This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. Please check the show notes for more information. 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 20, 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

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

Right now, that was kicking the shit out of the writer who'd

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