Hunter S. Thompson on Letterman, 11/25/88

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  • Thompson rambles about the '88 election.

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  • @minduniverse4506
    @minduniverse4506 Před 4 lety +978

    -Dave: “ What are you doing?”
    -Hunter: “ I don’t know, man.”
    I felt that.

  • @jsizzle7608
    @jsizzle7608 Před 3 lety +257

    It's amazing how Johnny Depp absolutely nailed his voice and mannerisms.

    • @captainofmysoul6162
      @captainofmysoul6162 Před 2 lety +6

      he is a vampire in the Luciferian brotherhood system

    • @QuestionmarkTimes2
      @QuestionmarkTimes2 Před 2 lety +10

      @@captainofmysoul6162 you got maggots inside your head brother. It's not good for ya

    • @cathsrq
      @cathsrq Před 2 lety +4

      It's like channeling.... It makes me very uncomfortable like Fear and Loathing did.. I felt "dirty".. something "possessed"

    • @saythankyou111
      @saythankyou111 Před 2 lety

      Sheesh..ruff crowd….who’s a lucif..

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 Před 2 lety +8

      Love that film. Depp and Benecio Del Torro were amazing! 😎👍

  • @Hellen_Erth_
    @Hellen_Erth_ Před 4 lety +603

    Imagine dr.thompson and ozzy having a conversation

  • @jmclark841
    @jmclark841 Před 8 lety +890

    "If you're innocent you can do anything. " Boom.

    • @saibot1221
      @saibot1221 Před 6 lety +10

      lmfao i read this comment just as he said it. fucking cool.

    • @ace_Knows
      @ace_Knows Před 6 lety +3

      saibot Wow.. Me too..

    • @kylej.whitehead-music309
      @kylej.whitehead-music309 Před 5 lety +25

      That's called freedom. If you can't be free when you're innocent then you might as well be guilty of something. That might partly explain the crime rate in chicago.

    • @henriaho2271
      @henriaho2271 Před 5 lety

      True.

    • @larsonracies8636
      @larsonracies8636 Před 4 lety +2

      Not after 9/11 oops

  • @antonivsa3282
    @antonivsa3282 Před 10 lety +315

    "As your attorney" I advise you to take a hit of coke and go on letterman with your goddamn riffle!!!!!

    • @zepourriable
      @zepourriable Před 4 lety +3

      Several hits of coke*

    • @joeekaps5840
      @joeekaps5840 Před 4 lety +2

      @@zepourriable dam ,probably crack the way he's tweaking

    • @the_original_Bilb_Ono
      @the_original_Bilb_Ono Před 2 lety +2

      @@joeekaps5840 Hunter was like this sober. Alcohol is the biggest reason for his slurred speech. Hes naturally a manic and animated person.

  • @balzonurchin
    @balzonurchin Před 9 lety +1565

    Hunter needs subtitles.

    • @reidrichter1676
      @reidrichter1676 Před 7 lety +85

      It's the coke

    • @bobbyrutts
      @bobbyrutts Před 7 lety +19

      Turn them on.

    • @hexus9198
      @hexus9198 Před 5 lety +10

      Those would be some good subtitles😂😂😂

    • @waynegale9926
      @waynegale9926 Před 5 lety +67

      I think he makes it so you can only hear & understand him if you like him. Otherwise, you just hear mumbles and forget he exists. Pretty effective way of filtering out people who won't be relevant to you, maybe.

    • @cleverprofilename2312
      @cleverprofilename2312 Před 5 lety +23

      @@waynegale9926 you just blew my mind. I can understand him perfectly when he speaks, and I know where's he's going almost always. His mind is so much faster than his mouth, but I can hear it. Hard to explain 😂

  • @keithgreenan3177
    @keithgreenan3177 Před 3 lety +77

    Back when he was in his early thirties he did an interview and spoke with perfect clarity. You can see the effect of drugs and alcohol on him

    • @shawnwillis767
      @shawnwillis767 Před 2 lety +9

      And your point is.. this is who he was

    • @Czechbound
      @Czechbound Před 2 lety +19

      @@shawnwillis767 I think his point is clear. "You can see the effect of drugs and alcohol on him". What part of that don't you understand ?

    • @unclefido6484
      @unclefido6484 Před 2 lety

      Adrenocrome is the drug that he sold his soul forever for! Him and the bush family are of the same satanic order! They been to the Bohemian Grove together uncountable times!

