Welcome to Florida ｜ The Bankas Show - #053
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In this episode of The Bankruptcy Show, I talk about Old Man Hustle, my new shirt, and some upcoming standup comedy dates. I also talk about my upcoming stand up comedy dates, and how to get tickets to some of my upcoming comedy events.
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what up everybody welcome to the show uh i got my cool shirt on i got old man hustle that's what
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this shirt says uh if you're going to be watching the whole thing i'm wondering what it says it says
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old man hustle it's got a guy one of the guys that built i believe it's the empire state building
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um and uh and brooklyn new york here and i got this shirt thank you to uh two comedy clubs in
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new york city the new york comedy club where i did my headlining set and it was absolutely amazing
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staff was amazing everything was great and uh and then i was cool it was cool that this club uh this
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is well this is the bar that the club's in old man hustles the name of the bar but it's called the
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williamsburg comedy club in brooklyn new york they reached out to me thanks to jj lieberman who was
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opening for me on the road and and um you know probably kind words from some other comics ryan
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long maybe and some that they just reached out and said come to a spot and that was really cool
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and i was running low on on laundry and t-shirts so they gave me this shirt um and before we get into
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the episode i'm gonna read uh out some of my upcoming stand-up comedy dates you guys can go get
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tickets for all these tickets are available at benbankus.com sunday may 19th funny bone comedy club
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syracuse at 6 30 p.m secure syracuse new york monday may 20th helium comedy club 8 p.m philadelphia
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pennsylvania tuesday may 21st helium comedy club 8 p.m buffalo new york thursday may 23rd funny bone
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7 p.m albany new york saturday june 15th i'm gonna be at the sapien center in austin texas at 7 30 p.m
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it's gonna be a special event my new hometown of austin texas wednesday august 7th the lab at zany's
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at 7 30 p.m nashville tennessee thursday august 8th zany's comedy club at 7 30 p.m in rosemont illinois
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friday august 9th new york comedy club stanford at 7 p.m in stanford connecticut sunday august 11th
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the comedy connection 7 30 p.m east providence rhode island that's a really good club you guys
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should come out and check that out thursday august 22nd mike drop mania 8 p.m chandler arizona and i'm
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going to be there in chandler arizona the 22nd of august the 23rd the 24th so go get your tickets by
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the way we haven't added this yet but soon there's going to be another comedy show in new york city at
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the new york comedy club august 16th that link should be up in the next week or so sunday august
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25th the plano house of comedy 7 p.m plano texas that's the suburbs of dallas friday august 30th
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mic drop comedy san diego i'm going to be there august 30th and 31st sunday september 1st irvine improv
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7 p.m irvine california friday september 20th the royal theater in toronto sold out two shows
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we are potentially going to add a third show we are looking at the logistics of that and then of
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course the last show that is on for sale right now is saturday september 1st the bronson center
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theater 9 p.m ottawa ontario go get your tickets folks i love you enjoy the show share the shit out
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of this podcast with everybody you know this needs to be the biggest podcast
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10 000 views a month is what we're aiming for this episode let's get it
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welcome to the bankers show everybody i am currently in the great state of florida uh we're here in tampa
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florida as you can see the decor this is very this is probably this chair is probably from 1970
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but uh it's kind of perfect for a podcast chair if you don't uh mind me saying so and tampa i'm in
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the historic ybor district that's what it's called and they have the the there's chickens everywhere
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that's what the chickens on the street little mini little baby chickens i see are about to get hit by
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cars on the on the fucking main road here it's uh a bit chaotic uh watching people almost hitting
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chickens all the time with their cars but that is what florida is all about just chickens in the street
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people running around like chickens with their heads got cut that got cut off you know the whole
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deal with people from florida florida man you know shoots his mom in the head after didn't do the dishes
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all that kind of stuff so that's what florida is all about and i'm here to celebrate that i'm here
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to glorify that i'm here to embrace that i'm here to learn about the culture and of course this tour has
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been quite uh amazing to be honest with you it has opened my eyes to everything um to who i am to the
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world to uh to america and thank you to my american fans for showing me so much love on this tour and
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this is the first podcast after the tour started so uh to anybody who's like where's the podcast why
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is it's late i've been why is it late i've been on tour a lot of crazy stuff going on and uh big
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things happening so uh we're here now right so first up was boston the boston show was amazing um
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was basically sold out over 230 people i believe uh laugh boston and just a great crowd people who had
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been waiting to see me it seemed like for years so it was super cool to get to hang out with them and
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and you know i mean not really hang out but you know hang out after the show got to meet and greet
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and they just loved it they have a mayor their mayor in boston is also chinese so that kind of helps
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the michelle woo effect i did a lot of michelle woo and that was just boston's such a great city it's a
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beautiful city and my tour was just such a amazing intro to america i would have to say and i'd have
