Bankas Podcast - August 11, 2024


On the road in Stamford ｜ The Bankas Show - #061


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On this episode of Behind the Whatever I don t know, Ben Bankis talks about his time at Yuck Yucks Comedy Club and what it's like to be a comedian on the road. He also talks about what it was like to see Louis CK in person for the first time.

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00:00:00.060 What's going on, everyone? It's me, Ben Bankis. I'm here. This is my podcast. If this is your first episode, welcome.
00:00:08.400 I've done a lot of these and you should go check them out or just start from here.
00:00:14.180 That's probably your best bet. Just hang out and learn a little bit about what goes on behind the behind the whatever.
00:00:23.280 I don't know. You know, behind door number. Door number, Palestine. I don't know.
00:00:32.860 Beautiful day here in Stanford, Connecticut. Had a great show last night was.
00:00:41.480 Pretty much almost sold out, I'd say. The last pretty every show has been almost sold out here in the U.S.
00:00:49.700 and people are just super pumped. It's super sick to meet everybody.
00:00:56.440 And, you know, people are like, holy shit, this guy's fucking actually here.
00:00:59.860 So that's fucking cool. And.
00:01:04.940 Yeah, last night was just a killer set.
00:01:07.900 People were just loving it. I mean, I got some good clips, I think, from that for sure.
00:01:13.760 And. Yeah, I haven't talked to you guys in a little bit, so fill you in.
00:01:20.460 I think since we last spoke, we just got back from Bob Cajun, which was terrible and nobody should ever go there in general or live there.
00:01:29.240 But thank you for coming out. We did sell out both shows.
00:01:33.420 It's actually not a terrible place. It's nice if you have a cottage, all that kind of stuff.
00:01:36.320 If you live there year round and you're just like, oh, no, winter is pretty bad.
00:01:40.900 It's like it's dark.
00:01:43.300 And then we did two more shows in Niagara Falls, both sold out, came to Nashville.
00:01:48.340 That was like five tickets away from being sold out.
00:01:54.700 And Chicago was was just fucking dope.
00:01:58.800 Everybody was honestly great crowds, great comedy clubs, zanies.
00:02:04.340 And New York comedy club.
00:02:08.660 And recently I got a tattoo.
00:02:10.680 If you watch me on social media, you know that I got a tattoo of Yuck Yucks, which is.
00:02:17.520 The main comedy club where I started comedy.
00:02:21.980 In Toronto, it's the number one comedy club chain.
00:02:30.120 Number one comedy club chain in Canada.
00:02:32.500 The largest comedy club chain, the most clubs, plus they do road gigs.
00:02:38.020 So they'll just do a thing where a bar will pay them a flat rate and they just send comedians to some bar and hang a Yuck Yuck sign.
00:02:47.880 And it's and it says Yuck Yucks on tour.
00:02:50.320 So it's like on the road.
00:02:53.020 In these random spots that aren't even comedy clubs, I've done a lot of those shows, too.
00:02:56.980 But the main the flagship club is the Toronto club.
00:03:02.800 That's where Mark Breslin, the owner of Yuck Yucks, he owned it since nineteen six, nineteen seventy six, started in nineteen seventy six.
00:03:11.020 And he's won awards for free speech in Canada.
00:03:14.140 And it was just really cool to to do it, man.
00:03:25.580 And by do it, I mean, I kind of lost my train of thought there.
00:03:28.880 I was just thinking about I was worried that the empty food bag was in the frame for a second.
00:03:34.140 But when I said like right right over here on the screen, right behind this, there's just a ton of just empty food bags.
00:03:45.000 Oh, you can't even see it.
00:03:46.000 Not a ton, but I just had lunch.
00:03:50.420 So Yuck Yucks main club in Toronto, it holds two hundred eighty five people.
00:03:54.420 It's it's just a vibe.
00:03:57.180 It's a vibe, especially when it's packed when it's packed for me.
00:04:00.460 It's like more than a vibe.
