Gavin McInnes talks about the early days of punk in Canada and his time in the punk rock band The Stooges, and how he got into the punk scene. He also talks about being in a punk band, and what it was like to be in a band in the 80s and 90s.
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00:02:21.000See if you can find the suburbia scene where they're all walking in slow-mo.
00:02:26.000And one of them had a 2-4 under his arm, typical Canadian punks, and they had what we call 14-hole Dr. Martins, and they had, you know, that went up to their knees.
00:02:35.000And the girls with leopard skin things on their leather jackets.
00:02:39.000And, you know, one of them had a cane kind of thing.
00:02:43.000And I remember just, yeah, this is exactly it.
00:02:46.000So this is fictional and from a movie, but it happened all the time.
00:02:50.000You felt so cool when you walked together, you know?
00:02:54.000And then I saw that in the real world.
00:02:57.000And it was James Desiel, the drummer from the trapped.
00:03:00.000It was Caroline Bowden, who we used to call Bumba Clutt.
00:03:03.000And then I sort of later, you know, got a band going and then got in the in-crowd and moved downtown in the old punk house and got to meet all those people.
00:04:17.000This is a segment, I think it's on Canadian MTV, where he's talking about hiring people based on personality, not their musical talent in a band.
00:05:36.000You know, you get jowls here that you can hide with a beard, and you look a little gaunt and stuff, but he didn't look like he was going to pop.
00:06:46.000Pigal is, there's Montmart, where the movie Amalie was shot, and then there's Pigal.
00:06:51.000Montmartre is cute and quaint on a mountaintop, and it's the area you see in that movie, like La Balloon Rouge or whatever, the flying balloon thing from the 50s that everyone loves.
00:07:01.000Remember that red balloon little kids thing about the ballooners magic?
00:07:05.000But then Pigal is all the strip clubs and sluts and dirty can-can dance and whatever.
00:07:39.000So you sign a waiver in front of your lawyer, and then you just go, all right, are we done here?
00:07:47.000I have a last will and testament that says, I heard a, and then it's a terrible word for people who are mentally slow, say, and then it's a terrible word for female genitalia, once.
00:08:14.000I wish I had this for when I insisted my gravestone have terrible language on it.
00:08:20.000And by the way, I never heard anyone mentally handicapped use that word before, but I just thought it would be cool to see like, here lies John Norris, father, son, brother, blah, blah, blah, da, da, da, da.
00:08:54.000That butt thing, though, that really reminds me of like, I just picture like a really stern boss who has no sense of humor and then he hears somebody.
00:09:00.000He's like, that guy can't take a joke.
00:09:47.000And he has a college degree in prints.
00:09:54.000Like the bigotry of low expectations we have for these affirmative action academics is, okay, you want to do your dissertation on Purple Rain?
00:10:23.000So he did the song and then he went on a little diatribe that, and it's funny seeing the media report on it because they go, Kanye West delivers speech no one hears.
00:10:31.000Like they're, it's just drenched in bias all reporting on this.
00:10:34.000But the big picture is he did a show with a MAGA hat.
00:10:54.000Idle hands are the devil's playthings and leads to crime.
00:10:57.000So the Democrats are the ones who are getting black people arrested because the Democrats are creating a culture where black kids have no discipline, no future, no guidance.
00:12:50.000Tell us about this Kanye show, because the story the media is giving is that when he did his speech, which they want to make clear was off air and no one heard it, that there was booze in the audience and everyone hated him.
00:13:03.000Well, okay, so there were a few booze, but most people just watched and didn't really say anything.
00:13:10.000The people, I loved every second of it because, you know, I just, I love Kanye.
00:14:20.000I got to meet him first too though because I met Trump and then that happened.
00:14:23.000So I have to meet Kanye and then – For the prophecy to be fulfilled, you have to go to the sarcophagus and meet Kanye with the light going through that little ruby.
00:14:37.000Well, so what was the atmosphere there?
00:14:40.000It was just uncomfortableness, and then they got over it and moved on?
00:14:44.000Well, it was at the very end of the show.
00:14:45.000It was the very last thing that happened because Kanye did three total performances.
00:14:50.000He came out and he did I Love It with Lil Pump and then he did a song in the middle which I'd never even heard before and then the third and final he did Ghost Town.
00:15:40.000So it's not like the song ended and they said we're cutting to a commercial and then he did his speech.
