Mel Chancey talks Motorcycle Club Rivalries & the Path to Redemption

REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal

Jon Bernthal

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 149 minutes

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Join Jon as he dives deep into the life of Mel Chancey, exploring club rivalries, unwritten rules, and the key moments that paved the path toward redemption. From tense confrontations to heartfelt reconciliations, this episode offers a raw and unfiltered look into Mel's journey.

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0:00.0	What's going on, everybody?
0:01.2	My guest today is Big Mel Chancy.
0:03.6	I can't say enough good about Mel.
0:05.4	He's one of these guys that just carries this light
0:07.6	around with him, makes everybody around him happy.
0:09.9	Mel is a former president of the Hell's Angel Biker gang.
0:13.2	He ran the Hell's Angels in Chicago
0:15.0	during their infamous war with the outlaws.
0:17.0	We're gonna talk about the fact that Mel
0:18.5	had to live most of his life with a target on his back
0:20.8	and what that meant.
0:21.7	About the life that Mel led in Chicago,
0:23.7	we'll let him into the Biker gang.
0:25.4	His time in prison, when he learned from it,
0:27.2	we're gonna talk about Mel's relationship
0:28.7	and God and his faith.
0:30.1	And then we're gonna talk about the project
0:31.6	that Mel and I are doing together
0:32.8	with my dear friend, Duane Johnson.
0:34.8	I'm super proud of this conversation.
0:36.5	I love Mel, and I'm just enormously grateful
0:39.2	that he came on.
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