Bankas Podcast ｜ New York Minute with Armin Arbabi #114
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with comedian Ben Bankas to talk about comedy, racism, and what it's like to be a black comedian in Africa. We also talk about Ben's recent trip to Africa and his plans to become the Prime Minister of Uganda.
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All right, shut the door. It's unlocked. Do you want me to shut this window or shut this window so you have like a little privacy or do you don't like it?
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For the record, I watched some of your YouTube videos and stuff before you guys came in. I was like I know that the name sounded familiar.
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to watch some stuff. I found it very funny, obviously.
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Just wanted to let you know. That's why. I like
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coming in. So, I saw you coming in. I was like,
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Otherwise, you'd probably be like, the session's canceled.
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Cool. All right. Let me, again, you'll hear me through the boxing.
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this is the equivalent of like what rappers like like the black guy who drove us to the show last
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night in long island yeah like it was like yo we're gonna go studio what time we had the studio
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tomorrow yeah like he was like yo let me in the studio this is the comedy version of a studio
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I was like, well, let's talk about Israel.
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Just watch a video of a Mexican person being detained.
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Then you need some other guy to just be like, hey, what was that?
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And then they look it up and they figure it out.
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it's a relaxing time you know you're in the car you're a fan of mine you're like what's this
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podcast like and then you check it out you're like oh i thought he was gonna i thought he was
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gonna say something crazier but i thought i was gonna do a little child oh god i can't stand that
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i can't even in wyoming somebody's like do it i'm like please for the love of god that's insane
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for the love of god don't make me do that anymore all i want to do is i want to do a podcast where
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And then you sit there, and I go, I'm going to sit there.
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Yeah, he was like, I should sit here because I'm the host,
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So now I just look like a big pile of shit, but I'm in charge.
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You just keep talking about going to Africa.
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I feel like there's potential there for more colonization.
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This guy made a joke about a joke about a joke.
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You know that Bankas is like, for some reason, there's a lot of Africans with the last name Bankas?
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It'd be funny if you went to Africa before Israel.
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No, one night we started looking up African comedy clubs.
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And so guys, like social media people in Africa, they just make a fake Google.
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So if you look at Africa comedy clubs and you just click on it, it's just a dude.
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Yeah, and it's just like a guy with a jug of water.
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they're ingenious man they they make they there's a lot of ingenious things that they do like with
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the like like somehow attaching solar paint like in in really dark you know situations they you
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know put a machine gun on the back of a toyota well that's that's more of an arab thing no that's all
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of africa yeah that's just like that's standard that's a standard issue it's literally like honda
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upgrade no you're not supposed to talk about these things you're supposed to talk about going for
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lunch uh what'd you have for lunch uh i had a sandwich i'd leftover slop from last night also
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i do think that there's uh some potential in africa who will you should just open a comedy
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club in africa there are countries in africa that like like there's just yeah like south africa i'm
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sure like nairobi is like pretty sick yeah but there's like places that israel the greater israel
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project africa we was israel jews in africa we got n words in paris and we got jews in
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jays in africa name of a song like what am i supposed to do
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it's the name of the song is n asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk in paris
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but i'm healthy things are going well it's a good time to be alive 2026
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there's not a lot to complain about um and i think i mean luckily trump's in power so that
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it's a crazy thing to say to new york comedy or wherever i am i'm happy that trump is in power
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because there's less immigrants straight to the point why are you so happy oh a guy won
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things are looking up canada's sad canada's depressing drake is literally saving the
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country with this like i feel like the canadian government was like can you please put out the
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album because like people are leaving people are leaving the country that somalian guy had to like
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the somalian streamer won fifty thousand dollars finding drake's iceman thing and he's like
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starting bonfires and hacking into it with pickaxes and
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it was I'm a fool I know there's a fucking daycare in this but he found it it's very I love it I mean
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I'm a Drake fan I don't know I'm a fan of all you know my favorite rap is a Drake Epstein and Michael
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jackson epstein favorite song jeffrey epstein that would be a good track on my jeffrey yeah it will
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be eventually yeah one day one day drake what if that's what ice man's all about he's just like
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all this fucking you haven't even heard of my island the epstein part too i mean i don't believe
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any of the things that were said about drake yeah or epstein i hope i i kind of do just because it's
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If it's like, it's got a pedophile, but like, it slaps.
