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- In this clip from 1967, Hunter S.Thompson comes face to face with a member of the Hell's Angels. Thompson became known internationally for his book "Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs". He spent a year living and riding with the Angels, experiencing their lives and hearing their stories first hand. The biker says 60% of the book is "cheap trash". For more classic clips, go to www.cbc.ca/archives
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“Only a punk hits his wife & dog” -Hunter S Thompson (absolute legend)
You ever sunned your toes in the south coast?
Yet he tortured his little bird Edward.
he also agreed that to keep a woman in line you have to beat them like a rug every now and again.
@@braydenlinthicum373 I agree
@@braydenlinthicum373 that's sickening is the crowd laughing and clapping. not to mention the poor the the interviewer did. show you why w the new political spectrum Republicans behave in this manner.
"Only a punk beats his wife and dog." Well said Hunter.
Yea I draw the line at hitting dogs too
not to mention he probably said it knowing what the reaction would be, that wouldn't be an easy situation to stand up in.
@@fractalspace1111 Read his book, particularly the Angel's wedding where the bride - incapacitated on drugs/booze is gang raped. Thompson is thrilled by the spectacle, describing it in lurid detail. Excuse me - he's an amoral POS at his core who ended up a pathetic caricature of his empty hype - on that positive note - the same wedding is described in Tom Wolfe's Electric Cool Aide Acid test - Far better reading than anything "the Doc" ever wrote - just say'in
@@clydepiper4046 real talk. This generation overhypes him because "drugs are rad man!" Thinking themselves journalistic and intelligent for reading fear and loathing while listening to lil yachty .
Theres only so much you can say while trying not to die
Such a weird hit piece. They absolutely set Hunter up here. The way that audience sides with the biker is absolutely insane. Profoundly fascinating piece of media.
Because most people are about as wise as an ignorant biker
They wouldn’t even hear his side of the story…
The media still tells lies and chooses sides in 2024. They aren't journalists. They are propaganda agents for the DNC.
Sonny sent his smartest performer. Calling his book “60% cheap trash” was a brilliant way of calling Hunter just mediocre. Ouch!
But yeah. This was an ambush for sure. The way the crowd reacts jives with how tourists saw the Angels at Bass Lake in the book: as fun entertainment, performers.
The moment the hells angel said "junkie george was beating his wife", it was obvious Hunter had done the right thing.
She deserved it.
Hunter S. Thompson living in a dystopian world where everyone has lost their minds except for himself.
Well observed, and today, this is exactly how England is it is terrifying,
How isolated he must have felt, not only in his younger years here, but later, when the world turned on him
He was so far ahead of the curve .a real shame
True
@@renditioners America too probably worse
If you didn't believe Hunter S. Thompson was a sane man in a mad world before...
i wish i could thumb this up more than once!
He might have seemed wacky, but he was probably the most sane person in that room.
Think about that old couple sitting right in the front. I bet they were born pre-1900.
I get chills every time the crowd cheers to the line "you gotta beat em like a rug every now and then"
Robert Lewis, "I get chills every time the crowd cheers to the line "you gotta beat em like a rug every now and then" - Yes Brother - the carnists have been violent since the first time.
I couldn't have said it better myself, I honestly was thinking the same thing the entire video.
The way the audience cheers for the hells angel is something straight out of the twilight zone oml
They're obviously laughing at how brazen and ridiculous he is. You really think your grandparents are such barbarians?
Great profile pic btw, conker is the best.
Boomers for you. They thought outlaw bikers were noble savages thanks to movies like Easy Rider
@@DeadManSinging1 easy rider and it's many clones hadn't been released yet at the time of this interview
Disgusting.
Most o the audience aren't boomers. Boomers would be teenagers and 20 year olds in 67. Most of these people were from the so called "greatest generation."
“You’re not a typical Angel, I know that and you know that”
Hunter cut him down and he didn’t even realize it. The crowd played for the pretty biker with the grand entrance. If only they knew.
Exactly. Most of them couldn't function in this setup.
Knew what? I've met angels (now not in the 60s of course) and a few seem perfectly nice like this one.
Well the book was out wasn't it?
On the contrary, Skip was probably the smartest and most charismatic Angel. He was playing the crowd here. Hunter knew Skip was picked by the club to go on TV because of that. Also, Skip was rare because he didn't hit women.
@@dawest767 "On the contrary" how is that contrary? OP said the crowd liked the pretty biker with the grand entrance. You added on how he was the smartest and most charismatic Angel, special-picked because he was IN FACT not a typical Angel.
You're both in agreement.
“This is my version of what happened.”
“You weren’t there.”
coolsidecool *mic drop*
it shoulda stopped right after he said that
Then on top of it they let a guy who wasnt even at the event tell his side, But they dont let Hunter give his side. I felt like even the interviewer was against Hunter
@@Kimuraking Typical CBC, even back then
Dont forget the part tht were didnt even hear because the host or producers ran out of time. Its a mindfck how they would cut this off.
