Nightmare on Hastings Street ｜ The Bankas Show - #019
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Summary
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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welcome to the bank is show everybody we are on tour we are in vancouver right now chilling we
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have the day off this is our first day off since we flew out at uh 7 30 in the morning
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on april or march 29th fuck feels like a week ago it's only been like two about a week ago we call
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about a week ago i didn't have these sunglasses i know we went we bought these but yeah so we
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we arrived um on the 29th in victoria bc the show was sold out for all intents and purposes there
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was like 100 people there it was sold out we they were like we could have fit 130 i don't know how
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they would have fit another 30 people but it was a dope ass show um people on the island are a little
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different though they're a little they're slower people on the island they don't um you know they're
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environmentally friendly people like they don't really know what's going on in the world if you
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live on an island you don't really know what's going on you're just there going oh wow it's so
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beautiful and you have to you have to take a boat to get here and that's the funny part is that they
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think they're so green like liberal nd peers who live there and it the fact that they live there is
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causing so much damage to the environment just the amount of 18 wheeler trucks that have to get onto
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a boat that then dumps like gallon thousand gallons of gasoline into the beautiful ocean and they just
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rip through all those yeah look at the islands look here and we're just shitting in the water and go
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take a shit on this boat like we took like eight shits on that boat yeah we did take a lot of shits
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but yeah vancouver uh victoria's nice and then we came to vancouver which is it's a beautiful city
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that they've destroyed it's nice to look at from the safety of our apartment but walking around on
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the streets is terrifying it's like i don't think people who live here know how scary it is like right
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now i can see a building with a pride flag on the roof and in that building is just i don't know
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domestic abuse all day i don't even know if that's the issue here i think the issue everybody's
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just homeless and they come here to be homeless and the city is it it's becoming an american city
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vancouver you're an american city where you can't really walk around toronto is much safer to walk
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100 toronto we are much better at segregating the people that we don't want around um than vancouver
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you guys vancouver you're crazy you're just like everybody can just live on this street and
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vancouver they need a scarborough they need a scarborough and a mississauga they can send
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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
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vancouver is a dump but is a beautiful dump and i like that i like that you have the best scenery
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of any city pretty much in canada and you your waterfront is beautiful and the trails and and
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the buildings the architecture is beautiful for the most part there's some ugly buildings but even
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ugly buildings in vancouver look cool and then you just destroyed this this beautiful opportunity to
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have an amazing city probably would have been the best city in canada if not north america vancouver
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has the potential to be the best city but it is it's uh it's a dilapidating hellscape every
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starbucks i i don't even want to how much money is starbucks losing in vancouver because nobody wants
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to go to starbucks anymore because they're scared that they're going to get uh you know filleted
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filleted what do you think the solution is are we going to fix it i mean authoritarianism
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yeah kill all the homeless well i mean at a certain point
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i'm not saying to kill them but to just have them you can't you can't get rid of the problem
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what are you gonna you like literally killing them is the only you think the solution is like
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as the migrants are coming in through roxham road we're sending the homeless back into america
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there is no solution it's just this is how we live now this is the society we live in
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is filled with homeless people and i get it i see them walking around and i get it uh you know
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being a human being is hard we've been kind of coached to think that you know the
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the hollywood dream this is what a life is this is what a marriage is this is what no we're
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fucking animals on this planet and if you don't get your shit right you're fucked you're just
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fucked forever so yeah like last night when we were driving back to the to where we're staying
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from surrey there was like it's zombies it's a zombie apocalypse and then i said it to the
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woman at nordstrom i was like this is she's like yeah well we have less deaths now because we're
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administering narcan to all the homeless people i'm like yeah and then they come back to life as a
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fucking zombie and stab you at starbucks we should like i'm sorry to say this but how many times can
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you get narcan and brought back to life before you start getting violent and you act zombie like i mean
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and are these people they're narcanning them are they uh vaccinated are these homeless people
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vaccinated they're every the vaccine was the big thing especially in vancouver especially in bc where
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people tend to be woke and look you have unvaccinated narcan zombies wandering around the city
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terrorizing people basically uh i mean there are the liberals oh they keep to themselves those are
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liberals who grew up in vancouver they grew up in a different vancouver and now they live here and
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they go well it's just they i feel bad for no it's extreme guys i'm from toronto we have homeless
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people too it's a bigger city it's not this bad i don't even know what maybe we're sending all the
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homeless from toronto to here or they're making their way here but what the fuck guys i mean it is
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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
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look out the window you look at all the buildings oh that's pretty there's a mountain and then you walk
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around and it's zombie apocalypse narcan victims they're victims of narcan they should have they
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should have shoulda woulda coulda for the betterment of society i didn't say it no i think that
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my fans here are cool as shit and they make the people who are my like the whites is what
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no my fans are very diverse by the way if you guys are wondering the show last night in surrey there
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was uh tons of brown people because it's surrey no there was there's brown people yeah there was
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an indian guy there was a trinidadian guy there was asian couple there was another asian guy
