Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws

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9 жыл бұрын

“I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.”
- Hunter S. Thompson in 1967
As told to Studs Terkel (studsterkel.org)
Hear more from this rare interview: blankonblank.org/hunter-thompson
In the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson spent more than a year living and drinking with members of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club, riding up and down the California coast. What he saw alongside this group of renegades on Harleys, these hairy outlaws who rampaged and faced charges of attempted murder, assault and battery, and destruction of property along the way--all of this became the heart of Thompson’s first book: Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga. Shortly after the book came out, Thompson sat down for a radio interview with the one and only Studs Terkel.
CHOICE QUOTES
“I can't remember ever winning a fight.”
"I used to take it out at night on the Coast Highway, just drunk out of my mind, ride it for 20 and 30 miles in just short pants and a t-shirt. It's a beautiful feeling.”
“ I tried to keep my eyes on him because I didn't want to have my skull fractured.”
“They want to get back at the people who put them in this terrible, this dead end, tunnel.”
“ The people who are most affected by this technological obsolescence are the ones least capable of understanding the reason for it, so the venom builds up much quicker. It feeds on their ignorance.”
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@MarkMasters... 4 жыл бұрын

'He who makes a Beast of Himself, gets rid of the pain of being a Man....'

@evancooper7510 4 жыл бұрын

Very relevant with all things going on right now

@mrwest8516 4 жыл бұрын

Dr. Dolf ya I heard abt that in Mark Dice’s book Illuminati Facts & Fiction

@mrwest8516 4 жыл бұрын

Dr. Dolf I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU JUST SAID WHITE BOY BUT YOU SPECIAL!

@toddbaker1425 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you... Your inspiration gives me the courage to become a serial killer. ☕

@MarkMasters... 4 жыл бұрын

@@toddbaker1425 Good Luck in your endeavors...make sure to social distance though.😈

@WilkineBrutus 9 жыл бұрын

"The Angels reflect not only the lower segments of the society, but the higher and, you know, where violence takes a more sophisticated and respectful form"

@sloaiza81 7 жыл бұрын

you would make a good editor

@aaronpieczarka631 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that, we're all listening because we can't hear. So, thank you again for quoting something we're listening to.

@Chunda8 7 жыл бұрын

Yes- why should I fistfight you when I can just outsource your manufacturing, clerical or call center job to India? I'd call that an economic beatdown, much harder to recover from. You may even have to move to find a job....Why should we insult and shove each other when I can just automate your warehouse management gig, now you are laid off...This is much more powerful than any punch ever thrown, game over.I don't fear the Hell's Angels as much as I fear the MBA/CPAs out there trying to make their numbers.

@SynthApprentice 7 жыл бұрын

Chunda8 If you're not valuable to society, it's society's own damn fault for not giving you the tools needed to be valuable. If the plant decides your manufacturing job can be replaced with a machine, it's because nobody showed you how to tell that damn machine what to do. It's just like Hunter said. The people who are hurt worst by this are the same people who are least likely to understand why it's happening to them.

@Chunda8 7 жыл бұрын

There does seem to be some disconnect between school and work to say the least. Plus, let's say I do the math, get the credentials and become a C/C++ Software Developer/Programmer. I put my resume out there, I have a portfolio of working code, I'm asking 60K / year to start. They want someone in India to do the same job but for 30K /year tops. Hard to know what to do next, you could do the right things and still be screwed.

@awolpeace1781 3 жыл бұрын

"Vengeance for not getting an opportunity" is great way to put it.

@PaulTheSkeptic 7 жыл бұрын

You know, I've read his books but I've never heard his voice before. I always thought of him as this really eccentric, drug fueled writer with a taste for the macabre and bizarre. I guess because of the movie. He's really a down to earth, very intelligent and insightful guy.

@VertPimpin 7 жыл бұрын

Paul TheSkeptic he doesn't seem to fucked up right now

@PaulTheSkeptic 7 жыл бұрын

VertPimpin Ha ha. So it's your contention that he's just sober right now?

