Hunter S. Thompson Tried to Warn Us...

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[@coolea]

The censoring is due to the fact KZbin are consistently combing through everything I make looking for issues, every video as of recent has received a manual review despite clearly following guidelines, it's why I am forced to censor anything they might find as controversial. I will find a way to make the censors more seamless in future, realistically I saw the gaps as servicable as opposed to a jarring bleep sound constantly, but I see why it might cut up the flow of the video. When KZbin find issues it doesn't just affect income, it vastly affects the performance of the channel, and even ability to release content on time as some manual reviews take weeks.

[@SaltyAsTheSea]

KZbin blows I hope a new platform comes along. Great video though, cheers.

[@niteshades_promise]

why i dont even try or care to upload music. ill just get copyright strikes, wrongfully. no point, ill never have a channel make money.🍻

[@iamironman954]

It’s worth playing safe so that you can still keep making money from your work on this platform! We all appreciate the effort you make for these videos. Also, this was an excellent topic was very happy to see you had uploaded a video on Hunter s Thomson!

[@ouroborosirvington]

KZbinsuckonmybigfathairycockandballscuntsarseandtitties

[@ericbuzard349]

move to a Patrion-subscriber income source, many other more controversial KZbinrs have had luck with that...

[@RitualofEther]

Censoring the word “drug” is the dystopian shit that Hunter hated

[@MichaelWaisJr]

Uumm the newspeak dictionary of KZbin says the proper word is “Gurd”.

[@MichaelWaisJr]

“Hey kids, wanna do some good guuuuurrrrddss??”

[@Louie_The_Dago]

Self censorship. youtube allows every single word he censored.

[@GrandmaSiva]

You commented on the same thing! This content creator needs to grow up or at least let someone other than his Sunday school teacher edit and censor the videos.

[@Antiextremistdude]

Yes very annoying.

[@kainflynn1430]

One of my favourite stories about Hunter relates back to his campaign for Sheriff, his opponent was a hardcore ex military officer who had more than a little disdain for those within the counterculture. Hunter knew this and so he shaved his head with a razor effectively becoming as bald as a cue ball, all so he could refer to his opponent as a “long-haired hippy” Hunter was quite a formidable troll

[@MRAIClassroom]

Great story I’ve always loved that one too

[@send_ludes]

ahem **"long-haired opponent"

[@send_ludes]

i hate myself

[@DeathBYDesign666]

So he invented both trolling and fake news and from the sound of it he actually did both of those things first? That's pretty neat actually!

[@djquinn11]

@@DeathBYDesign666: He didn’t invent trolling but he did take it to another level.

[@danframpt0n]

casual face reveal. goat behavior

[@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245]

Brooooooo 🥞🥞🥞🥞

[@MetalPersonJ]

🥞🥞

[@greatemperor7185]

Yeah he kinda look like that guy that was into Danny fantom KZbin guy.

[@Rubberpoliceman1]

Hardcore KZbin Crossover

[@deadfroginpepsican]

he’s shown his face on instagram before

[@slimfit8030]

its scary how nothing changes

[@KiyanCLSuser-xz2zu2un7d]

Nothing ever happens

[@qazxdwplmnkp]

War never changes

[@Spaceghostflocko]

“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”

[@Spaceghostflocko]

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[@lolsonchciwy5022]

I find it utmost comforting - another reason to keep lectures and experiences of people you've never known or seen. And the fact that everywhere people are pretty similar - be it far East, west, Europe or Africa -; just minding their own business, be it vile or not. It makes your home even more comfortable to reside in - and you know it.

[@michaelkeller21]

As an old head, I feel proud of and happy for you. You are going to make it young man. Keep going, believe in yourself. You are going to make it.

[@ancom_kc]

Man, thank you for giving a genuine look at who Thompson was and not just perpetuating the caricature.

[@TjByers369]

I'd like to thank him as well. I think his story is a little sad. So much potential wasted. I can't help but think of some of Zappa's quotes on the issues of drugs.

