Bankas Podcast - The Red Banks pod ｜ Bankas Podcast #124

00:00:00.700 Yeah, sorry I look good.

00:00:04.500 Sorry, sorry I started working out and look a little better.

00:00:10.320 Sorry I bought a couple nice things.

00:00:13.780 Sit down, Josh. 0.96

00:00:14.820 What the hell are you doing?

00:00:15.660 Oh, he's turning the air conditioning on. 0.70

00:00:18.560 What, you don't like that buzzing?

00:00:20.600 I think it's authentic.

00:00:22.260 Yeah?

00:00:22.820 I like it.

00:00:23.620 I like a little buzz.

00:00:26.700 Stay seated. 1.00

00:00:27.840 This is like my wife does this. 1.00

00:00:29.240 She's just always running around.

00:00:31.140 I get it.

00:00:32.060 She's busy, but, you know, you look one way and she's, oh, everybody's busy.

00:00:39.020 I guess I'm not busy.

00:00:41.080 I'm trying to make myself busy.

00:00:42.680 So we're doing podcasts every single night until this is the biggest podcast that you can watch.

00:00:51.240 People are so mad that I'm, somebody told me that I look like an AIDS victim or AIDS patient. 1.00

00:00:58.280 Somebody told me, everybody's going, oh, Zempick, oh, Zempick, oh, you're on, it's like, anyway, it's, I like the attention, not going to lie to you, so fuck it. 0.99

00:01:12.260 We're trying to sell tickets here, but tonight we had a show, the first show, the Thursday night show, or no, Wednesday, today's Wednesday. 0.88

00:01:19.820 We started the freaking touring this week on a Wednesday, 4 a.m., got up, left the house 4.30, got to the airport, four-hour flight, and two-hour drive, rented the car to the Jamaica Circle at JFK, and made it here just in time to fall asleep until the show.

00:01:47.060 maybe i was a bit tired for the show but the audience was like exhausted they were like weird

00:01:54.280 and weird energy sometimes it's i think partly because maybe i lost a bit of weight people don't 0.99

00:02:01.220 like they they wanted me to just be the ugly guy yeah you're an ugly guy fucking say whatever you 0.98

00:02:07.020 want so if i don't look ugly then they're they're like oh oh oh this guy thinks he's actually 0.99

00:02:12.960 i don't know there's it's joisy it's joisy okay and it's an older crowd they were nice

00:02:22.140 they didn't fully understand what what was happening had to remind them that they were

00:02:27.500 at a comedy show a couple times just people sitting there like eating

00:02:30.880 actually there was no food but they were just like completely they weren't drinking

00:02:36.500 the bar was dead nobody was like it was like you can go up to the bar and get drinks nobody was

00:02:42.400 drinking that's that's the trouble with i mean it technically is a theater even though it's a

00:02:48.860 small theater it's basically the size of a really big comedy club but they're not serving people

00:02:56.820 properly the same way that you would be served in a comedy club so people are just kind of sitting

00:03:02.720 there going can i get up also we only had one opener usually i like to have a few more openers

00:03:08.520 might have to call aria up no aria's banished he's he posted a weird uh i don't know what his uh

00:03:17.880 no he's not banished but he did post a weird headshot that he got and then

00:03:23.780 his next post was stop asking me where to get these or so it's like bro i don't know 0.97

00:03:29.120 you don't know what you're doing you really just don't nobody knows what they're fucking doing

00:03:34.660 But I do, and that's why I'm working out every day, hour, hour and a half, two hours, get after that little part of the day, get it out of the way, it makes me less hungry, it makes me less fat, no boozing, I don't booze during the show and after the show and I don't go out. 0.99

00:03:58.440 the the set is perfect and that's I think people want me to be doing I don't give a fuck what they

00:04:07.220 want sorry I love my fans I don't want them to but I have to do what I think is funniest because

00:04:15.920 that's what's going to be funniest and I'm trying to elevate myself as an artist when people scream 0.99

00:04:21.920 out and just go just do the full good show like tonight another guy did the do the chow thing

00:04:27.200 and people go he hates it but it's like well if i want to talk about it i want to talk about it's

00:04:31.260 not that i hate necessarily the topic i mean i do but don't yell out i'm not gonna ever be excited

00:04:40.900 to talk about something that you're yelling out unless it's like super super relevant maybe

00:04:45.420 something that's like breaking news as i'm on stage that i have no idea what's happening

00:04:49.340 like 9-11 like okay let me know maybe send out a heckle but just telling yelling out to do an

00:04:57.060 old bit and an old thing. Anyway, so fasted all day, didn't eat. Now I just ate a couple

00:05:07.500 carrot sticks and I feel bad because I dipped it in whatever that dip was. So I'm probably at like

00:05:13.780 300 calories for the day, which is, you know, I'm anorexic down. That's my thing. It's not

00:05:20.300 as epic. You don't need as epic. If you're just mentally ill, you just do anorexia, which is very

00:05:26.140 easy i'm not at bulimia yet but i'm willing see when i was a kid that was it was bulimia now it's 0.97

00:05:33.240 ozempic that like when i was a kid it was like oh oh you're bulimic what are you puking up your food

00:05:37.760 now it's all you want is it people just like people who get fat and then thin and people are 0.95

