Bankas Podcast - September 17, 2024


Jordan Peterson's Suit Guy ｜ The Bankas Show - #063


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45 minutes

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7,705

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659

Misogynist Sentences

39

Hate Speech Sentences

34


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00:00:00.000 And welcome back to The Bankist Show, everybody. Please like and subscribe to the show. Leave a comment. You know what it is.
00:00:08.640 Big week in the world of Ben Bankist. I am coming back to Canada with three sold-out theater shows in Toronto at the Royal Theater on College Street.
00:00:24.380 A venue that I sold out once before, and now we do three of those shows, so I am very excited about that.
00:00:35.420 First show is Wednesday night, and then Thursday, two shows in Oshawa. The first show sold out.
00:00:41.740 I think there's a couple tickets left for the late show in Oshawa, which is basically a suburb of Toronto.
00:00:46.560 And then back to Toronto, two shows Friday night at the Royal Theater.
00:00:52.220 Saturday, I go to Ottawa, Ontario, the capital of Canada, for my American fans who don't know shit about Canada,
00:01:01.380 which I don't blame you at all because there's lots to know about America, and it's a lot more interesting for the most part.
00:01:08.240 But we will be in Ottawa. That is a 700-seater, and we've sold, I think, almost 600 or so tickets.
00:01:14.860 So it's going to sell out. Looking forward to that. Sunday, Kingston, Ontario, and then go to BenBankist.com for the rest of my dates.
00:01:26.440 Lots has been going on in the world. Of course, Donald Trump has been, there's been another assassination attempt on his life
00:01:34.020 by another liberal lunatic, and the propaganda online from the lefties, that's what they call them in Canada,
00:01:43.380 lefties fucking, or they call them pinkos, pinkos in Canada, they call them lefties pinkos.
00:01:49.100 The left online, the propaganda is pretty insane.
00:01:53.320 They're basically saying that the guy who tried to assassinate Trump was a Republican,
00:01:57.940 which, as we know, is not true because he had, number one, he had a Biden-Harris bumper sticker on his truck.
00:02:06.380 He also, there's proof, evidence that he was donating to Biden-Harris, to the Democrats,
00:02:13.600 for, I believe, a decade or something like that.
00:02:16.680 So that's not true. A lot of things are not true right now.
00:02:21.220 It does seem like the majority of the fake news that we've seen over the last four years
00:02:27.660 has come from people on the left, not really surprising.
00:02:31.900 Same thing is happening in Canada with Pierre Polyev.
00:02:35.680 People are saying that he's a Russian asset.
00:02:39.160 It's like, oh, so basically the Canadian propaganda is four years behind the American liberal propaganda.
00:02:46.140 Now we're at the stage in Canada where they're saying that Pierre Polyev is a Russian asset.
00:02:53.900 Four years ago, that was what they said about Trump.
00:02:55.940 Now they don't say that anymore.
00:02:58.180 It's very fucked up.
00:02:59.520 Trump was golfing, and I think he was putting when the shooting broke out,
00:03:05.420 and just an absolute disaster for the Democrats, really,
00:03:11.820 because, of course, the Democrats are the ones who are going to lose out on this.
00:03:18.100 Every time they miss Donald Trump, he gets stronger.
00:03:22.520 He gets more hilarious.
00:03:24.100 He gets more loved.
00:03:26.980 But so the strategy, I don't know what, I mean, you know, that's conspiracy theory to say,
00:03:33.160 oh, well, the strategy, their strategy is to try and kill him.
00:03:37.360 I don't know.
00:03:37.880 Is it?
00:03:38.460 Is it not?
00:03:39.360 I don't know.
00:03:40.460 But it was a couple days after the debates, and the debates were hilarious.
00:03:46.380 Donald Trump talking about Haitians eating cats and dogs.
00:03:51.220 I saw a lot of people saying, oh, this is crazy online.
00:03:55.480 People are like, how could he say such a racist, xenophobic thing about Haitian people?
00:04:01.980 And then I took an Uber with a Cuban, a guy who grew up in Cuba,
00:04:06.740 is now an American citizen, and I asked him point blank to his face,
00:04:09.920 do you think that the Haitians are eating cats and dogs?
00:04:14.160 And he looked at me, and he said, Donald Trump is not lying.
00:04:19.360 That's what he said.
00:04:20.540 Donald Trump is not lying.
00:04:22.200 No lying.
00:04:22.900 He's no lying.
00:04:25.480 And he was saying that even in Cuba, they eat cats and dogs on the street.
00:04:30.780 And, of course, they eat cats and dogs in Haiti.
00:04:35.420 I learned this at Queens University, the now very liberal arts school that used to be more of a conservative engineering school,
00:04:44.560 where I took liberal arts.
00:04:46.120 But either way, I took a politics course, and I remember learning about Haiti.
00:04:50.540 And one of the main things I remember about learning about Haiti was that they eat mud cake, mud cookies.
00:04:58.640 They mix fat with mud and dirt and make these cookies for people to eat.
00:05:04.420 And I get it.
00:05:05.520 They have nothing else to eat.
00:05:06.680 You know, if they can't, they've already ran through all the cats and dogs.
00:05:11.400 So they're eating mud cookies.
00:05:12.940 And I don't know if Haitians are coming to America to do that.
00:05:16.400 I'm not saying that.
00:05:17.360 But in Haiti, they're eating cats and dogs.
00:05:20.280 I don't know if they're doing it in Springfield, Ohio.
00:05:22.280 But in Haiti, they're eating them, okay?
00:05:26.700 They're eating them in the Dominican.
00:05:28.600 They're eating them in Cuba.
00:05:31.560 I wouldn't be surprised if pretty much every impoverished nation on Earth has people who eat cats and dogs.
00:05:40.600 The Cuban guy actually told me a story about a group of people.
00:05:44.040 What they do is they run a business on the island where they capture as many dogs as they can.
00:05:50.620 And then they cut them up for meat.
00:05:54.920 And then they sell them at the market as if it was chicken.
00:05:59.140 And this is a business.
