He Thinks About The 1960s Ever Since The 1960s

[@charlesbeaudelair8331]

Dear David, your channel is so valuable for making sense of the time we're in. Its really an honourable task to be a documentarian and a good interviewer. Thanks

[@rockinblue978]

Amazing to hear a fresh take on what the 60s were about.

[@Caldostanite19]

I’m 18 and have been deeply fascinated with the 60s for a long time and this interview answers many many questions and curiosities I had about the time. Keep up the brilliant interviews David!!!

[@TheAnadromist]

Hey Walker check out my channel The Anadromist. There is lots more where this came from. And who knows maybe Davis will have me on again someday.

[@terrywestbrook-lienert2296]

This was an excellent narrative, David. One day, I would like to see interviews on those involved in the Beat Generation of the 1950’s. Please keep up the great documentaries.

[@42danimal]

Byrne Powers should write a book-interesting, insightful and well thought out. Thank you David .

[@TheAnadromist]

Yeah I should. Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@andrewbwsmith8201]

We can never go back to the fifties because the economy then was predicated on the rest of the world being wiped out by World War II. It took years and years to rebuild Europe and Asia -- take a look at foreign films from the late fifties and early sixties and you can still see the scars of war. The US was the center of the world economy then because the US was the only country left standing. Prosperity is easy when you don't have any competition. Today the rest of the world has recovered from the war and rebuilt, and we have to compete with every other country on earth.

[@djeieakekseki2058]

AndrewBW Smith yes I agree. This was one of the predictions of Shah of Iran, he said something along the lines of soon west will realize that other countries are growing up, and western people will not continue living the same way. They will accommodate to the new world order however.

[@polishherowitoldpilecki5521]

When you mean back to the fifties do you just mean the economy or values and clothing as well.

[@sevdev9844]

Germany had a lot of destroyed cities, but the industry came back quite fast. Workers and management was still there, factories also to some extent and (West-)Germany got support in buying new machines for being on the frontline to the Soviet Union and the showcase for capitalism.

[@artdecotimes2942]

They may be rising up, but hell if they do not know what they are doing. Dubai thinks their gods, haha their roads make horse intersections in 1870 look easy.

[@tomorrowhowever7488]

@@sevdev9844 IBM, Ford and other US companies had been working in and with Germany prior to and throughout the war. Their rebound was good for the US economy.

[@tamiweber9409]

All of my uncles were in WW2 and never talked about it. This is a very informative enlightening video. Thank you 💜

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

I am so glad Tami. thank you for letting me know your feelings. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. Your observation backs me up completely. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@facetzmielca]

I grew up in the 80s in communist Poland, so I guess I missed the 60s. But not entirely. What I am learning from this and other of your awesome films about 1967 SF reminds me the punk craziness in my country (1988-91). I also cannot stop thinking about those days.

[@TheAnadromist]

I find the punk phenomenon to be very different from the hippies. I cover this more on my channel called The Anadromist. Also in my How We Got here series I discuss the 80s in Eastern Europe. Thanks for listening.

[@MrsABC7997]

Thomas Watts thank you for your service in Vietnam! My brother-in-law was in rat patrol for two tours! We never should have been there but that start in 1948! The men who served, died, POW'ed, MIA'ed, and those that came home to scorn & an unheroic welcome have my utmost respect! That is a blight on our military's history! The disrespect of the military soldiers! ❤🙏

[@peterlyons8793]

@@bubbalong7646 You have a generous and forgiving attitude toward America after having to enroll in "The University of Vietnam".

[@travisgraff2909]

This interview was amazing. Thank you David!

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@johnlomax2502]

Your work is always thought provoking, David. This was no exception. I was born in 64. This fellow is my sibling's age range, and I love to hear those people's insights into that time period because I was looking at it through the lens of a young child.

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks for good words. Hey if you got something out of my interview with David I suspect you might find my main channel, The Anadromist, worth a visit.

[@johnlomax2502]

@@TheAnadromist you are welcome. And I will check out your channel. Thank you. John Lomax

[@gypsyheart5573]

The late 60's are my favorite, from 65-70. These were my teenage years and have always considered myself as a hippie. For me it was the music and the clothes and yes the long hair! Wasn't into the drugs or the "free love" part. It was just a feeling back then that i can't put into words and even when i think back on it now i get that same feeling. I'd love to go back to that time. Truly enjoyed this video, brought back great memories. And for that i say thank you David.

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@TheAnadromist]

@Milkdreams Thanks. See you over there.

[@Troy_KC-2-PH]

"I wish there were hippies who weren't crazy and weren't doing drugs" I thought that back in the 1970s when I was a teenager (hippies were still around then)

[@pmskyV]

yeah we smelled them in their garages back yards growing up playing outside as kids lol ...no wait where i grew up it was usually VETS as well do Vets and hippies smoke in peace? hmmm :D

[@lostinspace699]

I was bourn in 64 in morocco My parents were Hippies smoking Hash and LSD i had My first trip at 4, yeas old i can still remember it ,it great and smoke a few times ,, went to many pope festivals , it was great . and also watch everything go to shit ,around me My father went to jail for weed my We were in Australia Had no money , my mother was never a team player being alterative and lazy looking after us had one bother sister 3 of us school was difficult for us not having the only ones with no school uniforms did not benefit me my mother went to jail so the government us 3 kids went in a home i think it was about two weeks , Mom went with this Lazy prick guy Frank he use to flog me often i was not the best kid either ; we where always poor No car phone TV,i never got in to smoking weed again till 16 i struggled at school there is allot of stuff i could go on ,,, i am a builder have two property's plenty of work single healthy , and fortuned , ,,,,,,,,

[@artdecotimes2942]

@@lostinspace699 I was born in 1940 and I won't lie, I did not live as bad a life as you did. It is revolting being over someone with my life, that they never enjoyed, rough turns on a coarse road that you went through whilst I was on the smooth pavement in an automobile ordering a driver around. Such a shame you had that as a childhood, drugs are not our friends, if they ever are it should only be when you are a young adult, and having the ability to stop it before you further ruin your life.