Gotta give Hunter respect for walking up to a likely drugged up and drunk hells angel in the middle of beating his wife and call him a punk. True badass
Well Hunter was probably more wasted than all of them haha
@@billrose2202 thinking the same thing
Still gets respect! Words to live by “anyone who beats his wife and kids is a punk.”
@@crysstoll1191 hunter said women should be hit. rewatch the video.
@@prawngravy18 Are you a Hells Angel? Cause that was some wild take on a few words. One mans "Locker room talk" is another mans "okok, stfu so I can speak"
Man, the whole studio setup with the grand intro and entry by the biker, and his buildup by the accouncer, makes it clear this was a premeditated hit on Hunter. It was all set up to make the Hell's Angel dude appear somehow a sympathetic character, even though he defended hi buddy's beating of his wife. Just seems like a cheap sting operation to make Hunter look a fool, but actually he comes out the best of all of them.
This has a hint of a Jerry Springer setup. My guess is that they were all in on it. Seems contrived.
It's so awkwardly staged to anyone that grew up around real 1%ers
@アスカ Them?
@@erc9468 John 5,14 "don't trust Hell's Angels and their motorcycles"
A set up. Early Jerry Springer vibe.
Hunter S Thompson, “Only a punk beats his wife and dog”. He will always be my hero.
What if she deserves it? Or swings at u cuz u interrupted her sex with ur boss? I agree u shouldn’t ever hit a woman but many times they deserve it. Checkout Bill Burrs bit on this topic
you got some serious issues if that lowlife is your hero....
yOU gOt SUm SeRIouS IssuEs
@@fuckCZcamsmotherfuckeragree
Your hero hunter s thompson also said in this interview that he agreed when the biker said " to keep a woman in line you have to beat them with a rock sometimes" 5:42
It’s weird to see so many women laugh at a story about a woman getting beaten.
Probably because the entire thing was so absurd. Stop being so precious, ffs.
Josef Shaw I highly doubt that. It’s easy to see the conflict in the absurdity.
Levi Thorstone I this what your mom told you?
J L My wife enjoyed the book Hells Angels. She reads Hunter. She didn’t think this was funny.
indeed...was that joan baez in the audience
"Only a punk beats his wife and his dog." - Hunter S. Thompson.
I agree with Hunter.
Biker "To keep a woman in line you gotta beat em like a rug sometimes"
Hunter "I agree"
@@sratus ...yeah I heard him say that also
That "I agree" was reaaaallly off the cuff. I think Hunter was saying whatever he needed to in order to get the biker to stop interrupting. I think he was just anxious to tell his side of the story. To this day I wonder what his side is. I imagine he was compelled to shout something to the man about being a punk, and then he got jumped.
@@AxelCross honestly he might have been responding to an earlier statement by the biker, saying more I agree that he wasn't beating her within inches of her life, but idk, it's hard to tell
how about how the sheep in the audience laughed and applauded back then...
This is the video I point to when people say "Everyone in the past was tougher" Hunter is the only one in that room who wasn't a coward.
🍻
Everyone in the past thought they were tough but really whats "tough" about beating someone who loves you?
You shouldn't just call people unrelated insults because you dislike their character. It has nothing to do with cowardice.
So true, well said.
that’s funny because people who had to walk to the river to get water to take a bath, people who didn’t have electricity and lived with no heat, people who had to hunt their own food isn’t tough compared to these g@y ppl on twitter nowadays??
Nobody should hit a woman and especially not a dog but ur statement is just false. Ppl were tougher back in the day and it’s a fact.
You gotta love all the audience members clapping and laughing when dude says that you gotta beat your old lady like a rug every now and again. Some real class there.
Especially the women, very bizarre.
Very very different times. People have definitely smartened up in that department
That really shocked me tbh
Bizarre response from the female audience to that comment. Seemed almost staged. Try saying that on that on TV now and see what happens.
@@Dennis_Reynolds the charismatic bad boy. Like the guy at the party saying outrageous things for attention. Some people have that ability to say anything and it generates laughter. And The laughs were more about junkie George. They also are housewives . laughter is always first response when hearing things bizarre or unfamiliar
So it sounds like hunter is the only sensible person in that room
From his reactions to the audience and his facial expressions, he must have felt like he was I the Twilight Zone.
From his reactions to the audience and his facial expressions, he must have felt like he was I the Twilight Zone.
And if Hunter S Thompson is the only sensible person in a room you know it's bad
And he's a child molestor murderer and makes snuff films so the bar isn't set very high is it.
I used to have mad respect for Hunter S. Thompson, now after seeing this clip, I still do.
I'm embarrassed for everyone in that room apart from Thompson.
@@UdumbBoi Have you seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?
5:36 .. and then people cheered.
Democrats
@@UdumbBoi Found the incel
Don't take it personal, it has nothing to do w you
Amazing how Hunter dealt with all of that. When he finally gets a few words out they say their time is up? Insane...