00:05:45.020 mad at them it's like yo you're crazy because when you're fat they're like you're a fat piece 1.00

00:05:49.380 of shit loser look how fat you are you're ugly you don't deserve anything that you have and then 1.00

00:05:54.560 you get thin and they're like oh yeah you think oh yeah look at you just using drugs to get thin 1.00

00:05:59.960 you didn't work out or eat you just ate mcdonald's every day and did ozempic that's not how it works

00:06:05.100 also i'm not on ozempic but if i was which i'd like to be 0.99

00:06:09.640 um then i would say that you probably have to not eat very much you can't just eat like shit 0.58

00:06:21.040 So it's still, yeah, if it's, oh, but it's helping you suppress the appetite. 0.96

00:06:25.740 Okay, well, it's helping you, but I'm not doing it.

00:06:28.380 I wish I was doing it.

00:06:29.760 The doctor told me I couldn't do it yet.

00:06:31.920 I have to go back and see if I'm thin enough for Ozempic.

00:06:36.400 You actually have to lose weight for Ozempic.

00:06:39.380 That was the whole reason I lost weight, so I could qualify to get on Ozempic.

00:06:45.320 But I don't actually want to do it.

00:06:46.940 I'm not going to.

00:06:48.040 I don't need it.

00:06:48.880 i already look too thin apparently according to the internet even though i feel fat 1.00

00:06:52.820 people are like you're he's too thin now it's like okay yeah yeah fuck me for yeah you know 0.99

00:06:59.620 somebody goes oh did all those i guess you aren't gonna die at any moment and it's like oh my god 0.98

00:07:07.140 like people are just i think they're my fans and they think it's funny and they think they're being

00:07:12.120 funny and they think that they're they're being like a friend of mine but it's like wow it's

00:07:20.240 crazy but that's just what it is that's what it is but my focus is on this huge piece of content

00:07:29.160 that I'm going to be making in a couple weeks and putting it out and just working out I don't

00:07:36.520 really you know putting out podcasts where I talk about the same thing every single time until

00:07:40.960 somebody listens that's really all podcasting is you don't have to talk about many different things

00:07:47.000 you can really just talk about the same thing on every episode people will just go wait yeah

00:07:52.240 that's the thing i like when he talks about it what do people like maybe they want to hear about

00:08:01.000 mothership you know that i regular mothership people go people don't know how anything works

00:08:06.720 by the way which is fine and i understand it but people are like so why did you move to austin's

00:08:14.820 like do you not do you know the mothership's like no it's like joe rogan's comedy club like oh

00:08:18.600 oh yeah it's like okay yeah number one um

00:08:23.420 but then they just don't know anything they're like so do you like perform there like they don't

00:08:30.180 know how it works. Like you send a text message to a guy and he gives you fucking 15 minutes 0.98

00:08:38.380 a couple of times a week. That's what it is. Okay. Um, so I like doing it and I like living 0.99

00:08:47.640 in Austin. Austin would be a great state if it was, or Texas would be a great, Texas is

00:08:55.400 a great state it's so different than the east coast so it's so different than new jersey

00:09:00.760 it's completely different new jersey is like living in canada compared to texas almost

00:09:06.180 seriously they got i mean it's much more diverse with the you know there's a huge asians and the 0.96

00:09:13.320 indians and the thing honestly like i'm battling demons right now to not want to eat more i shouldn't 0.98

00:09:18.860 i should have kept fasting but i had to have a couple pieces of raw cauliflower and fuck my 0.99

00:09:23.440 whole life up i ate one piece of fucking raw cauliflower destroyed my entire existence 0.98

00:09:28.240 ben bankus and i'm on tour portland oregon august 27th to 29th we just added a matinee 0.97

00:09:38.700 show on saturday go get your tickets benbankus.com for all of these charlestown west virginia

00:09:45.760 september 5th we sold out september 4th we got tickets aurora illinois sold out awesome minnesota

00:09:51.960 sold out Calgary Alberta two shows sold out but we added a third September 13th Sunday at Deerfoot

00:09:58.780 Inn and Casino Syracuse New York we sold out but we added a show Albany New York sold out Springfield

00:10:05.040 Massachusetts still a couple tickets left for one show on September 19th at our Roar Comedy Club

00:10:11.460 Englewood New Jersey this is going to be the biggest comedy show I've ever done in New Jersey

00:10:17.120 at the Bergen Performing Arts Center

00:10:21.880 near Manhattan, Englewood, New Jersey,

00:10:25.320 September 24th.

00:10:26.540 Get your tickets, benbankus.com.

00:10:30.360 Stroudsburg, PA, September 25th.

00:10:32.500 This will be the biggest show

00:10:33.420 that I've ever done in Pennsylvania.

00:10:36.000 One couple seats bigger

00:10:38.460 than the show I'm doing in Ben Salem

00:10:40.480 that sold out.

00:10:43.480 Patchhog, New York, Long Island.

00:10:45.660 Biggest show I've ever done in Long Island.

00:10:47.440 Tickets for September 26th are on sale.

00:10:50.440 There's a few left.

00:10:51.380 It's actually about 95% sold out.

00:10:54.460 Birmingham, Alabama, September 30th, October.