00:06:00.940 This is how they make money.
00:06:01.920 They hunt dogs on the street, the stray dogs.
00:06:05.200 They kill them.
00:06:05.840 They skin them.
00:06:07.140 They cut them up.
00:06:08.460 They sell the meat.
00:06:10.540 And people buy it because everybody's fucking poor and they need to eat something.
00:06:15.960 So, I don't want to live to see America become a country that is doing that regularly.
00:06:24.040 And I don't think a lot of people do.
00:06:25.840 And I think, you know, the idea of upholding America as the best is a good idea.
00:06:32.000 I don't think it's a good idea to just go like, oh, well, you know, America's not the best anymore.
00:06:38.740 And we shouldn't even try to be the best.
00:06:40.600 And we should just give up and let all these other countries.
00:06:43.460 No.
00:06:44.620 America's the best.
00:06:45.960 Trust me.
00:06:46.360 I'm from Canada.
00:06:47.760 We're like 30th best or something like that.
00:06:51.860 And we're your closest neighbor.
00:06:54.580 I don't know where Canada ranks.
00:06:56.380 They rank somewhere in there.
00:06:58.220 Canada, not the best.
00:06:59.780 Okay.
00:07:00.040 There's no nobody.
00:07:01.160 I know Trudeau goes up on that stage and says, Canada, one of the best, the best, one of the best.
00:07:07.940 Okay.
00:07:08.900 I understand one of the best.
00:07:10.740 The best.
00:07:11.560 No.
00:07:12.460 Okay.
00:07:12.840 If Canada is the best, then fucking India must be second best because that's where, you know, half the population is from at this point.
00:07:24.460 And that's, you know, there's a lot of racism happening in Canada as well in terms of, you know, you want to call it racism.
00:07:33.140 You want to call it pushback.
00:07:34.580 You want to call it, you know, people are saying it's xenophobia.
00:07:37.440 It's not xenophobia.
00:07:38.700 It's when you have one specific group of people coming to your country that changes the dynamic.
00:07:47.900 Of course, people are going to be upset.
00:07:49.640 Now, is it right of them to be, you know, the woke?
00:07:51.660 Well, they shouldn't be upset because that's what they did to the slaves.
00:07:56.040 And, you know, I was having a conversation with a guy the other day and he was like, well, why are the Europeans upset that the African migrants are coming to the shores of Europe?
00:08:04.320 That's what Europeans did to Africa back.
00:08:07.140 Yeah.
00:08:07.900 No.
00:08:08.940 I mean, yeah, but they showed up and they were like, what's going on here?
00:08:12.300 And the black African kings of those nations that the Europeans, the Portuguese, the English, the French that they showed up to were like, hey, you guys have a lot of guns.
00:08:23.760 Can we get some?
00:08:24.440 We'll trade you slaves for guns.
00:08:27.260 And that's how a lot of that started.
00:08:29.560 Also learned that at Queens University.
00:08:31.260 Shout out Queens University, one of the most racist universities, apparently, I guess.
00:08:35.940 Um, thank God.
00:08:38.160 But look, a lot of Indians in Canada, that is the big story right now.
00:08:46.340 And a lot of them work at Tim Hortons.
00:08:49.200 Now, Tim Hortons is Canada's, the, the, the, the, their, that is their brand.
00:08:56.820 Canada's main brand.
00:08:58.640 We don't have Dunkin Donuts.
00:09:00.020 We have Tim Hortons.
00:09:01.480 We have McDonald's too, but Tim Hortons is a staple.
00:09:05.120 It's always been a staple.
00:09:06.220 And for the longest time, Tim Hortons was pretty good, to be honest, from whenever it started, I think in the 60s or 70s, 80s, 90s.
00:09:17.640 It was always reliable, especially if you lived in a small town in Canada.
00:09:21.900 You go to the Timmies, you go down to the Timmies there, and you get yourself a fucking double-double, buddy.
00:09:27.720 And you go have a fucking hackadard outside, and you fucking, you know, you got a fucking big egg, bacon egg and sandwich there, and your cheese.
00:09:37.080 And, but now, Tim Hortons has been one of the biggest employers of international students, quote-unquote international students.
00:09:49.000 They call them international students.
00:09:50.260 It's actually a loophole that a lot of these people from India come as, international student.
00:09:57.160 I am international student.
00:09:59.220 I am very, very smart.
00:10:01.500 And then they end up just working at a Tim Hortons, and then they either don't finish their degree, or when they do finish their degree, and most of their degrees, they're not taking, you know, they're not going to the best you.
00:10:13.260 They're not going to Queens University and working at Tim Hortons, okay?
00:10:16.620 They're going to the equivalent of a Everest college, a community college type situation where they basically learn how to use a calculator and do Uber Eats.
00:10:27.220 And they do these courses, and then they become basically permanent residents of Canada because they had a rule up until a few months ago that if you were a international student living and working in Canada, you could apply to be a permanent resident while in the country,
00:10:48.600 which they made illegal thanks to Pierre Polyev's idea that Trudeau stole and used to take care of the problem that was going to help Pierre get elected.
00:11:02.080 So good on Pierre.
00:11:03.460 Sucks that he stole the idea, but that's what they do.
00:11:05.800 Kamala Harris does the same thing.
00:11:08.000 They all steal ideas.
00:11:09.160 That's just what they do.
00:11:09.900 But anyway, so the international students, they also made a new rule in Canada that the international students can only work, I think, 20 hours a week.
00:11:18.600 Because before they were working something like 40, 50, 60, 70 hours a week at Tim Hortons, I work at 3 Tim Hortons, I work at the Subway, I work at the McDonald's.
00:11:29.740 But anyway, the quality of service at Tim Hortons in mostly in major cities, because most of the small towns do not have enough Indians to be working at the Tim Hortons.
00:11:42.440 They're still ran by white people.
00:11:43.680 And not to say that those Tim Hortons are better, but they are.
00:11:47.780 But the Tim Hortons that are being run by Indians in Toronto and Vancouver and Calgary and the big cities have gone to shit.
