Gavin McInnes talks about the new Mike Skinner song 'I'm Not Famous' and how it ruined his career. Also, he talks about how much sex he gets when he's famous and why he doesn't want to be famous anymore.
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00:00:14.000By dawn I close the book or it will be dusk on the page.
00:00:18.000We're beaten in the rainfall until the middle of the day.
00:00:22.000It's Get Off My Lawn with Gavin McInnes.
00:01:59.000So Mike Skinner, he's a great poet, if nothing else.
00:02:03.000Just listen to the lyrics of his songs and the way he crafts them is fascinating.
00:02:07.000You could just read the lyrics and that would be a great book.
00:02:10.000But as he became more and more famous, his songs became less about the garage scene, which was about pirate radio stations and people standing on cars to hear the songs that these kids would make in their basements.
00:02:23.000Cool little scene, illegal scene, that spanned races and classes.
00:02:28.000And then he starts singing about how when you're famous, it's really easy to get girls.
00:02:35.000But when you meet a girl that's also famous, then it's sort of like when you weren't famous.
00:02:40.000Funny song, true story, but it ruined his career because it grossed people out.
00:03:53.000He gets this guy, Professor Green, and he says, you need to do a song making fun of me for that song because everyone hates me now because I sang about how easy it is to get late.
00:04:07.000So Professor Green has a song that he puts out where he says, I'm not famous.
00:04:13.000And puts Mike Skinner in it, hoping they can rescue this catastrophe.
00:05:48.000So anyway, this artist who is just like Jackson Pollock or Jeff Koons or Damien Hearst has chosen music.
00:05:55.000So don't think of him as a musician who does artistic music.
00:05:59.000He's an artist who has chosen this particular craft to express himself.
00:06:15.000Those guys are off-speed metal dudes who walk around me telling you that sort of secret about Andrew WK ruins the art.
00:06:37.000I think he wants to just be seen as this dumb partier.
00:06:41.000But that mystique that he goes for, the party hard guy, it doesn't really work because he's too weird.
00:06:50.000And he's not just like a meathead glam dude that goes, hey man, when I get a billion dollars, I'm going to have Madonna play at my birthday party.
00:06:58.000And in the backyard, we're going to make like a surf thing where you can surf on man-made waves.
00:08:04.000...claiming that you're no longer the same Andrew W.K. that somehow in the middle of the year of 2005, the original Andrew W.K. went somewhere, and a new Andrew W.K. that That you're not the same person you were.
00:08:20.000How do you respond to all of this, which is a mystery to me?
00:08:24.000Well, I was, well, I guess I'm always dreading someone asking about this, especially someone of your stature, but I'm glad in a way as well.
00:08:36.000First of all, to anyone who's not familiar with me, why does it even matter?
00:08:39.000And it really doesn't, even if you are familiar with me, because what I hope people take away from me doesn't have to do with whether I even exist or not.
00:08:47.000For example, this is how I've thought about it, to try to make myself feel better about these accusations.
00:08:52.000If you don't believe that Santa Claus exists, it doesn't mean that the joy that you would receive from the idea of Santa is any less valid.
00:13:16.000Very, it makes me nostalgic hearing that kind of stuff.
00:13:19.000Today on the show, we got a redneck comedian, Steve Mudflap McGrew, and he's going to talk about being pro-Trump in the stand-up comedy world, which is a sin.
00:13:29.000And it's bizarre because stand-up comedy sucks because of that rule.
00:13:33.000So you'd think the free market of laughs would help.
00:13:37.000There's got to be a market for people who can say something other than Trump is Hitler, Trump is Satan, 2016 sucked.
00:13:59.000And that town, this story has since exploded, but that town had this massive backlash because they cast Esmeralda, the head of the girl in the hunchback in Notre Dame, in a presentation of it, they cast a white girl.
00:14:14.000And all these black people are mad because it should be a person of color.
00:14:18.000For the record, Esmeralda is half gypsy, half white.
00:14:24.000You know Kennedy on Fox Business News?
00:14:30.000But because American culture is all about capitulation, especially when called racist, they had the father of the girl, every politician, everyone going, we're so sorry, we need to learn more.
00:15:18.000Isn't that the very definition of a brunette?
00:15:21.000I mean, it's not a Jewish girl or an Asian girl, but when you think of the genetic lineage of a gypsy, you go, European, kind of gypsy-ish, kind of Romanian, Eastern European, that's what makes the hair black, right?
00:15:38.000Well, according to the average American liberal, Disney's interpretation is a black girl.
00:15:47.000So if you're doing the hunchback in Notre Dame, you should have a black girl.
