We need to get back to fighting, because it s a healthy pastime for men, not women, and it s good to tell fight stories about the times we ve been punched in the face and how it s made us feel good. And it s not about winning or losing, it s about how you feel after you ve been hit in the head with a punch. And that s good, because you can always tell a guy who hasn t been punched, because they don t have a good attitude. They have a shitty attitude. And when you ve ever been punched down, you re not going to have a bad attitude about it, because fighting solves everything. In other words, there s no real reason why we shouldn t all be out there fighting. We should all be fighting for the boys, because we re not meant to fight for the girls, we re meant to be out here fighting for each other. And we re good at it, and we re all in it together, so why not get back into the ring and get back in the ring? with each other s brouhahaha! or at least get into a fight. And we ll talk about the beef between the mods and the rockers in the 60s and 70s, and how they were cool, and the beef we ve always had with the Joes and Christians in the 70s and 80s, because that s cool, too. We re not just beef, we ve got beef, right? We ve all got beef and we ve all been beefing, right here on this episode of Thick & Thin, and now we re talking about beef, so we re just beefing about it. . . . and we don t give a fuck about it . Let s get down to it, baby. Get back to it! Get in on it, y'all. -Jon Soraya Jon - Jon - John - Tom - Ben - Chris - John -- Jon -- Ben Chris Mike Evan Is this episode out here? - What do you think of this ep? -- Is this ep good or bad? ? Do you agree with Jon s beef with the beef, or do you disagree with it? Is it better than the beef better than Jon's beef with Jesus was born on a Thursday?
Transcript
Transcripts from "Get Off My Lawn - Gavin McInnes" are sourced from the Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool. You can also explore and interact with the transcripts here.
00:02:22.000Beating the crap out of someone, like standing over them and punching them in the face doesn't feel great.
00:02:26.000And when I go through my sort of mental Rolodex of all my fights, I'll think I remember them all, and the next day I'll go, oh yeah, I forgot that one, where I won.
00:02:36.000Because men are obsessed with the times they lost, and much worse than that, the times they didn't do anything.
00:02:44.000And that's what I want to talk about on this ep.
00:02:56.000I understand if two guys have a knife, you want them to pay for that.
00:02:59.000And there's times, too, where at that Cernovich night for freedom where they grabbed that old man, Antifa did, and they strangled him and, no, punched him so hard he hit the ground, had a heart attack, and they strangled him.
00:03:13.000And then the guy put the cop in headlock.
00:03:33.000The beef was the mods liked Northern Soul and they were English nationalists, really.
00:03:41.000And not in the modern sense where there's any sort of, you know, Nazi connotation, but just like very proud of their English rose.
00:03:50.000And the Rockabillies, they loved Elvis, and they thought America was cool, and they liked motorbikes, whereas the mods like Vespa scooters.
00:03:59.000There's no other fundamental difference.
00:04:01.000It's sort of like you see these religious conflicts, not Jews versus Christians or Muslim versus Christians, but animosity within the Christian community, and you go, what specifically do you differ on?
00:04:11.000Oh, we think Jesus was born on a Thursday.
00:04:14.000Okay, so it's nothing to do with the thing, it's just you want to have beef.
00:04:19.000You know, the Belgian French hate the Belgian Dutch.
00:05:21.000I met a guy the other night, by the way, and he was talking about his kids, and he goes, yeah, my daughter, blah, blah, blah, I have a son, my daughter's kind of intense.
00:05:27.000And I go, what, does she wear high-heeled shoes and makeup and tell you to fuck off?
00:05:30.000Every dad's worst nightmare, of course.
00:05:55.000You were a bad boy in kindergarten, and then you straightened out when you were what, six?
00:06:02.000You ever heard anything crazier in your life?
00:06:04.000If you're like a colicky baby, you don't say, yeah, it was kind of a, I was going down the wrong path when I was one week old, but, uh, I turned it around, joined AA and, uh, did, I went to juvie when I was a baby.
00:06:18.000I didn't know I was just in a little plexiglass thing, fed Nestle breast milk.
00:09:11.000I can't remember if it was public or not.