00:11:58.800 And pictures are going viral of these disgusting wraps that people are getting, these breakfast wraps.
00:12:05.340 I don't know why they look so bad.
00:12:08.020 I mean, we've all seen the Indian street food videos.
00:12:10.960 These are the people making the Tim Hortons.
00:12:13.900 So you be the judge.
00:12:16.620 I don't know.
00:12:18.040 I don't want to say it.
00:12:19.680 I'm not xenophobic.
00:12:20.860 Like, I say the Indians, nice people.
00:12:24.440 If I guess we have to bring in the Indians because white women don't want to have more children.
00:12:30.000 Every time a white woman gets pregnant, the whole time she's pregnant, she's just threatening abortion.
00:12:34.840 Anyway, the Indians are just they're shitting out kids like, no, tomorrow I have a joke about this.
00:12:41.120 I was going to post it, but I wanted to save it for my Canadian tour.
00:12:44.200 So I'm not going to give part of me too much away.
00:12:47.060 But my point is, the reason so many immigrants are coming to countries like Canada and Europe is because the people who live in Canada and Europe don't want to have children.
00:13:03.480 They don't want to have tons and tons of kids anymore.
00:13:09.140 They don't want to start families.
00:13:11.100 Most of the women, as soon as they have a kid, they feel trapped.
00:13:14.540 They don't feel like themselves anymore.
00:13:17.860 I don't feel like my old self.
00:13:21.020 I can't go and sit on a fucking patio and have 20 drinks.
00:13:25.860 And, you know, I don't feel like myself anymore after the second can.
00:13:30.220 And then the relationship falls apart.
00:13:32.840 Oh, well, it's just not the same between me and him.
00:13:35.940 And he doesn't do enough around the house.
00:13:39.000 Ladies, do you know how good you used to have it?
00:13:42.400 But, like, this is what's crazy is stay-at-home wives.
00:13:47.840 The whole thing was like, I don't, I can't stay at home anymore.
00:13:50.380 I can't, I can't do it.
00:13:52.000 It's, I'm going crazy.
00:13:53.560 It's like, read a fucking book.
00:13:56.340 Okay?
00:13:57.000 Pull out a fucking board game.
00:14:00.100 Do something.
00:14:00.940 I get it in the 60s.
00:14:02.340 There was no Netflix.
00:14:03.440 There was no proper TV, movies.
00:14:08.120 There was no Xbox.
00:14:09.880 But nowadays, ladies, if you're a stay-at-home mom, you should be learning how to play Xbox.
00:14:15.420 You should be learning how to play PS5.
00:14:17.720 You should be a master at Nintendo.
00:14:20.480 You should be playing every Mario game.
00:14:23.360 You should be doing these things in between.
00:14:26.680 Oh, I got to do the laundry.
00:14:27.800 When guys live alone and we do the laundry, what do we do?
00:14:30.900 We do the fucking put the laundry in and we go play a video game.
00:14:33.980 Or we go watch a video on the computer or on our phone.
00:14:37.080 And it's not that big of a deal.
00:14:39.380 And I've talked to countless men who do stay-at-home dad chores when their woman goes away.
00:14:47.120 Or their woman needs a break.
00:14:49.260 And then he's in charge of the home.
00:14:52.340 It's not that hard to do.
00:14:54.700 Okay?
00:14:55.500 The kids are easily entertained.
00:14:57.100 It's not like the 60s and 70s.
00:14:58.940 They got iPads.
00:15:00.140 They got TV.
00:15:00.840 Oh, you don't want to put them in front of the TV.
00:15:02.680 Put them in front of the fucking TV.
00:15:04.840 And go and do the laundry and cook a meal.
00:15:07.460 And your husband comes home.
00:15:09.040 And then, you know, okay, daddy's home.
00:15:11.580 Put the iPad away for a bit.
00:15:13.800 Interact with dad.
00:15:15.080 We love you.
00:15:15.740 We love you.
00:15:16.320 You're amazing.
00:15:17.240 Go back to the fucking iPad.
00:15:19.080 Let him go watch something.
00:15:21.140 Have a Coca-Cola.
00:15:22.460 Shut the fuck up.
00:15:24.600 And what is it?
00:15:25.500 Have a Coca-Cola.
00:15:26.460 Have a smile.
00:15:28.240 And shut the fuck up.
00:15:30.360 Seriously.
00:15:31.720 I mean, ladies, this is getting out of hand.
00:15:35.200 That we have to bring boatloads of immigrants to our countries.
00:15:39.940 Because you want to have fun until you're 45 years old.
00:15:45.640 People out there wearing short skirts and on the fucking beach, beach parties and shit on your third husband.
00:15:56.520 And that's why we have to have so many fucking immigrants.
00:16:00.600 Because of you ladies.
00:16:01.740 Sorry, it's true.
00:16:03.300 It's not the guys.
00:16:04.900 We're the ones that we're having kids all over the place.
00:16:07.040 We have a kid with you.
00:16:07.920 We have a kid with you.
00:16:08.780 We have a kid with you.
00:16:09.620 We have a kid with you.
00:16:10.300 We don't give a shit.
00:16:12.140 Most men want you to have the kid, by the way.
00:16:16.640 When men get a woman pregnant, we want you to have the kid.
00:16:20.680 Because we think about the future.
00:16:23.000 Women don't really think in terms.
00:16:24.620 They think in terms of like five days.
00:16:26.980 They have like a five-day range of thought going both ways.
00:16:32.540 I think probably because of all the trauma that happened in their past.
00:16:35.460 So they don't want to think too far in the future because they don't want to think too far in the past.
00:16:39.020 And remember when, you know, something weird happened with their uncle in the basement and blah, blah, blah.
00:16:44.840 They have a five-day, you know, they do something 10 days ago that pissed their husband off.
00:16:49.840 They barely even fucking remember five days later.
00:16:52.940 Okay?
00:16:53.360 But the guys remember.
00:16:55.180 But with the future, men think about the future.
00:16:58.540 They think if I have a child now, that child could be a doctor, a lawyer, a prime minister, the president.