    • @swisscheeseplease97
      @swisscheeseplease97 Před 2 lety +18

      @@Czechbound yeah it’s sad. But he lived his life on his own terms. Did what he wanted. Behaved how he wanted. There’s something very freeing and brave about that

    • @MrOctober44
      @MrOctober44 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@shawnwillis767His point was pretty clear.

  • @bluntrapture
    @bluntrapture Před 10 lety +250

    "What are you doing?"
    "I don't know, man."

  • @verve92
    @verve92 Před 10 lety +456

    Shows how much Johnny Depp NAILED the part!

  • @Gunz2quik
    @Gunz2quik Před 5 lety +186

    "Hes on this"
    "No hes on that"
    I think we can all agree he was on all of it

    • @tonyiommi2380
      @tonyiommi2380 Před 4 lety +2

      I don't know if he was on all of ti, but he was certainly on something

    • @alexniederhauser8562
      @alexniederhauser8562 Před 3 lety +11

      “What are you planning on doing this weekend.”
      “All of it.”

    • @iLitAfuseiCantStop
      @iLitAfuseiCantStop Před 2 lety +5

      My guess was coke. It tends to numb the sinuses & upper soft palette which can make ones voice sound like that. Also the even sort of rushed tone he’s speaking in. But that’s just my opinion.

    • @karnagefails333
      @karnagefails333 Před 2 lety +1

      Acid, coke, Chivas.

    • @bdemar2k12
      @bdemar2k12 Před 2 lety +4

      You can't really tell what drugs people are on unless you know them well and what they are like sober

  • @chrisgrandpre6063
    @chrisgrandpre6063 Před 3 lety +18

    Letterman: Your making me nervous
    Thompson: Your calming me down

  • @Staylogical
    @Staylogical Před 2 lety +24

    He's sort of a journalistic Keith Richards.They're both so good at what they do,and their heart is in the right place,everything else can be put aside.

    • @soldierofgod349
      @soldierofgod349 Před 2 lety

      Huuuuhhh??? Do some research he was a peado

    • @sugardaddy4714
      @sugardaddy4714 Před 2 lety

      Hunter was a bona fide weirdo. Keef only plays at being one... He's a shrewd capitalist and milked that Rock'n'roll rebel bullshit for all it's worth. That's why only one survived.

    • @killbill5477
      @killbill5477 Před 2 lety

      Keith Richards heart is in the right place? Lol. And the winner for the most ignorant, uneducated comment is......you!!!!

  • @ShutUpCatProductions
    @ShutUpCatProductions Před 11 lety +98

    “We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.”

  • @TheJhathcock
    @TheJhathcock Před 12 lety +97

    "The most accurate and least factual reporter working today" Letterman's writers were genius.

    • @zpridgen75
      @zpridgen75 Před 2 lety +16

      That was not his writers. They have called HST that since 1970.

    • @F3rn4nd0S1lv4
      @F3rn4nd0S1lv4 Před 2 lety +2

      @@zpridgen75 it just enhances both the merit and the cause for that phrase.
      At the end, Thompson attitude is what must be praised, is that what made everything else "real" around him

    • @F3rn4nd0S1lv4
      @F3rn4nd0S1lv4 Před 2 lety

      I mean, the "mistake" made by our mate here is more right than a lot of "real" and "true" I see today

    • @F3rn4nd0S1lv4
      @F3rn4nd0S1lv4 Před 2 lety

      choose your reality and choke on it, whatever

    • @shaheer151
      @shaheer151 Před rokem +1

      There is more truth in HST's writings than in the so called journalists works.

  • @PsychoTropica
    @PsychoTropica Před 10 lety +149

    "a raccoon is a weird animal" - lol, classic Hunter S. Thompson :D

  • @rockstar557I
    @rockstar557I Před 6 lety +31

    I am also from Kentucky and I can understand every word a lot of people talk like that here

    • @deltahomicide9300
      @deltahomicide9300 Před 4 lety +5

      Blake Miller Probably because half the population of Ky is drunk by noon

  • @MrMunive
    @MrMunive Před 11 lety +59

    "In a closed society where everybody´s guilty, the only crime is getting caught, In a worldof thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
    -Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and loathing in Las Vegas.

  • @TheDailyConversation
    @TheDailyConversation Před 15 lety +64

    Just finished 'Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail' and I highly recommend it. Great read.

  • @QuestionmarkTimes2
    @QuestionmarkTimes2 Před 2 lety +31

    Imagine going for a hike and stumbling upon this legend.

    • @christinamathers8797
      @christinamathers8797 Před 2 lety +1

      A child rapist and torturer/murderer is a legend to you???? You're sick

    • @QuestionmarkTimes2
      @QuestionmarkTimes2 Před 2 lety

      @@christinamathers8797 Either cite your sources or shut your rotten mouth.

