Welcome to Renegade Files you filthy animal! Once again we gather here on the weird side of the internet to explore Paranormal Experiences, Unsolved Mysteries, and the fractal edges of Conspiracy Culture. I’m your host Doctor Lex Gordon coming to you from The Jungle Villa Outpost, Deep in the Uncharted Tropics.

This is Renegade Files Episode 52, Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Outlaw Journalist.

Hunter S. Thompson was an American writer who created the Gonzo genre of journalism, a highly personal style of reporting that injects the author’s perspective and experience into the story being covered. Thompson’s definitive works within the genre made him a counterculture icon.

He explored themes of political and popular culture with a laser-like wit, purple prose, and an unapologetic, audacious flair that challenged authority figures and sacred institutions, while never bowing to either side of the political spectrum. He criticized American politics, media, and social constructs with rebellious sarcasm and a pure love of real freedom.

Because he shunned the distant objectivity of tidy journalism, and immersed himself in the stories he wrote, he was able to deliver insights and observations that traditional journalists would have never noticed.

He was one of the first writers to offer alternative perspectives to mainstream media narratives, and as such, is a hero of many writers who value truth and common sense over spin and agenda.

So let’s do this. Join me on a road trip into the twisted mindscape of a counterculture rebel who infuriated many, inspired more, and left us with, not only his own stunning words and observations, but a new way of both writing about and looking at this wonderful, terrible, impossible world we live in.

As your attorney I advise you to rent a fast car with no top. Are you ready for that? Checking into a podcast episode created by a madman and listened to by degenerates with intent to commit capital fraud on a head full of conspiracies. I sure hope so. 

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