00:04:02.820 The coolest show I've ever seen there is Louis C.K., who did, I think, four sold out shows or more in Toronto.
00:04:10.340 And.
00:04:12.860 Yeah, he only charged thirty five bucks a ticket.
00:04:15.080 He was it was just a really cool experience once in a lifetime.
00:04:18.360 See Louis C.K.
00:04:20.380 Yuck Yucks.
00:04:20.860 And then he did the Yuck Yucks in Niagara Falls.
00:04:23.140 So I went I got one ticket the first time I got the Toronto club.
00:04:28.020 I got a ticket to see Louis C.K.
00:04:30.620 And then I was like, this is amazing.
00:04:33.160 And then the Niagara Falls tickets went on sale and Yuck sent it to all the comics first.
00:04:39.260 So we all got to buy tickets first.
00:04:41.860 And I bought for both nights.
00:04:44.300 And I think I saw a total.
00:04:46.480 I think I watched them three times like it was three shows that I bought three, four times once in Toronto, three in Niagara Falls.
00:04:53.680 And.
00:04:56.920 It was just cool.
00:04:58.020 It was just it was crazy.
00:05:01.060 The vibe.
00:05:01.940 It was the only time.
00:05:02.940 That I ever saw the lights turn off at Yuck Yucks and people started applauding like like like the movies about to start.
00:05:11.800 You know what I mean?
00:05:12.300 Like that's the first time that I've ever seen something like that, because usually they would just, you know, the lights come off and people are still talking and then they play the theme music.
00:05:23.540 They play the, you know, welcome to Yuck Yuck.
00:05:31.600 And no, it was just a totally cool, surreal experience.
00:05:34.880 And so then I was always upset that I didn't get to open for Louis CK because no offense to Mark Breslin, but he put some of the worst, not some of there was only two comics on it, but one of them I'm just going to like, like is an old woman that doesn't really, you know what I mean?
00:05:56.000 Doesn't really, you know, what's social media?
00:05:58.980 Yeah, it's like, okay, well, I guess you can't have a career then and then and been doing it forever.
00:06:05.400 And it's just a bit of a it's, you know, the jokes are from 10 years ago, whatever.
00:06:10.200 And then the other guy that they had do it, who I'll say his name because I'm at the point where I don't really give a fuck.
00:06:18.040 I think this guy.
00:06:23.880 So his name's Jeff Paul.
00:06:25.540 He's a comedian from Toronto and his wife, his current wife, who he met because she started working at Yuck Yuck somehow.
00:06:37.280 She I think she used to do improv comedy or worked at Second City or something.
00:06:42.300 And then she got hired as the SVP of operations at Yuck Yucks right when I started working with them in 2019, pretty much.
00:06:49.860 Or maybe it was she got in before that, but it wasn't long before that.
00:06:52.840 And then he was a comic at Yuck Yucks who has a day job and does comedy like kind of a hobby, but pretends like he's, you know, better than everybody.
00:07:03.660 And he's like a short little fat old like whatever.
00:07:08.680 And they ended up getting married.
00:07:11.740 They ended up so then it became this huge conflict of interest at Yuck Yucks where she would just book Jeff for every show.
00:07:24.920 Kira, I think her name's Kira.
00:07:27.280 She would just book Jeff for every show.
00:07:29.460 And so Jeff's making.
00:07:33.400 Like 35 grand a year, even though it's only, you know, people are getting paid like what?
00:07:40.580 Hundred bucks to 700 bucks a show, like maybe on some of those road gigs, the max you'd get would be like a thousand, maybe fifteen hundred.
00:07:48.160 If you're a real veteran, been at fucking Yuck Yucks since 1985, I mean, holy fuck, I get the fucking highest rate they got.
00:07:58.060 But.
00:08:01.020 For most people.
00:08:04.040 Yeah, you're like like if you're a comic at Yuck Yucks in your first year, like you're going to make.
00:08:09.340 Not that much money, but that's not the point.
00:08:11.680 It doesn't matter.
