Bankas Podcast - April 01, 2023


Nightmare on Hastings Street ｜ The Bankas Show - #019

Hosted by
Ben Bankas
Mentioned
Catherine Albrecht
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Length

39 minutes

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172.17

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6,816

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Harmful content

Misogyny

8

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Toxicity

118

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Hate speech

59

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Summary

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Vancouver, Canada is a beautiful city, but it s becoming a dilapidating hellscape. The streets are filled with homeless people and it s a scary place to walk the streets. We talk about the issue with the homeless in Vancouver and how they are ruining the city.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 welcome to the bank is show everybody we are on tour we are in vancouver right now chilling we
00:00:05.740 have the day off this is our first day off since we flew out at uh 7 30 in the morning
00:00:12.280 on april or march 29th fuck feels like a week ago it's only been like two about a week ago we call 0.89
00:00:21.540 about a week ago i didn't have these sunglasses i know we went we bought these but yeah so we
00:00:29.580 we arrived um on the 29th in victoria bc the show was sold out for all intents and purposes there
00:00:37.820 was like 100 people there it was sold out we they were like we could have fit 130 i don't know how
00:00:41.900 they would have fit another 30 people but it was a dope ass show um people on the island are a little 0.55
00:00:47.600 different though they're a little they're slower people on the island they don't um you know they're
00:00:53.700 environmentally friendly people like they don't really know what's going on in the world if you
00:00:58.600 live on an island you don't really know what's going on you're just there going oh wow it's so
00:01:03.040 beautiful and you have to you have to take a boat to get here and that's the funny part is that they
00:01:07.780 think they're so green like liberal nd peers who live there and it the fact that they live there is
00:01:16.760 causing so much damage to the environment just the amount of 18 wheeler trucks that have to get onto
00:01:22.960 a boat that then dumps like gallon thousand gallons of gasoline into the beautiful ocean and they just
00:01:31.140 rip through all those yeah look at the islands look here and we're just shitting in the water and go 0.99
00:01:36.100 take a shit on this boat like we took like eight shits on that boat yeah we did take a lot of shits 0.99
00:01:41.340 but yeah vancouver uh victoria's nice and then we came to vancouver which is it's a beautiful city 0.99
00:01:49.400 that they've destroyed it's nice to look at from the safety of our apartment but walking around on
00:01:55.360 the streets is terrifying it's like i don't think people who live here know how scary it is like right
00:02:00.840 now i can see a building with a pride flag on the roof and in that building is just i don't know
00:02:09.020 domestic abuse all day i don't even know if that's the issue here i think the issue everybody's
00:02:13.320 just homeless and they come here to be homeless and the city is it it's becoming an american city
00:02:23.140 vancouver you're an american city where you can't really walk around toronto is much safer to walk
00:02:29.140 100 toronto we are much better at segregating the people that we don't want around um than vancouver 0.96
00:02:37.360 you guys vancouver you're crazy you're just like everybody can just live on this street and
00:02:41.680 vancouver they need a scarborough they need a scarborough and a mississauga they can send
00:02:46.300 they don't have that they have a surrey bc yeah but they need a i don't know i don't think it's working
00:02:52.060 vancouver is a dump but is a beautiful dump and i like that i like that you have the best scenery
00:03:03.040 of any city pretty much in canada and you your waterfront is beautiful and the trails and and
00:03:11.420 the buildings the architecture is beautiful for the most part there's some ugly buildings but even
00:03:16.200 ugly buildings in vancouver look cool and then you just destroyed this this beautiful opportunity to
00:03:22.860 have an amazing city probably would have been the best city in canada if not north america vancouver
00:03:27.440 has the potential to be the best city but it is it's uh it's a dilapidating hellscape every
00:03:36.620 starbucks i i don't even want to how much money is starbucks losing in vancouver because nobody wants
00:03:41.520 to go to starbucks anymore because they're scared that they're going to get uh you know filleted
00:03:45.680 filleted what do you think the solution is are we going to fix it i mean authoritarianism 0.98
00:03:54.880 yeah kill all the homeless well i mean at a certain point 0.99