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there was like eight people that weren't white and they had a great time they felt like they were in
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a safe space it is safer that's for sure i mean like you know if it was an all black crowd
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i didn't like that doggy you know but i didn't like that doggy i did get at the first show was i
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had a hat thrown at me i had a hat thrown at why did you not see no i was shooting you gotta start
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watching my sets you gotta watch my sets i have to watch your set they go oh yeah yeah the whole time
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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
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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
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2004 oh one of those hat and she was sitting in the front row with i'm not gonna say who but a certain
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someone who works at a certain company that rhymes with uh ebble bebble booze bebble shoes
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and one of their guests their friends um got upset because the casino at one point during my show
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all of the uh visa machines went down oh so she got mad at you just wait just wait a second
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just shut up and listen for god's sakes she she wasn't mad at me the visa machines went down this
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shit like this always happens at shows and then i get mad and then i get mad because the show is
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just supposed to be a show people are supposed to come to the show be able to pay with the way that
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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
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fault but they shut down all visa and debit service during the show so basically everybody there was
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gonna pay with a card and then halfway through the show they're like no so but this woman was making
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a big deal about it during my act right as i was starting to bring up the good stuff the theresa tam
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some of the other shit and so she's freaking out and being like to the waitress well i don't know how
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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
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we had to kick another woman out just like you and then i was like yeah she was fat and and everybody
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was laughing having a good time and she got mad and she threw a hat at me which is assault it's assault
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it's assault but i didn't um do anything about it because i don't care it's it's surrey bc
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it's the most dangerous city in canada surrey bc look it up it has the highest murder rate
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of any city i'm pretty sure in canada and the worst thing that happened to me was i got a hat thrown at
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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
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toll i mean i don't really understand what the statistic is but it says 71.4 percent level of
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crime 71.1 what what is it in toronto worries car stolen it's all it's basically all like
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yeah grand theft auto this is literally grand theft auto city let's see toronto murder rate
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well it doesn't say like the percent like that but there was only 80 homicides
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in 2021 which what in toronto yeah it's not bad and how many in surrey let's see
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guys this is bad why is everybody so angry here it's it's so nice the weather's nicer than every
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other city maybe that's why okay so that's why florida's fucked up so we have the first quarter of
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uh 2022 only one heim aside one homicide for the first quarter heim aside but we have uh 549
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violent crimes they're all in total in the quarter it's because the sikh guys are allowed to have
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they're allowed to have not 1600 violent crimes did you know that that the sikh guys are allowed to
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have knives really it's like because it's like a religious object it's a pretty sick religion
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it's a good religion it's pretty sick trudeau loves i'd love security maybe that's why he did
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maybe that's what yeah trudeau just felt scared at the party they were playing rap music on them
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at all times no but victoria uh was a beautiful city and they have homeless people there too but
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the homeless people aren't as aggressive but it's more of a small town but vancouver i just can't get
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over this i didn't even see them like i'm i just i'm from toronto so all my street instincts like
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kick in but like then you just you can't really enjoy the city like certain parts of it you can't
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really even walk around in toronto or here oh here yeah hastings hastings is far there's parts of
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toronto that have homeless but it's like not even an area that it's like a corner it'll be like on a
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corner they'll have they have a tent city in toronto but it's not even it's under a bridge so who cares
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yeah they're hiding here they're like i might there was a tent outside of the art gallery which
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by the way we tried to be cultured individuals and go to the art gallery in vancouver here and i didn't
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feel it wasn't it was an uninclusive environment there was a trans flag at the door so i immediately
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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
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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
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talking about how the uh the fuck trudeau flag you know and it's like would the fuck if the fuck trudeau
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flag was hanging outside of an art gallery would and i'm not saying the trans flag is but the trans
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flag is the opposite of the fuck trudeau flag is the pride flag like that's like those are the polar
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opposites of our society right now and you can't go out around hanging fuck trudeau flags everywhere
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on you know on government buildings on high schools in front of art galleries so why do we need to have
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like if you go to an art gallery just as a regular person and want to see art why does it have to be
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through the lens of the the minority groups like you know because that's who's all making the art
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though because all the conservative people i think they just make money go to like finance and get like
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real jobs so only minorities make art i think i think so because usually art's made by like the
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subjugated and like the poor people of a community so currently it's like the minorities so now we're
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i'm a minority i'm half jewish there's not a lot of us i'm a half jew and i hate the
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don't hate anybody i love everybody no i love i actually do not i mean you had a trans fan come
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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
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probably the only trans person in victoria and there was a trans fan last night i'm pretty sure there
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was a couple there was even some like sort of gender neutral non-binds so i love everybody and
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the jokes are for everybody i don't care like i don't care if the trans like there i just think
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it's fun to talk about that it's this is a phenomenon that's happening now our society is
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becoming and you know we want to become as accepting as possible but we're doing it in
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like a low-key authoritative authoritarian ish way where it's like we're changing everything