00:17:04.600 They could be an astronaut.
00:17:07.200 They could be a billionaire.
00:17:08.440 They could be a basketball player, a hockey player, football player.
00:17:12.180 They think about these things.
00:17:13.420 And then they think about when I'm old, when I'm an old man in his senior's home, I want as many people visiting me as possible.
00:17:20.460 I want as many people to care about me as possible.
00:17:23.660 Whereas women get stressed out when people care about them.
00:17:26.560 Commitment.
00:17:26.960 Oh, my God.
00:17:27.660 Who created that?
00:17:28.880 Oh, commitment.
00:17:29.640 I'm scared of commitment.
00:17:32.280 Men will commit.
00:17:33.000 Men will commit to five women at once, for fuck's sake.
00:17:36.300 Okay?
00:17:36.700 We don't give a shit.
00:17:38.060 We're not afraid of commitment.
00:17:39.680 All right?
00:17:40.500 We're afraid of you finding out about the other women we've committed to.
00:17:44.100 But we're not afraid of commitment.
00:17:46.680 So, listen.
00:17:49.880 Ladies, I get it.
00:17:51.620 You want to have fun.
00:17:53.020 You want to go out.
00:17:54.300 But the country is at stake.
00:17:56.000 Like, have some kids.
00:17:58.960 And shut the fuck up.
00:18:00.860 Okay?
00:18:02.000 Seriously.
00:18:02.960 I mean, is that so controversial to say?
00:18:05.320 And I get, like, you know, I want you to.
00:18:08.180 Like, I know women that.
00:18:10.380 And heard stories of women that go to law school.
00:18:16.080 And then they meet someone in law school.
00:18:19.360 And then they have a kid.
00:18:20.800 And they realize, I don't want to be a lawyer.
00:18:24.840 If anything, ladies, go to law school to meet a guy who's going to be a better lawyer than you were going to be.
00:18:30.580 And have kids with that guy and just chill at home.
00:18:34.860 Learn how to play Xbox and have some fun.
00:18:37.500 That's how you can make money, too, ladies.
00:18:39.320 If you're good at video games as a woman, as a good-looking woman, you can stream that shit.
00:18:44.020 You already trump all the OnlyFans girls, all the podcast girls, all the, what are they?
00:18:52.980 The female misogynists, you know, the pearly D or whatever that fucking bitch is.
00:18:59.900 You trump all that shit if you just play video games really well.
00:19:04.400 So, just a thought, ladies.
00:19:08.760 Just a thought.
00:19:09.540 Let me turn my light on here.
00:19:13.840 But, you know, I mean, this is for entertainment purposes.
00:19:16.660 If you want to take this the wrong way and go, how could he say that on a podcast?
00:19:19.560 How could anybody say any of this shit they say on podcasts?
00:19:22.740 It's for fun.
00:19:25.260 This is our fun now.
00:19:27.660 It's not fun to watch a TV show.
00:19:30.140 It's not fun to watch a movie.
00:19:32.720 I mean, there's a few movies out there.
00:19:34.200 For me, I watch an old movie.
00:19:36.340 I like an old movie with real acting and real plot and interesting and engaging.
00:19:43.680 I can't watch any of this new shit.
00:19:46.340 I tried to watch this Steve Carell show that's out.
00:19:52.040 He's locked in a basement by a serial killer.
00:19:57.020 And he's a psychotherapist.
00:19:58.640 He's a Jewish.
00:19:59.440 He's a Jewish psychotherapist.
00:20:01.920 Oh, yeah, yeah, Steve Carell.
00:20:03.200 Carell, how could he get locked up in the basement?
00:20:06.000 Nobody knew he was in the basement.
00:20:07.760 How could he be there?
00:20:10.360 And it's a dumb show.
00:20:12.720 Basically, the serial killer takes Steve Carell into the basement to try and use him to help himself to stop being a serial killer.
00:20:21.320 But he really doesn't want to stop being a serial killer.
00:20:23.180 It's just a bunch of bullshit.
00:20:25.180 It's just a money grab.
00:20:26.700 Steve Carell, I love you.
00:20:28.360 I know what you're doing.
00:20:29.260 You need a couple bucks.
00:20:30.520 I get it.
00:20:30.940 You go you go fucking make a show and you make your couple bucks and it sucked.
00:20:38.980 OK, it sucked.
00:20:40.160 And I'll tell you why it sucked, because now when I watch a show, if I like it at all, I will read the end because I don't want to watch it.
00:20:47.400 I don't want to spend 10 hours of my life watching a fucking show that I could spend two seconds.
00:20:56.420 I watched the first episode go.
00:20:57.920 That was kind of interesting.
00:20:58.860 Let me read the fucking ending.
00:21:00.680 And I read the ending and I go, oh, that's what happens.
00:21:04.560 Cool.
00:21:05.220 Great.
00:21:05.940 I don't need to read.
00:21:07.280 I don't need to watch anymore.
00:21:09.580 I don't care.
00:21:11.120 I can read about it.
00:21:12.500 And I think a lot of men are in this situation now where the entertainment, all the entertainment is made for women.
00:21:22.320 Ladies, because you're the ones watching the Netflix, watching the shows.
00:21:29.020 It's all made for you.
00:21:30.120 That's the video games are made for the men.
00:21:32.560 The TV shows are made for the women.
00:21:34.760 And that's why the TV shows aren't that good.
00:21:38.900 I hate to say it, but ladies, you're easily entertained by TV.
00:21:44.580 You know, you got reality shows, bad fucking plots, murder shows that women love murder because that's easy.
00:21:53.340 They just go, this guy killed a bitch.
00:21:55.340 And then they're like, oh, my God, I want to watch that.
00:21:57.500 It's fucking dumb.
00:21:58.740 It's boring.
00:22:00.580 And it's dumb.
00:22:02.020 Okay, guys, what do we watch?
00:22:04.260 We watch sports.
00:22:05.180 There's so much in sports to you have to know something.
00:22:10.280 You can't just turn on a fucking hockey game like ladies.