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to say thank you to my agent jj at 33 and west jj uh cassieri who congratulations jj um he just had
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his first child but just amazing to go boston first then from boston go back go over to detroit so see
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like a bustling hot spot city that's that's on the way up boston so much being you know construction
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happening there and shit like that then you go to detroit in a city that crumbled and then went
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bankrupt and then is rebuilding you know the detroit downtown is like that people go oh it's
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it's kind of safe it's kind of safe it's like or it's safe downtown as long as you don't go a mile
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that way or a mile that way but it was just cool to see it's cool to see all the old buildings that
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they really have kept them in pretty good shape the place that i stayed at the hotel i stayed at was
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like an old building that they revamped into this really cool hotel it's called the westin book
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something in downtown detroit and the show was at um house of comedy which is in the brand new area
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it's like an area of detroit where everything's brand new that's where they have the stadium and
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they have the other stadium and the music venues and it's like really brand new there's nobody out
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because it wasn't a weekend but very cool to see that to see the juxtaposition of cities and then go
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from there red bank new jersey which red bank new jersey is like beautiful it's it's golf courses it's
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it's kind of like a is it is it a rich suburb of new york city
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kind of i think because it's about an hour and 20 minutes or something from new york city
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from manhattan and uh 45 minutes or so from the airport newark airport and just beautiful the golf
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courses all the shopping malls i was driving through on the way to the event with my indian uber driver
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who did smell like curry but let's not get into that but really beautiful everybody's italian and
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good looking and confident and it's exactly kind of what you think is gonna fucking be and you know
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i had dinner after the show the venue by the way vogel at count basie amazing people amazing venue
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and they paid for my dinner and it was just like phenomenal dinner right next door at this place i
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forget it was buenos aires or something like that and people next to me just like an italian family like
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a rich american italian family i was just listening to them talk and the one guy was i don't know if he
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was a mobster or he was pretending to be a mobster but he just he was making his kids laugh by talking
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hey i'll get him killed in the morning i'll fucking get him whacked and i was like this is i'm having
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the most authentic new jersey experience i'm i'm at a italian restaurant next to an italian mobster
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family that's talking about whacking people nothing is more authentic than that in new jersey
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and you know the show was great was like 200 people uh you know could have sold a few more tickets
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next time we come back bigger and better as my uh presence becomes more known about in the u.s
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people talk people come to these shows i fucking slaughter and then they go okay i gotta tell my
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friends so pretty fucking amazing um and after that went to portland portland maine kind of a boring
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place kind of cool it's like a mini boston and it's it's kind of like america's version of
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for the canadian fans st john's newfoundland or something except they don't really have
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that accent they kind of have the boston accent a little bit but they don't have the newfoundland
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but yeah they have a bit of that similar maritime architecture but it's america so they don't
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really think about it the way canadians oh you're in the maritimes now they don't really fucking have
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that bullshit it's more like yeah portland maine maine america you ever been there you ever been
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to a walmart like it's kind of more in your face which i like and um from there went to new york city
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man new york fucking city and i got teased because when i came from boston to go to detroit went through
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newark so that was one then came back to portland through newark and then flew um from portland back
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to newark i think it was two or three times that i got to go to the airport and see each time i was on
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the right i was on the the side of the plane that was looking at manhattan except for the last time
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the first two times and i just i was like i can't believe i'm going there i can't believe i'm going
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to go perform there i can't believe i have a sold out show there and that was a really cool moment
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where i realized that i do have a fucking sold out show there i am going to go fucking perform there
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and driving into the city it was like 7 30 in the morning or something when i got in because i took a
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really early flight because it was cheap from portland because i'm an immigrant and i'm trying
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to save money guys now i know how the fucking indians feel not really because i don't smell that
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bad actually i i smell a little bad i do think that living in canada and just eating because anytime you
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eat out that food is made by who's it made by might be made by an indian just saying you have
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burger king mcdonald's every subway any other restaurant any nice restaurant you're going who
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is in the kitchen who do you think's in the kitchen i'm just saying i'm starting to smell like curry
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from all this fucking curry from all the curry touching my food i'm just i'm just saying
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is that racist is that you're allowed to are you allowed to make observations oh that's right
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i'm starting to stink like a fucking indian because i'm canadian it's disgusting no but um
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7 a.m 7 30 a.m coming into new york with no traffic was just beautiful on the mother's day just
