Bankas Podcast - December 31, 2023


Fun Year ｜ The Bankas Show - #039


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In this episode of The Bankist Show, Ben sits down in the boardroom of the Doubletree Hotel in London, Ontario and talks about his upcoming comedy tour. He also talks about what it's like going on tour with Yuck Yucks.

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00:00:00.020 Hello and welcome to the podcast, everyone.
00:00:03.280 The Bankist Show.
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00:00:13.900 Yeah.
00:00:15.300 Welcome to the show, everybody.
00:00:17.620 It is almost New Year's Eve.
00:00:20.300 You might be listening to this on New Year's Eve.
00:00:22.400 You might be listening to this January 1st.
00:00:25.300 It might be 2024. 0.98
00:00:26.260 You might have all of the I don't know what the fuck I'm trying to say. 0.98
00:00:33.440 But what I'm trying to say is it's almost a fucking New Year and it's been a great year. 0.97
00:00:38.420 And thank you to all of you guys. 0.95
00:00:41.940 I'm going on tour as I always am on tour, baby.
00:00:46.680 That's the name of the game.
00:00:47.940 That is what I do for a living.
00:00:50.000 I'm on tour right now. 0.98
00:00:52.120 So I am I'm actually coming to you live from what's not live, but you know what the fuck I'm talking about. 0.96
00:01:00.160 This is the the boardroom of the Doubletree Hotel in London, Ontario. 0.96
00:01:06.660 I came to London, Ontario before my January 18th show that's coming up to just kind of get the lay of the land.
00:01:14.760 It's a new comedy club here, have not performed at it yet and wanted to hang out and check out the facilities and see what the show's all about.
00:01:26.220 So we're here.
00:01:27.140 We're doing a pod in the boardroom hanging out. 0.99
00:01:30.400 So, yeah, you guys should go get tickets, by the way, before we get into shit. 0.98
00:01:36.700 BenBankis.com. 0.97
00:01:38.120 You can get tickets there.
00:01:39.880 New Year's Eve, if you're listening to this during the day.
00:01:44.460 I'm in Toronto.
00:01:46.400 8 p.m.
00:01:47.400 Backroom Comedy Club.
00:01:49.460 January 3rd, 4th in Ottawa are sold out.
00:01:52.480 We've added a third show.
00:01:54.740 January 5th, 10 p.m.
00:01:56.940 in Ottawa.
00:01:57.720 Go get tickets for that.
00:01:58.800 Also have a few other big shows in January.
00:02:03.620 January 18th here in London, Ontario.
00:02:08.160 January 25th in Windsor.
00:02:11.400 February 3rd in Waterloo.
00:02:14.300 February 21st in Toronto at Yuck Yucks again.
00:02:19.940 And February 22nd, Burlington, Yuck Yucks.
00:02:24.600 March 25th, Edmonton, Alberta.
00:02:27.000 And then April, I'm going to be in the east coast of Canada.
00:02:30.960 Working very diligently right now on my U.S. credentials.
00:02:36.320 Essentially, everything I need to get to the United States.
00:02:39.760 I have tons of fans there. 0.98
00:02:41.340 If you are a U.S. fan watching this, fucking comment below what city you want me to come to. 0.99
00:02:46.540 Because we are getting all that shit organized right now and collecting all that data, collecting your private data, your name and address and email address. 0.99
00:02:58.360 So help us out with that, folks.
00:03:00.840 Hopefully, these glasses aren't too reflective.
00:03:04.480 I can't tell.
00:03:05.600 But, yeah, right now I'm hanging out.
00:03:11.360 I brought my family to do a couple shows.
00:03:16.080 I'm emceeing, actually.
00:03:17.680 I kind of wanted to.
00:03:18.840 You got to do that sometimes in comedy.
00:03:21.040 You know, you can't.
00:03:21.920 And all the comics talk about this.
00:03:24.660 Louis C.K. talks about, you know, there's only, you can't just do your sold-out shows in bigger and bigger and cooler venues.
00:03:32.920 You have to show up places where hopefully nobody knows who you are.
00:03:37.760 Some, you know, some of those guys who, you know, like Louis C.K., they're almost too famous for that to happen.
00:03:43.960 But sometimes it does happen.
00:03:45.640 You know, they show, who's this Louis C.K.?
00:03:47.380 I've never heard of, you know, you want to show up to the, Dave Chappelle, you know, was doing that.
00:03:53.340 I mean, I know he's famous, but he was going to places where people have just seen less of his stuff or, you know, going into, you know, the random comedy clubs in the Midwest or whatever.
00:04:04.520 So I like that I have the ability to do that as a Yuck Yucks comic.
00:04:08.720 Although, you know, a lot of the shows I'm doing with Yucks, I'm doing them kind of as my own thing. 0.70
00:04:15.180 But come out to London, Ontario for basically a little free, you know, paid vacation for a couple days.
00:04:26.580 Go to the pool, hang out, and do comedy at night.
00:04:31.220 I wish there was three shows.
00:04:32.600 There's only two shows every weekend here right now at the New Yuck Yucks in London.
00:04:36.540 But the show last night was pretty good.
00:04:39.940 The 120, 130 people I hosted, so I just went.
00:04:44.900 I like that for working on comedy.
00:04:47.900 I can just go up.
00:04:49.380 It's a completely cold audience.
00:04:51.380 I'm throwing out new ideas.
00:04:53.420 I'm throwing out premises.
00:04:54.840 I'm throwing out new jokes and seeing what sticks.
00:04:58.360 Because I'm under a lot of pressure, guys, as you know.
00:05:02.500 I mean, my fan base is growing, but a lot of my fans are return customers.
00:05:10.280 And or they watch my YouTube.
00:05:13.660 They watch my Instagram.
00:05:17.880 Pardon me. 1.00
00:05:18.380 I have fucking heartburn. 0.99
00:05:19.460 I don't know if anybody listening to this have heartburn. 1.00
00:05:22.260 Just like a fat guy problem.
00:05:23.580 Hopefully it's not a cardiac issue.
00:05:28.360 It did work out this morning, by the way, just in case you're worried.
00:05:35.060 Yeah, it's good.
00:05:36.520 It's good to try comedy on an audience that doesn't really know what's going on.
00:05:45.020 They don't know what they signed up for, right?
00:05:46.800 Everybody that I performed for last night and going to perform for tonight here in London
00:05:51.440 is just going to a show, right?
00:05:54.880 They're just like, I'm going to a show.
00:05:56.200 I have no idea who these people are, these comics, and we'll see what happens.
00:06:00.880 So scaring the shit out of some people last night, definitely.
00:06:03.780 I was actually watching a video.
00:06:05.360 I do this same thing in Toronto as well, right?
00:06:08.720 This is how I practice. 1.00
00:06:09.680 You can't practice comedy in a fucking mirror. 1.00
00:06:12.480 You know, you can't practice it alone in a room. 0.99
00:06:15.960 You have to do it in front of an audience as you get, you know, I'm at the point now where
00:06:21.660 I could have a conversation with somebody and if I make them laugh with something I said
00:06:24.740 in that conversation, I'm like, I'm taking that to the stage and I'll do it that day or
00:06:29.920 night.
00:06:31.260 And I just did that with a joke actually about Jews, which I'm working into my next, will 0.95
00:06:37.500 be in my next, all my next shows.
00:06:38.880 So, yeah, so I just was watching a video of me doing that in Toronto, talking to this,
00:06:47.200 these people, you know, it's basically, I'm sorry, I'm doing comedy and there's these people
00:06:52.320 in the audience and they're watching me and they're clearly like Muslim or something.
00:06:56.160 They were just so offended by every Muslim joke that I was making. 0.95
00:07:00.860 And it was just kind of interesting to watch.
00:07:03.440 But then they did laugh at certain things, right? 0.93
00:07:05.360 At certain points they just go, okay, well, that was just fucking funny. 0.75
00:07:07.720 I don't know what to say. 0.96
00:07:08.860 I don't know how to be offended.
00:07:10.860 So, that's important.
00:07:13.980 I, you know, I am kind of living the dream right now, except for the fact that I'm fat
00:07:19.460 and I have heartburn.
00:07:21.020 Other than that, you know, look, man, when I started comedy when I was 19 years old, all
00:07:28.620 I wanted then was, I mean, pretty much what I'm doing now, but, you know, your goals change,
00:07:36.980 your goals grow, what you want out of life grows, right?
00:07:42.620 But I just want, I was like, I just want to work at Yuck Yucks.
00:07:45.220 I just want to perform at Yuck Yucks and do, you know, get a couple hundred bucks for a
00:07:49.900 spot, you know, in the middle and, you know, stay at the free hotel.
00:07:55.720 Well, I remember my first Yuck Yucks gig was in Sudbury, Ontario, and we stayed at a Super
00:08:05.540 8 motel. 0.91
00:08:06.220 So, and I was just like happy as shit, but I didn't want to hang out with the other 0.96
00:08:11.540 comics. 0.96
00:08:12.840 I remember that.
00:08:13.720 I didn't want to hang out with the, they were kind of comics I've been doing a long
00:08:16.840 time.
