Steve Allen Dressed Like A Hippie To Reach His Son

[@doreybain]

I could listen to Steve Allen all day. He was brilliant, articulate, funny and a keen observer.

[@saltydog4759]

indeed

[@leeclark4495]

Steve could hold his own with teens, adults, musicians, artists, the common Joe, and intellectuals. That's why they called him the most versatile man in show business, because he was all of them in one.

[@saltydawg7078]

Excellent interview. Steve Allen is a rare individual. ❤❤❤

[@LimitlessThinker]

He was an icon. I found out he was also a freethinker and a prolific writer. I found it amusing he wrote - Dumbeth: The Lost Art of Thinking With 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind. He was multi-talented. He was a genius.

[@vilstef6988]

Steve Allen was my hero from the time I became aware of him as a small child. I admired his way with comedy and how articulate and well spoken he was. His ability to ad-lib was amazing and he was such a great story teller! I'm presently watching a multi-hour interview with him on the Emmy Academy site. After his death, Steve saved my life. In 2000 he was in a fender-bender and thought he was uninjured, and he left after the police reports & did not go to the hospital. He took a nap and did not wake up, having bled out. I remembered this when I had an accident in 2009 which totaled my car. I went to the hospital and was released within 6 hours, had a few uncomfortable days and was OK. It would have been very easy to say, "I'm fine." And had the same thing happen to me as happened to Steve. I miss him like I knew him, though I never got the chance to meet him. His many books and decades of entertainment with comedy and music are a huge legacy. Thank you, Steve! I owe you!

[@patrickwalsh2361]

Steve Allen was so talented and the more you learn about him, the more you like and admire him! It’s always a nice departure from learning about someone who you find funny and/or talented and realizing that they’re a real “a$$&ole”. I won’t provide any examples. Thanks David!

[@seabrook1976]

You never interject yourself in your subject''s conversation and I love you for that. Great interview.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

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[@johnparadise3134]

4:13 “Two Englishman were on a desert island surviving a shipwreck. They never spoken because they hadn’t been formally introduced.”

[@emw1994]

Sounds like a joke about me

[@andydixon2980]

@@emw1994 And not a very funny one....

[@carolynkingsley4421]

I always loved Steve Allen. I used to watch his show all the time.

[@MyHellaKitty]

I think this is true journalism. Put people in front of a camera and let them tell you there stories. No manipulation. Just tell it like it is. I'm a Gen X. Hearing the full story, with the visual, helps to get a better sense of things. It helps to put some puzzle pieces together and see a bigger picture. As a child in the 80s and teen in the 90s, I noticed the left overs of the 60s and 70s. I lived in a small town area, that is set back in ways. It's considered the Lil, San Fransisco of the West. Many of the hippies moved up to the Northwest area. So, I noticed the left overs from that time period and it kind of brushed on to the youth around here, which is what I believe lead to the Grunge and Alternative music scene. I noticed the die hard left over hippies. There were people in my town that were still in that mind set. The local thrift store was like a time machine. You walk in and you really get a sense of things. Their was a station that would play classic oldies all day. You walk into the store and you can just smell it. Down a couple streets and behind a block, there was a natural food store. We had a cobbler on main street. It was a small town and everyone knew each other. It felt like a combination of Mayberry with hippies. My own parents were Christian hippies who lived on a commune, when I was born. There were a lot of Jesus movements going on. After I was married and came back, is when I noticed the spirit of things have changed. It didn't feel like the same town. To many new faces and strangers. Not as friendly. People are much more grumpier, stressed and the neighbors are not that close. Most of the young people moved away. We have a lot of retired people. We're not a blue collar town anymore. We're a weekend get away for the city people. The city is invested in them and not in the locals. We just live here.

[@Peter-k2j]

wow really powerful story

[@jonathandewberry289]

how would you be 'Gen X'??

[@annarodriguez9868]

@@jonathandewberry289 Using today's language, he "identifies" as a Gen X.

