Bankas Podcast - January 16, 2024


Bat Signal to Hollywood ｜ The Bankas Show - #041


Episode Stats

Length

44 minutes

Words per Minute

165.95944

Word Count

7,418

Sentence Count

551

Misogynist Sentences

17

Hate Speech Sentences

46


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Transcript

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00:00:00.400 What up, everybody?
00:00:02.020 We are here today to commemorate the old Ben Bankus.
00:00:08.140 This is the new Ben Bankus.
00:00:10.640 I've completely lost my mind, and this t-shirt is for sale on my website.
00:00:16.680 Guys, I'm joining the satanic cult.
00:00:19.300 I don't care anymore.
00:00:21.600 You know, I'm pro-vaccine now.
00:00:26.420 I'm joking.
00:00:27.380 I'm joking.
00:00:27.720 People are going to freak out if I say shit like that.
00:00:30.000 Does it scare people?
00:00:31.680 No, but I am an alien, and by that I mean I look a little bit Chinese with these glasses on.
00:00:37.600 And if you're listening at home, you can't see the glasses I'm wearing,
00:00:40.780 but you best believe that these are top of the line for a comedian to own a pair of sunglasses like this
00:00:50.620 that makes me – it really makes me – I feel trans.
00:00:55.280 I'm trans species right now, trans race.
00:01:00.000 Definitely trans race.
00:01:03.080 I want to be Chinese.
00:01:04.060 I don't want to get the surgery, though, but I'm down to, you know, just start squinting more.
00:01:09.180 Welcome around, guys.
00:01:14.780 Welcome to the show.
00:01:16.540 If you – is this your first episode?
00:01:20.220 Let me know in the comments if this is your first episode listening to the show.
00:01:23.660 A lot of stuff has happened in the last week.
00:01:26.200 We live in a time now where a week is an insane amount of time for news items.
00:01:32.460 Like, there are so many things for us to talk about.
00:01:36.000 So today we're going to talk about a few things.
00:01:39.300 Mall – what was that?
00:01:40.240 The mall alien.
00:01:42.120 That was – that happened within the last week.
00:01:44.960 Did that not – there was an alien at a mall in Miami, apparently.
00:01:49.200 Or it was just a bunch of black kids.
00:01:53.600 That's how you know black Twitter is the best because they can create a situation where
00:02:01.020 a thousand black kids go to a mall and just start mass robbing people and black Twitter
00:02:09.920 just goes, yo, there's aliens at the mall.
00:02:11.720 And people believe it because there's panic and people want to see aliens.
00:02:16.500 People – if there's aliens at the mall, you'd be less scared if there was a thousand
00:02:20.660 black kids.
00:02:22.020 One alien walking around the mall versus a thousand hoodlums.
00:02:26.860 What's more concerning, right?
00:02:28.920 Like, if there's an alien at the mall and I'm there, I'm going – I'm part of something
00:02:32.760 viral.
00:02:33.360 I'm part of something big.
00:02:35.100 You know, I understand life more than ever now.
00:02:37.960 But if I go and there's a thousand black kids robbing people, then I am genuinely concerned
00:02:46.760 for my safety.
00:02:48.780 A lot of people have been accusing me online that my shirts are too small.
00:02:52.940 I had a couple of videos go viral in the last week where my shirt – you can see my
00:02:58.280 gut hanging out of my shirt.
00:03:00.460 And was it on purpose?
00:03:03.180 No.
00:03:03.740 Did I know my gut was hanging out?
00:03:05.200 No.
00:03:05.720 That's why it's viral because I didn't know and I went hard as if I had a properly
00:03:11.140 fitting shirt and that really upsets people.
00:03:13.940 And I understand it.
00:03:15.620 It upset me.
00:03:16.360 I actually grappled with posting that video for many days.
00:03:20.020 I was going to my video editor like, can we just do all zoomed in?
00:03:24.180 He's like, no, I think it's funny actually that your gut's out.
00:03:27.680 Fine.
00:03:28.080 And of course, four and a half million views later, the gut is gold.
00:03:35.800 And it's unfortunate because I could really just become that guy.
00:03:39.320 I could just become the guy that has the gut out in every video and I really don't want
00:03:44.340 to do that and I want to let my fans know that was genuinely not on purpose, that my gut
00:03:49.340 was hanging out, although it was funny.
00:03:50.880 So, you know, that's how, that's how legends are made.
00:03:56.580 Human monkey animal hybrid that was made from similar situation.
00:04:01.300 Thank you for listening to the podcast on YouTube.
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00:04:14.100 Yeah.
00:04:14.540 Maybe all my merch should be one size fits all.
00:04:18.780 And they're all just really small shirts.
00:04:20.880 I also have fucking sparkles all over every single piece of my clothing right now because
00:04:28.000 for some reason, my fiance washed my, our kids dress with, with all of our shit, like some
00:04:35.400 princess dress.
00:04:36.240 So now that now I just have, I fucking, I put a sparkle in my eyeball the other day, putting
00:04:41.480 my contacts on.
00:04:42.360 I mean, this is, this is out of control.
00:04:45.280 Yeah.
00:04:45.680 Now I feel fucking gay.
00:04:47.140 Everything I have on has sparkles on it.
00:04:49.080 I don't want to fucking live like this, but anyway, to all the people out there trying
00:04:55.600 to shit on me for having my shirts be too small.
00:04:58.620 I just want to let you know that, um, I got four and a half million videos on a video of
00:05:03.880 you hating me.
00:05:04.680 So thank you.
00:05:06.760 Thank you to the haters.
00:05:09.800 We need the haters.
00:05:10.740 That's like when I pissed off that Korean bitch six months ago.
00:05:13.920 You guys don't even know about that.
00:05:16.080 I trained for this moment.
00:05:17.520 Do you understand?
00:05:18.020 Man, I trained for this.
00:05:20.200 I've been through the trenches.
