Lol I never realized how good of an impression Johnny Depp did in Fear & Loathing. The personality and giant glasses, I gotta watch that movie again...
Johnny Depp didn't even remotely catch the personality and charisma of Hunter S. Thompson, compared to the way Bill Murray did, in the movie Where the Buffalo Roam, which was 10x better than Depp's movie.
I LOVE watching old interview shows like this. The interviewer LETS the guest speak... it's not rushed or condensed into prefabricated sound bytes. It's how information should be disseminated and important issues discussed. Please bring this sort of chat show back into the fore. Also HST is superb
Three channels ? Here in Britain was 3 channels at that time but I thought even in usa during 70s there was more than that depending on region of course
That kind of honesty and relaxed setting doesn't exist at all in media anymore... its shunned and shamed, frowned down upon.. Its sad, a sick joke really, Hunter seen this all happening before it happened. The collapse of real freedom, the rise of corrupt politicians, its no wonder he decided its time to literally stop, he was a mile ahead of everyone else. I miss that kind of honesty, I think society itself misses it as well.
I think he [Jimmy Carter] is one of the three meanest men I’ve ever met. The other two were Mohammed Ali and Sonny Barter, the president of the Hells Angels. Those three men are a whole cut above everybody else I’ve ever run into in terms of sheer functional meanness. Functional meanness? Yeah, well, meaning the ability to get from A to B, C, M, Z, whatever you want. Carter would have cut my head off to carry North Dakota, cut your legs off to carry a ward in the Bronx, and never apologize for it. He understands the system. That’s why he won. That’s really all I said. I admire that-a person who played the game as well as he did, and in the sort of magnolia shade that he’d played it in for a while. He was perceived as sort of a southern dingbat, but I saw him push Teddy Kennedy around down in Athens and Atlanta. I had never seen Kennedy pushed around anywhere in any room, and I was stunned. I thought “oh-ho.” This was 1974. I thought, “Whoops. This is a bad one. You have to watch him.” And sure enough he announced he was going to run for president four or five months later. When he did, I thought I had to go see him. I thought I should talk to this man. Were you as impressed by his references to Bob Dylan and things as you appeared to be, or were you’re doing another little bit of ibogaine writing? No, what he did in that speech-that I constantly referred to in the article which Rolling Stone did not run, which left me hanging out in some hideous slum-he just seriously whipsawed all these lawyers at the Law Day Alumni Speech, and this wasn’t just the alumni of the University of Georgia Law School. It was the distinguished alumni, Dean Rusk, all of them state senators, judges. He just beat the hell out of them. He had been governor for three and a half years and they had given him a hard time. The whole establishment had been against him and he stomped on them in public. I had never seen a politician do that before, and he just pushed Teddy [Kennedy] aside: “Outta my way. I got work to do. Move aside.” And Kennedy was stunned. I was stunned. I don’t tape politicians’ speeches normally, but about ten minutes into it I went to the car and got my tape recorder because I’d never heard anything like this, and I still haven’t, from Carter, either. But what you’re impressed by is the toughness and the naked... Oh, yeah, he will eat your shoulder right off if he thinks it’s right. Have you changed your original impressions of him since he came to power? No, that’s what I said he was going to do, that’s what he’s doing. He’s just eating Russian shoulders right now instead of Humphreys’.
If you read “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail -1972” you will see the HST had an extremely deep understanding of people and their motives and an ability to parse sections of any situation and lay them out with examples and proof, helping us to see what he saw and learn what he had gleaned from his experiences being around people and their relationships, notably politicians. His writings should be (and maybe are in some places) required reading for any political science course on any level anywhere.
@@LesterBrunt You can't even carry a large amount of cash in your pocket now- let alone be a bald freak and run for Sheriff like Thompson once did. Freedom in this nation is a ship that has long ago sailed.
@PaulTurbo It was the source of his power manifest for all who want to see. He was high priest the cult of Partial Paralysis. Very few people know who took his place. Those that get too close to the t(r)ooth are assimilated rather than destroyed. This organization can best be compared to a siphonophore that drifts through space time and flips betwixt dimensions as though they were pages in a holographic book. This organization is an organism of infinite cloacae, all of which speak in excrement. Only when the upper lip of the head of the colony is still can you begin to understand.
It is a fake trope from 100 years of propaganda that “drugs” are so horrible and you can’t be an actual human if you take drugs etc. Funny how there are barely any problems with drugs that are socially accepted like coffee. Nobody has ever said “John was high on coffee, he was send home because we don’t tolerate drugs on the workplace”. No doctor has ever said “you drink coffee everyday? Time for you to go to a clinic”. It is all anti drug propaganda.
Damn right. His spirit is one of pure brilliance, as is his integrity. The more people who take something like that from this character than movie quotes the better. Jimi Hendrix said something about using your eyes and ears, Hunter is a good example of that in action.
