was 639 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 1: also backing the Black Power movement and was really tightly 640 00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 1: involved with Chairman Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers in Chicago, 641 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 1: so on the West coast, the Black Panthers, they picked 642 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 1: this money up and they act as courier and they 643 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 1: get the money to the Weather Underground, who then transfers 644 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 1: the drug profits to other Weather Underground members who then 645 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,320 Speaker 1: run a secret operation to break Timothy Larry out of prison. 646 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 1: God Tammothy Larry is being held in the California Men's 647 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,520 Speaker 1: Colony in San Luis Obispo AND's like like on a 648 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,120 Speaker 1: spit of land is and you know, kind of like 649 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 1: not near a lot of other stuff, especially back then. 650 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 1: So it September thirteenth, nineteen seventy two. Members of the 651 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 1: Weather Underground. They ready a truck. They go down to 652 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 1: the prison and they bust Timothy Larry out. They get 653 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,719 Speaker 1: him up to San Francisco. The plans to drop them 654 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,799 Speaker 1: off at an apartment in the Mission District. Pull it off. 655 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: They get him into the apartment and they tuck away 656 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 1: there in prison. Spiritual leaders are like, Okay, we're gonna 657 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,000 Speaker 1: get you out of the country. So the hippies, the leftist, 658 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,920 Speaker 1: the Black Power and Flower Power kids when they hear 659 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,920 Speaker 1: that Timothy Learry got busted out of prison, but radicals 660 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,280 Speaker 1: they go nuts. They're like, oh my god, we're winning 661 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,120 Speaker 1: this war. They're gonna say he cannot believe it. And 662 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 1: the people, like the mainstream, they're shocked, right. So the 663 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,760 Speaker 1: New York Times at the time they report, and I quote, 664 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: his prison clothing, blue denim shirts and pants and one 665 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 1: of his socks were found a few hours later in 666 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,480 Speaker 1: a service station restroom about two miles south of the 667 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: prison on US one oh one, the main north South highway. 668 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,359 Speaker 1: The prison is on California one, the hippie highway used 669 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,160 Speaker 1: by hitchhikers heading north for the Big sur region. Like 670 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:24,320 Speaker 1: a little derision suck. So after the prison escave, Nixon 671 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,920 Speaker 1: calls Timothy Larry the most dangerous man in America. And 672 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,120 Speaker 1: now the Weather Underground has to get the most dangerous 673 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,560 Speaker 1: man in America out of America. So what are they 674 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,680 Speaker 1: gonna do? Well, They're like, Larry, we gotta get you moving. 675 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,000 Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, okay, I'm on it. So he shaves 676 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,440 Speaker 1: his head so he's not so recognizable, and he's like, okay, 677 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,880 Speaker 1: I'm not ready to totally tuned to turn off, tune 678 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,359 Speaker 1: in or sorry, tune off? What does it turn off? 679 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,919 Speaker 1: Tune and drop out? Yeah, I'm quite ready to drop out. 680 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,600 Speaker 1: I want to watch that New Woodstock movie. Like what 681 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:51,840 Speaker 1: do you mean? Like, I don't know if that'll be 682 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,600 Speaker 1: like when I'm on the lamb. They're like, are you 683 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,040 Speaker 1: for real? Right now? He's like, you're the most wanted 684 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,600 Speaker 1: man in America and he's like, yeah, just one movie. 685 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,040 Speaker 1: So he goes down and so the Weather Underground radicals 686 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 1: take into a theater and he watches Richie Havens and 687 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:08,600 Speaker 1: Credence Clearwater Revival, saying it would stock and he's clapping 688 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,440 Speaker 1: and he's talking to the screen and making a scene 689 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,040 Speaker 1: in the theater. They're like freaking out, like can someone 690 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,799 Speaker 1: shut him up? Basically, yeah, so he loves the movie. 