Working Class Hippie Reveals His Life On The Road Feeling Free

[@moronicpest]

He was a good speaker about his life. If he's still alive today, I hope he's doing okay. Parts of me envy him how he lived seemingly care-free day to day just wanting to have good times, but part of me wondered about him maybe not preparing for the future as much as I was taught. I was only 10 in the late '60s, but was aware of hippies and my parents steered me clear of demonstrations in Chicago. The few hippies that I did meet had good hearts though. I remember one that helped me fix my bike and wasn't looking for payment, he was just doing a good deed for someone he didn't even know. We'd pick up others that were hitchhiking in Colorado, without any fear of something bad happening. Times have certainly changed though.

[@LC-go1uh]

He's probably dead. Lived a wicked life so we know where he is.

[@natemarx4999]

This channel is a fantastic time portal.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you Nate for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that KZbin is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@Les445]

I just subscribed!!!

[@123gorainy]

Making Sense of the Sixties is one of the most important documentaries to explain the tumultuous sixties ever made. It is wonderful to find these interviews, thank you.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you. Some of what I show in these interviews are the outtakes from the series. I believe they are interesting in their own right and I'm glad you do as well. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@Zaque-TV]

I can relate to this man. Grew up with no direction, parents had demands and weren't really friends. Jack of all trades with no profession. That's me to a T.

[@-G.e.o.r.g.e]

Great content. I enjoy watching people from all eras and backgrounds talk about life and tapping in to their perspective. Sometimes it’s happy, sometimes it’s not. I do get a feeling of catharsis though.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you for the support George. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@beezlebub3955]

What you do by putting your work out in the world is a great service to the rest of us. It’s always fresh, like it was taped yesterday 😊

[@darger3]

Your work is a critical bridge between generations. Thank you.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you so much Darger family. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@cole2404]

As someone who doesn't leave my state (VA) it sounds exciting to be free to just go man. Great video Mr Hoffman 🎉❤

[@agingerbeard]

This entire series is a gold mine, I love when you highlight parts of it like this! Thank you for sharing this very interesting man David I hope you have a great week 💙🇨🇦

[@canadajim]

This channel never ceases to amaze me.

[@cherylalt101]

Really interesting, not afraid to really look at his own behavior. Quite honesty and open about his choices. I was born in 1956, so brings back a lot of memories lol.

[@randybloomfield5090]

This guy is awesome. I could listen to him all night

[@Les445]

I could listen to you talk all day about your life. Please continue 😁✌️❤️

[@mattcarsnmusic]

As a young musician currently traveling and playing blues and folk music , I found this segment very inspiring to keep on trucking to get to my goals. Thank You David!

[@sallywhite7678]

Terrific interview. Man so well spoken, great storyteller (about his life). I wonder if he is still with us. Love to know his name although he didn’t give permission to share it. He could be (have been) an author. God Bless him.🙏❤️🐈

[@alan3598]

David, I think your next project has to be "Making Sense of the 00s", I'm a millennial in my 30s now (probably not much younger than the guy in this interview). I think the early 2000s are a similarly transformative and important point in history that needs to be captured before people my age have their memories become either lost or idealized. Lots of what this guy says here reminds me of my adolescence and young adulthood.

[@jchow5966]

He is terrific!!!!!!!!! ☮️💟

[@Hogscraper]

I used to idolize people like this when I was younger. I even repeated the same sorts of things like I had a friend who snorted heroin and went to work every day so obviously the people speaking out about it were liars. I kept up that mentality until my fifth friend died of an OD and I moved away from the West coast. Now I look back at places I used to live and can see thousands of lost souls who bought into this kind of thinking hook, line and sinker and it's insane knowing just how many people are out there acting like everything is fine.

[@ptr8198]

One hundred percent. I was deeply involved in that kind of lifestyle; carefree, wandering, drugs, whimsical, it's all good man anything goes kinda vibe. All good till it wasn't, and today I could not be more grateful for my boring, stable, middle class lifestyle. What a bunch of chaos. I do miss them freaky ladies though

[@RavenNl403]

Very interesting to hear. Ways of life by all people are the same but yet so different. Thanks for sharing David❤

[@suprotwin]

As I make my way through your work, I find myself constantly inspired to work of my own. Thank you for everything, David.

[@Irishsilverstack]

Thank you again sir

[@Zaque-TV]

Damn, man your channel has really picked up! Congratulations on getting eyes on your work

[@abelincoln3261]

I'm a little younger then him, 66 this year. I married young, but can agree there were many more freedoms that came along with being a teenager and or a young 20 something in the 1970s. To take off and do a road trip with very little money no credit cards in an old car was common.. and take it a day at a tome just go for it.. If I had to sum it all up... The just go for it attitude was alive and well.. figure it all out when ya get there. The story I can tell would blow most peoples minds.. New Orleans, Miami, Dallas Houston LA... yep... it was a very special time in America to be young and free.

[@1st1anarkissed]

I was born in 1963 but I really didn't start forming real memories until around age four. I also lived in Canada so was sheltered from things like the air raid drills and bomb training. Whew, what a nasty thing to do to a whole country... I do remember having a fringe vest as a child and outgrowing it. I spent decades missing it, until one day I found a fringe leather vest in a thrift store in Toronto, sky blue, rather than the original purple, but fabulous. I still have it.