00:10:58.500 I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, Miami, Salt Lake City, Utah, San Diego, California,

00:11:03.840 Pasadena, California, Hollywood, California, Ontario, California,

00:11:07.540 Brea, California, Nashville, Tennessee, Jacksonville, Florida,

00:11:12.080 and then November New York City

00:11:14.780 New York Comedy Festival

00:11:15.900 at Town Hall

00:11:18.320 November 12th

00:11:20.760 Port Charlotte, Florida, Tampa, Florida

00:11:22.540 Orlando, Florida, Sarasota, Florida

00:11:24.780 Naples, Florida

00:11:25.640 finishing the year off

00:11:28.020 in Niagara Falls, Canada

00:11:30.660 benbankus.com I love you guys

00:11:32.460 can't wait to see you please share this podcast

00:11:34.720 with your friends please like and subscribe

00:11:36.540 whether you're on Spotify, YouTube

00:11:38.380 Apple Podcasts it doesn't matter

00:11:40.420 send this link to somebody because

00:11:41.980 my fans need to hear what i have to say enjoy the show

00:11:46.660 well i just finished a two and a half hour workout i'm sorry the last uh part of the

00:11:54.420 episode abruptly quit i was tired we did the show wasn't that happy with the show i thought

00:11:59.900 my performance was quite good but it's just one of those annoying audiences and then i woke up to

00:12:05.900 a bunch of annoying messages from fans and some black guy telling me some message blessed first 0.70

00:12:11.240 i don't i never should look at my messages when i wake up i really should just i'm starting my new

00:12:16.520 thing on the road is i have a book and i wake up i look at the read the book for 20 minutes

00:12:20.580 i can't besides answering my family i don't want to see what everybody's thinking it's so

00:12:27.640 insane but some guy was like i i hate your delivery but i think what you're saying is true

00:12:35.180 what should i do and sometimes in the morning i make them like sometimes i'll just answer 0.98

00:12:41.100 them because I'm like fuck it you know I mean and I was just like well first of all you're messaging 0.97

00:12:48.080 a grown man your personal thoughts and secondly you should probably just get a job you know I 0.99

00:12:53.960 mean but I mean shouldn't message him anything then he sent me some long threatening message

00:12:59.800 so I had to block him and then I realized I should probably get out of bed it's time to get the day 0.88

00:13:05.520 going so i did a three-hour workout kicked my own ass and here we are that's all you can do folks

00:13:14.460 that's all you can do is control what's in your control working out writing reading there's 1.00

00:13:22.280 nothing else you have to do all the all the shit on the internet is all bullshit i mean obviously 0.99

00:13:27.160 this is for you know if you're watching this 1.00

00:13:30.160 but generally everything's bullshit i mean the news are you know oh i'm following fox on it 0.87

00:13:37.880 i get it like there's there's news to know there's things to know i like to know the news 0.99

00:13:43.180 but my goodness gracious everybody is mentally ill and yeah a lot of my fans i mean 0.76

00:13:50.840 my smartest fans are the people who generally were maybe not liberals but not far right before 0.93

00:14:02.340 covid you know i'm saying like covid before covid i was you know i mean i said retard i said all the

00:14:09.480 words i didn't you know i made fun of immigrants there weren't as many so it wasn't as big of a 0.52

00:14:15.480 deal. I may have did accents. But then when COVID happened, it became apparent that if you're not

00:14:22.280 on the right, you're basically on the side of extreme overreactions to things that COVID was

00:14:31.460 not, the reaction was not needed. Okay. And the people who agreed with the lockdowns are the same

00:14:40.400 people that celebrated when Charlie Kirk was shot, are the same people that now with that

00:14:46.020 Lindsay, whatever her name is, that strangled her three children, that they're trying to

00:14:50.600 say, and now all these women are standing outside the courthouse protesting, and we

00:14:55.920 support Lindsay, and making videos of them holding their little babies, going, I know

00:15:01.620 how you felt, Lindsay, I get it, basically threatening their own children, these are

00:15:07.140 all the same people. They're all part of one political party. They also think that we should

00:15:12.520 dismantle the entire West and give it over to Islamists because they know better than ever

00:15:19.960 the people who created the country or the people who helped create the country. No, 0.93

00:15:24.240 let's give it over to Islamists. And let's make, you know, these far left white liberal women think 1.00

00:15:31.720 that Islamists are more morally balanced than Western Westerners or Christians. It's just like 0.88

00:15:44.800 so idiotic. So there's a whole portion of the population who's just gone. Like they're just 1.00

00:15:50.680 mentally ill, ready for violence, although they're very weak people generally, like the guy who, 1.00

00:15:57.920 for instance attacked the white house correspondence dinner was like a gay homosexual half black 1.00

00:16:05.240 thing and you know he it's just weakness so they get a gun and they go but those are the weak 0.99

00:16:14.260 that's this is the weak the party of the weak the left is the party of the weak

00:16:18.980 and all these pseudo pretending to like trump people during the last you know when everything

00:16:27.660 was happening, uh, meaning the election and everybody was, we're trying to get Trump elected

00:16:34.620 because why? Well, Kamala Harris was saying things like she wanted to censor the internet

00:16:39.020 and she wanted to, um, basically do things that they're doing in Europe with, uh, the 0.75

00:16:47.860 big tech companies and, and, and the social media companies to further censor people and,

00:16:53.100 and de-platform people and all this kind of stuff.

