The censoring is due to the fact KZread 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 KZread 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.

@SaltyAsTheSea

21 күн бұрын

KZread blows I hope a new platform comes along. Great video though, cheers.

@niteshades_promise

21 күн бұрын

why i dont even try or care to upload music. ill just get copyright strikes, wrongfully. no point, ill never have a channel make money.🍻

@iamironman954

21 күн бұрын

It’s worth playing safe so that you can still keep making money from your work on this platform! We all appreciate the effort you make for these videos. Also, this was an excellent topic was very happy to see you had uploaded a video on Hunter s Thomson!

@ouroborosirvington

21 күн бұрын

KZreadsuckonmybigfathairycockandballscuntsarseandtitties

@ericbuzard349

20 күн бұрын

move to a Patrion-subscriber income source, many other more controversial KZreadrs have had luck with that...

casual face reveal. goat behavior

@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245

22 күн бұрын

Brooooooo 🥞🥞🥞🥞

@MetalPersonJ

21 күн бұрын

🥞🥞

@greatemperor7185

21 күн бұрын

Yeah he kinda look like that guy that was into Danny fantom KZread guy.

@Rubberpoliceman1

21 күн бұрын

Hardcore KZread Crossover

@user-er5mg6zj4v

21 күн бұрын

he’s shown his face on instagram before

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

@TjByers369

6 күн бұрын

I'd like to thank him as well. I think his story is a little sad. So much potential wasted. I can't help but think of some of Zappa's quotes on the issues of drugs.

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

@MRAIClassroom

15 күн бұрын

Great story I’ve always loved that one too

@send_ludes

15 күн бұрын

ahem **"long-haired opponent"

@send_ludes

15 күн бұрын

i hate myself

@DeathBYDesign666

12 күн бұрын

So he invented both trolling and fake news and from the sound of it he actually did both of those things first? That's pretty neat actually!

@djquinn11

8 күн бұрын

@@DeathBYDesign666: He didn’t invent trolling but he did take it to another level.

its scary how nothing changes

@KiyanCLSuser-xz2zu2un7d

22 күн бұрын

Nothing ever happens

@qazxdwplmnkp

22 күн бұрын

War never changes

@Maximosomoto

22 күн бұрын

“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”

@Maximosomoto

22 күн бұрын

@@qazxdwplmnkpFALOUT REFERANCE RAAAAAAHHHHHHH☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️💥💣💣💣💣💣💥💥💥

@lolsonchciwy5022

22 күн бұрын

I find it utmost comforting - another reason to keep lectures and experiences of people you've never known or seen. And the fact that everywhere people are pretty similar - be it far East, west, Europe or Africa -; just minding their own business, be it vile or not. It makes your home even more comfortable to reside in - and you know it.

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.

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

@zachariahbrewer1534

2 күн бұрын

Well, yeah cause we hear Cocaine and know it's bad, but if we hear Angel Dust on the other hand suddenly it becomes physically irresistible and you become addicted to the substance even without coming into contact. Or whatever KZread tops think 😛

"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled." HUNTER S.THOMPSON

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

@bobsbigboy_

15 күн бұрын

Lmao

@comotuabogada

5 күн бұрын

😂😂😂 he's super cool tho

Coolea looks like Emo Pyrocynical. Love it

@rtcnoodles

22 күн бұрын

THAT'S SO ACCURATE

@ajampalampala5678

22 күн бұрын

let's cyberbully him too :D

@Subwaygoonfree

22 күн бұрын

Don't ever say that again

@nuclearbomb4171

22 күн бұрын

better looking too

@MacCoalieCoalson

22 күн бұрын

Not enough chins

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

@stevekern7235

12 күн бұрын

I have always considered that scene to be one of an actual view into those folks` psychology. LSD can do amazing things.

