TRIGGERnometry - Dark Humour for Dark Times： Ben Bankas

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00:00:30.000 This whole idea that you don't feel safe

00:00:34.760 because somebody's making jokes

00:00:36.000 is so dangerous for society.

00:00:38.640 Some guy was trying to get people

00:00:40.140 to call the police during the show

00:00:41.820 to have me arrested for hate speech.

00:00:44.860 One of my audience members told me

00:00:46.600 that her union, teachers union,

00:00:48.380 sent her an email saying not to attend my show.

00:00:50.160 Imagine an email going out to a company

00:00:52.320 or an organization saying,

00:00:53.600 please do not attend this drag time story hour.

00:00:56.560 Improving your own life will do more for the country

00:00:59.040 than marching around with a sign

00:01:01.500 trying to get a comedy show canceled.

00:01:03.540 Be successful, start a business.

00:01:05.200 Clean your room.

00:01:05.840 Clean your room.

00:01:06.600 And I sound like a parent,

00:01:08.000 but the right needs to parent the left.

00:01:10.820 Your universities are incredibly prestigious.

00:01:13.620 You've got literally everything.

00:01:15.560 They've all been infiltrated.

00:01:16.500 All the universities are infiltrated by China. 0.99

00:01:19.900 We need to make the gay people 1.00

00:01:21.740 in charge of the country. 1.00

00:01:25.520 And then fill the country with mushrooms.

00:01:29.040 Ben Bankas, welcome to Trigonometry.

00:01:32.960 Thank you so much for having me.

00:01:34.300 Oh, man, it's awesome.

00:01:35.020 You are absolutely blowing up.

00:01:36.500 We were just talking before we started.

00:01:38.580 The reason we really like your stuff,

00:01:40.540 A, is you're very, very funny.

00:01:41.840 Just very funny.

00:01:42.900 But also, I think you're very authentic

00:01:44.940 with the voice that you represent,

00:01:46.500 which is like a lot of comedians

00:01:47.800 who do offensive material,

00:01:49.840 they play that sort of like guilty liberal card.

00:01:52.720 It's like, well, you know, I'm not woke,

00:01:55.080 but I'm also not that other evil thing,

00:01:57.340 whereas you embrace the evil.

00:01:58.460 What are we talking, Ricky Gervais?

00:02:00.500 No.

00:02:02.500 I just think he stays out of politics.

00:02:04.180 But you know what I mean, right?

00:02:05.220 Yeah.

00:02:05.700 No, he takes good pictures of his cat.

00:02:10.240 We're starting strong here.

00:02:11.620 I like it.

00:02:12.580 I mean, look, I say things that I think of, and that's what the art form is.

00:02:18.600 And there are things that I would say to probably my mom if she was still alive,

00:02:23.580 and to make her laugh.

00:02:24.780 You know, growing up, my mom had a pretty dark sense of humor, 0.99

00:02:28.180 she was a high school teacher 35 years in scarborough ontario which is a little bit of a

00:02:34.660 rough suburb of toronto and she always you know there was always things happening at her school

00:02:40.180 you know robberies and murders and um she had a student shoot somebody in the in a bus with

00:02:46.500 a sawed-off shotgun on the you know and it was a kid that she had just thrown out of her class like

00:02:51.860 a week before and so she you know she saw stuff and she had a real life and and you know her

00:02:58.020 like she was born in 1948 so right after the war and stuff so i always made jokes about whatever i

00:03:07.540 wanted at home there was never a a line you know maybe if it was really bad joke my mom would go 1.00

00:03:15.140 but that's what comedy is sometimes it is you you're making somebody laugh and they're going

00:03:19.460 stop that's not the right time but when it's on a stage and the people have paid for it

00:03:25.380 it is the right time and i don't believe in censoring myself especially on stage sometimes i

00:03:32.820 i make the joke with my audience i'll make a really bad joke i'll be like i'm not posting that

00:03:36.420 one and then you post it and then i post it yeah no no i don't some some i mean some of my

00:03:42.580 my worst stuff is not being posted yet because it's for the audience to come and pay and

00:03:47.780 see you said i believe in free speech i believe in speech for pay

00:03:50.660 well you got into uh trouble uh if you can say it that way with your stuff about ice

00:03:57.320 right um what was your take on on the whole ice thing i mean as i mean i'm i'm canadian so i'm an

00:04:04.500 immigrant and uh i think we need to get rid of these people i don't know i don't know what to 1.00

00:04:09.860 say it's the same thing in canada canada does not have ice i think the number is now around

00:04:15.200 400 000 people waiting for deportation who've had or more maybe there's millions but officially i

00:04:22.560 think there's four or five hundred thousand in canada there's no ice there's no deporting those

00:04:27.300 people they are they just get a notice and they're supposed to self-deport and that's not good for

00:04:34.380 the country to just have a bunch of illegal i mean right now they're in canada has irgc members and

00:04:40.700 and stuff in the country and you know during this like the canada's becoming a safe haven for

00:04:48.700 you know irgc members i mean is that a good thing i don't think so so i i think that

00:04:55.340 i i believe in a safe i want to have a safe healthy beautiful country whether it's canada

00:05:02.460 america wherever i'm living i want it to be beautiful and amazing and and the people who

00:05:07.660 are pro or anti-ice are also in favor of letting people out of jail for committing serious crimes

00:05:16.540 and um you know giving money to illegal immigrants it's it i i just don't know how i can be in favor

00:05:23.580 of that stuff but you didn't get in trouble for that you got in trouble for a joke about ice

00:05:28.700 right yeah something to do with renee good yeah yeah i made a joke about it right when it happened

00:05:33.900 and you know it was it was very funny for my audience and the people who are upset of course

00:05:40.900 they're going to be upset you know but they canceled a bunch of your shows right is that

00:05:44.240 what happened no i think that i mean a lot of this is interesting a lot of people are like

00:05:48.360 are your shows all getting canceled no not at all i mean we had shows in minnesota got canceled

00:05:54.260 because there was an active riot and i mean i should have canceled it myself people were like

00:06:01.520 you should maybe not go like people were worried about me and the venue canceled because i mean

00:06:07.280 they said it was for safety reasons the real reason is they were liberal and the people who

00:06:12.180 ran the business were liberal so even though democrats because they believe in like communism

00:06:17.540 now they don't care about making money so it's like oh six sold out shows six sold out shows

00:06:23.300 we'll cancel them because it's for the greater good of the greater renee good i'm just saying

00:06:29.840 it's not so yeah this this idea that shows are being canceled is not in america is not true

00:06:36.480 canada they canceled a few they have these the canadian anti-hate network and all these uh

00:06:43.440 organizations that are paid for they just found out are paid for by the liberal party in canada

00:06:49.240 which is like the democrat party in canada uh through back channels apparently um and um that

00:06:57.440 organization's goal is to shut down people like me i guess that don't aren't censoring themselves

00:07:05.320 or aren't woke basically if you're not woke you shouldn't be allowed to perform you shouldn't be

00:07:09.900 allowed to be platformed you shouldn't be allowed to blah blah blah even when the shows are sold out

00:07:14.280 and that's wrong i mean it's obviously wrong and a lot of it has to do with in canada if you're

00:07:21.820 going to be at a venue a lot of them are city funded or or or you know government funded venues

00:07:27.900 and they're saying he shouldn't be allowed to perform there because it's government funded and 0.92

00:07:31.560 they have a mandate to have dei and and you know not what you know all those bullshit things that 0.92

00:07:41.560 they write in those you know our mission statement is that we acknowledge that we are on stolen land 0.95

00:07:48.600 and there is no freedom of speech allowed in this establishment.

00:07:52.380 And if you say anything naughty, you'll be, you know.

00:07:54.900 They have great names, though, those organizations.

00:07:57.080 They do.

00:07:57.460 The anti-hate ones.

00:07:58.700 We have one of them in the UK called Hope Not Hate.

00:08:01.680 And all they do is go around doxing anyone who's not far left, basically.

00:08:04.420 Well, yeah, it's like, so, oh, you're anti-hate.

00:08:05.880 What do you do?

00:08:06.360 Oh, we hate Ben Benkos.

00:08:08.920 And we discriminate.

00:08:10.360 We don't discriminate against broad groups.

00:08:12.960 We discriminate about one person at a time.

00:08:15.620 And that's apparently okay.

00:08:18.600 but the shows were sold out i mean we're talking i just had a show nanaimo bc 900 people sold out

00:08:24.920 it's been sold out for like a month and a half and then they cancel it you know there was a whole

00:08:30.600 thing they had they had a city it was a city funded venue but not affiliated with the city

00:08:37.080 or something so people went to the they protested they protested the city council meeting they got

00:08:43.560 into the city council meeting they raised this concern the mayor of nanaimo said that well we

00:08:50.240 don't want to be part of censorship even though his material is disgusting and horrific and

00:08:55.140 and awful but it's we don't want to take part in censorship so they basically said we're not going

00:08:59.720 to pressure the venue to shut it down but we will make a statement that we this is the new thing

00:09:04.860 something bad happens let's make it we make a statement reaffirming our uh commitment to

00:09:12.040 diversity inclusion what does that even mean it means nothing and so they sent that statement to

00:09:18.300 the the venue and of course there's somebody woke working at the venue who goes finally

00:09:22.820 there's a statement this means we can cancel and then they get some woke lawyer to look at it and

00:09:28.480 the woke lawyer goes well with the statement you just say that we didn't feel safe the staff was

00:09:33.580 didn't feel safe this whole idea that you don't feel safe because somebody's making jokes

00:09:37.280 is so dangerous for society the idea that it's like safety has to do with words is not it's it's

00:09:45.180 just not true it's it's a lie and it's being peddled and that venue uh is is getting bombarded

00:09:53.900 by my fans of course so this is the weird thing venues will cancel my shows in canada