“Hells Angels” was the first book I ever picked up (by choice) and read it word by word, completely engaged in the story, and finished within 2 days. Amazing story and yeah…beating a woman…Hunter was a MAN amongst mice at that time
Your hero hunter s thompson also said in this interview that he agreed when the biker said " to keep a woman in line you have to beat them with a rock sometimes" 5:42
Hunter looked pissed when he said it was 60% trash, he was raging inside
He was also twitching like madman most likely on some of that methamphetamine that was around back then
It was oddly specific though.
Skip Workman was a higher up in the Oakland Angels
Probably pissed about how public the insult was, but in real life I doubt he would care about the literary opinion of a biker with an IQ of 70 (and that's generous).
@@Kimuraking It mas most likely that he was on coke here but he used to do meth as well.
Incredible how times changes. An entire crowd of diverse people cheering when a man says that domestic abuse is a good thing and another man being booed for standing up against it.
that's not what happened. you've been brainwashed by communist intellectuals to see the the world in a way that is untrue. wake up.
@@olitraiga god i hope this is sarcasm
The audience was laughing at his way of thinking.
@@olitraiga Socialist intellectuals. Please learn what communism is, and tell everyone else who gets it wrong.
@@olitraiga hahahaha
“To keep a woman in line you’ve got to beat ‘em like a rug every once in awhile.” Followed by crowd cheering and applause. Wow, that was sickening.
calm down woke fool
Sickening?.....or just an era where men and women had a sense of humour?.....unlike today's snowflake society that's traumatized and offended every minute of the day and playing the victim card. Lighten up.
Lots of clapping for wife beating in this clip. Crazy.
@@glennhankins6927 Hahaha, let's all laugh at the thought of a woman being beaten by her husband. What great senses of humors we have! No, it's just sickening, and you're a punk.
those were the days 😌
"Hell's Angels" is a great book, and anyone who wants to know what's wrong with America should read it. Even at 50+ years old, it still is an important commentary on our times.
I've never read it but from what I understand the hells angels was kind of a product of world war 2
@@jaimebondoza3710 The gang, yes sort of, but the book? Not at all. It's an allegory. Much deeper than it may appear on the surface. If you want to understand America, few books get you there as well as "Hell's Angels."
I read it recently and it really is a fascinating piece of work, particularly the observations about post-war men coming back and just not fitting in and "going rogue". Nowadays, a large bulk of these men would be diagnosed with PTSD. Also the kinds of cultural attitudes that came from British "indebted servants" (I think is the term), coming to America for a better life, slowly moving West once freed from their contracts in search of wealth and settling and bringing old Anglo-Saxon customs (he neglected to mention the Celtic influences within this same anthropological context) to Appalachia and then westward, with all the inbreeding, territorialism, casual violence, drunkenness and whatever that was associated with the underclasses that left England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland and built America. Obviously these are negative stereotypes but they are alive and well, amongst the diaspora and here, back in the old country. I could go into more but I found this part truly fascinating. Hunter was much more than just a journalist and he was certainly a genius.
@@the_local_bigamist Great comment. I need to re-read "Hell's Angels" (it's been several years), but I remember thinking roughly the same thing: this work is about much, much more than just a motorcycle gang, and Thompson was tying together all kinds of threads to make a tapestry about some aspects of modernity which were quite rotten.
I'm gonna have to read it
"Junkie George was beating his old lady" *crowd laughs hysterically*
Laughing at the fact this waste of space HA and co. know and are friends with a guy called 'Junkie George'. They are not laughing at domestic abuse. They are laughing at how pathetic and absurd he is, whining about not being given 2 kegs of beer Thompson had supposedly promised them in return for permission to use them for his book.
@@HidingSleeper sooo they didn't laugh and applaud when he said ""you gotta beat em like a rug every now and then". Cause if you didn't see that, you were watching a different video. It's not difficult to accept that many people back then were trash human beings.
respect
They’re laughing AT him, not with him
@@HidingSleeper hard to accept this was the world of (y)our fathers?
This is like a twilight zone episode where everyone goes crazy but him
you're right. Skip was the only one that didn't go crazy.
Kind of like real life sometimes
Probably one of the reasons why he offed himself
more like that South Park episode about bikers hahaha
Facts
4:16
I remember my parents saying this was when they started liking Hunter! I grew up on Gonzo journalism, and just adored him!!!
Hearing the crowd laugh about domestic violence just proves we’ve come a long way!!!
"Junkie George was beating his old lady"
Crowd erupts with laughter.
We have made so much progress since 1967. Can you imagine being anti-progressive?
And they all clap when he says "you gotta keep them in line" WTF?
@@stuartculshaw5342 Progressive have destroyed this country, all by design.
@@rickstalentedtongue910 Ha ha. So you don't like progress? Oh dear.
Yes it's by design, of course it is. We are moving forward pal, keep up.
They think it’s a big comedy act. I don’t know if they realized how serious he was. Also laughing at the name “Junkie George.” But yeah still messed up. Would not go over that way today. And poor Hunter couldn’t get a word in because the Angel was playing up his act.