00:22:13.760 You can't just turn on a hockey game and go like, oh, this is entertaining.
00:22:16.740 I'm entertained now.
00:22:17.520 No, you got to know who's on the team.
00:22:20.040 Which guy is fucking killing it this year?
00:22:22.860 Who are they going to be passing to?
00:22:26.060 How many games have they won?
00:22:27.800 How many games have they lost?
00:22:29.120 What does this game mean for them this season?
00:22:31.140 Are we gambling on the game?
00:22:33.920 Who's gambling on the game?
00:22:35.440 How much money is at stake?
00:22:39.160 What are the odds on the game?
00:22:43.040 There's so much more to think about when it comes to sports and male entertainment and video games.
00:22:49.500 You have to know how to use the controller.
00:22:51.060 You have to, you know, you have to understand the game and understand the different things that you need to buy in the game.
00:23:00.100 If you need to buy the swords or the fucking the boots and the shit and the thing and the armor or if it's a sports game, you got to buy the right.
00:23:09.360 You know, you want to have the right jerseys and the thing.
00:23:16.020 Anyway, my point is everybody should just be reading books.
00:23:18.720 I mean, go read a book.
00:23:21.940 Read a book, ladies and men.
00:23:25.940 Because men are in this boat, too.
00:23:27.640 There's too much entertainment out there.
00:23:29.200 There's too much phone.
00:23:31.880 There's too much shit.
00:23:34.460 Read a fucking book.
00:23:35.740 If you want to go to bed, if you can't sleep at night and you're scrolling, that is your the second you start scrolling and you're going, fuck, I shouldn't be scrolling.
00:23:44.200 Read a fucking book.
00:23:46.140 Read a fucking book.
00:23:47.340 If you're beside your wife and you can't turn a light on because she's asleep, go in another room and read a fucking book until you get tired and then go to bed or read the book on your phone like everybody else.
00:23:58.800 The books app on the iPhones, you can easily read any book that's ever been written throughout time on that app.
00:24:06.920 Read a book.
00:24:08.620 Ladies, you're fucking going through it with the husband.
00:24:11.600 You don't know what to do.
00:24:12.740 You read a book about it.
00:24:14.140 Don't watch a tick tock about it.
00:24:16.300 Don't watch 40 tick tocks about women talking about blah, blah, blah.
00:24:20.460 Read a fucking book about it.
00:24:25.020 Anyway.
00:24:26.920 Change the subject a bit.
00:24:28.160 There's enough ranting for today, but last few episodes we had my boy Armin Arbabi, who is killing it.
00:24:36.080 He went back to Toronto.
00:24:37.540 I wanted him to come back to Austin to hang out for the week between the Hamilton show and the Toronto show.
00:24:46.400 But he wanted to be with his mother.
00:24:50.360 He wanted to be with his mom.
00:24:53.020 And partly I think he didn't want to spend the extra money because, I mean, I'm paying him pretty good.
00:24:58.880 I'm paying him pretty good.
00:25:00.280 Okay.
00:25:00.680 I'm paying him pretty good.
00:25:01.880 Could have afforded it.
00:25:02.980 And he sleeps on the air mattress.
00:25:05.700 You actually have the exact view that Armin Arbabi has from his air mattress.
00:25:11.920 The tripod that I'm filming this on is actually on the air mattress that he sleeps on when he's in town.
00:25:19.000 But he's back in Toronto.
00:25:20.700 And we're going to be meeting back up with him in Toronto for the Toronto shows and the Oshawa shows.
00:25:27.640 He's going to be coming with me to all those shows.
00:25:29.240 And we'll be doing pods and we'll be doing the Patreon bonus episode this week with my boy Armin.
00:25:38.020 So get excited for that.
00:25:39.940 And, you know, part of comedy is about helping people, helping other comedians, helping female comedians.
00:25:47.920 If you're a guy, I think is important because, you know, with all the Me Too shit that happened.
00:25:54.440 And, you know, the idea that any guy who helps a woman is immediately wants to get his dick sucked is something I think I want to fight against.
00:26:05.060 Because, I mean, the guy like it's when you when you realize how crazy it is to get your dick sucked for helping someone, you realize how fucked up these Harvey Weinsteins and all these guys really were because and how much fear they were probably living in.
00:26:23.980 I mean, I would just be living in fear if every other female comic that I tried to give an opportunity to had to suck my dick.
00:26:32.940 I would be terrified of going anywhere.
00:26:35.180 I'd be like, oh, my God, they know they're all talking about it.
00:26:38.280 Like women talk.
00:26:39.300 Look at what happened with Louis C.K.
00:26:40.820 He barely even he didn't even get his dick sucked.
00:26:43.300 He just fucking or whatever he did.
00:26:46.140 Or he was touching women at shows and on the shoulder and stuff.
00:26:49.840 And then they all talk.
00:26:50.920 And, you know, the guy, he still overcame it and stuff like that.
00:26:55.100 But it's not to say that it wasn't probably freaking him out that he was doing this and he was worried about the repercussions of it.
00:27:05.540 But I think it's important to help like Armin.
00:27:08.200 Obviously, he sucks my dick as much as I want because he's a man.
00:27:12.580 But, I mean, man up.
00:27:16.060 No, but Armin is a good comic.
00:27:19.980 And when I met him in 2020 or 2021 and he was performing at what used to be called the Royal Comedy Theater, not the Royal Theater where I'm performing, but it's a place called the Royal Comedy Theater.
00:27:35.300 I don't even know my Toronto fans may remember it.
00:27:38.100 They may have come there and seen me perform there.
00:27:41.320 I saw Armin performing there and I saw him doing well and being funny.
00:27:46.200 And I said, hey, come to a guest spot at Yuck Yucks.
00:27:48.980 I wasn't even selling out my own shows at Yuck Yucks yet.
00:27:53.000 And he came and did a guest.
00:27:54.420 I was headlining, but I wasn't selling out for myself.
00:27:57.380 You know, when you first start headlining with Yuck Yucks and you don't have a following in Canada, the way it works is you get two, three hundred bucks a show and the show is packed because people come to see Yuck Yucks, not you.
