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DRUNK ABOUT SOMETHING! PATTY HEARST RECAP
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A Burger King crown, a couple of drinks, and a story that still splits people down the middle: was Patty Hearst brainwashed, fighting to survive, or making a willing leap into radical politics? We’re Jesse and Lindsay, and we’re doing a fast, no-frills recap of all three parts of our Patty Hearst saga so you can hear the full arc without losing the thread.
We start with the Symbionese Liberation Army’s origin story and the murder of Marcus Foster, then move straight into the February 1974 kidnapping that turns Patty into the most famous hostage in America. From the SLA’s “feed the poor” ransom demands to the way captivity rewires what “choice” even means, we talk through the pressure, the propaganda, and the fear tactics that keep her trapped even when the outside world assumes freedom should be simple.
Then we hit the moments everyone remembers: the Hibernia Bank robbery, Patty’s “Tanya” identity, and the Mel’s Sporting Goods chaos that makes her actions look damning in a single snapshot. We also break down the piece people love to debate, the Hearst fortune, why “just pay the ransom” isn’t always a cash-in-a-safe situation, and how the Hearst media machine makes this case global. Finally, we walk through the live-TV LAPD shootout and what happens after the fire, including the public divide that follows Patty all the way to arrest, clemency, and a pardon.
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Cold Open, Hats, And Drinks
SPEAKER_00Hey Jesse. Hey Lindsay.
SPEAKER_01I look stupid.
SPEAKER_00No, you don't. It's adorable.
SPEAKER_01We stole this from our grandkids. Yeah. Because they had Burger King hats.
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SPEAKER_00I've got a double blood orange white cloth with some uh retro vibe Celsius. Yeah. It's a very good combination. I do highly recommend.
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SPEAKER_00So we're basically recapping because for those of us, or for those of us, for those of you who uh follow us on YouTube, we haven't successfully had a good recap in the last like three weeks. So we're gonna put three in one. And TikTok, you guys are just like hanging out for the vibes.
SPEAKER_01Thank you guys so much for like coming and hanging out with us so much.
SPEAKER_00So we are recapping part one, two, and three of our Patty Hearst saga.
SPEAKER_01And I'm looking at TikTok now, trying to log in.
SPEAKER_00Jesse's gonna join the live as well so he can respond to some of the comments because it's like way over there. And we love you guys. We thank you so much for joining us every week for sure.
SLA Origins And Marcus Foster Murder
SPEAKER_00So back in 1974, uh, February 4th, 1974, to be exact, the Symbionese Liberation Army, uh, they had joined. You gotta turn it down. That's gonna drive me crazy.
SPEAKER_01The the reverb, the reverb. Okay, I'm in, I'm in.
SPEAKER_00So they they were a group um of um pretty much like protesters and revolutionaries, guerrilla, uh, urban guerrillas that were trying to make a difference, but they lost their way along the way, and they did they committed crimes that really didn't make any sense.
SPEAKER_01Um yeah, it was a really big melting pot of things that they did, and they went after um it was a professor. What was he?
SPEAKER_00He was one of the first black superintendents in the history of America.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00Big fucking big deal, big deal.
SPEAKER_01I mean, in the middle of all the things that happened in the 60s with uh segregation, integration, everything, they went after him. I don't understand it.
SPEAKER_00So Sin Q, which was Donald Defrize, so Sen Q uh Matume is what he renamed renamed himself. A lot of members of the SLA talked about or renamed themselves after um Swahili names.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So Donald DeFries is Sin Q Matume, and he had it in his head that um Marcus Foster, one of the, like I said, one of the very first black superintendents in the history of America, um, he had it in his head that Marcus Foster was trying to like Mark of the Beast type organize shit. Like it was very weird. It's very strange.
SPEAKER_01Well, it was a lot of charismatic things that they were trying to try into all the things that were happening throughout culturalistic things for African Americans and religion. There was a lot of schools and charismatic, yeah. There was so many charismatic things that happened in the 70s, and he was grasping onto that for a narrative toward being a revolutionist, right?
SPEAKER_00Right. So he was going after Marcus Foster because he felt like Marcus Foster was trying to um what is the word that I'm looking for? I've had a few. I've had a few today.