This is one of the strangest things I've ever seen
i remember my first day on the internet
The host was completely disengaged. Weird.
The 60's were a strange time.
it definitely was a different world back then, but surely people weren’t actually like this? I’m 27 and if I showed my parents this they would be shocked too. Maybe it was a set up and the audience was told to laugh? A parallel universe sort of idea
@@michaelkenyon3372 I remember when I was 12 and liked to regurgitate phrases I saw other people say on the internet
When Hunter is the most reasonable person in a crowded room ...
No wonder he thought of some humans as mutants.
Pigs
I wish so much that Hunter was able to continue his version
I have always thought this was one of the most unusual crowd reactions to an assault. The world is and was then a strange thing.
They were seeing the comedy in the absurdity. That's forbidden now.
When you realize Hunter isn't laughing or smiling, but everyone else is..
Bet 💯
Hunter knew that wasn't an actor on that bike and he was concerned, would hardly look at him at first.
@5:44
@@sebmeister67 got em lol
@@randalldavis9495 stop believing he is some badass biker cliche. He is a homeless bum, nothing more
Wow there's nothing like six minutes of listening to some chucklehead not letting a brilliant writer talk.
+saltyninja without the chucklehead he would not have had the story...."ooops"
+saltyninja the chucklehead was a lot easier to understand tbh
Let's be real, you wanna hear Hunter's take, then read the book. I found it really interesting to hear from the actual subject of the book. I will say this interview could of been a couple hours longer though.
And when the brilliant writer actually talks he's basically impossible to understand due to his drug-addled, muddled speech.
He had only just begun that ride!
The audience reaction to talking about casually beating his wife and dog is by far the most disturbing part. There is something to be said for 50 years of social progress.
Its the laughing women that really hits it home. I was so shocked by that.
@@LexValidus They're definitely laughing at him, not with him
How is pacifism and cowardice social progress? People in general today are afraid to speak out based on consequences and intentional mixups and lies, not because of changes to their inner moral character. We've devolved more than evolved and become fearful, resentful, judgmental, vain, self-obsessed, pitiful cockroaches.
@@FlounderingFuzzle Well neither one of us can say for certain what it was. I would expect some head shaking, some veiled contempt, an eye roll, anything really to suggest they were laughing at him. That “joke” would not land with 99% of audiences today. It would likely get booed or at the very least, be met with chirping crickets.
I disagree, people are simply afraid now to express themselves. I agree with @electro minded, people's moral character doesn't change that easily, we are simply no longer allowed to say certain things, and everyone has bought into the facade because you look good and virtuous on social media the more tolerant you are, without actually being a certain way internally and without lifting a damn finger to help anyone.
Society is pathetic, the facade of social progress is pathetic. We're just neutered now, afraid to say anything in case we look sexist or racist or homophobic.
I like to imagine that biker guy is on his bike all the time: At the supermarket. At the doctor's office. Down the stairs to the kitchen for a midnight snack...
At the movie theater
Wow hunter Thompson really took a beating to stand up for that girl, mad respect this is why he’s my favorite author
But when the Hells Angel said "sometimes you have to beat your woman like a rug", Hunter said, "I agree". 5:47
Wow, Guy Ferrari, you is can read boks?!?!
@Joe Williams he was married he wasn't a pedophile, if you're referring to happened in fear and loathing he had no part of it, he just got caught up in that.. that was his attorney.
shahin malekizadeh Are you saying married people can’t be pedophiles? I’m sorry but that brain numbing it was so stupid
@@cameronm2877 yeah he totally meant that married people cant be pedophiles, thats exactly what he was saying
Wow, different times. He was throwing lines around like "to keep a woman in line sometimes you gotta beat em like a rug" and getting laughter and applause each time. This was on network TV. Could you imagine the reaction that segment would get today? It's crazy how drastically perceptions can change in just 50 years.
not really. 50 years later we still have shitheads.
+theMidsizeLebowski And these were Canadians.
+theMidsizeLebowski interesting point. do they really change?
+theMidsizeLebowski some of the women were laughing, too. Why, I wonder? Maybe you laugh because you don't know what else to do?
+theMidsizeLebowski I agree! Hunter was a decent man!
I love how after the Hells Angel guy calls the book cheap trash, HST suddenly cuts his eyes up at him! U can tell how pissed HST was about this guy's criticizing his book....HST ❤. His legacy speaks volumes forever
Hunter is playing it smart here. He is not backing down but being respectful.
Oakland H.A.'s had lot of power back then.
EDIT: I agree with Hunter on his statement- “Only a punk hits his wife & dog”. They were a bunch of scumbags...
"were"
@@CuttySobz My opinion speaks from direct experience - NYC Nomads Chapter...
what a brave edit of you
What a bizarre dynamic 50 years ago. Someone says without irony "to keep a woman in line you gotta beat her like a rug every once in awhile" and the audience, women and men alike, applaud.
Plenty of comments down below about cucks and whatever jargon of the hour. The fact of the matter is, physically beating someone you know will not try to hit you back is an act of cowardice.
sickboy3636 nice bait
noinrave nice bait
Bill Clinton? Ted "the Diver" Kennedy?