[@squirlmy]

Living now in Colorado in a time of legalized cannabis dispensaries, and legal psychedelic therapy, and not too far from the Woody Creek Tavern, I don't think this vlogger understands what where "caricature" begins and gonzo journalism ends. I know you both mean to be complimentary, but discussing it in terms of "caricature", indeed the very persona that Hunter himself created for himself!, means you don't "get" him. The serious journalism INCLUDES the outrageous exaggerations. Please read his work again!

[@FactFiendsHistory]

I think the caricature is important as it shows how some of his interests will change a person for good or worse

[@joachimmikalsen1676]

@@squirlmy , thank god we have your statements to take at face value.

[@EbonyPope]

09:02 What kind of song and artist is that? Name?

[@havinfunfallin9458]

The first I read fear and loathing, it was a fun drug fueled romp, that made me become a Raoul duke kinda figure in high school, when I read it again a year or two later, I understood the warning that the American dream was already dead, and the hippie culture that once fueled the change that I wanted to see had burnt itself out on drugs and looking for the light at the end of the tunnel, and since then I have spread that message as much as I can

[@stevekern7235]

The original message of the Hippies, that of Peace, Love and the warning that corporations were going to take over the world, was co-opted by those same corporations. 🤕

[@chizorama]

​@@stevekern7235& those same hippies became part of the system they rallied against & despised. Drained it for all it was worth & left a rotting corpse for all that followed to deal with.

[@manbeast_cs]

@@stevekern7235 and the spectacle will go on without us

[@L0veLYLAd]

Coolea looks like Emo Pyrocynical. Love it

[@rtcnoodles]

THAT'S SO ACCURATE

[@ajampalampala5678]

let's cyberbully him too :D

[@Subwaygoonfree]

Don't ever say that again

[@nuclearbomb4171]

better looking too

[@MacCoalieCoalson]

Not enough chins

[@poindextertunes]

Fear And Loathing is the only book I’ve ever read that made me feel intoxicated while I was indeed sober at the time. Incredibly talented writer

[@nickyscriptzworld]

Rum diary is pretty good too

[@dancingdingo]

I've got to read it now. I've just seen the film

[@TwiggyKeely]

My Dad was beaten and arrested 3 times after he was walking home from the Chicago Democratic Convention of 68, where he had been working. He passed away in 2017 but he had the craziest stories from that night! He then joined the Marines and got sent to Vietnam. My poor Dad, he did not have it easy! I own every book Thompson ever wrote, there's nothing like him and his gonzo journalism!❤

[@rossjohnson1872]

His story, one of his last, about the Supreme Court Judge was prophetic. He had inside information on a lot of stuff. Exaggeration (gonzo) was his way of not getting disappeared while conveying information. In 1977 a friend taught me how to read Thompson. When you read something incredibly outrageous about a powerful person, just dial it back down to "what if this is true to any degree?" Surprising Hunter was not unalived much sooner.

[@mrspoon2254]

Coolea looks like if John Krasinski was big fan of Deftones.

[@bobsbigboy_]

Lmao

[@comotuabogada]

😂😂😂 he's super cool tho

[@maynardwayward12]

I remember growing up and idolizing HST, but now that I'm older...all the stuff about Raoul Duke and the drugs is kind of depressing. It's like he was locked into trying to be "cool" for the rest of his adult life. No doubt he would have done a lot more wonderful work if he wasn't that addicted to drugs. Who wouldn't have wanted to read that boxing story?

[@jonathalon6022]

One of his shorter articles about ali was brilliant, really insightful.

[@mj.l]

i don’t think you can separate his work from his use of drugs. his writing wouldn’t be recognisable without the drugs. it’s the self-destruction that depresses me - the guns, violence, performative erratic craziness. if he could have dropped acid, gone on speed benders etc without the violent madness - a controlled chaos - he might have lived longer, but probably not burned as bright. he’s been embraced by elements of the trumpist right, which i suspect would have enraged him.

[@electricfishfan]

He burned so bright without drug abuse that he’d “made it” to fame by himself without their influence, so I think it’s a false and dangerous narrative to paint drugs as something you continuously require to be a great person or “access” your greatness. That’s pure addict speak. They can kickstart someone temporarily in certain circumstances but they only ever “unlock” what you have always been capable of on your own.

