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 the charlatans the genius of america here this is it we point around which hollywood is going to say we're starting last with is going to head east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the b. i think i'm gonna leave town doesn't get any more gonzo with me maybe completely different end of this journey. we made me get down to. tell. her the moment there's ok. welcome to this side of the street love feel. welcome on the side of the story. well it's good to be there but it alone or. this is

the locus of the love this that she represents a classic american novel and a lot of dystopian nightmare hollywood tonight and parodies of the death of the american dream are we any good. is america reads to. like the locust we just started on a new century good morning first century is it also going to be the american century. so explain to me because according to like a classic car something good luck again. i mean i have a sixty five over right here modeled off the british race car no no it's got to be like america has got a scream america. car sixty six mustang oh right verbal it's got every. classic it's got the power it's fantastic i love it's got that steve mcqueen. but i

think something a little more. bigger gonzo big. although what you. see . this is it this is where i think we found our very core right here my associate dr gonzo will be piling 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 yeah stallman will lose me. in this kind of like a gonzo meets louise it's going to one week this is very hunter s. thompson here 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 to. fill in the mail the spirit i feel as. i feel the syntax i feel those long strings of magic to. put together i wonder if loops a diversion back. to the mercy of quality immersing himself in the. brain bending journalism. the media. we're going to. have to go gonzo when you're already done. for so long i don't know but. i love the neon i love the love the night sky the stars and. i love the fakery i love the fountains. it's so fake it's real you know this world we're world think is

real real frank 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 who 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 and 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 bailouts no matter what but you feel good it's like the whole it's a whole you know bread and circuses atmosphere around this like a my party is going to win and yet they and you know you deep down you're the sucker and 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 as a grassy knolls everywhere i remember nine hundred sixty three i was three years old and i remember everything went black everything went dark everything would go kind of like whispering four doors a. great great shadow fell over the country. confusing the sixty's progressed in that way and then we had watergate the seventy's so politically i went there this mess you carry water gave you no more well a lot of people say that this is some sort of uniquely scary period in u.s. history but i only know the sixty's mostly from. the images and the documentaries and the footage but it seems like it must have been way scarier back than because you had the assassination of a president you had the assassination of the civil rights movement. martin luther

king jr malcolm x. and all the race try and it seems like that was a genuinely more meltdowns sort of period it was then you know the news business anymore it's possible like walter cronkite he couldn't really play the partisan games that we see and the newscasters today because he was the only connection you had with reality with what was really going on so you would never think about using that opportunity to throw an election as you see today with boxer and with them to say 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 had c.b.s. n.b.c. . you know don imus in the morning but i mean it seems to me. 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 i feel the press sent. them out it is. slow down. and i feel like the way i press the brakes here you know i did say this is like a mag car but that passed 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 back. well to see inside the mind i think this is like looking into the mind of the american soul and honey honey let me break. sorry. you know i think maybe focus on the little brake pedal and life be a good idea here here backseat driver i didn't know that about you well you know i've been watching you just for years now and i've really learned to appreciate how well you josh. so the occasional mistake i notice the kind of stands out you can

always drive of course i don't have a driver's license his license i'm like fifteen or sixteen twenty five years now hunter s. thompson why didn't 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 it 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 correction the fifty's or sixty's are so much more spectacular because you have like body splayed everywhere blood cures gushing in these days because it's so well manufactured everything is contained a bunch of falls off everybody's 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's 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 wind shield is about to crack in my face with a last trade me in a million different ways and i'm loving it because it's god so that's going to. you know interest in something. he's a writer freak in the seventy's to travel all over america. to everyone the solo freaks and charlatans and con men and geniuses that are american what you're trying to do me to find americas equal part three in genius or is it just all god fearing normal people that all my friends are now i'm an american character those three. are very good for the murder 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 but are bumping i think it's more like oh a lot of people want to do it the people who are doing it want to. do want to have a boy sorry again you're free come as much as possible i mean is it safe to live here anymore no anything. other than a word with the worst things contributing to that by. mining the flame mining mining drug some rough 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 now you're trying you want more money for the for yourself you want some of the friends of mine to use it since it is you mean are you committing sins are you are you actively engaging in some night night yet you know you might feel you know yeah

