S1 Ep24: Hells Angels Pt.II : The Origins of the Outlaw MC
Past Gas
Donut Media
4.9 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Past Gas James, Nolan, and Joe continue their discussion on the most notorious motorcycle gang out there, The Hells Angels. They talk about how the Hells Angels came to be, covering everything from the famous Hollister Riot to how a staged photo may have been responsible for giving MC’s a reputation they didn’t deserve. This story is about to kick into high gear so stayed tuned!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, my name is Nolan Sykes. I'm from Past Gas by Donut Media. We are an |
| 0:04.7 | automotive history show and this week we're talking about a guy named Phil Hill. |
| 0:09.6 | Phil Hill spent his youth dreaming of driving foreign cars who'd read British |
| 0:13.8 | race publications back to back. He grew to idolize racers like Juan Manuel Fongeo |
| 0:18.9 | and Alberto Escarri and cars like Maserade's, Ferraris and Triams. But for most of |
| 0:24.1 | his life it was just a dream. So how did the nervous son of a postmaster and |
| 0:28.6 | him composer become one of the most talented race car drivers of all time? |
| 0:32.2 | Why did you leave racing near the peak of his career? What unfortunate event led |
| 0:37.2 | him to winning a world championship? The down past gas? Part one of the story of Phil Hill |
| 0:42.5 | in the 1961 Formula One season. You can find past gas wherever you get your |
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| 1:13.7 | All right, now for the show. |
| 1:18.6 | When we met up last week, American soldiers were returning from far off |
| 1:23.3 | battlefields all over the world. Society was recovering from the unprecedented |
| 1:27.9 | brutality of World War II. Some countries were better off than others. Aside |
| 1:37.6 | from the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the large oceans on either |
| 1:42.2 | side of the US protected the country from further attacks by her enemies. When |
| 1:46.5 | the war was over, America's wartime economy was able to achieve a smooth |
| 1:50.6 | transition to peacetime prosperity. The healthy job market that increased |
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