Islam Is Violent & It's All America's Fault: Feat. Special Guest Ben Bankas
Ben Bankas joins Louder with Crowder to argue Islam is an inherently violent ideology, citing Muhammad's conquests and modern terror statistics where 88% of deaths involve Muslims. The host contrasts this with Christianity's peaceful spread while highlighting Quranic mandates for slavery and critiques Canadian censorship that forced comedian Ben Bacus to flee to the U.S. in April 2024 after facing show cancellations over jokes about Muhammad. Ultimately, the episode frames Western intervention as a distraction from Islam's intrinsic aggression and condemns government-funded media for promoting DEI propaganda over free speech. [Automatically generated summary]
You don't need to change that dial, and it's 11 a.m. Eastern, so we are here.
And by the way, I am wearing green.
For those of you who saw the thumbnail or the image beforehand, I was pinched mercilessly, which is apparently okay if your name is on the ledger because it's not sexual harassment.
But if I were to respond in kind, I mean, I can't do it with noodles.
There's nowhere to pinch.
He has to, I mean, he basically has to wrap it around himself like a heat coil.
Look, we have Ben Bankus on the show today, a comedian from Canada.
That's not Ben Bankus.
Him too.
Him too.
Man, that picture looks so Russian.
It does.
He looks like he's the bad guy in a Cold War era film.
Like he should be descending from a chopper at Red Dawn, getting blown away by Patrick Schweze.
And then we're going to talk about, look, Islam.
Wherever you line up on Iran, and I think there are reasonable people on all sides here.
Like I said, three months, check back.
That's what are we at?
Three weeks now?
Three months?
Let's check back in and then we'll see.
That'll kind of gauge as to whether this was successful or effective or not.
I see a lot of people making the argument now that Islam is fine, that Islam actually isn't the threat.
It's not a threat to Western civilization.
And that if we didn't bother them or kill them, meaning Muslims or conflicts like Iran or insert whichever Middle Eastern country here, they wouldn't come after us.
That's about as about as sound of a basis for an argument as the chat that we took or I think that we acknowledged yesterday where someone said, why would we ever attack Iran?
They've never attacked us.
Thousands of Americans killed and multiple attacks by the Iranian regime.
Everyone can have an opinion.
We don't have to act as though all opinions are just as legitimate as far as their basis in fact.
If the opinion right now, many people out there, and I know it's always the opinion of the left, but some on the right, is that Islam is largely peaceful and we are responsible for instigating Islamic violence, conquest, or encroachment.
That's not a valid opinion.
And I'll go through the history, the founder of the feast, Muhammad, and real-world data in all situations that are being presented right now.
So I'll disabuse you of that, provide all the references.
We got to get going because we have that silly Canadian on the show on with the show.
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It's your worst nightmare.
Oh, not this.
It's St. Patrick's Day.
You forgot to wear green, and your female assistant has hands like lunchboxes.
The worst nightmare.
Oh, I can't wait till we start doing those ads.
Carshield is going to be a sponsor.
Let's see if they drop out after two.
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Imagine we do it, and then they're going to call it.
It's your worst nightmare.
Your star ambassador just saw one of your other guys doing blackface of me.
No, no, no, no, not blackface.
Just like body.
There are many directions this could go, most of them not good.
Quick question.
What's your favorite St. Patty's Day tradition?
What is it?
You guys let me know.
We'll take that in the chat.
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They are ugly.
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So what would you know?
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Mr. Feierstein, how are you?
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The Baton Rouge of Indiana.
Yes, exactly.
It's the Shreveport in the Midwest.
Wow.
No, there's still tickets available.
Please come to the show.
Yeah.
Also, still houses available for like $2.
Yeah, and a lot of.
Why is there so many trailer parks?
We'll talk about it when I go.
I would tell you this, though.
What's funny is you can have a really nice trailer home these days.
I was looking at a big acre lot, and I was like, man, I could get a really nice trailer home.
I tried to convince my wife Catherine to let us buy a trailer in California like 15 years ago, and she wouldn't do it.
Same place, the lots, $2 million trailers.
I bet you if you're not going to be able to get a lot of men, like, okay, there's a new law.
You cannot get married.
You would just see rows of single guys living in trailers on a big lot.
A lot.
Yeah, just living like Mel Gibson and Lethal Weapon.
Pretty much.
Yeah, except he was by himself.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then what was that?
Huh?
Enough sugar tits.
We have a single dad's breakfast every week.
Before St. Patrick's Day, right?
So, hey, isn't that fun?
And you know this?
You think St. Patrick's, you largely think of Irish white ginger drunks who may get a little surly, but you know, it's usually a one-on-one fight.
However, new, modern St. Patrick's Day, diversity is our greatest strength, right?
Remember that.
And so nothing better represents St. Patrick's Day and its diversity now than this week's installment of Leprechauns in the Hood.
Oh, man.
I think it was an accident.
I should warn you if you guys are squeamish.
know it's not great how do you think that many people Yeah, the one guy wasn't even doing anything.
By the way, he could easily be killed on that car.
How do you get that many people to sucker punch random passersby?
That is not something that you typically see amongst white Americans.
Let's be honest.
Good on that guy for trying to de-escalate, but it's very different from the kind of bar fights that you're used to.
The kind of fights that you would see, you know, two people fighting, maybe a couple of buddies jump in.
But the fact that everyone in that group is so comfortable simply sucker punching folks who have nothing to do with the conflict.
That's like mass hypnosis takes place, you know, or you've heard the term mob mentality, but it doesn't always take place or sort of manifest itself in the same way.
It does in these communities.
You guys notice that?
Why does mass hypnosis always lead to you're not safe there, even if you are an innocent bystander?
How many videos do you have to see?
And by the way, Leprechaun in the Hood was a real film.
I did a watch one.
You can go back.
That was a real movie.
But before that, even more diversity, just as St. Patrick would have wanted.
This is all Dallas, by the way.
This is all one city.
Oh, you got to be tough to start a fight while on the back of a bike.
Yeah, of course it's going to dip.
Kind of dumb.
It's over the weight capacity.
Too many people on the bike, which is illegal.
Assaulting people, illegal.
Assaulting people on a moving vehicle, I would assume extra illegal.
