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I guess then the show must go on. Now,

2:41

I would like to start today, first

2:43

of all, by thanking Marcus

2:46

for the work that you've done already.

2:49

Right. The work that I've done already. You've just

2:51

done so much work on this. He's talking like

2:54

he doesn't appreciate what you did. I

2:56

did. And it's not just me. Carolina put in

2:58

a ton of work on this. Yeah. Joe put

3:00

in a ton of work on this. Joel

3:03

put in a lot of work on this. This is

3:05

a big team effort. But now I kind of feel

3:07

like because I feel guilty. Don't

3:09

feel guilty. He does this to himself. But

3:12

if you look at him right now and Eddie said this

3:14

to him, is that like I with

3:16

all the work and with all the reading and the

3:18

gravitas, the classes, yeah, because

3:21

he's wearing he is dressed like

3:23

a liberal college teacher in the

3:25

1960s. No, you look

3:27

like you're trying to talk me in and like

3:29

getting arrested. See, that's what I

3:31

feel because of the fascist insect. Because

3:33

of this story. Yeah.

3:36

You look like a guy like I feel like a

3:38

trembling 15 year old heiress who's

3:41

like, can you change me? I

3:44

am far more fashionable than the Symbianese

3:46

Liberation Army. Welcome to the last podcast

3:48

on the left, ladies and gentlemen. My

3:50

name is Marcus Parks. I'm fatty Hearst.

3:54

I'm free. Yeah, it's my funny

3:56

name. It's my funny burlesque name,

3:58

Patty Hearst. Zabrowski fatty

4:00

hers, Patty burst bigger than

4:02

the last. Not as big

4:05

as the neck. To make

4:08

fun of the name, even though

4:10

she's a victim, Patty burst is

4:12

Ed Larson. So

4:15

much that's the

4:17

belt. Of

4:19

course our subject today is Patty

4:22

Hearst, the kidnapping of Patty

4:24

Hearst and the subsequent Odyssey

4:27

that she went through afterwards. This is

4:29

a classic example of a name I've heard

4:32

and a type of story I've heard and

4:34

the various scant details that I have known

4:36

over all the years. And you always kind

4:38

of think like, Oh, I know the Patty

4:40

Hearst case Stockholm syndrome, J. Gilding, Jerrobsbank. She's

4:42

rich lady, but she hangs out with these

4:45

crazy revolutionaries. And you know, you

4:47

never think about it, but the story

4:49

itself is amazing. Yes. And it's huge.

4:51

Yeah. I never really knew much about

4:54

this. This has been very exciting. And

4:56

especially because I've always hated William

4:59

Randolph Hearst, you know, just naturally just cause

5:01

I have to. And you know, the Hearst

5:03

family cause of deadwood. And so what I

5:05

knew about Patty

5:08

Hearst is like before this, I'm like, Oh, she's

5:11

just some criminal like the rest of them. And

5:13

then you start learning about this shit. And all

5:15

of a sudden, you know, you were like, Oh,

5:17

we've been fed bullshit for all these years. And

5:19

that's the power of books. And that's why I

5:22

read the Bible to the homeless people around my

5:24

house every day to teach them

5:26

about how Noah fucked his family. Now

5:31

out of all the true crime stories

5:34

of the 20th century, it's generally accepted

5:36

that the top three, or at least

5:38

the top three by name recognition are

5:41

OJ Simpson, the Lindbergh baby and today's

5:43

subject, the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. That's

5:45

fucking baby was a criminal. He went,

5:47

he went, he brought out the

5:50

automatic weapons. I thought the baby

5:52

was the victim, right? I was

5:54

like motherfucker, that baby. He's

6:00

a serial killer? Fucking nuts, man!

6:03

Fucking Bandolero! Fucking debunk festival

6:05

going on here. Oh,

6:09

Bandoleros are gonna play an

6:11

important part in this story

6:13

later on. Believe you, me.

6:15

Well, 50 years ago, on

6:17

February 4th, 1974, the extraordinarily

6:19

wealthy granddaughter of media mogul

6:21

William Randolph Hearst was kidnapped

6:23

from her Berkeley apartment by

6:25

a far left-wing militant cult

6:27

who called themselves the Symbionese

6:29

Liberation Army, the SLA. Yeah,

6:32

dude, the fucking eight-headed snake! Hell yeah,

6:34

man, the Sibian Army, man. They worked

6:36

with Howard Stern back in the day,

6:38

man. Yeah, I believe...

6:40

Was it Jesse Jane in this,

6:42

or...? Is

6:44

it Jenna James in a member of the Sibian

6:47

Liberation Army? Do your own

6:49

research, I always say. That's

6:52

how you know when the Sibian Liberation Army is coming, though,

6:54

is you hear that... These

6:58

horses don't move! What's

7:01

most remembered about Patty Hearst, however, is

7:03

that she helped her captors rob a

7:05

bank less than two months after her

7:07

capture, right after the SLA released a

7:10

photograph of Patty dressed as

7:12

a revolutionary holding an automatic weapon

7:14

in front of the SLA flag,

7:16

looking real fucking cool, real fucking

7:18

scary to the squares at the

7:20

time. And also kind of attractive?

7:22

Yeah! Now, since the SLA's beliefs

7:24

were strictly political, Patty Hearst was

7:26

vilified on the right for her

7:29

participation in some of the

7:31

SLA's crimes, which included

7:33

multiple cold-blooded murders. That

7:35

being said, those on the left

7:37

also have their opinions on Patty,

7:39

mostly because she was born into

7:41

an extremely privileged and sheltered life.

7:44

Privilege and shelter doesn't even really

7:46

even come close to what she

7:48

was. She's like the

7:50

last unicorn. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like I was

7:52

privileged and sheltered. She was fucking taken away

7:54

to a castle. She had a nice time.

7:56

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Hearst family is still

7:59

to the end. this day the 14th

8:01

richest in America and Patti's grandfather William

8:04

Randolph Hearst was one of the most

8:06

visible and well-known symbols of the American

8:08

ruling class oligarchy of his time. He's

8:10

sort of like how we view Jeff

8:13

Bezos today. I actually think

8:15

that Jeff Bezos is nicer than William Randolph

8:17

Hearst. I don't know, I'd like to put

8:19

him in the ground myself. We'll figure it

8:21

out. Now

8:24

taking those facts into account it may be

8:26

tempting to look at Patti Hearst in a

8:28

less than sympathetic light. After all when

8:30

Patti Hearst was kidnapped she was indeed

8:32

slumming it in a bad neighborhood in

8:35

Berkeley, California. She was the very definition

8:37

of the girl pulp sang about in

8:39

the song Common People. But

8:41

when you reduce this story to its most

8:43

basic form Patti Hearst was a young 19

8:46

year old woman who survived by

8:48

her own wits and strength of

8:50

brutal kidnapping, months of torture, and

8:53

multiple sexual assaults perpetrated by men

8:55

who also saw Patti Hearst as

8:57

almost a different species because of

8:59

her background. Now

9:01

with the Patti Hearst

9:04

story it's important to

9:06

know the historical context.

9:08

We know. It always is. That's

9:10

why I love these series. But these

9:13

historical context are my two favorite words

9:15

in the English language. Besides I'm coming.

9:19

This story it's interesting because it is

9:21

important to set the context because it's

9:23

nice for us because it's modern history.

9:25

Yeah and it's something I could try

9:27

to understand except it's another time when

9:30

I another time and I'm coming listen

9:32

guys communists I hear you all right

9:34

I'm trying to read it I try to read the theory

9:36

all right I don't understand a word of it and so

9:38

this is as far as I went I did as much

9:40

as I could though this time. As far as communism goes

9:42

it looks good on paper but it's obviously failed every single

9:44

time. But just 50,000 bearded men just

9:46

sit out loud

9:52

but true communism has never actually been

9:54

tried. And that's

9:56

why we'll get there. Next

9:59

time I need a. one of them could talk. Well,

10:03

this happened in the mid 1970s,

10:05

which was a time of extreme

10:07

inequality and social unrest. When crime

10:09

was at levels we can barely

10:11

imagine today and a fair amount

10:13

of those crimes were politically motivated.

10:15

There were bombings by leftist radicals.

10:17

So that's the crazy thing about

10:19

the seventies is that there was

10:22

so much crime in that decade

10:24

that there were bombings like throughout

10:26

and nobody talks about him anymore.

10:28

Man, everyone always talks about how

10:30

this is the craziest worst time ever. It's

10:32

like in the sixties they used to like

10:34

kill presidents. Yeah. You know what

10:36

I'm like, like today is the craziest worst time

10:38

ever. It's like, no, no. No,

10:41

the seventies were, and then the seventies

10:43

made the sixties kind of look cute

10:45

because that what happened after what was

10:47

like, cause at least the sixties had

10:49

this sort of like ideology attached to

10:52

it in a way where it had

10:54

this sort of like rising youth movement

10:56

where the seventies was all about the

10:58

absolute abject failure of that movement and

11:00

what kind of led to how that

11:02

changed America and to what we were

11:04

at today. The hippie peace and love

11:07

turned into coming into beer cans. Nothing

11:10

wrong with coming into a beer can as long

11:12

as that beer can is my wife. You

11:18

also, you had racially motivated murders, both

11:20

white and black. You had the KKK,

11:22

you had the zebra murders, and at

11:24

the highest levels of power, you had

11:26

the Watergate scandal. Everybody's a

11:28

fucking criminal. In the middle of all

11:30

this was Patty Hearst who became

11:33

a symbol of economic inequality while

11:35

also further establishing the belief in

11:37

the right that America was being

11:39

murdered by its young people. Now,

11:42

Patty was indeed brainwashed, but not

11:44

with the SLA's political ideology like

11:47

many people assume. Instead,

11:49

Patty was brainwashed into believing that because

11:51

it appeared as if she'd fully joined

11:53

the SLA, she would be gunned down

11:56

on site by the FBI if she

11:58

would have ever leave. If you're asking

12:00

why she didn't escape on her own when she had

12:02

hundreds of chances, it's really as

12:05

simple as that. At some point

12:07

during this herb saga with the

12:09

SLA, she made several moves

12:12

in order to ingratiate herself to her

12:14

captors, in order to not, number one,

12:16

be killed from the inside. But then

12:18

in those moves made

12:20

herself optically a fucking

12:23

villain. She made herself a criminal. And

12:25

at that point, if they're not negotiating

12:27

and you've got your family and you

12:30

don't know that your family is constantly working in the

12:32

background trying to find a way to find you,

12:34

you believe in your mind you are

12:36

fucked. You are on camera with

12:38

an assault rifle during a bank

12:40

robbery. You know you're fucked. And

12:42

guess who's not too fucking good with

12:44

trigger discipline either? The FBI. And

12:47

they're like, and these people, they're gonna fucking

12:49

kill you. Yeah, she's basically an undercover agent

12:51

for her own survival. Yes. And

12:54

they're actually a really fucking good way of putting it. And

12:56

indeed, after almost two years on

12:58

the run from the FBI, that's

13:00

years, not months, Patti

13:02

was arrested and tried for the crimes

13:05

in which she participated. And to be

13:07

fair, there was plenty of evidence to

13:09

support the opinion that she'd fully bought

13:11

into the SLA's political philosophy and their

13:13

terroristic tactics. It goes real deep.

13:15

She goes deep. The only, honestly,

13:18

she walking Phoenix it. And it's

13:20

a women. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She

13:22

went to Phoenix it and then

13:24

unfortunately she, instead of making the

13:26

master, she made Joker. Yes.

13:32

But what nobody knew then, and what

13:34

a lot of people still don't know

13:36

now, is that from nearly the beginning

13:38

of her ordeal, Patti Hurst never once

13:40

bought into what the SLA was selling

13:43

and had one goal during her entire

13:45

ordeal. Patti Hurst was

13:47

only concerned with survival and the

13:49

journey she took with the SLA

13:51

as a result is one

13:53

of the most bizarre, fascinating, and

13:56

incredible stories I've ever heard. Besides

13:58

Lord of the Rings. rings.

14:03

It is no Lord of the rings is

14:05

better. It is as far as epic journeys

14:07

go. Yes, Lord of the rings is better.

14:09

And this is the simmer really inferred Patty

14:11

hurts. Now in case you hadn't

14:14

noticed, this is going to be a

14:16

pro Patty podcast. Sure. Sure. Sure. Anybody

14:18

who wants objectivity, good luck because

14:21

it doesn't exist in the Patty hearse story.

14:23

It just does. This is

14:25

also one of these stories where there

14:27

are so many perspectives coming in on

14:29

this that it's, we are

14:31

going to try to balance it, but we're

14:34

going to try to be as fair as

14:36

we possibly can. We, anybody who tells you

14:38

that their objective is lying to you, fucking

14:40

lying to you. This is very subjective. If

14:42

you watch the CNN, quote unquote top documentary

14:45

of all time, you want to talk about

14:47

fucking subjective. We'll talk. We'll get to that

14:49

here in a second. I mean, our main

14:51

source of this series is Patty Hearse out

14:54

of print autobiography, every secret thing in which

14:56

every moment of her time with the SLA

14:58

is documented in detail. It's extremely readable and

15:00

it's very entertaining. Why is it out of

15:02

print? It just, you know,

15:05

some books just go out of print. It's

15:07

very long. Oh, yes. It's really long and

15:09

it is, it is detailed. It's exhausting. Extremely

15:11

detailed. Yeah. I mean, you're following her throughout

15:13

this entire journey. It is an exhausting read.