691 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 1: He a he's done shouting at the screen. They're like, 692 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:20,879 Speaker 1: we need to get you out of the country. Yeah. 693 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:22,919 Speaker 1: They managed to get him out of the country through 694 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:26,239 Speaker 1: this combined weather underground Black Panther Brotherhood of Eternal Love 695 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:30,200 Speaker 1: secret operation. They smuggle him to Algeria, where he joins 696 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:36,600 Speaker 1: self exiled Black Panther. Eldredge say, I know who's in Algeria? 697 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:40,000 Speaker 1: Then did they use like Ellen Ginsburg as a decoy? 698 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,800 Speaker 1: Practically no, but they should have. But he's swirling around 699 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,520 Speaker 1: this story, by the way, like the happening in San 700 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:52,640 Speaker 1: Francisco exactly. So the brother in Reternal Love now originally 701 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,560 Speaker 1: remember they wanted to start a legit psychedelic revolution. They 702 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,160 Speaker 1: see themselves as soldiers as part of the psychic Deel Revolution, 703 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,200 Speaker 1: and they choose for their spiritual leader Timothy Leary. Yeah, 704 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:09,120 Speaker 1: so that's a terrible idea. I'll he's he is self 705 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:13,880 Speaker 1: aggrandizing self, like publicizing Charlotte. Yeah. But here's the thing 706 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,000 Speaker 1: about Timothy Leary and and about psychedelics, just to take 707 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,640 Speaker 1: a little side preventure here, is that you know, like 708 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,839 Speaker 1: when you think about in theory, the idea of expanding 709 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,520 Speaker 1: one's mind and consciousness, Like, you know, there's that that 710 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:32,319 Speaker 1: documentary about mushrooms on Netflix. It's fantastic and I can't 711 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,120 Speaker 1: remember the name of it off the top of my head. 712 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 1: It was like fantastic fun Guy or something like that. Yeah, 713 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,319 Speaker 1: something like that. So you think about that, and that's 714 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:44,799 Speaker 1: really intriguing and powerful and meaningful. But then when you 715 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,120 Speaker 1: see that, I think you have to be in the 716 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,720 Speaker 1: right mindset and like the right state of mental health 717 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,279 Speaker 1: for that to work, because I've seen a lot of 718 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,759 Speaker 1: people who aren't ready for that, and then they burn 719 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,680 Speaker 1: it out and they hurt their brains. And it's like 720 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,399 Speaker 1: ted to ride a rocket. If you think you're about 721 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,080 Speaker 1: to ride a rocket and may take you to places, 722 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,080 Speaker 1: you have no way to deal with me. He can't 723 00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:07,840 Speaker 1: come back. You can't come back because you want a 724 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,000 Speaker 1: rocket to get there. Yeah. So you see, I can 725 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:15,600 Speaker 1: see the intent of like having this this expansive, incredible 726 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,080 Speaker 1: like spiritual experience through it. Sure, farmer John Griggs is 727 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 1: a better leader, is what. He had the mission and 728 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:23,960 Speaker 1: vision and the plan and the way to make it happen. 729 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,759 Speaker 1: And then he turned over to you know, this personality 730 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,440 Speaker 1: to well, he's like this may be extreme, but it's 731 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,919 Speaker 1: that kind of like going, hey, we want to get 732 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,200 Speaker 1: a new leader for our house. And then you pick 733 00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:39,200 Speaker 1: up pimp for your stepfather. It's like, yeah, he's he's 734 00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,839 Speaker 1: good with money. It's really the protection, you know, like 735 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:46,000 Speaker 1: he kind of qualifies anyway. So at the Black Panthers 736 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,400 Speaker 1: soon learned in Algeria, Timothy Learry is also not just 737 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,560 Speaker 1: a bad leader, he's a nightmare as an ally. So 738 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:55,480 Speaker 1: his clownishness starts to undermine their stature with their international allies, 739 00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,000 Speaker 1: which are giving them, you know, allegiance and alliance and 740 00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,640 Speaker 1: the ability to have an embassy overseas. Once Timmothy Leary 741 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:05,480 Speaker 1: gets smuggled into Algeria, news breaks. The outlaws radicals they 742 00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,120 Speaker 1: all love it, and not so much the Algerian government. 