00:08:12.260 You shouldn't be making thirty five K if you have no fault.
00:08:16.460 Like, I mean, good on you, but it was unfair to all the other comics who were struggling and didn't have day jobs as well.
00:08:26.020 It was just kind of a ridiculous situation.
00:08:28.200 And then.
00:08:30.080 So so Jeff Paul was one of the openers for Louis CK, but.
00:08:34.640 Yeah, his and then his wife ended up quitting and then he Yuck Yucks and then he ended up quitting Yuck Yucks as a comic, too.
00:08:42.260 And now they like try to start their own.
00:08:46.460 Comedy agency and they just took all the wokest, shittiest comics from Yuck Yucks and put them on a roster together and nobody wanted to book them.
00:08:55.020 So then I think that even went under.
00:08:57.560 And it's just a disaster.
00:08:59.300 Honestly, it's hilarious, but it's it's a disaster.
00:09:01.960 But anyway, this guy fucking opened for for Louis CK and the fat old woman that, you know, sucks.
00:09:08.280 And I was like pissed because I was like, fuck, like I and I was killing.
00:09:15.300 I didn't have much of a following yet, but I was really good at comedy already.
00:09:22.300 I mean, not as good as I am now, but I was I was I was smashing it.
00:09:26.240 And anyway, I basically what I'm saying is I got to watch Louis CK four times.
00:09:34.480 That was really cool.
00:09:35.900 And then I ended up selling out all those rooms.
00:09:39.280 And that's cool, because as a Canadian, it doesn't you know, it doesn't matter what wherever you're from.
00:09:46.700 If you go and see a comedian at your local comedy club that you really like and you watch them sell out the venue and then you go back and sell out the venue, you're like, yo, that's blessed.
00:10:00.640 That's that's that's straight up fucking that's nice.
00:10:05.660 That's a nice feeling, man.
00:10:08.060 You know, so anyway.
00:10:13.220 Niagara Falls, we're Niagara Falls after Bob Cajun, two sold out shows was very fun.
00:10:20.200 Armin and I Armin, who I'm currently get it.
00:10:23.280 We're waiting for his visa.
00:10:24.880 They have a visa for if you have an opener or underlings or videographers and stuff like that.
00:10:32.580 So I was like, fuck it.
00:10:35.320 We need I need Armin here.
00:10:36.660 We need to fuck around.
00:10:37.820 And, you know, he needs a little bit exposure that will help him in the long run.
00:10:45.840 Whatever happens, you know, you don't ever want somebody to be opening for you forever.
00:10:51.120 You know, there's a certain point where you're like, OK, I got to get like new openers.
00:10:54.300 This is kind of nuts.
00:10:57.240 And people like Segura talks about that, how I think somebody asked him, like, what's your best advice for an opener of yours?
00:11:05.460 And he's like, stop being my opener or something.
00:11:09.500 He's like, just hurry up and get your shit together so you don't have to open.
00:11:15.720 And it's easier said than done, of course.
00:11:18.820 But we do have social media.
00:11:20.380 We have the Internet.
00:11:21.720 Everything's pretty good.
00:11:24.080 As bad as everything seems online, like things seem pretty good.
00:11:30.260 England.
00:11:30.880 England's all messed up right now.
00:11:32.860 My basic understanding of what's happening in England is the people are mad that there's immigrant housing in hotels, which they literally attacked a Holiday Inn, which is hilarious.
00:11:48.200 These, I mean, the far right.
00:11:51.220 I don't know what you want to call them.
00:11:52.400 Far right.
00:11:54.160 The right.
00:11:56.640 They're just they're people who are clearly upset that they're poor.
00:12:03.200 They're they're in credit card debt and the government's prioritizing.
00:12:09.540 Kind of this next generation of people, it's it's it isn't great.
00:12:14.400 It's not a great feeling to know that, you know, our generation of people is just the government's gone.
00:12:21.540 Yeah, well, we tried.
00:12:22.800 We got new people.
