Hunter S. Thompson speaking at UCLA 2/24/1984
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- From the archives of the UCLA Campus Events Commission. Digitized 2015.
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He will be read in 100 years. The man was a great writer. A great communicator. A truth teller.
@Centipede389 Greg Olear substack.Zev Shalev are two that come to mind.
Like Aristotle.
The guy laughing at 29 min is probably the hitchhiker from fear and loathing.
Lol he really does sound like Tobey McGuire! Keen observation!
"We've had bad luck in the middle-east." Boy, that understatement is aging finely...
The world hasn't changed much in 33 years. Well there's a certain comfort in that. At least for those of us in gambling.
Gonzo😮!
I love how you can hear the ice clinking in what I can only assume is a glass of Wild Turkey.
Theodore Riordan its chivas
Theodore Riordan yeah i know hes kentuckiyan
It is actually Chivas, however I'm not certain if the ice was rolled in chlorophyll this time.
Who really cares chivas Isis most likely
Hunter S for president
A natural comedian - love hearing his thoughts in this form
I Miss Hunter Thompson a lot! Id love to Hear what he would say about the state of our Country and All The censorship today. They dont make em like this Anymore. RIP GONZO✊
I concur. God I miss him. A gonzo genius. Long live the legacy of HST.
We need him today!😮
Closest we ever get like a HST podcast
Holy shit, thank you so much for this upload!!!
I've had, since 1984, an audience recording of this from my old pal Jim Lombardi (who was attending UCLA film grad school at the time). This version is so much clearer - but the audience version still has its charms if only to hear the audience reactions & laughter. It was a great time to be an HST fan.
This is great. Wish there were more of them available.
THE CRAZY NEVER FUCKING DIE!
Thank you brilliant.
Some may never live, but the crazy never die...HST
Sometimes the Crazy just Fry. :D :)
It's actually IN REFERENCE to the "great brown buffalo", "some are too strange to live and other to weird to die"
I had just turned 14 at the time of this recording...
On this day upcoming my 53rd, this Mensch amongst mensies still rings BIG.
MLLH&R
🇺🇸💪💚💪🇺🇸
I pray that I let you down, not...
I was bang on 4 months old when this masterpiece was presented to the world
I was minus 12 years old
I was 2 months and 24 days old and more or less 9.371 km (or 5 822 mi) away... and I am deeply thankful for this gem! Whoever was smart enough to record it, well done, indeed... The good thing about this strange voyeurism around this stupid JD/AH-trial - my useless procrastination and bad habits of spending to much time floating (in the internet) instead of swimming (in real life) at least made me remember how much I love Hunter S. Thompson. Thanks youtube, I hate you, but I love you for this!
I can only imagine the extent he would go to to wow the world one last time... one more fear and loathing but completely new.. i love to imagine that at least
This is excellent 💊💊💊💊💊Thanks for posting!
27:45
Great question, even better answer!
Could you just imagine .....2022? The man would be even more epic. Nobody has the balls Hunter had the world of journalism is lost now.
I know. Hunter on trump would be magic . Hunter hated incompetence and arrogance .
Little apple love you David s Thompson
Absolutely HILARIOUS!!!!
Yes he wouldn't be invited to speak at UCLA today. But boy is this golden.
Aaron C he probably would be, plenty of controversial people have been invited before
When has he said disgusting misogynistic drivel or racist nonsense like your alt-right heroes? He hasn’t. He would be absolutely invited.
He would be censored today.
@@marknewton6984 no he wouldn’t
Legend
His outlook is cute. If only he was alive in 2022...
He wouldn't be allowed to speak at UCLA today.
sad but true
yep ain't PC great
If that were true they wouldn't have dug it out of their own archives to post it. Lazy logic, my man.
so you doubt PC has ruined academia today.
that wasnt a question. that was a statement, dont make statements about people you dont know.
Whatever went wrong with UCLA, such a shame.
Dr.Thompson is an icon
I don't think He understood what he did for writing , culture, and art, genius
Wtf wrong with almost all recordings, can’t hear anything. This is only one, that i have now found
Wow! When you think of where Damascus and even the rest of Syria is now...
Referring to 20:00
I get a contact high everytime i hear that man speak.
How can a Communication school not have video of this event?
This audio recording was provided to us by ASUCLA. Video technology was a lot more expensive than audio technology in 1984, unfortunately.
SRSLY COMPLAINING?? It is here, be grateful, WTF? Imagine there would have been video but no audio! Eeeh? Just kidding, sorry! Have a nice life! And LISTEN carefully! ;)
@@UCLACommStudies Well thank you anyway, it was an amazing listen!