@ChestersonJack 7 жыл бұрын

Honestly, I think those things go hand in hand. The more intelligent minds are more creative, and the more thoughtful ones are more open minded about strangeness. But that's my ASD speaking, haha!

@GMovieSeeker 7 жыл бұрын

He was a smart fellow, but hard to truly understand. He lived and wrote in a time when he believed America would become truly equal and united, but the 70's saw the dream shatter in fear and corruption. That was what Fear and Loathing is about. Escapism. He saw Nixon as the essence of evil, today we remember him as mostly a corrupt president who was not able to admit Vietnam was doomed. But possibly we are more escapist now than ever before. We see the world as too complicated and corrupt, so we want it to burn. But burning it won't make it better, of course.

@Kaboom-du7ys 7 жыл бұрын

well, dang. i kinda liked that.

@markowhisper 9 жыл бұрын

More like a honest profesional, unlike many other profesionals around, ever. R.I.P. Mr Thompson.

@70water61 6 жыл бұрын

Dylan M how the fuck do you know idiot?

@disnothsi2218 4 жыл бұрын

@@70water61 ...pretty hostile to someone who was simply calling hunter a honest professional

@Keenbeaver 4 жыл бұрын

"I am a professional coward" lol I love the way he worded things

@ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec 2 ай бұрын

He is a professional writer after all

@julianrodriguez2604 6 жыл бұрын

This made me buy the book, literally 20 minutes after watching this video I drove to barnes n noble and picked up a copy

@robertmiles3951 8 жыл бұрын

What a brilliant man. The wild man was an act. Hunter was undoubtedly a little unhinged, but he was a brilliant man who was deadly serious about journalism and the stories he felt needed to be told.

@spinblackcircles 3 жыл бұрын

Wild man maybe was an act but he absolutely was a raging alcoholic and drug addict. Amazing writer though

@nicholasdedless4881 9 жыл бұрын

That was amazing. One of the best original things I've seen on KZfaq. More Hunter please?? How about a longer interview?

@BlankonblankOrg 9 жыл бұрын

You can hear the full interview on our website. Alas we can only animate so much content.

@nicholasdedless4881 9 жыл бұрын

***** Thanks, I'll check it out. I really miss Hunter. Such a knack for cutting through the BS. Wish he had stuck around longer.

@Mrchair-bk5ns 8 жыл бұрын

+Blank on Blank please animate more! More Grace Kelly, Janis Joplin! A suggestion have Audrey Hepburn.

@uriah9559 7 жыл бұрын

more hunter ALWAYS!

@tbird1125 6 жыл бұрын

I'm bored

@UnRepentantBastard 9 жыл бұрын

Always good to hear more from Hunter S. Thompson! Rest in Peace, sir.

@spintheblackcircle33 9 жыл бұрын

Hunter was brilliant. Listen to how clear and concise he was in this interview. He described the world we live in now. He was always so insightful.

@youarelife3437 3 жыл бұрын

I like how beautifully the artist who made the caricature captures the emotions of the interviewer when he says ' the journalist who is not detached..'

@tomitstube 9 жыл бұрын

this was almost 50 years ago, his logic and insight is just as relevant today.

@corkyvanderhaven3391 3 жыл бұрын

tomitstube most classic authors are

@allgodsnomasters2822 3 жыл бұрын

ofc thats less than a lifetime its the same society

@piliage 7 жыл бұрын

That is a chilling interview. Before he brain was pickled on a bottle of Wild Turkey a day, Hunter was a flat out genius. The greatest book every written about US politics is his Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, 1972. HST's comments on the science of obsolescence and technology impacting those least likely to understand the reasons for them is brilliant.

@suppositionstudios 7 жыл бұрын

piliage he makes a good case for free education not just limited to youth, maybe without even trying. its something i want to see before im old and obsolete, as selfish as that is.