00:05:22.620 I upset a woman named Suga on TikTok and she has like 3 million followers and they're
00:05:29.440 all just like psychotic Democrat leftists.
00:05:33.540 I know I'm wearing a Jean Basquiat shirt, but is that what it's called?
00:05:38.300 Jean-Michel Basquiat.
00:05:40.300 Basquiat.
00:05:40.740 I got this Basquiat shirt because I'm doing a little bat signal to Hollywood.
00:05:45.780 I'm ready to play, baby.
00:05:48.000 I got my, but this is my Olivia Chow racist shirt.
00:05:50.540 So it's like, you, you, you know what I mean?
00:05:53.740 Maybe I canceled it out.
00:05:57.880 It's like, this is like the ginger to the wasabi.
00:06:01.020 You know what I mean?
00:06:01.720 But yeah, I pissed off all these liberal people that were just like live with cats in these
00:06:10.780 small homes and they all came after me and they tried to get a bunch of my venues canceled
00:06:16.620 last year and all it did was help me.
00:06:20.740 So I just want to let you guys know that we out here, we out here making fun of everything,
00:06:26.160 including the Basquiat.
00:06:27.960 By the way, this was 70% off.
00:06:31.140 So I was like 70% off to make all my fans think I joined a satanic cult.
00:06:37.740 That's, that's a fucking steal.
00:06:42.360 Guys, I have not joined a satanic cult.
00:06:45.000 I want to assure you that that is not the case.
00:06:48.600 And, uh, although I've started dressing like this and my hair magically stands up now,
00:06:53.060 uh, this is purely, this is a, you know, it's just a coincidence really that I look like
00:07:01.820 this all of a sudden.
00:07:02.840 It has nothing to do with any phone calls that I had with any Illuminati or, you know,
00:07:10.200 deep state people that are now on my side that are excited for me to come to the U S this
00:07:16.620 is purely for, um, shits and gigs.
00:07:22.220 Hope you're enjoying.
00:07:23.760 Yeah.
00:07:24.000 I mean, Trump will probably be on the ballot and that upsets people.
00:07:28.380 I want to tell a story right now about how I met a Democrat the other day at my gym.
00:07:33.700 Um, so I work out at a Jewish community center and I'm in the whirlpool.
00:07:41.700 I got my dick out, which I probably should stop doing now that I'm becoming famous, just
00:07:46.080 walking around the dressing room willy nilly.
00:07:49.740 But there was another dude in there with his dick out.
00:07:52.660 So we started talking in the whirlpool and like the hot tub.
00:07:56.340 Right.
00:07:57.480 And he was all like talking with the, you know, he had Atlanta, Georgia accent.
00:08:02.160 And I was like, where are you from?
00:08:04.800 He's like, I'm from North Atlanta.
00:08:06.580 And I was like, she moved here.
00:08:09.760 He said, yeah.
00:08:10.340 So he, he immigrated from the U S to Canada and he's telling me, he goes, yeah, I'm trying
00:08:18.280 to, I'm trying to rescind my American citizenship.
00:08:21.400 And I go, oh, so you must be a Democrat.
00:08:23.960 And he goes, he's all like, well, I'm like, he's like, we must be on very different wavelengths.
00:08:30.640 I'm like, well, it's obvious because no Republican would ever rescind their U S citizenship.
00:08:40.200 So he admits that he's a Democrat.
00:08:41.920 He goes, well, yeah, I'm a Democrat.
00:08:43.680 I'm not a fascist.
00:08:45.560 And I'm like, well, you know, a lot of people here in Canada think that Trudeau is fascist.
00:08:50.300 And he was like, oh, well, we must be on completely different sides, whatever.
00:08:56.600 But anyway, we ended up just having a conversation and he just said that he didn't, you know, he
00:09:02.520 likes Canada better and he felt that, that it was more humane.
00:09:06.920 And I agree with him in some ways that Canada might be more humane, but Canada wouldn't exist
00:09:13.540 without the USA.
00:09:15.040 I mean, we wouldn't exist.
00:09:18.540 Our security wouldn't exist.
00:09:20.120 The fact that, you know, we have so much peace in this part of the world wouldn't exist.
00:09:24.560 So people who are afraid to live in America and rather move to a country like Canada, or
00:09:33.460 I'm going to move to Sweden, or I'm going to move to some socialist country.
00:09:37.840 You're kind of a pussy.
00:09:39.420 You're just a pussy that, you know, you couldn't make it in a capitalist society.
00:09:43.420 So now you want to go live in a communist society.
00:09:45.580 Just be honest about it.
00:09:47.380 You know, like he was trying to say like, oh, I think the healthcare here's better.
00:09:50.760 I'm like, dude, if, if by, you don't have to write a check when you go meaning better,
00:09:56.840 then yeah.
00:09:58.300 But dude, we are MRI machines versus an American hospital where you're paid, paying to play
00:10:05.260 their MRI machines.
00:10:06.900 Like who's going to have the newer shit?
00:10:08.580 The one that's making a hundred million dollars profit every year, it's $500 million profit,
00:10:14.440 a billion dollars profit, or the one that's subsidized by the government.
00:10:18.320 And we've had the same shit since 95, you know what I mean?
00:10:22.560 So that's just crazy.
00:10:24.740 But anyway, it's crazy that you meet Americans coming here and I'm, I'm trying to, I want
00:10:28.520 to be like, dude, you're going to rescind your citizenship trade.
00:10:32.200 I'd rather be a American.
00:10:34.000 You can take my Canadian shit straight up.
00:10:38.540 You know, I love Canada with all my heart, but I think a lot of my fans would be American
00:10:46.040 if they had the choice, like a lot of my Canadian fans, if somebody came up to them and they
00:10:50.900 were like, you move to America, same job or better, you know, you're going to, your money's
00:10:57.080 going to go farther, obviously with, with housing and shit.
00:11:00.000 I think all my Canadian fans would be like, yeah, I'd be American in a heartbeat.
00:11:04.340 So don't kid yourself, America.
00:11:06.280 You're fucking, you're still great.
00:11:07.780 I hate all these people, you know, as a Canadian and I'm trying to come to America and all these