00:09:13.000I don't... Come Across is very cool in this story, but I can't remember why he wanted to fight me often, and I'm not tooting my own horn here, but I was a breathtakingly gorgeous when I was a young man, and so girls would like me, and then the guy who liked that girl would want to beat me up.
00:10:26.000So I had this army coat I wore, and I went to my mom's drawer, I went to the kitchen drawer, and I took out these barbecue skewers, you know, for roasting vegetables, and I lined the inside of my coat with four on either side.
00:12:36.000And, you know, my dad taught me a good trick with fighting.
00:12:39.000He said, just throw yourself in there.
00:12:41.000Like, it's very hard to fight when your whole soul is behind it, and you're trying to be conscious, and you're trying to- Conscious, and you've got all these plans, like, I'm gonna get him with the left and then the right.
00:14:01.000If you get them in the nose, you can't see.
00:14:03.000So he decides to ask for the first dance and with everyone, remember there'd be those, everyone my age remembers this, they'd form a huge circle and they'd go, one-on-one, man, one-on-one!
00:14:17.000And if someone else jumped in, one on one!
00:14:42.000I don't care what they're really called.
00:14:45.000And the centrifugal force of his strong teen legs sent him up like a whirligig.
00:14:53.000You know those firecrackers that are kid-friendly that you light and they start spinning like a frisbee and then they go up like a spaceship?
00:15:02.000He turned into one of those and he was instantly a starfish in the air circling.
00:15:12.000Because he kicked himself like he's kicked up with too much force and so he went past me and then around and around and then smashed out Knocked the wind out of himself and that was the end of that fight That was what?
00:15:29.00028 hours of panicking and it ended up just being a starfish who can't breathe moral of the story being
00:16:29.000Mark Ryan was a major staple in the hardcore scene in New York.
00:16:35.000And he spoke, he was from Jersey, but he had the most crazy New York accent.
00:16:41.000He had a graffiti tag, and his graffiti tag was Mark Ryan.
00:16:50.000So he'd write Mark Ryan everywhere, and I guess the cops went, this guy, no one's crazy enough to use their own name as a graffiti tag, so it couldn't be Mark Ryan.
00:18:08.000He lives in Midtown, like above Midtown.
00:18:10.000I think he was in the Upper East Side.
00:18:11.000His parents paid for his apartment and he wore a man bun, which is infuriating, um, on top of his head, like a big bun on the top of his head.
00:18:36.000I can't fucking- Yo, I can't- I can see his mouth now.
00:18:41.000His accent was so thick, it altered his lips.
00:18:44.000Yo, it made it like a weird side asshole, was his mouth.
00:18:49.000In Scotland, they call it sham gabbit.
00:18:52.000When your- your accent is so thick it alters your face, and they get this facial-
00:19:01.000They get this funny pursed top lip that over hooks the bottom lip and it's a sign of true patriotism like they'll go Oh, he's guy Scotch.
00:19:10.000He's got Sham Gabbit and all So he had New York Sham Gabbit.
00:19:14.000He's like yo, I can't fucking come with you no more cuz he could rap me out He'll know that I'm a fucking drug dealer and I will have fucked him up.
00:20:09.000And so I brought up this story to say, don't talk.
00:20:13.000All that like, bitch, what are you going to do now?
00:20:16.000Half the time the guy's just sizing you up and waiting for a time where he can bonk you, sort of get that one right on the chin, the button they call it, where you can knock the guy out.
00:20:25.000And, uh, so I just think, no, we're not doing this.
00:20:28.000And I just nailed him, head butted him in the nose, exploded his face, blood shooting everywhere.
00:20:44.000Somehow, in the nanosecond before his head did that last foot fall and hit the pavement, he rotated his body from having his back to the ground to having his chest to the ground and then used it as like an Olympic starting position and rocketed off!
00:21:04.000So my compatriot chases him with flip-flops on, by the way.
00:21:35.000He comes out on like a Monday, and he on the complaint form he wrote that it happened on a Monday It happened on a Saturday, dude You just got out on a Monday, so he fucked up his complaint as his his charges So when I showed up at the police station because they called me in I said Monday.