@gamefreakforlife 5 жыл бұрын

Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail seemed like it was the most prophetic book I've ever read when a friend handed me it right after Trump got elected. Bernie getting backstabbed seemed like a shoddy replay of Mcgovern being forced to cut back to the party-line and losing his voters in On the Campaign trail. Brilliant historical literature.

@experiment54 5 жыл бұрын

@@suppositionstudios you can get any education you want, you have the internet, its all out there, on youtube and other websites. All for free.

@experiment54 5 жыл бұрын

Matthew Lawton speak for yourself

@indigowendigo8464 5 жыл бұрын

@@matthewlawton9241 god you sound so wound up you might just pop

@kuumaaa 3 жыл бұрын

just finished reading his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - its like nothing ive read before and can only recommend it

@TheWorld_2099 2 жыл бұрын

It was SO much better than the movie.

@christophercontent3372 4 жыл бұрын

Fear and Loathing was always a favorite novel of mine - what a fascinating man he was

@fooshyandbuster 7 жыл бұрын

Hunter is a legend, a true professional, and a unique talent! More Hunter S. Thompson, please.

@Phaedo82 8 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant. I've been a Thompson fan for more than a decade and this video means a lot. Thank you for this. You earned a sub.

@yakikadafi745 6 жыл бұрын

but rust is also life

@popinmo 5 жыл бұрын

To see phadeo here makes me happy

@scoalex5935 4 жыл бұрын

oof

@CabelloProductions 9 жыл бұрын

I love this series! Hunter S. Thompson is one of my favorite writers so I'm happy to see him get the Blank on Blank treatment. Keep on the good work

@manray5140 5 жыл бұрын

Ive always been fascinated by this man. My parents accidentally named me after him in the great year of 2000, and all my life I’ve had older people ask me if I knew who he was. It’s nice to know what he sounds like too now.

@superawesomeboy 6 жыл бұрын

I would LOVE to talk to Hunter, he is kind of my spirit animal. On a different note: I just discovered this channel, and these little animated interviews are so damn good. Spending the night alone and drunk watching these is such a nice way to spend the night

@michaeld2060 4 жыл бұрын

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” -H.S.

@seththomas9105 7 жыл бұрын

My God! Dr.Thompson interviewed by Studs Terkel, just to be in the room with journalists of there caliber would be out of this world. RIP to both of them.

@modmeemays2245 2 жыл бұрын

I’d also like to give huge props to Studs Terkel he is a legend where I’m from and one of the most natural interviewers

@MrAwesomeangelo 9 жыл бұрын

A true poet the most un appreciated artist,his wisdom wasnt limited to kind words,the man was over all honest and brutal with his views of society aongst other things,hunter s thompson shall forever remain amongst the wisest men to have walked on this very earth

@cravinbob 7 жыл бұрын

Tone it down a few notches, he was a little above ordinary but amongst the wisest men?! No.

@justinhateswasps5816 6 жыл бұрын

He wasn't unappreciated. People knew about him, but chose to not face the truth.

@Slig1977 6 жыл бұрын

See, this is why I love youtube so much. Thank you Blank on Blank for animating my heros :)

@nosaintntx 9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this.R.I.P. Dr Gonzo! And the early info into the world of 1%ers and the 81.

@darthtortugas 9 жыл бұрын

PBS and Blank on Blank thank you for doing this.

@jobhd1199 7 жыл бұрын

Great work and a great share. Wish hew as here now to hear his voice and thoughts.

@Husqe2019 9 жыл бұрын

This is AMAZING! Thank you, will be making sure to watch more Blank on Blank features!

@musicisbrilliant 6 жыл бұрын

My ALL TIME Freakin FAVORITE youtube channel!!! So cool. PLEASE NEVER STOP!!!! Thank you!

@Medevicerep 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant writer and investigative journalist. He is one of the last great ones. All they do now is interview each other and those that agree with their world view.

@MissOkabe 9 жыл бұрын

that was AMAZING. Thank you so much for uploading this!

@aryanjawade6315 3 жыл бұрын

The animation is sooo gooooooood!!!