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SPEAKER_00So St. Q thinks that Marcus Foster is trying to basically like um suppress and oppress um the black community and and the children. And he that's not what he was trying to do at all. Um, and the SLA like unalives this man.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And then they go on to, you know, they want to do more revolutionary things. Well, two of their members, Russ Little and Joe Romero, were arrested for the unaliving of Marcus Foster.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and as per the recap, like these guys are starting to build this whole revolutionist idea, but they did not even know that this guy didn't have anything to do with what they were trying to revolutionize against.
SPEAKER_00No. No, he was against, he was like he was working for the people and for the black community. It was tough. And yeah, it was just it was it was insane.
Patty Hearst Kidnapped And Ransom Plan
SPEAKER_00So they decide uh since two of their comrades have been arrested, um, two of their comrades that actually didn't do any of the unaliving, um, they're gonna kidnap uh American heiress Patty Hearst, to which was she was the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst and the daughter of Randolph Apperson Hurst, who went by Randy. And she has been what did I say? She was the middle of like five girls. Yeah. And she had been kind of a little rebel herself, you know. But I mean, the SLA didn't know that whatsoever. And she's actually engaged to a man that was her teacher, and his name was Steve Weed. Now he wasn't much older than her, but it was still off. It was still taboo.
SPEAKER_01I gotta get it right. I like it crooked because your crown queen. I feel like I'm the cowardly line where he has like the crooked crown thing going on.
SPEAKER_00So I'm gonna so Jesse knows all about this because I've told him all about it the last three weeks. I'm gonna let him go.
SPEAKER_01Oh, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, and me. So, yeah, they captured her and they held her captive until the point. I'm giving this up. I'm giving up I quit. I quit.
SPEAKER_00We'll just put it right here as a centerpiece.
SPEAKER_01Cowardly line, crown is gone.
SPEAKER_00Centerpiece.
SPEAKER_01So they captured her held her in a closet, and she was like blindfolded. And she's only 19 years old. She came up with the concept of I feel like I need to join this revolution to get out. Because the things that they were doing, and you gotta go back and check it out, by the way, at drinkaboutsomething.sight, right? So you gotta go back and check all that stuff out to find out that they were doing so many things, and at first I was on team SLA, it kind of, you know, because they were like, hey, the only way you're gonna get Patty back is to feed the poor and poverty public, right? They were like, hey, you need to get together and have these food drives. We're gonna give them good food, we're gonna give everything out.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, their terms were you know quality foods, uh, $70 worth of food per person, which was like an equivalent to $300 worth of groceries at that time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and so they were trying to use that as getting Patty out, and that was kind of the ransom thing. And then it became a money thing. It was just like we need this much money, also. And then it also became a revolutionist thing to where Patty was just like, I need to feed into the revolution and actually make everybody think that I'm part of this revolution. That way I'm proving to the revolution, the SLA, that I'm part of the clique. And it was just blowing my mind because they were doing all these practices and and they were living calisthenics, and they were practicing in a in in like a little uh uh a motel or what were they?
SPEAKER_00They were in an apartment, but it was like a very meager, meager living situation.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and they're living on like military rations. So they're staying militant, right? And sin Q was just like pushing this whole thing on top of all of these people. There's so many aspects to this, Lindsay.
SPEAKER_00And she had already known she already knew that they had previously unalived a superintendent, so they knew or she knew that they were they were very much about their cause, even though their cause didn't make a lot of sense to her. Right. And she felt like she was amongst a bunch of idiots. Yeah. Honestly, honestly, but dangerous idiots.
Hibernia Bank Robbery And Tanya
SPEAKER_01It pushed all the way to the part where they were taking on a bank. Hibernia Bank was the first one, and she had a fiance before she got kidnapped. She she told she told the public that she was denouncing her family, her family, her wealth, her fiance, the fiance, everything. And she was gonna be full on SLA, and she was gonna be part of this. They took on the bank. And in the middle of that, she was told that she was supposed to say Death to the fascist pigs that preys upon the people.
SPEAKER_00I think I remembered it right.
SPEAKER_01Was it like 90 minutes or whatever, right? For 90 seconds.
SPEAKER_00She had a 90-second speech that she was supposed to make in this bank to where the public would believe that she had actually joined them and was not like brainwashed into it.