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looking at all the buildings and thinking you know because whenever you go somewhere new you
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always look at the buildings and the apartments and the houses and you go what would it be like
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to live there what would it be like to live my whole life in that building what would it be like
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to live a year over there what would it be like to live 50 years you know or you see an old man
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walking down the street in new york city you go this guy's lived here wonder what his apartment's
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like he's lived here for so long um and i stayed in the east village in a in kind of a
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kind of a nothing hotel it's called the ridge is really small you know basically like this much
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room like a half a foot of room or or maybe a foot of room around the bed with a tv and a washroom
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and that's it and it was a good deal again cheap immigrant and walking distance to the comedy club
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it's like a six seven minute walk and you're just immersed the second that's what i love
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about manhattan you just as soon as you walk out the door you're immersed in manhattan you're part of
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it and your energy is part of it that's what's beautiful about life that i think canadians have had
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a lot of that taken away from them a lot of the godliness of of being human you know that
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because i see humanity as kind of god experiencing itself um or the universe experiencing itself
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and when you're in new york you're part of new york you know if you're part if you're doing a show
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in new york you're part of new york you're on the list of events and i went downtown i went to i mean
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midtown and went to the museum of modern art and just took in some art and i was just kind of in
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my feels going through a lot of emotional change a lot of mental change growth
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moving to america touring america for the first time you know the ups and downs of it the ups and
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downs of comedy that i've been experiencing for the past 13 years of doing comedy but the ups and
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downs of okay this show's sold out the next one not so much this sort of you know first tour stuff
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and i was like i need to go see some art and i that was i'll be honest with you guys that so my
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mother is a dementia patient she has dementia it's quite severe and i mean she still remembers me to
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an extent she still can look at me and know who i am and it's it's it's she's i i believe that her
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spirit is like half here her soul is like half here and half with god already and it felt like she gave
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me a mother's day gift the mother's day gift was you're in new york city because my mom loved new
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york loved new york and and and she took me there when i was a little kid a bunch with my dad because
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my dad had some some work dealings he's my dad's a violinist a musician he had a his friend one of his
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best friends at the time lived in manhattan and we stayed with him and we stayed with them for i believe
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it was like christmas and new year's or something like that and just had a really cool experience
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they took me to museum of modern art they took me to a bunch of other museums and i just remember being
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in the cab and be you know my parents looking at me and going this is what new york is you know you
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don't have no seat belt first time and no seat belt as a kid being held by my mom getting thrown around
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my mom you know and and i i remember it it's it's basically my first memory i was like five or four
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or five years old when they took me to new york city it was one of my core memories and the yellow cab
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right and i my grandmother who lived with us in toronto she would let me watch late night tv because
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she didn't give a shit and she didn't know what the fucking difference was if what what the fuck was
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on tv she was just wanted me to watch tv go to bed whatever she wanted to watch tv so we watched
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letterman every night almost every single night from the age of maybe whatever two or three when i i would
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start i i slept in bed with my grandmother that's just how it was right and because my parents you know
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eventually you know i want to sleep with them they go go how about go with grandma okay fine
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you know it was really hard to get me to go into my own bed and like it's like with my current with
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my current daughter yeah um no with my daughter who also wants to sleep with her parents and uh but so
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she would go sleep with the grandparents i would i would sorry i would go sleep with my grandma
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upstairs and and on the old she had an old wooden tv this is like in the night 1995 96 and this tv was
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probably from the 80s or the 70s that she just kept you know bring brought it everywhere from her old
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house you know probably god knows how much money it was to to ship that thing in you know zenith i believe
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it was an old zenith tv and it's a big old wooden box and we'd watch david letterman on it every night
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and when my parents took me to new york city we were walking down the street and i pointed and i said
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that's where they film the david letterman show i pointed at ed sullivan theater as a four or five
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year old and went that's where they film the david letterman show and my parents just looked at me
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like wow this is crazy how is he so fucking smart i mean my my kid's super smart too and says really
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smart things and a lot of kids are smart some kids aren't you know you met you ever meet an indian kid
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i'm just kidding they're super smart everybody oh indians are so smart they do all the yeah okay yeah if
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they're in america but not in india that are sorry for that um how do i drive uber that is where all
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the ubers are um so i pointed at ed sullivan theater and i knew it and so that that was a core memory of
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mine and to perform in new york for a sold-out crowd even though it was a small show it was 155
