Rebel News Podcast - INTERVIEW： Uncle Hack of the Danger Cats

00:00:00.000 Oh, hey, Rebels, it's me, Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're listening to a free audio-only

00:00:04.120 recording of my weekly Wednesday paywalled show, aptly called The Gun Show.

00:00:11.020 Tonight, my guest is someone that I think if you're from Alberta, or if you are in the

00:00:15.640 oil patch anywhere across the prairies, then you probably know who my guest is tonight.

00:00:21.780 My guest is Uncle Hack from the Danger Cats.

00:00:25.660 And friends, if you don't know who the Danger Cats are, then you are in for some rough language.

00:00:34.520 So just consider that your advanced warning, consider yourself sufficiently warned that

00:00:41.820 there will be some rough language in the show tonight.

00:00:44.480 Now, we are talking about everything, how he decided to turn blue-collar Albertan humor into

00:00:52.380 a career for himself.

00:00:53.440 We're talking about cancel culture and how political correctness makes comedy boring and

00:01:01.060 how he thinks getting back to regular in-person fun is the way around cancel culture.

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00:02:14.780 Censorship, cancel culture, and poking good fun at Alberta's blue-collar workforce. 0.97

00:02:19.800 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:02:28.400 Right off the top, let's get this out of the way so that we can go on.

00:02:43.680 In today's show, you will hear things and ideas and hear language used that might offend you.

00:02:49.920 But you know what?

00:02:50.880 That's okay, because now you know, and you can listen or watch or not.

00:02:55.960 Because I think you're smart enough to make that decision for yourself.

00:03:01.460 You don't need big daddy Justin Trudeau and his right-hand censorship wingman Stephen Gilbeau

00:03:08.280 taking down my video to spare your feelings

00:03:11.080 or asking one of the platforms that host us to take down our work because we triggered someone.

00:03:16.700 Or we could trigger someone someday.

00:03:20.400 That will be what Bill C-36 does if it's passed to dangerous political ideas.

00:03:25.720 But it could also do something else.

00:03:27.600 And that's make comedy even more woke and more boring too,

00:03:30.740 as though what passes for funny these days could get even worse.

00:03:35.120 Now, today's guest, he's not for the faint of heart.

00:03:38.800 But if you're from Alberta, you know exactly who he is.

00:03:41.640 And you can relate because you know at least one guy in your life

00:03:45.780 that's just like him or his internet persona.

00:03:49.080 A hard-partying, hard-spending, but hard-working blue-collar guy

00:03:53.360 who says exactly what he wants to, exactly how he wants to.

00:03:57.520 Feelings of some absolute woke scold he's never met be damned.

00:04:04.960 Boy, it is sure so hot out here with all this global warming going on.

00:04:09.900 I wish there was such a resourceful and logical way I could just have a drink of water.

00:04:18.820 Um, like drink box water bottles sort of thing.

00:04:28.120 Oh, I feel the hotness of global warming just leaving my body.

00:04:32.960 Yes, friends, it's Uncle Hack from the Danger Cats.

00:04:37.500 Now, how do you even describe the Danger Cats?

00:04:39.360 A blue-collar lifestyle brand, media ecosystem?

00:04:42.720 How do you describe what they do?

00:04:44.300 They do a lot of everything.

00:04:46.000 It's podcasts, videos, memes, and merchandise that you see everywhere.

00:04:50.300 They say what they want, and they make fun of everybody, including themselves.

00:04:54.700 They poke fun at the hard-partying, hard-spending, oil-patch lifestyle,

00:04:58.220 at politicians, at Gen Z, at Gen Y, at their parents, at environmentalists,

00:05:02.380 at everyone.

00:05:03.860 It's crass, and it's vulgar, but it's also authentic and really popular here in Alberta.

00:05:10.380 And I don't know, frankly, how Uncle Hack and the guys are still on the internet at all.

00:05:15.680 It's a mystery, frankly.

00:05:17.380 I met Uncle Hack at his Edmonton offices for a sit-down on Tuesday afternoon

00:05:22.520 about where this all started for him, where he thinks it's going,

00:05:26.160 and how he plans to weather the cancel culture mob that is surely coming to get him.

00:05:31.620 Again, definitely not for the faint of heart.

00:05:34.880 Listen and watch at your own risk.

00:05:37.580 And special thanks again to my editors.

