the country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's why they've got to hit the road and get out of america what makes america take the show it's the genius. american hero who says it we 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 bee i think i'm gonna leave now don't forget the more gonzo you may be completely different end of this journey. there's your ancestor motion gone apart maxwell my whole relative used to be the biggest landowner in the rig this is amazing that we're here i'm probably touching my ma roots he was the largest ever private land holder in u.s. history. here it is billy the kid's tombstone. he was such an

anti-hero they actually locked him up in prison even in death. but dr you know they escaped many times from prison and he escaped death and become immortal american myth. i see that he was only twenty one they called him the boy bandit king. the boy band of the king well this is genius and it lives on in the all the people that we love and adore today the american characters like donald trump is kind of a boy branded king of the twenty first century. and i guess the sympathy for him is that he was essentially orphaned thirteen and we know how. the wild west we know what the wild west was like is a very dangerous place so he had to hook up with some bad guys you know some gun slingers and he himself was alleged to have killed eight people including

a sheriff so that's what he was executed for by pat garrett right here on your ancestors property and you also see it like the actual two stone is incased in some metal a metal frame because the first time it was stolen it was taken to graham berry texas where it's found twenty six years later and that town was quite interesting because it's a town where real bad guys lived real outlaws who had faked their deaths but they were real living their think charlatans kings popper's geniuses billy the kid kind of encompasses all those qualities you know he's a great american hero and we've seen today the american entrepreneurs and politicians steve jobs doll and trump they all come from billy the kid the other theme that holds to billy the kid is that of course there are many many many conspiracy theories that he in fact was not killed and that he went on to live and there are even up to just

a few years ago they want to exuma him and take some genetic testing and see if it's actually him and so you know just like elvis. they never die just dogs and they never die they just become immortal even to them . modern times where all the nine eleven victims never really died it was all staged fake all those plane crashes the same with all the sandy hook like we always have this thing of like these tragic big huge epic events never actually happen people don't like to accept. and so they mythologize their heroes and they never die and with billy the kid this is a quintessentially american hero who forged a path in the west and one to war with the authorities and became a mortal and became a myth and became a proto typical boy outlaw king that is the. character

reinvented elvis reinvented donald trump reinvented the boy genius to outlaw king i'm tearing up here you know i really feel an affinity i guess because of my old ancestors land and such a stark old moment happened here. you know it's moving yes so we've you know seen walter white we saw all the gangster lore of las vegas we saw we talked to your friend chaz they're the author of inspired by many of the outlaws in american history to commit a crime here we have billy the kid he is still an anti-hero and like that ghost guy you know we continue to make money off him there are activists trying to get him pardoned up to this day by the governor but obviously if they pardon him he's no longer a bad guy and new mexico can no longer make money off to this day people are always pushing the law and some get caught some go to jail but some become heroes well i'm

going to go look at that like four or five other at tombstones and this cemetery here you know do it i'm going to spend some time in philly ok have fun. but i see some folks and shotgun shells and cigarettes it seems like a fitting tribute this reminds me of a parallel in paris where i spent some time at the tombstone of jim morrison another american character outlaw the lizard king. romantically tragically and paris buried along with some of the greatest authors of all time. jim morrison claim to be a great poet many people argued that point and yet he's buried with some of the buried with some of the greatest poets ever in european history and. i have to believe he has spared carried him to. poetic greatness in the end. acts you want to come check

this out. this is your ancestors to. get it read this. wow. bonaparte maxwell a native of cask casket illinois for a trader and trapper who by industry good fortune and trading became sole owner and eight hundred sixty four of the largest single tract of land owned by any one individual in the united states maxwell founded the first national bank of santa fe new mexico and invested two hundred fifty thousand dollars to build the texas pacific railroad dynamic charitable lavish one of the great builders of the american west sentence one of the great builders of the american west. i love it long enough to pay tribute to my ancestors. and i'm thinking of stacy i should be buried in this graveyard someday oh my other a relative saying to be here a lot of maxwells a few macs and believe the kid timothy maxwell kaiser i could get up by going to

