Trizdon Gets Plastic Surgery

Well, I'll tell you what it did get me to thinking about, Tristan, and I've had this conversation with some people, and I've always said, I think there's a book waiting to be written.

I'm probably too lazy to write it.

But if you think about that, so I graduated high school, born in 60, graduated high school in 78.

So I didn't really catch the hippie thing.

I was too young for that.

But by the late 70s, if you take the roughly 10-year period from 63 to 75, just a little more than a decade.

And I say that because you start with the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 63, and you go all the way up to the withdrawal from Vietnam, that famous footage of the helicopters flying over the American embassy in Hanoi, and people are scurrying up ropes to try and get away.

If you take that 12-year period and you look at everything that went on between the Of course, the Kent State shootings override, you know, the hippies, the yippies, and they're trying, you know, the hippies didn't have everything wrong, trying to change society and really pulling that rope hard and dragging, you know, World War II guys like my father along or attempting to, you know.

I mentioned Kent State, the Vietnam War, of course, overriding all of it, burning of draft cards, the women's movement, you know, women saying, fuck, we're not playing second fiddle anymore.

And then, of course, Watergate in 1974, which culminates with a president resigning for the first time in American history.

But so all of that gathered together, you know, we talk about the kids today with their existential angst.

Oh, not to mention, by the way, the Cold War, the Russians could bomb us at any time.

I remember being a kid in the 60s and you had drills where you put your fucking head under a wooden desk as if that was going to do you any good if a nuclear bomb was dropped.

Right.

So by the late 70s, this is my contention for the book.

Society as a whole, and when I say society as a whole, I mean every authority figure, be it teachers, be it coaches, be it police officers, be it your parents, were just breathing a collective sigh of relief.

Oh, my God.

We have been through so much that basically it was like, as long as you're polite and don't have a needle hanging out of your arm, have at it.

And we as kids were like, oh, that's cool.

And I really believe that that is how we had the 70s, because my brother will tell you to this very day on the golf course, a lot of Tommy was four years younger than me, still caught that.

But, well, the Reagans in 1980, Triz, they run on the slogan of just say no.

Well, what were you saying no to? Drug use, because it was so fucking rampant that they literally won, in part, a presidential campaign with Nancy's just say no, right? But Tommy will tell you on the golf course, those 70s, quote unquote 70s guys, they get around the turn of the first hole and they're toking up a joint, man.

So to your point of having missed it for the better, perhaps a lot of them for a lot of them, not me, but for a lot of them, it did become a lifelong habit.

But that's my take on how the 70s were the 70s, specifically the late 70s, 1979, highest marijuana use still to this day amongst teens and adolescents.

And I just think it was all of society was saying, holy cow, we need a break from this mayhem.