Hunter-Gatherers Podcast of Hunter S. Thompson Stories

Looking back a half-century into the Hunter S. Thompson masterwork "Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72" offers odd perspectives. In this episode of our ongoing series, looking at March of 1972, we find the famous violence and disruption on front-runner Ed Muskie's campaign train that landed our hero in hot water. (Spoiler alert: the "Man From Maine" does not fare well in these pages.) Also,...

It's been 50 years since Hunter S. Thompson went on the road for the articles that became "Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail, '72." Attentive readers may recall that the book is organized by months, and Curtis and Christopher begin a new occasional series that compares this election year to those days a half-century ago. The results are both frustrating and oddly comforting.

The Bobby Kennedy III directed "Fear & Loathing in Aspen," which is about Hunter's run for sheriff of Pitkin County, is apparently tearing it up on STARZ and recently hit Amazon Prime. We have one of the producers, Trey Terpeluk of Yo Productions, who joins Christopher and Curtis to discuss the film, his political childhood, discovering HST through a twisted vision of Washington D.C. and, oh yes (...

Hosts Curtis Robinson and Christopher Tidmore answer listener questions about Hunter S. Thompson. Which book to read first? Curtis makes the case for The Great Shark Hunt, but the movies are also a great start. What's the truth about Hunter's advice column? Listen to find out.

That Time Paul Budnitz Won Tickets to The Hunter & Oscar Show! Can we credit (or blame) a mid-80s HST Q&A in San Fransisco for our current rise in animated celebs? Oh yes, that's a thing and our guest Paul Budnitz of Superplastic studio is perhaps the world's top culprit. In an interview with hosts Curtis Robinson and Christopher Tidmore, Paul also admits to having once used autodial to win radio-...

Our hosts Curtis Robinson and Christopher Tidmore discuss Tucker Carlson, the famed Fox News host and wannabe Maine fishing guide, who includes his own Hunter S. Thompson story in "The Long Slide," his book about decades in media. It's a touching story of HST's influence, and a reminder of how truly polarized we are these days. Also, there's a hug that left an impression.

Hosted by Curtis Robinson and Christopher Tidmore and recorded in New Orleans, we start with announcement of a documentary about Hunter S. Thompson's oft-discussed campus "speaking" tours; and Matt Moseley reads a chapter from his new book, "Ignition," the one about running the media chaos for the Hunter memorial that shot his ashes out of a monster cannon.

We resume our weekly content production with a West Coast road trip, complete with catching the opening of the new HST film by Bobby Kennedy III, "Fear & Loathing in Aspen," which is available at Amazon Prime and other places. Our multi-part recording binge begins with returning champion Dan Dunn, of What We're Drinking With Dan Dunn fame, who you may recall is pretty much our West Coast co-host....

We resume our weekly content production with a West Coast road trip, complete with catching the opening of the new HST film by Bobby Kennedy III, "Fear & Loathing in Aspen," which is available at Amazon Prime and other places. Our multi-part recording binge begins with returning champion Dan Dunn, of What We're Drinking With Dan Dunn fame, who you may recall is pretty much our West Coast co-host....

We resume our weekly content production with a West Coast road trip, complete with catching the opening of the new HST film by Bobby Kennedy III, "Fear & Loathing in Aspen," which is available at Amazon Prime and other places. Our multi-part recording binge begins with returning champion Dan Dunn, of What We're Drinking With Dan Dunn fame, who you may recall is pretty much our West Coast co-host....

We resume our weekly content production with a West Coast road trip, complete with catching the opening of the new HST film by Bobby Kennedy III, "Fear & Loathing in Aspen," which is available at Amazon Prime and other places. Our multi-part recording binge begins with returning champion Dan Dunn, of What We're Drinking With Dan Dunn fame, who you may recall is pretty much our West Coast co-host....

That infamous Kobe Bryant sexual assault case found HST fully engaged in monitoring events. Our Curtis Robinson talks to Randy Wyrick, former editor of Vail Daily newspaper, to connect more than a few dots. Was the Owl Farm Kitchen ground zero for the global Kobe Bryant information effort?

HST's Political Legacy: Freak Power Rules Dave Danforth, longtime Aspen journalist and owner of the Aspen Daily News, joins Curtis Robinson to discuss HST's political legacy in the Rockies. Of course, Hunter famously believed that politics is the art of controlling your environment and in the 1970s, he advanced the "freak power" politics in and Around Aspen, Colorado – he mostly lost the battles b...