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 Před 2 lety

      Imagine going on a hike with the legend. Both, 'stumbling'. Lol.

    • @MultiLisa10
      @MultiLisa10 Před 2 lety

      He'd consider fair game and hunt you down

    • @charlesruffing5606
      @charlesruffing5606 Před 2 lety +1

      Wrong... He murdered children for adrenochrome

  • @begpard
    @begpard Před 3 lety +26

    This man is flying high during this interview!! What an amazing author and man throughout his entire trip

  • @Some.Canadian
    @Some.Canadian Před 11 lety +23

    The film is easily one of the BEST book to film adaptations I have seen. That being said, I think the book is the best way to understand Hunter's mind. A must read book.

  • @orcanimal
    @orcanimal Před 12 lety +14

    Seeing this makes me understand even more how good an actor Johnny Depp is, because he played him exactly the same way, down to how he actually moves, speaks etc.

  • @ChaseK004
    @ChaseK004 Před 10 lety +111

    Wow .. after watching this interview... I realize how much Johnny Depp actually sounded like Hunter T. in the movie ..

    • @libertylovingbeckles6797
      @libertylovingbeckles6797 Před 3 lety +1

      Well they were best friends and Johnny made sure Hunter got the funeral he wanted... literally fired out of a cannon.

  • @shotbvevan
    @shotbvevan Před 4 lety +91

    The entire video I was anticipating him lighting the cigarette and it just never happened.

    • @Meyzen76
      @Meyzen76 Před 4 lety +12

      Evan He lights it right before the departing handshake.

    • @shotbvevan
      @shotbvevan Před 4 lety +2

      Meyzen76 hahah that’s amazing!

  • @BlantonDelbert
    @BlantonDelbert Před 10 lety +43

    I've read a lot of writers. Just finished Fear and Loathing. Now going to read Hells Angels. HST is up there with Steinbeck and Faulkner, although no English prof will say so.

  • @user-qt5eh9wb7g
    @user-qt5eh9wb7g Před 3 lety +10

    By the time Dave says "Finish the story Hunter", I'm already lost, lol. Awesome interview.

  • @fkylw
    @fkylw Před 4 lety +47

    "Someday you'll have enough time, we'll have a serious talk" He's truly a kind and gentle man.

    • @marcoslaureano5562
      @marcoslaureano5562 Před 3 lety +4

      Idk too many people ever got that about him.

    • @libertylovingbeckles6797
      @libertylovingbeckles6797 Před 3 lety +3

      🤨🤔 Hunter Thompson was a lot of things to a lot of people and the vast majority do NOT think he was kind.

    • @fkylw
      @fkylw Před 3 lety +2

      @@libertylovingbeckles6797 You're just plain wrong about that. You either haven't read his books, letters from family and friends, or are just speaking out of your ass.

    • @Kit1128
      @Kit1128 Před 2 lety

      Anything but kind. Implemented in filming snuff films of children and right when the info came out, they suicided him. He likes to kill, that's exactly right

    • @charlesruffing5606
      @charlesruffing5606 Před 2 lety

      Wrong... He murdered children for adrenochrome.

  • @MerrickMyfr
    @MerrickMyfr Před 9 lety +300

    I honestly can't make out half the words he's saying. And I'm someone who speaks considerably fast. This said, I can now see that Johnny Depp portrayed this guy to the T.

    • @CloudyShinobi
      @CloudyShinobi Před 9 lety +28

      Ikr, it's not that he's speaking too quickly, it's that he seems resigned to perpetually mumble every word that escapes his lips...

    • @lamecoporations6859
      @lamecoporations6859 Před 8 lety +4

      +Julestags did you see Bill Muray portray Hunter ?

    • @SpongeBath_ShitPants
      @SpongeBath_ShitPants Před 7 lety +6

      In one of his CBC interviews, he mentions that he actually does have a speech impediment.

    • @jacobaguilar6756
      @jacobaguilar6756 Před 5 lety +2

      I feel honestly that johnny over did it doing drugs like this doesnt make you do this its part of a persona ive always believed for hunter and dont get me wrong was wild yes but not to that extreme

    • @sscctt
      @sscctt Před 5 lety

      Jacob Aguilar jesus in this interview he can barely talk from being so numb

  • @milllumine2246
    @milllumine2246 Před 8 lety +665

    Wow you could take a gun on a plane in '88. Now you can't even take a bottle of shampoo

    • @nickchiechi677
      @nickchiechi677 Před 8 lety +29

      My father tells me stories of kids bringing guns on the subway in NYC when he was young because they had rifle teams at school.