00:05:39.200 Ready?

00:05:53.720 Absolutely.

00:05:54.840 Okay, so I'm someplace that I never imagined that I would be,

00:05:57.760 and my husband's friends are going to freak out.

00:06:00.740 I'm at the studios of the Danger Cats, and I'm here with Uncle Hack.

00:06:04.480 And you were someone I wanted to have on the show for a very long time,

00:06:08.520 and then the pandemic popped off, and then, so that sort of became our focus.

00:06:13.020 But then, as it turns out, we have a mutual friend who made the connection for us.

00:06:16.000 Yeah.

00:06:16.500 Which was kind of fun.

00:06:18.040 I guess, I want to ask you, like,

00:06:21.160 how did you get into being a bit of a vulgar loudmouth on the internet, I guess?

00:06:30.860 Well, it started, I had an idea of just, like, 0.89

00:06:36.080 shooting all this kind of silly stuff while I was in my work truck,

00:06:39.040 and I guess I took a massive risk by possibly losing my job while doing so. 0.54

00:06:43.640 Yeah.

00:06:43.800 It worked out in the end, because now it's got me to here.

00:06:47.220 But in the beginning, it was just kind of someone, like, an acquaintance kind of was like,

00:06:52.960 hey, you should do some of these videos. 0.80

00:06:54.420 And I've always, like, fucked around on the internet, 1.00

00:06:56.560 selling or sending things to, like, my friends that I think's funny and stupid videos and shit. 1.00

00:07:02.000 So it just started going. 0.99

00:07:05.500 And we've always had a knack for behind cameras or in front of them when we were teenagers and stuff,

00:07:11.880 just filming skateboard videos or, like, mimicking everything from, like, CKY to Jackass.

00:07:17.040 And, like, that skateboard culture was always something.

00:07:20.460 Same with humor and, like, stand-up comedy and, like, sketch comedy, like, Chappelle's show SNL

00:07:26.640 and, you know, all these guys that are, like, willing to push the narrative.

00:07:30.460 So it was, like, I don't know, maybe it was just written in the sky that this was what I was supposed to do.

00:07:36.860 Now, I think a part of the success of the Danger Cats is it feels really authentic.

00:07:42.240 Like, even if people don't know you, they know exactly a guy just like you 1.00

00:07:47.380 who works in the oil patch and drives around saying stupid stuff in his work truck. 0.99

00:07:51.080 And I think, for me, I work with a lot of people from Toronto. 0.99

00:07:56.440 And one of your biggest fans was one of the people who worked in our office.

00:08:01.700 And she was, like, an older lady, but she's, like, he's the best.

00:08:04.860 And I think a lot of what you do is, what's the right word, authentic cultural outreach to the rest of the country.

00:08:11.980 But people who don't understand Albertans, I think you're a pretty good example of just your run-of-the-mill regular Alberta guy.

00:08:20.180 Yeah, that's probably the most glittery way you could possibly say it.

00:08:25.560 I churched it up a little.

00:08:26.620 Yeah, yeah.

00:08:27.300 It was very Christian or Catholic of you.

00:08:29.520 But, yeah, it's just I took everything that I like. 0.93

00:08:34.180 And I get shit on a lot for being, like, a FUBAR ripoff or you took all this and the name came from FUBAR.

00:08:42.580 And it actually came from my cousin came back from Big Valley Jamboree. 0.98

00:08:46.060 And some guy at a campsite asked him if he wanted to play Danger Cats. 0.99

00:08:50.120 And he's, like, what the fuck is that? 0.98

00:08:52.580 And then this guy shook a beer in front of him and smashed it on his head while yelling Danger Cats over and over. 0.99

00:08:58.520 And my cousin came back home and did this in front of me.

00:09:01.600 And I'm, like, that was awesome.

00:09:02.660 So, then, like, fast forward to when I moved to Edmonton.

00:09:09.580 One of my best friends who's up here is currently in the UFC, Tanner Boser.

00:09:15.580 We had a mutual friend and never quite got to meet one another.

00:09:19.120 And the mutual friend was his roommate.

00:09:21.360 And I'd always call Tanner a Danger Cat.

00:09:24.500 Like, that guy's just a Danger Cat.

00:09:26.000 And, like, nobody knew what I was talking about but knew what I was talking about.

00:09:30.720 And then it just, like, yeah, me and him did a few videos together.

