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We’re joined by Left in the Bay once again to talk Tribal Thumb — federal infiltration, murder, crime, and communiques.

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Axel H.

I’m gay

Jake Torrey

I'm the reason to remember the name

Eric

I’m going to spray

W McCarthu

Can u guys do an episode on WIKIPEDIA pls

minnie

Happy birthday Trueanon!

Blank

Team anxious chard

Back Bench Pizza LLC

Gratitude was tight because they had the “pay what you can” bowl of slop which I threw a dollar down for at least twice every time I came up

Carrie H

can you guys do an episode on the catholic church/bishop/CIA scandal? for reference: check out Peter levenda’s book sinister forces. shit is WILD. PS, I like you guys. especially you Brice 😘 and Liz, I want to hear more about your thoughts on medspa treatments and what your background in that stuff is please! i’ll take a full episode on that someday girlfriend 🙌🏼 ok, you guys are great! byeee

Tammy

Rest In Pampers more like

Jessie Cherbak

Loving Hut/Golden Era is the same cult, pretty sure

CL

It’s so funny that they said they were going to cover the election cycle this year as a bit and absolute chaos has unfolded without them making a peep.

hhannahh

more like cloudBUSTing am i right

buttface

Feels like they are avoiding it on purpose

CL

It’s got to be a bit

DaFunkBackToDaPunk

My personal head canon states that Tribal Thumb wrote that song from Ice Age

Nolanolan

Please get back to election coverage

Claire Simon

We have a loving hut in Seattle I’m pretty sure

billbo

Can we not cover Boomer shit any more.

cori

i’m a board certified bok choy hater

Dennis

glad they’re not.

Tammy

I absolutely authorize True Anon, or any related parties, to print that on any object of Trump merch and absolve myself of this intellectual property.

Emma

"podcasts are one of the worsts ways to transmit information in human history" proof yet again this is the only podcast to trust

Peanut Horse

I think they are just waiting for the DNC for content purposes

Tammy

I love the election coverage theme song!!

ploob

You know Liz is really starting to grow on me.

Egg B

The 70s were wild

Jerimiah

Brace's bok choy bit is his most offensive take yet.

Michael S. Judge

Look, William Burroughs had an orgone accumulator, I've seen it in his back yard, and I'm just saying: consider the odds that William Burroughs would live to 83, lucid and working the whole time, and die of natural causes. William Burroughs. Trillion to one. The orgone didn't hurt.

Michael S. Judge

It's also weird that they got Reich for mail fraud, because unless I'm allowed to sue the Catholic Church for my ancestors' tithe money from like 1850-2000, it doesn't seem like "Are these metaphysics real?" is a legal question

Sean

imagine getting mad that you’re getting the choicest 1970s Bay Area left internecine conflict history instead of slop about the most boring American election in history, pathetic

T

Sorry we must all consume boomer content until we die. I noticed you stopped listening to Hotel California. The authorities have been alerted and are en route to your location.

Graem

Brace you really should meet with a sleep specialist, they are generally averse to using medication unless all other options fail. They have incredible methods to analyze your sleep patterns, check out polysomnography, and first line treatments are cognitive behavioral therapy and lifestyle changes. There’s a lot you can do before resorting to trazodone (I relate to your feelings about it, sleepiest hangover ever). Even mattress selection and light exposure can help. Just wanted to give you my two cents as someone who’s been in the same boat. Best of luck!

Doug Cartel

Theyll be as funny as Dukakis stickers in a few years

Graem

Also, fuck the haters. If you need trueanon to process this election news into bite-size baby food your little brain can digest, then you are in fact a dumb baby. Anyways, Kamala is the nominee, time to put everything that’s happened out of your mind and fall in line. I’m with her.

Doug Cartel

Next time you're in a situation like this, spend the first 10 minutes talking about tribal thumb 2 or whatever, then go "yep, that's me, I bet you're wondering how I got here" and *then* you turn back time.to the 60s and start building backstory In media res or whatever they call it

Lanabanana

They had planned to take these two weeks off for ages.

confessor14

This series is giving me the urge to start a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist-Hoxhaist group and kidnap the heir to Huggies’s fortune. The entire proletariat needs adult diapers to commit to full time revolution.

