Rebel News Podcast - September 24, 2021


ANDREW CHAPADOS ｜ “I know when I'm being lied to”： Kyle Lucey on how lockdowns almost ruined comedy

Topics
lockdowns
Mentioned
Ben Bankus Andrew Says Kyle Lucy Bovine Bill C-63 Vin Diesel Groot Renegade Tanner Gang
EZRA LEVANT ｜ Do you conform？ Is there any limit to what you’ll go along with？ DAVID MENZIES ｜ Vaccine Passport Tyranny, Future of the PPC

Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

179.26

Word count

1,233

Sentence count

132

Harmful content

Misogyny

5

sentences flagged

Toxicity

11

sentences flagged

Hate speech

2

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Summary

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Kyle Lucy is a stand-up comedian from Toronto. He's been in the comedy game for 7 years and is one of the funniest people I've ever met. On this episode of Andrew Says, Kyle talks about the recent lockdown and how he dealt with it.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 She's a bitch. 1.00
00:00:01.100 Hey guys, sorry I'm late. 1.00
00:00:03.360 Don't worry. 0.99
00:00:04.320 Oh my god, Tanner's such a dick. 1.00
00:00:07.220 Aw. 1.00
00:00:08.380 Now what do you do?
00:00:09.600 Cheated on me! 0.99
00:00:11.140 But whatever, that's why we have a girls' night. 0.76
00:00:12.840 What are you guys saying?
00:00:14.140 Do these nerds even work out? 1.00
00:00:17.540 You guys got books in here?
00:00:19.640 Yeah, but the library is actually closed right now.
00:00:22.580 Man!
00:00:23.700 I could lift this, I could bench this.
00:00:25.940 How many reps could I do with this hand sanitizer?
00:00:27.940 Oh, people are so cute.
00:00:37.300 I just want to say I love the top.
00:00:39.720 Which one?
00:00:40.620 Both of them, all three!
00:00:43.160 You're doing pretty good too!
00:00:45.920 You guys know how to milk this old cow! 0.57
00:00:50.120 Could I have some sushi?
00:00:54.080 Cute!
00:00:57.940 Welcome back to another episode of Andrew Says.
00:01:03.460 My guest this week was the hilarious and constantly moving and fidgeting comedian Kyle Lucy.
00:01:08.260 You've seen him doing stand-up in Toronto at Yuck Yucks, The Bovine, and other places like the first post-lockdown shows with comedian Ben Bankus.
00:01:17.040 Kyle and I got right into it.
00:01:18.460 He's such a nice guy.
00:01:19.720 He was happy just to be given a French vanilla to drink.
00:01:22.420 Like, let's jump into it.
00:01:23.820 I'm feeling delicious and also nutritious if I'm going to be completely honest with you, Andrew.
00:01:28.280 Thank you so much for having me on tonight.
00:01:30.280 And thank you for also giving me a delicious cup of French vanilla to start off my day.
00:01:34.640 Boy, oh boy.
00:01:35.200 This has really excited you to an unknown degree.
00:01:38.300 Dude, if it wasn't for Rebel News, I'd be in my apartment right now, in my bed, mowing, and screaming at the stucco ceiling like I do.
00:01:48.560 I usually do that as a comedian.
00:01:50.080 You do that until about 5 p.m.
00:01:51.900 Then you roll over, write a few things on the old iPhone, get a call from your landlord saying the rent's due.
00:02:00.500 You mute it, and then you get going.
00:02:02.700 You do your shows, baby girl.
00:02:04.280 Get it.
00:02:05.280 But now we're here.
00:02:06.280 I feel I'm with around a bunch of lights.
00:02:09.060 I'm looking at a TV right now with me on it.
00:02:12.200 You guys are going to CGI better muscles on me, I hope.
00:02:15.680 Yeah, we're going to do that synthol stuff where you inject oil into your arms.
00:02:19.560 Hell yeah, man.
00:02:20.240 Make me like Vin Diesel Groot or whatever.
00:02:22.440 Make me jacked in like a huge 8-foot tree.
00:02:25.140 We'll see what we can do.
00:02:26.380 Just superimpose a tree over him right now.
00:02:28.560 Gang, gang.
00:02:30.100 I'll try to be serious a little bit.
00:02:32.940 You can not be serious, and I'm okay with it.
00:02:35.240 Okay.
00:02:35.560 I want to talk about first thing is the lockdowns.
00:02:38.740 You're from Toronto, yes?
00:02:40.360 I mean, I sort of grew up.
00:02:41.800 I say Ontario.
00:02:42.760 I've lived like all over Ontario, southern Ontario.
00:02:46.020 I've moved around a lot.
00:02:47.420 But yeah, like I've been living in Toronto for the past seven years now.
00:02:52.220 Lockdown, obviously.
00:02:53.900 I mean.
00:02:55.520 So when this all started, were you just like, were you like everybody, you and your peers,
00:03:00.340 like, oh, this is going to be a few weeks.
00:03:01.620 We can't do shows.
00:03:02.820 Everything will be back to normal soon.
