Ryan Long is a writer, comedian, DJ, and all-around bad boy. He grew up in the 90s and early 00s in Glasgow, Scotland, and grew up listening to a lot of music, especially electronic music. He talks about the boom and bust of raving in the 80s and 90s, and what it was like to be a part of the scene. We also talk about the recent shooting of a 6-year-old girl at a Haitian music festival in Brooklyn.
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00:01:50.000They'll take all these hit songs and add that sort of gabber beat to it, happy hardcore.
00:01:55.000And, you know, raving was big when I was a young man.
00:01:58.000In my book, I don't really cover it because there's not much to say besides we were getting wasted on GHB and MDMA and just dancing with girls and making out with girls on GHB for like an hour that you have no particular interest in.
00:02:15.000It's nothing of consequence to document from that era of my life, but it was fun.
00:02:21.000But in Glasgow, dude, it was over the top.
00:02:26.000This is when there was still some manufacturing in Glasgow in the early 90s.
00:02:30.000And they'd work at some like, I don't know, pharmaceutical plant where they're rolling these big barrels of aspirin.
00:02:37.000And they'd bust their ass, as Northwegians are wont to do.
00:02:40.000But they would leave work Friday at 5 p.m., go to the rave, and return Monday at ready for work, having not slept or stopped the entire fucking time.
00:02:54.000That's when you know a town has manufacturing DNA in it.
00:02:57.000And that's what's so sad about Glasgow today.
00:05:12.000So that means when you're anti-racist, you go to, you want to defund the police and you want to make sure that six-year-old black kids don't get shot by other black people because of the lack of opportunities.
00:05:26.000Like, what if the guy who shot this six-year-old had an opportunity to go to law school?
00:05:52.000What if that person could then get a scholarship to a community college, which is only $3,000 anyway?
00:05:58.000And then he could easily get a job, a trade, anything, and be making in a city like New York, after a couple years of apprenticeship, be making a good 80K a year.
00:06:08.000If you want to get really ambitious and be an electrical engineer or do some sort of forensic accounting or be a plumber, that might take you more than five years sort of in the lower rungs, which is the same for doctors.
00:06:22.000But if you were to do all that, you're looking at 80K a year, which isn't a ton in the Upper West Side, but it's a fuck ton in the Bronx where you're from.
00:07:07.000You just see this 1950s version of the world.
00:07:13.000So we'll get to that actually later on the show.
00:07:15.000Today's book of the day is Rats by Robert Sullivan.
00:07:19.000What I love about this book is he said goodbye to his family.
00:07:22.000And every night, I'm going to have to buy a bookstand.
00:07:25.000Every night around 8 p.m., he would leave and go to the area where they seem to be the most prevalent, which is in lower Manhattan here, Wall Street, Chinatown.
00:10:00.000So what you do as a journalist, just like the Ratsman, is you go look it up.
00:10:05.000Like it's okay to sit there and pontificate with your beanie on if you're Pap Buchanan.
00:10:11.000Because the guy, for example, for the book The Unnecessary War about World War II, he read something like 70 books just to do research for that book, which is like a fucking compendium of incredible information.
00:10:23.000So some old geezer like that can sit there and just shoot the shit to me.
00:11:02.000Although, if you were suddenly compelled to do something insane, such as look at the actual numbers, I'm underlining my own notes, which go in the garbage immediately after the show.
00:11:12.000You'd find three unions who each kicked down more cash to the Democratic candidate than the Cokes gave to Scott Walker.
00:11:20.000You might even learn that all Wisconsin unions and public workers welded together their angry oppressed fists to outspend the Cokes by a factor of at least 20 to 1.
00:11:34.000And that as a quotient of total Republican domination, donations, dominations, very difficult donation, the Coke's contribution to Skywalker's campaign amounts to less than half a percent.
00:11:47.000And then he did a much more extensive article many years later, that's one for where if you want to follow the money, you got to turn left.
00:11:59.000Despite a 2006 study of Fortune 500 companies that showed America's wealthiest 100 corporations donated 59 million to leftist causes and a paltry 4 million to the political right, 4 to 59 isn't just some are like this and some are like that.
00:12:16.000That's how you talk when you're a teenager.
00:12:18.000Yeah, there's Antifa, but there's also the KKK.
00:15:02.000You do not have to convince the readers of National Review or Republicans in Val Paraisio that American business is in general a force for good in the world.