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people in a packed and tight little room new york comedy club east village that felt like my mom
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gave me that gift that she said you're going to perform in new york city on mother's day and that's
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her pushing and pulling the universe in the ways that she can because we all can we all have so much
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power in this universe and it's not just you know it's social media it's this it's that but
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you know how you know oh go grind you can grind and then you'll make no but it's also just in your head
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the universe is all inside your head close your fucking eyes and think for a minute and you'll
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realize that the whole universe is in there and everything's possible so i think somewhere in my mom's
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mind deep in there she's manipulating and helping and pushing and teaching and teaching me and
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i'm thankful i'm thankful so i got to do that and i went to the museum of modern art also something
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my mother would have loved to do and um sat on the at the top floor of the museum of modern art
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in midtown manhattan and and had a had a cough coffee had a coffee in a in a salad and i sat there
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and i dreamed and i thought and i thought i can do this i can make it i can be who i need to be
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and you know i thought about all the other podcasts i do uh the last couple weeks where i'm ranting and
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raving about palestinians and jews and you know being in manhattan by the way you very little
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manhattan very little palestinian pro-palestine i saw more fuck hamas flags than i saw palestinian
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flags so this this pro-palestine push is almost bigger in canada than pretty much anywhere in the
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united states especially toronto toronto is like a mini fucking gaza i swear to god it is just like
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everybody is just fucking nuts over this shit and how could you know people in my comments saying
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just vile shit and they're fans of mine you know for the wrong reasons let's be honest there i have
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fans that are racist beyond fucking belief that i don't associate or feel that i you know because i i
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do jokes that some people find it fucking hilarious even if they're asian i i have tons of asian fans i
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tons of black fans i have tons of every race of fan can laugh at my comedy but some of my fans
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are like extreme races and those people are like you know they're like oh israel shouldn't exist
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blah blah blah look guys the jews have one country okay and if you want to say oh america funds it blah
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blah blah well because nobody else will because nobody else will everybody else just wants it to
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would be totally cool if it got invaded tomorrow by every arab country and they would do nothing
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all the european countries pretty much would do nothing the middle eastern countries would do
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nothing the asian countries would do nothing they'd let them get invaded they wouldn't give them any
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money they wouldn't do shit so america is the only place that supports israel as a state and that pisses a
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lot of people off and you and the more pissed off people get the more you understand why they fucking have
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the goddamn country but but sitting on that patio and thinking about it and thinking about
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my direction of the direction that i want my podcast to go in the direction i want my comedy
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career to go in these are important things and i'm an artist at the end of the day you know people don't
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think about that because that's just the way it is now everybody's on social media everybody you know
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fucking accountants and lawyers and real estate agents are making fucking reels and trying to be funny
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so who the fuck do you think you are you think you're a fucking artist no you're just part of
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the there's another cog in the in the content mill you're just another piece of the bigger system but
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no i'm an artist man and and i and i put a lot of thought into a lot of things and you know i i look
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i do an asian accent and it goes it gets a lot more views and if i just fucking if it's just me talking
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like this something not all the time but the most views i have are from me talking um and then maybe
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second or third most would be chinese accent but my point is simple that social media is hard
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social media is a lot harder than doing stand-up comedy there are a ton of really funny stand-up
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comedians out there that have no following on social media there's funny stand-up comedians
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that i talk to and they go oh yeah oh social media can't be bothered too complicated don't know how to
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do it not good at it don't like it then you're never gonna make it in fucking comedy because this
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whole job is social media sorry but that's what it is right now and social media is an ever-changing
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thing where stand-up comedy almost remains the same you know if rodney dangerfield took the stage
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today fucking kill just like he did then um or or richard pryor or or george carlin the concept of
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going on a stage and making a audience laugh live is something that has been going on for centuries
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for since greek times they used to have a guy that would go up there it wasn't stand-up comedy per se
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but you know greek and roman times they'd have a guy go on the stage and do a little hey whoa whoa
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but social media is changing all the time because they change the rules of the game they change the
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parameters of the game you can't really change the parameters of a live performance because
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it is just the universe and a microphone and noise and yeah now more people get offended they'll say or
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but but still the majority like it the majority like it but social media now there's all these different
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things going on they're trying to make it so you have to pay to be on social media which i'm looking