743 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:09,640 Speaker 1: They're a little bit the one with tense. They don't 744 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,880 Speaker 1: mind housing the Black Panthers that they see is a 745 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:15,080 Speaker 1: fight against injustice and you know, against racial oppression. It's 746 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:16,680 Speaker 1: a fight that they don't mind being a part of. 747 00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:21,080 Speaker 1: But Timothy Leary, they didn't know he wasn't black. They 748 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,080 Speaker 1: didn't know what was The Black Panthers came to said, hey, 749 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,520 Speaker 1: we want to give political asylum to this guy, Timothy Lyrics. 750 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,759 Speaker 1: They're like cool, right, and they don't know. Then they 751 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,799 Speaker 1: find out when he gets there is the recently head 752 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,760 Speaker 1: shaven white guys about I love acid, I love acid 753 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,399 Speaker 1: there in a majority Muslim country, going to settle down, 754 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:42,080 Speaker 1: bro right. So they actually had to publish a correction 755 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,800 Speaker 1: in the official Algerian newspaper that said, and I quote 756 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:50,920 Speaker 1: Timothy Leary is in fact not a black man, So 757 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,319 Speaker 1: they never heard that. I didn't know any of this. 758 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:57,080 Speaker 1: In response to this quick spreading farcet, that's the consuming 759 00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:01,640 Speaker 1: the Black Panthers international legitimacy. Black Panther Supreme Commander Huey P. 760 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,239 Speaker 1: Newton phones the Black Panther Algeria and embassy and he's like, 761 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:07,680 Speaker 1: what is going on there? What the hell is going 762 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,319 Speaker 1: on there? And he demands like that you gotta handle this, 763 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:12,200 Speaker 1: and algy was like, okay, no, I got I got 764 00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:16,399 Speaker 1: a plan. So shame this black Panther embassy in Algeria 765 00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:20,520 Speaker 1: watching all this chaos spin out of control is Dennis Martino. Now, 766 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,760 Speaker 1: Dennis Martino is a diplomatic observer sent by the Brotherhood 767 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,440 Speaker 1: of Eternal Love to make sure that this diplomatic mission 768 00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:29,400 Speaker 1: and secret operation goes off without a hitch. He's also 769 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:31,359 Speaker 1: in charge of making sure everybody has all the hash 770 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,040 Speaker 1: they want. So he's like, there ngo on the ground. 771 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:39,680 Speaker 1: So he's wearing like a white hard hat, like an 772 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:45,040 Speaker 1: official poncho, official drug rug ponco. So suddenly one of 773 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,640 Speaker 1: the Black Panther into this scene comes Field Marshal Don Cox, 774 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,200 Speaker 1: whose returned from the Black Panther after started returning to 775 00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,720 Speaker 1: the embassy from having talked to the Algerian government spending 776 00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,840 Speaker 1: that day with him, and he's like, quote, the Olgerian 777 00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,480 Speaker 1: government has just found out that Leary's not black this 778 00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,399 Speaker 1: and they found out he's the acid king in New York. 779 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,759 Speaker 1: They representative the u N is a laughing stock, and 780 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,359 Speaker 1: they're like, okay, we really need to do is He's 781 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,680 Speaker 1: a smart cat. He's in you know, he's minutes of communication. 782 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,239 Speaker 1: He's like trying to figure out what can we do. 783 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,440 Speaker 1: He's like, I gotta handle this Timothy situation. So he 784 00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,200 Speaker 1: comes up with what a radical plan of action? So 785 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,880 Speaker 1: it's a straight up ridiculous plan of action. Can you 786 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,399 Speaker 1: guess what would you would be your answer? Like, how 787 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,600 Speaker 1: do we get rid of Timothy Leary as a problem? 788 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:35,879 Speaker 1: He's smuggling in the surfboard practically almost no, not close. 