00:15:12.000Exxon, you might feel the need to convince certain people, young and idealistic, and maybe a little stupid in spite of their expensive educations, that you are not so bad after all, and that you are spending mucho schmundo turning algae into biofuel,
00:15:28.000in the words of an Exxon advertisement, and combating malaria and doing other nice things.
00:15:33.000All of that is true, and Exxon makes sure you people know it.
00:15:36.000The professional activists may sneer and scoff, but they are not the audience.
00:15:41.000This is all me correcting Tim Poole's rant, by the way.
00:15:47.000A recent Capital Research Center analysis of charitable donations showed that donations by the left to Fortune 500 foundations totaled $59 million compared to $4 million to the right.
00:16:01.000These are Fortune 500 foundations, very difficult foundations, not corporations.
00:17:38.000So then she was like from the Bronx, but she's from Kansas, suburban white Kansas.
00:17:43.000So then she had the thing about her accent is it goes from like fucking Cardi B and shit to just a normal accent as she focuses more on her point.
00:17:52.000But in that footage we showed yesterday, 1-8, we didn't show the very beginning where her accent is even thicker.
00:18:43.000You probably know this neighborhood because the Hosanna Melizamarc Piverrito, who used to be the speaker of your city council, sold my fucking neighborhood to developers and gentrifies.
00:22:16.000Every time they're accusing you of something, it's because they do it.
00:22:19.000So she's sitting there doing exactly what she's accusing that man's mother of doing, which is just showboating for virtue signaling.
00:22:29.000Wait, what was that Twitter thing you had up, a montage of her?
00:22:32.000Oh, it's just a little clip of her being very white.
00:22:37.000Politics of New York City has done for many, many years.
00:22:41.000Aren't you from the part of the story that gets emphasized in different ways is that he was an explorer, right?
00:22:47.000Which is a program that the NYPD has to bring youth in to eventually work for them.
00:22:54.000And so when I think about this politics of silence that I'm talking about in the archives, right, and how silence can be a really radical presence historically, I think it's a radical presence today.
00:23:04.000When people talk about snitches get stitches, right?
00:23:07.000Or when we think about a history of anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and necklacing, right, and that kind of violence towards people who are collaborating.
00:24:17.000So it had fuck all to do with snitching and everything to do with killing the wrong guy for some bullshit jealous rumor.
00:24:27.000Secondly, the necklacing was done by Winnie Mandela, wife of terrorist Nelson Mandela, to terrorize locals, various tribes in South Africa, and accrue more power.
00:25:06.000You put it, don't Google it, please don't Google it.
00:25:08.000You take an empty tire, car tire, put it around your enemy's neck, fill it with gas, light the gas on fire, you tie them up so they can't get it off, and then the hot tar melts, hot rubber, I mean, melts all over you and you dive third-degree burns.
00:25:26.000Who are working against their communities?
00:25:28.000We have to consider a radical moment in 2018 in which people are using machetes to hack apart a 15-year-old boy who's working with the police.
00:26:00.000Kind of violence towards people who are collaborating, who are working against their communities.
00:26:06.000We have to consider a radical moment in 2018 in which people are using machetes to hack apart a 15-year-old boy who's working with the police.
00:26:16.000The way the story about his innocence and the inherent violence of the people who hack him apart become the narrative of innocence is the story of people.
00:26:29.000And it's so much more difficult to understand what kind of freedom we achieve by being willing to confront those within the community who are working against the interests of the community as a whole and the future.
00:27:47.000Okay, while you're talking to the exonerated five, can you bring out the woman who's still alive from the Central Park Five who had to rebuild her brain?
00:27:55.000And she goes on tours with neurosurgeons where she discusses how discusses how the brain can slowly repair itself and how there is hope.
00:33:19.000Like, you know why there's not a female Paul Revere?
00:33:22.000Because the females in Paul Revere's life were making him with their vaginas, right?
00:33:28.000Raising him, shaping him, helping him be brave, providing him with the security to become a successful soldier and brave man, being there for the father as he helps.
00:33:39.000So the problem with you saying that women have to be in all stories implies that stories are the be-all and end-all.
00:33:46.000I went to some dumb feminist seminar for a lark a few years ago, and they were talking about how women are only in like 4% of action movies.
00:33:55.000Yeah, they're in about 4% of fights in the world.
