In honor of the 100th episode of Get Off My Lawn, I decided to go back over the past 100 episodes and talk about the history of the west and why we should stop apologizing and be proud of what we ve built.
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00:00:56.000Generation X, one of my favorite songs.
00:00:58.000And the 100 is relevant because this is our 100th episode here at Get Off My Lawn.
00:01:07.000The cover of the post, betrayed about a cop killer who's out after 40 years, and Joe Biden's son up to all kinds of corruption, corruption in the DNC.
00:01:19.000Yeah, we know all about it, but let's focus on a porn star's rants and the myth of Russian collusion.
00:01:25.000I wanted to take the time on this special episode to go back over the past hundred episodes and my career as a screaming mouthpiece, not because it's important that you know all about me, but because my story, I think, is a microcosm of the American dream in that you can screw up your career many times over.
00:01:51.000You can self-sabotage again and again.
00:01:54.000But assuming you can stay away from heroin, severe alcohol, and a felony, such as rape or murder, you can make a lot of money in this town called America, in this region called the West.
00:02:10.000And I think that is an incredible testament to freedom and the benefits of avoiding communism.
00:03:08.000These pundits, these are the bureaucrats, these managers, the lawyers, the people who hold you back, the people who want to regulate you and get in your way.
00:03:30.000So today's episode, I'm going to sort of go over the history of what I'm trying to do here, but more importantly, the history of the West and why the West is the best and why we should stop apologizing and be proud of what we've built.
00:04:26.000I want to go over the myth that we should be apologetic, that we can't be proud.
00:04:30.000And I'm also going to make a case for the opposite, that we should enjoy ourselves.
00:04:34.000And if there's one great reason why we should enjoy ourselves and be proud, it's that a buffoon, a complete drunken like myself, can blow up his career many times over and still make a pretty good living.
00:05:55.000And I don't know what eventually happened to him.
00:05:57.000Maybe he started like a, as he got older and less sexy, he had sort of an entourage and then he managed or whatever.
00:06:03.000You know how these bands get older and they become engineers or producers?
00:06:07.000That's unique to America, even more than Canada and socialist Europe.
00:06:13.000If you hustle and you choose something you're sort of talented at, if you hustle, you will make money.
00:06:19.000Even if you do controversial stuff, even if you do stuff that normally wouldn't make money, like for example, in media, the best way to do it is to sort of go the babysitter route and cater To young girls, that's the easiest way to make money.
00:06:33.000Have a makeup tutorial, do a magazine about puppies and hunks.
00:06:37.000The worst thing you could do is get near the alt-right or anything controversial in conservative culture and nationalism, that kind of stuff.
00:06:48.000Even as a lawyer, if you're defending these guys, as Morris Dees did, the founder of the SPLC with the KKK, even he did okay staying too close, hot, hot, close to this incredibly controversial edge.
00:07:04.000Even those guys make money when they hustle.
00:07:06.000And you don't even have to be nice to work with.
00:07:11.000You can be some of the most cantankerous and annoying, grumpy people on earth.
00:07:20.000And if you hustle and you don't let people take advantage of you and you stay overnight and you show your boss that you care and you don't rape anyone or do anything disgusting, you're looking at a million bucks over the course of 10 years.
00:07:35.000So I'm saying that it's not about choosing the winning team.
00:07:58.000In many ways, I've always chosen the losing team and then started it from nothing or, you know, bankruptcy, built it up, and then when it gets going, I tend to self-sabotage to get back down to the beginning and back to startup mode.
00:08:14.000After my days were done at Vice, I started a production company that ended up being an ad agency because there's more money there, not a lot of demand for comedy sketches as far as production goes.
00:08:31.000After that, made enough money to be sold to a big company called Devas.
00:08:34.000I said, made it very clear that I believe that trans are not a different gender.
00:08:39.000They're mentally ill gays, which is true.
00:08:42.000Although, since I've said that, now they're just mentally ill people.
00:08:46.000They've recruited non-gays to their silly movement.
00:08:50.000And that was the end of the ad agency.
00:08:51.000So I started working at Compound Media, and I did a show called The Gavin McInnes Show that started out, I was getting paid almost nothing.
00:08:59.000And I managed to increase my value by busting my ass and sort of accruing a following, accruing a movement.
00:12:12.000This perfect storm, which is what America is and the West is, it's a perfect storm of different groups coming together and creating Western culture.
00:14:33.000That's the thing about all this is it's amusing.
00:14:36.000Like when they screamed at the sky all over, I was going to say in Seattle, all over America, they got together and screamed at the sky because they hate Trump.
00:17:24.000But as this show has progressed over the years, now I'm starting to say, guys, whatever happened to the sex part?
00:17:31.000Like, you're not even sowing your wild oats anymore.
00:17:33.000You're staying at home and masturbating and playing video games.
00:17:36.000So I have to encourage millennials to be decadent, just to pop their cherry, just so I can get to the next spot where I go, all right, guys, that was fun.
00:18:57.000There's no sort of Machiavellian agenda here.
00:19:01.000My goal is to share my joy at this point because I know if you go their way, not only is your life going to suck, but Western civilization will continue on this horrific decline.