SPEAKER_01She's standing there with the M1 grand sawed off. There's the picture.
SPEAKER_00Carbine. Carbine.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. M1 grand M1 grand carbine.
SPEAKER_00Okay. World War II weapons.
SPEAKER_01He's a gun guy. I don't know shit. She's standing there like this, militant as fuck.
SPEAKER_00I mean, you can Google the pictures.
SPEAKER_01She looks so revolutionist. You know, like she has taken on Guantanamo Bay, but she's at a bank, right? Full on, whatever. Whatever's happening. But anyway, she's standing there, she's in the middle of all she could say in the middle of the whole heist was her name. And then shearst, aka Tanya.
SPEAKER_00That's it. Her name, her revolutionary name became Tanya.
SPEAKER_01Blew my mind when we watched the the documentary and everything. We're watching all the footage and all the stuff. I'm like, Lindsay, what the hell's going on, right?
SPEAKER_00Hold on, I'm gonna plug that documentary real quick. It's called uh Gorilla, The Taking of Patty Hearst, and it is on Amazon Prime.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and cheers, everybody. We're drinking about something, by the way. I am uh having a little sippy sip. We could talk about drinks all we want to, but I can't vape on this son of a bitch.
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SPEAKER_00Yeah, and we've got this would make uh our 93rd episode, and we just recorded our 94th, and we cried collectively.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, this Friday, you guys gotta lock in, dude. I am destroyed, by the way. Let's not get into that. Lindsay, I'm on to something else. I'm on to something else.
SPEAKER_00Okay, keep going, keep going. Leave me alone. I am testing Jesse on his knowledge of our three-part saga. Keep going, keep going.
SPEAKER_01So, okay. After the bank deal, they actually shot somebody in the bank deal, by the way. Nope.
SPEAKER_00That's that's they did not. No, that's the next one.
SPEAKER_01They did not.
SPEAKER_00There's gonna be somewhere later on. Yes.
SPEAKER_01Pay no attention to the alcoholisms. Okay. Pay no attention.
SPEAKER_00So what did they do after the hibernia bank?
SPEAKER_01They decided that they were gonna be more public. They were gonna be more outlandishly SLA. They decided they were gonna gather up some things and go to a sporting goods place. Right?
SPEAKER_00Well, first, so the plan was, so I'm just gonna intervene really quick here. So after they got away with the Hibernia Bank job, um, Senkyu, he gets paranoid. He's like, oh my god, we got away with it. But wait, now everybody knows who we are. So we're going to have to find some more recruits. So they found a Muslim group to actually like purchase and bring groceries to them so they didn't starve. And then he was like, We gotta move out and we gotta have a new plan. So the next plan was to go to LA, and they were going to basically um attack officers of the law by night, or by day. I'm sorry, by day, and then at night they were going to um take over a home where they could rest their heads, and then the next day they would go out and just do the same thing. But that didn't really happen. Now go. Mel sporting goods. So they were like full on. They break into teams.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00What team went to Mel's?
SPEAKER_01Breaking the machine. Right.
SPEAKER_00Well, what team went to Mel's?
SPEAKER_01Oh, you want to mean to name names and shit?
SPEAKER_00Okay, so like I said, so it's Bill and Emily Harris who go by Tico and Yolanda. They're with Patty. Patty hates them, they hate Patty.
Mel’s Sporting Goods Escape
SPEAKER_00Go.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and Patty's on the floorboard on the other team, right? Is it the other team, right?
SPEAKER_00What do you mean?
SPEAKER_01No, she's on the floorboard and she has like a full-on automatic weapon.
SPEAKER_00Right. So uh Tico and Yolanda are in Mel's sporting goods to get combat gear, to get more gear for these things that Tico has said that they now have to do.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and one of the super troopers comes out, they hook them up. Literally. He's got them in there. He's like, dude, I need a leader or cola, right? And the super troopers got them, he's got one of them handcuffed. They're on the ground, and Patty comes out and she's like, What do I need to do? Oh, they trained me while I was doing my Pokemon card, my Pokemon Go thing, and she shot over top of them, emptied a clip, and that busted up the crowd, and they were able to actually get back in the car and get away.
