Gavin McInnes talks about his love of punk rock and the dark side of comedy, and why you should be scared of Perry Caravello. Plus, a new movie about a guy who thinks he's the new De Niro.
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00:00:20.000From New York, it's Get Off My Lawn with Gavin McInnes.
00:00:36.000That probably sounds like a cacophony to you, but I trained my ears to appreciate hardcore.
00:00:44.000That was Bad Brains, band in DC, black guys from DC, who revolutionized the genre, and the genre is hardcore, which is America's punk rock.
00:00:59.000And it is quintessentially American because it is stripped down, frills-free.
00:02:56.000And then we have this guy, Steve Schaefer, who went to an anti-gun rally with a sign that you can see right there that says rapists against guns, which is a brilliant piece of performance art.
00:03:10.000But before we get to any of that, I want to introduce you to something that is pretty epic.
00:03:49.000Don Barris that day decided to torture this man for the rest of his life as a comeuppance for this idle threat.
00:03:59.000And since then, he has been punishing Perry Caravello by telling him he's going to be famous and telling him he's going to be in movies and telling him he's a star.
00:06:07.000I don't want to show our viewers how fecal this video gets.
00:06:11.000But check out what some brilliant editor did to make it look like Sean Hannity cares about scary Perry Caravello.
00:06:22.000No one's defending this idiot, but there is an element to this case that really hasn't been discussed, and that is, is Perry gay or lesbian.
00:06:32.000You know, speaking about this guy, you know, he's gay, that's great.
00:08:22.000It could have been a lot more violent, a lot more badass.
00:08:25.000It's funny because the critics don't like it because it's not PC and I didn't like it because it wasn't un-PC enough.
00:08:34.000But as I was speeding on the way to the theater with my brother in the car, I thought, these cops, I mean, they're really just pulling you over because they can, and it's financially viable to charge you a fine for going 10 miles over.
00:08:54.000It's not like there's all these car wrecks if the cops don't arrest you for speeding, but they just went, if we arrest everyone for going one mile an hour over the speed limit, we get in trouble and people get mad.
00:09:07.000But I've noticed that the people don't fight back if I only do, say, 20 miles an hour over the speed limit.
00:09:25.000But if you, they notice that if they fine everyone with a fedora, people get mad and say that's ridiculous.
00:09:31.000So under the auspices of protecting people from excessive hats, these police are pulling us over for going 85, ooh, 85 in my perfect BMW that could sustain an avalanche.
00:09:48.000I'm daring to go fast on a freeway that is perfectly straight.
00:09:53.000God forbid I should get to my destination faster.
00:09:55.000Anyway, so he's right, I guess, in that sense.
00:14:09.000I mean, art should have a purpose, right?
00:14:11.000Performance art should have a message.
00:14:14.000And I think that is such a brilliant message.
00:14:16.000I remember in the 80s and 90s even, the feminists used to have a mantra, and they'd say, you can't rape a 38.
00:14:24.000It was like signs and songs and stuff.
00:14:27.000And now the left is so determined to be one big hive mind that to be anti-gun is the same as being a feminist.
00:14:36.000And that's linked to immigration and Mumaya Abu Jamal and everything, all one big ball.
00:14:41.000But they end up contradicting themselves, don't you think?
00:14:44.000Yeah, statists in general, what happens is I protest these protesters, and then every single time, no matter who I'm protesting, no matter what I'm protesting, they go straight to the police and they try to have me removed because they don't like my opinions.
00:15:02.000So this time I switched it up and instead of going along, going with a sign that was against them, I decided to support them.
00:15:16.000If you're a rapist and you're walking through some abandoned parking garage late at night, the idea that a woman has a gun in her purse is scary.
00:16:22.000And it's a really mind-boggling thing to see this, that people are so in favor of more government control and more government manipulation, and then they want the rights tripped from the citizens.
00:16:33.000But interesting enough fact is that when I go to the other rallies and I see people in support of gun control, I tell them, well, okay, I want a .50 caliber mounted machine gun on a tripod on my front lawn pointing down my driveway.
00:16:47.000And they say, well, you know, you can't have that.
00:17:35.000It doesn't want you to buy street drugs.
00:17:36.000They want you to buy the FDA-approved OxyContin.
00:17:40.000And we're in the center of an epidemic where people are dying.