00:08:17.700 They got drunk, even though they were in their like late thirties at the time, but they 0.92
00:08:23.320 got drunk and shit like that. 0.92
00:08:26.220 And I didn't want to really get drunk because I was like, I just started at Yuck Yucks. 0.98
00:08:30.020 I got to be on my best behavior kind of situation.
00:08:33.980 So I, um, I didn't drink with them really.
00:08:39.520 And I just went to my room and I remember the moment when I left, I was in the, in their
00:08:43.400 room or one of their rooms and they were drinking in there and I had a drink with them.
00:08:48.120 And then I remember leaving it because one guy was talking about, he's like, you know,
00:08:52.440 none of us are really that good.
00:08:54.340 Like we're, none of us are geniuses, right?
00:08:57.460 Like, you know, but if, if all three of us show up to a show, it's like, it's a pretty
00:09:01.440 good show. 1.00
00:09:02.000 And I, I just remember in my head, I'm like, these guys are fucking retards, you know, they're 1.00
00:09:07.400 fucking losers. 1.00
00:09:08.600 Um, and I was right. 1.00
00:09:10.960 So now they're poor and I'm not.
00:09:15.280 So that's how she goes, folks.
00:09:18.940 That's what you gotta, uh, that's why you gotta focus on yourself sometimes, man.
00:09:25.300 It's tough.
00:09:25.920 You gotta make, there's a lot of decisions that have to be made in this business.
00:09:31.160 Um, constantly making decisions, right?
00:09:36.680 Constantly.
00:09:39.800 Oh, my, my fiance got me this hat.
00:09:44.640 It's, it's a brand new.
00:09:48.520 Hopefully you can see the logo.
00:09:49.980 Cause that's the cool part is that it's can a goose hat.
00:09:54.340 I think she bought it with the credit card that I let her use, but, um, for now.
00:10:03.700 Oh, money, more problems.
00:10:05.020 Not that I'm making, you know, uh, insane money yet, but I'm making what I should be making
00:10:14.200 right now.
00:10:14.660 I'm, I'm where I should be right now.
00:10:17.520 And that's a big thing with, with comedy and with art is just kind of taking that step back
00:10:23.480 and really going, okay, I am where I need to be right now.
00:10:26.760 And a lot of people aren't where they need to be.
00:10:30.580 Um, and I think I am.
00:10:32.720 And I think that is the best thing that you can be is in the right place at the right time. 0.98
00:10:39.000 Um, and right now that's in a boardroom at the Doubletree Hotel in fucking London, Ontario, baby. 0.97
00:10:47.880 Working on bits. 0.96
00:10:49.860 That's where I want to be, um, in this moment in time.
00:10:54.160 Uh, not forever.
00:10:55.500 Definitely not.
00:10:56.280 Don't want to be here in a year. 0.96
00:11:00.320 Um, want to be doing spots hopefully in like fucking New York City or something. 0.96
00:11:04.540 Cool. 0.95
00:11:05.320 I need it.
00:11:05.800 I need new audience members.
00:11:06.880 I can't, I, I, I love Canadians. 0.98
00:11:10.080 I love Canada, but I just don't want to fucking talk to you people anymore. 0.94
00:11:13.280 I don't want to talk about Trudeau anymore. 0.99
00:11:14.960 I don't want to, this just seems like small fries, small fries. 0.98
00:11:20.280 Is that even a fucking, I have bigger fish to fries. 0.92
00:11:24.980 That's, I think that's what I meant to say, but I'm excited to go to the States. 0.98
00:11:29.680 You know, I grew up going to the States my whole life, but I've never, the longest I ever spent in the States was,
00:11:35.080 you know, four months, um, vacation.
00:11:40.640 Austin, Texas, baby.
00:11:43.540 I think that's where I'd want to move.
00:11:45.780 At least to begin with.
00:11:47.060 Austin, Texas, you know, you have Rogan's Club.
00:11:49.940 You have so many comics moving there.
00:11:52.520 There's so much opportunity.
00:11:54.220 Texans are really kind of pretty funny, pretty smart people.
00:11:59.180 A lot of people assume that people with the Texas accent, they're not as smart, but they are.
00:12:06.200 They actually are.
00:12:07.460 So, I think that that's where I would go.
00:12:10.980 So, I think I got to get out, got to get away from Canada and away from all these problems. 0.77
00:12:20.360 I want to ditch the Indian and Muslim immigrants for the Mexican, Central American, South American immigrants. 1.00
00:12:29.940 But I'm pretty sure that, like, the, the whole West is just being, um, used to, just as a huge refugee camp, really, for the world,
00:12:42.440 because there's just so many countries in the world that did not think about how to take care of their own citizens,
00:12:53.700 or at least, you know, like, not in a socialist way, but in a societal way.
00:13:00.860 How do you set up a society that people want to actually live in and be in? 0.90
00:13:06.080 And, um, you know, I don't think, like, these African countries and even in India and shit, 1.00
00:13:15.300 like, I don't know, people just so desperately want to come to Canada. 0.93
00:13:18.460 I want to live in Canada.
00:13:19.940 I do not want to live in India anymore. 0.99
00:13:23.700 Why?
00:13:24.340 Then you look at, I'll go online and look at pictures of India. 0.99
00:13:27.060 It looks fucking better than Canada. 0.96
00:13:29.320 And it's cheaper. 0.96
00:13:30.800 And so, what is, why do you want, I don't, I, I want to move to India.
00:13:37.820 That was, like, the crazy part is when Trudeau said, oh, um, you know, nobody can move, you can't move to India anymore.
00:13:45.900 You can't get a, Canadians can't get a visa to go to India. 0.98
00:13:49.280 And I'm like, who the fuck wants to go to India? 0.99
00:13:51.360 But then I started looking into it, and I'm like, dude, I want to open a fucking sweatshop, like, tomorrow. 0.99
00:13:58.000 Like, I want to outsource to Nike and just be like, I got 200. 0.97
00:14:02.720 Yeah, they're in a room.
00:14:03.820 They're ready to go.
00:14:04.920 What do you want, Jordans?
00:14:05.860 That could be a possibility for me, that Trudeau actually opened my eyes to.
00:14:14.380 So, thank you, Justin Trudeau, for letting me know that I could have been running a sweatshop in India this whole time. 0.99
00:14:23.060 Damn it. 0.99
00:14:23.640 That's what I, that's what I was born to do. 1.00
00:14:27.120 I was not born to be a comedian.
00:14:28.220 I was born to own a sweatshop in a third world nation where I could have large Fortune 500 companies outsource their manual labor to me because they know that I am the best.
00:14:46.220 And I have the best people, hands.
00:14:52.240 What do we call, I want to, I just want to, like, I, you know, I love being in sales.
00:14:57.440 I used to sell photocopiers.
00:14:58.840 I used to sell office leasing services, commercial real estate, tenant man, tenant relocation and shit like that for offices and stuff.
00:15:07.780 I like learning about those businesses, you know, the sweatshops.
00:15:13.780 Like, I'd like to know all the, like, code.
00:15:15.320 Yeah, we got a lot of hands.
00:15:16.660 We got good hands.
00:15:17.540 How are the hands?
00:15:18.160 Oh, they're young.
00:15:18.740 They're young.
00:15:19.120 We got young hands.
00:15:20.280 Whatever it is.
00:15:23.140 I want to learn about the sweatshop business.
00:15:24.960 I want to get into it.
00:15:26.140 If I make it big as a comedian, I'm going to buy a couple factories, I think, in old Bangladesh or something like that. 0.99
00:15:34.400 I'm joking around a little bit.
00:15:36.600 I think that's the move, though.
00:15:38.940 Seriously. 1.00
00:15:40.480 Fuck. 1.00
00:15:42.020 How many podcads, podcads, how many fucking podcads do I got to do before I can buy a sweatshop in fucking Sri Lanka? 1.00
00:15:49.500 It's not fucking making keychains. 0.99
00:15:54.160 That's the dream, man. 0.99
00:15:57.060 That's the dream.
00:15:57.800 Maybe South America.
00:15:58.520 South America has, you know, a lot of kids ready to work.
00:16:03.260 A lot of kids ready to work. 1.00
00:16:04.380 Go down there, buy a fucking facility. 1.00
00:16:09.080 Bankist Enterprises. 1.00
00:16:11.180 What do we make?
00:16:12.000 Whatever you want.
00:16:13.440 Everything.
00:16:14.100 Keychains.
00:16:16.420 South American keychains.
00:16:17.680 We send it to all of the Indian stores in Canada.
00:16:22.320 Indians have really taken over that sector. 1.00
00:16:24.620 Like, if you just want to go to a shitty store that has everything, Indians do that really well. 1.00
00:16:30.340 Chinese, not so much. 0.98
00:16:31.160 Chinese, when they do those stores, it always ends up just a pot and pan, pot and pan. 0.99
00:16:35.760 Then they end up just selling pots and pans.
00:16:37.660 It's, you know, when they have those everything stores.
00:16:42.020 Have you ever been to these everything stores that Indians run, at least in Toronto? 1.00
00:16:45.900 I'm pretty sure it's all over the country, though.
00:16:47.680 It's like, you know, you can get clothes.
00:16:49.740 You can get bed sheets.
00:16:51.640 You can get shower curtain.
00:16:53.620 You can get detergent.
00:16:55.360 You can get gum.
00:16:56.520 You can buy cigarettes.
