The censoring is due to the fact UKposts are consistently combing through everything I make looking for issues, every video as of recent has received a manual review despite clearly following guidelines, it's why I am forced to censor anything they might find as controversial. I will find a way to make the censors more seamless in future, realistically I saw the gaps as servicable as opposed to a jarring bleep sound constantly, but I see why it might cut up the flow of the video. When UKposts find issues it doesn't just affect income, it vastly affects the performance of the channel, and even ability to release content on time as some manual reviews take weeks.

casual face reveal. goat behavior

Man, thank you for giving a genuine look at who Thompson was and not just perpetuating the caricature.

One of my favourite stories about Hunter relates back to his campaign for Sheriff, his opponent was a hardcore ex military officer who had more than a little disdain for those within the counterculture. Hunter knew this and so he shaved his head with a razor effectively becoming as bald as a cue ball, all so he could refer to his opponent as a “long-haired hippy” Hunter was quite a formidable troll

its scary how nothing changes

As an old head, I feel proud of and happy for you. You are going to make it young man. Keep going, believe in yourself. You are going to make it.

Coolea looks like if John Krasinski was big fan of Deftones.

"We can't stop here, this is bat country"

Coolea looks like Emo Pyrocynical. Love it

The good doctor would have definitely hated the level of censorship in this age. Even words that aren't even close to being vulgar are censored now (strictly because they're related to unpleasant subjects), which is obviously just a way of running away from/burying the head in the sand to just try to ignore reality, thinking that pretending these things don't exist would just make them cease to exist.

As someone who is very empathic and can read people very well, the lizard person scene in Fear and Loathing is very relatable.

The first I read fear and loathing, it was a fun drug fueled romp, that made me become a Raoul duke kinda figure in high school, when I read it again a year or two later, I understood the warning that the American dream was already dead, and the hippie culture that once fueled the change that I wanted to see had burnt itself out on drugs and looking for the light at the end of the tunnel, and since then I have spread that message as much as I can

I remember growing up and idolizing HST, but now that I'm older...all the stuff about Raoul Duke and the drugs is kind of depressing. It's like he was locked into trying to be "cool" for the rest of his adult life. No doubt he would have done a lot more wonderful work if he wasn't that addicted to drugs. Who wouldn't have wanted to read that boxing story?

ngl i thought this was gonna be some incel video, but i was pleasantly surprised that it was a video by the guy who taught me what sludge metal was.

I met Hunter in 2000. I won't say where or how because of who reads UKposts comments. I'll just say he was a complete ahole, but I still loved talking to him.

Dude.. watch almost every one of Ur videos and i was reading fear and loathing again and showing the movie to a few mates, and then BOOM you make a video of it. We are aligned good sir

" i admire the shape of your skull"😂

Oscar Zeta Acosta deserves a video of his own. This was wonderful, Coolea! I should give Fear and Loathing another read and finish Rum Diaries

was not expecting a longer form docu style vid from you, but I very much welcome it!!!!!

Great video and respect that you slowed the pace to provide a detailed and thorough quick documentary.

Man, I wish you'd stuck with your adorable little goblin avatar. Don't get me wrong - you're a handsome devil - but the camera takes me out of it after all this time with the goblin lol

After that poll you posted the other day, i figured you were about to hit us with some fun culture and history. Sealed and delivered! Keep up the high quality work, good sir.

Love me some HST... too weird to live, too rare to die

Not a bad upload at all, good job mate! Where the buffalo roam and the great white shark hunt was my favorites. Thanks for reminding people about the search for a dream and breaking habits.

Grandmas are reading queen's biography, completely lost in it... And we're here, watching biography of journalist. Both sides are asking themselves - what's compelling in that? Yet real life is writing the most mindblowing and intresting stories, that's one thing certain! Never been more glad to find such a gem of a channel.

This kinda videos are way more interesting to me than nu metal or emo. Please keep it up!

You're a great writer/speaker. I enjoy all your videos but this is reeallyyyy good dude

Excellent video. Appreciate your work.

