Bankas Podcast - Ehsan Ahmad ｜ Bankas Podcast - #100

00:00:00.200 Every time I have like an uber like I had like a Nigerian uber come pick me up and then he was like these are a nice area 0.87

00:00:06.040 and I was like I

00:00:08.600 Just like told him it was more expensive than

00:00:12.520 Actually, well just so he wouldn't move here

00:00:17.040 That's my big fear is every every uber is just like wow, this is nice like I'm like

00:00:25.000 Now there's like I

00:00:27.000 I feel like a couple of families of people who ubered me home have moved to this area. That's so funny. You don't want this

00:00:33.000 You don't want the uber drivers here. Yeah, it's bad, but

00:00:37.720 It's been kind of

00:00:40.200 Austin's like a weird transition because it doesn't it's not that hard to transition to live here

00:00:45.800 No, no, no, I get what you mean compared to like some places. I mean, it's relatively for a big city. It's like relatively affordable

00:00:52.520 Yeah, so you're like so it just

00:00:55.240 Ease is the like

00:00:57.960 The the financial burden of moving but it's not like yeah 0.99

00:01:00.840 Like if you move to like new york, you're like, oh fuck. I gotta figure out the subway 0.98

00:01:04.040 I gotta you know or like la is just like and deal with like a 0.99

00:01:07.720 Fuck ton of people on top of you now

00:01:09.320 Like if you move to new york or la from anywhere else you're probably like this is way more people than i'm used to and that's a 1.00

00:01:15.720 Whole nother level of stress and austin. There's like room to breathe like you have a yard

00:01:19.320 Mm-hmm. Yeah, you know, that's not a lot of people at all half yards and in big cities 0.99

00:01:25.000 No, no for sure. New york is no tip tip that tiny bit like up

00:01:29.160 Oh

00:01:31.880 Oh

00:01:33.880 There we go. Okay, that's way better

00:01:35.160 Yeah, it was like far away

00:01:38.600 Yeah, elon we want to talk about elon, but I I mean

00:01:42.280 Were they really ever friends if they talk to each other like that?

00:01:46.920 No, no, why would they why would they ever be friends? I saw somebody asked grok

00:01:52.040 If they were actually friends and grok was like not really yeah

00:01:56.440 They're too big egoists. I can't imagine them and they both want to be like the most powerful man in the world

00:02:01.560 I can't imagine them being friends

00:02:03.080 I feel like if I was a fraction of like that rich like I would do

00:02:07.720 None of what they're doing. Oh, dude, if I had elon money

00:02:10.760 The amount I would stay out of government is so great. I would be like get the I don't want to

00:02:16.280 Or just like anything right, you know, like sometimes like

00:02:20.280 Before like I was getting heated online just like

00:02:23.320 Thinking about so many things because I went nuts during covid and then you realize that you get a tiny bit of money

00:02:29.000 And you're like, oh, I didn't actually care about that. I was just I was poor

00:02:32.920 You know what I mean? It's like oh shit, uh, if you make money you don't so that's the big problem. That's why everybody's so 0.99

00:02:40.760 Heated about everything I feel like but rich people are kind of heated

00:02:45.000 More than they used to be you think so

00:02:47.880 Well covid made them heated

00:02:49.960 Because they that affected their business

00:02:52.280 Oh, right, right, right except for the few it didn't the few who consolidated the power like don't you feel like like a lot of the republicans who like care

00:02:59.960 Didn't care for a long time

00:03:01.720 But all of a sudden they feel like they had to care because so many liberals cared about everything and they felt like they were losing

00:03:07.480 And then they won and now they don't care again

00:03:10.200 Really? Yeah, well to me that's been the hallmark of republicans is just like they don't really care much

00:03:16.600 About I don't think they either of them really care much about anything. Yeah, because it's like

00:03:21.240 neither party has made it any sort of

00:03:26.120 Progress for the american people it feels like yeah

00:03:28.760 I've never like ever since because I became sort of politically aware during obama. That's when

00:03:32.600 I and the republicans at the time their entire platform was just like whatever obama does we do the opposite

00:03:40.200 Which is like a terrible way to govern just in general just because there's no

00:03:46.120 There's no idea of like maybe we'll work together on something. There's no like no, we're just going to be gridlocked

00:03:51.480 For eight years and then then the democrats were like, oh, we'll just do the same thing. It's crazy that obama didn't legalize weed

00:03:56.920 It's crazy that obama didn't do a lot of things like remember when he said he was talking about weed and he's like

00:04:02.920 It's just like being addicted to cigarettes. It's the same thing. Right said that right

00:04:07.080 And then he was like famously like he he smoked weed in college and but he didn't have to do the like

00:04:11.480 I didn't inhale that the clinton did yeah

00:04:13.960 He could just be like yeah, I did that they all should they all should do most drugs

00:04:19.880 Yeah, I feel like every president should have to do mushrooms or acid or both and just feel like

00:04:24.920 Oh, yeah, we're connected and i'm not bigger than everything like I think I am like that black mirror episode where they make the 0.98

00:04:30.760 The prime minister of england like fuck the pig or whatever like I feel like they should do that 0.90

00:04:34.600 But just televised them on mushrooms for like a day and like a live stream 1.00

00:04:40.520 They're in front of a bonfire

00:04:43.400 You're like 1.00

00:04:44.280 Fuck I like this guy 1.00

00:04:45.560 Yeah, yeah, it's like and they also realize like yeah, they're like a part of humanity because sometimes 0.99

00:04:50.360 I feel like well, not definitely

00:04:51.400 Sometimes I feel like to be president. You got to be a little bit of a psychopath 1.00

00:04:54.120 But we say that as us but then if we were in that position, we'd be like bro 0.97

00:04:58.520 I if I did that right now 1.00

00:05:01.320 Like my brain would explode with the shit. I know 1.00

00:05:04.440 Yeah, yeah 0.99

00:05:05.560 I mean like it's almost like the dumber you are the more fun mushrooms is in a way because it's like 0.96

00:05:10.840 Then you get to a certain point where like have you ever had like a mushroom trip where you're like 0.99

00:05:14.760 Oh my god, it's all we're all fucked everything's fucked like not a bad trip, but you start like you like see the interconnect I had one 0.98

00:05:22.600 This is pretty funny 0.99

00:05:23.960 It was like

00:05:25.000 We started talking about china being my friend

00:05:27.720 um

00:05:28.200 And just like how much they'd infiltrated this was in canada like how much they were like a part of like the government and all this stuff

00:05:34.200 And our one buddy's sitting there. He's like, bro

00:05:36.440 I thought I would do mushrooms and get closer to god, but I got closer to white supremacy 0.80

00:05:44.520 That's so fun

00:05:45.480 It is crazy that we just let and could we do that here, too

00:05:48.120 We just let foreign governments buy land here

00:05:51.400 Why do you think like but we can't buy land like you can't just look at on zillow like hung like china 1.00

00:05:57.080 No, we can't buy land in china

00:05:58.600 So, why do they get to because we're the better country and because freer?

00:06:03.080 Yeah, the I the idea is is that

00:06:07.720 The sort of what makes

00:06:10.120 America to me great is that you can move here and make it from anywhere

00:06:15.320 And that

00:06:17.320 Is what I love about it. That's why if you know if my parents are immigrants and that's what they talk to them

00:06:20.760 I remember in 2016 my mom went to the bernie sanders rally and she got to ask a question

00:06:26.840 And then she came out of it. She came out of it like dude. I'm just I was this poor girl from a third world country

00:06:31.720 I got to ask

00:06:33.320 A guy running for president of the united states a direct question like that's so only in america could you do that

00:06:38.120 Just like

00:06:39.400 There's a glowing love for this country and what what it can be the problem is

00:06:43.560 For some reason we have

00:06:45.880 Been like well everyone who's not here can also be a part of it

00:06:49.160 It's like no, you got to be here. I really do believe that it's like you gotta

00:06:53.320 You gotta live here and like get used to the culture of being here of like the acceptance of everybody and they're like

00:06:58.600 Before you can buy land here

00:07:01.160 Why is it that this?