00:10:00.760 if 10 people complain apparently you know if they're loud enough or you know okay oh there

00:10:08.160 was 50 okay there's 50 that they gathered over we had 900 just buying tickets then plus the other

00:10:14.740 thousands that wanted to buy tickets that couldn't get tickets plus the millions online

00:10:18.920 and the venue seems to just only worry about liberal complaints because the second they cancel

00:10:26.140 my show, what do they do? They turn off comments on all their posts. They turn off reviews on

00:10:33.120 Facebook, any review, any negative review on that venue that says you guys canceled the show. I'm

00:10:39.620 very upset about this. They just mark as spam and get it deleted. So if they don't care about

00:10:46.300 complaints coming from the right or from people who already bought tickets, who legitimately were

00:10:50.680 going to go to your venue, but care about complaints from people who are never going to

00:10:54.060 go to your venue might not even live in your city but are calling in is that a free country is that

00:11:00.720 free speech no and this the left pushes back and goes well it is free speech but it's not free of

00:11:06.920 consequences it's a sold out show it's been on sale for seven months we sold it out i did my part

00:11:13.120 the venue decides to cancel it because they're getting complaints that is a that is a violation

00:11:18.800 of free speech i'm sorry in my eyes maybe i don't know what you know british columbia and canada has

00:11:24.340 some really crazy laws so i'm sure you know they they were suggesting the guy some guy was trying

00:11:30.840 to get people to call the police during the show to have me arrested for hate speech

00:11:35.320 when did it become the case that nerds like these people like i'm just really offended and i mean 0.94

00:11:45.860 we used to take the piss out of them back in the day these people were losers and we all used to 0.85

00:11:50.820 laugh at them still are yeah and they still are they'd be the people at school who would grass 0.97

00:11:56.360 you up to the teachers like he said something nasty but now it's like oh we listen to these 0.92

00:12:02.140 people guess it's the payback we get for bullying the crap out of them in high school right they uh 0.94

00:12:08.780 we bullied them and and then we bullied them in university when they took liberal arts degrees 0.96

00:12:13.280 and we said you're not going to have a job you're not going to be anybody you're going to be nobody

00:12:17.120 you're going to be working at mcdonald's we used to do that at my uh alma mater in queen's university

00:12:22.880 in kingston ontario the frosh week the first week like freshman week and they would you know the uh

00:12:29.280 the engineers would say to the the arts majors their thing was mcdonald's mcdonald's that you're

00:12:35.680 going to work at mcdonald's because your career your degree means nothing so those people got upset

00:12:41.600 and those people were like maybe i'll get into politics and then they got into politics

00:12:47.440 and then all the other people who were bullied and felt you know done wrong by

00:12:52.800 all voted for them and wanted yes we're going to change things we're going to get rid of the jocks

00:12:57.900 and the meanies and and the you know the toxic men and we're going to replace it with feminized 0.97

00:13:04.660 men and and woke women and and lgbtq plus a 2ia and uh you know bipoc and all this stuff 0.81

00:13:12.980 and they don't want to lead for everybody that's the big difference is that people

00:13:19.480 who were in power before who weren't like ultra left did primarily they they would make speeches

00:13:26.940 and say we're we're trying to make we're here for everybody even though we won you know your guy

00:13:32.120 loss but we want to make sure that you know that we care about you and your problems and for the

00:13:36.120 most part they did conservatives were in power in canada uh homosexuality was not illegal uh

00:13:43.560 it was so what do we win some you lose something

00:13:49.880 but i don't think homosexuality should be illegal but but i know but but that's the point is that

00:13:55.880 they think people on the right right are like homophobic anti-semitic that it's like not true

00:14:01.160 at all a lot of people on the right are pro-semitic or jews or are jews and like i have a joke about

00:14:09.080 you know people like oh the right they they don't like gay people it's like not true if i meet a gay 0.96

00:14:12.920 guy and he goes i like trump i'm like oh maybe i like dick you know it's but it's the the point is 0.78

00:14:19.240 that we should all be getting along and respecting each other's differences and if i have a difference 0.82

00:14:26.840 of opinion and a difference of joke and you don't like it don't go to the show ignore it

00:14:34.160 and move on with your life and if you can't well I guess it was a good joke has it come to the

00:14:40.720 point do you think in Canada because I do think in the UK a friend of the show a magnificent

00:14:46.060 comedian called Scott Capuro he regularly tells me he calls me up I go Scott how's this week been

00:14:51.640 he went well I played a comedy club uh recently in London and I got reported to the European

00:14:56.760 Court of Human Rights

00:14:57.900 and then seriously

00:15:02.480 like people

00:15:03.220 and I think

00:15:04.900 the problem is

00:15:05.820 it's you're dealing

00:15:06.960 with children

00:15:07.480 the more you allow

00:15:08.920 this sort of

00:15:09.660 behaviour to continue

00:15:10.860 the more you embolden it

00:15:12.500 and the more it happens

00:15:13.480 whereas if you just

00:15:14.300 turn around and go

00:15:15.320 you're being

00:15:16.480 to use British vernacular

00:15:18.140 a bit of a minge mate 1.00

00:15:19.420 grow up

00:15:20.700 I think we'd see

00:15:22.200 this stamped out

00:15:22.880 pretty quick

00:15:23.460 is that us saying it

00:15:24.820 to them or them

00:15:25.660 yeah yeah go but if everybody did it not just us but if literally everybody just turned around and

00:15:31.540 went you can have your tantrum but ultimately i don't care i think a lot of conservatives

00:15:37.000 traditionally people who voted conservatively weren't that involved in everything they had

00:15:43.160 their jobs they had their good life and they go okay and then i vote conservative because

00:15:46.900 screw all these people i don't want to give them money i don't care about them which is your right

00:15:51.860 you have a right to not care you don't have to care about everything what about the what about 0.99

00:15:58.460 i don't care i'm not allowed i'm allowed to not care so um i don't know what was the question

00:16:06.580 so i guess the question is is that if we tell them to stop well or even just go look you can do it

00:16:13.380 but it's going to make no difference have your tantrum have your tweets whatever else it's not

00:16:18.780 going to change anything eventually it would stop working wouldn't it correct and a big problem is

00:16:25.080 again in canada the medium-sized venues have these mission statements that they came up with i don't

00:16:33.900 know why but they they came up with these woke mission statements and it gives ammunition to

00:16:39.180 the people who want my show canceled to say hey look you're on your website it says you support

00:16:43.520 fairness and being nice and no bad words or whatever and then this guy's doing the opposite

00:16:50.700 of this and then they go oh no and then the person in charge who's probably unsophisticated

00:16:56.960 probably doesn't understand what's going on in the world from both sides is looking at it from

00:17:01.940 one perspective goes good we can get rid of them we don't have to do it and we can just move on

00:17:07.920 and they think that they're going to be uh the only backlash is going to come from the left

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00:18:24.700 And stop being managed by the media.

00:18:27.180 It seems like America's kind of got past the point

00:18:29.880 that Francis is talking about though, right?

00:18:31.540 Like my sense, Britain,

00:18:34.240 and by your telling Canada as well, hasn't. 0.98

00:18:37.400 but in the u.s it feels like no one actually gives a shit anymore right thanks to trump 0.97

00:18:41.740 i mean he's the guy openly saying retard and um you know uh what what speech has been limited 0.99

00:18:50.240 by trump according to the left it would be you can't say that you want to destroy america and 0.98

00:18:56.880 uh kill all the jews you're not allowed to do that anymore i mean that's not that that you were 0.97

00:19:02.200 never allowed it's just that the democrats were bad you know wouldn't bat an eye at it even though 0.99

00:19:07.640 they knew it was illegal just like the uh immigration they knew the immigration was coming 0.99

00:19:12.600 in illegally but uh it's gonna help us so let's let's keep doing it so there is a lot of gaslighting

00:19:19.880 going i don't know if you saw this story yesterday as we're recording this um somebody there was a

00:19:24.620 protest outside ma'am danny's mansion in new york right and then somebody threw two uh improvised

00:19:31.880 explosive devices and they were and most of the mainstream media reported it like like i just

00:19:37.580 told you what they failed to say is the devices were thrown by two islamists at the protesters

00:19:42.740 who were outside like the the amount of just misrepresentation of what's going on is quite

00:19:47.500 incredible well if there's an incident where somebody throws a bomb at a protest the main

00:19:56.180 question is wait what was the protest and that's wrong i mean if you're throwing a bomb at any

00:20:01.720 protest that's a big problem but for some reason if it was a liberal leftist protest they would

00:20:06.540 have said uh white supremacist uh attacks uh peaceful lgbtq anti-abortion rally uh or pro

00:20:18.040 pro-abortion rally if it was an anti-abortion rally that's the thing pro-abortion rally

00:20:22.260 somebody tries to blow it up how you know uh how dare you these people anti-abortion rally well

00:20:29.280 they were they were causing some ruckus you know they were causing some problems out there and

00:20:35.040 it shouldn't be like that free speech is free speech you want to say what you want to say

00:20:40.580 if you want to protest protest if that's being attacked violently it should be called out and

00:20:46.420 i saw that mom donnie half called it out but really was morally more calling out the protest

00:20:51.180 and the thing that I always find surprising though Ben is we talk about your comedy being

00:20:57.580 offensive I think back to like what me and my mates used to joke about 20 years ago and what

00:21:04.080 goes on in people's whatsapp groups if our whatsapp groups anybody's whatsapp groups were

00:21:10.640 doxxed it'll be over for all of us so actually what you're doing is a more honest version of

00:21:16.060 comedy where you're going hey you know these fucked up thoughts that we all have I'm gonna 0.96

00:21:20.280 say them in a funny way i'm doing something different and people can argue that people can 0.91