[@marcus3060]

@@lostinspace699 good man

[@zampieritto]

@@lostinspace699 but in the 60s no hippies in Morocco. Morocco is a Muslim country

[@Shari225]

I learn a lot from your work, David. Thank you so much!

[@Troy_KC-2-PH]

I know I commented too many times but David Hoffman, this was a GREAT interview. If you can, it would be nice for you to get another interview with Byrne to give us a timeline of events as he interprets them from say 1963 to 1973 or even to 1976.

[@stankozubenko8520]

He has a KZbin channel of hours and hours talking about the periods of time between the 1960's and 2000's.

[@stankozubenko8520]

kzbin.info/aero/PLJ895CQuvzeURMq282OR57w-2lwdo625g

[@TheAnadromist]

Hey Old Gringo. Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@itgetter9]

Hi Mr. Hoffman! All your work is so amazing! Thank you for helping us get through this pandemic. I've been thinking a lot about this as well, and that was my conclusion: the generation who fought in WWII were traumatized by it. The youth of the 1960s insisted on grappling with that trauma, and they did it in the midst of the Viet Nam War. This insistence on staring at the trauma of one war, in the middle of another, wounded veterans in both generations, and started a massive backlash, which brought us the 1980s, and the stasis of the 1980s to 2016.

[@samuelyeates2326]

Byrne is a treasure and has a great, very insightful channel (the anadromist)

[@TheAnadromist]

Hey thanks for the extra promotion. Good to see you here.

[@cruisinleaksandunrealesed8705]

Absolutely loved this... please have him on again!!!!

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks for the good words. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lot's more there. Check it out.

[@slickcross]

This interview needed to be 3 hours longer! I'm 36 and I love listening to people talking about the past.

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. If you want more of my thoughts about the past you might find my channel, The Anadromist, worth your time.

[@meowerstationone3793]

Very interesting and relatable. Would like to hear more. Thanks David!

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@jordandupuis1249]

Once again mr Hoffman thank you for your excellent content

[@IStink3]

Loved the interview. Would love to hear from Byrne in the future!

[@TheAnadromist]

Hi Ray. Thanks for your kind words. I have a channel The Anadromist. There is loads more over there. Give it a look. And maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel.

[@Troy_KC-2-PH]

Wow, 6 and a half minutes in and this is already very deep and also explains a lot of things. I was born in 1963 so I can't remember some of the things but the 1960s has been like a shadow in the background (for me) ever present.

[@ajisstillright]

As a "modern day hippie" I value this video to the fullest, much obliged Mr. Hoffman. Gives me more insight and an understanding of this extraordinary decade.

[@jcomm120]

Brilliant interview, thank you♡

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

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[@alexander_the_great_1975]

We all wish we could go back in time, David. Despite all commotion of the times, they were better back then. I was born in 1975, by the way, and I wish I could have lived in the 60s

[@wireboar7321]

i've been thinking about 60's ever since 2010's, so i'm hooked

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@2F3R]

Great video Mr David..i cant always directly relate with your videos and thats what i absolutely love about them. Take care.

[@JR-zm2yu]

@DavidHoffman Fascinating video indeed & spot on imo. Hats off to you, Byrne & Heidi.👌💜🙏

[@daniellandry8786]

Another great interview David please keep the coming!

[@TheAnadromist]

Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lot's more there. Check it out.

[@josiahmaglott738]

This was eye-opening and inspiring. Thank you David Hoffman! 🙂👏

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@aacallison1535]

I find I agree with many of this gentlemans' views. As I also appreciated Mr Hoffman's documentaries over many years.(Although I'm glad to get to know you on a more personal level now--through your KZbin channel.) Thanks. The son of a journalist of the 1950s--1960s.

[@johnallen2771]

I can't emphasize how much music was a part of the 1960's. We were just kind of going along, living this '50s idea of the American middle-class lifestyle, and then Kennedy was elected. They called it the "New Camelot." The Beach Boys snapped us out of our reverie with surf music first and then the Beatles popped up. We all went into a music frenzy. Every young guy I knew wanted to learn how to play the guitar. The Beatles started a revolution and there were sooooo many other bands also kicking in, like the Mamas and Papas who were huge at the time, and the "British Invasion." Sometimes I wondered if we were leading the bands or the bands were leading us? It seemed like we were totally on the same wavelength, that the bands were seeing and feeling the same things we were. The words to the songs were so important to us because they gave us hope and inspiration that what we were doing was the right thing to do. When we got to the "Love" stage of our evolvement that set it in concrete for me. I still believe in the power of love. I wound up in 1970 at Kent State for the killings and that was pretty much the end of the "dream some of us had," as Joni Mitchell sang. Somehow the ideas that we were espousing didn't catch on with the rest of the American populace. Oh, BTW, if you want to listen to some really great music, not "Greatest Hits Top 40," I have a playlist on KZbin called, "1960's Super Fantastic Music. It's All Too Much." 1200+ unbelievably great songs.

[@TheAnadromist]

Yes John the music was at the center of everything. Part of the reason was that it was radically changing every other week. Also with Dylan's influence the lyrics were changing as well. I deal with these subjects in more depth over on my channel - The Anadromist. Check it out & thanks for listening.

[@johnallen2771]

@@TheAnadromist Wow. You really have some diverse content. I'll be watching your stuff for the next couple of weeks at least. I love David Hoffman and I see he interviewed you. I would like to put my memories of Kent State down on paper for future generations to read. My roommate, Barry Levine, was in love with Allison Krause and she died in his arms that day. My friend Bill showed me a movie called, "The Day the Music Died," (I think it was, could be wrong) where he and I are clearly shown at the Liberty Bell on the commons. My buddy Todd Wyant made it to the cover of Look Magazine and it's a great picture of him throwing a tear gas cannister back at the National Guard. So many memories. Later I was interrogated by the Attorney General's office and my father (former FBI agent) said I should move to Canada if I was indicted.