00:19:13.000And that was the origin of Get Off My Lawn.
00:19:16.000It was, all right, we've messed around enough.
00:19:18.000Now it's time to embrace the greatest generation, pre-boomers, post-war.
00:19:24.000Let's pay attention to Walt Kowalski and listen to him when he says, get off my lawn.
00:19:29.000Because the other root Trivializes everyone's gift.
00:19:32.000It says to men, you're not good patriarchs, and it says to women, you shouldn't breed and use your magical gift.
00:22:07.000If it ever gets too much, I'll drink a bottle of makers, chase it down with a few beers, and say, just judging, and I'll grab a pie.
00:22:16.000See, that's the ultimate difference here.
00:22:18.000We're both fighting, but what are we fighting for?
00:22:22.000On our side, we're fighting to get away from the zombies, to get away from the rule men, to get away from the boss.
00:22:28.000And we're saying we want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man.
00:22:32.000So when we fight for freedom, we're fighting for you.
00:22:36.000We're fighting for this entire country, this entire Western civilization, to be liberated from the bureaucrats, from the communists.
00:22:44.000What you're fighting, you're fighting to enslave us, to put us in chains, to tell us what we can and can't say, to make more regulations, to decide who has guns, to decide how we're taught, to decide what we're taught.
00:22:57.000It's a bizarre war to be in because we're fighting for both sides and you're fighting for no sides.
00:23:05.000You know, politics, as I've always said, is two groups, people who want to be left alone and people who won't leave them the hell alone.
00:23:35.000And in fact, he helped me discover Trump because Trump was trying to host debates with the previous election before he ran.
00:23:41.000And Greg Gutfeld and I both said, oh, he just wants to show off that he's rich so he can have it at Trump Tower and go, look at me, I made a bunch of money.
00:24:44.000And there are a lot of guys fighting to get back to handshake deals, to get back to real Western culture.
00:24:51.000And I have them on my show all the time.
00:24:53.000Because as much as the left, as much as young people, as much as feminists and the ignorant community, we'll call them, like to trivialize the dad, the grumpy old man, America is a grumpy old man.
00:25:07.000And you tried to get us away from that.
00:25:10.000You've been trying to get us away from that for a long time.
00:27:52.000Okay, what about welfare that the Dem supported, the Klan-induced Democratic Party, where they shatter the black family by fiscally incentivizing, monetarily incentivizing a black woman to dump her husband or a Hispanic woman.
00:28:09.000They're up to, what, 75% of babies out of wedlock in America?
00:28:32.000So if you're anti-sexism, anti-racism, anti-homophobia, anti-religious dogma, you end up where I am, an old punk screaming, get off my lawn.
00:28:46.000Which is what I believed when I was an 18-year-old singing in punk bands.
00:28:50.000And it's what all rebels used to believe.
00:29:13.000That's the equivalent of 5 million today.
00:29:15.000That's an American Holocaust ending slavery.
00:29:19.000And by the way, the balance sheet was zero after the Civil War.
00:29:23.000So to say that America was built on slavery completely ignores the fact that we all started from scratch.
00:29:29.000If I take over a restaurant after it's burned to the ground, you can't tell me the first people who built it are somehow owners of the new one.
00:29:40.000And not only is the idea that we need to pay reparations and this country is built on slavery a total myth, the idea that we stole it from the Indians is a myth.
00:29:47.000We were just another tribe, the white tribe.
00:30:41.000And this is true of all countries in the West.
00:30:43.000Whether through attrition or downright war, we eventually gained these countries and we're not giving them up.
00:30:50.000Especially to our own citizens, especially to people who are ashamed of themselves and want to burn their own country to the ground.
00:30:58.000Especially to radical perverts who hate everyone in the country and hate themselves.
00:31:06.000You know, it's one thing if you want to sabotage our culture because you've got a better plan, you've got a plan B. It's another thing when you want to sabotage it and you have no other options.
00:31:16.000We saw this with Antifa after Occupy Wall Street when they had a bunch of money they had raised and they said, what do you want to do with the money?
00:31:22.000And there was ideas like, burn it, start a farm where he could grow food for our next presentation.
00:31:29.000In other words, you have no idea what to do.
00:31:32.000You want to smash the patriarchy and replace it with the nothingarchy.
00:33:41.000But if you don't want to listen to me, that's fine because I've already made my bed.
00:33:44.000I'm just going to keep going to the Mets with my family, eating popcorn, drinking beer, appreciating everything I have, the fortune I built with my own hands, enjoying the greatest country in the world, the greatest culture in the world, the greatest wife in the world, the best kids in the world, the best food in the world, music, art, the best everything in the world.
00:34:06.000You know, Western culture, if there's one thing that makes it unique from other cultures, is fun.
00:34:11.000And if there's one thing that separates America from the rest of the West, it's just stupid fun.
00:34:16.000Just idiotic rock and roll, Beavis and Butthead, dumb jokes.
00:34:21.000Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack is a big part of American culture.
00:34:25.000The ugly American with the sock garters and the Hawaiian shirt.