SPEAKER_00Because in her mind, she's like, if I don't help Tico and Yolanda, Seng Q's gonna come after me and my family. Right. Like if she used that opportunity to break away and to free herself, she's like, There's like five other members of the SLA that will come after me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we're having fun recapping this because, like, recanting this after the middle of the podcast we just did that's coming out this Friday.
SPEAKER_00And Cin Q has made her believe that there are organizations that like there's other chapters of the SLA all over the world. Go.
SPEAKER_01No, like she's just living in fear. She's trying to like adjust to making them believe that she's actually part of this clique because at this point she feels like daddy's not gonna help her out.
SPEAKER_00He literally said that their demands are beyond my financial abilities.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and being like a tycoon over there of doing like all the media stuff.
SPEAKER_00This is a media conglomerate. Yeah. Look up William Randolph Hearst, number one.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Period. You would start there. You would start there. And then you come back to the boss. Check it out.
SPEAKER_00This is a company that's worth $13 billion today in 2026.
SPEAKER_01Huge. And of course, that's part of the reason why it became blown out globally was because he was part of the medios. It's a big thing. But having all your assets actually put into your company, you don't actually have that physical ability to produce the money that the SLA wanted to give you. Right.
SPEAKER_00And that's what the SLA didn't they didn't understand.
SPEAKER_01Comprehend. They're thinking that people have millions of dollars just in a safe. You're rich. Don't you have millions of dollars in your safe?
SPEAKER_00No. Will you or rant uh Randolph Apperson, which or Randy, which is Patty's dad, like all like he had things and access to things, but like cash on hand was just not inaccessible.
SPEAKER_01And he was just like, Everything was in a trust.
SPEAKER_00And William Randolph made sure of that because most of his sons were
Hearst Wealth Myths And Media Power
SPEAKER_00actually alcoholics.
SPEAKER_01Right. And there was a lot of aspects of that in the podcast that we talked about because you cannot liquidate those assets unless you start closing companies down, which takes more than 90 business days.
SPEAKER_00Because there's a whole lot more board members than just the Hearsts. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you would have to destroy careers to be able to fold this into something that is actually tangibly money. Right. And that takes a long time to do. Right. You might have a billion dollar company, but what about those hundred thousand employees that you got underneath of it?
SPEAKER_00So it was a lot because they had um uh TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers. That was their conglomerate, was the Hearst Media.
SPEAKER_01It really was. It was huge.
SPEAKER_00Well, it still is. It still is, it's it's still going on today. They're still out there. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I understand that aspect because you know, whatever companies that you're working with, if you actually look at all the parts and pieces to all that, it seems like corporate me, you know, corporate greed and all the things, but sometimes those people are just doing their jobs and getting their little piece too.
SPEAKER_00Right. But to the SLA, everybody that was involved in this this entire thing, like they were part of the bourgeois pigs and the fascist pigs.
SPEAKER_01And we're not supporting corporate greed by no means. No, no, no. No, no, no.
SPEAKER_00But the SLA just had a misconception of a lot of things. Right. And that's why their revolutionary organization is not successful. And they don't really do anything that they don't do any good and positive things. Like even their food drive like blows up in their face. Like it just it's on and on and on. So they won't.
SPEAKER_01So they've been unalved in the middle of that, right? There was a couple different things that came disarrayed in the middle of all that.
SPEAKER_00There was riots, there was shootings, there was everything. Anything uh what you can imagine.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Like some, like some of the food distribution areas were successful, and some of them were just in chaos.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So moving forward to like the SLA got away with the bank job, they're on cloud nine right now. They're thinking they're untouchable. There's something to be feared of.
SPEAKER_00They are a revolution, but they got found out because they got found out because of the incident at Mel Sporting Goods.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So because Team Tico, Yolanda, and Patty had that thing going on over here. And it was all because they weren't recognized as members of the L CLA. It was because Tico decided to shoplift. Go back and listen to the full episode. Wow.
SPEAKER_01We got three parts. They had the money, actually. They had the money.
SPEAKER_00They had just robbed bank. So they robbed Hibernia Bank for 10 grand, which in today's spending power is like 63 grand. That's a lot of money. Which is a pretty good bank job, I think. I don't know. For nine people that live meagerly, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01It's a pretty good bank job.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. But I mean, I just I don't know. But they all got about a thousand dollars a piece. Well, while they're over here doing this shit, uh, they send word to Sin Q, uh, we fucked up over here at Mel Sporting Goods. Uh, you may be, you may, you may need to hide out. So Tico, Yolanda, and Patty go to Anaheim. Their plan was to blend in with tourists and Disney World and hide out for a few days.