00:09:34.380 And then it just kept going and going and going.

00:09:37.540 So, it's essentially, like, everything that I like.

00:09:40.860 Like, I like going to strip clubs.

00:09:42.840 I like going to, you know, hair metal concerts.

00:09:46.500 I love 90s rap.

00:09:48.640 And it's, like, it's easy to do because it's everything that I like.

00:09:52.480 Yeah, you're, like, the ambassador to Red Deer or from Red Deer to the rest of the country.

00:09:57.660 Whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:09:58.300 Tabor, Alberta.

00:09:59.600 Okay.

00:10:00.060 Right.

00:10:00.620 We're more south and we hammer home that southern style, the deep south.

00:10:06.920 Well, that scratches a question off my list.

00:10:09.260 Why Danger Cats?

00:10:10.280 Like, why did you call it Danger Cats?

00:10:13.840 Where did you come from?

00:10:15.940 Like, how did you end up here?

00:10:18.780 In Edmonton?

00:10:20.020 Yeah, like, what's your background?

00:10:20.960 Like, what did you do before you were a YouTube celebrity with a t-shirt company?

00:10:29.380 How far am I rewinding this as far as I'm working?

00:10:32.320 However you want.

00:10:32.860 Okay.

00:10:35.240 I guess it, like, started, like, into my youth, my early teens to, like, early 20s.

00:10:41.920 I really, I've always wanted to get into MMA, so I just did it.

00:10:45.900 And I didn't care about money or any of that.

00:10:48.940 I just went, I found a job, I worked that job, and I would train every evening.

00:10:53.700 And just, that, like, consumed my life.

00:10:56.520 And I really didn't enjoy having something there.

00:10:59.920 And then I knew that that wasn't, like, a career path for me. 0.98

00:11:04.620 I just liked it as a hobby, which is kind of a stupid hobby if you think about it. 0.98

00:11:08.200 Yeah, right. 0.99

00:11:08.640 Right?

00:11:09.140 Yeah.

00:11:09.380 And then when I stopped that, I went back to my hometown.

00:11:15.200 I was working in the oil patch and got a job offer to come up here to Edmonton.

00:11:21.360 And I started, I became a pipeline operator.

00:11:24.860 And as that was going on, I trained and fought a couple more times.

00:11:30.860 I got injured and the fighting was done again.

00:11:34.960 And this was all popping off.

00:11:36.520 This kind of, like, sketch comedy, I guess.

00:11:39.300 I don't know.

00:11:40.240 In the beginning, I can't watch the older stuff because it's so cringe and, I don't know, poorly written. 0.99

00:11:46.060 Yeah, my first video is just a shit show. 0.99

00:11:48.800 Right? 0.99

00:11:49.460 Like, you look at it, you're happy about the progress and everything, but I watch it now and be like, you're just, like, you're almost trying too hard to be funny.

00:11:59.100 Yeah, yeah.

00:11:59.540 And it wasn't just, I get, like, I get that it made people laugh.

00:12:03.260 And at the time, maybe it was needed.

00:12:04.740 And nobody was really saying the things that I was saying publicly.

00:12:08.800 So, it really hit home.

00:12:12.560 And a lot of it was, like, how I was feeling at the time.

00:12:15.100 So, it was just, like, oh, I'll just try and do it in a funny way and, like, really Alberta it up.

00:12:19.720 And, yeah, here we are today.

00:12:23.240 And now I'm doing all the things that I've wanted to do in life.

00:12:28.120 That's great.

00:12:29.480 I wanted to ask you, because when I met you on Friday for the very first time, you were sort of talking about cancel culture.

00:12:40.600 Yeah.

00:12:40.860 And for some of the things that you say on the internet, frankly, I'm surprised you guys are still on YouTube.

00:12:46.620 I am.

00:12:47.820 But you have sort of walked right into the fire of cancel culture and you're just, you're fine.

00:12:55.520 Like, you're doing fine.

00:12:56.360 And I think, I guess, for a lot of people, they're scared.

00:13:01.800 But you don't really seem to be scared at all.

00:13:04.000 You don't care.

00:13:05.100 No. 0.99

00:13:05.440 Like, I genuinely don't give a fuck about any of that. 0.97

00:13:09.660 Like, none of it affects me. 0.97

00:13:11.200 It's never going to, like, if it comes from me, I'm asking for it.

00:13:14.860 Because that's just more publicity for me at the end of the day.

00:13:18.380 Sure.

00:13:18.500 So, I'm deliberately doing some things at times that will trigger people to have them pissed off and come for me.

00:13:25.000 Because at the end of the day, I'm not worried about it. 0.96

00:13:28.220 I don't give a shit, like, what these people, they're not going to be people that come to a comedy event or any of this. 0.98

00:13:34.060 They're never going to show up and have a good time with anything we do with the brand or even have a laugh at it. 0.99

00:13:40.100 So, I always jokingly tell people that I got drunk one night and I was in the parking lot of a Home Depot saying the N-word 52 times on a Facebook account that I don't know the password to.

00:13:54.500 And it's scheduled to be released on my birthday when I turned 35.

00:13:58.340 So, I got five years of this career path before I'm torched.

00:14:03.860 I've cancelled myself.

00:14:05.340 It is funny, but I'm so glad to hear it because, not that you have a ticking time bomb on your career, but for so many conservatives, and I'm trying to remain, like, not turn this into a political talk, but for so many conservatives, and we see this all the time, I think this is the great failing of conservatives, is wanting to be liked by people who hate them and who will never vote for them.

00:14:29.340 And we see that constantly.

00:14:31.060 Yeah.

00:14:31.300 And, you know, there's no pleasing people who hate you anyway.

00:14:37.280 The thing is, a lot of people who are probably outraged at you have likely never watched an entire video of anything you've ever said.

00:14:47.260 They just heard somebody say something about you and that's good enough for them.

00:14:50.320 Yeah.

00:14:50.900 And, like, even, like, for me, politically, I don't really cater to a party or anything.

00:14:57.420 Like, I'll take shots at anybody.

00:14:58.880 I don't, you know, at the end of the day, my big thing is, like, I think we should be able to say what we want, what's inside your head, and not have to worry about going to a supervisor or have some HR guy down your throat because you made a joke with a guy that was intended for that guy.

00:15:16.460 And someone 15 feet over, overheard it, and they're offended.

00:15:20.160 And so you risk the possible chance of getting fired or canceled, whatever it is.

00:15:25.380 Yeah.

00:15:25.480 I think it's ridiculous that we can't, you can't express yourself. 0.58

00:15:31.600 And I hear all the time that, just dudes that listen to my podcast and shit, it's just like, oh, yeah, it's refreshing to hear somebody do this, you know, like, some sort of shock jock radio, whatever you want to call it, Opie and Anthony, they're, like, the Black Phillip show, whatever it is. 0.69

00:15:49.780 And somebody is pushing the narrative and going for it and generally not doing it.

00:15:54.640 Or even Joe Rogan, you know.

00:15:56.360 Yeah, like a Rogan.

00:15:57.400 And, like, the guys I really respect are, I don't know if I can, okay, well, their podcast name is C*** Town. 0.65

00:16:05.740 And the other one that I, like, there's, the other one is The Legion of Skanks. 0.98

00:16:10.880 And these guys are very dark comics.

00:16:13.680 And they, they're always attacked.

00:16:15.960 But none of them care.

00:16:17.880 So it's, like, I really respect those guys and what they do and what they do for the art form.

00:16:23.740 And to have the balls to say what they say, you know. 0.98

00:16:27.380 They deliberately say shit that, you know, is going to, that are, get them a community strike or, you know. 0.99

00:16:35.020 Like, they're, they're proving a point that what they say is okay. 0.99

00:16:39.820 As long as the intent is, is, you know, none of them are doing this for malicious intent and looking to hurt your feel, oh, sorry, feelings.

00:16:47.360 It's a joke that they've written and they thought was funny and their friends laughed at it.

00:16:50.900 So then they say the joke again.

00:16:52.560 Yeah.

00:16:52.880 And work the bid out, so.

00:16:54.920 Now, I guess the trade-off, though, there is that you almost have to be boring and sanitized to be commercially successful.

00:17:04.480 Yeah.

00:17:04.600 A lot of venues won't book you.

00:17:06.200 If you're edgy or even the slightest bit conservative, you're not going to get a Netflix deal.

00:17:12.820 You know, with the exception of Rogan, you probably won't get picked up by Spotify or even allowed on the platform if you post from somewhere else or create from somewhere else.

00:17:22.920 So, I guess my question is, is it possible to be commercially successful now?