[@jonathandewberry289]

@@annarodriguez9868 I guess that's how it works, you just feel like something. I would say 'identifying' as an older or younger age is, at least, more realistic than as a different gender.

[@florencechestnut2270]

I'm really enjoying these videos David! Very fascinating indeed. Steve Allen was a very unique person. ☮

[@chritopherherrera2349]

He grew up poor. During the Great Depression of the 1930's he traveled through the Southwest of the USA. He even states of how he passed hunger and that many Mexicans and Mexican-Americans/Chinanos gave him food. He states that his fellow Anglos were not nice to him. Look it up, he says it in an interview.

[@knelson3484]

I love Steve Allen. Thank you David. :-)

[@AZGriffins2U]

He's referring to the Love Family in Washington State, it was a cult. That's when the disconnect happened for 11 yrs😥. Got introduced to Love Family when I was in grade school, by a classmate. They were in their 1st house. Wish I never had got tangled with them. I lost interest in school, because I was told it wasn't necessary. Was baptized in the bath tub and watched Compassion being birthed by Patience Israel. I was 12 and the only one allowed to be in room out of my other friends. They called me one of their angels. Love didn't want me to wear a bra, told me it was a band-aid. I spent a lot of time there, being my parents divorced and my home had become dysfunctional. We use to say Love is God instead of "God is Love". I remember the two members putting paper bags over their heads and breathing,I believe glue? And they died. I remember Joy was all of sudden gone from family and when I asked, I was told she died from electrocution being she was doing dishes and toaster fell in water. People would walk around in basement with nothing on. (Not me). When I moved to Arizona in 1974, I would long to move back to Seattle and live with Love family, because I was told that I was to move in with them when I was 18, by one of the members. I'm glad someone witnessed to me about Jesus Christ, and how I could have a new life through salvation, in 1977. Thank God!. I'm still in Arizona serving God.

[@davearthur8603]

When Steve Allen had Kerouac on his show reading from On the road whilst he played piano is a beautiful piece of history.

[@psychedelicpython]

I was kind of a flower child back in the late 60s, but not from California. Listening to Steve Allen talk about his son’s life as a hippie reminds of the hippies my older brother hung out with in Washington State. I also remember the independent religious groups of people who got together around 1970-71, some being old hippies. More straight-laced people called them “Jesus freaks” where I lived in Spokane. It’s interesting to learn that hippies were basically the same everywhere, as well as the religious groups a lot of them got involved in afterwards.

[@BaldwinBay]

One time years ago I meet Steve Allen. Very nice fellow. I think Louie Nye was there if I remember. Maybe even Jack Carter... A few other comics as well...

[@Chutney1luv]

Listening to Steve visit his son Brian, in San Fran, was amazing! When Steve said that 11 years were subtracted from Brian's life, I wonder what happen to him and did he ever see his son again? There were cults in the past who attracted young people to them by pretending to be the leader that they needed! (The outcome was.not good!)🙄

[@satorimystic]

Thanks, again 😁👍 There were many crazy ideas birthed back in the day... Indeed. 👽☮🕊🕉✌

[@johnjoneill]

Like Carson, just a cool guy all around.

[@leeclark4495]

Steve was much more intelligent, funnier and talented than Carson.

[@therealberlinsylvie]

@@leeclark4495 True that.

[@annarodriguez9868]

It was hard for me to like Carson after his interview with Ricardo Montalban, because Carson said something about his Mexican accent. Mr. Montalban sat straight up and his response was gentlemanly, funny and sharp! It was like a slap across Carson's face. It made me even prouder to be part Mexican. I wish I could see that interview again. Thank you, Mr David Hoffman, film maker for presenting these interviews.

[@edwardmccall2000]

Steve came to Portland Oregon I. 1967

[@Krakkokayne]

I wonder what happened to Steve's son? I'm curious

[@radcow]

It's crazy to think some of the hippies are in their70's and 80's now

[@Rick-zw7zv]

Informality generally comes with a lack of respect for personal boundaries.

