On this week's episode of Off My Lawn, the boys discuss the life and career of the late singer-songwriter Mike Skinner. They talk about his early days in the music business, how he got into drugs, and what it was like to be a member of the band Mike Skinner's band The Stooges.
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00:00:03.000First in the room, bursting from noon, herbalist view, words me balloon, curts off the zoo, live from New York, get off my lawn with Devin McGuinness.
00:01:34.000His whole thing, Mike Skinner's whole thing was always being himself.
00:01:37.000The streets, the band was about being themselves.
00:01:41.000I'm pluralizing the band and not calling it Mike Skinner because most Americans listening probably have no idea who the fuck I'm talking about.
00:01:50.000And then he had some comebacks that sucked.
00:01:53.000Sorry, they just didn't have that same oomph, that same jequ, that same irreverence.
00:02:01.000And the thing about Mike Skinner is he was always thinking outside the box with a totally fresh take.
00:02:07.000Like he had that song, A, You Want to Know You B, B, C. And he did like the A, B, C, D, E, F, G to Z. And each line in the song was a different letter.
00:05:46.000This wasn't that far back, but you get what I'm saying.
00:05:48.000So the reason I want to do the chart is it could be that I'm wrong, that I see one black woman with a white guy, and I go, stop saying that.
00:06:07.000So let's power through this 9 to 9.30 where we're showing you what a typical two-hour episode is like.
00:06:15.000And we've been making them two hours, although Monday was three hours, which broke the machine.
00:06:20.000So Ryan, if you can get the sponsor's notes while I, every show we have a book of the day, so we do the song of the day, and that was Mike Skinner's new hit, Who's got the bag?
00:06:31.000Not that a 50-year-old man can do Coke anymore, but we do remember our kooky days.
00:06:42.000Isn't it weird when you focus these cameras and you see your beard and skin in a way you've never seen before and you realize, cameras are better than my eyes.
00:09:10.000You can't just say, I don't know, fuck it at the end.
00:09:13.000And she goes, well, that's how I feel.
00:09:14.000And I go, well, you got to go, I don't know, go for a long walk, spend a few days thinking about what all this means and come up with a summary at the end.
00:09:23.000Now, spoiler alert, the summary is, it's good to make mistakes.
00:09:28.000You'll figure out what's going on with life.
00:09:30.000I made her this frenemy timeline for the book, too, that shows when she liked this person and when they hated her and when they broke up.
00:09:37.000But I'm noticing in the front here, wait a minute.
00:09:43.000David, I've always been secretly in love with you.
00:10:20.000I'd like to welcome our new sponsor, Tactical Walls, to the Censor.tv family.
00:10:25.000They made this beautiful statue of Ryan and I as war movie veterans.
00:10:30.000I've always bragged that though I've never been in a war, I've seen a lot of war movies, sometimes stoned, and I believe I deserve some sort of recognition for that.
00:10:40.000And since I've started saying that, I've noticed that vets have a pattern where they say to me, thank you for my service.
00:10:47.000I don't mean they're thanking me for my service.
00:10:49.000I mean they literally say that verbatim.
00:10:55.000Tactical Walls is veteran-owned and operated, and Tactical Walls is designed to store and secure firearms, but really you can hide anything in there.
00:11:03.000Guns, grandma's prescriptions, heels and sunglasses, whips and chains.
00:14:03.000I was going to make this about his German Shepherd who has a Twitter account, but then I realized we're trying to show people a normal episode to get off my lawn.
00:14:12.000So I hadn't consulted my attorney, me, before I did this, and I went back to a normal example of my pet Biden.
00:14:20.000So here is my pet Biden trying to remember the Secretary of State, who is Lloyd Austin.
00:14:26.000Lloyd Austin is our first black Secretary, not of state, Secretary of Defense.
00:17:17.000I forget where it was, but it was a pug.