00:16:57.460 You can get a TV. 1.00
00:16:59.400 You can get a fucking heater. 1.00
00:17:01.300 You can get, you know, dog shit bags. 1.00
00:17:04.360 You can get food. 1.00
00:17:05.440 They have fucking spices. 1.00
00:17:08.040 You know, it's fly swatters, knives, fucking anything you fucking want. 1.00
00:17:14.840 The Indians have it at their stores. 1.00
00:17:17.840 It's no wonder they don't have, like, Costco's and shit in India. 0.99
00:17:21.460 I'm pretty sure they don't. 0.96
00:17:22.560 But why would they need that?
00:17:23.920 Costco is just a big organized version of every single small Indian store.
00:17:32.080 If anything, I think Costco might have ripped off the small Indian store and turned it into a big box enterprise because the Indians were doing it first. 1.00
00:17:43.780 So I got to love the Indians.
00:17:45.660 Shout out to all my Indian fans.
00:17:47.400 I love you guys.
00:17:49.460 Sorry we were making fun of you with that statue.
00:17:51.820 The statue is wild, though.
00:17:53.920 The statue they're putting up in Brampton of the Indian god or whatever.
00:17:58.580 I'm sorry.
00:17:59.280 Do you really need that, guys?
00:18:01.920 Like, do you really, really need that? 0.93
00:18:04.680 I'm not trying to fucking say, you know, I'm not trying to be redneck. 0.95
00:18:09.440 You know, people call me a redneck online, right? 0.98
00:18:12.480 Not knowing that I'm a Jew born in downtown Toronto in the annex, right? 0.99
00:18:16.540 And they're just like, he's fucking redneck, that boy. 0.98
00:18:20.080 Or it's people who think they're sophisticated. 1.00
00:18:22.360 Like, that guy's a fucking redneck. 1.00
00:18:23.920 And it's like, where are you from? 1.00
00:18:25.020 Oh, Peterborough. 1.00
00:18:26.720 Shut the fuck up. 1.00
00:18:28.220 All those fake woke people are from the they're from redneck shitholes. 1.00
00:18:32.160 And then they come to Toronto and act like they're like, well, I'm a fucking diversity expert. 1.00
00:18:37.140 No, you're from fucking Petawawa. 1.00
00:18:38.860 Shut the fuck up. 1.00
00:18:41.100 Seriously. 0.99
00:18:44.080 God, I got to get more American references.
00:18:46.260 I can't do it with these Petawawas. 1.00
00:18:48.440 It's kind of probably funny to some of my American fans listening. 0.99
00:18:51.100 Because, like, where the fuck is that? 1.00
00:18:52.400 Sounds like a redneck shithole. 1.00
00:18:54.720 It's actually not. 0.76
00:18:56.620 I think Petawawa was, like, a military base or something in Canada.
00:19:05.080 But, yeah, not to be a redneck, but the Indian statue is a bit much, guys. 0.98
00:19:11.000 It's like a 50 feet tall. 0.99
00:19:13.040 Do you really need a 50 foot fucking statue? 1.00
00:19:15.600 Who needs a 50 foot statue? 1.00
00:19:17.160 Who?
00:19:20.560 I don't.
00:19:21.200 I don't think the Jews have one. 1.00
00:19:22.300 Do the Jews have one? 1.00
00:19:22.940 They don't even have a 50 foot menorah.
00:19:25.380 They don't even have a 50 foot menorah in the Gaza Strip, for God's sakes.
00:19:30.280 Where it would look good.
00:19:34.560 Right?
00:19:35.160 Just a.
00:19:37.200 You see those pictures?
00:19:38.400 Just a field of rubble with just a menorah in the middle.
00:19:42.780 Nothing makes liberals and Muslims matter. 1.00
00:19:46.760 Very much solidifying, at least in Canada,
00:19:50.780 Muslims being kind of voting liberal forever, I guess. 0.97
00:19:55.960 Just how it's insane how people like, and not to call out Chris Skye, if you guys know Chris Skye.
00:20:01.940 He's been on.
00:20:02.460 There's an episode we did with him on this podcast.
00:20:05.920 But Chris was going off about the Jews and, you know, they run everything.
00:20:11.520 And, like, you know, we do.
00:20:12.840 But are you not happy?
00:20:16.120 Are you not entertained?
00:20:19.240 You know, it's not that Jews run everything.
00:20:21.480 It's just the people that run a lot of the most powerful people happen to be Jews because those, 0.71
00:20:27.900 they also happen to be white and there's, by the way, there's a lot of Arabs, okay,
00:20:32.260 that run a lot of oil companies and a lot of other companies that dictate our lives, too. 0.99
00:20:38.080 The Houthis right now are making a lot of things more expensive because they're blowing up fucking ships. 0.99
00:20:44.380 They're trying to blow up ships, bringing all the key chains that I'm making in fucking Mumbai. 0.99
00:20:49.000 I'm trying to put it through the fucking canal there, the Gaza Canal, or whatever they call it, 0.99
00:20:54.960 or the Strait of Hormuz, or I don't know what it's called, the canal there. 0.98
00:20:58.620 What is it?
00:20:59.580 The Egyptian one? 0.99
00:21:00.960 Cairo Canal?
00:21:04.180 What is it?
00:21:05.140 I don't know.
00:21:07.260 Hey, Siri, what is the canal near Egypt?
00:21:16.960 Suez.
00:21:17.360 I should have known that, for God's sakes.
00:21:20.680 Suez Crisis.
00:21:21.660 But we've had these Suez Crises before, okay?
00:21:25.500 I'm pretty sure the Suez Crisis was a thing, right? 0.99
00:21:30.100 Suez Crisis.
00:21:33.880 1956.
00:21:36.060 The Suez Crisis was an invasion of Egypt and the Gaza Strip by Israel,
00:21:42.060 followed by the United...
00:21:43.140 Oh, uh-oh.
00:21:43.740 The Suez Crisis, also called the Second Arab-Israeli War in the Arab World and the Sinai War,
00:21:52.260 was an invasion of Egypt and the Gaza Strip in late 1956 by Israel,
00:21:56.360 followed by the United Kingdom and France.
00:21:58.820 The aims were to regain control of the Suez Canal for the Western powers
00:22:02.600 and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser,
00:22:06.640 who had just nationalized the foreign-owned Suez Canal Company,
00:22:10.280 which administered the canal.
00:22:12.120 Israel's primary objective was to reopen the blocked straits of Tehran.
00:22:15.640 After the fighting had started, political pressure from the United States,
00:22:20.120 the Soviet Union, and the United Nations led to a withdrawal by the three invaders.
00:22:23.860 The episode humiliated the United Kingdom of France and strengthened Nasser. 0.99
00:22:28.500 Jesus fucking Christ. 0.99
00:22:31.280 Suez was closed. 0.99
00:22:32.640 October 1956 till March 1957,
00:22:36.500 Israel fulfilled some of its objectives, 0.75
00:22:38.700 such as attaining freedom of navigation through the Straits of Tehran,
00:22:42.060 which Egypt had blocked Israeli shipping from 1948 to 1950.
00:22:49.520 Interesting.
00:22:51.340 Interesting.
00:22:52.200 So,
00:22:54.120 the Suez Canal was opened in 1869. 0.99
00:22:56.840 Can you fucking believe that? 0.97
00:22:57.820 People don't realize how long globalization is taking over. 0.99
00:23:01.960 It's like we've kind of been doing it for a bit.
00:23:05.860 The Suez Canal was opened in 1869 after 10 years of work
00:23:09.040 financed by the French and Egyptian governments.
00:23:12.040 The canal was operated by the Universal Company of the Suez Maritime Canal,
00:23:16.160 an Egyptian chartered company.
00:23:19.720 Instantly became strategically important as it provided the shortest ocean link
00:23:23.620 between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.
00:23:25.720 In 1875 as a result of debt and financial crisis,
00:23:30.560 Egypt was forced to sell its shares in the canal operating company
00:23:33.380 to the British government.
00:23:35.600 44%
00:23:36.960 was given up for sale
00:23:42.600 for 4 million pounds,
00:23:48.440 equivalent to 401 million pounds in 2021.
00:23:51.320 It maintained that's pretty crazy, dude.
00:23:53.420 So, right now,
00:23:55.400 50% of the cargo ships cannot use the Suez Canal
00:23:59.080 because they can't go past the Strait of Hormuz
00:24:03.400 because the Houthis are firing off.
00:24:06.060 So, everybody's okay with that.
00:24:07.360 They're like,
00:24:07.720 I'll pay
00:24:08.280 globally,
00:24:10.480 I'll pay more for everything. 0.99
00:24:12.920 And that's the Jews' fault. 1.00
00:24:15.540 It's not the Houthis' fault for firing the rockets at the ships. 0.79
00:24:19.440 It's the Jews' fault for all that stuff. 1.00
00:24:22.400 And, like, 1.00
00:24:22.760 that shit, like, 1.00
00:24:23.700 it's actually complicated, 1.00
00:24:26.200 the Israel thing.
00:24:26.920 Like, people don't want to admit that.
00:24:28.660 Like,
00:24:28.720 people who just found out about it,
00:24:31.220 like,
00:24:31.480 six,
00:24:33.880 or started caring about it,
00:24:35.320 like,
00:24:35.560 four or five months ago,
00:24:36.580 and now they're just, like,
00:24:38.360 completely embroiled in it.