00:11:13.080 people like, oh, America's bad.
00:11:14.720 And no, you're just, you're not cut out for it maybe.
00:11:18.980 And a lot of people aren't, but people are trying to risk their entire lives to get to
00:11:25.500 America.
00:11:25.920 Why?
00:11:26.800 Because it sucks.
00:11:27.900 No.
00:11:29.320 People don't really risk their lives to get to Canada.
00:11:31.440 They just go, okay, I'm going to take an airplane to person airport and tell them I am a student.
00:11:38.540 Right.
00:11:39.000 And then they get a job doing Ubers.
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00:12:01.340 Yeah.
00:12:01.500 They should have a trade program where you trade your passport with somebody.
00:12:07.540 You just be like, oh, this guy doesn't want to be Canadian anymore.
00:12:09.880 Okay.
00:12:10.200 I'll be Uruguayan or whatever the fuck.
00:12:17.980 But Trump on the ballot, people don't want Trump on the ballot, which like the guy who's
00:12:24.420 rescinding his American citizenship, doesn't want Trump on the ballot.
00:12:27.280 But guess what?
00:12:28.080 He's saying that in public.
00:12:29.340 Oh, I'm going to rescind my citizenship, but he's going to wait until the next election.
00:12:32.260 He wants to vote against Trump.
00:12:33.720 You can leave America and live in Canada and still vote for the president.
00:12:37.920 So, you know, that's a wild thing.
00:12:41.000 He was complaining to me like, oh, I still have to pay my American taxes.
00:12:43.980 It's like, dude, you're part of one of the greatest empires in the history of the world
00:12:47.960 and you're trying to rescind your citizenship.
00:12:49.820 Like what kind of kucky gay behavior is that?
00:12:53.460 It's sick.
00:12:55.460 So, I don't know.
00:12:56.400 I think Trump should 100% be on the ballot.
00:12:58.920 All these people trying to say that he shouldn't be on the ballot because of some, it's all,
00:13:05.520 to me, it's all bullshit.
00:13:07.260 And maybe I'm wrong because I don't know enough, but to me, it sounds like, you know, it sounds
00:13:17.120 like people want to cheat.
00:13:18.320 They want to say, oh, maybe we can't beat him fair and square, so we're going to make
00:13:22.280 sure he can't be on the ballot.
00:13:24.280 That's what it sounds like to me.
00:13:25.640 And that's not right.
00:13:29.420 You know, the whole idea of democracy is that the best ideas, let the best ideas win and the
00:13:35.240 ideas are chosen by the people.
00:13:36.780 Well, if a country is all of a sudden saying that, oh, the people don't know what's best
00:13:40.780 for them, they don't know, they're going to vote for this guy.
00:13:43.900 We can't allow this guy to be on the ballot because if, you know, he's going to win and
00:13:49.000 the people voting for him are racist and evil and they don't know what's best for him.
00:13:52.140 That means we're not living in a, that's not democratic.
00:13:56.120 I'm sorry.
00:13:56.620 That's just not like if half the population of a country agrees with somebody and you're
00:14:04.480 trying to outlaw that, that's authoritarian.
00:14:08.160 That's my little rant on that.
00:14:09.980 Like in Canada, for instance, we had David Menzies, who is a reporter for Rebel News, and
00:14:17.540 he got arrested for trying to ask Chrystia Freeland questions.
00:14:23.840 Now, Chrystia Freeland, she's the deputy prime minister.
00:14:26.800 She used to be the minister of finance, but she obviously doesn't know anything about that
00:14:32.340 because she's a woman.
00:14:34.560 And no, that's not why.
00:14:35.960 It's because she looks like Lord Farquaad.
00:14:38.140 Okay.
00:14:38.300 She looks like a little, she's like, she's got, she's very, she's got very stumpy features.
00:14:44.400 Okay.
00:14:44.880 And her grandfather was allegedly the, an editor in like a Nazi magazine in Ukraine.
00:14:52.740 And he was like a Nazi.
00:14:54.660 So anyway, she's the deputy prime minister now of Canada and reporters trying to ask him
00:15:02.260 questions, her, her questions and gets caught.
00:15:05.560 The, the, the cop basically does like a, like, like a pump fake.
00:15:10.980 And then he stumbles, walks right into the cop and the cops like you're under arrest for
00:15:16.440 assault, for assaulting the cop, not for assaulting her, Chrystia Freeland.
00:15:21.120 Right.
00:15:21.420 So that was just kind of a weird situation.
00:15:24.780 And then apparently now they're not charging him and all this stuff, which is good.
00:15:28.780 But you know, if you're not charging him, then there's no crime.
00:15:31.760 So what, like, just stop with the, um, you know, the Chrystia Freeland comes out after
00:15:39.720 and tries to say that the police don't take orders from the politicians.
00:15:46.160 And that was just a police decision, all this stuff.
00:15:48.660 And it's like, obviously there's a conversation like there, that's so, such obvious lying
00:15:54.540 and that should scare Americans too.
00:15:56.240 When they see like free countries acting like that, where she's lying by saying, you know,
00:16:03.440 Oh yeah, we totally didn't have a conversation with the cops.
00:16:07.620 Like that we've been hanging out with every day about don't let these guys ask me fucking
00:16:13.220 questions.
00:16:13.700 Like they're caught red handed.
00:16:17.800 So I think people should be questioning that.
00:16:23.500 And I don't think that is a small deal, right?
00:16:30.340 And all these people who are totally okay with all the lockdowns and all the, the symptoms
00:16:37.520 of them trying to quell the virus in terms of social symptoms, all these people that were
00:16:45.480 okay with it, all the Facebook warriors who were like, who were like, well, I do what I'm
00:16:49.900 told.
00:16:50.320 And that's what you're supposed to do for your fellow citizen.
00:16:53.120 All those people are just good.
