Bankas Podcast - Ben does Kill Tony, Armin Arbabi goes Viral ｜ The Bankas Show on Patreon - #043

00:00:00.000 welcome back to the bank is show everybody this is a patreon episode first 10 minutes

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00:00:19.940 arm and our bobby close close friend well too close

00:00:29.880 too close uh that'd be a good rapper name though too close too close that actually would be sick

00:00:38.040 yeah it's like you're too close to the nice neighborhood too close um

00:00:41.980 what an amazing week we had the kill tony my kill tony came out which was really cool it wasn't

00:00:51.960 as uh you know i think i could have done better on the show but i mean it was kind of a good intro

00:00:58.740 on the show in terms of learning a bit about me and stuff i mean i was i was nervous i didn't even

00:01:05.680 know who was on the show too so i just walk out and it's like mark normand and ari shafir like

00:01:10.820 ari shafir i've been watching since i was a kid right amazing like that's the whole reason i do 0.79

00:01:17.860 the the monkey face to begin with but uh yeah it's it was cool the are you garbage guys are there 0.59

00:01:27.560 and um really cool experience and 0.65

00:01:33.560 yeah what oh armin let's talk about armin's life instead of mine just to move away from anything

00:01:44.500 tempting i want to say but um

00:01:48.400 armin went viral this week folks round of applause a round of applause armin has gone viral

00:01:57.260 um first this is the first time you've ever gone viral yeah it is the first time it's pretty it's

00:02:05.000 pretty nuts

00:02:05.580 you have to sit so far from the the phone

00:02:12.700 here wait hold on oh yeah it's it's crazy it's nuts i went viral

00:02:18.040 like okay hold on i'm famous let me let me pick this thing up i made this i made this i've been

00:02:27.300 doing these reels on how to like pick up chicks and then one of them got steam and then a few of

00:02:31.840 them been doing well but now i'm just i'm scared so how many views did you get uh in total like close

00:02:38.980 to like eight or nine but just on instagram it's like five oh shit million yeah and it's getting like

00:02:45.740 a few i like how that's your first viral videos but you're already like yo eight or nine

00:02:49.740 you know you know what though you already know what's going on

00:02:54.060 it's nuts it's nuts because i've been so close to i've been working with you for the last few years 0.99

00:03:00.680 so it's like i know what it's like when you start to pop off and then it's like oh shit time to rip 0.92

00:03:06.080 but then i never got it like i would always watch you like chain smoke and you'd be like 0.91

00:03:10.740 i was like what is it and then i and then i went viral and i was just outside it like smoking three

00:03:17.500 darts at a time like oh my god what's going on like just it's crazy there's like people arguing in

00:03:23.880 my comments on my behalf just strangers it's crazy how everybody who goes viral and then you talk to

00:03:30.360 them it's just a guy in a small room a small white room like non-decorated

00:03:36.280 i know nothing just in my mom's bro i'm out here i'm literally bro you don't understand i'm the future

00:03:43.660 this guy literally lives in his mom's basement

00:03:48.700 that's like a con i used to have a joke about that where i was like

00:03:54.520 you know when people are like oh yeah you're probably living in your parents basement it's like

00:03:58.260 i really wish my parents could afford a house that i could live in the basement yeah yeah i wish i

00:04:04.300 wish i should bring that back maybe that's a good bit but yeah i know and then so i had my whole like

00:04:10.140 extended family over on sunday and my mom was like bragging about it like yeah he's he's going viral

00:04:16.500 it's great they were like so what's the video about she was like oh well you know making fun of 0.84

00:04:23.620 every race it's just like what do they think well they were like just horrified my one my one cousin

00:04:31.020 was like yeah i saw that real uh yikes i just was like yeah can you um can you send it in the chat

00:04:41.660 like a link to it like on a different platform we can watch it on here yeah here hold on let me open

00:04:48.300 that um who said that yikes is that that's no no no no that's not he actually he liked it he was

00:04:59.660 like this is really funny yeah i thought he would like it he was like you got to keep ripping like

00:05:04.360 this is good content but that cousin he's more like he's the one that just got married so he's

00:05:09.860 more just like traditional and my whole family is like they all think because i'm a comedian

00:05:15.020 that i'm this is the video here but yeah they all think i'm like maximini or like maz jabrani and

