$LEVI Levi Strauss Tape Reports
Per Ticker.id: $LEVI Levi Strauss Tape Reports — 1 podcast mention across 1 podcast (30 days), latest 2026-07-31 14:36 UTC.
Well, the, the, the club, the Hells Angels name, the logo is— people claim this, and I, I think there's a lot of merit to it, that that the Hells Angels brand is one of the most powerful and recognized brands of— in existence. Whether that's true or not, you know, I guess that's up for debate. When we established in the late '70s, we thought we got to establish a trademark board, we've got to protect our trademark. Uh, I was on the board. Uh, a gentleman I do not get along with to this day, uh, Flash was on the board, done a lot for the club, did a lot for the trademark. I'm not going to take that away from Irish, was on the trademark board, you know. You know, Irish was murdered, uh, different individuals. I think there might have been 7 or 8 of us on the initially on the board. We used Limbach, Limbach and Sutton, some very powerful trademark attorneys on the West Coast. They were located up in the Bay Area, and they handled— I may have some of these wrong, but I don't, I don't think so— they handled Levi Strauss. I know that one for sure. Coca-Cola, perhaps Pepsi-Cola, MasterCard. The rest of them I couldn't really remember. They were insignificant to me. And the Hells Angels. So you had these trademark lawyers representing these powerful trademarks, recognizable trademarks, Levi trademark, the MasterCard, whatever it may be. I get a phone call from Mr. Sutton. He says, "George, I'd like to talk to you." And I said, "Well, I'm in Southern California. I got it." He goes, "It's very important you come up here. I want to talk to you." No misunderstandings, I want to tell you something. So, you know, I'm going, this is not going to be good. So I, I go up there. This is back, like I say, in early '80s. Uh, you could fly to San Francisco for $30. There's a plane every 45 minutes, you know, there and then one back. So I jump on a plane, I go up there, and Mr. Sutton says that the other trademark brands have discovered they're also representing the Hells Angels. And he said, they don't want their trademark brushing up against yours because it's not a good image. The Hells Angels don't have a good image.
Shawn Ryan — The Shawn Ryan Show · #333 George Christie - Surviving 40 Years in the Hells Angels · 2026-08-24