15:16

And obviously we're covering this from in that,

15:18

in this part in this episode from her

15:20

point of view. So this is all from

15:22

her head. She had a whole version of

15:24

this story, which is technically she

15:27

did the last podcast version of

15:29

the story. Like she's playing them

15:31

how I would play the characters

15:33

in my head throughout the novel,

15:35

which is hilarious. It's not a

15:37

novel. It's it is nonfiction. It's

15:39

nonfiction, but they don't get scary

15:42

until you look from the outside.

15:44

Well, for a supplemental source used

15:46

for historical context, events, Patty wasn't

15:48

privy to and to

15:50

get a different point of view to

15:52

be as fair as possible. We use

15:54

the decidedly anti Patty Hearst book, American

15:56

heiress written by infamous public masturbator Jeffrey.

15:59

If I ever see Jeffrey Toobin, I'll

16:01

be able to thank him. Certainly not

16:03

shake his hand. No, never. Oh,

16:05

I'll be like, where's your fly? Let's see those hands.

16:09

But you know, what he did

16:12

brought one of the

16:14

only light moments I

16:16

had during that dark, dark time

16:19

during that COVID time when he did it,

16:22

saved me. So I

16:24

want to thank you Toobin for

16:26

being a public masturbator because if

16:29

it wasn't for your limp gray

16:31

penis, nothing. I don't know

16:33

if I ever would have smiled in 2020. I

16:37

just still thank you for that. I just love

16:39

that his last name's Toobin. It is the itch

16:41

of pulling your dick out on a Zoom. It's

16:45

my tube. I'm doing it. I'm

16:47

Toobin. It'll never get old. And I'll never

16:49

take a word seriously. You have to say

16:51

ever again, Jeffrey Toobin. You're fucking done, dude.

16:53

And your documentary series of pieces of shit.

16:57

Yes. And Toobin absolutely despises Patty Hearst. I

16:59

think it's possible. I think it's because she

17:01

declined to work with him on his book

17:03

because she's tried. She's tried to put it

17:05

behind her. She wrote every secret thing and

17:08

she's like, that's it. I'm done.

17:10

I'm moving on. I'm going to go

17:12

fucking I'm going to go be in

17:14

serial mom and get killed by Kathleen

17:16

Turner. I listen, Patty. I know I

17:18

might be Jeffrey Toobin and

17:20

yeah, I might be cruising for a bruising,

17:22

but I prefer to get a bit of

17:25

a boob in. His

17:28

follow up email to her was just

17:30

send nudes. Send nudes, please. All right.

17:32

All right. Sorry. Sorry.

17:35

Actually, totally get it. No worries. Send

17:38

nudes, please. Toobin also executive produced

17:41

and featured himself as a talking

17:43

head in an absolutely awful

17:46

CNN series on the Patty Hearst story,

17:48

which gives an offensive amount of time

17:50

to a former member of the SLA

17:52

who straight up says that Patty Hearst

17:55

was asking for one of her sexual

17:57

assaults and then he completely. ignores the

17:59

other assault that occurred soon after. This

18:01

dude drives the fucking narrative. This is

18:04

Bill Harris. This guy, it's fucking, it's

18:06

despicable. Yeah. It's fucking this and CNN

18:08

series is despicable. I do want to

18:10

finish it just to see maybe if

18:13

he ends it with something, but it

18:15

just, the first three episodes are miserable.

18:17

It doesn't matter. It finishes it himself.

18:22

She's guilty. It doesn't matter if

18:24

he turns it around because there's

18:26

still three entire episodes where Bill

18:29

Harris, the fuck, one of Patty

18:31

Hearst's kidnappers and torturers drives the

18:33

narrative and paints Patty

18:35

Hearst. It's remotely entertaining

18:38

any version of thought from the

18:40

SLA, which we'll get

18:42

to next episode, but you know, it's the, they, I

18:44

guess they wanted to, they decided they need to take

18:46

the SLA seriously to make it scary or I don't

18:49

know what the fuck they thought they needed. I don't

18:51

know what they, I think they just thought we have

18:53

a member of the SLA who's willing to talk and

18:55

that's going to get ratings. I think that's the only

18:57

thing they thought. I'm trying that it's just nice to

19:00

hate CNN again. It

19:02

is nice, but with all

19:04

that in mind, let's dive into the

19:06

Odyssey of Patricia Campbell Hearst. Now

19:08

to really understand what the kidnapping of

19:10

Patty Hearst meant, we've got to understand

19:13

the place that the Hearst family occupied

19:15

in the American consciousness in the 20th

19:17

century. Patty's grandfather, William Randolph

19:19

Hearst was the face of media

19:21

in America. He was a celebrity

19:24

in his own right and was

19:26

so well known that Orson Welles

19:28

famously used Hearst as the inspiration

19:30

for his movie, Citizen Kane. And

19:32

everybody knows Citizen Kane because of

19:34

the Simpsons. The

19:38

Bobo episode. I think it's that episode and then

19:40

every single, you know, every time you've heard, well,

19:42

it was bad. Like you,

19:44

that's the fucking Citizen Kane thing. Love Citizen Kane.

19:46

Love it. Surprisingly modern film for the time period

19:48

that it was made. It's unbelievable film. But also,

19:50

was it weird that William Randolph Hearst kind of

19:52

looks like Herman Munster? He's

19:56

got a big head. Yeah, but

19:58

such was the power of William

20:00

Randolph Hearst. that when he just

20:02

heard about Citizen Kane, he threatened

20:04

to expose the private lives of

20:06

multiple people in the film industry

20:08

in his newspapers if the movie

20:10

was released. And he came damn

20:12

close to buying all prints of

20:14

Citizen Kane and the negative in

20:16

order to destroy the movie before

20:18

anyone saw it. Before people call

20:20

that fascist or bad, just remember

20:22

that's the closest feeling that William

20:25

Randolph Hearst has to vulnerability, which

20:27

is that just being like, they

20:29

can't know I love to sled.

20:32

They can't know I

20:34

have a girlfriend. Cause

20:36

then you look at the movie, it's

20:38

like technically like, yeah, he's sad and

20:40

old and mean and he was ruthless,

20:42

but also in the same time, if

20:44

you're William Randolph Hearst, if I'm watching

20:47

Citizen Kane, I'd be like, man,

20:49

that guy's got it all figured out. How

20:52

bad was he really? The

20:56

ultimate message of Citizen Kane is

20:59

that success is worthless. Yeah,

21:01

but still at the same time, if he doesn't, he

21:03

doesn't feel that, he doesn't know that. So he's watching

21:05

the whole time and like, God damn,

21:07

I'm a good actor. Like he doesn't even know

21:09

it's him. He's not even watched it. I

21:12

imagine he did. Every

21:14

one of these people hate, it's about

21:17

him. So he has to

21:19

watch it. Well, as a result of

21:21

Hearst bluster, many theaters refused to show

21:23

Kane out of fear that Hearst would

21:25

sue them for libel and Hearst banned

21:27

all of his newspapers from even mentioning

21:29

the movie in a positive or negative

21:32

light. Hearst had such influence that in

21:34

an attempt to get the boss to

21:36

notice him, an employee at a small

21:38

local paper owned by Hearst, he attempted

21:40

to frame Orson Welles as a pedophile

21:42

by hiding a 14 year

21:44

old girl in his hotel room

21:46

closet, along with two photographers. Welles

21:49

only avoided this scandal because a

21:51

policeman warned him to not

21:54

go back to the hotel. Ooh,

21:56

master stuff. And

21:59

honestly, the Kelsey, who's here helping us today, I

22:01

just want to say this is a part of

22:03

the, to be honest, the

22:05

kind of commitment we're looking here at LPN. I

22:09

actually want a list of other top

22:11

podcasters and how we are going to

22:13

sabotage them so that we can move

22:16

towards the top of what? I

22:18

don't even fucking know. No, we just... Is

22:20

that another Webby? I don't know. I actually don't

22:22

know what this leads to. I don't know where

22:24

the end of this is. We just got to

22:26

get a couple of photographers that snap a picture

22:28

and go, wow, what a scoop. And then fucking

22:30

run out the door. But

22:33

in the end, partly because people didn't

22:35

understand the movie, admittedly, but mostly because

22:37

Hearst decided to kill it, Citizen Kane

22:39

bombed and only became known as a

22:42

classic decades later. Now, the

22:44

Hearst were that particular stripe of American royalty

22:46

in the sense that there was no blue

22:48

blood in their family. Yeah,

22:51

didn't deserve it. William Randolph

22:53

Hearst's father was a 49er from

22:55

Missouri who struck it rich in

22:57

the silver mining business in California.

22:59

Afterward, he became a senator despite

23:01

the fact that he could barely read.

23:03

Hey, man, you got to read to

23:06

pass laws. Yeah, now that just makes

23:08

you president. Eddie!

23:11

Come on, Eddie. But

23:13

once William Randolph Hearst came of age,

23:15

he used his father's silver money to

23:17

force his way into the media. As

23:19

the line in Citizen Kane goes, I

23:22

think it would be fun to run

23:24

a newspaper. That's what you said. Yeah.

23:26

You did it. That's what, yeah, that's

23:28

why, yeah, Botstock and the Reykjavik great buy.

23:31

I did that forever. For a week I

23:33

walked around going, I think it would be

23:35

fun to run a newspaper, even though I

23:37

don't run it in any way whatsoever. We

23:40

take it down, man. We got

23:42

to do, when we, as we go

23:44

to Reykjavik, we have to make sure

23:47

that your newspaper starts decrying us as

23:50

a, like, we are this

23:52

rampant, like, this rage

23:54

of, like, teenage chaos

23:57

is going to arrive when we come- Gods are coming

23:59

to town. careful. Oh, last

24:01

podcast mania, Mel, shut

24:03

Reykjavik down. Is a

24:05

picture of me just like, hide your pigs, hide

24:07

your pigs. They ain't got no pigs. They got

24:09

sheep. Oh well, fuck them. In

24:13

my newspaper, it's Reykjavik's newspaper. Honestly, if there

24:15

was a picture of Eddie that said to

24:17

hide your sheep, that means he's coming there

24:19

to fuck. It's

24:23

a bad idea. Right

24:26

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Yeah, baby. Now,

26:02

as Citizen Kane portrays, William Randolph

26:04

Hearst soon found success by selling

26:07

sensationalism. And while he did have

26:09

some principles, loose principles, his first

26:11

goal was always to sell as

26:14

many newspapers as possible. Case

26:16

in point was when he began publishing op-eds

26:18

from some of the most evil people of

26:20

the 20th century because it was good for

26:23

business. It was actually

26:25

commissioned Benito Mussolini to

26:27

write regular columns for his

26:29

papers. We're in unprecedented times.

26:32

It's unprecedented

26:34

times. It delighted

26:36

him that the most famous Italian

26:38

in the world had a byline

26:40

in his papers, and Italian Americans

26:42

bought papers as a result. He

26:44

was the most famous Italian? More

26:46

than Chef Boyardee. Yeah! Name

26:49

one Italian more famous than Benito Mussolini in

26:52

1936. Leonardo da Vinci!

26:55

I mean a lot! He was famous

26:57

living Italian. Maybe

27:01

Rudolph Valentino. Yeah, Romeo

27:04

Spaghetti. You never met

27:06

him? You never saw him? Romeo Spaghetti? He

27:09

fucked underage girls through a pile of pasta. Again,

27:13

time does not show a

27:15

lot of favor to

27:17

Romeo Spaghetti. Mussolini,

27:19

however, never actually wrote any of the

27:21

columns himself. His mistress ghost

27:23

wrote most of them, and even then,

27:26

it was usually difficult to decipher what

27:28

Mussolini was even trying to say.

27:30

Yeah, he wasn't a famous orator, was

27:32

he? Mussolini, was he like,

27:34

did people like, was

27:36

he a funny guy? I have pictures of him

27:38

being super funny in my head, like standing on

27:41

a balcony and yelling. Because he was a big,

27:43

like, it slipped out, and he just looked like he

27:45

was pouting. Yeah, he was a populist. Mussolini,

27:48

however, paled in comparison to the man Hirst

27:50

gave an American voice to in 1930. That

27:53

year, in the Sunday March of

27:55

Events section, Hirst published an op-ed

27:57

called Adolf Hitler's Ode to the World.

28:00

story. He tells what's the matter with

28:02

Germany and how he proposes to remedy

28:04

it. I like you, ain't I? If

28:06

you're a straight shooter, you've got a

28:08

good haircut, I love the mustache. Now,

28:12

who's that? For

28:18

a time, Hitler was her favorite

28:21

commentator because Hitler could produce big

28:23

headlines in his copy of a

28:25

shop in decisive. I love the

28:27

use of exclamation. And

28:29

it also sold papers to a lot of

28:32

German immigrants. The only problem was

28:34

that Hitler was shit for making deadlines, but

28:36

still willing to give the Nazis a shot.

