Bankas Podcast - Canada Day Recap ｜ Bankas Podcast #120

00:00:00.000 Happy Canada Day to everybody who's maybe celebrating.

00:00:10.660 I don't know if you are, but if you are, Jesus Christ.

00:00:20.840 Happy Canada Day.

00:00:22.940 What a sad day that is.

00:00:26.140 it used it's funny how the woke people made Canada Day into this evil thing that we shouldn't do

00:00:34.840 and then it was it was awful it sucked and now that they're like trying to get it back

00:00:42.340 to normal it's just like even more depressing it was almost less depressing when they made

00:00:47.340 Canada Day about we shouldn't have Canada anymore that was less depressing than Mark Carney 0.98

00:00:52.260 flipping you know uh pancakes and whatever the fuck he was doing i mean what a complete nightmare 0.89

00:00:59.440 um my dad was there he said that nobody's celebrating because nobody's there's nothing 0.97

00:01:06.480 to celebrate oh he's calling me right now hey what's up hi can i i'm checking can you hear me

00:01:16.340 Can you send me the address?

00:01:21.240 You can send me the old one.

00:01:22.920 I just need to put it in for checking.

00:01:25.820 39...

00:01:26.500 Okay.

00:01:27.380 I'll text it to you.

00:01:28.280 Okay, bye.

00:01:29.440 Text the old one.

00:01:30.860 Bye.

00:01:46.340 What's up, everybody?

00:02:04.120 I put out another comedy special for everybody to enjoy.

00:02:08.540 I'm wearing my Canada outfit right now.

00:02:12.200 the uh raptors jersey the prada glasses the uh make canada free again hat and the

00:02:21.480 little bit of jacob that i treated myself sometimes you gotta treat yourself i mean i just

00:02:27.560 how many shows i did 19 shows in 11 days which is pretty crazy and before that was another 10 or

00:02:37.720 20 I don't know but

00:02:39.440 I brought my family that was cool I brought

00:02:42.020 them to

00:02:42.700 New Jersey

00:02:45.980 which was kind of weird to bring your family

00:02:48.120 fly them in to come to New Brunswick

00:02:50.220 New Jersey but they did 0.98

00:02:51.460 and it's a shithole a little bit I mean 0.89

00:02:54.020 it's I love the fans there but 0.93

00:02:56.020 it's a bit downtrodden

00:02:57.360 as they say I mean it's not in the best

00:03:00.180 shape

00:03:00.560 a lot of crazies walking around they have

00:03:04.160 like

00:03:04.940 community watch

00:03:07.620 leaders instead of having

00:03:09.720 instead of having like

00:03:13.820 cops they just have dudes

00:03:15.580 walking around going hey bro you can't

00:03:17.700 park there bro 0.78

00:03:18.420 it's absolutely ridiculous but

00:03:21.240 what a great time so I took

00:03:23.640 the family there took the family to New York City

00:03:25.800 we witnessed a robbery

00:03:27.280 which was pretty crazy at Bloomingdale's

00:03:29.640 we were like in the midst of 0.90

00:03:31.200 some black teenagers 0.50

00:03:33.580 masked came in

00:03:35.680 while we were looking at the sunglasses

00:03:37.520 or something like that and we're storming around and everybody was running around we had to run

00:03:42.800 out it was kind of scary and then we went to the slime museum but after almost getting

00:03:50.960 fucking oh my god it was terrifying 0.52

00:03:53.740 so we got out of that but stayed in new york and i basically took i drove from new york to 0.99

00:04:03.720 long island for those shows and then came back to the city and then drove bridgeport that was kind

00:04:09.780 of a bitch of a drive but those were great shows bridgeport connecticut thank you um that was a

00:04:17.300 fun time then we went from there to charlotte north carolina um well that was actually where 0.91

00:04:22.760 we ended it we went to greenville greensboro and then those are greenville is south carolina

00:04:29.900 greensboro's north carolina then we went to raleigh which is really nice i really like raleigh a lot

00:04:36.280 um charlotte bit of kind of ghetto i mean that's what people told me and then i went and i was

00:04:42.200 like no they're right but raleigh's really nice i bought some hockey equipment i went out and

00:04:47.500 played hockey with a fan at the meet and greet came up to me and goes you want to play hockey

00:04:54.060 tomorrow and i was like you know what yeah so and i needed new skates anyway so i went and bought

00:04:59.460 some new skates he had some other equipment for me skated around shot some pucks it was like a

00:05:04.760 practice type situation all ages but it was fun to just kind of skate around and that's what i've

00:05:13.800 been doing focusing every day on myself as one should and figuring out how to make this thing

00:05:21.780 go a little faster, so, or better, or, you know, whatever, whatever verb you want to

00:05:28.640 use, hopefully that's a verb, but yeah, so, put out a new comedy special today for the

00:05:39.220 Canadians, because as we know, Canada is not a real country, and they are kind of living

00:05:46.460 under the woke rule of the crown still it's it's crazy how woke england became and that's who

00:05:56.140 technically still owns canada what a what a mess i mean keir starmer having to step down i mean if

00:06:03.960 he's stepping down carney should step down wasn't he part of his cabinet wasn't he

00:06:08.140 working with him and like he doesn't know what he's doing if he was working with england he 0.98

00:06:14.120 fucked everything up there and now he's gonna fuck everything up in canada i mean this it's 0.95

00:06:17.880 nonsense but anyway it's you know i like one day that now they do one day woke one day not woke so 0.99

00:06:24.940 one day they'll be like happy somalian heritage month and then the next day they're like we need

00:06:29.100 to get back to what america canada was built on and they show videos of white canadians from 30

00:06:35.380 years you know 60 years ago building doing stuff and that's i mean it's just i still even though

00:06:41.860 i'm living in the states i still watch all the canadian propaganda on on x because that's the

00:06:48.880 only place they post i don't think canadian like cbc and stuff isn't it's crazy they banned

00:06:55.840 themselves from being on instagram like you can't follow cbc news like bbc news they have cbc news

00:07:06.060 for canada and you can't follow it if you're in canada because they don't allow you to watch

00:07:11.440 news on social media and they tell you except for x which they want to ban completely but they

00:07:17.840 always make it seem like oh no we're only doing this for uh because we want the journalists to

00:07:23.740 be paid more and they think that the social media companies should pay the journalists millions of

00:07:29.620 dollars i mean listen i'm sorry if you want to be a journalist you don't necessarily deserve

00:07:34.640 to be a millionaire unless okay unless you're creating a uh media empire or you're you're

00:07:41.420 you know an anchor or you're a notable person if you're a real journalist i mean it's tough

00:07:46.580 it's a tough job it always was i remember going to the job fair when i was in high school in

00:07:52.420 toronto canada and the job fair was at the convention center where they have the auto show

00:07:58.960 downtown by the lake and you walk around and you go to all these different universities and

00:08:05.320 they all have their own kiosk set up and it's actually funny i remember going to i went up to

00:08:11.560 a drama there was the the best drama school in canada which was at the time i think ryerson

00:08:19.180 university had like a really good drama program in 20 2009 or 10 or whenever we were going to those

00:08:26.080 things and i remember i go up to the kiosk and i go they go what do you want to do what do you

00:08:34.440 grow up like with the like and i was like i want to be famous and they like laughed at me they're

00:08:39.140 like well that's not what we do we teach serious drama and you'll be able to you know be in a play

00:08:47.680 but you know they made it seem like you could never be famous from this and of course now with 0.96

00:08:51.840 social media they were so wrong and stupid and but i didn't need to do that but i also i was also 0.87

00:08:58.280 curious about journalism i did um apply to a journalism i believe program that i think i got 0.98

00:09:04.680 into at carlton university in ottawa and i think i got a scholarship for a decent amount of money

00:09:11.340 for that but i didn't take it i wanted to go to queen's university and be drunk lunatic um

00:09:17.540 queens also that's where elon musk went for a couple years funny enough but um and a few other

00:09:23.560 notable people out there but they told me at the journalism kiosk when i was there that you know

00:09:30.060 this you're not going to make a lot of money the industries is like ending because of the internet

00:09:35.340 blah blah blah but the government of canada is going to get these journalists paid and the whole

00:09:42.320 thing is it's like it fucks over the people of the country because now they can't read the news

00:09:49.680 easily um and it fucks over the journalists because now they're they feel that they have

00:09:55.840 to report one side of the story only to get this support from the government that maybe one day

00:10:01.180 we'll get paid somehow oh they shouldn't be paid anything they shouldn't be paid anything it should

00:10:08.160 be volunteer hours as far as i'm concerned it's got the way they get paid is government funding

00:10:12.860 in canada for for being a journalist you know unless you're with rebel news and then they go

00:10:18.420 oh that's not so that's the big thing rebel news is like the only right-wing news company in canada

00:10:25.300 there's no fox news canada there's no nothing and and when they go and ask and then they go well

00:10:32.120 what who are you with they go rebel and they go that's not a real journalist it's like so you can

00:10:36.480 only be a real journalist if you're left wing is really what they're saying in canada that's what

00:10:40.880 they mean when they say that um but the whole thing's a sham in canada i mean as far as um you

00:10:49.500 know the opposition party you know the quote-unquote what the republican kind of version

00:10:55.660 like canada's version of a republican party the conservative party of canada is a joke uh the

00:11:02.900 The guy's been running, the same guy, Pierre Paulyev,

00:11:07.400 he's been there for I don't even know how many years,

00:11:11.100 and he's lost two elections, this guy.

00:11:14.300 Two.

00:11:15.520 And he's still the leader.

00:11:16.720 I mean, how is that possible?

00:11:17.880 Nobody likes you.

00:11:19.240 You didn't win.

00:11:20.380 It's a, and I could go on and on,

00:11:25.380 but they're always trying, the conservatives in Canada,

00:11:29.720 they're always trying to win over some of the liberal voters

00:11:32.340 and try to bring them to the you don't need to do it they're never you can't do that they're 0.97

00:11:36.960 brainwashed to shit you're not going to convince them to vote conservative the only people you're 0.96

00:11:41.560 going to convince is the people out in the middle of nowhere who never voted once in their life 0.99

00:11:45.380 and if you start talking about deportations and creating a canadian version of ice then yeah

00:11:51.020 they're going to vote but if all you know can say canadian conservative party and what do you guys

00:11:56.640 stand for uh lgbtq rights oh well that's this so how are you different from the liberals well

00:12:03.100 we just we don't well they aren't it's sad but they aren't they would pierre polyev gets in he's 0.89

00:12:10.460 not going to take away um all this gender bullshit that you need to have pronouns in your in your 0.75

00:12:16.240 email signature if you work for the government like legally you have to or you'll be fired 0.99

00:12:22.540 I mean, what the fuck is that? 0.70

00:12:24.600 So you have to, even if you work for the government, 0.99

00:12:27.080 but you're right wing, you have to have your email signature. 0.99

00:12:29.160 Even the conservative party members have he, them, they, the, who, ha, bullshit. 0.98

00:12:36.340 It shouldn't be like that. 0.97

00:12:37.420 If you're actually conservative, you're against it.

00:12:40.720 And that was the one good thing Pierre said recently,

00:12:42.760 where they asked him if he's going to go to any pride events.

00:12:47.240 And he goes, not my plan.

00:12:48.600 I don't have a plan to. 1.00

00:12:49.500 And it's like, oh, but why not just be like, I think it's stupid straight up. 0.97

00:12:54.940 I mean, one of the guys did that Jamil Giovanni guy or some one of the members of parliament. 0.86

00:13:00.700 Anyway, I don't want to bore my American fans.

00:13:03.640 There's much more exciting things going on than Canadian politics.

00:13:07.940 However, Canadian politics were traditionally always so boring.

00:13:12.780 Like it was always that Canadian politics were so boring that nobody cared.

00:13:16.860 And then, you know what happens with that? 0.98

00:13:19.240 fucking look what's happening it's basically tyranny you have um mark carney who's the prime 0.98

00:13:27.460 minister who became the prime minister in a fucking weird way that trudeau just out of nowhere steps 0.99

00:13:33.040 down mark carney just instilled as the prime minister vote who was voted on yeah by liberals 0.98

00:13:38.900 who you know whatever okay it was voted on within the party he gets that and then he does an election

00:13:45.160 almost right away and wins because he was and it was a kind of a genius thing to do and then he

00:13:50.040 fucking bribed or whatever he did to you know convince these conservative members of parliament

00:13:59.000 to switch to the liberal side americans have no idea this is what's going on imagine you had 0.99

00:14:04.140 like five ten like you know random um republicans switching parties to the democrats and going no 0.90

00:14:12.600 i'm actually a fucking radical socialist democrat i was lying the whole time and i'm 0.85

00:14:16.720 tricking my and even though i got elected by people who wanted me to be conservative i'm 0.98

00:14:21.560 going to be liberal it's fucking bad and then they go well so that that's how kind of so did 0.93

00:14:26.600 you not did you skip civics class that's what they always say online oh this guy definitely 0.97

00:14:32.260 skipped civics class you don't know how the government works uh yeah i do they cross there

00:14:38.860 there has been crossings in the past i think like one in 2008 and like one in like i think one of

00:14:44.380 trudeau's guys crossed over to the conservatives once one that never it was not it never was um

00:14:54.220 it didn't mean anything for the for the party it didn't create a majority or government or whatever

00:15:01.500 so it's and then they go well and we you didn't know we can do it oh yeah we did it 15 years ago

00:15:06.060 go in a totally different world but it's so it's okay for you to have five members of parliament

00:15:11.000 cross the floor and you have an automatic majority all of a sudden and you know all those voters are 0.94

00:15:16.860 just um you know made to feel like fucking they live in if you voted for a conservative and then 0.93

00:15:23.340 the guy switches parties is that going to make you feel good about the country you live in i mean what 0.99

00:15:27.840 kind of fucking joke is this seriously i'm watching this stuff sitting in texas going geez i can't go 0.96

00:15:33.880 back there i can't actually like i mean i don't even know if i you know for show is okay 0.96

00:15:38.680 and i'll tell you this i didn't really tell anybody else but um i was supposed to do a show

00:15:45.540 in toronto uh because the last show i did in toronto was 3200 seats sold out meridian hall

00:15:54.540 the next day the same venue kamala harris was there that's it was a nice event that's that's

00:16:00.240 you know it's a nice venue um and good for them for having both sides of the spectrum and i would

00:16:07.080 go back to meridian but we were going to go bigger there's another place in toronto um

00:16:13.940 called coca-cola center it used to be called the rico coliseum i think it was the enbridge

00:16:19.260 coliseum for a bit but now it's coca-cola coliseum 75 ish hundreds uh seats and it was

00:16:29.040 going to go on sale and then all of a sudden they were like oh we just don't want to have anything

00:16:32.640 controversial we don't want to have anything controversial aka we don't want to have anything

00:16:38.460 popular and then i looked into it and yeah that venue is owned by the city so at the end of the 0.86

00:16:43.700 day it's probably still olivia chow fucking me over going you know we can't have this guy 0.97

00:16:48.580 fucking performing at city venues because he made fun of me that's not right i'm a citizen 0.99

00:16:55.200 I'm allowed to make fun 0.99

00:16:57.560 I'm allowed to make fun of

00:17:00.080 the powers that be in a free country

00:17:02.140 that are political powers

00:17:03.700 and there was a nice article actually written

00:17:06.160 about me it was an opinion piece

00:17:07.980 but still in the

00:17:10.000 National Post if you're Canadian it's a good

00:17:12.100 newspaper and

00:17:13.780 they talked about how

00:17:18.120 what they did to cancel my shows

00:17:20.300 in Nanaimo last

00:17:22.080 minute was basically

00:17:23.620 unconstitutional and if i were to do something about it you know um

00:17:29.700 crazy it's it's totally nuts that they wouldn't allow that show to go on it would have sold out

00:17:39.160 um but we're we're looking at other options and we're gonna find some you know we'll find

00:17:45.340 maybe we have to go bigger but that's the thing you just you know at every stage there's always 0.97

00:17:50.820 there's always people trying to fucking screw you and not really screw you but stifle and not let 1.00

00:17:58.240 you past and and try to keep you down and you just have to fuck you just you just control the 1.00

00:18:03.940 variables you can control you know what i can control i can control that i um get on the uh 1.00

00:18:10.580 the bike and i and i sweat every day and that i'm trying to eat little fucking scraps of 0.96

00:18:16.740 vegetables and shit that's healthy so that i whatever whatever it is you're trying to achieve 0.95

00:18:23.220 um you have to be extreme and is it extreme to constantly be putting out comedy clips 0.90

00:18:30.800 every day and putting out uh you know or some form of content i mean today we posted a full

00:18:37.020 special i didn't put any clips out for it uh i just posted a picture yesterday's clip got a

00:18:42.460 million views so i thought let's leave that for a minute let that uh let that sit and we'll have

00:18:48.880 something else tomorrow and that's what you do you you push push harder and harder um

00:18:56.640 and yeah you know the reality is it's a marathon not a sprint and that's why i try to remember

00:19:04.040 remind myself like hey you're doing a lot you're doing good you're traveling the whole country

00:19:09.600 non-stop touring sold out um i mean raleigh was the only shows that weren't completely sold out

00:19:17.360 there was a few of them sold out a couple of them almost sold out a couple of them were like

00:19:21.100 but this is the second time i've ever even been to raleigh the first time i went to raleigh i i did

00:19:27.120 220 seats out of three four hundred or whatever it was um and then i'm now i'm doing you know we

00:19:35.940 did 1300 seats or something like that that in raleigh um charlotte sold out two shows and then

00:19:43.220 the early show was like a spillover from more people wanted tickets so we did a 3 p.m show

00:19:49.920 on a sunday in charlotte and so i kind of remind myself you know things are good you know my kids

00:19:57.080 are happy um that's really all you can ask for you got to focus on what matters and what

00:20:05.920 matters to me is comedy too like comedy matters to me in the sense that i want to keep it fresh

00:20:11.420 i want to keep it new like the two specials that i put out everything that i'm doing now

00:20:15.520 on stage is new from that um and people love that they love to come and they know i'm not i haven't

00:20:24.520 seen this there's a couple shows i think in jersey where there's a little bit of overlap

00:20:28.540 some people had already seen me here or there or bridgeport people came to see me in mohegan and

00:20:33.720 then they came to Bridgeport and I was just starting the new set so they actually got two

00:20:37.600 pretty cool perspectives but to really you know you don't even want to give anybody advice I mean

00:20:51.900 I you know because nobody gives anybody advice in comedy really um contrary to what maybe they do

00:21:00.580 Maybe I just don't get any.

00:21:02.000 I don't know.

00:21:04.520 But there's always some thing going on,

00:21:07.800 and people don't realize that all comedy is connected,

00:21:09.840 even though I'm separate.

00:21:12.420 People might be a fan of mine, not a fan of anybody else's.

00:21:15.480 But all the comedians know each other.

00:21:18.800 They all know of each other,

00:21:20.760 especially the ones that are selling tickets.

00:21:22.500 They all know who they are.

00:21:25.640 And it's kind of like a sport.

00:21:28.560 I mean, that's what I'm trying to do. 0.94

00:21:30.880 I don't know if I look any thinner in this fucking angle, but, but I, uh, you know, I'm 0.99

00:21:38.960 like a fucking athlete a little bit. 0.99

00:21:40.640 I have to tour. 1.00

00:21:43.720 I have to be at a new places.

00:21:45.160 I have to be healthy enough to get on stage. 0.99

00:21:47.480 I can't get, you know, I can't be getting sick every fucking week. 0.97

00:21:50.740 That was another thing with the constant drinking that I kind of slowed down on that, you know, 0.98

00:21:56.900 that helped me lose some weight but don't feel as sluggish don't feel as whatever um lethargic

00:22:05.680 and and just trying to even this like you know i'm sitting down i have a moment let's do it let's

00:22:10.200 just fucking fire it up and that's how you run a business a lot of people don't realize that most 0.68

00:22:16.400 businesses are run by the seat of somebody some guy's pants and you know there's moving parts but 1.00

00:22:22.700 like to be the nucleus of something is it's fuck I can't think of the word I'm too stupid 0.99

00:22:30.480 but I want to it's like uh tumultuous I guess you could say ish I don't know if that's the 0.99

00:22:37.020 right word but it's it's random you don't know what you're supposed to be doing at any there's

00:22:42.480 no nobody's telling you what to do you have to know what to do you have to have the accountants

00:22:46.900 and the thing and the agents and the managers

00:22:49.660 and then you have the guys working for you

00:22:52.700 that are doing the video

00:22:53.700 and they're editing the video and posting the video.

00:22:56.840 And so it's a lot of moving parts.

00:22:59.280 It is a business.

00:23:00.740 And when you're the comedian at the center of it,

00:23:03.700 you're like a CEO of your own comedy company.

00:23:06.420 That's really what it is.

00:23:07.920 There's nobody in control of you.

00:23:09.560 Like I could say to my agent,

00:23:11.360 I don't want to do that show,

00:23:12.500 but I don't because I'm, 0.98

00:23:14.300 you know a little hungry hungry hippo out here trying to fucking make a name for myself baby 0.97

00:23:22.400 that's what this is about this is that's what life is about whatever you're in make a name for 0.99

00:23:27.380 yourself as a you know if you're a plumber be the best plumber or one of the you know to work to be

00:23:32.000 the best i think it was elon who said that like you got to aim way way higher than you think to

00:23:39.440 get where you want to be or trump i think even said that you you know if you think trump said

00:23:44.960 if you're gonna think think big because you're gonna think anyway and you know the days where

00:23:51.540 i'm like oh i don't know if i want to do this i don't want to no meaning i don't know if i want

00:23:57.120 to do a pod i don't know if i want to you know i remember when i would i was editing all of my own 0.99

00:24:03.620 clips and yeah that was a fucking bitch it was it sucked ass sometimes and it it was kind of 0.97

00:24:10.220 annoying but i did it and it worked out and then once you do it enough if it's successful then 1.00

00:24:18.100 you'll find somebody else to take over that part of the job and then you move on to the next thing

00:24:22.740 okay here now i'm sending more more footage and more clips and then you get to the next

00:24:28.280 you have to think like this if you want to do this business and wouldn't want to be anywhere

00:24:37.140 else but austin texas now that i've lived in a lot of not lived but stayed in a lot of different

00:24:44.000 places in the states of course california beautiful san diego beautiful if i had a hundred

00:24:48.840 million dollars um when i have a hundred million dollars maybe i will want to live in san diego

00:24:54.140 maybe that's the thing you it's so nice that's why that they can tax you like that because they

00:24:59.120 know you're gonna live there anyway because it's so nice but austin's beautiful it's right now the

00:25:06.740 weather's amazing it was like 85 not even over in july that's pretty good usually over 100 it's

00:25:14.860 actually hotter in canada right now toronto it's 44 degrees buddy fucking celsius there pa 0.67

00:25:23.160 aka like i think 44 is like pretty high it's like over 100 0.83

00:25:30.240 but texas is premium america you know what i mean it's it's a premium state that's the way i look

00:25:41.000 like new york is also in a way but so it feels like it's crumbling when you're there you're

00:25:46.940 like this is crumbling and then there's yeah there's still the you know the women walking 0.87

00:25:50.920 around that think that it's like the place to be it's like it's not okay it's fucking not i'm sorry 0.79

00:25:56.840 if you're 24 and you're like i'm in new york and it's like me random no you should honestly just 0.98

00:26:02.820 you should be married off like it's the fucking 20s and and just here's your husband and move to 0.98

00:26:09.220 fucking iowa or ohio ohio actually i really like ohio i could see myself um living for sure michigan 0.99

00:26:19.460 sometimes i think but i'd rather ohio if i'm gonna i would just toledo ohio is awesome and i 0.96

00:26:25.840 love performing there and that's where i get my t-shirts from actually shout out frog time frog

00:26:32.820 town tees but i like that part of the country i like um i hate to say i like oregon and i like

00:26:44.620 washington state it's just fucking beautiful the natural beauty reminds me of western canada

00:26:49.540 but with obviously more going on and less indians which i like but there's a lot tons of homeless 0.99

00:26:55.480 tons of woke but it's beautiful beautiful living a fucking two million dollar condo in portland 0.92

00:27:01.500 oregon up on the it's nice it's gorgeous and they got the good stuff and they got this and that and 0.84

00:27:07.880 there's a lot of positives to it um but then the taxes and it's and then you have all these like

00:27:13.740 sketchy people so i don't know i think there's something about texas that i love and i've been

00:27:21.740 in love with it ever since i first came here on vacation you know 2020 went to you know to see

00:27:29.080 what it was like without lockdown that was like the texas i mean some people florida but i think

00:27:35.580 even florida was more locked that texas was like open for business baby and i just fell in love

00:27:41.760 with it and it's just been a pleasure to be able to raise my kids here and um you know

00:27:50.280 been here a couple years it's not it's not fully raised yet but i really do like it and

00:27:57.240 there's something there's the entrepreneurial spirit in the air you can you can go from zero

00:28:04.680 to a hundred here not like some places like new york i mean it's fucking insane to be an 0.97

00:28:10.900 entrepreneur there you're living in a complete dump it sucks you know i the first place i had 0.81

00:28:16.840 here was decent the second place it's nice here there's options and with the less tax you can

00:28:24.580 pay you can have more of house you can have more whatever if you're not buying a house you're

00:28:28.720 renting a house you're you're paying a lot less tax than somebody if you if you own a home and 0.99

00:28:36.320 you have play income tax in like this one of these high income tax states the fuck are you

00:28:42.660 getting for that i mean canada the whole thing was oh you pay income tax but anything that ever 0.97

00:28:47.920 happens to your health is free and now i mean the health care in canada is terrible it's the

00:28:55.420 wait times are like 10 hours i think it's like 20 000 people a year are dying in canada uh of uh

00:29:02.380 You know, not being seen by a doctor quick enough

00:29:04.800 and out of a country that's $40 million is crazy.

00:29:11.920 Not right, not right.

00:29:13.880 But living in an American woke state,

00:29:18.800 paying that super high tax, 50%, 0.50

00:29:21.300 the same as you're paying in Canada, 0.96

00:29:23.320 and you're not even getting that at least some shitty health care, 0.95

00:29:26.700 whatever it is. 0.96

00:29:28.600 But it's, yeah, it's bad.

00:29:29.940 It's, you know, the trickle down of bad health care is doctors care less, they're overworked, they care less about individuals.

00:29:37.700 They, you know, they do less tests because they know it's going to take too long. 0.99

00:29:41.520 They're making more assumptions just on bullshit. 0.99

00:29:44.460 It's no, it's America is the greatest country in the world. 1.00

00:29:51.280 There is no better country than America.

00:29:53.800 And that is overall Canada. 0.94

00:29:56.880 when i was fucking 15 years old it was the best country in the world similar to how america was 0.86

00:30:07.720 but in a different in it was it was a very safe place it was very community and it was very 0.88

00:30:14.840 you know you want me to say white here but it was whiter it was i don't know if that's even

00:30:21.680 the word it's more just the culturally there was a cultural cohesion of we're all canadian and this

00:30:27.720 is what it is now that's gone that's completely gone there's no cultural cohesion of we're all

00:30:33.180 canadian it's you know carney just said it mark carney oh well we are we're not a melting pot

00:30:39.660 we're a mosaic a mosaic oh yeah a nice mosaic like the ones they have in the train stations in

00:30:47.020 canada the mosaic of all the the communist art like you know they always have this like commie

00:30:53.500 art with uh commie you know paintings of the black oblong people and the big fish and the 0.95

00:31:02.580 the fucking native thing and it's just like guys this is depressing you can't people do not like 0.95

00:31:08.960 this so america's best country in the world and i'm not saying canada was even really competing 0.99

00:31:17.720 with it but canada and america were always kind of in going hand in hand that canada and america

00:31:24.740 are supposed to be friends their proximity makes them they have to be friends because if they're

00:31:30.380 enemies it's obvious what's going to happen okay we know what's going to happen america

00:31:34.180 It takes over Canada, and then everybody becomes happier.

00:31:40.860 Maybe.

00:31:43.940 But you have to be friendly when you're that close.

00:31:47.080 Otherwise, you're like long.

00:31:48.480 Like, what are we doing?

00:31:50.280 Canada's values are American values.

00:31:53.260 You know, that whole thing. 0.56

00:31:54.680 Muslim values are Canadian values. 1.00

00:31:56.960 That was another stupid thing Mark Carney said. 1.00

00:32:00.360 Canadian values are American values. 1.00

00:32:03.020 They are based on the values of the post-war America, you know, Christianity, Catholicism, Protestant, all that stuff. 0.63

00:32:16.640 Jews, yes, to a lesser extent, but they were there.

00:32:21.820 And that was the Jews made the movies and the stuff and respected the Christians.

00:32:29.620 and helped in, you know, all the Christmas movies,

00:32:35.000 all the Christmas songs that Jews made.

00:32:37.220 They weren't so Jewish that they couldn't make a song about Christmas, 0.94

00:32:40.680 for goodness sakes.

00:32:42.700 My point is that there was a culture,

00:32:47.480 this post-war culture of Canada and America and Europe

00:32:51.280 working together to beat the Nazis and the Japanese and the fascists.

00:32:56.700 that's all gone away now it feels like Canada wants to you know pretend like they're some sort

00:33:06.440 of different like the our different the difference in culture is Canada's shittier that's the 0.98

00:33:11.420 fucking difference now and it shouldn't be like that when I was a kid when I was I remember being 0.98

00:33:17.140 12 or 13 years old in Toronto Canada and that was the Mecca at the time I believe that in Toronto 0.98

00:33:25.240 canada had the most condominiums and buildings and skyscrapers under construction out of any

00:33:33.140 city in the world when i was 12 okay then other cities you know dubai and stuff after had that 0.99

00:33:39.940 boom but canada toronto had a boom okay and same thing with vancouver but then they fucked up they

00:33:47.400 they just became too constricting any little like any part of the you know uh private entity within

00:33:58.500 canada that starts making money off energy or infrastructure or construction anything that

00:34:04.500 squeeze they squeeze and they they tax and then that causes those companies to become more corrupt

00:34:11.800 because they need the money so they can't just give away so they have to find ways to move the 0.91

00:34:16.400 tax doing sketchy shit everything becomes sketchier when you increase the tax that much 0.93

00:34:21.860 because people instinctively want to keep their money and figure out ways to do it 0.99

00:34:27.200 and then they're less incentivized to actually just use their own money to help society in the

00:34:32.800 ways like Elon Musk does or other people other rich people throughout history in Roman times

00:34:39.340 that, you know, a lot of those great works

00:34:43.120 weren't just taxpayer funded.

00:34:46.440 They were funded by the richest guy

00:34:48.520 because he wanted to have his mark. 0.98

00:34:51.640 But if you're taxing the living shit out of those people, 0.99

00:34:53.980 what the fuck, what incentive do they have to build anything? 0.99

00:34:57.200 I mean, when you go to a university, 0.99

00:34:59.040 why is Queen's University,

00:35:01.040 why is this building called Douglas

00:35:03.860 and this building called, you know,

00:35:06.660 Victoria Hall and blah, blah, blah.

00:35:08.280 because the person with the name donated it,

00:35:13.360 paid the money to build it.

00:35:15.940 So if you don't have those rich people, 1.00

00:35:19.300 you don't have a fucking society. 0.99

00:35:21.100 And that's what Canada and a lot of these ultra-woke states 1.00

00:35:25.340 like Minnesota and New York and California

00:35:30.160 and Washington and Oregon,

00:35:32.080 they're going to come to the same fate 0.98

00:35:33.880 where it's like people don't want to fucking live under that. 0.97

00:35:36.700 They'll move to the next place. 0.99

00:35:39.540 They will move on.

00:35:41.720 And Canadians were raised to be smart, 1.00

00:35:44.860 and I don't think they're willing, 1.00

00:35:46.560 the smart ones who want to have a good life,

00:35:49.640 they're going to figure out a way to get out.

00:35:52.140 Mark my words.

00:35:56.040 If things keep getting worse in Canada,

00:35:58.100 it's just, I mean, I think it's like, what,

00:36:00.060 10,000 people a month are leaving Canada

00:36:01.920 or something crazy?

00:36:04.100 Insane.

00:36:04.580 and everywhere i go now every show there's canadians you know carolina there was canadians

00:36:11.080 i'm from toronto we're from montreal we from here we moved here we can't do it anymore it's bad

00:36:17.460 and those liberal people who who are just dancing around like you go but everybody's poor and

00:36:25.540 everybody's on the street doing fentanyl and they're like they're basically just like 0.99

00:36:28.640 la la la la la no no no it's fucking great you guys are retards okay you think life in canada 0.99

00:36:38.160 is great what what what gives you that thought that it's great oh well i can go to the grocery 0.99

00:36:44.800 store and i can go but it's expensive well yeah but that's because of america america is the one 0.99

00:36:53.260 that made it no it's not everything is expensive in canada because canada is stupid and is being 1.00

00:36:58.940 run by stupid people and instead it could be a much better place and be working brilliantly 1.00

00:37:05.580 with america but they've decided they've opted for the only way to get elected now is to say 1.00

00:37:11.860 we're gonna push back against america but that's america's the only fucking thing canada has 0.97

00:37:17.440 going for it okay go to any american american land border you'll see the amount of trucks going 0.97

00:37:24.340 back and forth all of the goods the main things that keep canadians funk as functioning is from

00:37:31.640 america okay could they survive without them no period it's just what it is and you can argue oh

00:37:41.480 well you don't know what you're talking about blah blah blah okay all right then we'll see

00:37:46.180 we'll see but i don't want to be part of that and i can't stand the canadians that are so against

00:37:52.880 trump and oh how could you even live there it's scary it's like how can you live there 1.00

00:37:59.520 in such a fucking pussy pussified environment where every penny you get you you get dollars 1.00

00:38:07.640 you know it's what is this phrase pennies on the dollar you're paying so every dollar you make you 1.00

00:38:15.480 only make 50 percent of that you make 50 cents is insanity or 60 cents if you're making 10 million

