GO REEF GO ｜ The Bankas Show - #050
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Summary
Comedian Ben Bankus talks about his new home in Austin, Texas, and his new job in New York City. He also talks about the new job he's doing in NYC, and what it's like moving to a new city.
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I just want to let you know about some of my dates coming up
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Saturday, May 11th, Empire Comedy Club, Portland, Maine.
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Tuesday, May 14th, Funny Bone Orlando Comedy Club
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Wednesday, May 15th, Tampa, Florida, Funny Bone Comedy Club.
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Thursday, May 16th, Dania Improv in Dania Beach, Florida.
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Tuesday, May 21st, Helium Comedy Club, Buffalo, New York.
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Thursday, May 23rd, Funny Bone in Albany, New York.
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Wednesday, August 7th, I will be in Nashville, Tennessee.
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August 8th, Zany's Comedy Club in Rosemont, Illinois.
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Friday, August 9th, in Stamford, Connecticut at the New York Comedy Club, Stamford.
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Thursday, August 22nd, Mic Drop Mania, Chandler, Arizona.
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August 22nd, Friday, August 23rd, Friday, August 24th, or 23rd, two shows.
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Saturday, August 24th, two shows in Chandler, Arizona.
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Sunday, August 25th, Plano House of Comedy in Plano, Texas.
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Friday, August 30th, San Diego, California, 7 p.m.
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Saturday, August 31st, again in San Diego, California.
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And then September 1st, Irvine, California, California.
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You've never seen any of this shit online.
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In Austin, they don't even have Chinese people.
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Like, the only Chinese people here, I don't even think they talk, really.
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I saw Indians at the gym that I go to here in Austin.
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And they definitely had accents, but they were whispering because they didn't want anybody to hear that.
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You know, some respect for the culture, the culture of Texas.
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And the first Austin show was a huge success, I would say.
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You know, we didn't fully sell out, but we were almost sold out on the same night as Andrew Schultz.
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And Ari Shafir was in town and 420 shows at every comedy club.
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Getting ready for this America Takeover Tour and being able to really be there for all you guys.
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So, very cool that we had people coming from as far as Minnesota for the show.
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And the only real kind of shitty thing that happened was I did hit a bird at one point.
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And I think it was a pregnant bird because, like, my car just had eggs all over it on the side.
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So, I guess I basically, on the way to Texas, did an abortion, a bird abortion, before I got to the state limits where apparently that's illegal.
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So, fuck, I'm out of breath because I just ran up the stairs, actually.
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I'm not used to living in a place where you can actually control the climate inside, really.
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Like, the apartment that I lived in in Toronto, like, you're pretty much just subjected to whatever temperature the Filipinos who run the building want the fucking shit to be.
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Getting used to having my own, like, a spot that's not in a communist.
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I mean, I don't even know what Canada is right now, to be honest with you.
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I just saw the halal mortgage thing where Trudeau is trying to legalize halal mortgages, which I don't even really know what that is.
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But when I think about it, I just picture Muslim people getting free homes.
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So, you're telling me Muslim people just don't have to pay interest now.
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Like, I'm not trying to offend, but is it not a bit of...
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For instance, think about how many people are going to convert to Islam just for the sake of not paying interest on a mortgage.
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Look at you got those, the protests, the October 7th.
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You know, whatever conspiracies you want to have.
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That's really, I mean, at the end of the day, that's going to be true.
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People are saying, what about kosher mortgages?
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And then somebody's saying, oh, well, that's what they already have, or kosher mortgages, where you just pay the interest.
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I don't know, guys, I don't think we should be doing that, but I don't live there anymore.
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I don't live in Canada, so I don't get to choose what happens, and I don't get to complain about it either.
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Of course, Olivia Chow is out making a statement in favor of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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She's basically doing Maple Leafs promo now, which is wild.
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This is Olivia Chow's latest video about the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Once again, the hope is on the rise from Toronto Maple Leafs.
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We are praying the Boston Brewer in the first round of Stanley Cup.
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I don't know much about the Hokie other than they use a chopstick to hit the puck.
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But it's going to be hard for Torontonian to afford to go to the game because of all the rain tax.
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So if you can afford to go, maybe take me with you.
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Now, I don't know about you guys, but I can barely hear the accent, really.
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Yeah, I think Canada is doomed unless they elect the Pierre Polyev guy,
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which is so crazy that it's controversial to say that.
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If you're Canadian listening to this or American, and just think about it.
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Like, we have two options in Canada, the Trudeau or the Polyev.
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And it's just crazy to imagine that in Canada you can't vote for the other guy.
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Because they already have that in America, right?
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It's some bullshit that my generation got fucked by Canada's, you know,
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It's just, hey, we're taxing you because we're trying to be woke.
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If you want to support me, you want to support my career,
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and click Patreon or go to Patreon.com slash Ben Bankis.
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And so it's Olivia Chow versus Michelle Wu
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I can't believe this, that the Leafs are once again
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going to have to lose to the Bruins, which I hate to say that.
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Look, I'm a Leaf fan only because I'm from Toronto.
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When we had the Raptors parade, we deserved that shit.
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John Tory, everybody, you could talk shit about John Tory
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because he did all kinds of lockdowns and that stuff.
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But he did cheat on his wife with, like, a 22-year-old
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when his wife was, like, 70, which is, like, kind of, you know,
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like, I'm not trying to, like, any guy who sees that
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just kind of goes, they're proud of that guy for some reason.
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Probably, I mean, because he's, like, 68 and, like, his wife,
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But anyway, my point is that Toronto doesn't deserve
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to win the Stanley Cup, but I still hope they do.
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because that's the only way that Canadians are going to stay in Canada
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if the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
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That's, like, 10 more years of Trudeau right there.
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that is the solidification of the Canadian dictatorship.
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My great-grandparents, I never met my great-grandparents,
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but I wonder what it was like to be an immigrant in Canada
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as a white person just, like, in the 1900s, you know what I mean?
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Like, would they have even, like, they probably weren't even racist
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because they were, people were racist against them,
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There was, like, when, people would just, they didn't have racism.
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It was just more, like, when did you get here, right?
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Like, if you're white and then another white moves in
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and they're, like, a new immigrant, it's like, how long you've been here?
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Like, that's how I feel in America as a Canadian, right?
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I could just, I'm just a regular guy pretty much, I guess.
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But I look like a regular guy in the sense that I might, you know,
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people would think I'm American, but when I say I'm Canadian,
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There is, like, I kind of understand how maybe the Indians feel in Canada,
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that are, you know, the Chinese, well, the Chinese,
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But, I mean, you see them if you go to, like, Niagara Falls
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But I'm just saying that I get treated like an immigrant now
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So what are all these immigrants complaining about?
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No, they don't even, they're not the ones complaining.
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It's second and third generation Canadians
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that were the kids of immigrants that are visible minorities
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no, we need to make sure that, blah, blah, blah.
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You think that's not messing with their heads a little bit?
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basically, Kendrick said that Drake wasn't that good
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on a track, and then now Drake's saying that
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and that's the type of shit that I fucking do.
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Every Monday, we're going to be doing this podcast.