Sarah C
And applauding an act you know in your heart is wrong is extreme cowardice. So everyone in that audience is a coward
"Had Ted Kennedy been driving a Volkswagen, he'd be president today!" (old National Lampoon "Volkswagen" ad showing a floating Type 1 Bug)
This man not only went in and stayed in a Hell's Angels household. But told him him what he thought in his house, got beat up, left and is now telling another member blatantly what he thinks. RIP you gem of a human.
Not one thumbs down
Hunter S Thompson is a coward
He was up there so timid and so scared it’s beyond obvious
@@RK-jc5ey Are you HA?
@@RK-jc5ey A professional coward. He said so himself.
"To keep a woman in line you got to beat her like a rug once and awhile."
_Audience claps and smiles_
And Hunter S thompsons response was " i agree"
Women secretly love that.
Watching this, it makes so much sense how Hunter and Johnny Depp got along so well. The fact that this audience, women included, were laughing as they were talking about a man beating his wife... You could SEE how offended Hunter was by it.
It's a good thing hunter didnt marry amber heard
@@stevencoardvenice I wonder what he would've told Johnny to do if he would've still been alive when Rum Diary was casted... let alone when they started dating, or even married.
@@HeatherB..
Probably would have mumbled incoherently
Well, Depp might have kept his finger if he knew how to keep a woman in line.
Today I learned that less than 50 years ago, you could ride a motorcycle into a television studio and announce that "in order to keep a woman in line you need to beat her from time to time", and people practically give you a standing ovation for it.
Today that man would be receiving death threats.
If this was publicly acceptable in those days, it makes me wonder what people fifty years from now will be shocked to learn about our time.
Tyler Etwell As creepy as that is, you may be right. After all, it was pretty well accepted in Ancient Greece and (I believe) Ancient Rome as well.
Yes how backward society was! We can only hope that people who rape children can look back in 50 years at how foolish we all were to discriminate against their civil rights
I recognize that pedophiles cannot help wanting what they want, but with the very small exception of people who are also incapable of determining wrong from right, anyone who actually acts on those impulses is reprehensible, amoral, and needs to be removed from society at large to keep them from doing even more harm. They're humans, and deserve our compassion, but their actions are monstrous, and need to dealt with accordingly.
As for that small exception of people unable to know what they're doing is wrong, well, they need to be kept under constant supervision as well, but not on a punitive basis.
System of a Clown PedoPHILIA was not common in the ancient world. Some Greeks, in some city states, practiced pedeRASTY which involves a grown man and a teenage, but not prepubescent boy. Teenage-dom at any rate is a modern concept: the vast majority of societies regard someone as an adult once they hit puberty, and so they are treated like adults and given all the responsibilities and privileges of that status. Pedophilia is, technically and legally, regarding PREpubescents.
Considering that NAMBLA has tried for decades to gain recognition for their pedophiliac desires and constantly failed; that even the LBGTQ community shuns and reviles them; that they are not even allowed in Pride parades; and that they are kept under scrutiny and their publications monitored, I think ti's pretty safe to say that pedophilia will never become 'accepted', pretty much anywhere in the world. Just b/c a few Greeks did it doesn't count for much.
Kat Karsecs That is VERY comforting to know. Good info, thank you!
"When he hit you, three or four others hit you too. Then you got in your car and left and we've never seen you since." Strange that Hunter would stop coming around after being beaten by Junkie George and several other Hell's Angels.
I'm guessing it's because in those criminal circles it's not uncommon for them to fight / beat each other up when they disagree like cavemen, but will still meet up the next day like nothing happened.
He probably did think it was odd for someone responding to a punch in the head to distance themselves from them 😅
Yeah that’s the type of people I want to be around, they beat their wives, dogs, and me. They sound like cool dudes.
@@bossabassa364 Never beat a dog defending a woman.
You aint to bright buddy, would you go back for another beating? 😆
@@WHOHATESTOWORK wooooosh!!! right over your head
I have watched this video several times since finding it. This has got to be one of the best videos on CZcams imo. Legendary
Hunter S Thompson is so spontaneous and natural in delivering his words. 👌
The only two here with any decency is Hunter and the dog.
+Bart T This is one of the best youtube comments I have ever read....good job
+Bart T Genius comment
+Bart T straight, and what the hell is joan baez doing here 4:20
+Richard Cannon jus saw her lol wtf Joan. Why u laughin lol jk
very true statement! :-)
Christ could you imagine if this interview aired today.....
It wouldnt... if it did by some chance it would lack any content and would be cut up into 2 minute clips for the internet, where everyone could take parts out of context and somehow make it about them.
It has in many ways
Bedlam..and Thompson writing it as it goes
Hunter 100% predicted 2015-onward when he said Hell's Angels were the prototype for future American reactionaries
Hunter was actually not too bad looking, either. Big props to him for standing up. New found respect for that trippy dude.