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at potentially could be up to a hundred dollars us a month on instagram that i have to pay which i get
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because there's hundreds of thousands of people watching my stuff but then they start prioritizing
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the people who pay more than and and there's all this bullshit and i hate it but i do it because i have
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a dream and that dream is to be the biggest the best stand-up comedian in the world the best comedian
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in the world not just stand-up i want to make sketches i want to do all this stuff and i don't
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give a shit if this podcast is boring to you you don't want to listen you're not a real fan you don't
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give a shit you want me to rant and rave about something you want me to go nuts you want me to lose
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my fucking mind then just wait until this advertisement and i'll do that this episode of
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colonialism this is the big thing now that that all these people are like colonialism all these
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people oh colonialism is awful like we need to get rid of colonialism and israel is a colonialist
00:28:21.880
country and it's like so wait what country do you live in oh well i live in the united states so isn't
00:28:27.140
that a colonialist country yes and i don't believe that this place should exist either so have you made
00:28:33.240
plans on potentially moving to a country that you think would be more appropriate for you that you'd
00:28:38.920
feel more comfortable in well no because i i personally want to help destroy this country like
00:28:45.780
what the fuck kind of logic is that if you don't like the place you live fucking leave okay in nazi
00:28:53.480
germany they didn't have that fucking option okay they some people are like hey i don't know if i like
00:28:57.860
this they're like if we are going to put you in the camp we're going to kiss cuts your fucking we're
00:29:02.000
going to but here it's a it's a it's it's an open and free country if you don't like it you can
00:29:06.960
fucking move go live in argentina oh that's colonialist oh oh shit every south american country
00:29:12.840
also colonialist oh no uh let's think hmm china there's a country there's a country they've been
00:29:20.860
around for what it's five thousand years and it's it's say you know go to china you'll love it
00:29:28.700
they got uh facial recognition software everywhere track your every movement make sure you don't say
00:29:33.720
anything negative online and if you do they take away points from your social credit score and if
00:29:38.360
your social credit score gets too low then you aren't allowed to go to the store anymore you can't
00:29:42.080
get on the train or a plane but at least it's not colonialist right move there what about russia
00:29:49.900
what about russia they i mean if you post a ukrainian flag or any support for ukraine at all
00:29:55.780
you'll go to jail for the rest of your life but go they're not colonialist it's not it's they're
00:30:01.860
russian why don't you go there why don't you go to fucking where else india there's a country
00:30:07.880
used to be a colony then the colony the colonizers said fuck this we're out of here you guys are on
00:30:14.400
your own now what now it's a fucking shithole and all of those people want to move to the places
00:30:19.460
that are colonies so if you're against colonialism straight up you're a fucking idiot because you
00:30:28.460
don't understand how international politics works or international uh anything you don't understand
00:30:36.440
how geography in some ways works you don't understand the history of who went where and which
00:30:43.840
explorers came and found on all those explorers the christopher columbus was an evil man you don't
00:30:50.940
fucking know shit yeah he was evil everybody was evil anybody who would survived for longer than 30
00:30:57.800
years was probably evil because of the shit they had to do to survive back then which is a little bit
00:31:04.200
more than you fucking these loser kids who go to oh i went duke university but i'm pro palisine your
00:31:12.080
fucking tuition is a hundred thousand dollars a year you fucking idiot you walked out of a
00:31:18.280
commencement speech that they hired jerry seinfeld for probably half a million dollars to do the
00:31:25.560
commencement speech and you walk out with a palestine flag and that is somehow what what is that
00:31:31.780
contributing to it's contributing to people hating you it's contributing to people looking at you and the
00:31:38.100
palestine flag and associating that with being annoying okay and jerry seinfeld is one of the
00:31:45.260
best comedians if not the top best comedian of all time and probably the highest paid the most successful
00:31:54.800
in american history and you don't want to listen to what he has to say but you'll go all those fucking
00:32:01.620
idiots with those flags of course they'll listen to some nobody uneducated idiot on twitter or online
00:32:10.880
that is has the opinion that they like and they'll listen to that and actually you don't know what
00:32:16.580
apartheid is bitch apartheid is not when you give somebody else their own fucking area okay and i know
00:32:24.920
there's people will argue with that with me but come on the podcast and argue with me i don't give a shit
00:32:29.020
maybe i'm wrong but look west bank may be a little more apartheid than gaza let i i could agree with
00:32:36.080
that but what is the what israel wants to exist the palestinians don't want it to exist what are
00:32:45.240
they how do they come to how do you come to terms with that how do you come to terms with the people
00:32:49.380
that don't want you to exist period they want you to die they don't care how beautiful you are how
00:32:54.920
beautiful your children are they want them to die like you kill them you kill those people
00:33:05.280
yeah i just think the people who are against colonialism they don't understand what they're
00:33:13.280
talking about they're just very stupid and you know if there was no colonialism there'd be no global
00:33:19.060
trade there'd be no globalism right there'd be no ingenious uh you know the ingenuity that comes
00:33:29.600
with colonialism with expansionism this this idea they have this small-minded idea that they think
00:33:37.500
that all people should just wherever you're born stay there just stay just say all right you're born
00:33:42.300
in africa in a little shitty little village i'll fucking stay there you know when don't colonize
00:33:47.300
something don't go to the coast and colonize like to them anything where you don't just stay in your
00:33:52.480
little house in your little basement is a fucking colonization no it's not okay and colonization
00:33:59.320
i'm sick of people shitting on colonization i like colonization i think colonization is good
00:34:05.660
for humanity it is the way we spread ideas throughout the world and you yeah oh it's brutal oh they killed a
00:34:13.120
lot of people yeah that's what the fuck happened that's what happened that is the history so how do
00:34:20.080
we change that oh we have to tear down all the statues and we have to disregard all the history and we
00:34:24.300
have to change the books that's what the pro-palestine people want they want a dystopian
00:34:28.680
shitty world run by them under sharia law where everybody has to be punished for what white people
00:34:35.540
killed it fuck that seriously fuck you if you think that fuck you and fuck all these pro anti they're
00:34:44.240
like anti israel but they're also anti woke and it's like you can't really be both of those things
00:34:50.960
like i hate to tell you that but if you're saying israel shouldn't exist you are now part of the green
00:34:56.200
hair blue hair retards and there's no bringing you back i'm sorry but you know oh oh you're a boot
00:35:04.560
liquor ben's a boot liquor i've read that on some comment and then i checked the guy's profile and
00:35:09.320
it's like dude i don't give a fuck you're fucking you got a link to the koran and your fucking
00:35:17.780