@@ItsFunnyBone ... Ironically Hunter was a writer. I find it ironic because you wrote a sentence using the word "tact", so I have to believe you don't know what the word means. If there is one quality nobody has ever accused Hunter of having it its tact. 😎
Same here. I've seen the movie more than 10 times and I would still have no trouble watching the whole thing again. It's one of my all time favorite movies, especially because of the acting of Johnny Depp. He's so awesome.
Peter Gzowski is the interviewer. He was a great Canadian and a great man. Canadians of a certain age who listened to CBC radio in the morning will have profound nostalgia hearing his voice.
A lot of demons though and not in like some kind of poetic romantic way. Demons are actually horrific in reality. They’re the dregs, they’re the bottom, they’re foul, they’re putrid rotten el huevo del Diablo, they’re vile…
i think that role was my all-timet favorite roll of his. i dont think ive ever seen him so involved and inspired, and i think it did hunter justice, something fantastic wild and awe inspiring to give the last years of his magnificent existence a kick-start into high gear.
That certainly is his public image, but what reason would Thompson have to lie? Also, look at how people looked at Bill Cosby, Ellen Degeneres, and Tom Hanks (Epstein logs) before we knew the truth. Sometimes the darkest people are the best at crafting an entirely different public persona 🤷♂️
I love to read this guy and I find his thoughts interesting, but well... it's maybe because I'm not a native english speaker, but... I really admire how people manage to make out what his says.
+Daichi86 I'm a native English speaker and really struggle to understand what he's saying. It's a pity, because he's often making some clever jokes that everyone misses.
Daichi86 HAHAHA! Not laughing at you. It’s just- I am a native English speaker from New York (I see other native speakers saying they have trouble- people in NY talk INSANELY fast with a thick, thick accent, so maybe that’s why I can understand him easily. Years of practice with fast-talking English speakers and lots and lots of people with foreign accents too, as its New York, for my entire life), and even though I know he speaks strangely, I’ve never imagined what it would be like for those who speak English as a second language. Funny thing is, this is before he turned into a character-version of himself, once Fear and Loathing became truly culturally iconic, and started talking and acting truly crazy, like his character “Duke”(to be fair it was based on him but watch this and then a video ten years later and you’ll see what I mean. He later BECAME “Duke”.)! Anyway, he slurs and talks very fast. He also pauses at weird parts in the sentence.... so I could see how that could throw you off and make you confused about which parts of a phrase should be grouped together.
When he mentions "Ibogaine writing" he's referring to On The Campaign Trail 1972, in which Thompson accused one of the leading Democrat candidates of consuming a South American amphetamine. “I never said he was (taking ibogaine), I said there was a rumor in Milwaukeee that he was. Which was true, and I started the rumor in Milwaukee. If you read that carefully, I’m a very accurate journalist.”
Ibogaine is nothing even close to amphetamines it's a powerful hallucinogen. I'm not sure why he would start that rumor anyways since no one who actually knows what Ibogaine does would think Carter was taking it. It's not even a recreational drug it's an extremely long and difficult experience.
Nick Hollins not amphetamine, but this was so funny to me because of course hunter was talkin about Ibogaine on Canadian tv 35 years before it began to become known as one of if not the single most effective treatment for serious substance addiction
this is the by far the most “sober” and intelligent interview he’s ever done lol (not saying he isn’t smart but damn he’s actually really articulate here)
He's not that mysterious or misunderstood. I love Hunters writing but he's just a man. It's when we (people_ start treating people like Hunter as idols, heroes, and start to worship them ONLY because we admire their writing or films etc. He's only mysterious to people who love the mystery. The only reason he is any different is that he can write well and was famous. On the misunderstanding of what he said, you're right it is sad, because Hunter plainly said in the video that he respected Carter.
man for someone who'd wake up take cocaine drink take cocaine drink cocaine drink acid drink cocaine drink more acid, uppers downers allarounders laughers screamers that's one intelligent man
intelligent people don't ruin their life with drugs and alcohol. He's a weak minded mental midget that needed the crutch of drugs and alcohol because he wasn't mentally strong enough to make it through life without them.
who he was, he was constantly trying to define himself as a character he could find endless solitude in, while all the while trying to draw the bottom line on his story, although he ended it off beautifully and inspirationally, i think the man was an infinite mystery never to be solved...you never see hunter being a jerk to the ones he can confide in and share interests in, a man with a straight head and a clearly defined future doesn't have time to loose himself in off track opinions
I'm kind of pleasantly shocked on that also. I saw him on Letterman once, and I was all excited to watch the interview, and then, I couldn't understand a freaking word he was saying. (This was over twenty years ago.)