That time author Tim Cahill and Hunter S. Thompson tested a new cocaine theory at dinner: Many are the at-dinner with Hunter stories. But, few match the time in San Francisco when the Good Doctor was working with Rolling Stone (still headquartered in San Francisco in those days) and fellow Rolling Stone writer Tim Cahill (future founding editor of Outside Magazine and one of America's best adventu...

Murder, he wrote... NOT In this episode, author and communications strategy guru Matt Moseley talks to Curtis Robinson about that time Hunter shamed the Colorado justice system into releasing a woman from a life-without-parole murder sentence. And Moseley should know, his "Dear Dr. Thompson" book was about that effort, and of course the beloved Wayne Ewing film "Free Lisl" is a great telling of th...

Casting Director Margery Simkin In this episode, the Hunter-Gatherers, Curtis Robinson and Dan Dunn, speak with Margery Simkin, the legendary Hollywood casting director, about her work on Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, how Johnny Depp got that break-through role on 21 Jump Street and how a future Spiderman came to be in the Vegas film. The conversation was part of our live recording binge at the Lo...

KNOWING THE FUTURE IS EASY, KNOWING THE TIMETABLE IS HARD Hunter-Gatherer, Stephen Nemeth of Rhino Films, along with Dan Dunn and Curtis Robinson, discuss how Hunter S. Thompson had an eery prescience of today's world politics. Nemeth also talks about his upcoming film, The Curse of Lono, based on Hunter S. Thompson's 1983 work, along with teasing Rhino's upcoming animated sequel to Fear and Loath...

The HST Legacy in DC A special treat this episode: joining Danny Dunn and Curtis Robinson is Carl Hulse, New York Times chief Washington correspondent and author of "Confirmation Bias: Inside Washington's War Over the Supreme Court, from Scalia's Death to Justice Kavanaugh" talks about how Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in '72" set him on a path to journalism. While...

Better Than Sax: Let's Talk Politics The story of HST is, of course, the ongoing story of American politics. So why not engage a bit of Democratic party royalty to talk about today's electoral environment? Dan Dunn (The Imbiber)and Curtis Robinson chat with John Conyers III, the son of the late John Conyers Jr., who was the longest-serving African-American in the U.S. Congress (the congressman die...

ABOUT THAT MUSKIE ATTACK...We take the time machine back to the 70s, to Florida and the Sen. Ed Muskie presidential campaign aboard his Sunshine Express. Curtis Robinson interviews famed BBC cameraman Ray Breslin, who was there and filmed “Hunter” attacking the candidate. It’s a famous incident HST noted often, but this shows just how sure the press was that it was him, not a prankster. More on th...

What was HST like as a first-time author? Margaret Harrell was Hunter S. Thompson's trusted copy editor for his first book, "Hells Angels," published by Random House in 1967. During that time, she was the assistant editor to Jim Silverman (at Random House)and worked on the books of several renown authors, including John Irving, Richard Farina, Chet Huntley(of The Huntley-Brinkley Report)and Suprem...

A Fan’s Note The next time H-G host Curtis Robinson is asked how he met Hunter, he’ll finally be able to say, “uh, it’s on the podcast site.” The story illustrates that nobody was ever safe from that HST memory. Plus, some program notes of interest for real-time listeners (1-12-20) and a shout out to a legendary sheriff.

It's NFL playoff time, and given that HST's short suicide note found time to lament the end of football season, our attention turns to Fear & Loathing at the Super Bowl, Hunter's screed about SB8, played in Houston. Producer Curtis Robinson recalls reading the piece with the Doctor at Owl Farm, calling it a link to later "Hey Rube" efforts. CR says this is Hunter at his best, especially when it ca...

CONNECTING THE DOTS PART TWO: READINGS This is the second in a two-part series of interviews by Curtis Robinson with Nile Southern, son of Terry Southern. In this segment, Nile reads from his father's works, including the opening paragraph of Twirling at Ole Miss – widely considered the first New Journalism article.

CONNECTING THE DOTS If contemporary politics leaves you brooding over the wisdom that "Dr. Strangelove" brought to the silver screen, then rest assured you are not alone. Who knew it flirted with documentary? In this episode, we get a guided tour inside the likely thoughts of Terry Southern, who wrote that "no fighting in the war room!" film along with the landmarks Easy Rider and Barbarella and.....