00:12:24.140 OK, they're living in the hotels.
00:12:25.940 We're paying for it.
00:12:27.400 And these are the people we're trying to coach into being proper citizens.
00:12:32.880 And by proper citizens, these people aren't going to complain as much as all of us because.
00:12:43.040 They're getting a lot of things for free, let's be honest.
00:12:45.240 So that's kind of what's happening.
00:12:47.660 And then I think so.
00:12:48.820 There was riots from both sides.
00:12:50.320 It was like pro like the Muslim riots.
00:12:54.040 And then there's like the British riots and the weird part.
00:12:57.700 Nobody really knows what's going on.
00:12:59.120 That's that is the sketchy part where.
00:13:03.840 It was like, oh, there's some civil unrest.
00:13:06.440 And a lot of it was large crowds of like Muslim dudes with fucking machetes and stuff going around.
00:13:13.460 And then everybody's like, whoa.
00:13:15.860 And then the white people came out and then they're like, now we're shutting everything down.
00:13:19.320 We don't want to like.
00:13:20.200 Like, I think there, you know, there's obviously a genuine fear that this new way of life where the country, the Western countries just delve into piles of debt and the citizenry is in debt.
00:13:41.640 And we have troops all over the world doing fuck knows what.
00:13:49.380 And we're paying for that and we're paying for the immigrants that are coming here.
00:13:55.900 And, you know, and then you then you got to go buy gas.
00:14:06.800 It is kind of like there's so much geopolitical shit happening right now and there's such shifts happening in the world and everything's like so important.
00:14:14.740 Like every day is like a historical day around the world.
00:14:17.780 And then at the same time, it's like, yeah, but I should I get Subway or should I get Wendy's?
00:14:24.460 You know, like.
00:14:26.260 It's it's kind of chill.
00:14:28.080 So if this is what World War Three is going to be like.
00:14:32.240 It's not going to be that bad.
00:14:33.420 I think we're going to be chilling.
00:14:34.640 We're going to be ordering Uber Eats going, oh, my God, World War Three again.
00:14:40.240 Uber Eats.
00:14:41.500 I guess it's an Uber Eats night.
00:14:46.280 Or we'll send all the Uber Eats guys to the front lines either way.
00:14:51.240 I don't know.
00:14:52.200 I'm just kind of going off.
00:14:53.280 I don't know what's going on in England, but it is scary to say that you're not allowed to say stuff.
00:14:58.080 And that was a big problem with covid.
00:15:01.140 That was one of the scariest parts of covid wasn't actually the virus.
00:15:03.700 It was the you can't talk about this.
00:15:06.040 You can't criticize this.
00:15:07.740 If you criticize this, you could be.
00:15:10.120 That is terrifying, especially when, you know, they're making the law in England where you don't do freedom of speech.
00:15:17.560 You can't have freedom of speech because they know that people's gut instinct is to speak out about this issue.
00:15:24.120 Same thing with covid, right?
00:15:25.400 People wanted to speak out and criticize it, criticize the pharmaceutical companies and the way everything was handled.
00:15:32.280 And.
00:15:33.460 The social media giants were basically like, we're going to shut everything.
00:15:36.940 We're going to ban you if you criticize.
00:15:39.460 Ban you if you criticize BLM.
00:15:41.180 Because they know that people want to criticize it.
00:15:45.780 If nobody wanted to criticize these things, then there would be no need to censor.
00:15:52.100 So clearly people have issues with stuff and.
00:15:55.660 We should we should hear people's voices, this whole this whole idea that you're not.
00:16:02.000 Oh, I know this whole group that, you know, half the country feels this way, but we don't care anymore.
00:16:06.700 We're just going to only focus on what this half feels because what the other half feels, they're bad people.
00:16:12.580 That's obviously.
00:16:13.960 And then people like, why is civil war going to happen?
00:16:15.860 Well, because half the country believes that our countries shouldn't even exist and we should just disintegrate into the ocean and that you shouldn't really have kids.