00:04:00.420 i'm not saying to kill them but to just have them you can't you can't get rid of the problem 1.00
00:04:09.020 what are you gonna you like literally killing them is the only you think the solution is like 0.99
00:04:12.980 as the migrants are coming in through roxham road we're sending the homeless back into america 1.00
00:04:17.480 just a little trade
00:04:18.580 there is no solution it's just this is how we live now this is the society we live in
00:04:26.900 is filled with homeless people and i get it i see them walking around and i get it uh you know
00:04:38.040 being a human being is hard we've been kind of coached to think that you know the
00:04:44.480 the hollywood dream this is what a life is this is what a marriage is this is what no we're 1.00
00:04:50.200 fucking animals on this planet and if you don't get your shit right you're fucked you're just 1.00
00:04:55.780 fucked forever so yeah like last night when we were driving back to the to where we're staying 1.00
00:05:02.940 from surrey there was like it's zombies it's a zombie apocalypse and then i said it to the 0.98
00:05:11.300 woman at nordstrom i was like this is she's like yeah well we have less deaths now because we're
00:05:16.520 administering narcan to all the homeless people i'm like yeah and then they come back to life as a 0.95
00:05:21.620 fucking zombie and stab you at starbucks we should like i'm sorry to say this but how many times can 0.99
00:05:28.020 you get narcan and brought back to life before you start getting violent and you act zombie like i mean 1.00
00:05:35.300 and are these people they're narcanning them are they uh vaccinated are these homeless people
00:05:40.720 vaccinated they're every the vaccine was the big thing especially in vancouver especially in bc where
00:05:47.880 people tend to be woke and look you have unvaccinated narcan zombies wandering around the city 1.00
00:05:58.060 terrorizing people basically uh i mean there are the liberals oh they keep to themselves those are
00:06:05.240 liberals who grew up in vancouver they grew up in a different vancouver and now they live here and
00:06:09.360 they go well it's just they i feel bad for no it's extreme guys i'm from toronto we have homeless
00:06:16.240 people too it's a bigger city it's not this bad i don't even know what maybe we're sending all the 0.99
00:06:22.920 homeless from toronto to here or they're making their way here but what the fuck guys i mean it is 0.99
00:06:29.840 it's a hellscape i just can't get over how bad the city uh looks on the ground it's only nice when you 0.99
00:06:38.220 look out the window you look at all the buildings oh that's pretty there's a mountain and then you walk
00:06:43.020 around and it's zombie apocalypse narcan victims they're victims of narcan they should have they 0.99
00:06:51.860 should have shoulda woulda coulda for the betterment of society i didn't say it no i think that 0.85
00:07:00.340 my fans here are cool as shit and they make the people who are my like the whites is what 0.99
00:07:08.340 no my fans are very diverse by the way if you guys are wondering the show last night in surrey there 0.97
00:07:15.360 was uh tons of brown people because it's surrey no there was there's brown people yeah there was
00:07:22.280 an indian guy there was a trinidadian guy there was asian couple there was another asian guy
00:07:26.820 there was like eight people that weren't white and they had a great time they felt like they were in
00:07:35.080 a safe space it is safer that's for sure i mean like you know if it was an all black crowd 1.00
00:07:42.060 i didn't like that doggy you know but i didn't like that doggy i did get at the first show was i 0.97
00:07:50.860 had a hat thrown at me i had a hat thrown at why did you not see no i was shooting you gotta start
00:07:57.500 watching my sets you gotta watch my sets i have to watch your set they go oh yeah yeah the whole time 0.70
00:08:02.540 boy he just told the owner of the club that he was a loser what are we gonna do i'm not gonna get paid
00:08:08.920 no um no last night at the show in surrey a woman threw a hat at me and it was a hat like a j-lo
00:08:20.000 2004 oh one of those hat and she was sitting in the front row with i'm not gonna say who but a certain
00:08:26.920 someone who works at a certain company that rhymes with uh ebble bebble booze bebble shoes
00:08:35.640 and one of their guests their friends um got upset because the casino at one point during my show
00:08:46.900 all of the uh visa machines went down oh so she got mad at you just wait just wait a second
00:08:52.280 just shut up and listen for god's sakes she she wasn't mad at me the visa machines went down this 0.98
00:08:59.860 shit like this always happens at shows and then i get mad and then i get mad because the show is 0.99
00:09:06.180 just supposed to be a show people are supposed to come to the show be able to pay with the way that 0.97
00:09:10.140 they pay but for some reason um and it's i guess it's not anybody's fault it's not the comedy club's
00:09:16.880 fault but they shut down all visa and debit service during the show so basically everybody there was