00:17:20.000And she'd opened the cage for her pug, the little dog cage, and it was pacing back and forth in the cage, pissed off that it couldn't leave.
00:17:29.000And she was looking going, oh, Wilbur, because he didn't realize it.
00:17:33.000All he has to do is turn left, and he's no longer in a dog cage.
00:18:04.000By the way, the thing I was going to show on this was Joe Biden's Sherman Shepherd's Twitter account where he's like, I'm pawfully sawy that I bit someone because he bit his security detail.
00:18:21.000And it's a very cute little Twitter account where he says stuff in dog talk.
00:18:26.000But I thought, wouldn't it be funny if the security detail died?
00:18:31.000He got some horrible infection from the dog bite.
00:18:34.000And the last message from the president was a tweet from his dog saying, I'm awfully sorry that I bit you, but I was scared.
00:26:46.000So, yes, it checks off all the boxes of racist, right?
00:26:52.000But we should be able to go, okay, but why?
00:26:57.000And again, the Scottish thing comes in handy.
00:26:59.000What if there was a Scottish exchange student and he had a tartan tam and a kilt on, and every time you saw him in the movie, there was bagpipes, and he had a Mickey.
00:27:14.000He had a Mickey of whiskey, and he was chugging it, and then he would have a red nose, and he'd fall over backwards.
00:27:31.000I would say racism is not just noticing a pattern, but insisting it applies to every single person of that group, which none of these examples are doing.
00:27:43.000All these examples are saying, here is one tiny, here's five people doing that thing that happens to be a stereotype.
00:27:52.000And then the other fucking misnomer is this whole see it to be it thing, where they go, I was young, I'm like a Japanese Puerto Rican, and I never saw people like me on TV.
00:33:14.000The problem with Peter Pan was redskins.
00:33:20.000Indians are called redskins, which is fucking wrong.
00:33:25.000Like, I've made three redskins from scratch.
00:33:28.000It's a ridiculous thing to be offended by.
00:33:31.000And I think there's a good argument that they did have redskin.
00:33:35.000The thing about Indians is, and this is a fault of ours, they had developed brown fat.
00:33:43.000And Wynne Hoff in the book, That Which Does Not Kill Us, explains that human beings are capable of developing brown fat, where we are better at withstanding the cold.
00:34:07.000The Indians lost it much later than us.
00:34:10.000So they would be able to withstand, like, say, 20 degrees with no shirt on.
00:34:15.000We would be freezing our asses off with that.
00:34:18.000And I would imagine if you are wearing no shirt in 20 degrees, even if you're warm, your skin's going to be pretty red.
00:34:25.000There's a lot of circulation going on here.
00:34:28.000So my personal theory is that redskins got the name because they were red, because they were scantily clad in cold weather, which they could handle.
00:34:37.000Anyway, it's not a fucking insult, and it's insane that these people are all banned.
00:34:44.000All right, that's going to be, I guess, the end of the usual segments we have.
00:34:48.000I had Antifa, I had feminism, but towards the end of every show, we go and do the mailbag, where we read letters from viewers.
00:36:26.000It seems like this is a comedy bit that's a minute, so if I would step on a punchline, then it would take away the possibility of it being funny.
00:36:38.000He's being longed to dog, and he's like, take it from, you know, people are trying to rape you in the booty, so you could throw a pepper spray at them, but that doesn't work.
00:36:44.000Some people use a pepper spray, but not the 100% reliability.
00:36:50.000At the Fire Power United, we had a new cell phone.
00:36:53.000Chinese guy does not do a very good Chinese accent.
00:37:39.000Hey, Arnold, Buds Drinker and Insylvester Stallone.
00:37:43.000I remember you talking about pedos and saying that there's a difference between a 50-year-old man with a 13-year-old girl.
00:37:49.000I don't think I said that much of a dab.
00:37:53.000And an 18-year-old boy with a 15-year-old girl.