28:38

Hurst replaced Hitler with Hermann Goering, the

28:41

second highest ranking Nazi. That's the guy

28:43

that you would bring in, right? Because

28:45

he's the guy that wrote for the

28:47

Nazis. Yeah. Hurst, well, no,

28:49

that Goering, he wasn't the propaganda minister.

28:52

That was Goebbels. Yeah. So what did

28:54

Goering do? He was second in command.

28:56

He ran the Lutwaffe and

28:58

he was just Hitler's guy. Oh, wow. Cool. Yeah. He

29:00

did a lot of really awful shit too. Yeah, I

29:02

bet. Yeah. In a sentence of hanging in the Nürburg

29:04

trial. I don't think he was the fun one, but

29:08

I'm just saying, he had writers. He

29:10

should have a bull kill him. That was the last name.

29:12

Goering. Goering. That's a good idea. But it's

29:14

unspelled the same way. Yeah. There we go.

29:17

Yeah. Killed himself with the cyanide capsule the

29:19

day he was supposed to be hanged. That's

29:21

kind of funny. Pussy. Yep. Hurst

29:23

even went to Germany to meet

29:25

with Hitler after some of Hurst's

29:27

Jewish friends, particularly film executive Louis

29:29

B. Mayer. They expressed

29:32

some concerns. Yeah. We feel like there

29:34

might be. We just got to feel.

29:36

We feel like your buddy's out of

29:38

pocket. Yeah. But all Hitler said about

29:40

his treatment of the Jews, all he

29:43

said to Hurst is basically, don't worry,

29:45

it'll all be over soon enough. Okay,

29:48

good. Yeah.

29:50

So you got a cover.

29:52

You know, Hitler loved that

29:54

look that sheepish like, don't

29:56

see the look over telegram.

30:00

Now, Hearst chose to take this statement in

30:02

a manner that I'd call willfully positive. And

30:10

he continued tacitly supporting the Nazi regime

30:12

because Hitler's columns sold papers. Hearst would

30:14

finally be forced to speak out against

30:17

Hitler after the events of Kristallnacht in

30:19

1938, but even then

30:21

his criticism was lukewarm at best.

30:24

That's all to say, of course, that William

30:26

Randolph Hearst was not necessarily a beloved figure

30:36

in the minds of the American

30:39

people. And the Hearst name became

30:41

associated with both ruling class arrogance

30:43

and over-the-top opulence as was portrayed

30:45

in Citizen Kane. Well, his fucking

30:48

house was a famous San

30:50

Simeon would become this like

30:53

it's this otherworldly castle in

30:55

the middle of the California countryside.

30:57

It is gorgeous. But you also

30:59

wonder why they thought you were

31:01

some kind of alien from the

31:03

outside because you're literally living like

31:05

an old school European, like royal

31:07

family inside of the United States

31:09

of America. That's interesting because weren't

31:11

they building Hitler a castle in

31:14

California? That's another crew.

31:16

Lindbergh's baby. Oh, he was

31:18

running that whole thing. That's what I didn't

31:20

find out actually. Also, until I started reading

31:22

if the Lindbergh baby thing, the baby was

31:24

the Nazi. Oh,

31:26

so the baby was the one who convinced

31:28

the father to be the Nazi. I'm pretty

31:30

certain that Lindbergh's baby did the, I

31:33

believe the contract negotiation

31:35

between Hitler and

31:37

William Randolph Hearst for the amount of

31:39

words deliverable and

31:41

set the deadlines until out of the

31:43

template, which I saw was very

31:45

strange. Getting his hands dirty. Oh yeah. And

31:48

his little gun, the goo goo gaga. And then he would do

31:50

something about how like, and then he said, Juju no, no. Yeah.

31:53

Yeah. It was like weird. Juju.

31:56

No, no. I'm

32:00

just making sure you're a person.

32:04

Now, when William Randolph Hearst reached the end of his

32:06

life in 1951, he found that he

32:09

had not raised worthy heirs. Many

32:12

of his sons were alcoholics, none did

32:14

well in school, and most were living

32:16

lives of leisure as playboys and layabouts.

32:19

This of course included Patty Hearst's father,

32:21

Randy. Now, Randy had

32:24

also taken up the newspaper business as a

32:26

career, but he was boss more in name

32:28

than in practice because he'd just pop into

32:31

the paper every once in a while to

32:33

see how everything was going and say, bye-bye.

32:35

Has there ever been a responsible Randy? No,

32:38

I don't think so. The

32:41

dude, the picture, the big tall picture.

32:43

Randy Johnson. Randy Johnson. Responsibly, he showed

32:45

up at every game he was supposed

32:47

to be. He showed up in practice,

32:49

he killed those bird, just like he

32:51

promised his father he would. And

32:54

were you ever disappointed by a Randy Newman

32:56

song? No, I love Randy Newman. And Randy

32:58

Bachman, okay, we're okay. Yeah, okay, that's it.

33:00

Randy Bachman saves me. I don't like Randy

33:02

Newman. You don't like Randy Newman? No, you

33:05

can fight about this later. I think he's

33:07

smug. I'm going to be right to be

33:09

smug. But Randy Hearst

33:11

was a family man. He married his wife,

33:13

Catherine, at the age of 19. He

33:16

had five kids, and he actually raised them

33:18

himself. His favorite was the middle

33:21

child, Patty. Oh, yeah. Patty was

33:23

a lot of fun. Yeah, everyone loved Patty.

33:25

Now, Patty was raised in a mansion in

33:27

the old money area of San Francisco,

33:29

where they had a living maid and a

33:32

governess. She described her childhood

33:34

in her book as happy and affluent

33:36

but sheltered, which is a bit of

33:38

an understatement. She had no idea that

33:40

there was a world outside. No, this

33:42

is a woman who grew up with

33:45

an actual castle as her summer home,

33:47

the famous San Simeon property, which was

33:49

once the home of the world's largest

33:51

private zoo and is now an actual

33:53

tourist attraction owned by the state of

33:55

California. You can still see zebras

33:58

in the California country. side. Have you

34:00

ever been escaped from the zoo? When

34:02

you drive, it's these like switchback roads

34:04

up to it and the way it

34:06

made, it was made to

34:08

look super honestly,

34:11

like it's far off. It looks far

34:13

farther in the distance than it is.

34:15

Cause you're driving these kind of like

34:17

switchback things up and it's like a

34:20

fairy tale. You slowly watch this castle

34:22

like crest over as wild zebras feed

34:25

on the grass all around it. And apparently

34:27

the goal for a long time was that

34:29

no one know exactly where the castle itself

34:31

was. So he would have people like when

34:33

you went to go visit the Hearst mansion,

34:35

he would call the Hearst castle. What he

34:38

would do is you'd get a letter that's

34:40

saying you wouldn't know, but you'd get a

34:42

letter that says from William Randolph Hearst. I

34:44

mean, like you're coming over to the house

34:46

and so you'd be like, all right. And

34:48

so a guy would show up and pick

34:50

you up at the house or you'd meet

34:53

at somewhere down below in the bottom of

34:55

the property and he'd have somebody else come

34:57

and take you so that no one would

34:59

actually know how to properly get up to

35:01

the castle itself. Yeah. Now why do they

35:03

get, do they give it to California? They

35:05

sell it to California. They gave it to,

35:07

they gave the land cause it sat on

35:09

something over like 275 acres. Like it was

35:11

this huge stretch of land that they just

35:13

eventually slowly but surely sold off chunks to

35:15

the state government. And this castle was all

35:17

like, he'd throw these massive Hollywood parties there

35:19

because he was, he was friends with every

35:22

nasty boy in Hollywood like Charlie Chaplin. He

35:24

had every fingers, he had fingers in every

35:26

single pie. Yeah. Slits, slits, slits, slippings and

35:28

many soups. Tons and many soups because he

35:30

was like, he liked getting inside information on

35:32

people. That's how he controlled people. And what

35:34

he would do is he had this big

35:36

long table and then you'd sit at the

35:38

center. He'd be at the center and how

35:41

you knew how he liked you is that

35:43

you'd be close to the center at the

35:45

table, but then slowly but surely the more

35:47

you get invited, the closer you get to

35:49

the outside of the table until eventually you're

35:51

not invited anymore. And so that's like how

35:53

you knew how he didn't want to talk

35:55

to you. You guys ever see Mank? Yeah,

35:57

he has a whole thing. Awesome. Now, when

36:00

they got older, Patty and her sister all

36:02

went to Catholic school. But while Patty was

36:04

rebellious enough to tell a nun to go

36:06

to hell, she was not by any stretch

36:08

an out of control spoiled rich brat. In

36:10

fact, she bucked her socialite mother's expectations of

36:12

being just another rich wife and even considered

36:14

changing her name because of the connotations at

36:16

hell. I wouldn't even say she was that

36:18

like special of a rebellious kid in that

36:20

way. You were saying she's like, she really

36:22

was just kind of in

36:24

LA you meet some of these people. She

36:27

was, I mean, yes, she was of course

36:29

very rich, but she was also just a

36:31

very normal girl. Yes. And if

36:33

very normal young woman, if you went to

36:35

any affluent city in

36:37

the United States of America and went to any one

36:40

of these fancy neighborhoods where like people went to sort

36:42

of like cosplay being like regular, you know what I

36:44

mean? You got a lot of money and they're going

36:46

to go out to like some area where you don't

36:48

like in Brooklyn. If we got rid of all the

36:50

people for faking that they weren't for

36:53

money, the place would be empty. Also

36:55

like someone's got to pick up the tab. That

36:59

being said, Patty Hearst had grown up so

37:01

incredibly wealthy that she really had, she

37:04

didn't have a great idea of what it was like

37:06

outside of her bubble. Nor did she really know how

37:08

to just be a regular person out in the world.

37:10

Like she didn't know how to set up an, like

37:12

she didn't know how to like call up the electric

37:14

company, you know, set up bills. Patty

37:16

needed a bridge and that came in the

37:18

form of a teacher named Stephen Weed, whom

37:20

Patty started dating when she was 17 and

37:22

he was 23. Patty

37:26

was cool as last name's Weed.

37:28

Yeah, unfortunately. Look how young my

37:31

girlfriend is man. You dude. Fucking

37:34

dude, what's crazy man? Is fucking sometimes

37:36

when I'm kissing her, I imagine if

37:39

she was a little egg. I

37:42

mean like how small can you fucking

37:44

be dude? I'm the team. Anyway, back

37:47

to class. Yeah, I'm learning about Weed.

37:49

It's about me being a full adult.

37:52

Stephen Weed, I use cream. Yeah. Stephen

37:54

Weed was a math professor who ran

37:56

a music workshop at Crystal Spring School,

37:59

which is basically a finishing

38:01

school to prepare young girls for a life of

38:03

opulence. Yeah, I go there a lot of times

38:05

and they'd call me like, all right, welcome to

38:07

alabaster skin class 101 ball.

38:10

Here's a bucket of mayonnaise, rob it

38:12

on yourself. None

38:15

of you are soft enough. That's

38:19

what you got to do, man. You're

38:21

going to get these debutantes into shape.

38:23

Let's see the nipples. Let's go. Who's

38:25

to learn? We learn how to make

38:27

spring rolls. All right, now we're doing

38:29

my taxes. Steve

38:32

Matt Patti is a guitar tutor. And

38:34

even though the age difference is fucking

38:36

very creepy and definitely inappropriate, they started

38:39

dating and got more serious after Patti's

38:41

first year in college, as

38:43

could be expected from a guy in

38:45

his twenties who dates girls still in

38:47

high school. Steve soon became difficult, arrogant

38:49

and condescending. They're always like that. It's

38:52

always like, man, he's so cool. And then all of a

38:54

sudden he's like, you start doing stuff

38:56

where you think it's cool to act like a

38:58

wife at home and she's starting to do that.

39:01

Sort of like mothering him and he's really excited

39:03

about that. And then he really reverts to a

39:05

childlike state, even though he's much older than her.

