traumatic it's long time to get rid of. the country's gone into a nihilistic. that's why i'm thinking and we've got to hit the road and get out the traveling across america the find what makes america take the charlatans the genius american hero this is it we found the point around which hollywood is going to say we're starting last with is we're going to head east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the bees i think i'm gonna leave now doesn't get any more gonzo than that we may be completely different by the end of this journey. we mean it may get down to the most telling. her the moment there's ok. welcome to this side of the street love field. my welcome to the side of the street. oh it's good to be there but

in my own or. this is the locus of the love this that she represents nothing times classic american novel and a lot of dystopian nightmare hollywood nice and parodies of the death of the american dream are we any good. is america really stupid and good like the day of the locus or are we just started on a new century twenty first century is it also going to be the american century. so explain to me because of course there's going to class a car something good luck. i mean i have a sixty five cobra right here model of the british racecar no no it's got to be like america has got to scream america. sixty six most oh right verbal it's

got every. bit of classical stuff it's fantastic i love it's got steve mcqueen full of vibe but i think something a little more guns a bigger gonzo big. on the one to. six. yes this is it this is where i think we found our very core right here my associate dr gonzo will be piloting the vehicle this says america. is wide open it's a muscle car we don't care about gas prices we just get more gas wherever we go we'll just get more it's no problem this is like the sort of car you drive off the grand canyon stallman will lose me. this kind of like a gonzo meets louise it's going to one week this is very hunter s. thompson here it goes catcher yeah we'll take it.

back to see the las vegas strip right ahead we are entering vegas in a car that hunter s. thompson would be proud of the one nine hundred sixty five cadillac coupe de ville . i feel the spirit i feel as. i feel the syntax i feel those long strings of adjectives put together i wonder if loops a diversion back. to the birth of quality immersing himself with. what you meant in journalism. the media. we're going to. have to go gonzo when you're already don imus i got that for soloing at zero but not. we go. i

love the neon i love the love the night sky the stars. i love the fakery i love the fountains. it's so fake it's real yeah this world we're world think is real real strange you don't really know you know the vegas is fake and that's what's real about it. you know warren buffett he says if you don't know i was the sucker at that poker table is it's you it's here it's like people know the software and they come to vegas anyway they're like i don't have to like being a sucker this weekend it's going to feel good i think. vegas is also like the whole voting process now. you know going in that the house always wins it's like there's some sort of elite that always gets its way they always get all their wars they always get all their bell outs no matter what but you feel good it's like the whole as a whole you know bread and circuses the atmosphere around this like my party is

going to win and yet and you know you deep down you're the sucker and you know they're never going to deliver on their promises. but you still do it doesn't this car kind of remind you of the vehicle in which john f. kennedy was assassinated open top we're going. crowded causeway lot of positions right there i see grassy knolls everywhere i remember nine hundred sixty three i was three years old i remember everything went black everything went dark everything when though kind of like whispering corridors a. great great shadow fell over the country and confusing the sixty's progressed in that way and then we had watergate the seventy's so political a what there this message carry water gave you know more a lot of people say that this is some sort of a uniquely scary period in u.s. history but i only know the sixty's mostly from. the images and the documentary. in the footage but it seems like it must have been way scarier back

than because you had the assassination of a president yet the assassination of the civil rights movement martin luther king jr malcolm x. you had all the race riots it seems like that was a genuinely more melt down sort of period it was and you know the news business had to be more responsible like walter cronkite he couldn't really play the partisan games we see newscasters today because he was the only connection you had with reality with what was really going on so he would never think of using the opportunity to throw an election as you see today with fox or amazon he said oh you look at this even have these pushbutton and they're only like four or five options on the radio. i'm not sure that more options has made us a better informed population or a better entertained population c.b.s. n.b.c.