00:16:55.140 You know, they put zip their mouths closed when they see the journalists getting accosted
00:16:59.820 and their basic opinion is, well, he's from rebel.
00:17:02.440 So it's not really journalism.
00:17:04.580 Really?
00:17:05.320 If it's not really journalism, then why is there Instagram and Facebook page not available
00:17:11.500 to be seen in Canada?
00:17:12.820 Because that's only for news companies.
00:17:16.280 So you can't have it both ways.
00:17:18.080 You can't say, oh, rebel news isn't a real news company, but while they're real enough
00:17:22.980 that their content is banned on Instagram and Facebook, because that is a rule in Canada
00:17:28.060 that Justin Trudeau basically came up with.
00:17:31.180 Right?
00:17:34.000 Like, let's say, like, he found a way to do it without doing it, and he doesn't, he's
00:17:39.040 not outright saying we've banned Facebook and Instagram news, news on those platforms.
00:17:45.720 He's coming out and saying, I've banned Facebook from profiting off of us, you know, posting
00:17:55.580 news.
00:17:56.440 And that's how it started, right?
00:17:57.780 Like, oh, we want Canadian journalists to get more money for the news, only the ones
00:18:03.120 that he likes, the ones that he wants telling stories.
00:18:07.260 It's very fucked up.
00:18:09.040 And if you talk to people from CBC, some of them would slightly agree, but they'd be like,
00:18:12.680 no, you'd be surprised at how many conservative points of view we read.
00:18:16.560 No, no, no.
00:18:18.820 And now CBC, really the only app you can watch CBC on, guess what it is?
00:18:23.620 TikTok.
00:18:25.340 TikTok.
00:18:25.740 CBC last year said that they weren't going to post anymore on Twitter.
00:18:30.420 Remember that?
00:18:31.020 Because they were like, oh, Elon Musk took over and he's allowing more people to basically
00:18:35.480 comment on our posts and call it as bullshit.
00:18:39.300 So they got mad, said we're not going to post on Twitter anymore.
00:18:43.680 Then what happened?
00:18:44.760 Then they get banned from Facebook and Instagram.
00:18:48.140 Twitter's the only place you can fucking watch CBC or TikTok.
00:18:51.180 Chinese TikTok, you can go watch.
00:18:54.120 And they have a whole slew of videos on TikTok for CBC that they don't have anywhere else on
00:18:59.580 any other apps, right?
00:19:01.200 And they only started really pushing these TikToks after they closed up Instagram, Facebook.
00:19:07.600 And the TikToks are radical.
00:19:10.480 A lot of them are super pro-Palestine, super pro, you know, everything, gender, you know,
00:19:20.240 all the bullshit that we're seeing, all the bullshit that's associated with the shirt that
00:19:26.000 I'm wearing is, uh, being pushed on TikTok by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
00:19:34.740 And I'm excited to just be away from that monopoly.
00:19:39.860 And I'm not saying, you know, like you can talk conspiracies, but it's a monopoly.
00:19:44.320 Whatever you think it is, it is a monopoly, right?
00:19:47.620 In Canada, where it's, there's a monopoly on news.
00:19:50.520 There's a monopoly on, on comedy, at least for, I mean, I've, I'm an anomaly in Canada
00:19:57.100 right now.
00:19:58.840 You know, nobody's coming out of Canada with American followers and showing up and touring
00:20:03.100 basically.
00:20:04.320 Uh, I mean, Che Durena did it, uh, Ryan Long pretty much did it, but you know, there's
00:20:09.320 not hundreds and hundreds of people, but CBC themselves, they have a monopoly in Canada
00:20:15.040 in terms of, look, there's so many comics you haven't heard of that were doing actually
00:20:19.980 pretty good.
00:20:20.640 And then they got hired by CBC and then they just gave up.
00:20:23.740 They stopped doing anything interesting.
00:20:25.680 They don't want to piss anybody off.
00:20:27.260 They don't want to push any limits.
00:20:28.400 They don't want to get fired.
00:20:29.220 They're making a 40, 45 K, which is like nothing Canadian.
00:20:33.840 Um, maybe they're getting paid more these days, 50, 60.
00:20:36.880 I don't know longer you're there or something, but to be a starter writer for this hour is 22
00:20:42.860 minutes.
00:20:43.180 And if you think the DEI is crazy in the States, the DEI for CBC comedy is insane.
00:20:49.980 Okay.
00:20:50.460 Their writer's room looks like a fucking, uh, STD clinic in a, in a gay district.
00:20:57.580 It's, you know, it's, uh, it's trans and gays and random Muslim dudes.
00:21:03.740 And so, and good for them, you know, good for CBC, whatever, do, do, do what you want,
00:21:13.520 but they don't, they don't raise up talent really.
00:21:17.980 And the talent they do raise up that leaves doesn't go anywhere in the States for the most
00:21:22.520 part.
00:21:23.120 Some of it, like a little bit, you know, I'm talking shit right now, but there are comics
00:21:28.520 that they bigged up as being incredible, all this stuff.
00:21:33.540 They use that to get their U S visa.
00:21:35.720 They go to the U S and then nothing happens.
00:21:38.300 They can't because, and they're just nobody.
00:21:40.380 So fuck you, CBC.
00:21:44.120 Um,
00:21:44.520 No, they just like, they're like, this comics Asian and, and says the exact thing that we
00:21:55.880 want for our agenda.
00:21:58.320 So we're going to put them on.
00:22:00.200 And unfortunately, um, yeah, that's just the case.
00:22:03.960 But yeah, that was the actual reason that CBC wanted to get off Twitter was because the
00:22:09.720 Elon was calling them government funded media.
00:22:14.240 And it's funny how they go.
00:22:15.620 No, it's publicly funded.
00:22:16.720 That's what the, that's what the government says.
00:22:19.240 It's not government funded.
00:22:20.360 It's publicly funded.
00:22:21.540 You're paying for it.
00:22:22.740 Okay.
00:22:23.000 So if I don't like, what if I don't like it?
00:22:25.020 Oh, well, you know, who gets to choose what programming you put the public or the government.