39:08

But even so, even though they were

39:10

having problems, they still decided to get

39:13

a place together in Berkeley, California after

39:15

Steve won a fellowship at UC at

39:17

the Bong Sciences Department. Now,

39:20

Berkeley at the time was a place

39:23

that was dealing with the aftermath of

39:25

the sixties, not unlike how nearby Haight

39:27

Ashbury had in just a few short

39:29

years devolved from a hippie paradise into

39:32

a place where heroin addiction pimps and

39:34

con men like Charles Manson thrived. Patti,

39:37

however, was thrilled to be living somewhat

39:39

independently. And even though she had her

39:41

doubts about Steve, she liked the idea

39:43

of being married playing adult. She wanted

39:45

to, she saw it like, you know,

39:47

we hear people talk about all the

39:49

time. Natalie talks about how when she

39:51

dated a man that was 20 years

39:53

old than her and she felt super

39:56

mature because he fed the line of

39:58

how mature and ready you are. and

40:00

how amazing and special you are. So

40:03

when Steven asked for her hand in marriage, she

40:05

said yes at the age of 19, which

40:08

is the same age her father was when he got

40:10

married. The engagement was announced in

40:12

a Hearst newspaper on December 19th, 1973, but

40:14

unbeknownst to anyone, that

40:18

announcement would change the course of

40:21

history, for it was quickly noticed

40:23

by the Symbianese Liberation Army. Oh

40:25

man, we needed Jimi Hendrix's guitar

40:27

snare. They don't like some

40:30

of these fucking assholes and idiots don't deserve

40:32

Hendrix. Because right now we're from the outs,

40:34

the way I'm viewing the series is like, we're

40:36

on the outside now. So to this point, the

40:38

SLA, they're gonna look

40:41

pretty scary, pretty intense. Now

40:43

we're gonna get into the full story

40:45

of the SLA in episode two, but

40:47

the broad strokes are that the SLA

40:50

was a small militant black revolutionary group

40:52

that basically operated as a cult. As

40:54

Henry told me earlier, thank Charles Manson,

40:56

but with left-wing politics instead of pure

40:58

nonsense. Yes, and it comes from the

41:00

same spot. It comes from someone that

41:02

was also institutionalized by the United States

41:05

government. The only hitch about the SLA

41:07

being a black revolutionary group, however. It's

41:09

a big hitch though. Yeah, I would

41:11

say honestly. Was that out

41:13

of the 10 members, only one of them,

41:15

the leader, was actually black. The

41:18

other nine, Lilly White. And

41:20

they just became more white. As

41:23

the time went, it kind of reminds

41:25

me about how when we did West

41:27

Side Stories at my high school, and

41:29

they decided that everybody with that, because

41:31

we had no Hispanic students, that

41:34

anybody with dark hair. And greens? No, no, this

41:36

was in Houston, Florida. By the time of the

41:38

Florida, I was in West Side Story. And Tampa,

41:40

you didn't have any Hispanic students? I was in the theater

41:42

department. And so I

41:44

obviously was on the white team because

41:47

I'm translucent. But then everybody else, it

41:49

was all the Italians. You

41:52

were a jet, but you were a jumbo jet. No,

41:56

I was Snowboy. Oh

41:58

yeah, that's great. Good for you. Well

42:00

the white people in the SLA wanted

42:02

to be black so badly that one

42:04

guy Bill Harris aka Techo, this is

42:06

the guy that was in the fucking

42:08

CNN series. He was known to sometimes

42:10

pound the floor with his fists yelling

42:31

I get it. I do this sometimes in casting offices. I

42:34

mean basically it's a cult full of Rachel Doles all's

42:36

with guns Now

42:43

the SLA were never really an organization

42:46

known for their brilliant plans and schemes

42:49

But they figured that they could kidnap

42:51

someone important and trade them for

42:53

the release of two members of their group

42:55

that they felt Have been wrongly imprisoned. We'll

42:58

get into next week why they thought that

43:00

would be a viable plan Now

43:02

they had a long list of names

43:04

But they eventually settled on Patty Hearst

43:07

after seeing the engagement announcement

43:09

This was not just because of what

43:12

the Hearst family name met in American

43:14

society that was important But it was

43:16

also because Patty's living situation in a

43:18

bad neighborhood in Berkeley made the kidnapping

43:21

Extraordinarily easy and so

43:23

on the night of February 4th 1974

43:27

Patty Hearst and Stephen weed settled in

43:29

for the evening. Yeah, let's fucking count

43:31

our nugs You

43:36

know the nug fairy So

43:42

the nug fairy comes you gotta say I

43:45

got exactly 34 nugs I

43:55

Because every time I go to fucking

43:57

tire man, all I see is noodles

43:59

man Man, this is freaking me out, dude.

44:01

I'm stupid. Steve

44:04

was planning on a nice evening of TV. He

44:07

had a double feature. He was gonna, first he was

44:09

gonna watch Mission Impossible and then he was gonna watch

44:11

a TV show called The Magician. Patty,

44:13

meanwhile, was studying at the table, wearing

44:15

her in for the night outfit, a

44:18

bathrobe and underwear. Little did she know

44:20

that these would be her only clothes

44:22

in the weeks to come. Now

44:24

at 9 p.m. that night, the doorbell

44:26

rang on Patty and Steve's second floor

44:29

apartment. Steve opened the door to

44:31

find a young, agitated white

44:33

woman. This was

44:35

SLA member Angela Atwood,

44:37

AKA Jelena. She

44:39

told Steve that she'd backed into a car

44:41

downstairs and she needed to use

44:43

Steve's phone. Hi,

44:46

is this Mr. Weed? I saw it here on

44:48

your doorbell. I've

44:51

had the most horrible set of circumstances. I'm

44:53

gonna stop you right there. It's Professor Weed. I

44:57

didn't know I was talking to a professor. I should have seen

44:59

a notice by your

45:01

weed-like smell in your small glasses.

45:04

Immediately forgiven. You

45:07

have to know, I'm a bit

45:09

of a emergency situation. Jelena was a

45:11

former actor. Guess

45:13

what I have learned about all of them? All

45:16

theater majors. Did you know

45:18

this? We're waiting for next week. The entire

45:20

crew, the whole three of them that joined

45:22

up with the first three, they're all theater.

45:25

Before Steve even had a chance to

45:27

answer Jelena, the door flung open and

45:29

he was soon faced with two armed

45:32

men, one black and one white. After

45:34

them came Jelena, who backed Patty into

45:36

the kitchen stove and pointed an automatic

45:38

pistol in her face. You better watch

45:40

yourself, little girl. It's a thought on

45:42

the end of human glue. Is an

45:45

automatic pistol a thing? Yeah. Yeah.

45:48

Oh, like Robocop. Yeah. Like Robocop. I

45:50

don't know, I'm probably gonna get some,

45:53

maybe it's a semi-automatic pistol. It's a gun.

45:55

It's a gun. It's a really

45:57

dangerous fucking gun. It's a gun that Jelena. shouldn't

45:59

have. No, for sure, for sure. I'm sorry I

46:02

got caught up on the wrong details. No, it's

46:04

fine. You'd probably say just like 20

46:06

emails from a bunch of fucking gun nerds. Well,

46:11

Jelena then clamped her hand over Patty's

46:13

mouth and told her to be quiet

46:15

and nobody will get hurt. I'm in

46:17

the movies. It's like I'm a little

46:20

revolutionary. Meanwhile, Steve

46:22

and Weed had been pushed to the

46:24

floor and was being kicked repeatedly by

46:26

the white guy. No, man, my fucking

46:29

shoulder started. Oh,

46:31

man. And this would be the

46:33

last good thing they would ever

46:35

do. Man, this is dude, the

46:37

fucking magician was about to pull

46:40

all the fucking the rags out

46:42

of his sleeve. The guy

46:44

kicking him was the aforementioned Techo. Steve

46:46

actually thought at first that Techo was

46:49

black because Techo talked in an affective

46:51

black voice as did many members of

46:53

the SLA. Henry, what did it sound

46:56

like? I actually

46:59

was going to wait for next episode

47:01

because there's a couple. It is really

47:03

funny because they talk about it with

47:05

each one. It's like, that's what's fucking

47:08

hard. Is that like, look, I don't

47:10

even want to get I have a

47:12

breakdown for this. But

47:16

once both Steve and Patty were down on

47:18

the ground, the actual black guy started asking

47:20

him, where's the safe over and over again?

47:22

Because he was under the impression that every

47:25

rich person in the world had a safe

47:27

in their home. There's a safe in every

47:29

single fucking hotel

47:32

room. There's a safe lots of places.

47:34

The man yelling about the

47:37

safe was career criminal Donald

47:39

Defries, AKA Sin Q. Ntube,

47:41

AKA Sin. Sin was

47:44

the leader of the SLA and the

47:46

only black guy in this black revolutionary

47:48

militant group. You listen to me, you

47:51

ever loving fellas. All right.

47:53

There doesn't need to be me. One more black

47:55

fellow in this group. Cause you got the number

47:57

one guy. No,

48:00

you worry about it. All right.

48:02

I'm the blackest man you've ever met. That's

48:05

how you stay in charge. Job

48:08

security. We're

48:10

going to get into that in the next episode.

48:12

It's you're exactly right. It's so stupid. This is

48:15

the problem, man. Is I don't want to even

48:17

get into it right now. We have to remember

48:19

Marcus, the SLA scary right now. It's

48:21

scary right now. They can never at any

48:23

point be scary to me. No, we have

48:25

to pretend like they're scary right now because

48:28

we're going to find out that they're stupid

48:30

soon. Well, the thing is, is that they

48:32

are scary. They are very, very scary to

48:34

Patty Hearst. Of course. And will remain terrifying

48:36

to Patty Hearst. Till the end. Yes. Now,

48:38

Patty and Steve didn't have a safe, but

48:40

SIN's insistence that there was a safe made

48:42

it seem like this was probably a robbery

48:45

and would be over soon enough. But

48:47

then Patty's hands were tied behind her

48:49

back. A knotted rag was stuffed in

48:51

her mouth and a blindfold was wrapped

48:53

around her eyes and tied behind her

48:55

head. But Steve, even after

48:57

being hit over the head with a bottle

48:59

of wine and kicked and hit in the

49:02

face repeatedly, supposed to drink that. Is

49:04

that my pong? That's a fucking don't hurt

49:06

my pong. He managed to get

49:09

his hands free before rushing out to the patio

49:11

to get help. Help. That's when he noticed no

49:13

one was running after him. That's

49:15

because the SLA were too busy dragging

49:18

Patty the other way out the front

49:20

door. She'd spit out the gag

49:22

and was screaming for help because she was

49:24

now fully aware of what was actually going

49:26

down. Her neighbors came outside

49:28

to see what was going on. So

49:30

one of the kidnappers let out a

49:32

burst of gunfire from their automatic weapon

49:35

in response. Not subtle. No. By

49:37

this time, Stephen Weed had made it to

49:39

a neighbor's apartment and was pounding on the

49:41

door, begging for help. Any nugs to help

49:43

me get inspired to go to the police,

49:45

please. Emergency nugs needed.

49:47

I need to fucking chill to

49:50

the maps. Man, this is so

49:52

much quicker. I can't

49:54

handle this, dude. Fucking rich ass girlfriends

49:56

got a fucking good apple problem. But

50:03

Patty had already been tossed in the

50:05

trunk of the car. The lid was

50:07

closed and just before the car sped

50:09

off with Patty inside, one of the

50:11

kidnappers let loose with one last burst

50:13

of gunfire for good measure. Now they'll

50:15

know we have bolts. She

50:19

also said that she was having dreams about getting

50:21

kidnapped. I find that real, I feel like it

50:23

was just in the air because there was a

50:25

case. Getty too, was that around

50:27

this time? Yeah, the Getty kidnapping was the

50:29

year before. Oh, so it's

50:31

blatantly inspired. Well, we're going to get into

50:33

the Getty kidnapping next week. There's a lot of

50:35

inspirations, but she was having prophetic dreams, but I

50:38

think, but she was saying that she had this

50:40

feeling that someone was going to happen. But I

50:42

realized now, you know what it was. And

50:44

she said so much kind of after the fact

50:46

was like, cause she was actively being tailed and

50:49

they were watching where she was going. And

50:51

sometimes, and this is gray for my friends

50:53

with OCD out there, is that

50:56

sometimes when you're super

50:58

paranoid thinking that somebody's

51:00

following you, they are

51:02

completely a total real scenario and they

51:04

are, they are coming to kill you.

51:06

That's why I walk in zigzags. Always.

51:08

I taught you that serpentine. Well,

51:12

if you can't jump like a dog. After

51:16

a short drive, Patty was transferred to

51:18

the backseat of another car and she

51:21

sat in abject terror, listening to her

51:23

kidnappers, congratulate each other on how smoothly

51:25

their operation had gone. You were so

51:28

scary. You were so good. Yeah, thank

51:30

you. Yeah. Yeah, I

51:32

did do good, right? Yeah, baby. You cut all

51:34

your lines, right? Yeah, yeah, I rehearsed. Yeah. They

51:37

also had all the windows rolled

51:39

down, ready to quote, shoot it

51:42

out with the pigs if they

51:44

needed to. Because all of

51:46

these people are all ready to

51:48

die at any second. They're

51:51

begging for it. Oh, this is a,

51:53

this is the story of a group

51:55

of people heading towards total annihilation. Yep.

51:58

But after anywhere between an hour. hour and

52:00

three hours, Patti was really fuzzy on the

52:02

time. She found herself being led up a

52:05

flight of stairs and down a series of

52:07

hallways. Now at first, Patti

52:09

was terrified that she'd meet the

52:11

same fate as kidnapping victim Barbara

52:13

Jane Mackey. Mackey was a

52:15

20-year-old college student who'd been kidnapped

52:18

in 1968 and was

52:20

buried alive in a coffin on

52:22

an isolated hillside in Georgia for

52:25

83 hours before her father paid

52:27

a ransom of half a million

52:29

dollars. No thank you. No.

52:32

But while Patti didn't go in a coffin,

52:34

her reality wasn't far off. She

52:36

was soon thrown into a walk-in closet,

52:39

six feet long and two feet wide,

52:41

modified so it could only be open

52:43

from the outside. It was filthy and

52:46

stank from the old carpet and padding

52:48

that had been used to soundproof the

52:50

space, giving it the feel of a

52:52

cell at an insane asylum. Soon

52:55

after she was thrown inside, the door

52:57

flew open and a member of the

52:59

SLA placed a small radio inside with

53:02

the volume turned all the way up

53:04

so Patti couldn't hear what her kidnappers

53:06

were saying and so she would be

53:08

disoriented even further. At the very beginning,

53:11

what we said this, they're very frightening. You have

53:14

these people who mean a lot of business to

53:16

you. She's now watched her husband get the shit

53:18

beat out of him. Fiance.