@debabade1591

7 сағат бұрын

​@@stevekern7235 it's not that hardcore visual vise, but it does feel like that

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

@stevekern7235

12 күн бұрын

The original message of the Hippies, that of Peace, Love and the warning that corporations were going to take over the world, was co-opted by those same corporations. 🤕

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?

@jonathalon6022

22 күн бұрын

One of his shorter articles about ali was brilliant, really insightful.

@mj.l

21 күн бұрын

i don’t think you can separate his work from his use of drugs. his writing wouldn’t be recognisable without the drugs. it’s the self-destruction that depresses me - the guns, violence, performative erratic craziness. if he could have dropped acid, gone on speed benders etc without the violent madness - a controlled chaos - he might have lived longer, but probably not burned as bright. he’s been embraced by elements of the trumpist right, which i suspect would have enraged him.

@electricfishfan7159

21 күн бұрын

He burned so bright without drug abuse that he’d “made it” to fame by himself without their influence, so I think it’s a false and dangerous narrative to paint drugs as something you continuously require to be a great person or “access” your greatness. That’s pure addict speak. They can kickstart someone temporarily in certain circumstances but they only ever “unlock” what you have always been capable of on your own.

@maynardwayward12

21 күн бұрын

@@electricfishfan7159 "so I think it’s a false and dangerous narrative to paint drugs as something you continuously require to be a great person or “access” your greatness. That’s pure addict speak" no idea who you're talking to

@Dylan-ln7lb

21 күн бұрын

While I agree for the most part. I kinda disagree with the need to "feel cool", I speak for myself, but i believe it was of a "stare into the abyss" situation. You become seduced by the darkness and that shit swallows you up if you try to chase it.

" i admire the shape of your skull"😂

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

@radagast7200

19 күн бұрын

"Did you see what God just did to us, maaaaan...."

@an_amazing_ace7810

18 күн бұрын

"Nettles on my saddle and a badge on my vest"

@teamalmestudios6148

2 күн бұрын

@@radagast7200 God didn't do that - you did! You're a fucking narcotics agent, I knew it!!!

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

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

@comotuabogada

5 күн бұрын

Rum Diary is a great book. Do finish it if you find the time. And Fear and Loathing is simply amazing. Awesome books ❤

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

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.

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

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

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.

@Blackgriffonphoenixg

8 күн бұрын

oh hush, you're just jealous Hunter got to publish books without bleeping out the N word and you can't.

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

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.

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.

@Sub5_77

22 күн бұрын

INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL INCEL can i have seeeeks now ma'am?

@greyfells2829

21 күн бұрын

Incels don't think society is doomed, they envy people who participate in this doomed society.

@user-nb3tz4pn5d

17 күн бұрын

What is an incel video

@007megaoof

17 күн бұрын

@@user-nb3tz4pn5d I’ll try to explain this best I can. An incel video is any video “essay” that has the person complaining about personal flaws and poor lifestyle choices that said individual has under the thin guise that it is a societal problem instead of a individual problem. The videos mostly consist with the viewer rambling about porn addiction, para social relationships with fictional people, not understanding how sub-cultures function and other meaningless nitpicks that the world as a whole could brush aside. I can assure you that they are rambling about nothing if these topics do sound interesting to you. Almost every time, they’ll have extremely clickbait/over-edited thumbnails that either meant to be shocking or enticing and use buzz phrases like “Society is doomed” or “The truth about *insert thing here*”

@user-nb3tz4pn5d

17 күн бұрын

@@007megaoof never knew that man, thanks for informing me. It sounds like brainwashing material the way you put it almost, kind of feels insidious !

I remember being a kid and loving fear and loathing so i was stoked to see him go on conans show and man it never would disappoint. One of my favorite bits conan ever did

Awesome video man!!! Thank you❤

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

@nickyscriptzworld

Күн бұрын

Rum diary is pretty good too

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.

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

Excellent video. Appreciate your work.

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

Great video! I like these video essays you do.

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

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

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

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.”