00:17:43.000I just saw this Judd Appetow movie about Gary Shandling, and they sort of gloss over the fact that he was killed with government-approved opioids.
00:17:52.000So he was killed by heroin dealers, the state heroin dealers, and that's just ignored because Big Pharma is a great advertiser.
00:17:59.000And I think, well, clearly letting the government deal heroin isn't working.
00:20:45.000And then I had a sign that said, I have Down syndrome.
00:20:49.000And all I did, all I did was just said the exact same thing they said, chanted with them, and I didn't say anything against them, nothing else.
00:21:37.000If you look, it's odd because if you look up the videos on YouTube, obviously they're very sensationalized and everything, but you see videos of people getting hit over the head with bottles, people bleeding.
00:21:46.000You see some shootings, some stabbings.
00:21:48.000Look at the weapons that get confiscated.
00:24:54.000Well, it was an extremely structured event.
00:24:57.000The way that they had it set up was that there were three panels.
00:25:00.000One was with Ivanka Trump and the Secretary of Labor, and that's actually when I was able to ask a question.
00:25:06.000The second panel was with President Trump, and he didn't actually field questions, but he talked for a good bit of time.
00:25:12.000And then the third was with Kellyanne Conway, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and someone from the Department of Justice.
00:25:19.000And so when I was able to ask a question, my big question was, what is the Trump administration doing to make sure that the cost of a college degree doesn't outweigh the value of a college degree?
00:25:28.000Because we see so many times kids go to college, they're told, you know, spend four years and $300,000 and you're guaranteed a good job.
00:25:36.000And we all know that's just not the case anymore.
00:25:47.000A college degree has been worth something up from like Socrates until now.
00:25:53.000And you guys are the first generation to get totally and utterly ripped off.
00:25:58.000Yeah, I mean, there's tons of reasons for that, too.
00:26:00.000You know, some colleges still teach you how to think critically, but we're one of the first generations that you don't just go work for one company and go up the corporate ladder and retire with that company.
00:26:10.000Some people change their careers almost four or five times, have to come up with reiterations of themselves.
00:26:15.000Part of that's due to the fast growth of technology, the ever-changing markets that we're living in, which I think are all positive things.
00:26:22.000But at the same time, for whatever reason, our government's really done a bad job funneling cash into the school system only to then say, well, we have more money so we can do more programs, but now we need to charge more money.
00:26:34.000And I think college students obviously are getting the short end of the stick there.
00:27:07.000Okay, so you and I represent like a fraction of the population, 40% of the population.
00:27:12.000And that doesn't include all the remarriages, too.
00:27:15.000So I'm going to say less than that, maybe 20%, because a lot of people get remarried and their kids grew up in a normal household, but they were, you know, a Brady Bunch scenario.
00:27:23.000But maybe one of the reasons these corporations abandon their employees so readily is because we live in a divorce culture where you go, ah, this isn't working out.
00:29:06.000And I mean, here are some of the few critiques that you could actually say are, you know, negatives of having constant opportunity and options on your hands.
00:29:14.000But I think culture doesn't always have to match the economy, right?
00:29:19.000We could have a culture where we are appreciative and understand that, you know, we're not like socialist countries where you go to the store and there's one choice of bread on the shelves if you're lucky.
00:29:31.000You know, we should be able to understand that and have that culture not necessarily be impacting things like holding down jobs or being able to go and get a job after college.
00:29:40.000I mean, it's two different things, but unfortunately, our culture is really matching this on-demand economy for sure.
00:29:46.000Well, in a sense, I think Christianity predicted this.
00:29:48.000And it said, all right, you're going to have too many riches.
00:30:01.000And I think Christianity said, you're going to have everything you want.
00:30:04.000So let's institute some checks and balances, confession, Lent, some things to make you not get too self-indulgent.
00:30:11.000Go to church every Sunday and recalibrate because you're going to have too much stuff.
00:30:15.000Well, I think also just everything in moderation.
00:30:18.000I think that's a really simple way to explain it, but that's a biblical principle for sure.
00:30:23.000Look, you could have said all this to Trump.
00:30:26.000We could have shared this epiphany with the President of the United States.
00:30:30.000Well, that's what we're working towards.
00:30:32.000I thought that the Millennial Forum was a really good first step.