All of this has inspired the latest installment of a Leprechaun 14 white flight.
So, yeah, he's just doing.
He's just doing basic white people things now.
Yes, watering her feet.
Is that Jill?
That's not Jill Biden, is it?
No.
No.
She's just like, no.
It's my first time in the suburbs.
I'm getting the hang of it.
That makes me happy.
Anyway, happy St. Patrick's Day, minorities.
See, that was, he had it loaded, and it just happened to go off, and the person was there was a woman.
It's not supposed to be my favorite part, but it is.
It is.
It's terrible.
Now, here's something really important.
All the references available as we do every single show.
Here's how the media frames the Dallas crime issue.
That was all Dallas, by the way.
This comes from Latin Times.
Latinos and blacks comprise more than four in five of Dallas's assault victims' city data shows.
Oh, man, that sounds bad.
So you watch that, or you read that, you go, okay.
Now, the job of the media, and certainly, by the way, the source material, the job of those collecting data, would be to help you make more informed decisions, right?
To help you be safer.
Otherwise, there's no real purpose to crime data.
So you look at it, you go, okay, so black and Hispanics are more at risk, okay?
At the hands of whom?
In other words, are there any particular groups?
Because we've been told by the media you should be afraid in a white neighborhood.
Are there any particular groups of people that the four and five victims who happen to be black or Hispanic?
Are there any groups of people they should avoid or be concerned with if they want to avoid being physically assaulted?
What is the race of the perpetrators?
Four and five, Hispanic, black victims, right?
Four out of five victims are Hispanic or black.
Perpetrators, race.
I looked for a long time.
Here's actually a screen share so you can see what that looks like.
Okay, article.
Click on a link.
Next article.
All right.
Gotta click on that link.
Not here.
Victims.
Okay.
Victims.
Okay.
Victims.
Okay.
Perpetrator.
Let's start a crime overview.
Not there.
So let's be clear.
You have municipality, you have geography, you have age, you have sex, you have all of this information, by the way, on the victim.
Nothing on the perpetrator.
Doesn't that matter?
Also, this goes back to, we've informed you this, the rule change in 2008, the Bureau of Justice, right, their statistics, they stopped publishing data on interracial crime.
But for some reason, they still keep publishing data on the victims.
Well, maybe you could make an inference and go, okay, so four out of five victims of physical assault are Hispanic or black.
All right.
What about white people?
Who are they most likely to be?
Ah, we don't know the race of the perpetrator.
Well, you can look at those areas.
Hold on a second.
Are these crimes, these physical assault crimes, oh, they're taking place in areas where there is a majority of the population made up from black or Hispanic.
So the most likely, ah, okay.
Here's the truth.
Yes, black and Hispanic Americans are more likely to be the victim of assault because they live in close proximity to other black and Hispanics.
And if you are a white person who doesn't live in close proximity to majority black or Hispanics, you are still far more likely to have a violent crime committed against you by a black or Hispanic citizen or non-citizen of this country.
If we just put that information out there, wouldn't it help some folks?
Oh, it's racist.
You brought race into it.
It was your headline.
Why'd you only bring in half?
Is that fair?
You know, right?
Wouldn't you like to know that if your daughter's going to school, maybe has to walk home from the bus stop, or maybe your wife, she has to walk to her car in the parking lot at night.
Wouldn't it be nice to know where there's a greater risk?
They are deliberately hiding it from you.
You don't hate the media enough, and by the way, this is why you don't trust your institutions.
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Terror in the Islamic World00:15:03
It's gone up like 77% over the last year.
And just fun fact that we learned yesterday on air, everybody needs to get the word out, there is no gold in bald men's heads.
We don't know that yet.
They've only done five.
They've only killed five people.
No, I thought it was six.
Gerald, it's five arguments.
Well, you got to give it some time.
It could even out.
It could end up being five out of 10, which means it's half the time.
I just want to point out that article was from 2017.
It may have.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Through gold, don't kill people that are bald.
See, it's simple.
For those who didn't tune in yesterday, was it Zimbabwe?
Was it Mozambique?
No, it's Mozambique.
Mozambique.
Speaking of Africa, let's go to Islam.
A lot of Africa has been, a lot of the continent of Africa has been tainted by the evil poison that is the Islamic ideology.
So I'm going to get to a few kind of claims that are being made out there.
Like I talked about earlier today, you see some people, everyone on the left, and some on the right saying, hey, Islam is actually not the threat, okay?
That's propaganda.
And if we stopped bothering them, they wouldn't hate us so much.
It's because of our actions that those who follow the Islamic faith support attacking us, killing us, you know, to the tune of 198 million Muslims worldwide support violence against non-Muslims.
I want to disabuse you of that because I think a lot of people don't have their opinion rooted in basic history.
We'll also get to the founders, the reason for that history, Jesus versus Muhammad, and then real world data today to see if it's still following the historical trend line.
If you've been following the news or maybe even reading some tweets, scrolling, you might think now that Islam, well, half the country thinks it's fine, it's benign, and half thinks, well, it's not great.
Breaking news out of Texas this morning.
We are now learning law enforcement officials are investigating an overnight shooting as a possible act of terror.
The shooting outside a bar in Austin's busy East 6th Street area left three people dead, 14 others injured, three of them in critical condition this morning.
Tonight, a chilling terror attack thwarted in the backyard of New York City's mayor.
Chaos unfolding as demonstrators clashed and ran for safety.
This was not random violence.
This was a planned attack motivated by extremist ideology.
Sheer panic in Bondi.
Terrified benchgoers run for their lives as shot after shot rings out.
The two shooters used long-armed weapons to open fire from a bridge onto a park where members of Sydney's Jewish community had gathered to celebrate Hanukkah.
The new information coming in on the man with prior ties to ISIS who opened fire on an ROTC class at Old Dominion University.
Police in West Bloomfield, Michigan, now responding to an active shooter, we're told at Temple Israel.
The West Bloomfield Police Department set out an alert urging residents to avoid the area now.
Yeah, so to be clear, since March 1st alone, we've seen attacks from those who follow the ideology, the poisonous religion of Islam.
They have perpetrated crimes.
There was the shooting in Austin, the IED attack in New York City, the shooting at Old Dominion University, temple attack in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
And if you were to look at this and your starting off point would be, well, hold on, that's actually, that's retaliation.
