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Oct. 1, 2025 - Viva & Barnes

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Live with Ben Bankas! Government Shut Down! Visa Revocation Unconstitutional! & MORE!

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	Ladies and gentlemen, I will present the beginning of this show.
	Darn it, I screwed up.
	I will open this show presenting possibly the best, most compelling ad in politics I have ever seen.
	This is how you do it.
	This is the scariest sound you will hear when you live in a communist country.
	This is the last sound my parents heard when their fathers were taken away in the middle of the night.
	And they never saw their loved ones again.
	That's the sound of losing your freedom.
	The sound of always living in fear.
	That's my family's real life story.
	We escaped from Vietnam just days before Saigon fell to the communists.
	We're given a new life in the most generous country on Earth.
	America saved my life.
	I earn a master's in physics and fellowships at MIT in Harvard before the left replaced merit with racial quotas.
	I spent my life trying to repay my debt to America.
	My country.
	With 25 years of service in Navy Special Operations, combat in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
	Wait for it.
	But now our country has taken a dark turn.
	Oh that's Joe Biden's Justice Department sending two dozen armed agents to arrest a pro-life activist in front of his family.
	That's Joe Biden's IRS raiding a gun shop and seizing thousands of records from law-abiding gun owners.
	I'm gonna put this on pause.
	Ben you're in live.
	You're in live, man.
	How are you doing?
	Good.
	I'm scared.
	Whatever I just watched, I'm very scared.
	Well, this is the newest confirm uh confirmed uh uh US Senate confirms Trump nominee Hunkao as under-secretary for the Navy 5245, and then they go into his um his credentials.
	Ben, I you you might have to, I'm gonna have to do an ad read with you on screen.
	This is gonna be a first, but uh get off.
	I can get off.
	Yeah, bounce off for one second.
	Just I it always makes me feel uncomfortable.
	Oh, he's out now.
	Uh by the way, I wanted to start with that.
	The guest came on early.
	Uh Ben Bankis.
	If you don't know who he is, uh Ben, I can also still hear you now, so don't do anything embarrassing.
	Uh, by the way, if you didn't know who Ben was, and you didn't use tools such as uh, you know, search engines, it's a perfect segue into our sponsor for the day, actually.
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	My father has.
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	If you didn't know who Ben Bankis was and you didn't go ask Comet or Perplexity, uh, we're gonna it's gonna be um, I'll say a mildly offensive show.
	Ben, before you come in, we're gonna talk Canadian American stuff and law.
	And I, you know, I've been I've been in touch with Ben for a little while now.
	I think he ran for mayor of Toronto.
	I think he ran against Olivia Chow, who's gonna be in our show today, whether she likes it or not.
	And I said, Ben, come on today, because you know, look, it's uh we're in between uh new there's no breaking news story of the day that people are gonna say, Viva, why the hell aren't you talking about this?
	Um so it's a good day to come on and we can just shoot the shit and talk about you know Canada, America and Olivia Chow.
	If you don't know who Ben Bankis is, he does a voiceover of Olivia Chow, which I guess it would get any normal person canceled, but when you're a stand-up comic, you get away with things like this.
	Olivia Chow, the born, I believe she's born in Hong Kong, commie mayor of Toronto in the news recently because she's talking about jacking up property taxes for Torontonians to pay for illegal aliens or uh migrants, whatever they want to call them.
	Ben does this thing and it makes me cry with laughter.
	Boom do I'm altering a 50 high subway call with Atani food for old offending all right.
	Thank you.
	My eyeball is popping, right?
	Oh my head.
	Isn't that amazing?
	How much it's crazy.
	We're looking at my bore everyone.
	There's 10 eye and hey, Ben, you can pop in now, and so everyone can see the face of the devil here.
	I support the Parisian right to go to the Jew's neighborhood.
	I want this.
	To take the Jew who Paris get.
	That is what I support, and you know what our reproll do.
	We destroyed uh me.
	We make uh everybody impoverished make sure all the homeless people doing front of the children and make sure the school teaching the children how to be uh homosexual and all teachers.
	So that is what important to me.
	Uh make sure we have enough subway car for all the poor people to travel around the city going from uh homosexual to Paris in protest and so on and so forth.
	Okay, I'm being told that we're not live on locals.
	Hold on one second, we have to be live on locals because let me refresh.
	Uh the stream will start soon.
	Hold on a second.
	Rumble.
	Uh hold up.
	Let me see.
	Uh okay, it doesn't.
	Can I edit this now?
	No, locals is hold on one second.
	I see it in here, and we should be live on locals.
	Hold up.
	How do I do this?
	If it didn't seem to take on locals.
	It's in Rumble Studio.
	I see it up here.
	And it's on Twitter.
	Uh okay, hold hold up.
	Ben, well, okay.
	Introduce to the world who you are.
	I'm gonna see if I can't fix this on locals.
	Who are you, Ben?
	What the fuck is locals?
	Oh, you probably can't swear on here, right?
	No, you could sort all you want.
	Locals is a um a community that is it's sort of like a behind a pay.
	It's like Facebook's behind a paywall, except it's not all behind a paywall.
	And so we're live on it.
	It's like um what Patreon was supposed to be, like actual community.
	Um tell us who you are, and uh we're gonna get into things here.
	I don't know, man.
	I'm a Chinese woman, apparently.
	Um, I uh I'm a comedian, and uh I'm from Toronto, Canada originally, but I live in Austin, Texas now.
	Shut up!
	When did you move?
	And uh I moved in April 2024.
	That's pretty damn good.
	April 2024.
	Have I not known that?
	So you you do you you ran for mayor and then you and then you left the country.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	I mean, I it was like a j at first it was a joke, like we were just making videos of like what would it like what would the most woke mayor look like.
	And then you know, it's so easy to run for mayor.
	It's like 200 bucks, and you need like 20 signatures, so we just got a bunch of comedians to sign for me behind uh yuck yucks in Toronto.
	Um I remember there were comedians that wouldn't sign it, which is really funny.
	Like they were just they were like, I can't, I I can't help you do this.
	Like They were like woke comics, obviously, but uh and so they wouldn't sign the petition.
	Yeah, because you gotta get you got to get like a hundred and whatever signatures just to get your name on the ballot.
	It's 20.
	It's 20 signatures.
	The mayorship for the mayor and 200 bucks.
	So I was like no-brainer to do this for real, just to make it even funnier.
	And um yeah.
	I just now uh just to let everybody on locals know it's not uh it's a problem on Rumble Studio side here.
	It doesn't seem to be linking through or low, uh, doesn't seem to be connecting through local.
	So I'm gonna try to figure something out, but I can't reboot, so maybe locals is gonna have to watch it on Rumble today.
	Um and I'll do something special for locals afterwards.
	So uh well, tell us how that went.
	So you you you run you you did get on the you got the signatures and then you you made it into the race.
	Yeah, I got on the ballot.
	I mean it's super easy to do.
	The lineup looked like uh the lineup to sign up for the mayor looked like a welfare line, to be honest.
	Half the people were just you know, people you'd see if you have Canadian people listening, people who shop at Dollarama.
	Let's just say that.
	Those are the people waiting in line to sign up to be the mayor.
	So um I did that.
	We got like 200 votes.
	I didn't actually do a campaign.
	I didn't like print anything or hand anything out or go door knocking.
	We just made funny videos.
	And um, yeah, so that was kind of a fun thing, and then towards the end of it, we just I just started pretending that I was Olivia Chow.
	Like the joke's like, yeah, she's gonna win, so vote for me because I'm her.
	Um, and then she won and then just kind of made some made some made fun of her the same way I made fun of Teresa Tam, which was to a Chinese accent over her talking because I grew up on those Jackie Chan movies,
	drunken drunken master, all those dubbed Chinese movies, where it's like a you know, British dubbing over clearly they're all speaking Chinese, so that's kind of where I got the idea for it, and just went from there.
	And that's you well, you and you ended up I didn't realize you actually left Canada, but so it's April, it's about a little over a year, uh, and you moved to Texas.
	For real, yeah.
	Yeah, amazing.
	Um, how long do you anticipate being in the States for?
	Well, um I mean I like coming back to Canada.
	I like being in Canada, but there's just not there's nothing going on in the comedy world.
	Like my shows, we're doing a huge show in Toronto, Meridian Hall, 3200 seats in November.
	It's almost sold out.
	There's only like 300 tickets left.
	Um Calgary were doing a big show at 2300 seats and Vancouver doing five shows at a comedy club.
