Bankas Podcast - Trampled at the Library ｜ The Bankas Show

00:00:00.000 It's called The Bankist Show now.

00:00:01.900 We deleted all the old episodes because they were a little too funny.

00:00:09.420 So we decided to start this new one and a lot of people are liking it and they're watching it and that is exciting.

00:00:17.060 And we have a lot of new fans on Instagram this week.

00:00:21.300 Welcome everybody.

00:00:22.140 You probably found me from either the N-word joke video or the me dressing up like a woman and pretending to be pregnant, which I put that video.

00:00:35.480 That video is kind of old, but I re-released it and it got a lot of views.

00:00:38.460 It got like 800,000 views.

00:00:40.880 And there's people who really think they really believe that I think that I'm pregnant.

00:00:46.580 They don't think they think they don't think it's a joke.

00:00:48.520 They think I am a crazy person on the left.

00:00:52.840 Like their worst nightmare is who they think I am, right?

00:00:56.060 So they're commenting like, you're not pregnant.

00:00:59.580 Like you're not, you know, just like angry at me.

00:01:03.740 They're so stupid that it's like they think, they don't even know that I'm kidding.

00:01:08.800 They think that I'm actually pregnant.

00:01:10.060 So that's happening and there's a lot of people arguing on the N-word video joke.

00:01:15.900 I don't know if you saw this joke that I, it's a stupid joke that I did.

00:01:19.800 And you know, what's crazy about that joke is that I did it in Texas, which people, I don't think a lot of comics, maybe they do it in Toronto.

00:01:26.600 I'm edgy.

00:01:27.520 No, we did it in Texas and it worked and people enjoyed it.

00:01:31.320 Obviously the guy in the audience was upset.

00:01:33.320 He wasn't upset.

00:01:34.220 He was kind of shitty the whole time.

00:01:35.620 And I'm upset because I lost the full recording of that whole set that my friend in Texas, Gary Faust, made for me with perfect audio and the video was not great.

00:01:48.280 That's why it's black and white because I had to change everything because I looked super orange.

00:01:51.840 But anyway, I'm digressing, folks.

00:01:55.960 It's been a great week.

00:01:58.960 We have an amazing tour coming up.

00:02:01.380 People are excited for that.

00:02:04.300 Starting it off so far, it's starting off in Calgary on April 6th.

00:02:08.980 We have already sold, I believe, 50 percent of the tickets in two days, which to me is good.

00:02:15.240 I mean, you know, if you're Louis C.K., it's not great.

00:02:18.620 Tickets are moving a little slow, but for me, I'm happy about it.

00:02:21.800 So Calgary, Edmonton, dates are live as well as Toronto.

00:02:27.820 People have been messaging me.

00:02:28.960 When are you coming to Toronto?

00:02:30.100 I'm in Toronto right now.

00:02:31.700 We're in a community center or wherever the fuck we are.

00:02:36.900 Libraries now are just places for people who are on hard drugs to just surf the Internet.

00:02:43.440 And, you know, it's basically libraries now are semi-homeless slash homeless people, alcoholics, and, you know, people going to community college and then, like, families of Asian people going,

00:02:58.720 this is what a library is in Canada?

00:03:01.360 This is disgusting.

00:03:03.220 Because in China, they don't have – I don't think they have homeless people.

00:03:06.860 I think they just – they send them to the camps.

00:03:08.740 So that's where we are.

00:03:13.140 But people are asking me, are you coming to Toronto?

00:03:15.520 Yes, I'm coming to Toronto.

00:03:17.220 February 8th at Lula Lounge.

00:03:21.640 Lula Lounge is a Spanish salsa dance studio – not a studio.

00:03:29.120 It's a club.

00:03:29.880 Like, it's, like, a nightclub for people who go to do fun things, like dancing and stuff like that.

00:03:36.960 But it's going to be awesome.

00:03:38.320 It's going to be an awesome venue for comedy.

00:03:39.860 It looks like a mini – it looks like a miniature, like, big theater, like, if that makes any sense.

00:03:47.040 It's got, like, a cool stage and there's, like, two levels.

00:03:51.380 But they're not, like – it's not, like, way up.

00:03:53.060 It's, like, this far up.

00:03:54.660 But people are, like, right up there.

00:03:56.340 So that's pretty cool.

00:03:57.260 So – and you should get tickets for that.

00:03:59.240 Some people don't want to get tickets for that because apparently they – there was a transgender person that stepped foot in the establishment in 1994.

00:04:10.240 So that is an issue for some people because they do not – no, what actually is the truth is that Lula Lounge does drag brunches, apparently.

00:04:22.160 They do drag brunches.

00:04:24.200 The glasses are disgustingly dirty.

00:04:27.260 Yeah, apparently Lula Lounge – I didn't look this up before booking, which some people who don't live in Toronto – I had a message from somebody who lives two hours outside of Toronto.

00:04:38.340 And they said, I'm not coming to this show anymore because they do drag brunches.

00:04:44.000 And they actually didn't say they're not coming.

00:04:46.120 They said, why can't you move the venue?

00:04:48.400 You need to move the venue.

00:04:49.980 It was, like –

00:04:50.600 Stop it.

00:04:51.640 It's insane, right?

00:04:52.820 Stop it.

00:04:52.980 It's insane.

00:04:54.080 So it's, like, the far – we talk about it more on the Patreon episode, the last Patreon episode.

00:04:58.940 Please join Patreon, patreon.com slash benbankus to support the show and to support, you know, my new potentially young producer who's here, Nav.

00:05:07.760 He's hanging out.

00:05:08.920 But we get these messages sometimes.

00:05:12.920 And the woman sent me the message.

00:05:14.980 I'm not going to tell you exactly what it said.

00:05:17.200 The whole thing is on Patreon.

00:05:19.320 It's a voice note that she sent me.

00:05:20.980 You can listen to it on Patreon.

00:05:22.860 She told me that she called the venue, like, an hour after I posted the poster for it, specifically demanding to find out if they do drag brunches and if children are allowed.

00:05:34.640 And, of course, she asks if there's children allowed.

00:05:38.460 And the woman's kind of, like, this isn't really, like, you wouldn't bring your kid to this.

00:05:42.960 But, like – and then she's, like, pushing it because she's trying to see, like, our far-left people bringing their kids to these drag brunches.

00:05:50.080 So she's pushing her and pushing her going, well, what if I want to bring my kid?

00:05:53.820 And then she's, like, well, if you, the parent, think – if you're okay with some sexually explicit stuff, like, you can bring your kid.

00:06:01.180 But we – you know, she didn't say any – either here or there.

00:06:04.640 But the woman was using this as a reason to, you know, as my fan, cancel my own show so that it could be at a, like, a sports bar or something.

00:06:15.980 Pardon me?

00:06:16.280 Your fan?

00:06:17.080 Yeah, it was my fan.

00:06:18.100 It wasn't even a –

00:06:18.680 That's crazy, brother.

00:06:19.420 It wasn't even a – an enemy, apparently.

00:06:23.720 It was a friendly fire.

00:06:25.700 So this is how far everybody is in the mental illness epidemic, which, of course, we're in the middle of.

00:06:32.100 I mean, it's apparent here at this library where I'm pretty sure I saw two people who used to do stand-up comedy are in the computer lounge of the library, which is not a good sign.

00:06:46.400 People are mentally ill on both sides.

00:06:48.560 It seems to me like the people who were mentally ill on the left during BLM and during that whole kind of era, I feel like that has kind of died down.

00:07:01.560 And, you know, I don't – like, obviously, there are still these far-left people.

00:07:05.280 Like, you watch libs of TikTok, and every day they're posting another video of some person on TikTok going nuts about somebody misgendered me and stuff.

00:07:12.960 But I feel like it's few and far between – like, I don't know.

00:07:15.880 I don't see it on a regular basis.

00:07:17.080 I know there's one trans person in my father's building, and they have a dog that is vicious.

00:07:27.080 They have a vicious rescue dog.

00:07:30.480 And every time my dogs come near it, it just – like, it goes insane, right?

00:07:35.720 And then this person who is – you know, they are trans.

00:07:41.180 They pick up the dog, and they go, it's okay.

00:07:43.920 You can come in the elevator.

00:07:45.040 The dog's like – like, she's holding it while angry.

00:07:49.980 And so that has affected my view of the trans community, this woman's dog.

00:07:55.900 That affects – no, of course.

00:08:00.700 I don't care what anybody does at an establishment that we're doing comedy at.

00:08:07.480 You know, I said this at Yuck Yucks.

00:08:09.220 People are like – because I've actually been doing this as a bit of a bit.

00:08:12.580 This is now a bit for me where I talk about this woman who is my fan trying to cancel my own show.

00:08:19.480 And I think that it's an issue for – like, if you're worried about where – like, any place I perform comedy at, there's probably people doing fentanyl there.

00:08:41.740 And they probably – very likely they work there.

00:08:45.040 So the idea that we're going to find a venue where, you know, there's never been a wrongdoing.

00:08:52.600 There's never been a morally corrupt situation.

00:08:56.700 And I don't care about – honestly, I want to go to the drag brunch now.

00:09:01.300 For me, this is like – this is like the drag brunch is some – this crazy right-wing chick is somehow advertising drag brunch to me.

00:09:11.220 She's making me think, I want to go to drag brunch now because it's – I looked it up after.

00:09:18.760 And, you know, the food looks good.