talk to the new mexico authorities about this so he helped build the texas pacific railroad your other ancestor hugh maxwell in pennsylvania actually built the first turnpike through pennsylvania so that whole maxwell that maxwell part of you is an american entrepreneurial spirit your builders yeah i like that well we're going to take it into the twenty first century and i'm very excited very moving to meet all this and be part of this get it right i'm crying inside. yeah we've got a lot of work to do still you know this trip has gone to a ship heading to the swamp and it's really about rediscovering one's roots and understanding what needs to still be done and taking the the maxwellian global imperative into the next phase well unfortunately he was one of the

great builders of the american west america no longer has builders we have private equity sort of extractors and that is extracting assets extracting wealth from all our assets and like leaving a carcass as kind of a locust sort of model. some say is of builder so he does build things he's done a lot older he's a developer you know we're traveling across the country as we have been doing we are staying in a lot of hotels a lot of guys who are building stuff there are building roads building bridges and these are workin guys and really puts me back in touch with my my roots builder you know i started my career on wall street. as an extractor now i'm getting more in touch with my so i was a builder that was interesting being out here in very remote new mexico last night in our cheap motel there were a lot of cowboy boots left outside the rooms and you saw the guys in the elevator

and they had really really really caked on mud boots on and it looked like they were doing something yeah one guy was heading out to the rig to put in a full day's work he said it's a little tough because you got to artificial knees but you know he was off often running having back to go to the work site that's what this country is built on grit grit well let's go look at this grit when you get some grit some kind of hungry that's a good idea we're not quite down to the south yet. so do you feel like part of the american west. very much so. i think this is a pilgrimage for me personally that has been to still to go back to this this describes. you know that's all was interesting that we are all more connected than way then we think we all have families we all have friends we all have connections to history and the more connected you are the more mentally healthy you

are you know mental disease comes from. disconnecting from going away from the connections that make up who you are so for me it's very satisfying to see all this is part of my ancestor old history and here i am i'm on this journey and i'm intersecting with this part of my history as part of american history so i'm connecting you know all multiple different ways the history of new mexico the history of the united states the history of the old west my personal history the history of this gonzo american pilgrimage so it all comes together in a very satisfying way because it's all very connected in that way and it's. it's the. american stone. and out here in amarillo texas. cadillac ranch.

this is i work out a life came from rome out here like alfalfa about their manufacturing destroyed or worse yet i had no idea that cadillacs or farm truck you know this is the most unusual car accident never happen to my aunt any interest dave ever doesn't get any more gondola no sorry my paint over you. don. now to whom i am right you can hear her jacket just in here i'll become part of the art installation and it is easy and i know we go. to afghanistan here now for the rest of my days that is so gonzo i think i ruined your jacket but on the positive front you are immoral now you are paying no no

problem. plan for all contingencies and then don't read onerous thompson for nothing. now living on the imagine these cadillacs trying stuck in the dirt like this we had disco with some truth and it was the internet i was driving down the road what happened and it was a dirt road selling turquoise on the side of the road i saw the turquoise i saw your image and one of them it was as big as my god who was in the taco rolled over the highway like a tumbleweed where the whole surface was cracked like the face of my grandmother my third birthday to me a five dollar bill and i bought some candy corn and i shared it with my friends at school and then they threw rocks and then they threw rocks at the cutest one i heard you speaking with a southern accent i feel

a little bit of that so there are news coming down at a really nothing to be ashamed of i think i inhaled too many humans through this pain yeah that's got to be a problem here all that paints you there's not the regulating that is there. this is texas. i just want to get me one of these cadillacs and drive away. the united states does that all the time it always tries to influence elections when people who are running who are friendly to the united states are running against people who are unfriendly we certainly did that all through central america

and south america for many many years we know that these efforts are made repeatedly there are not criminal every intelligence agency in the world she's a support of its function to make sure that elections turn out favorably to the country. or witnessing something quite remarkable in the night twenty nine we're watching a country testbed in the nineteenth century bubble really four. hundred years they're going to crash into the twenty first century. as if they're just being teleported into the twenty first time. she'll be even begin. to depend on miles from absolute independence

