In this episode of Thick & Thin I discuss the perils of being a grown man in your late 20s and early 30s. I also talk about my friend Artie Lang and how he likes hanging out with teenagers and how it makes him feel like a kid. And I talk about how I don't want to go to a movie theater with my kids and how I'd rather kiss a homeless man with a weird pee breath for 40 seconds than go see a Peter Cottontail movie with kids. And we talk about why women should have more roles in movies and why men need to do what men do in movies, and why women need to be more badass. I also give my thoughts on what I would do if I had a successful magazine called Mike Magazine, and I compare it to People Magazine, where we just compare different Mike's. And I make a case for why men should get on the cover of a magazine called Mics, where they don't even have a birth certificate, they're just big mics, and it's just a magazine with only mics. . . . and I discuss why women have to be badass and why we need more badass women in movies and why feminism is a bad idea. and how we need to get more badass in movies. Also, I explain why I think women should be in more action movies, not less badass women. I don t think women in action movies should be bad, but I do think they should be badass in action roles, which is why we should be good in action scenes, not just action roles. Thanks for listening to this episode, and if you like it, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, and tweet me a review! if you re a fan of the podcast, I'll be listening to the podcast and I'll read it in the podcast next week. :) Tweet me what you think of it! Timestamps: 5 stars! 5 stars is a review of this episode and a review? 4 stars is much more than 5 stars, a review is a tweet or a review, and you re listening to it on Insta: a review or a tweet about it? or something like that's a review or a description of it's a good thing, right? I'll post it on your thoughts on the podcast or a good one, I'm looking forward to it, so I'll send it to you in the next one?
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00:00:00.000You know those guys who refuse to grow up?
00:00:07.000I think the average video game player is something like 34 years old.
00:00:14.000And I see a lot of guys, especially black guys, by the way, with superhero shirts and superhero tattoos, like Wolverine is big with black dudes.
00:00:23.000But, I mean, you go to Comic-Con and it's, there's, it's not even predominantly kids at Comic-Con.
00:00:31.000And you're looking at it, I feel like just saying to them, you realize that Spider-Man was invented for not just seven-year-olds, but seven-year-old nerds who were getting picked on and wanted to fantasize about a world where they could just beat up the bully.
00:00:47.000And as they got shoved around, the sort of release for them was, these guys don't even know who they're messing with.
00:00:55.000I could punch my fist right through their faces, make their moms cry forever.
00:04:45.000I was reading a great article about it last night where they said this whole idea of feminism meaning women have to be badass and they have to do what men do.
00:04:53.000You're saying that what men do is the best.
00:05:43.000You think a boner's the thing, but you don't really understand what's happening in your body.
00:05:48.000And then, around the beginning of adolescence, woman become gods.
00:05:55.000And you can't believe you ever played Star Wars.
00:05:57.000Even though it was a year ago, you just go, why was I holding a plastic figurine of Mark Hamill?
00:06:04.000And then, boom, it's off to the arcade.
00:06:08.000You've got the Def Leppard concert shirt.
00:06:09.000My parents wouldn't let me wear that, so I hid it in the bushes.
00:06:12.000I'd leave wearing a polo and then put on the Def Leppard concert shirt, go to the arcade, try to talk to girls, buy older girls cigarettes with their money, of course.
00:07:43.000I told that in another podcast where this guy was near my house and he was driving real slow and then stopping and I was like, what are you doing skulking around?
00:07:51.000So I got in my car and I followed him and then I pulled him over and then he, we had a car chase.
00:07:56.000And then I went to the police station cause we ended up, I lost him and I ended up, I realized I'm right in front of the police station.
00:08:01.000So I went in there and I told them the story and they go, yeah, he's playing Pokemon dummy.
00:11:01.000Actually, I think there's two ways you could blame feminism and female over-empowerment on the shooting.
00:11:06.000Obviously, there's a million factors, but these two haven't been explored.
00:11:09.000And I talked about them on Get Off My Lawn, the hit show.
00:11:15.000Teachers have gone from being nice ladies who recognize that boys will be boys, you know, the diminutive woman with the horn-rimmed beehive glasses, who's like, oh, those boys!
00:11:29.000My daughter had a teacher like that at PS 84.
00:11:32.000Hello, I understand you're going to bring some of your treasures, she would say, because Sophie was going to bring Indian stuff from the tribe.
00:11:43.000But then they get on this feminist claptrap, and now these women, and the unions have a lot to do with this.
00:11:49.000The unions have brainwashed these women into thinking that they are major political figures, and it's their job to save the children from capitalism and the patriarchy, and teach them that women are Mao.
00:12:00.000And they will provide us with the great leap forward.
00:12:02.000So they brainwash these kids in thinking America sucks and they're really bossy.
00:12:45.000The teachers' unions donate way more money to both sides, and I believe all lobbies combined.
00:12:51.000So those teachers, and I'm sorry to repeat what I said on the show, but they brainwash the kids, say, you suck, you suck, you suck, America sucks, patriarchy sucks, this country's stolen, so that pisses them off, and eventually they snap, they go postal.