That's because of what the United States has been doing in the Islamic world.
And there are many people who believe that.
I just have to tell you, and we'll go through again: history, founders, real-world data, everything you're saying.
You're wrong about everything.
Wrong.
All right.
And by the way, this is not a character judgment on people who have made these statements.
I just think it's important to disabuse you of a notion that is false.
If you start, if you look at the Iran conflict, and by the way, I think the conversation should center around really budget, national security, and the level of interventionism with which we are comfortable.
I do not believe that this conversation should take place around the topic whatsoever.
Well, is Islam really violent or is it our fault?
If you say, why are we doing anything with Iran?
They've never attacked us.
That's factually inaccurate.
If you say, well, the Islamic world was at peace with us until our intervention or interventionist policies, that is factually inaccurate.
That is an illegitimate opinion because it is based on a verifiable fallacy.
History, founders, real-world data.
Dave Smith's tweet went out, went viral yesterday.
Islam is such a violent religion, every time we murder a bunch of their children, they try to kill some of us.
Disgusting.
Okay, here's the truth.
And I get that it's easy for people to believe this out there if you just haven't opened the Quran or any other history book.
First, let's go through history.
Islam has been entirely spread through violence and conquest since its inception.
Every single century, with no exception, predating the United States.
And then it was our first real war or conflict once we had become a country after ratification as the United States.
Why?
Because of Muhammad.
You can go to the seventh century where you look at Muhammad besieging, executing, enslaving everyone who stood against him.
You can look at the conquest of Levant.
You can go to the 8th century, the, I mean, there's more Islamic conquests.
You can go to the 15th century, the sack of Constantinople, kind of a big one.
And this is the reason that it's important.
Of course, the Barbary Wars, like we talked about, that's the 18th, 19th century with a bunch of Islamic pirates.
That's really why we have the kind of Navy and Marines that we do.
And this, by the way, also brings us to just a few hours ago, suicide bombers carried out a series of attacks in Nigeria, 23 dead, over 100 injured, because in the 20th century, they actually conquered MI6.
Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
It's a quick movie.
Long credits.
And we'll get to the founders here.
So, history, the founders, which would be Muhammad versus Jesus.
But it's important to note: Christianity, Stephen, my name, first martyr.
If you were a Christian early on, you were killed, you were executed.
Christianity spread exclusively through proselytizing, missions works, and cultural conversion.
Islam, when it started, no known oppressors.
People go, I don't know, what was this?
Some kind of new thing.
Okay, whatever.
It wasn't globally known.
Exclusively spread through conquest, through violence.
Matter of fact, the perfect example would be the Reconquista there of Spain.
So Spain, I'm just using this a very clear example: in case you believe it's the United States, we are the reason that Islam is violent.
Spain became a Christian nation.
How did they become not through violence, through a literal saint and through people converting?
Then you had the Muslim onslaught who took over large swaths of land.
And the Reconquista was finally Christians saying, you know what?
We're going to take this back.
At first, we did it peacefully through conversion.
There were no acts, no notable acts of Christian aggression or expansionism until the advent of Islam, which was violent from the moment it was created.
Every single century since then.
It's the only way it has spread.
Muhammad was literally a warlord.
Yes, at the tip of a sword.
Which brings us to the founders.
Yeah.
Did Jesus Christ ever kill anybody?
Did Jesus Christ ever wage a war?
Did Jesus Christ ever call for never-ending war, jihad, or specifically to kill those who subverted the book, namely Christians and Jews?
I know you'll find some verses in the ground.
You'll say, actually, they say we respect the people of the book.
No, they don't.
And I'll get to that in a second.
Did Jesus do any of those things?
No.
Did Muhammad?
Yes.
Now take that.
Founder, go, okay.
Then how did Christianity spread?
Oh, they were murdering Christians.
They were executing them nonviolently is how it spread.
Islam, they weren't being executed.
They weren't being martyred exclusively violently.
The left wants you to start history with the Crusades and those on the horseshoe right, whatever the dissident right.
Anyone who believes that if you just left the Islamic world alone, if you never poked the bear, you'd be doesn't understand the actual ideology, theology, not about philosophy, political prescription.
Let's look at Muhammad.
This is from At-Taba 929.
Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the last day, nor comply with what Allah and His Messengers have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth from among those who were given the scripture until they pay the tax, willingly submitting, fully humbled.
So we have the history, every single century.
You will not find an exception.
No acts of notable Christian aggression until Islam.
Hey, have they changed their stripes?
Let's go to well, 88% of deaths related to terrorism, terror deaths are directly attributable to Islam.
97%, well, you talk about the United States, if they left us alone, 97% of terror attacks occur outside of the Western world.
So you may say the 3% is because of the United States.
And that doesn't mean, by the way, that we haven't screwed up in the Middle East.
I just believe that we screwed up for different reasons.
We don't know the enemy that we actually face.
It's barbarism.
It's Islamic barbarism.
Okay, that's 3%.
Now do the 97% of those dying at the hands of Islam today, today, more real-world data.
198 Muslims worldwide, it's just a small number, support the use of violence against civilian targets to defend Islam.
198 million.
The question wasn't if they're American.
The question wasn't whether they're isolationists or not.
Do you support the use of violence against civilian targets to defend Islam?
198 million Muslims say yes.
50-something million Muslims say often.
Still believe that if we left them alone, it's because we're killing their people.
Now also do them killing far more of their own women and children than we ever have.
We've got to have a basis in truth.
We can have disagreements.
But if you say, well, Iran's never attacked Americans, you don't know what you're talking about.
It doesn't justify, like you've said, a never-ending war.
Of course not.
Don't lie and say never attacked Americans.
They've killed thousands of Americans on many separate occasions.
And they've sworn to do so until their last dying breath.
You may not think that we should intervene.
I think that's appropriate.
In many cases, we shouldn't be intervening.
But don't say that the only reason any Muslims or any of these countries, these caliphates, are violent toward the West is because of something we've done.
You have to go back to every other nation pre-America.
What did we do?
The Barbary Wars.
What do we do to have a bunch of Islamic pirates attacking vessels?
It's silly.
And the people espousing this are hoping that you are dumb.