00:17:34.300 I mean, I think with Rogan, he created a juggernaut years ago that's carrying through today that sort of makes him counsel proof.

00:17:43.000 What about everybody else?

00:17:45.180 I think so.

00:17:46.640 I mean, you know, I had a veteran comic, Jason Rouse, invite me down.

00:17:51.760 I haven't been doing comedy for that long.

00:17:53.820 I've only, I started November of 2019.

00:17:56.840 I did my first open mic and then I just kept going.

00:18:00.540 And even throughout the pandemic, just did it as much as I possibly could. 0.97

00:18:06.720 And when he sat down with me and I got a chance to interview him, afterwards we're chatting and he goes, you did this the most smartest fucking way possible.

00:18:15.200 You built an audience online. 0.55

00:18:17.420 You have your merchandise or whatever.

00:18:21.500 You've monetized what you have.

00:18:23.480 And then on top of it, like you can create your own events.

00:18:26.860 Yeah. 1.00

00:18:27.240 A lot of comics have to play in between these rules or club owners or all this shit where I can just basically say, fuck you. 1.00

00:18:33.760 I'll rent the hall next door if you don't want to have me. 0.99

00:18:35.980 And I'll throw my own event and I'll market it and I'll do all the necessary steps to try and promote the event as best as I possibly can.

00:18:44.740 Where I think a lot of guys don't want to tiptoe on that line or they're scared because, you know, one guy here, I won't say his name, but he went up and they told him, you can't do this type of joke on stage.

00:18:58.740 He went and did five minutes of that type of joke and they kicked him out of the club for, you know, I think it was like two months.

00:19:07.440 And that's like two months that this guy doesn't get stage time, which is crucial.

00:19:11.300 But again, it's him proving a point. 0.97

00:19:13.120 But it sucks that, you know, these comics don't get an opportunity to perform or work out bits because there's some asshole that, you know, is a club owner or manager, just doesn't like his style and all that. 0.98

00:19:29.840 So I'm happy I went this way. 0.95

00:19:31.920 So to answer your question, I think, yes, you have to you have to really like focus on what you want. 0.99

00:19:38.220 You have to you have to be all or fuck all. 0.99

00:19:40.080 Yeah, essentially. 1.00

00:19:41.320 Yeah, I think that's it.

00:19:42.100 I think you have to build your own infrastructure from the ground up because you can't rely on somebody else's because somebody else's is subject to, I guess, the council mob.

00:19:51.200 Yeah.

00:19:51.720 And you know what?

00:19:53.340 And if you put the time and effort in, like it's I'm coming on five years of like doing this now.

00:20:00.200 And that's like I thought it was going to last one.

00:20:03.860 I thought for sure I was like, oh, this isn't going to be anything.

00:20:07.000 And so we were treating it like it was a Motley Crue music video.

00:20:12.100 And partying hard and doing all the extracurricular activities that that come with all that, that lifestyle.

00:20:20.020 And finally, like one day I woke up and like you're pissing this opportunity away and you're going to let this something so great. 1.00

00:20:28.880 And you'll look at this five, 10 years down the road and be like, you fucking idiot as you're, you know, not shitting on anybody's job or anything. 1.00

00:20:37.380 But it's just like there's jobs out there I don't want to do. 1.00

00:20:40.800 I'd rather do.

00:20:41.660 For sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:20:42.720 For sure.

00:20:43.120 I don't want to work for the CBC.

00:20:44.720 Right.

00:20:46.360 I don't think I'll ever be there, so.

00:20:49.540 No, that's true.

00:20:50.720 Yeah.

00:20:50.880 They can have boring Rick Mercer and this hour has 22 minutes.

00:20:56.860 You just came back from Texas.

00:20:59.380 Yeah.

00:20:59.900 What was that like?

00:21:01.980 It was.

00:21:02.420 A lot freer?

00:21:03.500 Yeah, it was intense.

00:21:05.000 It was like, well, we've been in lockdown for Christ, I don't even know how long.

00:21:10.280 And I was like complete isolation.

00:21:12.600 I've only talked and seen four people consistently throughout it to going off a plane to 6th Street, Texas, no masks, people everywhere, live bands, live music, comedies happening.

00:21:27.460 There's restaurants open.

00:21:28.960 Like, life was normal there.