instagram bio you think i give a fuck what you think about my comedy or what i'm doing no and i
00:35:24.100
said it before and i'll say it again jews buy tickets to my shows okay i don't see a lot of these
00:35:29.000
muslim oh what about your muslim fans what about them are you buying a ticket or are you just sitting
00:35:33.500
at home watching and and going through fucking israeli soldier death videos and go oh i like
00:35:39.320
that one i like that one you're a fucking animal fuck you seriously if you don't fucking understand
00:35:45.920
why colonialism is important to the growth of humanity and to the expansion of the human mind
00:35:52.100
you're an idiot you're an idiot just remember that thank you for listening to this episode of the
00:35:59.320
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00:36:16.960
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00:36:24.740
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go check that out i know i was talking i know i was talking about new york before but i want to talk
00:36:40.760
about it again for a second here that the coolest part again about the new york city show was my first
00:36:48.200
it was my first time in new york city and i'm doing a sold out show for 155 people at a comedy club that
00:36:57.380
like there are comedy comedians from canada right now who just picked up and left and moved to the
00:37:05.500
u.s they got a u.s they got a visa like mine but theirs is totally just bullshit it's all just lies and
00:37:11.720
you know just bold just fluff to make it look good oh yeah well they oh i got nominated for a juno
00:37:17.360
or oh i did just for laughs winnipeg is that not again yeah okay cool that's those are the things but
00:37:23.780
they have no following they don't sell any tickets nobody knows who they are and they don't know how
00:37:28.360
to do social media they don't have a podcast they're just nothing and just nobody's and these
00:37:34.080
people are like moved to new york are paying three to thousand dollars a month or whatever to live
00:37:40.600
and u.s and they can't even get spots at the club that i just headlined so to me that was another good
00:37:50.380
fuck you to a lot of the hater comedians because some of them have now now live in in america and in
00:37:57.200
new york like there was a muslim girl that forever ago i think she might have moved back to canada
00:38:02.340
her name was hoodoo hersey okay i'm not even fucking making this up hoodoo hersey and she was
00:38:09.300
a hijab and somalian and pirate and blah blah blah and so she um yar and so she was always woke and
00:38:20.200
hated me because i was jewish and this is way before i mean not before palestine thing because
00:38:24.980
it's been happening obviously for a while but hated me because i was jewish hated me because i at the time
00:38:30.500
i was doing commercial real estate so i made my own money i didn't really need comedy money but i
00:38:34.880
would do all the same shows that that they would do um and people liked me and they didn't like that
00:38:41.320
and there was another one noor hadidi but she now i think she stayed in canada permanently got a job
00:38:47.640
for cbc writing pro palestine jokes or whatever the fuck for for this hour's 22 minutes but a hoodoo
00:38:54.420
and she hoodoo got her visa wow after 9-11 what a you know i i remember her saying something like
00:39:02.160
that being like it's crazy right the fact that i have this job it's like maybe america's more
00:39:06.540
accepting than you fucking think like first of all second of all um i don't think she's done anything
00:39:14.180
to be honest but she did do you know she was on the in canada oh she's on just for laughs she's
00:39:20.480
everywhere and then they go to new york and then nobody cares and then they can't sell any tickets
00:39:24.660
and then they can't get any fame and nobody wants to see and then there's a couple guys i don't even
00:39:29.620
want to say their names i said hoodoos because i don't give a shit but uh hoodoo
00:39:34.300
jesus fucking christ um and so i a couple guys that you know just never one guy that worked for me
00:39:45.760
actually when i used to do uh selling alcohol during the pandemic and and but was never a big
00:39:53.240
like we still got in like tiffs like you ever have kind of like pseudo acquaintance-y friends that
00:39:59.660
you kind of still tiff with that you don't really get along and they're gonna have backhanded
00:40:05.220
compliment comments and backhanded compliments and and yeah i was just he's just one of those guys
00:40:14.060
you know he would always be like oh oh yeah you kind of figured out how to oh yeah you're going
00:40:17.900
real dark with the comp like it's just all these backhanded and anyway so no following he's there
00:40:24.940
another guy same thing he used to say he used to call some of my stuff that i would post on social
00:40:31.620
media distasteful oh it's tasteless he said that about my wuhan wuhan video oh it's tasteless
00:40:37.540
and okay and then i got sick one of the first videos that i had get a ton of views on youtube 60 000
00:40:44.100
views and he's there now you know and living in a shed and trying to get spots and stuff but
00:40:52.560
my point is that i believed in myself that's the difference and i didn't fucking i didn't backhanded
00:40:59.000
compliment anybody i never fucking backhanded compliment anybody any comedian ever unless they
00:41:06.860
were an asshole to me and then i wasn't a backhanded compliment it was just it would just be straight
00:41:11.400
up honesty i i don't fucking or or i just compliment them because even if i hate somebody i don't oh
00:41:17.180
you're good said i don't give a shit good said about that one part no i don't do that i don't do that
00:41:22.440
okay and um never i was always nice to these guys both those guys and even hoodoo by the way um
00:41:31.000
and like in terms of so here i'll give you an example during the pandemic when all comedy was
00:41:37.560
shut down in toronto and in new york and all over the world i was the only guy in toronto who started
00:41:44.440
doing park shows and then that actually that idea spread to other places and started it i don't i take
00:41:50.840
credit for it no big deal somebody else can take credit in their city i don't give a shit but i did it
00:41:55.420
first i did it june 5th or 4th 2020 um so like four months or three months after the the lockdown
00:42:03.160
started which was mid february or mid-march i believe and i was doing those shows in the park and i would
00:42:14.120
ask everyone i didn't give a shit about politics at that point i mean because i didn't have to because
00:42:22.220
i didn't have people hating on me so much but i brought everybody together the first comedy show
00:42:28.960
that i did in a park during the pandemic i brought the entire toronto comedy scene there the entire
00:42:36.460
toronto comedy scene from everybody there was a comic who did christian comedy there was uh you know
00:42:43.000
woke comics there was edgy comics there was like the too far edgy comics who were just like you would
00:42:50.440
just say the end words of those but they didn't all do the show but they were all there they all
00:42:55.240
came to see it they all came to support it and and there were comics like little nerdy comics
00:43:00.580
loser-y comics like this one comic from toronto ryan dylan um you know who came up to me after the
00:43:08.300
first show or the second park show was like i'd love to be a part of this so badly i'd love to
00:43:13.580
do anything to be part of your show and then a couple weeks later because i would make jokes
00:43:20.060
about the lockdown and i would make jokes about the government and i would make jokes about uh
00:43:24.600
teresa tam the at the time the canadian chinese dr fauci and wear a mask put your mask on
00:43:31.720
all that shit and these so all of a sudden the woke comics turned and they became oh you can't do
00:43:40.300
bankus's show oh yeah anybody one guy even posted i'm making a list of all the comedians who did ben
00:43:46.360
bankus's show in the park and i'm going to make sure that none of those comedians are able to do
00:43:50.740
comedy bar or this show or that show after the pandemic like this is seriously serious that this
00:43:57.660
happened and um and i never gave a shit i never i always i would still ask and then i would go how
00:44:06.060
come you can't do my show anymore and they just ghost me and you know shit like that and one girl