00:09:25.080 gonna pay with a card and then halfway through the show they're like no so but this woman was making 1.00
00:09:29.780 a big deal about it during my act right as i was starting to bring up the good stuff the theresa tam
00:09:36.000 some of the other shit and so she's freaking out and being like to the waitress well i don't know how 0.80
00:09:42.260 i want to pay with things i know so i started making fun of her and then i you know and then i told her like 0.99
00:09:49.020 we had to kick another woman out just like you and then i was like yeah she was fat and and everybody 1.00
00:09:56.040 was laughing having a good time and she got mad and she threw a hat at me which is assault it's assault 0.99
00:10:02.440 it's assault but i didn't um do anything about it because i don't care it's it's surrey bc
00:10:11.940 it's the most dangerous city in canada surrey bc look it up it has the highest murder rate
00:10:20.120 of any city i'm pretty sure in canada and the worst thing that happened to me was i got a hat thrown at
00:10:28.060 me and it wasn't even a turban so i'm not that upset about it at all what's the what's the death
00:10:34.500 toll i mean i don't really understand what the statistic is but it says 71.4 percent level of
00:10:41.940 crime 71.1 what what is it in toronto worries car stolen it's all it's basically all like
00:10:49.380 yeah grand theft auto this is literally grand theft auto city let's see toronto murder rate
00:10:55.320 i'm gonna close this door
00:11:04.700 well it doesn't say like the percent like that but there was only 80 homicides
00:11:19.100 in 2021 which what in toronto yeah it's not bad and how many in surrey let's see
00:11:26.760 guys this is bad why is everybody so angry here it's it's so nice the weather's nicer than every
00:11:34.900 other city maybe that's why okay so that's why florida's fucked up so we have the first quarter of 0.92
00:11:40.180 uh 2022 only one heim aside one homicide for the first quarter heim aside but we have uh 549 0.83
00:11:48.780 violent crimes they're all in total in the quarter it's because the sikh guys are allowed to have 1.00
00:11:57.200 they're allowed to have not 1600 violent crimes did you know that that the sikh guys are allowed to 1.00
00:12:03.100 have knives really it's like because it's like a religious object it's a pretty sick religion 1.00
00:12:09.900 it's a good religion it's pretty sick trudeau loves i'd love security maybe that's why he did
00:12:18.300 maybe that's what yeah trudeau just felt scared at the party they were playing rap music on them
00:12:23.500 at all times no but victoria uh was a beautiful city and they have homeless people there too but
00:12:29.880 the homeless people aren't as aggressive but it's more of a small town but vancouver i just can't get
00:12:36.600 over this i didn't even see them like i'm i just i'm from toronto so all my street instincts like
00:12:43.740 kick in but like then you just you can't really enjoy the city like certain parts of it you can't
00:12:49.200 really even walk around in toronto or here oh here yeah hastings hastings is far there's parts of
00:12:55.180 toronto that have homeless but it's like not even an area that it's like a corner it'll be like on a
00:13:00.100 corner they'll have they have a tent city in toronto but it's not even it's under a bridge so who cares
00:13:04.440 yeah they're hiding here they're like i might there was a tent outside of the art gallery which
00:13:11.060 by the way we tried to be cultured individuals and go to the art gallery in vancouver here and i didn't
00:13:20.220 feel it wasn't it was an uninclusive environment there was a trans flag at the door so i immediately
00:13:27.080 felt like i was not wanted there no i mean i'm joking about that but part of me you know part of it is like
00:13:33.580 here's a flag and it's like like if i put i do a joke in my act i don't want to give it away but i 0.99
00:13:38.980 talking about how the uh the fuck trudeau flag you know and it's like would the fuck if the fuck trudeau 0.99
00:13:45.980 flag was hanging outside of an art gallery would and i'm not saying the trans flag is but the trans 1.00
00:13:55.120 flag is the opposite of the fuck trudeau flag is the pride flag like that's like those are the polar 0.99
00:14:01.320 opposites of our society right now and you can't go out around hanging fuck trudeau flags everywhere 0.99
00:14:08.000 on you know on government buildings on high schools in front of art galleries so why do we need to have 0.95
00:14:17.380 like if you go to an art gallery just as a regular person and want to see art why does it have to be
00:14:25.480 through the lens of the the minority groups like you know because that's who's all making the art
00:14:35.400 though because all the conservative people i think they just make money go to like finance and get like
00:14:39.840 real jobs so only minorities make art i think i think so because usually art's made by like the 1.00
00:14:45.360 subjugated and like the poor people of a community so currently it's like the minorities so now we're 0.99