53:23

Fiance is a piece of shit. It's a dumb

53:25

name. It's a stupid role. Mrs.

53:28

Weed. Mrs. Weed. Man, that's actually

53:30

great. Patti Weed. Dude. Yeah,

53:33

that's a Peanuts character. Oh

53:36

yeah, you guys. Hell,

53:39

learn a no lesson, man. She's

53:43

traumatized. The way it

53:46

begins is extremely, they

53:48

seem like they're very capable. They

53:51

have a full on, there's

53:54

an agenda here. Yeah. A few

53:56

hours later, the leader of the SLA opened the

53:58

door and told Patti, Patty that his

54:01

name was Cinque Intume and he

54:03

was the fifth prophet and the

54:05

general field marshal of the Symbionese

54:07

Liberation Army. Now as

54:09

soon as Patty heard the name Symbionese

54:12

Liberation Army, she knew she was

54:14

in trouble. While she

54:16

did admit to being blind to most

54:18

inequalities in American society at this time,

54:20

she still read the news and she

54:23

remembered the headlines the SLA had already

54:25

made. The reason why two

54:27

of their members were in jail was

54:30

because just four months earlier the SLA

54:32

had executed the superintendent of the Oakland

54:34

Unified School District in the school's parking

54:36

lot, a guy named Marcus Foster. And

54:39

that was not a good move. It

54:41

was a bad move. It was a

54:43

bad move because as we

54:46

come from the other direction next week you'll see

54:48

why they made this move, but they really shit

54:50

the bed. Because

54:52

the thing is if you're going to be a

54:54

revolutionary group, a bit of advice. Those

54:57

first couple roundabouts, those first couple engagements. Like

54:59

your first headline? Yeah dude, super crucial to

55:01

how everybody's going to view you for the

55:03

rest of the time. And you really got

55:05

to start off with the right foot. Yeah.

55:08

Well the murder had received widespread

55:10

condemnation and bafflement from other black

55:13

revolutionary groups because Marcus Foster was

55:15

not only black but a symbol

55:17

of success in the community because

55:19

he was the first black superintendent

55:21

of a large American city school

55:23

district. The SLA had murdered

55:26

him because they didn't agree with some

55:28

policies. He was merely entertaining, not even

55:30

implementing. And a lot of it was

55:32

conspiracy theory. Yes. Like

55:34

what he was reading- And paranoia. And

55:36

paranoia. Like he was basically was about

55:38

creating an ID system for children in

55:41

the elementary school system and then he

55:43

extrapolated it, Cincuse, extrapolated to this concept

55:45

that they were going to be bringing

55:47

police officers into monitor the everyday activity

55:49

of children. Because he kind of had

55:51

the- He thought it was this slippery

55:53

slope of, oh, they're going to start

55:55

tracking the kids. Kind of like in

55:58

a Mark of the Beast. style

56:00

slash police state. The kids are going to come and

56:02

the cops are going to be teaching the kids classes

56:04

and stuff. And then he doesn't know the cops are

56:06

lazy. They're not going to do that. They're not going

56:09

to teach classes. If I was a top and then

56:11

I was forced to watch it like be in charge

56:13

of an elementary school, like it's like class, we're going

56:15

to watch dumb and dumb. Like,

56:18

Oh, it looks like all officers are

56:20

brows. He's going to put on one

56:22

of his favorite

56:24

documentaries. Yeah.

56:27

Watch the Charles Larry Christmas. You

56:29

know how mad they must have been when he wasn't

56:31

killed by the KKK? Soon

56:38

after two members of the

56:40

SLA were arrested for the

56:42

crime, Russell Little, AKA, Oc

56:44

and Joseph Romero, AKA Bo.

56:47

But even though Patty knew exactly who

56:49

she was dealing with, she thought it

56:52

would be best if she feigned ignorance.

56:54

Perfect. Yes. This of course, bruised sins

56:56

ego and he proudly and angrily gave

56:59

Patty the SLA's entire resume, including the

57:01

murder of Marcus Foster. They're still very

57:03

proud of this. He still thinks that

57:06

he's done a wonderful thing

57:08

for killing this superintendent because we're

57:10

where we're at right now in

57:12

the SLA is life. We're into

57:14

the Charles Manson section of we

57:16

are going to have to ramp

57:18

up the rhetoric in order for

57:20

me to keep the cult. Send

57:23

then told Patty that she was a prisoner

57:25

of war because she was the daughter of

57:27

Randolph A. Hearst, a corporate enemy of the

57:29

people. But since she was

57:31

a prisoner of war, she was going

57:34

to be treated according to Geneva Convention

57:36

guidelines. She wasn't. Sin asked her if

57:38

she had any religious medals on her

57:40

person, explaining that under the Geneva Convention,

57:42

she could hold on to any religious

57:45

medals bad to forego every other item

57:47

to the SLA. Yes, I worship this

57:49

gun. Yes. Thank

57:51

you. St. Barnabas's gun

57:53

for the protection that you give

57:55

me each night. And thank

57:57

you. The bullets of the Virgin Mary.

58:01

Holy night! BAM! BAM! BAM!

58:04

BAM! BAM! But

58:07

since Patty was wearing only her bathrobe

58:09

and underwear, she thought for the first

58:11

many times that the person talking to

58:13

her might be insane. Now

58:16

this is about half true, because it's

58:18

hard to tell how much sin actually

58:20

believed in what he was about to

58:22

tell Patty. Although, it's most likely he

58:24

was just trying to make himself sound

58:26

more impressive than he actually was. See,

58:29

during the kidnapping, Patty had been hit in

58:32

the face with the butt of a rifle,

58:34

and had been cut, scraped, and bruised by

58:36

the rough treatment she'd received between her apartment

58:38

and the SLA's closet. For

58:40

those wounds, sin promised that an SLA

58:42

doctor would soon arrive. But

58:45

their medical team was, at that moment, very busy.

58:47

We got a lot going on, a lot

58:49

of different stuff there, madam. Alright, so you

58:51

gotta know, it's like we got arm fronts,

58:53

we're fighting in Alaska right now, did

58:56

you know that the snowmen were

58:58

conservative? And

59:00

then we got a lot

59:02

of stuff going on, a

59:04

lot of places, Toledo, Milwaukee,

59:07

a lot of places, we got Seattle,

59:10

some people need to be at Band-Aids in Seattle,

59:12

so we had to send

59:14

them out super last

59:16

minute for some crucial, crucial

59:20

Band-Aids. Well,

59:23

I gotta go. Sin claimed

59:25

that other SLA combat teams had captured

59:27

five other prisoners that night across the

59:30

state of California. The SLA,

59:32

he said, was a huge army that

59:34

had intelligence and medical units in addition

59:36

to their ground troops, and that it

59:38

was all financially backed by supporters of

59:40

the revolution. And you can bet

59:42

your buttons on that, little mess, alright?

59:44

Because no hardcore fellas such as myself

59:47

who just got out of the pen

59:49

are going to mess around with no

59:51

half measures, you little woman. Alright, so

59:53

you better cross your T's and dot

59:55

them I's when it comes down to

59:57

it. because if not, miss Buster Brown,

59:59

I'm going to come over there and

1:00:01

I'm going to, I'm going to, Oh,

1:00:03

you better watch it. Oh, I gotta

1:00:05

go. I gotta go. Make sure as

1:00:08

I'm sending the SLA doctors to Baton

1:00:10

Rouge. Yeah. Get out of

1:00:12

control. Yeah. I got it out of

1:00:14

here. He then

1:00:16

added that the SLA was linked

1:00:18

internationally to the countries of Ireland,

1:00:20

the Philippines and Puerto Rico, the

1:00:22

whole country, which

1:00:25

are all known for how many black

1:00:27

people they are. The blacks, Ireland, you

1:00:29

would even believe the type

1:00:32

of crazy loco fellows. We got

1:00:34

an Ireland, what

1:00:36

these guys are doing, they are keeping

1:00:38

it real. My friend. And

1:00:41

even though Puerto Rico is not, as we

1:00:43

all know, a country, no, no, finally sends

1:00:45

five. That's since 1897.

1:00:50

Finally, Sen told her that if she behaved

1:00:52

herself, she wouldn't be mistreated, but if she

1:00:54

dared make a sound or even touch the

1:00:56

closet door, she'd be strung up from the

1:00:59

ceiling like a dead pig. She

1:01:01

was then left there in the dark, blindfolded

1:01:03

with her hands tied. Don't

1:01:05

you mess with me. All right. Cause I'm a

1:01:07

cranky MFR. All right. Have a good night.

1:01:12

Love you. Now

1:01:17

the next day, Sen was furious that

1:01:19

the papers hadn't printed anything about the

1:01:21

kidnapping of Patty Hearst. In his view,

1:01:23

this was not a kidnapping at all,

1:01:25

but an arrest. So he decided to

1:01:27

send a so-called arrest warrant to the

1:01:29

media. Issued by the court

1:01:31

of the people, the statement said that

1:01:33

any attempt to rescue Patty would result

1:01:36

in her execution. And this and

1:01:38

any further communications had to be published

1:01:40

in full in all newspapers and any

1:01:42

failure to do so would endanger the

1:01:45

safety of the prisoner. The

1:01:47

statement ended with the now infamous sign

1:01:49

off. Death to the fascist

1:01:51

insect that prays upon the life of

1:01:53

the people. Yeah. See,

1:01:58

you got to say it in a mil to you're allowed to. the

1:02:00

glasses. Sure. Death to the fascist insect

1:02:02

that prays upon the life of the

1:02:04

people. Yeah, that felt that a lot

1:02:07

better. All right. You mind

1:02:09

your P's and Q's, right? Because

1:02:11

we're calling for the

1:02:13

death to the fascist insect. It prays

1:02:15

upon the life of the people and

1:02:18

it's gotta stop. And

1:02:20

our first person to do it is Sergeant

1:02:22

Orkin. Ha ha ha.

1:02:25

I will not let that stand. Now

1:02:29

almost immediately, Sin began drilling the thought

1:02:31

into Patty's head that if the FBI

1:02:33

were to show up at the SLA

1:02:35

safe house, the SLA would kill her

1:02:37

first, then shoot their way out or

1:02:39

die trying because all of them would

1:02:41

rather die than go to prison. But

1:02:44

when he wasn't telling her all the ways

1:02:46

she could be killed, Sin lectured Patty in

1:02:48

a phony formal tone of voice as if

1:02:50

he were a judge or a general, his

1:02:52

words, of course, barely made any sense, or

1:02:54

at least they didn't make sense to someone

1:02:57

from Patty's background. Or to a lot of

1:02:59

people. Yes. Because

1:03:01

I can already tell what he's doing, which

1:03:03

is he's saying a lot of very intense

1:03:05

left wing words. None of

1:03:07

them mean any of the way that they

1:03:10

say it. The word always means something else

1:03:12

from the way they use it. It's

1:03:14

confusing. And then it feels

1:03:17

in many ways as if the information

1:03:19

is being held from me. And

1:03:21

I do wish, cause I'm not a

1:03:23

dumb man. Well, what you

1:03:25

just said is systemic. I'm not a dumb

1:03:28

man. I

1:03:31

try to read and I feel

1:03:33

like I'm gullible enough to be

1:03:35

gotten. Yeah. You know, cause I go in

1:03:38

there 110%. You always do.

1:03:40

And I leave me behind. I'm like

1:03:42

going to the work. Now I still don't

1:03:44

really understand what dialectical materialism is, but I

1:03:46

know that it's a thing, but I know

1:03:48

he said a lot of words that he

1:03:50

did at first to sort of, I do

1:03:52

believe it's a tactic. I believe that is

1:03:54

a tactic to be like, look how official

1:03:57

we are. We have all of these crazy

1:03:59

terms and all. of this terminology

1:04:01

and these meanings why and

1:04:03

the validations. But Sen wasn't

1:04:05

the only featured speaker. Every

1:04:08

member of the SLA took every opportunity

1:04:10

to lecture Patty, sometimes opening the door

1:04:12

to ask her if she wanted to

1:04:14

go to the bathroom, then immediately launching

1:04:16

into a diatribe about Marxism before she

1:04:18

even had a chance to answer. And

1:04:20

this happens everywhere you try to go

1:04:22

to the bathroom with communists. But

1:04:24

no, but it is interesting. I find it interesting, but it's

1:04:27

like, let me shit. Yeah. So

1:04:29

Sen told Patty the reason why she'd

1:04:31

been kidnapped or at least the loose

1:04:33

reason why this principle, two of their

1:04:36

comrades have been held in a pigs

1:04:38

prison since said, and the SLA was

1:04:40

going to trade her for them. But

1:04:43

in the meantime, the SLA was going to

1:04:45

treat Patty exactly how their comrades were being

1:04:47

treated in San Quentin. Yeah. And we're not

1:04:49

going to be playing no hopscotch and we

1:04:52

ain't going to be playing no jump rope

1:04:54

little mess. All right. So you

1:04:56

better get your head on straight and you better be thinking

1:04:58

about communism and the time I get back. All

1:05:00

right. It's tomorrow. We got Johnny Cashbook.

