Podcasts that mention 📚 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

I didn't, until I read your book, get my sense of him as the sort of political idealist who basically has his heart broken over and over again and then just decides ironically to do what he talks about in, uh, 'Fear and Loathing,' which is, uh, make a beast of yourself to get rid of the pain of being a man. Yeah, you know, and I think that again, probably with you too, we got the trickle-down effect of the 1960s growing up; many of our teachers may have been at San Francisco State, you know, or on the the West Coast barricades during all of that, um, University of California upheaval.

The guest references 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' as an illustration of Hunter S Thompson's approach to dealing with the pain associated with being a man and a political idealist.

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