Hunter S. Thompson
4 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 10, 2017 by Jann Wenner · said 33 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Guy Raz (31), Bill Simmons (2)
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2023 2 mentions in 1 episode
2021 2 mentions in 1 episode
2017 29 mentions in 1 episode
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Jul 10, 2017 negative
Jul 10, 2017
Wenner: Hunter S. Thompson's first Rolling Stone piece covered his sheriff campaign
“And he wrote back saying, geez, he'd been really reading Rolling Stone. It was terrific and great, but he'd love to write, but he couldn't write now because he was busy involved in running for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado. So, I wrote him back and said, well, wh…”
Jul 10, 2017 positive
Wenner: Hunter S. Thompson's 1972 Campaign Reporting Put Rolling Stone on the Map
“It was also one of the key things that really finally put Rolling Stone on the map in a big way. You know, everybody in the press corps was reading, everyone in the campaign was reading, and people around the country were riveted by what he had to say.”
Jul 10, 2017 positive
Wenner: Hunter S. Thompson fabricated their feud as a literary foil
“All I can tell you is that Hunter liked to go around Talking about how awful his bosses were, how, you know, you need to always have a villain, a foil for his writing, and if nobody else was available, if Nixon was not available to somebody else, then it was m…”