00:09:20.040 I think it's like a buffet.

00:09:21.580 I think it's like a drag buffet, which sometimes I go to the Jewish brunch.

00:09:25.820 Maybe I could switch it up, go to drag brunch, which maybe is – maybe there'll be some Jews there, which would be fine with me.

00:09:32.320 But that's neither here nor there.

00:09:34.460 Folks, if you're in Toronto and you're listening, you've got to come see me at Lula Lounge and –

00:09:40.720 Enjoy the artistry, man.

00:09:42.320 Enjoy it.

00:09:43.620 What is more free speech than allowing drag shows and Ben Bankis in the same – under the same roof?

00:09:50.980 You've got to love it.

00:09:51.740 That's the – people want to say, this isn't a free country, but you shouldn't perform at that place because one time there was –

00:09:58.440 It's got to happen, okay?

00:10:01.860 It's got to happen.

00:10:03.480 It's going to be fun.

00:10:05.120 We're going to dance to salsa music.

00:10:07.700 And there's going to be a trans brunch after the show.

00:10:11.560 So that's an extra $50 if you want to be part of that.

00:10:15.920 No, but seriously, it's exciting times.

00:10:20.980 We're moving forward with a lot of things, and I don't want to talk about that because people don't want to hear anything about your own success.

00:10:27.200 They don't really care about your own success.

00:10:29.920 They just want you to be successful and then marvel at it.

00:10:35.100 But they don't want to be like, oh, and good things are happening.

00:10:38.380 They just want to meet you in like five years and go, oh, shit, and then they feel bad about themselves.

00:10:43.180 And then that's easier than investing in people's success.

00:10:46.720 But I am lucky.

00:10:47.420 I have a lot of really awesome fans that are doing that and that are on Patreon, that are posting, that are sharing my shit.

00:10:54.740 So we really – you know, we fucking appreciate that.

00:10:58.640 Security guard just looked in here.

00:11:00.060 I don't know why.

00:11:00.680 Maybe he heard –

00:11:01.580 You're a shady-looking motherfucker.

00:11:02.880 Just know that.

00:11:03.360 They're like, this is – it would be the funniest possible thing that could happen while filming at this library in the soundproof, quote-unquote, soundproof room.

00:11:13.480 I don't see any hammers on the ceiling.

00:11:15.580 I doubt they can hear what I'm talking about.

00:11:18.840 But if they could, they might question – I'm interested in that.

00:11:28.840 I bet they wouldn't give a shit because that's free speech.

00:11:32.340 Lula Lounge and the public libraries in Toronto have the most free speech out of anywhere else.

00:11:37.400 Isn't that interesting?

00:11:38.340 I agree.

00:11:38.920 You can go get a Jordan Peterson book in this library right now and smoke crack, possibly, in the alleyway.

00:11:46.200 You ever been to a Toronto reference library on Bloor & Young?

00:11:48.460 Yeah.

00:11:49.300 Yeah?

00:11:49.740 In there, I've seen a couple of crackheads just wiling out while someone over in the corner is reading a book about jazz and listening to a vinyl, a solo music.

00:11:56.120 Someone's downstairs screaming their ass off.

00:11:58.760 Well, it's been a tough two years.

00:12:01.980 That's what people say now.

00:12:03.020 When your life is in shambles, people come up to you and they go, it's been a tough two years, hasn't it?

00:12:08.720 They don't really – they don't really care that you're – which is fair.

00:12:14.640 That's why we – you know, I believe in medically assisted death.

00:12:19.020 I believe that that is a great cure and option for, you know, getting rid of a lot of the people who are currently in this library downstairs.

00:12:29.960 You know, they're lining up every day to use free internet.

00:12:34.820 Why not line up for euthanasia?

00:12:39.380 Damn.

00:12:40.620 That's a fucking crazy segue, brother.

00:12:42.580 You like that?

00:12:43.260 I love it.

00:12:43.780 Nav, everybody.

00:12:46.440 He's an intern slash probably going to have to give him some money today, which he hasn't done much, but he's done a lot at the same time.

00:12:58.360 What else is happening?

00:12:59.480 We had Drake – there was somebody fell off of a – something at a Drake show.

00:13:04.440 They fell off of the upstairs at the Drake show and didn't hear anything about it after.

00:13:11.360 Drake's very good.

00:13:12.100 He's Jewish.

00:13:12.960 It's not like a Travis Scott concert where everybody dies, you know.

00:13:17.300 As soon as somebody dies at a Drake concert, you know, there's Jews there with – like he probably has lawyers traveling with him.

00:13:26.560 Like he has lawyers traveling with him that are going around and people are signing NDAs and going, no, I didn't see anything, right?

00:13:36.340 All those guys have NDAs that they need to get signed when they have sex, when they do anything.

00:13:41.380 I'm pretty sure.

00:13:42.100 Like I'm pretty sure all the girls that go to those – like Drake's house and stuff, they got to assign a waiver.

00:13:48.420 That's fucking crazy.

00:13:49.880 They probably don't – like they're not allowed to just bring their phones in and have their phone and fucking record.

00:13:54.860 They probably have to either leave their phone at the front or, you know, in a big bowl or whatever it is.

00:14:00.720 Or those – they probably – maybe they have those things like when you go see Dave Chappelle where you put the phone in the pouch and it's locked until – you can't unlock it until you leave.

00:14:11.040 Is that really a thing?

00:14:11.820 That's a thing because comics don't want you stealing their material or putting their material online before – especially if they're going to put it out on Netflix, which is – a lot of people don't understand that.

00:14:22.960 A lot of my followers are kind of new.

00:14:24.540 They've never even been a fan of a comedian ever.

00:14:26.780 Like it's not like they're like, oh, I'm a fan of comedy and then I found Ben Bankas.

00:14:29.860 They're just like, I didn't know.

00:14:30.840 I don't really watch comedy.

00:14:31.860 And then they are my fan now and they don't understand how things work.

00:14:39.980 Like for instance, I have 45, 50 minutes, 55 minutes, an hour of material that I do that a lot of it I can't post online yet because I haven't filmed a special, which is going to be coming out in June or July, an hour-long special.

00:14:57.800 Another – or 50 minutes or whatever my last – my last one was 40 minutes.

00:15:01.440 I think 40 minutes is fine for a special to be honest.

00:15:04.220 Do another 40 minutes and put it out there and then I can post those clips of all that material and then I'll stop doing that material because it's important to me when my fans come to see me do comedy that they don't see me telling the same jokes that they saw on Instagram because I think that that's boring.

00:15:20.320 I think that that's – it's lazy and it sucks for me because it would be great to just – if it was the 1980s, like Andrew Dice Clay, if you don't know who that is.

00:15:29.720 But he's a comic that you'd fill – he was one of the first comics after Steve Martin kind of and Eddie Murphy is in that era.

00:15:37.380 He's filling stadiums of people and he's doing jokes and people are reciting the jokes.

00:15:43.040 They already know all of his jokes.

00:15:44.240 And so there's not even like – but that was okay in the 80s because there was no internet and there was no this and that.

00:15:51.420 But there's comics now performing at some of these venues including some of the venues that I perform at who are doing material that they've been doing for 15 years.

00:16:01.000 So – and then they go, why do I only have 500 followers on Instagram?

00:16:04.480 It's like, well – like for instance, the N-word joke.

00:16:06.300 I don't do that joke anymore.

00:16:08.060 It's done.

00:16:08.680 It's on – it's in the internet.

00:16:09.980 It's got a million views.

00:16:10.860 It's done.

00:16:11.260 I don't need to tell it.

00:16:12.540 A million people saw it.

00:16:14.040 So that's how we keep it fresh around here.

00:16:17.980 And there's going to be even more new material because we just added a few more dates to the tour that I can't really even announce yet.

00:16:26.220 But I'll tell you where they are going to be.

00:16:28.840 It looks like we're going to find a venue in Vancouver for the end of March, first weekend of April.

00:16:36.120 Then we're going to be finding – we found a venue for Fort McMurray we're going to go to.

00:16:42.480 So that looks like it's going to be on April 8th.

00:16:46.100 And I think we're continuing to add some other dates.

00:16:52.260 You're a touring man now.

00:16:53.720 Touring.

00:16:55.360 A lot of my – sometimes I just make shit up when I'm at the show because it's funny.

00:16:58.720 And then it's – those are the best moments to post online.

00:17:01.060 They're the best moments live, I think.

00:17:02.700 I mean, obviously I like when good material works.

00:17:06.920 But when you just have a spontaneous joke and it's actually like usable as material, it's not just, oh, it's funny in this room and then it's never funny again.

00:17:17.480 It's funny everywhere because you just made it up because you're fucking funny.

00:17:22.800 A lot of comedians aren't funny.

00:17:24.460 They just – they have good jokes.

00:17:26.580 They're not really fun or funny.

00:17:30.240 I mean, I'm funny.

00:17:31.320 I don't know if I'm fun to hang out with.

00:17:33.000 Like I like – I like working.

00:17:35.560 I like doing stuff, comedy.

00:17:37.300 You know, I have friends who do real estate and investment shit and they love fun.

00:17:44.580 Like, let's go have fun and – you know, they really enjoy a nice dinner.

00:17:48.920 And I mean, I love a nice dinner.

00:17:50.720 But, you know, for me, a nice dinner only feels good if we had like a sick show that night.