	So I'm there, and uh, but when you know comedians on their off time, they want to situate themselves somewhere that has a comedy scene.
	I mean, generally, sometimes it doesn't matter because you can live you can create a comedy scene if you're a big enough comic in in whatever area you want.
	But for now, Austin has a lot going on with comedy, and uh it's it's kind of a good place to be, man.
	At the risk of asking another Joe Rogan question that's gonna get me into trouble.
	Did you get holy shit, dude?
	Did you uh do you know Tyler uh Tyler Fisher?
	Uh anyway, so my new specials out.
	And um well, hold on.
	Let's let's start some let's start some wars here.
	Uh I'm joking, but no, not at all.
	I know I do know him.
	I know I know Tyler.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Um do you guys get along?
	Um yeah, I mean, we did.
	I I I don't know what's going on really with that whole situation in terms of uh I mean like you know, um but I mean uh now do you do you go to do you go to the mothership periodically?
	Yeah, yeah.
	I want to start I I didn't this is like I I opened.
	But what happened?
	What did you you just asked him because you asked him where do you live?
	And he said Austin.
	And then no, no, I knew that he moved down to he moved down to Austin.
	He was on with Rogan.
	I saw the podcast a while back.
	I've sort of forgot that I did.
	Uh and then I said, uh, do you uh you know, uh, do you go to the mothership every now and again?
	And then he says flat out, I've been I've been banned.
	And um, and he he went, he explained, and you can either confirm deny or not answer whether or not the the manager who operates the place is in fact uh uh uh what they refer to as a woke lefty type individual who doesn't even follow Joe Rogan on social media and bans comedians who they take umbrage with certain of their jokes.
	Uh I have an experience that I don't think that that's but you know, um it's uh I look I don't think any comedy club like you can get banned from any comedy club really, I guess, except for maybe yuck yuck's in Canada and Toronto.
	Um but I don't know.
	I I don't really I I wasn't there.
	I like I'm so I'm touring a lot, so when I'm like in town, I do spots at mothership, I see the guys, and it's you know, it's a chill time.
	I don't really um worry about any shit going like you know, who's this that like I want to do spots, I want to have a couple drinks, you know.
	Generally uh celebrate that uh you know, a good weekend of shows or a good two weeks, like I just did two weeks of shows, North Carolina, or I did Canada, I did uh London, Ontario, Ottawa, Winnipeg, then I did immediately did North Carolina, Atlanta, um Irvine, California, sold out big big big show there, and then five sold-out shows in Arizona.
	So I was gone for a while, and I was with my family and stuff, and we went to Disney, and we did, you know, so then I come back and then I go to this, you know.
	I I don't know what he's up to, but there's there was there's something going.
	I I don't want to start something with him because I don't really have like personal problems with any like anybody.
	Um, but you know, there's always more to the fucking stories.
	Well, and just so that's all I'm gonna say.
	I didn't even know it was gonna go here because I still I thought you were still living in Toronto, and that's why I I when I saw the news about Olivia Chow talking about raising property taxes on Torontonians, I was waiting for you to do the uh holler.
	So um Ben, is it all uh just to back it up all the way, you're born and raised in Toronto?
	Um yes, I am born and raised in Toronto.
	Where where are your folks from?
	My folks are my dad's like a Lithuanian Jew.
	Um, but he's like he's not religious or anything, but he's from there, and that's where his background is.
	And then my mom's like uh Anglo-Saxon.
	Okay.
	These people in the comments are hilarious.
	Yeah, don't read the don't read the well, I I feel that I'm not trying to get anybody in trouble.
	I uh it's kind of fun to read.
	No, no, I mean nobody I didn't really nobody I don't know anything other than what people tell me, and I don't I'm not gonna say what people tell me because I don't know what's true.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Now, with that said, so you fled you fled comedy canada as well, but you do go back and you perform your look uh being as I I said I I couldn't be a stand-up comic because it doesn't involve being an asshole, but it does involve not uh being afraid of saying the thing that is funny in the moment, which sometimes is the asshole thing to say.
	Like I don't have to believe the joke in order to know what the joke would be at that moment in time.
	Uh like with Olivia Chow's uh some say it's uh Bell's palsy, others are gonna say she took one too many jabs.
	Um but you have to have the balls to get up on stage and not be afraid of offending people by even making a joke which is comedically appropriate, even though you might not necessarily believe it.
	You on stage take this as a compliment or an insult or an unrepentant asshole.
	Like I've seen enough of your bits that you have no qualms with being uh an ass.
	Like when you went back to Canada, you say what did you say in Ottawa?
	Uh not this is like this uh welcome.
	It feels good to be back in Mogadishu in uh Rawan.
	I forget what countries he said, but oh, were you there?
	Were you at the show?
	No, no, no, no.
	I just I saw clips and uh you know it's it's hilarious.
	I mean, I just try to talk to my audience the way I would talk to my friends or you know, somebody who I I'm not worried about offending, and I just think that that's I mean, I mean, I you know how when people read a book that somebody wrote, and then they they're like, you you know, look at the art art here, and then really the guy was just writing it like fuck, what am I?
	What's the next chapter?
	You know, I mean, that's kind of what art is you just push forward and people will take it in all sorts of ways.
	I I I do notice like a lot of people like you're like people's definition of what an asshole is now is like this guy said something that's slightly offensive and didn't even seem to have any remorse.
	This guy's an asshole.
	It's like, no, that the person saying something like that that's that's complaining about comedy, to me, that's like an actual asshole.
	Because that's somebody that out in the world, like I'll be I'm I'm out in the world, I'll fucking I'll take in whatever's happening.
	I might not react until hours later, or I might write a joke and my and then do it on stage, or you know, the people who are mad at jokes or bad at anything, mad at anything, really, are you know, basically mental patients, and and they're kind of assholes in my um, you know, I feel like I'm fighting the assholes because people are like, he's an asshole.
	It's like, well, what am I if I said this to a person that had my you know uh upbringing and from where uh you know, so they would laugh.
	So because other people don't all have the same upbringings, and you you can't say it, it's like just another form of trying to get rid of free speech by saying, like, well, you have to respect that other people didn't have parents that were funny and that didn't explain the nuances of you know, it's like no, honestly, you know, screw them.
	No, but it is um well uh not to get back, bring back Tyler Fisher again, but you know what he was saying when he was doing the RFK junior impersonation, people like that's mean, you're you're making fun of his voice.
	Like, how else am I supposed to do an impersonation without trying to replicate in a humorous manner his voice?
	And it's similar thing to like when they were banning Apu Nahasipita Pedalon's voice on the Simpsons, like he's the Indian quickie mart guy.
	You're you're it's almost like it's almost more racist to say you can't have the Indian character on the show because it involves stereotypes, which are as far as I'm concerned, like time-tested and true over over extended periods of time, truths about large groups of people, but like, all right, so you can't have the Indian guy with an Indian accent, and so you're gonna exclude the Indian character with the Indian accent uh on the basis of of tolerance, which is even more intolerant.
	We're just letting people who don't have any business doing like we're we're letting people dictate inconsequential things.
	How can you laugh at that?
	How can you how can you look at that and not get a and be filled with rage?
	It's like because I'm not mentally, you know.
	I mean, I'm look, I'm not gonna sit here and be like, I am not mentally ill at all.
	I mean, everybody's mentally ill in some way, but I'm not I don't have the mental illness where it's like I'm gonna get like toddlers, like you're talking about people acting like children, and these people, and I talked about this five, six years ago, right?
	Even before COVID, we're letting the people who complain on Instagram and Facebook have become like powerful people, like somehow, like the people who are like, why this shouldn't be allowed, man, man, man.
	We're somehow like politics because politicians see uh opportunity going, oh my god, these people are really mentally ill.
	We can use these people.
	We're gonna look at all these comments.
	And then they started, you know, they they have data, they have all our data, and they're looking, look at all these comments.
	This look how big of a chunk of people we have that um are this serious about getting rid of certain freedoms because they're offended and whatnot.
	And they basically are being used by the government to they they go, well, people want it, and they go, who?
	And they go, well, here's all the look at the evidence.
	We have all these tweets and and that shouldn't be what the barometer um for making decisions on all these things that people are that are that are the hate speech laws and all these other things that the government's making decisions on that they're really basing it on look, well, the people are telling us they want it.
	Who Chinese bots on Twitter?
	I mean, it's crazy.
	I think it's crazy.