1:05:03

He's so mad about it. He doesn't want to play.

1:05:05

He doesn't want to play. It's it. All

1:05:07

right. Good night. I

1:05:09

love you. Over

1:05:13

the next few days, Patty settled into what

1:05:15

she hoped would be a short if torturous

1:05:17

ordeal. She learned how to eat

1:05:19

blindfolded and sat through. That's important. Remember she

1:05:22

was blindfolded. That's the one thing I don't

1:05:24

know. We've said that she was permanently blindfolded

1:05:26

and she kept it on. And they also

1:05:28

like this is part of also the reasons

1:05:30

why she was like, they might be fucking

1:05:32

stupid because he kept saying stuff like she

1:05:34

had to keep it on in the closet

1:05:37

no matter what. Yeah. And

1:05:39

so she was taking it off every once in a

1:05:41

while. They will let her take it off to bathe

1:05:43

where they would wear a mask sometimes and she'd be

1:05:45

able to take it off. But then she was noticing

1:05:47

it was like blinding her because essentially she was days

1:05:50

at a time with no light. Also it's just

1:05:52

like it has to give you like weird like.

1:05:54

Yeah. Yeah. And

1:05:56

she learned how to eat blindfolded and

1:05:59

she sat through so-called. Interrogations conducted by

1:06:01

Sen who wanted to know as many

1:06:03

details about her father and his financials

1:06:05

as Patti could tell how many slides

1:06:07

does he have How

1:06:13

many carousels I'd

1:06:24

run a llama common is universe. All right,

1:06:27

you should be so lucky dancers for 15 and 3 See

1:06:33

sin was under the impression that Randy Hearst was a

1:06:35

member of the committee of 40 Which

1:06:37

sin believed was a super secret high-level group

1:06:40

of businessmen and corporate executives who were also

1:06:42

CIA agents And it was this committee who

1:06:44

told the president what to do at all

1:06:46

times Just know that as soon as you

1:06:48

hear the term committee of 40, you don't

1:06:51

have to listen to a single thing that

1:06:53

he says ever again Oh You're

1:06:59

wrong. Yeah little did sin know

1:07:01

that Randy Hearst barely even showed up to the

1:07:03

job he had most of the time Yeah, dude,

1:07:05

that's what rich people do and after days of

1:07:07

interrogation Patti just told

1:07:09

sin that her father made I don't

1:07:11

fucking know a million dollars a year

1:07:13

Yeah, and since that was a nice

1:07:16

round number sins like cool million dollars

1:07:18

a year sounds right must be yeah

1:07:20

Yeah, million dollars, huh? Yeah, I bet

1:07:22

that's jump change for your daddy. Mm-hmm.

1:07:24

Well, how about mmm? Well, I make

1:07:26

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1:07:32

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didn't take long for Patti to

1:08:52

learn each SLA member by voice

1:08:54

because, again, as we said, she was

1:08:56

almost never allowed to take off

1:08:58

her blindfold in those early weeks.

1:09:01

While Sin was always recognizable as

1:09:03

the meanest male voice, Patti also

1:09:06

heard a sharp, cold, female voice

1:09:08

that sounded, as she said it,

1:09:10

like a school marm. And

1:09:13

they all had fake voices. I'm not

1:09:15

doing the real Sin voice. The real

1:09:17

Sin voice is that he was an

1:09:19

African American, but he also pretended to

1:09:22

have sort of like an Indian Island

1:09:24

accent as well. He faked that because

1:09:26

he was from Cleveland. What

1:09:28

does an Indian Island sound like? Well,

1:09:35

the school marm voice was often

1:09:37

paired with a jumpy, nervous male

1:09:40

voice who repeatedly tried unsuccessfully to

1:09:42

sound like a black guy. Yeah,

1:09:44

you fools. Yeah,

1:09:46

you better check yourself before you wreck

1:09:48

yourself, right? I like

1:09:50

sneakers. No, I certainly

1:09:52

like sneakers. Well, the

1:09:55

nervous fella was the aforementioned

1:09:57

Tekko, while the school marm

1:09:59

was his wife Emily aka

1:10:02

Yolanda. Patty then learned

1:10:04

the names of the rest of the

1:10:06

SLA members or at least their aliases.

1:10:08

Those aliases, no shit. They

1:10:11

were the white SLA members

1:10:13

reborn Swahili African names adopted

1:10:16

for the revolution. Oh God, I wish

1:10:18

I was black. Oh

1:10:20

God, I wish I could be black. Oh

1:10:23

please. Shut up. If you fucking, if I give

1:10:25

you a black name, will you shut the fuck

1:10:27

up? Yeah, I guess it's okay. What kind of

1:10:30

black name? It's fucking Swahili, I

1:10:32

don't know. Cool. Do you

1:10:36

know anyone else named

1:10:38

Swahili? Wow, what

1:10:40

part of black is that? Well

1:10:45

apart from Yolanda's hard tone and

1:10:47

Tekko's nervous faux black accent, there

1:10:49

was also the friendly sing-songy theatrical

1:10:51

voice of the aforementioned Jelena who

1:10:54

often giggled and had studied to

1:10:56

become an actor before joining the

1:10:58

SLA. If you have a hard

1:11:00

time memorizing these communist terms, you'd

1:11:03

have an even harder time doing

1:11:05

Sondheim a cappello. Because

1:11:09

of her theater background, she'd make over the

1:11:11

top ridiculous disguises for the SLA to

1:11:13

wear anytime they left the safe house

1:11:16

using her professional makeup kit. Look, now

1:11:18

I'm an old woman with a

1:11:21

little bit of gray hair. Now I'm an

1:11:23

old man with long droopy balls. I

1:11:25

attach an attach to my labia. Now

1:11:28

I'm a doll. A ruff, ruff, a

1:11:30

bar, bark. One can be anything. So

1:11:32

that's the balls though.

1:11:35

One can be anything if you're in the theater. Well

1:11:39

she'd previously been in a relationship with

1:11:41

one of the SLA's arrested comrades, but

1:11:43

now Jelena spent most of her nights

1:11:45

sleeping with Sin. Patty also

1:11:47

got to know the voice

1:11:49

of Patricia Soltasik who had

1:11:51

legally changed her name to

1:11:53

Ms Moon. That's M-I-Z-M-O-O-N. White

1:11:55

people. Before

1:11:58

adopting the so-called Swahili name. of

1:12:00

Zoya. Zoya was an ardent

1:12:02

bisexual second-wave feminist who preached that

1:12:04

women could be just as strong

1:12:07

macho and violent as men were.

1:12:09

She was the real frightening one.

1:12:11

Yeah. As the lectures continued day

1:12:13

and night, Patti also meant Faheza,

1:12:15

the SLA's second in command, the

1:12:17

one who worshiped sin like a

1:12:19

god. But unlike Tekko, Faheza actually

1:12:21

sounded black, so Patti was surprised

1:12:24

to later find out that Faheza

1:12:26

was actually a white woman from

1:12:28

Orange County named Nancy. She was

1:12:30

surprised that they were all white.

1:12:34

It's just the truth. She was

1:12:36

just like, wow.

1:12:39

She was really surprised when she got a good

1:12:41

look at everybody. Patti also

1:12:43

came to know Willie Wolf,

1:12:45

aka Kajo, who mostly talked

1:12:49

about Vacaville Prison. That was where

1:12:52

both Ed Kemper and Charles Manson

1:12:54

would eventually be held. Since Vacaville

1:12:56

is where the state sends prisoners

1:12:58

with psychiatric issues, Patti assumed Kajo

1:13:00

was himself mentally disturbed. No. You

1:13:05

would be surprised how mentally well I could

1:13:07

be. In reality, Kajo was just

1:13:09

a big fat idiot who often ate so

1:13:11

much he gave himself a tummy ache. Oh

1:13:15

no. So far is the only

1:13:17

appealing character. There's this, can't somebody

1:13:19

stop me? Because it's going to

1:13:21

get to the point where I'm

1:13:23

going to be too big for

1:13:25

the revolution. I mean,

1:13:27

I literally did this yesterday. Too big

1:13:30

for it. You know how many tunnels

1:13:32

we got to go through with the

1:13:34

little bamboo sticks we got to widdle.

1:13:37

They'd actually have meetings where they're like,

1:13:39

Kajo is eating too much. I don't

1:13:41

know how to stop. I'm nervous. It's

1:13:45

hard out here. We're in a war. But

1:13:50

Patti later described him as an

1:13:52

overgrown, awkward high school senior with

1:13:54

short hair, dyed a hideous red

1:13:56

that didn't match his facial features

1:13:58

at all. Kajo

1:14:00

was big, he actually towered over

1:14:02

Sin. And even though Kajo was

1:14:04

soft-spoken and unimpressive in every way,

1:14:06

Sin would still arch his back

1:14:09

and try to appear taller when

1:14:11

standing next to him. And

1:14:13

then- Always go shorter. Always go

1:14:15

shorter, yeah. Because it shows you're more

1:14:17

powerful. Yeah. And then there was poor

1:14:20

Camilla, the saddest member of the group

1:14:22

that no one particularly liked. No. Is

1:14:24

she the maid? No. They might have liked

1:14:26

her if she did shit. What

1:14:29

was her name? Gaby? Yeah, she

1:14:31

went by Gaby. She was heavy

1:14:33

set, physically weak, and totally uncoordinated.

1:14:36

She was also Zoya's ex-girlfriend and

1:14:38

had a fantasy of one day

1:14:40

organizing an army of homosexuals to

1:14:42

violently rise up against the establishment.

1:14:45

Now Patti soon figured out that the

1:14:47

reason why all seven SLA members constantly

1:14:49

lectured her was because no one else

1:14:52

was listening to him. And in Patti's

1:14:54

words, she was literally a captive audience.

1:14:56

They got to the point where they

1:14:58

were so excited to talk to

1:15:00

her, because she was somebody new, that

1:15:02

they started opening up the closet just to be

1:15:04

like, you need some air? Just so

1:15:06

you know. So Marx actually blah, blah, blah,

1:15:09

and they would start talking more and more

1:15:11

into their leftist theology shit. But they'd open

1:15:13

it just a crack. They wouldn't

1:15:15

open it up all the way. You know there were times-

1:15:18

It's too much of a theory. You know there were times

1:15:20

when she just pretended to be asleep. Of

1:15:22

course. But she actually did

1:15:24

an extremely good job, which is, remember

1:15:26

this, and this is a good lesson

1:15:29

for our audience to hear. If you're

1:15:31

dealing with an aggressive idiot, always

1:15:33

say yes. Nod

1:15:36

and move close to

1:15:38

push away. Well,

1:15:42

but in listening to them talk, Patti soon

1:15:44

figured out that the only way out was

1:15:46

through. She decided to humor

1:15:48

them, listening to everything they said and

1:15:50

doing whatever they asked. And she hoped

1:15:53

that somehow, sometime, she would be rescued

1:15:55

before they decided to kill her. Now

1:15:58

the exchange of Patti for their comrades and

1:16:00

San Quentin soon became a secondary goal for

1:16:02

the SLA. They decided that as

1:16:05

a show of good faith, they would have

1:16:07

Randy Hearst feed the poor,

1:16:09

just generally feed the poor. And

1:16:12

if Sen found Hearst's action satisfactory, the

1:16:14

SLA would make an actual ransom demand.

1:16:16

Yeah, he wanted to see if he

1:16:18

was good for it. But

1:16:20

unfortunately, he had a tacit misunderstanding of

1:16:22

how money works in the country. Yep.

1:16:25

What they discussed with this gesture of

1:16:27

good faith would be ad nauseam as

1:16:29

the SLA did with every single subject,

1:16:31

they decided that the Hearst Corporation should

1:16:33

give $70 worth of

1:16:36

food to every poor person in the state

1:16:38

of California. To solve

1:16:40

the idea, Sen had Patty make

1:16:42

her first of many recorded messages,

1:16:44

urging her family to fully cooperate

1:16:47

with the SLA. Joining

1:16:49

Patty in the closet with a

1:16:51

tape recorder, extensive notes, and a

1:16:53

flashlight was Sen, who untied Patty's

1:16:55

hands and handed her the microphone.

1:16:58

Sen then told Patty what to say,

1:17:00

then had her repeat it back to

1:17:02

him in her own words while he

1:17:04

recorded her voice. Then after

1:17:06

each point, he'd switch off the tape

1:17:08

recorder so he could prepare her for

1:17:11

the next point. He also would make

1:17:13

her repeat things, he would say to

1:17:15

it again, take it back. Like so

1:17:17

she was heavily directed within her recording.

1:17:20

What you're about to hear is some of

1:17:22

the first words the world heard from Patty

1:17:25

Hearst post kidnapping, in which you could clearly

1:17:27

hear the stops and starts. I'm

1:17:32

with a combat

1:17:35

unit that's armed

1:17:37

with automatic weapons and

1:17:41

there's also a medical

1:17:43

team here. And

1:17:49

there's no way that I will be

1:17:52

released until they let me go. So

1:17:56

it wouldn't do any good for somebody to come in here

1:17:58

and try to get me out. out by force.