yeah. you know don imus in the morning i miss in the morning. at c.b.s. radio all the classics from the fifty's and sixty's there's a thousand t.v. stations a thousand radio stations and it feels oppressive. to most it is. slowed down. nice to like the way i press the brakes here you know i did say this is like a magnet car but the past the greatness that america was wasn't ever really that great because the fact is this car doesn't quite break that well and it does fishtail all over the road but we look fine well to see inside the mind i think this is like looking into the mind of the american soul the honey i'm going to break i'm sorry. you know i think the way we focus on the little break. might be going to be here. you're

a backseat driver i didn't know that about you. i've been watching you drive for years now and i really learned to appreciate how well you drive so the occasional misstep i notice the kind of stands out you can always drive of course i don't have a driver's license his license and my fifteen or sixteen twenty five years now hunter s. thompson wanted to let something like a driver's license come between him and driving it a cadillac could develop as part of the charm of this car is the fact that it's very dangerous you might not possibly be able to break in time to stop from hitting the car in front of you or you might fishtail across the lanes on the highway you have to be self aware otherwise you could end up in a tragic wreck those correctional facilities assertions are so much more spectacular because you have like bodies splayed everywhere and blood cures gushing in these days because it's so well manufactured everything is contained a bubble falls off everybody is safe nothing really happened there by airbags

deploy there's a real danger in cars anymore it's like being in a crib a baby crib this car is broken dangerous you can get killed in this car you could lose a limb in this car you could lose all your blood in this car not so with the modern car that's what makes this car a better car because it makes this car more tragically real you're on the pavement you feel the pain but i can feel my feet right now and i can feel the engine plopping and i can feel this windshield is about the crack of my face in the last trade me in a million different ways and i'm loving it because it's god so if you're going to. you know dressed up to the. he's a writer i think in the seventy's you travel all over america he's revealed to everyone the soul of freaks and charlatans and con men and geniuses that darn near what you're trying to do me to find america's equal part three ingenious corps is just all god fearing normal people. life return element of american character

that's freaky. i think of the marriage of a lot of pretty good yeah i think there are some people that are. sort of. more reserved about their free card and more what about being i think it's more like a lot of people want to do it the people who are doing it want to. do want to have a boy so are you get your freak out most response i mean is it safe to live here anymore or anything. and we're in the worst way things contributing to that by. mining the flame mining mining drug money too much money too much just too much money and making people crazy because there's too much money where the money where the money comes from pretty freely so you're anti federal reserve bank. you're a pro mint you want more money printed for yourself you want some of the printed money to use it since it is you mean are you committing sins are you actively

engaging in some not yet. you might feel you know yeah quick question this is finally here. in america just to feel safe here. not just to say feeling of. security get. rid of the entrance and cities around the nine hundred eighty like seventy's or early lesbian bar i got to lose man that's the thing. well. enough and i told them to cut the legs for a lot of women would kill for legs like my.

make this manufacture to sentence to the public will. when the ruling class is one protect themselves. when the final larry go round listen to the one percent. to ignore middle of the room six. million real needs. to. be settled in the past couple of years from track and. peace islands off day but the reality is there may still be a shift in a scavenge in this fine layer of micro plastics. very. the

biggest thing and shut down we've never had an empty chair. like the contents of the something of an albatross. people obviously come in they just throw them into the water as disposal it may not be harmful for that little fish that eats one fragment a classic but once it makes its way up to us in the food chain it's getting to levels that are harmful. i have to be argued in there for me to understand whatever. the p.m.c. the premier or small contractor who won the award the fields he took came here was a contract to train a unit and to create there from scratch and then to go into combat and the g.p. limited effect.