00:05:23.560 it's like kind of sort of you mean like other successful iranian comics yeah they think i'm like

00:05:32.400 them and i'm like no i'm doing it in my own way it is kind of funny where you get like the smallest

00:05:37.060 bit of success and people like he's already sold out the kid's already sold out and it's like well

00:05:43.180 what do you like everybody's like he's a sellout you know who isn't a sellout by the way that 1.00

00:05:47.920 fucking guy who went super viral for that folk song where he's like yes no that guy's an idiot 1.00

00:05:53.660 that guy they were idiot he had agents being like do you want to sell out stadiums and he was like 1.00

00:05:58.680 no i'd rather just do the local county fair it's like okay you're gonna die poor yeah seriously and 1.00

00:06:04.680 and for what there's no nobility in being poor there's no nobility in not selling out like

00:06:11.240 like at some point even like my agent was kind of like you know some of the things you do i'm like

00:06:18.520 what what was the worst thing that i do that he was like the monkey i was like oh listen bro the

00:06:24.400 monkey is bro people want it yeah yeah exactly you don't understand i wouldn't know you without that 0.96

00:06:29.740 monkey

00:06:30.060 yeah but i try to keep the monkey a little more rare now i mean i did i played the whole

00:06:37.200 we're never doing the monkey thing again and then it was like no we gotta sell some tickets 0.99

00:06:42.060 that that shit fucking killed me though when you were calling me and you were like fuck man i think 0.99

00:06:47.320 i gotta put the monkey mask back on it's like batman coming back out of retirement you know what i mean 1.00

00:06:51.820 like like like robin died and then you're just like one more run the dark knight returns

00:06:57.860 yeah so okay let's watch your video how do i get the sound on here here is the best pickup line to

00:07:11.500 pick up any single mom that's a cute kid you want one that isn't black 1.00

00:07:15.780 i've seen this so many times at this point

00:07:20.340 150 15 000

00:07:27.600 very impressive

00:07:30.200 your first video you're viral you're viral and you get to be more racist right away than i ever was

00:07:36.220 i know it is it is funny that i am just speed running ben bankers's career like i'm just like

00:07:43.020 like oh okay let's sign the up so go viral oh tour the country wait till i die oh no i'm doing monkey

00:07:52.540 videos not your funeral just like in his will he said he can do the monkey

00:07:59.600 who's gets the monkey

00:08:02.880 i'm gonna get the monkey 0.96

00:08:06.800 yeah but apparently my agent was saying that

00:08:11.760 portland maine or not portland maine portland oregon

00:08:15.720 they said they were about to like sign the deal or whatever to do a date yeah and then they sent a

00:08:23.460 message i'm like what's the deal with them

00:08:26.320 that's amazing

00:08:31.180 they're straight up like why is this guy doing virtual blackface

00:08:35.060 the funny thing is my agent was like yeah she goes

00:08:40.980 monkey face chinese accent question mark and then he goes just he's like and then i just didn't answer

00:08:47.720 look you gotta understand there's a nuance to it okay it's uh look this is a

00:08:56.580 this is an art this is an art form you gotta you put on a little

00:09:00.400 oh you don't remember the 30s

00:09:03.580 yeah you're like bringing back the racist part of

00:09:11.540 this is like the three stooges but they just uh say the n-word a lot

00:09:20.220 the three n-words

00:09:22.480 well you don't like the kings of comedy

00:09:27.440 oh god

00:09:29.560 yeah so i guess we gotta think about that think about the monkey

00:09:36.740 what do we do

00:09:38.180 you gotta run for mayor in austin i think

00:09:42.340 it's just every city you want to sell shows you gotta run for public office

00:09:46.720 the scary part is i might win here

00:09:50.520 i know that that would be really funny if you were actually the mayor of austin

00:09:55.400 that'd be sick 0.86

00:09:57.960 they'd have to have you on kilter

00:10:00.720 can i be a regular now

00:10:01.880 yeah straight hey tony

00:10:03.680 can i do this regularly thank you for listening to the podcast the rest of

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Bankas Podcast - July 14, 2024

Ben does Kill Tony, Armin Arbabi goes Viral ｜ The Bankas Show on Patreon - #043

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