[@maynardwayward12]

@@electricfishfan "so I think it’s a false and dangerous narrative to paint drugs as something you continuously require to be a great person or “access” your greatness. That’s pure addict speak" no idea who you're talking to

[@Dylan-ln7lb]

While I agree for the most part. I kinda disagree with the need to "feel cool", I speak for myself, but i believe it was of a "stare into the abyss" situation. You become seduced by the darkness and that shit swallows you up if you try to chase it.

[@007megaoof]

ngl i thought this was gonna be some incel video, but i was pleasantly surprised that it was a video by the guy who taught me what sludge metal was.

[@Sub5_77]

INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL can i have seeeeks now ma'am?

[@greyfells2829]

Incels don't think society is doomed, they envy people who participate in this doomed society.

[@UncAussie]

What is an incel video

[@007megaoof]

@@UncAussie I’ll try to explain this best I can. An incel video is any video “essay” that has the person complaining about personal flaws and poor lifestyle choices that said individual has under the thin guise that it is a societal problem instead of a individual problem. The videos mostly consist with the viewer rambling about porn addiction, para social relationships with fictional people, not understanding how sub-cultures function and other meaningless nitpicks that the world as a whole could brush aside. I can assure you that they are rambling about nothing if these topics do sound interesting to you. Almost every time, they’ll have extremely clickbait/over-edited thumbnails that either meant to be shocking or enticing and use buzz phrases like “Society is doomed” or “The truth about *insert thing here*”

[@UncAussie]

@@007megaoof never knew that man, thanks for informing me. It sounds like brainwashing material the way you put it almost, kind of feels insidious !

[@stonedape2406]

Dude.. watch almost every one of Ur videos and i was reading fear and loathing again and showing the movie to a few mates, and then BOOM you make a video of it. We are aligned good sir

[@BillBraskyy]

The good doctor would have definitely hated the level of censorship in this age. Even words that aren't even close to being vulgar are censored now (strictly because they're related to unpleasant subjects), which is obviously just a way of running away from/burying the head in the sand to just try to ignore reality, thinking that pretending these things don't exist would just make them cease to exist.

[@Blackgriffonphoenixg]

oh hush, you're just jealous Hunter got to publish books without bleeping out the N word and you can't.

[@bandario]

I don't really understand youtube's M.O here. You can watch videos of people ingesting class A drugs and documenting the effects, yet in informational videos like they they will censor the word drugs as if the word itself can hurt us.

[@EMan-cu5zo]

Bleeping out the n word? What does that even mean?

[@fantomas4935]

@@Blackgriffonphoenixg how did you reach such an intellectually challenged conclusion? Did you just not watch the heavily censored video and went straight to the comments?

[@otaconpunished]

Hard to listen to because of the censoring.

[@TheKingWhoWins]

Just awful

[@matty6878]

have Mei Ling decode it

[@psyanidemcpsy6501]

I like to imagine the ghost of Hunter materializing in the office of the CEO of KZbin and throwing their office phone at them like... kzbin.info/www/bejne/a33SXqamhsl6adEsi=Fn3foilxfBs27cG_&t=124

[@stillhaventcomeupwithaname9371]

Damn, maybe support the patreon and you’ll get the uncensored version. And you’ll get the badass shirt for your support of curse words

[@spinningindaffodils]

Oscar Zeta Acosta deserves a video of his own. This was wonderful, Coolea! I should give Fear and Loathing another read and finish Rum Diaries

[@comotuabogada]

Rum Diary is a great book. Do finish it if you find the time. And Fear and Loathing is simply amazing. Awesome books ❤

[@chizorama]

The Great Shark Hunt doesn't get the love it deserves. It is splattered all over the place with his best writing, so many tributaries flowing into his most famous F&LiLV river.

[@garretwoeller7669]

Tbh Hunter S Thompson is like Diogenes people love him more then they know him. Quite a fan of him and not just because of the Depp films but the man view on life aged like wine

[@willtheangrydudeist9120]

Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there....

[@3ZN357]

Thompson was not just a drunk smart guy, he had a real gift at understanding the most amazing parts of the earth that are as quiet and unrecognizable as they can be massive and extradorinaiy in his words. He was a journalist in the truest sense of the word, because he wasn't scared of speaking his mind. We need a lot more cultural influence that flourishes in honesty. Thompson's honesty is our greatest reward as readers.