00:17:55.820 You know what I mean?

00:17:56.320 It's like, okay, let's go get like a fucking $300 fucking steak dinner, crazy-ass place.

00:18:02.280 But for me to just go on like a, ah, I'm feeling like shit.

00:18:05.640 Let's go to – no.

00:18:07.560 It doesn't – or going into clubs.

00:18:10.240 Like a lot of my friends, they want to go – well, not clubs, but, you know, the King Street shit.

00:18:14.960 King Street sucks.

00:18:16.340 I don't like it, bro.

00:18:17.400 I'm not a fan.

00:18:17.920 It's terrifying and terrible at the same time.

00:18:20.540 And the scariest part is they have cops everywhere walking around, bulletproof vests that look like SWAT, you know.

00:18:26.560 And it's just – it's just a – people come from so far to go there.

00:18:31.520 Like from fucking – they come from Oakville.

00:18:33.260 They come from Missaga.

00:18:34.040 They come from Brampton.

00:18:34.680 They come from fucking, you know, East End, Scarborough.

00:18:39.920 Like it's just a – it's – and it's the – it's just the – it's a weird scene.

00:18:45.240 Have you been to New York?

00:18:46.540 I honestly have not been to New York since I was in grade 10.

00:18:50.860 And my dad took me in grade 10 to New York to hang out with his, at the time, friend who was like a Russian multimillionaire woman slash –

00:19:06.320 she had a husband who was there, but he wasn't there.

00:19:10.020 But my dad was like friends with him.

00:19:11.560 I don't know what the fucking situation – but they were friends in some – they did some music or some bullshit, I don't know, together.

00:19:18.440 But they were just rich as fuck.

00:19:20.500 And we went there, and it was just this amazing – first we went – we met them at their weekend home.

00:19:29.700 We drove from Canada, from Toronto, down to New York.

00:19:33.580 We met them at their weekend home at – in Brewster.

00:19:38.200 It's like – it's outside of New York City.

00:19:40.220 It's kind of like Niagara Falls – Niagara Falls distance-ish to New York.

00:19:45.320 It's Brewster, and it's like this crazy house that they had like in the middle.

00:19:50.720 It's like on this water – it's not – it's a lake – man-made lake of water to be used to drink in New York.

00:19:58.720 So you can't put boats on it.

00:20:00.120 You can't swim in it.

00:20:01.520 You can fish, I think, but that's it.

00:20:03.240 Like it's a damn dirt.

00:20:04.240 It's just – it's like a fucking lake that you're not allowed to do anything on, and it's like drinking water.

00:20:09.320 It's just – I don't even know.

00:20:10.060 It's crazy to see, and they live like right next to it on this big – it was like a fucking 20-person mansion or something like that, like a 20-bedroom – just 10, maybe 15.

00:20:22.600 Just huge, like huge long driveway, just all modern, super sick.

00:20:27.680 Her kids were like cool.

00:20:28.920 One son's my age, so we kind of hung out, and then she had – and then there's a younger son, and he was like crazy.

00:20:36.860 Like he had like – he was like, you want to see my sword collection and shit?

00:20:39.680 Like, fuck.

00:20:41.260 I never met people that rich, let alone Russian people that rich.

00:20:45.280 They're different, no?

00:20:46.160 They live very different.

00:20:47.200 It's different, and it's exciting because it's always – you know, nobody – there's never like we're cooking tonight.

00:20:52.560 What do you want for – you know, like this – everything just seems ghetto when you hang out with rich people, which is why I want to be rich, which is why I will be rich.

00:20:59.800 And thank you to everybody for doing that, but I want that lifestyle of not being like, what are we cooking tonight?

00:21:10.460 That's not an option.

00:21:11.520 Why do – oh, we have to clean the kitchen.

00:21:13.680 They don't clean the kitchen, okay?

00:21:16.580 You know, they do – their food is either – I think there they had a cook.

00:21:22.120 Like I honestly think they had a chef, like a live-in person that made food.

00:21:25.100 So they did that, and their basement was insane.

00:21:28.260 Their basement was like just – like it was bigger than the whole house in square footage.

00:21:34.140 Like it was just an open – almost like a fucking room, like a matrix, like just an endless room.

00:21:41.180 You know the matrix where it's just a white room where it's just infinite?

00:21:45.460 And they had ping-pong tables and this tables and big couches and fucking video games and shit, and it was just – and, you know, the kids are riding –

00:21:53.320 it's so big, kids are on roller – not rollerblades, skateboards and scooters and shit like that.

00:21:59.980 And it was crazy.

00:22:00.840 And that was – we hadn't even been to New York yet.

00:22:02.960 Like their city – their house in New York – they had a house in downtown, like in Manhattan, Lexington and 3rd.

00:22:09.320 Like super expensive area.

00:22:11.420 Yeah, high-rise?

00:22:12.600 It was – no, it wasn't even a high-rise.

00:22:14.680 It was a townhouse.

00:22:16.640 It was like a six-story townhouse.

00:22:18.700 So it was like – they had six stories.

00:22:21.220 It was just crazy.

00:22:22.040 And every story of their house was like a different theme of being rich.

00:22:29.140 And they had like an underground – like they even had a parking spot in – and they had an elevator and shit.

00:22:36.160 Levels of opulence.

00:22:37.980 Just crazy.

00:22:39.520 And it's nice.

00:22:40.640 It's nice.

00:22:41.880 And it made me want to be rich.

00:22:45.640 And that's why, you know, my dad would introduce me to those types of people.

00:22:48.620 He'd always be like, see, this is why you need to have money because you have to have a life.

00:22:53.260 You can't be doing podcasts in libraries for the rest of your life.

00:23:00.160 It's an aesthetic, man.

00:23:01.120 It's a vibe, though.

00:23:02.040 This is not a bad vibe.

00:23:03.260 This is very – after meeting Tom Green, it's kind of interesting because Tom Green has – you know, he started with Rogers Cable TV.

00:23:14.540 That's almost – this is the equivalent of having your own TV show on Rogers Cable is doing a podcast at a library now because, yeah, you could put this –

00:23:28.080 anybody can come here, do exactly what I'm doing, and put it online and potentially become massive, right?

00:23:36.720 Potentially get a million views like I just did.

00:23:40.360 Not to brag, but I think I got to brag a little bit.

00:23:42.960 So I got a million views on my N-word joke video.

00:23:47.740 Can you just give a little bit of a background on that for anyone?

00:23:50.440 The N-word joke.

00:23:51.500 Quick summary.

00:23:52.660 So it is – basically the joke is that I say – so I guess white people still can't say the N-word, right?

00:24:04.500 You know, even though we created it.

00:24:08.080 And then I say it's kind of – it's a little bit of cultural appropriation if you ask me.

00:24:12.980 Okay.

00:24:14.940 Like we created – you're appropriating.

00:24:17.440 Right?

00:24:17.740 That's the joke.

00:24:18.420 It's honestly a stupid joke.

00:24:20.140 It's – I don't even know how fucking creative it is.

00:24:21.920 The first time I posted it, somebody was like, this comedian made that joke, and I looked him up.

00:24:26.800 There was some like random YouTuber from Australia.

00:24:28.800 I was like, no, they didn't.

00:24:30.000 Shut the fuck up.

00:24:31.080 So anyway, the joke is that, but in the viral video, which I can show you, I can just play the audio.

00:24:37.000 So – but yeah, some – a guy – there's a guy in the audience, he interrupts me, and he's like – because I'm like, white people still can't say the N-word, and he interrupts me right away.

00:24:49.540 He's like, no fucking way you can't say the N-word.

00:24:52.820 And then I was like, thanks for making all these white people comfortable with the joke, and then I continue with the joke.

00:24:57.260 So I hear you.

00:25:00.540 Shit.

00:25:00.940 People, we still can't say the N-word, you know, even though we created it.

00:25:13.820 I feel like it's a bit of cultural appropriation.

00:25:19.460 It's just me.

00:25:24.100 I'm glad you're here to make all these white people feel comfortable with that joke.

00:25:27.540 Dude, I'm going to bring this guy to every show.

00:25:32.860 He's going to stand on stage and be on his phone the whole time, and then he's going to look up and go, yo, that was fucking ****.

00:25:40.040 It's the whole joke.

00:25:40.900 White people.

00:25:42.060 So, like, I think him comment – like, saying something helps it go viral because – but also, yeah.

00:25:48.240 So anyway, I had a lot of – I have a lot of, you know, some people being like, yo, you want to get your face – I'll punch you in the face if you say.

00:25:58.120 That's a pussy behavior.

00:25:59.220 And then there's other – I've actually had a lot of people – like, a lot of black people comment to me like, this is funny, and I'm not offended, and this is great.

00:26:10.440 You know what I mean?

00:26:11.200 So I know what you mean.

00:26:13.000 You're probably right about that because it's interference.

00:26:15.240 You can't put the phone too close, right?

00:26:16.920 The interference.

00:26:17.460 It's proximity effect.

00:26:18.740 When you hold the phone close, it creates space in the microphone.

00:26:22.720 Wow.

00:26:22.880 When you hold anything too close to the microphone, it creates unnecessary space.

00:26:26.780 Huh.

00:26:27.220 You can get rid of them with a filter, but it's better off just holding it back so you don't get all the space.

00:26:32.660 Thank you very much.

00:26:33.900 We have one of the best here from Trevis College.