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And the award for greatest stand-up set goes to...
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Booked these podcasts, and then we went to the shows in Borelli's Top Room.
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what was the day before that oh we were in an airport for 15 hours oh this is the worst day
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of your life yeah i did nine sold out shows in florida naples i mean 11 if you count sarasota
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and fort lauderdale and then easy flight 115 literally landing i mean we had to drive three
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hours to it because we had to if you fly out of naples to new york it was going to be like
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forty five hundred dollars or like two grand or something and if you fly out of tampa it's like
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100 bucks for first class it's like 100 bucks yeah and then you drive to tampa and they're like oh
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yeah the planes are all broken and they said that we would leave it was supposed to leave at one
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they said it would leave at 9 p.m so i just did nine shows four shows saturday three shows sunday
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i was exhausted i really wanted to get on the plane get here i thought we were gonna be here
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four we're gonna go for a nice dinner we're gonna relax no we had to fly to
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Charlotte 3 30 they had no massages available in the airport I had to go in
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one of those robot massage chairs my backs bruised and hammered my back and
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then we got to the airport about 11 30 luckily Harrison marks Karl Marx picked
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us up we started screaming in the car obscenities and uh we um got home we got to the hotel we
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relaxed we ordered 4 500 calories worth of chinese food created a lot of slop mess then we then the
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filipino had to come in and clean it the next day and see all her slop she recognized you she was
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like are you the comedian and you were she didn't recognize it was because there was a my plaque was
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and it said nine sold-out shows off of a comedy club and she's like
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I thought she knew who you were you're just in your underwear yeah well this guy made it
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yeah with my boy you know it's my boy on the couch and yeah it's me
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nine sold out off the hook you know off the hook
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you know on the hook yeah you don't get the hook off the hook
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the most amazing comedy club it's you literally walk when you walk from the stage to the
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like there's so many employees like i've never seen a comedy club with more employees like they
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had so they run a really insane dinner thing like people like they have proper dinners you know like
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a steak and stuff so they four shows they cleared the room like served every single person ate like
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every single person was eating a full steak dinner then they clean that up another one another one
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another and then we had like three for some reason like anything you want we're like can i get
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multiple meals so the best was one of your fans they treated us so good one of your fans gave
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you an ice hat and then you wore it walking through the kitchen oh yeah i had to take it
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off in the kitchen because the mexicans were like especially with those like yeah the ray-bans you
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This guy looks like he's just on a mountain shooting brown people.
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It just happens that I like a couple groups more than I do.
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that's what that's the problem with equity is like when you're equal everybody's equal but
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when it's equity and then you go well what about our equity equity equity equity oh that's the
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equity well if you don't own a house you got no equity how about that been back it's 2028
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that's a part of canada people like the americans are like
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can you stop reminding me that you're canadian that's the worst part about you
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i know they don't like that and then some of them just don't like that you're jewish
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Who the hell said some guy that I met with today?
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It doesn't even mean, I'm not like, it's not like after the set.
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Like, I'm not leaving my set and going, thank you, good night.
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I mean, I would if the rabbi was there, I would do just rapping to fill in the second I get off.
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Funny guy, but then I found out that he was a Canadian.
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no there is a part of it where it's like he's canadian and people are upset get upset the
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canadians ascend quickly and in america like how come canadians do so well here it's like well
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they were already doing well and then they left their country that's like a you know
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no name brand america yeah it's like canada's like learn how to make it in america by
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if you make it here then you gotta leave there's nowhere else to go
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yeah i do none of it five times a year and then i do calgary 45 shows a year
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that is my we've talked about this but yeah you just want to do a month straight of shows in
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well like my like emergency plan is like like my contingency plan is perform four shows a night
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365 days a year the worst life yeah oh fucking 3 p.m till 9 every day for a year noon we start at
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noon every day merry christmas it's 3 p.m we're doing a show we're doing field trips kids are
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No, blacks and the whites and the Jews need to form a triangle.
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Performing yucks every single night of my life.
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If for some reason I get canceled from America, I go, yucks.
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All right, we're doing, fuck, how many shows is that?
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So that's what, like 12 plus almost 1,500 shows?
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1,460 shows at Yuck Yucks a year times, let's say, average is 280 people in the show times 35.
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So it's like, yeah, I'll make $11 million.
