The Minutemen were an American punk rock band from San Pedro, California, formed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were influenced by Black Flag, Sonic Youth, Minor Threat, and many other bands, but they were also influenced by punk rock in general.
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00:04:40.000It takes you like a couple chapters to get into the zone, but once you get into it, it's cool.
00:04:45.000But don't be turned off by this writing.
00:04:49.000Although they were certainly capable of Byzantine riffing and spine-tingling run downs the run down the although they were certainly capable of Byzantine riffing and spine-tingling runs down the fretboard, the Minutemen's brilliance lay not in their songwriting or chops,
00:05:04.000but in their radical approach to their medium.
00:05:06.000They worked up a concept that encompassed the yin of popular populist bands such as Credence, Clearwater, Revival, and Van Halen, and the Yang of the intellectual wing of the English punk rock explosion.
00:05:20.000Daringly incorporating such genres as funk and jazz, the Minutemen struck a blow for originality, a perennially endangered quality in punk rock.
00:05:30.000Anyway, once you get used to his writing, that's a great book if you're interested in 80s hardcore.
00:06:55.000You know funny how they're at the other end of the world and the drains, the sink drains the opposite direction, and then they also have right and left backwards.
00:07:04.000And they drive on the wrong side of the road.
00:08:37.000What do you mean, what's the story behind that?
00:08:40.000It was a lottery I entered in Myanmar during a volcanic eruption, and then I was kidnapped by some Sandinistas there who flew me to do the Kenny vs.
00:08:51.000Spenny show, even though I had lost the competition.
00:11:07.000We've got psycho with the blonde hair.
00:11:10.000And then now that Proud Boys are being arrested every time they appear, you've got random dudes with vests on and baseball bats standing up to them.
00:13:51.000So when I first heard it, it was actually my dad who called me and said, so the Proud Boys have disbanded.
00:13:56.000And understand, when you're labeled in terrorist organization, I mean, you can get arrested just for existing, which is such a violation of your rights, whether you're in Canada or America.
00:14:10.000You shouldn't be committing terrorist acts, obviously, but Proud Boys don't.
00:14:15.000The only incident that's ever happened in Canada was when those Halifax guys, who had signed up to put their lives on the line for their country, went up to a bunch of assholes who were burning the Canadian flag, and they said, what are you doing?
00:14:28.000That's the flag we're supposed to die for.
00:15:13.000But it was an insult because the kind of person who wants to be the manager of the retail store when it's the same salary is just someone who wants to fucking boss you around.
00:15:21.000And that's what the top brass at the police are.
00:15:23.000And that's what the top brass in the military are.
00:15:44.000And then I felt kind of sad, you know, that the press or the government has that power, especially because the guy who did it in Canada is a Sikh who's a terrorist.
00:15:54.000He was linked to the group who bombed flight whatever it was, that Air India flight that was attacked by Sikhs and went down.
00:17:27.000And the funny thing about this is they accept it as a fact and then they run with it and say, this is only the beginning, this thing we've accomplished.
00:17:33.000The dissolution of Proud Boys Canada doesn't mean they stop organizing.
00:17:37.000We need to focus more on movements than formal groups.
00:17:41.000It's important to recognize that dissolution doesn't mean they've abandoned their worldview.
00:17:45.000Oh, so now it's thought crimes, is it Canada Anti-Hate Network?
00:20:08.000The families include at least one child separated from his or her parent at age three and at least two women separated from their children in 2017.
00:20:29.000So then I click on the link, hoping that someone's going to tell me about all these proud boys who are separated from their parents or families and all these women.
00:21:25.000The families include at least one child separated from his or her parent at age three and at least two women separated from their children at 2017.
00:23:03.000Defense attorney, like, why is he so obsessed with Ethan Nordine's sins?
00:23:07.000Ethan Nordine, by the way, Rufio Panman, where we saw it was all bullshit.
00:23:12.000All of the evidence against him was bullshit.
00:23:15.000And one tiny example of that, a perfect example of it, was he had a fake passport to skip the country, where you go, that's like pretty high-level crime.