00:26:36.820 Trevis Institute.

00:26:37.340 Institute for the podcast arts, folks, because I need – this is art, and I can't fuck it up.

00:26:46.180 The last podcast, I had to, like, put a filter to get the – there was actual radio signals because I was doing it in my house.

00:26:54.100 Because the radio was coming through, and it was getting into the microphone, and you could hear, like, full-on, like, The Weeknd singing, like, a fucking song from the radio.

00:27:05.320 So I had to figure that out.

00:27:07.740 If you set your gain too high on your microphone, you pick up more of the room.

00:27:12.420 The microphone's already super sensitive, but the higher you set your gain and the more sensitive the mic gets, the more you're going to capture outside noises.

00:27:20.180 For sure.

00:27:20.940 There's a whole art to it, man.

00:27:22.480 It's an art, baby.

00:27:24.420 That's why we out here.

00:27:25.280 We're artists.

00:27:26.140 I have a question for you, actually.

00:27:27.520 Sure.

00:27:28.240 So you were talking about talent, like comedic talent.

00:27:33.400 My question to you is, is a comedian that is inherently witty, like can be on the spot, spontaneously witty, superior to a comedian that has to sit and premeditate their jokes because they can't do it on the spot?

00:27:48.440 Is there a superiority in between them, do you think?

00:27:50.260 Or do you think they're, like, same level they should be, it's the same thing?

00:27:54.380 I think that if you're doing the same jokes for too long, I think that's, like, there's some comics that, like, Louis C.K., like, if the audience says something to him, it'll be like, shut the fuck up.

00:28:11.720 And then he just goes and he's like, no, I'm doing my material.

00:28:14.260 Shut up.

00:28:15.060 Right?

00:28:15.480 And sometimes I do that.

00:28:16.560 Like, if I'm filming a special, certain shows, like, you've seen me do some yuck, yuck shows where I'm constantly talking to the audience.

00:28:23.160 If I'm hosting, usually I'm hosting or, like, I'm doing a five, like, a quick spot.

00:28:28.320 So, like, I don't need, and sometimes I don't want to do material.

00:28:30.300 I'm trying to work on new material.

00:28:31.500 I'm trying to come up with material.

00:28:32.880 Yeah.

00:28:33.440 So, I don't know.

00:28:34.420 I don't think that anybody's, like, I just think what makes you a better comic is that you're not just working on the exact same thing every single time.

00:28:45.760 You're experimenting.

00:28:47.800 You're trying new things.

00:28:50.180 Within that, like, it doesn't mean the material has to be different, but maybe you're doing it a different way.

00:28:55.020 Because you have to learn how it actually should sound.

00:28:57.780 You can't just make up a way that it sounds and then just fucking do that.

00:29:01.440 But that's, that doesn't matter, really.

00:29:06.840 But Nav is here, and he asks, thank you for asking the question.

00:29:11.620 Nav is 6'5".

00:29:14.160 6'3".

00:29:14.760 6'3".

00:29:15.520 Either way, he's taller than me, so I can't be that mean to him.

00:29:19.560 As mean as I, no, he's a nice guy, and he works at Yuck Yucks, and I basically talked to him one night, and he was like,

00:29:30.060 Yo, man, I know how to fucking do audio, and I was like, perfect.

00:29:33.980 Because I don't know shit.

00:29:35.500 I have a fucking Zoom recorder, and that's what we do, baby.

00:29:38.340 That's what we fucking do.

00:29:40.320 But yeah, so Drake, somebody died at a Drake concert of Gunshot Wounds to the Head.

00:29:44.620 And no, that's not true.

00:29:46.620 They fell off a balcony, which is crazy.

00:29:50.620 If that happened in one of my shows, it'd be, I'd be, like, that's how you know you made it.

00:29:56.840 When somebody dies at your concert.

00:29:58.620 Not a lot of people, not a, like, a mass shooting.

00:30:02.320 That's never good.

00:30:03.480 Because that could happen to a really shitty band, like it did in France.

00:30:08.100 At the Bataclan, there's, like, the Eagles of Death Metal.

00:30:11.820 There was, like, a mass shooting.

00:30:14.320 So that has nothing to do with you being famous.

00:30:17.340 But one person dying because there was so much, it was just so crazy.

00:30:23.460 Or even a few people, like, at the Travis Scott concert.

00:30:26.220 I'm sure Travis Scott, he put out a statement like,

00:30:28.100 Yo, man, I'm really sorry about all the people that died, man.

00:30:30.980 It's fucked up.

00:30:32.120 But I think in reality, he probably partied that night.

00:30:35.160 It was, like, yo, people fucking died, man.

00:30:37.680 That was crazy.

00:30:39.100 You think so?

00:30:40.920 Okay, okay.

00:30:41.680 You think he was sad?

00:30:44.220 I'm still new to comedy.

00:30:45.920 But since I work at Yuck Yucks, I get to see comedy pretty often.

00:30:48.660 And I've been watching you perform.

00:30:50.240 And I know comedy is a very intimate setting when you're sitting there.

00:30:52.980 And it's just you in the crowd and there's no music.

00:30:55.460 And you're just talking to them.

00:30:56.560 They heckle you.

00:30:57.140 They bug you, right?

00:30:58.360 Imagine being a Kevin Hart level comedian.

00:31:01.000 And you're in Scotiabank Arena.

00:31:03.160 And for some reason or another, everyone tramples everyone.

00:31:06.040 Would you go party afterwards knowing you're making millions?

00:31:07.920 Or would you be sitting there and being like,

00:31:09.420 Hey, I was fucked up and that just happened?

00:31:11.900 I mean, depends how many people died.

00:31:13.900 Like, if it was, like, less than 10,

00:31:15.580 I'd probably just be like,

00:31:17.140 We're going to a nice restaurant tonight.

00:31:18.780 We're going to have a good time.

00:31:20.120 We're not going to post about it.

00:31:21.420 We're not going to post about it.

00:31:22.760 Everybody's got to sign an NDA.

00:31:24.260 We're not posting tonight about the deaths.

00:31:28.420 And then, you know, we'd make a video first.

00:31:31.000 Maybe, maybe it would be like,

00:31:32.460 Hey, we're not going to drink until we make this really heartfelt video

00:31:35.120 that we're going to release tomorrow.

00:31:36.500 So it seems like we didn't go and get drunk tonight.

00:31:39.080 But we did.

00:31:40.760 And, I mean, no, it's not good.

00:31:44.340 There's probably lawsuits.

00:31:46.300 Of course you're going to drink.

00:31:47.560 Because you're worried now.

00:31:48.700 You're not even sad.

00:31:49.580 You're just like,

00:31:50.080 Fuck, I'm in trouble.

00:31:51.000 I got lawsuits.

00:31:52.400 People are angry.

00:31:54.700 Like the Travis Scott thing.

00:31:56.160 People got sued.

00:31:56.860 I forget what the amount was.

00:31:58.820 I don't know if you...

00:31:59.760 We were so many.

00:32:00.580 Let me...

00:32:00.840 Your food.

00:32:01.700 Phone.

00:32:02.300 Your food.

00:32:05.480 Yeah, I was almost going to do the podcast.

00:32:07.420 Because I can't do it anymore at my father's.

00:32:10.520 It's too...

00:32:11.640 It's not ideal for lots of reasons.

00:32:14.900 So I'm...

00:32:16.260 You know, I called a bunch of places.

00:32:18.380 We looked at a bunch of places.

00:32:20.000 Staples Business Depot has a podcast studio now.

00:32:24.040 Two billion.

00:32:25.440 Two billion he got sued for?

00:32:27.240 Two billion dollars.

00:32:29.660 Travis Scott.

00:32:30.560 Big B.

00:32:31.360 Two billion dollars.

00:32:32.220 What does it say?

00:32:33.500 It says,

00:32:34.980 U.S. rapper Travis Scott were sued for two billion by hundreds of people who say they were injured

00:32:39.920 when a crowd of 50,000 people were incited into a frenzy at the Deadly Astroworld concert earlier this month.

00:32:45.400 Wow.

00:32:46.120 But even when you say Deadly Astroworld concert, it sounds like,

00:32:49.920 Like, yo, were you there?

00:32:51.900 Crazy, right?

00:32:52.500 Like, have you survived?

00:32:53.640 Yeah.

00:32:54.260 Because only, like, how many...

00:32:55.160 But I guess, yeah, hundreds of people were affected.

00:32:57.120 I mean, that's...

00:32:57.820 I mean, that's fucked up.

00:32:59.080 But honestly, why do you...

00:33:00.520 If you go to a concert with 50,000 people, you're kind of asking for something fucked up to happen.

00:33:06.080 I don't even think I want to perform for 50,000 people.

00:33:10.660 You wouldn't want to be...

00:33:11.120 As a comedian?

00:33:12.420 Come on, man.

00:33:12.960 Maybe...

00:33:13.280 Okay, 25,000 would be good enough for me.

00:33:17.640 Why not the 50,000?

00:33:18.420 Because I don't even think, like, the stadiums that comedians perform in hold...

00:33:23.920 Like, I guess the O2...

00:33:25.240 There's certain...

00:33:25.960 But there's stadiums with seats.

00:33:28.440 People are sitting.

00:33:30.100 You know what I mean?

00:33:30.920 They have a fucking cup holder.

00:33:32.660 You know, if it's in a...