	Well, speaking of a Chinese bot, I'm gonna bring back up Olivia Chow in a second because I want to ask you how how bad it got in Toronto to make you leave.
	Like I I um my I had a few red lines in the sand, one of which was this this law in Quebec that stripped parental authority as the overarching principle of the Youth Protection Act.
	Uh the COVID passports was another one.
	Um, and then I knew we had to leave.
	Uh I I too ran, but I ran for federal office.
	I had to go get, I think, 250 signatures.
	I forget which.
	But what was your uh what was your line in the sand?
	What what what what uh induced you or incited you or motivated you to leave?
	I mean, honestly, I'm not like people think that I'm this like I have my opinions, like whatever I just said, I don't even know if any of it made sense, but basically what the basis of what I just said was you're letting stupid losers control everything, and that's why everything's so sucks.
	But um I didn't really leave.
	I'm not like one of these people who's like, oh, it got so bad.
	I just I just I like Toronto, I love Toronto.
	Um I have a ton of fans in Toronto, probably the most fans of any city, and you know, I love Canada.
	I genuinely, when I'm back, I'd love it.
	I mean, it's you know, it has its issues, it has its things that you can make fun of, and blah blah blah.
	But I moved because I'm a comedian, and generally, if you want to continue along the the road to success, you have to move to America.
	And I would have done that pre-pandemic 2019.
	I was thinking about doing it.
	Um, I'm lucky I uh the things worked out the way they did because I ended up getting a following in Canada first, which a lot of Canadian comics don't do.
	They go to the States first, they get big, and then Canadians find out that they're Canadian, and then they support them when they come back.
	So I was kind of lucky to have it going from Canadian fans, then American fans, go to America, and then continue building the Canadian and American fan bases.
	So I just left because there's better opportunities.
	I mean, look, if if Joe Rogan or or you know lived and moved to Toronto, maybe I'd be like, yeah, this is great.
	So wherever, you know, I think comedians, artists in general go wherever there's this stuff's happening, you know.
	When people, it's like the the Vienna, you know, when they went to Vienna to write all those pieces and stuff, and it was like, we gotta get to Vienna, and then it would change two years later, be like, no, no, now you gotta go to now it's Dusseldorf.
	They were, you know, remember the like the Baroque era, they would go to all these different cities and it would be a vibe for a bit, and then the artists would be like, no, actually, we're gonna go to Paris, we're gonna go here.
	So um it's a bit of that.
	It's a bit of that.
	And I do I miss Canada.
	I love Canada.
	I I screwed up my segue because typically you're supposed to follow the segue with the segue.
	Speaking of Chinese bots, where's Olivia Chow?
	Dude, you saw it, you've seen what's going on in Canada.
	I'm just gonna bring up a couple of things here.
	Uh, where was it?
	Olivia Chow here.
	Listen to this.
	This is um, I mean, we have similar problems in the states to a great, you know, with more or less pushback.
	You heard this?
	We've been providing shelter to people who arrived to Toronto fleeing violence, war, and persecution, but now the federal government won't pay their bills for disservice.
	That's right.
	It's like it's like the worst sermon I've ever listened.
	It's just like got this like trying to like like a hypnotic voice.
	Sorry.
	And the city is short by 107 million.
	Just 107 million.
	We can either stop shouting refugees claimants, leave them on the street, which will make homelessness worse.
	We I love how she says she says it it'll make homelessness worse, but she like she acknowledges that it'll make everybody else's life better.
	Like she's like, well, she'll be bad for the homelessness.
	I mean, it'll be good for everybody else because they don't have the but it's also increasing the homelessness, but you're also not necessarily in those areas.
	Well, if anything, you're spreading it out.
	Okay, you can't be here, we're not gonna give you free drugs and shelters, so you're gonna have to go to Oshawa, London, I don't know, other cities, and I this is the thing.
	Is it's it's the liberal mindset of you know, Everybody's equal.
	A guy who's a CEO, his uh that's equal to a homeless person.
	That's communism.
	I mean, what they're not equal.
	Sorry.
	Um, you know, that maybe they're born equal, maybe they're as babies, they were equal.
	But one of them worked a lot harder.
	If you watch the story of the two lives, you'd be like, those are not this is not these are not equal lives.
	So my point is that she wants to punish people who have now I sound Chinese.
	She wants to punish people, but she wants to punish people for being successful and wanting to because she wants to get rid of them because she knows that successful people add to the culture of the city, and she doesn't care about successful culture, she doesn't care about that cult, the historical culture of Toronto.
	She wants a new culture of Toronto, where every day's a new festival.
	And look, I have nothing against like I'm not you know, people go, You're racist.
	I'm like, well, to you, to me, I'm not.
	But um, you know what I mean?
	But she wants every day to be a cultural event for a different culture, and it's the culture of Toronto is celebrating other cultures.
	That's not a culture.
	I'm sorry, it's not.
	It's it's it's it's just it's political pandering that's dangerous because it's literally tearing people apart, and it's unnecessary because people move to Toronto.
	I I hope, I thought, or they used to, because they're like, this is gonna be Toronto.
	They don't move or they move to Canada because they don't move to America because it's America.
	You don't, you know, it's like I don't I'm not gonna move to India because it's Canada and then be disappointed that it's India.
	So I don't know.
	That's what I'm speaking of.
	She wants to punish the communist part is this part right here.
	Number of encampments.
	Or Torontonians who have to pay for it, food, their property taxes.
	So it's it's communist.
	The the worst part about it is the it's a it's a crisis of the government's making, and they expect the citizens to pay out of their pockets, otherwise be deemed to be bigots or xenophos because what's that?
	You don't want to pay for these people that we've imported who can't pay for themselves.
	You must be racist to not want to give up your wealth.
	And if the federal government is not gonna give us the money, which is your tax dollars also, we're you're gonna you might just have to pay for it through your property taxes because they're already here.
	But the the the lie that it's gonna undo the homeless progress, the the whole they're building freaking uh what they call uh CAN homes because now there's like a record amount of 55 plus people who are losing their homes and ending up on the streets because cost of living is too much, even for them who are on government pensions.
	But what I mean, uh for I I hate Toronto.
	It's it is like New York without the soul and without the culture, and I don't like New York these days because it's just an uh it's an outdoor insane asylum.
	Um I thought it was really when I went to Toronto last summer, it was worse than I've ever seen it.
	And you make the joke during your stand-up bit, I landed in the airport, and the immigration line it's not a question of that it's not white people, and there's no but to that.
	It's just clearly uh a government policy of importing massive swathes of people to the point where even the uh what's the word the native immigrant population, like the the Indians who came and worked hard and became citizens, they don't like it.
	I'm talking to the cab drivers, the Uber drivers, everybody.
	They don't like it because it's now unskilled, open border uh immigration, you know, labor, uh for lack of a better word.
	That's destroying the city, homelessness is through the roof, crime is through the roof.
	What was it like when you left?
	This is the thing is that it's still not as bad as some other places that um Canadians don't go to a lot.
	I mean, you're living in the States.
	Are you in Florida or something like that?
	I am in Florida, I'm in I'm in Boca.
	There's nice parts of Florida, and then there's bad parts of Florida.
	It and and you know, Toronto is just typically been a nice city, so seeing some of the things that are going on there is disturbing.
	I still love it because I was born raised there, and I it's I just think it's uh, you know, I just like it.
	I don't know, you know, and and as a comedian, we get to go out at night and do comedy and make fun of it too.
	So there's a bit more of like I like it because it's yeah, there's so much to just that it's almost like the city needs the comedy, you know what I'm saying?
	Like when they come to the comedy, they're like, oh, thank God somebody's you know, versus doing it in Florida, they're like, Oh, hell yeah, brother.
	You'd have like everybody already knows.
	I sometimes I make the joke, like I'll do a show and people won't laugh as much, but they'll like I'm like, this is one of those clout crowds where you guys are so racist that you don't even find this funny, you're disagreeing, like they're just listening, going, Yeah, yeah.
	But so Toronto, I mean, when I was there, it was it was COVID.
	It was that was about as bad as I thought it got, but I guess it is worse.
	And the thing is with the immigration, is like everybody has to go, well, it's not because they're of their race, and it's it you're right, it isn't.
	It's because they they're coming to the country with no expectation of actually learning the customs of the country, and they can basically have their own country within our country, and taxpayers are paying for it.