00:23:27.000No, it was his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend's, or sorry, his wife's ex-boyfriend's passport that happened to be sitting in a drawer somewhere.
00:25:23.000I have to read you this because it is amateur fucking hour.
00:25:26.000I write to a crest more information about deeply troubling reports suggesting that the FBI failed to use its sources in the Proud Boys to develop intelligence about the January 6th insurrection.
00:26:48.000In your recent appearance before the Senate, you testified, whose perpetrators included violent white supremacists, no evidence of that, and a large growing number of militia, violent extremists who associate with militias, such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
00:27:05.000So now Proud Boys are a white supremacist militia, according to this.
00:27:10.000Can you tell a difference between the Huffington Post and senators?
00:27:32.000Prosecutors have produced evidence of coordination between the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, several of whose members have also been indicted for conspiracy.
00:27:39.000Yeah, because we have a fucked up retarded justice system that are almost as dumb as you, Ryan J. Riley and Dick Durbin.
00:27:46.000Despite clear evidence of these violent extremists coordinated in advance, nope.
00:27:50.000The FBI does not appear to have warned of political violence targeting January 6th.
00:27:54.000So the implication there is that the FBI knew it and they said, let's do it.
00:27:59.000And even then, the FBI's warning was limited to situational information report.
00:28:34.000One, given the FBI's apparent relationship with Proud Boys, sources, no, Proud Boy sources, why did the FBI fail to detect the threat that the Proud Boys and similar militia violent extremists posed to the Capitol on January 6th?
00:28:50.000Because there was no threat, because there was no plan.
00:29:12.000Two, one member of the Proud Boys has indicated in court filings that he regularly informed FBI personnel about Proud Boys' activities in Portland, Oregon to ask for advice on planned marches or demonstrations.
00:29:22.000What march routes to take, where to go, where not to go.
00:30:29.000Out of 100 people who are familiar with politics in the Capitol, how many of them believe that Trump said stand back and stand by and then said, unleash the hounds.
00:30:37.000And they unleashed a planned attack on January 6th?
00:30:43.000I would say, well, 50% of people think like me and think the Capitol was just a dumb accident.
00:30:50.00050% think it was an evil right-wing, blah, blah, blah.
00:30:53.000So out of those lefties, I would say 30% of the 50% thinks that it was all planned and Trump said, sick him.
00:31:02.000And this guy has devoted his life to apprehending all the old ladies and plumbers who were pissed off and dared to wander into the Capitol.
00:31:34.000So I worked out, I dug up the richest woman in the world, and I looked up how much they got after the divorce, and then back calculated how many fucks they've had.
00:31:52.000Hey guys, let's talk about the five richest women in the world, hardworking women, came up with business ideas, hustled, said, I'm not having kids, and invented something or created an industry.
00:33:17.000Then from five to 10 years, the kids are around.
00:33:19.000So it's going to go down to once a week.
00:33:21.000They're sleeping in the bed and stuff.
00:33:22.000So those five years only get 260, half the fucks.
00:33:28.000And then from 10 years to 20 years, the kids are around where the idea of your 10-year-old walking in and seeing you face fuck your wife is not worth it.
00:34:57.000And then for the last five, it's barely more than that.
00:34:59.000So that brings us to 1,040 fucks, which means every time Mackenzie got on all fours and allowed herself to be drilled by that asymmetrical-eyed bald freak of a turtle, she was getting $41 million per fuck.
00:35:36.000I think meals and stuff, encyclopedias, whatever, junk.
00:35:40.000He was a door-to-door salesman, and he parlayed that into a giant, monolithic, small business-eating tractor-trailer, steamroller machine, backhoe, that some argue destroyed America's economy in many ways.
00:35:54.000It definitely strangled a lot of entrepreneurs, but it is cool buying a chainsaw at 3 in the morning.
00:36:00.000So there's two sides to every story, as Billy Bragg would say.
00:36:03.000But Alice Walton was a daughter, went to private schools her whole life, had a great life.
00:36:08.000And the great thing about Alice Walton is she never had to fuck her dad.
00:43:19.000Here's the thing about this dumb rationale where I'm going to save the planet by not having kids.