00:15:51.000Do you have a picture of Esmeralda, Dave?
00:16:20.000Working gets too boring But you learn how to fly Another homecoming card All right.
00:16:31.000So, by the way, it doesn't matter who plays the leads in these silly movies.
00:16:36.000Although, if you're going to do a ton of Hamiltons and a ton of black female James Bonds, well then you're going to have to have Conan O'Brien or Patton Oswald play Martin Luther King.
00:17:49.000I'm just going to drop the needle anywhere on the record, and you're going to see how insane this is.
00:17:53.000How many people are outraged that they chose this girl?
00:17:56.000And this was snuck to me, by the way, by a guy who works for the government up there, and he won't appear on the show because it's such a sin to not be mad that this chick wasn't black.
00:18:09.000And what's spooky about this video, we're not going to watch three hours, but what's disturbing about it is the way they're all talking, it's mostly balls, BAWL, Boomer Angry Women Liberals.
00:18:22.000And they keep saying the same thing throughout.
00:18:24.000They say, I am at the point now where I'm realizing that our youth are more educated and aware, woke, than the administration here, than the school.
00:18:35.000And you know what the reaction is from the officials, from the school and from the government officials?
00:19:14.000I'm just going to drop this randomly in, and you're going to see the problem with America is these annoying busybodies who create controversy where it doesn't need to be.
00:19:24.000From Civic Ensemble, a theater company here in Ithaca.
00:19:27.000Don 3 is 13 play tonight in Binghamton or he Would be here with us to speak as well.
00:19:33.000She just said that her and her husband run a theater group, and he would be here tonight, but he has a show in Binghamton, so he couldn't be here tonight.
00:20:12.000And by the way, if it's so natural that you're in the workforce or you're part of the group, why does every single one of you have to read from a speech?
00:20:46.000That's the only way you have an argument.
00:20:48.000They didn't take a black lead like what was that other one, the one in New Orleans, I forget what it's called, but that's clearly a, what was her name, Tiana.
00:20:59.000They didn't make Tiana white, which if you can do Hamilton, I assume we should be able to do that.
00:21:03.000They made a Roma Gypsies half white, a story that goes back to the 1800s.
00:21:14.000Godfrey and I have a brown-skinned six-year-old son.
00:21:17.000Like all parents, we teach our child what we think he needs to learn, but there's a big difference.
00:21:21.000By the way, you have a brown-skinned son because you let your ovaries dry up and you were forced to adopt because feminism told you that your womb is infinite.
00:21:31.000Between what we teach our son and what our white neighbors teach their children.
00:21:34.000Oh, doesn't she love her brown-skinned son too?
00:21:36.000She loves to virtue signal with his race.
00:23:03.000how about this negotiating conflict and reckoning among other students in the performing arts and outside of it i am overwhelmed by how important this learning experience can be for the students not just the student activists but But any student who is engaged in this process and for the adult at the school.
00:24:46.000The students have been too well educated and it's time for them to quite literally run the show.
00:24:56.000The students have been too well educated and it's time for them to quite literally run the show.
00:25:01.000Now that kind of scares me, to be frank, because they're talking about a bunch of Marxist claptrap that has nothing to do with reality and is based on this false assumption that casting a white chick in the hunchback in Notre Dame is racist.
00:25:16.000So they've taken that absurd idea and they said this is, and then they use, you know, the same old Marxist tricks, this is racist, we need more voices, we need more representation, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all their bullshit.
00:25:26.000And they keep saying the children understand this better than the adults.
00:29:29.000You're probably used to it, but you know, when you wake up and there's like a thousand messages that somebody's liked something, I was like, whoo, what happened?
00:29:38.000And it was just great to see that was Donald Jr. paying attention to the real people.
00:33:58.000It makes for some time a little tense situation in a club because, you know, three or four of them are over there backing Trump, and I'm just waiting to go get a standing ovation.
00:34:09.000Obviously, New York City is a nightmare with that kind of thing.
00:34:11.000But isn't there a market for it south of the Mason-Dixon line?
00:34:15.000Yes, and I think there's going to be a bigger market everywhere.
00:34:20.000I really think, and you've seen it, you know it, the conservatives are finally rising up and saying who they are, and they're proud of it.
00:34:29.000They're supporting people that are more right-wing.
00:34:32.000And I think a comedy tour, I've been talking to some people about trying to put together a real, sort of like a blue-collar tour, but only like, you know, no safe space tour.
00:34:42.000Yeah, like you look at Jeff Foxworthy.