00:16:58.480 I mean, they did it to Trump himself.

00:17:01.420 They de-platformed the president of the United States.

00:17:07.520 So these comedians who, a lot of them supported Trump

00:17:12.220 and now they're, oh, I don't know,

00:17:14.020 but they're happy to benefit off of Trump being in office

00:17:18.960 because they're doing the best they've ever done

00:17:20.760 in their entire careers, including me.

00:17:23.260 I'm doing the best I've ever done in my career now,

00:17:25.180 and in part thanks to Trump, thanks to them winning.

00:17:30.940 But now they've turned their back and they're pretending like Trump's no good.

00:17:34.940 And then now what?

00:17:36.060 Now you have all these Muslim mayors winning and Muslim senators

00:17:39.360 and, oh, so you're racist against Muslims? 0.80

00:17:44.040 Only to the extent that they're racist against me.

00:17:47.820 they openly say that the west needs to be taken over by islam they already tried to do it in the 1.00

00:17:58.000 middle ages when all the white people were too poor and stupid had too much you know what was 1.00

00:18:05.980 that disease they all got the plague and all that so they were easy pickings but now it's easy 1.00

00:18:13.980 Pickens again because of this leftist psycho fucking ideology that promotes basically the 0.99

00:18:25.260 leftist ideology promotes child sacrifice in the form of abortion, which they want to 0.99

00:18:32.540 use as birth control basically for poor people, which some ways I agree with, you know, if

00:18:39.860 the left openly came out and said, look, if you're a well-to-do person, you're not allowed

00:18:45.760 to get an abortion. If you, if you can afford to have the kid, you have to have it. Then maybe I'd

00:18:51.040 say, all right, fuck it. Because I get it. I get that, you know, like, you know, the leftist thing, 1.00

00:18:58.740 they go, well, if you get rid of abortion, you'll see a lot more crime. And it's like,

00:19:02.400 so what you're saying is that you want more, who's doing the crime, what race? And then, 0.63

00:19:06.720 and then they admit it's blacks, and then they go, 0.99

00:19:08.840 so you're saying that if we get, if more blacks abort their kids, 0.99

00:19:13.060 there'll be less crime? 1.00

00:19:13.940 I mean, all right, let's do it.

00:19:18.380 No, I don't actually believe any of that,

00:19:20.900 but just talking about it because of my freedom of speech to talk,

00:19:24.360 and everybody else is so afraid to talk.

00:19:26.780 Everybody else is so afraid to go, oh, don't go there,

00:19:29.500 oh, got worried, oh, got worried.

00:19:33.100 We're trying to get the podcast off the ground, for God's sakes.

00:19:35.780 We need a couple little mini cancellations of the podcast here.

00:19:39.360 Oh, Ben Bank has said that he agrees with leftist ideology if they were honest that they actually only want to abort poor people's kids. 0.95

00:19:52.000 I mean, because I had that whole joke about aborting the trans kid, and it was so good. 1.00

00:19:55.780 It went viral. 1.00

00:19:57.220 It still goes viral if I post it.

00:19:59.300 and you know i partly i wish that we should put that whole thing on youtube that whole portland

00:20:05.820 set from a year ago because we're doing the new portland set it'd be kind of cool to just

00:20:10.340 post that because they're completely different same venue they might make it look different in

00:20:14.440 the new thing that we're doing i think they're going to put up a big sheet or something um

00:20:21.020 i don't know if anybody's able i don't know if you can see if you can give me a water bottle up

00:20:25.480 there my brother you think it's possible I got you or are they gonna bug out you keep going

00:20:34.580 all right I'll keep going he's gonna go get me a water while I get more thirsty 0.96

00:20:40.320 but seriously everybody's so pissed off at me because I lost weight every fucking day 0.78

00:20:50.220 some guy unfollowed me today because he messaged me he's like that ozempic's kicking in i'm like 0.97

00:20:58.700 not on it stop messaging me this why did i say that such a loser to do that i should have just

00:21:06.780 said nothing but i was bored i'm on the road i miss my family should have been doing a pod

00:21:11.780 should have been reading a book

00:21:12.780 some guy on facebook messenger with no profile picture

00:21:19.460 so i just said stop messaging me and then he goes i will and i'm unfollowing you too it's like

00:21:25.840 so you're messaging me to try and make me feel bad that i lost weight and then i tell you to 0.99

00:21:33.100 stop doing that and then you're like fuck you i'm not following you i wish i was never like 1.00

00:21:36.940 fuck you man fuck you it's like the guy last night who interrupted the show like three 1.00

00:21:43.920 three quarters of the way through the show to say do ciao do the olivia what an asshole 1.00

00:21:50.320 what a fucking i did but i think it's i mean i've talked about this before but it's 0.99

00:21:57.620 even your own fans get jealous because when they first become fans they go okay i like this guy 0.98

00:22:03.940 because he does the olivia chow for instance and then when i go on to do and then i'm doing a bit

00:22:09.160 that's like getting 10 million views and they're like i wish he was still just doing that and i'm