00:21:52.000I was at work I got a million emails blah blah witnesses, and so they go all right We'll just stay in this jail cell while we check your prints to see if you're a wanted criminal all right
00:23:24.000So I've got my hands hanging out of the cage, and I'm riffing with them, just like, exactly like in the sitcom, and the room we were in looked exactly like the Barney Miller set.
00:23:35.000And this, it was just, it may, it's one of the reasons I told my son he has to be a cop.
00:26:48.000It was like the SPLC ADL BS, where they want to find Nazis, so they make these message boards and these rallies and these magazines and they end up, just so they can like track them, but they end up creating some where there was none.
00:27:05.000And they started this thing called the Heritage Foundation, so they could secretly track Nazis, but they ended up promoting Nazism and getting- starting a whole Nazi skinhead movement.
00:27:51.000Some beast of an Injun shows up, and I'm sitting there bloodied, and I'm taking off my boots and handing it, handing the boots over to them.
00:28:40.000See, now I'm still feeling, I can't, there's so many nights I've laid awake in bed with clenched fists going, why didn't I fight harder?
00:28:49.000But even that beating I got, with all those guys kicking me when I was on the ground,
00:28:53.000Yeah, you got sore ribs for a month, it hurts to sneeze and laugh, but basically the next day you're fine.
00:29:02.000Fighting is not, and that's a terrible scenario, that's a mob of say five or six guys beating the crap out of me on the ground with me not putting up any kind of a fight.
00:29:11.000In fact, the real scars of violence are when you don't fight.
00:29:39.000Tom Shalhoub wrote a book about the merits of mean dads and bullying.
00:29:44.000It's very important for character development.
00:29:46.000And I was bullied when I was in fifth grade and then I turned it around and I bullied back and ended up on the same bully crew that bullied me a few years before.
00:30:02.000It's a long story, but I had behavioral issues.
00:30:05.000So I'm talking to this guy, Steven Snipp, who I think he was mentally slow and he always had snot coming out of his nose and he would wipe it and a line of snot would go perfectly parallel to the ground from his nose to his ear hole and then a new line of snot would fill, uh, drip down again.
00:30:24.000And we had, it was Diabri Moody Junior High and we had a creek running through the school.
00:30:28.000And another berry, different, not Pablo, another berry comes charging at me just because I was the victim of the week.
00:30:36.000Rams me so hard, I'm sitting on this branch, that I go flying through the air, smash into the creek, go under water.
00:30:46.000I'm under the ice in the creek now, just like in The Omen, where they see that little boy dying, freezing to death, and they can't get to him because he's under the ice.
00:31:39.000He purposely mispronounced pneumonia to make it sting more.
00:31:45.000And, uh, yeah, I got into school and got warmed up.
00:31:48.000And, uh, and then there was a scene, I can't remember this very well, but this is, so that guy I was just talking about, this would have been eighth grade, sort of in 12 and around that same, I think it was even the same year.
00:32:02.000There was this guy that they were antagonizing some prey, just some like injured zebra in the African tundra.
00:36:56.000We played in drag at that show, which I'm sure the Skinheads were not happy about.
00:37:02.000But the song's at S because you're so stupid, K like the KKK, I cause you're an idiot, and N a Nazi too, H is cause we hate you, E each and every day, and A together we can create anarchy, and D destroy the state!
00:37:20.000But they were touring with that album.
00:37:22.000The album was called Millions of Damn Christians, and they were touring the South and areas where the skinheads were, as prominent as our tiny little bureaucratic town, Ottawa, with our government-made skinheads.
00:37:33.000So Dave Dichter, the singer, told me that he would change the lyrics to, S, it's cause you're super, and K, you're really kind, and I, cause you're intelligent, cause they'd be in the, he'd see this sea of skinheads.
00:39:23.000And then we were all lined up, and I'm lined up, and I have my skinhead, and the guy next to me has his skinhead.
00:39:28.000Actually, there was this one dude, this fat kid named Yuri, who was Israeli.
00:39:33.000And the funny thing about these Ottawa Nazis is there's no blacks, or really any really prominent Jews, like with yarmulkes and stuff, in Ottawa to fight.
00:39:43.000So they just fight us, the punks, because they knew we disagreed with them.