00:34:45.000He sold more records than Bill Cosby, than Richard Pryor, than all these guys in the Comedy Hall of Fame, than Patton Oswald could ever dream of, but he never gets credit for it because he's right-wing.
00:34:57.000And you have someone like Larry the Cable guy, even outside of Manhattan, but in upstate New York, Jersey, Larry the Cable guy destroys.
00:35:38.000And I don't know, I'm sure you've thought of this, but it's one of the things that bugs me about when people talk about wanting to get rid of the editorial colleges.
00:35:46.000Then you just have those edges telling the rest of the world how we're supposed to live.
00:35:53.000And it's strange because they've given themselves so many parameters that I go to these comedy shows sometimes and I hear those three jokes, the Trump, Hitler, blah, blah, blah.
00:36:04.000And you just go, those are your only error.
00:36:28.000We'll make you the host of the whole right-wing comedy tour.
00:36:31.000Well, I just started a show on Friday, last Friday, called CRTV Tonight.
00:36:36.000And I realized it was so easy to put together because I finally had a platform.
00:36:40.000And I'm like, I got Rose McGowan, I got Tranny's.
00:36:42.000I could put one of my guests in a burqa.
00:36:44.000Boom, boom, boom, making fun of illegal aliens.
00:36:46.000Like there was a giant, endless trove of stuff to make fun of.
00:36:50.000It must suck, even though they're winning in the sense that they dominate the big comedy clubs, it must suck to be them because there's so little they can talk about.
00:36:59.000Yeah, well, I think that's why people are falling away from watching those shows is you're like, seen it, done, you know.
00:37:06.000And I just found out, you were talking about how the liberals run everything.
00:37:10.000I just recently got slammed on Instagram by a guy that I found out is the talent coordinator for Comedy Central.
00:37:18.000So I go out and look at his page, and every one of his memes is a Trump slam.
00:37:23.000Almost every meme is, and that's the talent coordinator for Comedy Central.
00:37:28.000I mean, that's all of LA in many ways.
00:37:46.000And to hear people, I understand having that as a theory, but for that just to be the dominant fact in an entire city, I mean, they're all deranged at the end of the day.
00:37:56.000Well, don't you think too many people in this day and age are just pretending because they want to appear hip?
00:38:02.000If you get a, they're like, what are they called, the limousine liberals, where they're not really the city?
00:39:14.000Yeah, we've had him on the show, and people say something like, you know, we do all the good art.
00:39:19.000Show me one good movie about pro-lifers or something.
00:39:22.000And then you go, well, Nick Searcy just did a movie about Kermit Gosnill, and no one will distribute it because they're too scared of the fascists who will boycott them.
00:39:33.000I mean, these people are like an angry mob with flaming torches, but the meritocracy of comedy has to win.
00:39:38.000I was talking to Owen Benjamin about it recently, and he said, you just go up there, they can sense that you don't think trans kids are something that should be taken seriously, and you play the piano and you do some good jokes, and you're honest, and eventually they go, yeah, I was kind of sick of liberals too.
00:40:57.000Even if they went to Wikipedia, they would be so much more informed.
00:41:01.000But I think movies, well, movies, as far as action goes, they can be pretty right-wing.
00:41:05.000Comedy movies and comedy television and comedy late night, those are 10 years away from ever getting away from this fascist alt-left.
00:41:16.000But I'm kind of optimistic about stand-up comedy.
00:41:19.000I think it moves closer to the market.
00:41:22.000And I feel like with guys like you and Owen Benjamin, eventually people are going to go, I'd rather just not have rules when I want to laugh, please.
00:41:31.000And I think that's why, honestly, a tour would work right now, because I think people are emerging and want to support people that are finally going, yes, he's like me.
00:42:48.000So Sean King got onto, I don't know, Facebook after the riots in Philadelphia, and he said, I know a black man in prison right now for trashing a convenience store.
00:42:59.000What's clear is that if you do so out of anger and pain because of injustice in America, it's a horrible crime.
00:43:05.000That's why he trashed the convenience store.
00:44:11.000But as far as the center, the city center, proper Philly goes, it's been abandoned.
00:44:16.000It's just, okay, take it away, homeless people.
00:44:19.000I saw homeless people just having parties on the streets, like dancing around, drinking, asleep, pissing.
00:44:25.000It's a disgusting, lost city, and I blame Democrats.
00:44:30.000This is what happens to your property when the DNC, I think there's seven to one Democrats there in their whatever they call it, their White House.
00:44:42.000Jesus, you know, if Dems tell you that your property is safe with them, you need to look them dead in the eyes and just say, get off my lawn.
00:44:50.000And you weren't there when I told you I needed you.