    • @Maverick_Van_Traveller
      @Maverick_Van_Traveller Před 7 lety +27

      Here in PA, in the '60s, it was not uncommon for kids to bring their hunting rifles to school and keep them in their lockers. They were allowed to leave school early to hunt, as long as they had a permit.

    • @DumbVidsIMadeForAlex
      @DumbVidsIMadeForAlex Před 7 lety +55

      You can travel with an unloaded gun in your checked baggage to this day

    • @majesticmicrobes60
      @majesticmicrobes60 Před 7 lety +8

      You can being an unloaded gun into a plane.

    • @Snaakie83
      @Snaakie83 Před 7 lety +6

      whitestone sea commando Brigades Little by little, shooting by shooting...murder after murder, accident after accident. Yeah...they really took away your freedom.

  • @davidofpiano423
    @davidofpiano423 Před 11 lety +14

    Wow, I can't believe how accurate Johnny Depp's portrayal of Thompson is... just amazing.

  • @rcredmon
    @rcredmon Před 5 lety +9

    Everyone talks about Johnny Depp's portrayal of HST, but you all need to watch Where the Buffalo roam with Bill Murray and Peter Boyle. It's pretty great.

  • @cyberpunkholiday
    @cyberpunkholiday Před 7 lety +41

    If someone acted this way today...nobody would get it. They would bash.

    • @meyakabrown795
      @meyakabrown795 Před 3 lety +3

      Gotta be PC these days. It's depressing. 😒

  • @letsjump1996
    @letsjump1996 Před 11 lety +19

    "never let the truth stand in the way of a good story"

  • @mahabigarcia
    @mahabigarcia Před 13 lety +6

    i love this man he is not a role model but a person i look up to, in the sense that he was tough and he spoke his mind, i also read all his books =)

  • @SlowRide723
    @SlowRide723 Před 5 lety +275

    What kind of drugs are you on?
    Hunter: Yes

  • @rockcitycards2993
    @rockcitycards2993 Před 4 lety +7

    Johnny depp did an amazing job portraying this dude. I love Hunter S Thompson. Ive read a couple of his books. Currently reading "the curse of lono" pretty good so far.

  • @ethanwynsma
    @ethanwynsma Před 12 lety +25

    "What are you doing?"
    "I dunno man"
    This guy is a legend.

  • @JPeezyPeez
    @JPeezyPeez Před 12 lety +13

    Such an incredible person. Not only as a writer but as a human being.
    He in a way, broke the mold society has shaped around us. He realized things I have never understood before. His mind and soul were too much for this world to handle I believe.
    You can almost feel his constant anxiety in this video though.
    Sadly it seems he was a tortured soul throughout his life...all that anger, but so brilliant...

    • @rudy103069
      @rudy103069 Před rokem +1

      you didnt hear him at the begining ask David if he didnt want to talk about killing? he hunted people for fun.

    • @91kitson90
      @91kitson90 Před rokem +1

      ​@@rudy103069was it roy or rusty nelson who was one of the photographers involved in the Franklin Scandal of who took Johnny Gosch, name Hunter S ..

  • @jjsiegal1
    @jjsiegal1 Před 10 lety +226

    History has shown Most Geniuses are Unbalanced. They have their moments of Brilliance....but the rest of their life's can be completely irrational.

    • @5GCHEMTRAILVACCINESFORBATS
      @5GCHEMTRAILVACCINESFORBATS Před 10 lety +12

      john doe And demonic possession is called schizophrenia

    • @TDghf
      @TDghf Před 7 lety +5

      jjsiegal1 he's fucked up

    • @miskatonic_alumni
      @miskatonic_alumni Před 7 lety +3

      D13 Watchmen Demons don't exist. Neither does possession, unless you have actual proof.

    • @jackkelly4519
      @jackkelly4519 Před 6 lety +8

      you can say the same about most non-geniuses. the genius get noticed

    • @Dyadactic
      @Dyadactic Před 6 lety +5

      D13 Watchmen I'm a "demon possessed person."
      Sometimes it does feel literal, but demons as a metaphor is what most (including myself) prefer.