00:22:29.740 So go fuck yourself with that public funded shit.
00:22:35.320 The reality is, um, it is, it's, it's agenda based media.
00:22:43.520 It's agenda based media.
00:22:45.140 And there's no natural competitor in Canada, uh, to CBC.
00:22:52.160 You have rebel news, which is completely self-funded.
00:22:55.240 They don't get any money from the government.
00:22:56.840 But CBC gets like a billion, billions of dollars a year from the government to do all their
00:23:02.060 shows and have their nice studios and for their executives to make 800 K a year to do
00:23:07.420 nothing and, and push DEI and push all this bullshit and bad entertainment and bad, boring
00:23:13.840 podcasts and, and, you know, all that shit.
00:23:16.700 And, um, yeah, welcome.
00:23:21.720 Loving the show.
00:23:22.400 Want to support Ben?
00:23:23.200 Again, this shirt with Olivia Chow as the bat signal is available.
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00:23:35.620 People are talking about climate change all the time as if, you know, that's climate change
00:23:42.520 has become really just an advertisement for electric vehicles, right?
00:23:46.740 Like everything is just climate change, climate change.
00:23:49.200 Oh, what should I do?
00:23:50.380 Buy an electric vehicle, buy this, buy that.
00:23:52.960 So that's the one thing I like about climate change is it is still capitalistic.
00:23:57.060 I just don't want to get to the point where it's like, oh, nobody owns a car and just
00:24:00.860 every car you just tap it and you, I don't want to do that.
00:24:04.840 I like having shit in my car, you know, throw a coffee cup, you know, I'm going to be in
00:24:10.060 and I don't want to get in a car that somebody else that made dirty.
00:24:12.980 And I'm going to leave these cars dirty, these, these shareable cars of this future dystopian
00:24:17.520 bullshit, but I don't give a fuck about the environment in the sense that, you know, I
00:24:23.820 think it's fine.
00:24:25.520 Really?
00:24:26.120 I mean, we've been polluting it pretty bad and this is all like, we got a couple forest
00:24:30.620 fires, right?
00:24:32.600 No, no big deal.
00:24:33.960 What was that?
00:24:34.480 Like a week?
00:24:35.280 And then, you know, oh, it's snowed.
00:24:37.420 Like, yeah, it's fucking winter.
00:24:39.620 What are people talking about?
00:24:40.840 Oh my God, it's snowing so much.
00:24:42.540 This is a climate crisis.
00:24:43.960 Then you see an article.
00:24:45.160 It's like 1999 was the worst snowfall.
00:24:47.840 Shut the fuck up.
00:24:48.940 We only recorded this shit for like 400 years.
00:24:51.380 We don't even know what the fucking weather was before that shit, dude.
00:24:54.920 Be when the natives, the natives didn't fucking record what the hell the weather, weather
00:24:59.260 patterns were.
00:25:01.320 So, you know, oh, it's snowed.
00:25:03.160 What am I going to do?
00:25:03.980 I don't know.
00:25:05.560 Watch Netflix, order Uber Eats, make a, make an immigrant battle the snow and bring
00:25:10.740 you food.
00:25:11.660 Why are you got to be out there?
00:25:13.760 What, you know, what do you have to, what do you have to prove that you got to be in
00:25:16.740 the snow?
00:25:17.200 I get that people have to drive to and from work.
00:25:19.340 Call in sick.
00:25:20.100 Just be like, yo, I'm not driving in this shit, bitch.
00:25:22.920 But anyway, my point is that I don't know if the snow is global warming.
00:25:27.060 I don't know what's global warming.
00:25:28.440 I think if anything, it's getting colder and scarier.
00:25:34.020 It's not getting hotter and, and, and, and more, more fun like Jamaica or some shit.
00:25:39.060 What I'm being told is that Teslas are only running half as far with the cold, which is
00:25:46.500 significantly less.
00:25:49.020 But also if you have a Tesla and you're trying to drive far distances in the cold, like, dude,
00:25:54.800 you bought the wrong car.
00:25:56.520 Like get a motherfucking Ford F-150 if you're driving every day in the snow.
00:26:01.660 I've never even really been in a Tesla in the snow.
00:26:04.340 I don't, I just don't think those cars are, the one thing they have for them is they're
00:26:08.440 very heavy, but sometimes they just catch fire because they're too like Greta Thunberg-y.
00:26:15.080 Glad the Houthi rebels are getting bombed.
00:26:19.380 I felt like I was the only person celebrating that.
00:26:21.980 People are like, how can you, why would America's so evil?
00:26:24.940 They're just protecting their shipping lanes.
00:26:26.980 It's like, isn't that what we're supposed to do?
00:26:29.380 Like, isn't that why we, why would we spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on defense
00:26:36.340 just to go, oh, let's just let them blow up our fucking oil tank.
00:26:40.140 No.
00:26:41.660 You got, also what's more environmentally friendly, letting the Houthis blow up a bunch of shit
00:26:45.940 in the, in the fucking ocean or blowing the shit out of them.
00:26:48.920 And then, you know, it's not like they have great plumbing in their cities.
00:26:54.400 Like I'm not, you know, they're, these, these people got to stop with this.
00:26:58.740 Oh, sauna was a beautiful, no, it's a shithole, blow it to shit, please.
00:27:05.100 For the love of God.
00:27:06.440 And same thing with the, the, I mean, Gaza, they're not, I don't even know what's happening
00:27:10.300 now.
00:27:10.660 They're not blowing it up anymore.
00:27:11.800 They're just, they're renovating.
00:27:14.560 And that's, what's important.
00:27:15.960 No, I, um, I don't know to, to our society is very soft when it comes to war now.
00:27:22.480 And it's just like, no, why are we doing this?
00:27:24.740 It's like, cause these people want us dead and we got to blow them up to show them like,
00:27:30.080 you know, this, this is America we're talking about America.
00:27:33.880 It's not just people go, oh, it's the white people.
00:27:36.080 No, we're blowing them up for everybody.