People who think our society is crumbling now need to watch stuff like this. We've come a really long way in 50 years, where a studio audience full of people thought it was hysterical that someone beat his wife. We have a lot of work to do morally as a society, but we've come a LONG way in a very short amount of time
THANK YOU for this comment. Its sentiment is not heard enough. Like when people say stuff about "the world falling apart", acting like it's never been worse...somehow not remembering The Cold War, the World Wars, etc.
Japan was nuked, twice!
Not a nuke since.
The fact that women in the audience were laughing, let alone the men, as the Biker and Hunter were describing how a woman was being severely beaten was very shocking to witness! WTF?!!
Different time
They were laughing at his thinking, not actually making light of a woman getting beaten..
@@harryx6968 That's absolutely no excuse.
@@metalEric69 Yes, they were. They were agreeing with the biker's later statement that a woman needed to be beaten occasionally "to keep her in line."
@@CHARIOTangler That's false
To this day ,We’ve never heard the dogs side of the story
ruff! ruff!
@@johnhoward1313 how was junky George treating his wife dog? "Ruff!!"
evidently he didnt agree with junkie george
Or Hunter's either tbf?! Actually the dog does come in on a 2nd chopper fifteen minutes later and admits he was out of line.
And that dog? Albert Einstein.
No one talks about how well the Hells Angel guy played his role. It was masterful, I appreciate a good heel.
The guy is a bona fide Oakland Hell's Angel, and there's loads of documented evidence of that, though when I Googled his name it comes up "Clifford 'Skip' Workman - Actor", and he even has an IMDB page. However, I think that's just because he was in a Hell's Angels movie in '69, and in a documentary with Sonny Barger.
I don't think the above video with Hunter is staged at all. The book was already a best seller.
This interview was gold, and unintentionally funny.
hunter's face when the biker says that book is 60 percent trash...Jesus you could see how honest hunter was with that book
Ok, anyone else feel that Hunter got the short end of the stick in this interview?
Seemed like he was abruptly and purposely cut from responding to the biker?
Then they ran out of time?
@@joshuasmith6346You're right, that's television for ya.
Probably for his own safety.
I'll just point out that this was made in the era that madmen portrays and leave it at that...
The Man's gots to sells his soaps.
Hunter S Thompson came in defense of the woman and her dog. A true gentleman.
Everybody laughing and cheering about a man beating his wife except for the one man obviously ahead of his time, a legend
So when a Junkie George beats his wife and a dog - it's between the three of them. But when Junkie George fights Hunter - three other Hell's angels are allowed to team-up with George?
savage logic
1 on 1 your crazy
He broke code.
That's how it works. Go learn about MC rules.
They were punks Hunter was right. And he was right to get the hell away from them. They don’t deserve his beer!
When he was researching his book and writing it, he would often meet the Hell's Angels. The gang often visited his apartment at 318 Parnassus Avenue in San Francisco, much to the dismay of his wife and neighbors. Thompson, however, felt comfortable with the arrangement. When "jokingly" threatened with violence, he pointed to a loaded double-barrelled shotgun that he kept hanging on his wall and replied in a similar vein that he would "croak two of them first."
Thompson remained close with the Angels for a year, but ultimately the relationship waned. It ended for good after several members of the gang gave him a savage beating or "stomping" over a remark made by Thompson to an Angel named Junkie George, who was beating his wife. Thompson said: "Only a punk beats his wife and dog."
The book left me with the impression that his stomping was mostly due to his book, hells angels, and they felt they were owed for their contributions to the book. Which just as this guy says they assumed he made a million dollars from it. And they felt he owed them. They probably would have felt compensated had he bought them several kegs. ... Which I'm kinda surprised he didn't, from his writing he seems like a decent dude, who I'd like to have met. But I digress.
@@tayloralvidrez4342 I just finished the book, it happened on a Labor Day, a traditional day for the Angels to have a run. Hunter said " A minor disagreement turned into something very serious." The Angels learned early on in the book that they weren't getting anything back from journalists besides the publicity.
@@Will-Max Yes. Labor Day 1966. I had the book myself, and read it so many times, i litterally damaged it. I'm considering ordering it on Amazon. There was also in the book something about a San Francisco motorcycle cop nicknamed Terrible Ted, who once called several of the Angels his friends. One of the Angels said "We called that bike heat (cop) Terrible Ted because he really was terrible, man. He'd ride like a nut to catch us, and then he'd throw the book at us." In 1966, Ted ran a red light in an unmarked police car, which was hit by a Greyhound bus. The crash killed his wife and totaled the car.
@@TheBrooklynbodine you can find it for free online
@@eljugador1785 and a performer, and an artist who exaggerated as much as any artist should
Thank you CBC. Creative, chancy. Truth tellers and seekers. Fund the CBC.
Lol they lived the domestic abuser
wow!! Good job Hunter, i will buy the book and read it.