789 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,239 Speaker 1: There was definitely smuggling involved. So Ali Claver he knew 790 00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,840 Speaker 1: that the President of Algeria was a huge fan of 791 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:46,359 Speaker 1: the Palestinian Liberation Organization. He was impressed by and into 792 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,759 Speaker 1: all his daring skyjackings, and he was like, man, that 793 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,480 Speaker 1: dude knows what's up. So he's like hey, and Clever 794 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:53,759 Speaker 1: gets this. He's like, hey, Timothy, if we can get 795 00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:55,799 Speaker 1: you into Palestine, I know a way to go through 796 00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:57,919 Speaker 1: Egypt and then into Jordan, and we'll get you into 797 00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,319 Speaker 1: Palestine if we can get you some face time with 798 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,239 Speaker 1: Yes or air Fat post for a picture with the 799 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:06,960 Speaker 1: Peel leader Boom. Political asylum in Algeria is on lock, bro. 800 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:10,279 Speaker 1: You got just get yourself a self people, Yes or 801 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:15,879 Speaker 1: air Fat. So totally this is one of the most 802 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,799 Speaker 1: other wanted men in the world. Clever tells Larry the plan. 803 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:21,560 Speaker 1: Let's get the two most wanted men in the world 804 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,280 Speaker 1: together and we'll see, I got you some plane tickets, 805 00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,640 Speaker 1: bro Let's. So they smuggle him in. He makes it. 806 00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,680 Speaker 1: Larry is stoke. He's like, yeah, by psychedelic mission will continue. 807 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,440 Speaker 1: The Black Panthers are a little less thrilled, right, So 808 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,400 Speaker 1: when Clever gives the plane tickets to Larry, he pulls 809 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,520 Speaker 1: Field Marshal Don Coox's aside and he kind of indicates 810 00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,440 Speaker 1: Timothy Larry and he's like, get this out of the country. 811 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:49,440 Speaker 1: The problem with his plans was Larry. Yes, when he 812 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:53,080 Speaker 1: gets to be rude, what does he do? He checks 813 00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,880 Speaker 1: into a hotel used by all the prominent Western journalists 814 00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:00,440 Speaker 1: in the area, like a moth to a poison flame. 815 00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,360 Speaker 1: They recognize him immediately as the most wanted man in 816 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,279 Speaker 1: America shaved head or no shaved head. He then goes, oh, well, 817 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,480 Speaker 1: you caught me, and it evolves into a Timothy Larry circus, 818 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,279 Speaker 1: and then Yester Arafat and the PLOC this or like 819 00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:16,880 Speaker 1: U because they've been back channel communication trying to make 820 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,480 Speaker 1: it happen. We don't want this guy raged bad enough, 821 00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,120 Speaker 1: you guys got to deal with him. So now he's 822 00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:23,960 Speaker 1: back on the run, and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love 823 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:25,600 Speaker 1: is no longer helping him, but they do kind of 824 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:29,239 Speaker 1: like help get him to Afghanistan. He did Afghanistan, he 825 00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:34,960 Speaker 1: smuggled to Afghanistan. Afghanistan. Then a Russian they have, yeah, 826 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,600 Speaker 1: they have. So the Russians are invading. Yeah, so yes, 827 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,600 Speaker 1: so they are fighting, and do you have the Mujahidian 828 00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:43,680 Speaker 1: backed by the CIA. So you have the CIA all 829 00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,680 Speaker 1: over Afghanistan in like a proxy war with the Soviets. 830 00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:48,480 Speaker 1: And so he's going in there, going, hey, I just 831 00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,600 Speaker 1: want to deal with the war lords with some hash, 832 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:55,320 Speaker 1: just a great wanders. So he gets arrested in nineteen 833 00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:59,320 Speaker 1: seventy and Larry spends three years in prison. After his release, 834 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,440 Speaker 1: his days as a radical leader of the Brotherhood of 835 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,759 Speaker 1: Eternal Love, all that whole psychedelic relver revolution stuff, those 836 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,839 Speaker 1: are kind of behind him. He goes moving into other 837 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,759 Speaker 1: New a g things and still being psychedelic, but he's 838 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,000 Speaker 1: no longer the Timothy Leary that he once was. He 839 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,560 Speaker 1: moved to Beverly Hills, you know, he goes full back. 840 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:19,760 Speaker 1: He surrendered his credible By the early seventies, the Brotherhood 841 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,040 Speaker 1: of Eternal Love is pretty much on its last legs, right, 842 00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,759 Speaker 1: they they've lost their founder, farmer John Griggs. He he 843 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,120 Speaker 1: passes away O D s on psilocybin. Crystals passes away. 844 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:35,279 Speaker 1: I didn't know possible on mushrooms psilocybin. So it was 845 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:40,080 Speaker 1: like basically, um a distiller, not a distilby a product 846 00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,240 Speaker 1: created by So I don't know how it was turned 847 00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,640 Speaker 1: into crystals. It wasn't like he just just eating mushrooms yea. 848 00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,400 Speaker 1: But even that's where it comes exactly. Apparently he ate 849 00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:48,960 Speaker 1: too much. Anyway, I don't know if he didn't do 850 00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,319 Speaker 1: something while he was on the psilocybin. It may not 851 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,400 Speaker 1: have been an O D, but that's how it's reported. 