I don’t think there’s anything tragic about Hunter. Guy lived through crazy times, on his terms, had a hell of a time doing it, and his writing will live on forever. “The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and later. But the edge is still out there.”

One of your best videos man, keep these videos up.

Great video! I like these video essays you do.

I love the direction your going with vids. Great work coolea

Love your videos and so happy to see a video about Hunter done by you.

Really enjoyed this new style! Looking forward to more :D

This was an incredible video. You did an amazing job. Thanks for doing this.

Love seeing Thompson focused on and it not just being all about the drugs. I read as much of his stuff as I could.

Great fucking video! Never expected that I needed a Coolea video on Hunter S Thomson but I guess I did!!

I've used HST as a litmus test for a few years. If when he is mentioned, someone says "who's that?", there's hope. If they say "oh, the drug guy" or "wait, he's a real person?" I generally make it a point to never talk to that human being again. And if they've spent as much of their life and energy learning as much about him like/as I have, then they're probably intolerable.

Longer style videos like this are my favorite. Keep em coming 😎

love the new format !

They’re demonetizing drug names? What am I, a child? What am I even paying for.

Excellent take on Thompson dude. I've long been frustrated by the way his earlier journalism always gets overlooked and how his talent as a writer got so derailed by the drink and drugs and cartoon persona. After the publication of "The Great Shark Hunt" (which if I remember featured an intro in which Thompson was already contemplating death) there was never any more than occasional sparks of brilliance from his work. It always broke my heart the way he fell off. It's decades since I've read them, but I recall being really taken by the first volume of his letters ("The Proud Highway") - from what I remember of the second, they were already just repetitive and frustrating complaints about money and updates on a book we know he never got round to actually writing. The first volume was brilliant though. I should probably pick it up again to see how they hold up now I'm no longer an impressionable teenager though. 😛

I know you mentioned Thompson's stance against DV, you failed to mention his culpability in knocking Sandy around before they were divorced.

Man, I imagine that Mr. Thompson would be very disappointed with the current incarnation of Rolling Store.

Wonderful video, thanks for posting.

Thompson also mentioned in a interview about hunting humans aka human hunting partys

I love your channel and you made a video about my favorite author/journalist!!!!!!! Amazing

the coolea artistic progression is the type of content i love to see

That was an amazing video man 👏

Greed and Power. Hard to talk about on UKposts. Peace, gratitude, love. Thanks, dude

i love you bro very unexpected video but ur the goat fr

thanks for giving me new look on him. never really knew about him that much before, but now i'm interested in him

Hunter S Thompson claimed to have created snuff films on two different occasions. But maybe he was just being irony poisoned.

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this video was wonderful! thank you for being so thorough in your research and detailing of his life. i have only seen several old interviews and things and have only read the hells angels book and fear and loathing, and i wasnt aware of a lot of this. its sad how his legacy has mostly become him being a drug addled weirdo, instead of the pioneering journalist he was. i think that even though he spent much of his life searching for either the american dream or the death of it, i think you could say, in a certain way, he was able to find his own personal american dream for his life, even if it was through cynicism, satire and altered states

Great work, man 👌

This was such a unexpected upload but I’m glad you did, this is sick.

it's crazy, I just stumble upon Las Vegas Parano, the book. I have like 6 books of him, but I haven't read this one for a long time, and bam!!! A Coolea vid on him... Synchronicity at it's best!!!!

Real Coolea fans know this isn't his face reveal

Mate., I've really enjoyed your videos but this is a step up. Thanks!

I'm ever so grateful that my introduction to Hunter S. Thompson was his book Hell's Angels. What a wild ride that was.

Fear And Loathing is the only book I’ve ever read that made me feel intoxicated while I was indeed sober at the time. Incredibly talented writer

I can't watch a video that censors it's own language for monetization purposes. Hunter would be disappointed.