Here's another one that I think is interesting: that Caleb Hammer, who has the financial audit show, here he is with some Islamic guests.
And it's fun that he seems to be a bit on the spectrum because he just says it.
I always question the Bible.
And so, like, I don't.
Don't question the Quran.
Of course.
I think question everything.
I don't think you're allowed to question the Quran, especially as a woman.
No.
He likes it.
I mean, he's like, that's right.
No, it's not that.
No, Islam is probably the most like feminist, Moros religion there is, like, very much protective of.
Yes, it is certainly Middle Eastern countries that are most well known for their feminism and freedom for women.
It is.
The Middle East.
If they're practicing Islam, yes.
So you're saying they're all practicing it incorrectly everywhere, including Mecca?
Yes.
We all remember those Islamic propaganda posters going around the Middle East for feminists.
Yeah.
That's taking it lately.
Here's the truth.
Of course, Tuaman, truth.
Of course.
Good.
And I'm not talking about traditional, you know, patriarchal systems that exist as they do with all the Abrahamic religions.
Islam subjugates and abuses women by mandate.
Okay, so let's go again through history, the founder, and then real-world data.
Let's look at the seventh century.
Muslim forces, they were capturing, taking sex slaves with permission from Muhammad.
Like, that was their calling card.
All the greats have their calling card.
8th century took a thousand virgins as slaves from Spain to Damascus.
21st century, ISIS kidnapped thousands of Yazidi women and forced them into sex slavery.
Let's go, okay.
This is, by the way, again, in a way that is not seen in the Western world.
I know people have told you that unconditional surrender means our guys are going to enslave your women and rape them.
It was actually a mandate policy and prescription from Muhammad during war to do that.
Spoils of war for the troops.
Come on.
Also, outbreed.
Yeah.
Right?
Take their women and outbreed them.
It was never reach people with the gospel.
Evangelize.
Evangelize means you present people with good news.
Hey, look, here are your benefits.
And here are the terms that you have to submit to if you want these benefits, like any other deal that you make, effectively.
Islam is called to subjugate.
It's all by force.
That's why women are sex slaves.
That's why they're called to do it.
Let's go back to the founder.
So we have history of the founder.
We have this from Siya al-Bukhari 5134, book 67, Hadith 70, that the Prophet Muhammad was married.
Sorry, the Prophet Muhammad married her when she was six years old, and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old.
Hisham said, I have been informed that Aisha remained with the Prophet Muhammad for nine years, meaning until his death.
To be fair, he only humped her thighs from six to nine.
Divinity and Christian Laws00:15:45
That is not in dispute.
All Islamic scholars or imams will have to tell you that's the case.
Yeah, but the bright side isn't she turned 18, she was free.
Right.
Effectively.
As used goods.
Come on.
Let's look at Quran 4:34.
Men are in charge of women by right of what Allah has given one over the other, but those wives from whom you fear arrogance, first advise them, then if they persist, forsake them in bed, and finally strike them.
And then you'll have the Muslims say, like, ah, well, that's really just because, you know, you can't strike them hard.
It's just enough.
Okay, when you put together the totality, child brides, arranged marriage, women being treated as sex slaves.
Let's add up on top of that.
You can have temporary marriages so you can have that loophole with the hookers.
You can marry someone, divorce, divorce, divorce.
It is all designed around not a union, but pleasure for the male and subjugation of women.
It's not the same as what people would say, red pill or traditional patriarchy relationships, where the man is the head of the household who is to protect, to provide for the wife.
And yes, she is to submit to him in all things because he's the leader of the household.
That's not the same as a sex slave to be taken and used at your convenience and beaten.
And it's okay if they're six or nine.
Let's look at the real world data: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Qatar.
You look at these different countries, they allow child marriage.
The girl has reached puberty.
And by the way, they're a little, you know, it's more of a guideline than a hard and fast rule.
You stay, women keep getting younger and younger, and Muhammad keeps staying the same age.
They require the women to marry whoever their male guardian tells them to.
These countries facilitate domestic violence through laws.
And then the other thing is, this is why you also see a lot of cousin marrying.
A lot of Pakistan, it's up to 70%.
Jeez.
UK Pakistanis are 59%.
And you know, that comes with a laundry list of hereditary diseases, right?
Now, why would that be?
Well, because a guy wants to bang his cousin, it doesn't matter if she doesn't want to bang her cousin back.
I mean, she's right there.
Yeah.
She's always around.
For people to say, oh, it's feminist.
Look, I hate feminists as much as the next person.
And I'm not going to say that Islam has us all wrong.
The shared ground that we would have as far as roles of men and women, by the way, that would be the same in Judaism.
That would be the same in Christianity.
They add a whole bunch, to be clear.
Also, this is another clip on that show where he was reminding them, these secular Western Muslims.
I mean, by Islamic standards, that they're not practicing Islam.
Well, it's actually what you say about Islamic principles as well.
They say they can say all they want.
That doesn't mean they actually do it.
The principles.
Okay, well, are we going to do the whole thing that Christians do with shellfish and a bunch of shit like that?
Where we pick and choose what we like depending on our world values.
No, but here's the thing.
This is what I'm going to say.
Okay.
Because I think what she's trying to say is this.
When we started debt, we're in so much debt.
Okay, then you're not following Islamic principles.
That's true.
And what are you going to tell me?
Wait, Muslims don't believe in debt?
Well, then how can Allah owe them 72 virgins when they martyred themselves?
That's really more of like a party favor.
Yeah, it's a different thing.
Yeah, it's not a debt.
Oh, it's not a debt.
It's not a debt.
It's like a reward.
It's just a good time.
Okay.
It's a bonus.
These six-year-old thighs are kind of like you'd reward them.
Oh, my gosh.
It's disgusting.
By the way, Caleb got one thing wrong.
Christians don't pick and choose.
The New Testament did away with the old dietary laws, so we follow the New Testament, not picking and choose.
But anyway.
Here's another claim that I see made a lot.
So if you start with the false premise, they won't attack you if you don't attack them.
Islam is not inherently a violent religion.
Matter of fact, it's actually a friend to Christianity because they like Jesus too.
Islam and Christianity, actually, we should be each other's best allies.
You see this from the guy named Sneeko.