[@mymaryholcomb]

Makes me sad for Steve.

[@baddmanaz]

Interesting

[@VictrolaJazz]

He should thank his lucky stars none of those drivers who picked him up weren't psychopaths and let him out. 1920's San Francisco--would have been beautiful architecture! My mother's (1902-1997) comment one time when she saw some hippies was "I'm so thankful we're not like that!" I personally like the formality. There are two authors who in the course of their books give their ideas about the source of the hippie culture and one of its possible effects. Peter Vronsky in Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters and Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present, explains that our society experienced a cultural collapse in the 1970's as a result of turmoil over Vietnam and its eventual loss and demoralization, violence from the counterculture, the collapsing economy and eventual hyperinflation, the collapse of the presidency and loss of respect for other institutions such that people who were already mentally off balanced saw this as a kind of license to perpetrate their horrors. From 1900 to 2000 there were a few killings of what would be later called "serial"--maybe 50 in the decade 1950-1960, then they doubled from 1960-1970, then exploded between 1970 and 1980 such that 82% of all serial killings in the 20th century happened in the years between 1974 and 1977. And it's easy to understand when you consider what was going on: Dean Corll, 1973, killed over 33 young men in Houston, John Wayne Gacy killed the same number or more in the late 70's, you had the serial killers on both coasts in the mid-70's. Both Ted Bundy and Randy Kraft had their first kills in 1974 and never looked back, Israel Keys started in 1974, so did Danny Rolling and on and on. Mark Bowden in The Last Stone, tells the story of two pre-teen girls who disappeared from a mall in 1975 and were never seen again. 40 years later, Lloyd Welch, who was 19 at the time, has been incarcerated for over 30 years for other crimes, is their prime suspect and they interview him extensively. He's from the hills of Virginia and as Bowden explains, is the detritus of the hippie movement. Where others who took it up in the late 60's and early 70's eventually left it for more productive lives, he never did and simply became like many others who continued to be a dirty, feral, unproductive drifter vagabond, living in camps on the edges of cities, committing petty crimes to survive until he commits the ultimate crime of kidnapping and murder of two young girls, aided and abetted by his equally feral relatives. He fits the classic definition of "hippie" of the time as per Steve Allen's description, except in his case it "took" in the worst way possible: www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=i0.wp.com/www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/welch.jpg?w%3D620%26crop%3D0%252C0px%252C100%252C9999px&imgrefurl=www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/13/suspect-in-1975-lyon-sisters-murders-pleads-guilty-2/&h=372&w=620&tbnid=ww-Ca4FLbsOv7M&tbnh=174&tbnw=290&usg=AI4_-kTo082cyBiOherp1r1u-8tecX33zA&vet=1&docid=Y2_frpcm5cTPIM

[@vincenttavani6380]

I hitchhiked across the country a few times, about ten years ago. I found I only met kind people. A few crazy people as well, but always also kind. Who else would stop? I learned so much about the human spirit. There is a risk in doing that, yes, but I would rather live well with risk than live small in fear. I'm not saying that such travel is for everyone - just pointing out that serial murderers are not worth the fixation.

[@vincenttavani6380]

Also, thanks for your very thorough comment. It was very informative.

[@BobSmith-pm3wx]

Hitchhiking is quite a bit safer if you're not an attractive young woman.

[@VictrolaJazz]

@@BobSmith-pm3wx I was referring specifically to this era when thousands if not millions of young people were hitching all over the country, especially the freeways of California. There were several serial killers (Randy Kraft and Ted Bundy among them) who roamed those freeways looking for prey.

