We talk about journalist, provocateur, political analyst, wildman & drug aficionado Hunter S. Thompson and discuss why he is the perfect avatar for The Long Seventies. Part two starts with Thompson’s most famous work Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and hits the gas from there right past the ’72 election, Zaire disaster and goes over the edge at Reagan’s invasion of Grenada.
Alcatraz Is Not An Island: The 1969 Indian Occupation
Substitute Teachercast — Drug Abuse: The Chemical Tomb (1969)
Go Ask Alice: No One Here Gets Out Alive
The 1973 Oil Crisis
The Parallax View: Paranoia Runs Deep and Puts America to Sleep
Space Is the Place: Sun Ra & Afrofuturism
The Japanese Music Gear Import Boom
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: Rural Decay as Materialist Lovecraftian Outsideness Horror
The Citizen’s Commission to Investigate the FBI
Chariots of the Gods: Ancient Aliens & Epistemic Crisis
The Nixon Shock: A Brief Survey of America’s Dromotropic Monetary Policy
Existential Car Chases
Decade of Dope: Introduction
The “Friends” of Eddie Coyle
The Hauntology of Horror Movies
We’re Back for 2021
Raw Force: Kung Fu Cannibals
Gus Hall: Revolutionary Optimism
Joe Namath & the Super Bowl III Guarantee
Whatever Happened to Yuri Bezmenov?
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History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
The Rest Is History
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra