Ben does Kill Tony, Armin Arbabi goes Viral ｜ The Bankas Show on Patreon - #043
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Summary
In this week's episode of The Banki Show, I'm here with comedian, former opener, and our good friend Armin, and we talk about his recent viral success, his life in general, and how he went viral.
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welcome back to the bank is show everybody this is a patreon episode first 10 minutes
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are free please like and subscribe send to your friends and uh yeah when the 10 minutes is up
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give me some money or see you next week i'm here with comedian opener former opener
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arm and our bobby close close friend well too close
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too close uh that'd be a good rapper name though too close too close that actually would be sick
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yeah it's like you're too close to the nice neighborhood too close um
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what an amazing week we had the kill tony my kill tony came out which was really cool it wasn't
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as uh you know i think i could have done better on the show but i mean it was kind of a good intro
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on the show in terms of learning a bit about me and stuff i mean i was i was nervous i didn't even
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know who was on the show too so i just walk out and it's like mark normand and ari shafir like
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ari shafir i've been watching since i was a kid right amazing like that's the whole reason i do
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the the monkey face to begin with but uh yeah it's it was cool the are you garbage guys are there
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yeah what oh armin let's talk about armin's life instead of mine just to move away from anything
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armin went viral this week folks round of applause a round of applause armin has gone viral
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um first this is the first time you've ever gone viral yeah it is the first time it's pretty it's
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here wait hold on oh yeah it's it's crazy it's nuts i went viral
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like okay hold on i'm famous let me let me pick this thing up i made this i made this i've been
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doing these reels on how to like pick up chicks and then one of them got steam and then a few of
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them been doing well but now i'm just i'm scared so how many views did you get uh in total like close
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to like eight or nine but just on instagram it's like five oh shit million yeah and it's getting like
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a few i like how that's your first viral videos but you're already like yo eight or nine
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you know you know what though you already know what's going on
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it's nuts it's nuts because i've been so close to i've been working with you for the last few years
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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
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but then i never got it like i would always watch you like chain smoke and you'd be like
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i was like what is it and then i and then i went viral and i was just outside it like smoking three
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darts at a time like oh my god what's going on like just it's crazy there's like people arguing in
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my comments on my behalf just strangers it's crazy how everybody who goes viral and then you talk to
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them it's just a guy in a small room a small white room like non-decorated
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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
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that's like a con i used to have a joke about that where i was like
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you know when people are like oh yeah you're probably living in your parents basement it's like
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i really wish my parents could afford a house that i could live in the basement yeah yeah i wish i
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wish i should bring that back maybe that's a good bit but yeah i know and then so i had my whole like
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extended family over on sunday and my mom was like bragging about it like yeah he's he's going viral
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it's great they were like so what's the video about she was like oh well you know making fun of
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every race it's just like what do they think well they were like just horrified my one my one cousin
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was like yeah i saw that real uh yikes i just was like yeah can you um can you send it in the chat
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like a link to it like on a different platform we can watch it on here yeah here hold on let me open
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that um who said that yikes is that that's no no no no that's not he actually he liked it he was
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like this is really funny yeah i thought he would like it he was like you got to keep ripping like
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this is good content but that cousin he's more like he's the one that just got married so he's
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more just like traditional and my whole family is like they all think because i'm a comedian
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that i'm this is the video here but yeah they all think i'm like maximini or like maz jabrani and
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it's like kind of sort of you mean like other successful iranian comics yeah they think i'm like
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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
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bit of success and people like he's already sold out the kid's already sold out and it's like well
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what do you like everybody's like he's a sellout you know who isn't a sellout by the way that
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fucking guy who went super viral for that folk song where he's like yes no that guy's an idiot
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that guy they were idiot he had agents being like do you want to sell out stadiums and he was like
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no i'd rather just do the local county fair it's like okay you're gonna die poor yeah seriously and
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and for what there's no nobility in being poor there's no nobility in not selling out like
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like at some point even like my agent was kind of like you know some of the things you do i'm like
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what what was the worst thing that i do that he was like the monkey i was like oh listen bro the
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monkey is bro people want it yeah yeah exactly you don't understand i wouldn't know you without that
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yeah but i try to keep the monkey a little more rare now i mean i did i played the whole
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we're never doing the monkey thing again and then it was like no we gotta sell some tickets
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that that shit fucking killed me though when you were calling me and you were like fuck man i think
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i gotta put the monkey mask back on it's like batman coming back out of retirement you know what i mean
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like like like robin died and then you're just like one more run the dark knight returns
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yeah so okay let's watch your video how do i get the sound on here here is the best pickup line to
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pick up any single mom that's a cute kid you want one that isn't black
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your first video you're viral you're viral and you get to be more racist right away than i ever was
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i know it is it is funny that i am just speed running ben bankers's career like i'm just like
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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
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videos not your funeral just like in his will he said he can do the monkey
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portland maine or not portland maine portland oregon
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they said they were about to like sign the deal or whatever to do a date yeah and then they sent a
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they're straight up like why is this guy doing virtual blackface
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the funny thing is my agent was like yeah she goes
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monkey face chinese accent question mark and then he goes just he's like and then i just didn't answer
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look you gotta understand there's a nuance to it okay it's uh look this is a
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this is an art this is an art form you gotta you put on a little
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yeah you're like bringing back the racist part of
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this is like the three stooges but they just uh say the n-word a lot
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yeah so i guess we gotta think about that think about the monkey
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it's just every city you want to sell shows you gotta run for public office
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i know that that would be really funny if you were actually the mayor of austin
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