@@zachabsher8546 The laughter track was hideous. Hunter was right though, a far more telling interview of Conan than of HST. Yes the must be a better edit available. But this was interesting, Hunter called the shots even though he was meant to be the interviewee
As a former Ordinance Mechanic in the United States Navy I removed myself from the service in February 1975. This was despite the fact my Captain wanted me to stay in. I spoke with a number of other people who stayed in. Funds began to dry up, disbursement was performed with "paper chits" rendering liberty going no farther than the pier. I however, found myself working for a DoD repair depot. Inflation went through the roof. But I still got substantial raises that kept up with Inflation and was able to purchase a home.
"fear and loathing in las vegas" is a better film than "where the buffalo roam". but id say bill was beter than johnny. bill emulated hunter, while johnny sorta of caricatured. both were great though.
I think Depp's caricature was calculated, as the Raoul Duke character was sort of a monstrous version of Thompson, as seen from Thompson's own perspective. Murray's portrayal was supposed to be of the real Thompson. That said, yeah, there's something special about Murray's version.
Q Perks Well, it´s actually only a matter of opinion. If Hunter thinks jonny´s perf. was better, doesn´t mean it is - althou I think johnnys performancee was awesome
Thompson had very high opinions of both Carter and of McGovern. (By all accounts, McGovern was a very very good and brave guy.) This interview is freaking awesome, I did not know of these aspects of HST's opinion of Carter.
@M Ciddy "Lock em up"? The mob made a lateral move, to "government". THEY are the mob. Nothing less. ALL good and accurate points though. See ya in the FEMA camp.
Yeah same here, but I've found it's a little easier to decipher his sort of staccato way of speech if you develop an ear for it. After listening to many interviews and videos and such, I think it'll be easier to understand what he's saying. :)
This guy is one of the emphatic geniuses of the twentieth century and at the same time a complete left brain individual. I believe this is why he is such an enigma. Who is with me?
They are two different people. Johnny even said that he is portraying Raul Duke (an exaggerated characature of Hunter), while Murray tried his best to be as close to the real Hunter as possible. But you are definitely right about Murray getting the short stick, Hunter said he didn't like the movie at all but enjoyed Bill.
Hunter S. Thompson was much more than he was portrayed in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". Johny Dep did a great job mimicking and the portraiel of Hunter S. Thompson.
not a put on. read up _The Great Shark Hunt_ & _Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72_. he discusses this in some detail. HST produced some excellent political analysis. his best work. hence the nature of the interview with the CBC (correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that none other than Michael Enright of As It Happens?)
FINALLY! Somebody shares in my pain, normally it is I who cannot access stuff on youtube because I am in Canada but I am allowed to watch CBC's stuff because they're Canadian. I will let you know how the interview was ;-)
For a man that’s claimed to have done what he’s done this kids to tell how wicked and mean others are gotta wonder just what he really new about what they was doing for him to say that
People weren’t ready to hear this back then. They still wanted to believe that politicians, democrats in particular but really all of them, could still be real, down to earth people.
Carter was anything but "ruthless". He was a total crybaby pushover. Leaders from other countries used Carter to wipe their asses with. The man got, and deserved, no respect.
well he did dig his way up from the roots so i dont blame him for wanting nobody to interfere with his future...he was a sincere man and its he obviously knew what he was doing and where his writing was taking him...i doubt he had any problem with the fame at all, but what i meant to say is when you go into a setting and everyone is like oh my god its hunter thompson you cant exactly absorb your surroundings when the only thing your aware of are raging fans. hunter never completely figured out
Ashlyn Schaetzle He was a brilliant, observational, mind expanding, narcissist. I believe his reclusive tendency was because of that and he needed manipulation of his domain. You can't be cranky and demanding if you're not the alpha in the room.
Ashlyn Schaetzle REALLY? I guess l better look into it then. Seeing as how he could rub elbows with senators and governors, (who have MK slaves and underage prostitution) it's possible.
Im was just thinking the exact same thing... haha, It seems with age, the tightness of his lips, and the sharp stopping and starting with words gets harder and harder to decipher.. ;)
Carter is/was a political player from a deeply conservative state. He made some unusual choices, either to stay popular or because his moral compass was faulty. Proposing public action protesting the My Kai massacre conviction was just one such. A man who did much that was good, but a man who wasn't always good.
The only reason anyone misunderstands a writer is because they've never read anything the person has wrote. They'd rather treat people like Hunter as a god/rock star/pop icon instead of a writer. I don't like Hunter as a person, he was a narcissistic jerk (as most of his friends said), but he was one hell of a writer. People need to quit putting godlike qualities on celebrities, they're just people.
I just thought before Thompson was a crazy, stoned and drunk nut. Now I’m 55 and realize he is still all of that but a genius too. Glad I finally came around.