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I mean, yeah, honestly, I kind of want that to be the move
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because i want to see someone say i made a million dollars from yuck yucks like i want to see that
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i mean i yeah i'm getting there pretty close but
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that would be hilarious shut down every yuck show every yucks club's shot it's just been
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back but how are you going to perform at every year of the fly just every day fly private every
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night every night i'm performing at every club just fucking on a private jet landing going to
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yucks like the third day it'd be so no i'd do like a month in toronto month in calgary month here
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yeah can i get another steak yes steak no yucks uh no you're getting fucking diarrhea
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uh no food's food the funniest part about the club grab the food oh forgot to put your food
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in no the food's very good it's very good food it's good food yeah it's good vibes you have a
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chicken wing this guy made 11 million dollars he ate chicken wings every night
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Anybody else making that kind of money is like,
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yeah, well, I go to Barry's Boot Camp every morning,
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Yeah, you're just having a cigarette in an alleyway.
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Our defense is that he didn't have a dart for 40 days
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Name somebody else who made $11 billion at yucks
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11 million dollars a yucks just getting that yucks check like yo that might bounce like wait a week
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I'm going to have to wait until we sell the club.
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When I did Eventbrite at first, when I started doing shows, like, not at Yucks or not, like, doing my own venues and stuff, and I was selling tickets through Eventbrite, and the one show, for some reason, like, there was, like, an AI thing on Eventbrite.
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It'll make your whole, like, instead of you going through and clicking all the things, so it did it.
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And then it just put it in USD, and there was no way to change it.
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so people were just it sold out and like i just couldn't get paid for like years till i got the
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yeah like and then i got the visa and then i got you know and then i moved to the saints and how
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much was it it was like like 500 bucks finally let's go ma
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no but not a lot of people can say that they moved to america and their first paycheck was
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you know not that paycheck that was well i mean smallions yeah in the first month 10 g's i feel
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like if you you know you know a guy coming in family business it's it's people don't know how
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hard this job is you gotta wake up at noon you have to wake up everyone has to wake up
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poor people who needs them thank you good night it is funny when like i do a joke about poor people
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and there's like some poor people i guess in the audience and they look at me like he's right
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doing god's work trying to get poor people to be less poor that's what jesus did he went around
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yeah he was like doing chinese accents he's like why don't you make any money
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yeah jesus he was probably funny oh god but this is the biz you gotta get bigger
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the entire business revolves around yuck in america every comedian in america knows you
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have to go to yucks you go i'm a yucks guy oh jesus christ this guy knows what to do
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it was trained literally they have no idea like there's no train like if you're just a comic
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who's like a trying to do feature spot like middling i don't know what they call feature
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middling here yeah no or that in canada yeah well like whatever
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is this thing on they featuring the people they feature you know if you're just like a guy hosting
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a show in in the states at a improv they literally like yeah i don't know figure it out go bomb
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but in and they'll actually take you aside and yucks and be like you got to do it more like this
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make this they'll give you like and like but it's not coming from a place of like this is how you
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do your comedy it's this is how the business is these people are here they paid money your job
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is to make them sit in that seat and buy more drinks and the way they buy people only buy drinks
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if they're having fun you don't go this is this is the worst show i've ever had i'm gonna have
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a drink you go oh my god it's so funny when you like boom boom boom and food and enjoying yourself
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you don't want to eat if somebody's bombing like if you're bombing you know people like
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yeah well I actually did enjoy that little quip
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It would be like Guinness Book of World Records.
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most tickets sold in one day at off the hook comedy club but i don't know if it's the most
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shows they've ever done which i don't understand like if it's the most shows in one day but
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shouldn't it also be like the most shows total that were sold for one weekend nine maybe they
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have a record breaker for that there's definitely some probably a mexican comic book came in there
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How am I going to pay for having 45 shitty cars?
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And then there's Mexicans doing comedy to buy a car
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is supposed to be he's supposed to be a guy he's supposed to be sitting there he's got a tv up and
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he's going did you see this see what happened last week let's roll the clip well i think that we need
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to get rid of white people and pause it this person person's bad boys next clip
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I'm like, let me do an impersonation to this person.
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It was like you're trying to explain it to some.
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We were trying to explain to this guy who's like an ex-police officer.
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He's like, yeah, it was really tiring there.
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You know, compared to, like, a cop's day, it's like, you don't get four shows.
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But I'm proud of myself that I didn't drink the whole time.