00:21:26.980 hate on me people can whatever but i know what i'm doing in my heart and i know that it's a good

00:21:31.460 thing for this world and for regular people to be able to feel free to express themselves

00:21:37.260 and not feel afraid um and and every time i make a joke and i post it and it gets 10 million views

00:21:43.520 that broadens the free speech array or what's what's you know and that's what the left really

00:21:50.980 hates about my comedy if he makes that joke that means somebody else is going to make another joke

00:21:55.640 and then somebody else is good yeah because you guys are trying to stop that you're trying to

00:22:00.240 suppress free speech and then turn around like in canada they'll shut down a show and then the

00:22:05.740 people shutting it down will make a statement and go we believe in free speech but when it comes to

00:22:13.100 this we don't that's you don't believe in free speech why not just come out and be honest be

00:22:17.540 like we are against free speech free speech is dangerous we don't like it because that's the

00:22:21.800 reality i'm sick of hearing i'm all in favor of freedom of speech except this guy really pushed

00:22:29.220 what are you talking about that's what free speech is for but it's also just not the fact that what

00:22:35.920 you're saying aren't opinions this is what really annoys me you're a comedian you do comedy the

00:22:40.640 purpose of comedy by its nature is that you don't take it seriously you're not a politician getting

00:22:46.380 up there and going well she died that's a good thing yeah might have to be though might have to

00:22:51.100 be a politician don't become a politician but doesn't that frustrate you in a way um

00:22:57.300 i mean it doesn't really frustrate i think the more angry people get i mean

00:23:02.400 good really good let him get mad at a joke okay so i'm if anything i'm actually doing the people

00:23:11.080 who are angry a favor because instead of being angry at their own lives and their own failures

00:23:15.900 and what's going on in the world and being angry that they can't pay their bills they get to just

00:23:21.540 go online and look at my comedy and go this is what i'm going to spend time on this is what i'm

00:23:25.720 going to be mad about so you're welcome to the people who are angry that i've given you a break

00:23:30.860 from your own problems i do think you've hit on something very true there which and and it's true

00:23:35.020 of like everybody on all sides like you know you in britain you go in england you go to a football

00:23:39.860 game there's some very very angry men about somebody who's kicked the ball the wrong way

00:23:44.620 it's probably your divorce it's not that you know what i mean and it's like that with everything i

00:23:49.080 think the internet just allows people to channel their rage yeah the failings and things that we 0.91

00:23:55.580 all have to deal with in life at some figure that they claim is right ruin fucking everything 0.96

00:24:00.720 because he told the joke in a comedy club you know they're not necessarily angry about the material 0.67

00:24:05.820 or what I'm saying they're angry that I'm doing it in a way that is successful and in a way that

00:24:13.940 is that if I did it on a podcast they'd go that was it buddy that buddy and they still say that

00:24:20.040 on my stand-up but they know it's not true because they're watching people die laughing

00:24:24.240 and clapping and that that's what really pisses them off and then they go okay well let me do the 0.98

00:24:29.940 math if he 23rd tickets are 35 dollars a piece he did 700 seats oh shit cancel it we can't let 0.98

00:24:36.040 them get money we can't let them be successful we can't let them because they know that once 0.93

00:24:39.940 you get successful once you have money you your words mean a lot more and and you're a that's

00:24:46.920 that's a much better form of protest than standing outside in the rain with a sign screaming with a

00:24:53.580 whistle is to get that's that's all good but how about i just get rich and then say what i want

00:25:00.120 that's scary for people because when you're rich and you have some heat behind you people are gonna

00:25:06.160 um listen and and like you said it's comedy i'm trying to make people laugh and when they laugh

00:25:13.120 that is a threat to the left because they are anti-humor right now they're anti don't laugh

00:25:21.440 at that you can't laugh at that here's what you can laugh at and to them a good joke is something

00:25:25.980 that only if it's not doesn't offend anybody doesn't hurt anybody that's not gonna make me

00:25:30.460 laugh necessarily maybe if I'm at my you know a kid's recital I'll you know I I laugh at some

00:25:36.200 borderline woke stuff and honestly some woke comedy it's offensive the other way talking

00:25:41.460 about Trump and sometimes I do laugh I I don't get angry I don't watch comedy and get angry ever

00:25:48.160 I'm curious what the other side's doing.

00:25:50.480 I watch and do their thing.

00:25:53.240 I would never say, I hope he doesn't, he shouldn't make it.

00:25:55.840 He shouldn't be paid.

00:25:57.220 No, do your thing.

00:25:58.220 Make your money.

00:25:59.840 And you can appreciate a good joke,

00:26:01.660 even if you don't agree with the premise of it.

00:26:03.500 I do that all the time.

00:26:04.520 For sure.

00:26:05.260 I mean, I'll laugh.

00:26:06.660 And that's the thing is that people laugh at my,

00:26:08.360 some of the people complaining about my comedy,

00:26:10.120 I bet you anything did laugh.

00:26:12.000 They watched it.

00:26:12.880 They laughed and they go, oh my God, I'm so mad that I laughed.

00:26:15.480 and then they they're how dare you this wasn't funny and it's like you laugh

00:26:20.360 just just relax it's we're in a very tumultuous world and crazy time and the best way to get

00:26:29.700 through hard times is to laugh that's what soldiers do that's what paramedics do that's

00:26:34.640 what doctors do that's what everybody who has a tough job and a tough life does and

00:26:40.060 you know the left needs to loosen up stop with the stop dying on the hill of free speech and

00:26:47.400 what the other side is allowed to make jokes of what the other side is allowed to you guys

00:26:51.560 do something better then canada there was a video it's absolutely hilarious i don't know

00:26:58.360 we'll show it to you later but the cbc which is like the bbc um made you know so after my

00:27:07.080 one of my shows was canceled in kitchener i think ontario now they're getting another

00:27:13.720 woke comedy group which is like a 65 year old woman who has like 200 followers and like some

00:27:20.600 other lady who's like not just nobody and they're gonna do a comedy show for good and a comedy show 1.00

00:27:29.160 it's called laugh good or whatever and it's it's to to promote and it's we have 12 local comics

00:27:35.640 so complete nobodies and this is this is our alternative we're giving an alternative for

00:27:42.180 ben bankers no you're not you're canceling my show and then you're saying this is what yours

00:27:46.820 allowed and then nobody's gonna buy tickets nobody's gonna go to that show but that's fine

00:27:52.060 let's let's that's they almost rather have nobody show up to the show but it's not offensive

00:27:58.360 than offensive and it's sold out because the way they portray you is that you're this kind of

00:28:04.180 edgy dark lord who lives in the recesses of the internet and the ever loads of people that i know

00:28:12.000 and i would include normies under this umbrella love your stuff share your stuff you are the

00:28:17.640 mainstream you are far more mainstream in that sense than somebody who's like i don't know what

00:28:22.660 a woman is they want to discredit me especially in the canadian media they want to make it like

00:28:28.320 i think in this video the woman was saying he is this new rage bait comedy it's like oh yeah

00:28:34.160 you mean like lenny bruce right rage bait comedy from 1962 i mean this new phenomenon where a guy

00:28:40.720 goes on stage says something really funny about a recent topic that's sensitive and everybody laughs

00:28:46.400 they are it's pure propaganda they have a billion dollars behind them and i'm an independent artist

00:28:53.440 and i'm canadian getting cancelled in my own country by the canadian arts council and all that

00:29:00.080 those people in order to put in their terrible comics that nobody knows and in their and they're

00:29:05.760 so stupid that they think that my fans who are regular people are going to get a refund notice 0.97

00:29:13.120 on their ticket for my show and go well i'm glad i'm glad because that was going to be really bad 0.99

00:29:20.480 What else is there to see? Oh, comedy, two female queer comics doing an interpretive dance. Let's go to that instead. I mean, are they that stupid that they really think that they're going to convince my fans who are working people, jocks, ex-hockey players, cop, lawyers, professionals, business owners, 1.00

00:29:46.380 They're going to go and watch an extremely far left performance of nobody, no name comics. 0.99

00:29:52.000 And this is what they, you know, people, it's like, they just think like, they just bought

00:29:55.820 tickets.

00:29:56.320 They didn't know what they were buying tickets.

00:29:57.620 No, they're my fans.

00:29:59.800 There's right now 1.4 something million between Facebook and Instagram.

00:30:04.720 And they want to see me. 1.00

00:30:06.340 They don't want to see your crap. 0.99

00:30:08.200 And they're going to, all those, all the venues that have tried or want to cancel in Canada, 0.99

00:30:15.280 they're going to be begging for me to come back in a couple years when i'm you know and they're

00:30:21.940 going to say we're sorry we did we got new management we got i'm going to say i'm not

00:30:25.660 coming back there man i'm not supporting a business that does that i think you're overestimating

00:30:29.900 what people's ability to change their mind man they're not going to change their mind they're

00:30:34.080 just going to be they're going to be kicked out because and because they do you really think that 0.67

00:30:39.620 ben because yourself they since they believe in communism they don't give a shit about the money 0.95

00:30:43.600 they don't but it's gonna i have faith that it will change i mean pierre poliev 0.99

00:30:48.500 maybe he'll win if not maybe i'll have to fucking run 0.93

00:30:52.680 i'm not gonna do that we just had pierre on the show i know i know i i listened to it and you 0.95

00:30:58.940 know he i've met pierre and i really respect pierre but he needs to win because he needs to

00:31:06.000 go a little bit harder and i've said this to a few mps in canada that i know and because look

00:31:12.580 of trump he went really hard he went hard okay and he won so you either go hard and win or you

00:31:22.660 pretend to be kind of in the middle and you lose the people you're going to the way you're going

00:31:27.740 to win an election in canada and i mean in the states this is what happened is you're going to

