Double Elvis.

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Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about Hunter S. Thompson are insane.

He was nearly beaten to death by Hell's Angels.

He was almost electrocuted in a bathtub when he pissed off the wrong people.

He dropped acid with many people, including the legendary Mary Pranksters,

hunted deer with his car, and carried around an alcoholic monkey in his pocket.

He was an outcast, a rebel, and a risk taker. He was also a hellraiser, arrested his senior year of high school, and denied graduation.

He was motivated by anger in a world where he witnessed great injustices

and even greater bullshit and he steamrolled all of these things in his writing, writing that was

so great, so unique that a new word had to be created to describe it. And that great writing was very much unlike that

loop I played for you at the top of the show. That was not great. That was a preset loop from

my Melotron called maybe it was Utah MK1. I played you that loop because I can't afford the

rights to a clip from We Belong Together by Mariah Carey.

And why would I play you that specific slice of emancipation of Mimi Cheese could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on August 20th, 2005.

And that was the day that Hunter S. Thompson was given a gonzo farewell,

as his ashes were shot from a cannon atop a giant fist clutching a peyote button.

On this episode, Hell's Angels, bathtub electrocutions, acid, cannons, outcasts, and Hunter S. Thompson.

I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland. 1966 Mendocino, California.

Sunny Barger didn't stop the boys in his motorcycle club from doing whatever they wanted.

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