00:16:28.960 And you, you know, you should should you should just allow immigrants to come in and immigrants can have kids and immigrants can, you know, have their cultural practices, even if they're go if they go directly against feminism and other left wing.
00:16:43.080 You know, it doesn't matter.
00:16:44.880 Bring them in and they can do the country however they want.
00:16:49.520 And the people on the right who are proud of this country or whatever, don't have a right to say anything.
00:16:55.100 And I mean, if that's not that's the way I see what's happening.
00:16:59.240 OK.
00:17:00.780 And it's not easy to talk about these things.
00:17:03.660 People sometimes, you know, it's not easy to come to a conclusion where you're like.
00:17:13.140 Is this it?
00:17:14.020 Is this the last little while of these countries?
00:17:16.860 And a lot of people say, oh, well, it's been like that forever.
00:17:19.780 And people thought when this president was going to get in, it was going to be the end of the world.
00:17:23.920 And this so.
00:17:26.320 I just try to not even give a fuck.
00:17:28.960 But it's I do give a fuck, which is.
00:17:34.640 A lot of people do.
00:17:35.840 It's interesting.
00:17:36.560 It's what's happening.
00:17:37.680 I grew up watching the news with my parents.
00:17:40.300 I grew up with my parents being interested in what was happening, reading the newspaper, talking about current events, talking about what's happening.
00:17:47.420 It, you know, in the especially when 9-11 happened, I was watching that shit on TV.
00:17:55.980 And what was I like, seven, seven years old, eight, maybe 10.
00:18:02.840 So that and then, you know, all the other attacks that I've seen that were.
00:18:10.160 I remember I remember I was in Florida when Charlie Hebdo happened with my dad.
00:18:16.260 We went to Florida.
00:18:16.940 We, you know, he had the timeshare and we're staying there.
00:18:19.740 And I was like this crazy.
00:18:21.140 The I think it wasn't it also the Bataclan in France, too.
00:18:25.600 Like, we're both attacked pretty soon.
00:18:31.800 Those are just like news stories, you know, I mean, they're obviously awful things.
00:18:37.640 But when you watch stuff like that as a kid, you're like, I'm interested to know what's going on a little bit.
00:18:44.280 It's hard to just go.
00:18:45.740 I just don't give a shit.
00:18:47.420 That's all I'm saying.
00:18:49.280 And as a comedian, Bill Hicks said that you should be aiming for the you shouldn't be aiming for the lowest common denominator.
00:19:01.640 You shouldn't be trying to make the lowest common denominator laugh.
00:19:03.980 You should be trying to make the smartest people in the room laugh and let everybody else catch up.
00:19:10.060 And not everybody watches what's going on.
00:19:12.580 And that doesn't mean you're stupid if you're not watching what's going on.
00:19:15.320 But it does make you.
00:19:18.360 Maybe, you know, ignorance is bliss, right?
00:19:20.720 So kudos to the people who don't give a fuck about what's going on.
00:19:24.100 I think that that's.
00:19:27.980 That's great.
00:19:28.960 That's fucking great for you.
00:19:30.280 I hope those people probably have more money, too, somehow.
00:19:33.980 Um, the people who just don't even pay attention.
00:19:36.680 I don't know if that's true, but I'll draw.
00:19:39.820 I dropped a little bit of cash into DJT.
00:19:43.420 Why not?
00:19:45.940 Why not?
00:19:48.380 But anyway, so Nashville show was really good.
00:19:52.640 Back to the comedy.
00:19:55.620 Nashville show was really good.
00:19:56.840 Walking around Nashville on Broadway and you see just all the partying people and the hundreds of talk to a lookalike chicks.
00:20:07.760 And you just think.
00:20:11.600 Everything's OK, right?
00:20:14.180 Like everything that you read on that line, everything that's going on in the Internet, everything.
00:20:19.340 And then you go just walk down Broadway and you're like, oh, this is this is great, actually.
00:20:28.020 So.
00:20:28.500 That's my two cents.
