Hunter S. Thompson meets a Hell's Angel, 1967 | CBC

the bike rider is cut for time pressure of the Hells Angels a wireless bunch of Outlaws to come out of the Western Billy the Kid an adult he's here to challenge his biographer against young literary journalist named unter Thompson it was Thompson who lived drank and rode the Hells Angels what about them in a best-seller it was the first to compare them to the outlaws of the West the critics have been unanimous in their praise of his book the Hells Angels haven't been heard from yet tonight sunday makes author a meat critic it brings together the writer Hunter Thompson in the reader antagonized the most that's the bike rider Hells Angel left workman you think of the book well I'll tell you around and Hunter everybody in this room that that book is 60% cheap trash click what is a typical Hells Angel typical Haynes the Hells Angel for baby anybody in this room something that likes to ride a motorcycle I got a job I got a boat and trailer you know I do all think I raise dogs I do a little bit of it that's basic you know a typical angel I know that you know that so that's not different I think the angel sent cliff here as an emissary as a Minister Plenipotentiary with a high college degree and a yearning for bourgeois respectability well you said he's not typical you see actually there are none of us that care what anybody thinks because we are us I am me what I do in my home is nobody's business I don't give a damn if they don't like me on my motorcycle it's too bad and you say you read the book and you think it I wouldn't say that all right I know exactly what I said I spent two years under them well I'd like to then get to the get to the end of it then I'm wrong right you spent a year with us why you got your head from time all right good foot all right I want to know why we didn't get the two kegs of beer that you promised well this guy here he's sitting here he's making a million dollars and he made it off of us if you know what I was thinking on this you're making so many wounds over that we helped you make it right yes you said there was nothing about money nothing about a share in the book nothing about anything all we wanted was a couple of kegs of beer so we can all get drunk and a copy of the book to each of the Oakland members you know you said see and I got beat up and get my head thumped on I don't owe you guys nothing I didn't think I did but now we're now but you didn't win with two kegs of beer you talking about what are they two kegs are you were going to give us four we've had you in our home we fed you we've given you a beer you're in paper now you have a lot of angels living in my house is like a hell about a mirror well sure so I think it's fairly well and they still like that but they don't like what you're doing why did they thump them alright this man here you got into a man's personal argument that's a nut right line no I know afternoon and go ahead and tell all right this is my side of what happened okay you weren't there so once you preface it with that this is what this is what happened okay and you see for this isn't right junky George was beating us all the ladies jumping something good junkie drug if you say so well this is what happened sorry Chucky Jorge's beating his old lady I wrote he's your junkie Jorge's dog is Chucky George's dog bit him right thing isn't a personal fan this what it is but if a guy wants to beat his wife and his dog bites them that's between the three of them [Music] here here came the peacemaker right he doesn't have a patch on he isn't in the club you know and juggling Georgia is stiff you walk you walk right up to him and you said only a punk beats his wife and dog these are your words now you said it you said it to this man and you backed up he finished he said honey you want you want some of this and you said no but you got it anyway and when he hit you three or four others of them hit you too you get in here you left that's when in your book you said you found Magoo asleep in the back of your castle you stopped and he got out but the next day if you had any guts after living with all of these people you to come back up there had a beer and sat down with everybody and said all right I made a mistake or somebody made a mistake so what let's have a drink we never seen you since well why don't you we never seen a cute legs of beer we've never seen our boy we've been are you finished I was talking to prep it was about 3:00 in the morning and we're talking about whether by BSA 650 would run with his his chopper and I'm kind of comparing it of ratios hop top speeds and Road and I was watching what's his name what junkie George I didn't know the guy but there was somebody about 30 feet to my left beating his wife to a pulp on the rocks you know kind of ugly but that's the way that that's what a games played you're kidding me and you're gonna get everybody else nobody stop to mean you know he'd beat his wife up you just said it right he was beating as well okay he wasn't had on the ground with a big rock or something you know no no no she was lying on the rocks no he was giving her this you know to keep a woman in line you got to beat him like a rug once in a while I agree when he was doing it he was doing it I you know I didn't get mentally thought it was wrong - this dog bit him well I wouldn't think that much attention was I bet I kicked his dog you know wait a minute no let me let me just get to it a bit if it had been me and I was going to say somebody so go ahead and beat your lady but don't kick your dog in you say I'm sorry hunter we're finished other words I can't get my own version I'm afraid you'll have to do it privately alright thank you both very much for coming [Applause]

Channel: CBC

Views: 4,209,885

Keywords: CBC, Retrobites, Hunter S Thompson, Hell's Angels

Id: ccyu44rsaZo

Length: 6min 21sec (381 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 07 2010

Reddit Comments

[u/thecommentisbelow]

How incredible it is to see people be so blithe about beating their spouse.

[u/EagleTalons]

Very interesting look on a different time, not that long ago. And good on Hunter. He didn't like a grown man beating a woman. Stepped up to stop it, probably knowing how risky that was. No kegs of beer for them.

[u/sqWADooSh]

"Every now and then you've got a beat a woman like a rug to keep them in line" Crowd applauds
Shows you how different society was back then.

[u/[deleted]]

. http://www.amazon.in/Hells-Angels-Strange-Terrible-Saga/dp/0345410084

Great read, highly suggest it.

[u/dinatural]

a selfie he took after he was beaten by a hells angel

[u/astrologue]

I have a lot more respect for Hunter S. Thompson after watching this video.

[u/skifdank]

The women, she had it coming. But not the dog...

[u/lIlIIlIlIIlIlIIlIlII]

The book is really good. And the wife beating really pales in comparison to how it starts.

[u/sittfint]

Had this been today..