He wrote, it is far past time we Christians and Muslims unite on our shared similarities rather than fight over our minor differences.
They, meaning Jews, spit on Christians and bomb the Muslims.
Why are we deceived into hating each other by those who hate the Messiah?
Okay, so here's the truth.
Again, we'll go through history.
Allah and Muhammad disagree.
They don't think that we're greatest friends.
Within 10 years of Islam's inception, they went to war with Christians and Jews.
Now, let's, and then forevermore thereafter.
Islam is okay with Christians so long as they can violently conquer all of the lands that you culturally converted of their own free will.
As long as you don't mess with their violent conquering, they can be buds.
Yeah, who was Jesus in Islam?
Yeah.
Who's the Messiah?
You don't believe he's the Son of God.
We don't have that much in common.
Well, let's go back to the founder.
This is, I think it's Al-Ma'idah, Ma'idah 551.
Oh, believers, take neither Jews nor Christians as guardians.
They are guardians of each other.
Whoever does so will be counted as one of them.
Surely Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people.
And what Muslims will do, and they're allowed to do this to mislead you, is they'll try and say, well, you know, we actually respect the people of the book.
We believe the Old Testament and the New Testament.
We add to it.
We just don't believe the parts that were lied about and subverted.
Whoa, what was that part?
You know, we just don't believe the part since because it was warped.
But by whom?
Well, the Jews, going back to when?
The blessing of Abraham.
So pretty much all of it.
So pretty much 98% of the book, you really just used to point to and say, Jews and Christians are liars.
They're okay.
They are people of the book and they are your friends if they allow themselves to be subjugated by you.
If not, kill them until your last dying breath.
Now let's go to the real world.
Muslims and Christians should be each other's greatest allies.
They never have, but they should be.
Here are Muslims obeying Muhammad and the commandments of Allah.
He looks like a Jew.
Yeah, it's a more Jewish terrorist.
Holy f ⁇ Now, I've searched, and there may be one somewhere of someone who happens to be Jewish at some point in time, couldn't find one example of comparable Jewish acts of terrorism against the church, tearing it down.
Now, I know what people like Sneeko will argue.
Well, like, that's because everything the Jews do is covert.
They do it covertly.
It's Masada.
Okay, so would that mean that Muslims also don't do covert ops?
They only do the overt, where they destroy churches and attack Christians and execute them in public?
The Jews don't do that, but they exclusively do the covert.
The Muslims don't also do the covert because I'd be willing to bet that they do both.
And let's look at why this is the case.
Look, I believe, obviously, Jesus Christ is the truth, the one and only truth, and I believe that hell is real.
And I believe that if you reject the divinity of Christ, that's your cross to bear and it's probably going to suck.
Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Tao, whatever it is.
That's the belief of all Christians.
That shouldn't be offensive, right?
Well, it's not worried about Jews being offended when I say that.
So, with that being said, Jews deny the divinity.
They don't acknowledge the divinity of Christ.
Okay, we disagree there.
Here's why Islam is a unique problem.
Okay?
Jews, Old Testament.
That's the basis of Christianity.
They reject the sequel, right?
The New Testament.
Jesus came to fulfill the law.
Okay?
So, when Jews have created societies, there are differences, but we still follow the same generally foundational law.
It's not foreign to Christians because we genuinely do use and respect that part.
The basis of the law, where Jews and us will find common ground where we can actually live in societies together, even if they're a little too Jewy sometimes.
Muslims, no, it's the opposite.
They completely destroy the foundations of the law because the Jews and Christians lied about it.
Let me give you the analogy that I've used before.
Judaism is Halloween one.
Christianity, like, okay, Old Testament, we get it.
Moses, all right, blessing of Abraham, we got it.
Okay, Messiah is going to come.
Christianity is Halloween two.
Takes place the same night.
It's still canon, right?
Halloween two in the hospital.
We're like, ah, Mike Myers continued.
It's still the same storyline.
And then Islam, they say they're an Abrahamic religion, but it's like Halloween three, where you just go, Halloween one, okay, it's continued Halloween two.
The Jews are not Halloween two.
But Halloween three, what, masks as a form of mind control, and there's no Michael Myers?
The hell is going on?
Christianity and Judaism share the same core laws.
Christ came to fulfill the law, and I would make the case that adds an element of grace that to me is sadly lacking in Judaism.
That's why you have Jewish people.
They tend to be very letter of the law, right?
The dietary laws, the Sabbath laws, which we should honor and respect, but Sabbath was unclarified to be more of a gift for you to rest.
And that means that if you work with your hands, you may want to do sudoku, that if you work with your brain, you may want to go out and chop wood, right?
But we still view the Sabbath.
We still have the same core basis of laws.
Islam rewrote all the laws.
And said, by the way, kill the people who argue with you on the new rewriting of the laws.
Jews, let's just take this.
Jews deny the divinity of Christ.
Okay.
Because they don't believe it fulfilled prophecy.
All right.
People want you to believe that that's the greatest evil.
Plenty of people deny the divinity of Christ, including in your church.
They'll say, oh, you know, Jesus was a great moral teacher.
You know, I think it's allegorical.
There are plenty of people who do.
So Jews deny the divinity of Christ.
Okay.
So do Muslims.
So does Islam.
Jesus did not die and raise from the dead.
To be clear.
In other words, that didn't happen.
They add the element of, and people who wrote that are in on a plot to deceive you, and that's why they need to be subjugated or killed.
Big difference.
Jews go, but we just don't think he's the guy.
We're still waiting for a guy.
Islam says, well, a lot of people think he's the guy, but that's because these people, the Jews and Christians, lied about it.
And that's why we have to subjugate them or kill them because we know he's not.
By the way, we have a whole new system of laws and prescriptions that we are going to give to you.
This is actually, hey, Christians, Jews, you have to believe this now because of this serial-killing pedophile who spoke to a demon in a cave.
You have to believe this because we're just like you.
And if you don't believe exactly this, we're going to kill all of you.
Here's some dumb shit bonus.
Sneeko said, they don't really hate Islam.
They are just jealous.
What?
I'm jealous of what?
I have white bed sheets.
Yeah.
I got three pairs.
Jealous of, yeah, that's a what?
Here's the truth.
There's literally nothing to be jealous of.