00:31:32.780 activate voters that never voted stop trying to win over you know the new the little india we're

00:31:41.480 going to go to little india and we're going to put on a turban the white politician puts on a

00:31:45.320 turban and goes please no no stop it just say what you actually want to do we're going to deport all 1.00

00:31:53.880 these people go go into the little india be like hey who's here legally raise your hand who's not

00:31:58.720 okay get out but i'm saying that there has to be some some aggressive policy like if i was to run

00:32:07.960 for prime minister in canada i would say we're going to get rid of all wokeness in every 1.00

00:32:17.440 establishment in the country that is government funded anybody who's government funded we are

00:32:22.760 going to if you want to be woke you can be private and you can lose money but the government's not

00:32:27.120 going to lose money and sub subsidize something that uh like these venues why does the government

00:32:34.060 have to subsidize a venue if they're going to cancel arbitrarily different performances

00:32:39.500 and lose money why we should be we should canada should be encouraging all the

00:32:46.540 best comedians in america to come to all of the venues and treat them with the utmost respect

00:32:51.900 and the utmost uh be super welcoming especially if they're selling out especially if the people

00:32:57.420 that the government represents who are the taxpayers are buying tickets to the venue

00:33:04.060 that's the whole their whole argument is it's a taxpayer venue yeah you know who's a taxpayer

00:33:07.980 me you know who's a taxpayer all the all the people who are going to the show you know who

00:33:12.060 isn't or barely is a taxpayer people complaining well oh yeah they're a taxpayer but they got a tax

00:33:17.900 return they're they're actually getting paid by the government they're not tax they're not a

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00:35:05.100 sponsoring this episode but you don't think and i honestly don't know about canada but when i think

00:35:10.500 about the uk and there seem to be some similarities i go i think the reason that a lot of politicians

00:35:15.760 in this kind of center right don't go the trump route is that the public are very different like

00:35:22.500 the population of the countries like or they're bought and paid for but but you what i'm getting

00:35:27.700 that is like there's a big cultural difference between canada and america and american and

00:35:32.860 britain no i mean ari matthias is great joke i think he went to canada uh we had him on the show

00:35:38.140 a while back and he just went it's great to be in canada as i call it gay america you know like

00:35:42.580 is there is very creative never heard that one but you know but like if an american made that

00:35:51.000 joke in britain the there is a kernel of truth to it in that people see the world differently

00:35:56.600 people are much more they are on on the balance of things more work or at least there's more of them

00:36:02.200 you know is that not fair what did pierre lose by like a percentage or something like one or two

00:36:08.200 percent it's so close it's so 50 50 right and and that's of the people that vote which is only like

00:36:15.080 60 or 70 of the whole country so that 30 they're mostly not woke because

00:36:23.640 both people vote that's why they keep winning because they're so organized and they're they've

00:36:28.760 got their organizations and they're in their unions and sending out emails oh that was another

00:36:33.400 one in sudbury ontario one of one of my audience members told me that her union her union teachers

00:36:39.320 union sent her an email saying not to attend my show so that's where they're at but um the teachers

00:36:45.000 you teachers union sent an email to the teachers in sudbury ontario saying do not attend the ben

00:36:49.800 bankers comedy show it's hate filled blah blah blah do you know at least i were right but you

00:36:56.440 know what's interesting about teachers is that the good ones they have the darkest sense of humor

00:37:02.840 oh because the thing yeah because when i was working in schools the the stuff that you deal

00:37:08.580 with on a day-to-day basis here's the thing there aren't any good ones anymore well the good one was

00:37:14.320 the one that came to my show and ignored that but there's no imagine an email going out to a company

00:37:19.440 or an organization saying please do not attend this drag time story hour this is that can't

00:37:24.940 that oh that's that's and even the show in nanaimo that they canceled 900 seats the next day they

00:37:30.640 announced an all-ages drag event literally the next day they announced it and that was their

00:37:35.680 like we're so sorry that we even were about to maybe have him here so let's have as many gay 0.98

00:37:41.180 people on stage with their penis as loud as possible so um the people who love my comedy 0.98

00:37:49.740 are definitely you know most in canada i've got you most of them if not 99 of them would become 0.95

00:37:55.020 american like this or be okay with 51st state and the reason is because of like what you said

00:38:00.940 they're trying so hard to convince the people on the right that you have no option your opinion is

00:38:06.220 invalid you're not allowed to have it you'll be fired if you have it you're a comedian you like

00:38:11.420 this guy he's been cancer we're not going to allow him to perform and so it pushes people to be like

00:38:16.540 well maybe we should just get an you know be part of america where free speech is allowed because

00:38:20.940 why is why are we being pushed and pulled by the left who is not the dominant force in canada in 0.76

00:38:27.420 term financially just politically you have a bunch of poor loser people protesting things you know

00:38:34.380 like how on a scale of 110 how insane do you have to be to protest a comedy show 0.50

00:38:41.020 like how like are you like do you just do that and then after you're like

00:38:46.140 oh that was a tough day all right tomorrow uh we gotta talk to my accountant so i gotta

00:38:51.140 talk to my lawyer no they're they're nobodies right so the answer is

00:38:56.880 a trump style thing would work well in britain and in canada it's just a matter of

00:39:04.960 stop being afraid that you're going to lose stop being afraid to lose what i find interesting is

00:39:10.480 how unaware these people are that like 40 years ago was exactly the way the other way around and

00:39:15.720 it was the religious right that was protesting and canceling comedians i mean bill hicks final

00:39:20.720 letterman appearance that wasn't broadcast because i think he came out as being pro-lesbian

00:39:24.600 made a joke that sounded like he was you know daddy's two like billy's two mummies or whatever

00:39:29.900 um and other george carlin george carlin wasn't being arrested because he wasn't woke enough

00:39:35.360 like do you know what i mean so it's it's funny how the very movement and ideology

00:39:40.140 that came up on this idea of like well artists should be free to be creative and shouldn't be

00:39:46.140 restricted by the state and they're now doing the exact same thing it is incredible they're doing it

00:39:51.620 in an even more aggressive way because you know back then it had never been done so it was kind

00:39:58.120 of like where's this coming from why are they swearing so much why are they talking about

00:40:02.280 vulgarity um and sex and and all these things like when lenny bruce would be arrested and george

00:40:08.080 carlin and and richard bryer and um now it's like we had the 80s and 90s and the 2000s and now all

00:40:18.120 of a sudden it's let's go back let's actually no no no all that stuff we've been doing for 30 years

00:40:23.940 that people have been loving that's been making billions and billions of dollars for the

00:40:26.940 entertainment industry and hollywood and made all these stars famous and made jimmy kimmel famous

00:40:31.600 because he was doing blackface and you know made it jimmy fallon did black hey everybody's doing

00:40:36.100 black but now only those people can be famous and those people that were bad before are now the most 0.65

00:40:44.120 woke and nobody can come into the industry that's what it is because really to break out in the

00:40:49.460 industry you have to be different you have to say what you really think and be yourself and yeah

00:40:54.140 maybe in 20 30 years when you know maybe i'll be like you know what some of what i said was

00:41:00.840 a little too far but that's because you already have money right you know i'm saying so you've

00:41:06.720 already made it it's uh and by the way you don't want to lose it there's other part of it which

00:41:10.800 is like, they all have to act like they're super woke,

00:41:13.840 even if a lot of them aren't.

00:41:15.320 Because if you push back against this,

00:41:17.800 well, you did blackface. 1.00

00:41:19.680 Here's a fucking photo on the front page 1.00

00:41:21.120 of the New York Times. 1.00

00:41:22.180 What are you going to do now?

00:41:23.400 They're worth enough money to speak their mind.

00:41:25.320 It's pretty, I think it's now,

00:41:26.480 it's just that they truly are and have been brainwashed.

00:41:29.040 And I think that even millionaires

00:41:32.660 who are part of the Hollywood system

00:41:36.140 are being brainwashed.

00:41:38.120 And, you know, they're, I mean,

00:41:39.040 people are coming to their house.

00:41:40.800 you know and the fbi is coming to your house and going maybe we'll do a little more like this maybe

00:41:44.960 the shtick goes a little this way i don't know if that's actually happening but if you're a late

00:41:49.640 night tv show there is some affiliation with like public policy and and and there's a reason why

00:41:56.280 they're doing it so it's not purely money because they think if you know how much is jimmy gimme

00:42:01.840 worth i don't think it's about money it's about status it's about status and friendship groups

00:42:06.680 whatever like you have you have a cozy life you have your friends you have your you the the golf

00:42:11.800 club that you all of that and people fear i think losing being ostracized by their community

00:42:18.780 a lot more than they fear losing money actually or losing future earnings having friends is

00:42:24.380 overrated if you have time to have friends you're doing something wrong i mean you know

00:42:29.840 i mean you're you're a friend but like it's nice to have but he couldn't even say the word when

00:42:34.460 you know we're not sitting on the couch playing xbox for four hours you know saying like we're

00:42:40.760 adults this is you know do i go i have a family once you have a family and you're working all the

00:42:46.000 time who's who's your friend right nobody right your agent you know you're gonna find out one day

00:42:53.240 that is not true but well maybe not but i do think it's important i mean look i'd rather be

00:42:59.780 friends with people i'm paying because then i can fire them i don't want to be friends with them

00:43:05.060 true friendship right then i mean that show business friendship but yeah i think the thing

00:43:09.780 is as well is that you know once you get to a certain point you define yourself by having the

00:43:17.320 jimmy kimmel show are you really jimmy kimmel without the jimmy kimmel show and also you see

00:43:22.280 a lot of people who work in legacy media there's this fear because on a part of on a level they

00:43:28.420 got given something they got given an opportunity now to be fair to all of them they made the most

00:43:33.220 of that opportunity the show became successful whatever but there's still a part of it that was