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like that's never going to be easy for a society to go through and that's what i don't like with
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the left is like why does the left think it should just be so easy for everybody to just go we're
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changing everything we're like we're changing what your kids are learning in school we're changing um
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you know the the look of our cities with you know even just the woke stuff with the bike lanes and
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half the bike lanes have are just pride colors um you know all kind and i'm not saying these things
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are like a big deal in the left they'll be like well what's the big deal with that why oh that bugs
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you you're transphobic and it's like i get that argument but at a certain point it's like this is just
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buggy this is just like too much of anything like the same if the right took over tomorrow and started
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putting fuck trudeau flags everywhere and fuck trudeau painted on sidewalks that would also be
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scary that's also authoritarian it's like i'm just saying that it's a like it's a propaganda it's gone
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past the point of being hey we're just this accepting society i thought we were already that
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like nobody like i and i get that there are minority groups that were like no no that we
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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
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are crazy and i'm not saying all people who are lgbt whatever are crazy or mentally ill by no means
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that's not true but the mentally ill ones are being emboldened to be fucking out of their minds now
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like we had that there was the trans shooter the trans school shooter that went to a school in the
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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
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like see they're trans now like it's one out of thousands so and and you can't look at it like that
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but it was shocking it was scary i think it scared people on the right i think people on the right were
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like holy shit they're fucking a trans with the ar that's they were i think in some ways they half
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respect him because it was like second amendment they like respected it but they were like god damn
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trans got done did something other than tiktok so that's i mean i like this gender but i just i don't
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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
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pushing and changing and we're not respecting the people who are voicing their concerns and we're
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just pointing a finger at them and going you're a fucking racist piece of shit and you need to fall
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in line and and this is what society is now i think that's the bad part here you'll like because it
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could happen for some other ideology that's way scarier than trans or gay like covid which it basically
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happened so you'll like this so there's a bunch of gender activists that are outraged because people
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are dead naming the name of the trans shooter so dead naming is when you say the person's name
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before they transitioned so they're mad not that this person killed children in a preschool but the
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fact that uh you're saying audrey hale the uh the original name now there's like outrage for that
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well yeah the uh the new york times like apologized that's insane they or they didn't apologize they
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didn't say sorry but they basically put out an apology they're like we would like to put out a
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correction we had mentioned that it was a woman and uh we now understand that that person identified
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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
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trans people though that's now a martyr for them because they're like see look that they they died
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so that i could be pro like have my pronouns said correct it's just all a lot and guys i think we
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should just acknowledge that this is all just a lot and we have people being stabbed and we have
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people being shot and then you still just see white people jogging around like nothing like that's like
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armin's joke like but you know the whites are just well we're more jogging around and like it's just all
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kinds of crazy shit and the online indoctrination of people like even my fans are crazy but i think i mean
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for the most part they're just like they're mostly potheads or or they're just people that like
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they're regular they just like south park they love the fucking accents and the shit they talked
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about controversial topics and that's what comedy fucking should be they grew up with my type of and
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this it's it's which is people making fun of everybody and everything and not not trying to be
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politically correct just for the sake of you know just for the sake of what like i don't even know
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what the the point of that would would necessarily be to just you know i get that for me as as my
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upbringing like i get when comics are you know they're doing their clean shit and this cbc and you
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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
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and uh we talked to the guy and you know my pr lady she's talking to them and but
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we're working on it but they still want me to send them like clean stuff and it's like
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well just put me on the dirty don't like that well people don't care that's the other thing too is i
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think they they themselves care so they want to like enact what they think people should like but
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people don't like that well that's what i'm talking about with this it's gone too far thing
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is the authoritarian oh well i saw that you killed but you swore and you said some offensive
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things so can you kill when you don't swear and say non-offensive things and it's like yes okay
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i'll do that for you but just understand that people are going to buy tickets to see me because
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all my show will be part of just for laughs you're basically saying we're not we're not considering you
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for any of the galas like any of the things that all these other comedians compete for
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which is kind of a compliment because they're basically saying look you're above that yeah but
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you need to have a certain level of whatever to to get it but at that point it's like well i'm doing
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a show in montreal on june 1st a month before just for laughs what's like it's stupid it's they don't
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care about funny anymore they don't want to listen to the audience's laughs and it's depressing
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can we get a water you can you grab us a couple of areas
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we went to the uh the shoppers drug mart here i think they also have shoppers but it was it's
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called london drugs maybe that's what the main shopping shoppers is here which is like the cbs or
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whatever but london drugs the down we went to the downtown one it's fucking terrifying they have like
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eight security guards in there it's like a third world country it's insane everything and then they
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still have all the fucking stupid covid you know glass tempered glass to protect the employees from