00:15:45.000He incorporated a speech sure like Elvis Costello when he hanged pulled out the radio on the thing or the Sinead O'Connor ripping the Pope picture.
00:15:57.000And it also worked well with the song.
00:15:59.000Like he kind of like he was like, you know, he made it a speech, but like the beat was going, the guitar was going, and it was really cool.
00:16:07.000And yeah, man, he just, he went off and then he dropped the mic like a boss, walked off, picked up his daughter, North, and just walked off.
00:16:51.000I did want to talk a little bit about movies.
00:16:54.000I saw a trailer this morning for this new Sherlock Holmes movie, Holmes and Watson, which is Jason C. Riley and Will Farrell, who are the best, right?
00:17:42.000The right decided to make it really easy to get a home for blacks and Latinos as a way to make them more Republican and then they'd vote Republican.
00:18:21.000Now, Adam McKay's movie, The Big Short, starts after all the government meddling, all the politically correct stuff, all the things about blacks and Latinos needing to own homes.
00:24:22.000And I like to read, but you know, you get kind of bored of reading after a while, especially when it's your job to read.
00:24:27.000So I've been really binging on movies.
00:24:30.000And there are some real stinkers out there.
00:24:33.000And I've noticed, Glenn Beck talks about this, how when you just let meritocracy go and let the best people do the best jobs, then you get quality products.
00:24:43.000But when there's any kind of agenda in there, when there's any kind of affirmative action or any kind of trick or anything that's not meritocracy, you get a piece of crap.
00:24:52.000Like The Life of the Party, starring Melissa McCarthy, who I love.
00:26:50.000They just kill a baby at the beginning, make you cry, and then, oh, this is a hunk who screws her, by the way, and that's a big theme that she is sexy after all.
00:30:29.000They just say, no, that doesn't mean anything.
00:30:31.000And then they go, her brother once worked for the firm Baker Holster, which was behind the creation of Fusion GPS, which did the Russian dossier.
00:30:40.000The way Media Matters phrases that is, they're involved in the Russian collusion story.
00:31:08.000In fact, in today's post, New Deal, this talks about Canada getting, finally buckling under Trump and saying, all right, all right, all right, just keep doing business with us.
00:31:56.000Similarly, Ana Maria Arquila, who was the one who attacked Flake, she is from Colombia where gays are getting killed to the tune of about 109 a year, I believe.
00:32:09.000And Colombia's murders are going down, but not LGBT murders.
00:32:13.000Those are nice and steady at a good 100 a year.
00:32:16.000Just murdering people because they're gay.
00:32:18.000She gets out of that country at the age of 17, grows up a lesbian in America with zero problems, although she says she was raped, and then gets two kids.
00:32:29.000Now, I believe lesbians scissors for their intercourse and use sex toys, those don't generate any sperm.
00:32:35.000So I don't know how she got these kids, but I would be very grateful if I escaped a hellhole where gays get killed and I ended up in heaven with kids.
00:32:53.000But few realize that she works for the, what are they called?
00:33:01.000Center for Popular Democracy, which is funded by George Soros.
00:33:08.000And she has, if you look up her name, you can see her at anti-Trump rallies going back to when he first announced his candidacy.
00:33:15.000She's always been about anti-Trump, about open borders, about Latinas needing more rights, about more rights for undocumented citizens.
00:33:27.000I couldn't find anything about her discussing sexual assault.
00:33:31.000So that seems to coincidentally be a new cause de celeb for her.
00:33:37.000But this writer, John Fund, in the Post, he goes, he's talking about the lack of research anyone did about this woman.
00:33:42.000He says, perhaps because they express such raw emotion, the two women, few media outlets dug into their political activism.
00:33:50.000And then he goes on to say that she is who she is.
00:33:55.000And isn't it embarrassing, by the way, that some lesbian Latina activist funded by George Soros goes up to Jeff Flake, yells at him, he poops in his panties and changes his mind.
00:34:29.000It reminds me, wait, have you got the, or it's playing a commercial first?
00:34:33.000There was that other guy, Pruitt, the head of the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency.
00:34:39.000So it was Monday, July 1st, I believe, where he goes, he's at a restaurant, and just like this woman, I believe, was set up by someone else, by a Soros type of thing, this woman goes to attack Pruitt, and she has reading cards.
00:34:54.000She has cards, pre-written cards that she reads from.
00:35:59.000I mean, should I be surprised that politicians are only about optics and not about the truth and do not have the courage of their convictions?