  • @trenttalley924
    @trenttalley924 Před 4 lety +5

    The way Hunter talks he would be perfect in podcast format

  • @dharmabeachbum6330
    @dharmabeachbum6330 Před 11 lety +3

    In his own crazy way, Hunter really cared about this country. He stuck his neck out in his endless, amusing pursuit of protecting our civil rights, pushing the government relentlessly to ease up on the oppression stuff. I love this man. And, yes, Johnny Depp was brilliant in his portrayal of him in Fear and Loathing. I haven't seen Rum Diary yet, but I will. I still feel your energy, Hunter.

  • @ambroseaz
    @ambroseaz Před 6 lety +9

    he said, "We could take a poll here" and I spit coffee out of my nose. Damn I miss Hunter S. Thompson.

  • @johnembree476
    @johnembree476 Před 4 lety +5

    I was just glad to see that he was paid the proper respect he deserves by Dave and the audience.He was a great and kind and incredibly talented man.Truly one of a kind.

  • @emersonkelly9654
    @emersonkelly9654 Před 4 lety +53

    This mans pulse at this moment must've been over 200

    • @BobRobie1
      @BobRobie1 Před 3 lety +4

      The guy probably did a eight of coke a day

  • @gtrrs71
    @gtrrs71 Před 13 lety +10

    His diction sounds so much like a typewriter. I might be crazy but listening to Dr. Thompson speak is very soothing to me. Man, I miss him. Thanks for posting!

  • @ole-mortenkristiansen5462
    @ole-mortenkristiansen5462 Před 10 lety +38

    "If you are innocent you can do anything"

  • @mctommed8604
    @mctommed8604 Před 9 lety +48

    Wow. Im thinking about johny depps performance in fear and loathing in las vegas. He really nailed it big time. Its like they are the same person

    • @KCNYC
      @KCNYC Před 4 lety +1

      Nah, they just did the same drugs

    • @jughead390
      @jughead390 Před 3 lety

      Depp was good friend with him. His ashes were actually fired out of a cannon on Depp's Yacht

  • @TTony-tu6dm
    @TTony-tu6dm Před rokem +4

    Only letterman had the balls to put Hunter Thompson on tv

  • @demonsigotsome
    @demonsigotsome Před 12 lety +12

    if you want to understand him read his books hes a genius

  • @MarkDice
    @MarkDice Před 12 lety +143

    "I've been to HIl Billy" means the HIll Billy camp within the Bohemian Grove, FYI.

    • @tobybayliss137
      @tobybayliss137 Před 6 lety +12

      mark dice = legend

    • @stony1258
      @stony1258 Před 6 lety +4

      Tool

    • @MrStacey1983
      @MrStacey1983 Před 6 lety +6

      Is that were the killing went on?

    • @christurnblom4825
      @christurnblom4825 Před 6 lety +4

      Clean Guy
      It's too difficult to decipher on this version. We'd need a cleaner copy. I turned up my EQ & went over it 20+ times. I don't think we'd get anything more conclusive even if we looked at the waveform, the quality is just too poor.
      Still, considering that they were talking about George H.W. Bush and considering that H.S.T. has been spotted at Hillbilly, I'm inclined to lean towards Dice's assertion until I have a better recording.

    • @smokefree08
      @smokefree08 Před 6 lety +4

      Chris Turnblom thank you, Detective Turnblom.

  • @JK-lm7jv
    @JK-lm7jv Před 3 lety +7

    “do you get up early and write?”
    “well yes, I do write early in the morning”
    ...

  • @derekfrank2067
    @derekfrank2067 Před 5 lety +48

    hes wearing the same shirt from the interview he gave in 1978

  • @ninateo4371
    @ninateo4371 Před 12 lety +8

    i had never seen hunter so far. After seeing this video, i can confirm my idea that johnny depp is the best actor in the world! johnny in fear and loathing is identical in every moment and expression to hunter! AMAZING!!

    • @annalisavajda252
      @annalisavajda252 Před rokem

      I think he's also from Kentucky and he lived with Hunter at owl farm for months shot guns drank drugs probably too so that's why his portrayal was so accurate.

  • @elmanitasdeplomo
    @elmanitasdeplomo Před 9 lety +744

    He's coked out of his mind.

    • @alinktoth389
      @alinktoth389 Před 6 lety +23

      litterally

    • @Ladderthief1
      @Ladderthief1 Před 6 lety +58

      Did you see the one about his daily drug activity? Basically weed, coke and a bottle of booze all day.

    • @wyyclef
      @wyyclef Před 6 lety +23

      That's why he's licking constantly

    • @carmelitaolsen5672
      @carmelitaolsen5672 Před 6 lety +16

      +wyyclef It could be.
      It can also be some sort of tic.
      My uncle had face tics and never did drugs.

