Bankas Podcast - Austin, Detroit, Toronto recap and the legend of Yuk’s ｜ Bankas Podcast - #093

00:00:01.000 Welcome back to the podcast everybody we did another solo solo podcast thank you to all

00:00:10.100 the listeners please like and subscribe I have to say that you have to say like and

00:00:15.060 subscribe otherwise people just watch the podcast or they listen on Spotify and they

00:00:20.740 don't like and subscribe it's crazy you really have to tell people what to do which is probably

00:00:28.180 what's you know I have fans who come to my shows and scream out do Olivia and it's I'm trying to be

00:00:37.420 taken seriously as a comedian here folks I can't I can't so I mean look I just got back from comedy

00:00:47.300 mothership was hanging out there did a show at Vulcan in Austin Texas and I have fans who don't

00:00:53.980 even know why I live in Austin they're like why do you live in Austin like they're so behind the

00:00:59.540 times that they don't know that Joe Rogan's here the comedy mothership's here they don't even know

00:01:05.900 the comedy mothership that's I mean it's kind of cool that I have fans that don't know what that

00:01:09.860 is in a sense because they're just out like I've I've found fans in the far reaches you know who

00:01:18.500 don't just necessarily know what everything is what the comedy world is and then they come to my 0.93

00:01:24.940 shows and they go do the chow fucking impression or I will walk out of this theater right now 0.99

00:01:29.300 and um look fuck those people I hate to say and I even have fans on here like they come on the 0.99

00:01:38.880 podcast and they go just do it like if my podcast was me doing a Chinese accent for an hour they claim 1.00

00:01:46.400 that they would listen they wouldn't they'd listen to it once and go that was funny but also what the

00:01:50.520 like there's a certain level of respect where it's like people want you to like dance monkey dance but

00:01:56.900 then when if you do dance you can't dance sometimes you got to focus and the other thing is like you

00:02:05.760 got to find things to post you got to post this I mean there's you know there's podcasts out there

00:02:11.620 that get 20 50 60 000 views a week that the real promoting the podcast gets you know 10 000 views

00:02:20.680 only and like a couple hundred likes so 0.96

00:02:23.680 you know I'm trying to get people to migrate some guy at my show was like yo I fucking every morning I 0.99

00:02:33.660 watch your Olivia Chow videos like I re-watch them I'm like bro watch my fucking podcast that's insane 0.98

00:02:41.360 like I get it it's funny like the Chinese I almost did it right there I'm like oh 1.00

00:02:47.260 but it's funny but it's also like I'm you know I got I got kids to feed here and I I don't know if

00:02:57.980 I can feed them and be true to myself artistically if I'm just doing it you know an impression of a

00:03:04.820 of a mayor of Toronto and I'm fuck like what if I want to buy a condo in Toronto what if I want to

00:03:10.000 move to what if I want to move back to Toronto at some point in my life just trashing them you know

00:03:14.840 the guy who trashes the mayor I'm not I don't know if I'm going to get treated that great in the city

00:03:19.520 um I don't know if I can move back I was I mean I'm not thinking about moving back

00:03:26.360 but you know if I were to own a property should I own a property in Canada

00:03:31.700 you know where it all started would I do it there would I do it in the middle of nowhere

00:03:37.640 like buy a little condo just like a crash pad or rent it out to a little Indian or Chinese kid

00:03:44.380 but probably preferably Chinese no offense but is that the move is the move to just you know if I 0.98

00:03:54.360 want to own property or maybe just never own property should I just be new world order fucking 0.96

00:04:00.920 own nothing and be happy is that better I don't know anymore folks people are like I'm a homeowner 0.94

00:04:10.220 and that's supposed to be like an accomplishment and I get it but like I don't know you know then 0.90

00:04:17.320 you just have no money or you know and then you just have this fear of like if I don't fucking pay 0.90

00:04:22.420 my mortgage I lose the house like if you're renting like you don't even think about that 0.79

00:04:28.060 you're like 10 you know five days late on the oh yeah the rent but mortgage and especially if 0.99

00:04:34.900 you're not living there you want to have you know do you have a fucking Indian or a Chinese living in it 1.00

00:04:40.140 ideally ideally I guess you know build wealth these are important things you know I'm trying to 0.99

00:04:50.020 I can't I just can't bring myself to be a comedian that you know people are like great Chinese accents

00:04:59.620 like but bro the bits that go the most viral aren't even the Chinese bits so that's where I'm at where 0.95

00:05:08.360 I'm like yo I want to be taken seriously I don't want to just do a fucking ching chong bing bang 1.00

00:05:15.280 um and if I am then I'm just gonna buy a property just cash out did enough ching chong how'd you how'd 1.00

00:05:24.080 you afford that house yeah I did a little ching chong bing bang on the side create a little uh bit 1.00

00:05:31.520 of a passive income hobby where I do a Chinese accent once a month um no it's not

00:05:37.880 I think just keep working I want to build the team out like Armin

00:05:46.120 who is going to be on this week's Patreon probably because I'm going to call him after this

00:05:51.400 and we'll talk but I want him to come to Minneapolis

00:05:56.420 and he's too cheap and I just paid him I just paid him like two grand Canadian so it's like 30 bucks

00:06:05.220 that joke works every time though whenever you just say the conversion rate and you just go yeah

00:06:13.680 20 bucks Canadian so five cents um but he's too cheap to to spend it all and come to more shows and

00:06:23.240 make more money and but I you know that's you know the dream to pay for your friends to come out 0.98

00:06:30.880 not even give a fuck right I mean pay for their their hotel rooms like have a fucking proper time 0.98

00:06:40.440 because I've done the fucking runs where you know you don't sell out the whole weekend and then you 0.99

00:06:46.380 you know you're open or sleeping on the bed next to you snoring you can't even sleep you know you 0.99

00:06:53.500 can't trick off I mean you can if you tell them to go get the uber eats and you're quick