[@Internetguycj01]

I grew up in louisville KY. My grandpa was in high school at the same time as HST. Grandpa went to St. X and hunter went to Atherton if I remember correctly. Louisville still has tons of odes to HST and gonzo!

[@cellcerocreates]

Great video and respect that you slowed the pace to provide a detailed and thorough quick documentary.

[@stromthermos1280]

I know you mentioned Thompson's stance against DV, you failed to mention his culpability in knocking Sandy around before they were divorced.

[@beccaishername82]

Too weird to live, too rare to die

[@ericburns469]

I wonder what he would think of this self-censorship that’s taken hold…

[@talkingmudcrab718]

I met Hunter in 2000. I won't say where or how because of who reads KZbin comments. I'll just say he was a complete ahole, but I still loved talking to him.

[@MichaelWaisJr]

Who reads KZbin comments?? The CIA?? The Mothers Against Drunk Driving?? The Knights Who Say Nee??

[@sirksees]

was not expecting a longer form docu style vid from you, but I very much welcome it!!!!!

[@dakistle]

After that poll you posted the other day, i figured you were about to hit us with some fun culture and history. Sealed and delivered! Keep up the high quality work, good sir.

[@docholiday3800]

Not a bad upload at all, good job mate! Where the buffalo roam and the great white shark hunt was my favorites. Thanks for reminding people about the search for a dream and breaking habits.

[@walmorcarvalho2512]

Even if he was way past his prime, he is SORELY missed during these times of open decline in journalism worldwide.

[@greyfells2829]

Journalism has always been garbage. It just used to serve the needs of conservatives, so it wasn't criticized as much.

[@dild0sled]

This video just left me with the impression that Thompson was just a hack, as well as both the culture and the counter culture being fake.

[@Anders010]

Imagine a long conversation between Hunter S. Thompson, Terence McKenna and Philip K. Dick.

[@knowingwhatthebuttondoes3432]

It wouldn't be long one. Thompson would get annoyed at McKenna's pseudo-intellectual nonsense VERY quickly and start calling him a 'jackass' and a 'pig fucker'. Dick strikes me as the kind of guy that just wouldn't engage well with people with obtuse/strong/outgoing personalities. He would probably just observe the other two for a moment the quickly scurry away when Thompson started abusing McKenna. McKenna would have kept standing there analysing Thompson's aggression (instead of shutting-up/going away) and arguing that Thompson needs to attain total consciousness to find peace (or some crap) at which point Thompson would mace McKenna. Then he would chase Dick down while screaming "Where do think you're going rat-bastard son of a bitch?" And he mace Dick too because, well... mace.

[@drackaryspt1572]

Great fucking video! Never expected that I needed a Coolea video on Hunter S Thomson but I guess I did!!

[@connorruckert8283]

Love seeing Thompson focused on and it not just being all about the drugs. I read as much of his stuff as I could.

[@MissMeggarz142]

Thank you for recognizing Hunter as a man who was multifaceted. I wish I could have met him just to say "Thank you." He taught me so many life lessons through his stories. I learned to embrace life, respect death and accept they are at constant war around us. I only hope he is at peace now.

[@stevemarshall4822]

Thompson was a much loved writer during my younger years, and I was saddened to hear of his death - I never heard of it until I was reading a sunday newspaper feature in a cafe in Snowdonia one morning. My non reference reading nowadays is mostly via Audible, but sadly very little of Thompson's stuff is on there.

[@lollirotzombie3805]

The first time I traveled to Colorado after the state's legalization of Marijuana, we ended up staying in a Holiday Inn that was, I shit you not, holding a cop convention of some sort (we asked). We drove in to park, and the lot was FULL of police vehicles of every kind. We just wanted a good time and new experience and to learn a few things, and we walk into what any outsider could agree was an absolute mind fuck. Fear and Loathing was the absolute first thing that came to mind. Like, ok cool, I have this brown bag of totally legal things we can bring upto our room, buuuut... this is... SO BIZZARE.