00:07:02.840 communist government that we're taught to hate can just buy up

00:07:06.760 Giant swaths of and then and then make it

00:07:09.800 Way harder for actual american citizens to buy land and then they're making all the fentanyl stuff and they're yeah

00:07:16.520 Doing all these other bad things for the country

00:07:19.720 Canada just passed a law like literally just passed a law

00:07:23.240 Um that so if you're a can if you're canadian 0.98

00:07:27.960 But so if you're not born in canada, but then you come to canada

00:07:31.720 And you get citizenship you can now leave and have your kid in your own country and they're still canadian that's crazy 1.00

00:07:40.360 Why that's crazy you should have to live in you should have to

00:07:43.720 Live in the place to be a citizen or like I don't know

00:07:47.160 But in their head, they're like oh more tax dollars maybe but it's like well

00:07:51.160 That those are the people who aren't paying home like only I don't know what it is in the states

00:07:54.920 But in canada, it's only like 30 or 40 percent of all people pay tax

00:07:58.040 Oh wow, okay because like most people just don't and they there's no way to get them because they're either like so old

00:08:04.840 Like they're already in like a seniors home system. You know what I mean 1.00

00:08:07.800 It's like how are they gonna pay tax like how do all those people's taxes get done?

00:08:11.240 If you have no family you have dementia, you just don't have

00:08:15.800 You're just that that's just not collected, right? You know, I'm saying right, but

00:08:21.080 But then the fact that you can have a kid in a foreign land land and get your citizenship

00:08:25.560 Advocate in foreign land and that be the a canadian citizen. That's crazy. Yeah without going back 1.00

00:08:30.040 Yeah, it's one thing to like bring them back and then like repatriate or whatever that would be called

00:08:35.800 So you get the benefits of being a canadian citizen without contributing at all

00:08:39.800 That's why I think a lot of canadians are like low-key more racist than americ 0.87

00:08:44.280 not even low-key like maybe high-key more racist than americans because 0.93

00:08:50.600 People come to america, and then they become american

00:08:53.560 You know i'm saying like they are literally like

00:08:56.040 You know the first generation learns the language the second generations like 0.99

00:09:00.920 At a dallas stars game or like i mean like my parents were not born here and i'm

00:09:05.320 Very american. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's just so i'm first generation. So i'm like it it takes immediately

00:09:11.400 Do they have accents? My parents have deep accents. Yeah, yeah, you can't get rid of the accent, but they speak perfect english

00:09:17.000 They speak yeah, they speak very well like my dad's an immigrant. He speaks perfect english, but

00:09:22.040 you know

00:09:22.760 He had a canadian flag on his property and stuff like that

00:09:26.760 But the new kind of generation where it's it's a lot easier to immigrate now 0.94

00:09:31.960 I don't know about here but in canada it's wait like when my dad did it

00:09:36.280 Basically all the cost like the administrative cost of immigrating was put on to him

00:09:41.880 And so like every paycheck they would like take money off for like years to like repay

00:09:47.000 And now you can just show up and then

00:09:49.640 Live in a you know in a hotel that they give you 0.98

00:09:52.760 That's like it's like that situation where they put you up damn. That's a 0.97

00:09:56.680 Why is that?

00:09:57.720 Why do you think what what's the what's the game plan?

00:10:00.600 For letting that happen. I think it's a compassion thing. I think it's

00:10:05.000 These people have nowhere to go and we want them here

00:10:08.520 I mean part of it's growing the population and they don't want to do it with

00:10:12.600 Canadian like they don't want to tell people to have more kids 1.00

00:10:15.400 Well, I don't know if I don't know if it's uh

00:10:17.560 The same thing up there

00:10:18.440 But I imagine because I was up there for the first time a while ago

00:10:20.920 I don't know just it was crazy how expensive everything was

00:10:23.400 um, but yeah, it's not

00:10:25.880 it's

00:10:27.160 It's like economically so much harder to have a kid

00:10:30.760 Like people are make people are putting off the so it's like they want you to have more kids

00:10:34.600 But they make it almost impossible to have kids and and and I think about this too about

00:10:39.000 How the american family is sort of dying and I think a big part of that is

00:10:44.680 You know growing up you say it takes a village to raise a child, right?

00:10:47.720 So growing up my parents house you have the same neighbors you have the same community

00:10:52.920 So there is a sense of like safety like there is a sense of like look

00:10:56.520 We may not talk to each other

00:10:57.880 But we're all like if your kids are playing on the street and i'm around it's like and some weird guy is there

00:11:04.360 I'm gonna do something about it because this this is the community I grew up with and and you feel maybe more comfortable being like oh

00:11:10.280 I can

00:11:11.240 Have my neighbors babysit my kids I can have my you know what I mean or just something like that

00:11:14.520 There's there's a sense of community that says we're all pitched in on this

00:11:17.560 You can do that where you can buy a house if everyone's a renter

00:11:21.560 And everyone's moving from year to year the sense of community is gone. That's so harmful for a child a child needs stability

00:11:28.600 so it's like

00:11:30.120 There's so many factors contributing to the what I would like

00:11:33.000 I call like the death of the american family is like that people don't want to have kids

00:11:36.440 It's so expensive to have kids

00:11:38.440 Um, you know you go to a place like texas where well, you know

00:11:43.800 There's a good sense of a woman if a woman is going through a bad pregnancy and needs it terminated for a life 1.00

00:11:49.240 Can't you even do that here? Like what's the you know what?

00:11:51.640 I mean, it's like there's a there's an attack on sort of

00:11:54.120 Reproductive sort of safety 0.92

00:11:56.520 As well as like because the moral abortion stance is like sure there's a moral stance to take on it

00:12:01.400 But there also is a gray area here where like hey, sometimes a pregnancy needs to be terminated because it's not going to come to term and

00:12:09.000 The woman's life is in danger

00:12:10.600 Yeah, here it's sometimes they'll let the woman die and save the baby, which is not or they'll just let both die

00:12:17.400 Yeah, I haven't heard that i've heard mostly like my wife was afraid that you know, they would

00:12:21.960 Save like if you know the baby and then be like you can die

00:12:25.720 But we got because regularly they just fucking abort the baby in the last moments, you know 0.91

00:12:30.600 To save her, but yeah, I don't I don't think is you know 0.86

00:12:35.080 I think they make you think that having a kid is more expensive than it is too

00:12:40.200 Because it is expensive, but it's like

00:12:43.080 It's not more than leasing a car

00:12:46.440 Right, right, right, but like

00:12:49.080 The idea of most because most people a lot of people are just in debt

00:12:53.000 Yeah going into for food so the idea of like feeding another mouth

00:12:56.920 That is I what what I think is like something that stops a lot of people sometimes 1.00

00:13:01.400 Yeah, no, I mean fuck. I was walking on sixth street. There was just women lying on the cement 1.00

00:13:07.160 And like like they're just hammered and it's just like

00:13:11.960 That's I don't know if that's gonna be a mom, you know

00:13:15.160 I don't know if these people are gonna have families

00:13:19.000 Because they're just insane right and then they you know, those are the people that then then they do have a family

00:13:23.960 They don't take it serious. They fuck it up 1.00

00:13:26.440 They you know, and then it's it's 0.99

00:13:30.440 It's a whole thing but immigrants have families and they

00:13:34.120 Like you were saying there's no the the community thing now. It's all online

00:13:37.320 Like all the moms are on the facebook group and they're right there was a creepy guy at the park

00:13:41.720 Here's they all take pictures of it. So there is a bit of that

00:13:44.360 But I know what you mean where if you're renting you're just kind of hopping around and you don't care about an area

00:13:50.680 But it yeah, like if you're in a condo, I mean I was honestly condos

00:13:55.000 Kind of slap like I love I love living in a car. I don't know if you do but no, I live in an apartment

00:13:59.400 But like hans lives in a condo and i'm like that's the vibe i'm used to

00:14:05.080 Big comp big building. I like the safety of it. It feels

00:14:08.920 Secure like nobody can walk, you know, you're 10 floors up or whatever, right? Yeah, I like that shit, but 1.00

00:14:15.640 That's it's like crazy. So I always look at zillow here. Just like to go to bed. Just like curious. What else is out there for 1.00

00:14:22.440 for a four bedroom three and a half bathroom condo in

00:14:26.360 Austin? Yeah, how much do you think it is? Oh, what part of town downtown downtown four bedrooms four bedroom three and a half bath

00:14:36.760 Nine to one point one 14k

00:14:39.960 Oh, like oh per month though. Oh per month rent rent. Okay. Well, I already told you that but yeah

00:14:45.160 14k per month 14k a month. That's crazy. That's wild, right?

00:14:48.520 That's like you can that's way more than a mortgage payment you can have

00:14:52.120 If you live an hour outside of town for that much you could have a mansion 10 bedroom or like seven

00:14:58.840 Bedrooms, but even 20 minutes outside of that

00:15:01.800 Your your your mortgage payments like

00:15:03.880 3 000 a month or whatever. I do think austin's like a good-sized place

00:15:08.600 Like you you don't have to go that far to be in the suburbs. No, no, you can it's literally 10 minutes out of downtown

00:15:14.040 You were in la before

00:15:15.080 Mm-hmm for how is that where your family's from, too? No, my family's from like

00:15:19.960 uh, silicon valley

00:15:20.760 Oh, so I grew up in cali. I grew up in cupertino. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, so but

00:15:25.800 How far is that from la three hours? No, that's five hours. Oh, shit. Yeah, yeah, but like we're I

00:15:31.240 Will grew up in the suburbs and we're 45 south of san francisco 20 minutes south of san jose

00:15:37.240 So it's like you said

00:15:38.120 It's not as like the big city centers is not as close as you are in austin when you live in the suburbs

00:15:42.120 I think it's cool, too that um, we were talking about this the other day like how

00:15:48.280 Com like the pushback against austin being another comedy spot like people are just like people who are like

00:15:54.840 Long-time new york comics and stuff. They're just like

00:15:58.600 They're mad about it in a way. They're not mad. They like coming here, but they're mad that they want

00:16:02.840 I think they're mad that they want to live here

00:16:04.840 Yeah, I I don't know. I see it a lot because I I troll the stand-up subreddits and stuff all the time and yeah

00:16:08.920 There's a lot of like

00:16:12.440 Unjust hate towards austin I would say just because they're like well, just because you know that the people at the top here have made like

00:16:19.960 Put their hat in the presidential ring and all that and it's like a politics 0.60

00:16:23.080 There's like a politics aspect to it and they don't like the politics or just assume the whole place is just like kind of shitty

00:16:27.960 But like the reality is that they they didn't come here to form like a republican haven

00:16:31.720 They came here to form a place where people can just get up as much as they want

00:16:36.200 Mm-hmm

00:16:36.680 And that's kind of what's happening here. You can get up so much in town. It's crazy

00:16:41.480 It's also like you wanted city to have art an art scene whether it's I mean

00:16:46.280 There's a comedy scene, but there's other scenes here right other art

00:16:50.200 Right scenes and that's always traditionally been a thing

00:16:54.120 That artists move to cheap places

00:16:56.840 Or cheaper, you know, and I mean new york like why is you know all the areas that are now gentrified brooklyn

00:17:03.240 You know, whatever like all you know harlem, right?

00:17:07.000 They're gentrified because artists went there

00:17:10.440 Like right yeah first yeah, they were the first people to be like well, I don't care if it's scary

00:17:15.480 I'm I have to I want to live in the city and I'm it's cheaper, right? 0.72

00:17:19.080 And then they move there and then they keep doing it and then it been then like fuck with the coffee shops come and then slowly and then 0.98

00:17:25.960 First is like a shitty coffee shop and then five years later. It's like an aloe, right? 0.99

00:17:29.960 Like store like retail stores, so

00:17:32.840 The artists I mean we're we're bringing the price prices up. Yeah, we're part of the we're like the first harbingers of

00:17:40.360 Of uh gentrification we are

00:17:43.160 But austin's like

00:17:45.400 I would never take public transit here

00:17:47.400 Well, it's nice. They've gutted it. It's not that good. It's have you taken it? No, but you can you can sort of see like

00:17:54.840 Just like

00:17:56.440 Trying to like parse it out sometimes being like oh, this is like not that good

00:18:01.400 Yeah, not that reliable. I don't think or it might be but like it's just not a lot of it

00:18:05.720 The whole they're trying to they're trying to get you to buy a car out here

00:18:09.400 Yeah, that's the whole thing

00:18:10.440 It's like the car companies killed public transport in this country just in general unless they're like chicago or new york

00:18:15.240 Like they did a good job of being of being anti-public transportation

00:18:20.200 A lot of the like that's a lot of the highways are kind of originally like

00:18:25.400 subsidized by those or what they

00:18:28.280 Lobbied for it or something. Yes, yes

00:18:30.280 I mean because there's no reason a city because austin's like not like the bigger one of the bigger cities in america, but it's still like

00:18:37.160 There's no reason uh

00:18:39.000 It's a lot of highways. Yes, there's no reason a city this size

00:18:42.840 Shouldn't have

00:18:44.440 A robust train system. Yeah

00:18:48.040 Especially going up and down the 35 right it's crazy. The 35 is always under construction

00:18:53.640 It's always packed and it's super dangerous. It is dangerous not the south ends less dangerous than the north

00:18:59.080 Well, the north end there's just like miles where there's no shoulder

00:19:02.520 So if you get in an accident there, you were just at the whim of the flow of traffic and hopefully no one else drives into you

00:19:09.720 Have you seen that well, there was a very there's a there was a

00:19:14.120 A story like a few weeks ago where they're stopped and there was an accident one of those sections

00:19:19.240 A truck driver comes kind of I think he was like

00:19:23.000 I don't think I mean he may have been had the alcohol system. He may have not he may have just been exhausted

00:19:26.440 I thought you're gonna say his race. Hey, might have been yeah 0.96

00:19:31.000 I there is a there is a point where I forgot I read about this a while ago

00:19:33.960 But there's a point where like a certain exhaustion feels like if you're driving exhausted

00:19:37.560 It's like basically driving drunk and he like plowed in the accident a bunch of people died

00:19:41.880 Yeah, it's like and there's no shoulder you're just in

00:19:45.560 You're just there. Yeah

00:19:47.720 And everybody takes it even though there's there's actually a lot of ways to get around here

00:19:51.800 It's just everybody follows google maps. Nobody really knows their way around that. Yeah, so they're just like

00:19:57.640 It says to take 35

00:20:00.360 But you could just take congress or so like you could 0.96

00:20:04.360 Maybe down here lower up north is still like but but either way, it's just it's asinine and and then there's no plans 0.86

00:20:10.600 To have a train system. It's it's it's crazy. It's it's crazy. Like every big city in america 0.84

00:20:16.920 Should have reliable public transportation and just then they just don't yeah, they truly do not

00:20:21.640 But it's nice for comics because it's just you know, you can somebody was asking me like why you know

00:20:27.320 People always ask why austin which is crazy

00:20:30.040 Somebody asked that in the green room and like rogan was in there

00:20:33.320 Like they literally they would start talking to me and they were like, so what do you do here?

00:20:37.800 I'm like, i'm a comedian and then they were like, uh, I was like, what do you do? They're like i'm a musician

00:20:42.760 They're friends. I think they were somehow friends of a friend of like brian callens. Okay, this is like a while back and then

00:20:48.040 The and like rogan's right here talking with the black rifle coffee guy brian callen and he's like, so you're comedian

00:20:54.040 So why would you move to austin?

00:20:57.000 We're in the green room of mothership. I'm like

00:20:58.680 I literally pointed at rogan. He was like, oh, yeah

00:21:02.440 He literally left after that. That's so funny. Yeah, but it is it

00:21:06.360 it is like yeah, I

00:21:08.840 It's a lot of people don't know yet. They don't know yet a lot of my fans. My fans will be like

00:21:13.880 Why wouldn't you move to dallas?

00:21:16.520 Austin's such a liberal city. I'm like

00:21:18.680 I kind of like a liberal city. I hate to say it, but I mean, I don't hate to say it actually

00:21:22.920 Yeah, I've always most cities are liberal the the best places I think to do comedy

00:21:29.800 Is when the city has a different has different politics than the state, right?

00:21:34.520 So they you have a mix of all types of people

00:21:36.680 So that's why austin was a great place to do is a great place to do comedy because it's a blue city in a very red state

00:21:42.200 You can walk to all the shows you can yes, I mean

00:21:46.680 It's it's a cool. It's very it's a lot nicer. I think than a new york scene to in a way

00:21:53.320 Well, there is a sense of because

00:21:56.360 Because when you commit yeah when you commit when you're when you're like, well, I buy in to what's happening here

00:22:02.360 it's because

00:22:03.560 Everywhere around you there's hate for you being an austin comic that it does make the scene like the number one thing

00:22:09.320 I get from people who visit here

00:22:10.600 It was like I was surprised at the sense of community in the scene

00:22:14.840 And the sense of community here is strong a because there's not a lot

00:22:17.960 There isn't a lot of comics and be like

00:22:21.080 Your most of your spots are really in a mile two mile radius

00:22:26.680 so you're around the same people all the time like like

00:22:30.360 New york and la are so vast that they have their own pockets of scenes

00:22:34.600 Where and and there is like sometimes there's like strife between clubs you perform here

00:22:39.560 You you're not really here and austin's not like that at all

00:22:42.440 Austin's like you can perform anywhere at any time. No one gives a fuck if you're a mothership regular 0.98

00:22:47.240 You can go to cap city if you're a cap city regular 1.00

00:22:49.160 You can go to mothership like you can go to black rabbit. You can go to sunset

00:22:51.880 You can go to you can go to and there's no like you perform here. You don't perform there

00:22:56.120 Mm-hmm

00:22:57.240 There's none of that so it's like you can just go around

00:23:01.400 And get a bunch of time like like

00:23:04.840 I mean

00:23:07.320 There's a lot of comics doing stuff too. It's not like yes some scenes

00:23:12.600 Everybody's just kind of bumming around but here. I mean, there's still that but then there's a lot of people who are like

00:23:17.400 They have followings. They're get they're on kill tony. They're getting they're getting chances to they're getting opportunities

00:23:23.800 And then there's guys, you know, like

00:23:26.840 Laser, you know all these guys who are like they're constantly touring they're coming in and out and so there's a lot of there's a lot of like organic

00:23:35.400 Like health to the you know, there's a lot of health. It's healthy right healthy scene

00:23:40.200 There's a lot and there's and there's a sense of like and the the scenes are top down

00:23:44.440 So it's like whoever's at the top how they are is gonna affect the rest of the scene

00:23:47.640 That's always what it's been in every single scene. I've been in and

00:23:50.200 Right now the guy at the top is a guy who's like well

00:23:53.640 I want to help comics and I'll be helpful for the comics and I want to pay comics

00:23:56.680 Well, and I want to make sure like I help my friends I help my like I was just on

00:24:01.640 Rogan's pod

00:24:02.760 There's no reason for me to be on the biggest show in the world. There's zero reason

00:24:07.160 Except for the fact that he hey, he was a comic wants to help out comics

00:24:09.960 Like if he was a magician i'm nowhere near a big enough comic to end be on that pod

00:24:13.880 So it's like but because of that you'll see all the time like comics

00:24:17.320 Collaborating together in ways and they're always making sure to take out their friends on the you know

00:24:21.960 There's no and there's no sense of like you're winning. So I'm that's bad for me

00:24:26.920 There is a sense of like you win and we all win. Yeah, no, there's a big it's

00:24:32.040 Having somebody at the top or multiple people. I mean

00:24:35.320 Tony's the same way to help help other comics Shane

00:24:39.080 They're teaching without teaching to sometimes like I I thought you know what I'm like

00:24:43.320 Yes, and that's how it should be you kind of have to you know, you can't have somebody do a one-on-one

00:24:49.320 Nobody's good, but you just seeing

00:24:52.440 You know follow you follow the leader a little bit saying what they do is like, okay

00:24:56.600 And it's you know, everybody's trying to be pretty classy here. I'd say for the most part. What do you mean? Well

00:25:03.080 Well, because we have mitzies too, but you know, it's it's it's kind of civilized 0.51

00:25:07.240 It's not like you, you know, it's like let's go grab a drink and then i'll go home

00:25:13.240 I mean some people stay out late, but still there's civilized places to go you can go to people go to creek people here

00:25:18.920 There's like there's like

00:25:20.360 It's ironic to say safe spaces, but there are places where you can go and

00:25:25.960 Just yeah, just be a comic and just like drink is that's like what a safe space used to

00:25:30.680 Mean again, I mean, I don't know about

00:25:32.840 I get when the woke people like we want a safe space like I you know, people put up a big fight about that

00:25:37.880 where they're like

00:25:39.240 So i'm not allowed and it's like well, I mean, they're just they're afraid

00:25:43.640 They're you know, they're afraid of whatever me or well somebody making a joke that's a but you know

00:25:50.920 They have the right to I think just like

00:25:54.040 You know where we are at is a safe space to say whatever you want

00:25:57.560 Well, and uh, and i'll say this and to me I say safe space because it's like a physically safe place physically

00:26:04.440 If you're on sixth street can be dangerous

00:26:07.160 Yeah, and you're we're in a place where like, okay, I feel welcome here and like i've been i've been in

00:26:12.840 Many i've been a few times where i've been in either creek and mothership where there's been a shooting around and i'd be like

00:26:18.200 All right, let me I can just stay here and it's like cool. Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's this texas. She goes she pops off

00:26:23.480 So what's the most unsafe you felt on downtown in downtown austin or sixth street the most unsafe?

00:26:30.120 I felt I remember

00:26:32.120 Walking back to my car at like 2 a.m. Not like a 3 a.m. being like, okay

00:26:36.520 I don't stay this late on sixth street anymore

00:26:37.880 You're just the vibe and the eeriness and like all the cops are gone. So it's like it's gone

00:26:42.600 They leave at like 2 30 1.00

00:26:44.600 Well, that's fucked. Yeah, it's like hey 0.99

00:26:46.200 You're on your own after at around three in austin. Damn so it can get pretty like 0.98

00:26:50.440 What was it? What was like there was people like looking at you like groups of men kind of thing just an energy? 0.98

00:26:57.320 Yeah, you you're an animal you feel it you feel it like ooh, this place is

00:27:01.800 Get to the car quickly. This place is this place is dangerous. You're you're in a dangerous place right now

00:27:06.520 Yeah, one of the comics told me they

00:27:08.280 I think it was kurt or something. So he had somebody pull pull a knife on him or something

00:27:12.760 It's like what the fuck. Mm-hmm. That's not good. Yeah, it's a 1.00

00:27:16.280 So it and that's what I mean physically. I think a a lot of a lot of the sort of

00:27:23.960 Issues with the word safe spaces

00:27:26.040 It went from a place for like hey, I can this is a place where I can like hang with my friends and be cool to a place where like I

00:27:31.000 This means i'm insulated from outside ideas

00:27:34.280 And that's where the problem with like the that's where the sort of issues I think with the with that word sort of came in because it's like you can't

00:27:40.760 Really be insulated from ideas because it's like it if you're in mid-seasor if you're in 0.82

00:27:45.800 If you're in creek or whatever late night and you're chilling there, you might hear some shit that you don't agree with 0.87

00:27:51.160 You you definitely will hear some shit that you don't agree with and you have going either way 0.98

00:27:55.240 Yes, going both ways and you have to learn to be like 0.98

00:27:58.840 Either take that information and learn from it or like add it to your thing or just be like, okay

00:28:02.280 People believe that and I maybe don't believe that but they

00:28:04.600 Have a enough right to be here as I do and in the world they're a comic they've been getting up crash

00:28:11.720 They're a comic who gets up who puts work in his craft and this is where he chooses to hang

00:28:15.080 He or she chooses to hang out late at night, and they don't believe what I believe and that's cool. It's good. It's good

00:28:20.680 So it's like the as long as there's no yeah

00:28:23.240 Like that's the problem with the other safe spaces is that it's when the other ideal or somebody just has a different thought

00:28:29.880 Mm-hmm then it's like you're an other now where it's like right have a different thought good

00:28:34.520 Come over here and scare us all we want to hear it right right and and and there is sort of like this thought

00:28:40.840 Especially in Austin that like oh, it's not a place for like

00:28:43.560 Liberal comics or whatever and it's like I don't I mean, I'm not particularly conservative

00:28:47.880 There's a bunch of liberal comics here pretty much every guy at the mothership is a pretty liberal

00:28:51.880 I would say I'm just they cut to your act like I'm not exactly because they're just one of your most conservative

00:28:56.600 I wouldn't say you're not. No, you're not i'm conservative, but you're not we're I mean my my whole my whole economic policy

00:29:03.800 My economic my whole like political philosophy philosophy since 2012 has been like whoever's in power kind of sucks

00:29:10.680 Yeah, that's kind of been my whole for sure. Yeah, uh, yeah

00:29:15.000 COVID changed a lot of people's minds just about like my mind was melted dude

00:29:19.000 Mm-hmm like I still feel like i'm recovering from just being

00:29:23.720 You know

00:29:25.000 Having politicians tell you they go from just being

00:29:28.440 People that made up random laws that didn't really matter

00:29:31.480 To like you can't leave your house like maybe people just so 0.98

00:29:35.240 Fucking political yeah, and I just 0.97

00:29:38.040 I was like every 0.99

00:29:39.480 Conservatives obviously the right way to go because they don't want the lockdown like that was to me

00:29:44.120 Mm-hmm

00:29:45.160 But then but then at least in america so like, you know, we have this shift from the lockdown and now

00:29:49.960 The republicans are in power and they can't do anything

00:29:53.480 They hold all three branches of government and they're completely ineffective

00:29:58.120 Well, I guess I mean I was I was listening to the cash patel thing apparently they've done some good stuff

00:30:03.320 Like but I mean like hostages they brought home, but you could do that

00:30:07.800 I mean you could I mean biden's did some good stuff as well

00:30:10.440 It's like that but the but the overall ineffectiveness and like it's it's like we can count we can like being counts

00:30:16.680 Yeah, this is good. This is bad. But like I said, it's like when we talked about being

00:30:20.360 In downtown early and feeling dangerous. It's the overall feel the overall feel is it is that

00:30:28.040 They haven't really done much which may be part of it which is maybe good

00:30:33.400 because

00:30:34.600 We don't want them to do too much radical change and it's also like they they campaign on we're gonna do all this

00:30:40.200 Stuff but every time they get in they realize oh the government's completely inefficient. There's no way to get all this stuff done

00:30:45.320 Yes, I mean there's that and I don't want to say they haven't done much

00:30:47.480 You know what the problem is to me the looking at this republican administration is that they're trying to do too much so quickly

00:30:54.760 That's because like

00:30:56.600 They're trying to tackle illegal immigration, which is something that needs to be tackled here

00:31:00.120 But at the same time they're doing tariff stuff

00:31:02.680 Which is a you know or like economic policy which inflation is a huge deal

00:31:06.040 Let's you know that's to do those at the same time. That's a lot

00:31:10.120 And then at the same time you're trying to juggle israel palestine and at the same time

00:31:13.800 You're trying to juggle russia ukraine and at the same time now this the whole elon the doge and the elon that that whole thing split and

00:31:23.880 Granted when you're present you have to deal with all these things at once, but it's like there's no it's like

00:31:28.600 This week we're focusing on this this week we're focusing on this and then this week we'll focus on this

00:31:31.560 I think it's also that well, I think there's no overall plan to attack one thing at a time

00:31:36.280 It feels like four years is a short amount of time nowadays

00:31:40.360 so there's just so much to do and

00:31:42.920 They don't want to take the the chance that they lose and then they only had four years to do it

00:31:48.120 They didn't go that hard

00:31:50.760 Most presidents don't go as hard as trump in terms of trying to do as many things

00:31:54.760 So I do agree that you know when you spread yourself thin type of thing, but you lose track of the messaging

00:31:59.640 But they do have a lot of money, so it's like

00:32:02.520 But now solving some problems not all the problems, but there are certain problems that liberals want solved that aren't solvable by

00:32:11.320 Just throwing money at them

00:32:13.160 You know like homelessness where it's like you can have the nicest homeless shelters and the best counselors and

00:32:20.920 The best drug prevention pro and it's not you know, it's they're still gonna happen right right

00:32:26.120 Where it's like and then you're just and you end up just lining the pockets of all these people who are running the you know

00:32:31.480 The ceo of the shelter

00:32:33.320 Why is there a ceo of a shelter right the administration fees that's where all the money goes to right and it's so correct, so it's

00:32:40.360 Yeah, I don't even know. I think that most people

00:32:44.120 Most people are just lazy and they just

00:32:46.920 COVID did convince a lot of people that the government should be doing a lot for them when they really really they shouldn't in a way

00:32:53.080 They should be doing as little as possible, right? I do think

00:32:57.880 legalizing

00:32:59.480 Like I what do you think about this just legalize weed

00:33:02.280 Everywhere and then like try to force that policy on foreign countries, so it's like you know

00:33:08.120 I mean go to the middle east and be like we want you to legalize weed 0.94

00:33:12.200 Like switch it up. Yeah, and just be like we want to sell you we want to legalize weed 0.99

00:33:17.560 What would that mean for the world if every country had legal weed? I do think there would be a lot less

00:33:22.200 Problems really in what way?

00:33:26.520 Well 0.98

00:33:27.880 I mean create a weed culture in fucking gaza or 0.99

00:33:31.320 Oh, so everyone mellows out 0.98

00:33:33.160 Well mellows out but also yeah, just like what's going on. I mean a lot

00:33:38.360 Why don't we care about things as much as people in other countries?

00:33:42.520 Just because they don't have money

00:33:44.680 What do you mean like in america like nobody like you know, we have protests and stuff but nobody's as

00:33:49.960 As upset as somebody in

00:33:54.040 Morocco or like syria or like, I mean gaza obviously 0.98

00:33:58.680 Yeah, well, yeah, that's that's a whole genocide

00:34:01.320 over there

00:34:02.040 Yeah, yeah

00:34:04.280 Gotta speed it up

00:34:05.880 But uh

00:34:06.600 I don't know but do they 0.98

00:34:08.040 I really feel like most people don't give a fuck most people want to you know 0.94

00:34:11.240 So this this is what I when I was in middle not high school. I wrote this book called persepolis 0.98

00:34:16.440 And it was about a iranian girl who lived through the islamic revolution

00:34:20.840 And it was the first time I was reading something about the middle east where it made me realize like

00:34:25.000 Oh, those people over there just people

00:34:27.400 Yeah, they're like like because you know you grow up in america post 9-11 you're like, oh, that's the enemy

00:34:32.440 And then you know, i'm not arab either. So it's like yeah, it's kind of easy to make them feel like the enemy too 0.99

00:34:36.840 It's like oh, that's not me and that's there. You know, I even say to him

00:34:39.960 I call them desert browns in my act, but that's just them 1.00

00:34:42.680 And then I read persepolis and it just made me realize i'm like 16 like damn, bro 0.92

00:34:47.800 What it is is this is what everyone wants around the world. I don't care if you're here 0.95

00:34:51.560 I don't care if you're in gaza. I don't care if you're in senegal wherever the fuck you are 1.00

00:34:55.160 You want to eat good food you want to hang out with your friends israel 0.99

00:34:58.760 Yeah, same thing the average israeli. No, that's all they really want. That's all anyone really wants 1.00

00:35:04.360 So it's like I don't know if like everyone's just really as you're only really into the problems that affect you

00:35:10.280 For sure for sure. Yeah, and that's everywhere. I don't think that's like a even in poorer countries

00:35:15.000 I feel like the people are like that if I had to venture a guess

00:35:17.720 They're not really caring what's going on over over there or whatever they're most of them are like look

00:35:22.520 I'm just trying to have you ever been to like a vegas mega dispensary though

00:35:27.160 Like if you just drop one of those and like

00:35:29.160 Like it's just people start coming around me like what is and then yeah, you can smoke this and then they smoke it and then

00:35:37.240 You know some people smoke it once and they're scared and they never do it again

00:35:39.800 But a lot of some people are like this is

00:35:41.960 This is better than being upset right because it is right

00:35:47.080 It does make you less

00:35:49.080 upset at

00:35:51.880 Like it makes you kind of have a perspective of like oh my life

00:35:55.400 Maybe I should focus on I think certain people know right, but I think there's positive effects

00:36:00.920 Yeah, there's alcohol

00:36:02.920 Doesn't really do that

00:36:04.920 I mean I was mad about politics on alcohol

00:36:08.280 Yeah, that's true. I would say I think my sort of I think I sort of have a very detached look on politics

00:36:13.880 I think it's because I've because I because I'm a

00:36:17.240 Massive stoner I think you know because I grew up in the bay area

00:36:20.200 So I was you know, very democrat liberal until the end of obama's first term where I was like, oh

00:36:24.920 They all just lie to you

00:36:26.440 But that's also when I started smoking weed

00:36:28.440 I was also like okay, this is all sort of like a like I look at the american system now

00:36:32.840 It's like I don't know what's gonna

00:36:35.000 What do we need because we're like right now?

00:36:37.320 Like I said, republicans hold all three government all three branches and there's this massive infighting

00:36:42.280 They

00:36:43.240 And there's now one of them dropped the grenade of the epstein files and you're like 0.99

00:36:47.320 Damn, that sucks because the democratic party is losing people 0.98

00:36:51.480 It's a prime chance to grab them 1.00

00:36:53.720 And you have a chance to capture a lot of people who are disenfranchised with the democratic party

00:36:57.800 And then you have this infighting and then you do stuff like

00:37:01.720 Ban THC in texas, so you're already losing that hold you have

00:37:05.320 Did they do it for sure?

00:37:06.760 Oh, I don't know for the government's it's on the governor's desk. He might be pocket videoing it

00:37:12.200 But you know what I mean, it's like so you have a chance like that's gone, right?

00:37:15.560 Um

00:37:17.400 You know, you look at you

00:37:19.240 I read something today about how trump is talking about maybe cutting off federal funding to california

00:37:24.200 And it's like this is the first election

00:37:26.440 In which in 20 years in which california didn't vote 60 democrat you have a chance to capture some voters

00:37:32.280 You'll immediately throw that away

00:37:34.280 Immediately throw any inroads you go on the biggest electoral college in the in the country just gone

00:37:38.760 And you're like, well, that's bad to me. That's bad governance

00:37:41.240 You have a chance to capture and hold for a while and now you're in a situation where you might lose the midterms

00:37:46.360 They have the most votes cali cali has the most votes

00:37:49.880 Yeah, 54 electoral votes

00:37:51.080 So it's like if you can grab that you would never lose if you're a republican because you already have texas, which is that number

00:37:55.800 It stays the same forever. No, it changes it's based on those change

00:37:58.760 It's based on how many representatives you have

00:38:00.760 Okay in the in uh, in the house

00:38:03.640 Which is based on pop. Yes. Well, so that's why california and new york texas will always have the most

00:38:07.800 But then you look at the other side and the democrats are like a complete shamble

00:38:12.760 I don't even know if you can call them a party right now

00:38:15.880 They're all we talked about a bridge of fantasy

00:38:17.640 They're all releasing books about how they knew the biden administration was a puppet organization. They're all like

00:38:23.560 Yeah, we kind of knew this was going on the entire time something that everyone could clearly see

00:38:26.840 But they gaslit us into not believing it and then at the same time they're spending 20 million dollars

00:38:32.840 To learn how to talk to men 0.99

00:38:36.280 And because they're like, oh, we we lost men in this election in a big way in a way we've never lost before

00:38:41.560 Without any sort of credence the fact that hey you guys propped up a puppet leader to run like with no

00:38:48.520 with no acknowledgement of like hey, you

00:38:51.640 didn't let the democrats

00:38:54.200 Choose their nominee

00:38:56.840 You just

00:38:57.960 Forced it down their throats and then we're like

00:38:59.480 Were you we have to fight fascism?

00:39:02.200 They just have such bad branding that now their brands like it's like, okay

00:39:06.520 AOC and ilhan omar

00:39:09.160 And like all these people that it's like so easy or hillary clay

00:39:12.200 It's like so easy to hate these people

00:39:14.680 Just on a primal 1.00

00:39:16.680 Fucking level like for most people 1.00

00:39:18.280 They just look at it. They look at ilhan omar and they just go 1.00

00:39:21.880 I don't like it

00:39:23.000 Not not because she's black or because she has a turban. I mean that doesn't help 1.00

00:39:26.920 But

00:39:29.320 Just hearing her talk with the way she's like I am just better than people that that 0.98

00:39:35.000 I think fucking pisses people off same thing with AOC. It's like a 0.96

00:39:39.080 I'm more morally correct than people i'm better than people and there's not a lot of talk about

00:39:44.760 Trying to you know happiness

00:39:46.440 Like they never talk about like like I felt like trump kind of tapped into

00:39:51.720 I want people to have fun

00:39:53.960 Yeah, it's a little more of a positive thing and uh, you know

00:39:58.520 You know the the a lot of what the democrats did like a big point for the democrats and in

00:40:03.640 2024 was like look at

00:40:05.880 Look, they'll take away your abortion rights and it's like you guys were in power when they took it away

00:40:09.320 You you want me to believe that you'll you had

00:40:13.240 So much time from obama to biden if you really cared about abortion 0.57

00:40:18.360 You could have made that especially when obama had all when I had the house and senate

00:40:22.200 You could have codified that you could have made that a law, but you know

00:40:25.800 If you make that a law you can't run on the fact that they're taking it away

00:40:30.200 I do feel like it's do you think it's part of like the population?