1:18:03

These people aren't just a bunch of

1:18:05

nuts. They've been really honest with me. But

1:18:11

they're perfectly willing to die for what they're

1:18:13

doing. And I want to get out of here, but

1:18:21

the only way I'm going to is if we

1:18:24

do it their way. And I just

1:18:26

hope that they're going

1:18:30

to do it. You'll do what

1:18:32

they say, dad, and just do it quickly. I've been

1:18:36

stopping and starting

1:18:38

this tape myself so that I

1:18:40

can collect my thoughts. That's

1:18:42

why there's so many stops in it. I'm

1:18:47

not being forced to say any

1:18:49

of this. Defensive. Defensive.

1:18:54

Because he was also relistening as he was going, he's like, God,

1:18:56

that doesn't sound right. We have to do it like this. Oh,

1:18:58

no, no, no. They're going to think that you're the

1:19:00

one that we're forcing you to do this. And we have to

1:19:02

make it so it sounds so, so involuntary

1:19:05

and so, so, so voluntary. And

1:19:07

he kind of begin

1:19:09

this back and forth relationship. I actually

1:19:11

feel like in that way, that's what

1:19:13

he's starting to do where he

1:19:15

needs her to participate fully. Because at this

1:19:18

point in time, this is way in the,

1:19:20

this is the way in the beginning. They

1:19:22

cannot afford to shoot her yet. No. How

1:19:25

involved are the cops at this point? The

1:19:27

FBI, we're going to get into that. That's

1:19:29

how we're going to start episode two. But

1:19:31

the FBI gets involved immediately. This

1:19:34

is a massive operation. Now Patty collapsed

1:19:36

and started sobbing immediately after recording that

1:19:38

message, which ended up, it's 12 minutes

1:19:41

long altogether. We just listened to a

1:19:43

minute of it. And that's

1:19:45

when Sin crawled over and pinched

1:19:47

her nipple and pinched her between

1:19:49

her legs, heavily implying that if

1:19:51

she didn't continue to cooperate, sexual

1:19:53

violence would soon follow. Now

1:19:56

the tape was sent out along with the

1:19:58

demand to feed the poor of California. But

1:20:00

the authorities soon deduced that the SLA's ultimate

1:20:02

goal was the exchange of their two comrades

1:20:04

in San Quentin Yeah, they came out and

1:20:06

just said it in the newspaper Like they're

1:20:08

obviously going to use Patty Hearst as a

1:20:10

way to negotiate for the release of these

1:20:13

two other people and send us immediately like

1:20:15

what the fuck And

1:20:21

once deduced then governor of California

1:20:24

Ronald Reagan Responded with his now

1:20:26

famous quote. Well you tell them

1:20:28

they can forget it. Oh, I

1:20:30

thought it was where are my

1:20:32

pants? 40-plus

1:20:39

Ronald Reagan was a controversial president back in

1:20:41

the day people seem to enjoy met Alzheimer's

1:20:43

for the entire time of his president Well

1:20:46

the last two years But

1:20:49

he wouldn't read any of his reports. He had

1:20:51

to make videos of it and show to him on

1:20:53

television every day hahaha

1:20:56

Randy Hurst meanwhile immediately announced on

1:20:58

TV that sins plan would cost

1:21:00

no less than 400

1:21:03

million dollars which in today's currency is

1:21:08

Billion well. He was like cuz

1:21:10

they just made this number up.

1:21:12

Yeah. Yeah, $70 actually comes from

1:21:14

the Cinque's actual

1:21:16

inspiration who was a very

1:21:18

very interesting person

1:21:20

that is a he

1:21:23

was an activist and a revolutionary

1:21:25

named George Jackson who was a

1:21:27

prisoner that wrote about finding like

1:21:30

Marxism left-wing ideology

1:21:33

in the prison community and he was

1:21:35

arrested for stealing quote-unquote $70 worth of

1:21:37

food and then he was held in

1:21:39

jail indefinitely George Jackson

1:21:41

is in a very compelling

1:21:44

interesting like An

1:21:46

actual activist slash revolutionary and he sort

1:21:49

of kind of stole from that but

1:21:51

Cinque never did the math No,

1:21:53

I mean like so there is a hundred

1:21:55

million people like how many people all the

1:21:57

poor people in California? Yeah, yeah, so like

1:21:59

Randy Hearst literally was like, did the math

1:22:01

on television. And he's like, that's a, that's

1:22:04

like a billion dollars. Yeah. Cause California by

1:22:06

itself would be like the fifth biggest country

1:22:08

in the world. And they could do it.

1:22:10

They just, I don't think they know they

1:22:12

couldn't have. I mean, if only guys, too

1:22:14

much money, they didn't have that much money.

1:22:17

I pulled all of them, pulled their fucking

1:22:19

money to give all. That's exactly what sink.

1:22:21

You said he's like, they could call like

1:22:23

their friends, like the shaw of Iran. They

1:22:25

didn't do it though. In

1:22:29

the end, they didn't do it. Not how it

1:22:31

works. You can shoot in one hand. You can

1:22:33

call the shower or the other and see which

1:22:35

get Phil's first. Well, Randy couldn't

1:22:37

pay that because the fact was Randy

1:22:39

actually had access to a relatively small

1:22:41

amount of cash. See the Hearst family's money

1:22:43

was not liquid. They didn't have a Scrooge

1:22:46

McDuck safe where Randy swam and gold coins.

1:22:48

They should have though. Cause that's cool. But

1:22:51

if you jumped in a pile of gold coins,

1:22:53

you would kill yourself. Yeah. He didn't die immediately.

1:22:55

He didn't have brain damage.

1:22:58

Yeah. Yeah. Scrooge McDuck would literally

1:23:00

be Harrison Ford. In

1:23:05

fact, Randy actually had very little

1:23:07

control over even the Hearst corporation

1:23:09

because when William Randolph Hearst died,

1:23:11

he gave Randy and his brothers only

1:23:13

five seats on the board out of

1:23:15

13. So they couldn't ruin daddy's company.

1:23:17

It's almost like there was only one

1:23:19

smart one. It was like one super

1:23:21

evil guy. You realize like, Oh,

1:23:24

you guys are going to fuck it all

1:23:26

up. I got to bring an evil from

1:23:28

outside. Then of course had no idea how

1:23:30

true wealth worked where most of the money

1:23:32

is tied up in stocks, real estate, and

1:23:34

various other hidey holes. There's also the super

1:23:36

rich can avoid paying taxes like the rest

1:23:38

of the country. Also saw a fun little

1:23:40

video that does remind me. It's like once

1:23:42

money became not real, like once it became a

1:23:44

place, it made much harder

1:23:46

for like back in the day, you

1:23:48

know, when they wanted to take the

1:23:50

Zara Russia's money, they just wouldn't

1:23:52

took it. Yeah. They took all his jewels

1:23:55

and they took the stuff. Yeah. Where like

1:23:57

there's no stuff for this money.

1:23:59

No. fantasy world. America

1:24:01

baby. Like it's literally fake, it's

1:24:03

just numbers on a piece of paper. It's a

1:24:05

million dollar loan that a rich person takes out

1:24:07

that they don't have to pay taxes on. It's

1:24:09

awesome. Well

1:24:12

eventually, Randy negotiated a food distribution

1:24:15

program that would cost two million

1:24:17

dollars, estimating that the program could feed

1:24:19

100,000 people a month for

1:24:21

a whole year. In addition, Randy hired

1:24:23

an attorney to represent the two SLA

1:24:25

members who were in San Quentin for

1:24:27

the murder of Superintendent Marcus Foster. But

1:24:30

none of this was satisfactory for Sen. Seems like

1:24:32

a lot of good work. He

1:24:34

did quite a bit of something. It's possibly

1:24:36

one of the largest, I think it is

1:24:38

the largest food distribution program that has

1:24:40

ever occurred in America, and that's including

1:24:42

the Great Depression, like all the New

1:24:44

Deal shit. And none of this was

1:24:47

satisfactory for Sen. And Patty could sense

1:24:49

that Sen really had no idea what he

1:24:51

was doing. The SLA had begun with the

1:24:53

idea of exchanging Patty for their comrades. But

1:24:55

now all of a sudden, they're coordinating food

1:24:58

distribution programs that cost millions of dollars. And

1:25:00

he had no idea what even the concept

1:25:02

of millions of dollars was, and how to

1:25:04

move that around and what to do with

1:25:06

it. And so the dog

1:25:08

caught the car. Yes. Like

1:25:10

most cult leaders, Sen was making it up as he

1:25:13

went along. It also didn't help

1:25:15

that the SLA was being criticized by

1:25:17

radical organizations, black and white, for linking

1:25:19

left-wing politics to the kidnapping of a

1:25:21

teenager. Not to mention the murder of

1:25:24

Marcus Foster, which everyone's still very pissed

1:25:26

off about. As the

1:25:28

days turned into weeks, Patty began to

1:25:30

realize that the SLA were truly pathetic.

1:25:33

Starting to switch. From her

1:25:35

closet, she could hear their daily

1:25:37

training, which was calisthenics in the

1:25:39

morning and so-called military maneuvers in

1:25:41

the afternoon. This is in an

1:25:44

apartment. Remember that this is like literally,

1:25:48

there are other apartments in here. And

1:25:50

the SLA is one of them.

1:25:52

They're doing up downs and shit. Yes. Hot

1:25:55

hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot

1:25:57

hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot... That is like

1:25:59

all, that is not an exaggeration. No, it's exactly what they're

1:26:01

doing and these maneuvers which all had to happen

1:26:03

within the confines of a small apartment Involved

1:26:06

the seven members of the SLA Scurrying

1:26:09

about the room diving to the

1:26:11

floor and actually going See

1:26:17

the thing is then I would all be like but then someone

1:26:20

has to role play as the pigs, right? Julian

1:26:26

is like what if I play

1:26:28

Queen Elizabeth? Wait

1:26:30

a second Julian. All right, this is in acting

1:26:33

101 anymore. We need to kill

1:26:35

that pig, too In

1:26:38

other words Patty Hearst began to realize they were

1:26:40

delusional These delusions of

1:26:42

course were only fed by the media because

1:26:44

while the story had not yet reached its

1:26:47

height This still wasn't the biggest story yet.

1:26:49

It was still massive news. Yes Sniffing

1:26:52

their own farts as much as they could

1:26:54

SLA members would spend their days listening to

1:26:56

the radio or watching TV Flipping

1:26:59

through the channels continuously until they found someone

1:27:01

talking about them or the kidnapping But then

1:27:03

they talk a bunch of shit. Yeah, right.

1:27:05

Yeah. Yeah. We actually get that wrong I

1:27:08

don't know what they're talking about man. Meanwhile, like

1:27:10

it's just it's all just they're doing

1:27:12

it for attention Yeah But after getting

1:27:15

to know the SLA Patty realized that

1:27:17

they were only gonna keep moving the

1:27:19

goalposts and any fantasy she might have

1:27:21

had about being rescued set free or

1:27:23

even Killed were a waste of

1:27:25

energy and so Patty decided she

1:27:27

would not think about the future at all

1:27:30

Instead she would concentrate on staying

1:27:32

alive one day at a time and

1:27:35

we can all learn from that. That's right Now

1:27:38

even though Patty's mind was strong her

1:27:40

physical state was starting to deteriorate Because

1:27:42

she'd been kept blindfolded for weeks on end

1:27:45

in a six foot by two foot closet

1:27:47

without exercise The SLA of

1:27:49

course would never admit that this was

1:27:51

indeed torture and it's fucking sickening that

1:27:53

the CNN series never even approaches this

1:27:55

subject While talking extensively to teko who

1:27:57

pretty much drives the narrative that entire

1:27:59

series, it is seriously so fucking bad.

1:28:01

It is, it's kind of like wildly

1:28:04

irresponsible now after reading all of the

1:28:06

other stuff that I've read. Because

1:28:08

I just actually was so confused

1:28:11

by their tone. Like it's a,

1:28:13

it's literally like they're mad at

1:28:15

Patty Hearst. Yes.

1:28:18

But once Patty's health began to seriously

1:28:20

deteriorate, the SLA at first just made

1:28:22

fun of her for being a bourgeois

1:28:24

weakling, or bougie, in today's parlance. But

1:28:27

pretty soon they realized that if Patty

1:28:29

didn't get some exercise, she might die.

1:28:32

So several times a day, they began guiding

1:28:34

her around the room outside the closet. When

1:28:36

she got a little stronger, they had her

1:28:39

do jumping jacks and knee bends, all while

1:28:41

blindfolded. But after just a few days, they

1:28:43

either lost interest or just plain forgot to

1:28:45

do it, and Patty remained in the closet.