so our seats are eating our time and the installment look here is in las vegas packs of course the used to do nuclear testing right there in one thousand nine hundred eighty two people would come here and have a cocktail a watching the nuclear explosion on the horizon from the net the number of nuclear testing site i know who's gotten tourism fantastic tomic bombs and arrives in the

mushroom clouds of most of my glories i don't really wear drame that alexander was in our bedroom painting. and i woke up and he was just standing there painting these exploding bank painting what do you think of you know your name server of culture obviously you're an artist why do you think people came here to watch nuclear explosions oh my god because they didn't have cable television i don't know they they had no idea how unhealthy it was and it was cool like people love watching stuff blow up i mean they blow up all these old hotels out here it's like the same energy glad. right so is there something perhaps entertaining about watching disaster unfold watching say trump in the white house are watching a nuclear explosion on the horizon hell yeah i mean as long as there's just you know people that want to. read. or car engines up and bet on anything and

you know we love all this just this kind of self-destruction going on out here it's part of our. it's part of our american d.n.a. man to just blow things up. i mean explosions are in our national anthem right bombs bursting in air for god's sake. that was not sent out. i mean i just think vegas is the epitome of america trump is epitomizes america and you know it's for better or worse this is this what's happening guys it's creative destruction essentially right isn't that kind of like go boom wrote that book disaster capitalism. klein right naomi klein just. it's sort of a sort of a nihilistic horrifying end of that economic theory about dig

a hole and fill it up and that's keynesianism yeah but then the schumpeter of the economist wrote about creative destruction yeah they need to blow things up as they can get rid of the old and bring in the new has a nuclear explosion coming because you know i need to know how intense my sunglasses need to be these are the lighter ones fortunately you know it's a good safe mile or two away as i don't need that that's what the government recommends yes so you know just to squint and just you know my slant trump looked at this at the at the at the eclipse just when you're flying i just saw a story about an artificial intelligence painting which just sold for four hundred twenty thousand dollars i saw that is it up for intel didn't really look like a brand and it's old for over four hundred thousand dollars at auction that's unbelievable i mean three being replaced by robots you. that's right being an

artist you would be replaced by a robot because you would have a unique skill that could be replaced by a robot that's right like you are being replaced by a robot i'm aiming for a feature spot in the robot zoo they're going to pick the most interesting people wipe the rest of us out so just be really interesting i think the painting they'll be into it. how do you know we're not already featured players in the robots that's a lot of people including purchases a whole gram gathered by you know artificial intelligence from outside our realm of comprehension and we're just basically there for their entertainment and i know that's not the case right now on musk says we are i know we could just be n.p.c. characters right here we've been put here to tell people just to direct them maybe toward or away from the nuclear exclusion of n.p.c. which is a meme non player character or an artist are memes the same as art or is a different right the letter grade greg face i might i might go for that for my halloween costume. is an art or is it not art or is it near our i do not think.

that means are going to be collected as as art as much as i just want to buy the fraud for eight thousand dollars that's a brave new world that i know if you got a little like a thumb drive and you saved it all yeah it's on it's all just on the phone yeah and it's a rare puppy the frog and it was a thousand bucks and so a lot of these collectibles are on the block chain and they're selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars yeah an artificial intelligence are trades for four hundred thousand dollars during this journey we're covering the disconnect between rhetoric and reality so you have a kind of a conflict with this and confrontation with this when you were visited by homeland security and the f.b.i. need to know if you're painting your burning bank paintings were real bright my god i mean. what. i can't believe that happened so long ago and it's just so weird if

you start having cops walking up making decisions on as you're painting in the street whether that's like you know good art or what about mark zuckerberg or they have lance accounts all or twitter or facebook like should these guys determine what is art and what is good free speech what is valid political opinion what is valid economic opinion mark zuckerberg no one just looking at the guy what does he buy like brad weiland whale paintings or something i can't even imagine you know what's your story how did your family end up in los angeles because you were actually born and raised in los angeles my family goes back a ways and los angeles my great grandfather started the helms bakery. in the thirty's and that was the big thing up until one nine hundred sixty nine when they sold it and you know it's an interesting example of a c.e.o.