00:14:50.500 i'm a minority i'm half jewish there's not a lot of us i'm a half jew and i hate the
00:14:58.240 don't hate anybody i love everybody no i love i actually do not i mean you had a trans fan come
00:15:04.620 to the show i had a trans fan come to i know we had there was a trans fan in victoria i'm pretty sure
00:15:11.340 probably the only trans person in victoria and there was a trans fan last night i'm pretty sure there
00:15:17.660 was a couple there was even some like sort of gender neutral non-binds so i love everybody and
00:15:23.940 the jokes are for everybody i don't care like i don't care if the trans like there i just think
00:15:28.880 it's fun to talk about that it's this is a phenomenon that's happening now our society is
00:15:34.300 becoming and you know we want to become as accepting as possible but we're doing it in
00:15:42.040 like a low-key authoritative authoritarian ish way where it's like we're changing everything
00:15:50.820 like that's never going to be easy for a society to go through and that's what i don't like with
00:15:56.720 the left is like why does the left think it should just be so easy for everybody to just go we're
00:16:03.780 changing everything we're like we're changing what your kids are learning in school we're changing um
00:16:09.440 you know the the look of our cities with you know even just the woke stuff with the bike lanes and
00:16:16.420 half the bike lanes have are just pride colors um you know all kind and i'm not saying these things
00:16:24.000 are like a big deal in the left they'll be like well what's the big deal with that why oh that bugs
00:16:28.620 you you're transphobic and it's like i get that argument but at a certain point it's like this is just
00:16:33.500 buggy this is just like too much of anything like the same if the right took over tomorrow and started 0.99
00:16:40.880 putting fuck trudeau flags everywhere and fuck trudeau painted on sidewalks that would also be 0.99
00:16:45.880 scary that's also authoritarian it's like i'm just saying that it's a like it's a propaganda it's gone 1.00
00:16:52.420 past the point of being hey we're just this accepting society i thought we were already that
00:16:58.000 like nobody like i and i get that there are minority groups that were like no no that we
00:17:02.900 weren't but now we are i don't know if that's true i just feel like we've emboldened a lot of people who
00:17:09.160 are crazy and i'm not saying all people who are lgbt whatever are crazy or mentally ill by no means 0.99
00:17:16.340 that's not true but the mentally ill ones are being emboldened to be fucking out of their minds now 1.00
00:17:26.620 like we had that there was the trans shooter the trans school shooter that went to a school in the 1.00
00:17:33.240 u.s and look this the u.s is fucked you guys have shooters all the time so it's not even really it's 0.99
00:17:39.140 like see they're trans now like it's one out of thousands so and and you can't look at it like that 0.99
00:17:47.420 but it was shocking it was scary i think it scared people on the right i think people on the right were 0.99
00:17:53.640 like holy shit they're fucking a trans with the ar that's they were i think in some ways they half 0.99
00:17:59.340 respect him because it was like second amendment they like respected it but they were like god damn 1.00
00:18:04.400 trans got done did something other than tiktok so that's i mean i like this gender but i just i don't 1.00
00:18:11.560 think that we're why what i say when what i mean when i say that we're going too far is that we're
00:18:17.880 pushing and changing and we're not respecting the people who are voicing their concerns and we're 1.00
00:18:24.000 just pointing a finger at them and going you're a fucking racist piece of shit and you need to fall 1.00
00:18:28.380 in line and and this is what society is now i think that's the bad part here you'll like because it 1.00
00:18:34.180 could happen for some other ideology that's way scarier than trans or gay like covid which it basically 0.99
00:18:40.900 happened so you'll like this so there's a bunch of gender activists that are outraged because people 0.70
00:18:47.440 are dead naming the name of the trans shooter so dead naming is when you say the person's name
00:18:52.400 before they transitioned so they're mad not that this person killed children in a preschool but the
00:18:58.340 fact that uh you're saying audrey hale the uh the original name now there's like outrage for that
00:19:05.300 well yeah the uh the new york times like apologized that's insane they or they didn't apologize they
00:19:12.000 didn't say sorry but they basically put out an apology they're like we would like to put out a
00:19:16.400 correction we had mentioned that it was a woman and uh we now understand that that person identified
00:19:22.380 as a man they're a murderer it just murdered kids i know and then it's i mean like i get it the crazy 0.55
00:19:31.000 trans people though that's now a martyr for them because they're like see look that they they died 1.00