quick question this is just finally here begun in america just to feel safe here. not just to say yeah i feel like a bubble. sure you get. to. be a go go dancer in your own cities or in the nineteen eighties like seventy's early eighty's when i am lesbian bar i got to lose man that's the thing. well. enough and like all that i got the legs for a lot of women would kill for legs like mine. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world the follow. fix small business i'm show business i'll see that.

reflect there's someone else living inside of me or controlling my body. the byproduct of that drug is the cause like severe depression. because it literally made him into a zombie it's crazy. you know we don't have to do anything it's not our fault the shoes plays into it all that. here's a traumatic. in the united states we've proactively required brominated flame retardants to be

put into furniture and marketing among other things and that's resulted in extremely higher levels of those flame retardants in the human bodies of americans as opposed to europeans and that ultimately has affected the cognitive outcomes of literally a generation of american children. u.s. veterans who come back from war often until those 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 of offices we're going to attack and destroy the government in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money on those with dives if we were willing to go into harms way. and

willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness for peace. so alex schieffer is eating our time and the installment cure is in las vegas packs of course these to do nuclear testing right there at nine hundred fifty 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 comic bombs and arrives in the mushroom clouds of us about 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 paintings what is think of you know you're not observe 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 nets phoenix i 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 entertain. 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. rev their 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 right 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 a pin in my eyes is america and you know it's for better or worse this is the this is what's happening guys it's creative destruction essentially right isn't that

kind of like go boom wrote that book disaster capitalism climb right now oh me 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 jumps are 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 the what the government recommends yes so you know just to squint i just you know my son and i don't trump looked at this at the at the at the eclipse to squint your fly i just saw a story about an artificial intelligence painting which just sold for four hundred twenty thousand dollars. i saw that right is it a print i didn't really look like

a brand and it's old for over four hundred thousand dollars at auction that's unbelievable i mean being replaced by a robot us 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 but trash 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 explosion 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 fellow in custody. 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 frog 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 pay 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 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

a confrontation with this when you were visited by homeland security and the f.b.i. yet it's you know if you're painting you're burning the bank paintings were real right 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 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 gallon 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 you know 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 a. they're just handing out credit cards on unsolicited mailings of credit cards

and that's all money creation. who are these guys and frick and delaware and self the coda isn't just a bunch of computers in 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 oh you. know the robots do that 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 macon uniforms and bullets 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 that 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 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 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 measure just to keep the speculators on 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 they're like oh man these guys are not there and just bleeding money constantly so they're like yeah give us the go. 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 you're going to sell it for bitcoin you got to download your album wallet and we're going to get you some show it queen you bet some hard money i'm down i've 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 robot so i know. that's my goal right. know you know you told hold up hold up already hold on. i just remembered stacy

wants to buy this painting so she wants to buy this painting right here i want to use to avril walter but says you bloody have to buy this you got it let's do it done deal i want one dollar per square inch or two hundred eighty eight what comes in a currency would you like that in what you could hook me up with some app or some your average is the app you must have aberrated 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 me you want because the original choice i'm going to run to avril all right. thank

you love your weren't bloody by don't you know you're my. collecting you for your. god. so i wasn't born in one thousand sixty five and this led me to manufacture but this is something you saw there in westchester county and before like the pimp kind of destroyed the whole. cadillac sort of look bob still living in the bubble movie one of piracy that you know during that era five was an adult when he started making big bucks like a baby blues. and that was deathly white 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 cadillacs you know when they start making money is selling a little side and then in the seventy's it was like you know it started buying these and then the end of the town all right well i guess they showed up at the used car lots of town and you know the band said you know that's an awful a nice to

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