00:06:57.420 go to you can you meet him in the lobby but

00:07:02.220 trying to get to that point you know I mean this is playoffs this is this is the real deal landing

00:07:12.780 in Austin Texas some of the biggest comedians in the world I mean you know it's it's the real deal

00:07:19.960 everybody who comes here from New York or LA realizes that there's something special happening

00:07:25.700 and everybody's tried to downplay it not everybody but a lot of comics tried to downplay oh it's a

00:07:30.500 bubble it's not gonna last forever but it's it is lasting and the shows are so I just came back

00:07:36.800 from mothership sold out late show on a Tuesday night Joe Rogan's on the show Tony Hinchcliffe's on 0.98

00:07:45.820 the show every you know Ron White Brian Simpson fucking you know Asana mod who was a fucking 0.99

00:07:55.120 murdering tonight but like yo it's fucking packed every show is out the door creaking the cave all 0.98

00:08:03.780 the other clubs are pretty much there's a vibe going on and it's it's not ending people want to act 0.99

00:08:09.840 like it's ending the city sucks I don't think the city is pretty livable man like you know you're

00:08:15.840 there's nowhere you can live in the city and not be less than 15 minutes from a Walmart and a super

00:08:22.760 store and a grocery the best groceries the best everything you want to go downtown they have you

00:08:30.220 know world-class restaurants and food and steakhouses it's on a smaller scale for sure it's not New York

00:08:38.540 City it's not Manhattan but it's different man it's a different vibe so people who don't understand

00:08:45.720 like why are you in Austin it's like bro there's a vibe here and it's it's the comedy is alive the the

00:08:53.820 dream is alive people are fucking having some of the best comedies happening right now in Austin Texas 0.89

00:09:02.320 some of the best if not the best comedy is happening in Austin Texas you go to New York 0.92

00:09:11.760 go to the cellar I mean there's some good comedy a lot of it you know let's be honest it's a lot of

00:09:19.240 left-leaning heavily left-leaning comedy there's a kind of a low ceiling unless you blow up like

00:09:27.600 Schultz level but a lot of those comics they're not even filming their sets it's like bro you you

00:09:33.640 should be like if you're at the cellar like that you know but somebody was telling me that

00:09:39.460 apparently the cellar doesn't let you bomb or something or like you can't if you try out new

00:09:44.560 material and it bombs they won't fucking have you back or I don't know but I don't know what's true 0.93

00:09:49.440 and what's not but that kind of side like I mean it's not that people can try new shit in in at 0.98

00:09:56.440 mothership but there's so many clubs to try new shit out at sunset fucking creek vulcan all within 0.98

00:10:04.440 one like it's you guys know if you know you know if you've been here you've been here I have fans 0.98

00:10:10.700 who've Canadians there's always Canadians at mothership always Canadians at mothership literally

00:10:19.040 making the you know the the it's it's like a what's it what's it called when they go to mecca or

00:10:27.660 whatever the haj it's like the haj for comedy coming to austin as a comedy fan fly in airports nice

00:10:37.620 smells like brisket get in the uber you go downtown you're like holy shit there's a lot of new buildings 0.96

00:10:43.460 go to sixth street you wait in a huge line you see joe rogan live you see fucking tony hinchcliffe live 0.96

00:10:50.220 you're like oh my god this is incredible the streets are live there's people out there's people partying

00:10:57.700 um it's not like that anywhere else let's be honest it's not toronto i was just in toronto

00:11:06.300 it's dead toronto is dead i'm wearing a leafs hat and you know i really hope the leafs do something

00:11:15.100 win i mean it's always cool when they're in the playoffs good for the the city but toronto needs

00:11:21.120 a win it's such a i mean it would be embarrassing to watch olivia chow have to hold the stanley cup 1.00

00:11:28.280 that would be you know it would be i i mean i would i told you i wasn't going to do the impression

00:11:34.680 anymore but i'm not but her holding the stanley cup might break me that that might i might have

00:11:41.400 to break the fast if if the leafs win the stanley cup and olivia chow's pouring beer into mitch 1.00

00:11:48.540 marner's mouth or something like i i don't know but it could get crazy so go leafs go but the city

00:11:55.320 needs i mean it's so dead it's so nothing happening you go downtown there's nothing

00:12:01.240 happening you go you know yuck yucks were one of the main comedy clubs there's nothing happening

00:12:06.820 around it and they're getting better crowds than mo and more people than most venues of bars or 0.58

00:12:13.820 restaurants or anything but god damn they don't you know and there's a comedy club right across

00:12:20.240 from yuck yucks as well called the corner comedy club in toronto where it should be a really cool 0.96

00:12:27.400 cross pollination i mean i know why mark breslin the owner of yuck yucks doesn't like if you're a

00:12:34.640 yuck yucks comic you're not supposed to perform at at the corner and i get it because it's like a way

00:12:38.700 smaller club and the way yuck yucks works is you get put on a roster and you're part of their club and

00:12:44.660 they tour you around even if you have no following even if you can't sell tickets yuck yucks

00:12:48.480 that you know what says we'll worry about that we'll sell the tickets on our brand name and you

00:12:54.680 just be one of our comics but you can't perform over there so that kind of kills some of the

00:12:58.860 cross pollination but like that whole alley should just be bars because it's perfect but

00:13:06.020 there's nobody out most nights on the weekday on a tuesday never thursday friday saturday okay

00:13:15.980 there's a little bit of action especially if you go towards king street but i think the comedy clubs

00:13:20.840 in toronto should adapt i i think that you know move down to king street be part of the nightlife i

00:13:28.100 think that's such a cool thing that mothership and and vulcan and and and sunset do in austin is

00:13:36.760 they're part of the nightlife they're the comedy club is on the same street that people are going and

00:13:42.320 getting drinks at and that adds so much because it's like people can go out they you know they go