852 00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:55,919 Speaker 1: So he passes away. In his place, a man named 853 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,919 Speaker 1: John Gale steps forward to lead the Brotherhood. Now John 854 00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,520 Speaker 1: Gale was more of a biker and a criminal than 855 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,000 Speaker 1: he was a visionary. Yeah, he's like, let's go with 856 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:09,200 Speaker 1: something reliable. Guns. He's like, I like drugs, like smuggling, 857 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,239 Speaker 1: let's stick to that. This hippie revolution not so much. 858 00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,080 Speaker 1: He's a little bit more of the conservative Orange County 859 00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:18,120 Speaker 1: that I was talking about before. Now, some say the 860 00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,719 Speaker 1: the numbers vary, some say it was ten thousand hits. 861 00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,839 Speaker 1: Some say it was fifteen thousand. It's you'll find some 862 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,040 Speaker 1: accounts that it was twenty five thousand hits of acid. 863 00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,880 Speaker 1: Whatever the number, it was the most psychedelic Christmas party 864 00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:33,200 Speaker 1: ever thrown, the most in like, there's this long list 865 00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:37,759 Speaker 1: the psychedelic Christmas and this was the most. Was the 866 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,799 Speaker 1: second thing. There was a fellow Laguna Beach hippie named 867 00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:45,400 Speaker 1: Kurt Reid. He ran a restaurant with the extra hippie 868 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,840 Speaker 1: named Love Animals Don't Eat Them. And this Christmas happening, 869 00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:52,280 Speaker 1: which was John Gale's leadership, this was his like big 870 00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,920 Speaker 1: Brotherhood of Eternal Love, epic revolutionary action. His idea is, 871 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,759 Speaker 1: let's just have a Christmas party and throw acid at it. Right. 872 00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:00,840 Speaker 1: So this guy's like yeah, but he had taken it 873 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,320 Speaker 1: from this local who had actually had the ideas of 874 00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,080 Speaker 1: legitimate same kind of like what to get everyone together 875 00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:10,279 Speaker 1: to tribe unities, Like yeah, yeah, alright whatever. He's like, 876 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,520 Speaker 1: at first, he's actually not really helping the guy. The guy, 877 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,120 Speaker 1: this guy Kurt Reid, he's just running it on his own. 878 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,520 Speaker 1: But once he has the approval of the local approval, 879 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,320 Speaker 1: the brother to Eternal Love starts printing up posters, He 880 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:24,040 Speaker 1: announces a Christmas festival. He sends posters to college radio stations, 881 00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,840 Speaker 1: to health food stores up and down the state. He 882 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,960 Speaker 1: wants everybody to know. All the weekly newspapers are writing 883 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,960 Speaker 1: about it. You know, everybody knows about this upcoming happening 884 00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,680 Speaker 1: right now. John Gale in the Brotherhood, they're not sure 885 00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:37,640 Speaker 1: that Reid can pull it off. So then as look 886 00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,839 Speaker 1: at them, like about four days before, they're like, okay, man, 887 00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:41,920 Speaker 1: you're not what's going on? All right, let's build these stages. 888 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,279 Speaker 1: Let's give call Pgenie, let's get power. They make it happen, right, 889 00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:48,239 Speaker 1: So in early December, this is because they have to 890 00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:52,200 Speaker 1: respond to what they have noticed happening started in early December. Hippies, surfers, 891 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,600 Speaker 1: foot loose high school kids, just about anybody who's not 892 00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,160 Speaker 1: tied down, was hitchhiking or loading up in cars and 893 00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,920 Speaker 1: coming down to small lagoona beach, California, just now the 894 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,759 Speaker 1: center of the psychedelic revolution still because they still have 895 00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,799 Speaker 1: that going on. So all these radicals and hippie kids 896 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,520 Speaker 1: and former