00:24:39.520 It's like,
00:24:39.780 you don't, 1.00
00:24:40.160 you're dumb. 1.00
00:24:41.100 Because, 1.00
00:24:41.560 first of all,
00:24:41.940 anybody who hears about something happening in the world
00:24:45.780 and then makes that their entire personality
00:24:48.560 when they didn't know anything about it before
00:24:51.140 or didn't care about it before 1.00
00:24:52.580 is an idiot. 1.00
00:24:54.960 Okay? 1.00
00:24:55.380 And most of the people who care about Israel right now
00:24:58.640 and the Palestine thing have,
00:25:01.360 one, 0.99
00:25:01.880 they have no fucking idea what they're talking about. 0.99
00:25:04.380 Two, 0.99
00:25:05.960 before this, 1.00
00:25:07.140 they cared about some other dumb shit, 1.00
00:25:09.080 right? 1.00
00:25:09.400 They were pissed off about,
00:25:11.180 you know,
00:25:12.020 whatever,
00:25:14.240 COVID,
00:25:15.180 masking,
00:25:16.420 LGBT,
00:25:17.620 this,
00:25:18.360 it's just,
00:25:19.880 we have a portion of the population
00:25:22.400 in Canada and the U.S.
00:25:24.700 that are just basically professional protesters.
00:25:28.220 We just have people who are on welfare 0.99
00:25:30.320 or work really shitty minimum wage jobs
00:25:32.940 and they just have no life
00:25:37.140 and there's nothing to look forward to,
00:25:39.040 really,
00:25:39.440 for them
00:25:39.920 and they don't have any hope
00:25:41.480 and they don't think of themselves as special
00:25:44.620 and they think that nobody is special
00:25:46.860 and they think everybody should just be 0.98
00:25:48.840 and have the same shitty mentality that they have 0.95
00:25:51.740 and these people go out in the streets 0.99
00:25:53.860 and they're protesting this
00:25:54.900 and they're protesting that
00:25:55.940 and they're pro...
00:25:57.560 No.
00:26:01.500 Okay?
00:26:02.740 And even the counter-protesters,
00:26:04.360 I get,
00:26:04.560 now there's a thing going on in Toronto
00:26:06.440 where one of the counter-protesters
00:26:09.320 of the pro-Palestine people,
00:26:11.860 which is basically just Jews who are bored.
00:26:15.720 Okay? 0.91
00:26:16.580 No offense, Jews, 0.97
00:26:18.080 but don't get involved. 0.97
00:26:20.340 We don't need to be involved. 1.00
00:26:21.480 You don't need to go to the fucking protests 1.00
00:26:23.760 and start yelling at Muslims. 1.00
00:26:26.120 I mean, 0.97
00:26:27.380 Jesus Christ,
00:26:28.740 do we, like,
00:26:30.060 fuel,
00:26:30.420 talk about fuel on the fire.
00:26:32.560 That is,
00:26:33.860 I don't know what the Israeli version of that is.
00:26:37.260 Fuel on the...
00:26:40.760 Dead Palestinian baby. 1.00
00:26:43.880 But,
00:26:44.300 so,
00:26:44.720 no,
00:26:44.840 but I'm just trying to make a point here, guys,
00:26:47.620 is that 0.80
00:26:48.720 if you're a bored Jew 0.66
00:26:51.200 and you're going to the protest 0.93
00:26:52.760 to yell at the other bored people, 1.00
00:26:54.740 it's just stupid 1.00
00:26:55.760 and you're risking more 1.00
00:26:57.120 because you're a Jew, 0.97
00:26:58.240 right?
00:27:00.800 If you're Jewish
00:27:01.680 and you're going to one of these,
00:27:02.720 these pro-Palestine rallies
00:27:04.640 to
00:27:05.100 try and stand up for,
00:27:07.340 for the Jews,
00:27:08.140 I think it's going to do more harm than good. 0.73
00:27:10.880 Look at this lady. 1.00
00:27:11.660 She,
00:27:12.020 she went like this.
00:27:13.480 The lady went like this, 1.00
00:27:14.760 like the throat cutting signal
00:27:17.000 and now she's being,
00:27:18.720 you know,
00:27:20.880 looked for
00:27:22.920 or she got arrested or something.
00:27:24.500 She had to,
00:27:25.440 because she,
00:27:26.740 this is,
00:27:27.180 this is a threat or something.
00:27:29.280 Which is kind of funny
00:27:30.280 that the pro-Palestine people
00:27:32.360 go to these protests
00:27:35.100 and then,
00:27:36.160 then somebody gets mad at them.
00:27:37.920 Like,
00:27:38.120 they incite people to get crazy
00:27:39.720 and then somebody does something to them
00:27:41.000 and then they're the ones being like,
00:27:42.480 oh,
00:27:43.000 please help me.
00:27:44.320 It's,
00:27:44.740 the whole thing,
00:27:45.420 anyway, 1.00
00:27:45.680 the whole thing is fucking dumb. 1.00
00:27:49.640 Hamas 1.00
00:27:50.080 is a terrorist company, 1.00
00:27:53.200 they're a terrorist organization
00:27:54.640 or company,
00:27:55.180 whatever.
00:27:56.520 Terrorist organization
00:27:57.680 and they did really bad things
00:28:00.700 for a long time
00:28:02.120 and this is,
00:28:03.860 you know,
00:28:05.020 oh,
00:28:05.460 the Jews,
00:28:06.140 there's not that many Jews,
00:28:07.620 there's tons of Arabs, 1.00
00:28:08.760 fuck it. 1.00
00:28:09.220 Like, 1.00
00:28:09.600 just shut the fuck up. 1.00
00:28:11.480 Shouldn't have attacked. 1.00
00:28:13.200 Shouldn't be blowing people up
00:28:14.780 and then,
00:28:16.560 when,
00:28:17.120 you know,
00:28:18.000 more forces put onto you,
00:28:19.860 that means that all of a sudden,
00:28:20.920 you know,
00:28:21.180 oh,
00:28:21.680 it's a genocide.
00:28:22.420 It's,
00:28:22.620 I don't know.
00:28:24.780 Some people want to say it is,
00:28:25.860 I don't know what it is,
00:28:26.920 but,
00:28:28.280 I can tell you one thing. 1.00
00:28:31.320 The Jews aren't fucking around. 1.00
00:28:33.260 That's for sure. 1.00
00:28:34.440 And,
00:28:34.840 I know a lot of,
00:28:35.700 you know,
00:28:36.440 it's pretty crazy
00:28:37.640 that you have Muslims 0.97
00:28:38.380 in the street 0.97
00:28:38.960 begging
00:28:40.320 for the Jews 0.88
00:28:42.200 to chill out.
00:28:44.140 Please,
00:28:44.740 Jews.
00:28:45.440 But they're not really.
00:28:46.340 They're calling for
00:28:46.920 the destruction 1.00
00:28:47.940 of Jews 0.99
00:28:49.760 and Israel.
00:28:50.460 And look,
00:28:50.900 I honestly,
00:28:51.740 yeah,
00:28:52.420 I don't know what the answer is,
00:28:55.040 but I'm just
00:28:55.680 spitting,
00:28:56.720 spitballing here.
00:28:57.440 I think the overall answer
00:29:00.280 would be,
00:29:00.960 you know,
00:29:04.740 people in,
00:29:06.780 this is the thing about
00:29:08.060 the whole,
00:29:09.660 what do you have,
00:29:10.780 you know,
00:29:11.000 what do you expect
00:29:11.780 the Hamas people
00:29:13.040 and the Palestinians 0.55
00:29:13.920 to do?
00:29:14.900 They have no money
00:29:16.200 and they're starving
00:29:17.220 and that's why they want to go 1.00
00:29:18.520 and blow up the Jews. 1.00
00:29:19.500 First of all, 1.00
00:29:19.900 there was no,
00:29:20.280 they had electricity,
00:29:21.220 water,
00:29:21.640 and food
00:29:22.220 before October 7th,
00:29:23.740 right?
00:29:23.960 and Canada
00:29:27.700 and America
00:29:28.740 and all of Europe
00:29:30.800 went through periods
00:29:32.580 where everybody was poor,
00:29:34.140 people were starving,
00:29:35.700 people were hungry,
00:29:38.140 the inflation was insane,
00:29:40.440 people were walking around
00:29:41.240 with wheelbarrows
00:29:41.920 full of money,
00:29:43.500 you know,
00:29:44.020 the Great Depression
00:29:45.100 in Canada,
00:29:46.000 people,
00:29:46.320 the dust,
00:29:47.620 whatever,
00:29:48.400 dust bowl,
00:29:49.360 nobody,
00:29:49.660 there was no food,
00:29:52.500 all the young men
00:29:53.560 were taking the trains,
00:29:55.100 half of them were veterans,
00:29:56.460 lost limbs,
00:29:57.700 all shell-shocked,
00:29:58.940 insane,
00:30:00.200 and guess what?
00:30:02.040 We still didn't do
00:30:04.200 October 7th 0.99
00:30:07.740 or that type of shit. 1.00
00:30:11.200 We didn't blame 1.00
00:30:12.460 everybody else, 0.99
00:30:15.400 we just got our shit together. 0.88
00:30:17.720 Sorry, 0.95
00:30:18.120 but that's kind of what
00:30:19.200 Western countries did,
00:30:20.760 right?