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Lol I never realized how good of an impression Johnny Depp did in Fear & Loathing. The personality and giant glasses, I gotta watch that movie again...
Johnny Depp didn't even remotely catch the personality and charisma of Hunter S. Thompson, compared to the way Bill Murray did, in the movie Where the Buffalo Roam, which was 10x better than Depp's movie.
@@stevebarwick I disagree
He really nailed those giant glasses
@@yungmilesmorales7161 I also disagree with that opinion.
Steve Barwick you’re alone with that opinion, buddy. Dead wrong
"Carter would cut my head off just to carry North Dakota" "He understands the system, it's why he won"
Carter did win North Korea, and while he didnt cut Hunter S. Thompson head off, it seems that he at least cut Hunter S. Thompsons hair off.
@@yellyman5483 Carter was president of North Korea? Fascinating.
I LOVE watching old interview shows like this. The interviewer LETS the guest speak... it's not rushed or condensed into prefabricated sound bytes. It's how information should be disseminated and important issues discussed. Please bring this sort of chat show back into the fore. Also HST is superb
They are called podcasts you should look into them.
@@garface26 are you stupid
@@garface26 pdcats did not exist you have three Chanels not internet had to watch live no dvr!
Three channels ?
Here in Britain was 3 channels at that time but I thought even in usa during 70s there was more than that depending on region of course
@@garface26 I love how you posted that response 9 years after the OP. Gold.
He educates you and trolls you at the same time....a true one off.
@@copee2960 One if God's own prototypes!
Blazing cigarette in one hand, sloshing a drink in the other, all while yakkin on national TV - gotta love THAT
70's
+guydreamr wish they'd still do it today...!
+Langelier Fabrice because he is from Kentucky....
That kind of honesty and relaxed setting doesn't exist at all in media anymore... its shunned and shamed, frowned down upon.. Its sad, a sick joke really, Hunter seen this all happening before it happened. The collapse of real freedom, the rise of corrupt politicians, its no wonder he decided its time to literally stop, he was a mile ahead of everyone else. I miss that kind of honesty, I think society itself misses it as well.
Bailey Green Very well said.
I think he [Jimmy Carter] is one of the three meanest men I’ve ever met. The other two were Mohammed Ali and Sonny Barter, the president of the Hells Angels. Those three men are a whole cut above everybody else I’ve ever run into in terms of sheer functional meanness.
Functional meanness?
Yeah, well, meaning the ability to get from A to B, C, M, Z, whatever you want. Carter would have cut my head off to carry North Dakota, cut your legs off to carry a ward in the Bronx, and never apologize for it. He understands the system. That’s why he won. That’s really all I said.
I admire that-a person who played the game as well as he did, and in the sort of magnolia shade that he’d played it in for a while. He was perceived as sort of a southern dingbat, but I saw him push Teddy Kennedy around down in Athens and Atlanta. I had never seen Kennedy pushed around anywhere in any room, and I was stunned. I thought “oh-ho.” This was 1974. I thought, “Whoops. This is a bad one. You have to watch him.” And sure enough he announced he was going to run for president four or five months later. When he did, I thought I had to go see him. I thought I should talk to this man.
Were you as impressed by his references to Bob Dylan and things as you appeared to be, or were you’re doing another little bit of ibogaine writing?
No, what he did in that speech-that I constantly referred to in the article which Rolling Stone did not run, which left me hanging out in some hideous slum-he just seriously whipsawed all these lawyers at the Law Day Alumni Speech, and this wasn’t just the alumni of the University of Georgia Law School. It was the distinguished alumni, Dean Rusk, all of them state senators, judges.
He just beat the hell out of them. He had been governor for three and a half years and they had
given him a hard time. The whole establishment had been against him and he stomped on them in public. I had never seen a politician do that before, and he just pushed Teddy [Kennedy] aside: “Outta my way. I got work to do. Move aside.” And Kennedy was stunned. I was stunned. I don’t tape politicians’ speeches normally, but about ten minutes into it I went to the car and got my tape recorder because I’d never heard anything like this, and I still haven’t, from Carter, either.
But what you’re impressed by is the toughness and the naked...
Oh, yeah, he will eat your shoulder right off if he thinks it’s right.
Have you changed your original impressions of him since he came to power?
No, that’s what I said he was going to do, that’s what he’s doing. He’s just eating Russian shoulders right now instead of Humphreys’.
Thanks, I could not understand him.
Sonny Barger .
yup
Thank you. ! Oh, I think he said hedious limb...
If you read “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail -1972” you will see the HST had an extremely deep understanding of people and their motives and an ability to parse sections of any situation and lay them out with examples and proof, helping us to see what he saw and learn what he had gleaned from his experiences being around people and their relationships, notably politicians. His writings should be (and maybe are in some places) required reading for any political science course on any level anywhere.