00:22:14.900 selling out a stadium and they they're like you know what you know what would bring him down right 0.98

00:22:18.640 now is if i yelled out just do that old bit it's a very fucked up thing very fucked up and then 0.98

00:22:25.720 once in a while i do it and then people get mad and then go well so you did it why don't you get 0.96

00:22:30.280 Matt because if I want to do it I'll do it

00:22:32.360 I'm the artist you don't get to 0.96

00:22:34.260 Choose what the fuck I do if you want that go 0.99

00:22:36.060 You know go to an open mic 0.99

00:22:38.360 And tell them to do my bit go to 0.99

00:22:40.300 A fucking open mic and go do an Olivia 0.99

00:22:42.240 Chow bit like Ben Bank is but they'll 0.99

00:22:44.320 Probably do it because they have nothing better going on 1.00

00:22:46.180 They're not real artists they're just open micers

00:22:48.180 To become a real

00:22:56.500 Artist

00:22:57.180 you have to take a step back you have to look at what you're doing you have to criticize you

00:23:03.080 have to self-criticize you have to always want to be better you can never be satisfied you can

00:23:08.220 never sit there and go you know what i am doing a good better job than everybody no i'm not how do

00:23:13.280 i know i'm doing a better job than anybody else because i shouldn't be looking at anybody else

00:23:18.600 I should only be competing with myself, at war with myself, to learn what to do better, what I did wrong, what I can improve on.

00:23:32.740 That's a real artist.

00:23:35.020 I mean, my dad taught.

00:23:35.880 My dad's a real artist.

00:23:37.820 He's a violinist.

00:23:40.140 And he doesn't write his own pieces, but he interprets pieces.

00:23:46.060 And that's still art.

00:23:47.540 and he also puts together the programs and puts together which pieces in what order and from which

00:23:52.980 art from which composer and it's almost in a way he's like an art historian as well

00:23:57.680 and because all that's it's it's all classical music is history like art history so comedy

00:24:09.180 history and then you go back and you look at some of the comedy from the 70s and 80s and you go

00:24:15.460 Really, people want to laugh at the same things

00:24:19.220 I mean, some of the most brilliant things that have ever been said

00:24:22.060 Have been said in the past

00:24:23.880 So

00:24:25.400 Right now, I'm in the past somewhere else

00:24:30.940 I'm in the past of the future

00:24:33.100 So in the future, they're going to look back

00:24:35.580 And look at these podcasts and go 0.99

00:24:37.040 He fucking knew what he was talking about 0.99

00:24:38.660 He fucking knew that there was going to be this breakthrough 1.00

00:24:44.600 where Hollywood's going to go back to being just about entertaining people 0.99

00:24:50.760 because they can't survive this.

00:24:53.120 They can't survive zero people going to the movies,

00:24:55.780 zero people watching comedy, zero people.

00:24:59.020 I mean, I'm talking about...

00:25:01.760 Thanks, brother.

00:25:06.200 I guess it's not zero people watching comedy,

00:25:08.500 but it's zero people watching...

00:25:11.580 How many people are going and buying tickets to see a comedy movie?

00:25:14.600 i mean and there's a couple guys i know theo put out a movie and it did pretty good and

00:25:21.600 you know whatever but

00:25:23.700 they're the only guys even trying

00:25:27.800 so these guys are really pioneers right now um theo putting that movie out shane putting out

00:25:39.420 tires it's it's opening the door for more and more adult comedy comedy for adults that consenting

00:25:50.340 adults that want hey offend me hey piss me off hey push me push me around expand what i think

00:25:58.040 is okay to laugh at that's that's a service they're doing and and you know i was listening

00:26:05.660 to the story of tires how long they had that show on the shelf to to make is like incredible that

00:26:13.100 they made they kind of wrote it so long before they started making it and it really gave me

00:26:19.000 that longevity like that

00:26:22.500 i was able to be a fly on the wall watching that video the guy explain it and i go wow because you

00:26:32.960 can make something right now and it doesn't get made for five years and it's spectacular

00:26:36.920 it's incredible like this special hopefully it gets made maybe we end up putting it on youtube

00:26:42.320 and maybe in two years it gets on youtube or on netflix or on hulu or on fucking i mean hulu's 0.59

00:26:49.940 fucking disney so or paramount or something so you have to as an artist create you have to 0.97

00:27:01.040 actually put something out you have to put your money where your mouth is you can't just you know 0.99

00:27:05.800 i i know a lot of comics they made their little money from touring and then they bought a bunch 0.62

00:27:10.720 of cars and you know old shitty cars and some weird shitty house in the middle of nowhere and

00:27:16.380 and then they uh 0.88

00:27:17.920 kind of call it and they're they but they're still the business still revolves around the art

00:27:28.440 the business still revolves around putting out a product but the product the more artful the product

00:27:38.660 the more timeless it is there's comics putting out specials all the time and you watch them you go

00:27:45.740 this isn't really that timeless this is a this is kind of like just them doing crowd work which

00:27:53.260 people can you know people criticize me i love online this goes another crowd work comic

00:27:57.840 i have five specials on youtube i don't think there's a minute of crowd work in any of them