SPEAKER_01And they were in between like Watts and Inglewood and all kinds of places in that area.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and they had they had hijacked uh about four vehicles and then they paid for the last one.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And what happens after that, Jesse?
SPEAKER_01So, like they they held up in a place where they had to actually. Paint their faces and found them a new compound to go to. But they left that one. Yeah, and the people, the people that were searching for them actually found their their last hideout, all their evidence, because they were doing specific things that you will find out in the podcast. They were starting to find out different things about them because it was all federal now at this moment.
Paranoia, Anaheim Hideout, And The Raid
SPEAKER_00And also Sin Q.
SPEAKER_01Oh, this was a big hell is happening in California.
SPEAKER_00Big deal, yeah. Really big. So, and then Sin Q, he starts kind of turning into a cult leader. So you've got the rest of the SLA, they have left their safe house, which was on 84th Street in LA. They find a flop house to hang out in, and this is that's what it's described as in the book, which is called American Heiress by Jeffrey Tupin.
SPEAKER_01So he paid who's calling himself a prophet at this time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he's calling himself a prophet. He's hearing uh messages from the city.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, once you start hearing the prophet word, you know, things are gonna happen, right? I mean, right.
SPEAKER_00And then our and then our good old buddy old Jim Jones, he's some he makes an appearance a couple times uh in this whole series. Make sure you go check out all three parts. So Sinq is basically off his rocker, and he's got the rest of the team over here in this flop house. And then so Team Tico, Yolanda, and Patty are in Anaheim. They check into a hotel room, they turn on their TV, and what do they see, Jesse?
SPEAKER_01The LAPD had found their compound. On 54th Street. On 54th Street. It's not a miracle on 54th Street. No, not at all.
SPEAKER_00We're not in New York.
SPEAKER_01No. So full on full-on gun battle, it sues. As one of the members from the SLA started shooting, and I heard and watched some of the documentary. It was five shots that came out of the house.
SPEAKER_00So Jesse watched a documentary with me after we had recorded all three parts. You visibly see a woman on this documentary. She is reporting back to her news station. What did she say, Jesse?
SPEAKER_01Well, I'm typing in here right now.
SPEAKER_00Keep responding to comments. Hold on.
SPEAKER_01And uh I don't know what you what'd you say there, Lindsay? I'm kind of buzzed.
SPEAKER_00So what did the reporter what did the reporter say on the radio? You watched it. We watched it. She's so she's got like a walkie-talkie. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah so she's like behind a like, okay, there's a brick facade of a wall, and she is like This is crazy.
SPEAKER_00This is on live TV.
SPEAKER_01And the guy on the news station is talking to her, and she's she's holding up a radio at this time. It's huge, it's like this big 1970s type phone.
SPEAKER_00Like this with an antenna about this time coming out.
SPEAKER_01You need to get closer to the scene. She's like, I don't want to get closer because I don't want to get in the head, right?
SPEAKER_00She literally, yes.
SPEAKER_01And how many thousand rounds were shot during this?
SPEAKER_00Nine thousand rounds between both parties, between the SLA and the LAPD. Nine grand.
SPEAKER_01Right? It was like like 4,500 in the SLA.
SPEAKER_00There's actual footage, like reporters are everywhere, just running around. They're running around all of everything is just going down. Could it be me? Absolutely not. Nothing.
SPEAKER_01I'm going two blocks away. That people are trying to plug into this because there's a big thing. That's a media. I mean, it's probably hurt. Is just like everyone's coming toward it trying to get a story, right? I would not be close. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00So I would be watching it on TV. In the means of this, eating some popcorn.
SPEAKER_01All of this craziness is going on. You have some people that come out of the house, and then some people that fought all the way to where they started burning the building.
SPEAKER_00And it it literally caught fire. So the LAPD said in tear gas first. The SLA throws it back, and then it is on record basically that one of the members of the SLA, Willie Wolf, who goes by a Cujo Kaja. We've heard like 17 different versions of his name. I swear to God. But it's spelled out like Cujo, like the dog from fucking Pet Cemetery, right? Not Pet Cemetery.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Is it Pet Cemetery? Well, no, it's not. It's actually Cujo. It's a Steven. The movie Cujo.