00:13:49.200 to the show and then they immediately go out it's a vibe it's a vibe dude so toronto i don't know what's 0.94

00:13:54.660 going on hopefully you win the fucking thing um buy tickets for the show november 15th meridian hall 0.95

00:14:03.680 3200 seats baby we already sold like 1500 so there's another 1500 left it's in november 0.99

00:14:13.360 let's fucking go it's gonna be great i guess i gotta come up with a whole new hour since i was just 0.91

00:14:20.800 there luckily i filmed that hour i i kind of want to post it it's one of those situations where the bits 0.96

00:14:26.840 could have been a little bit better because i was doing um you know the that i really had

00:14:34.460 very little warm-up for the toronto show i did three nights in halifax it was supposed to be six

00:14:40.260 shows it turned into three if it had been six i would have been much warmer and you know doing sets

00:14:46.620 at mothership made me much funnier i think and just better at a lot of things but

00:14:53.860 yeah those shows i was you know they were nerve-wracking shows some of that material was

00:15:01.140 pretty new and then it's like then the next night in peterboro i'm doing that even better i'm like 0.98

00:15:06.040 fuck but i just spent eight thousand dollars canadian so it's 200 bucks um fucking filming that show 0.98

00:15:17.260 both shows in toronto so i don't know i think it might might end up being special because i i'm like 0.99

00:15:26.540 looking at some of the bits i'm like fuck i don't even i want to i want them to go viral it's there is 0.76

00:15:33.140 that pressure which sucks when you know there's comics that have the luxury and obviously they've 0.97

00:15:40.360 worked for that luxury but comics with bigger followings that sell out no matter what they

00:15:47.180 you know they don't have to post bits to sell tickets so

00:15:53.400 they can you know perfect bits a lot more but then i'm like fuck this bit's pretty good right now 0.95

00:16:01.540 it'd be a good time to fucking post it good time to fucking get it out there and then you know 0.97

00:16:07.160 you post it but and you're like fuck but i'm doing the bit better now but if it and then it's 0.99

00:16:14.560 a gamble will it go viral because if it goes viral then you're you know if it gets 10 million views 0.99

00:16:19.980 yeah it was worth it i'll come up with another one but if it gets 50k you're like fuck do i keep doing 0.67

00:16:27.360 it is it burned is it done do i put out a special i mean these are questions you have to ask these are 0.93

00:16:35.840 these are the real comedy questions i know you guys want me to ask how does what does it sound

00:16:42.360 like when olivia chow gets ready in the morning for uh for breakfast 1.00

00:16:46.420 but fuck that shit bro seriously it's fucking retarded it's the stupidest it's the stupidest 1.00

00:16:55.840 thing that i do of all my comedy is is that those videos and like even jordan peter like certain you know 1.00

00:17:05.080 they're like people want to be like yo i fuck with ben and then they're like bro this guy's making 0.93

00:17:11.460 this but i mean rogan did send me an olivia chow video and and laugh he laughed and was like this 0.95

00:17:16.860 is really funny well i don't know if he said it was funny he just went is this your voice and i said yes

00:17:21.220 so

00:17:22.480 so maybe i keep doing it maybe i keep ripping it

00:17:29.500 uh some guy commented on the last podcast and goes

00:17:34.840 yeah can you can you please sit at a desk and not in that chair because you just look fat and i don't

00:17:43.380 want to look at that and i rather you're at a desk that was covering your stomach and to that guy i want 1.00

00:17:49.680 to say fuck bro we're just trying to we're just trying to rock it here you you don't you don't 1.00

00:17:57.960 like the studio setup just one guy like i spent all this time and money on all this fucking crap 1.00

00:18:04.520 to make this studio look cool and then some guys like you're fat sit in front of a desk with a blank 0.97

00:18:11.060 wall behind you would be much better thanks man anyway hopefully he joins patreon patreon.com

00:18:18.480 slash ben boomba clat ben boomba clat bangos 0.70

00:18:23.460 detroit was crazy detroit was the first two shows were really uh the first the early shows of both

00:18:35.980 nights were better

00:18:36.760 but i got in trouble apparently in detroit because i made a joke about

00:18:44.020 a black waiter scaring a white woman which she did look startled and i was like 0.99

00:18:49.680 yo this woman's racist as fuck scared i'm scared of a black dude i mean they are maybe i said something 1.00

00:18:56.180 like maybe they are a little scary maybe i said that and then some white employee complained to 1.00

00:19:02.460 the general manager who had to talk to me right before my second night of shows

00:19:06.460 it was so awkward he was like actually like yelling at me basically and he threatened to cancel the shows

00:19:13.480 if i like i don't even know what he wanted me to do he was like just don't involve my staff

00:19:19.780 do not target my he was kind of saying i was targeting his staff like bro your staff 0.91

00:19:26.360 is not even that good they didn't fucking i had to ask for a drink like three times 0.96

00:19:32.240 and it's one of those venues where there's just qr codes and they order on their phone 0.96

00:19:37.960 and then somebody brings the the drink and food to their table it's not even like they're

00:19:43.200 actually waiting wait staff that are out there being like what can i get you

00:19:46.480 no they're just servants and it's like yo i usually tip the wait staff like pretty well

00:19:54.300 like for four shows like maybe like three three hundred bucks or something you know or four i 0.88

00:20:01.760 don't know maybe maybe less but i mean i didn't tip they were fucking complaining about me trying 0.99

00:20:08.200 to get the show canceled what kind of crazy shit is that but yeah the fucking general manager of 0.98

00:20:15.160 hockey town had to come up and he was just you know all in my face but you know can i talk to 0.99

00:20:20.680 you for a minute i was like what the fuck did i do in my head i'm like what did i do wrong why do i 0.88

00:20:26.140 what is about to happen here he's like i have complaints coming in from my staff saying that 0.99

00:20:32.200 you're targeting them and making them feel uncomfortable like what the fuck are you talking 1.00