	That that's and then but what they're doing is they're going, if you don't like it, you're racist, and if and any, you know, there's no nuance between somebody who's this far, you know, over the line, where they're like, Well, maybe it's starting to get a little crazy versus somebody who's like,
	you know, uh I don't know, some really controversial figure that's you know, pushes, you know, like wants violence or something like that, and it's like so now you're conflating anybody, just the same they did with the the trucker convoy.
	There were people there that were normal people that were fed up with the thing, and then there were people who are, yeah, they're more hardcore whatever.
	But that's that's you know, that's what it's gonna be with any push societal pushback.
	You're gonna have crazy people as part of it, and this idea that the government believes that they get to pick and choose what protests are legitimate, is you know what I mean?
	Because of, oh well, you know, you it was a legitimate protest, but there was three guys there that we don't really we really don't like them, so that means that that's crazy.
	So it's it's the same.
	I feel like what's happening right now is very similar to COVID.
	Um, just in terms of we're doing something you don't like, uh, it doesn't make sense.
	You know it's bad for the country, we're gonna keep doing it.
	We know it's ruining every everything, we're gonna keep doing it.
	And if you say anything about it, we're gonna try to take away your rights.
	And that's I mean, and they haven't gotten there yet because they haven't passed these laws, but they they're proposing these laws, and they they haven't passed yet, and I'm sure they will focus hopefully will focus on people who are calling for violence and calling for these things, the more immediate concern, concerning things.
	But like, you know, why can't we ever just address what's actually the issue?
	And the issue is they they're too lax on the way, it's not the the way they let people immigrate, they don't say you're coming to a new country, this you know, this is our way of life, blah blah blah.
	No, it's it's their way of life, and screw you, and that's uh that it's it's almost feels like it's all on purpose to make people upset.
	And I read the other day that apparently like being anytime you're angry, it like ages your brain.
	So I was like, I they want people angry, they want you arguing in the comments, they want you hate watching, like I'm not looking at your comments anymore, but they are you know, the people who hate watch every day and they're like commenting like this is shit, it sucks.
	Everything you do sucks.
	You're it's like they want you doing that, they want you watching stuff you hate and commenting on it because it you are no longer a you know, a person, you're no longer actually participating in society.
	Well, I know I I think it when it comes to the Canadian government, I I do think it's straight up globalist agenda that they are importing uh people who are not going to assimilate to Canadian culture because at the heart of it, the liberals don't think there's any Canadian culture to assimilate to that the Canadian culture consists of every other culture throughout the world and not of their own,
	which is why you have people in Brampton, you know, police in Brampton literally issuing police statements in Punjab, and you have Kalistanis in Vancouver or British Columbia saying this is our land now Europeans go home.
	Uh, and I believe it's by design to demoralize and to to bankrupt the country both financially and intellectually by pushing the people out so that they're left, you know, controlling the ruins uh under the guise of uh some sort of socialist uh new world order.
	By the way, guys, I have a comedy special out right now, it's on YouTube, it's called Invasion.
	Well, it's more fun.
	I should have been more funny.
	I but it is like I never really talk about these things because I just try not to even think about it because it's just so bad, but it's like that's what they want as well.
	They want people who have good opinions to not say their opinions.
	Like I have relatives that have brilliant opinions that never express them publicly because they just don't want that type of life, and I get that, but it's the the people who have the worst opinions are the loudest, and it's terrifying.
	I'll tell everybody in the crowd, but Boca is beautiful.
	Uh there's some part like Jacksonville.
	Yeah, I drove uh when I was driving to uh Florida from Montreal.
	We went through Jacksonville.
	I'm in the gas station about 10 o'clock at night.
	A guy without a shirt comes in.
	Uh like, you know, uh I'd say this is where like I'm not scared of anybody because of this color of their skin.
	I'm scared of them because they're scary.
	This dude was a skinny white guy, tats everywhere, emaciated, shirtless in a gas station at 11 o'clock at night, 10 o'clock at night, looking at the knife.
	They had like you know, one of those little rot rotating things, displays up looking at knives.
	I'm like, all right, son, uh situational orandis, and let's just uh get back into the car.
	And then there's beautiful places that also happen to be immigrant communities.
	Um where do they play highlights?
	Shout out Jacksonville.
	I have this.
	This is actually pretty cool.
	Homeland Security Division, Narco.
	I forget where I was in Florida.
	They told me it was like the fentanyl epicenter of North of America.
	And then I went to High Leo.
	Well, hold on, let's just one that I got.
	Diagon, this will get me in trouble up in Canada.
	Oh, Jesus.
	Isn't that guy isn't that the guy?
	Didn't that guy go to jail?
	Yeah, Jeremy McKenzie went to he was in solitary.
	They hauled him across the country on a nationwide warrant because of alleged allegations of uh brandishing a firearm and abusing an ex-girlfriend and all charges of uh uh as far as I remember, all charges dropped, and I I believed he was innocent, still believe he's innocent, and I actually believe he's a decent guy, despite some of his uh, you know, political views, which we may not be see eye to eye on.
	Doesn't he just like hate Jews?
	Well, I mean, see, see, I would make the joke.
	The joke right now will be well, in fairness, everybody who doesn't, man, come on.
	I mean, that would be the comedic joke.
	I don't believe smart people don't.
	That would be the rhetoric.
	I mean uh only dumb people just hate uh all of one race for you know perceived whatever.
	Well, that that is the problem with the generalizations where you know people say even with the you know the whole 1320 uh 1352 trope, and it's it's actually much less than 13.
	It's like you know, whatever.
	It's it the question is okay, fine.
	So I have I have a broad generalization of an entire group of people.
	Now I'm gonna treat each and every one of the individuals based on the culpability that I've attributed to the broader swath of the group.
	Well, it's not even that, it's more just like I've seen clips of him.
	He's just like he's just like, he's a Jew, he's a Jew.
	It's just like it's it's again, it's just it's it's people in the it's it's like acting like a human version of the people in comments, and like, yeah, you can get popularity like that, but it you're not gonna like what you do.
	Jeremy what's what's he gonna do with his life?
	Well, I mean what's he gonna become?
	Nothing.
	Well, he's I can appreciate he's gonna be angry because of the treatment of the Canadian government, but no, look with with some people I can I can distinguish between what would be an anti-Semitic or you know, abroad, just the Jews, the Jews, the Jews, and some that are legit based in policy of the country.
	And I say that in as much as people rail against China, you can rail against Israel as a country.
	It's like there's no country that's immune from that type of criticism, and also there's no government on earth that is a trustworthy government, whether it's Canadian, uh Indian, Chinese or Israeli.
	I don't trust Netanyahu just because he's Jewish.
	I mean, that would that would be just as stupid as hating him just because he's Jewish.
	So there's that, but for sure, for sure.
	But I'm talking about like yeah, like I don't really know this guy.
	I know he's commented on something.
	No, he I think he's a good guy.
	I think he does get a bad rap.
	I just think he'd you know, when you say when you have a five-hour stream, and then you you get for whatever the reason say things, and though those will certainly be clipped and smoked.
	I'm not going on the record saying he's a good guy.
	I don't know if he's a good guy.
	I I've seen things that he's said.
	He sounds like a complete lunatic.
	Um, and he sounds pretty he honestly sounds dangerous, to be honest.
	No, you're not now you're gonna the crowd.
	He's the ty well, he's the type, but okay.
	Well, has he ever said anything a little scary?
	Yeah, he said some scary stuff.
	Come on.
	Uh well, you know what?
	I the there's things well, I say like sometimes in jest.
	I mean, this is Rumble, but people there's a you know, if you're watching this on Rumble, um you want scary.
	That's I love it.
	It's 5050.
	Jeremy Jeremy isn't a good guy, Jeremy's a great guy.
	Um, no, look, certain certainly you can you're saying that because you're afraid of him.
	That's how no, I've had him, I've had him on the channel multiple times.
	I I actually have you have you met him in person?
	Uh I'm I don't recall if I met him at the trucker protest, but no, dude.
	I know Jeremy like like well and for a long time.
	And when he had there's my point about the earlier thing where I'll defend him.
	Like his I think his speech should be defended and all that, and not not, you know, whether you like him or not, he shouldn't be in I don't know what he was if he was being charged for actual crimes or that was all bullshit.
	That was no, it wasn't even speech, it was just our point is that somebody he he will obviously be on the side of like anti-immigration protests, these types of things, but then there's norm, like quote unquote normal.
	Even he would probably agree with this that the people who are like Jeremy McKenzie's a little much, but I agree that that the immigration's an issue, and then they both go to the same protest and they go, Well, this guy's the the norm, quote unquote normal guy's view is is invalidated because this guy who's farther to one side is is more radical, so we shouldn't listen.