00:20:33.460 That's my two cents with that.
00:20:35.200 Nashville is such a cool city.
00:20:36.960 Really was glad to get to go there and.
00:20:40.600 Just see it.
00:20:42.140 And my boy came and pay for some shit, which was nice because shit is expensive right now.
00:20:49.920 Shit is expensive.
00:20:50.840 And even.
00:20:54.280 Like the politicians will tell you that, oh, it's not that expensive when you compare it to this and compare it to that.
00:21:00.380 And they try to trick you and, you know, Tim Waltz walls and Kamala are up there going.
00:21:10.580 We're joyful.
00:21:11.580 We're the party of joy.
00:21:13.360 We we joy.
00:21:15.200 It's a joyful time.
00:21:16.640 What are you talking about?
00:21:17.940 Joy.
00:21:18.180 People are fucking in debt up to their eyeballs.
00:21:21.820 Or pass their eyeballs.
00:21:24.800 People.
00:21:25.820 This is how bad it is.
00:21:27.380 If you call your bank and you just ask the person who you're talking to on the phone, like, how bad is it?
00:21:33.140 Like, how many people are poor right now?
00:21:34.460 They'll be like, to be honest, it's pretty much everybody.
00:21:37.900 And then ask this question.
00:21:39.460 What about the rich people?
00:21:40.540 Are they freaking out, too?
00:21:41.480 Yeah, the rich people are rattled, too.
00:21:44.080 There's no.
00:21:45.520 You know, there's two fucking realities right now where.
00:21:48.400 Well, let's just all get into credit card debt and to pretend like life's OK and let all the the country can go into debt and we'll just keep paying for random millions of people to move here.
00:22:02.700 So they can live in the Holiday Inn.
00:22:04.260 And it's or we can kind of can we need to take the reins, I feel like, a little bit of these Western countries.
00:22:13.980 We need to kind of grab the reins and be like, OK, let's we're going in a dark path.
00:22:19.180 Let's go over here and.
00:22:24.180 Will it be, you know, then the problem is people want to do mass deportations, that's going to look bad.
00:22:30.700 The left is going to be like, this is Nazi Germany today.
00:22:34.920 And then they're but but all those people are illegal and they're not killing them.
00:22:39.300 They're just like, you can't live here if you don't have the legality to do it.
00:22:46.040 Because it makes everybody's life unfair.
00:22:51.020 It makes all the and the taxpayers are paying for people who are legally here to live.
00:22:55.280 And it's mind-blowingly insane.
00:22:59.460 And I see a lot of comics shying away from everything.
00:23:03.920 They're just afraid to talk about anything because they're like, look, man, I don't know enough.
00:23:08.080 I don't know enough about this topic, so I don't think I'm going to.
00:23:12.280 If you're alive and you're witnessing society, you know enough.
00:23:16.720 This is this new propaganda and left wing people.
00:23:20.840 You don't know what you're talking about, so you shouldn't be allowed to speak on it.
00:23:25.280 But you don't have to go and get a degree to realize that everybody's in credit card debt.
00:23:34.280 And it's way worse than it was when conservative people were in power.
00:23:43.300 Republicans.
00:23:45.080 I mean, the wars are bad.
00:23:46.680 Iraq's bad.
00:23:47.420 But what would you rather?
00:23:50.420 Would you rather a war and houses are $200,000 and affordable or no war and everything's a million dollars and eggs are $15 for a carton?
00:24:05.820 If they came and said, if we invade Iraq again, we can get houses back.
00:24:14.980 Like we can get like a million dollar house down to like $300,000 or $350,000.
00:24:19.420 I'd be like, just do it.
00:24:20.980 Just fucking do it.
00:24:21.880 What about the innocent?
00:24:30.540 What about what about having a backyard?
00:24:33.260 How about that?
00:24:34.080 Is that such a, is that a crime?
00:24:40.320 Is that a fucking crime that just want a backyard and.
00:24:47.160 Yeah.