00:30:21.060 That we went through
00:30:21.700 World War after World War
00:30:23.160 and we rebuilt better
00:30:24.680 and stronger.
00:30:26.700 So,
00:30:28.160 the whole like,
00:30:29.280 oh my God,
00:30:29.900 but what do you expect?
00:30:31.480 Like,
00:30:31.920 they're poor, 1.00
00:30:32.560 they have to rape 1.00
00:30:33.340 and murder, 1.00
00:30:34.240 no, 1.00
00:30:34.920 shut the fuck up, 1.00
00:30:36.220 okay? 1.00
00:30:37.740 Seriously,
00:30:38.480 and this is the danger now,
00:30:40.060 is that Russia
00:30:40.900 has been watching
00:30:42.640 this Hamas thing 0.99
00:30:43.800 and China
00:30:44.380 and Iran,
00:30:46.980 obviously Iran's involved
00:30:48.120 and China's probably involved
00:30:49.400 and Russia's probably involved
00:30:50.400 with the Hamas stuff.
00:30:53.620 But,
00:30:54.140 they're watching
00:30:55.100 what's happening
00:30:55.720 and they're watching
00:30:56.360 the reaction
00:30:57.100 by the West
00:30:59.720 and I'm not talking
00:31:01.740 about the military reaction,
00:31:03.000 I'm talking about,
00:31:03.420 they're watching that too,
00:31:04.400 they're talking about
00:31:04.860 the social media reaction,
00:31:07.180 the public,
00:31:08.000 the public's reaction
00:31:09.720 to the Israel thing
00:31:11.400 and Russia's going,
00:31:13.100 we can possibly,
00:31:14.640 they think that they can
00:31:15.860 convince our population
00:31:17.380 that we're living
00:31:18.840 in Nazi Germany.
00:31:19.700 They think we can,
00:31:20.460 they can convince us all
00:31:21.260 that we're living
00:31:21.620 in Nazi Germany.
00:31:22.440 They've already convinced
00:31:23.520 a lot of people that.
00:31:25.080 Like,
00:31:25.300 a lot of people already think
00:31:26.240 that,
00:31:26.460 you know,
00:31:26.760 Ukraine's Nazis 0.88
00:31:27.760 and this is that
00:31:28.900 and all this kind of stuff
00:31:30.140 when,
00:31:32.300 you know,
00:31:33.980 like,
00:31:37.180 for instance,
00:31:37.620 what's happening right now? 1.00
00:31:40.820 Putin bombed the shit 0.99
00:31:42.260 out of Ukraine 0.99
00:31:42.900 yesterday
00:31:43.860 or the day before,
00:31:45.880 like,
00:31:46.220 more so than
00:31:46.940 throughout the whole war
00:31:48.660 and part of that,
00:31:49.880 that could become
00:31:50.540 much more common
00:31:51.280 and part of the reason
00:31:52.100 behind that
00:31:52.660 is he's watching
00:31:54.020 what Israel's doing 0.97
00:31:55.860 in Gaza
00:31:56.420 and going,
00:31:57.020 okay,
00:31:57.300 so,
00:31:57.600 and the U.S.
00:31:58.320 is not stopping this,
00:32:00.280 nobody's stopping this.
00:32:01.300 Even though most,
00:32:02.320 like,
00:32:02.540 a lot of the airstrike stuff
00:32:03.920 from my knowledge
00:32:05.180 happened,
00:32:06.460 like,
00:32:06.800 the complete bombardments
00:32:08.660 was happening more
00:32:09.600 at the beginning
00:32:10.420 of this war,
00:32:12.980 current Hamas-Israel war,
00:32:15.620 whereas now a lot of it's,
00:32:16.940 like,
00:32:17.040 ground operations.
00:32:18.900 Before it was just
00:32:19.740 strictly airstrikes 1.00
00:32:21.480 and bombing the shit 0.96
00:32:22.200 out of everything. 0.96
00:32:24.160 But that doesn't matter.
00:32:25.320 It doesn't matter
00:32:25.840 what the truth is.
00:32:26.740 It's only what people believe
00:32:28.040 and that's what
00:32:28.820 Russia can go off.
00:32:31.340 They're basically like,
00:32:31.820 well,
00:32:31.980 people believe that 1.00
00:32:32.860 Israel's bombing the shit 0.98
00:32:34.000 out of Gaza 0.99
00:32:35.100 day and night.
00:32:36.580 Hundreds of millions
00:32:37.280 of people around the world,
00:32:38.880 if not billions of people,
00:32:39.920 are on that side.
00:32:41.960 So, 1.00
00:32:42.540 fuck it. 1.00
00:32:42.880 We're going to bomb 1.00
00:32:43.400 the shit out of Ukraine 1.00
00:32:44.680 and then 0.99
00:32:45.360 when they retaliate,
00:32:47.340 we're going to go
00:32:47.760 look how many,
00:32:48.500 you know,
00:32:49.280 Ukraine retaliated
00:32:51.020 with some small bombs
00:32:52.520 and they killed
00:32:54.660 some civilians,
00:32:55.420 though,
00:32:55.860 in Russia.
00:32:56.500 And now,
00:32:57.900 Russia's saying,
00:32:58.980 you know,
00:32:59.560 Ukraine war,
00:33:00.440 Russia says 14 dead
00:33:01.740 after Ukraine
00:33:02.500 strikes Belgorod.
00:33:04.600 Russia started the war.
00:33:07.180 They invaded.
00:33:08.020 You know,
00:33:10.540 but then people want to say,
00:33:11.560 oh,
00:33:11.720 well,
00:33:12.000 NATO was encroaching
00:33:13.200 and we were encroaching.
00:33:15.420 Encroaching
00:33:15.780 or were we
00:33:16.800 trying to make sure 0.99
00:33:18.060 they don't fucking do this, 0.98
00:33:19.160 which obviously backfired 1.00
00:33:20.260 for some fucking reason. 0.99
00:33:22.480 That's the bad part. 0.99
00:33:23.880 You know,
00:33:24.340 like,
00:33:24.800 all these people are like,
00:33:25.680 just give them Ukraine. 0.99
00:33:26.720 Give Russia Ukraine? 0.82
00:33:28.260 And then they're on the border
00:33:29.480 of Poland
00:33:29.960 and then what?
00:33:30.520 They invade Poland 0.98
00:33:31.240 and we go give them Poland? 0.96
00:33:32.740 I mean, 0.99
00:33:33.240 we've done this fucking before, 1.00
00:33:34.720 folks. 1.00
00:33:35.560 I know that everybody thinks 1.00
00:33:36.560 they're a fucking, 1.00
00:33:37.120 military analyst now, 1.00
00:33:39.900 including me.
00:33:41.440 But,
00:33:41.800 um,
00:33:43.560 Russia report says
00:33:45.840 74 sailors dead
00:33:47.340 in Ukraine's attack
00:33:48.620 on Novo Cherask.
00:33:52.340 Moscow wants 0.86
00:33:53.220 hard evidence
00:33:54.640 missile in Poland.
00:33:57.100 Um,
00:33:58.540 was Russian
00:34:02.340 before giving explanation.
00:34:07.120 incredible.
00:34:09.640 So you're seeing
00:34:10.640 a shift in that.
00:34:11.400 So I'm just,
00:34:11.720 I'm just saying that,
00:34:12.780 um,
00:34:14.640 the people who are like,
00:34:17.820 I was talking about
00:34:18.320 the protesters and stuff,
00:34:19.580 but the people who are
00:34:20.700 just so on board
00:34:21.980 with Hamas
00:34:22.740 and the idea that,
00:34:23.740 like,
00:34:23.820 they're good
00:34:24.440 and,
00:34:25.120 you know, 0.97
00:34:25.400 Israel's just an evil thing 1.00
00:34:26.880 and we have to be on, 0.99
00:34:28.200 these people are basically 1.00
00:34:29.780 fucking, 1.00
00:34:30.340 like, 1.00
00:34:30.580 they're kind of,
00:34:31.620 like,
00:34:32.000 traitors a bit 0.85
00:34:32.960 of our country,
00:34:34.440 in my opinion.
00:34:35.960 You know,
00:34:36.200 and I see,
00:34:36.640 like,
00:34:37.100 I see people who I, 0.99
00:34:38.040 it's on every fucking level 0.99
00:34:41.160 that people are becoming 1.00
00:34:43.580 like this.
00:34:46.780 Um,
00:34:47.220 and even some of you guys
00:34:48.360 are like, 1.00
00:34:48.720 fuck you, 1.00
00:34:49.200 Ben, 1.00
00:34:49.500 why the fuck 1.00
00:34:50.400 are you supporting 1.00
00:34:51.040 piss real?