00:27:37.760 For every race is benefiting from blowing up the Houthis.
00:27:41.040 Believe me.
00:27:43.280 There's fire and rockets into the fucking seat.
00:27:45.500 No.
00:27:46.520 Now North Korea is doing it too.
00:27:49.160 Cause the whole world's on edge.
00:27:52.480 Maybe world war three would happen, but North Korea, like these, these countries are going
00:28:00.260 to get demolished.
00:28:01.280 Do you understand?
00:28:01.780 Like the U S is not going to allow shit to pop off the way that these countries, these
00:28:08.140 dictatorships say, you know, you got Putin saying crazy shit.
00:28:12.460 Oh, you know, we're going to blow everything up with nukes.
00:28:16.480 I don't, I don't believe it, dude.
00:28:18.080 Cause they know they're going to get fucked and, and then what?
00:28:21.140 And then their population's dead and everybody's dead.
00:28:23.420 And I don't, I just don't see that happening.
00:28:25.580 It'd be funny if that's when the nukes alarm went off right now, but look, if it happens,
00:28:31.960 it happens.
00:28:32.740 People need to get over it, but I don't think it's going to happen.
00:28:35.320 So just, just relax.
00:28:37.240 Everything that's been happening over the past couple of weeks has been really cool.
00:28:41.780 And I feel really grateful to all the fans and the new followers who just showed up, just
00:28:48.460 found out about me.
00:28:49.460 What the fuck is up?
00:28:50.800 Thank you for joining us on this ride to, uh, wherever the fuck we're going.
00:28:55.420 Hell, never, never land over the rainbow.
00:29:00.360 I'll do any movie they want.
00:29:01.800 Um, I'll wear the dress guys, you'd be surprised.
00:29:09.200 I'll put a fat suit on and wear a dress to be in Hollywood, but seriously, I am so grateful
00:29:15.120 that people found out about me and, and all the positive comments, lots of negative comments.
00:29:21.280 And those people love me too.
00:29:22.700 Cause you know, haters are your biggest, uh, biggest fans.
00:29:26.000 They watch you more than people who like you, to be honest, people who really like you might
00:29:30.260 have liked one post in the last month.
00:29:33.500 Um, and people who hate you have seen every post, they don't like it, but they comment
00:29:37.580 on it, which actually is better for the algorithm and all that shit.
00:29:41.620 But it's been really cool to be part of my own, like, I don't know, I don't know how to
00:29:49.720 say this, but like part of my own success, an integral part of my own success, you know,
00:29:55.140 it's not like even in the old days, I know people had to work hard, Jerry Seinfeld, all
00:30:00.700 this stuff, but they went up there, they murdered.
00:30:03.900 And that was that they didn't have a whole business plan.
00:30:06.420 They didn't have a whole, um, you know, like cult following that they like created from
00:30:11.000 like people had not heard of these people before they went on, um, Jimmy Fallon or Johnny
00:30:17.980 Carson and shit like that.
00:30:20.200 So it's really cool to, to how I feel right now that I feel like, yeah, I made the right
00:30:28.220 decisions at the right times and I have a lot more decisions to make and I have a lot
00:30:31.480 of work to do.
00:30:32.140 A lot of people are congratulating me.
00:30:33.620 They're like, you made it.
00:30:34.360 And it's like, you, I haven't even stepped foot in the U S yet.
00:30:37.000 Um, you know, we're almost at the point where we're going to be posting when the shows are
00:30:42.180 coming up, the shows are going to be starting in May running through like June.
00:30:46.440 Like I'll probably just be touring and touring and touring at that, after that point from
00:30:51.260 May onward.
00:30:52.500 What up everybody?
00:30:53.700 I am going on tour in Canada with shows coming up as follows.
00:30:59.080 London, Ontario, June.
00:31:00.980 Oh, sorry.
00:31:02.360 London, Ontario, January 18th.
00:31:05.380 Windsor, Ontario, January 25th.
00:31:08.000 Waterloo, Ontario, February 2nd and February 3rd.
00:31:11.380 Toronto, Ontario, February 21st, 8 PM and a 10 30 PM show.
00:31:15.340 February 22nd in Burlington.
00:31:17.780 We are almost opening up a second show.
00:31:20.300 March 27th in Edmonton at the West Edmonton mall comic strip.
00:31:23.960 And my last Canadian dates are going to be on the East coast in New Brunswick and Nova
00:31:29.660 Scotia for the LOL festival.
00:31:31.820 So go get tickets for all those shows at benbankus.com slash live dash shows.
00:31:36.480 And when we come back to Canada in the fall, in the late fall, we're going to be doing some
00:31:42.680 crazy ass venues.
00:31:44.880 So people need to get excited for that.
00:31:47.180 My Canadian fans, I want you to know I'll never, ever forget you.
00:31:51.480 I'll never, ever not show you love.
00:31:53.400 I'll never talk about our Canadian, you know, I'll never not talk about our Canadian bullshit
00:31:57.540 going on and making fun of it because you guys were an integral part of my success from
00:32:05.860 the ground up.
00:32:07.000 Grassroots fans have been coming to shows since I was doing, you know, 50 person shows all
00:32:14.200 the way up.
00:32:14.640 Now we're doing 300, 400 person shows and, and onward.
00:32:18.100 So I respect and appreciate all my Canadian fans and in Vancouver and, and, um, in Calgary
00:32:27.120 and Edmonton, Kelowna.
00:32:29.060 I know Kelowna wants me back and Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Montreal, Montreal.
00:32:38.900 We're going to come back to obviously Toronto, Ottawa, London, Ontario, Barrie.
00:32:45.420 A lot of fans in this country.
00:32:47.040 So I want you guys to know, I appreciate you.
00:32:49.340 And to the American fans, what the fuck is up?
00:32:53.220 Welcome to the party.
00:32:54.800 We're about to fuck, right?
00:32:58.880 Like we are going to fuck when I get to fuck in the States and we, we're just ripping sold