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honestly the i feel like the tempered glass went from protecting people from the disease to just
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protecting them from getting stabbed people just feel safer behind glass i feel safer if you're working
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in a you know same with like the cab drivers they put up the the the new york cabs used to always
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have that for safety a barrier between the driver but so i don't know
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vancouver man what a town it's it's really wild here i want to i want to see what the like we
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haven't really seen any of the nightlife or anything but what's what's interesting is we
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have they're just bums like we have like three times as many homeless people as vancouver
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actually really yeah we have almost 8 000 in toronto that are experiencing homelessness vancouver
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only has 2 000 what so it's like they they're just so maybe some of those people aren't even
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homeless they're just drug out of their goddamn mind just like to lurk but they're probably i bet
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there's a lot of homeless people that they're like housing yeah so they don't count see how many are
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like housed because toronto is probably housing less of them and they're not or they're counting it
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different because they're just like oh yeah these people are homeless but now they live at some hotel
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that the government's renting out for homeless people to live in so we're counting them as not
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they don't even really have accurate numbers actually they're saying it's like an estimate
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because those are the people that'll go to the shelters so then they're counting that so there
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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
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so few of these people go to shelters they just hang out on what is it east hastings yeah east i'm
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reading about that now yeah the patricia hotel is 450 rooms all given to the homeless the government
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purchased the hotel so 450 rooms that means and think about how many of them are fucking and how
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just disturbing that hotel is like to walk around in this is nice by the end of february vancouver is
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expected to see the first of two uh tiny shelters set up in parking lots around the city that'll be able
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to house 18 people so that's nice parking lots just in a parking lot you'll just have
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little homeless party get your car stolen guys this is not a solution this is this is mentally ill
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put them in the fucking forest build it like a proper place for them to fucking be insane we have
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all those islands ship fucking fentanyl send them to none of the blow they want all the fucking dope
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they want the heroin send it all to a forest put them in a forest right clear out a little area
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forest and be like you guys live here now give them electricity give them fucking water or maybe
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not even running water just deliver deliver fucking nestle pure life and just let those people live
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there intense because all they want to do is do drugs and act crazy why does a city need to be so
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unsafe so scary and part of the reason it's unsafe by the way is because gangs use the homeless people
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to like house their weapons that they sell so they'll just like come to some like drug addict
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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
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you or whatever not to mention they profit the amount of people that probably die and nobody even
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knows like in the city of of like it's dark vancouver man building a the bc government shows are sold
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out seven million dollars on a work camp housing for the homeless but it doesn't count to the people
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living in tents on hastings just the people living in shelters that are vetted
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i'll be honest with you i haven't seen zero chinese people since i've been here yeah except for
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our driver everybody says oh vancouver is so chinese yeah where yeah i know it's chinatown is
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all all homeless white people every single fucking area of this city is just whites struggling i know
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like the most i've never seen more grizzled out white dudes just looking like they like like a
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old school hobo like living on a train fucking insanity here surrey seemed nice the shit the the
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the casino seemed nice compared to downtown van downtown van what did you guys do what did you
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guys do here it's like they're too busy looking at how beautiful the mountains are we went to bet
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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
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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
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like yeah some guy like followed us into best buy and wanted to see like how much money i think you
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probably want to see oh these guys are buying a tv or fuck that's how people get their tvs robbed from
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
00:28:12.900
the garbage who the fuck can i was getting the receipt i don't know what the fuck these people
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
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
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
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
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it's sold out yo what else you do i'm doing a show tonight and random place just a guest spot
00:28:51.020
yo dog where yo message me i'll give you a free ticket that was the whole conversation
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then he walked away then we got an uber and i put these glasses on i couldn't see anything
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which was better it was nice when you couldn't see and then you got your contact yeah it looks
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like toronto and it's when i'm when i'm blind yeah the shows have been uh fire the surrey show the
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early show was fire as fuck we it was packed and people were just so fired up my material was
00:29:22.820
really tight i tightened everything up i've been working hard on you know from the shows in ottawa
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
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
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but the fans love it they love the chinese because it's so funny because it's not even
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
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
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
00:32:05.040
fuck no i think people know i think it's i think it's good to not you establish like i'm
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
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
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
00:32:35.020
do shit like that because it's gay obviously but the monkey mask we might figure something out we
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
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
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sold out well but folks the tour continues tomorrow night vancouver two shows sold out back to back
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
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
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
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
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
00:35:41.220
saskatoon we're doing two nights 13th and the 14th the 13th i never announced because for some reason
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
00:38:07.540
podcast every week we're about to put out a bonus podcast right now and then we're doing another
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
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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
00:39:23.440
yeah it's it's a beautiful city that just been should be nuked good night guys