00:38:22.640 dollars a year you're paying you're supposed to on paper pay like six million dollars so you 0.94

00:38:30.020 actually only have four million dollars so what the fuck is the point so to make four million 0.90

00:38:34.460 dollars you have to make 10 million dollars that's what you're telling me and then that's what yeah 0.98

00:38:38.440 yeah well you got you're a privileged person who makes 10 million dollars well but you know how 0.97

00:38:44.380 hard it is to get to 10 million fucking dollars or 20 or 100 or whatever it's like shame on you 0.96

00:38:54.200 for working that hard and being successful we that money should be given to indian immigrants 1.00

00:39:00.360 who just got here who've been shitting in the river and and they're throwing their furniture 1.00

00:39:04.660 into the forests and destroying the environment crazy or whatever or oh to to house more immigrants 0.99

00:39:13.420 from the middle east that were relocating and blah blah blah and on and on why what if you just 0.98

00:39:19.640 didn't bring them here and then i kept my money and we just made the country better that's literally

00:39:26.800 it that's all that needs to happen but i don't know how to convince anybody to do anything i i

00:39:35.420 have a couple mps that i text with sometimes and you know i don't i don't want to get into detail

00:39:41.540 I want them to come on the show.

00:39:42.800 I want to do an interview with them.

00:39:44.160 I think it'd be fun, but it's embarrassing.

00:39:48.180 I'm talking MPs on conservative MPs,

00:39:50.780 although when I was in Ottawa staying at the Marriott

00:39:53.920 and there was a bunch of liberal MPs there as well

00:39:56.320 and conservatives that recognized me,

00:39:58.040 but the liberal MP was like, I like your comedy, 1.00

00:40:00.300 but it's like, you're fucking lying through your teeth. 0.99

00:40:02.920 You know you can't like my comedy. 1.00

00:40:05.740 They're full of shit. 1.00

00:40:07.820 If they liked my comedy, 1.00

00:40:09.140 how come not one member of Parliament 0.73

00:40:11.180 has the balls to retweet it oh he retweeted ben bankers's comedy special where he makes fun of 0.93

00:40:18.420 all the things that our government told us that we're not allowed to laugh at 0.98

00:40:23.760 what oh and you're the you're the rebellious one who listens to every word that the government

00:40:30.640 tells you to do because government knows best not not the citizens not the people who elect

00:40:35.560 the government the government knows best and that's what liberals have become in in canada

00:40:42.360 and you have terrible things happening all the time in canada um some of them worse than even

00:40:49.320 american crimes and and horrible things these extortion um gangs and i'm sure they have grooming 0.93

00:40:56.840 gangs like they do in england but they have these extortion rings in canada where these indians 0.99

00:41:02.680 go around to indian area you know they got an indian area then the sketchy indians come and 1.00

00:41:09.180 they start doing you give me fucking 500 a month when i break your window like it's like we're back 1.00

00:41:15.080 to fucking which is kind of funny because when the italians were doing that it was like cool it 0.98

00:41:19.540 was like we made movies about it we made video games the mafia game and godfather and but when 0.99

00:41:26.400 indians do it we're like no we just this is bad so i don't know maybe it's not maybe it's just a 1.00

00:41:30.800 rite of passage for immigrants they come here they have to do extortion rings and then eventually 0.99

00:41:36.140 they get integrated maybe that's what it is that's what italians did so what do i know but 0.99

00:41:42.240 they have all these you know the the car thievery in canada is super crazy and then the home invasions

00:41:48.200 in canada are super crazy and then the new thing is the truckers aren't qualified and they're

00:41:54.360 crashing the trucks into people and killing people and families and and and all these um 0.94

00:42:01.500 like the other horrible thing that happened in bc where the trans person somehow had guns and be 0.81

00:42:09.220 in which you canada's so super gun safe you know oh we were very strict gun laws and then the 0.73

00:42:16.860 trans person goes and shoots up the school there with a rifle and and you know what the 0.99

00:42:23.880 fuck is that and then you barely talk about it because they were trans and we need to be 1.00

00:42:28.300 mindful what you're saying in that moment is we need to make sure we don't upset any more of these 1.00

00:42:34.920 crazy bastards because who the fuck knows what they could do that's not the right way to be a 0.99

00:42:39.520 human being i'm sorry talking about things making fun of things is different than going and blowing 1.00

00:42:45.840 random people or anybody who hates head off it's crazy it's not supposed to happen that's the reason

00:42:52.080 we have laws that's the way society functions and that's how freedom of speech works you're

00:42:56.400 supposed to be able to take it and go well he thinks that i think this maybe i'll post my idea

00:43:01.180 and who will see will get more views but no it's just become a weird um one-sided thing any so if

00:43:12.180 it's a horrible thing and a trans person did it and it's in canada well they cover it up and they

00:43:16.020 don't talk about it and they bury the story and the poor girl who was you know was completely 0.68

00:43:21.640 disabled mentally for the rest of her life because she was shot in the head and that's 0.98

00:43:26.920 just supposed to be like forgot about forget about it well it's Canada though it's safe 0.99

00:43:32.420 it's fucked up and I'm the only one who talks about it and I'm the only one who talks about 0.98

00:43:38.100 the fact that look these indigenous communities in this in Canada get a lot of money all right 0.99

00:43:44.860 we're talking like I think I saw something was like 300 billion that's a lot of money and that's

00:43:51.580 taxpayer money and if you're a taxpayer you should be allowed to complain about where your money is

00:43:58.200 being spent in a free country if it's a free country and you're paying tax and they're spending

00:44:04.000 the money and then you say i don't like how you're spending the money and they go you're a bigot you're 1.00

00:44:07.560 racist you're a piece of shit and you should be fired from your job and you shouldn't be allowed 1.00

00:44:11.260 to you should have your show canceled and blah blah blah then it's not a free country especially 1.00

