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Hells Angels Boss Opens Up - George Christie | PBD Podcast #723

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4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Bet-David sits down with former Hells Angels president George Christie to trace the history, code, and culture that defined America’s most infamous motorcycle clubs, from the rise of outlaw biker identity to the brutal war with the Mongols, the legacy of Sonny Barger, and how loyalty, violence, and federal pressure shaped - and ultimately fractured - the brotherhood.

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Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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0:00.0

Always wanted to be an outlaw, not a criminal.

0:02.0

What made Sonny so powerful?

0:05.0

What was his reputation?

0:07.0

Why don't you people go home?

0:10.0

Sonny's a very complicated man.

0:12.0

If it wasn't Sonny's idea, it wasn't a good idea,

0:16.0

no matter if it benefited everybody or not.

0:19.0

There's a periodic concern for what these people are doing,

0:22.0

to our great nation may provoke violent acts fires.

0:25.2

Sonny saw the club as something that belonged to him.

0:29.1

Other members saw themselves as part of a club.

0:32.9

How did you maneuver your way up to, that kind of power?

0:35.3

How can you have respect without fear?

0:37.7

I think you've got to have a little fear. The bomb they planted didn't go off. He told me

0:42.9

you're going to go retrieve the bomb that didn't go off. And I said, why am I got to retrieve it?

0:49.5

I go, I didn't make the bomb. Being effective peacemaker, you have to be willing to go to war.

0:55.0

That was kind of my philosophy.

0:56.0

I was strictly for peace, which was a very unpopular position in the album.

1:01.0

How come nobody kills him?

1:03.0

How can he lives to 83?

1:04.0

How does he live to 83?

1:05.0

Well, I think that I'm going to say something here that a lot of people know the Hells Angel history and perhaps are watching this.

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