00:39:48.000And this poor guy, Yuri, because he was Israeli, he got the shit beaten out of him regularly by them.
00:39:54.000And, oh my god, I just remembered another story.
00:40:39.000And again, this goes back to the don't wait for it.
00:40:42.000I just whacked, I just got him beautifully.
00:40:45.000It's actually the best punch of my life.
00:40:47.000I nailed him right in the face and he went flying backwards and I was in awe.
00:40:54.000That was one of my first, you know, successful punches.
00:40:57.000And then, as he's getting up, and he's sort of like stunned that someone would dare do that, someone, my, my wimpiness, some punk kid with like dyed blonde hair, uh, as he's going, oh boy, are you gonna pay for that, the lights all come on, the cops, they're, everyone get down, get, the cops have bullhorns, they turn off the power on the stage, and they start rounding everyone up, and arresting everyone, and putting us in paddy wagons, whatever, separating us all, so he never got me back.
00:41:30.000It was like, uh... But the thing that popped into my head, by the way, there was one time when I think Yuri was being picked on, this is before he killed himself, and we were around.
00:43:51.000I was also with Shane again, and there was this guy named Jeff, and he had a big fucking mouth.
00:43:59.000And Ottawa, I know people see Canadians as sweet, but you should- you should check out the video, Out for a Rip, where they talk about how, yes, Canadians are polite,
00:45:44.000I was probably 21 or 22, and the look we were going for post-punk was because we were sort of coming from a crusty punk thing, which is really what these Antifa people are.
00:45:54.000So we were, you know, you'd have like one dread and then messy hair, and then you'd have a sweater covered in holes, rubber boots.
00:46:02.000Jeans with holes in them and then like a jacket you found in the garbage I think because we were middle-class and we wanted to appear homeless So we just had like rags hanging off as we found stuff in the garbage.
00:46:12.000We were like Anarcho vegan just disgusting people who ate in the garbage and We're walking by these jocks who by the way, I'm now on their side in this story We're walking by these jocks and they go fucking Ottawa trash
00:46:30.000And I just sort of laughed and went, I've never heard that expression before.
00:47:15.000Now we know that he can't get beat up or this wiring is gonna He's gonna have to remove his jaw like his whole thing is remarkably fragile His jaw is in pieces and it's being held together with wires and glue and stitches So he has to get in the car.
00:47:32.000So Shane and I go get in the car Jeff and then Shane's got a big ego
00:48:16.000Just starts feeding him, as OutForRip says, just starts punching.
00:48:20.000Let's see, he's on all fours like doggie style, and this jock is holding him up by the hair and just going, poof, poof, poof, poof, punch, punch, punch.
00:48:29.000And every time the fist pulls away, an arcing rope of blood, almost like projectile vomit, just goes splash, splash, splash.
00:48:37.000So all this blood is just pouring out of his face.
00:48:41.000And I decide, no, we're not having this.
00:54:11.000Eventually, I get to see a doctor and he has to stand up on like a bench by the chair I'm in to reset my nose.
00:54:22.000Because the thing that goes in the middle, the cartilage, was at 90 degrees, so he had to pull it away from the socket, down to where a nose should be, and then back in.
00:54:32.000And you hear the... of the cartilage moving around in your face from inside your face.
00:55:07.000Obviously getting stabbed is a nightmare, getting shot is not good.
00:55:11.000You have to know how to pick your battles and know when you're in like South Side of Chicago or Baltimore or Harlem or East New York where you could very likely die, but
00:55:21.000If the laws of chivalry are apparent, and it looks like it's just going to be a normal, good old-fashioned barroom brawl, that's great news.
00:55:46.000All part of that is the making of a man.
00:55:48.000And there is a real war on the making of a man.
00:55:51.000And taking away our violence is the first step.
00:55:55.000Outlawing fighting is first, then it's outlawing testosterone, then it's outlawing any kind of masculine behavior, boisterousness, maybe that comes before the testosterone, and the next thing you know, gender doesn't exist, and there's no such thing as being a man.
00:56:10.000You know, all this propaganda that says it's okay to cry.
00:56:13.000There's a real sinister subtext to all that, and it's okay not to be a man.