A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic | dG1fNTdPYW9aWjYxb00
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00:00When did the 60s begin?
00:11That might seem obvious, but in 1964, this man, Ken Kesey, lit the fuse for the explosion
00:18of the 60s.
00:44We weren't old enough to be beatniks, and we were a little too old to be hippies.
00:48Everybody I knew had red on the road.
00:50It stirred us up.
00:52So we decided to go travel across the country.
00:55Since it turned out that there were so many of us, we decided we'd buy a bus.
00:58It was like a troop of minstrels.
00:59There was this guy with no shirt on, talking a mile a minute.
01:03Cassidy is going to drive the bus.
01:05It looked like a traveling pleasure palace.
01:08It was big and roomy and spacious, until we got all the people in it.
01:13Yes, that's it, commander, as usual.
01:15We'd take turns riding shotgun with him.
01:17It was almost impossible for him to ever shut off.
01:20All you can do is experience this thing.
01:23Ken really believed that things could be changed.
01:25He saw himself as a kind of liberator.
01:28People didn't think we were hippies or that we were drug freaks, because it wasn't in
01:32the news yet.
01:33The public always grinned when they saw that bus.
01:34We are the Merry Band of Pranksters.
01:36Once Pandora's box is open, you can't regulate who gets to use the stuff that flies out of
01:55it.
02:02I thought this was as American as you could get, because we were exploring a new territory.
02:08What it meant was that everybody had to consider a new way for things to be.