00:43:24.000That's like recycling your coffee cup when your neighbor is throwing toxic waste out the window.
00:43:31.000China, the third world, Central America, Middle East, 7 billion people going fucking nuts and you're going to take one or two out of the equation?
00:43:43.000Why don't you go to the beach, wash one grain of sand, and then put it back and go, I just cleaned up the beach.
00:43:54.000And what if you have a kid who becomes an environmentalist activist and saves the world and helps curb the population in Africa and China and the Middle East to the tune of billions?
00:45:18.000He kind of assumed that I would change my mind because we were together and we were in love.
00:45:22.000He would try and convince me that I did want to have children with him, and he'd tell me he'd look so sexy pregnant.
00:45:27.000The fact was, I didn't want to have kids, his or anyone else's, and if he wanted to have children, he'd have to find another woman, which is what he did.
00:45:37.000I guess that it's quite lucky that I have never been broody because it means I don't have I don't feel that I'm making a sacrifice.
00:45:43.000However, if I were to have that biological clock kicking in that everyone tells me is going to happen, I would now say no.
00:45:52.000Even if I did become broody, now I would make a conscious decision not to have children because of that reason.
00:45:58.000I don't want to contribute to a global population.
00:46:01.000I don't want to add two to seven billion.
00:46:04.000Often project their own lifestyles onto you or their life choices or whatever.
00:46:10.000If we're talking about fucks for Melinda Gates, then yes, giving up a fuck is giving up about $60 million.
00:46:31.000And then, of course, there's my horrible Western chauvinism that says that Western babies are of more value than some piece of trash in Bangladesh that lives in the garbage, literally lives in the garbage.
00:46:59.000Anyway, I thought it was interesting that women who have trashed their ovaries and are starting to regret it, they look to women such as Chelsea Handler and Sarah Silverman for advice.
00:47:13.000She looks over at her sister in Israel who has like six kids, six adorable angels, and she just gets getting older and uglier and less relevant and worser at politics.
00:47:27.000And so they call her and they go, I fucked up just like you.
00:47:39.000I'm turning 40 at the end of next year, but I can already feel something brewing like that at best there's going to be a bit of a meltdown and at worst is going to be some kind of horrific, full-blown midlife crisis.
00:47:53.000And it's the first time I've ever really given age any consideration because, you know, I know age is just a number and all that stuff.
00:48:00.000But 40 feels like a big one and it kind of feels like a scary next stage of like the second half of your life, I suppose.
00:48:07.000Well, it is the second half of your life.
00:48:08.000But I just want to do it in a good way.
00:48:10.000I don't want to be rubbish about this.
00:51:46.000Men are only as loyal as their opportunities.
00:51:48.000And if someone's begging to suck their dicks 24-hour a day, like Johnny Knoxville or who's the guy, Derek Jeter or whatever, eventually they're going to break down and be like, okay, you can suck it.
00:52:00.000Next thing you know, Kanye's cheating on fucking Kim and he's out the door.
00:54:43.000Just, cop, if you are going to murder someone in your career, you're part of that 0.0001% that is evil and insane, I think this might be your time.
00:59:10.000I would go to Home Depot, get a big bucket, then go to the grocery store, put ice in it, and have a giant bucket of water I could dip my head in.
01:03:00.000And so, you know, if you think about it, when we were, when I was vice president with Barack, he allowed me to put together a budget for Amtrak.
01:03:58.000And then here's a very disturbing video that the Biden administration is trying to take down of him kissing his grandson, which we're all four.
01:04:10.000Except not where you put your hand over his fucking mouth.
01:09:36.000And then if you go to 40, we see that it's all olds and fats.
01:09:44.000I like this guy, Wilford Riley, but some of these dudes, these older conservative dudes, they'll post some girl, like some 25-year-old girl in a bikini or some girl going, I haven't been this horny since I was 18.
01:11:05.000Let's leap over to the mail bag, shall we?
01:11:27.000What if you killed yourself and you said one of the reasons was that you don't have a dad and a big part of it was you being made fun of in this song?
01:11:38.000I don't know what the point of that would be.