[@TheAnadromist]

@@johnallen2771 John that's really fascinating. David should interview you! Being at such an iconic and tragic event marks one's life doesn't it. And yes you really should write down everything you can remember. And try to distinguish what you remember from what you read later. I've recently been putting together playlists of music that I remember listening to from 1967 -1969. I found old radio charts to guide me. But I also scrupulously avoid putting anything in these lists that I discovered about the same period later, and that was a lot. To me it's an exercise in memory and a way to see what influenced me at a crucial stage. Remembering an event is different. But the less later interpretation the better. Just try to get the event as you remember it. Use music and other media signifiers to help get you in the frame of mind. And then dive in. By the way you might find my Time and Memory series interesting here. Anyway glad to have you.

[@DrizzyDrakeII]

This was very insightful and enjoyable to watch, thank you

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@tamarrajames3590]

This man. Has very eloquently described my thoughts about my experience of the 60s after a childhood in the 50s as well as I might have myself. We who lived it as young adults often refer back to this period to sift the positive remnants from those we pushed too far. I think it was necessary at the time, just as today’s young movement is essential to find honest middle ground. Thank you for sharing him and his ideas.🖤🇨🇦

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks for your kind comments. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lot's more there. Check it out.

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@TheAnadromist Thank you, I will.🖤🇨🇦

[@MicahScottPnD]

An effort to find an "honest middle ground", i hadn't thought of it quite like that. It's a compelling perspective. ❤

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@MicahScottPnD Thank you, I think it is necessary if we wish to avoid the issues that conflict and war present. Nobody is always right, nor are they always wrong…the best way forward is to look at the past with what it has taught us, and choose better approaches than we did before. It is the closest thing we have to a crystal ball that can tell us the future we are heading into.🖤🇨🇦

[@mending_chord6787]

I loved this guys insights and opinions, really enjoyed this!

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@MyHellaKitty]

My parents were one of those Jesus Freaks. This explains a lot to me. I was born in 1978. My parents lived on a Christian Commune when I was born. I wasn't born in a hospital like most of my peers. I was born in someone's farmhouse in Oregon and a midwife helped deliver me. We're I'm from people are very laid back and friendly. So, that's how I was as a child and how I am as a person. My Aunt observe that I wasn't fussy like my older cousin, who was born the summer before me. She said I was quietly listening and watching to the adults talking. I'm still like this to this day. I like to watch and observe. I think that's why I love your channel so much. I often thought to myself. I felt like a human camera. When I was 4, I remember looking at my younger sister while riding in the car ride home, wondering how she saw things. Asking myself, "Why was I born me at this very moment, looking at her?". With in each person lays a secret world, we don't know or understand. Who is really behind the camera in each person? Who am I? What am I doing here? What was the point of my existence in that moment in time. When I was in my teens, I had nightmares about becoming 18 and becoming an adult. Life suddenly felt like a conveyer belt or a moving train. My age was changing. But I didn't feel like I was on the inside. I wasn't were everyone my own age was. I had this dream where I was trying to drive this huge boat of a car. I was small and the car was so big. It was hard to control. I was trying really hard to keep in the right lane and not run into cars or other people. It feels likes like I'm stumbling over my own head. I feel like I'm always aware and alert. I'm an intellectual. I like to talk about things. Most people don't want to talk about things. But, then I can really get talking and feels like a train broke it's break and is going off the rails. I really like this individual you interviewed.

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. I go much more into depth on these kinds of things over on my channel. You might follow the bread crumbs there.

[@HeloIV]

Byrne has an excellent underrated channel

[@TheAnadromist]

Hey thanks for the little plug. Glad you find something in what I'm doing.

[@Denise00700]

There was no better time. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I like this guy! Thank you for posting. ✌🏻 ❤️ 😊

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks for the kind words. Check out my channel for more.

[@psidvicious]

What seemed like lots of fun at the time with the “free love” movement, actually had destructive consequences to the family structure and in my opinion turned out to be the worst take-away from the 60’s/70’s. But, who knew something that felt so good, could ultimately have such negative consequences.

[@robstrck3314]

Yep I’m with you on that one.

[@courtesyofdickboak]

The previous generation and many people contemporary to that movement knew and discussed it often. They were demonized for it

[@robstrck3314]

And now we are in 2021

[@notchoome5694]

Those who tricked us into it... think tanks, the cia, etcetera.

[@Thomasuki267]

Without that movement, we'd still be jailing gay people and bashing trans people. It opened up closed minds. And I don't think it hurt the family structure; in fact, we have more forms of family now. Listen to the family story of the subject of the video.

[@s.brouwer5264]

Great interview! Thanks !

[@24kRobot]

Wow! This is a good one. Wow!! I really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing!

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks for your kind words. I have a channel The Anadromist. There is loads more over there. Give it a look.

[@SongWhisperer]

I used to live just down the road from a country music musician (Russ Wheeler), as teens we would go to Russ’s and record music on these old reel to reel recorders, and Russ basically predicted the future right down to the gender bending and transgender men dominating women’s sports. I don’t know what Russ witnessed in his younger years but he certainly recognized what was to come. Russ was a hero to us young kids back in the day, my friends and i once got Russ elected as the mayor of the town (Boiestown, NB, Canada) we lived in, no one ever showed up to vote (except the regulars) so my friends and i all showed up (About 20 of us) and voted Russ in, to say the least it caused a slight uproar in our little political community. Just a funny story I thought you would find amusing. Great video 👍

[@DirkDillingerBlues]

I am just downriver from Boisetown.

[@SongWhisperer]

@Dirk Dillinger Stewart • Oh ya, where at? I was wondering if this comment would reach any locals close to me, i don’t recognize your first name but i know lots of Stewart’s. I’m from Doaktown, I’ve been playing music around those parts since i was a teen, well, nice to hear from ya, talk to ya later.

[@DirkDillingerBlues]

Chatham

[@SongWhisperer]

@Dirk Dillinger Stewart • Ahh, the big city,lol. I can’t say i know a lot of people down your way, it was very nice to meet on WWW.