Robert Sayre

At Cafe Gratitude, you had to tell the waitstaff what you were grateful for. I didn't know what I was getting into, so I was like "what?".

billbo

I'll take on this geratric gustapo. But In all seriousness. Can we stop with the 60-70s bs. Like the pod says all these "radicals" end up chud boomers.

billbo

How about we just not get Boomer radical slop

Louis Balmer

In the UK we have a terrible psy-trance club night called Tribe of Frog. I once met a crusty couple who met at that night and named their kid Froggy in honour of the club.

Michael Coutts

Do you not see how relevant they are to today?

Shiv

BRACE. GO SEE THE LADY (or man or neither) imagine how powerful you would on regular SLEEP

Anon Ibid

did not expect Reich to come up. Here for it

Khemith

Ive been subbed for only a month or so. And I haven't really found a episode that get me engaged. This Tribal Thumb series has really got me interested. Shoutouts to Matt Christman for recommending this channel!

Buried Ledes

Gracias Madre on Mission was pretty culty too.

Kaleb

Loving Hut was the other cult spot with love in the name

Kaleb

Supreme Master Ching Hai

Blank

Cloudbustin makes me feel good

D.E.E

Hi brace!! I suffered from long term insomnia as a result from a concussion in 2021 and after trying a bad sleep therapist and a bunch of doctors who either gave me drugs or ignored my problem until I got a rly good sleep therapist that got me sleeping 6-7 hours again. Dm me and I'll refer her 2 you she's a sweet heart

mex207

Love the Cali stuff. This series is up there w/ the Erik Davis episodes for me (and countless others). Cheers!

Alex Hughes

The SLA bank robbery where Myrna Opsahl was killed didn't happen in the Crocker neighborhood of SF like you guys said, it was actually at the Crocker National Bank in Carmichael just northeast of downtown Sacramento. The original bank building is still there but now it's a Korean church with a weird baby blue Noahs Ark in front of it.

original gay pussy eatah

My mother looked at me and said “my womb has finally produced the seed of a lil’ bitch.”

diptherio

From Tribal Thumb’s Attack on the People’s Food System (https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Tribal_Thumb%E2%80%99s_Attack_on_the_People%E2%80%99s_Food_System) A Berkeley Barb article reported: “Although it is not clear whether Tribal Thumb was a provocative outfit deliberately set up by police agencies as part of some covert COINTELPRO-style war on the local Left, there is no question that the group’s actions benefited police red squads and the Right wing. It is suggestive that at several crucial points in Tribal Thumb’s history, the intervention of FBI agents and police officials either enabled the group to continue operating or helped it accomplish tasks which ultimately had a devastating effect on radical political organizations.”

Sham Bob

20 mins in: tribal thumb! tribal thumb!

Carrie H

I have decided that Brace shall henceforth be known as Brice. My bad BrAce!!! still love you boo

T

The left going totally skitzo in the 1970’a is going to happen again in the 2030’s, this time it will be the right wing with their brains squirming like a toad after the Republican Party doesn’t enact their anti woke agenda

Louis Wilkins

Where do you think you came from?

Christopher Price

almost like the past is a warning to the future or some shit

Christopher Price

i understand someone being frustrated with a full head of bok choy, but you literally see those in white supermarkets. in asian markets it's all about the baby bok choy, and those guys are great.

Christopher Price

john mccann being gunned down from the coconut tree here

Christopher Price

the wee lad who's complaining about these episodes isn't even subbed to the show!

Major Pisano

I’d go to cafe gratitude because a girlfriend at the time would want to go . I was also doing the vegan thing because I was a kook and wanted her to like me. However after cafe gratitude fir the however many times and not ever be any way satisfied or hunger quelled , we left and I just walked into the pizza place around the corner and got a slice (veggie) and from that our relationship was over . None the less my life is better , don’t live a false life style, don’t hang out with vegan’s anymore and eat hella stakes and food that is from an animal. I’m healthier. Fuck those vegan veg restaurants, for so many reasons, if not just because but because I’m in a better place cutting them off. Mahalo if you read through my screed , hope it helps you too. 🤙✨💩🌺

Rachel H (edited)

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2026-09-09 19:00 My mom convinced me to try some Chinese sleep supplement one time and it caused me to vomit every 15 minutes for 12 hours and I missed a job interview because I was in the hospital.
2024-07-25 07:19

Mark Ames

Great ep, lotta bad memories. Satcher was arrested just across from Lark Ave where my dad moved to after the divorce. Post-80s folks probably unaware that Los Gatos used to be dirthead central, lotta mean hicks in mean shitkicker tract homes. Now it's a filthy rich backwater that thinks it's as fancy as Palo Alto.

