00:05:43.960I just, anytime I see somebody being stupid, like I go to the mall and there's a guy yelling at a Zara wearing a Palestine flag, I'm going, I'm anti that guy.
00:05:53.080But not because I, you know, agree with the genocide.
00:05:58.160Because I understand why it's necessary.
00:06:03.660That's a good little Jewish quip there.
00:06:58.180Farmers, which means that we're related.
00:06:59.640Farmers drive their tractors during a protest called by local branches of major farmer unions.
00:07:06.960This is in France, happening on January 30th, the picture.
00:07:11.280There are massive farm protests in Europe decrying what many see as the draconian green measures being imposed by the European Union.
00:07:18.620If you look on the internet, you'll see lots of videos of huge protests with massive tractor convoys blocking highways, dumping farm waste on public infrastructures.
00:07:25.820As I wrote this, there was a huge convoy headed for Paris that dwarfed what we saw here in Canada, yet not a single mention of it is in our regular news media.
00:07:35.780Doesn't it bother folks, even a teensy bit, that these momentous world events are being hidden from them?
00:07:54.300It's almost as if somewhere, someone feels that this news would be in a missile.
00:08:00.280I don't even know what the fuck that means, but I know it definitely means, basically what this person, this guy reading, writing this is saying is that they want to not show people that because they're worried that they will also take part in that and go, oh, we do have strength in numbers and all this kind of stuff.
00:08:14.960Yeah, that's literally the whole article, by the way.
00:08:22.520That's in the Ottawa side, it's just a, it's, that wasn't even an article, that was a letter to the editor that they, so they posted the letter to the editor.
00:08:36.020French farmers unions, blah, blah, blah, French minister Gabriel Atal announced a series of concessions, including an agreement not to import agricultural products that use pesticides banned in the EU, as well as new financial subsidies and tax breaks.
00:08:50.680Um, and those have appeased the French farmers, apparently, I don't know.
00:08:57.960It's not just having a friend, it's in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy as well.
00:09:38.400Meeting in Brussels to discuss financing for Ukraine, farmers, through eggs and stones at the European Parliament, also set fires in the area to press EU leaders to do more to help them with taxes and rising costs.
00:09:53.180And while the farmers' crisis is not officially on the agenda of the EU summit, it is expected to be discussed.
00:09:59.440Similar protests have been held across the EU for most of the week.
00:10:02.680Farmers blocked traffic arteries across Belgium, France, and Italy this week.
00:10:07.620As you have seen, there is a major farmers' protest in Brussels.
00:10:14.920We need to be able to discuss in the council on this topic because the concerns that they have are partly legitimate.
00:13:07.460So until they have to, until those people, that's, get fired for that in 2019, those people in India that are running things should be fixing their shit before we have to fix a lot of shit.
00:14:33.800We must have these guys to let them see, you need us, help us, because so far is it now, we need help for normal living.
00:14:47.280Well, those guys are our last hope for the civilized world, because if they take away farming, then there's no food, and everything collapses.
00:15:02.480But in other news, folks, something egregious happened.
00:15:08.440And a pro-Palestinian sang at the NHL All-Star Game.
00:26:01.700And poor people don't build a hospital.
00:26:03.660I mean, they put the fucking thing together after a Jew figured it out.
00:26:08.200But they fucking, I'm just saying, rich people are important.
00:26:14.000You can't, and we're putting too much pressure on them to be rich, like, stay rich and still pay all these taxes for all this other shit, in my opinion.
00:26:26.260I mean, is that so awful to say that I think rich people, like, I want to be rich, so I don't want rich people to get fucked over, right?
00:26:36.320This is a federally funded transgender activist, Faye Johnstone's, um, Johnstone.
00:26:44.000Wasn't it fucking Ryan Long in a band called the Johnstones?
00:26:47.760But this is Faye Johnstone of Hershey.
00:26:52.020I like, I'm a spokeswoman for Hershey, and I am, it's just, uh, transgender.
00:27:01.100Federally funded transgender activist, Faye Johnstone of Hershey.
00:27:03.700The disastrous Women's Day campaign is in, this is, this is somebody from Rebel News' headline.