00:28:02.680 they're all like at least 40 to 45 to 55 to an hour long

00:28:06.880 but i give something for people to cry about which is nice you know something for them to

00:28:17.740 wake up and watch and get mad at and freak out and message me and then sometimes they're lucky 1.00

00:28:25.120 enough on a bad day maybe i'll message it back and tell them to go fuck himself and 0.99

00:28:28.800 that's the moment of their life baby or this new thing that they do a lot of haters messaging me 1.00

00:28:35.660 see you soon at the end of the message catch you soon like oh yeah you're gonna you're gonna ruin

00:28:42.000 So what you're saying is your life is so bad and you have nothing going on for you

00:28:47.760 that you are going to go out of your way to stalk me, find me somewhere by myself 0.60

00:28:53.760 and physically assault me in the hopes that I die and leave my family with nothing 1.00

00:28:59.820 and leave all my fans and then you'll go to jail or kill yourself. 1.00

00:29:04.520 So that's what you're saying, that's your goal in life? 1.00

00:29:07.960 Pretty good goal, huh? 1.00

00:29:09.580 You fucking nothing. 1.00

00:29:10.580 how about you go fucking buy a lawnmower and start a lawnmower business or buy a fucking pool 1.00

00:29:15.860 cleaning kit and start a pool cleaning business or do anything else if i piss you off and you're 1.00

00:29:22.540 mad at me delete the app you have 50 followers nobody knows who you are you don't need to be

00:29:28.640 on instagram instagram is a business tool if you are not using it as a business tool you are a 1.00

00:29:34.720 fucking loser sorry your profile picture sucks ass and this is a to everybody your profile 1.00

00:29:40.920 pictures are ass your profile pictures suck even a lot of these older women with their shitty 1.00

00:29:47.160 profile pictures and some bad picture they took 10 years ago and get a fucking grip ladies hire 1.00

00:29:53.540 a guy for 300 bucks to take a decent picture of you look like shit taking a picture on your 1.00

00:29:58.840 fucking husbands uh you know nokia motorola some shitty google phone android shit trash camera 1.00

00:30:07.360 stop everybody needs to level up especially my you're a fan of mine level the fuck up 1.00

00:30:14.420 seriously take a better profile picture leave better comments maybe instead of if you're oh 0.80

00:30:21.100 i'm a fan i comment and like everything and share it have you been to a show no buy a ticket have

00:30:25.680 Oh, you've been to a show and you do all that?

00:30:27.920 Join Patreon.

00:30:28.920 Oh, watch the podcast.

00:30:30.820 Leave a comment on the podcast.

00:30:32.520 Help us out over here. 1.00

00:30:34.260 Podcast is, you know, I'm pouring my heart out for these motherfuckers out here. 0.99

00:30:43.940 But tonight, we've got one show. 0.99

00:30:46.280 red bank at the count bassy bassy vogel theater which they're probably like holy shit we shouldn't 0.93

00:30:59.340 have done this during the show actually no they don't seem that woke there i didn't see any pride 0.53

00:31:03.840 flags or anything i mean they have to realize you can't just make every entertainment venue woke and

00:31:10.200 then realize why they're all going bankrupt i mean oh every entertainment venue has a you know

00:31:15.920 covered in drag queen story time hour every week and we have pride flags hanging off and then we 0.99

00:31:22.200 don't know why we're going out of business because nobody wants to watch that shit nobody wants to 0.98

00:31:27.360 watch adults don't want to go on a friday night and watch somebody no i better not say anything 1.00

00:31:34.640 bad and oh and or drag time and you know bring their kids to watch some gay guy strip and tuck 1.00

00:31:41.040 put his balls out sorry it's gross it's it's not entertaining it's stupid okay drag shows used to 1.00

00:31:48.480 be fun before woke when they were just wrong and you went you laughed and the guy bend over and 1.00

00:31:53.800 you saw his balls hanging out and you go ha ha ha that's funny it's not sexy okay and it's not for 0.91

00:32:01.060 kids it's fun for adults who actually are straight it's actually more fun if you're straight to go 1.00

00:32:07.560 look at that fucking gay loser that's the entertainment value it's the same as going to 1.00

00:32:13.200 a strip club if you go to a strip club and you as a man and you're actually so turned on and oh my 1.00

00:32:17.740 god and you're so hard and you're a fucking loser but a real guy goes to strip clubs and goes look 1.00

00:32:22.740 at these ugly stupid fucking leech whores that have nothing good for society to do they're 1.00

00:32:30.460 disgusting but it's funny because look at them dancing around with their stupid tits out their 1.00

00:32:35.060 pussy hanging out yeah it's fucking embarrassing for them because this is their life i get to come 1.00

00:32:40.040 here for 20 minutes and laugh and drop a 20 and get the fuck out of here so 1.00

00:32:45.380 venues that mostly in canada poor canada canada deserves so much better the people deserve so 0.79

00:32:58.260 much better they deserve the venues to be allowing canadian comics with canadian content to come to

00:33:06.320 those venues whether it's offensive or not i'm canadian technically from canada and i know more

00:33:14.140 about canada and have better canadian jokes than any comic right now out there so actually well i

00:33:24.040 saw another comic uh doing some very similar material to you know they basically they see 0.99