[@susanmercurio1060]

We predicted a lot of things accurately, but the media and the government marginalized us and no one would listen. But I disagree about trans men dominating women's sports. The officials check the entrants very closely to prevent that. It makes me wonder why you don't think that women can be strong and capable enough to get the kinds of scores we do in major sports. Hmmmm?

[@iowasenator]

This man is fascinating. It reminds me of the intellectual stimulation I received when I first went to college.

[@TheAnadromist]

Glad to hear it. I've got lots more that might interest you on my channel, The Anadromist.

[@iowasenator]

@@TheAnadromist Wonderful! I'll pop over to your channel. Thanks.

[@VideoSaySo]

I've been thinking about the 80's since the 80's. Lol!

[@GreekGypsy]

Same here lol.

[@VideoSaySo]

@@GreekGypsy Maybe if we shut our eyes tight (edit: with eyeshadow all the way up to our eyebrows!), put on our jelly shoes and parachute pants...and do The Carlton, we can go back!🤣🤣

[@GreekGypsy]

@@VideoSaySo I'd love to🙂

[@SnarkNSass]

Class of '86!!😎🖖✌

[@VideoSaySo]

@@SnarkNSass '87 here!

[@landryprichard6778]

My dad, a doctor, once told one of his patients, a girl I knew, that I was a hippie stuck in the 1990s. He still denies saying it. My tastes, at fifty, have expanded well beyond that decade, but I find myself listening to Terence McKenna's lectures from back then. Trying to advance and not get stuck in Nostagiaville is tricky as hell.

[@InfamousMedia]

Good to see another McKenna fan. I'm in my late 20's, huge fan of McKenna. My uncles say the same thing about myself, it's rather surprising to see young people today so divorced from the peace and love movement

[@thelantern9075]

What’s wrong with nostalgiaville? Lol. Find what you love, and love it.

[@landryprichard6778]

@@InfamousMedia As a young millenial or millenial, I would love to hear you expound on that. I've met a few Zoomers over the last year or so up here, and I'm trying to process it. There seems a feeling of being lost and very upset at the Boomers, but I could be wrong.

[@NorthAlabamaCryptidMrMrsNAC]

I was born in 1967 and I've looked at it like him - it was extraordinary.

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@nerdbamarich2063]

Blessings my friend😊

[@gailseatonhumbert9199]

Fascinating. Thank you.

[@debracisneroshhp2827]

David, Great interview with a very interesting guest__wouldn't mind another. Judging from the comments, I'd say most people here agree. Love your channel. 💖🙌🙌🙌😺

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@dondressel452]

I grew up in the 60’s I was so young to realize what was going on I did enjoy 60’s riding my Schwinn stingray with my friends and going to the local store to get a salami sandwich and coke for 75 cents and playing hide and seek So I was very naive to what was going on in the world I do remember the Beatles movies a hard days night and help and the line going around the block to get in to see the movies To me the 60’s were all fun but I could see the changes coming in the late 60’s Life seemed so much simpler back then

[@TheAnadromist]

And that Schwinn Stingray!

[@RADIUMGLASS]

I've always heard good things and still do about the 50s. No decade is perfect, each one has it's flaws, but it certainly was a good time to be a part of. I'm sure many people will disagree but that's my own opinion and I won't change it.

[@MekonenMeteor123]

I love you like a grandfather David Hoffman. Your incredible !

[@peternicholson2504]

Thanks for this interview about an interesting time of change. Change has to happen but too much too soon will have to affect some the wrong way.

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@peternicholson2504]

@@TheAnadromist Thanks I will. I've enjoyed reading some of your comments on David's channel.

[@TheAnadromist]

@@peternicholson2504 Ah someone noticed. Do drop into my channel(s).

[@spb7883]

I’ve been thinking about the 60s since the 90s, which is when I first became aware of that decade while in my teens. What fascinated me about the time was how unlike the *80s* - my childhood years - it seemed. I read about revolution and about young people refusing to conform to society’s unrealistic, materialistic standards of life. And I wondered how my parents’ generation - the Baby Boomers - could go from those values to what felt to me like the *very* conformist, very materialistic 80s. I had questions, and just like my parents’ generation did with my grandparents’, I became frustrated by the lack of transparency and honesty I saw in the culture. Now we’re in a moment when the liberal *and* conservative values that emerged in the wake of the 60s have *themselves* come under scrutiny. Another generation is questioning the past. All of this suggests a generational cycle: with each new generation comes a desire to overcome the past, to start over. But something about that seems too simplistic to me. If something is a constant, the fact that it occurs in new iterations should be irrelevant. Of course, this questioning could also be political, but that too makes little sense, because one’s politics are irrelevant to the act of questioning. Perhaps something cultural is truly at play here. Each generation questions their parents’ generation because we don’t have lasting values as a society, values that we can impart to future generations. Maybe that’s why we seem to be going in a circle as a society.

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. If you enjoyed David's interview with me you might find a lot more of the same on my channel. The Anadromist.

[@RayMainBagpiper]

Interesting interview. My grandfathers family immigrated from Slovenia, and he participated in the occupation of Europe and fought in Korea. My mom was a child of the 60's when I was 3 or four years old and we lived in Isla Vista California / Goleta / Santa Barbara. I remember the burning of the Bank of America.... Because THAT was our Bank ! I think I might a self interview.... hmmm. Thanks for posting this, gives me inspiration.

[@black_umbrella_design]

So human and wonderful. Really enjoy these.

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks for your kind words. I have a channel The Anadromist. There is loads more over there. Give it a look.

[@black_umbrella_design]

@@TheAnadromist Just subbed... thanks!

[@TheAnadromist]

@@black_umbrella_design Thanks indeed. As the French say; Profitez!