00:33:33.820 If it's at the ACC or something like that.

00:33:36.620 The Travis Scott thing is just outdoors, like, in a fucking field.

00:33:41.180 Yeah.

00:33:41.500 You can't even see shit if you're not...

00:33:43.500 So then everybody's trying to get...

00:33:45.000 And then you just die because there's just too many people.

00:33:47.540 I don't like concerts, really.

00:33:48.740 Music.

00:33:49.140 I don't really even...

00:33:50.320 I love music.

00:33:51.660 I love rap.

00:33:52.620 And honestly, I would go to a Travis Scott concert 100%.

00:33:55.120 But I don't like the fear.

00:34:01.520 Like, getting a beer at some music festivals or at some concerts is scary a bit.

00:34:08.940 Because there's just so many fucking people.

00:34:11.520 It's the same thing.

00:34:12.360 Getting trampled.

00:34:13.060 That's a bad way to die.

00:34:14.860 Getting trampled is a really bad way to die.

00:34:17.260 I mean, the only way it would be not that bad is if it's a Travis Scott concert.

00:34:21.600 You're like, oh, I died in a Travis Scott concert.

00:34:24.180 You know what I mean?

00:34:24.880 It's worse to get trampled, like, in the streets of Seoul, Korea.

00:34:28.060 Like, there was a trampling in Seoul, Korea.

00:34:30.300 Yeah.

00:34:31.360 And a lot of soccer...

00:34:34.960 A lot of people have died at soccer games from trampling and shit like that.

00:34:39.420 And also in that, you're Muslim, right?

00:34:46.200 No, no.

00:34:46.580 I'm Sikh.

00:34:47.100 You're Sikh.

00:34:47.680 Perfect.

00:34:48.260 No, I'm not Sikh.

00:34:48.920 You're not Sikh.

00:34:49.560 No.

00:34:49.980 There's a way to say it.

00:34:50.920 Sikh?

00:34:51.400 So we say...

00:34:52.140 So can I just...

00:34:52.980 Yes, please tell me.

00:34:54.000 Okay.

00:34:54.660 Okay.

00:34:55.240 So if you're Punjabi...

00:34:56.920 So we're in Northern India, okay?

00:34:59.140 Pakistan and Punjab were one thing before.

00:35:02.760 Right.

00:35:02.980 We got split in half by the British.

00:35:05.000 That's why we look very alike.

00:35:06.320 I know I look Middle Eastern.

00:35:08.040 No, not really.

00:35:09.040 When I have a beard, I look very Middle Eastern.

00:35:10.300 I just...

00:35:10.880 I assumed you might have been...

00:35:14.300 Only because you said some...

00:35:16.260 Armin and you were talking and I thought you were Pakistani or something.

00:35:19.720 No, I try to educate myself on everything else around me.

00:35:21.960 So you're Sikh from Northern India.

00:35:23.620 We say Sikhi.

00:35:24.840 Sikhi.

00:35:25.500 Yeah.

00:35:25.780 So Sik means student.

00:35:27.160 Sik.

00:35:27.800 Right?

00:35:28.620 And Sikhi, like we say Sikhi.

00:35:30.760 We're Sikhi.

00:35:31.300 We don't say Sikhism.

00:35:32.200 We don't say Sik.

00:35:32.920 We say Sikhi.

00:35:33.980 That's how we refer to ourselves.

00:35:35.560 Just for everybody watching or listening, Nav does not have a turban on, but I wish you

00:35:41.660 did.

00:35:42.240 No, but I got the...

00:35:43.020 You have...

00:35:43.420 What is that?

00:35:44.080 It's called the Kura.

00:35:45.060 Kura?

00:35:45.640 Yeah.

00:35:46.020 What is that?

00:35:46.600 Is that like a...

00:35:47.200 So in Sikhi there...

00:35:48.280 It's a bracelet.

00:35:48.620 Yeah.

00:35:49.200 It's a way of identifying a Sikh.

00:35:51.060 Right?

00:35:51.900 So in our culture, our Sikhs grew, I believe it was.

00:35:55.840 He got martyred.

00:35:57.500 And...

00:35:57.780 But at the time...

00:35:57.920 What does that mean?

00:35:58.540 Trampled?

00:35:59.100 No.

00:35:59.340 When you get martyred is when you're a sacrifice for someone else.

00:36:04.520 Right.

00:36:04.740 So it was Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs, and the Muslims were...

00:36:08.700 They love doing that.

00:36:10.020 Oppressing the Sikhs, oppressing the Hindus in this...

00:36:12.460 Like a 9-11 type thing.

00:36:14.680 That's what you're saying.

00:36:16.120 La la la la la la la la la la la la la.

00:36:18.520 But they were oppressing them, and our Guru got decapitated by one of the Muslims.

00:36:23.280 But all the Sikhs dispersed.

00:36:25.140 So after that, they started having a way of identifying ourselves.

00:36:28.020 So there's five things that we do to identify us, and this is one of the ways...

00:36:31.220 Is one of them like on your penis?

00:36:32.520 Technically?

00:36:35.240 Or some sort of sexual...

00:36:36.620 It's like a cock ring.

00:36:37.540 Is it a cock ring?

00:36:38.300 No, it isn't.

00:36:39.380 You're like, I'm Sikh.

00:36:41.080 Where's your...

00:36:41.640 What's that thing called on your wrist?

00:36:42.980 What's it called?

00:36:43.740 What's it?

00:36:44.220 A kata.

00:36:44.640 A kata.

00:36:45.560 Yeah.

00:36:46.460 Where's your kata?

00:36:47.860 Jesus.

00:36:48.340 You just pull your pants down, just have a cock...

00:36:50.440 A shiny silver cock ring on.

00:36:53.800 I knew you were Sikh.

00:36:56.020 Yeah, I love Sikhs.

00:36:58.420 I make fun of Jagmeet, obviously.

00:36:59.800 Um, and I think, I think it's 50-50.

00:37:03.840 Sikhs, some of the like, find funny.

00:37:06.900 Some, there's, there was one joke that I did that people, there, like I, every time I post

00:37:12.060 it, there's like dudes in India, like being like, no, this is not funny because actually...

00:37:16.800 My dad's like that.

00:37:17.900 Yeah, is he, is he, is he like a, is he a boomer?

00:37:21.080 My dad, my dad's from India.

00:37:23.300 Uh, my family's well off in Punjab, actually.

00:37:25.200 But he's online getting upset.

00:37:27.220 Yeah, he is, yeah, he is.

00:37:28.800 On Facebook, on Facebook, he's vicious.

00:37:30.900 He's vicious.

00:37:31.260 But yeah, so, but because the joke was that, uh, do you think every time Trudeau hangs out

00:37:37.520 with Jagmeet, he's just staring at the turban like, fuck, let me put that shit on.

00:37:41.140 And, uh, right?

00:37:42.200 And then people hear it and they go, this is, it is not shit.

00:37:45.860 You cannot say this shit.

00:37:47.380 Like, and I'm like, my dad's like that, yeah.

00:37:50.040 Right.

00:37:50.440 My dad's like that, yeah.

00:37:50.820 Which is, I get it, but it's like, we don't mean shit.

00:37:54.260 We just mean, call everything shit.

00:37:57.380 I was talking to a Byron.

00:37:57.960 I call my dick shit.

00:37:59.360 Put that shit in your mouth.

00:38:01.120 I feel you.

00:38:01.540 I was talking to Byron Bertram after one of his performances.

00:38:04.460 And, uh, we were talking about how comedy is a good grounds for social commentary.

00:38:09.600 Right?

00:38:10.020 Especially, like, when I watch comedians go up.

00:38:12.160 Yeah, they make some jokes.

00:38:13.520 Yeah, they do stereotype things.

00:38:14.780 But stereotypes are social commentary.

00:38:16.380 And comedy is one of the only places where you can have honest conversations.

00:38:20.560 Thank you, Nev, for that, uh, that insightful comment, which, you're right.

00:38:26.280 This is the only, this is the only, comedy is the only place that I'd want to be doing anything.

00:38:33.420 Or any, it is an industry that is continuing to grow.

00:38:36.740 It is an industry that, uh, is continuing to influence people.

00:38:41.480 It's a very influential industry now.

00:38:44.020 And it's not that I don't want to influence people.

00:38:45.980 I want to influence people to laugh and think about things and not take things, um, so fucking seriously all the time.

00:38:53.420 Now there's, like, a guy, like, pacing around outside of the studio, um, angry.

00:38:58.680 I hope he didn't hear what I said about, um, Trudeau's turban.

00:39:02.280 But, uh, no, he's, I don't know what's going on out there.

00:39:05.800 But, uh, but, yeah, the, um, what the fuck were we talking about right before that?

00:39:12.700 Oh, right before that, we were talking about how comedy is a-

00:39:15.720 No, the Muslims.

00:39:16.600 Oh, no, because I was, I was asking you if you're a Muslim because a lot of, uh, Muslims die getting trampled to death.

00:39:24.440 Where?

00:39:24.820 In, on the, um, like, the pilgrimage to Mecca.

00:39:29.160 Oh, on the pilgrimage to Mecca?

00:39:31.020 Yeah.

00:39:31.820 Really?

00:39:32.340 People are dying?

00:39:33.060 Like, not, I, I think people have actually died in Mecca, too, from being trampled.

00:39:38.180 But on the, look it up.