bikers and surfers from the surf mafia, they're 897 00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:11,560 Speaker 1: all hanging out in this small town with these conservative 898 00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:14,440 Speaker 1: towns people. So the townsfolk went from laughing at all 899 00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,000 Speaker 1: the hippie kids to really fearing that these dirty, rotten 900 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,359 Speaker 1: flower power kids are going to take over their town 901 00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,000 Speaker 1: and like do some kind of like I don't know 902 00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,160 Speaker 1: how's angel moves, right, So they decided like maybe we 903 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:27,680 Speaker 1: should declare martial law, and people like the city town 904 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:29,719 Speaker 1: fathers like, I don't know about that, but there's really 905 00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,239 Speaker 1: not much they can do. Right. So on Christmas Day, 906 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,000 Speaker 1: because now we're the Christmas party is gonna kick off. 907 00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,400 Speaker 1: It's going full swing. We got twenty five thousand hippies 908 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,680 Speaker 1: and radicals in town, the psychedelic Christmas parties in full swing. 909 00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,800 Speaker 1: And a local high school kid, Daniel Adams, he's eighteen 910 00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:46,440 Speaker 1: at the time, where she was eight ten at the time. 911 00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,399 Speaker 1: She remembered going to the Christmas happening, and I'm gonna 912 00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,040 Speaker 1: goose quote from her. We got there just before dark. 913 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,560 Speaker 1: There were people everywhere, and more of them were hiking 914 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,560 Speaker 1: in over the hills. Peace symbols were everywhere, music was playing. 915 00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,879 Speaker 1: I can remember walking up towards the bandstand and looking 916 00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,719 Speaker 1: nearby and there was a couple making love. On the 917 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,239 Speaker 1: other side of us. There was a woman on a 918 00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:08,959 Speaker 1: white horse, long hair, completely nude. People were passing joints around. 919 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:10,839 Speaker 1: Remember one guy walking through the crowd and he put 920 00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:12,600 Speaker 1: his hand out and there was an array of every 921 00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:14,840 Speaker 1: kind of pill. I don't remember what band was playing, 922 00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:17,279 Speaker 1: but the singer was up there encouraging everybody to take up. 923 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,640 Speaker 1: I was just overwhelming. After dark, it got real cold. 924 00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:24,200 Speaker 1: There were no blankets and no toilets. So basically it's 925 00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:26,839 Speaker 1: just like the poor man's version of Woodstock by the Sea. Yeah, 926 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,960 Speaker 1: it's just like a mud bay. So rumors begin to 927 00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,239 Speaker 1: spread some of the radicals who freed Timothy Learry or 928 00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,080 Speaker 1: at this event. So the cops show up and they 929 00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,080 Speaker 1: try to go through the crowd trying to find Weather 930 00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:39,560 Speaker 1: Underground or black Panthers, but turns out that they cannot 931 00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,920 Speaker 1: make it through all the pot smoke and the nudity 932 00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,360 Speaker 1: and the public sex acts and the mud, the blood 933 00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,440 Speaker 1: and the whole biker acid freak out. They're just moratlly 934 00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,280 Speaker 1: opposed there like let's let this go. Were growing terrified 935 00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,200 Speaker 1: and they besieged the cops. Stop this, make this stop 936 00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:56,520 Speaker 1: right because it's like on day two of this party 937 00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,719 Speaker 1: and the bands are still playing and everything's rocking, and 938 00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:01,759 Speaker 1: one guy for his own reasons, he shows up at 939 00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,880 Speaker 1: the cop shop and he drives his personal homemade tank 940 00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:06,719 Speaker 1: that he met, Like, you guys can use this. Did 941 00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,239 Speaker 1: you clear out the hippies if you want to go? 942 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:13,360 Speaker 1: Where did you make this? Why? He even so? Christmas 943 00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:16,040 Speaker 1: Day the police lay a siege around the canyon where 944 00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,239 Speaker 1: all this Christmas happening is going down, and decide they 945 00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:19,799 Speaker 1: were going to bottle up the hippie No one in, 946 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,200 Speaker 1: no one out right this to punish the hippie kids. 947 00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,719 Speaker 1: This means that the cops refused to let