big shout out to the ghosts and the ghostettes on this episode of motorcycle heavyweights where
we give flowers to the legends of mc culture from west coast choppers to monsters garage
married to Sandra bullock porn stars the man has done it all and today we're going to talk about
Jesse James and we get into it on this episode of demons row tv and oh yeah we ghostin baby
to the ghosts and the ghost sets welcome to demon's road tv the holy grail of mc culture
where we cover everything motorcycle club involved I'm sose the ghost I'm your host
for the evening and I had to give flowers to a dude that was giving flowers before me
the history of the chopper the way he gave light to tom fugle to certain
legends of the culture that we probably would have never heard of unless you were from that era
you know what i mean because let's be real here some of us were not around in the 50s and the 60s
and you know when this stuff was going on so he's responsible for carrying the torch to this era he
also brought to the light that black builders like ben hardy were the ones that created the
chopper in the easy rider movie and it was never put in the easy rider magazine it was never told
to anybody because of the politics at that time because he was a black person that it couldn't be
said that he was the one that designed the bike so Jesse James actually brought that to light there
was a funny story that he said in the interview and he was talking about a situation where he had
put an ad for his shop in the easyrider magazine and he had put so much revenue into the magazine
and they had a problem with a picture that he had because one of his friends was actually black that
was riding with him in the promo so they told him that they could not put him in it because
you know their viewership would get very upset if they see black people in the magazine and stuff
like that so Jesse told them he would pull his ad and kill them on revenue if they didn't put it
so he did it and he received a lot of hate he said he was getting hate mail and all that
and he did something really funny that because he was receiving so much hate mail
he had all these magazines sent to him that were adult magazines and he had him sent to the
prisons because that's where a lot of the magazine subscriptions were coming from people in prisons
so what he would do is when they would send hate mail they would send back
a black adult book so I found that really funny and we're gonna break down his life
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it Jesse Gregory was born on April 19th 1969 in Linwood California a suburb of los Angeles his
parents divorced when James was very young and he was raised by his father Larry an antique dealer
James says that he endured a rough childhood married by regular physical and emotional abuse
from his father i was always scared he recalls my whole childhood I never had a chance to be a kid
he talked about how his father would work him so hard that he would like be crying at nighttime
that he just wanted to go to bed because he had to go to school the next day and it's like as much as
that suck it prepared him for his mission in life he never thought like a regular kid like I have
to go to work I have to work for other people like he thought about you know owning his own business
from a young age so as horrible as his childhood was it conditioned him for his purpose and I'm
starting to learn that about a lot of people they all had that rough beginning and that's what
conditions them for greatness his father's antique shop is located next door to a Harley-Davidson
parts supplier and from a very young age James was fascinated by motorcycles I remember seeing a pack
of hell's angels blasting by a family car when I was about six and they were all riding choppers
James recalls I remember all the noise and all the chrome it was the coolest thing I ever saw I knew
that i was going to be involved in motorcycles in some way when James was seven his father bought
him a small dirt bike which he cherished and rode everywhere when he wasn't riding his bike
James proved himself to be a natural tinkerer his father remembers it didn't matter if it was Legos
apollo tonka trucks or his bikes you could always find Jesse with everything laid out on the floor
tearing things apart to see if he could make them better in some ways so you see the
even from a baby he had that builder creator vibe like some of us are just creators
and we need to build and he was doing that at a young age so let your kids build don't let them
be stuck on their phones caught in the matrix let them play with toys and and learn and experiment
James attended la sierra high school in riverside California where he was a star linebacker on the
football team he graduated high school in 1987 and enrolled at riverside community college
where he played on the football team and dreamed of somehow making the leap from small town school
to NFL however following two injury play seasons James quit the team and dropped out of school I
noticed for most legends school is usually not the thing early career and opening west coast choppers
a longtime fan of the los Angeles alternative music scene James landed a job as a bodyguard
for the hard rock band slayer and Soundgarden even while working full time as a bodyguard James never
gave up on his dream of building motorcycles for a living he visited custom motorcycle garages in