00:39:39.460 It's, it's the, uh, I'm pretty sure it's, it's, I guess, what is it, in Saudi Arabia, the Mecca?

00:39:45.040 There's, like, some road.

00:39:46.380 Not Saudi Arabia.

00:39:47.160 It's in, it's not in Jordan.

00:39:49.220 It's either, it's in-

00:39:50.160 Look it up.

00:39:50.820 Yeah.

00:39:51.040 You got the phone.

00:39:52.160 My bad.

00:39:52.700 No, I'm sorry.

00:39:53.480 I, I, I'm not actually yelling at you, but I have to yell at you for the viewers.

00:39:57.680 Um, he's in the-

00:39:59.140 I'm going to get, get a shit kicked out of me.

00:40:02.480 Six foot three sick.

00:40:04.100 And, uh, he's like, it's my new producer, everybody.

00:40:07.000 Uh, he just beats the shit out of me.

00:40:08.980 No, how many people died?

00:40:10.520 How many people died?

00:40:11.180 Let me see.

00:40:11.400 Did it say?

00:40:12.160 No.

00:40:13.420 How many people died on the pilgrimage to Mecca?

00:40:15.800 I know that people died.

00:40:17.360 I'm just saying, being trampled sucks, which is why I don't like going anywhere, really,

00:40:21.560 where there's big crowds of people.

00:40:22.960 It's not exciting to me.

00:40:24.020 I don't feel excited being in those places.

00:40:26.080 More than 2,000 individuals.

00:40:27.740 2,000.

00:40:29.080 During the Arnold Hajj.

00:40:30.720 It's called the Hajj, by the way.

00:40:31.820 The Hajj.

00:40:32.460 When you're going on the pilgrimage to Mecca, it's called the Hajj.

00:40:35.040 Thank you.

00:40:35.460 All Muslims one time in their, I'm not Muslim, but all Muslims one time in their life, if

00:40:38.780 you're a Muslim.

00:40:39.420 You're like, I'm not Muslim, but I am kind of, a little bit.

00:40:42.780 But I try to learn about it.

00:40:44.420 Right.

00:40:44.800 All Muslims one time in their life have to do the pilgrimage.

00:40:46.120 I have to do the...

00:40:47.440 Or what happens.

00:40:48.620 It's just a religious thing.

00:40:49.680 It's just because that's where it started.

00:40:51.720 It started in Mecca.

00:40:52.980 Yeah, there's a lot of pilgrimages.

00:40:54.400 I did a pilgrimage to Austin, Texas, which is the pilgrimage of comedians.

00:41:00.200 Every comedian needs to go to Austin, Texas.

00:41:02.380 What's over there?

00:41:03.420 Joe Rogan is there.

00:41:04.800 No, I'm joking.

00:41:05.440 This is, I'm being sarcastic, but this is, it is true that I went there.

00:41:08.760 And that is pretty much a pilgrimage because comedy is a religion.

00:41:12.160 Being a comedian is like being a religious pastor in ways, in the sense that, like if

00:41:19.820 you're good, because you're always, there was actually a better reason than I had in

00:41:24.240 my head.

00:41:24.700 But the security guard walked by the glass window again and stared at me going, no, he

00:41:30.840 didn't do that.

00:41:32.180 No, but it is a religion in the sense that you're a student of it.

00:41:36.080 You're a student.

00:41:36.960 Like I'll never sit here and go, okay, I'm the best comedian in the world and blah, blah,

00:41:40.620 blah, blah.

00:41:41.100 You're damn good.

00:41:41.600 You know, I'm good, but you can always get better because, and the way I got good and

00:41:46.420 the way I'm going to continue to get better is by looking at it like that.

00:41:50.540 I'm a student of this.

00:41:51.920 I'm not, there is no be all, end all.

00:41:54.040 There is no, you know, you need to have goals, but there is no end.

00:41:57.300 There's no end.

00:41:59.400 You got to, just got to be healthy.

00:42:02.500 The new thing with comedy and this type of stuff is you got to be healthy.

00:42:06.140 You got to be mentally healthy.

00:42:07.620 And that's hard.

00:42:09.120 That's the really hard part is not for me.

00:42:11.740 Like I'm fat.

00:42:12.760 I was fatter.

00:42:13.680 I lost 25 pounds.

00:42:15.240 I lost 30 pounds.

00:42:16.180 And then I think I gained five.

00:42:17.420 Now maybe down a couple.

00:42:19.260 You look healthy, brother.

00:42:20.080 You look healthy.

00:42:20.620 I look pretty healthy.

00:42:21.580 You look healthy.

00:42:22.000 But I have a fucking, I still have this fucking disgusting gut.

00:42:25.540 Dad bods are in.

00:42:26.340 Um, which is true, but I'm trying to get rid of it, but I'm not even trying to get rid

00:42:30.800 of it anymore though, as much as I'm enjoying the mental, uh, the way my brain and body feel

00:42:37.060 when I take control, I make sure I go to the gym today and then go to the gym, but I also

00:42:41.120 haven't eaten.

00:42:41.940 So if I don't go to the gym, I just starve myself.

00:42:44.660 Um, but there's certain times, uh, that I will eat poorly and that affects me when I eat

00:42:50.860 poorly.

00:42:51.220 Like I like eating poorly after a good show for some reason.

00:42:55.460 It's just a thing.

00:42:56.620 And I think part of it's like, I grew up, my dad, he was a performer and he, after his

00:43:01.520 shows, they would always go for Chinese or go late night food and go to a bar and order

00:43:06.340 a night burger.

00:43:07.620 And, and there's something about it.

00:43:09.120 You just killed so hard.

00:43:10.260 You're like, fuck it.

00:43:10.820 Let's go eat.

00:43:11.540 It's the same reason you want to drink.

00:43:12.920 You want to fucking smoke weed.

00:43:14.380 You want to smoke.

00:43:14.940 So, you know, there's just, you're on a high after the performance, especially if it goes

00:43:19.220 well, but I can't really eat late anymore because it's making me, that's, that makes

00:43:26.380 me feel like shit because then you wake up, then you're shitting all day.

00:43:29.960 You spend your whole day shitting because you went, you ordered Uber Eats and then, and

00:43:33.920 it's just, it's just a bad vibe.

00:43:35.460 So the, the gym, sauna, uh, the cold plunges, the, the, the spin classes, the sweating,

00:43:44.560 uh, I like, I mean, I, I never was until like four months ago or whenever I started doing

00:43:50.080 it three months, two months ago that because I look, I'm a, I grew up playing hockey.

00:43:56.040 A lot of hockey players, they all do spin.

00:43:58.040 I don't know if they do spin classes with a bunch of gay people like I do, but they do

00:44:01.920 spin.

00:44:02.380 And they have their own instructors that they do spin with after they're done.

00:44:06.320 And I'm pretty sure basketball players too.

00:44:08.140 They do the stationary bike and they have instructors and shit like that.

00:44:12.340 So it's good fucking cardio and it's pretty safe.

00:44:15.300 You can't really get hurt.

00:44:16.380 That's now something I have to worry about.

00:44:18.160 I like playing basketball and shit, but fuck, I've seen comics.

00:44:21.460 I've played basketball with comics.

00:44:23.120 DJ Demers, he's comic, he's, he's been on, uh, Jimmy Fallon and, and I think Kimmel and

00:44:28.160 he's been a lot of touring all of the States.

00:44:30.520 I saw him break his ankle.

00:44:33.160 He couldn't do comedy for like a month.

00:44:34.960 He was just, he literally snapped his ankle in half, just playing basketball, pick up basketball.

00:44:39.000 So certain things like that, like I'll go play shinny, but I'm not going to like, I'll

00:44:43.720 play hockey with no equipment on a fucking ice with no helmet, but I'll go easy.

00:44:48.460 And I'll only do it a couple of times cause I don't, it's too fucked up.

00:44:51.980 So that's why I like spin and you sweat there's, but those types of keeping active and shit

00:44:57.700 like that, it keeps your brain off of other bullshit.

00:45:00.420 You know what I mean?

00:45:00.880 It keeps you kind of like, okay, yeah, I didn't, I wanted to like yesterday, all I wanted to

00:45:05.300 do was go for fucking sushi.

00:45:07.420 I'd already had Thai food that day cause I was working with, uh, another guy who's, uh,

00:45:12.560 on the team Ronan.

00:45:13.700 Um, uh, and he's helping me with some Facebook ads and getting shit out there and, and, and

00:45:18.880 helping me fill seats and coming up with promo ideas and shit like that and teaching me about

00:45:24.800 Facebook.

00:45:25.160 By the way, Jews know a lot about Facebook Jews.

00:45:27.840 It's like, if you ever seen a Jew setting up ads on Facebook, it looks like they're in

00:45:33.840 the dark web of Facebook.

00:45:35.060 Like they, it's, it's amazing what Jews can do on Facebook.

00:45:38.500 Thank you, Mark Zuckerberg for creating the platform.

00:45:40.640 Um, but, um, had Thai food with him for lunch and then I was like, all I want to do is go

00:45:48.140 eat fucking sushi now.

00:45:49.760 And when I go to sushi, I get chicken teriyaki, lunch, either lunch special chicken teriyaki

00:45:55.400 with the veggies, or I do like a bento.

00:45:58.200 And then I upgrade, I upgrade the shitty fucking rolls that they try to do.