00:21:30.940 It was just such sensory overload. 0.98

00:21:33.680 Like, I felt like a **** walking down the street. 0.66

00:21:36.880 Excuse my language, but that's about it.

00:21:39.140 But, yeah, it was just, it was like so nice.

00:21:44.880 It was so great, you know, to see crowds of people, being able to perform for that many people was unreal.

00:21:52.540 It was like a, it was a unique experience.

00:21:55.440 I'm like, I was so grateful to have the opportunity to like go down there and feel that.

00:22:01.100 And it was full blown freedom.

00:22:03.040 Like, the people there were great.

00:22:05.520 They don't take it for granted.

00:22:06.920 That's for damn sure.

00:22:07.820 And they were awesome. 0.70

00:22:10.260 They couldn't believe like every comic that we talked to about it, like what's happening in Canada.

00:22:14.740 They're like, yeah, it's a **** hole up there. 0.92

00:22:16.340 It's like, no ****. 0.94

00:22:17.060 That's why we're here.

00:22:18.720 So, what was the reception to your style of comedy from the Texans?

00:22:22.680 They loved it.

00:22:23.340 I've never in my life thought 20-year-old college girls would be laughing at the things that come out of my mouth. 0.95

00:22:29.260 But they like, they were dying.

00:22:31.060 And like, I poke fun at racial humor, sexuality, all that stuff.

00:22:37.680 Like, nothing's off the table.

00:22:39.040 And everybody, like, laughed.

00:22:41.800 I couldn't believe it.

00:22:43.380 Where up here, it's like, it's hit and miss.

00:22:45.700 Like, I've, my style doesn't really, you know, I'm an edgier type person, obviously, I guess, when it comes to like the online stuff.

00:22:55.320 Or, you know, trying my hand at stand-up.

00:22:59.120 So, up here, unless it's like, I guess, somebody that follows the brand or follows like what we do.

00:23:07.180 Outside of that, I usually get like some noses in the air.

00:23:11.540 Yeah.

00:23:11.920 Yeah.

00:23:12.520 So, it was great. 0.58

00:23:14.040 You know, college students were laughing at me making gay jokes.

00:23:18.720 It was great.

00:23:19.680 That's not something that would happen here.

00:23:22.540 Especially since the university's over in Rachel Notley's riding. 1.00

00:23:26.540 Yeah, yeah.

00:23:27.440 Yeah, I've had a few.

00:23:28.880 I don't know where, who or what, where they were.

00:23:32.100 But I could definitely, I'll leave it at that.

00:23:34.440 The purple-haired girl didn't really like what I had to say that day. 0.99

00:23:38.520 Yeah.

00:23:40.420 Now, I wanted to ask you about, and again, I'm trying not to be political.

00:23:46.400 But I guess that's the nature of the job.

00:23:49.260 Um, about the, I guess, looming internet censorship coming from Justin Trudeau.

00:23:55.940 That could serve to completely crack your business model with regard to Canada.

00:24:01.120 I mean, you can, you're seeing some commercial success in the United States.

00:24:04.600 But, um, I guess, what does that mean for you if Trudeau brings in those sorts of laws?

00:24:12.740 Because under C-36, you can be brought to court if somebody feels like eventually you're going to trigger them and say something hateful.

00:24:21.820 And a lot of the things that you say, the left might consider them hate speech because you hurt their feelings.

00:24:30.020 Yeah. Um, you know what? Uh, we had a, we had a little powwow with, like, a couple of the dudes that, that, um, I went down to Texas with.

00:24:40.560 And we talked about it. And it is, it is a bit terrifying because it's like, uh, you can't, there's nothing, I, I can't do nothing.

00:24:48.960 I'm not a tech oligarch that can, you know, create my own platform tomorrow and have everybody come over there.

00:24:56.500 I mean, we've seen it happen with Parler.

00:24:59.040 The, they flexed their muscle pretty heavy there on what they're capable of doing.

00:25:03.840 Yeah.

00:25:04.360 But one thing you'll never be able to take away is live events.

00:25:07.900 And that's why getting more into the, like, the live events and throwing, doing shows and having people come together rather than having this complete divide online.

00:25:16.020 It's like, why don't you just come out to a show, see it, watch people laugh, have fun.

00:25:20.240 If you want to come out, come out and, uh, we'll dance and play by the rules as best as we possibly can to make sure later we don't get accounts lost and everything.