Not only to be found in the religion of Islam, but the history of Islam or any Islamic country or really any impact Islam has had on the world.
None.
None.
Islam enslaves people by command.
Christians freed slaves, basing it on their theology, basing it on their view that they thought needed to be corrected that we can't do this.
Yep, slavery existed for a long time.
Islam continues to enslave people.
Christians freed more slaves than any other religion ever.
Islam, of course, you're called to war.
Christians, you're called to peace.
You're called to fight when necessary, but you are called to be peaceful.
Islam, pro-pedophilia.
Be pretty tough to argue against Muhammad humping thighs from six to nine.
I still think nine is a little green for my taste, but you know, six certainly is.
That's not borderline.
Can we agree on that?
Christian nations prosecute pedophiles.
Not enough.
But when people complain about Epstein, you go, yeah, now do Muhammad.
Now do Islamic nations.
Now do child brides.
Islam doesn't just abuse women, it revels in it.
I don't believe that a woman submitting to the authority of her husband or a woman having a traditional role is abuse, to be clear.
I do believe that a woman being used as nothing more than sex cattle and being stoned to death if she only has two out of four witnesses after being gang raped.
I think that's abuse.
That's no longer a first, second, third wave feminism.
It's just a religion that abuses women.
Christianity, not the same at all.
Also, Islam, they eat with their hands.
We use forks.
Oh, that's a big one.
That's a that to me, it just like they don't use toilet paper.
I'm pro-toilet paper.
I know somebody's going to say, bideta, I'm all about that bidet life in tandem with the appropriate toilet.
Exactly.
Pro-bideth, also pro-dry the bidet.
Right.
Remnants with some just not treating your left hand as the sharman.
Some people reuse their TP.
That's disgusting.
Well, imagine reusing your left hand.
I do it every day.
Yeah.
Islam doesn't even let women drive in many cases.
And I will say as a Christian, okay, they may have a point.
All right, a caliphate may have prevented that.
You know.
By the way, we're live weekdays, 11 a.m. Eastern.
So I just want to make sure that we're really clear.
We need to figure out when people talk about the civil war on the right, we need to figure out where the disagreements are.
And if it is, if the starting off point, the springboard is, well, hold on a second, yeah, but we all know that the Islamic world only hates us because of what we do.
You are going to be so far off target in the real world that wherever you are will not be, you wouldn't be able to recognize reality from your placement in the geopolitical spectrum.
It's nonsensical.
You have centuries.
By that I mean every century since its inception.
History, the reason for that history being remarkably consistent when you go to the words of the founders, and then you have real world data today that shows you it's not getting any better.
In many cases, it's getting worse.
You have to do away with all of that to say that it is exclusively a Jewish problem and we should be buddies.
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Jewish community has problems.
I get that.
Israel has a lot of problems.
Bibi Netanyahu has a lot of problems.
I understand he might want to keep his conflict going.
That has no bearing on the reality of Islam.
And anyone embracing it cannot be America first.
Why?
Because Islam does not allow for America.
It's that simple.
Islam does not allow for the United States of America.
As a religion, it demands our subjugation, period.
The only reason that we are not at that phase yet is because unlike all of the other centuries prior, we're not weak enough to be subjugated.
When you have this conversation based on truth, is that fair?
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You can flick them off.
Yeah, yeah.
Anything you want to add?
Sorry, you know, this was my a long time ago, and I'm like, oh, we're back here now where people on the right are going, Islam's religion to beat.
I believe it's flip them off, not flick them off.
Well, whatever, either way.
Flick them, flip them.
You know, it's all the same.
He's talking about his boogies.
Yeah.
No, I think you did a great job encapsulating it.
It doesn't make any sense.
It's one of the most incoherent religions that I've ever seen, and it is absolutely not peaceful.
And unfortunately, Dave Smith is so anti-war that he can't see that sometimes people will do stuff no matter who you support.
Whether Israel exists, whether it doesn't exist, whether we care about them, whether we don't care about them, whether we fight their wars, whether we don't fight their wars, whatever it just doesn't matter.
He just assumes it's our fault.
And of course, they're just responding to us.
How far back do you want to go, Dave?
Are we responding to them or are they responding to us?
Yeah.
Because just keep moving the date.
We'll figure it out.
Yeah.
They want you to believe that, you know, if we didn't have any type of alliance with Israel, then the Muslim world would be fine.
Well, I don't know.
Maybe you think about this, like maybe a big reason for the geopolitical history of modern Israel is because we had constantly been facing the bullshit of Islamic caliphates.
Maybe that's why.
And then if you go back to, you know, 600 something, you go, oh, wait a second, it's been non-stop.
That to me is the biggest delineation.
Christianity, you're martyred.
You will be killed.
Spread through word of mouth for centuries, centuries, peacefully.
Conversions, actual saints going out.
Islam, no known oppressors.
You weren't martyred.
Spread by the sword in conquest immediately.
Yeah.
Doesn't get much clearer than that.
You don't hear about a lot of Islams, you know, dropping a grudge.
No.
They tend to hang on.
They tend to hang on.
Yeah.
So it's like, well, okay, let's we stop.
We never leave alone forever.
Yeah.
How long do we have to deal with this?
Because it's pretty tough.
They won't drop the grudge.
No.
It's pretty tough to say, all right, it's time to let cooler jihads prevail.
Okay.
All right.
We do have actually, I believe we have our guest on the show.
And before we bring him on, I actually wanted to bring up this ties right in.
Not easy to criticize Islam.
And I will tell you this.
Far harder to do in the cesspool of Canada where free speech does not exist.
But our next guest, he's willing to do it anyway.
I think part of it is that the Muslims, they pray for such big things.
And I think that pisses God off.
I really do.
You got to thank God a lot.
And you got to pray for small stuff first.
You know, just little stuff.
You know, please, God, let grapes be on sale at Farm Boy tomorrow.
Then you go to Farm Boy and grapes are on sale.
You're like, thank you, God.
And God's like, yeah, grapes, easy, done, nothing.
But you know what the Muslims are praying for.
You know, they're in their mosque, you know, inshallah, please let Islam and Allah take over America and Canada and the UK and France and Germany.
And God's listening to this, looking at the Jews like, level it.