00:46:02.820 You know, when they give you those cheap rolls, like it's just a cucumber with a fuck

00:46:05.880 with rice and a fucking thing around it.

00:46:07.600 You're like, that's bullshit.

00:46:08.560 So then I get the upgrade.

00:46:11.160 I do dynamite.

00:46:12.480 Um, fuck.

00:46:13.600 I feel like I was something falling out of my nose right now.

00:46:17.160 Um, I promise it's not what you guys think it is.

00:46:19.940 Anyway.

00:46:20.380 Uh, so yeah, no.

00:46:24.240 Um, but yeah, the, uh, all I wanted to do was eat sushi and I didn't, I went to the gym

00:46:31.100 instead.

00:46:31.640 I forced myself to go to the gym.

00:46:32.900 Um, and then once I was at the gym, I didn't even want to eat anymore.

00:46:35.860 I was like, I don't even want to eat.

00:46:37.160 Why the fuck would I eat?

00:46:38.680 And then I went to the sauna.

00:46:39.980 There's a sauna place called other ship.

00:46:41.640 Shout out other ship in Toronto.

00:46:42.880 It's a dope ass place.

00:46:44.080 They have sauna ice bath and you go like between the two for a, you get 75 minutes.

00:46:48.560 It's like 45 bucks.

00:46:49.880 It's sick.

00:46:50.980 Uh, and you feel great after that.

00:46:52.500 So we did that instead.

00:46:53.340 And then I went home and I was like, oh, then I ate a can of tuna and an avocado.

00:46:56.340 And I was like, that's really all I need.

00:46:58.560 Like I don't like indulging, overindulging with food, just the taste of food.

00:47:03.760 And it's all the sugar, especially chicken teriyaki.

00:47:05.880 It's just sugar, right?

00:47:06.860 It's just fucking so much.

00:47:08.000 It's like eating a fucking chocolate bar amount of sugar in a chicken teriyaki.

00:47:12.560 So really tough to get around those snack habits.

00:47:19.460 Are you a weight lifter?

00:47:21.000 I've been, I've been like, I'll lift weights.

00:47:23.500 I mean, not like crazy.

00:47:24.640 Like I just started actually, uh, 35 something arms.

00:47:27.980 Bro, come, I do gymnastic workouts.

00:47:30.980 I have gymnastic rings.

00:47:32.440 I have gymnastic rings that I exercise on.

00:47:34.640 Work out with me one time.

00:47:35.500 You're going to be like, wow, this is great.

00:47:36.440 Oh, the, where you hang and you fucking do this thing.

00:47:38.480 Yeah, but like, but like, I promise you, it's a lot of fun.

00:47:41.280 One time.

00:47:42.100 I don't know if I'm.

00:47:42.680 You can put it up somewhere.

00:47:43.760 It's a good time.

00:47:44.200 Dude, the people who work there, I hate to keep bringing this up, but it's so funny watching

00:47:48.380 them as I do this podcast because they're just, it looks like they're just constantly

00:47:52.340 searching for, like they're searching it for individuals, I believe that have like stolen

00:47:57.500 shit or you know what I mean?

00:47:59.600 They just keep going in and out of rooms.

00:48:01.160 What did he do in here?

00:48:02.560 What did, who pissed in that room?

00:48:04.100 Who fucking took a shit in the hallway?

00:48:07.200 It's Asian people with masks on.

00:48:09.160 I used to, I used to go to it all.

00:48:10.780 Are you from Toronto?

00:48:12.200 No, I'm from, I'm from Brampton and then I lived there for 16 years and then I moved

00:48:16.840 up by highway 9400 and that's, it's not called Tottenham, but it's like potato festival.

00:48:23.980 They have a potato festival there.

00:48:25.300 This is great.

00:48:26.240 I mean, I think I might even be able to get a government grant that you're here.

00:48:29.020 I mean, this is incredible.

00:48:32.640 But yeah, I lived there for five years and I...

00:48:36.320 But I went to, so I went to high school in downtown Toronto.

00:48:38.700 Okay.

00:48:38.840 My high school was like 90% Chinese and...

00:48:42.460 Yeah, there's a lot of Asians here.

00:48:43.700 I've seen this.

00:48:44.240 Yes.

00:48:44.620 A lot of Asians.

00:48:45.240 But we had this one Chinese girl, she was really crazy and she, so she would do this

00:48:50.920 thing where she would go around the school and she had candy.

00:48:54.000 She would, she would, she would ask people, she was from China, like she was born and raised

00:48:58.420 in China.

00:48:58.740 And she probably came to Canada at 13, 14, maybe 50, maybe even 50.

00:49:04.760 So, but she's walked, she walked, he said, do you want candy?

00:49:07.900 And she heard that.

00:49:09.060 And sometimes we take it, right?

00:49:11.100 Because, but then there was this whole thing where there was, people were finding out that

00:49:16.040 there was somebody taking shits in the girls' washroom of my high school onto the floors.

00:49:24.000 No fucking way.

00:49:24.960 Yes.

00:49:25.400 So there were, and, and smearing it all over the walls and just shit like that.

00:49:30.180 So, and, and, and nobody knew who it was.

00:49:32.520 It was like this big mystery.

00:49:33.660 Who's shitting?

00:49:34.360 And it was like different, they'd like, she'd hit one bathroom, they'd close it off, they'd

00:49:39.220 clean it up.

00:49:40.000 She'd hit a different one, like an hour.

00:49:41.700 Like it was just insane.

00:49:44.020 And so one of my, my buddy, Jake, his girlfriend at the time found out who it was because she walked

00:49:50.580 into the washroom one day and this, this was the Chinese girl who was giving

00:49:54.780 everybody candy standing on top of the stalls, like with her legs on either one, shitting

00:50:00.820 like, like out of something out of the, like the ring, you know, the ring just shitting

00:50:06.460 on top of the stalls, sitting there onto the floors and like a fucking hawk sitting up there

00:50:12.480 with her asshole.

00:50:13.780 Yeah.

00:50:14.140 That's a crazy look.

00:50:16.760 So, uh, that's that.

00:50:18.800 We're, we're doing another pod, uh, for the people listening, uh, Patreon, patreon.com slash

00:50:23.980 Ben Bankis, Armin and I, that's going to be coming out on, uh, I say Friday, but I think

00:50:29.520 it's, I think we're switching that to Saturdays.

00:50:32.320 Saturdays, uh, are the day that the Patreons are going to be coming out Friday.

00:50:37.740 I'm performing, I'm running around.

00:50:39.600 It doesn't make a lot of sense for me.

00:50:41.340 So Saturdays, we record them on Tuesdays.

00:50:44.720 I probably should be able to get them out on Fridays, but Friday or Saturday, Patreon.

00:50:49.220 We already have, there's like 10 hours of, uh, Patreon bonus content, page podcast content

00:50:53.420 that you guys can check out right now.

00:50:56.480 And, um, what else do I got to let you guys know?

00:51:00.820 Yeah, we got the, there's going to be a show coming up in Sudbury in March.

00:51:04.280 There's going to be a show coming up in, um, uh, somewhere else forget London, Ontario.

00:51:12.900 We might be doing a really big show.

00:51:14.920 I don't, I haven't decided yet.

00:51:16.760 They wanted me to do all this shit.

00:51:18.440 They want me to get insurance and shit to rent out a venue.

00:51:21.160 And I don't know if I want to do that experience of, uh, of, are you, are you doing this independently?

00:51:26.800 Your whole, your whole tour?

00:51:28.600 Is it, are you doing it through someone?

00:51:30.220 Are you doing it independently?

00:51:31.260 What's it's, it's a bit of, I mean,

00:51:34.280 Joey Diaz is my, uh, spirit animal.

00:51:39.100 He's my, he's my mentor without him even knowing that he's my mentor.

00:51:43.000 Just by me listening to his podcast, I feel that I am his mentee.

00:51:47.660 And he is right about pretty much everything.

00:51:51.340 And he says that you pick up the phone, you do it on your own.

00:51:54.800 And eventually people will start helping you.

00:51:56.700 So I started organizing it.

00:51:58.660 Yuck Yucks is helping, um, and, uh, a bit and, uh, doing some of it on my own.

00:52:05.340 And I think it's, it's going to blow the following up.

00:52:10.600 And the next time that we do a tour, it's going to be even crazier.

00:52:14.360 And we're hoping that the next tour is in the U S too.

00:52:17.900 So we're working on just head down, spin class, fucking saying the N word online, uh, literally just N word.

00:52:29.480 Not anything more than that.

00:52:31.280 Unless you join Patreon.

00:52:32.580 No, I'm just kidding.

00:52:33.360 Um, and, uh, what's Patreon go get that, go get that Patreon.

00:52:38.320 People don't know what it is.

00:52:39.340 It's a fucking way for me to make money.

00:52:41.400 And it's a platform like YouTube or, well, you know, there's, I can post content on there for you guys that nobody else can see.

00:52:49.440 You pay for it.

00:52:50.340 If you message me on Patreon, if you comment on shit on Patreon, way more likely to talk to you, blah, blah, blah.

00:52:56.700 Um, and we're, you know, I put up other funny videos.

00:52:59.320 Like I, I posted the video of the woman sending me a voice note, complaining about Lula lounge, you know, stuff like that, that I don't post anywhere.

00:53:09.280 But, um, what was the reason that I brought that up?