00:13:03.000But I also think we have a culture that glorifies single moms, and we have these one-sided childhoods where the kids learn all the feminine stuff, which is important to know, all boys should have a feminine side, but there's no backbone to it, there's no male side.
00:14:02.000He goes, he all but admitted that the guy he is now is sort of a character and it's all, you know, everything he wished he could be.
00:14:13.000And sex is a big thing with the perpetual adolescents I don't get.
00:14:17.000Like, I don't get when I was 18, I couldn't wait to get out of the house because I wanted to have chicks.
00:14:23.000I wanted to be able to do it without my parents hearing me or without needing their permission.
00:14:29.000And your libido in your teens, I mean, you could smash coconuts with that thing.
00:14:34.000And the idea that you just go, yeah, whatever, I guess I'll just masturbate to porn, and I'll use the Sub-Zero fridge to get fresh raspberries whenever I want, and I won't worry about chicks.
00:14:44.000Maybe it's because we had to masturbate to, you know, an old frozen penthouse we found in a snowbank, but I just could not wait to get out of the house.
00:14:52.000I believe I left days after my 18th birthday, because that was the limit my parents put on it, and I respected that.
00:14:59.000Me and my buddy Steve, poof, gone, 18.
00:15:05.000These guys that say they're 25, 26, and the same thing goes with Artie.
00:15:10.000I mean, he can bring home girls, but he doesn't hang out with women.
00:15:14.000He hangs out with little girls, and I don't think he screws them.
00:17:43.000But surely you realize that other guys are having serious... I mean, he dated this single mom for about a year, but that was clearly just him trying to get mommy back.
00:20:02.000That's why I don't like seeing these kids in college with just sweatpants on and one shoe they found and a shower shoe that they're without the other foot and some t-shirt that says Dan Donnelly's Ottawa Ford.
00:20:12.000That frustrates me because I go, look, you're at the peak of your aesthetic career.
00:20:24.000So eventually I just sort of gave up on him.
00:20:29.000And I checked in on him once in a while, but you know, I got a family and I don't party anymore.
00:20:34.000And if I am going to party, I'm not going to go that way out to Long Island where he is at.
00:20:39.000I'm going to, I'd rather hang out with someone I barely know in the burbs and just shoot the shit about parenting.
00:20:45.000That's another problem too, by the way, when you have kids, you talk to other people who don't have kids and their, their lives seem so petty.
00:20:54.000If they're your age, obviously, if you're talking to a 24 year old, it's kind of fun.
00:20:57.000Cause you're like, all right, this is what you got to do with your life.
00:20:59.000Man, she'd get a ring on it and get a career, blah blah blah.
00:21:03.000But when you talk to guys your age who are single, it's just embarrassing.
00:21:08.000As my friend Tommy goes, and he's a bonafide Italian, he goes, it's like you're talking to them and you're just thinking, get your shit together.
00:21:43.000An identity politics thing where it was an entire generation's identity.
00:21:49.000So once the problem was cured and women could vote and women could have a career and women could leave the kitchen, they had to keep going.
00:21:56.000Because you can't – it's like communism.
00:21:58.000Once there's a government department for that, it's not going to recede.
00:22:01.000It's not going to say, all right, well, we built the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
00:23:41.000I'm going to start pretending that I have sensitive skin and just wear a t-shirt into the water, which used to be my pet peeve, still is, just to not show these ridiculous tattoos.
00:24:52.000And I am embarrassed that I ever thought he was cool.
00:24:55.000And I'm not really embarrassed for everyone who thinks he's cool, because I think the older people, people my age, like the patriarch, the guy who he rents a room from, I think that guy feels sorry for him and accepts that he has some sort of family PTSD.
00:25:12.000From not having a father and being raised by a mother and a grandmother.
00:25:18.000But just the fact that he has included in, it's sort of like North Korea.
00:25:24.000You know, when you see them crying and you see the tears in the cement, you go, wait a minute, do you believe this?
00:25:30.000Or like with the Southern Poverty Law Center, where they go, this is, call me a bigot or something.
00:25:34.000I go, I know Morris Dees is a huckster.
00:26:05.000I get that they want to sabotage American culture and make Muslims more acceptable and make Islam more acceptable because that's their religion and they ain't got billions, why not spend some money on propaganda?
00:26:14.000But the ones who do the videos, often Jewish by the way, who talk about how great Jihad is and how George Soros is awesome, um, are they in on it?
00:27:19.000That's why I keep my hair so short, because if I grew it out, it would look like Gavin McInnes'.
00:27:25.000If I ever, if there's ever a barber strike, the jig is up.
00:27:30.000If he were ever arrested, oh my god, what if he was arrested and he was in solitary for seven months and he grew out his long, gorgeous, totally straight brown hair?
00:27:42.000He'd have to just sort of use, he'd probably use his own feces to make it into dreads or something to hide it.