	So that's that's the thing that I think is really bad.
	We have the we have we have the the the curse of the presumption of knowledge that everybody knows we're talking about Jeremy McKenzie just came up because he's diagonal basically a nobody psychopath that's wants to separate and create some white ethno state in Alberta.
	Well, I wouldn't call I I will wholeheartedly disagree with the character, nothing and by the way, this is a funny thing where you can say that and I'll disagree, and I'll not judge you as a pro.
	I would say maybe you don't know him.
	I could be wrong.
	Yeah, but what that's what that's what that I'm just giving the basic description of somebody like the elevator pitch.
	Yeah, well, sorry, your understanding, but how how much CBC are you watching these days, man?
	But yeah, zero.
	I live in blah blah bing blah boom.
	I'm joking, but uh no, anyways, he is what's the word we use for he's a um a hot rod of an individual uh in Canada.
	But I I I stand by my I think I know him pretty well, and then I uh I maybe I don't, maybe I don't.
	I just I just know he he basic I unless I'm wrong, he basically was like he's kind of funny, but he's a Jew, so I don't focus and it's like I'm not even a Jew.
	So it's like what does that even mean?
	It's just that that people who talk like that to me aren't like normal people, and it's a little concerning.
	That's that's how you well now.
	Speaking of, by the way, everybody asking about locals, there was a glitch in the rumble studio league.
	It's not my fault, and not this is not the point figure, just like it's not Viva needs a producer.
	No, it's when you set up Rumble Studio, it goes across all platforms, and it didn't uh I see it here, it just says there's zero people watching on local, so the connection didn't work, so we're only on Rumble.
	Um what I was going to say, the Jews.
	Well, the the ones of the Jews, the Jews.
	Are you following?
	I mean, oh yes, the Jews the Jews, that's right.
	You're part Jew or something, right?
	Well, as far as it goes, I am as I'm as Jew.
	I say, like I as far I say there's only two groups of people never let you forget that you're Jewish, Jews and anti-Semites.
	And so, like I I am I I definitely not religiously Jewish.
	I mean, I I'm born raised Jewish, born mitzvah, had my Bram Mitzvah in Israel, speak Hebrew.
	Um, but as far as I know, I'm getting off the call.
	No, I'm just kidding.
	As far as the rel as far as religion goes, I I like a Jewish god versus uh uh uh a non-Jewish god.
	Uh so no one will ever let me forget that I'm Jewish when they want to hate me for it, and then also when they want to guilt me into you should come to synagogue, David.
	This are you gonna fast on Yom Kippur?
	No one lets you forget that you're Jewish.
	But um no, but I say, and that's the reason why it never it makes no difference for me because I I don't use it as anything to support the legitimacy of what I'm saying or to undermine uh the legitimacy of what someone else is saying.
	So I don't know, I I might my opinion is not better because you're saying is you're a Mossad double agent, I guess.
	Well, no, what I'm saying is probably like a I would be called I would more likely be called a self uh uh resenting Jew because I say I say, like, first of all, I'm critical of Israel, I'm clear critical of Netanyahu, but I'm also not approving of there's no there's like Hamas terrorist Uh and there's no butts.
	Uh Netanyahu is a politician like every other who you know never let uh a crisis go to waste.
	Uh you know, perpetual war means nobody ever leaves office, like much like we're seeing with the other Jew, Zelinski in New York.
	It's a as you in New York, Zalinski in Ukraine.
	So, like, you know, you can exploit conflict and tragedy to make yourself um politically invincible.
	Uh, but no, I don't talk about my Jews, I I'm I'm more agnostic, I think, uh, religiously, spiritually.
	But um, what was I gonna say?
	No, no, Candace Owens.
	Have you you follow the Charlie Kirk?
	The Jew always a Jew.
	Uh no, that's rumble folks listening.
	No, no, the Rumble folks are listening to that be like, I can't believe I let this Jew into my life.
	No, but that that's you like you say it jokingly, people like Viva, you'll be on the trains just like the rest of us like, okay, you're not gonna guilt me or pressure me into being on your side.
	I know we'll be on the same train.
	Uh we'll be on the same train.
	Doesn't mean I'm gonna justify the what I think is unjustifiable.
	But you you've you've you've been in America now for Charlie, the you know, the whole Charlie Kirk thing.
	Um as a and I don't want to, it's not like a fear hiding a wish, and I always reluctant to even put the juju in the universe, a different type of juju.
	Um you get up on stage and you say things that piss people off since the Charlie Kirk.
	I mean, what's been the what's been the mood among stand-up comedians who literally expose themselves to people who might be offended by their words.
	Oh, Viva.
	Well, David is my real name.
	David.
	Viva La Palestine, but my real name is David.
	Um yeah, obviously it's scary.
	I mean, nobody wants to be.
	I was talking about this about somebody yesterday where it's like, you know, the fact that that liberals like weren't like they'd see a guy get shot in the neck and they feel safer or something, like they're like, yeah, that's good.
	Yeah, now that's that's not like they won't do it to me because I'm a good, I'm a good one.
	Well, well, no, I mean, like the liberals who are happy about like the assassination or whatever, and they the crazy part about that is like if you to see a guy die that way and celebrate it is like,
	unless it's like a fuck, you know, a warlord or like uh even then it's like Mo Mar Gaddafi or or or Saddam Hussein, like people weren't even I there wasn't the same type of celebration.
	I'm sure there was some private celebration, you know, people at the dinner table, good, they got him, you know.
	But there wasn't like let's make a family video where we're celebrating the death of Saddam Hussein, and again, that was so social media is further along now, so maybe that would happen nowadays.
	But it was like the first real this is people celebrating a guy's death.
	And and I was saying somebody like if he died of natural causes, like Rush Limbaugh died of uh had cancer, and it's like people celebrated his death, but it's like less it's not as crazy to celebrate somebody's death if they died of natural causes.
	You're celebrating a public execution.
	So yeah, it's scary.
	I mean, nobody wants to be shot in the head for what they're saying.
	I don't personally, I don't go to universities.
	I think that's really dangerous, like going to universities and like yeah, you know, like well, because those kids are young, so they're like out of their minds.
	Um, and the the indoctrination level, like I'm not forcing anybody, like I'm not like showing up to a can't, you know, a place and being like, well, I'm not going anywhere.
	My freedom is like it's you know, it's all planned, like a professional show, and you know, people are you know, they they know what they're getting into for the most part.
	There's a few people who just buy tickets to a random show and they come and they're like, What the hell is this?
	It's like, well, you're just an idiot, even look at what the fuck you were going to.
	So no, it is um what was I saying?
	Like, you know, Crowder, I'm sure you've seen his um Crowder went out, said the left is violent, changed my mind, did it on campus, didn't disclose the location, had a tent so that you know there would be no aerial.
	I think there was a glass as well.
	Obviously, security now, and he's like, you know, we gotta keep doing this.
	And like I I wouldn't, I it's not the type of thing that I I would I ever thought was a good idea before, and and not just because of you know the threats.
	It's like you you're you it just a it takes one lunatic, b it is there's a difference between bravery and and just exposing uh your you know being a sitting duck, and even before I wouldn't have done these things, you know.
	It's one thing to have those Jubilee debates, which is in a closed area and whatever.
	Um but uh yeah, it but it was it was the rejoicing which made me realize a substantial portion of the population are are absolute fucking lunatics, like like like evil lunatics, and and you know, Rogan always says, you know, like it's the dead internet, you know, you never know how many of these people rejoicing on the internet or are bots and whatever.
	That's fine.
	I know like people real people, people who I know are real people rejoicing, and they're not robots on the internet, and the sheer number of them, it's it's terrifying.
	It's like the same mentality as V. Same thing as COVID, the people online with the pots and pins and the thank you to the support of the workers, and it's all it's all the same thing, and it it's it's it's brainwashing, basically.
	It's brainwashing, they've been doing it forever.
	I mean, my dad was born in the Soviet Union, and he you know, when when he saw COVID, he was like, This is all textbook, you know, brainwash, you know, uh ideal ideological subversion, whatever you want to call it.
	It's it's make people believe something, and then if they don't believe it, then you know it's like you're crazy to not believe like how oh, you like Trump?
	You how would you out?
	It's like, well, what like and that's where it becomes like people are just doing stuff to do stuff.