00:33:04.220 out shows day one, stepping into the, uh, the territory and, uh, just getting, getting
00:33:13.460 ripped both physically and mentally and going up there on the stage.
00:33:22.520 We're going to be doing some funny bones and stuff like that to start some improvs probably
00:33:26.940 too.
00:33:27.300 And we're going to have a great time.
00:33:28.980 I'm going to meet you guys and we're going to laugh and we're going to, uh, create some
00:33:34.080 memories, some Jewish memories.
00:33:38.140 No, I'm kidding.
00:33:38.820 There's going to be no Jews allowed at any of my shows.
00:33:41.060 And, uh, Jews love that joke, by the way.
00:33:44.360 That's the Jews favorite joke is no Jews allowed.
00:33:46.860 Oh, let's remember the time when we went running everything.
00:33:50.940 No, I think we're good with the Jews running everything.
00:33:54.040 I think that that's, that's the status quo.
00:33:56.100 I don't think we should change that.
00:33:57.960 For instance, is there any industry where if we just said to the Jews, okay, you can't
00:34:03.460 run this anymore.
00:34:04.120 We need a DEI.
00:34:05.200 We need to get black Filipino Chinese, like on the, on the board of directors.
00:34:12.920 Would that improve things?
00:34:14.820 I don't know.
00:34:15.600 I look to Harvard university, which is now the easiest university to get into in the
00:34:21.620 U S especially if you are Muslim or believe in, uh, Jihad, it's very easy to get in, but
00:34:31.500 yeah, I love my Jewish people, man.
00:34:36.660 I'm excited actually to live in the U S and be around more Jews because Toronto is a very
00:34:42.320 Jewy place as far as Canada goes.
00:34:44.920 And it's probably the, I think the most Jews are here or in Montreal.
00:34:48.320 I forget in Canada.
00:34:49.980 I think it's like here, Montreal, Edmonton and Winnipeg have like the most Jews, but in
00:34:57.820 the States there's 7 million Jews in Canada.
00:34:59.580 There's only four under 400,000 Jews.
00:35:01.960 So it feels like there's a lot of Jews in Canada when there's actually not.
00:35:05.960 And there's way more Jews in the States, 7 million versus 400,000.
00:35:12.320 And those are, I want to meet my Jewish people, man.
00:35:15.380 Cause I have a Jewish story to tell, right?
00:35:17.780 I want to tell my, my, my Jewish story on, on Joe Rogan and on the, on these other podcasts
00:35:25.140 that I appreciate and listen to.
00:35:27.980 And the Jewish stories that, you know, my grandparents on my dad's side.
00:35:34.580 So technically I'm not Jewish cause my mom's not, but, um, she almost converted anyway for
00:35:40.180 her different husband, but, but my dad's parents were Holocaust survivors and they legitimately
00:35:49.320 escaped concentration camps and basically being slaves to the Germans so that I could be here
00:35:57.340 and be racist for you guys and, and make you laugh.
00:36:00.520 So that's pretty big.
00:36:02.620 Also, I want to shout out a couple of people who I didn't shout out in my last episode.
00:36:07.620 Um, of course I shouted out JJ, my new agent from, uh, the U S from 33 and West, uh, want
00:36:15.860 to shout out my website guy, Matt Israelson doesn't get more Jewish than that as a last
00:36:23.260 name is Matt Israelson.
00:36:24.860 There's actually another guy I want to shout out.
00:36:26.660 His first name is Israel.
00:36:28.000 Can you believe this is getting, this is crazy right now.
00:36:32.780 The guy who introduced me to the agent that I have right now, his name is Israel.
00:36:38.600 And the guy who does my websites last name is Israelson, but website, we're always working
00:36:45.020 on it.
00:36:45.300 We're always trying to fucking make it pop.
00:36:48.820 And right now it looks really good.
00:36:50.380 You can buy tickets just from BenBankis.com.
00:36:52.620 Now you don't have to go into live shows.
00:36:54.520 You just scroll right down and it's all the shows are there.
00:36:58.380 So you should definitely go check that out.
00:37:02.280 Check out BenBankis.com.
00:37:03.660 We've had a ton of traction.
00:37:05.240 If you're U S by the way, we're going to be letting people know first on Patreon.
00:37:11.660 So patrons will get a link to here's all of the shows.
00:37:16.040 They're ready to go for the tour.
00:37:17.960 Um, so support me on Patreon obviously.
00:37:20.780 And, um, then next, like a week later, we're going to post, we're going to send out a mass
00:37:25.920 email to my email subs.
00:37:27.840 So they're going to be, get second dibs on tickets for the U S and then we'll post obviously
00:37:34.560 on social media, all the social media people, followers will get access to buy tickets.
00:37:40.440 So that's kind of how the hierarchy works of posting shit.
00:37:45.260 It's going to be the same for my Canadian fall dates, which we'll be posting only a few
00:37:49.480 months after the U S dates.
00:37:52.920 But, uh, yeah.
00:37:54.540 So Matt, thank you.
00:37:57.180 And, um, a lot of other people that believe in me and not to say, you know, I don't want
00:38:03.080 to sound like I'm winning a fucking Oscar right now, but, uh, this is my fucking podcast.
00:38:06.840 So if I want to act like I'm winning an award, I'll act like I'm winning a motherfucking
00:38:10.840 award.
00:38:11.720 My mom who has dementia and is in a nursing home and loved me more than anything and
00:38:19.800 brought me to my first comedy show that I ever did and believed in me.
00:38:25.140 And I remember my friend annoying me in the car and trying to listen to music loud.
00:38:29.860 And I was like, I don't want to listen to music.
00:38:31.280 I'm like on my way to my first show.
00:38:33.520 And it's like an open mic and my mom's driving.
00:38:36.140 And she's like, to my friend, she's like, shut up, Gabe, he's going to do this for a
00:38:39.500 living.
00:38:40.860 And, um, so she always believed in me.
00:38:43.840 So that was big.
00:38:45.200 I was actually like when the followers started really going up and then the Fox news thing