00:37:56.000Now there is literally an episode on Have a Seat with Chris Hansen like that with a nervous 18-year-old virgin boy trying to meet up with a 15-year-old girl, which we don't advocate, but it's no guy my age with a girl underage.
00:38:14.000They literally ruined the poor kid's life.
00:38:16.000And the sheriff from the department they're doing these sting operations with is interviewed by Chris Hansen and calling the poor kid sick and depraved and this and that.
00:38:25.000The fucking guy is portrayed in the first episode as a hero as he is marching with Black Lives Matter and being a complete treacherous little cuck.
00:38:42.000And the dislikes on the video just show you how the majority don't have a fucking problem with a high school senior going out with the sophomore.
00:46:30.000And by the way, I blame the media for this because the media has portrayed cops as vigilante fucking boba fettes who go and just kill people.
00:46:40.000By the way, I'm watching The Mandalorian regularly with my youngest boy, so you're going to hear a lot of Star Wars references.
00:46:48.000So in a strange way, I kind of get this guy.
00:48:49.000So I'm going to say the ending, and then we're going to cut to like a whatever screen, play some the streets, and then we're going to come back and we're going to do that commercial thing, and then we're going to take calls and do drawings.
00:50:13.000Like he's remembering what made him great and he's going, I'm just going to do what made me great, which is doing a weird outside-the-box, brutally honest song, which is on the 21st of June, people are going to be looking for the bag.
00:50:29.000What I found about Coke when you're old, you get a slightly up buzz, but nothing fancy.
00:50:36.000And you can drink a little bit more, but nothing fancy.
00:53:59.000I think if you're not interested in her, you want to overdo it so you get some sort of strange admiration from it, which you don't always get, by the way.
00:54:08.000A lot of the times we're like, could you go?
00:54:10.000Like one time I fucked this girl and she I was walking out the door and the next morning, this is back in Montreal days and she goes, Gavin.
00:54:36.000But there are times when you sense you have power, and those are exhilarating times as a man.
00:54:41.000And I think there's definitely a large percentage of sexual intercourse of any kind, even kissing, when you're single, where you just kind of want to have power over her.
00:54:53.000And then she likes you and you're like, yeah.
00:59:42.000I know, but she's really funny and she buys us cool hats.
00:59:47.000And they go, okay, we'll give you some time to come up with someone else.
00:59:51.000But eventually we're going to need you to come up with something better than that weird eight-year-old black boy that you're married to, who's in a chocolate ad from the 1940s.
01:01:21.000I'm keeping this away, but the movie came out decades ago.
01:01:25.000There's a scene with a little boy, and he's playing with this baguette, and his name is Gregory, and pushing it up a flight of stairs, and eventually he falls out of the window.
01:01:33.000But he keeps saying, Gregory, go boom, Gregory, go boom.
01:01:37.000And then he falls out of a window, but everything's fine.
01:04:51.000So anyway, when you check the actual context, the actual syntax behind it, they're clearly Saying that women belong in high-end restaurants.
01:05:03.000Apparently, at Le Cirque and at Keene Steakhouse, most of the major chefs who are making $250,000 a year are male.
01:05:12.000And they're saying women belong in those kitchens.
01:05:16.000So, obviously, the reference is saying that women belong in high-end kitchens and they don't belong in residential kitchens.
01:05:27.000So, it looks like it's a sexist statement, but it's actually obviously a feminist statement.
01:07:50.000But instead of him going, I can't believe I said that, he doubled down and regularly said, yeah, I think at one point he said, I'm part black.
01:11:56.000But anyway, so that went viral long ago.
01:11:59.000And then Burger King had a whole thing about the crown, about racism, about how you have to be brave and you have to, quote unquote, wear the crown.
01:12:12.000Now that begs the question, had they seen this viral video that was absolutely everywhere?
01:13:43.000So now I'm inclined to think they knew that this thing blew up.
01:13:47.000They were petrified that it would become a Nazi hat, like the Tiki torches in Charlottesville.
