# 421: The Unbanning of Gavin McInnes
The Patrick Coffin Show | Interviews with influencers | Commentary about culture | Tools for transformation
Patrick Coffin
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🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In 2017, Gavin McInnes appeared on The Patrick Coffin Show because he was banned from social media. This is his return.
Gavin joins Patrick to discuss his rollercoaster relationship with social media platforms: banned for years, then suddenly unbanned—what’s really going on behind Big Tech’s decisions?
• The real story of how Gavin co-founded the Proud Boys: separating fact from myth, and why the media portrayal has been so distorted.
• Why Gavin believes the Proud Boys were never about racism or extremism, but about fraternity, free speech, and standing up against cultural decline.
• A surprising turn: Gavin’s journey into the Catholic faith. What drew him to Rome, and why Catholicism—not just generic Christianity—provided the answers he was seeking.
• Comedy as a mysterious and almost spiritual force: how laughter can reveal deeper truths, confront hypocrisy, and expose lies in a way arguments cannot.
• Conspiracy theories: why some are ridiculous, why some prove true, and why our culture can’t stop obsessing over them.
• Reflections on cancel culture, truth-telling, and the power of staying rooted in faith when the world wants to silence you.
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| 0:38.0 | That's the coupon code that gets you the big fat honking discount. About seven years ago, |
| 0:43.8 | I interviewed Gavin McKinnis was called the banning of Gavin McKinnis because he was brutally |
| 0:47.7 | banned from all polite society made into an instapriah because of his decades of hateful, |
| 0:53.6 | well, let's just summarize. |
| 0:54.7 | Hateful evil that might be a totology. |
| 0:58.0 | All the major platforms went after him. |
| 1:00.8 | He's the co-founder of the Proud Boys and is a bad person. |
| 1:04.3 | I would not overthink it. |
| 1:05.4 | But he's been unbanned and I'm so glad to have him back. |
| 1:08.2 | Gavin, welcome back. |
| 1:10.2 | That's the name of the new John Candy documentary. |
| 1:12.3 | I like me. |
| 1:14.4 | Oh, that's good. |
| 1:15.7 | John Candy never made me laugh once. |
| 1:17.4 | Isn't I recognize? |
| 1:20.2 | No, his stuff never really landed on me. |
| 1:23.3 | I don't know why. |
| 1:24.5 | Maybe one exception. |
| 1:25.5 | Remember the chubby, nervous nervous kids fan on SCTV? |
| 1:28.3 | At least he's always swallowing nervously on a on a game show. |
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