[@JWF99]

I for one enjoyed the hell out of his perspective David, thank you for this post, very thoughtful intelligent insight, you guys realize 1967 was 54 yrs ago, man ! but 54 yrs ago for those folks back then was 1913 omg ! that had to be strange man ? No wonder people from that gererations perspectives are very different than alot of younger folks are today ! They,re smarter ! Lol, I'm joking a bit, but seriously, great conversation 😁

[@TheAnadromist]

I think the reason that 1913 looked so different to us is because of the 60s. And the 60s has been affecting us ever since. It has only been with the rise of the smartphone that we have begun to escape its shadow. Meanwhile most of the ideals of the 60s are the standard power structure of the left now. Thanks for the comment. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@JWF99]

@@TheAnadromist really enjoyed your conversation with David, so i certainly will

[@MicahScottPnD]

​@@JWF99Hey there Jim👋 Im a couple years behind on this video 😂 Excellent stuff

[@JWF99]

@@MicahScottPnD Hey there Micah 🖑 Kinda funny running into you way back here! 😂😂😂 David's sure had some pretty interestingly videos over the years✌

[@MicahScottPnD]

@@JWF99 No doubt about it! Tonight I was looking at a couple and then just looking at the comments, thinking "how does a guy manage to read all this stuff?!" I suppose you get good at it, you learn what to look for, and learn what to gloss over? 🤣🤷‍♂️ Just a dizzying amount of information, and you know he reads the bulk of it! Just baffling. This video here really resonates with me, I felt like "well, that's pretty much the story as I know it" Hope you're having a fine evening!!

[@AI-mg3hy]

Great interview. I've been trying to understand how we got to where we are as Americans today and the more I learn the more confused I seem to get. I suppose a huge part of that is trying to understand my parents. Your interview with Neal Cassady's daughter also got me thinking a lot about this. I didn't really know my dad until the 90s after he quit drinking. After he and my mom got back together I learned about his particular brand of American conservatism. He listened to Rush Limbaugh. Had an NRA sticker on his truck next to his Perot sticker. And he was casually racist. This was the dad I knew, and got to know better when older people discovered they could put anything they wanted on Facebook. But he is not that simple. I look over his bookshelves now, past the Limbaugh books, and I see books I remember seeing when I was younger, that he's had for decades. I see Ken Kesey. I see Tom Wolfe. My dad had the spirit of a Merry Prankster. I remember a conversation we had on facebook before the 2016 election about the desire to return to how things were in some long ago time. I asked him when was the best time for America and he said the 50s. And the confusion intensifies. It's logical to see the 60s counterculture as a backlash to the 50s, just as it's logical to see the rise of Reagan conservatism in the 80s as a backlash to the counterculture. But to see it all happen in one individual is extremely frustrating. I have a hard time talking about these subjects with him because of our differing politics and because we never really got close after he missed most of my childhood. So I do a lot of guessing. I'm guessing that finding conservatism in the 80s with it's strict moral attitudes toward substance abuse plays a role. I'm guessing that seeing people like Cassady burn out relatively young, and people like Jerry Garcia keep trucking on doing the same drugs and burning out as a slightly older sadder drug addict plays a role as well. What I think most of all is that my Dad is one of millions of Americans who were attracted to the counterculture because it was against what was mainstream. I think a major legacy of the 60s is contrarianism. Millions of people forming their opinions based on what would upset the mainstream the most. I think this is one of the reasons we are divided the way we are, and I'm so sad for us.

[@TheAnadromist]

I'm glad you enjoyed my conversation with David. It sounds like you might get something from How We Got Here series, which travels fro the post-WW2 era to the present.

[@AI-mg3hy]

@@TheAnadromist Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us and David, and for the tip! Is that the Crash Course channel you are talking about?

[@TheAnadromist]

@@AI-mg3hy Well there is awful lot more...

[@MicahScottPnD]

Contrarians, that's interesting. Rebels of rebels of rebels.

[@PaulVanderKlay]

Oh my! I'm thrilled!

[@miriambucholtz9315]

I grew up completely accustomed to the idea that I had to find most of the answers to my own questions and solve most of my own problems. My family was just plain emotionally cold. You didn't talk about things. I conquered my own first (and only) disabling phobia when I was 11 years old and accidentally hit on the idea of desensitization. Maybe that can give a person a certain degree of strength and resilience, but you certainly don't learn how to socialize with people or how to ask for help when you need it. I graduated high school in 1964, and that's when it felt like the world started to crumble. I washed out of college when I had some kind of meltdown. We moved house twice in the space of a year, my mother was diagnosed with cancer and died from it, and I was once again in another situation with nowhere to fit in. I'll never understand the attraction to drugs. I like things to be logical and to make sense. I didn't like Bob Dylan or, for that matter, the Beatles after 1965 or so because their lyrics didn't make sense. I hung around with people my age who came from foreign countries because the American culture repelled me. I have an entirely different view of that time from many people.

[@TheAnadromist]

Yeah I can see that you were looking for an alternative to what was developing. I've always found the alternatives to be found in directly asking questions about why everyone seems to be doing X. And given the time you were born you saw a huge change. There were many who didn't follow the new things or just adopted parts. But eventually, as we are seeing today, the whole package comes to town.

[@miriambucholtz9315]

@@TheAnadromist And I still won't follow along. The irony is that the watchword then was, "do your own thing" as everyone went around doing what the crowd did.

[@TheAnadromist]

@@miriambucholtz9315 Indeed that is the sad irony.

[@MicahScottPnD]

Out of curiosity, were either the Beatles or Bob Dylan making sense to you before 64? It seems to me quite a shift happened after November 63, a bunch of things stopped making sense perhaps. But I wonder if you felt any connection before?

[@PaulVanderKlay]

Byrne's the best!

[@TheAnadromist]

@davidhoffman Check out Paul's channel. He grew up in Patterson New Jersey, his father was a white pastor of a mostly black congregation you should interview him!

[@Jamestele1]

Fascinating reflections.

[@kaila62kaila]

I am a child of the 1960s. And while I still love the music and fashions, I believe we messed up because we thought society could thrive without a foundation of Judeo-Christian morality, Puritan work ethic and sense of American patriotism and exceptionalism. I realize this foundation was not perfect but having NO foundation has been, to my community, absolutely devastating.

[@RandySchartiger]

yep yep, I was born in the 50's and watched it all happen, some of it seems like yesterday, other things seem like another lifetime ago! I was a hippie too! hell I recon I still am hahaha! :P

[@carriesee8547]

Missed that by a few years. Back when the economy was still acceptable for the middle/ lower class.

