00:05www.mesmerism.info
00:30Fear and Loathing Las Vegas, and it starts off like a rocket.
00:32That was a mad genius.
00:34Ralph, when he first met Hunter, he'd never done any drugs.
00:36He loses it.
00:37Hunter always had to have a running crisis.
00:39Ha, ha, ha!
00:41Come over, I'm gonna kill somebody!
00:43Hunter saw guns as one of the great things in life.
00:47He liked the noise and the violence and the destruction.
00:51I think he was important in a literary way and also in a political way.
00:56Hunter was in Chicago, right in the midst of the gas and the beatings.
01:00I came up with the idea that he should move to Washington, becoming a full-time correspondent.
01:03When he showed up at the campaign, no wonder who he was.
01:05Until he started publishing, then all hell broke loose.
01:08Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for objective journalism,
01:13which is true, but they missed the point.
01:15He described me as a half-crazed Davy Crockett running around the parapets of Nixon's Alamo.
01:20I desperately wanted to put an end to that senseless war.
01:24I'm sick and tired of old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
01:30Hunter's pieces were a hybrid of very accurate reportage and sometimes flat-out fantasy.
01:37It ended up on The Wire as a straight story.
01:39You finally said, well, you made it all up.
01:41I couldn't believe that people really believed that Muskie was eating even again.
01:44I never said he was.
01:45I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true.
01:47when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.
01:51I think he captured certain truths about human perversity.
01:55I don't think that anybody can be surprised that we find ourselves in the nightmare we're in today
02:00because of the same as the nightmare he described back then.
02:04He could wield a pretty effective sword against what's going on right now.
02:09He had this purity of vision.
02:11Will the real Hunter Thompson, please stand up.
02:17Will the real Hunter Thompson, please stand up.
02:20Pat!
02:21Will the real Hunter Thompson, please stand up.
02:25Will the real Hunter Thompson
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