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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26
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go back and forth and all of a sudden - Brillo; get some
Brillo. Yea, clean your teeth and wipe your asa. You
wanna get laid, use Brillo, Brillo, Brillo, the best thing
ever invented was Brillo. And then you go back to liberals
and conservatives. Right? At the end’ of the hour, nobody
switched, right? Do you think people changed their position
about the war in Vietnam, liberal or conservative? Baloney.
But sure as hell, they bought the Brillo. And so you like
watch it, the Brillo thing.
“Let's forget about that liberal-conservative
rap and all that rational. Start with a capital letter M
with a period. Prepare it, rehearse it, read it, study it.
Let's just watch how they did that Brillo ad. How did they
do it? Hippie. What the hell's a hippie. All these
people couin' down; sociologists, psychologists, newsmen, in
search of the hippie. We were on the David Susskind Show,
see, and he brought up the word hippie. We took out this
duck and there was a placard around its neck, said hippie.
We threw him in the air. There's a hippie, Dave. Talk to
him. Quack quack quack quack quack. Susskind get very mad,
see, cause he's very verbal, you know, rational guy. Said,
you blew it, the duck's off. The duck is off. We're off.
Goodbye. So we take the mikes off. He says, oh no. We'll
leave the duck in. You know, but that was tape. Never trust
a liberal, especially when he's on tape. See. So we watched
that show, no duck. No duck. The duck is killed by the
liberal Susskind. And we're watchin', all the references
to duck anipped out. fF call him up the next day. Hey Dave,
he says, yea, I go quack quack quack quack quack. They
don't wanna deal with that stuff. You know hippie, that's
an interesting word, we said. No, us never call ourselves
hippie. Whose a hippie? They invented it. Gh, that's
clever. Why don't we do somethin’? Why don't we change)
that bh to a y. Join the y. Bring your sneakers. Yippie.
Yea, that's good man. That's got alot of class. Yea.
Yippie. Well, we need something for the straights. OK,
Youth International Party; that sounds really, oh, that's big.
That's really heavy. What's a Yippie? f don't know; he's
goin! to Chicago. That's good enought They make it up.
They make it up. Media made the whole thing up. I got
arrested by the cops; they started beltin’ me; I said what
are you hittin' me for? Why don’t you get Walter Cronkite?
And they did. And then they were beltin' all these
reporters. It was out of sight. They belted Hugh Heffner.
They belted Hugh Heffner in the back. Wow. They said, ob,
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