with that with. a less impact the counselor's if. they. were started in my life who speculate hint that me or the now with jamie has a one quarter. now it's a bad day because hell i got money for that matter i see let him make me forget me it would be in the middle have been closer gave up because of me . so across in texas and of course when you cross texas is a lot of desert and there's

a lot. of distance between exits. so our sponsor was very concerned about us and sent us this bottle wish we could fill it water yeah but i forgot to say fill it with water that will float on the other side of the desert. when you think about the cadillac ranch as a an example of building they will come. visit our walls our art is one of those parts of any working community society that is the central. if there's one thing really hugely different than the u.s. versus europe is that in europe they understand the value of art and the community it what it does to lift a community in america they don't see are as be communally uplifting in any way and it's been relegated to the margins and that's not funded and artists are looked down upon as opposed to europe worse complete opposite and yet that clearly was

a mecca for people going on pilgrimage to go see this cadillac ranch middle of nowhere texas so they were coming to that i might add that there were italians there were some germans i think i heard some sweet so you know they were being drawn from europe it was inspiring it did look like an american stonehenge are equivalent to what our modern society values which is the great american car when america was a great many people think. you know we're crossing america feels huge out west for sure but the other thing. that it just seems a lot calmer than anything you see on twitter social media sites i kind of feel like social media is where the crazy people doubt that that makes people crazy it is where the crazy people down. because people are normal outside of twitter

and i think think about it that these hugely powerful people will respond to trolls who have five followers and i'll get into these flame wars and people that are who knows where they are you know people sitting in a barbershop somewhere in wichita falls texas with nothing to do that they they're in a flame war with syria rubini here. bill gates or something it goes on for a bed then they block one block the other at dover but yeah there's no boundary. wall separating these people and that does smack a bit americana you know the absence of a rigid class system although that changing of course but this all the egalitarian democracy opening. is there on twitter and it's being shut down of

course because they powers that be hate. egalitarian ism and democracy so they don't like the fact that people are assembling you know ways american that they're right to assemble but that means the right to dissent that means the right to overthrow and that can't be tolerated twitter face up down facebook being now managed by. you know global government forces who want to keep the dialogue within a certain narrow range and social media just think that corporate media. same thing happened through the internet it started up extraordinarily open and for a job perry barlow was writing about it. true democratic. in that it has the corporate ties. their song for soccer got pulled over by the cops. my god it's our. guy again

yeah. that's al. i guess. they really are. feeling so as being arrested by the sheriffs. where you check out american infrastructure that's how america has me green to force this bridge was actually in the news until two thousand and one and of course like everything in america is haunted by this guy he learned when a minute thank you and looks like misfires time. already knew he didn't see it or when he's hearing on this rickety old bridge that's wanted him out as i don't know man what are you guys doing here with this get up this is a pure america. connel center is me it's tom wolfe me it's don ho you know i'm here just advising some clients in the energy market oh and of course the hardest working man on wall street are you did one of them jump off the fracking industry

isn't making all the money they are quiet about those fracking bonzo no water loss rather than oh my god it's not even i still think that oil prices are far too high right now because if you look at what's going on around the world in china and elsewhere there's no demand so that means oil prices will come down i see oil going back into the twenty's at some point and then fracking becomes so you spend you spend x. but you're only getting back like less than three cents on the dollar that you're spending to create these money jobs that mitt america is a great oil nation again where big oil where up there with russia and saudi arabia so you're saying it's a figment of our imagination and it will evaporate overnight well i think that there's a lot of things that are for. one of our imagination and then they're about as murky as that water is so i mean when they when the rubber hits the road i think there's going to be a bit of a problem and people are starting to realize that you can't really trust the media because they lie about everything and the politicians are equally as bad so

typically in an economy gets this this joint and it ends up causing some social unrest and one thing gaps and are you seeing as well we've got the greatest wealth inequality in the history of this planet right now and that dispersion is not good when you see something like that you know and you've seen in europe you've seen anti-semitism on the rise in paris with the fire bombings of the synagogues of course we had a horrific shooting in united states in that synagogue recently and of course everybody trying to blame donald trump you are from new york which is very liberal town city and you're jewish how do you feel as an american jew living in this country do you feel this do you feel any sort of anti-semitism rising do you blame donald trump many people are suffering from trump derangement syndrome so they're trying to blame trump for everything and that the anti-semitism as you know live between the united kingdom and here has been on the rise in britain for quite a while this isn't because of donald trump and it's not because of donald trump's