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Like, who wants to start drinking at 2.30 p.m. and drink until, like, midnight?
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Like, I haven't done shit like that since I was in school.
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You go to, you know, St. Paddy's Day or, you know, one of these other, you know, homecoming or whatever,
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where it's like you'll pancake kegger we used to do pancake keggers you go you drink at 11 a 10 a.m
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and 9 a.m you're hammered by 2 p.m and then then you eat and then you puke and then you go
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drink again but it's like that's not i don't do that for shows i i don't even think find that
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stuff relaxing or enjoyable relaxing well i want to really yeah well for me to have fun i want to
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relax yeah I don't like I guess I mean it's fun to work I find fun is work when
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I'm not working I don't want to have fun I want to relax I mean like I'm not
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like oh finally I'm home well let's go to Disneyland let's go I want to I want a
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bedroom and lock the door and get a nanny and jerk off or have my wife do it
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just saying that i want to relax i don't like this whole you know you gotta have
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what do you do for fun what do you mean what do i do for fun i do work
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i do this i rented look at this i i rented this
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you want me to what else do i need to do let's go uptown let's go downtown let's go this way
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let's go that way no i go home i sit at home i go turn the fucking hot tub on and i pull my gut
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into it and i plop into it and i zone out and i look at a tree and i go jesus christ how am i
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gonna keep doing this I'm gonna fucking pay for it yeah I'm relaxed I'm feeling
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I've got to put out a special, a new hour.
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They're like, I was expecting more Indian stuff.
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It's like, yeah, this is what a minority is.
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You walk around Manhattan, you're like, oh, let's go to a public toilet.
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So you know what an African guy looks like, right?
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No, I really think it's one of the stupidest things.
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Maybe podcasting did ruin comedy because it's like, oh, let's be funny.
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and then it's like oh no that yeah every show is canceled yeah to go that's what makes you laugh
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it's hilarious so i want two small things to walk into a bar one goes
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what do i do why are we laughing why is everybody having fun cancel everything
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No, I have to have a podcast because, you know, Patreon, I don't know, Patreon, patreon.com slash Ben Bank.
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Maybe we put out a bid for free, but I don't know.
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well what if this get if this podcast episode got 10 million views like then what where do we
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where do you go from there make another one episode two episode two what do you mean oh
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shit all right we just spoke with mark breslin the shows are a go yeah 100 just what said you
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want to do everything else has been completely shut down it would be comfortable just doing
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yucks every day for the rest of our lives no you know i mean you like alfax it was guaranteed that
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it would sell out i would do four shows a night every night 365 for i think at least two to five
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years of my life and then i think i would be able to chill and then after that i would just be like
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genius musical genius music to my this guy's father was in the symphony
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it's just people like why what happened to your podcast i'm like bro bro it's too off it's too
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funny i can't do it i can't get it bro maybe we should just watch youtube videos and be like can
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you believe that no we definitely should that's like the move it's just like or we should have
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been like so armin tell me oh actually why don't we talk about your controversy oh yeah when we
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leave we can talk about that yeah what did we rent it out for till three oh shit yeah we got
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ladies and gentlemen welcome to the worst podcast known to man
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not worst but the worst is it's yeah it's not the worst it's the voice the astronauts were
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listening to ben bankers's podcast on the international space station just floating
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zero gravity well these people should these people need to be rounded up
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i mean i'm an exaggeration of my comedy i don't actually say any of these things or do any of
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these things or yeah what i really do is i go good evening welcome tonight we are having a talk
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this is not comedy this is no jokes tonight yeah there's a podium this is a podium and i am going
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i am running for congress my name is bed blankets my name is sven spankis my name is sven spankis
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there's that one guy that's been following you around for like 25 shows some old scottish man
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yeah he's a that was a good show mate well the best ones there's like the ones where we're kind
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of tired at the end of a long stretch he's like you guys seem fucking tired tonight man
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just saying that it's been a long night for you isn't it four shows my goodness
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Spent tens of thousands of dollars flying around.
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Oh, dude, if he's got the money to follow you around,
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There's only one thing I don't like about your comedy.
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Technically, I guess, your father's Jewish.
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Then you go, okay, well, I'm not religious.