00:44:12.160
jennifer sung okay here i'll talk some shit jennifer sung h-s-u-i-n-g i believe or schwang
00:44:22.640
schwang okay so there's a woman named jennifer swang she is a now she is an like an anchor on cp24
00:44:33.060
in toronto but she used to be a stand-up comedian or a wannabe open miker i mean she was a stay-at-home
00:44:39.480
mom that was bored that had no job and her husband was super rich and she has like three kids but she
00:44:44.620
didn't love her husband or her kids and so she was a stand-up comic and i mean she was a whore she
00:44:50.460
literally uh she had sex with multiple comics like i don't want to say their names one of them was uh
00:44:56.800
i don't want to say his name but i'll probably get maybe i'll get sued for this that'd be fun
00:45:00.720
she had sex with multiple open mic comedians that were about 10 years younger or more than her
00:45:08.240
and but everybody was like she's cool whatever and so i put her on one of my shows in the park
00:45:14.960
she did that and then she got ridiculed by the woke people who said oh you're part of that you're
00:45:22.160
supporting racism you're supporting all this shit so then she fucking didn't want to do anymore and
00:45:27.420
then she started her own outdoor show in her backyard but because of her husband or because
00:45:33.080
of her little connections or whoever's dick she was sucking at the time she was able to
00:45:38.900
um get it on cbc and get it on ctv and get all these ads on the radio and she's selling out and
00:45:46.760
making money i wasn't even making money i was doing by donation and i was paying all the comedians and i
00:45:51.040
was after that paying all the comedians on the show which i put like 10 or something each week
00:45:55.660
i hosted it and then i put the rest of the money went to the rental of the equipment
00:46:01.220
to do the show which was a spotlight and two amps and and uh all this and mics and stuff
00:46:07.360
and and uh and a generator to keep it all going in the middle of the park
00:46:13.420
and um yeah so she went and started her own fucking show and stole the basically the idea
00:46:21.200
and um all this kind of stuff so he so and then somehow she got a job working at cp24 and then
00:46:29.040
she quit comedy and cut all ties and what and you know i'm gonna pretend and everybody was afraid to
00:46:33.840
say anything like you know that's kind of like the diddy situation or some drake or any of these
00:46:37.840
situations where no louis ck whatever people don't want to talk about but yeah she was fucking cheating
00:46:43.940
on her husband with young male comedians and i think her husband even found out but he was like
00:46:51.180
such a cuck and like he probably maybe he was cheating too so he didn't give a shit or something
00:46:55.160
but anyway she's just a complete loser and then she then she went on cp24 and became part of the
00:47:00.620
propaganda machine and actually would actively promote vaccination covid all all that stuff all the
00:47:10.440
stuff that was questionable and that now people are coming out and going maybe that was actually
00:47:14.780
not that kind of an idea all that stuff she was behind okay and so that girl where is she now she's
00:47:24.200
on cp24 for the rest of her life or until she gets too old i mean she's asian so they'll probably keep
00:47:28.580
her till she's in her 50s um but that that's kind of a fun little story but but anyway so the reason i
00:47:35.640
told that story is because there's a lot of those comics that were against me and trying to make lists
00:47:42.040
and trying to do shit so it was a big fucking win for me to be like i'm headlining new york city and i
00:47:48.280
sold out and fuck you people including the ones that moved to new york that were against me during
00:47:53.740
the pandemic or or secretly against me during the pandemic but in my face they were oh yeah we love
00:47:59.820
the show and then oh yeah fuck man he thinks he's all that because he's running a show in a park
00:48:03.860
not to mention there's another guy that i kind of refriended not really but you know a little bit
00:48:10.620
who um stole the idea for the park show the the year after i did it in 2021 i guess he did it and then
00:48:17.220
he wouldn't book me on the show he did it in a different park he helped me the entire year uh that i
00:48:23.660
did the park show and then when it got shut down finally by cops and and and they were fines and then
00:48:31.780
i moved it to an indoor facility once we could actually illegally do comedy inside i don't know
00:48:36.920
if anybody fucking remembers that shit and then i started selling tickets and that's really how my
00:48:41.860
following grew but this guy helped me and then the next year did his own park show and never invited
00:48:47.520
me never asked me to do it ever not once and he probably did it for like 10 weeks or something
00:48:54.720
and then one day i fucking get a call from him and i go oh hey what's going on i guess uh today the day
00:49:01.260
you're gonna ask me to do your show and he goes well not really actually i need your lawyer to help
00:49:06.780
with the fines for the park show so he didn't even want and i go so why can't i do the show though like
00:49:12.880
i'm serious like why are you not putting me on the show you helped me all year with the other show
00:49:17.580
and now you do the same thing and you don't want to put me on oh well would make some of the other
00:49:22.440
comedians feel uncomfortable because they're woke and blah blah blah and he was like it's gonna if
00:49:28.580
i put you on my show it's gonna hurt my chances of getting cbc it's like bro you were never gonna
00:49:33.740
get fucking cbc to begin with it maybe he was because he's not that funny and that's kind of
00:49:38.700
one of the precursors for cbc but you know and he's he's another guy it's just opportunist friends
00:49:45.040
who are like oh when the opportunity so then i and you know what i was nice enough to go here's the
00:49:49.420
lawyer you can use this lawyer to get you out of the tickets and um and then you know year later
00:49:55.600
oh i'm sorry oh you're really blowing up now oh and i even let him open for me once and and and i just
00:50:03.640
regretted it because he just kind of tried to do like he tried to talk more about politics now and
00:50:10.140
be like more like on the right side like you know fuck that shit man fake phony bullshit and i put up with
00:50:17.940
a lot of it so that's why i'm so fucking hearted to all this other bullshit that you know with the
00:50:25.680
palestinian nuni and platoon and a little bit fuck off seriously fuck off and oh well jews have really
00:50:33.280
entrenched themselves in society yeah that's what they say every time they want to do a spanish
00:50:37.780
inquisition you fucking cocksucker it's called we're smart and we fucking came up with things and we
00:50:43.440
became people and we became successful and then everybody else gets mad because all you guys did
00:50:48.620
was sit on your fucking asses and be peasants just like in the spanish inquisition time bunch of
00:50:54.140
peasants and reading the bible and hey you know fuck off this episode is brought to you by patreon.com
00:51:01.720
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00:51:07.680
merch go to ben bankus.com and click the merch button now i gotta talk about new york city again
00:51:13.740
because i mean it's it's all i've been thinking about and i'll be honest with you so when i i told
00:51:18.920
you that i flew out of newark and then into newark and then out and and seeing new york city from the
00:51:25.600
sky and and it just started playing over and over in my head i've never really had this happen where
00:51:31.640
like i just kept seeing the images of new york city in my head and i'd go to sleep and i'd start
00:51:36.000
dreaming about it and i'd start thinking about it and i and and it's just this amazing place that i
00:51:42.520
want to live in and looking down one street of manhattan and just seeing buildings forever
00:51:46.780
which seems like to the edge of the world is an amazing fucking feeling but there is this thing
00:51:56.900
where people you talk about manhattan or new york in general and they go oh it's really expensive though
00:52:02.100
really expensive oh it's so expensive people say this about austin texas too oh it's so expensive
00:52:09.300