01:12:57.000Gavin, I was looking into the shootings at Kent State in 1970 since the media loves to parade it around as one of the worst atrocities ever committed by our government.
01:13:04.000At first, I thought the National Guard shot them just because they're a bunch of violent communists burning down buildings and attacking police like Antifa.
01:13:10.000But then I discovered this guy, Terry Norman.
01:13:13.000He was one of the students throwing rocks at the cops and also happened to be an FBI informant who was the only person other than the National Guard who had a firearm on the scene.
01:13:23.000Forensic analysis showed his gun had been fired and he even said he had fired it and then later recanted.
01:13:29.000The FBI lied to the public and claimed they had no relationship with him.
01:13:34.000I think this asshole fired the first shot and spooked the guard into returning fire.
01:16:00.000Even in movies, like their guns and they'll just run through a creek and you're like, no, you're fucked now.
01:16:08.000Like if you camp out and have a fire and have your, remove your laces, open up your boots, put sticks in them, have them right by the fire, hope they don't burn.
01:16:24.000Usually movies are kind of warm, but in the winter, you step on some ice, kajunk, fills your boot with freezing cold water, you just shoot yourself.
01:17:00.000Now on the third wheel, my husband was astonished when I bought the censored subscription because like most physicians, I'm cheap as fuck and I never pay subscriptions.
01:17:07.000Can you please do an Indian Joker face for old time's sakes?
01:18:46.000He's the guy who said, I go, I'm getting sued.
01:18:48.000Every time I get sued, no matter how frivolous it is, I still have to pay a lawyer like 15 grand just to say, no, I didn't rape you when you were in Bavaria.
01:24:32.000Now, some people claim Wheeler Walker is doing a bit like Weird Al kind of a thing, or not even that, more like I don't know, Andrew Dice Clay.
01:30:35.000She, along with her great group of overachieving friends, by the way, mixed races, religious backgrounds, genders, class, et cetera, were honored tonight for the well-deserved merits of their hard work.
01:30:44.000Many of them earned ropes, I don't know what those are, and awards for their accomplishments of earning and maintaining a 3.5 plus GPA throughout their four years of high school, in addition to other specific and worthwhile achievements.
01:30:57.000This was the actual meritocracy-focused portion of the ceremony.
01:31:03.000They blitzed through announcing this majority of students in about 20 to 30 minutes.
01:31:08.000But then came the remaining 90-plus minutes of what you could refer to as the bigotry of low expectations portion of the event.
01:31:16.000One of these processions in particular stuck out.
01:31:18.000A group of students were awarded a rope for showing they learned a second language with proven proficiently.
01:32:12.000No Latino student in this group mastered a second language other than Spanish.
01:32:16.000The five or so non-Latina students earned one or more achievements in the A4 men mentioned categories, but the majority of the Latino bilingual master's students earned no other ropes or honors or anything else.
01:32:26.000Meanwhile, they did not meet any other GPA athletic extracurricular achievements throughout their four years, but still earned this special rope for this one thing.
01:32:35.000The balls fawned over this group and insisted on obnoxiously overdone applause.
01:32:46.000But wouldn't give a single clap to the white boy who won a mathematics honor for maintaining simultaneously A-plus grades in advanced placement stats, calculus, physics, who will likely be working for NASA or SpaceX in four years.
01:33:00.000Nor the wheelchair-bound white boy who won awards for excellence in audio-video production.
01:33:41.000Unfortunately, my wife has befriended a couple of them, or should I say, has been captured by them, and I now have to fight daily to counteract the brainwashing they inflict upon her.
01:43:45.000a piece of garbage on your lawn pick it up if you notice someone fucks with you take a couple blows take a few hits and then come back at them i remember this guy was fucking with my dad a lot when my parents were having a party he's like yeah what would jim know about that and it got to be a little one-sided and petty and i go dad i think it's time we um we fought back with old Bry guy there.
01:44:06.000These are getting pretty rich, this relentless, stupid insults, and you're not returning fire.
01:44:11.000And he felt like that guy was, you know, not worthy of him, of fighting him.
01:44:15.000I don't mean physically, I mean like barbs.