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they go yeah you're fucking true yeah it's different like if you're arab and you're like
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yeah but i'm not muslim you're you're arab you're like people are like he's a christian arab he's
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a fucking this arab you know there's no christian jew jesus thank you for your service thank you
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for your service saluting the fucking crucifix just in a church thank you christ thanks bro
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Jesus probably had some crazy shit to say about the Ethiopians.
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I mean, realistically, if you're going to go around and preach, you got to be a little
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Yeah a white guy going into a business with a camera going
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this is a psychotic former people are like begging for him to come to canada just to film indians
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like that's literally what he does he just films minorities and is like look at this
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ty ollie who i think he's that's his name he like filmed that thing there's like a
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city of jews up in upstate new york oh yeah yeah and they're like get out of here get out of here
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yeah no he keeps asking like flashing their guns are you guys all on welfare and they're like
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hey look come on but i mean it's the jews i mean i'll say this the jews do it with more class
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because they don't buy you know gucci shades i feel like they're just on straight up welfare
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like being like we don't have a job and it's like they don't yeah all they do but they don't but
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they do but i don't know i don't know how it works everybody's doing something it's all it's
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there's so many rules and laws it's like everybody like my dad actually talked about it it's like in
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the soviet union they they called it like uh guilty till proven innocent basically everybody's
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just guilty of something and it's until we find out what you actually did and it's like
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it's not it's not a way to live and i get that um like nick shirley thing but when he
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goes up to a somalian woman no honestly i like that part it's the way he talks to
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certain politicians that like makes them even more hate him like i don't know he's doing a
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great job i'm not criticism i guess that's just how you i would probably talk to them that way
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too if i had to go and confront people who were trying to ruin my life but it's like he's the
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only one reporting on the government in california trying to make a law that it's illegal to do what
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he's doing and then he has to report on it so i get why he's like but he said something like it's
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just like when they ask a question then they go well actually i don't they go no you do no it's
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like okay now you're not reporting you're like but also i still like it but it's not yeah i know
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what you mean like it's like make them look stupid yeah but don't crash out yourself because then you
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just kind of look like a lunatic yeah like this girl did it really good today i saw that she asked
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ilhan omar oh i saw that yeah yeah she's like hold it up how much money did you make how did
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you make this money and she's like anyone who thinks that's a dipshit no she's crazy she said
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you know i don't need to answer you i don't need to tell you shit yeah you're a politician now
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you're that's but that's good i guess that's what nick shirley was trying to get like i like
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nick shirley he did steal my uh i was gonna say let's call a spade a spade you uh stole your
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show you i made a hoodie with the leering center thing and then within four hours he made the
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identical same color i don't know if he stole it or it was just a good idea he i my hoodie though
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was the actual number of the somalian place like it was the actual thing oh yeah whereas he put
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1-800 fraud 1-800 fraud i like nick shirley i'd love to meet him i think it's healthy for people
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to like i don't like this whole thing where it's like well you have to agree with everybody on your
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side and i'm not really on his side as much as i am and i am aligned with certain people but
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you know i stole my show i mean i stole the idea from his video and the somalians stole the money
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from the government listen we're all stealing to be honest i you think i'm the first guy to go
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No, somebody had to do that in their own language
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She has bad teeth and it looks like she's been eating shit all day
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what is the like what is their obsession with making everything so shitty like i just don't
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understand it like even new york it's like i i saw a comment on on one of my videos being like
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uh all the democrat cities are thriving actually and they're it's like how stupid what what do you
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is your barometer for thriving there was a hole in fifth avenue when we got to this city a bunch
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of poor people walking around is thriving and homeless people shitting in public and public
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toilets that they have to have everywhere for the homeless those aren't for tourists if you're a
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tourist you don't go to a public who's it for it's for heroin addicts and drug addicts and disgusting
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sorry but drug addicts heroin addicts um you know prostitutes like these are these are scum
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mayor of new york but it used to be that that was okay what is the bad part of society no i agree
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criminals drug addicts i mean illegals like freaking prostitutes and well drug dealers and
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like it's called the underbelly that's what the underbelly of cities is that's what the
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and and this is celebrated now like we have the best underbelly well because they all look at
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them like oh they're victims of their environment but it's like but at a certain point it's like
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anyone grew up in the greatest country in the world how bad could it be oh well i didn't have
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the resources well now people do have the resources and what do they do with it nothing
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they buy more drugs i also don't like people that are like i know that i didn't have the thing that
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i need but it's like if you know you don't have it why don't you go and try and get it like you're
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aware of what's missing that could have made you successful yet you want to make an excuse and put
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a needle in your arm like for instance okay you're a poor person right now listening to this and
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you're like okay i'm listening tell me what to do okay well first of all i need to know how poor
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are you because there is a certain level where it's like you're done yeah you gotta just vote