00:34:52.380 Those people, 0.99
00:34:52.840 go fight for piss real, 1.00
00:34:54.400 fucking bankers, 1.00
00:34:55.280 draft bankers. 1.00
00:34:56.240 It's like,
00:34:57.100 okay,
00:34:57.360 so you're not allowed 1.00
00:34:58.220 to have a fucking opinion 0.99
00:34:59.440 without, 0.99
00:34:59.880 uh,
00:35:00.400 putting your life on the line
00:35:01.440 and you're trying to say
00:35:02.220 that we're the,
00:35:02.920 um,
00:35:04.140 civil,
00:35:05.120 this is the civilized world,
00:35:06.560 but I'm not allowed
00:35:07.860 to have an opinion
00:35:08.520 on foreign affairs
00:35:09.500 as a citizen of Canada
00:35:10.880 without,
00:35:11.780 you know,
00:35:12.160 that I'm supposed 1.00
00:35:12.920 to strap a fucking M-16 1.00
00:35:14.580 and go to the battlefront. 1.00
00:35:16.620 Fuck you, 1.00
00:35:17.560 okay? 1.00
00:35:18.100 This is a free country.
00:35:19.300 You're allowed
00:35:19.580 to debate things,
00:35:20.940 all right?
00:35:23.060 And,
00:35:23.580 and have an opinion.
00:35:25.860 And,
00:35:26.420 um,
00:35:28.080 you know,
00:35:29.120 my opinion is that
00:35:30.200 the Israel-Hamas thing 0.69
00:35:31.260 is making people psychotic.
00:35:32.680 Look,
00:35:32.920 Tim Dillon,
00:35:33.800 our,
00:35:34.260 uh,
00:35:34.800 you know,
00:35:35.340 our arch nemesis,
00:35:37.300 the arch nemesis
00:35:37.960 of this podcast,
00:35:38.600 since he didn't let me
00:35:40.840 open for him.
00:35:42.280 Um,
00:35:42.960 no,
00:35:44.760 but even Tim is,
00:35:45.560 and I get where
00:35:46.060 he's coming from
00:35:46.700 and,
00:35:47.060 you know,
00:35:47.200 he's on,
00:35:48.140 and,
00:35:48.420 and I understand
00:35:49.120 why people are like,
00:35:50.080 well,
00:35:50.600 look what they're doing
00:35:51.300 to them in the West Bank
00:35:52.620 and it's not fair
00:35:53.460 and it's like they're
00:35:54.100 living under occupation
00:35:55.280 and it's,
00:35:55.900 yeah,
00:35:56.420 because they were violent
00:35:57.780 for so long
00:35:58.700 and tried to keep 0.71
00:35:59.540 killing people 0.61
00:36:00.340 and, 1.00
00:36:00.900 you know,
00:36:01.960 like,
00:36:02.420 and,
00:36:02.600 but there's two sides
00:36:03.260 to that argument.
00:36:03.800 Oh,
00:36:04.020 well,
00:36:04.140 they came in
00:36:04.760 and,
00:36:04.980 and I get that
00:36:05.760 there's two sides.
00:36:06.600 I get that there's two sides,
00:36:08.180 but right now people are going,
00:36:09.640 there isn't two sides.
00:36:10.400 There's only,
00:36:11.720 the Palestinians are right 1.00
00:36:12.700 and the fucking Muslims 1.00
00:36:13.420 and the Jews are wrong. 1.00
00:36:14.680 That's terrifying to me
00:36:16.220 and it's affecting
00:36:17.140 crazy things
00:36:19.720 that are near to me
00:36:21.040 that I didn't expect
00:36:22.320 necessarily.
00:36:23.620 I'm not,
00:36:24.480 I'm not surprised,
00:36:25.560 but I didn't fully
00:36:26.580 predict
00:36:27.940 those things happening.
00:36:29.920 A comedian that I know
00:36:31.120 who runs a comedy festival
00:36:33.800 that I actually,
00:36:35.140 I kind of ruined
00:36:35.880 his old comedy festival
00:36:36.960 to be honest,
00:36:38.280 just by being funny,
00:36:41.820 kind of,
00:36:42.240 but his name is Ronan
00:36:45.400 and he,
00:36:48.480 I ruined his old comedy show.
00:36:50.380 He had a comedy show
00:36:51.060 in Ottawa
00:36:51.500 and I'll tell the story quickly
00:36:53.860 before I tell you
00:36:55.080 the anti-Semitic thing
00:36:56.200 that happened to him
00:36:57.300 and his other show.
00:36:59.360 But we had a falling out
00:37:00.580 because essentially
00:37:01.460 Ronan had me host
00:37:03.100 a Jewish show
00:37:04.820 in Ottawa
00:37:05.380 earlier this year,
00:37:07.080 2023
00:37:07.520 and
00:37:09.180 I get there,
00:37:11.880 there's 600 people
00:37:12.900 in a theater,
00:37:14.360 they have no,
00:37:16.060 they don't have
00:37:16.780 proper lighting
00:37:17.540 for the show,
00:37:18.960 they don't have
00:37:19.300 a proper speaker
00:37:20.080 for the show.
00:37:21.200 He's put me
00:37:21.900 in a travel lodge hotel
00:37:23.200 that has
00:37:23.800 like cockroaches
00:37:25.440 on the bed 1.00
00:37:26.060 and on the fucking thing 1.00
00:37:27.620 which I told him 1.00
00:37:28.540 I can't stay in
00:37:29.200 and I was pissed
00:37:29.720 that he put me there
00:37:30.400 in the first place.
00:37:33.140 The show,
00:37:34.100 like I said,
00:37:35.080 started an hour late,
00:37:36.660 all the,
00:37:36.880 it was all old
00:37:37.680 Jewish people
00:37:38.540 that had,
00:37:40.060 and they were coming up
00:37:41.020 and going,
00:37:41.720 well,
00:37:42.040 why isn't the show
00:37:43.020 starting on time?
00:37:45.000 Oy yi yi.
00:37:46.260 And it was just
00:37:47.040 really annoying
00:37:47.500 and then I started
00:37:48.260 and I did a whole bunch
00:37:49.260 of, you know,
00:37:49.900 my material,
00:37:51.840 kind of not left wing,
00:37:53.480 not politically correct,
00:37:56.760 talking about COVID
00:37:57.580 and stuff.
00:37:58.600 And then I didn't know
00:37:59.520 the first comic's name.
00:38:00.620 She was some open mic 0.94
00:38:01.660 or doesn't even do comedy.
00:38:03.100 Also super woke Jew,
00:38:04.900 probably a pro-Palestinian Jew
00:38:06.380 at this point.
00:38:08.000 Maybe not
00:38:08.660 because her dad,
00:38:09.660 you'll find out,
00:38:10.400 has money.
00:38:11.620 But,
00:38:12.160 so I brought her up.
00:38:13.600 I was like,
00:38:13.920 what's her name again?
00:38:14.720 Somebody's like,
00:38:15.200 Orny,
00:38:15.700 her name was Orny Matlow.
00:38:17.180 I was like,
00:38:17.600 Orny Borny. 1.00
00:38:19.520 I was just being an asshole. 1.00
00:38:20.680 I was like, 1.00
00:38:20.940 give it up for Orny Borny
00:38:22.260 because she yelled 1.00
00:38:22.940 from the back,
00:38:23.560 was like,
00:38:23.900 Orny Matlow.
00:38:24.900 I was like,
00:38:25.180 Orny Borny.
00:38:26.840 And she came up
00:38:27.760 already pissed off
00:38:28.500 about that
00:38:28.980 and then she was like,
00:38:30.060 actually,
00:38:30.600 you know,
00:38:30.840 my mother
00:38:31.420 or my aunt,
00:38:33.280 my aunt had COVID
00:38:34.660 and almost died
00:38:35.560 in the hospital.
00:38:36.000 Not even died,
00:38:36.700 almost died.
00:38:37.620 I'm pretty sure.
00:38:38.220 Maybe it was died.
00:38:38.920 I forget.
00:38:40.080 I think it might have been
00:38:40.840 great aunt.
00:38:42.960 And,
00:38:43.320 and just being like,
00:38:44.460 oh,
00:38:44.680 it's not a joke 0.99
00:38:45.280 and all this shit 0.98
00:38:46.000 and you know, 1.00
00:38:47.540 like shitting on 0.99
00:38:48.300 all the jokes 0.99
00:38:49.100 that I had just done
00:38:49.740 when I was killing
00:38:50.580 and then I was like,
00:38:51.800 so then I went back
00:38:52.740 on stage
00:38:53.100 and I was like,
00:38:53.460 give it up for Orny
00:38:54.300 or whatever her name is
00:38:55.560 and then I was like,
00:38:57.260 yeah,
00:38:57.780 she,
00:38:58.400 remember when she just 0.99
00:38:59.940 tried to shit on me 0.99
00:39:01.460 and it didn't work 1.00
00:39:02.200 and then she bombed 0.99
00:39:02.980 her whole set
00:39:03.540 and she was so mad 0.97
00:39:05.340 that I said that
00:39:06.020 and her dad apparently
00:39:08.380 was giving Ronan
00:39:09.400 like a bunch of money
00:39:11.260 as a grant.
00:39:12.500 He's like some
00:39:13.220 high up Jew somewhere 0.97
00:39:14.380 giving him
00:39:15.220 a grant to do
00:39:15.880 this Jew show.