his spare time and remained convinced that the industry needed a breath of fresh air the custom
scene back then was completely crap James said nobody wanted to take a risk and build a really
wild in-your-face motorcycle in 1993 James fell off the stage during a concert and dislocated his
elbow leaving him temporarily unable to work as a bodyguard not one to sit idle James took advantage
of the time to pursue his childhood dream of building motorcycles James apprentice on the
custom motorcycle manufacturer Ron sims James then opened his own shop west coast choppers
first in his garage and then out of a tiny shop in long beach California building a custom motorcycle
is a labor intensive and expensive process and James struggled to make ends meet during his west
coast chopper early years money problems prompted James to have the words pay-up sucker tattooed on
his palm there's something that he said in the interview that I really loved about this too
and it speaks to drive he said that there was a person he overheard saying that he wouldn't last a
month and he said that he's been back ordered ever since he heard that person say that so never let
the haters bring you down big break James fortunes changed for the better in 2001 when the discovery
channel chose west coast choppers as the focus for its multi-part documentary motorcycle mania cast
into the national spotlight by the film James developed the celebrity clientele that further
elevated the profile of west coast choppers James has since designed and built custom motorcycles
for stars such as Tyson Beckford kid rock and Keanu reeves his crown jewel is 11.5 foot long
purple and gold behemoth of a bike he built for Shaquille O'Neal James has since expanded his
business ventures beyond motorcycles to include a west coast chopper's clothing line garage magazine
and fast food restaurant named cisco burger following the success of motorcycle media the
discovery channel tapped James to host the reality show monster garage the show tracked James and
his crew as they attempted to convert vehicles to perform functions that manufacturers never
imagined in one episode for example James and his company converted a school bus into a pontoon boat
James later returned to reality tv in 2009 when he competed on behalf of the long beach education
foundation to NBC celebrity apprentice personal life despite his remarkable career as a custom
motorcycle manufacturer and businessman James has at times received more press for his turbulent
personal life than professional achievements James and his first wife Carla married in 1991 and had
two children chandler and Jesse jr they divorced in 2002 in the same year James married adult film
actress Janine linmolder the two had a daughter sonny before divorcing in 2004 a year later
James married Sandra bullock they stayed together until 2010 when their marriage collapsed amid a
tabloid scandal shortly after bullock won the 2010 academy award for best actress in her role in the
blindside rumors surfaced that James had carried on extramarital affairs with model Michelle McGee
among others James admitted their affairs earning public ire for his betrayal of his widely beloved
bullock shortly after the news of his affairs surfaced jane's reputation took a further hit
when a photograph surfaced showing James performing a Nazi salute James and bullock
divorced in June 2010 so he you know to be a great you got to have those ups and those downs and then
you got to rise from it and it was funny because i was seeing in the interview he said after
the split between him and Sandra bullock he went with a porno star and it was it was just funny to
me because he he actually admitted like you know i was making great decisions at the time so you
know obviously he grew from it and you you learn you know a lot of us are not perfect and we live
and we learn katri James has worked to get his life and career back on track he spent 30 days at
sierra Tucson an Arizona rehabilitation facility where he received treatment for anger management
sex addiction and overcoming childhood abuse as in an interview what motivated his recovery
James answered a vision of a better life and a better future if you can squint and visualize
that that's the basis of recovery so it's crazy because he went and got help for what i consider
what most men do in real life make bad decisions sleep with women that they think are the hottest
this is what all men do so he went and actually tried to get help for being a man James had an on
and off relationship with kat von d between 2010 and 2011 and marry drag racer Alexis de jouria
in 2013 in march 2020 James and dejori announced their separation so the man gave light all over
mc culture he exposed racism that went on and actually did something about it had his ups and
downs he had sandra bullock he had a porn star the man is a motorcycle heavyweight let me know in the
comments if you agree with me that Jesse James is a motorcycle heavyweight and let me know in
the comments who you think should be featured as a motorcycle heavyweight we have done a lot of them
already if you haven't seen those other episodes they will be on the end screen check those out
we got David Mann tom fugle indian Larry we did sunny we got a whole bunch of them evil Knievel
hulk Hogan so let me know who you feel should be added to that list and thank you for tuning in the
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