    • @Danimal77
      @Danimal77 Před 6 lety

      literally*

  • @rishdog100
    @rishdog100 Před 3 lety +2

    Can't believe how great Jonny Depp did playing HST...
    Truly great job , his mannerisms body movements ..
    Spot on..

  • @YZF750R
    @YZF750R Před 10 lety +66

    Hunter S seems to be one of the most honest people I've seen

    • @sharedmemories3729
      @sharedmemories3729 Před 3 lety

      @@aliceshaw8265 ...why?

    • @sharedmemories3729
      @sharedmemories3729 Před 3 lety

      @@aliceshaw8265 I mean fair enough but there's a certain honesty to him also. Didn't beat around the bush usually. His writing is fictitious but he seems like an honest guy, doesn't seem like he'd bullshit people. Didn't ask you innocently why you thought he was dishonest, asked you why you called someone an idiot, the answer to that's a little more complicated

    • @sharedmemories3729
      @sharedmemories3729 Před 3 lety

      @@aliceshaw8265 been there done that

    • @GUSX4NMAN
      @GUSX4NMAN Před 3 lety

      @@aliceshaw8265 can't handle having a sample conversation with someone? Lmao you're a pussy

    • @CDplayerrr
      @CDplayerrr Před 3 lety +1

      @@sharedmemories3729 this is random, but I like your taste in music. You seem like a really cool person

  • @sandroangelodt
    @sandroangelodt Před 4 lety +37

    "...the most accurate and least factual reporter working today."

  • @MrReddog13
    @MrReddog13 Před 12 lety +3

    I was little but I remember my dad cheering and yelling in the livingroom because Hunter was on got me staarted on his books when I was old enough. Best auther ever, we miss u brother.

  • @stevelantz4460
    @stevelantz4460 Před 8 lety +20

    Dude might have been insane, but he was also smart, creative, and funny

    • @Tony-yg6bz
      @Tony-yg6bz Před 6 lety +3

      Steve Lantz what is sanity

    • @queroemigrar4154
      @queroemigrar4154 Před 2 lety

      Just did weird stuff so he said weird stuff. Pedo Satanists are like that

    • @shawnwillis767
      @shawnwillis767 Před 2 lety +1

      We’re all insane👇🏻😂🙈
      He was very functional👇🏻👇🏻

    • @charlesruffing5606
      @charlesruffing5606 Před 2 lety

      Wrong... He murdered children for adrenochrome

    • @natantataii8195
      @natantataii8195 Před 11 měsíci

      He was as far from insane you could possible get. To follow on the most accruate, least factual "train".. From his haze of booze and drugs he was clear as a day. Taking his life is a hard one, but that was a decision he made decades before it happened. People would attribute it to the booze/drugs, but with this man it was the other way around. The booze and drugs was a risk against him killing himself. His clarity made him carry it out. He was a very special man, you must read alot of him to understand who this wild cat was. I Love America and HST is for me the country embodied in one single person. From him I got to understand the USA from Montana, to Kentucky, via Texas to Florida. Greetings from Europe.

  • @positivepotato6765
    @positivepotato6765 Před rokem +9

    Rest in peace hunter. Thank you for everything

  • @Skyhawk7040
    @Skyhawk7040 Před 12 lety +10

    I didn't understand a word this man said but I still laughed my ass off.

  • @vutEwa
    @vutEwa Před 6 lety +9

    "You dont wanna talk about killing humans, do you?" Amazing. Rewind replay rewind replay

    • @ro55reel5
      @ro55reel5 Před 3 lety

      Brilliant

    • @fuzzydan4544
      @fuzzydan4544 Před 2 lety +1

      It's amazing how people think that snuff film maker of a 12 year old boy in the bohemian Grove forest was a good guy. The public has no idea what that devil really was. If anyone ever researched the Franklin cover ups. They know a hell of a lot of stuff about many politicians etc. And here is that SOB saying he likes to kill. Thank God hes dead.

    • @leonrififi3543
      @leonrififi3543 Před 2 lety +1

      @@fuzzydan4544 All the “snuff film” claims have literally no evidence and all the sources are these dodgy websites from 20 years ago

  • @S7EVE_P
    @S7EVE_P Před 6 lety +2

    In the 90s I spent several summers like this....Hunter spent his life like this. *Legend* and seems like a nice guy too

  • @larryhovekamp4318
    @larryhovekamp4318 Před 3 lety +4

    Only David Letterman can interview Hunter Thompson.