same thing with toronto so expensive yeah that's to keep poor people out that's how you keep a place
00:52:17.380
nice by the way is it is expensive everybody just thinks that like all these poor people and losers and
00:52:25.100
i can't live there yeah that's the point we don't want you here we don't want you here
00:52:31.080
move to the middle of nowhere where it's cheap and you can have a big property and i can have all my
00:52:38.340
dogs and i got seven dogs and whole place smells like shit and guess what it's only two grand a month
00:52:46.440
well yeah because you're a fucking loser and you even if you had enough money to afford to live in
00:52:51.860
manhattan or to live in a big city or toronto or austin or vancouver or fucking la you wouldn't do it
00:52:59.360
because you're a loser okay and you might even do it for a little bit and i couldn't do it i just
00:53:05.780
couldn't do it no you couldn't get successful that's what you couldn't do just some honesty for you
00:53:12.320
because i'm really sick of all these fucking people why is it so expensive it's to keep you out
00:53:18.620
period get out please we don't want you here well it's not very friendly to immigrants if you can't
00:53:28.400
have an apartment for a thousand that's the point live in new jersey and fucking drive an uber then
00:53:36.840
i mean but seriously what if what if people expect everything has to be cheap everything has to be
00:53:44.980
affordable now i get when it's too much when it's you know in toronto where it's like seven
00:53:49.020
hundred thousand dollars minimum for like a one bedroom and it's a shithole i get that that's
00:53:55.440
fucking retarded but at the same time have you tried making more money have you tried making more
00:54:02.900
money because i don't fucking i don't do this whole oh save i need to save money and a lot of people are
00:54:08.160
tate talks about this a lot of fucking influencers and shit talk but the whole saving money and saving up
00:54:14.160
what are you saving up for oh just for an emergency i mean just give me a fucking break seriously if
00:54:20.260
you get in a fucking emergency just die don't save money for that shit go live your goddamn life be
00:54:26.940
somebody in this universe contribute something like the palestinian annoying people you're not
00:54:32.540
contributing you're not saving the genocide the genocide the genocide wait a couple years when all
00:54:38.320
these palestinians start getting they're gonna move to this country and that country and then
00:54:42.740
terrorist attacks are gonna happen and all this shit's gonna happen and these people these
00:54:46.980
university students are gonna be happy they'd be happy if a guy ran into the subway system with a
00:54:52.680
machine gun and and blew everybody's head off and then they go yay this is where anti-colonialists and
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then they get their head about blown off but in some ways they're happy but that's what they want
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it's better for the environment to be dead it's better for this it's better for that i have a really
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good joke about this in my act by the way about liberals and and palestine that you guys are gonna
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love and will probably go viral whenever i do post it but seriously enough before we get out of here
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i just want to say thank you to everybody and obviously you know one of the other things that
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really pisses me off is just now there's this whole thing where people think that if you just say
00:55:30.460
something on social media it becomes fact forever like i post shit and then people are arguing on my
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shit and it's like good that's good for the algorithm argue away you fucking you know peasants
00:55:43.880
say things on social media as if they are 100 true and you can't prove it you know like like i saw the
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other day somebody commented or tweeted or something everyone's on their side now like on palestine's
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oh yeah everyone everyone except who except pretty much anyone i know because the majority of americans
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aren't on team palestine majority of americans are like palestine that's a bunch of terrorists what
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the hell no they don't believe jesus christ you know and and these palestinian maniac people think
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that they're gonna just convince everybody that like i'm right you're wrong it is a genocide it is
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this it is bad colonialism's bad let's all give our houses back let's all give our houses back to the
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indigenous native americans and then we'll all just you know just let's just evaporate into the air
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and what are you talking about your people are out of your minds you don't understand how the world
00:56:42.340
works i already said this earlier in the podcast but just anybody who this shit who listens to my
00:56:47.220
podcast and this stuff that's happening frustrates them to watch just know that these people are
00:56:54.440
fucking idiots and they're out of their minds and don't give them the time of day don't waste your
00:56:58.860
energy arguing with them there's no changing their minds they're gone they're goners they're
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fucking maniacs fuck them okay fuck them all to hell concentrate on yourselves love yourselves
00:57:12.380
i love you guys thank you so much for supporting this show while i'm on the road it's hard to fucking
00:57:19.040
find a place to do it with the proper decent enough lighting decent enough then i got my other video
00:57:24.580
guys sending me a message oh it'd be i can give you some tips and tricks if you think yeah for
00:57:29.000
another fifteen hundred dollars i'll just film it um everybody wants a piece that's another time
00:57:36.240
everyone's a piece of me a piece of money oh you're making money i want some of your money i want
00:57:41.620
nobody wants to make their own money nobody wants to go out and make something for themselves
00:57:44.820
everybody wants to look for somebody who's already making money and fucking
00:57:47.340
it's ridiculous and some people are good at that management all that stuff but uh
00:57:56.580
these the little this is i'll make it how many videos a day every creator gets all these videos
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from indians mostly indians every day please i want to i'm an editor from mumbai do you want me to
00:58:09.440
edit your no you think i'm gonna fucking trust you in fucking mumbai sending my fucking footage or
00:58:16.620
some shit like what the fuck are you talking about you're gonna edit it real good jesus christ
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anyway florida's great people look happy chickens on the street not too many getting run over
00:58:31.860
people walking their dogs that's a big thing for me like if i don't see somebody walking their dog
00:58:37.000
like this is how you know a neighborhood is safe if you see somebody walking a dog immediately you're like
00:58:44.480
okay it's safe to be outside if you're in an area and nobody's walking a dog
00:58:50.400
it's like pretty much pretty if you don't see somebody walking a dog it's like don't go there
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don't walk around that area and i mean if it's a black guy walking a pit bull still probably not safe
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to be honest okay i'm talking about white guy with a shih tzu white guy with a corgi
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white woman with a with with a with a fucking you know a wiener dog and a stroller that's a safe area
00:59:16.060
puerto rican guy and a and a and a rottweiler maybe maybe stay in the uber until you get all the
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way there that's all i'm saying thank you for watching the bank of show thank you for supporting