[@susanmercurio1060]

I was born in 1946, a few years before you, and I am a hippy. I miss it very much.

[@walterfechter8080]

"We blew it." -- Wyatt "Captain America" (Peter Fonda) in "Easy Rider."

[@TheAnadromist]

Indeed we did and continue to do so.

[@midimusicforever]

Very interesting!

[@patriciaburke2401]

I loved the music, long hair, and styles of the sixties. I was in a folk group and I did march against the Vietnam War... needless deaths & injuries of young men ( friends) who were drafted was extremely upsetting. Like this gentleman, I did not get into drugs and drank very little. We were rebellious, also, because of the way women and minorities were treated like second class citizens. It’s frightening to see how the white supremacists seem to want to return to that nightmare.( Not that we’ve come far enough!) As far as religion, I will always have a very close relationship with Jesus. I don’t feel there’s any place where you can’t pray. He is everywhere; always with us, loving our conversations. Praying is simply talking to God, in my opinion. Thanks for this fascinating conversation.

[@MicahScottPnD]

That's nice language 👍

[@9_of_9]

Excellent

[@mrfredosix]

Love this video

[@johnb528]

Very interesting perspectives he shares. Think it would be an interesting dialogue between him and the 80s gentlemen from Maine you followed up with. Also, he reminds me of David Harbour the actor very much in the way he speaks.

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks for your kind words. I have a channel The Anadromist. There is loads more over there where I deal with all of the decades between then and now and beyond. Give it a look.

[@tristate0mind]

Amazing!

[@thestrangechannelofjeff7426]

These two right here could do a podcast on philosophy and politics

[@TheAnadromist]

Hey thanks for the kind words. My channel has lots more. It's called The Anadromist. Check it out.

[@plantgoals4271]

Always been intrigued by hippie ideals, I like the message in the movement

[@PaulVanderKlay]

Don't forget me when you're famous Byrne!

[@GravityFromAbove]

You're the guy who let me piggyback on his channel.

[@guyphone9594]

Glad you're feeling better

[@bill4572]

What I always heard about the 50s it was like the roaring 20s was after WW1 And the 50s was like a kind of aftermath of WW2 were people were happy the war was over

[@dotheyfloat9961]

Such a quality interview, this guy has his head screwed on

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks for the kind words. You might find my channel interesting too. It's called The Anadromist. Check it out.

[@otaddiction]

I've been thinking about the 2010 since the mid-2010s, and especially nowadays during this certain time period 🙁

[@TheAnadromist]

Good. Keep thinking about it. When you are my age people will marvel. Especially by the fact that you went through THIS period. Keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@Icebergs98]

Great insightful vid! Does he have a youtube channel?

[@TheAnadromist]

Yes I do. Three actually. But for more like this go to The Anadromist.

[@meatballdictator740]

He seems like the perfect grandad

[@Troy_KC-2-PH]

Ummm there are problems with going BACK to the 1950s but it is definitely impossible to go back to that. "You can never go back home" (I don't know who originally said that)

[@psidvicious]

The Shangri Las -1965 - ‘I can never go home anymore’ - Awesome song! ‘63 here too! kzbin.info/www/bejne/morHo2CDqNGLodk

[@MrGone-bw6bk]

“You Can’t Go Home Again”, 1934, by Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938). Not to be confused with novelist Tom Wolfe (b.1930, d.1988) and wrote many now-classics including “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”

[@Troy_KC-2-PH]

Wow, he ended up in LaBrie ... that's Dr Schaefer's people.

[@TheAnadromist]

There is an interview with me about it on Paul VanderKlay's channel.

[@TheMichelex20]

I am obsessed with the 60s. I am a child and teenager of the 80s and 90s. I don’t want to judge this gentleman’s perspective based on this one interview but there was a WHOLE other large movement going on separate and occasionally integrated amongst hippie culture. That is the black power movement. Sad to say but many historical perspectives on decades past are white washed. I just got into a debate on another forum about teenagers in the 90s when they referenced Friends, heroin chic, and Nirvana as indicative of the ENTIRE decade. Love your platform btw.

[@Troy_KC-2-PH]

I've been studying the black power movement, The Black Panthers etc for the last few months and I am over 55 years old. I think that many of us missed something but then again these things were not so readily available as now. We have the tools to explore many things ... for now.

[@stankozubenko8520]

He goes into more detail on his channel

[@stankozubenko8520]

kzbin.info/aero/PLJ895CQuvzeURMq282OR57w-2lwdo625g

[@georgiancrossroads]

You do realize that that this was a larger interview whittled down don't you? Also check out his channel he talks in much more depth about all these things. He couldn't exactly say everything in one short video. He also deals with a lot of other time periods there.

[@debracisneroshhp2827]

@@stankozubenko8520 , Thanks for the link, Stan. 💖🙌🙌🙌😺

[@dimthecat9418]

This guy definitely seems really interesting especially since he was around to actually experience some of what happened. I love the 50s and 60s just from a spectacle standpoint just because it was crazy and unprecedented, which makes it really interesting. There’s are definitely a lot of good things that happened like to civil rights movement thanks to people becoming more open minded. But you could also say it went way to far considering how many underage people were exposed to drugs and what that entails.

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks for the kind words. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@hajeraa]

that was so interesting... mashallah 🥰✌🏽

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@ccmakaw]

He's so on point with everthing he said - the aftermath of WW2 and the collective PTSD that went unspoken had a reach that lasted through the next 20+ years; of course PTSD hadn't been 'discovered' yet - you didn't acknowledge trauma, you swallowed it and went about your business. I grew up in New Zealand not the US btw.

[@TheAnadromist]

I go into this a lot more in my How We Got Here series. Check it out. Thanks for your kind words.

[@ccmakaw]

@@TheAnadromist Thank you - your content looks really interesting; looking forward to watching (& just subscribed) 😊

[@TheAnadromist]

@@ccmakaw Excellent. See you there.

[@madimakes]

Another good one bro thanks! When he mentions "the drake association" do you know if this is what he's referring to? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake-Chenault I'd love to hear more about this. So much radio is the same.