  • @appidydafoo
    @appidydafoo Před 2 lety +3

    8 minutes of trying to light a cigarette, only succeeding in the last 10 seconds 😅

  • @Bawsack121
    @Bawsack121 Před 7 lety +17

    johnny depp plays him so well holy shit

    • @seurynck
      @seurynck Před 6 lety +1

      steeelo = Check out Bill Murray as Hunter in Where The Buffalo Roam

  • @kgoodridge1
    @kgoodridge1 Před 2 lety +2

    David is obviously very nervous around Thompson

  • @joebutera1406
    @joebutera1406 Před 5 lety +4

    An incredible man..totally knew how to work with what he was given..A mind set ahead of its time that won't slow down in the slightest..and he capitalised off it...

  • @urignorant88
    @urignorant88 Před 14 lety +4

    i respect this man im reading the life and times of hunter and i think he is an extraordinary man the way he is remembered by people and put such a life to everything and his will to do what he pleases i mean other than some of his antics pertaining to his wife he was a very peculiar individual

  • @alejandrocurado5134
    @alejandrocurado5134 Před 2 lety +4

    He is in a different dimension throughout the whole interview

  • @kingrick5494
    @kingrick5494 Před 8 lety +134

    Is this the voice actor who plays Boomhauer on King of the Hill?

  • @suetipping4841
    @suetipping4841 Před 3 lety

    Woody Creek, outside of Aspen Colo. Woody Creek Tavern sat down in a gully, more or less, on the left side of the road. I don't recall if the road was dirt or paved. Drive past the Tavern and up aways was a road to the right, really a lane. And on that lane was where Thompson lived in Woody Creek. I stayed in Woody Creek, a neighbor of Hunter, a few times since I provided business services to a client who also lived on that lane. One morning about 7:30, I walked out of my guest house, headed for breakfast at my client's house. Down the lane from my right walked the tallest, thinnest man I have ever seen. Hunter, attired in a white summer suit and panama hat. Delightful.

  • @jean-claudevan-damme8168
    @jean-claudevan-damme8168 Před 11 lety +39

    Bill Murray did such a great job portraying him in "Where the Buffalo Roam"

  • @AcePilot101
    @AcePilot101 Před 11 lety +11

    "When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro," Hunter S. Thompson.

  • @835Jamie
    @835Jamie Před 9 lety +7

    He said "I'm just a hillbilly, I don't know much about religion, but we share one thing in common, a sense of justice" in reference to his comments about Bush.

  • @heathermurray6776
    @heathermurray6776 Před 2 lety +3

    Dudes high af

  • @sparkletheworm4684
    @sparkletheworm4684 Před rokem +4

    To think he may possibly be the zodiac killer and he's just nonchalantly saying he likes to kill.

  • @ScreaminSavior
    @ScreaminSavior Před 8 lety +4

    You couldn't pick a worse person to interview Hunter S. Thompson. An everyman pandermonkey isn't fit to entertain this caliber of thinker.

  • @binkymagnus
    @binkymagnus Před 11 lety +1

    I love the image of Hunter Thompson and Christopher Hitchens being the yin and yang of the West. You just made my day. Thanks!

  • @redmed10
    @redmed10 Před rokem +2

    How can secret service be aware of what he said ever.

  • @samuelsurgeon8971
    @samuelsurgeon8971 Před 10 lety +354

    Too much Adrenochrome.

    • @trailer.prince
      @trailer.prince Před 6 lety +6

      Sam Surgeon omg right for real tho

    • @jaid2383
      @jaid2383 Před 6 lety +8

      Sam Surgeon "just a teeny, tiny taste"

    • @miabenson1976
      @miabenson1976 Před 6 lety +17

      He loving killing...smh

    • @Azoria4
      @Azoria4 Před 5 lety +12

      He's a killer and an arsehole

    • @MrFartboy79
      @MrFartboy79 Před 5 lety +10

      You took too much man, too much, too much.

  • @holylandfan3275
    @holylandfan3275 Před 4 lety +12

    DAVE:
    I'm going to IGNORE his GIANT injury.

  • @theterminaldave
    @theterminaldave Před 2 lety +2

    There is a 1978 interview where he wears the same shirt

  • @bengalitucktuck
    @bengalitucktuck Před 6 lety +7

    I remember reading the great shark hunt and having to stop and aplaud the greatness of what I was reading. Hunter was a moral giant.

  • @WhispersOfWind
    @WhispersOfWind Před 11 lety +3

    you're calming me down. Epic!

  • @karuna7950
    @karuna7950 Před 2 lety +15

    My heart cries for the abused children...God have their souls

    • @troydee8161
      @troydee8161 Před 2 lety

      What do you mean?