[@puromichoacan8339]

i love the natural story-telling way this dude and that Vietnam veyeran w sunglasses have

[@Joel_Roberts]

These vintage interviews are so captivating

[@benfranklin1770]

Interesting guy..i can definetely relate to him😊

[@darger3]

We need ALL the footage. Everything you got. lol. This is brilliant.

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Thank you for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that KZbin is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@darger3]

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker on it

[@drewpall2598]

You can't help but like this guy, he seen to have lived a fascinating life I could listen to his stories for hours on end I hope the years after this interview have been kind to him. Thanks, David Hoffman.

[@melissagottlieb3381]

Fascinating stuff

[@unconditionallove3820]

Without a pause or even moment of thinking - The 60s ended when i saw lou reed on TV selling Hondas. This man completely defies the old saying of if you remember the 60s you weren't there.

[@jasonsteel9335]

These old interviews are amazing! Keep em coming ☺️

[@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker]

Jason: Thank you for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that KZbin is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts. David Hoffman filmmaker

[@yellowblanka6058]

Though it was a younger Jeff Bridges for a moment looking at the thumbnail.

[@daviddeborde2542]

My mother was unconventional at child rearing she convinced me to stay away from drugs by making me watch Midnight Express on VHS.

[@rupertkoyd9944]

Never thought I'd see a video of the younger Big Lebowski...right on man

[@JB-vk8jk]

Not sure the parents taking roles as friends vs someone of authority is working out so well for society. Listening and being part of our children's lives is great

[@user-ut4zw6so6o]

This guy is great

[@ericrichardson8600]

"I ran a marathon at 4am and I feel a little something in my legs...yeah maybe they are tired or something"- This Dude

[@257796]

Bro, we found Ian from forgotten weapons Dad

[@eternaldoorman5228]

Imagine suddenly seeing Lou Reed on a TV commercial. 😂😢

[@MekalEnergy]

very interesting🤷

[@drewpall2598]

As I am listening to this guy again, I am visualizing a route 66 type television show of his extraordinary life,

[@handlethissonny]

the brotherhood of eternal love

[@manchukhan8255]

Ian from Forgotten Weapons hasn't aged much

[@beezlebub3955]

Wow, Lou Reed selling Honda’s! 😂 that is sad, RIP to the man

[@garyofnyc]

"I played basketball this morning, and I feel like I'm dead." Classic deadpan. Guy is hilarious.

[@MomentsInTrading]

Interesting stuff 👍🏻

[@stephenfitzpatrick9189]

What's wrong with selling Hondas ? We all got to make a living. Loved your story . Thanks fof sharing.

[@famalam943]

Ian’s long lost brother

[@matthewfarmer6830]

Jeff Bridges right here man 😄

[@fematrailer]

Man, Ian McCollum's old channel was really weird.

[@buckingmachine]

The mention of Garden State, Arlington, and Hialeah made me sad. These beautiful and historic racetracks don't exist anymore.

[@matthewfarmer2520]

This guy does look like a Jeff Bridges but i maybe wrong lol thanks for sharing this video have a super Sunday, what was he turns his head to look over his shoulder.

[@Lava_Girl-]

Cannot get enough of "real life." How it was before you couldn't trust anything put out there.

[@sameo-]

i feel like i went through similar experiences through the medium of the internet in the late 00's/early 10's. casts of the most colorful characters across the world though typically America, some of which have met their ends (even right here on KZbin) or disappeared. warp speed microcosms of worlds

[@action2news256]

Hope I'm like this guy

[@jchow5966]

☮️💟

[@applejuicecultbroccolimilk659]

As a 19 year year old i watched this with regret of my own wasted isolated youth. Its over

[@hypno5690]

you're 19 idiot you're still crazy young, you're like a child. Get your shit together and stop feeling sorry for yourself

[@commoveo1]

Don’t pay attention to this queer! We knocked the hell out of these types! Took their dope threw it out the window, then they were next! Keep faith, they are the few.

[@tigertastic862]

You're 19? You're still a youngling. Your life is ahead of you. And now, you have time to play.

[@blazefoley5181]

Ian McCollum's father?

[@jasonzacharias2150]

✌🏻👼🏻🤟🏻

[@thisfoodhits6205]

This dude could easily be Zoyd from the book Vineland.

[@spongebob1712]

What does he mean by renting a front porch?

[@kimwaldron2606]

Pretty blunt interview, he tells it like it is, using an expression from the time. Leaving the negative side about drugs out of it, To actually live life spontaneously, off the cuff, like that is something to be envied. You pay a price for that, of course, it just depends on if you're willing to pay it. Now it is probably much more dangerous and unrealistic to be like that, because there are more sharks out there, more insecurity. But why do we need to worship the big shots with big money, like Musk and Bill Gates, and hang on every word they say? Those people are ugly, materialistic empty shells. You look at Mark Zuckerberg, and he's got nothing past his eyes. Society has changed, as he pointed out. I don't know why. Maybe people are more scared of real life than in the sixties, less confident about change for the better.

[@medievalknievel]

The mechanical ruler guy a lot of them live in Malibu now -nerds rule-All hail the builders

[@kinsley7777]

a grey nun (?) … idk what that means … thank YOU, David

[@williamrahal5438]

Bro looks like frank zappa 😂

[@ilovegreeneggsnham.4376]

forgotten weapons

[@Hklbrries]

Wonder what happened to him.

[@pattyellen1954]

😂 bought from the Beatniks

[@odora_allan]

What of black people ?

[@jas0609]

Great story! Ugly mustache

[@victorc8804]

I doubt he is alive today