00:19:36.940 so that i could be pro like have my pronouns said correct it's just all a lot and guys i think we
00:19:44.680 should just acknowledge that this is all just a lot and we have people being stabbed and we have
00:19:50.140 people being shot and then you still just see white people jogging around like nothing like that's like 0.88
00:19:55.100 armin's joke like but you know the whites are just well we're more jogging around and like it's just all 0.99
00:20:00.620 kinds of crazy shit and the online indoctrination of people like even my fans are crazy but i think i mean 0.99
00:20:08.280 for the most part they're just like they're mostly potheads or or they're just people that like 1.00
00:20:14.420 they're regular they just like south park they love the fucking accents and the shit they talked 0.99
00:20:19.340 about controversial topics and that's what comedy fucking should be they grew up with my type of and 0.99
00:20:23.860 this it's it's which is people making fun of everybody and everything and not not trying to be 0.93
00:20:32.180 politically correct just for the sake of you know just for the sake of what like i don't even know
00:20:39.740 what the the point of that would would necessarily be to just you know i get that for me as as my 0.86
00:20:47.560 upbringing like i get when comics are you know they're doing their clean shit and this cbc and you 0.80
00:20:52.780 know jfl like i did a showcase for jfl at the best set of the night i'm gonna i'm i think that's true
00:20:59.900 and uh we talked to the guy and you know my pr lady she's talking to them and but 1.00
00:21:06.000 we're working on it but they still want me to send them like clean stuff and it's like
00:21:11.480 well just put me on the dirty don't like that well people don't care that's the other thing too is i
00:21:17.640 think they they themselves care so they want to like enact what they think people should like but
00:21:22.600 people don't like that well that's what i'm talking about with this it's gone too far thing
00:21:26.800 is the authoritarian oh well i saw that you killed but you swore and you said some offensive
00:21:33.900 things so can you kill when you don't swear and say non-offensive things and it's like yes okay
00:21:38.060 i'll do that for you but just understand that people are going to buy tickets to see me because
00:21:43.940 all my show will be part of just for laughs you're basically saying we're not we're not considering you
00:21:50.700 for any of the galas like any of the things that all these other comedians compete for
00:21:55.240 which is kind of a compliment because they're basically saying look you're above that yeah but
00:22:01.420 you need to have a certain level of whatever to to get it but at that point it's like well i'm doing 0.97
00:22:06.340 a show in montreal on june 1st a month before just for laughs what's like it's stupid it's they don't 0.72
00:22:14.220 care about funny anymore they don't want to listen to the audience's laughs and it's depressing 0.61
00:22:18.980 can we get a water you can you grab us a couple of areas
00:22:22.640 we went to the uh the shoppers drug mart here i think they also have shoppers but it was it's
00:22:30.640 called london drugs maybe that's what the main shopping shoppers is here which is like the cbs or
00:22:36.400 whatever but london drugs the down we went to the downtown one it's fucking terrifying they have like 0.99
00:22:41.960 eight security guards in there it's like a third world country it's insane everything and then they 0.99
00:22:47.840 still have all the fucking stupid covid you know glass tempered glass to protect the employees from 0.99
00:22:55.360 honestly the i feel like the tempered glass went from protecting people from the disease to just 1.00
00:23:01.260 protecting them from getting stabbed people just feel safer behind glass i feel safer if you're working
00:23:08.700 in a you know same with like the cab drivers they put up the the the new york cabs used to always
00:23:14.700 have that for safety a barrier between the driver but so i don't know
00:23:21.160 vancouver man what a town it's it's really wild here i want to i want to see what the like we
00:23:29.480 haven't really seen any of the nightlife or anything but what's what's interesting is we
00:23:32.920 have they're just bums like we have like three times as many homeless people as vancouver
00:23:37.140 actually really yeah we have almost 8 000 in toronto that are experiencing homelessness vancouver
00:23:42.780 only has 2 000 what so it's like they they're just so maybe some of those people aren't even 0.87
00:23:47.860 homeless they're just drug out of their goddamn mind just like to lurk but they're probably i bet 0.99
00:23:53.520 there's a lot of homeless people that they're like housing yeah so they don't count see how many are 0.99
00:23:58.060 like housed because toronto is probably housing less of them and they're not or they're counting it
00:24:07.140 different because they're just like oh yeah these people are homeless but now they live at some hotel