politics i mean i think like if you go back to the one nine hundred thirty s. when hitler came to power you know we saw similar things and what we're seeing now with the social justice warriors and they want to get rid of some of the disney characters and disney stories is akin to the book burnings that they had back then i mean because look you can't rewrite history you should learn from history and it's really important you get into a very dark place and you start to do that when you suppress free thought and free speech it is fascism because i agree with you i'm tolerant i'm accepting i am diverse in till you disagree with my opinion at which point i become a violent intolerant fascist and be you because it's ok because you must be a nazi if you don't agree with me so i can beat you i can do anything. to you violence is acceptable and i think that it's disgraceful are you have politicians in washington like maxine waters or like the former attorney general that are saying you've got to kick them you know you've got to go out and get in their face and harass them so you mentioned the authorities and some parallels with the

thirty's of course that came about after the treaty of versailles after world war one reparations had to be paid from germany and they were draconian and it set up a disaster in two thousand and eight my question to you is the sixteen seventeen trillion dollar giveaway to wall street creditors was that equivalent in a way as reparations to wall street that then set up this huge backlash you know i think that the bailouts and you know that i wrote my book because of the bailouts and i disagreed with the bell outs and if you remember back to the one nine hundred eighty s. when you had the resolution trust company that took the s n l's and actually put bankers in prison i mean i think that's what should have been done bankers should have gone to jail the reason why i wrote my book was because when it i said when the credit crisis hits next time which it will and don't say you know it's going to be worse because what you're going to do is take down the entire financial system because all you've done is kick the can down the road to the point at which now we're going to have

a crisis like you've never seen before globally which could lead to world war three now how to make america great again because one thing we've also noticed crossing the country is like when we saw max's ancestors land he helped build the union pacific railroad he helped finance that part of what made america such a powerful nation was not only our bountiful landscape but the fact that we invested in the country and in infrastructure now the model is one that you know very well as a private equity guy it's more that private equity extracting all the wealth and assets and equity and not building anything we don't build anything anymore and how do we do that is a big problem as you as you rightly point out is that financialization and. using debt to buy your shares back and pay the c.e.o. suite and pay all the little you know the people that work for you in the in the upper echelons of the company and basically screw over the shareholders and screw over all your employees like amazon for example what happens is you're creating

grotesque asset bubbles in the stock market the bond market and the property markets and all of these bubbles are going to explode simultaneously this time and it's kind of like a nuclear sort of thing it sucks the air out of the rest of america because the asset bubbles you talk about are on the coast there in san francisco los angeles washington d.c. and new york thinking about tomic weapons we are in vegas and we're at a bar where there used to watch atomic weapons explode in the desert as entertainment so are we living in an era where these financial atomic weapons and explosions that you're talking about as they go off it's just common is entertainment that's the problem you've got the propagandists at the mainstream and traditional media that are pushing forward what they are basically are their political tools moving forward scripted narratives that most of america just acts like in a boat kind of way it goes. it's like a very texas relevant metaphor. exactly the scene of the cows we driving around here it's amazing here so the army. did oh i

haven't had any barbecue going to have the experience to get some brisket you know on join us on the ground. correct spectacles this is my theory aren't. jimi hendrix purple haze which one do you think that i think. purple haze. yeah you're ready to journey let's go how would you talk about twenty dollar oil so you know you don't want to come back and see hanging from this bridge. that's our hero. our i'm going to end up in the polls. or not you guys are going to get me arrested

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the most abuse the least. one can get what the. deuce did the job most of us prefer and most would move it into. the most splendid. yoakum a lot. more. little shame when you don't let. the little. you know world a big part of some group logs and conspiracy it's time to wait. 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. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops

the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. more fury in france tens of thousands of yellow vests. for a fourth straight weekend of government protests with clashes erupting in the further demonstrations are expected this sunday also ahead. haiti is grip by several. protesters.