00:43:37.600 given to you you were given that opportunity no one gave the opportunity to you but you built it

00:43:43.040 off your own back which means that you are far more stable and secure than even the jimmy kimmels

00:43:48.220 of this world who knows that at a split second it can be taken away from them well when jimmy

00:43:53.540 kimmel made the comments about uh charlie kirk and they took his show off the air and there was

00:43:58.520 this whole like fake thing where it's like cancel culture is coming to the you know the trump shut

00:44:05.020 it down and then he was back in the air two days later so it was never like he was shut down it

00:44:10.660 was never like he stopped getting paid it was all fake now here's my question to jimmy kimmel

00:44:16.260 you think that there's

00:44:19.180 a lack of freedom of speech

00:44:21.300 for people on the left

00:44:22.380 well how about change your show all of a sudden

00:44:25.480 and go completely right

00:44:27.000 and you know just go like

00:44:29.120 Gutfeld be on the right

00:44:31.300 see what happens

00:44:33.020 see what happens

00:44:35.040 will your speech be taken away

00:44:36.620 because that's the true test

00:44:38.540 you know what I'm saying

00:44:39.540 number one

00:44:40.880 they might question it until

00:44:44.200 the viewership goes up

00:44:46.220 got fell gets more views than than all of those other late night tv shows

00:44:51.680 why because is it because he's he's not lying i don't even think some of the people like the

00:44:59.420 jimmy jimmy this and jimmy that they don't even believe the stuff they're pushing like you said

00:45:03.620 they're just they're doing a job and um they're doing it well in the sense that they'll cry on

00:45:10.700 they'll cry they'll cry on command if they got to prove their point or maybe maybe they do believe

00:45:15.320 I don't know. But the point is, if they switched up and tried to become right wing, they would have their speech taken away very quickly by those networks, in my opinion.

00:45:23.920 But it's also it's not about being right wing. It's just about being honest.

00:45:28.340 You see sometimes they present these stories and you go, nobody believes this.

00:45:33.640 The vast majority of people don't believe this.

00:45:36.560 Yeah. And if you're not prepared to take risks in a creative industry as an artist, you're done.

00:45:42.920 it doesn't matter even if you're doing observational material you still need to

00:45:47.020 take risks i just don't understand this whole thing is like people like it's like you're not

00:45:51.660 allowed to say it's right wing but the left is allowed to say it's right wing you know i'm saying

00:45:56.280 so like they'll they'll look at my comedy and go it's far right it's anti-woke it's but if you

00:46:01.420 yourself are like right wing openly then it's like you know you're not allowed to do that

00:46:06.160 why can't we the right if they want to continue being empowering in america and if they want to

00:46:12.340 be in power in europe and stuff like that they have to kind of unfortunately use some of the

00:46:17.860 tactics of the left at least in being loud and annoying um to win because otherwise the other

00:46:25.320 side will just be louder and more annoying with less people and you know it's like you're not

00:46:31.220 allowed to say at a workplace if you work for a bank and you're in the office and you go you know

00:46:36.680 what i like ice let's get rid of more people i think they shouldn't be here that's not allowed

00:46:41.700 you could be fired but if you come in and say we need to get rid of ice i would i think we need to

00:46:46.360 go around and round up the ice agents and put them in jail and take away their rights that's fine

00:46:51.000 so that's not right and generally my comedy is existing for the people who are frustrated about

00:46:59.080 that to have some cathartic relief and laugh about the current state of the lack of freedom of speech

00:47:04.260 and they should be allowed to do it they should be allowed to go to the show they should be allowed

00:47:08.900 to laugh at it. And if they're not, then it's getting more serious. The left is making this

00:47:16.340 more serious than it has to be. They claim some of the Nanaimo BC, we're canceling the show for

00:47:23.280 the safety of the community. It's a comedy show. What safety are you worried about? Well, we're

00:47:29.180 worried that some of the words in there are going to raise... Everybody laughing at those jokes

00:47:33.560 already agrees with those things. So you're just saying that they're not allowed to agree or they're

00:47:37.920 not allowed to laugh and now you're actually making it more dangerous because now you have

00:47:43.220 900 people who live in your community you canceled their favorite thing that they were going to go do

00:47:48.660 now they're pissed off now they might go out into the community and say something crazy to uh

00:47:53.360 who knows what at some bus stop and be like you know start instead of biting their tongue if they

00:47:59.840 went to my show and laughed about it they'd look at it and just go whatever but i would i would

00:48:04.300 disagree with what you said that say that they agree with your points of view one of my favorite

00:48:09.160 comedians who you probably have never heard of is a guy called jerry sadowitz jerry sadowitz is one

00:48:14.520 of the most brilliant comedians to ever grace the stage and what jerry sadowitz does is he plays

00:48:20.380 this character of the most pathetic awful human being that you could ever see he is the lowest

00:48:26.460 of the low and because of that he does jokes about everyone that are really dark really hateful really 1.00

00:48:31.880 offensive. He got canceled from the Edinburgh Festival

00:48:33.940 because, you know, people

00:48:35.940 got upset. You know, the standard

00:48:37.960 stuff. I don't agree with

00:48:40.020 what Jerry Sadowitz says.

00:48:41.920 I go to watch Jerry Sadowitz...

00:48:43.560 Why not?

00:48:45.220 Why does everybody have to say this?

00:48:46.940 I don't agree with it.

00:48:49.400 France is making a different point.

00:48:50.440 I don't know what his jokes were.

00:48:51.740 The point he's trying to make is, Jerry Sadowitz 0.99

00:48:54.260 is not expressing his fucking opinion on stage. 0.99

00:48:56.460 He's telling jokes. 1.00

00:48:57.800 And there's a big fucking difference. 0.99

00:48:59.300 A character telling jokes and a person expressing their opinions 0.98

00:49:02.940 Now in your case, I think they're much more closely aligned

00:49:05.700 But Francis' point is, sometimes it's just a joke

00:49:08.440 So for instance, one of Jerry Sadowitz's jokes is

00:49:11.700 Gary Glitter is the greatest rock star of our generation 0.99

00:49:16.160 He should be allowed to fuck who he wants, when he wants, how he wants 1.00

00:49:19.820 Gary Glitter is a paedophile who got arrested in Thailand 1.00

00:49:23.080 But the whole purpose of Jerry is that

00:49:26.760 I'm going to say the most dark, outrageous, awful stuff, which is indefensible on any level, but I'm going to express it beautifully.

00:49:35.960 I'm going to write it immaculately and I'm going to deliver it phenomenally well so that you have to laugh despite, you know, you knowing full well that what I'm saying is.

00:49:44.720 That point, I've already walked out of the show.

00:49:46.440 It's awful.

00:49:47.600 But do you see what I mean?

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00:51:45.500 I say things that I don't mean.

00:51:47.080 every comic does that i mean some of the things i do mean but like not to the extreme of like you

00:51:52.600 know the renee good do i think it was actually good no and i talk about it's like her name was

00:51:56.760 good that's why it's funny yeah if her name was you know what some other random last name and you

00:52:02.440 just said i'm glad like it doesn't or good it doesn't make sense so yeah of course the jokes

00:52:08.280 you know are are exaggerated over the top but to laugh at them you have to be in agreeance with

00:52:16.760 something you have to be in agreeance with me that i'm telling you a joke and that you're not going to

00:52:22.040 to to to be offended at it you don't necessarily have to agree politically but you have to agree

00:52:26.600 to something you're making when you go into a comedy show there's a there's an unwritten

00:52:31.480 contract of i'm going to tell the jokes and if you don't like it you don't have to laugh

00:52:36.920 you really don't like it you can leave you can't yell out you can't cause problems during the show

00:52:42.360 but if i and and you understand that i am joking you know what i'm saying do you get a lot of

00:52:47.640 people heckling you uh yeah normal amount i get a lot people are really excited for my shows they

00:52:54.920 get really drunk i get really drunk and then just i you know they they end up heckling um but they

00:53:02.120 loved me you know what i'm saying and then i have yeah if i go to a random place and do a show

00:53:07.000 somebody might freak out and get mad and um but you know i just don't understand this whole like

00:53:13.800 it's like why do you have to explain that you're like that pedophile joke it's like why do you have

00:53:17.480 to explain that you're against it like it's like obviously you know i'm saying like i i do epstein

00:53:22.840 jokes and it's like somebody got mad at mothership i made a joke because i was saying that um you

00:53:29.160 you know whatever that he was a good guy you know so why is that but it's funny because it's

00:53:35.420 obviously not true right yeah you know i'm saying now some of my jokes are funny because they are

00:53:40.720 true or maybe that maybe maybe epstein was a good guy but you know like people he made jokes about

00:53:46.900 indigenous people in canada oh so you're not allowed to you're not allowed to talk about a 1.00

00:53:52.880 group of canadians that i'm i'm born and raised in canada grew up with the whole learn the history

00:53:57.240 blah blah and i still can't make a joke well if you knew the history you'd know it's not funny

00:54:01.160 oh give me a freaking break let me deal with what's funny you deal with what's serious

00:54:07.480 you know i'm saying or i'll have to come over there and tell you what's serious and then they 0.77

00:54:11.000 won't like that that won't be very funny i don't imagine they will no they'll be scared

00:54:16.200 shitless if i was in power in canada full power you'd be scared shitless of me i mean you've got 0.75

00:54:22.120 a glint in your eye when you say that i'm gonna have to do it i'm gonna have to maybe 0.87

00:54:26.200 Maybe 10, 15 years from now.

00:54:28.660 We'll see.

00:54:30.160 How did Canada get in this mess?

00:54:31.800 This is a question that I've actually wanted to ask Canadians.

00:54:35.840 I mean, the same thing.

00:54:36.900 Look at Europe.

00:54:38.280 It's in the same problem.