00:24:10.880 that the government's renting out for homeless people to live in so we're counting them as not
00:24:14.760 being homeless
00:24:15.340 they don't even really have accurate numbers actually they're saying it's like an estimate
00:24:22.420 because those are the people that'll go to the shelters so then they're counting that so there
00:24:26.180 might even be more just i bet here no i bet that's why it's so low here it says it's low because
00:24:31.820 so few of these people go to shelters they just hang out on what is it east hastings yeah east i'm
00:24:37.340 reading about that now yeah the patricia hotel is 450 rooms all given to the homeless the government 0.99
00:24:43.120 purchased the hotel so 450 rooms that means and think about how many of them are fucking and how 1.00
00:24:48.320 just disturbing that hotel is like to walk around in this is nice by the end of february vancouver is 0.73
00:24:54.760 expected to see the first of two uh tiny shelters set up in parking lots around the city that'll be able
00:25:00.200 to house 18 people so that's nice parking lots just in a parking lot you'll just have 0.95
00:25:06.660 little homeless party get your car stolen guys this is not a solution this is this is mentally ill 1.00
00:25:13.900 put them in the fucking forest build it like a proper place for them to fucking be insane we have 1.00
00:25:19.600 all those islands ship fucking fentanyl send them to none of the blow they want all the fucking dope 1.00
00:25:27.060 they want the heroin send it all to a forest put them in a forest right clear out a little area 1.00
00:25:33.720 forest and be like you guys live here now give them electricity give them fucking water or maybe 0.99
00:25:40.380 not even running water just deliver deliver fucking nestle pure life and just let those people live 0.98
00:25:45.520 there intense because all they want to do is do drugs and act crazy why does a city need to be so 0.97
00:25:54.900 unsafe so scary and part of the reason it's unsafe by the way is because gangs use the homeless people
00:26:01.100 to like house their weapons that they sell so they'll just like come to some like drug addict 0.98
00:26:06.320 and be like i'm gonna put my uh yeah hold this hold this and then if you don't do it we fucking kill 0.98
00:26:12.660 you or whatever not to mention they profit the amount of people that probably die and nobody even 0.98
00:26:16.580 knows like in the city of of like it's dark vancouver man building a the bc government shows are sold
00:26:24.780 out seven million dollars on a work camp housing for the homeless but it doesn't count to the people
00:26:29.840 living in tents on hastings just the people living in shelters that are vetted
00:26:35.140 i'll be honest with you i haven't seen zero chinese people since i've been here yeah except for
00:26:42.080 our driver everybody says oh vancouver is so chinese yeah where yeah i know it's chinatown is 0.98
00:26:47.340 all all homeless white people every single fucking area of this city is just whites struggling i know 0.99
00:26:54.900 like the most i've never seen more grizzled out white dudes just looking like they like like a 1.00
00:27:00.640 old school hobo like living on a train fucking insanity here surrey seemed nice the shit the the 0.99
00:27:10.640 the casino seemed nice compared to downtown van downtown van what did you guys do what did you 1.00
00:27:23.240 guys do here it's like they're too busy looking at how beautiful the mountains are we went to bet
00:27:27.400 we went to best buy and there was an alarm went off every five seconds of somebody just walking out
00:27:33.160 with stolen goods and they can't do a thing yeah i know the mountains are beautiful and people just get
00:27:39.000 that's that's the distraction but i i feel like most of these homeless people don't even see the
00:27:43.460 mountains they just live deep in the city lurking so much lurking here a lot of lurky like followy
00:27:52.180 follow you around kind of sketchy vibes you said someone was trying to follow us earlier no i felt
00:27:58.280 like yeah some guy like followed us into best buy and wanted to see like how much money i think you 0.91
00:28:02.160 probably want to see oh these guys are buying a tv or fuck that's how people get their tvs robbed from 0.99
00:28:07.320 their home really like tips off they bought a tv tries to go like i don't fucking know it goes in 1.00
00:28:12.900 the garbage who the fuck can i was getting the receipt i don't know what the fuck these people 1.00
00:28:16.600 do they're fucking criminals this is a seedy place that we but you know i love it i love being here 1.00
00:28:24.740 and uh even though it's seedy i got noticed i got some guy yeah we're standing outside uh you were 1.00
00:28:32.000 scared he thought he was gonna stab you and then you were like oh that's a fan he's a nice guy he's 0.92
00:28:38.140 like yo but bank is bank is for mayor holy shit are you performing here yeah yo can i get tickets no 0.97