	It's like you're not actually on the left if you're getting angry that somebody's on the right, because you clearly don't like I think a lot of people on the left don't realize that the people on the right know a lot about the left, like they know what they're thinking and what they're trying to accomplish and what they're why they're trying to accomplish it.
	They go, You don't get it, you you don't have any empathy.
	It's like, no, I've read about it.
	It's all just it's all bullshit, though, because it it all ends with you end up like Venezuela, and you know, you help people until there's no friggin' food on the shelves of the grocery store, and we're helping, we're trying to help.
	It's a compassionate society.
	We don't have any everybody's poor, it's compassionate.
	That's wrong.
	And um, whereas the people on the left have no interest in learning why the people on the right feel the way they do, and they're just like, what you don't like 10,000 immigrants at the airport every day pouring into the country with no and it's paid for by the the you the taxpayer, like they they don't research that and realize like, oh, that does make sense why they would maybe vote for somebody on the right.
	So it's it's people who are trying to figure out what the best most of the people on the right now are generally worried about their family, they're trying to best options for their career, their taxes, they want to grow wealth, and the people on the left have just given up and gone society sucks, I hate everything, so I want it all to burn, and rich people shouldn't have any money, and nobody should have any rights, and nobody should be able to say anything because my life sucks.
	And that's so it's no longer left and right, it's really the loser crazy people versus people trying to figure out how to survive.
	That's that's that's that and that's just an opinion that I threw out.
	Well, that's why the people say the the left and the right is a false dichotomy.
	I say fine, call it blue pill red pill, call it uh you know woke versus awake.
	Um, but there just seems to be tendencies, and I I've also firmly come to believe that you know the old trope liberalism is a mental disorder.
	Um there's a reason why when you're young, you're liberal, and if you're not, you don't have a heart.
	And if you're an adult and you're not so-called conservative, you don't have a brain, and the people who I've seen become liberal progressive D capital Democrats, they've gone like crazy, and they suffer from something clinical that I'm sure they've the more democrat and the more liberal, the more progressive they get, the more they have a higher uh sense of self-esteem and a lesser degree of a sense of humor.
	Like it's it's a direct correlating axis.
	But the crazy thing is that to the left, like the people who are on the left, and they say, like, I care about immigrants, I care about gay people, I care about the environment.
	Well, the left is worse for all of those things, in my opinion, because well, so number let's just take immigrants.
	And I just did a podcast on my YouTube channel, which is where my comedy special is right now.
	You guys say this.
	Are you on are you on Rumble as well?
	I'm not.
	I'm on YouTube.
	I know that maybe you guys hate it.
	Maybe I should be on Rumble.
	I don't I don't know if I'm as crazy as you guys yet.
	But Rumble's not rumble.
	First of all, the the cut No, it's normal, but Rumble is no crazier than Commy tube.
	But um no, you definitely should be on Rumble as well, if only to access uh you know a broader cut.
	Well, I think I agree.
	Thank you.
	I should.
	And if it is benbancas.com, it'll we'll put a rumble link up there.
	But right now it's on YouTube.
	And we did a podcast where we during the live show at Yuck Yucks in Toronto, we ordered Uber Eats and we we gave the Uber Eats guys a couple hundred bucks to come on stage and kind of talk to us a little bit.
	And you know, the one guy barely speaks English.
	That's uh that's an older special.
	But uh it's invasion, it's right there.
	It's only a yeah.
	Um I'll show I'll share it.
	Let me see here, invasion.
	Oh, there we go.
	Benny, okay, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Invasion.
	The podcast is Bankus Podcast, it's on the same channel.
	It's the last latest episode we did it as a live podcast, and we had these Uber Eats guys on, and they don't speak English, and we're talking to them, and it's like you know, airpods.
	They are forced to come here, kind of like it's almost like they don't have a choice, like they're show like they we think like they all just want to be here.
	It's like they they're just doing it, you know what I mean?
	Like, it's almost like they're in India and they just you know, somebody's like, I can get you to Canada, and it's like they just they get on put on a conveyor belt and sent here, and it's it's and then people hate them, of course you know, a lot of people are mad at at the I get it at the immigration and stuff, but it's not their fault necessarily, it's the government's fault for creating all these programs that to bring them here, and then they really have no idea what to do, and then a lot of them get involved in the crime and this and that.
	Cool.
	So um by the way, you you can still hear me, right?
	Yeah, yes, someone was trying to connect with airpods, and so I see a thing come up, and I lose I I don't even know who has AirPods in this house.
	No, I I say cynically, they say they love uh immigrants and they say they love uh the the gays and the whatever they love to exploit them and they love to use political political goodwill until they no longer need them, and they love they love to use them to to pick the fruits and vegetables in the field, like Nadler and and and Osborne and like uh Kinzinger,
	they all say it out loud every now and again, and and they I don't have as much of an issue with like the you know the the the migrant the the workers that literally come for the season and then they go home and then I don't really I don't have issues with that, and I don't think anybody does.
	The issue is mass immigration of people who don't want to be here and are forced basically being forced.
	It's like they they look at you like I'm in a concentration camp and and then we're racist for being like, Well, I don't want this fucking energy around me.
	Like I don't want this depressing, like oh sorry I don't know, I don't know.
	Like that and that it's not the race thing, it's the energy of like uh please help me.
	So that's number one.
	With the gays, they're letting in people from Muslim countries who don't like gay people.
	All right, so and that and they're getting priority.
	It's almost like the if you're from a country that hates gay people more, then you're gonna come here quicker.
	So and that's the liberals doing that, and and they the gays see no issue with that, they're not worried about any of that.
	They're worried about you or me, or you know, he's gonna say something on stage that's gonna spark hatred.
	No, he's not.
	I'm gonna be funny, and people are gonna laugh, and then they're gonna go home and be have a better ability to deal with whatever it is they're dealing with because they're gonna be able to go, you know what?
	Ben would find this funny, or or whatever.
	So um, so that's number two.
	And then with the environment, the people they're bringing to this country are destroying our environment faster than we could have ever done.
	If like and and it's not even just the people shitting in the forest or the river and throwing the garbage in the river and all that kind of stuff.
	That's part of it, but it's it's it's fishing with nets.
	It's I mean, it's this is up in Ontario.
	This is Pled the reporter who put this out, where you have uh the Indians from India, not Native American, not natives from Canada who have you know, like I say the joke is that this is the joke that writes itself.
	They're gonna say they're Indian.
	They identify as Indian, so they have tribal rights to fish with nets because natives do.
	Um, but that's in Canada.
	I fear that's north of Ontario or north of Toronto, and they're scooping salmon out of the rivers with nets, which is absolutely illegal.
	And if you're if you're if you're a uh a white or a native Canadian doing it, the the fines are fucking obscene for anybody who does it.
	They'll seize your car.
	It's thousands and thousands of dollars for what they call uh it's not even poaching, but it's unlawful fishing.
	Like, you can't do that.
	The natives can when they're on the reserves at certain areas, and they have I think they have some quotas, but the the you got Indians who who are are you know, you get in trouble for saying they're eating the cats and they're eating the dogs and killing the geese in in Ohio.
	They're literally fishing, scooping them out of the ri out of the rivers up in Canada, and law enforcement doesn't do jack squat because they're scared of you, they're scared.
	Well, why did the government and like when I was in school, all the teachers like don't get anybody pregnant, don't get married, don't get married till way after university, till you've had a job for don't have kids, don't have a family, just be you know, part like it really.
	I feel like at school they were kind of just like have fun, you know, just get a job, make some money, party and meet people and get out there.
	And then now they're saying, well, we don't uh the the population's collapsing, we ought to have immigrants.
	Well, you just told an entire generation of women that having kids is basically icky, and it's gonna make your vagina looks bad and it's gonna ruin your body, and it's gonna ruin your life, and you're not gonna be able to have a career.
	And so none of those girls had kids, basically.
	So few of them.
	And then now you're bringing people to the country who have 10 kids, but they're not teaching any of our customs, and they're fishing with swords or whatever the fuck they're doing.
	And it's like, and you're not even allowed to just be like, yo, like, can't we just hang out with these guys?
	Like, uh, if you're gonna come in your Indian, like, why can't we?
	There has to be some integration.
	There has to be some like, all right, let's bring the Indians to smoke a joint or something or do mushrooms out in the cottage.
	I there has to be some integrate.
	I don't know what it is.
	Um, but who was the comic that made the joke?
	Like someone said to me, if you saw how they made hot dogs, you'd never eat one again.