00:20:36.980 about bro it was it was like a fucking it was like a fatter like white employee that was had 1.00

00:20:44.260 like you know maybe they were like bob you know non-binary or something like that that they were 0.99

00:20:50.440 offended and you know my buddy walked in on her like complaining again on the second night being

00:20:56.720 like i told you about this what's gonna happen two days ago i told you two weeks ago like i guess

00:21:01.460 you just you know she just saw that i was on the calendar it was like she looks up every comic to make 0.93

00:21:06.160 sure that they don't offend her and then tries to get them canceled if they've had like fuck off 0.99

00:21:10.440 seriously fuck this shit the general manager was like i'm i go to bat for my employees i stand up for 0.99

00:21:17.380 my employees who uh you know i'm like bro you should be standing up for your talent i flew here you 1.00

00:21:25.640 understand i fucking i'm in a hotel and you're threatening to potentially cancel a show because 0.99

00:21:32.100 some girl who brings drinks to the table not even a waitstaff just a person who basically works in the 0.96

00:21:38.040 kitchen bringing drinks is trying to get the show she doesn't she she walked to work or you know took 1.00

00:21:46.600 a bus she didn't fly in for this are you kidding me for seven dollars an hour i'm sorry i'm not trying 0.98

00:21:54.920 to be a dick but like imagine being a fucking waiter at a comedy club and then getting offended and trying 0.99

00:22:00.200 to get the fucking show canceled like are you fucking kidding me like 200 and something people 1.00

00:22:05.880 sitting ready to go and the guy's like reaming me out five minutes before the start of the show it was 0.99

00:22:11.060 insane it was fucking insane i pushed back i did i stood my ground i mean i was nice to him but i was 0.96

00:22:16.400 like dude like this is like some sort of like somebody in your staff is like politically correct or 0.94

00:22:22.360 whatever and they don't want me to perform and they're trying to like make it seem like i made 0.86

00:22:29.660 the staff feel uncomfortable it's so fucking stupid anyway the guy left and then we did the shows and 0.98

00:22:36.040 killed and then you know she was complaining again like what what do you the shows are almost oh like 0.99

00:22:40.920 it's halfway through the second show what's gonna happen they're gonna cancel it now they're gonna cancel 0.99

00:22:45.040 my pay like what what what do you want these people like are out of their fucking minds like 0.98

00:22:50.540 work your job and like this is what you sign up for comedy you work at a comedy club there's gonna be 1.00

00:22:57.220 some shit that you don't agree with you don't get to you know arbitrarily freak out fuck that was like 0.99

00:23:04.920 what happened to me when that happened to me in toronto before i hate when people i mean i guess i you 0.99

00:23:11.540 know another thing it's like i do the chinese accent and people like oh you're great chinese

00:23:15.280 accent i'm like don't you fucking dare ever say that to my face but it's like why i'm the guy i'm 0.91

00:23:20.380 the retard that fucking did it but i did a show in toronto i opened for joe list this is like in 2023 0.98

00:23:31.200 or 2022 or something and it was right around the time i think that joe list like movie had just come 0.98

00:23:41.220 out with louis and um open for joe had a great set i think joe list might not have i don't know

00:23:49.980 what he thought of my side he was like oh are you yes but it's like bro that's i mean whatever but

00:23:58.120 um it was a great set i killed but i think at one point like i called somebody gay like somebody was 0.88

00:24:05.540 like i was like oh you're gay for sure and got like a big laugh and then one of the staff 0.99

00:24:12.940 fucking complained to the fucking owners because i was supposed to perform i was supposed to do my 0.99

00:24:22.500 own show there like two months later and we pretty much sold it out like over 200 and 300 like 300 and 1.00

00:24:29.660 some tickets and they canceled it and we had to move the whole show to this another venue the same

00:24:36.160 night like multiple shows because it was a smaller venue only fit like 70 so we had to do like five 0.97

00:24:41.360 shows it was so fucking retarded but it was because one of the staff members complained that i said gay 0.95

00:24:49.260 and was like i don't feel comfortable working with this guy and i remember telling that to mark 0.99

00:24:55.480 breslin he was like tell the fucking person to stay home that night like their job is not 0.98

00:25:01.800 you know that's like the guy in detroit trying to be like well if i have to cancel it i have to 0.99

00:25:06.680 it's like bro if you cancel the show then your staff makes no money like what what is their priority here

00:25:14.760 do they do they have a job to make money or do they have a job to you know politically judge 0.92

00:25:23.640 the fucking performers at the comedy club that they know that they're working at it's not like 0.99

00:25:28.000 they just well you know i didn't choose this life to work as a that's their that's their hell that we 1.00

00:25:36.200 put them in then you have to work at a comedy club during the hours when a comedian is going to say

00:25:41.360 stuff that's going to offend you like what are you talking about anyway so the shows are great then i

00:25:47.400 went to wisconsin which was i mean you know i'm not gonna lie to you guys that we sold 50 tickets

00:25:53.800 it was mother's day i don't know if it's you know i'm assuming people in wisconsin most of them have

00:25:58.780 moms so i think we would have done at least 150 maybe 100 um if there was no mother's day i mean it's

00:26:07.900 crazy that i have fans in appleton wisconsin at all that are you know there being like i mean i had a

00:26:13.140 guy you know every show i have a guy do do olivia i had a guy you know appleton wisconsin be like do

00:26:18.320 the olivia chow and after this and he was like half filipino and after the show he was telling me

00:26:23.160 like i don't even know who this bitch is i just love it like people are obsessed so i get it 1.00

00:26:26.700 but i'm like bro you're the type of fan i'm trying to phase out i do this bit when people 0.97

00:26:33.140 fucking get crazy about the olivia thing so um it was cool it was cool to go somewhere new 0.61

00:26:39.600 my dad actually was a professor at lawrence university there in appleton for music and it's 0.97