not gal geeing his employees i mean they didn't have to unionize everybody was paid enough they wanted to work there for their entire life they got pensions there wasn't this sort of feel good that the boss got three thousand percent more money than the than the workers and also that it was a regional sized business you know everything's too big now my grandfather really started freaking out with credit cards like that's when in my family they started saying no this is like a fake economy you know you just credit cards this is dangerous you know and that was like in the mid seventy's and then the eighty's in the ninety's and they're just handing out credit cards and unsolicited mailings of credit cards and that's all money creation. who are these guys and frick and delaware and self the coda is it just a. bunch of computers and like post office boxes and these people just sit around

and create ten thousand dollar credit lines dislike being being bing bing bing bing sounds like the robot zoo. or the other robots or that's what i've gotten i'm in the robots well i just feel like there's so much money being created that just goes to the military industrial. job creating whatever make and uniforms and bullets and are they ever going to stop spending all this money on the military and is anybody ever going to really address that reality i just hate the way right wingers never seem to. talk about when you mention the fact that your grandfather who was living the american dream had moved to california that he became very freaked out by the introduction of credit cards and that of course did not happen until the split between our money and gold there was no anchor to reality you do you think

that moment of the credit explosion that was able to follow the divorce of our currency from gold that that same sort of moment was a similar sort of event to one hundred fifty two people sitting here at the tonic liquor is watching nuclear explosions just on the horizon and that's the same thing that happened in one thousand nine hundred eighty one when we went off the gold standard it was a similar moment that people were like is it all going to melt down no it exploded in a beautiful mushroom cloud of debt right and then we just forgot he said oh this is just inch every bit as your just keep the speculators all those cold sweat dryers from rising up the partner market it was the french they knew we were screwed in vietnam they'd already been screwed there for ten years or something and they're like oh man these guys are not there and just leaving money constantly so they're like yeah give us the gold. wow those are the

guys that like the explosions it's the same energy all right well let's put it a couple more palm trees maybe alex we're going to have to wrap this up you're going to have a masterpiece there are you going to sell it for big you've got to download your album and we're going to get you some show big queen if you bet some hard money i'm down i got about wanting it set me up. that's it man ok let's see if. you're going to get a really good place in the robots i know. that's that's my goal right. no you know you. hold up hold up put a hold on. i just remember stacey you want to buy this painting so if you want to buy this painting right here i want to use the average wallet to buy since you money if to buy this you got it let's do it done deal i want one dollar per square

inch two hundred eighty eight what comes in a currency would you like that in well you could hook me up with some app or some your average is the app you must have average is the crypto wall of this redefining crypto wall it's just going to how do you know that or are. you doing now going to the average and do it. and get excited. this is twenty eight crypto currencies plus bit ten it's an index of ten cryptocurrency. there's coming i got it what more do we need one more to this one need you want because the original choice i'm going to run. right now thank you love you weren't but if i don't if you know you're my favorite or as i think collecting you for years i got to run a bar. so i wasn't born in one thousand sixty five and the slip. me

to manufacture but this is something you saw there in westchester county and before like the pimp story the whole. cadillac sort of look bob still living in a couple of movies one of far as. you know during that era five bodies. when he started making big bucks like a baby blues. and that was the flint and then that movie. you know that was a little earlier but with richard dreyfus that gave me a list of all the while by these catalogs that all they start making money is knowing the little side and then in the seventy's the second one started buying these and then the end of the town all right well i guess they showed up at the used car lots of down to the band said you know that's a powerful and last leg of the you know to the floor of the street except i just got to get a little color maybe some bloody dice to reveal here are all the accoutrements.

for. you know world big part of the movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting

past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to crush the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it your style or here i mean you are liz put me in the neighborly is that i'm you pulling me to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took. invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic.

u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going out for the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defense's office that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money on those with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely. we can risk some discomfort more uneasiness for. me and i mean i did you know where you know your son. was you know one of. those in one room near mosul both to be in yours and yours was notable to be

a very good month but it would you. please not believe the ways by the way i did my best religion as the wife. left you for them yes this is. one of those. choices these will get. you know it's a movie everyone calls. from. i swear it's a full movie soon due to its international executive as president of venezuela i want to do you and venezuela the president is elected by washington to venezuela but in k. else president mudd zero and chooses the u.s. over the attempted could move after donald trump recognizes the country's self declared interim leader. for.