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democrat yeah you're done yeah you're not done you're gonna run a train so it's not you know
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that scene in driver where you just yeah it's over so that no but okay look if you have a job
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you make 40k a year you want to be okay go to go to the nicest restaurant in your city save up
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go there meet people meet go to a join something do something learn about things try to find
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start a company start the most simple company a company where you know pool cleaning or window
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washing or dry cleaning or anything like there's a million different things you can do and you can
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have as many companies as you want there's no excuse for just being lazy and poor it's kind of
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and this idea that people who aren't lazy and poor are supposed to pay for the lazy and poor people
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it's like they're not all lazy it's like it's systemic it's systemic well yeah it's systemic
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so fuck them like they make it seem like it's a systemic issue which means that we have to change
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it no there's no way to change it that history already happened everything that already happened
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you can't change systemic if you're systemically poor then you're systemically poor i mean fuck
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what are you supposed to do do you here's the here's the tools you want to change no i want to
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i want more money from the government okay well
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that's not what the strength of living here is this if you want to live in canada that's a great
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that's a strength but oh america's health care and all that it's people then if it has such bad
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health care why are people flying in from you know every corner of the world to get health care here
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and willing to go bankrupt to get to live how much what how much do you you know consider life
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to be worth i like those videos where the guy goes like okay i give you 10 million dollars but you
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can't wake up tomorrow that means that life is worth more than 10 million dollars so what if you
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are in 10 million or 15 what's the maximum you can be in debt from a surgery i mean 20 million
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a couple hundred grand probably if it's like super massive but then again it's like what are your
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options die or die so it's like well now i have to pay six four hundred dollars a month for the
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rest of my life i'll never be able to pay it off that's better than being dead that's also bro if
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you if four hundred dollars a month is i mean you got more issues than just your i don't know what
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it will be but like i know what you mean no but either way it's just like or you just don't pay
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it and you go bankrupt you're still alive and you can still start a new life and you can still
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you know there's no debtor's prison you don't have to pay back in canada they don't even even
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though oh it's free health care and then they go sorry we have no we have no cure we're gonna have
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to put you i saw one thing this girl woman had cancer in canada and they said uh look we don't
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know what to do we're gonna put you on medically assisted death that's your option and then she
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went i'm gonna go to the states went to the states she spent like 500 grand then she's alive and it's
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fine they cured her they like got rid of it so it's there's so many myths and so many things that
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the left uses like what about health care it's like what about health care seriously who needs
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it okay oh they're in need who who the homeless people doing meth and crack and heroin every day
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or do they need free health care that's who that's who's going to use it like i made this
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joke last night about free health care it's like the weight to get the care now it's you there is
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no care because it's clogged up because every immigrant that comes to the country for the
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health care is now any little cough any little sickness they're going whereas americans are like
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i think i'm fine yeah i don't know if it's five grand worth of me going to a doctor right now and
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when it is oh but then they go and it's too late well but how come the american system saves more
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people than canadian or other systems or european systems why do you oh my health care didn't work
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in europe so i went to the states to get private care why are people doing that if it's so bad i
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mean stop i can't stand that i can't stand that i can't stand this idea that like we have to help
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the homeless we've been saying that forever i mean if you're homeless and you're in manhattan
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like no go to jersey go anywhere else oh they're here well this is where they're from oh fuck off
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fuck off nobody's from anywhere i thought i thought everybody was an immigrant i thought
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everybody no so nobody's from anywhere so what's the problem with relocating them
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that's why they're homeless and because they're transgender
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well that's where they fucked up with the holocaust is because they
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they killed smart people why what what is the goal i just don't understand i hate that i hate that
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that hating smart people thing well it's what they always do in like communist things i mean
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they did that in china right like anyone with glasses was killed under mao is that real yeah
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no they killed anyone that was educated that's why china went into so much family they see so
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good now because they couldn't yeah yeah before before that their eyes were like hours wide open
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yeah eyes wide shut no but that's why china went into so much famine same thing in russia they kill
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all the people that know how to do irrigation and then they just have nothing to the point where
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like people were literally eating that's what i'm against that's what i'm against when there's but
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they're trying to say like well it's you know it's horrible how homeless people it's like
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where on earth are homeless people should be prioritized more than people who have a home
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yeah i mean what are we talking about i mean i remember i pay a mortgage i have a home i have a
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family i work every day i drive on the roads i pay the tolls i pay the taxes i buy things i celebrate
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the whole i take part in the economy buying christmas presents buying all but i'm worthless
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you know who you know who we need to care about and give all the money to people who are just
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completely psychotic out of their minds well there's not enough resources for mental health
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How much money does New York spend on mental health every year?