00:33:29.020 what i do then they go to canada and then they do the same thing it's a fucking cocksuckers man 0.96

00:33:33.380 but um but yeah god forbid i'm allowed to do a big show in canada let an american do a big show 0.99

00:33:43.100 and say all the stuff that i was gonna say but don't let a canadian go and do it fucking pieces 0.97

00:33:48.420 this shit so it's intense every day is intense every day is a competition everybody's watching 0.99

00:33:58.380 you know all the all everybody's watching me and competing with me as well just like i am with them 0.99

00:34:04.280 um but the key is to not compete and the key is to take a step back and focus on myself which i'm

00:34:13.300 Doing and make myself the best possible

00:34:15.300 Person I can be

00:34:16.220 And that will translate in my art

00:34:18.900 And the people

00:34:21.400 Who can't listen to this

00:34:23.400 Podcast because it's

00:34:25.020 Hurting them because they're realizing how little

00:34:27.180 They're getting accomplished

00:34:28.320 Good turn it off 1.00

00:34:30.840 Go do something with your life you fucking nothing 1.00

00:34:33.360 Very I'm being 1.00

00:34:35.140 Such an asshole these days 0.99

00:34:36.480 Cam wouldn't let me post the walkout 1.00

00:34:39.360 Videos I wanted to post me kicking 1.00

00:34:41.220 That fat guy and that stupid bitch out of 1.00

00:34:43.180 Austin show oh we don't want to we don't want the crowds to think that's all your shows are I don't 1.00

00:34:48.760 think they do they all the shows are sold out I think we can get away with it I mean maybe I'm

00:34:53.600 wrong I don't know so you gotta listen to a lot of other voices you gotta you gotta focus now we 1.00

00:35:03.120 got the show in a couple hours and and the old people want to show these old people I've been 0.98

00:35:15.040 watching you on Facebook and I love you my favorite comedian and my favorite comedian and I'm watching 1.00

00:35:22.220 you on Facebook and I like that I want them to watch me on Facebook but come to the show forget

00:35:26.600 about your age. Just be young at heart. Show me your heart. I don't want to see your fucking

00:35:34.240 your age. Look at, you know, there's one woman last night. I don't, I couldn't see her, but I 1.00

00:35:39.920 could just hear her every joke. She goes, ah, ah. And when you do that, in her mind, she's probably

00:35:48.140 just thinking, I'm having fun. What? I'm going, oh, that fucking pisses everybody else off at

00:35:55.240 the show they now hear some dumb old bitch going and they're going well i don't want to laugh i 1.00

00:36:01.320 guess that was offensive some old ladies croaking in the fucking front row 1.00

00:36:05.220 and i don't understand my best fans always sit at the back and the worst fans always sit at the 1.00

00:36:18.360 front i don't know what's going on with that the worst most obnoxious fucking pieces of shit 1.00

00:36:24.620 sitting in the front row wanting begging to get kicked out and then they get kicked out and they 1.00

00:36:31.740 act like it was it was all my fault but the people at the back of the room just have fun the whole

00:36:38.600 time and know when to celebrate and know when to cheer and know when to clap but people in the 0.98

00:36:45.320 front they're always the last to clap people start clapping from the fucking back like oh best joke 0.98

00:36:52.280 I've ever heard in my life 0.99

00:36:53.180 And the guy in the front

00:36:54.160 Is like

00:36:54.480 Like

00:36:57.800 I don't know

00:36:59.900 It's a weird

00:37:00.500 Psychology of people

00:37:01.820 I'm not a front sitter

00:37:03.060 By the way

00:37:03.620 I'm not a front row guy

00:37:04.740 If I go to a show

00:37:06.080 I mean if I go to

00:37:07.000 Maybe a music show

00:37:07.980 Comedy

00:37:08.380 I don't

00:37:08.800 First of all

00:37:09.340 I don't go to comedy shows

00:37:10.320 Second of all

00:37:12.860 If I did

00:37:13.380 I would sit at the back

00:37:14.200 Would not sit front row

00:37:15.540 Although it would be funny

00:37:16.840 To sit front row

00:37:17.620 Of a comedian

00:37:18.160 That I know

00:37:18.940 That hates me

00:37:20.160 And just sit there

00:37:21.380 and see if they notice me but vast vast majority of comedians that hate me have never met me

00:37:30.100 have never seen my act have never been in the same room as me um there are comedians mostly

00:37:37.140 in canada who hate me and have seen my act those are the ones that watch me kill and in front of

00:37:42.940 my own audience and then they realize that they can't do this for a living they're not going to

00:37:47.200 be able to make it as a comedian they're not going to be able to push themselves to the limits that

00:37:50.920 I've pushed myself or take the chances or risks that I've taken moving in the content and saying

00:37:56.860 what I actually think and putting myself out there in living in a new place. They can't do

00:38:02.560 any of the things that I'm doing. A lot of people can't do any of the things that I'm doing. Some

00:38:05.800 people can't even do the workouts that I'm doing and I'm fat. Some people can't do the travel.