00:25:30.340 But as far as that, I think like the live face-to-face interactions, that's what's missing.

00:25:37.500 And that's like, just getting together, have a, have a beer, have a laugh at somebody's expense and whether it be mine or yours or who's ever, you know, like that's, I think we're missing that entirely.

00:25:50.820 Yeah.

00:25:51.300 You know, and like this internet censorship is only going to create a bigger divide between everybody because one voice is going to feel like it's clamped down on.

00:25:59.300 And that, that's, I think that's scarier than allowing somebody to, uh, you know, tweet a trans joke, you know? 0.97

00:26:05.980 Yeah. 0.64

00:26:06.340 And I think it also serves to, um, amplify, uh, things that actually aren't normal, that people aren't feeling like, you know, when you, when you censor everybody else who's dissenting, um, all that leaves is the, you know, the liberals and the crazy people shouting at the clouds.

00:26:22.880 And, and, and, you know, I think it also, to be compassionate, I think it also seems unkind to those people, um, because it protects them from dangerous ideas and, and, um, other opinions.

00:26:38.420 It, it doesn't build for very resilient people when they can't just like shrug off a joke and walk away.

00:26:44.100 I have this theory that over in Syria, you're not really worried about words, you're worried about bullets over there, you know?

00:26:51.220 Yeah, I've, I've, I've been to Northern Iraq and, uh, you come home and you're like, what is wrong with everybody here?

00:26:56.540 Exactly.

00:26:56.700 What is wrong with everybody here?

00:26:58.220 Exactly.

00:26:58.940 And like the fact that we're walking around, uh, you can't say this, you can't say that. 0.98

00:27:03.400 Well, over there you get your head cut off. 0.97

00:27:06.000 Yeah.

00:27:06.440 So what do you, like, what, what, what do we deem a dangerous idea?

00:27:11.460 Yeah.

00:27:11.660 Over what?

00:27:12.280 Somebody making a joke, making a, voicing their opinion, you know?

00:27:16.300 Uh, I thought our grandfathers fought the one guy that, uh, had the most dangerous idea.

00:27:22.520 So that way we could be free over here, but apparently I'm wrong, you know?

00:27:26.920 Yeah.

00:27:27.540 Yeah.

00:27:28.060 How far we've come.

00:27:29.120 Um, I wanted to ask you, uh, what's next for you?

00:27:32.840 So more live events, more, uh, stand up.

00:27:38.640 Yeah.

00:27:39.040 What else?

00:27:39.440 Um, I think it's just, I just want to go full blown comedy now and, and write funny 0.77

00:27:46.140 shit and just find the holes that we kind of overlook and, and, uh, you just the way 0.96

00:27:53.160 humans are. 1.00

00:27:53.900 I find it so funny.

00:27:54.880 I tried being political.

00:27:56.140 I'm not good at it.

00:27:56.980 I don't care enough, you know?

00:27:58.260 Yeah.

00:27:58.500 Yeah.

00:27:58.620 Like I, I just look at it through a quick like peak and I'm like, oh, that's funny.

00:28:02.580 And I'll take that.

00:28:03.340 And I run with it where like, um, some of my friends are like, they follow it and they're

00:28:10.300 able to, oh, this happened in foreign policy. 0.99

00:28:12.460 And I'm like, fuck dude, I'm lost. 0.98

00:28:14.100 So for me, I think it's just more so pointing out the faults of like us as humans and making 0.99

00:28:19.680 it really funny.

00:28:20.460 And like, yeah, getting up and doing more live events.

00:28:23.660 I really like going out and I like being around people and I like having fun on stage

00:28:29.300 and making people laugh.

00:28:31.200 Like it's the best gift I've ever had, you know?

00:28:34.520 Like I feel it's a talent, I guess, to say, to like go up and do that.

00:28:38.740 And you know, it's, it's, uh, it's so much fun.

00:28:43.840 Like I, I really thoroughly enjoy doing it.

00:28:46.600 So if I can do that, uh, there's like no money that could ever cover the feeling that, that

00:28:53.820 that gives me.

00:28:54.640 So I found what I want to do and like moving forward is just as much as I can get out there 0.94

00:29:00.980 and granted we don't lock down or any of that shit, but if we do, I'm fucking off back to 0.97

00:29:06.380 Texas. 0.98

00:29:06.720 I'm going back.