00:26:47.220 like a really good music program so it was cool to see that's where my dad was living when you know

00:26:53.220 i was a kid and wondered where he was and mommy where's daddy oh he's in appleton wisconsin

00:26:58.920 definitely not doing anything wrong um well uh yeah it's it was cool to see

00:27:09.360 and then flew back to austin which just has the best airport if you've ever been to austin

00:27:15.460 it's just nice it's it's it's small but it's not too small but it's not too big

00:27:22.660 and it's not like when you land in fucking detroit you gotta walk so far to get to the exit 0.95

00:27:29.400 or take like a shuttle it's not one of those airports like tampa airport is like what the 0.95

00:27:35.840 fuck is going on i'm in like a humvee have you ever been to tampa airport there's they have this 0.91

00:27:41.160 like transport like the shuttle isn't a train it's like you get onto this massive thing with wheels 0.98

00:27:50.040 it's like it's like a subway car on top of like a massive wheels it's like really high up it's 0.71

00:27:56.900 fucking weird man it just drives along the fucking pavement it's just like crazy it's like a bus 0.99

00:28:02.740 it's like a something like a little bus kids kids all day i don't know if you guys have kids 1.00

00:28:10.960 white fucking white people don't have kids anymore they don't even know none of my friends have kids 0.99

00:28:16.840 nobody has kids but i have kids and my wife does a lot she really does a lot and then i'm 1.00

00:28:27.980 sitting there like fuck podcast is late better get everybody to bed but you know shush everyone so 0.98

00:28:36.140 i can do this and 1.00

00:28:38.160 fuck 0.96

00:28:42.440 want to have a guest on i want you know nobody wants to do the podcast 0.99

00:28:51.160 nobody wants to do it kirk metzker was the only motherfucker who wanted to do the pod 0.54

00:28:56.780 um but people miss on you know i think people don't understand how hard it is to get people 0.93

00:29:03.620 onto your podcast like you actually have to harass the fuck out of them to the point where it's like 0.98

00:29:07.820 bro like how do i get you like do i order an uber like where are you right now order a fucking uber 0.99

00:29:14.320 get in it come to my house you know um but it's worth it it's worth it i think we're gonna have 0.90

00:29:20.680 tony casillas who came and opened for me in austin oh yeah the austin show was really good 0.94

00:29:27.580 cap city the another comedy club in austin that's in the north of austin but it's fucking great 0.86

00:29:33.060 brand new great green room they don't fuck around they serve you good the beer honestly some of the 0.93

00:29:39.500 best draft beer i've had in a long time especially at a comedy like not even just at a comedy club

00:29:44.700 just in general the staff was amazing at cap city there was no weird complaints or trying to

00:29:52.540 threats of canceling a show i mean i only did one show so maybe if i did a full weekend maybe by the

00:29:58.080 third show you never know no but seriously i don't think i ever say anything inappropriate to 0.96

00:30:02.840 fucking staff that's crazy the only time there was a video that went viral in in london ontario 1.00

00:30:08.480 canada where i did a show and this fucking fucking dumb bitch she was like a staff member that 1.00

00:30:16.940 like they the comedy club in london ontario the yuck yucks is very poorly like it you know 1.00

00:30:27.100 it's like put together so badly like they don't have a kitchen they have really bad 0.75

00:30:36.540 nachos that they just put cheese on the bartenders are all like called up from i don't fucking know 0.87

00:30:43.900 where they work probably other jobs this is like their extra income thing and they hate doing it

00:30:50.340 they hate it they hate comedy they hate like having to go table to table during the show

00:30:56.040 and when i was there i sold out like three shows or something and they just hated 0.97

00:31:00.860 hated every minute of it they hated fucking bringing me drinks on stage and i was like can i 0.99

00:31:07.120 get a drink and she was like me i forget what the the clip is out there but she was like uh like rude 1.00

00:31:13.300 like oh you want to buy a drink i don't know what she said but she was like it was like she was kidding

00:31:17.340 but not and it's just like bro when the comic wants a drink on stage like that's that should be 0.97

00:31:26.220 priority number one for the staff i think maybe i sound like an asshole saying that but 0.78

00:31:31.200 if the comic's like can i get a drink and then nobody brings him a drink he looks like a like 0.90

00:31:36.600 if you want to sit here and be like well don't drink as much don't bro this is comedy if the comic 0.88

00:31:43.840 wants a drink and the and the fucking staff isn't going to bring it i mean like a comic looks like a 0.98

00:31:49.740 retard he's just up there and then people are start going where's your drink i want it where's my drink 0.99

00:31:55.180 i mean if the comic's not getting a drink that means other people are not getting the drinks

00:31:59.540 because like mothership's incredible cap city is incredible all the helium's like you know people 0.99

00:32:07.920 get their drinks if you ask for a drink the fucking thing's there in two seconds there's no bullshit 0.97

00:32:12.460 there's no like you know talking back to the comedian to try to like you know be funny or something 1.00

00:32:18.720 like that's crazy just get the comedian a fucking drink yuck yucks 0.99

00:32:25.100 toronto has gotten i mean i don't no offense i love yuck yucks i asked mark breslin to get me 0.99

00:32:34.800 some yuck yucks merch i want like in case i go on fucking you know the hope you know in case i go on 0.98

00:32:41.840 a big podcast or something and i want to wear a yuck yuck cool i used to have this double xl 0.98

00:32:49.100 sick ass yuck yucks tee and so i asked mark breslin for some yuck yucks merch he got me a medium 0.96

00:32:57.840 fucking sweater that's it's a medium it does not i'm a double x okay he got me a medium hoodie that the 0.99

00:33:09.080 it's not even doesn't even have the yucks proper logo on it says go yuck yourself it is kind of cool 0.99

00:33:14.060 but it's literally the hoodie that the people who work there wear and then the other one's a t-shirt