People often say Thompson is for teenagers but this guy is the true definition of freedom, he's amazing.
Hunter was one of the last free men in America.
@@bobbowie5334 There are still plenty of them around. Throw away your television and your phone and go into the wild world.
@@LesterBrunt You can't even carry a large amount of cash in your pocket now- let alone be a bald freak and run for Sheriff like Thompson once did. Freedom in this nation is a ship that has long ago sailed.
@@bobbowie5334 According to who? Some dumb government agency? You think Hunter cared about what was legal?
HST'd been prosecuted for a bunch of stuff- and If anything he was extremely paranoid- especially near the end.
Hunter S. Thompson is absolutely hypnotic.
Amazing how his upper lip never moves at all.
Mouth and gums are probably numb from a bump of cocaine
I will never unsee that
@PaulTurbo
It was the source of his power manifest for all who want to see. He was high priest the cult of Partial Paralysis. Very few people know who took his place. Those that get too close to the t(r)ooth are assimilated rather than destroyed. This organization can best be compared to a siphonophore that drifts through space time and flips betwixt dimensions as though they were pages in a holographic book. This organization is an organism of infinite cloacae, all of which speak in excrement. Only when the upper lip of the head of the colony is still can you begin to understand.
Numbness
Say what ?? A cult of sorts?
couldn't agree more...he was very perceptive, truthful and a poetic genius.
this is one of the few interviews where i can (mostly) understand what Hunter is actually saying
@@masteroguitar1 I always tell the uninitiated to turn on the subtitles.
we all have to consider how admirable it is the fact he's so sharp...while he is HIGH AND DRUNK AS A FUCKING KITE, truly an absolute genius
One of God's Own prototypes. A High powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.
@@jimritzheimer7465 well said
it's an escape mechanism, I reckon. it's not uncommon for very clever people to numb their mind with drugs, as to make the cluttering shut up.
It is a fake trope from 100 years of propaganda that “drugs” are so horrible and you can’t be an actual human if you take drugs etc.
Funny how there are barely any problems with drugs that are socially accepted like coffee. Nobody has ever said “John was high on coffee, he was send home because we don’t tolerate drugs on the workplace”. No doctor has ever said “you drink coffee everyday? Time for you to go to a clinic”.
It is all anti drug propaganda.
Lester Brunt same with cigarettes
Perhaps the only time anyone ever described Jimmy Carter as a badass.
😂 its sarcasm
He did get lowered into a nuculear reactor and became a superhero, so there's that...
He became President didn't he? You really think you know stars, celebs, government? Grow up!
Incredible. Instead of grabassing at how cool he was, let's apply his tact in the here and now.
Damn right. His spirit is one of pure brilliance, as is his integrity. The more people who take something like that from this character than movie quotes the better.
Jimi Hendrix said something about using your eyes and ears, Hunter is a good example of that in action.
@@ItsFunnyBone ... Ironically Hunter was a writer. I find it ironic because you wrote a sentence using the word "tact", so I have to believe you don't know what the word means. If there is one quality nobody has ever accused Hunter of having it its tact. 😎
this was the old days of TV interviews... cigarettes, cocktails, horrible hair pieces...
jeffrtube Lol yes, the hair piece
oh and you can't forget the cocaine as well
@@xmenlaststand1738 that never left tv or hollywood
Authentic audience bursting out laughing without needing a big flashing sign that says "applaud" or "laugh".
Same here. I've seen the movie more than 10 times and I would still have no trouble watching the whole thing again. It's one of my all time favorite movies, especially because of the acting of Johnny Depp. He's so awesome.
Peter Gzowski is the interviewer. He was a great Canadian and a great man. Canadians of a certain age who listened to CBC radio in the morning will have profound nostalgia hearing his voice.
Strange man, but oddly fascinating at the same time. 🤯
A lot of demons though and not in like some kind of poetic romantic way. Demons are actually horrific in reality. They’re the dregs, they’re the bottom, they’re foul, they’re putrid rotten el huevo del Diablo, they’re vile…
i think that role was my all-timet favorite roll of his. i dont think ive ever seen him so involved and inspired, and i think it did hunter justice, something fantastic wild and awe inspiring to give the last years of his magnificent existence a kick-start into high gear.
Carter and Thompson were close friends and respected each other immensely.
Jimmy is insanely intelligent and deeply moral. He cuts like a knife, but out of goodness. Gifted.
Worst President in the History of the Country besides Biden of course.
That certainly is his public image, but what reason would Thompson have to lie?
Also, look at how people looked at Bill Cosby, Ellen Degeneres, and Tom Hanks (Epstein logs) before we knew the truth.
Sometimes the darkest people are the best at crafting an entirely different public persona 🤷♂️
I love to read this guy and I find his thoughts interesting, but well... it's maybe because I'm not a native english speaker, but... I really admire how people manage to make out what his says.
you have no faith in the essential decency of the white man's culture!