[@TheAnadromist]

Indeed. Maybe I should have said Drake company. These folks started going around at the end of the Sixties and arranging the programming for all the popular radio stations. One reason the 60s era was so different from the 70s. Is that in the Sixties you still had regional culture and regional radio. So what were hits on our San Francisco stations were very different from New York, Atlanta, or Seattle. But kids who grew up in the 70s all heard exactly the same music all across the country. So Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check out my How We Got Here series.

[@Roger-r7s]

I myself am a former hippie symp wanna be Johnny come lately who later became a born again Christian. And I also still keep a more refined and thought out left of false center politics and continue on in the search for God, meaning, truth, happiness, peace and love, in short a kind of Christian faith matured developed hippie sub culture hybrid. Most of the views expressed by this man are very similar if not identical with mine, since I often feel like the lone voice crying in the wasteland and desert wilderness it is comforting to hear others who have the same worldview and perspectives on life and modern into post modern history.

[@justleaveit1557]

One thing I think about with the silent generation that came back from these wars. It scared the shit out of them. Not just the act of war, but that very advanced civilizations could lose their minds completely. Also, they were just barely beginning to understand the impact of industrialized war on veterans. Culturally there was really only room for heroes. The great normalcy movement of the 50's was a direct response to this. So you have a generation of households forcing elite normalcy where the father is a hero, probably emotionally scarred from war, scared, completely silent about it, and raises their children like they are in the army because they literally just left that life. Boom - Hippies. These are amazing by the way.

[@t-bo2734]

Based mostly on my own personal thoughts on the matter, I have come to believe that a great deal of post-WW2 conformity was a reaction to what was seen by many as the root cause of The Great Depression and WW2: The 1920s. In 1920s USA, people turned inward, put aside the concerns of the global socio-political landscape, and had lots and lots and lots of fun. Jazz, fads, The Jitterbug, radio, mass production of cars, feature films, making money, and greater individuality helped to define that period of time and distinguish it from the pre-WW1 era (on a dark note, the Ku Klux Klan reached the height of its influence during the 1920s as well). After WW2 concluded, many looking back on the previous 15-16 years made ensuring that what happened during their lifetimes would never happen again. If people somewhere were having a little too much fun - nip it in the bud! Too much freedom and individuality leads to chaos and destruction; thus, every man was to wear the same clothes, have the same haircut, listen to the same music, and have the same values as every other man. Ditto each woman, with slightly greater variation in clothing. If the masses did not adhere to a strict code of conduct - to step out of line, to break the rules - chaos would ensue and the nation would risk experiencing another major crisis. Many of the people who were responsible for movements against social and cultural conformity in the 1960s had little to no memory of The Great Depression or WW2. Rather than fear chaos, they possessed an intense curiosity about it and wanted to experience it for themselves. Having lived their entire lives during an era of mass societal conformity, they had little understanding of the consquences of hyper-individuality and engaging in high risk behavior. What they did know very well were the consequences of order, something they wanted to consign to the ash bin of 20th century history. After the current crisis period ends, will we enter another age of hyper-conformity? Cancel culture, Top 40 music, repression of speech, and excessive suggest we might already be there.

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. Interesting observations. In my How We Got Here series I start at World War 2 because it is the big crater in the middle of the 20th Century. Things had to change as a result. But obviously the 20s and 30s came before. And I would argue that the Great Depression had taken care of the many aspects of the 20s. Coming after ww2 most folks wanted to have the good life. (The 20s issues would resurface in the 60s when there was a revival of the themes of that decade.) But to say that young people in the 60s had completely forgotten the war is not at all accurate. The 60s is when the Holocaust began to be discussed and by the young. No my observation is that the 60s Generation was reacting to the silence and conformity of their parents who were damaged by the war. But essentially the 60s counterculture is the continuing psyche damage of WW2. Are we still effected by 9/11 today? Absolutely. The difference between 9/11 and WW2 is the difference between a pimple and a volcano. 70 million people died. I deal with these things in depth on my channel. I welcome all questions. Drop in sometime.

[@t-bo2734]

@@TheAnadromist Yes, I agree with what you're saying. It's not that young people who didn't live through WW2 weren't aware of the Holocaust - they were and wanted to discuss it in greater detail than did their elders, probably because it didn't hit so close to home for them. There's a difference between knowing about a time period and experiencing it. I think older people in post-WW2 were overly cautious in their attempts to ensure there would never be another crisis era comparable to the one they experienced - be it from war, economic catastrophe, or anything else. Part of their thinking in dealing with what they had been through was to create an excessive level of order - to micromanage society - so that the things that happened in the past never happened again and unforeseen crises could be averted (one reason for the escalation in Vietnam under Kennedy was the belief that potentially dangerous regimes needed to be stopped in their tracks before becoming catastrophic threats). It was similar to preventative medicine. Young people in the 1960s had not experienced the chaos and uncertainty of the 1930s and 1940s, and did not fear chaos in the same way their parents’ generation did. Perhaps older generations became too chaos-averse, increasing the desire of younger people to rebel and live more recklessly than is advisable. They certainly did know that mass poverty and genocide were terrible things; perhaps they didn’t know that rules, love of country, and delayed gratification were healthy things, so long as they’re not taken to the extreme or adhered to blindly. In that sense, both generations had something to learn from each other. In the 1970s, the older generation loosened up a bit and the younger generation showed a greater willingness to think long term and live responsibly. Of course, there were plenty of mistakes made during that decade as well - permissive parenting and use of stimulants to get more work done haven’t aged particularly well.

[@TheAnadromist]

@@t-bo2734 I think what you are saying makes a lot of sense. The 70's definitely had a nightmarish side to them (see my How We Got Here series) yet when I look back it is perhaps the last moment when one could have an honest discussion with serious disagreements and not end a friendship. This came from the chaos of the Sixties. You don't get the real polarization until the mid-80's. Thanks for thinking with me on these things.