00:34:01.000And it trivializes what their real role is, which is creating the men in these stories and shaping their lives, shaping their homes, providing the foundation.
00:34:09.000It's like, why are we always talking about humans and God isn't in any stories?
00:34:13.000God is in 3% of Movies, he's the one who created the universe.
00:34:17.000And you go, Yeah, it's because he created the universe.
00:37:15.000I wouldn't recommend watching it alone, but if you're smoking dubs with your pals and you want to see a piece of fucking garbage, this was shot in 10 days.
00:37:25.000It's this weird Iranian dude who always works with Bruce Willis these days.
00:47:20.000A person that it was inspirational for so many.
00:47:24.000Have you ever seen that video where the Avengers movie?
00:47:28.000I'll really tear up if I talk about this.
00:47:31.000You mean the superhero movie for little kids?
00:47:34.000Do you cry when you watch Superman too?
00:47:36.000Did you see the movie where Lois Lane is her car stuck in a crack in the earth and Superman going in the reverse direction to try to reverse trying to bring Lois back?
00:47:47.000And then fucking Lex Luthor has to show up.
00:47:53.000When Spider-Man gets knocked off that bridge by the goblin and you're not sure if he's going to pick it.
00:48:03.000I know this isn't what you want and I'm sorry.
00:48:08.000And when in the Avengers movie, when there is a video that someone took from the audience where they see him show up on screen and the whole audience goes crazy.
00:48:30.000I was there in the theater with my kids and I was amazed at how embarrassing it was to hear adults cheer at a fucking movie like a movie can hear you.
00:49:44.000You could probably, a billionaire could probably make that for a friend somewhere in Arkansas, but it's still going to be like a million bucks.
00:52:01.000It was eventually recognized as an independent country, I think, during the Civil War.
00:52:06.000But these colonists didn't get along with the Indians, the native black tribesmen, because as they started to settle, the tribesmen would come, rape all their women, steal all their shit.
00:52:26.000So they murdered the Indians, and I shouldn't say Indians, the indigenous people, and then they set up an apartheid where the indigenous people couldn't be part of their society.
00:52:35.000So that implies that the only way to survive in Africa is to build a wall.
00:52:39.000Assimilation with the indigenous people apparently is impossible.
00:52:43.000So Liberia becomes this fascist dictatorship run by freed American blacks.
00:52:51.000And then they become the elites of this place.
00:54:47.000He's never really written about go out, grab a gat, and just kill people.
00:54:50.000But unfortunately, today, that's the majority of what rap has become, right?
00:54:54.000And so, and I completely agree with your assessment about Cardi B. It is one of the biggest insults.
00:54:59.000If black Americans are not insulted by the fact that Joe Biden, who has been hiding in his basement for the entire year, made an appearance and came up because he was going to do an interview with Cardi B, do we have nothing better to offer?
00:55:10.000I mean, this would be akin to Donald Trump saying, I'm going to give no interviews, but he came up and he decided to give an interview to Justin Bieber, right?
00:55:30.000You look at Cardi B's Instagram, you see she has millions of followers, and you think, okay, this is an illiterate person.
00:55:35.000And if I appeal to this illiterate person and she does, oh, like she literally did in the middle of this interview, and they think she's cool.
00:58:46.000Everybody knows I don't really fuck with you like that.
00:58:50.000We know you endorsed the Democratic Party, Cardi B, but you're not a reliable source.
00:58:56.000The fact that people are coming to you is embarrassing.
00:58:59.000You got on your Instagram and talked about how y'all getting your pH balance fucked up because you suck those nasty dicks with your bad breath and your bacon and cheese, and then he stick it in your wet pussy or your dry ass pussy.
00:59:15.000Then you got all that bacon up inside your shit.
01:00:35.000I don't know if we want to Biden because I was not, I'm sure Ben Shapiro was not.
01:00:41.000We were not meaning to attack you, we're just simply telling the truth, which is the fact that Joe Biden did not spend the whole year in his basement to come up because he's a big Cardi B fan and sit down with you.
01:00:53.000And, you know, I just am encouraging you to stop proving him right when you say ridiculous things like, I had to sit down with Joe Biden because my sister got attacked by a Trump supporter, Santa Claus, making it seem like Trump supporters are homophobic.
01:01:08.000A little education for you, Cardi B. Donald J. Trump is the first president that's ever gone into office in support of gay marriage.