+Daichi86 I'm British and HSTs slurred speech and sudden bursts of speed are hard to follow.
+Daichi86 I'm a native English speaker and really struggle to understand what he's saying. It's a pity, because he's often making some clever jokes that everyone misses.
Daichi86 HAHAHA! Not laughing at you. It’s just- I am a native English speaker from New York (I see other native speakers saying they have trouble- people in NY talk INSANELY fast with a thick, thick accent, so maybe that’s why I can understand him easily. Years of practice with fast-talking English speakers and lots and lots of people with foreign accents too, as its New York, for my entire life), and even though I know he speaks strangely, I’ve never imagined what it would be like for those who speak English as a second language. Funny thing is, this is before he turned into a character-version of himself, once Fear and Loathing became truly culturally iconic, and started talking and acting truly crazy, like his character “Duke”(to be fair it was based on him but watch this and then a video ten years later and you’ll see what I mean. He later BECAME “Duke”.)!
Anyway, he slurs and talks very fast. He also pauses at weird parts in the sentence.... so I could see how that could throw you off and make you confused about which parts of a phrase should be grouped together.
We call this mush mouth lol it’s painful but his tone is very relaxing
Bill Murray was the perfect Thompson in Where the Buffalo Roam.
This. Depp's was too over the top and hyper. Murray's performance is overlooked unfortunately but a more accurate portrayal imo.
Yes bit more literal than Depp's grandiose version. Now someone might try again as even more literal adaptation
@ 2:43 wtf was that noise? Was there a bunch of turkeys in the audience?
Is there a recording of the Carter speech Dr. Thompson is referring to?
Yes it’s available online
Law Day Speech 1974
@@EmilyHartley25989 Thanks
Yes, PLEASE let us see the other 14 minutes of this interview. We need all the HST footage we can get!
When he mentions "Ibogaine writing" he's referring to On The Campaign Trail 1972, in which Thompson accused one of the leading Democrat candidates of consuming a South American amphetamine. “I never said he was (taking ibogaine), I said there was a rumor in Milwaukeee that he was. Which was true, and I started the rumor in Milwaukee. If you read that carefully, I’m a very accurate journalist.”
Haha, that's a good story. Though I should point out, Ibogaine is not an amphetamine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine
Ibogaine is nothing even close to amphetamines it's a powerful hallucinogen. I'm not sure why he would start that rumor anyways since no one who actually knows what Ibogaine does would think Carter was taking it. It's not even a recreational drug it's an extremely long and difficult experience.
As the above linked Wikipedia article indicates, it was Ed Muskie Hunter started and reported the rumour about.
Indeed. It goes for one hillarious read in The Campaign Trail
Nick Hollins not amphetamine, but this was so funny to me because of course hunter was talkin about Ibogaine on Canadian tv 35 years before it began to become known as one of if not the single most effective treatment for serious substance addiction
this is the by far the most “sober” and intelligent interview he’s ever done lol (not saying he isn’t smart but damn he’s actually really articulate here)
He's not that mysterious or misunderstood. I love Hunters writing but he's just a man. It's when we (people_ start treating people like Hunter as idols, heroes, and start to worship them ONLY because we admire their writing or films etc. He's only mysterious to people who love the mystery. The only reason he is any different is that he can write well and was famous. On the misunderstanding of what he said, you're right it is sad, because Hunter plainly said in the video that he respected Carter.
What show is this from?
It's interesting to see how functional Hunter was considering the amount of drugs he did on a daily basses.
I think maybe the severe draconian pain of living like a wolf may play some part in sobering up the drunken part of a man.
@@MarianMurphy-rz8ej I read your sentence two, which is a compliment in a way.
'Magnolia Shade' quite eloquently put...
***** He was just referring to Carter's superficial southern charm, that he was able to hide his aggressive political tactics behind.
thank you! Said with such style... i was wondering what he meant
man for someone who'd wake up take cocaine drink take cocaine drink cocaine drink acid drink cocaine drink more acid, uppers downers allarounders laughers screamers that's one intelligent man
Ryan Cronk who might be a child killer look it up
Ryan Cronk madness grew on him and you dance with the devil,you will become the pale,in the moonlight.,of hell.
intelligent people don't ruin their life with drugs and alcohol. He's a weak minded mental midget that needed the crutch of drugs and alcohol because he wasn't mentally strong enough to make it through life without them.
Hes one EVIL man too. He lead a sadistic life..
Only according to pure conjecture and speculation
Please upload full video please please please!!!!!
Where is that tape recording ?
Why is this clip available to USA viewers and the rest of the 17 min. interview is unavailable for viewing?
"My peanut farm withered- withered away, my peanuts went sour. I don't wanna live no more, my peanuts went sour."