00:40:33.960 That they don't want the population to decline so they

00:40:37.400 That's a part of it don't really want people having that many abortions because they know that 1.00

00:40:43.240 Some of those I mean my thing with abortion

00:40:47.640 If we want to talk about it, then we can talk is real about

00:40:51.720 But my thing with abortion is like

00:40:53.080 There's people getting it just because they don't want to

00:40:58.920 Have you know bear the responsibility and maybe it's a bad situation the kid the guy doesn't want to be around

00:41:05.640 There's a lot of rich people getting abortions. Yeah, like i'd say they're possibly getting the majority. I would say yeah 0.93

00:41:11.400 It's like rich white chicks who are like a lot of them not ready a lot of them conservative and they 1.00

00:41:16.760 Their families could help them and they just don't want to do it

00:41:19.960 And that's not good for the country because that kid even if

00:41:24.120 Some of the coolest people are born out of wedlock or out of in like, you know, not the best situation

00:41:30.520 But those become the best people sometimes

00:41:33.320 Yeah, I mean, it's

00:41:34.600 Look, it's definitely like I don't know what the answer is

00:41:37.080 Like if you heard the liberal argument where they're like we need abortion because it keeps down crime

00:41:42.600 It's like the most racist. Yeah, that's racist. That's people say that that's it. Well, yeah, that's like a liberal talking point

00:41:47.480 like well if if we don't have abortion then all these

00:41:52.280 Yeah, people

00:41:53.320 I don't know what race they are, but they're having too many kids 1.00

00:41:56.440 The the liberal racism is very funny to me

00:41:59.160 It's more real and less like haha

00:42:02.440 Yeah, like like

00:42:04.600 I saw this especially after trump won this time and then there and then you know, because he won the latino vote like big and then the people were like

00:42:11.240 people were like

00:42:13.240 On especially on like a place like right of people like oh, look at this republican or conservative

00:42:17.400 Mexican family getting deported good for them 1.00

00:42:19.400 They deserve it

00:42:20.280 It's like that's how you really feel like and and this is why

00:42:24.120 um

00:42:26.040 Kamala lost the minority vote not the minority vote, but like didn't lose it 0.97

00:42:29.080 But like it was shifted right this election

00:42:31.080 It's because people were like we're not a hostage vote

00:42:34.360 You know the whole you vote for buy it if you don't vote for me, you're not black 1.00

00:42:37.480 That sort of stuff. It's like that's how they it's like you vote for us or else

00:42:40.120 Mm-hmm. We're not really like we don't we only care about you as a voting demographic

00:42:46.520 Yeah, they don't

00:42:48.760 It's like liberal racism is like 0.98

00:42:51.960 You know, I know you need a little extra help because you know, you're black 1.00

00:42:55.640 Or like that kind of thing where it's like so whoa 0.99

00:42:58.920 That's crazy. Mm-hmm

00:43:00.120 I do feel like republicans are just happy that anybody wants to be on their side

00:43:04.600 So they're like good to come, you know, or they're they're happy when

00:43:09.400 people of color or or whatever 0.99

00:43:12.360 Or fucking you know, people who aren't white are successful 1.00

00:43:16.040 Like I don't I think republicans are happy about that 1.00

00:43:18.760 Democrats less so especially if that person becomes a republican

00:43:23.800 If they stay a democrat then they're like

00:43:26.440 Great, but you know what I mean like there's tons of yeah

00:43:29.800 Yeah, it's like that. It's so funny the the

00:43:33.480 Only people that have said the words to go back to where you came from

00:43:37.720 Are like liberal austenites

00:43:39.080 Ironically to you well, yeah

00:43:41.320 Well, like in not in those ways, but like do you know to go back to california or go back get out of here?

00:43:45.400 Like that's what that is

00:43:46.680 I've been told to go back to canada by liberals. Yeah, exactly exactly

00:43:50.600 The only people in my life that told me to go back to where I came from have been liberal people

00:43:53.960 It's so funny because they because they have this moral stance of their life and you know

00:43:57.800 Not to say that the conservatives don't have their own problems with minorities, which they definitely do 1.00

00:44:04.120 But like it was what's frustrating I guess from someone who comes from like a liberal place is

00:44:09.160 The people who pretend that they don't

00:44:12.120 And they think that they don't and they're more they think they're on this moral high ground

00:44:15.480 And so they act in a way that's like oh, you don't really see how racist that is

00:44:19.480 Like I had some girl on my show in boston. She was like

00:44:22.600 Just looking at me like that. She's like 22. And then I was like you're not you don't like this, do you?

00:44:26.440 And she's like no, no, I don't

00:44:28.280 And I was like, but your dad would like it

00:44:30.840 And she's like, yeah, he would like this and it's like well, so you know why

00:44:36.360 Why this is you know what i'm saying like that girl's in that boat where 1.00

00:44:39.960 She's gonna act liberal till there's a moment where she's afraid

00:44:43.240 And then she's gonna be the most racist she's ever been in her life 1.00

00:44:46.200 Yeah, dude, like like 0.97

00:44:48.040 That that very famous 0.82

00:44:50.040 Video of that like the girl calling the police on the black chick black little the lady calling the police on the black girl who was selling lemonade 0.97

00:44:56.600 Right, yeah, and that was like like a crazy overreaction. That was in oakland

00:45:01.160 That's in like

00:45:03.160 Liberal liberal

00:45:04.600 Sounds like something I would do

00:45:05.800 Yeah

00:45:06.600 Just call the police on the neighbors for having their kids sell lemonade

00:45:11.240 But you know, they don't they don't you know if you in some places in deep conservative land, they just

00:45:16.760 You could they could they might possibly kill that person, so I guess it's it's it's better that way, but it's still like

00:45:22.120 It's still like it's more conservative land

00:45:24.440 Yes, yes, rich rich conservatives they would call rich conservatives care less about race than I think

00:45:31.160 Well, they're they they're just more

00:45:34.680 Aware of the consequences of violence when you get the more money you have

00:45:39.640 I feel like where you are you're like more willing, you know

00:45:43.720 Potential to do something impulsive, right and so

00:45:47.640 But toronto is way more

00:45:50.760 Politically active with every

00:45:54.520 Conflict that's going on in the world

00:45:56.520 Toronto just has so many 1.00

00:45:58.520 Fucking people from these countries that they 1.00

00:46:01.480 Fucking just can't stop talking about it, you know, ukraine protest 1.00

00:46:06.440 Fucking I mean, there's no russian protest 1.00

00:46:08.920 I'm sure they're talking about it in their homes 0.99

00:46:11.800 But the palestine protest is like every saturday's it's there and then the jews protest 0.56

00:46:20.040 I don't know how anybody has time for that personally like even if you

00:46:24.360 Agree or or like your part, you know mentally you're like good this guy

00:46:30.040 They're representing my belief in it 0.98

00:46:32.440 But holy shit, that's a lot of people 0.99

00:46:35.160 Like would you ever go to a protest every week every week? 0.98

00:46:37.960 No, but I don't think it's I don't think it's like

00:46:40.520 An every week thing because I remember

00:46:42.920 During 2020 I went to like a blm thing and then and and I also went to an anti-gun thing

00:46:47.560 Where it's like these things are how I feel and like well one I was I was just stuck in the house

00:46:54.120 So maybe it did make it easier to go to those things because I don't know if I was the only thing to do

00:46:58.520 Yeah, it was the only thing to do

00:46:59.720 I went to a few anti-lockdown protests

00:47:02.920 Right exactly. Well, that's that's that's the whole thing, but I do think there's a worrying protests

00:47:07.400 Other side of the police line

00:47:10.360 The water cannons

00:47:11.400 It's so funny

00:47:12.200 Well, there there is a thing where I think there's a lot of people who are like well

00:47:15.000 I'll go to one and then just sort of cycle through

00:47:17.320 And then there's some people who the it's their job and they might be paid by someone to do this

00:47:21.080 So it's like it's every week for a regular citizen. I think is a little crazy

00:47:27.320 But I do think if you're part of that community then it also becomes like a community thing too, right?