[@MicahScottPnD]

​@@TheAnadromistThis is all really good stuff, glad this whole thing popped up on my feed today. Don't worry, im going to check out your channel 😉 One thing I wonder if you might take a look at, a difference between WWII and 9/11. One way ive been viewing the difference is that WWII ended with a big victory, whereas 9/11 a loss. Ive been kind of measuring from cultural events in those terms for a while, sometimes to decent effect. Perhaps that lens might reveal some things to you that i might not notice myself. My thought is, most major cultural events have a wave that follows, ripples, like a dropping a boulder in a river. The nature of the event perhaps determines the aftereffects. The moon landing, for example, a large achievement, a positive. Etc. You probably know what i mean, maybe youve looked through this lens already anyhow. Anyway, ill check out your channel, I was duly impressed with this interview with David! 😉

[@JL-uq6qe]

Where can I hear more from Byrne? Interesting guy edit: his KZbin channel is called the anadromist

[@TheAnadromist]

Indeed much more and much longer explorations can be had on my channel. Thanks for the boost.

[@athenassigil5820]

Georgia, oh Georgia....youre always on my mind! Anywho...I'm 54 and I actually remember the 60s beehive hairdos, mini skirts and stinky hippies! Ok, the stinky hippy commment is what I remember from the culture, particularly any male or female over 40. I also think our assumptions of the 60s is very narrowly defined by certain narratives from Hollywood and the media. There were so many other subcultures now largely forgotten, working class in particular. Polka music in certain parts of the culture, Bossa Nova in the early to mid 60s, folk music, dinner club culture, bubble gum pop...the list goes on. I just think that younger people now think every youth was a hippie back then, but it was very different..there was lot of other things going on.

[@athenassigil5820]

I'd also add that most hippies were either lower to mid or upper middle class kids..there were so many others that went to war, got a job or just didn't connect with that part of the culture..a lot of kids just grew their hair longer as styles changed, more so in the 70s..man, this era and topic is so complex...anyways, David..fascinating, as always! Loved your guest, too!

[@psidvicious]

I agree. History always seems to focus on what was making news at the time when in fact MOST people were pretty ordinary folks of the time, just trying to make a living or get thru school or what-have-you.

[@TheAnadromist]

You're absolutely right. Not everyone went with the hippie flow. But of course when we talk about an era we usually start with what stands out. Just think about how they will talk about this era 30 years from now. Only three things will have happened a global virus, a mass protest/riots (they'll argue about that) and an election. So naturally one starts with the obvious, which is usually misunderstood by the media. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@athenassigil5820]

@@TheAnadromist Hello, good sir! Yes, I've checked out 2 of your channels and both quite excellent! The fact that you're a modern Christian and living in one of the oldest continuous Christian countries is very cool and interesting. I will check out more of your videos as the days go on. Thanks for the response, too! Cheers!

[@PLINKER]

WOW! David this touched on some very debatable subjects! I graduated high school in 1962. In 1965 I was ordered into the Service of the USA by then President Lyndon Bains Johnson. At that time many men my age were leaving the USA to go to Canada to avoid Johnsons draft notices. Those of us who served our country, I won't say proudly, but with duty to our country, were treated by those who were against the war in Viet Nam, like something one might scrape off the bottom of your shoe. My cousin was killed in Viet Nam after only being there for 45 days. A nicer young man never drew breath. His reward for his ultimate sacrifice was that between Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter legislation was signed to allow those men who deserted their obligation to serve and went to Canada instead to come home to the USA. In my eyes there was never a greater slap in the face to our servicemen ever! I will never forgive those Presidents for that action as long as I draw breath. Now with the attack on our Capital, instigated by our own President Trump, that is the last straw. I can firmly state that I am ashamed to be an American, and that I served my country when DUTY called! I would guess that our President Trump had the same ideals that Hitler had, "that if you lie to them long enough they will believe you! Even though the proof is as plain as the nose on ones face, they still believe him! So did the Germans. I guess the 1960 were good for some. I now thinking the 2020's are even worse!

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

I understand your point of view and had relatives who served there. But I continue to have faith that the American democracy and the unique and wonderful strength of it will survive and thrive. David Hartman filmmaker

[@PLINKER]

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Lets hope so! Our (USA) plan in the past has been to tell other countries how to run their business, yet we can not run our own properly. I do not think I would have to point out the numerous ways of our incompetence. We could easily overcome these but we as a people refuse to.

[@MrsABC7997]

This was excellent! Imho the pendulum needs to swing to center & not so drastically to one side or the other.

[@TheAnadromist]

The radical center that allows disagreement. You might find my channel interesting too. It's called The Anadromist. Check it out.

[@jennysoderberg4273]

Thank you for an interesting video! What is Byrne's full name? Or a link to his channel?

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Byrne Power. David Hoffman Filmmaker His channel is "the agronomist"

[@jennysoderberg4273]

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Thank you! 😃

[@TheAnadromist]

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker The Anadromist. (Anadromous means going against the stream.)

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks for you kind words. Check out my channel the Anadromist. You might find it worth your time. There is much more like this interview.

[@2bleavin]

Great perspectives, I could pick his brain & listen all day. And your wrong, he's "just as" interesting as you, not more than.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you. David Hoffman Filmmaker

[@TheAnadromist]

Thanks. Maybe one day I'll be back on David's channel sometime. And by the way I have my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out. (By the way you are right David has led an absolutely fascinating life.)

[@9852323]

First comment. This sounds interesting.

[@Rumblenuk]

Getting strong ‘Jim Hopper’ vibes from Byrne

[@TheAnadromist]

I'm not sure about Jim Hopper, but I'll take what I can get. Thanks.

[@video.treasures]

although im fairly optimistic, judging by the extremely misguided youths of today id say theres no going back. society has been extremely liberalized. theres little sophistication in the mainstream culture. social media causes delusions of grandeur. everyday people dress sloppy. casual swearing is everywhere, even more common in the workplace(retail). we need to work on character in this country, we’re a mess

[@TheAnadromist]

I deal with these kinds of issues more on my own channel The Anadromist. There's lots more there. Check it out.

[@alienonion4636]

👍👍👍