00:28:09.560 And so I'd bring him.
00:28:10.860 He would do a guest spot.
00:28:13.200 And that's pretty much how it went down.
00:28:20.340 I just had a missed call.
00:28:22.120 I want to check from who.
00:28:27.380 I have so many calls nowadays from if you're in Canada, I don't know if it's the same as if you're American, but just calls after calls after calls from these fucking Indians that they I don't know what they want.
00:28:44.760 Or maybe I owe the money or my mom owed the money and then she died or I don't fucking know, but I don't answer them.
00:28:51.460 But I had a really cool experience.
00:28:53.180 But anyway, I'm going to finish this little talk about helping people.
00:28:58.220 So I helped Armin and I continue to help him.
00:29:01.620 I helped him get his visa under mine for the U.S. to be able to work here.
00:29:06.580 But he can only work as basically my personal comedian, my personal slave comedian.
00:29:12.780 And that's all great.
00:29:14.480 I helped another comic do a show in Hamilton.
00:29:18.520 A female comic came out to do 10 minutes at the beginning of my last show in Hamilton on the Sunday night.
00:29:25.440 Her name is Monica Gross.
00:29:28.660 She's Jewish, obviously, and I wanted to help her out a little bit.
00:29:33.380 So she came and did a spot and did pretty good.
00:29:35.720 And then I gave her some advice.
00:29:37.060 And it's interesting when comics open for me the first time and I tell them, I always tell them, they go, is there anything I shouldn't do or should know?
00:29:45.780 I go, don't say if like if you do a joke and it doesn't do that great and you thought it should have done better.
00:29:55.040 Don't go.
00:29:55.900 Oh, I thought it was a Ben Bankist crowd.
00:29:58.160 What the hell?
00:29:59.000 I thought this was a Ben Bankist crowd.
00:30:00.700 I thought you guys would like that.
00:30:01.760 Don't do that ever.
00:30:02.960 And if you're a comic listening to this opening for another comic, just never do that because it just makes the crowd feel like insecure in some like kind of like it's like a teacher being like, oh, I thought you guys were really like, no, you don't do that.
00:30:18.880 And it also belittles me and it belittles the audience.
00:30:22.820 And she kind of did like a little bit of the thing where she goes, you know, you guys ready for Ben Bankist?
00:30:30.460 Like, like she are you guys excited?
00:30:32.420 Like she doesn't realize and comics who open for you for the first time, they don't realize that people are actually excited.
00:30:38.860 Like comics don't realize that you actually have fans.
00:30:42.800 They can't wrap their head around it.
00:30:45.980 And I still have comics asking me.
00:30:49.280 I took a comic to a football game the other day.
00:30:52.580 His name's Eli.
00:30:53.260 And he's asking me.
00:30:55.300 He's going so like, oh, he's kind of a dumbass.
00:30:59.220 He's fucking he's a great guy.
00:31:00.480 I love him.
00:31:01.260 But he's like, so like, is your following like is the fact like you're selling out shows like does that come from social media?
00:31:08.780 I'm like, dude, how fucking dumb are you?
00:31:11.880 Like where else would it come from?
00:31:15.520 All of this is social media.
00:31:17.100 YouTube is social media.
00:31:19.100 Instagram, Twitter.
00:31:20.300 It's all social media.
00:31:21.480 That's the way you get big.
00:31:24.160 Now there's no comic that got big off of TV in 2024.
00:31:30.940 OK, and even the ones that do that.
00:31:33.060 Oh, he was on Wild and Out.
00:31:34.740 There's I know some comic.
00:31:36.720 Jacob something, you know, and he's a use on Wild and Out.
00:31:40.940 And then he posts a video on Twitter on Instagram and it doesn't do so good.
00:31:46.480 And it's like, well, it doesn't matter what you're doing on fucking TV.
00:31:51.560 It matters what you're doing on Instagram.
00:31:54.300 And if you're on TV, you should be posting your Instagram stuff.
00:32:00.220 Or you should be posting those TV clips on Instagram.
00:32:03.180 But that's neither here nor there.
00:32:04.620 I helped out the female comic, gave her some advice.
00:32:06.760 And now after she did my show, she's just doing all these great things now.
00:32:11.380 I see in Toronto and she's on a bunch of different shows.
00:32:14.940 And I don't know if I had any part of that or I helped maybe her confidence with, you know, helping comics with their confidence is important.
00:32:21.880 You got to ask people for spots.
00:32:24.100 You got to be out there.
00:32:25.080 You got to be a little aggressive, not too aggressive.
00:32:27.040 Like, I guess I have been at certain comedy clubs in Austin, Texas, which I just found out about that there's a comedy club in Austin, Texas called East Austin.
00:32:42.500 East Austin Comedy Club ran by a guy named Raza.
00:32:48.120 And they don't like me there.
00:32:51.300 They don't like me.
00:32:51.960 It's a very small room.
00:32:53.140 It's a small little comedy club that doesn't sell alcohol.
00:32:56.920 You have to bring your own alcohol.
00:32:58.660 And I like it there.
00:32:59.380 It's very artsy fartsy, very woke because the Raza guy's woke or kind of he wants.
00:33:05.360 I don't even really know.
00:33:06.580 But there is a bit of an issue in in Austin with with certain comedy clubs that they just they get in the habit of putting the same 10 people on that don't have followings.
00:33:19.100 And then people with followings are like, hey, can I get a spot?
00:33:22.100 They're like, I don't know.
00:33:23.840 I don't like your vibe.
00:33:25.140 I don't like that.
00:33:26.820 And it's I don't think it's a good idea for them.
00:33:29.700 But to each his own.
00:33:31.520 That's their business and not mine.
00:33:33.060 But apparently I showed up one night a little drunk or something to East Austin.
00:33:39.700 And it was the day after my mom died of cancer and dementia.
00:33:46.860 And.
00:33:49.360 Not in the greatest headspace, right?
00:33:51.400 Maybe it was a two days after not in the greatest headspace.
00:33:53.700 Armin was here.
