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'I was a yippie,' he recalls. 'Not a hippie, but a yippie. You remember Abbie Hoffman? I was a cynical, politicized, smart-ass type. Rather than being sympathetic to all the anti-Vietnam War causes, I was more into pointing out the absurdity of it all. We'd go down to D.C. and visit the North Vietnamese mission and rent atrocity films of American soldiers doing terrible things to North Vietnamese.