00:39:16.560 So anyway,
00:39:17.800 got a whole bunch
00:39:18.500 of complaint emails
00:39:19.360 from all the liberal
00:39:20.160 Jews there
00:39:20.900 accusing me
00:39:22.220 of being politically
00:39:23.020 incorrect,
00:39:23.600 which is what you're 0.99
00:39:24.180 fucking supposed to do 0.99
00:39:24.980 at a comedy show. 0.99
00:39:25.720 Sorry people, 0.98
00:39:26.940 but grow the fuck up. 0.97
00:39:28.580 You know, 0.95
00:39:28.800 people in their 40s
00:39:29.700 and 50s and 60s 1.00
00:39:30.720 writing these fucking 1.00
00:39:31.460 emails, 1.00
00:39:31.920 you're fucking stupid. 1.00
00:39:33.800 Anyway, 1.00
00:39:34.980 backfired for Ronan.
00:39:36.400 Ended up selling me
00:39:37.220 a bunch more tickets
00:39:37.980 because I posted the
00:39:39.180 emails that he was getting
00:39:41.080 because he was being cool
00:39:42.140 and sending them to me.
00:39:43.880 But anyway,
00:39:44.600 we stopped talking
00:39:45.740 after that because
00:39:46.220 he was so mad about it.
00:39:47.220 I didn't know why
00:39:47.700 he was so mad.
00:39:48.680 He's like,
00:39:48.900 oh, 0.82
00:39:49.060 you fucked up my grants 0.96
00:39:50.420 and stuff. 0.59
00:39:50.940 I was like,
00:39:51.200 who cares?
00:39:51.760 You're going to sell
00:39:52.220 more tickets.
00:39:53.140 Other people will come,
00:39:54.020 but he didn't listen to me.
00:39:55.680 Anyway,
00:39:56.260 we had a falling out.
00:39:57.700 He doesn't put me
00:39:58.220 on his shows anymore,
00:39:58.900 but he was putting on
00:40:00.060 a show,
00:40:01.260 a Jewish comedy show
00:40:02.280 at Comedy Bar
00:40:03.080 on Boxing Day
00:40:04.180 that he's done
00:40:04.660 for the last like
00:40:05.440 seven years or something.
00:40:07.060 I've done it for like
00:40:08.520 the last four
00:40:09.380 or five.
00:40:10.860 I've done that
00:40:11.460 Boxing Day show.
00:40:13.200 Wasn't on this one,
00:40:14.280 but this one got canceled
00:40:15.740 from Comedy Bar.
00:40:18.100 It was a Jewish comedy show.
00:40:19.840 It got canceled
00:40:20.960 at Comedy Bar
00:40:21.840 by the woke mob,
00:40:24.280 including other comics
00:40:26.040 from Comedy Bar
00:40:28.140 that were,
00:40:29.480 that produced shows
00:40:30.460 at Comedy Bar.
00:40:31.560 What a big surprise,
00:40:33.040 eh?
00:40:33.320 Not really,
00:40:34.460 because this is the same thing
00:40:35.460 that happened to me
00:40:36.080 in 2020
00:40:36.660 when I had a show
00:40:37.400 in a park
00:40:38.100 that people,
00:40:39.320 that comics from Comedy Bar
00:40:40.480 were emailing the cops
00:40:41.780 trying to get it shut down.
00:40:43.940 Now they're,
00:40:44.640 you know,
00:40:44.980 they started a Facebook page,
00:40:46.880 an Instagram page
00:40:47.820 made a whole lie
00:40:48.960 that the comedy show
00:40:50.280 was giving money
00:40:51.000 to the IDF
00:40:52.200 or whatever,
00:40:53.500 which wasn't true.
00:40:54.200 They were actually
00:40:54.640 giving money to,
00:40:56.520 I forget what it was.
00:40:58.140 It was like a very just cause
00:40:59.620 that was like
00:41:00.040 raising awareness
00:41:01.000 for,
00:41:02.120 oh yes,
00:41:03.740 it was,
00:41:04.460 they were raising money
00:41:05.260 to raise awareness
00:41:06.200 against anti-Semitism,
00:41:08.080 the rise in anti-Semitism
00:41:09.200 at universities
00:41:10.120 and colleges.
00:41:11.580 And some of the people
00:41:12.840 who tried to get them canceled
00:41:14.020 work at universities
00:41:15.600 and colleges.
00:41:17.140 Okay?
00:41:17.860 Some of these people
00:41:19.080 who wanted,
00:41:22.500 were trying to get
00:41:23.260 this show canceled,
00:41:25.100 this Jewish comedy show
00:41:26.060 on Boxing Day
00:41:26.780 just recently,
00:41:28.180 were high up members
00:41:29.880 at Second City.
00:41:32.120 and other
00:41:34.200 comedy related,
00:41:37.140 like even CBC type people.
00:41:39.600 So basically,
00:41:40.200 people from the CBC
00:41:41.220 are purposely
00:41:43.120 going out of their way
00:41:44.420 to try and block
00:41:45.600 Jewish comics.
00:41:46.740 I wasn't on this show,
00:41:47.620 by the way.
00:41:48.660 The other Jewish comics
00:41:49.720 from having their own show.
00:41:52.580 Unbelievable.
00:41:53.280 And so luckily,
00:41:54.000 they were able to move
00:41:54.760 the show to another venue
00:41:55.760 to the Backroom Comedy Club
00:41:57.120 where I'm doing
00:41:57.560 my New Year's Eve show.
00:41:59.540 But that's where things
00:42:02.660 are leading, folks.
00:42:04.080 You have a high up
00:42:05.540 executive,
00:42:07.200 or I forget who,
00:42:08.080 they sit on the board
00:42:09.280 or something
00:42:10.580 at Second City.
00:42:11.680 I don't know their name
00:42:12.380 specifically,
00:42:13.340 but somebody at Second City,
00:42:15.580 and multiple people probably,
00:42:16.860 but somebody who's high up,
00:42:19.080 emailing in
00:42:20.140 and trying to get
00:42:20.880 this show canceled
00:42:22.060 and being a part
00:42:23.280 of a petition
00:42:24.060 to get a show canceled 0.81
00:42:25.260 is disgusting.
00:42:27.340 I mean, 0.92
00:42:28.560 this is going to keep happening
00:42:30.440 as the Palestinian issue
00:42:33.680 becomes a more liberal issue
00:42:35.460 and it becomes
00:42:36.080 a more corporate,
00:42:37.720 like if corporations adopt
00:42:39.660 the Palestinian Hamas stance
00:42:42.200 the way that they adopted COVID
00:42:43.940 and adopted the LGBTQ+,
00:42:46.160 and adopted DEI 0.99
00:42:48.200 and the diversity shit, 1.00
00:42:50.420 then we're fucked. 1.00
00:42:51.140 I mean, 1.00
00:42:51.760 we as in society as a whole,
00:42:54.180 Jews,
00:42:54.580 everybody.
00:42:56.500 And by the way,
00:42:57.660 I've been saying
00:42:58.180 that this was going
00:42:58.700 to happen for years,
00:42:59.460 so I'm a genius.
00:43:03.020 I knew all this was leading
00:43:04.540 to hate the Jews,
00:43:05.640 and if you're on Team Hamas, 0.84
00:43:08.060 I don't know what to tell you.
00:43:08.880 I get it.
00:43:09.300 Oh, we want them to be free. 0.99
00:43:10.760 There's tons of fucking 0.99
00:43:11.720 space in the world, dude. 0.99
00:43:14.400 There's tons of Arab countries, too.
00:43:17.000 All right?
00:43:17.420 And there's tons of Arabs 1.00
00:43:18.240 who don't give a fuck 1.00
00:43:18.960 about any of this shit 1.00
00:43:19.820 because they're rich as fuck. 1.00
00:43:21.980 Okay? 1.00
00:43:23.100 So, 0.99
00:43:24.500 war sucks. 0.99
00:43:25.420 War's bad. 0.99
00:43:26.660 I hope that the Russia thing 0.99
00:43:27.900 does not escalate
00:43:28.820 because it looks like
00:43:29.720 it's going to
00:43:30.440 or it could.
00:43:32.600 The U.S.
00:43:33.220 is going to have to get
00:43:33.900 more and more involved
00:43:34.740 until we're fully at war.
00:43:36.760 Canada's already involved
00:43:38.540 deep, heavy.
00:43:43.540 We're involved in everything. 0.97
00:43:45.040 That's what's fucked up 0.98
00:43:46.000 about Trudeau. 0.99
00:43:47.260 He's really just
00:43:47.960 got us wrapped up.
00:43:49.880 We have to have 1.00
00:43:50.340 a fucking opinion 1.00
00:43:51.140 on everything. 1.00
00:43:51.760 We have to be part
00:43:52.420 of everything.
00:43:52.940 We have to have a say
00:43:53.980 in everything,
00:43:54.400 and it's getting to be a lot.
00:43:57.640 It's getting to be a lot.
00:43:58.800 That's why
00:43:59.300 when you come to my comedy shows,
00:44:01.280 it's just such a good atmosphere.
00:44:03.000 Let's talk about that.
00:44:03.860 Let's change the subject
00:44:04.600 for a bit
00:44:05.200 from war and death,
00:44:07.480 but I'm glad
00:44:07.960 that we talked about
00:44:08.940 that crazy cancellation.
00:44:13.400 But my shows,
00:44:15.060 guys,
00:44:16.820 are the best.