SPEAKER_00Oh my God.
SPEAKER_01Oh my God.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no. Yeah, I get that. But like, so all the things are happening. And in the middle of that, they start burning down the house. They're like, the tear gas isn't working, so we can't get them out.
SPEAKER_00Well, the LAPD wanted to throw in the tear gas to draw them out, but the SLA is prepared. They got the masks. So the SLA starts shooting back. Whole it's an hour-long gun battle, which results in the death of every member of the SLA other than Tico, Yolanda, and Patty. Yeah. Who is now Tanya?
SPEAKER_01So they're in a different location. But they're in Anaheim. In the middle of all of
Aftermath, Arrest, And Pardon
SPEAKER_01that. And I just lost the feed. But um whatever. Drunk about something. Hey, don't lose my crown, Lindsay. Fix your crown. No, I'm gonna leave it. You wear it. Um all of that gets exploded, but in the end of it, with what's left of the members of the Anaheim group, they actually wound up reforming. And that blew my mind, you know? You have to check all the aspects of how all the pieces and parts went together in the shootout. That was just it was mind-blowing. Thank you for hooking me back up.
SPEAKER_00I got it back online.
SPEAKER_01I'm back, I'm back on the live.
SPEAKER_00So then, so after that, everybody's gone. And Sin Q took him out himself out, total cult leader style. So now the three of these guys, they're over here in Anaheim watching on live TV in horror. And Patty, she's like, oh my god. So Sin Q has been feeding her or been telling her this whole time that now she's the enemy. The FBI, the LAPD, they will basically gun her down.
SPEAKER_01They will do all the things necessary to take them out. To take them out. So, I mean, Patty is a celebrity, though. Like, she is like full on, everyone is looking for the disillusion of.
SPEAKER_00And at this point, you've got half the country believing that she has been brainwashed by this organization, and then you've got the other half of the country thinking, oh, she's just conformed. All the way up to president. She's a criminal now.
SPEAKER_01I mean, there were like politicians, presidents, governors, it was big. You know, Ronald Reagan was coming into office at the time, and it was really a big aspect.
SPEAKER_00I'm checking our time on the video. We're getting close.
SPEAKER_01Okay. So, wrapping it up, they had moved across the country and hooked up with a couple of people that actually did some big boom stuff. Big boom. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00We got three episodes about this, by the way.
SPEAKER_01Check us out. Uh, big boom stuff. They had came out of the woodwork and joined the SLA. It wound up going back to California because they had moved over to the East Coast for a little bit, moved back to California, and decided that they were going to do some more stuff and be them.
SPEAKER_00That boom boom pal.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So it all wound up to where it all unfolded. And Lindsay's gonna tell you about that. It just came to an end.
SPEAKER_00This all started in February of 1974. It ended in Oh my god, I don't have my notes in front of me. Late 75. Okay. So we start at the beginning of 74, we end late in the fall area of 75.
SPEAKER_01So you have to also remember that this was a person that was taken without under without their will, right?
SPEAKER_00They were taken and starved, brainwashed, made to listen to every demand single piece of uh revolutionary material, read revolutionary material, like it was just fed into their brain constantly, constantly, constantly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So when the remaining members of SLA is found, Patty, of course, is arrested. Um she doesn't do herself really any favors, but we're not hating on Patty. We love Patty.
SPEAKER_01I feel like trying to survive. I feel like this.
SPEAKER_00And she was she was a different person than she had been when she was abducted.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and her, you know, her fiance had too big of a mustache, but you'll have to watch her.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god. You guys have got to watch Gorilla, the taking of Patty Hearst, just so you can see Steve Weeds.
SPEAKER_01And as far as YouTube, are we close on YouTube? Because we can cut that off. And we're gonna cut YouTube off, but we're gonna keep on the live, so y'all hang on here. But on YouTube, we love you so much, though.
SPEAKER_00But we just want to say so. Patty Hurst is arrested. She's uh she gets clemency, and then she's pardoned, and she becomes an actress. We love you so much. Check out all three parts of the Patty Hearst saga. Bye.
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