Does anyone know where I can see this full interview?
who he was, he was constantly trying to define himself as a character he could find endless solitude in, while all the while trying to draw the bottom line on his story, although he ended it off beautifully and inspirationally, i think the man was an infinite mystery never to be solved...you never see hunter being a jerk to the ones he can confide in and share interests in, a man with a straight head and a clearly defined future doesn't have time to loose himself in off track opinions
I love anytime this man speaks
I love Hunter S Thompson. Helped expand my thinking
jordan young watch his 88 interview with letterman, It will lower your thought process and I love Hunter S Thompson.
What he's saying is probably true of almost anyone who can rise as far as the American Presidency.
I'm kind of pleasantly shocked on that also. I saw him on Letterman once, and I was all excited to watch the interview, and then, I couldn't understand a freaking word he was saying. (This was over twenty years ago.)
Does anyone know if the “Kennedy pushed around” thing was recorded at all?
It’s crazy to see how Coherent and precise Hunter was in this , when he shot guns with Conan he was so Messed up and Bizarre.
It was also hella cut up and edited
Ide kill for the full footage of that interaction
@@zachabsher8546 The laughter track was hideous. Hunter was right though, a far more telling interview of Conan than of HST. Yes the must be a better edit available. But this was interesting, Hunter called the shots even though he was meant to be the interviewee
Just out of curiosity, (I am in the USA) why can't you access everything om youtube?
As a former Ordinance Mechanic in the United States Navy I removed myself from the service in February 1975. This was despite the fact my Captain wanted me to stay in. I spoke with a number of other people who stayed in. Funds began to dry up, disbursement was performed with "paper chits" rendering liberty going no farther than the pier. I however, found myself working for a DoD repair depot. Inflation went through the roof. But I still got substantial raises that kept up with Inflation and was able to purchase a home.
"fear and loathing in las vegas" is a better film than "where the buffalo roam".
but id say bill was beter than johnny.
bill emulated hunter, while johnny sorta of caricatured.
both were great though.
I think Depp's caricature was calculated, as the Raoul Duke character was sort of a monstrous version of Thompson, as seen from Thompson's own perspective. Murray's portrayal was supposed to be of the real Thompson. That said, yeah, there's something special about Murray's version.
Q Perks Well, it´s actually only a matter of opinion. If Hunter thinks jonny´s perf. was better, doesn´t mean it is - althou I think johnnys performancee was awesome
His character was a mix of Raoul Duke and Hunter Thompson.
Fear and Loathing is a character though, albeit based on Thompson himself
Well for me Bill Murray version is the Hunter itself, and Johnny was well pseudo Hunter.
Thompson had very high opinions of both Carter and of McGovern. (By all accounts, McGovern was a very very good and brave guy.) This interview is freaking awesome, I did not know of these aspects of HST's opinion of Carter.
I seem to remember Gloria Steinem calling McGovern “the meanest man alive”.
Hunter S. Thompson was a stylish dude...
When your high and do research and people watch. You get a very interesting insight. That's why the writing is good.
"government" a friendly euphemism for Mafia.
@M Ciddy
"Lock em up"?
The mob made a lateral move, to "government". THEY are the mob.
Nothing less.
ALL good and accurate points though.
See ya in the FEMA camp.
@M Ciddy
Killing an entire town would be fine learning for the other towns nearby.
Dam Revenuers. Yipa.
This guy was something else!
anybody know what sunglasses is he wearing ?
Speaking truth... Even if others do not agree... It if you can't understand hunter then open your mind!!
what speech is he referring to?
Yeah same here, but I've found it's a little easier to decipher his sort of staccato way of speech if you develop an ear for it. After listening to many interviews and videos and such, I think it'll be easier to understand what he's saying. :)
I think he said ibogaine, too.
This guy is one of the emphatic geniuses of the twentieth century and at the same time a complete left brain individual. I believe this is why he is such an enigma. Who is with me?
right brain, you mean. the right hemisphere is the intuitive side where your inner child resides. The wild side, if you will
A genius of emphasis? And he’s very creative with his political analysis. No one would call it rigorous
Insane fellow. Good representation of American society at the time!
not.. those are used in the film, fear and loathing. but the ones in this interview are different.. anyone actually know?
They are two different people. Johnny even said that he is portraying Raul Duke (an exaggerated characature of Hunter), while Murray tried his best to be as close to the real Hunter as possible. But you are definitely right about Murray getting the short stick, Hunter said he didn't like the movie at all but enjoyed Bill.
could you make the full length one available to all countries? im in the uk and i cant access it
Hunter S. Thompson was much more than he was portrayed in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". Johny Dep did a great job mimicking and the portraiel of Hunter S. Thompson.
didn't realize Daniel Ortega did interviewing in the 70's
That is what honesty is like to a poser, cruel violent and threatening.