00:30:35.000I think it was not to be critical, but it was overdue.
00:30:38.000But a lot of times politicians don't listen to young people, even though millennials are really the largest generation voting population right now.
00:30:47.000Just happened in the last year statistically that millennials are really, if they choose to be, a huge voting block.
00:30:53.000And so also Republicans are not always known as this youth candidate.
00:30:58.000But President Trump did a great job engaging with about three or four dozen individuals that were there, talking about issues that are really important when it comes to the bias on college campuses that conservative students are facing, the free speech issue, then more general, the opioid addiction problem that's happening on campus, one of the number one killers for young people.
00:31:21.000Also talking about student loans, talking about the economy.
00:31:24.000And so there was a lot of headway made in this meeting, but I'm hoping to see even more of that in the coming months.
00:31:31.000Well, you're making tons of sense, but most millennials are retarded.
00:31:35.000And if there's one thing we're learning with this gun debate with Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg is that I don't want to listen to millennials.
00:32:13.000And, you know, just because you've lived through a terrible, terrible tragedy doesn't mean that you have the answer to how to fix that tragedy, right?
00:32:21.000I mean, you have an important story to tell.
00:32:22.000You can be a cancer survivor and have a really powerful story to tell, but it doesn't mean you know how to cure cancer.
00:32:27.000And I think it's the same thing for these students.
00:33:24.000And a lot of the times, when we have protests up here in Toronto, it's the people from Hamilton that are actually coming here and representing them in big numbers.
00:34:53.000They have these tactics where sometimes they try to put like a tarp over your camera, cause some confusion, cause chaos so nobody can actually get them on film.
00:35:00.000So my main priority was just keep a little bit of distance, make sure I get everything on camera.
00:35:05.000That way, you know, if we have to defend ourselves or anything like that, we got the evidence.
00:35:40.000It reminds me of when I used to play football, and, you know, the classic arm tackling, just kind of sticking your arms out there and trying to grab somebody instead of really getting in there and muscling them out.
00:36:36.000Well, I really appreciate that you're out there.
00:36:39.000I'm glad you filmed this, but it's fun to see that people are out there defending free speech and teaching these bizarre mentally ill lunatics that there are repercussions for their actions.
00:36:55.000Some of the boys there, some of the warriors that were involved in the fight, they have a couple things they'd like to say, if you don't mind.
00:37:21.000No, I guess the only thing that I would want to ask you, maybe personally, is what do you think about Canada in general?
00:37:27.000Like, what do you think about what's going on up here with Justin Trudeau, the mass immigration, the fact that we're basically culturally depleted?
00:37:35.000Yeah, I think the CBC, the state-run media, has done a good job of brainwashing Canadians.
00:37:43.000And they think that there's Nazis around every corner.
00:37:46.000They're having fucking gun marches for crying out loud.
00:37:59.000In fact, Miles Davis and all those jazz guys from the 50s and 60s used to come to Montreal because they thought, holy shit, there's a magical land in the north where there's no racism and I'm a normal person.
00:38:11.000So for Canadians to be complaining about guns and racism just shows that they are fucking brainwashed and I blame the CBC.
00:38:19.000And I wouldn't be surprised if Justin Trudeau gets elected again because even though he's the laughingstock of the world, Canadians are so stuck in this fucking social justice warrior path that I don't know if anything can shake them from it.
00:39:39.000So he's acting like a 14-year-old, a drunk 14-year-old.
00:39:43.000And they chased him to his home and pulled out a phone, got shot by the cops.
00:39:49.000Now, this gentleman, Stephon Clark, is not making the best hero.
00:39:54.000I can find you, black people who were shot by the cops unjustly.
00:40:00.000I can find you way better than Trayvon, way better than Mike Brown, non-thugs, non-aspiring rappers, normal middle-class black people, educated, shot by cops.
00:40:36.000He doesn't want to have a baby with one.
00:40:38.000And the blacktivists are having trouble with that because they're championing a dead man that wanted to marry an Asian chick because he thought black women were gross.
00:40:52.000We have to understand that the reason why he was murdered in the first place is because he was colonized.
00:40:57.000And the reason why he was saying calling a black woman a black bitch when his mother is black and you know everything that comes from him, no matter who he has babies with, is black.