Get Off My Lawn Podcast #57 | I guess I better talk about this Vice article in New York Mag

Get Off My Lawn Podcast w/ Gavin McInnes

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Getoffmylawn, Comedy, Podcast, Society & Culture, Gavinmcinnes

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🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Most of this podcast is about the NY Mag article that just came out entitled, “A Company Built on a Bluff.” New Vice and old Vice are obviously denoted by me leaving in 2008 and it certainly wasn’t a bluff back then. I don’t know much about them post 2008 but I’m assuming that when the sales guy takes over the editorial, the content is going to get a lot more advertorial.

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0:00.0	I guess I better talk about this vice article in New York Mag. Let me pull it up here.
0:05.2	The general gist of it seems to be
0:09.3	their accusing vice of basically being a pyramid scheme.
0:14.5	And no, they're not worth billions and billions and billions.
0:18.5	They're the title is a company built on a bluff for
0:23.2	almost 25 years.
0:25.2	Shane Smith's plan for vice was that by the time the suckers caught on he'd never be
0:30.0	stuck owning the company he co-founded by Reeves wide-emann.
0:36.0	Every time I see these articles I just skim through them.
0:40.4	Going, please don't call me racist. Please don't call me racist.
0:44.7	It's scared. It gives my wife a panic attack.
0:49.1	Like just to sort of jump ahead, there's this writer.
0:52.8	I think he's a daily beast Spencer Ackerman and he goes company founded by a white supremacist.
0:58.4	Check. Long history of sexual harassment.
1:00.8	Check. Muchismo bullshitter exploited. Check.
1:07.2	And I go that's yeah.
1:09.9	The company was originally started by Sirouche Alvi.
1:13.5	He pulled me in to be comic book like comics cartoon editor on day one.
1:20.8	He didn't have any writers and he wrote too slowly really.
1:24.9	It's too meticulous.
1:26.6	And I was like I'll just write the whole magazine.
1:29.1	And then after about two years, year and a half,
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