00:38:13.800 give up seriously so many people need to give up so many comedians need to give up on their dream

00:38:21.240 uh the open mic level people who just don't understand what to do quit i don't know i just

00:38:30.460 i tried i tried to post a little bit and then i posted a couple clips and then it didn't quit

00:38:36.860 you're not meant to do this this isn't for everybody if you're a comedian you hate me

00:38:43.280 and you're not successful quit if you are successful god bless you good for you keep 0.97

00:38:49.040 doing what you're doing i guess keep talking shit about me keep i guess that's it's gonna 0.96

00:38:53.620 only make me money but for the losers the people with no following and i saw some something something 0.96

00:39:01.160 comedy commented on my thing some horrible thing about i don't even remember what it was that was 1.00

00:39:06.160 fat and ugly it's stupid everything is racist and then it's you look at their profile it's you have 0.99

00:39:13.360 1200 followers and nobody you have two stand-up clips nobody liked it it's over you don't need 1.00

00:39:20.740 to do this for a living not everybody needs to be a comedian my facebook like my not my personal

00:39:31.280 facebook but my fan page feed because i can i have my own feed on there like what i see

00:39:36.960 from other people posting and it's for some reason it's all comedy related and it's all

00:39:43.160 these comics posting please come to my show 12 likes and it's like nobody's going bro it's done

00:39:50.900 it's you can't people just think well if i get a venue and if i get i rent it and then i put the

00:39:58.220 tickets on sale on Eventbrite. I'm a real comedian. No, you're not, because nobody bought fucking

00:40:03.220 tickets. Nobody knows who the fuck you are. You suck. You have no fucking viral videos. You're 1.00

00:40:08.660 nothing. It's time to hang up the skates and quit. That's what we say in Canada. Hockey, buddy.

00:40:16.720 Hang up the fucking skates, put the stick in the fucking garage. You're done. 1.00

00:40:22.320 Leave it to the professionals, okay? Leave it to the professionals. I know you go to Yuck. I know

00:40:27.440 you're passed at yuck yucks and you think you're hot shit because you passed at yuck yucks and 1.00

00:40:31.420 you're the first thing and the female and the first gay and the first black nobody's coming 1.00

00:40:37.220 for you they don't know who you are i remember this one guy who was a ex yuck yucks he quit 0.99

00:40:43.860 yuck yucks and then he came back just to tell mark breslin the owner of yuck yucks who loves

00:40:48.540 me as my friend to fire me this was huge four years five years ago begging mark breslin to fire

00:40:55.360 me because and i and mark goes but he's selling out not only our shows but he's selling out his

00:41:02.700 own shows like on wednesdays and stuff like where he's getting paid and then this guy just it he

00:41:07.740 just malfunctioned he can't understand it he still posts about me every few days on his personal

00:41:12.220 facebook he thinks he's a star but when it's really just yuck yuck selling out those shows

00:41:17.980 bro i'm selling out across the u.s like it's very easy to go benbankus.com look at my tour dates

00:41:24.980 they're all there and you can tell right away that it's really not that so

00:41:31.120 keep hating

00:41:34.620 i'm gonna keep working out i'm gonna keep focusing on my family my life my brain my existence my

00:41:44.540 my fans i want to say my fans in the sense that i will always be there for you in terms of i will

00:41:50.560 always try to create new and better material and the best material that i think i can put out

00:41:57.260 and it's it's for you but it's for me and i want you to enjoy it so i'm i'm just gonna keep 0.63

00:42:03.940 working my ass off i don't know why people oh you quit this you quit that you should want me to 0.75

00:42:09.300 quit being distracted by anything and focus on the comedy if you're a real fan of mine because 0.81

00:42:15.060 That's how the comedy gets better

00:42:16.300 Now if you want to continue listening to this

00:42:21.140 Please

00:42:21.500 Patreon.com

00:42:24.780 Slash Ben Bankis

00:42:26.900 Let me explain it very simply

00:42:30.240 $5 a month

00:42:32.860 You pay for the whole year up front

00:42:35.400 I think it's even less than that

00:42:36.760 With tax

00:42:38.340 Plus tax whatever wherever you are

00:42:40.920 $5 US

00:42:43.080 Sorry Canada

00:42:43.820 But

00:42:45.340 If every

00:42:48.580 So I have almost 2.2 million followers

00:42:51.260 Across the board

00:42:52.280 So let's just say

00:42:53.980 50,000

00:42:55.800 Joined Patreon

00:42:57.940 What's 50,000 times 5

00:43:00.120 5 times 5

00:43:01.800 $250,000 a month

00:43:03.940 Ish

00:43:04.600 Approximately

00:43:05.600 I think

00:43:07.540 Or more

00:43:08.120 Was it 2.5 million a month

00:43:09.760 Can't even do math

00:43:12.840 five times 50,000 250,000 i was right

00:43:18.340 that money is how other comedians are getting these movies made that is how they are pushing

00:43:27.880 these shows on the netflix and putting together really nice um comedy specials because it's not

00:43:34.980 cheap so help me out not that i i don't need it i'll figure out a way without you but it'd be

00:43:41.720 nice if you did and you get

00:43:43.560 access to bonus content

00:43:44.920 bonus podcasts

00:43:46.640 bonus Ben Bankis

00:43:48.620 patreon.com slash Ben Bankis

00:43:51.760 I'll see you guys over there

Bankas Podcast - September 22, 2026

The Red Banks pod ｜ Bankas Podcast #124

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