00:53:11.780 Cause we're talking about something, experience something, something doing it yourself.

00:53:16.220 Um, okay.

00:53:17.460 I was just asking you a question.

00:53:18.420 Yeah.

00:53:18.700 I got more for you then.

00:53:20.460 Um, what's, what's been the, the hardest lesson you've learned on, on, on your road here and not, not some generic lessons.

00:53:29.320 And like, like, Oh, like people aren't going to laugh.

00:53:31.840 He's got to get back up.

00:53:33.020 Cause like, cause like, obviously if you're.

00:53:34.940 What's the, what's, what have I learned on what, on which?

00:53:37.640 On your, on your journey through comedy and through working the circuit and through going up the ranks and finally getting to this point where you're doing your own, own little tour.

00:53:46.220 Uh, what's the hardest lesson you've learned that isn't like, Oh, when my jokes aren't landing, like I gotta try again.

00:53:51.700 Like, cause like everyone, that's a generic fucking answer.

00:53:55.360 I love you, dude.

00:53:56.460 I, I absolutely love you.

00:53:58.140 Um, yeah, no, I think the hardest, the hardest part.

00:54:02.280 Yeah.

00:54:02.460 What's the hard, what's the hardest thing you learned that you're like, this shit.

00:54:05.220 I mean, just honestly how, uh, how fucking the, like I was talking about the dark web of Facebook, the Jewish dark web of Facebook where it's just, there's so much like you get like people don't like the more followers and stuff you get.

00:54:22.600 Like you can't just do it all yourself at a certain point.

00:54:24.980 Right.

00:54:25.220 Like, and you want to advertise things and you can't just rely on only your following at a, you know, if you, cause you want to grow your fault.

00:54:32.140 Like it's complicated.

00:54:33.520 I think the hardest thing that I'm learning is just how complicated it is, but it also invigorates me.

00:54:38.960 It excites me to be learning new things and also meeting people like Ronan who will just be like, look, I'll do it.

00:54:45.980 I know how to do it.

00:54:47.040 I'm a Jew.

00:54:47.880 Hey, and like, and then that's great.

00:54:50.340 And then you'll sit with them.

00:54:51.480 Like I'm going to Ronan's after this and you know, and it's going to help me, uh, do whatever because I don't know shit about putting on, uh, selling shows really.

00:55:03.180 Like I know about making people laugh.

00:55:06.120 I know about content.

00:55:08.060 I know how to make content that's funny, that brings people to my page, but physically getting them, getting the venue, getting the people in the seats, all that stuff was new to me.

00:55:17.300 And it was, uh, it's interesting.

00:55:19.360 Like the first venue I had in Vancouver was, uh, a big theater.

00:55:25.340 Actually, it was like 488 seats.

00:55:27.000 I kind of fucked up cause I was just like, fuck it.

00:55:29.160 I'm booking.

00:55:29.740 This place wants to book me.

00:55:31.220 I'm booking it.

00:55:32.140 It wasn't that expensive to book it.

00:55:34.700 I did the math.

00:55:35.940 I'm like, well, if I sell out, I can make so much money.

00:55:38.500 But then I realized like, oh fuck, I don't know if I can sell 488 seats, which actually now I think I could.

00:55:44.940 But if I hadn't canceled it, I couldn't have, if that makes any sense.

00:55:49.060 Cause like I almost, by canceling it, I created all this buzz about it where people are like, yo, now I really want to go.

00:55:55.000 So, but anyway, it was too big.

00:55:57.220 And the day that the tickets went on sale, which is a great day because usually that's when you sell a lot of tickets.

00:56:03.780 You sell many of them in the first few days.

00:56:08.440 Their website was completely down and they insisted on doing the tickets themselves.

00:56:12.040 So I was pretty pissed off about that and they couldn't even take my payment to rent it.

00:56:15.840 So I was just like, fuck it.

00:56:17.000 I'm going to cancel the show.

00:56:18.160 We'll do it somewhere else.

00:56:19.000 Even if I like make less money, it's just like, it's a bad look to do it somewhere where they're fucking ticketing.

00:56:25.780 So it's all that kind of shit.

00:56:26.800 That's actually the tough part.

00:56:28.380 Like the doing comedy stuff.

00:56:29.880 Like I've already, I've been doing comedy for 12 years now.

00:56:32.520 The standup.

00:56:33.480 I love standup.

00:56:34.260 I'm always working on standup.

00:56:35.380 Always writing.

00:56:36.080 I'm always sitting at home, writing journals, writing jokes, writing jokes on my phone, trying them out on stage, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:56:41.740 Doing videos, posting those videos, got better at editing, you know, edit the podcast, learn how to use a zoom recorder, learn how to use the fucking camera, like buying new equipment.

00:56:52.800 That's the hard part about this is doing and doing it on your own, because nowadays there is no Rogers cable.

00:57:00.060 Like I said, this is the equivalent of doing a Rogers cable show like Tom, Tom Green, by the way, Tom Green.

00:57:06.280 I met him this week.

00:57:07.300 We could talk about that for a minute if you want.

00:57:08.960 You met him.

00:57:09.660 I showed my beats.

00:57:10.680 You showed him your beats.

00:57:12.640 That's great.

00:57:13.340 40 minutes.

00:57:14.160 Well, perfect.

00:57:14.840 He might even do, he said he would do this podcast.

00:57:18.300 He said he would do this podcast.

00:57:20.100 Will he do it?

00:57:20.760 I don't know.

00:57:21.280 He said he would do it in writing on Instagram.

00:57:26.200 So that is me believing that he will do it.

00:57:30.820 But why did I mention Tom Green?

00:57:33.900 Why did you mention Tom Green?

00:57:34.880 Yeah, I don't know.

00:57:35.960 Tom Green?

00:57:36.700 Because I was just talking about something before that.

00:57:39.520 What was I talking about right before that?

00:57:40.900 I don't remember, but if you keep it flowing.

00:57:44.220 Do you grew up with Tom Green?

00:57:45.760 Do I grow up with him?

00:57:46.700 Yeah.

00:57:46.800 How old are you?

00:57:47.140 Like watching him?

00:57:47.980 How old are you?

00:57:49.600 I'm 30.

00:57:50.680 Okay.

00:57:50.960 I'm 22.

00:57:51.480 So there's a disparity between us in terms of culture.

00:57:54.920 Yes.

00:57:55.620 Right?

00:57:56.160 So did you watch Tom Green growing up?

00:57:57.800 Not just for age reasons, but yes.

00:57:59.880 Did you watch Tom Green growing up?

00:58:01.360 Yeah, I did.

00:58:02.280 I mean, I wasn't like a hardcore Tom.

00:58:04.040 I think I was almost like, almost too young, like for his MTV show.

00:58:12.120 Like I think I was more, I watched, I probably watched Freddie Got Fingered was pretty big,

00:58:16.740 but it was almost like the kid's two years older than me.

00:58:19.020 I don't really, like I knew who he was.

00:58:21.160 He was famous.

00:58:21.900 Drew Barrymore and my mom.

00:58:23.160 Everybody talked about him because anytime a Canadian gets famous, you know, and they,

00:58:29.260 you know, go to Hollywood and they, they meet somebody, you know, they meet Drew Barrymore,

00:58:35.420 they, they, or whatever.

00:58:36.600 People are proud of that.

00:58:38.580 People are proud of that.

00:58:39.500 Like if Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber, the reason they're not proud of that is because he never

00:58:43.560 really did that.

00:58:44.460 He did like Tom Green wasn't, I mean, he's definitely getting tons of pussy, but I don't

00:58:50.080 think he's running through pussy the way like Bieber and Drake, like nobody's, we celebrate

00:58:55.180 those guys, but for different reasons.

00:58:56.600 But if Bieber settled down, like in his second, imagine Bieber got married to some equivalently

00:59:03.200 famous person in his third year of being famous.

00:59:06.360 You know what I mean?

00:59:06.880 Like he was pretty newly famous when he got married, I believe.

00:59:10.700 Actually, I don't know if that's true at all, but either way, Tom Green, very cool guy,

00:59:14.820 got to hang out with him this weekend, got to perform with him this weekend, got to bring

00:59:19.740 him on stage actually one night.

00:59:22.200 So, uh, really cool guy, shout out to Tom Green and, um, uh, I forget why we brought

00:59:28.740 him up, but there was a reason, but, uh, cause you would ask some question about what's the

00:59:33.700 hardest part about it, but oh, Tom Green did actually give me some advice and he said, don't

00:59:37.560 go too big, too fast with your venues, which I was at that point, I hadn't canceled my Vancouver

00:59:42.980 venue yet.

00:59:43.540 So I was freaking out a bit.

00:59:44.900 I was like, oh shit, was that too big of a venue?

00:59:47.820 Oh fuck, am I not going to be able to fill it?

00:59:49.860 What's going to happen?

00:59:51.480 So, um, the new venues are going to sell out and it's going to be awesome.

00:59:58.820 And I have the best fans and this is, this is all about the journey, trying to enjoy the

01:00:03.580 journey and the ride.

01:00:04.980 You guys are making it so fun and so exciting, honestly.

01:00:08.780 And, um, yeah, can't wait to see you all in Western Canada.

01:00:13.740 Thank you.

01:00:14.280 Good night.

01:00:14.700 Good night.

Bankas Podcast - January 24, 2023

Trampled at the Library ｜ The Bankas Show - #014

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