00:28:44.440 it's sold out yo what else you do i'm doing a show tonight and random place just a guest spot 0.98
00:28:51.020 yo dog where yo message me i'll give you a free ticket that was the whole conversation
00:28:57.200 then he walked away then we got an uber and i put these glasses on i couldn't see anything
00:29:03.260 which was better it was nice when you couldn't see and then you got your contact yeah it looks
00:29:07.760 like toronto and it's when i'm when i'm blind yeah the shows have been uh fire the surrey show the 0.71
00:29:15.020 early show was fire as fuck we it was packed and people were just so fired up my material was 0.85
00:29:22.820 really tight i tightened everything up i've been working hard on you know from the shows in ottawa 0.92
00:29:28.900 and all this stuff getting everything nice and tight for you guys tight it's comedy's good when
00:29:35.880 it's tight but sometimes some nights were loose the early show i was tight and the late show i was loose
00:29:42.400 loose loose and tight doesn't mean good or bad it's just like you know when you see chapelle and he's
00:29:48.960 like doing bits but he's he's also extrapolating and trying new that's loose so i was second show
00:29:58.020 was actually a special show for the people who came we were loose and we uh tried a bunch of new
00:30:03.320 material i came up with a really funny joke i don't want to give it away but um it has to do with
00:30:08.380 chinese people surprise surprise you're fired supplies there was a joke that my um my mom's
00:30:22.680 boyfriend told me at one point it was like there was uh like this guy was climbing mount ever everest
00:30:29.700 and he had like a the mongolian like helper or whatever helping him up the mountain and then
00:30:38.220 um he goes okay i'm gonna go start the fire and build the tent you go get supplies
00:30:45.240 and you guys go okay okay and so then he builds builds the tent gets the fire going and then
00:30:52.100 the chinese guy shows up and he goes he goes did you get the supplies he goes surprise 0.94
00:30:58.580 he just didn't have anything he thought he meant surprise surprise
00:31:05.380 there's a joke that was told to me it's a pretty good joke supplies
00:31:13.820 that's how you say it supplies it was a surprise
00:31:19.420 but the fans love it they love the chinese because it's so funny because it's not even 0.98
00:31:27.820 really a chinese it's just a fucking funny voice we should just get you the monkey mask at this point 0.99
00:31:32.380 i know we have to we just have to let's look it up today after after we record this podcast 0.99
00:31:37.080 we are going to find a monkey mask um
00:31:44.200 unless we should keep that as a surprise maybe we should keep it as a surprise for the fans
00:31:52.760 yeah well you don't have to i mean i feel like they all they all kind of know
00:31:57.200 they know it's coming they know it's coming yeah there will come a day when ben bank is
00:32:02.800 just does an hour in a gorilla suit 0.99
00:32:05.040 fuck no i think people know i think it's i think it's good to not you establish like i'm 0.98
00:32:12.100 actually a stand-up comic yeah i mean obviously i don't want i don't know then you'd be just 0.98
00:32:16.200 i'd really hate to see you just devolve into being a prop comic oh my god yeah i don't want to bring
00:32:24.320 anything on like turbans and swords just fucking juggling and shit i feel like that's what some of 0.88
00:32:30.420 my fans want but that's not what they're gonna get because i'm actually a funny comedian and i don't 0.99
00:32:35.020 do shit like that because it's gay obviously but the monkey mask we might figure something out we 0.97
00:32:40.680 might do a something for uh one specific show so that's the surprise we're not going to do it for 1.00
00:32:45.660 every show but there may be a specific show where um and if you and if that is the show that you're at
00:32:51.620 just know that is a very special show we're not going to tell you the show so you buy tickets to
00:32:56.080 every show yeah and come multiple times to see whether or not the monkey ask well it was it's
00:33:01.900 sold out well but folks the tour continues tomorrow night vancouver two shows sold out back to back 0.98
00:33:13.840 on east hastings in the fucking the show is in the ghetto in the circle of hell it's going to be 0.99
00:33:22.740 probably not the last night of our lives but it's going to be good uh the next time we come here 0.95
00:33:29.100 we're doing a massive theater and never doing any of this again i love how all the people like
00:33:33.120 remember the original venue i booked and people were like oh that's the nice neighborhood i don't
00:33:38.620 have money to go there why wouldn't i want to do it in the nice neighborhood i was going to stay in a
00:33:43.300 nice neighborhood i was going to do it in a nice neighborhood and then guess what this is where 0.96
00:33:47.640 we're at east hastings uh at the racetrack so it is a fuck casino baby so you're going to see some 0.92
00:33:56.240 some sadness there so uh but that's that's the perfect place for comedy where there's sadness