00:27:11.620Uh, in Ottawa to whip up a crowd on behalf of a federal government pro-child mutilation agenda.
00:27:16.760What's weird to me is that when they're like, trans rights or human rights, it's like, well, nobody's saying that you can't be trans.
00:27:35.620Nobody's saying that it's, uh, you know, all the, all the, I was going to say bad to be trans.
00:27:42.360I was like, well, maybe a couple of people saying that, but I mean, it's, it's surely, it's not a ticket to a ordinary life.
00:27:49.920Okay, it's an alternative lifestyle, and I get that it's mainstream now, but it's still not mainstream.
00:27:57.480Okay, like, if you go to a university, or you go to a regular bar, or you go to where all the regular kind of normal people are hanging out.
00:28:10.280And, and that whole, what do you mean by normal?
00:28:12.280I mean, not fucking trans or gay specifically, not fucking a bunch of fucking random, uh, you know, migrants hanging out like in a migrant camp, a bunch of white to semi-white to white acting people in a bar.
00:28:31.960There are very few, if not no trans people.
00:28:35.060And I'm not, because they don't want to be part of that world.
00:28:39.600And to me, they don't like that world, so they think that that world should be dismantled and regulated to make sure that people aren't as hateful at all.
00:29:18.840Sucking it, you don't need to put makeup on to suck a dick, by the way.
00:29:21.820If you're a dude and you're gay and you suck a dick.
00:29:24.180But if you put makeup on, you're going, I'm going to choose to do something today.
00:29:28.600If you made a choice to live an alternate lifestyle, don't be surprised that the general population doesn't want to adhere to your demands.
00:29:42.700And the trans demands, for some reason, are in line with all these green demands, which I find weird.
00:31:37.660The only people who want to hang out with Faye Johnstone are mentally challenged individual, or mentally on the spectrum, Tran, Q, Card, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:31:50.120Those fucking people who, they're misfits.
00:32:07.960It's like, I fucking cut my dick off, and then I, now I'm mad that they don't want other people to cut their dick off, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:33:45.560That's when, that's when people get mad traditionally.
00:33:48.240Um, it's weird that she didn't post until, she hasn't posted in a long time, since August 28th.
00:33:59.360That's another thing that's kind of mean about Rebel News is this person's, like, not, they're not even a good influencer.
00:34:06.120Like, they haven't posted on Twitter since August.
00:34:08.020They're just, they're just, like, kind of giving up on being an influencer after the, my peak of my career was, I was a trans person on the Hershey ad in 2023, like, two, right?
00:34:21.520And then they didn't keep up the momentum with their social media, and now they have, you know, only 20K, and people from Rebel are, like, the fucking Tranny is fucking out of the game.
00:34:33.900And this poor fucking trans person is just, like, what do we want?
00:39:31.020And then as soon as we came in, like, some white security guard, like, the main security guard was like, no, you cannot do this.
00:39:37.820And I was like, oh, shit, that's kind of embarrassing for my guy because the whole time he was hyping up, like, I'm going to take care of you, buddy.
00:39:43.600We're going to be taking us to my buddy's bar.
00:39:46.280Anyway, then it was like, we couldn't order food.
00:41:01.440It's like a comedy venue, and you can rent the room and do a show there, which is really crazy to me.
00:41:11.260Like, you can rent the room, I think, for like a couple hundred bucks and then sell tickets through their website just for laughs and stuff has done it, which is kind of crazy that they're just like, let's hype up this location.
00:41:22.200And then once we leave, it's just all amateurs running weird shows.
00:41:25.260So the only comics that run shows are at these bars that don't want me at them.
00:41:31.780The comics themselves are afraid of me.
00:42:57.540But another guy from the back who wasn't running the show, who just works at Comedy Bar, comes out to tell me that I am not really welcome on that show.
00:43:09.520Like at first he just goes, oh, Puff Mama's not here.
00:43:12.640So I can't put you on the show because she's not here to say yes, which is bullshit because the people hosting the show were like, just do five minutes.