[@shpidermonky6443]

I remember being a kid and loving fear and loathing so i was stoked to see him go on conans show and man it never would disappoint. One of my favorite bits conan ever did

[@jefferson808]

Move your whiskey before you start shooting

[@shpidermonky6443]

@@jefferson808 🤣 and when hes yelling when he cant find his cigs. Conan "that man was just holding a machine gun." Lol

[@jefferson808]

“What’s Bull Buckner gonna think when he sees this?”

[@evhbombastic]

Ralph Steadman's art should have been used on Thompson's 'freak power' campaign posters to get those 8 votes.

[@Mst-bh9ti]

He didn't try to warn us. He took advantage of cultural zeitgeist to live a libertine, largely responsibility free life. Amusing in an infantile way. The man was at times highly abusive in his personal life. Nothing to celebrate.

[@databattlesz]

I don’t agree about how he’s not remembered for being a great journalist but his proclivities. Maybe where you’re at.

[@KingFluffs]

Hunters brain was fried on drugs. He didn't try to "warn" anyone.

[@ongogablogian7112]

I've been reading up a lot on HST lately, what a strange and pleasant coincidence

[@chizorama]

I was late to his writing, saw Where the Buffalo Roam as a child & Fear & Loathing I Las Vegas as an adult. It wasn't till somebody gave me Better Than Sex, Confessions of a Political Junky that I realized his brilliance as a writer, one of his later works that still cut sharp. After that I was hooked & read everything I could get my hands on. Yes, he was a character, & that what he was best known for, but his writing had such a flow of creativity which blew my already warped mind. His voice is missed & desperately needed in these desperate times. He & George Carlin were prophets of the doomed & dammed that the malicious powers that be are hammering society into, the weasels are closing in. Selah...

[@jlmenard7688]

Real Coolea fans know this isn't his face reveal

[@psecdocumentary]

The reason history always repeats, or at the very least rhymes as Mark Twain put it, can be broken down into this: trauma (of any type and all types), fear (of anything and everything possible) and addiction (psychological, emotional, paradigmal or any other type). The more a society can push these, it dumbs down and polarizes people. They become more extreme and absolute, and less rational. Making them extremely easy to manipulate and pit against each other. I forgot who originally said it, but way back in history someone said something to the effect of: a well informed public is more dangerous than a standing army. In other words, the manipulators in power are only in power as a result of manipulation, and they do not want to lose power. This condition far worsened post-WWII, with the magical thinking that unicorns had cured tyranny and we're all immune to it now and it could never happen again, and especially it could never "happen here". So this turned people into complacent consumers seeking increasing amounts of instant gratification (which has been cranked up to 11 with modern technology today) and addicted to defending their current world view, even if they hate their own view and other views opposing it are actually better. The mind does not seek truth, it seeks sameness. At least, a mind in a traumatized state does this. And the longer someone's mind is trapped in that prison, the harder it becomes to get them out of it. Most people self destruct in some way, shape or form. We've simply normalized it and pretend its some natural thing that happens on its own, instead of identifying what we do to ourselves as being self abuse.

[@escherpainting8622]

I've used HST as a litmus test for a few years. If when he is mentioned, someone says "who's that?", there's hope. If they say "oh, the drug guy" or "wait, he's a real person?" I generally make it a point to never talk to that human being again. And if they've spent as much of their life and energy learning as much about him like/as I have, then they're probably intolerable.

[@losfogo7149]

Usually Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas here in my country is known as the funny movie about drugs and not much else. If you mentioned HST almost no one would know him as the book never really caught on like the movie. Hell I didn't know the movie came from a book until this video

[@mac081793]

Don't think it's that serious

[@Shimlarian]

Npc moment

[@baconsarny-geddon8298]

Bruh, I bet you can't even name three Hunter S. Thompson songs...

[@LscnrRaz0r]

L Take, my dude...

[@turgityfarms3752]

Hunter wasn't warning anyone, he was bragging. WSB tried to warn us.

[@user-jt3zv2jc7u]

Finally, someone who understands.

[@meltedfro]

Burroughs knew what was up but unfortunately nobody took him seriously because of his reputation

[@freebanking]

Paul Bonacci/Jonny Goshe accused Thompson of being a child murderer. He was also accused of being hired to film child snuff films by a former Hells Angel.