[@AZGriffins2U]

11 yrs was spent with the Love Family in Washington State. They were a cult. Got introduced to Love Family when I was in grade school, by Debbie Lamb. They were in their 1st house. Wish I never had got tangled with them. I lost interest in school, because I was told it wasn't necessary. Was baptized in the bath tub and watched Compassion being birthed by Patience Israel. I was 12 and the only one allowed to be in room out of my other friends. They called me one of their angels. Love didn't want me to wear a bra, told me it was a band-aid. I spent a lot of time there, being my parents divorced and my home had become dysfunctional. We use to say Love is God instead of "God is Love". I remember the two members putting paper bags over their heads and breathing,I believe glue? And they died. I remember Joy was all of sudden gone from family and when I asked, I was told she died from electrocution being she was doing dishes and toaster fell in water. People would walk around in basement with nothing on. (Not me). When I moved to Arizona in 1974, I would long to move back to Seattle and live with Love family, because I was told that I was to move in with them when I was 18, by one of the members. I'm glad someone witnessed to me about Jesus Christ, and how I could have a new life through salvation, in 1977. Thank God!. I'm still in Arizona serving God.

[@AllisonRedd]

Hallelujah!!!!

[@graywolf2596]

My mom was a hippie. She says flower child, what ever that means.

[@self-transforming_machine-elf]

hippie is the derogatory, you square

[@graywolf2596]

@@self-transforming_machine-elf ok , but still a hippie.

[@HumanJams]

What is eddy burback doing

[@James-mt4pe]

Steve Allen wrote a great book on the dangers of cults. The Republicans should read it. Maybe we all should read it.

[@lamper2]

It's the Democrats who are in a cult! LOVING AMERICA ISN'T A SIGN OF BEING IN A CULT.

[@annarodriguez9868]

Republicans know about cults and the biggest one is the Democratic party. Look who's in the white house and who is speaker of the house. Need i say more?

[@showmethedammovie]

Was this guy the Clayton Bigsby interviewer??

[@ChrisKrolak]

I wish the interview would have gone on for another couple of minutes. It ended with Steve talking about his son in a religious cult and how most of them were "Bible-based". "A lot of crazy ideas" I wonder if the "Bible" was a Christian Bible and what, exactly, those crazy ideas were that came from the "Bible".

[@KT-hx2ul]

The cults claim to follow the Bible, but if you really look at their beliefs they contradict scripture and take verses out of context to support their beliefs. True Christianity works in a person to restore family relationships not break them.

[@handlmycck]

Nice film, first

[@Minzalin]

Love your content. Just a comment: the Depression was in the 1930s, not the 1950s.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you for your comment. I am aware of when the depression was. He lived the depression and became a TV star and a father in the 1950s. David Hoffman-filmmaker

[@Minzalin]

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Sorry, I'm sure you knew, I was just pointing out the typo in the description. Looking forward to the next clip of Steve Allen.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you for pointing it out. Fixing it now. David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@MicahScottPnD]

Ted Patrick!! Yeah!!

[@shea086]

What is a productive life?It,s not working in an office or a factory.That,s not productive for you except for the basics of food and shelter which is no different than slavery and every day the same.Many people spend half their life contemplating.Well that ok.Can you imagine if they did.nt contemplate! So we are back to"What is a productive life and productive for whom?" There is the issue of fairness and individual freedom involved in that question.Happiness and the resources to do what you want to for you and loved ones..Life is not about being productive.It,s about being content at least and being aware of your neighbours contentment.

[@Anonymous-zr5sc]

❤

[@BomChickyBowWow]

Did you meet Steve Allen?

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Yes. I had to to film this interview. David Hoffman - filmmaker

[@BomChickyBowWow]

David Hoffman You lucky bastard. I love Letterman then I realized Letterman loved a guy named Steve Allen and went down a rabbit hole I’ve never come out of. Thanks for the footage.

[@therespectedlex9794]

This guy is a very skilled and shrewd man, and also very successful. He is a very good talker, charming and persuasive. These characteristics are common in toxic narcissist baby boomers, and their parents/primary care givers. Discuss.

[@blinkth3dog]

You look like a real life mr potatoe head.

[@levalpat]

you seem to have the problem when you refer as toxic someone who has the qualities of ( in your own words": "very skilled, shrewd, very successful, very good talker, charming, persuasive"...…