00:54:39.540 Do you think it's the same problem?

00:54:41.440 Yeah.

00:54:42.240 Because it's the same civilization.

00:54:43.640 And what's the problem?

00:54:45.900 The problem is over-empathy and feeling bad for people that we shouldn't feel bad for

00:54:50.500 and, you know, letting in millions and millions of immigrants into the country

00:54:53.780 that have completely different views hate the west want to change the west want to implement

00:54:58.820 sharia law want to implement um you know okay we'll split up the west basically okay this is 0.58

00:55:04.580 the sharia part this is the lgbtq plus uh trans part uh this is the uh hindu part and then

00:55:12.820 there's a little sliver for the people who yeah you remember your country this is where you go

00:55:18.180 so and when you do that and you have people in power so that the lgbtq plus people created all 0.93

00:55:24.660 these woke rules that now ultra uh is like islamists are taking advantage of right so their 0.98

00:55:33.940 rules were originally like we're just gay we just want to be gay we don't want anybody to make fun 0.99

00:55:38.500 of us and we don't want to get our feelings hurt we want to be able to shake our dicks in front of 0.98

00:55:42.020 kids and do drag queen story hour and all this stuff and then the islamists are like coming in 1.00

00:55:47.780 going oh my god if they're falling for this they'll fall for our stuff you know if oh and

00:55:54.600 then they can say whatever they want and anybody who says anything to me that's discrimination

00:55:57.600 based on the laws that the gay people pass and now so it's and and another reason that all this 0.95

00:56:06.000 nonsense because normal regular people are busy doing comedy and podcasts instead of politics

00:56:12.020 because we don't want to we thought we could just live in a country and be successful and follow our

00:56:19.360 dreams and the people who didn't think that was the case are now in power right so they don't 0.99

00:56:26.920 want you to live in your life they want to be in your shit they want to be in your business 0.99

00:56:31.060 i think we need to make being in politics cool again for the cool people and the cool people 0.99

00:56:36.460 might need to go back into politics and start saying what they really want to say and pushing

00:56:40.540 what they really want instead of just being at home shaking their head going oh this is horrible

00:56:45.680 anyway got to go to work yeah it's a good point actually we need to get back to the era of jfk 0.99

00:56:51.140 where you could basically be a cool president and have sex with marilyn monroe nothing wrong with it 0.93

00:56:57.580 nothing wrong with being a cool president nothing wrong with being a cool prime minister 0.97

00:57:01.280 um and you know keir starmer is so not that and he's so he's so aggressively uh so aggressively

00:57:10.680 woke and so you know i've never seen him laugh or smile he takes everything super seriously

00:57:17.780 everything is hello to the british people this is one of the worst there's no fun where's the fun 1.00

00:57:26.660 when's the last time a politician talked about have fun when's the last time a politician said

00:57:31.000 we need to care about families and worry about the health and longevity and the love

00:57:37.000 the left has hijacked love they now like bad money i am i guess i am love is stronger than i hate

00:57:46.900 first of all no it's not but second of all yeah historically speaking i think you're

00:57:54.200 on it you're on to something but why does the community who aborts kids wants to have trans 1.00

00:58:00.920 as their kids uh doesn't really or doesn't have kids or doesn't want kids why are they the

00:58:08.240 community of love and it's all about what's when they when the left says love what they really

00:58:12.200 mean is allowing illegal immigration to happen unfettered nobody should check it uh love is 0.85

00:58:18.240 to uh you know we have to loving our trans community loving what about but the left the

00:58:24.800 the right is the one who actually loves they love their family they love their country they would

00:58:31.200 die for their country die for their family protect their family like i have kids i love my kids you're

00:58:36.720 telling me that the love that the lgbtq plus community has for each other is stronger than

00:58:42.160 the love that people have for their children like what are we doing here they're not the arbiter of

00:58:48.000 truth they're not the arbiter of love and if anything the left is the hateful evil side of

00:58:54.440 things now that is disregarded god i mean you don't have to be religious to believe in god

00:59:00.060 you don't we're on a rock spitting in the middle of a a galaxy in a universe we don't understand

00:59:05.940 swimming in some sort of soup that we're all in that we can't see that we breathe in

00:59:10.680 something insane is going on on earth and when you're thinking about these trivial well he's

00:59:17.680 a joke that i didn't like and does he not know how serious it is that women historically have been 1.00

00:59:23.200 marginalized you know we're in a universe like you could do anything you could become an astronaut

00:59:31.200 you could invent something you can become the next elon you can like but and they hate that but this 0.91

00:59:36.320 is where you're wrong though this is where you're wrong they can't become the next elon because

00:59:40.240 becoming the next elon is hard you gotta be smart you gotta work hard you gotta take big risks they

00:59:46.480 can they just don't want to i don't think they even can they they neither want to nor do they

00:59:50.880 have the talent which is why they sit in the corner and i can't believe he said that because

00:59:55.240 it's so being i'm trying to give him benefit no but this is what i don't i i did a debate with

01:00:01.080 this destiny guy and i met some of his audience and it radicalized me uh because because these

01:00:06.380 people they just they they don't you like you said they don't want to do the work that it takes

01:00:10.980 to achieve anything but a lot of them also maybe just can't and so they are stuck in loserville

01:00:17.880 and because of that they hate everyone who isn't well that's why they side with hamas 0.98

01:00:24.700 they side with like terrorist organizations because like you said they feel that well i'm

01:00:32.460 not good i can't become anything so let's just burn it all down and let's just you know uh let's

01:00:38.400 let's not like you know i hate elon because he's a billionaire because he works and i hate this 0.50

01:00:43.040 person i hate that person it's like you know if you're if you're not waking up every day going how 0.54

01:00:50.640 do i become more successful or how do i fix something how do i improve my life improving

01:00:56.640 your own life will do more for the country than marching around with a sign uh trying to get a

01:01:02.880 comedy show canceled or trying to get anything canceled and that goes for both sides like if

01:01:07.440 you're on the right and you really you're you're out of protest i get it but like be successful

01:01:12.640 start a business buy some pool cleaning equipment uh clean your room clean your room but i'm saying

01:01:18.800 buy some pool cleaning equipment and create a pool business that cleans pools and do something it's

01:01:24.640 not that hard to start a business than to be successful and my message to the left is the

01:01:30.000 opposite of yours in a way that because i want them to snap out of it i do think they're capable

01:01:35.680 of doing great things but they have to put down the sign push the put down the phone

01:01:43.440 and focus on something and i know and i sound like a parent maybe a parent that they never had

01:01:50.240 or the parent they did have that they resent but this is what's going on right now is the right

01:01:56.240 needs to parent the left and they need to basically say hey like you said this no

01:02:01.840 you're ruining the country you're destroying everything you have to stop and if they don't

01:02:08.080 what do we do what is the consequence we just have no more uh you know canada will have no

01:02:13.200 comedy shows cancel everything unless you're a government funded comedian like in the soviet

01:02:18.480 union like my dad he's he's from the soviet union former soviet union lithuania and he talks when

01:02:26.640 he watches the cbc in canada he goes this is soviet like the level of propaganda it's it's legit so 0.77

01:02:36.640 no comedy's comedy if you don't like it don't go uh and as for everything else show me one thing

01:02:45.280 where the left has improved anything like one thing the coffee that's true it's coffee look

01:02:51.680 i'm look it's at the very end at after all the uh the human trafficking and the in the

01:02:58.080 in the colombian forest jungle and the children picking at the tree and the bing bing bing and

01:03:05.600 and then finally and then it's processed but at a plant with a bunch of probably republican

01:03:10.400 people working at it and it and the companies and then finally in the last second some woke

01:03:16.160 person goes do you want uh do you want americano or do you want howl milk okay yeah but you can't

01:03:23.680 deny it conservatives are terrible at making coffee and also they're terrible at making movies

01:03:27.800 and they're terrible at making breakfast really yeah conservative breakfasts are terrible what's

01:03:32.760 a conservative breakfast oh you know it's heavy and it's stodgy and it's just what about the

01:03:36.860 english breakfast surely that's conservative because it's traditional right the english

01:03:40.760 have you ever had an english you look like you you look like you're enjoying english breakfast

01:03:44.200 What is it?

01:03:45.360 What do you mean?

01:03:45.820 It's bad food.

01:03:46.540 Shwarmer?

01:03:49.320 Get out.

01:03:51.200 Get out.

01:03:53.440 No, it's like tea and crumpets, right?

01:03:55.320 Yeah, yeah.

01:03:55.920 Well, no, it's black pudding.

01:03:58.640 Sausage, egg, bacon, baked beans, hash brown, all that good stuff.

01:04:02.320 Yeah, I've had that.

01:04:03.320 That's a conservative breakfast, surely.

01:04:05.200 Yeah.

01:04:05.540 When you come to basically Canada Mark II, which is the UK.

01:04:08.500 What movies have conservatives made that are bad?