RIP hunter, we will miss the sound of the chlorophyll in your whisky ;)
Jimmy Carter? It's like he's telling me that Santa Claus is ruthless. Or like, Jimmy Stewart.
not a put on. read up _The Great Shark Hunt_ & _Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72_. he discusses this in some detail. HST produced some excellent political analysis. his best work. hence the nature of the interview with the CBC (correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that none other than Michael Enright of As It Happens?)
FINALLY! Somebody shares in my pain, normally it is I who cannot access stuff on youtube because I am in Canada but I am allowed to watch CBC's stuff because they're Canadian. I will let you know how the interview was ;-)
For a man that’s claimed to have done what he’s done this kids to tell how wicked and mean others are gotta wonder just what he really new about what they was doing for him to say that
When shows had substance
Mhmm. The good old times when cigarettes didn't burn down by themselves within a couple of seconds...
Fresher and higher quality tobacco. I’ll never forget the taste of an old school Camel filter less. Almost coffee like.
Dunhills don't.
People weren’t ready to hear this back then. They still wanted to believe that politicians, democrats in particular but really all of them, could still be real, down to earth people.
And here we thought Carter was a simple peanut farmer. He is one helluva good statesman.
+Jim Davis I did live then. try again smartass.
If he wasn't a moron, then he was evil. I think Hunter was hinting about that.
Carter was anything but "ruthless". He was a total crybaby pushover. Leaders from other countries used Carter to wipe their asses with. The man got, and deserved, no respect.
Holy crap! Bill Murry was spot on with his interpretation of Thompson. Spot fucking on!
Bill Murray does a pretty good job at Hunter.
Bill murray did a tremendous impersonation in where the buffalo roam
This kind of courageous, candid, frank, discourse has not existed on a TV show ever since! (and never will again.)
greatest human lizard who ever lived
"He will eat your shoulder right off..."
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Russian Shoulders lol
well he did dig his way up from the roots so i dont blame him for wanting nobody to interfere with his future...he was a sincere man and its he obviously knew what he was doing and where his writing was taking him...i doubt he had any problem with the fame at all, but what i meant to say is when you go into a setting and everyone is like oh my god its hunter thompson you cant exactly absorb your surroundings when the only thing your aware of are raging fans. hunter never completely figured out
Dudes smoking a cigarette and drinking whisky. Wow the 70's must have been awesome.
Imagine how much that rolex is worth today
I use Google Assistant to look up Hunter s Thompson and I got jump scared by a TV with teeth
bad ass. badass.
"those of us who had been up all night..."
Bill Murray did a damn good job in Where the Buffalo Roam.
I never would have suspected such a thing. Not about Carter.
Hunter Thompson was one fucked up individual
Ashlyn Schaetzle He was a brilliant, observational, mind expanding, narcissist. I believe his reclusive tendency was because of that and he needed manipulation of his domain. You can't be cranky and demanding if you're not the alpha in the room.
Jeremy Sears I read he was a satanist and into boys and aleister crowely
Ashlyn Schaetzle REALLY? I guess l better look into it then. Seeing as how he could rub elbows with senators and governors, (who have MK slaves and underage prostitution) it's possible.
Hunter S. Thompson was known to LOVE snuff films. What a sick twisted mind he must have had.
Im was just thinking the exact same thing... haha, It seems with age, the tightness of his lips, and the sharp stopping and starting with words gets harder and harder to decipher.. ;)
Carter is/was a political player from a deeply conservative state. He made some unusual choices, either to stay popular or because his moral compass was faulty. Proposing public action protesting the My Kai massacre conviction was just one such. A man who did much that was good, but a man who wasn't always good.
The only reason anyone misunderstands a writer is because they've never read anything the person has wrote. They'd rather treat people like Hunter as a god/rock star/pop icon instead of a writer. I don't like Hunter as a person, he was a narcissistic jerk (as most of his friends said), but he was one hell of a writer. People need to quit putting godlike qualities on celebrities, they're just people.
We all have opinions. Doesn't mean Hunter is right about his.
Jimmy Carter is still ruthless today at 100
@@panoptos4163 was*
Yeah Johnny did awesome!!! To me his best role.
No, it was just a common phrase. He's just basically emphasizing the fact that Carter was a ruthless politician.
Carter was President.
I just thought before Thompson was a crazy, stoned and drunk nut. Now I’m 55 and realize he is still all of that but a genius too. Glad I finally came around.
What was it about this interview that put him on a "genius" level for you?
@@goodmorningsundaymorning4533 He made a brilliant observation, never made by anyone before: Politicians are often not very nice people.
@@goodmorningsundaymorning4533 He was probably high. People who smoke up usually think everything is profound.
Dan Carter should see this.