	And he's like, bitch, I've seen a woman giving birth, and I've I've I've gone uh okay, right?
	I forgot the joke, but you're something you said reminded me of that.
	Um, it's also like if you're um like who's who's making it safer for women?
	No, but this is why I say it it is it is by design, which is the uh you know, the population stunting the population, don't have sex, don't have babies, have abortions, use birth control, euthanize the the not just the old, but the you know the the the mature ch uh children who uh have psychological disorders,
	then say there's no population growth, so you gotta import people from the countries who don't speak the language and don't have any intentions of assimilating, who are mutually incompatible, culturally incompatible when you talk about gay rights, women's rights.
	Um it's like it and and then you create strife at home, like what we're seeing up in Canada to a lesser degree here, it's a different type of strife here.
	And so then we gotta like implement digital ID and we gotta come down.
	We go, oh, women's women are not safe with Republicans.
	That's what they say with the Republicans in power, women's bodily autonomy and their and their what what what else do they call it?
	Health care, women's health care is not safe, and women are not reproductive health care, which involves killing considered a baby, killing whatever.
	How many women a year are dying from that versus being stabbed or shot?
	Right.
	I mean, it's it's uh but like I'm actually genuinely curious.
	Can we find out?
	I the I don't want to, I don't want to no, but you go you go look it up.
	The the the the examples that they have to make public, like the um it was a Georgia lady who died because of Trump's abortion ban.
	She she by all accounts and by her own family's lawsuit from what I understand died from malpractice, not from then they don't even they don't even post the the the people who actually like they're they're like oh perfect, this is perfect, post it.
	That's how it works.
	Yeah, then they it's a they manufacture the crisis.
	The woman, I forget what state it was the chat will know.
	Uh She died because she she took the home pill, which caused bleeding, and then she was like totally totally neglected at the hospital.
	Uh it was either infection or blood loss, and it was malpractice.
	And then and even the family wants to sue the hospital.
	The point is that did the woman who died with the stabbing to the neck, arena, and then it was it took so much social media pressure to post it properly on the main or the mainstream media, because before they were saying, you know, they weren't even saying what it actually had happened.
	And then just recently with the that girl that the guy was going on that the dad was going on newsmax or something talking about his daughter, like somebody broke into the house and just shot it, like execute his daughter, and it's like 22-year-old like girl who's just like out of university, and it's like that's not and so you're not going to talk about the actual crisis.
	You're gonna talk about the crisis that you want, like you said, to I guess you can call it manufactured, but it's more that let's just talk about what we want to talk about and ignore everything else, and then and then go, well, why is the world so why is everything so crazy?
	That's like Jimmy Kimmel and all those guys.
	Well, though, you know, it's to them, it's just like every day it just gets worse.
	It's like, well, maybe it's because you're still on the air because you've been on the air for 23 years, and it's just been a as far as from their point of view, everything's gotten worse, but they've been on the air, so obviously they're not making a difference.
	If you know, Jimmy Gimmel was on the air 15 years before Trump got elected.
	So did he have anything to do with that in terms of just being so left so biased and left wing that it pushed people towards Trump?
	You know what I'm saying?
	So it's like there's no accountability from the left of like it's all getting worse because of the Republicans.
	You guys are the dominant culture, you guys are in control of the news, you're in control for the most part.
	I mean, there's Fox News, but even then, so you understand what I'm saying, right?
	There's no it's not like there's a republic, it's not like Hollywood is filled with Republicans and pro-Trump rhetoric, and and the music industry is filled with that, or the even the comedy industry is the only arts right now where you know, like Austin, Texas, where you can be openly like, yeah, and not everybody who voted for Trump likes every single thing he did, but they just knew that this is the better option of what the two options were.
	And you can be open about that.
	And I think people are having like this discussion we're having is probably mind-blowing to a lot of people because it's like oh, you can have an opinion.
	You you there's so much nuance in the in the opinions on the right, whereas on the left, if we were talking, it would just be like we the interview would have been over 45 minutes ago.
	They they they would they they don't come on.
	I don't know if you followed my uh I'll get to a uh a rumble rant in a second.
	Well, that but I mean if it if we were both liberal, the interview would be 15 minutes because it would just be like this, yep.
	This, yep.
	You know, it did there's no they don't they're not like well, Charlie Kirk should have not been killed, but no, they're they all think he should have been killed, they all think it's good.
	There's there's not there's the ones who want to keep their jobs on CNN who will lie and be like, it was nobody should die that way.
	They're all full of shit.
	Ben, uh, I'm gonna I I'm gonna do two things which I don't expect you to stick around for.
	I'm gonna read some chats and get to some of the questions, and then I'm gonna go over to locals to make up for this.
	Uh meanest ones.
	Where can no there's one?
	I don't know if you're following the ostrich story, but uh all it up in Canada.
	V Viva, pay attention to your guests instead of your computer.
	Do you guys understand something?
	If I'm looking now, yeah, for real.
	No, but I want Chris because it needs to understand this.
	When I'm looking like this, I'm looking at Ben on my screen.
	When I'm looking like this, I'm actually not looking at Ben anymore.
	It looks like I'm looking at him.
	Uh, but I can also do like mil multiple things at one time, one of which is follow the chat to see who's making fun of Ben and for what.
	Uh, thus far, it's been uh it's well, whatever it's it's the internet.
	Uh Ben, so you are doing a tour now.
	What's the uh what are the stops on your tour?
	And what is that like going on the road for extended periods of time?
	Uh I'm gonna be on tour coming up.
	I'm gonna be in Portland, Oregon.
	Uh, five shows in Vancouver, Tacoma, Washington.
	we just added another show.
	I think Portland and Tacoma are both sold out.
	Um, so we added a 4 p.m. show in Tacoma.
	A solo show?
	Do you have a start a starter or is it just you?
	Uh I have an opener.
	Yeah.
	You're gonna have to learn the terminology if you keep having us comedians on the show.
	Do you have one of those intro characters who we always get who's not quite as funny as you, but then you okay.
	Um you could pull up Ben if you pull up my website.
	Um in scroll down.
	B-A-N-K-A-S.com.
	Unless there's someone else who has a very similar website, this has to be the right one.
	Um where did you go?
	Ben Bankis.com.
	This is you.
	What is this?
	Yeah.
	So those are my dates.
	There's the dates.
	Holy Grand Prairie, Alberta.
	Maybe Jerry, does Jeremy McKenzie want to come and I think I think he's on the other side of the country.
	Go go do one in Nova Scotia.
	Oh, I thought, oh, yeah.
	He's in the East Coast.
	Yeah, I think the last I checked it with I I think he's East Coast.
	I love these.
	I love all this.
	Yeah, I love Calgary.
	Except for the government, it's just uh and and you know, some of the some of the liberals who think I'm an extremist.
	It's fun to not pay attention to it sometimes.
	But Grand Prairie, Calgary, Red Deer, then I'm Toledo, Houston, Pot Sound, Atlantic City, New York, Toronto.
	Dude, that's uh that's Richard, Virginia.
	That's a heavy schedule.
	Yeah, so I love it.
	It's what I want to do for my whole life.
	And you know, I don't really want to be a political pundit.
	I just think that sometimes it's good for other people, like people to hear like a comedian's view, like like Rogan has some of the best like you know opinions of because it there you have to have a well-rounded opinion at the end of the day, you don't really you you're still skeptical within your opinion, you know what I'm saying?
	Yeah, well, to have a well-rounded opinion, you actually have to hear what people who you disagree with have to say.
	I mean, that's that's the bottom line.
	It's why it's why the left are so painfully ignorant.
	Like, I don't know who this Charlie Kirk fellow was, but he sounds like a Nazi supporter.
	Like, well, you're a fucking idiot, and so you should probably shut your mouth until you know what you're talking about.
	Uh talking a boot.
	Uh, but what I was just about to say is no, the political comedy is good.
	I mean, there's only you know, like what's it what's the Schumer, Amy Schumer?
	There's only so much of you know, your vagina or your penis, like okay, haha, small penis jokes are funny, but you need to have something with a little more depth and nuance.
	And so, you know, political humor, or at least poking fun of what's going on in the world in real time, uh there's timelessness to small penis jokes or big penis jokes, depending on who you are.
	But uh Paul, you know, you it's impossible.
	I I would imagine from a comedic perspective not to incorporate what's going on in the world on a daily basis into your routines.
	Yeah.
	Wow, I'm just looking at your comment.
	These people have it's sad.