The crowd obviously thinks the biker is cute, a rascally loveable misfit. They had no idea these guys were thugs, convicts, drug dealers, sex-trafficking pederasts who wouldn't think twice about beating you to death with their bare hands if you crossed them. If you are one of them there is nothing better, but they are loyal to no one but each other. Hunter S. had a lotta balls writing that book, and is lucky to have survived.
"Skip" Workman was none of the above, stupid! He was a Navy veteran and held a full time job during his membership. Died while at work sitting in his car during his 1 hour lunch break. You "cross" anybody, expect to be beaten. Come to Southern Oregon and "cross" me, kid. "convicts"? You don't even know the definition of "convict", you incredible nincompoop! To be a "convict", you have to be serving an active prison term, you miserable little puke! The only thing you said that was truthful was your last sentence. You should have known.
Wow, Yamaha. You sound just like a misunderstood person who would be my first choice to play Santa Claus at a hospital for children. You must be one of those happy fellas who greet each day with a song in your heart, praising God that He blessed your life with another day to live.
@@47485ksc I think you missed the mark on this one, bud. If I focused on a single thing and started talking about how I played Oregon Trail, I'm sure I'd look mentally disabled to you, too. I'm not interested in conflict, but I'd damn sure handle a man beating a woman in front of me--whether he had friends or not. I'd say this punk makes the *thug* definition. He's lucky the crowd didn't stomp him.
Why?
Yamaha SR650 “come to Southern Oregon”... said no hardened criminal ever
"Only a punk beats his wife and dog."
Truer words never spoken & he got beat for them.
If anyone's curious, this isn't from Canada.
This was filmed is San Francisco and the biker was supposedly in the Oakland chapter of the Angels.
This aired on CBC in 67, that's why it's in their archives.
Respect to Hunter S... set of balls and a decent moral compass.
The only respectable ones were Hunter and Junkie George's dog.
And the woman being beaten
If the dog had any respect it would of stopped that women from provoking a junkie.
thompson's a joke.
You can't be serious! Hunter became famous for supplying children and making snuff films!
@@wendygliddon3350 i doubt junkie georges old lady is respectable...
Hunter was right, only a punk beats his wife. End of story.
At the end of the video he agrees that to keep your wife in line you have to beat her like a rug.
AND dog. You can do one or the other, just not both.
Caracalla Severus I don’t think that’s an agreement lol... it’s more of a reaction to all the cheers the HA got after saying what he said. You just have to smile at that kind of ignorance.
@@caracallaseverus3412 no he's agreeing on the facts of the story. Not that it's what should happen
@@caracallaseverus3412 No he said "I agree he was doing it." At first Workman made it sound like Thompson got in the middle of an argument, but then admitted George was hitting his wife. The disagreement was how Thompson reacted to the incident.
Wild how widely accepted it was that "to keep a woman in line you have to beat her like a rug every once in a while" was something to clap and cheer to.
Hunter felt things to the max and what the man felt was intense. and he really cared about people and his country. I think that is WHY he drank and constantly got high. He just felt way too damn much and people well let's face it people are the worst..... They really are so I think he was self medicating to a degree...... Also getting drunk and high is just too damn fun.
“Junky George was beating his old lady and Junky George’s dog bit him.” What an opening line to a novel this would be.
I'd be amazed to find out that it isn't already a line in a Tom Waits song.
just goes to show how being a good talker and intimidating presence can control a crowd
That's only if the crowd is made of cowards and sheep. Which is the case here, sad.
@@JotaShank That's *always* the case. It's the nature of crowds.
Very much a double-edged sword. I don't know it for a fact but I'm inclined to think that phenomenon has negative effects more than positive effects.
that's the devil at work ere but jesus is the real power amen
I have a feeling a lot of the audience didn't realize that was really one of the hells angles
A hidden gem
Interesting format for an interview.
Glad to see they had sensationalist interviews in the 60's. Holy crap, when that Hells Angles rode his bike around in the circle multiple times before the interview, trying to look menacing for the crowd, my eyes rolled back so hard, I thought I was gonna go blind.
"To keep a woman in line you gotta beat'em like a rug once in a while" (Applause) - 1967
@John Peaches Wife beating you too much?
That Goes with out Saying....
yeah, that was kind of shocking to hear.
@@spaceorbison someone clearly hurt you. i'm sorry buddy, keep your chin up =)
I don't think they're laughing at wife beating, I think they rightly assume that's how low lives conduct themselves. Wife beating is just what they do and maybe the awful woman deserves it for hooking up with one of these biker types.
I love how it was totally acceptable and humorous to the crowd that it’s okay to beat your girl up because “that’s between them.”
Crazy how different times have become .that shouldn't have been funny or acceptable in any era
Hunter S. Thompson wrote a book called The Curse Of Lono that i really liked. Its about Hawaii, specifically the Big Island. My family has lived in South Kona for 25 years. Its rare that The Big Island gets any recognition. When Hawaii is mentioned at all in books or movies its almost always about either Maui or Oahu. I highly recommend anyone interested check it out.
Is everyone in that room a psychopath, except Hunter, and he's the one doing heavy drugs and lots of alcohol?