porta potties through, 948 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,719 Speaker 1: So now love scene is beginning to fill up with 949 00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:33,160 Speaker 1: human filth. This just like it would suck ninety million 950 00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:37,719 Speaker 1: flashbacks knew he would get. Then came the LSD from 951 00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:41,279 Speaker 1: this guy with diamonds. The next day, on December, a 952 00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:44,120 Speaker 1: plane flew over the twenty five thousand or so hippies 953 00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:47,000 Speaker 1: in the canyon and the plane dropped thousands of Christmas 954 00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,000 Speaker 1: cards on the crowd. And as I told you inside, 955 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,320 Speaker 1: if each Christmas card was a hit of orange Sunshine acid, 956 00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,160 Speaker 1: the happening kicks off and turns into an LSD fueled 957 00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,839 Speaker 1: Christmas party that won't stop for another day and a half. 958 00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:01,360 Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was so epic. Some people still say, 959 00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:05,080 Speaker 1: if you remember it, then you weren't there. Oh my god. 960 00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,320 Speaker 1: When it finally came time to clear the canyon the 961 00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:12,000 Speaker 1: next day, the city fathers brought in bulldozers. They cleared 962 00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:15,040 Speaker 1: the entire site, just knocked over the stage, didn't try 963 00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:18,800 Speaker 1: to salvage anything. They dug deep trenches. They pushed everything 964 00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,320 Speaker 1: into the trenches and buried like they wanted the memory 965 00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:25,560 Speaker 1: to never do this like an acid super fund, they 966 00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:28,840 Speaker 1: just actually destroy all evidence of the event ever occurred. 967 00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:32,000 Speaker 1: And then in two the brother of Eternal Love comes 968 00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:35,080 Speaker 1: to a crashing end when a multiple state and federal 969 00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:38,200 Speaker 1: authority staying operation takes them down and the ones who 970 00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,160 Speaker 1: aren't caught up fleet Some go to Maui, some go 971 00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:45,120 Speaker 1: to Morocco, Afghandistandihiti where they had their drug runs. The 972 00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:48,200 Speaker 1: criminal legend starts to peter out over time, their stories 973 00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:51,640 Speaker 1: get lost to the ether, and now they are fading 974 00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,239 Speaker 1: yet colorful reminder of a very different time. A bunch 975 00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:56,719 Speaker 1: of radical Orange County surfers and farmer bikers who did 976 00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,520 Speaker 1: radical things with the Black Panthers and the weather underground 977 00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,160 Speaker 1: and wanted to start a psychedelic revolution, but all they 978 00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:05,759 Speaker 1: got was an LSD fue old Christmas party. Amazing's Elizabeth, 979 00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:10,480 Speaker 1: It's a ridiculous takeaway. Merry Christmas, nothing better than that. 980 00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:13,680 Speaker 1: Can you imagine all of that just happening like and 981 00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:16,120 Speaker 1: it's just like these are the stories that are forgotten. 982 00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:18,480 Speaker 1: It makes me wonder how many things we just do 983 00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,120 Speaker 1: not know about that work Stane at the time, most 984 00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:25,160 Speaker 1: most radical, most wanted man at the time bombing in 985 00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,040 Speaker 1: the United States, and we don't know this stuff. We 986 00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:29,319 Speaker 1: don't hear about there was a surf market, and we 987 00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,040 Speaker 1: just don't hear about. Reason why LSD is so cheap. 988 00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:33,759 Speaker 1: It's because of these cats. We just don't hear what 989 00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:38,120 Speaker 1: we hear about it. Now, Well, whatever, thanks for listening. 990 00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,600 Speaker 1: You can find us online Ridiculous Crime about Twitter and 991 00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:43,319 Speaker 1: Instagram twitters for the discourse. Instagram is where we put 992 00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:45,799 Speaker 1: up the photos for each episode and the stories where 993 00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:47,920 Speaker 1: we got some jokes for y'all, and then you'll get 994 00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,759 Speaker 1: some sneak peeks at new EPPS emails if you want, 995 00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,920 Speaker 1: or you can tweet at us either one. If you 996 00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,480 Speaker 1: email us, pick Ridiculous Crime at gmail dot com if 997 00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:59,960 Speaker 1: you tweet at us Ridiculous Crime. 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