Patrick!

How are you eating the Chard though 🤔

The Children of Jack Acid

At the vegan version of the Boston Tea Party, British loyalists were "chard and feathered."

PineBat Jo

Brace, do you have ADHD?

Jerimiah

Sounds like East meets West to me.

Gallo Altanero

Friend worked at the LA one. Very wealthy. So expensive. Lambos outside. Sat next to Deandre Jordan but he didn’t fit at the bar. Ok Mezcal.

libra man

What a great series! @ Yungchomsky could you please provide the option to download FLAC files for my Pono Player?

Sarah S

You are so boring, Mike McCann.

Benphish

Does using fentanyl as a sleep aid count as "east meets west"?

Nate

national chain too. i used to go to the one in worcester ma

Kaleb

Ya I went to one in Phoenix, good vibes.

Oliver Crane

Oh yeah it’s right by the boat pho place. I feel like I heard years ago that they would have horrific animal cruelty footage on their TV sometimes so I was a little wary of it.

Connor MacKinnon

I hope this series never end (sent while driving a heavy vehicle)

TrueAnonPod

I think gracias madres was cafe gratitude

Claire

Is there somewhere I can go to see a list of the readings/ books recommended/ referenced throughout this series?

RickinSF

There's a small, discrete, meeting room at the St. Francis Hotel, called the "Ford Salon," adjacent to the Post Street entrance, where Sarah Jane Moore blazed away at Gerald Ford.

Nick

Leftist organizations seem to often be full of lunatics--not sure if anyone has noticed this (?)

jrab

I’m sorry if I missed something, but do we know why the name Thumb?

Alec

🤌🏼🤌🏼Bona fides 🤌🏼🤌🏼

CL

The funniest possible outcome of taking time off

Katie H

Truly one of the saddest casualties of Bay Area gentrification is the cult-run vegetarian restaurant. My favorite was Manzanita, original location, RIP.

AR

1000% prefer this to election coverage

Claire Simon

sounds like a morrissey concert

NoPrefect

Southern Santa Clara county is still just San Joaquin Valley frfr

Bryan

Screaming Loving Hut while I do the dishes

Irene

I went to one in central Madrid! Damn had no idea about the cult thing, fascinating

Shiv

as an east-meets west usa person i can’t believe there’s a Loving Hut in Worcester, gonna make my mom take me

Shiv

Imagine not visiting the person who saved your life because of gay

Kaleb

Loving Hut endorses Trump: “May the brave citizens of the United States choose wisely this November by rallying behind and electing President Donald J. Trump, recognizing that he is indeed their God-chosen commander-in-chief and the instrument for World Peace, in the everlasting grace of Glorious Heavens.”

Luis

I freaking love that place

Reece Coren

my notes app is just facts i learned from true anon

Lilbean

Ep about moriaki wakabayashi and yodogo group pls cuz I can’t figure it out

Natalie

making fake pamphlets is such classic fed behavior, maybe it was the times but imagine someone thinking of thag in an org today I'd be like what?? ok cop

Rhys Hayes

I was listening in my car, and when one of the Matts revealed that Sally the FBI informant tried to assassinate Gerald Ford a couple of weeks after Squeaky Fromme’s misfired attempt, I almost had to pull over.

Rhys Hayes

Also, does anyone have a link to that High Times article about the New World Liberation Front? New-era broken Google can’t help me find it.

A Yee

I can't stand for this bok choy slander...

Ben Newman

Rip the Haight street McDonald’s. It’s an ugly ass apartment building now smfh

JDF

ORGONE BOX WARNING

Reece Coren

Just stopped at Soledad to get a picture and a cop drove up to let me know it was state property 💀 i said ok? i’m wearing a fucking phillies t shirt and my true anon hat and he asked me if i work at the prison 🤣