00:47:31.000 So it's like if you're a palestinian and there's palestinian protests every week, it's it's almost like

00:47:36.600 Well, that's kind of like where we go to church not church

00:47:39.000 But like it's like a meeting place of our community. So there's a lot of that

00:47:42.440 They're definitely praying in the street

00:47:44.680 So there's a lot of like there's a lot of like that going on

00:47:48.120 So it's like maybe same thing with the jews 0.99

00:47:50.520 They're all pumped up to go and hang out and wave flags. It's like guys

00:47:55.400 This is you're making it dangerous for more serious people out there

00:47:59.560 Like you're not the most serious jews on the streets like the ones who are 1.00

00:48:03.400 Have time to fucking go wave a fly 0.99

00:48:05.640 Like, you know, the rich jews are like, oh, can you please not? 1.00

00:48:10.040 Because they're gonna get me fucking killed 0.98

00:48:11.960 Right, because you guys aren't gonna get killed because you got police everywhere, but I you know, then they're gonna find out about the 0.99

00:48:18.200 The levens or the whatever, you know, those the more rich

00:48:21.880 families that are desperately trying to 1.00

00:48:24.280 Go under the radar like the richer jews are the ones who are like, fuck, this is bad 1.00

00:48:29.080 Right, the poor ones are like 1.00

00:48:31.880 More rowdy about it, but

00:48:33.960 They're not they're kind of being used as pawns to 1.00

00:48:37.560 Everybody's it's so easy to just get poor people to fucking 0.99

00:48:41.080 That's what i'm saying 1.00

00:48:41.720 It's you just you just 0.99

00:48:42.920 Fucking heard them into like oh, you you go protest about this you go storm the thing 0.95

00:48:47.640 It's and and you know, it's great one of my quotes. I have I have a 0.99

00:48:51.320 I have a couple quotes up from

00:48:53.400 Different like medias that I like in my house, you know

00:48:55.800 I ironically one of the one of the quotes is in hebrew, but uh, the one of the other quotes is from the gangs of new york

00:49:01.880 And there's a pool scene and the rich aristocrats and it's

00:49:05.720 You can always pay half the poor to kill the other half 1.00

00:49:09.800 Always crazy. I just remember that it's just like whenever the things are happening. It's like well, someone's orchestrating all of this 0.96

00:49:16.520 The board or the the what is the proletariat is the poor? Yes, bourgeoisie is and then

00:49:22.360 yeah, the bourgeoisie is

00:49:25.800 It's and then what what's plebeians? No, that's also that's just like 0.87

00:49:30.760 Yeah, it's like same word for

00:49:32.760 kind of

00:49:34.360 For like the it'll be like it's like kind of basic you're like the low end. I feel like it's like you're a pleb 1.00

00:49:39.400 Yeah, but now it's become slang. So it's like now. It's like

00:49:43.480 It was like the people it was like the weird people in the in the like that lived outside the castle wall

00:49:48.280 Like there was like the plebeians. Yeah 0.99

00:49:50.520 Yeah, that's some like that's some whatever that system was

00:49:53.400 But it's nice to

00:49:56.120 Be able

00:49:57.320 To be around a lot of smart people and kind of be able to

00:50:01.160 Listen and just kind of have

00:50:03.480 Proper like a good perspective like being a rational human being is almost frowned upon

00:50:10.040 Yeah, yeah

00:50:11.160 Because you have to like wait this guy hasn't made up his mind yet or like this guy's taking a minute to 0.98

00:50:16.440 Think about it right or kind of piece of shit or this guy doesn't fall in line with everything that 0.99

00:50:22.920 This believes in this it's just so 1.00

00:50:25.400 The purity tests on both sides are just like so you got a COVID vaccine. Are your kids vaccinated?

00:50:30.680 Did you do this?

00:50:33.480 It's like well, who cares that or there's like the there's like the

00:50:38.280 So there's like the left period test which is like fall in line with all these steps you want and then there's a right period

00:50:42.760 Uh, period test where it's like you can't say anything negative about trump

00:50:49.240 If you say anything negative about trump, you're just some woke liberal and it's like oh really this guy this guy is doing

00:50:55.640 All good things. Yeah, get the fuck out of here dude get the fuck out of here. He's a i've always thought it's so funny 1.00

00:51:02.360 That like because I like the idea of draining the swamp

00:51:05.800 The idea is nice, but you're gonna drain one you're gonna drain the swamp with a new york billionaire

00:51:10.440 He's the swamp. He's part of the swamp. He wants to be for sure

00:51:16.120 But it's yeah, I

00:51:19.400 I don't understand people who

00:51:22.280 Have flags on their car like a trump flag on their car like I get it be leading up to the election

00:51:27.320 A lot of people just wanted him to win there's the people who took those off and we're like

00:51:31.720 I did my job right we won

00:51:34.520 And then there's the people are like no this needs to be on my car for the next four years

00:51:38.840 And those people 0.98

00:51:42.200 Are mentally ill just like a person wearing a mask is mentally ill the right wing version of wearing a mask is just 1.00

00:51:48.600 Continuing to wear a fucking make america great again hat when it's like he already won 1.00

00:51:54.280 It's still not great 0.99

00:51:57.320 I mean it's it is great though. I do love

00:51:59.960 America a lot

00:52:00.760 I think it's that I still think it's the best like you know people like china's better look 1.00

00:52:05.080 They have they have a subway going through a building and then it's a fucking the top floor is the first floor 0.98

00:52:10.600 Or whatever the fuck they did and it's like yeah, but everybody's chinese 1.00

00:52:17.000 Like you like I don't know how many shining like there's this video of walking home in 0.99

00:52:22.760 China at 2 a.m

00:52:23.960 By yourself and it's this white guy walking through china and all the buildings are lit up

00:52:27.720 Yeah, and I really wanted to just take that video and then just

00:52:33.080 Just like because it's like

00:52:35.720 I mean, I know I love chinese people but but like you know, I get what you're saying

00:52:38.760 There's no like there's no like diver like the ironically that the diversity of thought and people is like

00:52:44.120 To me america you go to jail so fast 0.94

00:52:46.120 Yeah, dude for thought crimes and shit like that 0.99

00:52:48.760 Weed yeah, the uh, the 0.89

00:52:50.760 And I know maybe I don't know if you're littering people who are listening is like oh this guy may

00:52:57.480 Come off as like i'm critical of america

00:53:01.080 Because I think it's the best and and to stay the best you got to be highly critical of it all the time

00:53:06.280 And and the beauty of it is I could be publicly that's why israel's so good

00:53:10.360 Yeah

Bankas Podcast - July 01, 2025

Ehsan Ahmad ｜ Bankas Podcast - #100

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