Joe Eszterhas

But was also famous and well-known but stuck true to his thoughts and his beliefs.

It was able to articulate things in a way that gave you this understanding of what was going on with the people back then.

That to this day, if you read Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail or if you read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or any of his work, you know, the Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved.

Yeah.

It's just a phenomenal encapsulation of that.

It's so important.

And we don't have a lot of that today, unfortunately.

You know, you got a lot of podcasters and a lot of, you know, people making YouTube videos and TikToks.

There's not a lot of, like, great writing that encapsulates things where there's, like, one figure that we turn to to read their stuff on things.

And Hunter was that guy.

Inspired by Hemingway, yeah.

Unfortunately, that's how he did it too.

Yeah.

And they both shared in common that they drank to excess.

Absolutely.

What do you think it is about alcohol and writing that go hand in glove?

Oh, it's huge.

People think of it as trivial, that entertainment is trivial.

I don't think it is at all.

No, not at all.