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

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.

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

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

love the new format !

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

Wonderful video, thanks for posting.

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

@coolea

22 күн бұрын

Still plenty of goblin, I will never reduce goblin usage.

@Modenut

22 күн бұрын

@@coolea 😄

Thank you for recognizing Hunter as a man who was multifaceted. I wish I could have met him just to say "Thank you." He taught me so many life lessons through his stories. I learned to embrace life, respect death and accept they are at constant war around us. I only hope he is at peace now.

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

always loved Fear and Loathing. thank you for the informative and interesting video

fav channel recently

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

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

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

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

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

That was an amazing video man 👏

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

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!!!!

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

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

Great work, man 👌

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

Great video Hunter S Thomson deserves mad respect!

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. 😛

Thompson was not just a drunk smart guy, he had a real gift at understanding the most amazing parts of the earth that are as quiet and unrecognizable as they can be massive and extradorinaiy in his words. He was a journalist in the truest sense of the word, because he wasn't scared of speaking his mind. We need a lot more cultural influence that flourishes in honesty. Thompson's honesty is our greatest reward as readers.

Hard to listen to because of the censoring.

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

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...

Wonderfully done sir

The quality content is strong with this one

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Have you ever considered doing a video on glam rock?

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

KZread's monetization scheme has destroyed this documentary.

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.

@losfogo7149

21 күн бұрын

Usually Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas here in my country is known as the funny movie about drugs and not much else. If you mentioned HST almost no one would know him as the book never really caught on like the movie. Hell I didn't know the movie came from a book until this video

@mac081793

21 күн бұрын

Don't think it's that serious

@Shimlarian

20 күн бұрын

Npc moment

@baconsarny-geddon8298

20 күн бұрын

Bruh, I bet you can't even name three Hunter S. Thompson songs...

@LscnrRaz0r

11 күн бұрын

L Take, my dude...

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!

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

Hunter S Thompson was based

The term 'genius' gets banded around far too often but for me, Thompson totally warrants this title. I read all of his books almost religiously back when I was at Uni in the early 90's & 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas' is still my favourite book of all time.

Coolea please do video on femboys I love your vids

@Shimlarian

22 күн бұрын

Eat some meat and do manual work bro

@Mortrexable

22 күн бұрын

go outside

@StitchTheFemboy

21 күн бұрын

​@Shimlarian I eat chicken and fish everyday and work as a kitchen porter which is pretty manual work imo 😃

@StitchTheFemboy

21 күн бұрын

​@@Mortrexablemost my hobbies and sports are outside. i don't play video games or have a TV at my house so at home I just watch yt on my phone. Its quite fun being outside actually 😁

@Shimlarian

21 күн бұрын

@@StitchTheFemboy I said meat, not poultry or fish

I've been to his home place in Louisville a few times and still pass it sometimes when I'm there.

great video man, loved it. wanna do one about Huxley? just putting it out there...

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

@user-jt3zv2jc7u

18 күн бұрын

Finally, someone who understands.

@meltedfro

17 күн бұрын

Burroughs knew what was up but unfortunately nobody took him seriously because of his reputation

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

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

@greyfells2829

21 күн бұрын

This is what happens when counterculture because just culture.

@losfogo7149

21 күн бұрын

@@greyfells2829 what

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

I highly reccomend anyone who watches this and also reads, to find his correspondence books. I believe there are 3. They contain nothing but the letters he wrote and received through the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. It really gives insight into the man, the notable figures he talked to, and more importantly the world at the time, through the eyes of a man who disliked boundaries.

Why doesn't Where the Buffalo Roam ever get mentioned? Murray was more nuanced and less of a "Halloween costume" that brought the caricature to life. Great video btw, enjoyed it and might watch a few more.

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

Awesome video ❤

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

Real Coolea fans know this isn't his face reveal

Dude, your videos are gold. Btw you are the son from Jim and Pam from The Office