00:44:17.500 It doesn't matter 1.00
00:44:18.040 what fucking venue 1.00
00:44:18.920 they're at right now 1.00
00:44:20.320 because the atmosphere
00:44:21.820 is excitement. 0.99
00:44:23.780 People are fucking pumped. 0.97
00:44:25.760 So many of my fans 0.96
00:44:27.360 are just awesome,
00:44:28.380 and they're like,
00:44:28.840 you're going to make it.
00:44:29.880 I want you to make it.
00:44:31.180 I hope you're going to make it.
00:44:32.040 They say these things to me.
00:44:33.440 They say them on camera
00:44:34.600 and some of the testimonials
00:44:36.500 that we've got,
00:44:37.160 and yeah, man,
00:44:41.520 I'm working my ass off.
00:44:42.940 I'm watching tons of video.
00:44:44.560 I don't spend any time
00:44:46.220 right now, unfortunately,
00:44:48.660 but very little time
00:44:49.780 with my friends,
00:44:51.700 very little time
00:44:53.020 with just goofing off,
00:44:55.900 although I did get
00:44:57.180 a little bit into
00:44:58.400 Harry Potter,
00:44:59.740 Hogwarts legacy
00:45:00.780 over the Christmas break.
00:45:05.440 Played it for not long,
00:45:07.160 maybe an hour,
00:45:08.200 for like two days.
00:45:11.040 But I spent a lot
00:45:12.800 of my time
00:45:13.600 going over footage,
00:45:15.360 going over recordings,
00:45:17.780 listening to recordings,
00:45:19.240 reading all my notes,
00:45:21.760 which are just like
00:45:22.700 completely insane.
00:45:23.760 like I'll show you right now,
00:45:26.820 just like these are just
00:45:27.980 new jokes right now
00:45:29.040 that I'm working on.
00:45:30.240 Like just look how many 0.99
00:45:31.300 fucking jokes there are here. 1.00
00:45:33.760 This is all, 0.99
00:45:34.560 this is one page
00:45:35.560 of new jokes.
00:45:37.500 I have like 50
00:45:38.840 of those
00:45:40.000 just in the last
00:45:40.780 little while.
00:45:42.500 like here's
00:45:43.260 here's how many 0.99
00:45:44.820 fucking notes I have 0.99
00:45:45.820 just in general. 0.99
00:45:46.540 It's just like
00:45:47.120 completely insane.
00:45:48.080 It's just a never ending list.
00:45:50.500 So
00:45:50.900 I'm working for you guys
00:45:55.160 and I want you to enjoy it.
00:45:56.400 And something that was
00:45:57.640 kind of shocking
00:45:58.320 at my last show
00:45:59.200 and not shocking,
00:46:00.340 but
00:46:00.520 something I've noticed
00:46:03.660 is that
00:46:04.880 people who come to my shows
00:46:06.080 and they're so pumped 1.00
00:46:06.760 like I love all your shit. 1.00
00:46:07.780 I watch all your clips 1.00
00:46:08.580 on Instagram.
00:46:09.080 They don't even know
00:46:11.780 I have a podcast.
00:46:13.120 So if anybody's listening
00:46:14.080 to this for the first time,
00:46:15.120 please,
00:46:15.440 and you're listening
00:46:15.940 all the way through
00:46:16.520 or you're at this point
00:46:17.720 in the podcast,
00:46:18.860 leave a comment below
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00:46:32.420 But 0.99
00:46:32.860 let people fucking know. 0.99
00:46:34.440 Send it to your group chat 0.99
00:46:35.740 because my fans
00:46:37.120 do not know
00:46:38.200 that I have a podcast 0.99
00:46:39.300 and it is fucking insane. 0.96
00:46:41.680 That's why my podcast 0.98
00:46:42.560 gets only like
00:46:43.600 1500 to 2000 views a week
00:46:46.440 where it could be getting
00:46:47.340 like 30,000.
00:46:49.020 It's just because
00:46:49.560 you guys do not even know
00:46:50.800 that I have a podcast.
00:46:51.940 So
00:46:52.020 go
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00:47:01.520 Like and 0.98
00:47:02.020 fucking subscribe 1.00
00:47:03.640 and fucking do 1.00
00:47:05.120 whatever the fuck 1.00
00:47:05.700 you have to do. 0.99
00:47:06.380 Save the video.
00:47:07.160 Send it to your scary 0.98
00:47:08.560 racist group chats. 0.98
00:47:10.880 Send it to everybody
00:47:11.820 at your work
00:47:12.480 from an anonymous account.
00:47:14.640 Post it on your LinkedIn 1.00
00:47:15.720 and just say fuck it. 1.00
00:47:16.900 I don't need a job. 1.00
00:47:17.900 You know,
00:47:18.320 just get the word out there
00:47:19.740 that the bank is show
00:47:20.960 is the realest show
00:47:23.300 out there right now.
00:47:25.120 If you're not listening
00:47:25.820 to it,
00:47:26.260 you're missing out
00:47:27.040 on some of the best content.
00:47:29.520 Some of the best podcast content
00:47:31.060 and it's shorter
00:47:31.840 than a lot of podcasts.
00:47:32.860 It's like we're at
00:47:33.360 we're a shorter podcast
00:47:35.940 than some of our competitors.
00:47:38.640 The Tim Dillons,
00:47:39.620 the Theo Vons
00:47:41.220 and the Rogans.
00:47:43.140 We're shorter.
00:47:44.660 Love all those podcasts
00:47:46.040 and listen to them
00:47:47.380 irregardless,
00:47:48.720 Tim,
00:47:49.040 that you hate me
00:47:49.720 or whatever.
00:47:50.520 You don't even
00:47:50.920 you don't even know. 1.00
00:47:53.100 Motherfuck. 1.00
00:47:53.520 Wait till I get to the States, 1.00
00:47:54.680 do I just can't wait
00:47:55.620 to be performing
00:47:57.020 with all you guys
00:47:57.780 and all these different comics
00:47:59.100 and meeting them,
00:48:00.020 running into them,
00:48:01.000 having them hate me,
00:48:02.040 having them like me,
00:48:02.840 whatever it is,
00:48:03.820 you know,
00:48:04.120 because I can only do one thing
00:48:05.280 and that's be myself
00:48:05.980 and that's what everybody
00:48:06.740 has to remember
00:48:07.380 going into this new year
00:48:08.900 is you need to be yourself,
00:48:10.000 man.
00:48:11.300 There's nothing else
00:48:12.320 you can do now.
00:48:13.540 There really isn't.
00:48:14.960 It's so obvious. 1.00
00:48:15.840 All people's dumb quirks 1.00
00:48:18.640 and weird personality traits 1.00
00:48:21.960 that are annoying.
00:48:25.560 Everybody knows now
00:48:27.080 because of social media
00:48:28.280 and we watch all these videos
00:48:29.760 and talks about
00:48:30.540 all these things
00:48:31.300 and talks about
00:48:32.360 all the psychological
00:48:33.240 and psychology.
00:48:34.840 So just be yourself. 0.99
00:48:36.620 You don't have to fucking 0.99
00:48:37.340 pretend to be anybody 0.99
00:48:38.220 that you don't want to be.
00:48:41.860 And if that means
00:48:43.220 you're going to lose your job 1.00
00:48:44.680 or your fucking life, 1.00
00:48:47.120 your family, 1.00
00:48:47.880 fuck it. 1.00
00:48:48.960 Be yourself. 1.00
00:48:49.960 You'll feel better.
00:48:51.440 You know what I mean?
00:48:54.300 Stay safe out there. 0.99
00:48:56.320 Fucking New Year's, man. 0.99
00:48:57.460 It's always a crazy time. 1.00
00:48:58.760 People die. 1.00
00:49:00.740 People fucking die 1.00
00:49:01.820 on New Year's. 1.00
00:49:02.400 So be fucking careful. 0.99
00:49:04.520 For God's sakes. 0.99
00:49:06.380 And yeah,
00:49:09.080 I'm going to go eat a steak.
00:49:10.440 I worked out today.
00:49:11.480 I said that at the beginning,
00:49:12.360 but work out like crazy now.
00:49:14.980 Trying to lose weight.
00:49:16.700 And I'm going to achieve all that.
00:49:19.400 I'm going to achieve
00:49:19.820 all my goals in 2024.
00:49:21.700 You're going to achieve
00:49:22.520 all your goals.
00:49:23.320 And we're going to grow together.
00:49:26.840 I was listening to Theo Vaughn.
00:49:27.920 He was like,
00:49:28.220 I never achieve my goals
00:49:29.440 because I always set them too high.
00:49:31.280 Yeah, set those goals,
00:49:32.380 but you also have to have goals here.
00:49:33.760 So you achieve that
00:49:34.640 and then you're still moving
00:49:35.560 towards the goal
00:49:36.200 that's really hard to obtain.
00:49:37.760 But I don't feel depressed.
00:49:42.740 I don't feel sad. 0.76
00:49:43.580 I don't feel fucking anxious. 0.76
00:49:45.980 I feel driven and excited 0.85
00:49:47.180 and happy for you guys.
00:49:49.680 I think you guys are watching this happen.
00:49:52.160 The rise of Ben Bankis.
00:49:55.720 So keep tuning in.
00:50:00.020 Good night.
00:50:00.600 Good night.
00:50:00.640 Good night.