01:04:10.420 or because the pushback to that is clint eastwood is a conservative he's made some great movies yeah

01:04:16.180 the issue is that conservatives don't want to make movies the ones that would be good at it

01:04:21.340 are making money doing something else owning a you know a some random company that does

01:04:28.460 pool cleaning or you know and they never they just made their money they're like i'm not going

01:04:34.860 to get into movies you know what my hope is is that we reached the peak of this in politics with

01:04:41.640 justin trudeau who was the wokest of the woke of the woke and you talk about canada and i think

01:04:48.840 what we're doing is we're not being really honest in a way because your population voted for trudeau

01:04:55.780 who was the literal worst you know what was what did he say once when he went amen and he said a

01:05:03.840 woman or that wasn't him though wasn't it him no it's some american senator mail-in ballot i mean

01:05:08.380 i'm not a conspiracy guy fully but i know that mail-in ballots were huge in that election

01:05:14.020 because it was covid

01:05:15.580 you know pierre poliev again he didn't push hard enough he should have he didn't push hard enough

01:05:25.800 against everything and he made a lot of conservatives vote for this other party that

01:05:30.960 is like more right and that's why they lost because if they had not had that other party

01:05:37.200 they would have voted for him and he wouldn't want so um the idea that everybody supported him

01:05:43.860 is not true the the people who vote he won from the people who vote the people who don't vote

01:05:49.620 didn't vote why didn't they vote well because the conservative guy didn't make them want to vote

01:05:54.620 i mean that's absolutely fair do you think that we're going to see canada get better do you have

01:06:01.660 hope for canada i have hope i think that me doing my shows is helping i i mean i i do because when

01:06:09.660 they happen it gives people hope they cancel two and then then we're still going to do three or i

01:06:16.520 just did this weekend i've six sold out in niagara falls and then sold out in lethbridge

01:06:22.060 alberta sold out in cranbrook bc sold out in campbell river bc sold out in colonna bc and

01:06:29.220 when those shows happen people see it and they feel hope um that that the country is is what it

01:06:37.440 used to be and when and they think that they're going to cancel shows and it's somehow going to

01:06:41.720 like get rid of me it's like you're literally you know making me bigger you're making me more

01:06:47.600 people who haven't heard of me go who are these people complaining about these people that i hate

01:06:53.000 who are they complaining about then they see it's me and they go oh i love oh i can't believe i never

01:06:57.800 heard of this guy where when is he performing okay i'm gonna go get tickets so yeah thank you

01:07:03.560 to the haters and keep keep keep you building venues you know do your thing and try to they're

01:07:10.320 trying to get the shows canceled because they have nothing better to do and really what they're doing

01:07:15.280 as me a huge favor, so.

01:07:17.980 Mira, te voy a decir una cosa.

01:07:20.420 Si aprendes un idiola solo con libros,

01:07:22.920 te vas a quedar atascado.

01:07:25.120 Lo que de verdad marca la diferencia

01:07:26.780 es escuchar como habla la gente 0.97

01:07:29.800 en contextos reales.

01:07:31.800 If you didn't understand that,

01:07:33.480 but you want to, then listen up.

01:07:35.420 If you did, apologies.

01:07:37.240 I'm about to repeat myself.

01:07:38.720 If you learn a language only from a book,

01:07:41.280 you're going to hit a ceiling.

01:07:42.520 What actually changes everything

01:07:44.360 is hearing how people really speak in real situations.

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01:09:21.660 in the description or go to learn.lingopie.com slash trigonometry. Because the concern is, Ben,

01:09:30.200 is that the people who are entrepreneurial the people who are on the right the people who want

01:09:35.440 to achieve things build things they're going to leave Canada because quite frankly why would you

01:09:40.460 stay they already have a lot of them already have um I mean I ran into I mean when I'm in Canada I

01:09:47.100 do get recognized on the street I ran into two people in Yorkville um just crossing the street

01:09:52.800 and the one guy was a young guy tall guy and he was like love everything you're doing you know

01:09:57.400 thank you for for being brave enough to just do what you're doing and um and he's like you live

01:10:03.300 in the states mostly i'm like yeah he's like man i was just in scottsdale so nice it's so good i

01:10:09.500 just i want to get down everybody wants to go um because they're the regular normal people

01:10:15.260 who aren't woke can't handle it anymore and that's part of the part of the goal of the woke

01:10:21.920 in my opinion, is to make it so

01:10:23.980 horrible that the

01:10:25.680 people they hate leave, which is

01:10:27.720 successful people. Who's going to pay all the taxes

01:10:29.860 when that happens? They don't care.

01:10:31.760 They just borrow money. It's all fake.

01:10:33.960 They just keep borrowing from whoever

01:10:35.880 in China and they do that. They have

01:10:37.880 some system where they

01:10:38.880 buy the bonds back

01:10:41.940 from themselves to print

01:10:43.800 the money. I don't know.

01:10:45.940 I'm not a finance, but I know that

01:10:47.460 it's not good. It's not sustainable.

01:10:51.040 But

01:10:51.920 they want this world and then they have more crime and more poverty and more starvation and

01:10:58.840 all these problems. And then they have, eventually they're going to have nobody but themselves to

01:11:02.860 blame. So it might, maybe it will be a 30 year thing where they go full, full communists and

01:11:09.400 everybody, any dissenters are either arrested or have to leave. And then when finally the new

01:11:16.820 generation of woke people go, wait, it's like, why is everything like this? I don't like this.

01:11:20.920 then it'll change because the people now are brainwashed to the extreme they are the people

01:11:28.480 who and like you said there's more of them i don't know if there's more but they're they're loud and

01:11:33.460 they're super brainwashed and they believe it so much that they

01:11:36.340 they'll do anything they'll do anything to shut things down including violence

01:11:44.860 because it's so bizarre because canada should be one of the most successful richest nations

01:11:53.320 on the planet when you look at the resources that you have you should be literally top five

01:11:59.440 top six richest nations and you look at the population as well who are educated who are

01:12:04.420 super educated your universities are incredibly prestigious you've got literally everything

01:12:09.840 they've all been infiltrated all the universities are infiltrated by

01:12:14.100 china and super i mean part of ultra woke is china i believe that they they know they knew

01:12:21.860 they studied how do we destroy the west and they go let's woke and then um ben you can't do 0.96

01:12:28.740 without doing the action come on we need to make the gay people in charge of the country 1.00

01:12:36.820 and then fill the country with mushrooms and then then we can have control of the farm 0.97

01:12:45.360 but that's really the um what they want is is is control it's all about control part of the

01:12:53.400 apology stuff and not like why did they cancel all those pipelines where they could have been

01:12:58.840 pumping gas to the entire world and canada could have been a leader in natural gas and oil

01:13:04.380 production or whatever getting it out of the ground because of woke because it's environmentally

01:13:10.340 not friendly and because the indigenous people and because of this and it's like but although

01:13:15.900 the environment and the indigenous people would be better taken care of if canada was rich

01:13:20.620 it's the same thing like it's like it's the same i'm gonna hold the sign up and say i'm for this

01:13:27.600 instead of i'm gonna forget about all that focus on my business get rich and then maybe have an

01:13:33.800 opinion about something once i'm a prominent individual so canada decided let's not be a

01:13:39.180 prominent country let's stand up for all these uh bs woke takes so there's no pipeline now they're

01:13:46.040 giving all the land back to the indigenous people that are already impoverished and sorry to say a

01:13:51.860 lot of them are you know they're not in great shape and what is the reason for that they've

01:13:56.120 been given billions of dollars why are they not in great shape oh well they need the land back okay

01:13:59.860 here's the land oh they're still not in great shape what do they need well they need to make

01:14:02.740 sure that there's no freedom of speech so nobody can talk badly about them and then they'll be okay

01:14:06.480 and then they're destroying good countries and it's coming from these people who are brainwashed

01:14:15.440 maybe by china maybe you know the tiktoks i don't know what it is but i'm against it i want canada

01:14:23.360 to be a great safe amazing place to raise your families to you should be able to have the school

01:14:30.260 should not be filled with political stuff and political I mean transgender ideology and all 1.00

01:14:38.780 that stuff which imagine having to learn about transgender ideology a week after there was a

01:14:43.460 trans person who shot up school and there's people dead and then the next the first class 1.00

01:14:47.500 back they're like well we need to first of all let's acknowledge the land we're on it's all fake

01:14:52.480 it's all meant to make you insane it's all meant to make you angry so that you hopefully I think

01:14:58.120 their main goal is that you do something crazy and then they can really now we're strapped well

01:15:03.280 you mentioned a good place for families how are you finding being a dad i love being a dad i think

01:15:08.360 everybody should be a parent i think that you grow up and a lot of these people who are out

01:15:14.240 there protesting who have no kids no nothing no job no no responsibilities it's like you didn't

01:15:20.200 grow up once you have a kid that's when you have your own kid you deal with your own you know

01:15:26.000 traumas as from when you grew up or whatever like you remember oh that's why my dad was mad because

01:15:31.760 this and that everything starts to make sense you you it's healing it's a healing thing to have your

01:15:38.040 own family and these people who want to destroy that and take away you know first of all the first

01:15:48.000 way they destroy it well women need to work too they want women's rights but what they really 1.00

01:15:53.960 mean is they want women to work as hard as men and then also be taken care of like they're women

01:16:01.300 it's like you can't have both you can't have both and women like staying at home and taking care of 1.00

01:16:07.000 kids i guess not all women do i get it women not all women but there's nobody's forcing you to do

01:16:14.280 that but people are forcing other people to go to work because uh because the economy is getting so

01:16:22.080 horrible that it's like you can't in canada at least you can't do it in america you can't there's

01:16:26.000 more and more uh state state old moms every day well the evidence is very clear statistically

01:16:31.640 speaking most women would prefer the opportunity to stay at home with their kids for a lot longer 1.00

01:16:35.900 than they get to and now there's these like you know women in their 50s and they're like

01:16:39.020 my kids i just don't know what happened to them they were so sweet what happened is you didn't

01:16:43.180 stay home and you sent them to some school and you and you made a false reality of what they're

01:16:48.580 working towards and their whole goal is to get 85 average so they can get into some university so 0.95

01:16:54.020 that they can go there and have sex with a million people and then they and then after that they can 0.79

01:16:59.540 hopefully go into the workforce and then hopefully they meet a guy by 35 and then hopefully it's all 0.97

01:17:05.380 bullshit the reason why people used to get married so young i think and why it makes more sense is 0.86

01:17:10.180 because you actually can love somebody then you know like think about your first and second you 0.98

01:17:16.100 know loves versus you know dating in your 30s or dating in your 40s or 50s that's why those