00:33:54.540 We got drunk.
00:33:56.140 I think probably, you know, my girl was pissing me off, whatever the fucking I went and had some drinks.
00:34:02.820 We went to East Austin.
00:34:03.920 I did a spot and I brought up Raza, the owner, and kind of like, you know, kind of ribbed him a bit, like made fun of him.
00:34:12.180 I was just like, guys, give it up for the owner of the comedy club.
00:34:15.520 You know, if you and I'm probably said, you know how, you know, it's like, hey, if you can't do comedy, buy a club.
00:34:20.940 I don't know if I said that, but I did said something like that.
00:34:24.300 And but I mean, I've known this guy for years, so I didn't think you would give a shit.
00:34:28.080 But then he goes on stage and he's like, oh, give it up for that guy.
00:34:31.300 Yeah, you saw his material.
00:34:32.780 That's why his mom's dead.
00:34:34.780 And and then so as I was walking out in this comedy club holds like 20 people, by the way.
00:34:40.560 But as like, it's not really it's like a it's a room.
00:34:44.140 And as I'm walking out, I was kind of like, fuck you or something.
00:34:48.600 Anyway, sorry, Raza.
00:34:50.020 I was a little drunk and also you were I didn't like what you said about my mom because he doesn't say things in like a funny like he says it in like a mean way and thinks it's going to be funny.
00:35:00.260 But then it's not funny.
00:35:01.600 So then people are like, why the fuck would he say that?
00:35:05.160 But but then a lot of those comics can't say anything because they just want spots.
00:35:09.380 So they're like, oh, but I don't really give a shit.
00:35:13.140 So I did say something.
00:35:15.040 So, yeah.
00:35:16.780 So then I found out at a different show that I just did at Speakeasy that ran by a comic that I know that I'm friends with just that he doesn't want me to do that show.
00:35:26.500 So, Raza, if you're watching this, let's have a little conversation.
00:35:30.400 Why don't you come on the pod?
00:35:31.420 It is weird, too, because the day that that happened right before I went on stage, I was talking to him in the alleyway outside the comedy club and he was like, how can you help me get shows to do in Canada?
00:35:43.120 And I was like, oh, yeah, I'll send you a couple emails.
00:35:45.280 I was like, you probably want to go to this club, not that club based on your material.
00:35:48.420 I talked to him for about 10 minutes about this.
00:35:50.320 So it was kind of weird that he was so upset.
00:35:52.820 But, but, you know, that's that's just what's going on.
00:35:59.400 And I'm talking about it because it's my podcast.
00:36:04.120 We can't talk about that.
00:36:05.340 Oh, how dare you mention that?
00:36:07.460 He's now he doesn't want me to do shows there anymore.
00:36:10.080 So I thought I'd talk about it for entertainment purposes.
00:36:15.060 Huh?
00:36:16.580 So that's something.
00:36:17.720 And on a on a much cooler note, much cooler note.
00:36:23.820 When I was downtown.
00:36:27.500 Last week in Austin and my manager reaches out to me and goes, I'm with Jordan Peterson.
00:36:33.780 I mentioned you to him and he knows you.
00:36:37.280 He follows you on Twitter and Michaela's here.
00:36:40.620 You went to grade school, apparently, with her, which is true.
00:36:44.080 I went to grade school with Michaela Peterson, grew up in the same area as Jordan Peterson.
00:36:47.720 Um, his family that they lived in the annex in Toronto when he was a university professor.
00:36:56.220 And I was like, that's awesome.
00:36:59.260 And they and he said, come by, come say hello.
00:37:01.460 So I went over to the mothership comedy mothership, went up to the green room, hung out with Jordan Peterson and Michaela, Michaela's husband.
00:37:09.580 And, uh, basically just had, had a couple drinks, shot the shit and told Jordan what I'm up to.
00:37:18.160 It was really cool to tell him that I'm doing great with the theater shows coming up in Canada, in Toronto and Ottawa and touring the States and living in the States.
00:37:29.420 And he seemed to be very happy for me.
00:37:31.820 And he hooked me up with his suit guy because I complimented him on his suit and he goes, you want one?
00:37:38.880 I go, yeah.
00:37:39.520 And so I'm in contact with his suit guy, Dimitri, and it was just a really cool experience.
00:37:47.320 And I'm not sure if that helped some of the other cool things that have been happening.
00:37:51.800 Something like today, this is a pretty big announcement for my podcast listeners, but Joe Rogan just started following me on Instagram and I'm very happy about it.
00:38:07.500 I've been a fan of Joe Rogan's and, you know, some people will be like, oh, you're going to immediately suck his dick.
00:38:14.500 Yeah.
00:38:15.060 Yeah, I am actually.
00:38:15.940 But truthfully, I was a fan of his in first year university or second year university.
00:38:23.920 We would watch his specials on on on Netflix, you know, and especially where they're flying.
00:38:33.580 They fly over Cali and he's talking about see all those buildings.
00:38:36.960 That's like the human race is like a cancer on on the world.
00:38:42.400 We just build these like he was doing, he's talking, he's real mushroom thoughts.
00:38:47.620 And then his set was amazing.
00:38:49.140 He had that brilliant bit about.
00:38:52.900 How none of us can really build anything, and that's why that's why civilizations get lost so easily, because if they kill all the smart people, the dumb people won't know how to do anything.
00:39:03.240 You know, if you put me in a forest and you said build a microphone, I could never do it.
00:39:07.300 So it was great.
00:39:08.540 It was very prolific and it shaped a lot of things for us.
00:39:14.980 I mean, that special was on Netflix around the time that Louis CK special was on Netflix.
00:39:21.920 The one where he talks about where he goes, you know, you're not a fan or what, you know, that that whole bit and tons of other bits and comics that I was really into at that time.
00:39:39.600 But Joe, you know, I was I was I was a kid and to know that he's following me now, I think, is a really cool, really cool thing.
00:39:52.400 It's a really cool thing.
00:39:53.540 And I hope to to to talk to him soon.
00:39:56.920 I hope to talk to him and meet him soon.