1:28:48

Now Patty knew she had to get out of

1:28:51

there somehow. She just had to not even get

1:28:53

away from the clutches of the SLA, she just

1:28:55

had to get out of the closet. She was

1:28:57

going to die. Yeah. You

1:28:59

know what it is too? It's, it's,

1:29:01

it wears on you. This is what

1:29:03

they talk about. This is why torture

1:29:06

is illegal. Is that what at this

1:29:08

point, she'll do anything to

1:29:10

get out of the first level of

1:29:12

her situation. Like there's no, there's no

1:29:14

even thought about escape because it's just

1:29:16

how to like the hell living fuck

1:29:18

do I just get out of this

1:29:20

closet? Because

1:29:23

eventually I think in the back of

1:29:25

your head, you know, this is not

1:29:27

a permanent situation and

1:29:29

the longer I'm in this

1:29:31

small room, the longer it's more difficult for

1:29:33

me to leave this room, the more I

1:29:36

become a liability to the people outside of

1:29:38

this room. The more and more they got

1:29:40

to shuffle me around and I know one's

1:29:42

responding or the things are not working out.

1:29:45

Like the more and more my position becomes

1:29:47

more fragile in this place. And once you

1:29:49

thought of like as just something in the

1:29:51

closet, you're not thought of as a human

1:29:53

anymore. Exactly. Exactly. And they already

1:29:56

started off not thinking of her as human. Yes.

1:29:58

And so, but the thing was. is that the

1:30:00

SLA was just as paranoid as you'd expect. So

1:30:02

getting out of the closet was going to be

1:30:04

difficult. They spoke in whispers

1:30:07

because SIN was convinced the FBI had

1:30:09

super listening devices. And when the SLA

1:30:11

had meetings, they always turned the TV

1:30:13

around because they believed the FBI could

1:30:16

spy into their house through the TV

1:30:18

screen. I know Milton Burrell's looking. I

1:30:21

know who he is. I

1:30:23

mean, nowadays, both of these things are very possible.

1:30:26

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah,

1:30:28

they're hearing it. Oh, yeah, yeah, no. The government

1:30:30

can listen to you through your TV controller. Very,

1:30:32

very easy. They can see you from space. Just

1:30:35

ask Jeffrey Toobin. Wow.

1:30:38

But he did it himself. He did it

1:30:40

to his own self. But

1:30:43

back then, of course, this was moronic, when

1:30:45

TVs were made of gigantic tubes and glass

1:30:47

and wood. But to further

1:30:49

demonstrate the paranoia, the SLA started getting worried

1:30:51

a few weeks in that their neighbors were

1:30:53

going to catch on that they were a

1:30:56

dangerous group of revolutionaries. Guys, we've got to

1:30:58

do something. I

1:31:00

mean, we've got to do like a bake sale. We've got to do

1:31:02

a garage sale or something. We've got to put on a play. Yes.

1:31:05

That's the best I've seen cue. With

1:31:07

us all together, I think we have

1:31:09

just the perfect amount to do. Never

1:31:12

really, we roll along. Also,

1:31:15

I was thinking maybe we should do our

1:31:18

somersaults a little quieter. A

1:31:20

little quieter because, honestly, they are

1:31:22

keeping me awake now. And

1:31:25

Henry, you made jest. But

1:31:28

they put on a play. Did

1:31:30

they really? They held a make-believe party with

1:31:32

loud. Act like we're having fun. Because

1:31:35

they didn't believe in drinking. No, they didn't.

1:31:37

No smoking, no drugs. Well, nobody believed in

1:31:39

drinking except thank you. Wow, it's so funny.

1:31:41

Isn't that crazy? It works out for him.

1:31:43

I don't know why. And how he never

1:31:45

had to do the calisthenics or anything? Yeah,

1:31:47

he was born good. But

1:31:50

yeah, they had to like, they're like, all right,

1:31:52

now wave your arms more. Yeah, like you're really

1:31:54

dancing. All right, now you dance with him. Cool,

1:31:56

now make it funky now. Make

1:31:59

it funky now. Oh, oh, make a

1:32:01

fucking out. Oh, oh, take it

1:32:03

back. Oh That

1:32:08

thing I mean literally Fragile

1:32:11

let's go. All right drink the brown

1:32:13

tea. You're eating too much We

1:32:19

even had ice can clinking around and drinking glasses

1:32:21

like they put ice like a clink clink clink

1:32:23

clink like you're yelling See the cover story was

1:32:25

that the SLA the house they were renting the

1:32:28

apartment they were renting The

1:32:30

cover story that they were telling people is that

1:32:32

this is being rented by two stewardesses Yeah, so the

1:32:34

SLA had to make sure to spill the party into the backyard

1:32:36

where kajo playing a pilot You

1:32:42

know How it

1:32:44

is flying in the sky with the clouds and all the clouds

1:32:46

are a lot more solid Than

1:32:49

you'd think they'd be

1:32:51

Date be he discussed all of his

1:32:54

various travel exploits and a loud voice

1:32:56

While everyone else responded with their own

1:32:58

tales of world travel. Oh hair certainly

1:33:00

confusing Oh,

1:33:03

yes, logan international also a

1:33:05

miasma of lane Oh,

1:33:08

there's so many oh

1:33:10

man birds, huh? What fucking pieces

1:33:13

of shit they are But

1:33:16

little by little sin opened the

1:33:19

SLA circle to patty and it

1:33:21

was actually his paranoia that started

1:33:23

it See sin believed

1:33:25

that if the FBI ever found them They'd

1:33:27

be forced to shoot their way out and

1:33:29

sin decided that it would be best if

1:33:32

patty learned how to shoot her way out

1:33:34

too Well, you're hanging out long enough. Yeah.

1:33:36

Yeah for three days straight patty practiced handling

1:33:39

a sawed-off shotgun breaking it apart putting it

1:33:41

back together And getting comfortable holding it mostly

1:33:43

with the blindfold on For

1:33:45

patty though guns weren't that foreign because she'd

1:33:48

often gone hunting with her dad when she was a kid

1:33:50

But pretty soon patty figured out that the

1:33:52

more interest she took in what the

1:33:55

SLA members were saying The

1:33:57

longer she was allowed to stay outside

1:33:59

the closet She was constantly

1:34:01

thinking of questions to ask them, and

1:34:03

no matter how silly or stupid those

1:34:05

questions were, Sin and

1:34:07

all the others would always answer

1:34:10

in excruciating detail. It's a good

1:34:12

lesson to learn. People like talking

1:34:15

about themselves. Ask questions. Patty

1:34:18

also took up smoking to ingratiate herself

1:34:20

even further because every SLA member was

1:34:23

a chain smoker. Because they couldn't smoke

1:34:25

weed and couldn't drink booze according to

1:34:27

SinkU. One day though, Sin

1:34:29

told everyone else to leave the room so he

1:34:31

could talk to Patty alone. He told

1:34:33

her that he'd have to ask the Simeone's

1:34:35

Liberation Army War Council first, but

1:34:38

he was thinking of letting her join.

1:34:40

Just also remember throughout this whole thing,

1:34:42

SinkU is telling her that there's millions

1:34:44

of units, that there's a whole army,

1:34:47

that we were on the verge of

1:34:49

some massive flip, like we were going

1:34:51

to do all of this shit. And

1:34:53

so she's listening and talk about this.

1:34:55

It sounds completely outlandish, but she doesn't

1:34:57

know. She has no

1:34:59

idea whether or not there actually is a

1:35:01

sea of terrorists or not, but it

1:35:04

sounds really legit at the very time. But

1:35:07

I think there's a little bit of like, you

1:35:10

guys let me in real fast. In

1:35:15

Sin's words, Patty was like the pet chicken people

1:35:17

have on the farm. When it comes time to

1:35:19

kill it for Sunday dinner, no one really wants

1:35:21

to do it. He said this to her. Yes.

1:35:24

So like in other revolutionary movements, when

1:35:26

an enemy soldier is captured, Patty was

1:35:29

given a choice. Fight for us

1:35:31

or die. I feel like a lot of farmers

1:35:34

don't give a shit. Yeah, they just kill

1:35:36

the chicken. I feel like that's the whole

1:35:38

point of being a farmer, is that you're

1:35:40

raising it to kill it. Yeah, you're done

1:35:42

with the eggs, now I kill you and

1:35:44

eat you. What would happen to you? This

1:35:46

is the Dust Bowl and you had one

1:35:48

chicken left and then you're going to go

1:35:51

feed the family and then you as the

1:35:53

father tell your hungry children, like, unfortunately, me

1:35:56

and Dizzy are best friends now. You're

1:35:58

going to be like, no! You're gonna

1:36:00

eat the chicken! But

1:36:02

before Patti was let into the SLA

1:36:05

officially, she had to endure

1:36:07

a horrible ordeal twice over. One

1:36:10

night, Jelena whispered in Patti's ear that

1:36:12

Kajo wanted to quote, Get it

1:36:14

on with her, because everyone was

1:36:16

feeling much more cum-rodly towards her

1:36:18

since she first arrived. That was

1:36:21

their word, cum-rodly. See,

1:36:23

Jelena explained that as a part of

1:36:25

Patti's education, she needed to learn what

1:36:27

it's like to live in an underground

1:36:30

cell in every way. It's a whole

1:36:32

lifestyle, girlfriend. Yeah, but the SLA, free

1:36:34

sex, was a principle of the cell. Because

1:36:36

underground revolutionaries, they couldn't very well go out

1:36:38

into the street and pick someone up in

1:36:40

the usual way. And it's not because we're

1:36:42

not charming. It's not because

1:36:45

we're not incredible, amazing, romantic revolutionaries. That's

1:36:47

for certain an attractive and ready to

1:36:49

fuck. Certainly not that

1:36:51

at all. No, no, no, no, everybody

1:36:53

wants us. It's so hard to

1:36:55

choose the date. So

1:36:58

everyone in the cell had to take care

1:37:00

of the needs of everyone else. And while

1:37:02

no one was forced to have sex, or

1:37:04

so Jelena said, it was

1:37:06

very cum-rodly to always say

1:37:08

yes if asked. It's almost

1:37:10

sorta like, it's like

1:37:12

forced. Yes. By the group, yeah.

1:37:15

Immediately after Jelena explained this,

1:37:17

Kajo entered the closet, raped

1:37:20

Patti, and left. Three days later,

1:37:22

Sin did the same thing. Now

1:37:25

while Patti was just trying to survive

1:37:27

the fucking closet, much less everything that

1:37:29

came after, her father was looking for

1:37:32

help to organize Sin's unrealistic demand that

1:37:34

the Hearst family personally feed every poor

1:37:36

person in California. I have very little

1:37:39

nice to say about any other member

1:37:41

of the Hearst family. They're all, they

1:37:43

all don't need to be around. But

1:37:46

he did try his best. Mandy tried really

1:37:48

fucking hard. He did try to find

1:37:51

her. Very, very badly. But it's

1:37:53

like, that's what he kinda said. This story would be

1:37:55

very different if this was the story of a young

1:37:57

woman that was kidnapped for a month and then- a

1:38:00

very powerful family sent in a band of

1:38:02

mercenaries to kill them all one by one.

1:38:04

Right? Like this would be a very different

1:38:07

story. He did try to work his way

1:38:09

around this. And like, and weirdly

1:38:11

in a way, he'd learned a lot about

1:38:13

people. Like Randy Hurst had to talk to

1:38:16

poor people for the first time in his

1:38:18

life. And it really was

1:38:20

like, it sounds like it was kind

1:38:22

of an educational experience for him. Now

1:38:25

the SLA, I'm sorry if this is a

1:38:27

little off topic. Did they have jobs? Where

1:38:29

did they get money? Um,

1:38:32

my friend.

1:38:35

We'll talk about it later. Okay. Now

1:38:37

since this was San Francisco in

1:38:39

1974 and the operation involved the

1:38:41

underprivileged class, who else should pop

1:38:43

up their head offering help but

1:38:46

the Reverend Jim Jones. Yeah! Six

1:38:48

years before Guyana. Would you like

1:38:50

a drink? His

1:38:54

offer was politely declined, but incredibly, this

1:38:56

will not be the last we'll hear

1:38:59

from Jim Jones in this series. Yeah,

1:39:01

dude, everybody's hanging out in this type

1:39:03

area. It's like all there, dude. Like,

1:39:05

L. Ron Hubbard's in town. He's

1:39:08

literally in San Luis Obispo. So

1:39:11

he's like right down the street. Even

1:39:14

though Randy soon found people that seemed

1:39:16

like they knew what they were doing,

1:39:18

the program, which was actually attempted, was

1:39:21

nevertheless a disaster on most fronts. Millions

1:39:24

of dollars worth of food was distributed

1:39:26

at points in San Francisco, Richmond, East

1:39:28

Palo Alto and Oakland. It actually happened.

1:39:31

Yeah, and on the day of distribution,

1:39:33

thousands of people lined up for food.

1:39:36

But while it went okay at best in

1:39:38

the first three cities, riots broke

1:39:40

out in Oakland, 21

1:39:42

people ended up in the hospital and one

1:39:44

woman lost an eye. She ended up suing

1:39:46

both the Hearst family and the city of

1:39:49

Oakland for a million dollars. That's

1:39:51

good for her. Soon

1:39:53

after, Hearst publicly communicated to the

1:39:55

SLA that he could not contribute

1:39:57

any more money to the food

1:40:00

distribution. program. So in response, the

1:40:02

SLA left a package behind a

1:40:04

toilet in a popular San Francisco

1:40:06

restaurant. Inside the package

1:40:08

was another tape, this one recorded