00:38:49.440 happened and I killed it on that.
00:38:50.880 Like I got emotional after that.
00:38:52.360 Cause I was like, Holy fuck, dude, my mom would be so proud right now.
00:38:56.480 My dad was proud and all that.
00:38:57.980 But it's funny.
00:38:58.660 Cause my dad was always the one who never believed in me when I was starting comedy.
00:39:02.280 Right.
00:39:03.500 He was the one calling my mom going, is Ben still joking around?
00:39:07.780 He's a Lithuanian Jew.
00:39:09.980 He's been still joking around.
00:39:11.580 That's, that's what he would ask her.
00:39:12.700 Oh, what was the other thing?
00:39:13.560 He'd go, he would call my mom and go, oh, he's cause my mom, well, he's doing a lot of
00:39:18.000 shows at us.
00:39:18.860 He'd be surprised how many shows he's doing.
00:39:21.120 And he would go, shows and shows and nothing to show for it.
00:39:27.620 That's what he would say about me doing shows when I was like 22 and grinding out all these
00:39:34.220 like shitty little free shows and open mics and doing, you know, 15 bucks here.
00:39:40.980 I rarely would get paid for promotion until I was in my mid twenties at least because I
00:39:48.040 started comedy when I was 19 the first time.
00:39:50.080 Right.
00:39:51.420 But yeah, means a lot excited.
00:39:56.380 And with all that being said, this is just the beginning, but I think you need to celebrate
00:40:00.820 your wins.
00:40:01.880 One of my good friends has taught me that we went to, by the way, the picture of me with
00:40:06.320 the shirt open, the shirt that was at blue bloods.
00:40:09.840 People were like, he's at Drake's house.
00:40:11.340 I was like, no, it's, it's, it's a steakhouse in Toronto.
00:40:14.060 And it was a pretty fun time and just fucking ate some bananas and some steak doing the whole
00:40:22.900 satanic bit, pretending to be satanic.
00:40:25.080 And people like it because it's funny and it's relevant.
00:40:28.160 And I got to leave Toronto because Olivia Chow's raising the taxes on the motherfucking houses
00:40:36.620 by like 8% or something.
00:40:40.060 And that's going to be trans, all the, all the, it's so funny how it's like, oh, she,
00:40:43.380 oh, we're going to raise a tax on the, we'll raise the tax on the homeowner.
00:40:47.160 Homeowner, make a, why?
00:40:50.520 That means that all, everybody's rent's going to go up.
00:40:54.000 How are you?
00:40:55.260 It's weird.
00:40:56.040 It's like, oh, we're communists, but we're not going to do everything to fuck you over
00:41:00.400 and make it even more expensive.
00:41:01.580 Like, how does that make any sense?
00:41:04.440 It doesn't folks.
00:41:05.840 And taxing people over taxing is not the answer.
00:41:11.100 People should not are overtaxed in Canada.
00:41:13.380 If they were taxed less, they'd have bigger opportunities to make more money.
00:41:17.160 Which would in turn allow people to be more successful in this country and give a greater
00:41:22.800 contribution back to society.
00:41:27.300 The U.S. has people who give huge contributions to society from culture, from this, that.
00:41:32.660 Why?
00:41:33.200 Look, Drake, Drake has given, the only reason Drake has given so much back to Canada is because
00:41:39.740 he's big in the U.S., right?
00:41:42.380 Recently, most deaf was talking shit about Drake and saying like, oh, he's like pop music.
00:41:48.660 And it's like, well, how is that even a diss?
00:41:50.360 Like, it's like, Drake has a song called Pop Star.
00:41:53.420 I tweeted about it.
00:41:54.480 I just deleted it because people were getting mad and being like, Drake's a fucking, you know,
00:41:59.080 he's fucking DMing underage chicks.
00:42:01.860 And then I look at the guy and he's got like 29 followers.
00:42:04.340 And it's like, what's true?
00:42:06.180 I don't know what's true.
00:42:07.080 But Drake, I love his music.
00:42:09.560 It's fucking good.
00:42:11.180 Most deaf, I listen to Miss Fat Booty, what, once a year?
00:42:15.240 And then go, yeah, it wasn't as good as I remember it.
00:42:18.140 So I'm defending Drake because he's, I'm from Toronto.
00:42:22.620 And I think most deaf kind of sucks now.
00:42:25.720 And he did a couple movies and made his money and spent it all.
00:42:30.320 And instead of trying to achieve bigger and bigger greatness, he just wanted to be an afterthought.
00:42:38.520 And that's okay, most deaf.
00:42:40.980 You can be an afterthought.
00:42:42.320 I loved you on Chappelle's show and the stuff you did with Chappelle.
00:42:45.940 But even Chappelle's like not ready to work with you right now because you need to make an album that's good first.
00:42:51.960 And that's just how it is.
00:42:55.800 It's show business, baby.
00:42:57.520 Drake has a guy come after him like every couple years and go, yo, that's not rap.
00:43:01.440 And then Drake's just like, I make this much money.
00:43:03.980 How much do you make?
00:43:05.280 Which is the classic Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross scene where it's like, you know, see this watch?
00:43:13.200 This watch is worth more than your car.
00:43:15.860 I made $973,000 last year.
00:43:18.540 How much do you make?
00:43:19.120 That's why I'm me and you're nothing.
00:43:23.240 That's a line from Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross.
00:43:25.480 But that's the vibe that Drake gives off when he gets attacked by these guys.
00:43:30.700 And I think that that's, you know, that's how it is.
00:43:35.220 There'll be comics coming after me going, oh, Ben's sold out.
00:43:38.160 It's like, you do something then.
00:43:41.800 You do something.
00:43:43.420 Make a fucking, make a video that goes viral.
00:43:45.660 You can't.
00:43:46.240 You can't do it.
00:43:46.880 You try every day.
00:43:47.560 You can't do it.
00:43:48.180 So, suck my dick.
00:43:52.200 And thanks for watching.
00:43:54.300 Thanks, everybody, for watching my show.
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