@kamuelalee 5 жыл бұрын

Thompson was such an insightful man and a great writer. His Hells Angels book is scary to read.

@ZachJenkins 6 жыл бұрын

these are phenomenal. some of my favorite content on youtube! thank you.

@WingedSoda 9 жыл бұрын

Another awesome video. I love this series and would love to see a future episode with Issac Asimov!

@davidfuller764 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, I am no expert but this is the best Hunter S Thompson doc. I have ever seen

@OldSethOnetooth 9 жыл бұрын

I miss HST, originally got into reading FALILV and the whole "yay, he's a reckless alcoholic and drug fiend just like me" but then I stopped being a RAADF and delved deeper into his work, Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail etc, and realised that he was a hugely gifted writer who had found himself stereotyped via his non writing habits

@MorrisChannel4 8 жыл бұрын

Wonderful nod, especially at the end. as he just kept riding down that road forever, RIP Hunter!

@kevgh3869 7 жыл бұрын

His strength was his honesty.

@DanHarkless_Halloween_YTPs_etc 6 жыл бұрын

Holy crap, what an awesome theme for a channel! Kind of surprised I've never come across it before. Subscribed.

@QuentinLars 9 жыл бұрын

awesome... would love to see more of Hunter in future episodes!!!

@BlankonblankOrg 9 жыл бұрын

Not sure if there will be a repeat but you never know.

@QuentinLars 9 жыл бұрын

I will keep an eye out :D

@geinikan1kan 9 жыл бұрын

Wonderful to hear such a trenchant reading of post-War, postmodern America. The Hell's and their violence emerged specifically within American society.

@andrewmcgregor9691 4 жыл бұрын

Wow ! what a smart guy. Totally related to today, yesterday and the days to come seemingly :/. God bless all both great and small ♥️✌️

@mbjac 8 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how close Jonny Depp got....

@vanaxana Ай бұрын

This is some of the best animation i have ever seen.

@evileggo8 9 жыл бұрын

AWESOME! i have been waiting for a Hunter S. Thompson clip!

@goinghardonearth8645 4 жыл бұрын

This is awesome wish there was more of these and it sound like a young hunter

@grimtea1715 5 жыл бұрын

I love how I only read things on Google about Hunter, I do read some of his writings as well, but then I get a suggestion automatically for this video... With all that said though I love the style of how this was done and Thompson was the man, Blank on Blank you got a new Sub.

@michellewind8097 Жыл бұрын

would love to see you do a piece on Kesey, met Hunter at his cabin in Aspen, 1967, his wife and baby Juan, and in 1968 I met Ken Kesey at his communal farm in Springfield, Oregon, two outstanding days with two legends, unforgettable

8 жыл бұрын

I just stumbled across this. This is fantastic!

@davidoberlin4186 6 жыл бұрын

really great channel here. some enlightenment goin on for sure. great to listen to while i'm 'driving on parkways and parking on driveways'

@davidoberlin4186 6 жыл бұрын

btw, farth is elat.

@cockomist9110 6 жыл бұрын

i always come back to this

@ADDerall509 9 жыл бұрын

Hunter S. Thompson is a man that I respect and this was good to hear and see.

@rubixmantheshapeshifter1769 6 жыл бұрын

Incredible combination of audio tapes and animation

@jasonvorhees375 4 жыл бұрын

First time I've heard his voice..Depp actually did really well and sounds like him,I could only actually picture Johnny Depp whilst he was talking,in some fear and loathing scene.The greatest movie of all time..

@jasonwalker9808 4 жыл бұрын

Hunter nailed it about us right now 2020 . all of us have it in us .

@wwb2081 6 жыл бұрын

This has got to be my new favorite channel

@WorldsWorstBoy 6 жыл бұрын

Absolute legend. These animations are great.

@kyotra 3 жыл бұрын

We still have to reminded even today that we are a violent species, and that venting that drive is not bad - rather, suppressing and ignoring those urges is what causes issues.