00:34:00.900 nearby so that show is going to be those shows are going to be awesome uh sunday i think i'm doing
00:34:07.320 something some surprise event tonight i'm doing a couple surprise events um and then
00:34:14.180 next week tuesday we're flying to colonna colonna bc there's still tickets i think for the late show
00:34:21.920 the early show is sold out that's april 4th then april um what is it 6th calgary we're coming
00:34:32.200 we're gonna be there first show sold out there's still some very few tickets available for the late
00:34:38.140 show i think only like 30 tickets or something like that uh and then the seventh edmonton is sold out
00:34:44.180 there's no more tickets for that show i am sorry better luck next time uh buy tickets earlier we
00:34:50.920 also they also changed the capacity on me there should have been more tickets but then they're like
00:34:55.060 oh we're full actually okay so there's that and then april uh 8th red deer alberta so if you can't
00:35:05.560 make calgary or edmonton go to red deer stay in a nice stay in a micro hotel or whatever terrible hotels
00:35:12.560 there um and then april 9th we are in fort mcmurray that is going to be a wild ass show it's in the
00:35:23.620 middle of nowhere i've been there once before i kind of know what to expect but it is a wild town so
00:35:29.240 we're going to be there then we're going to be somehow getting from there i guess we're probably
00:35:33.840 going to fly because i do not want to fucking drive we're going to fly to uh rejar saskatoon 0.98
00:35:41.220 saskatoon we're doing two nights 13th and the 14th the 13th i never announced because for some reason 0.96
00:35:47.980 i was told not to the 14th how dare you make money on this show yeah the plaza hotel um the 14th
00:35:58.840 in saskatoon the 15th in regina i don't know where somewhere and then from the 20th until the uh 28th
00:36:11.760 both weekends i will be doing shows at the new yuck yucks at what is it what's is it the fairmont
00:36:20.280 the marriott it's the marriott it's the fairmont or something it's something apparently it's the
00:36:25.400 nicest that's what everybody's telling me it's the nicest hotel i keep looking at it on google
00:36:31.180 there you go so yuck yucks is putting us in the nicest hotel in winnipeg
00:36:36.580 and giving us very little money so there's that but um so next time we go to winnipeg we'll probably
00:36:45.440 just do one show it'll be a banger instead of spreading all my crowd out through a bunch of shows
00:36:51.180 so that'll be interesting that's gonna be fun i might be performing for 15 people every night
00:36:55.540 i have no idea what to respect oh no these glasses are hurting my head i'm gonna have to take them
00:37:00.040 back there's no refunds i'll sell them i'm gonna have to give sell them for crack tonight
00:37:04.880 these tastings let's just start let's just go there and be like can we join you guys can we do
00:37:09.800 how do we belong here um that's basically the first leg of the tour and then the second one
00:37:18.720 kind of uh starts with right when we get back march uh may may 4th kingston kingston ontario
00:37:27.100 there's only like 50 tickets left go get them then we do montreal i think there's probably only 50
00:37:35.840 tickets or less for that june 1st and then june 17th in toronto we're bringing it home so folks
00:37:42.640 support us support the show on patreon patreon.com slash ben bankus that is where you can support my
00:37:51.660 career there's people who are like i don't want to give you money on there but go on something else
00:37:56.660 just fucking join patreon for the love of god six dollars a month um and you get access to a bonus 0.87
00:38:07.540 podcast every week we're about to put out a bonus podcast right now and then we're doing another 0.99
00:38:11.160 bonus podcast um for next week so join the club we're i think there's we're two away from 100 i think
00:38:19.760 by the end of this tour i should easily be at two or three hundred on patreon because you guys are the
00:38:25.500 best fans in the world the ben bankus fans are the best fans in the world everybody comes for
00:38:31.320 something different but i think once people realize the podcast even happens like i think a lot of my
00:38:36.200 fans are like you have a podcast they do not know i have a podcast if you did the podcast with the
00:38:41.640 monkey face filter the whole time i know maybe i know but i have a lot of og fans from before
00:38:47.160 the monkey so pre-monkey maybe they'll like this but anyway guys i love you guys you're the best
00:38:53.680 follow armin at armin our bobs a-r-m-i-n-a-r-b-o-b-z or z if you're in canada or u.s i forget which
00:39:06.380 one's which i gotta take these off like oh my god oh it's hurting my head it's hard being rich
00:39:13.560 yeah it's hard clothes are uncomfortable you're always at risk you're scared to walk the streets
00:39:22.800 of vancouver
00:39:23.440 yeah it's it's a beautiful city that just been should be nuked good night guys
00:39:34.800 you