[@bradleylaboe6455]

As a kitchen creature I thank you for this...His was all about his politics that were left on every issue but gun control... If he were alive his rant about 45 and his cult making Nixon look like a saint by comparison would have been epic.

[@wotcher2385]

I went into this thinking it would be some disastrous Moon like, hired bullshit account of his life yet you actually did a good job with this as an Avid fan of Thompson myself who has both Film Adaptations (Rum diaries is not real) a Gonzo Fist badge, a Model of Tape Recorder he once owned and 3 of his books this is actually pretty good, also fun fact Thompson nearly drowned Bill Murray on the set of Where The Buffalo Roam.

[@Ce13stialBunny]

Big fan of Thompson. If people even know who he is when I talk about him, it’s just the films. I own every bit of journalism he’s put out. Very sharp writer.

[@ryanmac8283]

People don’t like being called out for being piles of shit.lol Hunter was a legend.

[@Kooooshball]

11:24 "Yes Martin" we all say in unison

[@trustyourgut1365]

Am I the only one that wants to see "fear and loathing on the campaign trail" turned into a movie?

[@DogSlobberGardens-i7f]

"Fear and Loathing on the Capaign Trail - 72" was the book that got me truly interested in politics. It was also the book that convinced me I never, ever wanted to get too directly involved in politics. His later work (and everything else I've read about the topic) reinforced that decision. It truly is a sordid den of vicious swine, no matter how noble their intentions may be to begin with.

[@weedian710]

DUDE!!!! Fuck YES!!!! Needed this today! Long live Gonzo!!!!

[@StitchTheFemboy]

Coolea please do video on femboys I love your vids

[@Shimlarian]

Eat some meat and do manual work bro

[@Mortrexable]

go outside

[@StitchTheFemboy]

​@Shimlarian I eat chicken and fish everyday and work as a kitchen porter which is pretty manual work imo 😃

[@StitchTheFemboy]

​@@Mortrexablemost my hobbies and sports are outside. i don't play video games or have a TV at my house so at home I just watch yt on my phone. Its quite fun being outside actually 😁

[@Shimlarian]

@@StitchTheFemboy I said meat, not poultry or fish

[@Aberinkula9]

"Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era-the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run… but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.… History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda.… You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.… And that, I think, was the handle-that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting-on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.… So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark-that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."

[@MidnightatMidian]

it's crazy, I just stumble upon Las Vegas Parano, the book. I have like 6 books of him, but I haven't read this one for a long time, and bam!!! A Coolea vid on him... Synchronicity at it's best!!!!

[@tab207]

Can’t recommend Dave McGowan’s Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon enough regarding the counter culture

[@superguy698]

Well thats not an 8 minute video for adhd riddled brains. I really liked that and would watch either. Keep it up my guy

[@acadia5898]

thanks for giving me new look on him. never really knew about him that much before, but now i'm interested in him

[@michaelthompson3403]

fear and loathing is a truly hilarious masterpiece ..but the book surpasses the movie and is genuinely one of the 20th century great novels.

[@FrankBurnham]

Hunter is a writer for people who don't like reading. Funny and wild, he was very serious.

[@FrankBurnham]

Turns out Nixon was framed. A soft coup.

[@bhante1345]

I'm ever so grateful that my introduction to Hunter S. Thompson was his book Hell's Angels. What a wild ride that was.

[@ElectricSlevin]

I first watched fear and loathing and it was just too good, it was so good that you could just be perpetually entertained without really digesting the deeper aspects of it...and despite the movie being very faithful to the book, the book hit me differently maybe cause you have more time to let the words run through your brain or maybe I just gathered more life experience by that time to see it all in a different light...

[@theJellyjoker]

Resonates with in a way I think only Hunter would really understand.

[@satevo462]

If you've ever read the Book Fear and Loathing, it is nearly word for word what you see in the movie.

[@SamanthaC641]

I love the direction your going with vids. Great work coolea

[@AnneHeche-c2j]

hunter did a movie 4th in a row of remakes. the best one were on reels and a series that came out in mid 50's and 60's.

[@richevans609]

He knew... No one took him seriously.