01:01:15.000So, you know, those eight years that your presidential candidate, Joe Biden, spent as a vice president with Obama?
01:01:21.000They didn't support gay marriage going into office.
01:01:23.000Obama changed his tune on gay marriage in his second term.
01:01:27.000So the whole idea of Trump being a homophobe is a bit pointedly ridiculous and shows how uneducated you are.
01:05:45.000You know, journalism is supposed to be about normalizing weird shit, removing people's accountability, and most importantly, writing the same article over and over again.
01:05:52.000Why this 27-year-old barista is drinking piss to combat Islamophobia?
01:05:56.000I had plans to write an article about how women are better at football, women are better at fathering, and women have nicer hogs than men.
01:06:01.000Fight the patriarchy by having sex with an entire bar.
01:08:04.000I pronounce it the Jewish pronunciation, which is assman.
01:08:07.000But I would like to say that I think that I subscribe to the idea, the philosophy, the ancient Chinese philosophy, that big tits are overrated and tits are for kids.
01:08:21.000So it's not necessarily to say that I'm an ass man over a titty man, but it does say that a big pile of gazumbas are nice, fun once or twice.
01:08:29.000But if your girlfriend's got like a big set of like triple Zs, I think by day five, you're like, get me some tiny mosquito bites because I'm over this.
01:09:16.000Not that I get any big tits, but I remember back in my single days, it wasn't so much what you do with them because there's not much you can do.
01:09:43.000But visually, if a girl has fairly big bazooms and you're having intercourse and they start going in concentric circles, I can really add an element to it that's fun.
01:09:52.000Yeah, it can hypnotize you into thinking that your girlfriend's actually hot.
01:09:56.000So there's like a lot, there's a lot of benefit.
01:10:58.000How girls made sex not cool over the last five years.
01:11:02.000I was watching this thing yesterday and it was this woman.
01:11:06.000It was like, you know, she's in her 40s and she made these vagina cookies, right?
01:11:09.000They're like cookies with vaginas and blah, blah, blah.
01:11:11.000And it's just like, yeah, it's this big, big empowering thing, right?
01:11:14.000And I'm like, to me, I'm like, that would have been a funny thing for like a high school kid to like make like tit cookies for his like, you know, bakery at his school and get in trouble.
01:11:23.000And now it's like empowering where you're like, well, I guess vagina cookies aren't fun anymore.
01:11:27.000And you think about like in a normal man's sex life, you don't really like see a vagina.
01:11:33.000You know, you feel around, you dink in it.
01:11:37.000Even when you go down on a girl, it's not like you're seeing it.
01:11:41.000But when they go on these women's marches, we see the labium majoris, we see the P-hole, we see the foam clitoris, and then these big coarse hairs sticking out.
01:11:50.000And you're like, oh, I guess that's exactly what it looks like.
01:12:08.000Just to get back to the asses for a second, I think it's a black thing because in the 80s, it was like white and white chicks and you had the sort of, they didn't have an ass.
01:12:19.000Like all those sort of hot dog and all those 80s movies with the sort of ZZ top vibe and the blonde girls and the t-shirt contest and all that.
01:12:27.000When they would turn backwards, you would just see like zoop.
01:12:31.000And then we had I like big butts that I cannot lie right up to It's all about the bass, no trouble, and Kim Kardashian dating black dudes.
01:12:38.000And now like my favorite song was Dude's Butts.
01:12:41.000So I don't know if you heard that one, but.
01:13:40.000There is a cautionary positive tale here, a reverse cautionary tale, in that, you know how there's a big movement to be like, you know, these girls are hot right now.
01:14:49.000And I hate to be this guy to like be fact-checking or whatever, but I looked into it and that's actually just Martin Lawrence in a fat suit.
01:14:57.000Well, if it's a fat suit, why didn't they make the ass half decent?
01:15:05.000So they would love to have gone to Abracadabra, the number one costume store, but they had to string it together with materials they found at the local bodega.
01:15:15.000So it didn't end up being the suit that it could have been.
01:16:36.000Well, there's two types of meatless patties.
01:16:39.000There's one that's just like a lemon that's in a brown nylon and she could put her tits in her pockets if she wants.
01:16:45.000And then there's the other ones where it's like someone went in there with an X-Acto knife, took out all the meat and just left just a tit skin.
01:16:54.000And that always does a number on the nipples, dude.
01:16:56.000They never look good when you're dealing with that kind of situation.
