yes this is it this is where i think we found our very core right here my associate dr gonzo will be partly in 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 it's almost always made songstress thompson and it's 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 to. build 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 mercer quality immersing himself in the. way inventing journalism. the media. we're going to. have to go gonzo when you're already don imus i got that 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 yeah this world we're world think is real real fake they don't really know you know the vegas is fake and that's what's real about it. you know warm. often he says if you don't know who the soccer at

that poker table is it's you it's here it's like people know the soccer and they come to vegas anyway they're like i don't have to like being a soccer 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 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 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 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 political a what 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. you had all the race riots it seems like that was a genuinely more melt down sort of period it was then you know. it is bizarre that

any more it's possible like the walter cronkite he couldn't really play the partisan games that we see on 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 an 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 are a better entertained population had c.b.s. n.b.c. . you know don imus in the morning but i mean it seems. at c.b.s. radio all the classics from the fifty's and sixty's because a thousand t.v. stations a thousand radio stations and i feel the press sent. him 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 magnet car 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 also by 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 it 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 drive for years now and i've really learned to appreciate how well you drive the occasional misstep i know this is kind of stands out you can always drive of course but i'm a driver i have a driver's license and like it's been there sixteen twenty five years. now hunter

s. thompson well didn't let something like a driver's license come between him and driving it a cadillac you know 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 car wrecks of the fifty's or sixty's or so much more spectacular. body splayed everywhere blood gushing in these days because it's so well manufactured everything is contained a bumper 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 is dangerous you can get killed in this car you could lose a limb in the 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. you know. he's a writer big in the seventy's to travel all over america. to everyone on 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 or is it just all god fearing normal people all my friends are now i'm an american character those three. are going to become or have a lot of freedom yeah i think some people don't or. the world. more reserved about their free heart and more about three i think it's more like a lot of people want to. the people who are new and i want to know if we were doing

to have a boy sorry give you free gum most response i mean is it safe to live here anymore nor anything. other than a word with the word many things contributing to that house by. mining by the flame mining mining drugs are off mining too much money to mine just too much money and making people crazy because there's too much money where the money where the money comes from the premium railing so your anti federal reserve bank. your trauma you want more money for the for yourself you want some of the printed money to use it since it is your main recommitting sensory morning actively engaging in some night night yet you know you might feel you know yeah quick question this to violence here begun in america just to feel safe here we've got this case not just fills a gap the feeling of

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have to going to be pro-choice that's what them before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. first city. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for them to let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to get us through the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

so our seats for these meetings every time of the installment leap years in las vegas backs of course the used to do nuclear testing right there in one 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 tomic bombs on the rise of the mushroom clouds of dust about glories i don't really wear dream that alexander was

in our bedroom painting. and i woke up but he was just standing there painting these exploding bank paintings what is they 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. 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. 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. and 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 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 they all make line right naomi klein just you know 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 in the schumpeter 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 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 right 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 a robot you knew you were being an artist you would be replaced by or. 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 speak 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 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. and it's you know if you're painting you're burning 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 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 kota is. 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 bing bing bing bing bing sounds like the robot zoo oh yeah the other 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 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 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 distance every measure just to keep the speculators on those cold sweat dryers from rising on the part of 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 you're going to sell it for big you've got to download your album and we're going to get you some show it queen 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 robot so i know. that's that's my goal right. there you know you told hold up hold up cody hold on. i just remembered stacy wants to buy this painting so if you want to buy this painting right here i want to use to avril wall to buy shoes you bloody if 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 well you can hook me up with some app or so 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 them to the average do it. i 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 you know you're my favorite or as i think collecting you for years ago i got to run. 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 story the whole. cadillac sort of looked up to living in a bubble movie one of the far as. you know during that era five was an adult when he started making big bucks like a baby blues. and now with the flute and the 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 when they start making money is knowing the little side and then in the seventy's the second one it started buying these and then the end of the downhill well i guess they showed up at the used car lots of town and you know the family said you know that's a tough one last leg of the you know the home plate today except i just got to get a little color maybe some fuzzy dice to reveal here are all the accoutrements.

for. us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already several generations of them so i just got

this memo from the circulating branches off 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 others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy for us. in the united states we've proactively require brominated flame retardants to be put into furniture and carpeting 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.

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