Wow that announcer was brutal for the 3 seconds I heard her while trying to skip her
He should have got sober when he turned 40. Even earlier actually, like 35, his writing was already suffering by 1972.
How many ppl are planning to vote?
Sad only half. Hunter loved America. Vote!
I'm will be doing for the first i com to get to the point where it will take place on my own personal space to be honest with you guys l
He knew what he was talking about. I wish he could see it now... Obama, Hillary and Trump.
Insomniac LOL he thought Mondale was a good idea...
A balloon stretched out on a thin coat hanger frame. The twisted faces of disorderous and maniacal lizards. The goddamn animals.
I hope to God he faked his death please Hunter if you're alive give us a sign
he probably would like trump
@@ElChamanPirata no.... he wouldn't. But he wouldn't like biden either.
That "guy" is Toby Maguire!
At the beginning of the video, I was surprised by how high pitched and feminine Hunter S. Thompson's voice was. Good thing it eventually went back to his normal pitch after a bit, or else that would have been very annoying.
Evan Greenbaum, profound.
@@cmhardin37 profound indeed 😳
Not worry about I'm will get it done by the end
I wonder if students today would even welcome him? I love hst. Everything he writes about Nixon could easily translate to trump.
Hey thanks for making sure the volume was startlingly loud ! Jesus what is the point in anything being that loud?
Josh Pelton quite a few of these have such low sound quality you'd have a better time trying to hear someone whispering in the middle of NYC
It actually sounds good on my p.o.s. phone
For us old folks who actually grew up with Hunter S Thompson. We had our eardrums destroyed listening to all that rock and roll at full volume.
Oh wait he's talking Reagan?
Sad it ended with just silliness. When was so on point at the start. Really bad and if it was my clup id have ended it cut short after a point. Not a sex with a vegetable question. Had they listened it was exactly what he said instead of allowing last 2 questions to be dumb.
FUck these SLow MOVING pictures in videos when tripping LOL
4 more years of Reagan led to w Bush then trump and hst saw it coming
He didn't see shit.
@@redwatch1100 I think he saw a lot of shit, he's familiar with each grain of shit of he's generation
He wasn’t kind to Billy boy Clinton either. I’m a Charlie Rose interview after the Johnny Depp move came out, Thompson said Clinton ran all the good politicians out.
you got your timeline up the shitters. moron
Generic American female introduction, but it works so nobody complains
Hunter speaking about Joe today! 😱
The left has moved closer to Reagan while the new right coming up now are condemning Reagan.
Strange times we are in.
50:37 xD
all the bros' cheering is really annoying.
Sorry I am about to have my video banned in four countries... North Korea, Iran, Syria and Cuba, I believe... I think North Korea and Cuba are one of the good countries though. Something hints in this direction... Though I am unsure of the details. And this fact is very bad. I would like to be in the position of making fun of Iran and Syria. Syria mostly. Iran too, but Syria mostly! Or somewhere around that area. In some reasonably huge "unpopulated" area around that area.
Trudeau.......lol
I hope he was drinking and smoking.
Boring rambling, made worse by his rough voice and poor enunciation in front of a fawning crowd that was easily amused.
Elaborate, please.
But he talks about cocaine
@@carlboudreaux not well unfortunately
But understand this was '84 people, he was still semi-human.....
I think he blew up too many propane tanks or something. No wonder he was deaf he shot and blew up everything he could!!!
What bug crawled up your butt? Or r u simply deaf and
Dumm at the same time?
I would love to hear his stance on the.. Biden Administration, it wouldn't be pretty! No hold's barred' (The PC police would try to silence him), but the attempt would be futile. " Other than at UCLA that is.
I don't think this man would have nice things to say about any president really. He saw them for what they were before most people today were even born.
After the corruption, incompetence and criminality of the Orange Turd, and the ongoing insanity and fascism of the RepublCONs, Hunter wouldn't be wasting his ink on Biden, he would still be annihilating right wingers.
I mean yeah Hunter would definitely take it to Biden and Trump and the whole establishment… I mean my god the dude liked McGovern of all people - probably the most left-wing presidential candidate since Eugene Debs
Incomprehensible word salad, reminds me of a stoned Joe Biden.
The guy knew what he was saying Pappy. He was a much needed entity then; we need him even more now. People are afraid of Biden - is it because he is actually trying to help the people of this country, and of others, as well? Unlike his idiot predecessor. That was a washed up entertainer for you.
I’m from Kentucky, and can understand every syllable of his mumbles.
my favorite was his solute to the fascists in the crowd, what the F
Listen harder
Unlike biden he doesn't tell people what they wanna here.An hunter doesn't need anyone writing his speeches for him.An if you weren't as def as a pappy you could hear him.