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How did Joby decide to join the Hells Angels after building his bike?
One day I thought, I wanna build a bike again. Went to Oakland, met Sonny with Hoover, and I looked right at him and I said, I think I'll join your club. And I went and told Sonny, I said, I'm ready, man. I'm ready to be a health angel. I went to Laughlin. Well when I went up there, I saw mongol packers. And that's when the phone call came. Hell's Angels to Harris. I said, you got a gun? He said, yeah. I said, people are gonna die tonight. Sixty-three of us walked in there, up against a hundred and some Mongols. It set off. I stabbed that national president twice. I knew it was gonna be a tough war. And I thought, better get a state meeting. All the honchos, the whole state, come up and we found two bugs in the room, clearing the room.
I said, get ready for conspiracy. And four days later we were raided.
Imagine joining an outlaw motorcycle club at 49 years old. That's the story of Joby Walter, a former Hell's Angel who rose the ranks of the HA to become a leading figure in the organization. Joby was in deep, he gave his life to the club. He was close friends with Hell's Angel leader Sonny Barger and was on the front lines of the war against the Mongols, including the infamous shooting. out at Hara's Casino in Laughlin, Nevada, in which three bikers ended up dead. Joby is a real outlaw, the last of the old school gangsters. He put out a hit against the Mongol who killed his partner at Hara's and then beat the federal murder conspiracy against him. How many people can say they did that? He finally left the Hells Angels and lives as a rancher now in rural Arizona and has written a book about
about his life cut free. The link to that will be in the description below. No member of the Hells Angel has seen or done as much as Joby and lived to tell about it. This is as outlaw as it gets. The one and only Joby Walters right here on the connect with Johnny Mitchell.
I pulled into Arizona on a nineteen seventy two Iron Head Sportster on a rigid springer front end with a pair of crutches strapped to it because of my broke foot.
Was Arizona like the Mecca of the H A?
No. That was the dirty dozen, man. And I tell you what, when I showed up there it took me just about Maybe twenty, twenty-five years after I rode into Arizona, d got a job, unloading I'll tell you I'll still the story for you. And at a stable unloading uh uh I was I was with some linos in Central Park, broke biker, dirt jeans, grime. You know? Leaking Harley, you know. And this cowboy came across here and said, I got a semiload of hay out of Craig, Colorado. I need to unload a stable at South Mountain. Ponderosa stable. Well kind of stable. So dude's stable. We take people on rides in those mountains over there. I said, Well, I'll work. I followed Mirror on my bike and we unloaded that hay and the driver said, Man, you
You work hard, you've been around horses or anything before. I said, Oh yeah, I said grew up country, man. He said, Well they need help here and I said, Yeah, I'll give it a shot. Pushed the bike away, went down to the thrift store and bought a cowboy hat and Cowboy boots and a vest, and that's where my career Of riding, guiding hounds, the professional I am today started right there. And then It it went on. I I've guided all over the country. I've I've packed Big horn sheep, uh um from Montana to Kalis Belt to Whitefish in the mountains, Arizona to San Juan's Colorado. The Hells Canyon of the Snake River packed for hotshot firefighters on their duties down in there putting fires out and I'm packing them up with a string of mules.
I've been through it, I'm a professional. And then one day I thought, I wanna build a bike again. And that's when my story of the Hells Angels would come on. So what
year was that?
When I decided I wanted to build one again was in uh ninety seven, ninety six. And I went to Canada and guided bear hunters and that was my rat hole money for it. And I came back from there. My buddies, you know, I shot pool, but I didn't drink. I quit at all ninety two. June third, one thirty in the afternoon after taking on Durango's finest with a
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Joby decide to join the Hells Angels after building his bike?
0:00–6:19
2
What was Joby’s first meeting with Sonny Barger and how did he earn his patch?
6:19–16:45
3
How did the Laughlin casino showdown with the Mongols play out?
16:45–38:39
4
Why did Joby leave the Hells Angels and what happened after the war?
38:39–1:07:08
5
What federal and state indictments were filed against Joby and what charges did they include?
1:07:08–1:25:23
6
How did the club handle the fallout – who was blamed and what happened to Bad Bob?
1:25:23–1:41:58
7
What sentence did Joby receive and what was his experience in state and federal prison?
1:41:58–1:58:10
8
What happened to Sonny Barger and how did Joby reflect on his friendship with him?
1:58:10–2:13:15
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