Please welcome to the show the very funny and actually brave Ben Bacus.
Oh, hey, Ben.
I didn't, I was, I was good.
I thought you were just doing a mic check.
Sorry, I was in the middle of my morning prayer.
Well, that's allowed in Canada.
And by the way, your tour dates are at benbankus.com where people can go check them out, right?
Yes, sir.
B-E-N-B-A-N-K-A-S.com.
I'm in Texas right now, luckily.
Oh, good for you.
Are you planning to move stateside or is it a tough kind of move to pull off?
Because I'll tell you, starting stand up in Canada, I know what that's like.
And it's far more risky than people here realize.
Well, I want to thank God.
I want to thank my God, our God, one of the gods, for the good God.
I've been living stateside since 2024, April 2024, when I got my visa.
And just know looking back, man, I've just been hit the ground running and been going back and forth to Canada to do shows and doing shows all over the U.S. for the last two years.
So it's been amazing.
And what's it like going back to Canada to do shows?
Because that's always a risk.
I mean, I know you're from Toronto.
By the way, is Toronto?
Is it still a Yuck Yucks in Toronto or is that just Ottawa?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Shout out Yuck Yucks.
They are the best.
And they always, no matter what, they'll press delete on the craziest of emails coming in to try and get my shows canceled.
Well, I'm glad to see that because when I was in Canada, 2004 or maybe five was a year I remember doing the Just for Laughs.
And I was banned from quite a few colleges there in Montreal because of some pretty benign jokes looking back on Muhammad.
What's it like now?
Because all the comics were by default liberal back then.
It was a comedic witch hunt when George Bush was president.
Do you think a lot of the comedians have woken up to the threat against free speech there?
Well, I think, I mean, being banned from universities or colleges is pretty easy to do.
And I mean, for the last 20 years, of course.
I mean, I think one of my first sets, I got kicked off of an open mic at my university, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
I've been there.
And I was doing a joke.
I was just doing some toilet humor, to be honest, but they couldn't even handle that back then or swearing, I think.
But Canada needs it.
They need the comedy.
And when I'm there, they're very thankful.
I mean, the audiences, of course, love it.
Is there a risk?
I don't really think so.
I mean, you come into the country, you push a button on a machine and they let you in.
Some Indian guy goes, Where do you go?
Do you have tobacco or banana?
And that's it.
So there's not really, there's not really, there's barely a border to begin with.
So going back to do comedy is pretty chill.
And honestly, I've crossed the border and had people recognize me at the border.
Like I've had border guards be like, I love your stuff.
I saw you in London, Ontario, buddy.
So it's weird because there's like this underlying, you know, conservatism in Canada.
Same with, I mean, the U.S. was lucky enough to elect Trump, but Canada still has a ton of left-wing people, but it just makes the appetite for what I'm doing so much more.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's been a shift for sure in the comedy community where that wasn't always the case one time.
I think it's just because people always took for granted, like they'd be able to speak freely.
I met that Indian guy, by the way, going through customs.
I met him.
I used to do the Amtrak from Montreal to New York, which would take place, you know, it would only take a mere 15 hours.
And they go through and they do have produce.
I'm like, I have my lunch on the train.
What am I supposed to do?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's an interesting thing.
I mean, the comedy community itself, like, that's a different thing from me selling tickets and being allowed to do what I'm doing.
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Yeah.
The community, they'll always hate it.
The communities generally hate anybody that's getting any success unless it's, you know, unless it's left-wing, then they have to pretend like they like the success.
But, you know, generally, they're not happy.
Yeah.
No, it's true.
It's very much.
I mean, Josh, who's here, he was.
Yeah, I hate it.
I hate it that you're successful.
It sucks.
Yes.
Yeah.
I'm sitting over here one weekend a month and I hate you, buddy.
You suck.
He said, you having that son of a bitch on?
I said, come on.
He's all right.
Walk us through, though.
So I know recently, too, this Renee Good joke, you had some shows that were canceled.
Run us through the joke and the aftermath because that's one of those things that, you know, it wouldn't even be on my radar where someone would cancel you over a joke about someone who clearly deserved to be shot.
Well, I mean, your words, not mine.
Anyway, so the joke was about how she deserved it.
And the joke, well, the first of all, you know, getting shows, like having any disruption when you're getting, you know, I'm doing my job.
I'm on a stage telling a joke.
It's not like I'm doing, I'm not out of Walmart screaming at somebody or whatever.
You know, I don't know what could get me, you know, in trouble.
But the idea that doing a joke itself is actually problematic, a joke that's really popular.
And yeah, of course, something really popular is going to also be really hated, as with any artist, doesn't matter what side of the political spectrum.
Anyway, so the joke was that, you know, I basically just said, you know, so good.
She was shot.
Good.
Renee, good.
The name, that was the whole point of the joke.
Sorry, I hate to put you on the spot, but it's because I know there's fallout.
I know it's never fun to explain a stand-up joke on a show, but I get shot.
Good.
Yeah.
That's fun.
Yeah.
Right.
But her last name was good, so that's why the joke made sense.
And I do a bit about it.
How I say, like, you know, if her last name was bad, I would have said, you know, bad day to be a female driver or whatever.
Right.
But, you know, it's just the last name is, it's, this happened to be that.
So that was the joke.
And, you know, and then I do it.
I've been doing another bit.
You know, I talk about the fallout in my act.
Yeah.
So I won't give too much away.
But yeah, essentially I said good.
And people couldn't believe that I said that.
And then people were stealing my joke, trying to harass me, emailing me, your show was canceled.
Good.
It's like you're still, you're still slandering your name.
Yeah, but it feels good.
They're insulting you with your own joke, which means it works.
Yeah, which means it's a great joke.
Yeah.
So the perfect joke is where someone who wants to kill you still has to use it anyway.
I don't even remember the rest of the joke.
What was it?
I said, good.
Can we play it?
No, I'm just kidding.
I don't have it.
But I do have a clip from a fan of yours, Ali Hassan, who had this to say on CBC, which just for those people who don't know, I tell Americans, like, you don't have to go to Pravda or Venezuela to see government-run media.
I grew up under government-funded media, the CBC.
Here he is talking about your unacceptable joke.
This is a statement that we got, the CBC got from him.