[@cernunnos_lives]

I took this mans messages seriously. Freaking genius. We needed a reminder of what real roots is about. And what real journalism is. We unfortunately made him a persona and disregarded what he was saying. He was worried about the people of this country.

[@notfarfromgone1]

Greed and Power. Hard to talk about on KZbin. Peace, gratitude, love. Thanks, dude

[@notfarfromgone1]

Let's not forget - dude was a stud. a beast. unaffected. rad

[@nikoirl]

A good piece of work! Thanks 🙏

[@sumonedum]

Aye, he listened to the poll

[@BixbiteBungo]

Ridiculous how youtube considers alcoholism as a demonitizing word. Love the video though.

[@itsicearmour]

I recommend every single one of my book-reading friends read The Great White Shark Hunt. There's never been a book that I've read where I started laughing and that left me pondering its points for YEARS after first reading it. Despite his very human problems, HST had a great wit about him that's not been seen since.

[@seandavidt3538]

I’d l like to add ‘Better Than Sex- Confessions of a Political Junkie’ which is one of the most eye opening books on our modern political system I have ever read. It lays bare the framework for the centrist neo-con nightmare we all reside in.

[@itookallthenames]

It’s magnificent, like a journalist equivalent of a really good prog album

[@PeterZeidelbeck]

Have you ever considered doing a video on glam rock?

[@jonathalon6022]

One of your best videos man, keep these videos up.

[@D-Fens_1632]

"Abandon hope, get familiar with cannibalism." - HST

[@PootisPenserPow]

The Kentucky Derby is Decedent and Depraved is one of his best works, but it's always overshadowed by his bigger stuff. It is sad, though. He became the character he created, and it ruined him.

[@EarthPoweredHippie]

Imagine the things hunter would write today if we brought 1975 Hunter to 2024.

[@matty6878]

i had no idea that thompson and his lawyer were in vegas in the first place to keep out of sight from the activists and cops/feds in LA but it makes so much more sense now, especially how the lawyer ended up. and the gonzo writing was sort of a smokescreen to thaw out what really happened during the riots. great film, brilliant novel but clever idea on hunter's part to plan that.

[@tbk7114]

The most baffling part about this video is how much he had to censor it.

[@animalemadretaco]

2:14 Hunter S Thompson Coolea elf is not the hero we deserve… but the hero we need

[@electricfishfan]

Never thought I’d be potentially sending one of your videos to my dad but here we are.

[@JohnSmith-fm3pn]

Targard permanent cigarette filter system is the name and yes its still sold if you wanna smoke your cigarettes hunter s. style

[@wardaddy9910]

Hunter Thompson was a freaking nut job! That dude was into some twisted stuff.

[@universe-juice]

Hunters life is celebrated in his hometown, Louisville ky. Is completely accidental that i also live in Louisville. And coincidence that his neighborhood is called 'the highlands'. You can make this stuff up, but is much more satisfying when it happens organically 🥴

[@josephfreeman8516]

Where the Buffalo Roam is a good movie. I felt like that movie might of been a better window into Hunter's life compared to Fear and Loathing

[@CrimeFighterFrog]

Great video, one of the best I have seen on Hunter, and I have seen damn near everything at this point. However, one slight criticism: the AI upscaled pictures are horrendous.

[@I8ITSK8N]

I miss that man dearly..

[@AndroidSamsung-qz9pl]

WE DO NOT CONSENT TO HARM.

[@joecyclone]

It's not Gonzo journalism, so not really a modern day equivalent, but the only other, as far as i know, good journalist to write for Rolling Stone was Matt Taibbi. He was almost always the best part of each issue, and it was his submissions I would look forward to the most. He continues to still do actual real journalism today.

[@kolbykauffman4180]

Thank you. No one ever gets an honest look into his accomplishments and creative landmarks and much rather focus on his exaggerated personality and later unhinged behaviors. People treat him like just a character Depp played, which insults both Thompson and Depp.

[@rexharrison6827]

You missed his foray into the America's Cup yacht race. Some inspired mischief, along with Ralph Steadman who he co-opted into the madness. It's also worth reading Steadman's take on Hunter, particularly in "The Joke's Over". In a way, he's a modern day Boswell to Thompson's Samuel Johnson.