    • @foolishtyrannosaurus3843
      @foolishtyrannosaurus3843 Před 2 lety +2

      I know what you mean it breaks my heart I know that shits goin on. However I don't believe hunter partakes. There is a small percentage of elites that patronize that franchise and I don't think hunters a part of it. Sure he was rich and famous but not quite elite. He's into drugs not fear and torture, just my thoughts on this.

    • @unclefido6484
      @unclefido6484 Před 2 lety +1

      @@foolishtyrannosaurus3843 His drug of choice is adrenocrome. And the Bush's & him are part of the same satanic order! They been to the Bohemian Grove together countless times.

    • @vincentsantiago4156
      @vincentsantiago4156 Před 2 lety

      @@foolishtyrannosaurus3843 i bet you poor bastards still believe in pizzagate

    • @Dilkingt0nne
      @Dilkingt0nne Před 2 lety +1

      This isn’t that adrenochrome bullshit is it?

  • @captainjohn6923
    @captainjohn6923 Před 2 lety +1

    "Flat outta the eye of a beer can and up your daughters leg.."
    - Hells Angels : A Strange And Terrible Saga..H.Thompson..
    🕶️🚬 ...

  • @Brett101792
    @Brett101792 Před 6 lety +1

    Holy shit Johnny did such a good portraying him in FALILV

  • @headcold7250
    @headcold7250 Před 5 lety +3

    Seems like every recorded interview with this man ends with “we’ve run out of time.” Even watching them on a screen I feel like an electric tingle of shocking disappointment and sadness span through the entire studios, I see it in the interviewers faces and hear it in the crowd.
    If just one let him speak and screwed the network timer it would’ve paid for itself times ten....This man had so much more to share with the world than what’s written and that’s a heartbreaking thing.
    His interview with Conan is a perfect representation of this...the interview time is up and after the (foolishly UNANTICIPATED) sidetracking in Thompson’s statements that show how wonderfully expansive his mind was and how he wanted to illustrate his experiences in ways FOR US, he does something rare and points out that the whole thing I’m talking about IS THE KINGDOM OF FEAR

  • @makeit7579
    @makeit7579 Před 5 lety +17

    what's this country coming to when they can get away with sandbagging a doctor of journalism

  • @cardinalcopia9138
    @cardinalcopia9138 Před 3 lety +4

    “What kind of a day do you have” if only HE knew

  • @steverodgers8425
    @steverodgers8425 Před 3 lety

    How epic it would have been to see Thompson interview Brando?
    Making the incomprehensible more incomprehensible

  • @THECOLASISREPORT
    @THECOLASISREPORT Před 13 lety +5

    Hunter had the some of the best ideology I have ever heard and interpreted and was able to tell the most amazing stories with it. You were a great person even in the darkest of light Thompson. May you rest in peace in the freak kingdom

  • @GamesWithBrainz
    @GamesWithBrainz Před 6 lety +9

    "what are you doing?"
    "I don't know man!"

  • @ManInTheBigHat
    @ManInTheBigHat Před 8 lety +2

    Quite the character. We need a few more of him.

  • @harold_Shitmum
    @harold_Shitmum Před 5 lety +7

    I watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas years ago on acid, I didn't know it was based on real events, anyway as you can imagine it was one of the most fucked up trips I've ever had. I think it might of been my last one too.

    • @mateogaleas5502
      @mateogaleas5502 Před 3 lety +2

      Bro i took acid yesterday and fuck I saw fear and loathing in las vegas and holly shit I started feeling horrible and shit worst trip ive e er had but the movie is a masterpiece tho

  • @tryfishin9
    @tryfishin9 Před 11 lety +4

    people sometimes forget Bill Murray portayed Hunter in "Where the buffalo roam" (1980) and did a great job before Johnny in Fear and Loathing.

  • @suzannechristie7753
    @suzannechristie7753 Před 4 lety +4

    "Guns are killing machines, i wouldn't want to use one but it err, comforts you to know that you can" LMAO the most unhinged tv interview ever

  • @tommythompsonsurfer
    @tommythompsonsurfer Před 3 lety +1

    LOADED TO THE MAX....BUT STILL GOOD...SEE TODAY 10-31-2020...HALLOWEEEENEEEENE3!!!! BLESSSS AMERICAN!

  • @penzman
    @penzman Před 7 lety

    Man, if you are not familiar with Thompson, you can really still see Depp in there,. That's how good Depp was at shadowing and studying Thompson when he lived with him in order to do so.