Ben Bankos has proven that following your dreams and speaking your own truth resonates with millions of people, even if that truth is seen as harsh or abrasive.
As a comedian, what do you make of that?
You know, I think Ben, people of his ilk, and there are many other comedians like him.
They believe they're speaking truth to power and they believe at some level that they are some type of, you know, George Carlin, Bill Hicks type of, you know, reincarnation.
And this has been said by many people many times: dude, George Carlin would hate you.
George Carlin would absolutely despise you and everything.
Those were men who actually spoke truth to power.
Power felt ashamed hearing the jokes that George Carlin made about them.
He exposed people in power and talked about how they were corrupt.
This is all punching down.
This is easy, easy pickings, low-hanging fruit.
I don't consider it good comedy.
There's no actual joke writing going into the bulk of it.
Look, Ben's roots are racist from the beginning.
I didn't realize that that was, I was thinking of a different Ali Hassan.
I remember him at Comedy Works in Montreal and Comedy Nest that used to be in the old forum.
I was thinking of that other commentator who has a name similar to their names all sound to the other terrorist sympathizer.
It's funny, I always do this, right?
It always comes down to like, my cool guy wouldn't like you.
George Carlin wouldn't like you.
What do you say to people like the brotherhood of comedy to someone like that?
Yeah, the Muslim Brotherhood of Comedy.
They kill.
I mean, it's, yeah.
I mean, you know, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is having on jihadists and Islamists.
I don't know if they're jihadists fully, but they are Islamists to critique comedy.
I mean, that's government-funded, by the way.
So technically, I paid for that on my own slandering.
That's like divorce court.
You pay to sue yourself.
Yeah, it's basically living in Canada's divorce court, pretty much.
Look, you know, I feel bad for these people that, you know, if your career ends up at the place where you're being brought in and you have like 1,100 followers and they're asking you to, you know, slander a comedian with millions of followers.
I mean, it's just, it's a sad day for that guy.
I mean, you could kind of tell on his face he didn't sleep that night and he was up all night being like, I'm going to do it.
I'm doing it tomorrow.
I'm going to say this.
I'm ending.
Yeah, I'm going to say this.
I'm going to say that.
What I always noticed, too, is, and, you know, coming, I didn't, I wasn't, I wasn't a conservative, right-leaning comedian.
I was just a comedian.
I was 18 when I started in Canada or 17.
I just was inherently more conservative.
And it was brought to me that I wasn't allowed to say those things.
That's how I kind of, I was like, what, really?
I can't.
I just heard someone make a joke about a gangbang at a truck stop.
And I can't make like a joke about Muhammad.
I can't make a joke about, you know, my school being largely Middle Eastern during 9-11.
I remember these conversations.
What warning would you have to, because a lot of Americans watch you and they go, okay, they just, which is a great thing.
It's purity.
They go, you're funny.
But they may not know the actual background of the contrast.
What warning would you issue to Americans who don't know how bad Canada is, how bad it can get?
They take it for granted.
I mean, if Kamala had won, I think it would have been in a lot more similar state or at least trending that way.
And I do think that if you watch the Oscars, that is a representation of what Canada has become.
It is, and it's what they want.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you, man.
They want Canada or they want America to become what the Oscars was as mainstream.
And that's all you're really allowed to like or enjoy.
So the Oscars, to me, it's almost basically it's government funded at this point.
I mean, it's not because, you know, they have a box office, all that.
But, you know, if you look into it, I'm sure that most of the money, there's grants, there's this.
They got a grant because they had six transgenders and two blacks and a, you know, and a Chinese guy.
So that's, they got another million bucks there.
Whatever it is.
And even if you look at the Oscars, you're not even allowed to submit if you don't have a certain requirement of DEI.
So that's kind of what they're making into like law in Canada.
It's not just like, you know, well, you can make your movie, but it'll never be in the Oscars.
There, it's you can't make your movie.
Right.
Or you can't, you know, and that's their hope.
Have they accomplished it 100%?
No, they're still fighting for it.
I mean, you know, these people are having conversations, you know, that conversation that, you know, my fans are sending me.
And, you know, they're talking about how, you know, well, it should be hard for you for Ben to have the ability to perform these sold-out shows.
It should be difficult.
Why?
As a Canadian citizen who's getting success in Canada and America and has fans all around the world, that should be celebrated.
You don't agree with the politics?
You think the jokes are too harsh?
Okay, well, it's, you know, what about the economies of all the small, any small town where I was doing a thousand seats and they reverse it a week out and cancel the show, all the hotels that were booked, all the, I mean, the dinner plans, the restaurants, the bars afterwards.
And we're talking a town of, you know, maybe 30,000 or 40,000, 50,000.
That's a good night for everybody.
And it's a memorable boost to the economy.
So it just seems like because when you have everything government funded, you don't have to care about making money.
And, you know, capitalism is about, unless tell me if I'm wrong, but if the product is good, it will sell.
Yeah.
Well, I actually think you just touched on something very insight.
So we, the last time that I was, and I haven't, and I don't know, when I retire from this, I'll probably go back to stand up.
It's kind of tough to juggle going morning to nights.
But the last time that I did it, we picked venues.
So like for example, instead of Manhattan, we said, you know what, we're going to do two shows in Red Bank at like an 1800 seat theater and we'll do two.
We'll do it in a place that we know is friendly and we'll do it in a place where we know people will want it.
We would do a small town outside of a large Midwestern town where they just had a big enough venue and it would be a real infusion and you'd see it with the local hotels.
So you do have that sway for sure.
I also find it fun.
You mentioned that.
I remember Jay Bearshell, the exact opposite, right?
Blissfully in a way tone.
In Canada, we actually, our government, it's a beautiful thing.
They fund our films.
So it's not just corporate slop.
It's like, yeah, it's propaganda.
It's propaganda.
You're a tool of the propagandist government.
Ben, I want to.
It's making it cheap.
How do we make the propaganda cheaply?
Oh, we get people who have a dream but are never going to accomplish it to make it by giving them money because they would never be able to make it on their own because they're not that talented.
Yeah, that happens.
And a lot of, we see the best here in the States.
People are like, oh, trailer park poison.
But I go, yeah, but if you watch a lot of Canadian TV, it is crap.
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