00:33:19.720 that barely fits me and it's like bro you guys need merch yuck yucks is a cool logo they should be 0.98

00:33:27.220 selling merch yuck yucks merch at every fucking show but anyway the fucking this i mean there's nothing 0.98

00:33:32.340 against the staff i don't know what it is but like they just got more and more indian and i have 0.99

00:33:36.140 nothing against it i love the indians who work there but like why there's no white people who

00:33:43.740 want to work at the comedy club there's no comedians the comedians who go to humber college 0.97

00:33:49.360 comedy program in toronto believe it or not in toronto they have a fucking college comedy program 0.93

00:33:54.180 and that does weekly shows at yuck yucks none of those kids want to work as door guys and 0.99

00:34:02.220 this is crazy to me that only you know the fucking immigrant you know esl fucking guys 0.99

00:34:13.320 learning english at seneca college are running the comedy club why i'm not saying it's bad i'm not 0.99

00:34:18.760 saying i'm not trying to be right i'm just saying why do you need a guy in a turban greeting you as

00:34:25.760 you come into a comedy club like that's you know like get some yonder bag that's worse than a yonder 0.98

00:34:34.720 bag seeing that's like a yonder bag on his head um but no but like what the fuck like sorry but 0.99

00:34:42.280 i walk into a comedy club and the first thing i see is a guy in a turban like welcome to yuck yucks 1.00

00:34:47.140 i'm immediately thinking well this isn't going to be funny so i know because it has to whatever

00:34:55.440 comedy is going to be on stage here has to be in the parameters of not offending this guy and the 0.98

00:35:00.140 whole reason i came to a comedy club is to laugh about how many fucking indians there are everywhere 1.00

00:35:04.520 in like in toronto or in canada in general and then everybody's indian at the club so then you just 0.99

00:35:10.780 feel awkward every time you look i mark fire all the fucking indians and get some get some whites and 1.00

00:35:20.180 some some blacks even some fucking muslims if as long as they're comedy adjacent even the indians 1.00

00:35:26.960 are they doing comedy no do they know anything about comedy no then why do they need to work 1.00

00:35:35.920 and look i get it like there's comedy clubs everywhere there's like waitresses and waiters who

00:35:40.680 aren't aren't comedy oriented but like mothership has door guys who are comics or comedy adjacent kind

00:35:48.160 of thing like yuck yuck should do the same thing you can the kitchen staff doesn't have to be comics 0.91

00:35:54.340 even the waiters but fucking all all indian staff is that really the yuck yucks that ben bank has got a 1.00

00:36:06.440 tattoo of on his arm is that really the yuck yucks that i want to i want to wear proudly when i 0.99

00:36:14.220 do a big podcast and i wear a yuck yuck shirt they go what's yuck yucks i go it's an all indian comedy

00:36:21.060 club chain where they just a bunch of indians are in there and going dingy dingy dingy so that's my 1.00

00:36:32.800 little rant on yucks i think that yucks is great though i think that dude yuck yucks

00:36:40.240 is a better comedy training program than anything in the u.s because if you don't know anything about

00:36:52.800 yuck yucks canadian so it's a canadian comedy club chain it's like the improv but when you get

00:36:57.520 signed with them you put on they put you on a roster and you get to perform in all these packed

00:37:05.340 shows not just in the comedy clubs you get there's like corporate events that i did um there were

00:37:10.240 private events that i did there were other weird cool one-off one-nighters in towns and in bars that

00:37:16.900 were always fucking packed all of them sold out not all of them were good some of them were pretty 0.98

00:37:23.600 rowdy but they fucking taught you you know you're showing up you're you're one of the yuck yucks 0.99

00:37:28.180 comics that's all you are that's all you are you're not ben bankus you're not fucking there's no name 0.99

00:37:34.220 behind you you're just yuck yuck that some guy actually brought me on stage once says give it up 1.00

00:37:39.260 for yuck yucks when i performed at yuck yucks because that's who you that you're nothing you're 0.96

00:37:44.980 nothing that you know i was the host i was starting the show the guy who owned the bar and you know

00:37:50.320 it was a sold out show goes give it up for yuck yucks and i came out and that was it because that's

00:37:56.180 when you start comedy in canada and you're learning and you're in the yuck yucks universe you're nothing

00:38:02.480 you're just yuck yucks and that's okay because that's how you learn you go on stage and you 1.00

00:38:08.500 fucking prove to the audience this is fucking yucks baby this is fucking yucks and you fucking smash 1.00

00:38:15.020 and then that's how i you know that's how i got here to fucking austin filming those smashes in front 1.00

00:38:20.940 of sold out crowds that weren't sold out to see me they were sold out to see yucks it's yucks it's 0.96

00:38:27.920 yucks night so my first road gigs the so when i got signed to yucks love saying yucks look joe rogan

00:38:38.980 he talks about comedy store i want to talk about yucks i want people to know about yuck yucks and mark 0.95

00:38:44.760 breslin and this whole universe that's happening that nobody fucking knows and i and i really want 0.97

00:38:50.400 it to be revived a bit because i think yuck yucks is still one of the most biggest potential companies

00:38:57.880 in canada for entertainment huge potential huge huge potential the name brand the selling out of the

00:39:06.700 shows um but my first gig i got signed i was doing commercial real estate a guy that i know

00:39:17.820 ronan geisler who sent me today for this uh this chinese comic side kid he was asking me to

00:39:26.420 to vote for him so he would win a million dollars on um canada's got talent i was like i'd rather 1.00

00:39:34.440 fucking blow my brains out to help him get a million dollars i'm such a piece of shit 0.99

00:39:43.260 uh but i mean god bless him if he wins let's you know i'll be fucking eating my words he'll probably 1.00

00:39:49.980 get a hitman to fucking blow my brains out but um fuck ronan geisler did a show who actually you 0.99

00:39:59.460 know yeah ronan did a show at yuck yucks called kosher kush it was like a jewish comedy mixed with 1.00

