Hunter S. Thompson
Appearances
The Tim Dillon Show
422 - The Joe Rogan Experience
Here it is. The other two were Muhammad Ali and Sonny Barger, the president of the Hells Angels. Those three men are a whole cut above everybody else I've ever run into in terms of sheer functional meanness. Functional meanness? Yeah. Well, meaning the ability to get from A to... Either B, C, M, Z, whatever you want. Carter would cut my head off to carry North Dakota.
The Tim Dillon Show
422 - The Joe Rogan Experience
Cut both your legs off to carry a ward and the punks. Never apologized for it. He understands the system. That's why he won. That's really all I said. I admired that. The person who played the game as well as he did and in a sort of Oh, Magnolia Shade that he'd played in for a while. He was perceived as sort of a southern dingbat. But I saw him push Teddy Kennedy around down in Athens and Atlanta.
The Tim Dillon Show
422 - The Joe Rogan Experience
I had never seen Kennedy pushed around anywhere, in any room. And I was stunned. And I thought, oh, this was 1974. I thought, whoops, this is a bad one. We have to watch him. And sure enough, he announced he was going to run for president about, say, four or five months later. When he did, I thought, that's when I went right down to see him. I thought I should go talk to this man.
The Tim Dillon Show
422 - The Joe Rogan Experience
No, what he did in that speech that I constantly referred to in the article... The Law Day speech? Yeah, which Rowan's own did not run, which left me hanging out in some hideous slum, was just... lay the whip and a serious whipsaw on all these lawyers at the Law Day alumni speech. And this wasn't just the alumni of the University of Georgia Law School.
The Tim Dillon Show
422 - The Joe Rogan Experience
It was the distinguished alumni, Dean Rusk, all of them state senators, judges. And he just beat the hell out of them. He'd been governor for 3 and 1 half years, and they'd given him a hard time. The whole establishment had been against him. And he stomped on them in public. I'd never seen a politician do that before. And he just pushed Teddy aside, like, well, out of the way.
The Tim Dillon Show
422 - The Joe Rogan Experience
You know, I got work to do, move aside. And Kennedy was stunned. I was stunned. I don't tape politician speeches normally. But about 10 minutes into it, I went to the car and got my tape recorder, because I thought I'd never heard anything like this in my life. And I still haven't, from Carter either.
The Tim Dillon Show
422 - The Joe Rogan Experience
No, that's what I said he was going to do, and that's what he's doing. He's just eating Russian shoulders right now instead of Humphreys. Wow, interesting.