00:03:04.560 How did that, what did that first look like for somebody in your position?
00:03:07.680 And as time went on, what did that look like?
00:03:11.300 I mean, for me, like, I remember, like, so I produced, like, my Renegade show or whatever,
00:03:16.520 right?
00:03:16.940 And before it was at the Bovine, it was at the Corner Comedy Club.
00:03:20.280 And I remember a comment coming in going like, oh, yeah, like, we're going to have to stop
00:03:24.520 doing stand-up.
00:03:25.240 This COVID thing's coming from China. 1.00
00:03:27.020 And it's like, it's really fucked up. 0.99
00:03:28.820 I actually just got back from a Western Canada tour. 0.97
00:03:32.340 So I was flying a week before the lockdown.
00:03:35.600 I looked at this guy.
00:03:36.400 I was like, bro, this guy doesn't love stand-up. 0.99
00:03:38.980 He's a wuss. 0.80
00:03:41.320 You know, he wants to, he's got quit already in him. 0.99
00:03:43.800 And then literally the day after, lockdown.
00:03:48.300 And I didn't believe it.
00:03:50.580 You know, I still don't really believe it.
00:03:52.700 I was in denial for a bit.
00:03:54.400 But, you know, I was lucky enough to live with some really red pill cool people that
00:04:02.860 just were like, you know what, you know, this is all BS.
00:04:06.700 This is, this is crazy.
00:04:09.100 And then I just started seeing the writing on the wall.
00:04:11.540 I mean, like, something that really bugged me, too, is like, I don't know, I don't know
00:04:16.800 if this is, like, messed up to say.
00:04:18.080 But, like, you know, Bill C-10 was passing, Bill C-36 was passing, and then everything
00:04:24.120 that was in the news was native genocide, which I know is an atrocious thing.
00:04:31.540 But we've known about the native genocide.
00:04:33.620 I've known about it for decades.
00:04:35.180 We've known about it for such a long time.
00:04:38.340 Why is that the only thing in the news?
00:04:40.160 Conveniently, at the same time, we're about to lose our internet.
00:04:43.780 It's just so, I know when I'm being lied to.
00:04:46.960 I, it disrupts my frequency.
00:04:49.640 We all feel it.
00:04:50.540 Comedians are like, truth, truth, truth, right?
00:04:52.780 So anytime the absence of truth is present, we could, I don't know, it's weird.
00:04:59.220 I could feel it.
00:04:59.880 And so it was terrible.
00:05:01.580 It was terrible, the lockdowns.
00:05:03.180 You know, a lot of my, you know, my comedian family, they lost their businesses.
00:05:08.600 You know, clubs went down, which are, comedy clubs are like our homes.
00:05:12.760 They went under.
00:05:13.440 And then we, we lost our art.
00:05:17.300 We, and live comedy, you know, it's not like art, like, like painting, where we could doodle
00:05:23.940 at home.
00:05:24.600 It's not like music where I could play, I could jam in my garage with my homies.
00:05:28.740 Or like, you could produce an album, you know, like a DJ would or like a rap artist would.
00:05:36.000 Like, we artistically starved for months.
00:05:38.460 So, you know, I don't know any comedian, left, right, whatever you are politically, that was
00:05:43.720 pro-lockdown.
00:05:44.780 Every, live entertainment, especially stand-up comedy, we were decimated during this.
00:05:50.480 And, which is why, like, we had to figure some stuff out, right?
00:05:54.100 Yeah, that was my next question.
00:05:55.400 And once all this stuff started to seem at least semi-permanent, or it was lasting for
00:06:00.660 six, eight, 12 months, what was the next move for you guys?
00:06:04.160 Did you get together with some people and say, we have to start doing shows again, or
00:06:08.160 else we're going to go under?
00:06:09.260 Was there support for many people who ran big clubs?
00:06:12.140 What was it like when you guys started to say, we need to start putting on shows again?
00:06:16.120 Ben Bankis was the first guy.
00:06:18.180 Ben Bankis, and he will never get the credit he deserves.
00:06:23.940 He started comedy again, I think not just in Canada.
00:06:27.540 He inspired, like, people in America were sharing his show.
00:06:31.560 Big comics in New York and, you know, L.A., and they were like, oh, my God, there's this
00:06:38.040 guy who's doing this show in a park.
00:06:40.460 You know what I mean?
00:06:40.780 No one was doing that.
00:06:41.880 No one was doing that.
00:06:42.700 And he was getting close to a thousand people, a thousand people out in the park.
00:06:46.500 And it wasn't just, like, happenstance.
00:06:48.040 Like, people, you know, they all followed him.
00:06:50.100 They all, like, on Instagram.
00:06:51.580 Like, he sort of...