00:29:08.040 Yeah.

00:29:08.560 It's, it's already, yeah, we've discussed it and, uh, it's definitely in the cards to

00:29:15.280 go down there.

00:29:15.860 Obviously I can't work down there, but I can do the YouTube and all that shit down there.

00:29:19.900 So, I mean, if, uh, if this place isn't going to allow me to do the things that I'm going

00:29:26.180 to do, there's like, uh, there's places that will.

00:29:29.460 So.

00:29:30.700 And now in closing, um, I'm sure everybody from Merritt BC to Swift Current knows exactly

00:29:36.540 who you are.

00:29:37.160 Um, but for people outside of, uh, of that and, or for people who are just seeing you

00:29:43.920 as a new face and they're kind of interested in what you're up to, where can they find you?

00:29:48.960 And more importantly, I guess, where can they support you?

00:29:51.740 Because you're sort of, I think every day that you're online, you're staring down the

00:29:56.360 potential for a complete cancellation and a mob of pitchforks at your door. 0.99

00:30:01.360 Um, so how do people do that?

00:30:03.060 Um, well, we have a, uh, Patreon that, uh, uh, that we do, um, it's patreon.com slash

00:30:11.020 dangercats69.

00:30:12.480 Uh, there is female nudity on there just in case, if you don't like that, uh, um, and 0.96

00:30:19.960 yeah, I guess like our, our merch, um, dangercatshop.com, we just do some silly t-shirts and shit. 0.98

00:30:27.900 So. 0.89

00:30:28.080 They're fun.

00:30:28.680 They're great.

00:30:29.200 Your t-shirt guy is great.

00:30:30.460 Ride the liquor.

00:30:31.380 We got this one and paying homage to the great Metallica.

00:30:35.520 Yeah.

00:30:36.040 Um, yeah.

00:30:37.620 And, and you can follow us dangercats69 on all platforms.

00:30:41.380 And then myself, I'm unclehack69 on all platforms.

00:30:45.700 So it's, and if you're in Edmonton, August 20th, we're doing a roast battle here in the

00:30:52.860 city.

00:30:53.320 Okay.

00:30:53.880 And, uh, and if you're in Fort McBurray, we have a standup show, August 21st, the following

00:31:00.660 day.

00:31:01.860 Great.

00:31:02.660 Glad.

00:31:03.540 Um, thanks so much for your time.

00:31:05.100 Yeah.

00:31:05.300 Thanks for having me.

00:31:06.020 Yeah.

00:31:06.220 We'll, uh, we'll have you back on again very soon.

00:31:08.400 And I am, um, I think I'm going to go to that August 20th show because I feel like you're

00:31:13.040 going to be protested a little bit.

00:31:14.800 I hope so.

00:31:16.020 I encourage you.

00:31:17.120 Um, yeah, it's, it's, it'll be a lot of fun.

00:31:19.880 We got a lot of good comedians coming out. 0.94

00:31:21.740 And, uh, if you really enjoy filthy, dirty comedy and people shitting on one another, we 0.95

00:31:26.760 got, uh, a four man tournament and, uh, yeah, it, it should get gruesome in there. 0.96

00:31:34.220 It should get gruesome.

00:31:35.840 Great.

00:31:36.340 Thanks.

00:31:36.640 Thanks.

00:31:36.700 Thanks.

00:31:36.740 Thanks.

00:31:36.860 Thanks.

00:31:37.700 Thanks.

00:31:37.860 Thanks.

00:31:44.800 Well, friends, you made it to the end.

00:31:49.260 Maybe you learned some new swear words.

00:31:51.840 Who knows?

00:31:52.780 You know, there's something to be said for the, I guess, steely eyed way that Uncle

00:31:58.380 Hack is staring down and even welcoming the mob, embracing the mob, knowing that the people

00:32:04.120 who like him, the people who support him and the people who buy what he's selling and come

00:32:09.940 out to his shows and spend money there, they're the ones that really matter, not the ones who

00:32:17.380 would need, I don't know, a therapy animal after sitting through a three minute danger

00:32:21.580 cat video.

00:32:22.360 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:32:23.860 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:32:26.280 I'll see everybody back here at the same time in the same place next week.

00:32:30.560 And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

Rebel News Podcast - July 29, 2021

INTERVIEW： Uncle Hack of the Danger Cats

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