01:13:55.000So they're saying, wear your crown, as in, it's sort of like what they tried to do with the Proud Boys, where they showed a bunch of people kissing and saying, we're proud boys, like that was going to bother them, which it obviously didn't because there's plenty of gays in the club.
01:14:56.000And so they were petrified that that would happen to them.
01:15:00.000And I guarantee you that it was women working in social media and they said, we need to nip this in the bud.
01:15:05.000There was a guy on a plane who's becoming popular who said the N-word.
01:15:09.000So let's say wearing the Burger King crown is an anti-racist move.
01:15:14.000So they feel like they're dupes if they do it.
01:15:16.000We believe in authenticity in people, their absolute genuine selves.
01:15:22.000Part of that means celebrating impactful cultural moments while empowering individuals and funding organizations that push the culture forward.
01:15:31.000Back excellence shouldn't be confined to a single month.
01:15:34.000There are far too many accomplishments and achievements deserving of our attention.
01:15:38.000Burger King fully supports you, the change ager for empowerment, truth, and equality.
01:16:28.000If I owned Burger King, or if I was the ad agency that was doing Burger King, in this day and age with all of this insane censorship and racism and sexism and homophobia everywhere, I would just be so fucking weird.
01:23:35.000oh fuck i forgot gays hold on a second i'm gonna make gaze an X this sock is pink oh my boyfriend I hear about these guys they're bamboo whatever they are bombas bombas we donate this pair to someone in need so they're two white gays right I have two socks on my feet and a pink one coming out of my ass pink socks first order at bombas.com right tell someone
01:24:05.000you're a financial advertising Ameriprize financial meriprize I never know what these skins look like oh no so we have a mixed female light skin and we have a black male and they are a couple which I have nomenclature for worked on tomorrow's goals there's a white woman so inter-business relationship So far,
01:32:42.000I like it because he's on like USA Today or CNN, and they go, so do you think the storming of the Capitol was insurrection because it was in the day and that could be domestic terrorism?
01:33:40.000Like even if you held a gun to his head and said, be intelligent, he'd be like, okay, let me play a guitar solo.
01:33:45.000Yeah, well, no, I'd play like a verse.
01:33:48.000And if Ryan doesn't want to do anything for the club, like organize and shit, that would be great too, because then it would just be led up to the presidents of these chapters, and then they just handle it,
01:35:21.000I just wanted to say it resonated with that, you know, the power.
01:35:25.000You know, when you're with a girl, like, you can, you know, there's something better than essentially if you're at a party and this girl goes to your bed and then you essentially.
01:38:44.000But I will say about millennials and especially Zoomers, they seem to be getting pretty woke, especially about education and stuff and realizing that they're being lied to.
01:38:55.000Sometimes the complaints will be false.
01:39:04.000I'm just, I'm tired of my generation complaining when all they've fucking got to do this past entire fucking year in 2020 is sit around and play fucking video games inside and they talk about, oh, social distancing, I have to be inside.
01:42:53.000Following up on your advice you gave me, I guess, a month ago, about keeping it mellow when it comes to the art world stuff, you know, trying to get a business rather.
01:51:16.000Like, you read Breakthrough by James O'Keefe, and you're like two years smarter than you were when you started.
01:51:23.000There's just too much information in fiction.
01:51:25.000And the beauty of Breakthrough by James O'Keefe is it reads like fiction.
01:51:30.000Like he starts out, he's in prison, and I'm wearing the orange overalls, and I'm fucking trying to eat a cheese sandwich.
01:51:39.000Any Thomas Sowell or Charles Murray, too?
01:51:41.000Like, that should just be start with the Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead, and then go to Coming Apart, whatever it's called, the Falling Apart white book.
01:54:24.000No, like me, me and a few other people on Parlor, me and a few other people on Parlo, as soon as I clicked on the app, as soon as I clicked on live show, at 8 o'clock my time.