00:48:16.000That should be a kick in the ass to, in Toronto here, Comedy Bar and Second City for basically being exclusionary of offensive or any comedian that doesn't abide by the DEI woke bullshit.
00:48:37.220And basically forcing me to have fewer places to work on my comedy.
00:48:42.920The whole reason this rant happened was because I was talking about how I like, I'd rather do a small room three times right now in Toronto or in Canada to get stage time to work on material than do one big show.
00:49:21.300I can't even remember the last time I did three shows in Toronto, which is sad because when I started comedy, we would do five shows in a night sometimes.
00:49:31.420It was, I was averaging 13 shows a week.
00:52:37.760But they have these multiple theater rooms.
00:52:40.020Like, I feel like, I honestly want to say to Second City, what they, what would be smart is if Second City went, how about you do a weekly show here?
00:53:12.360So, I just wish they had a, they don't even have a gallery to show you what the stage looks like.
00:53:23.320But, anyway, there's, there's something wrong when you have a state-of-the-art comedy club and there's not shows every single night in the biggest city in the country.
00:54:20.420Uh, uh, Young and Wellesley, the gayer.
00:54:23.640I had, I had a show at, uh, was it Village Vapor Lounge?
00:54:28.380Uh, Vape on, maybe not Vape on the Lake, but Vape Central.
00:54:32.480Um, there was another bar that I had a show at, like, at Avenue in Eglinton, and I just did a one-off show.
00:54:40.540There, like, every year there's at least four or five bars that I found shows to do.
00:54:45.360When I had no audience, when I had no following, when I had nothing, I was still fucking doing that.
00:54:50.660So people should be doing that because I'm willing to pop into this shit in Toronto.
00:54:55.040Like, I want, if somebody reached out to me on a Monday, on a Tuesday, on a Wednesday, even on Thursday, Friday, if you said, oh, Bankus, I got a show.
00:55:05.020Could we post that you're going to be there?
00:55:06.860And I'll tag, yes, yes, sell a couple tickets for the, for the home crowd, for Toronto, and, and, and let me try some new material, and it's, it's a win-win, so I don't know.
00:55:21.580I'm excited to leave, go to the States, go to Austin, wherever, wherever I have to go.
00:55:27.380When I, when I was in, like, well, I shouldn't talk about that, but I was on vacation, but, um, the States has a nicer, I think, than Canada.
00:55:36.860Canada, because Canada, there's just nothing to really work, like, there's not, there's no, I'm above the ceiling right now in Canada, which is why Americans are following me, and why Americans are interested in my shit, because the ceiling is fucking low.
00:55:49.740The ceiling is getting on the state broadcaster, and, and doing shitty jokes about, um, you know, Pierre Polyev, and talking about how bad conservatives are.
00:56:01.080It's just sad, um, so, I'm happy to be where I am, and I feel very grateful, and I'm very grateful for the people that made my birthday party special, that made, um, the people at the brewery in Waterloo, in Asante, they made that pretty special, kind of.
00:56:22.280Um, even though they told me to stay at the Kitchener Inn and Suites, which was a huge mistake, which was 20 minutes away from the venue, but they gave me a, I got a discount, but it wasn't really a good discount, so it was kind of a fucking complete waste of time and energy.
00:56:36.300But, guys, right now, I don't have that many shows on the books, because we are going to the United States soon.
00:56:42.680But, for my Canadian shows coming up, February 21st, unfortunately, we're sold out for all the Toronto shows.
00:56:49.420February 22nd, and Burlington sold out too, so we added another show in Burlington, February 25th, on a Sunday.
00:57:03.800Go get tickets, um, and stay tuned, because I'm going to be bored, so we're going to probably, hopefully, start, we're going to, hopefully, at Second City.
00:57:10.800Second City, don't fuck around, all right?
00:57:16.120Weekly show at Second City would be awesome.
00:57:17.800Anyway, continue listening to the show.
01:02:08.020You got to push yourself to the edge of your abilities, which is what I do every day and every show.
01:02:13.560And I'm trying to do that every podcast for you guys, because I think, and I know, I don't think, I motherfucking know that this is going to be the best podcast in the world in my lifetime.
01:02:28.280If not, by the end of this fucking year.