00:39:59.640 And I'm proud of myself.
00:40:00.920 I'm proud of myself.
00:40:01.660 And that's an important thing in this world is to be proud of yourself.
00:40:05.800 Anybody out there who's not proud of themselves, you have to start doing things in your life to make yourself proud, whether that's going to the gym and working out, whether it's which I do, even though people call me fat every day of my life.
00:40:19.080 But I do go to the gym and I do work out.
00:40:22.680 I do sweat.
00:40:23.400 The last couple of days have been bad for my health, to be honest, because I smoke way too many cigarettes, was really stressed out about a situation.
00:40:31.300 A situation that's, you know, was kind of out of my hands, but either way.
00:40:41.300 Not proud of that, not proud of smoking a pack of cigarettes in a night, but sometimes it happens.
00:40:47.960 It does happen and you have to be able to move on.
00:40:50.880 You have to be able to do something you're not proud of and move on and then do something you are proud of and continue to try to do more things that you're proud of than things that you're not proud of.
00:40:59.600 I think that that's a big thing in life.
00:41:01.960 Am I proud that I got a little pissy at East Austin?
00:41:06.680 No.
00:41:08.620 But am I proud that I kind of stood up for myself a little bit?
00:41:11.800 Yeah, because I don't really think you should let people who are kind of way below you make you feel bad.
00:41:23.380 I don't think that should be or have the last word.
00:41:26.320 And maybe that's me being a young guy, a young rambunctious guy, but I don't think you should.
00:41:34.260 I think you should stand up for yourself when people talk shit to your face, especially, and they just want you to laugh.
00:41:41.940 I think sometimes you have to kind of go, let me say something now, see how you feel and see what happens.
00:41:48.860 And if I, you know, that's, it's a dog eat dog world out there, as Donald Trump would say.
00:41:55.140 Well, he would say it's a Haitian eat dog, but let's, let's be real.
00:42:00.740 It's, it's a tough world out there.
00:42:02.140 So, and, uh, I have a phone call coming in.
00:42:06.540 Sorry for that quick interruption.
00:42:08.280 That was Jordan Peterson's suit guy's assistant making an appointment with me to get fitted for my first Jordan Peterson suit.
00:42:18.260 I'm pretty excited.
00:42:19.360 I wonder maybe it'll be even ready for one of my theater shows in Toronto, maybe the Friday or the Saturday show.
00:42:26.560 And we're selling t-shirts at the shows, folks.
00:42:29.860 So if you're coming to the Toronto shows or the Oshawa shows, we should have some t-shirts for sale if they don't sell out on the first night.
00:42:38.600 And those t-shirts are limited edition.
00:42:42.260 Olivia Chow, Chowzilla t-shirts.
00:42:46.740 And I can't wait for you guys to see them.
00:42:49.740 Thank you so much for listening to my podcast.
00:42:51.540 I'll say one thing before I leave.
00:42:53.080 When I was with Jordan Peterson, I told him my pod, I have a podcast.
00:42:57.160 Would you come on my podcast?
00:42:58.280 And he said, he said, maybe next time I'm in, I'm in town, I would come on your podcast.
00:43:04.680 And I do a pretty good at Jordan Peterson.
00:43:07.700 Sorry, Tyler Fisher, but I've known him a long time.
00:43:10.920 Oh, maybe I'd come on your podcast next time I was in town.
00:43:14.620 He said that he would maybe come on my podcast and he asked me about how my podcast was doing.
00:43:19.860 And he said, he asked, how many views does your podcast get a week?
00:43:24.220 And I said about 3,000 listens across all platforms.
00:43:29.720 And he was kind of like, you know, in his head, he's probably like, oh, rookie numbers.
00:43:33.940 But he goes, what do you like about your podcast?
00:43:37.300 And that hit me.
00:43:40.960 That hit me hard.
00:43:41.920 I go.
00:43:43.600 Because I didn't know what to say.
00:43:45.900 Part of me wanted to be funny and go nothing, nothing.
00:43:48.540 I hate it.
00:43:49.120 I fucking hate it.
00:43:50.320 But I don't.
00:43:51.520 I like doing it.
00:43:52.540 I know that it's not been as consistent as it should be.
00:43:55.020 It should be coming out every Tuesday at the same time like everybody else.
00:43:58.520 But sometimes I just have life and I want to do it when I want to do it.
00:44:01.500 And I want to say what I want to say when I want to say it in the way I want to say it.
00:44:04.800 And but I do need that consistency.
00:44:07.920 But what I said that I liked about my podcast is I said that.
00:44:13.860 It's cathartic.
00:44:15.920 It's cathartic for people who are watching all the news and watching everything that's going on and watching Twitter and watching social media.
00:44:22.640 And they want to make sense of everything that's going on and they need a little bit of a debrief.
00:44:27.820 That's what that's what this is.
00:44:29.820 This is a debrief.
00:44:30.800 This is my perspective.
00:44:32.120 This is my life.
00:44:32.960 You get to learn a little bit about me, about my career, and at the same time, hear me rant about all the bullshit that's happening in the world.
00:44:41.220 So thank you guys for supporting my podcast.
00:44:43.280 Please support me on Patreon, patreon.com slash Ben Bankus.
00:44:47.560 You can watch bonus episodes every week.
00:44:50.760 There are tons of episodes with Armin.
00:44:52.580 And you can watch the first five minutes of every episode for free on Patreon.
00:44:56.200 Most of the Patreon episodes have 10 minutes for free on YouTube.
00:44:58.680 Keep supporting this podcast.
00:45:01.280 Send it to five, ten friends.
00:45:03.300 Tell them to watch it.
00:45:04.260 Tell them that I have a podcast.
00:45:06.340 A lot of my fans don't even know I have a podcast and they would love it if they knew.
00:45:09.740 So thank you guys so much.
00:45:11.380 I really appreciate you.
00:45:12.880 I hope you have a great week.
00:45:15.120 Good night.
00:45:15.440 Bye.
00:45:29.940 Good night.
00:45:32.000 Good night.
00:45:32.620 Bye.