That's what make america great again looks like
humparepatta what a way to politicise things. Snowflake.
@@rossmacpherson7300 Sorry, I hurt your feelings. lol
@@rossmacpherson7300 You seem upset. You sure you're not the snowflake here?
Rachanond Vorakitcharoenphol Why is it when someone stays out of politics they're automatically a snowflake? In my opinion all political sides are complete retards causing turmoil in the country 🤣
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him"
-Johnathan Swift
@Danny something to think about then.
@Danny Oy vey!
@Danny Oy vey!
Donald Trump?
SAM SMITH exactly
Great introduction!
such a history CBC :(
So Hunter did what anyone with a conscience would do and he's a bad guy? It started funny, but the way the audience continued to humor the Hell's Angel was just...Crazy.
toseeornot2see old racist people like racism
Cl1che_ Asylum Dwellers what are you talking about? were did racism come into it.
Well this is the kind of insincerity and hypocrisy the younger generation was rebelling against back then... people who dressed in suits and went to church and then came home and beat their wives and sent kids to Vietnam to die for nothing and thought racism and sexism was okay and even encouraged it. Very strange times.
Cl1che_ Asylum Dwellers
Racism? Go tell your mama to beat some sense into you.
Different times. The people laughing are the same people who fought in WW2, Korea, society was modernizing but life was still hard. Laughter gives you power over negative emotions.
I was twenty years old and I was there that night I'm somewhere in that crowd behind the biker Also in the three ring circus that that show was were Ian and Sylvia and The Great Speckled Bird (featuring David Rea) Joan Baez (who can actually be seen briefly in this clip) and her sister Mimi Farina, Marshall McLuhan and Seiji Ozawa The Hunter segment viewed here was a brief moment near the end of the show
Wow. Thank you. I thought that was Joan Baez.
You're quite welcome. That was Ms. Baez indeed. You have a good eye considering how briefly she was on screen in the clip
A lot of people here are making comments on the laughter of the audience when the HA talks about domestic violence. How did you perceive this back then? Was it laughing with him, at him, out of nervousness?
Brilliant.
This is captivating
you gotta love that even the angel realises how rediculous a sentence like "junkie george was beatin his old lady" is and starts to crack up.
The most reasonable person in a crowded room will seem like the crazy one.
Um this definitely isn't true very often at all maybe In this situation. I'm sure people just say things sometimes and if people think it sounds somewhat smart they will like it without actually considering what the person said.
and that very aptly describes the man sitting on the bike.
Just imagine how crazy today’s world- would seem to them.
How to you think anti maskers and anti maskers are being made to feel?
I thought the same thing when GG Alen went on Jerry Springer.
Bizarre needed to keep this rolling.
Such a beautiful , peaceful time the 50'$ and 60'$.
Hunter didn`t need Six guys to gang up on someone that looked at him funny, he fought his own battles himself. He was a genuine badass, unlike the punk that rode into the studio on a motorcycle trying to look tough.
+Boyd Jefferson I agree. A True Bad Arse. A truth bulldozer, imagine his options on Trump!
A generation that doesn`t need six of my friends to look tough and fight my battles for me. Bikers are total pussies
+ogrish76 You have just admitted you`re a wuss.
Mardi Mars. Where is Hunter when we need him?
zyphoid666 who said that?
When you're arguing with someone, and you keep interupting while he's trying to make His point, you automatically lose the argument. Well done Hunter
Hunter arguably did not win the argument here because he was scared of the big biker. I mean morally we agree now that Hunter was right in protecting the right of the lady. But the crowd, the host and the biker were all against him so in that sence he lost the popular vote so to speak. Back then.
@Space Roamer Fok u. Hunter looked scared, that's the problem.
@Space Roamer it means something if you're there to sell books.
That’s a testament to how far we’ve come but also how effed we were. Are
Love it
it's amazing that a man thought of as scum by every social circle he ever associated with was miles ahead of his time in terms of ethics and morals. A true patriot and a true man, and one of the true mutants one of gods own prototypes, too weird to live too rare to die
Indeed, _a high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production_ !
Who?
@@jackjude that's the line I was looking for
Worth reading Fear and loathing on the Campaign Trail to see just how prophetic he was.
yup, a junkie who was into watching snuff films. So moral
the Biker wanted Hunter to apologize for saying "only punks beat their wives" and for getting beat up by four guys?
Yes, oh, and not buying them more beer.
@@OverlandOne Sounds like the rest of the boomers we have to deal with today too. Caged simpletons.
@@kostyapolykova9879 Are you?
@@kostyapolykova9879 How pretentious!
@@kostyapolykova9879 Boomers weren't the "keep your wife in line" generation. They were the feminist counterculture types in 1967. Anyway, the oldest boomer in that room would have been around 20 years old. Most of the audience was born pre-WWII.
RIP Hunter. You were a unique mutant and we'll be lucky to see your like again.
That last quip "To keep a woman in line you need to beat her like a rock" ... shows all you need to know about that club.