@snakezase2998 2 жыл бұрын

That being said, war is hell

@boomking5889 6 жыл бұрын

Love the art & animation style. Reminds me of the movie American Pop.

@briangoguen6798 9 жыл бұрын

You have to do an Andy Kaufman video!

@zackjohnson1390 7 жыл бұрын

this is the best series by PBS I've ever seen

@pyrotechnick420 4 жыл бұрын

I just found out that Hunter's original Hell's Angel newspaper article was published on May 17th, 1965 The same day Trent Reznor was born. lol

@jcauley9 2 жыл бұрын

Still true commentary. Wish we still had Hunter.

@alanrochin4270 3 жыл бұрын

Such a character

@maee1815 Жыл бұрын

I honestly wished they never stopped blank on blank its so interesting seeing into the minds of celebrities

@jimmyfischbeck9872 4 жыл бұрын

I can listen to Hunter S. Thompson all day, but Studs Turkle is over the top for me.

@xxdressagedivaxx 7 жыл бұрын

I wish I'd found this channel sooner. Fantastic stuff!

@pyrotechnick420 4 жыл бұрын

why aren't there more of these with Hunter? I could watch this for hours

@Guccicurry 2 жыл бұрын

man this show was awesome, wish they'd bring it back

@alexeigroff8445 9 жыл бұрын

I am really glad u guys did this video

@TASHXC12 9 жыл бұрын

This is beautiful. Amazing job

@jerryrichardson2799 Жыл бұрын

Thompson wrote _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_ as an example, or case study, of a couple of points he made in the last three or pages. It was a line of thought that started with his book on the Hell's Angels. It's a kind of loosely connected with _Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72._

@Hal9000ize 8 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see one done about Brian Wilson

@bonnerscott5374 4 жыл бұрын

these are priceless keep 'em' coming enjoy them very much..

@AnthroKnowledgey 9 жыл бұрын

The freaking man. Great job guys, this was awesome.

@SOLOIIguru 9 жыл бұрын

This was absolutely awesome.

@TASHXC12 9 жыл бұрын

Beautiful video. Well done.

@johnlemus7921 9 жыл бұрын

Is this like an animatic? Its great. I love Hunter Stockton Thompson. Him and Philip K Dick are my two favorite authors. Granted Hunter was a journalist and author and a lot of his works are based on his own experiences. I guess you can say he was a biographer as well as well as a documentarian. Fear and Loathing On The Campaign Trail is my favorite of his works.

@Letsallparty2 4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating

@Monkwhispers Жыл бұрын

Wow!

@zimrihinshaw3572 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Love the animation paired with the commentary.

@StePat67 8 жыл бұрын

that was awesome! tks

@Hampeeng 7 жыл бұрын

Would love to see one of these with William Burroughs

@kamuelalee 5 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@wallacechrstensen7406 4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@alexandervanbrocklin9230 4 жыл бұрын

Damn. Good interview.

@awesomevidstothemax 5 жыл бұрын

The sound is great for ‘67

@mlitz90 5 жыл бұрын

2 awesome writers get together.

@Shivhari 9 жыл бұрын

Amazing videos .. Love this channel.

@hitman109109 9 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see a Mitch Hedberg or Sam Kinison one of these

@stuvs830 9 жыл бұрын

Oh, Sam, yes.

@Ryan88881 9 жыл бұрын

Stu VS I'd MUCH rather see Mitch

@Em22-wtf 6 жыл бұрын

💖💖 Mitch!!!

@bmx2026 6 жыл бұрын

Lol hedbergs would be great. " I bought an ant farm, them fellas didn't grow shit!"

@kamuelalee 5 жыл бұрын

Bill Hicks!

@brotherwoo 8 жыл бұрын

Great channel!

@OleanderRainbow 2 жыл бұрын

Is it bad that I find Thompson's voice soothingly nonchalant? I ask as I'm aware it's creepy to say this about the voice of the deceased but at the same time. There's an ere of chaotic calm to it.