In the movie one flew over the cuckoo‘s nest. There is a scene where McMurphy (played by Jack Nicholson) bets one of the inmates that he can lift a large washing up station bolted to the floor… The inmates tell him no way that he can do that…McMurphy takes the bet…. after incredible strain and stress and sweat of trying, he gives up…The inmates laughing say told you that you couldn’t do it…McMurphy walks away saying…At least I tried…That was the sixties.🍭

This has been one of your most brilliant videos. It would be truly amazing if you did a video on J.D Salinger.

Well thats not an 8 minute video for adhd riddled brains. I really liked that and would watch either. Keep it up my guy

The most baffling part about this video is how much he had to censor it.

You missed his foray into the America's Cup yacht race. Some inspired mischief, along with Ralph Steadman who he co-opted into the madness. It's also worth reading Steadman's take on Hunter, particularly in "The Joke's Over". In a way, he's a modern day Boswell to Thompson's Samuel Johnson.

DUDE!!!! Fuck YES!!!! Needed this today! Long live Gonzo!!!!

This is awesome 😎. Didn't know this much about Hunter S. Thompson.

I first watched fear and loathing and it was just too good, it was so good that you could just be perpetually entertained without really digesting the deeper aspects of it...and despite the movie being very faithful to the book, the book hit me differently maybe cause you have more time to let the words run through your brain or maybe I just gathered more life experience by that time to see it all in a different light...

Have you ever considered doing a video on glam rock?

Wonderfully done sir

Awesome book, great film and there is a fantastic audiobook on YT.

Neat. I wondered how non-music work. But it worked just fine!

The quality content is strong with this one

I've been reading up a lot on HST lately, what a strange and pleasant coincidence

I grew up in louisville KY. My grandpa was in high school at the same time as HST. Grandpa went to St. X and hunter went to Atherton if I remember correctly. Louisville still has tons of odes to HST and gonzo!

Ralph Steadman's art should have been used on Thompson's 'freak power' campaign posters to get those 8 votes.

Never thought I’d be potentially sending one of your videos to my dad but here we are.

His story, one of his last, about the Supreme Court Judge was prophetic. He had inside information on a lot of stuff. Exaggeration (gonzo) was his way of not getting disappeared while conveying information. In 1977 a friend taught me how to read Thompson. When you read something incredibly outrageous about a powerful person, just dial it back down to "what if this is true to any degree?" Surprising Hunter was not unalived much sooner.

Thompson was a much loved writer during my younger years, and I was saddened to hear of his death - I never heard of it until I was reading a sunday newspaper feature in a cafe in Snowdonia one morning. My non reference reading nowadays is mostly via Audible, but sadly very little of Thompson's stuff is on there.

Mate you look like evey dude i vibe with at emo/posthardcore concerts

Let's not forget - dude was a stud. a beast. unaffected. rad

I feel Orwell Did something very similar with 1984 (I mean in terms of warning us of the shape of things to come) So much of that book feels more like an observation than anything else.

Awesome video ❤

Day 7 of asking for a ignorant guide to shock rock pls 🙏

I knew about this book but had no idea people have been making such a caricature of Thompson all these years (even being reduced to a Joe Rogan routine, wtf?)... thanks for giving a genuine reflection on his life and explaining the tragedy of his downfall, excellent video.

Hunter wasn't warning anyone, he was bragging. WSB tried to warn us.

Coolea please do video on femboys I love your vids

Aye, he listened to the poll

Thank you. No one ever gets an honest look into his accomplishments and creative landmarks and much rather focus on his exaggerated personality and later unhinged behaviors. People treat him like just a character Depp played, which insults both Thompson and Depp.

Coolea looks like hes gotten some sleep since the last video. Good shit, take care of urself king

His obit of Nixon is still one of the greatest things i have ever read.

Well done, Mr. Coolea.

from what I read the great Gatsby fact is blown out of proportion

I really like these longer form videos, brainrot still fire tho

Even if he was way past his prime, he is SORELY missed during these times of open decline in journalism worldwide.

He used to smoke Dunhills. Same brand my late dad smoked. Nice strong high tar death sticks.

Hunter S Thompson was based