00:24:47.680 Sometimes you got to do a war crime to have a good country.
00:24:50.840 Is that.
00:24:53.900 That's pretty funny.
00:24:55.040 That's a funny line.
00:24:56.460 Sometimes you got to do a war crime.
00:24:57.680 Don't you want these houses to be like 200K?
00:25:00.620 Come on.
00:25:05.200 The only place that you.
00:25:06.440 I looked up top five places or something in America that where the prices are going up.
00:25:13.820 Toledo, Ohio is this is like a new hotspot.
00:25:16.460 I think a lot of people from Michigan and stuff are moving there.
00:25:20.320 And it's cheap ish, but you have to live in a dump.
00:25:25.500 I mean, unless it's still the same thing.
00:25:27.560 If you want a nice house, listen, if you want a nice house, you don't have at least a million bucks.
00:25:33.200 You can't just fucking, you can't live in one of these, these dungeons.
00:25:38.300 Okay.
00:25:39.680 These dingy, even the Austin.
00:25:42.880 That's another thing I hate about Austin.
00:25:44.680 They don't have basements.
00:25:46.380 I want to live in a place with a basement.
00:25:48.680 Why would I pay $500,000 for a house?
00:25:52.220 When there's a floor missing.
00:25:53.720 Like, is that not excessive?
00:26:03.200 There's houses like in the area that I'm renting in Austin for 700 K and they don't even have a backyard, no backyard, no basement.
00:26:11.240 They have a garage.
00:26:14.860 And it's like, oh, it's across from a park.
00:26:16.820 You can just use the park.
00:26:17.840 You don't need a backyard.
00:26:18.760 I guess that's the philosophy.
00:26:19.940 It's like, um, excuse me.
00:26:26.240 This is no, this is ridiculous.
00:26:29.880 What you're paying 700 K to go use a shared grassy area and not have it private.
00:26:38.200 It's, it's terrible.
00:26:43.580 Fuck.
00:26:44.100 Why did Joe Rogan have to move to Austin?
00:26:47.180 I, I remember watching Tim Dillon complained about Austin.
00:26:50.960 I was like, I don't get it.
00:26:51.720 I liked it.
00:26:52.600 Cause I went for a week and then the second time I went for four months and I do love Austin.
00:26:58.740 It is, it is like a weird second home since I've, cause I've been going there since 2020 visiting first.
00:27:04.000 And New York is like a real place.
00:27:14.820 Like, it's like everybody lives here.
00:27:17.700 It's, it's America, but it's more familiar to me than Texas or Florida for that matter.
00:27:26.980 When I'm in Florida, I'm like, this is me when you're on, I've been going to Florida since I was a kid, but I never really ventured off.
00:27:32.080 We, you know, we went to the resort, went to the hockey game, went to the Publix, did a mall.
00:27:38.940 We didn't, once you're doing comedy, you see the whole underbelly of everything.
00:27:43.560 Like when I was in Florida touring and I did Dania beach, which was cool because a lot of the comedy clubs are attached to hotels or attached to these little, like the Rosemont zanies.
00:27:58.380 It's, it's basically a small high end, it's not a strip mall.
00:28:04.100 It's like a walking mall.
00:28:05.060 It's like an outdoor mall, high end outdoor malls with the comedy club.
00:28:09.320 And then they have the hotel on the premises.
00:28:13.400 It's like a campus.
00:28:15.880 So that was Dania beach.
00:28:17.160 And then we went to, where's the second, oh no, Tampa was first, then Dania beach, I think.
00:28:23.820 And what am I trying to tell you?
00:28:32.860 Oh yeah.
00:28:33.520 So after that, I had a few days that were basically.
00:28:40.120 Um, I had a few days where I was in between shows.
00:28:47.460 That's actually what I'm doing right now.
00:28:48.840 I'm in between shows, recording this on the 10th, no shows.
00:28:52.780 I'm doing some spots tonight, Stanford, um, New York comedy club, Stanford, but tomorrow I'm in Rhode Island.