00:40:06.700 weed themed show somehow and he rented out yuck yucks and mark breslin came and i was on that show

00:40:13.920 and i murdered i had like the best set by far like just even the memory of it in my head i'm like that

00:40:19.920 was a better set than anything i've ever done ever i don't know what even material i was doing but i just

00:40:24.060 murdered and breslin took me aside and goes do you really want to do this for a living you really

00:40:29.600 want to do this i go yes yes i'll do anything i want to fucking be a comic he's like you sure it's 0.99

00:40:35.040 tough you're gonna get beer bottles thrown in your hand 3 a.m you want to be in fucking i'm like yes 0.98

00:40:40.180 i do this is what i want he's like okay you can showcase so a couple weeks later there's a showcase 0.99

00:40:48.640 was so fucking focused i was like fucking so focused dude meditating sober just fucking breathing 0.99

00:40:57.440 just like doing breathing exercise like memorizing my five minute set like over and over again just so 0.99

00:41:03.620 meticulous with it and really i i think i i'm bringing i need to bring that more of that energy back

00:41:10.840 um it's harder when it's a longer set and sometimes you got to be loosey-goosey you don't want to be 0.97

00:41:16.480 like you know super tight and i was wearing my little i was at a tie on and a fucking white 0.98

00:41:22.420 dress shirt and i killed i fucking killed so hard on the showcase and i was just like 0.98

00:41:29.460 signed automatically that night boom felt great i mean there's comics who worked five ten years for 0.94

00:41:36.540 that it's there's comics who are still trying to get signed by yaks and art

00:41:40.040 and it's so sad that like yaks like just let them do shows but then like remind them like yeah 0.98

00:41:46.960 you're not signed but you can do this show um and then that next day it was like a it was a i guess

00:41:56.280 it was a wednesday or tuesday that i got signed so that week on thursday my whole thing was like

00:42:04.020 everything it was like we can't get you spots right away it's going to take a little bit to start getting

00:42:07.840 you like in the rotation but you can do spots in toronto at the club on weekends you can sign up

00:42:13.700 to get on similar to like to mothership or if you want to go to any of the clubs you can do guest spots

00:42:22.740 if you let us know so i was like i want to do a guest spot in vaughn because there was a club in vaughn

00:42:29.020 which is like 40 minutes from toronto so said yes drove a comic there crushed i was just so excited

00:42:35.340 to be able to do comedy for real for for you know that i was a yucks comic like it was immensely i was

00:42:41.700 like 26 maybe seven something like that and i was just so fucking excited doing it for free didn't 0.86

00:42:54.580 care then that weekend they didn't book me on the toronto show so i was like can i go and do guest

00:42:59.080 spots in niagara falls yes so i drove to niagara falls um drove there and back both nights like

00:43:06.160 friday drove there did the spots drove back to you know an hour and a half just would do anything

00:43:14.520 to get on state and still i still do like i come home after tour and immediately you know say hi to my

00:43:21.620 family and then i go do comedy i'd go vulcan or creek or um rosco's or you know mothership all the you

00:43:31.400 know i if there's a fucking spot and i can do it i'm doing it and that's how i was then that's how i 0.98

00:43:37.140 am now but that's that shit trained me man and i went from being like a middle act it goes you start 0.98

00:43:45.040 as a middle acting in the states you start as a host but in canada you start as a middle act 0.99

00:43:49.760 then you become a fucking host and then eventually you headline with yucks where like you could be a 0.99

00:43:58.720 headliner with yucks you don't have to be famous you don't have to following you just have to fucking 0.99

00:44:03.760 be able to do an hour and be willing to do it for 200 bucks and within two years within a year and a 0.97

00:44:11.700 half i was headlining and um that's when the pandemic happened it just started headlining 0.97

00:44:19.020 and or maybe i hadn't headlined yet after the pandemic but anyway i fucking was headlining 0.89

00:44:28.160 and you know it was great and then people started coming because i started posting you know i had 0.68

00:44:34.100 you know one show where i remember i was one of those shows right before covet hit and it was like

00:44:41.460 a room of 300 400 in kitchener at this bowling alley that had a big room for comedy like a banquet

00:44:49.740 hall right type of room and i go is there anybody here just to see me and two people put up their

00:44:57.320 hand and i was like two people okay one day it's gonna be everybody and i was right like you kind of 0.99

00:45:02.180 have to fucking say that shit out loud you have to fucking manifest that shit i mean i didn't fill 0.99

00:45:07.400 the bowling alley one day i'm gonna fucking pack this bowling alley and everybody in this bowling 1.00

00:45:12.480 alley in kitchener ontario is gonna know my fucking name better bet you better believe yourself which 0.95

00:45:17.740 isn't that far from the truth because i did do a brewery in waterloo we did way too many shows instead 0.95

00:45:23.960 of doing one show for like 400 people we did like five shows of like 80 and it was just like a nightmare

00:45:30.180 but um yeah the shows were cool in detroit even though all that shit because like appleton it's 0.75

00:45:39.720 kind of this is interesting actually it's interesting so appleton my dad would always talk about appleton

00:45:44.920 and you know teaching there and then detroit is where my mom would always talk about going because

00:45:51.980 she went to university of windsor in canada right across the bridge and would fucking 0.98

00:45:55.480 cross the bridge all the time to go to fucking detroit and and party so um i got to be in both 0.93

00:46:05.240 places that my parents would frequent which isn't bad and then this week coming up bloomington minnesota 0.77

00:46:13.340 which is the mall of america which is minneapolis and i'm really excited for it i want people to come

00:46:22.320 out i have not sold out any of the shows in bloomington we're at like 80 90 tickets a show

00:46:30.860 but i had some statistics on my phone from like insta or something that shows that i have

00:46:36.620 like 10 or 20 000 fucking fans in minneapolis st paul so if you're watching this and you're from that 0.98