01:16:59.000I mean, you know, you wouldn't want that situation the other way around where you had a guy that had gigantic balls the size of bowling balls and then they just removed them and left the skin, you know, got a ball reduction.
01:17:10.000Yeah, well, that's what those steroid guys are, too.
01:18:20.000And they just keep coming until they finally leave home like at her waist and you go.
01:18:26.000Well, what you can do, and again, it depends on how much time you have, but if you want to, you can actually use some scotch tape to tape them back up and just do like sort of a roll around her office space style.
01:18:38.000And that will, at least while you're having sex with them, you can enjoy what you're looking at.
01:18:41.000I actually, you're joking, but I did do that once.
01:18:43.000I took hockey tape and I put them along the, they weren't particularly droopy and I put them along the base and then tied them tight so they were like these turgid balloons.
01:18:51.000Just like a genre of porn right now, too.
01:19:22.000I'd love to slit a woman open and remove shit and then put other stuff into her and stitch up her tits.
01:19:28.000I was talking about how if your job was like the doctor that's the transgender doctor that cuts off like the dicks, like if it would be a great job for like a hardcore feminist that really hate men, you know, when you love what you do, just wake up every morning chopping off dicks, like fighting the patriarchy.
01:20:13.000I mean, obviously Harris has nicer titties because Warren's 150 years old, but I would say the redeeming characteristics are that Warren would be more annoying, whereas Elizabeth Warren seemed like Elizabeth Warren,
01:20:32.000if you wanted to play with the tits, she'd be like, what are you doing?
01:20:36.000Whereas I think if you're playing with Elizabeth Warren's titties, she might be annoying at first, but I think within two years, you could have her mind wrapped up to where the tits were yours to do as you please with.
01:22:49.000I'm going to look at some space today because I think we've been doxxed.
01:22:54.000And the real estate market here in New York is fucking incredible right now.
01:22:58.000But I thought before I spend like 50 grand building a huge studio and everything, I don't want to for them to find out who we are and then go, oh, no.
01:23:09.000So if I don't sense a mega vibe from the realtor, get this response I got from one of them where it was way too big for us.
01:23:20.000Like it was Steven Crowder's size studio.
01:23:22.000And I thought, we'll be there eventually, but if Milo's shooting his show in Florida now, why make an NBC-sized studio?
01:23:35.000Getting very close to a decision here.
01:23:36.000One thing I should probably make clear is we are a pro-Trump network.
01:23:40.000I'd hate to shell out a bunch of money and then have it shut down for our politics within 60 seconds.
01:23:46.000Unfortunately, it is looking like the company is going in a different direction and is now mostly likely going to utilize this space for their own use.
01:23:55.000I'll be happy to reach out to you again if this changes.
01:23:59.000I swear to God, if it's the last thing I do, I'm going to get my hands around your throat.
01:24:03.000I'm telling you, man, gay in the 50s or gay in the 50s.
01:27:15.000And it's a hardened crew of people that watch people eat animal dicks and jump out of helicopters for season after season, episode after episode.
01:27:26.000You know, we did a hundred and something shows.
01:29:23.000The only real difference between the more mainstream reality shows, such as Big Brother, compared to the considerably more target-marketed Ultimate Fighter, is that the participants are solely made up of professional MMA fighters.
01:29:35.000Not only that, but they are each put into a single MMA.
01:33:31.000My wife and I welcomed our fifth child into the world this Friday.
01:33:34.000During the pregnancy, my wife got a little sad and depressed.
01:33:38.000She felt that five was too many because she has friends that have capped off their kids at one or two because they want to focus on their careers.
01:33:46.000While she's a full-time mom and homeschools our kids.
01:33:50.000No, sorry, while she is a full-time mom and homeschools our kids.
01:33:53.000I showed her a clip from your show where you say one is for losers, two is for fags, three is the bare minimum.
01:34:00.000I tell her all the time that she's 1,000 times cooler than her friends who are too busy to have more kids because of some retarded job and that she is doing the most important job in the world.
01:34:50.000Believe me, especially as you get older, you'll think, thank God.
01:34:54.000You know, if all your kids are away in college right now, you could move to Montana, go skiing in the winter and just peter around, you'd be bored out of your fucking mind.
01:35:02.000And when you got to be 60 and 70, you wanted grandkids, there'd be none.
01:35:05.000You're going to have maybe 15 grandkids.