00:01:57.620New Westminster, B.C., Tacoma, Washington, Grand Prairie, Alberta, Calgary, Red Deer, Toronto, again, November 15th.
00:02:05.640We're already over half sold out for that 3,000-seat theater in Montreal, Quebec.
00:02:10.960Thank you, guys. Enjoy the show and support me on Patreon for the full episode.
00:02:19.160But I was there for the election as well in Canada.
00:02:22.960Mark Carney was elected, and the liberals who elected him did it because they thought that he was going to stand up to Donald Trump somehow.
00:02:36.020I don't really know where they got that information at all, but he just went and met with Trump and literally looked like a lapdog.
00:02:44.980I kind of liked how respectful Carney was of Trump, to be honest.
00:02:50.380And you know what? That's how it should be.
00:02:53.500Canada's the smaller country. America's the superpower.
00:02:57.600But it's just hilarious that Trump was the one who endorsed Carney.
00:03:30.300The fact that he did that, the fact that he wanted to win in this weird, like mainstream way, like, oh, I don't want to, or a quote unquote, like Canadian mainstream way.
00:03:39.040Oh, I'm going to just, you know, work the CBC and I'm just going to get all of them on my side.
00:03:44.180Dude, no, the CBC, they have their whole comedy wing of government funded comedians in Canada that were making fun of Pierre for a decade already.
00:04:02.760You have a billion dollar media company shitting on you.
00:04:07.000And all the boomers watch that media company in Canada.
00:04:10.480Obviously, they're not going to fucking vote for you.
00:04:13.000I just think it was like, oh, my God, it was embarrassing.
00:04:15.720It was an embarrassing is embarrassing for Pierre to lose that like lead that he just didn't know how to play that.
00:04:22.560He should have went on Rogan and talked about it and talked about how ridiculous it is that Trudeau just dropped out at the last second and all this stuff.
00:09:22.120I had, you know, two of my videographers, one videographer from Toronto, one videographer from New Jersey, basically collab without knowing they were collabing on my new ad, which I took parts of both of their videos and put it into one and captioned it all.
00:09:38.820And threw it up and they're getting pretty decent views.
00:09:58.300I think he's either a regular or golden ticket winner or something, but he, um, he fucking was, was saying that, you know, how come I can sell out so many tickets here and not that many tickets here?
00:10:11.600It's like, well, dude, you have more fans there.
00:10:14.520The first time I went to Tampa Bay in May of 2024, right after I got my fresh, my fresh visa and we sold like 35 tickets.
00:10:25.940Um, but we came, we saw, I had fans there.
00:10:28.520And then when I came again, we sold out two shows and there were people that came to the first one.
00:10:33.900We're like, fuck yeah, we knew this was going to happen.
00:10:35.740You know, you got to believe, you got to believe in yourself.
00:10:37.960You got to have that passion in your mind and, and, and manifest this shit.
00:10:44.400That's why at the Toronto show, I've been talking about, I'm not going to be really doing the Olivia Chow videos as much, even though sometimes like people send me a video, but come on, you have to do it.
00:10:56.080But I, I don't, I don't have to do it because I think I'm funnier and better without it in a way.
00:11:04.020And I'm trying to be, I mean, first of all, I have kids.
00:11:06.540Second of all, I'm trying to be the best comedian I can be.
00:11:09.540And doing a Chinese accent over the mayor of Toronto is, I mean, it is the funniest thing in the world sometimes, but you don't want to overdo something, man.
00:11:23.420You don't want to overdo any, I mean, podcasts every week, but that's not because that's, this is our, this is our time to connect.
00:11:29.300This is our time for you to go, oh shit, I want to be, I want to be on Patreon.
00:11:34.980I get to know this guy in this hour, 45 minutes to an hour that he just talks about what's going on with himself.
00:11:41.540And, you know, if I had Arm in here already and we talk shit and we just fuck around like we did in the latest Patreon, that's what this is.
00:11:49.460This is what, that's what, you know, comedy is about letting go and, and, and letting people in and letting people see who you are and letting them decide what the fuck they want from you.
00:12:07.520And hopefully it's that they want to hear me talk about bullshit and my, my past and my hopes and dreams and bullshit and, um, you know, hear me interview people, hear me have fun with my friends and sometimes drink and smoke and enjoy life and, and let you in on what's going on.
00:13:28.440You have to close off, read a book, focus on the standup, the actual art.
00:13:34.080Because a lot of standup now is like, you have to focus on the marketing and how many clips you did and putting out a fucking clip every five seconds.
00:13:41.060And, you know, the ads and, and the, but sometimes you just want to talk shit and read books and write and listen, re-listen to your standup and, and fucking feel yourself, feel that energy of.
00:13:54.800The fucking comedy art that I know, like Kurt was like, oh, it's, you know, comedy is like bullshit and a failed comedian, you know, I don't, I think it's more, I think it's special still.
00:14:06.300And recently I've been thinking a lot about when I started comedy, especially because I did that big show in Toronto and we have another big show coming up November 15th and actually six buzz recently reached out to me and said that they want to interview me, which is, I think is, would be awesome.
00:14:20.840And I would love to do that, but just thinking about when I first started comedy and that pleasure that I got from it, the, just the utter pleasure of being at an open mic and with the, having my notebook.
00:14:36.680And cause I started when I was 19 and I did it for, you know, people just think I did the fucking Chinese acts.
00:14:42.020I did Olivia Chow and just, you know, oh, he's selling, oh, cause of Olivia.
00:14:45.640No, I've been working at this for a long time.
00:14:49.120And when I first started, there was just this elation that we got from doing it.
00:14:56.160And one of the first cool things I remember when I met Ari Shafir for the first time, I was so excited.
00:15:01.600He came to this bar that was in the annex where I grew up, literally a bar, two blocks from my childhood home, which we didn't have at the time anymore, unfortunately, which I, I'd really like to rebuy my childhood home.
00:15:17.140I think that would be a fucking baller ass move, but I almost don't even want to live in it.
00:15:22.600But anyway, um, it was a bar called the central.
00:15:27.760It's since been torn down when they tore down, um, all the buildings there.
00:15:37.220And it was a big, it was like this weird department store for immigrants that was made by Ed Mervish, who was owned all the, all the theaters in Toronto.
00:15:47.140Originally the Mervish theaters and like plays and stuff.
00:16:42.380That's, that is one cool thing about doing comedy when you're young is you get to meet a lot of people of different ages.
00:16:47.880So you do kind of grow up a little bit, like you're still silly, but you, you, you, you grow up and you learn about, you know, you meet people with kids and you become friends with a guy with kids that you're drinking with.
00:16:59.700No, no 21 year olds doing that really, unless you're in the arts or something, or I guess have a job and then your boss is trying to fuck you or whatever.
00:17:07.620Um, but yeah, just sitting out on the patio of the central drinking pot pitchers.
00:17:14.660I would have friends who weren't comedians come and hang out and we'd just smoke cigarettes and, but anyway, Ari Shafir came to the central and did like a podcast where I'd love to, I bet it's somewhere out in the universe.
00:17:30.700It was recorded and put out somewhere on somebody's podcast, but it was him.
00:17:37.040He did this whole talk about comedy and it was really interesting and funny and cool.
00:17:42.760And then at the end, they did this thing where they put all the comics wrote down one joke.
00:17:48.020You got to write down one joke and throw it in the jar, this jar.
00:17:52.000And then Ari Shafir would pull out the jokes and read if they thought they were funny or not and give them tags.
00:17:59.260And so it was like a cool way to anonymously try to get tags for your jokes.
00:18:05.560And Ari Shafir did pull out one of mine and it was this joke.