00:29:00.480 And so I stayed another night in Stanford and, uh, so I had a couple nights and this comedy club messaged me and they're cool.
00:29:13.480 They're, it's like a guy who owns a quality in, but they do a comedy club in the quality in.
00:29:20.740 Um, it's really weird and it's like really tiny.
00:29:23.860 I forget what it's called right now, but it's like this legendary comedy spot in Miami.
00:29:29.240 And they basically were like, we'll give you a couple hundred bucks and put you in a room for free.
00:29:35.440 And I, otherwise I would have just been out a few hundred, you know, like 500 bucks staying at hotels.
00:29:42.380 So, um, I did it and it was cool, but you just see a different side of it.
00:29:50.740 You see the other areas, you see the realer people, you know, you go to a different Publix.
00:29:56.500 That's not five minutes from the ocean.
00:30:02.160 It's, it's cool.
00:30:04.940 I really like Florida too, but it doesn't feel familiar.
00:30:09.720 One, one, I don't know if I could live there full time, but there's just something about New York where I look around and I go, wow, this is like if Toronto grew,
00:30:18.300 this is like, if it's, it's just sick.
00:30:25.940 I don't know.
00:30:26.680 I love it.
00:30:27.600 New York city telling you every time, anytime you tell somebody you live in New York city,
00:30:31.620 people are like, oh shit.
00:30:32.620 You tell somebody you live in Austin.
00:30:33.780 They're like, whoa, dude.
00:30:35.140 Whoa.
00:30:35.780 Austin.
00:30:36.260 What are you doing there?
00:30:37.060 Dude.
00:30:37.400 Bachelor party every night.
00:30:43.060 It's not even Austin's a bad bachelor party, by the way, if you're going to a bachelor party in Austin, you better be from Nashville and be sick of it because Nashville is seems like that.
00:30:53.340 I mean, I think probably my choice would be Montreal or whatever, something like that, but Nashville is more bachelorette.
00:31:02.080 It's more fun for the bachelorettes because there's like, well, bachelor party, you got to go to like Montreal.
00:31:07.920 That's, that's, that's a, that's a given, but.
00:31:10.380 Um, I'm about to go and, uh, get a massage actually at the Marriott hotel and spa.
00:31:22.860 So I'm going to go quickly shower and get out of here and appreciate you guys for listening.
00:31:29.320 I'm going to do the other half of this podcast right after I get back.
00:31:34.400 So this is bank is on the road in America part one.
00:31:42.540 I don't know if I'm going to call it that.
00:31:43.520 What should I call it?
00:31:48.360 Road diaries.
00:31:49.520 I don't know.
00:31:49.860 That was the other thing I was thinking is folks.
00:31:51.920 Tell me if I'm wrong.
00:31:53.080 Should I change the name of the podcast?
00:31:55.180 Is the bank is show gay?
00:31:56.680 It kind of sounds gay.
00:31:58.180 I think it should be something, something with Ben Bank is, and it's super easy to change.
00:32:02.980 I don't have to delete the episodes.
00:32:04.480 I just simply change the name of the podcast.
00:32:08.540 And so I'm thinking about it and give me your thoughts.
00:32:13.160 Appreciate it in the comments.
00:32:15.280 Please leave a comment.
00:32:16.560 Should have said that at the beginning.
00:32:19.020 Please subscribe.
00:32:20.280 Appreciate you.
00:32:21.380 And we'll see on the road, man.
00:32:23.100 I love doing podcasts for you guys where I just kind of chill and say what I want.
00:32:27.960 And I don't, you know, conversation podcasts are fun too.
00:32:32.340 I got to admit, but, and some of the ranty, like angry podcasts are fun too, but I don't
00:32:39.040 really feel like that's super me.
00:32:41.500 Me is more this guy.
00:32:42.960 So I want to show you that guy so you guys can fucking actually like me instead of watching
00:32:48.980 a raving lunatic.
00:32:52.300 I appreciate you guys.
00:32:54.220 See you later.
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