01:17:24.100 marriages lasted they met young they had kids young they grew up in their 20s they didn't grow

01:17:29.140 up in their 40s like now it's like people are i'm adulting you're 43 like you should have had a kid

01:17:37.940 at 20 i mean i wish i had kids earlier and i had a kid at 30 but i would have maybe you know maybe

01:17:45.380 it was the right time but either way 30 still young nowadays but my message to people who love

01:17:52.100 me and love my comedy is thank you love yourself forget about these people do what you need to do

01:17:59.940 stand up don't forget about them in the sense that don't let them ruin your day but if you're

01:18:05.220 if you need to stand up to somebody or say something in public like do it don't break the law

01:18:09.460 but like if somebody's clearly woke and has a mask on and is like causing a scene be like hey

01:18:17.460 tell them people don't agree with you you should know that people need people need to tell people

01:18:25.080 that are pushing this ideology that they're wrong to their face because they don't they

01:18:31.320 don't go out and see that they're so protected from getting the other opinion online they oh

01:18:38.180 no block block block oh i don't look at any of that stuff i you know even some of the announcements

01:18:43.160 they'll they'll make an announcement uh you're trying to get we here at the homosexual society 0.64

01:18:49.320 of whatever town are trying to get ben bankers to show and then the first comment is we have

01:18:53.820 muted comments to protect the members of the lg what are we so there's no debate no debate

01:19:01.520 have a debate i i'm on the verge i was thinking like maybe i should some of these towns like

01:19:07.480 should i just do a show where i invite people who hate me on stage and like debate them or

01:19:12.180 something like those shows would that make them not what like maybe like don't cancel the show

01:19:17.180 you can come you can come and go on stage and try to debate me in front of my crowd see how it works

01:19:22.320 i can see why you'd want to do that yeah it'll be really fun yeah get some good clips yeah for you

01:19:28.000 it'd be fun for them it'd be horrible but that's the point that's the point because they want

01:19:33.720 attention okay let's give you attention and did you have any uh any funny thoughts on iran and

01:19:39.100 what's happening there i mean only horrible thoughts all right next funny thoughts on iran

01:19:48.260 there's you know people are against it i i don't i don't know i think that we need to blow some

01:19:55.280 people up that's a very maggot point of view maggot loves to the war yeah well not all of it

01:20:01.380 85% of America 0.90

01:20:03.500 I've been saying we should blow 0.99

01:20:04.880 We should blow up everybody 0.99

01:20:08.140 Because they don't like us 0.99

01:20:09.660 Well they want to blow us up

01:20:13.900 But it's the same thing

01:20:15.060 It's like woke

01:20:15.580 You can make fun of me

01:20:18.480 But if I make fun of you

01:20:19.400 Oh that's bad

01:20:20.520 And I guess it's different

01:20:23.160 Because people are dying

01:20:24.220 Apparently

01:20:26.480 So you're not pro Ayatollah

01:20:30.240 i'm not pro ayatollah he's kind of dead so it's hard to be look this was something that was going

01:20:34.160 to happen whether it was now or in 20 years or in 50 years you can't have around having nuclear

01:20:40.320 weapons but the rest of it is complicated also i mean this is my intellectual people on the left

01:20:49.440 supported the war in ukraine they support ukraine against russia they want ukraine to win they still 0.99

01:20:56.240 have the ukrainian thing in their bio and they go america needs to step up and help us

01:21:01.840 and we america did i mean i say we because i live here or not because i'm american

01:21:06.000 but i mean canada helped too they sent some helmets but america gave billions right or

01:21:12.080 trillions to the ukraine push to fight back against russia and it's not enough and the 0.84

01:21:18.800 europeans are saying it's not enough we need to do more so america goes all right let's blow the 0.65

01:21:23.840 shit out of Iran because they're giving Russia that actually helps Ukraine massively it's huge 0.96

01:21:30.000 right because the Iranians can't send their drones the Iranians are sending military equipment to 0.99

01:21:35.120 Russia they're sending uh energy gas oil everything to Russia they are so they support Russia 0.76

01:21:43.520 America goes in blows the shit out of Iran and everybody's like this is an illegal war it's like

01:21:49.280 But we're helping the guy. 0.98

01:21:51.300 This is how we you got to think outside the box.

01:21:53.720 What are we just going to go into full force into Ukraine and get all of Europe nuked? 0.97

01:21:57.640 No, let's go in and attack their weakest, their weakest ally that's supplying them with stuff.

01:22:04.420 So the Democrats should be happy.

01:22:06.040 And secretly, some of them know this and they're going, oh, this actually does help the Ukraine poll.

01:22:10.820 And, you know, Zelensky is on board with it.

01:22:12.880 and and here's starmer goes he somebody he probably realized this two two days too late

01:22:21.420 because the first day he's like we do not stand with them because we want to make sure the muslims

01:22:25.300 don't riot here and then two days later he goes oh this is good for ukraine we got it let's join

01:22:30.800 in and he goes we're going to join and the and trump goes we don't need uh allies jumping in

01:22:36.100 when we already won the war and it's such an interesting thing to see that so America played

01:22:42.800 it so good Trump played it so good that the Europeans where is America helping us with 0.99

01:22:49.480 Ukraine we need to help billions of dollars from you and America was saying spend your own money

01:22:53.960 more you need to up your military budget they weren't doing it and then finally America goes

01:22:59.980 okay well I'm going to help you but in a different way are you going to help me and they go no

01:23:03.820 so the countries want help from america to fight off russia but they won't help america to fight

01:23:10.340 off russia in an out-of-the-box way because they're not smart enough to realize what's going

01:23:14.660 on there's a lot of high-level stuff going on and a lot of smart people are behind closed doors and

01:23:20.040 i think they have a i think they got a hold of it i think he uh mr secretary of war pete hegseth

01:23:26.600 is also very very good he's he's a he's a genius uh in in some ways i know that people would

01:23:34.240 disagree with that and hey don't judge a book by its cover but he's uh not that he i mean people

01:23:40.740 think he they're like he's not i mean he's clearly smart he knows what he's doing and i have faith in

01:23:47.100 those people and if if it goes wrong i would say something or if i disagreed i would say something

01:23:52.100 but so far the only thing i disagree with in the iran war is the amount of fake news that the left

01:23:58.540 like are they're supporting this ai like fake worst footage and being like welcome israel's

01:24:05.540 getting pounded it's like that's literally ai like you guys have lost your minds you're literally

01:24:10.640 posting ai and pretending like something's happening that's not so that's bad ben it's

01:24:16.680 It's been an absolute pleasure having you on the show.

01:24:19.800 You can't even say it with a straight face.

01:24:21.580 Yeah, he has. 1.00

01:24:22.200 You're like, holy shit. 0.99

01:24:23.680 That's really Ben Magnus. 0.99

01:24:25.840 Final question is always the same.

01:24:27.180 What's the one thing we're not talking about that we really should be?

01:24:30.760 Before Ben answers the final question, at the end of the interview,

01:24:33.480 make sure to go to triggerpod.co.uk where you'll see this.

01:24:37.600 Are there things you poke fun at in the relatively safe surroundings of Austin

01:24:41.480 that you might be a little more circumspect of in the woke environs of Toronto? 0.83

01:24:46.680 who would muslim extremists have to kill for you to believe that their intentions are benevolent 0.99

01:24:52.260 what's the one thing we're not talking about that we really should be 0.94

01:24:55.640 uh jews we didn't talk about the jews enough quite a lot of people talk about jews now yeah

01:25:03.620 um you're jewish background right no you won't admit to in the current climate

01:25:08.400 i mean my dad was uh jew is like he's not religious jewish he's not yeah he's not religious

01:25:16.260 but he was born in lithuania right after the second world war so his parents used to be

01:25:23.640 born oh born yeah he was born yeah look people my opinions people can't handle my opinion but

01:25:36.540 my opinion is that for the most jews created a lot of good things that we use today and and i i don't 0.95

01:25:44.620 i i don't hate them i think that's controversial to say i don't hate jews at all i like them

01:25:51.660 people are gonna be mad about this are they it's jews i do i think a lot of no no i agree with you 0.99

01:25:56.940 i i said are there a lot of people are going to be mad about this i don't know i get sometimes

01:26:01.420 people are like like i'll have like the best bit and be like was funny but then i researched and

01:26:05.980 found out he's a jew so not funny it's like what does that even mean and i'm not i don't go to 1.00

01:26:11.180 synagogue i don't know how to speak hebrew i don't know anything um are you good with money

01:26:18.060 i mean i'm making money there you go and that's the most important thing in this world is to take

01:26:23.900 care of yourself and your family and to have faith in some sort of higher power because

01:26:31.180 you're gonna need that you're gonna need that if you're fighting off millions of people who

01:26:35.100 hate you you're gonna need the power of the universe to do that my goal is to become the

01:26:41.660 biggest comic in the world so people prime minister of canada well that's the same thing

01:26:50.140 but if i have to become to become prime minister you got to become canada's never had a famous

01:26:55.580 pre already famous prime minister besides trudeau but he wasn't famous for something he did himself

01:27:02.540 so maybe that's maybe that's the future but for now we're gonna sell out everything and we're

01:27:10.000 gonna have my shows people have the best time of their lives so we'll see you there well you're

01:27:16.760 doing very well man so congratulations and thanks for coming on head on over to triggerpod.co.uk

01:27:22.200 where we ask ben your questions what conversations have you had with other comedians that have

01:27:28.480 experience cancellation, i.e. Shane Gillis, Tony Hinchcliffe, et cetera. Have they given you any

01:27:33.120 advice? This is behind the paywall? Yeah. Yeah.

01:27:36.920 We'll be right back.

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TRIGGERnometry - March 15, 2026

Dark Humour for Dark Times： Ben Bankas

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