00:44:16.540 if some loser complains oh he should have a show canceled and then the venue does cancel it like 1.00

00:44:22.800 what kind of fucking bullshit is that because the venue should have a backbone and know from 1.00

00:44:27.540 experience that things blow over if you have me on and 30 people 100 people even 200 300 people 1.00

00:44:35.500 are upset but the show we're selling 900 tickets and maybe next year we're going to do this we're

00:44:40.540 going to do two shows and then three shows and then who knows and then i'll move on to the next

00:44:44.240 thing and it'll be whatever you would have been part of my career but to cancel because 150 or

00:44:52.240 whatever group of people are upset that we're never going to buy tickets in the first place

00:44:56.540 it sends a really bad message to the community it sends the message that if you're complaining

00:45:01.940 you don't like something we'll cancel it because money's meaningless all the money comes from the

00:45:06.620 government why do we even need ben banks is sold out show we don't need it we get a government

00:45:10.840 check every month for having three uh drag time story hours at our thing a month and and even

00:45:16.980 though we only sell 30 tickets out of 700 seats it's worth it because the government pays for it 0.87

00:45:22.720 same way that uh a hotel filled with the immigrants in canada and you complain about it but guess what 0.93

00:45:33.280 it's paid for by the government you're complaining but you're not allowed you shouldn't complain

00:45:37.140 because it's racist but your money is paying for that thing that you don't like so it is messed up

00:45:45.100 and of course the canadian arts arts you know canada was always about the arts we support the

00:45:51.800 arts but the only support in canada the arts that are uh bad so if you're an artist in canada

00:46:00.000 and you have no commercial viability nobody likes you you have no following uh but you paint

00:46:07.560 and and maybe you're mentally challenged or you're you know some sort of dei category

00:46:13.960 you will you qualify for a grant of maybe even a hundred grand a hundred grand a year to make 0.94

00:46:20.820 shitty art and have 1400 followers and and and sell three pieces of art um and we'll give you

00:46:28.020 100 grand to do it because it's canadian but if you're a good artist and you sell your own stuff

00:46:35.220 and you aren't left wing then you don't get the the grant that's as simple as that if you're not

00:46:42.960 filling the quota of whatever bullshit they need so they're funding so again and oh so that's what 0.99

00:46:50.380 you're going to complain about well but it's taxpayer money going to pay for these uh loser 0.99

00:46:58.540 artists whereas my thing was they would go it's oh his show at Nanaimo for instance or

00:47:04.040 um whatever some other the other place in BC Cranbrook should be canceled because it's a

00:47:11.180 taxpayer funded venue yes but the funding is to pay for all the staff who worked there for

00:47:20.160 35 years and then the building became non-commercially viable because you stopped having 0.97

00:47:25.420 any good acts here because it's a fucking dump and then so now you have to pay for all these woke 0.98

00:47:30.340 loser acts that sell no tickets to come through and the government subsidizes those acts and then 0.98

00:47:35.760 me coming through selling out is actually helping pay back the government okay and then i pay tax

00:47:44.680 on the money i made which goes back to the government that's supporting the taxpayer venue 0.98

00:47:49.220 Canceling it is like the stupidest thing ever 0.95

00:47:51.960 Now there's no support 0.99

00:47:53.460 Now there's no support

00:47:55.220 So those venues made a mistake

00:47:59.460 And 0.51

00:48:00.780 It's ridiculous 0.76

00:48:03.220 And the Toronto one made a mistake 0.93

00:48:05.000 I didn't tell anybody

00:48:06.940 But now people will know from this

00:48:08.640 If they are watching this

00:48:10.100 And that's what I'm up against

00:48:12.640 I'm up against the world baby 0.99

00:48:14.020 It's Ben Bankers against the motherfucking world 0.95

00:48:17.660 the my last week i put out a comedy special are you mad it's got about 360 000 views right now 0.59

00:48:24.580 which is doing pretty good i think i don't know i'd like it to be a million i'd like it to be 30

00:48:29.240 million um and i need my fans to share it i know a lot of them are like well i can barely figure

00:48:36.620 out how to get the link working but once i did that if i can i watch about 20 minutes or

00:48:41.640 share it with the group chats share it with your friends let people know

00:48:48.460 um and right now all my shows in canada are sold out i think the only ones i had were

00:48:54.740 in calgary

00:48:58.960 deer foot or one of the casinos i forget which ones i think oh yeah deer foot yuck yucks is

00:49:10.400 elbow river we used to do that but deerfoot two shows sold out maybe we'll add more there we

00:49:16.680 probably should we have a lot of time until those shows but i appreciate you guys really for i mean

00:49:24.720 when i do the meet and greets after the show and i meet people and they're so excited and it

00:49:28.620 fucking gives me life gives me energy i'm doing the right thing i'm moving forward um and i'm 0.69

00:49:35.200 giving people an amazing thing and amazed that moment of where you laughter and whatever you 0.98

00:49:43.060 know hanging out after and seeing uh you know bringing the openers out and they're having a

00:49:48.980 good time and they're getting a lot of good experience so all in all it's it's an amazing

00:49:53.880 thing and it's because of you guys and thank you and if you like listening to the podcast please

00:50:01.720 support me on patreon patreon.com slash ben bankus uh and we have bonus content over there

00:50:09.640 and it's the best place to watch thank you and god bless oh wait it's fourth of july

00:50:19.680 but maybe by your watching this happy fourth of july canada sucks i'm sorry that's what we're

00:50:28.000 known for for apologizing canadians you're always sorry well now they have to be sorry for 0.74

00:50:31.960 canada as a whole god bless you for watching me and supporting me and sharing with my stuff and

00:50:39.520 thank you good night

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00:51:28.000 Thank you.

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Bankas Podcast - September 22, 2026

Canada Day Recap ｜ Bankas Podcast #120

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