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Because you're not allowed to arrest a homeless person for just being annoying.
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Like, I'm walking today, and they're, like, limping.
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It's it's it's not normal for a society to give homeless people places in busy areas, in nice, financially well off areas in New York or any city.
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But right now I'm talking about New York. Here's your area. You can do drugs here. You can defecate here. You can you you can do violence here.
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we're pretty much just gonna like that's at that point it's why not just put them somewhere where
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everybody else isn't getting affected by it and i'm not saying you know well human rights what
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about the human rights it's like do they respect their own human rights i mean they're doing drugs
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in front of children i mean what is that a human right is that no it's i mean is it a human right
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to be able to like assault somebody on the street and get away with it that's a human right i mean
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i i can't i can't i can't vouch or or allow i mean it's not like i what do i you know it's like
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well what do you want to change stop electing people who are openly talking about how they
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want to ruin shit we need to make the you know the grocery stores we want to have free grocery
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stores what are we talking who and where do the people who live who have the free grocery stores
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oh well they're in a co-op and then there's this and what are those what are those do those people
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grow up to be somebody do they actually contribute to society because they well if it wasn't for
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those free grocery stores i would have never become the president or i would have never become
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the ceo of apple or no every single person who's taking advantage of these these woke commie
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government systems is becoming a lazier less productive less um financially stable
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version of themselves and i think that obviously some people are far gone but everybody has the
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potential to be somebody and and help and help society and you know i make people laugh oh but
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it's it's rude it's offensive well but the world is messed up and people are trying to make sense
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of it and there's humor to be had at all stages of society does society need to be good for you
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to make you humor no humor works better when society has some decline or has issues or there's
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tragedies or there's traumatic events happening that's when humor comes in and and it makes people
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go okay i laughed at it i can deal with it and you know are some people oh well but it's promoting
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this and it's promoting that i'm i'm dis-promoting uh hate i don't hate i don't hate you know for
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instance any group that i make fun of i'm making fun of them because it makes people laugh and
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if that's seen as hate then i mean i think hate is like seeing somebody on the street and going
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up to them and and accosting them because of who they are what they look like i think it's uh denying
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them service at a restaurant i think it's um you know and you know i i think i openly hate homeless
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people just because it's a threat yeah it makes me not want to take my children anywhere it makes
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me not want to walk anywhere it makes me not want to enjoy things i don't want to enjoy i don't want
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to enjoy sitting on a patio everything's affected by that and if homeless people were like they were
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20 years ago where yeah they were homeless and they begged and they but they they weren't hopeless
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and they and they thought okay maybe i can and then but now it's just it's like this barbarian
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lifestyle where you just walk around your hands are and you got a knife in your hand and what and
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then they arrest them and then they let them out well why they let them out well because we feel
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bad and so oh and you know it's so expensive to house them in jail but it's fine to spend that
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money doing it through like all these taxes well the jails are private well it's like okay so then
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don't privatize the jail i mean i don't know i don't know that was the big thing oh the jails
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are privatized that's why there's so many people in jail well how come they're letting so many
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people out i mean i don't get it anymore i just want things to and people be like well somebody's
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a goal if everything was great then you'd have nothing to joke about i'm like yeah i would i
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would joke about something else i'm joking about my family i joke about my life i joke about my
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history and my past my you know experiences which i've already started doing in my stand-up but
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what's on everybody's mind is what's on my mind and people some people go oh he's pandering i
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don't pander at all i talk about what i want to talk about i and i i piss off my crowd too
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and sometimes i have to kick my crowd out of the show my my fans and and they're like i drove
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four hours it's like yeah but then you came here and you acted like a a idiot what was i supposed
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to do just keep you here no get the hell out of my fucking sight get out out
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