00:46:43.980 area you need to come out to these shows i know it's a bitch i know you got to drive out there take a 1.00

00:46:49.060 fucking uber the mall of america i don't even know what mall of america is like i mean it's supposed 0.98

00:46:53.900 to be nice it's i think it's made by the same guy who made the mall in edmonton and i think there's 0.97

00:46:59.700 another one in syracuse but yeah i hope i hope it's it's easy for you guys to get there but come show

00:47:07.780 the support because i mean i'm doing really good comedy and you know we did 50 people in wisconsin but 0.98

00:47:15.380 people were dying laughing you know they were having a good time so um let's pack that shit 0.62

00:47:21.760 out philadelphia is going to sell out i think we're at like 80 85 percent of the tickets sold 0.96

00:47:27.260 in philly and poughkeepsie is going to sell out very close to selling out boston i think we're going to

00:47:35.340 sell out at least two of the three shows um i mean hopefully all three but um come out for those shows

00:47:42.620 and yeah man comedy is just the most amazing thing in the world it's how i feed my family it's

00:47:49.520 it's what i live and breathe i don't watch tv if you were to ask my wife i don't watch any shows i'm

00:47:55.420 not like into any fucking i'm not really into anything except comedy because it's kind of my 0.93

00:48:00.660 passion and my job and my love and um you know just putting out specials putting out content 0.65

00:48:08.940 i do love it i love it and being able to perform at the comedy mothership and hang out in the green 0.50

00:48:15.600 room and rogan's fucking there and you know fucking tony's there and the energy's there and talking 0.97

00:48:22.940 you know they're giving comedy advice and talking about how hard you have to work to fucking do this 0.99

00:48:30.160 job and it just like motivates you you're just like fuck i need to wake up tomorrow like 6 a.m go to for a 0.99

00:48:35.900 run and eat properly and drink a lot of water and fucking write jokes and write sketches and do 1.00

00:48:46.540 podcasts and just be a fucking animal be a fucking machine a comedy machine where you're just constantly 1.00

00:48:52.080 taking in you have to watch all the podcasts too because that's relevant you know you have to watch 0.99

00:48:58.340 everything and know what all the important things are that week and and it used to be for me like

00:49:04.860 obsessed the obsession with news and i felt like i'm drifting away from comedy because that's not i

00:49:10.760 didn't i don't love news like i'm interested in news but i love comedy so i like spending my time

00:49:17.160 watching as much comedy watching as many podcasts immersing yourself and you know even at mothership

00:49:24.500 i'll just sit there and watch um and uh watch and learn because that's that's what this job is

00:49:32.500 joey diaz talks about but it's like uh he used to talk about all the time when i would go to work

00:49:38.320 commercial real estate and i'd be listening to the church of what's happening now and he'd be like

00:49:41.940 you know it's i forgot what i was gonna say but something about immersing yourself

00:49:48.840 in in the comedy and just like kind of you just have to i forget what it was it was something specific

00:49:55.780 that joey diaz would say but oh yeah no that it's he would say that it's college it's like it's like

00:50:03.200 it's like an education doing comedy when you're you know first year comedy second year comedy but it

00:50:08.960 like never ends you're still always in school and 10 you know i'm 10 years in it's like 10th you know

00:50:14.780 it's like you're in 10th grade kind of thing and you're learning the stuff that a 10 year into comedy

00:50:22.200 comic would learn versus a five years into comedy comic and that's what it is i'm like 14 years in

00:50:29.020 i'm learning what if you know there's it's high level nuance that you know remembering reminding

00:50:35.380 yourself of loving it reminding yourself of doing the work and um being able to be here for you guys

00:50:43.000 and just hang out you know some guy at fucking the show in in wisconsin the filipino guy he was 0.99

00:50:50.460 like fucking love dude i fucking love you so much dude like the fucking and but you know for him it's 0.99

00:50:55.820 the olivia chow shit right he's like when i hear the fucking olivia chow like my brain just like 0.99

00:50:59.880 explodes i'm like i just like it's like i feel the laughter and i'm like dude have you watched the 0.99

00:51:04.280 podcast and he's like i i should i should it's like dude if you love me that much how could you 0.99

00:51:09.960 you know oh i like when you do the accent but you as a person i don't like it's like well fuck dude i 0.97

00:51:14.540 can't i'm not gonna go through life like that i'm trying to be a real artist we did it you know we 0.88

00:51:20.060 made jokes about shit but like you know you you want to feel good like the comic you have to feel 0.98

00:51:27.240 good with what you're saying that's why look at dave chappelle he fucking escaped to africa because 0.99

00:51:33.340 he just couldn't handle people laughing at shit that he didn't fucking want to do anymore and i some 0.98

00:51:39.060 you know when if i'm doing the dressing up like olivia chow and people are like crying laughing 0.98

00:51:44.320 i'm like this isn't what i want to this isn't the legacy that you know anyway i'll be doing a little 0.99

00:51:49.940 bit tomorrow live no i'm just kidding fuck that shit um i'm just trying to be a real real one and 0.97

00:51:58.840 the real real ones listen to the pod and the real real real real ones are on patreon patreon.com 0.99

00:52:06.140 slash ben bank is where there's gonna be another weekly podcast uh every week there's a bonus

00:52:12.180 podcast or there's an extended cut of a free podcast and you guys go over there you met you

00:52:20.940 can message me whatever you want i'm gonna answer you way quicker and with more priority than on 0.61

00:52:27.200 instagram or on anything so fuck yeah thank you let me know some guests you'd like to see 0.92

00:52:36.120 on the pod um some austin comics and and we're gonna keep rolling with we're gonna have some 0.64

00:52:41.920 guests on here soon so thank you guys so much another great solo podcast um thank you for

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Bankas Podcast - May 14, 2025

Austin, Detroit, Toronto recap and the legend of Yuk’s ｜ Bankas Podcast - #093

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