	No, it's actually it's just it's just funny because it's like it's funny because like not like, and I'm saying this to all you guys listening, like realistically, if you're listening to this, things didn't go well for you.
	You know what I mean?
	You you're for you're on Rumble.
	I mean, Viv Viva is great, he's very entertaining.
	I'm joking.
	Like, but also people are just like the the severe mental illness, that urge to just type something crazy.
	It's like well, I I I can tell people right now and say, You're on you're on YouTube, but but you'll appreciate why you need to be on Rumble when YouTube says you made one too many trans jokes and now you are you are off of the of the YouTube, which is where people rely to make a business and then can't roll out.
	I've only ever been banned from YouTube for like not banned, but I've had like copyright.
	Yeah, copyright cop that that's that's automated.
	I I've gotten strikes from my own material because I like some, you know, some of my viral videos are licensed out, and then every now and again some glitch goes haywire, and like, oh, you got a copy strike for using another agency, but that's like that's my video, we all fix it.
	I got the strike for Alex Jones, and I think I got a strike for a doctor.
	Um a doctor during COVID.
	Uh and I I got all those back.
	So but um this one guy's so upset.
	Dude, you can't read when I went on with uh Pisco, I wasn't reading them while we were doing it.
	No, you it's it's good.
	I stopped bringing them up because I can I can see when my guest looks down at the chat when I bring it up, and then I don't want to distract.
	But um, no, I went on with Pisco Liddy, who's a lefty, and I was in his YouTube sphere.
	I'm like, I you know, I I know that I'm uh an honest person.
	I mean, I I know that I'm a good person.
	I might not always be right, but I'm reading the chat, and like this fucking fraudster liar, he why is he lie so much?
	He's he's gotta be bad faith, and even sometimes on my own, like you know, people think I'm controlled opposition, but there is a level of um there's a level of the people who like like there's this one guy, this booty juice guy.
	Yeah, booty juice.
	so like but this guy's life is like you know what I mean.
	Like when you when you see comments, you you imagine what the like actual life is, and it's that it people go, Oh, did I trigger you?
	And it's like, no, I I'm sad that it like for humanity when you see like people just saying crazy stuff, because it's like, dude, you're not successful enough to do something, like anything.
	Like, I've never comment, I've never commented on anything ever.
	Maybe it's like a six-bus thing.
	No, but this is where like Rogan says the same thing, like you know, I I don't read comments, I don't get involved in the fighting, but no, you don't you don't comment that way, but your comedy is the commentary.
	That's the thing.
	But when Rogan has when Rogan has on um uh Jim Brewer, and you're like, that's they they they troll, but from from like the astro form, you know, they're not on the ground, they're on the city.
	But that's an art form, like comp commenting, like when when we were kids, they had critics, right?
	Like film critics and comedy critics, and that's basically what everybody's an amateur critic now.
	So it's like you don't actually have to put out any content or put out be anything special, and you can really you can be on welfare.
	All like this I will tell you.
	And you can be on welfare and just give comments, and then people are like so.
	My point is that it that is in itself destroying society because you have these people who think it's their duty to go, not not just here, but I mean, like the guy if the guy's commenting here, that means after the show's done, he's gonna go on Twitter, he's gonna be commenting on stuff, he's gonna be arguing with other random people all day,
	and these random people none of that is good for anybody, and it's and at the end of the day, this is why I think a lot of the people go, Well, I hate Jews, because Jews realize that all that shit's stupid, they're the ones making money off the people commenting, you know what I'm saying?
	Because they figured it out.
	Uh, I'm gonna say this just before I go, we don't have to go just yet.
	I'm gonna confirm the raid so everyone go raid redacted because there's an auto, you can opt out of being kicked over there, but when I hit the raid, it's might kick some people over there automatically.
	Enjoy redacted.
	What do they got on today?
	Hi alert.
	Uh, US and Israel are preparing for a large scale war.
	I I called it, I called it a while back.
	Uh, and they're gonna they're gonna blame some some uh well, they're obviously gonna blame Israel, but I think Israel might be partly to blame if they're gonna actually go to war now.
	Uh, but anyway, so I'm gonna hit raid, so go over there and and see it, and I'm gonna start a locals thing separately after this.
	Go.
	Um, Jeremy, uh Jeremy.
	Ben, by the way, I was gonna say, Ben is funny, whether you like his politics or not.
	He he does no poetry.
	I don't even have this is the thing.
	It's like, what do you like as politics?
	I'm a comedian, I do comedy.
	My opinions are pretty middle ground, to be honest.
	Like, I'm you know, I'm not I'm not booty juice, and I'm not fucking whatever the fuck.
	So, you know, the the the point is I say what I say, it's art, it's comedy, and the shows have been going really well, and Canadians, you know, I'm not gonna get elevated by CBC, I'm not gonna be elevated by a lot of things, and it's not because they'll they'll say like it's because he's offensive, it's not, it's because they know that they would help me, you know what I'm saying?
	Like, it's almost like if I had a conversation with somebody from CBC, they know that I would know professionally how to deal with it, and then it would just make them look bad, and that's what it that's what it's all about.
	It's all propaganda, which is why comedy is so important to be able to go to a show, put away your phone, like in in Austin, Texas, when they put the phones in the bags is really nice.
	Really get the phone away from you and just watch something and listen and laugh, and some comics you're gonna agree with, some you're not.
	But if you're coming to my show, most likely you're gonna pretty much agree with everything, you're gonna laugh at pretty much everything.
	And uh, you should really check out the comedy special, especially if you're in Canada.
	I don't think there's anybody else talking about any of these things in standup.
	Um, and uh be able to because I think when you're able to laugh at something and express something with humor, it becomes a lot more digestible for people, and it's also cathartic, like that the people going nuts that you know, on uh in not like in comments on Twitter all day, being like to to every CBC article.
	At the end of the day, they need to be able to watch somebody articulate what they're feeling in a funny way so that they can kind of get some brevity and be like, okay, I'm not the only person.
	People understand that this is funny and crazy.
	Let's move on.
	So invasion, it's on YouTube right now.
	I shared the link with everybody, so they'll you'll you'll see some comments in there.
	It's on my website, Benbankis.com specials as well.
	Ben Rock on all that is.
	I've got a I've got a Taiwanese member of our family because one of my brothers um you know married a Taiwanese woman.
	And so I when I sent out that Olivia Chow to family members like that's the good Chinese, by the way.
	Yeah, well, I was like, someone's not may or may not find this funny, but if I see some good it good humor is good humor, regardless.
	So and so long as it's you know, what is the word I'm looking for?
	Equal opportunity, good humor.
	That would Olivia Chow deserves every bit of derision and mockery that she gets.
	Ben.
	I really upset this.
	Uh oh, no, but also I would I don't I see I I love upsetting him though, because his life is so bad that it's just like it's a very sad thing.
	It's the sad thing.
	No, but these people also need I I want to do this.
	This is a good hobby.
	Because the people who comment and then they get the attention, and then you actually put them in their place and they feel they they feel really bad.
	Like their their whole body just it's it's like a heroine, but like an the opposite, like it's like the bad feel like heroin bad.
	Because their whole body gets filled with guilt and they realize they wasted their entire life, they're in their 40s, they're commenting on a rumble video.
	That like it's it just hits them like a fucking like a like a like an like a Indian driving a semi-truck, and then they realize that they never did anything.
	And I think that we need to push that more.
	I think that people need to be pushed to achieve more.
	And I think that that we're not teaching people to achieve anything now, and it's that's I think a both a liberal and a conservative problem.
	Is that people just don't want to achieve, they want to have their little job, they want to have just enough so that they can do that.
	Become this is my message to your audience.
	Try to become somebody.
	Because if you strive to become somebody, the worst that's gonna happen is you're gonna end up way higher up than you were going to if you weren't gonna strive to become somebody.
	So thank you so much for having me on.
	I think you have a great platform, you've done a great job speaking your mind for years and years, and I really respect that.
	And you people would have anybody on.
	I think you would have any liberal on, you'd have anybody on, and and I think that that's really important.
	I would even have Dr. Angie Rasmussen on.
	Okay, my audience is gonna know what I'm talking about.
	Um, and people have been asking for uh for this for a while because they've you know we've we've crossed paths on the interweb.
	So Ben, when you're in the neighborhood, I'll hit up a club.
	I'm not traveling much.
	Well, I'm not gonna I'll see how close you get to see how far I have to go.
	Awesome.
	Yeah, we'll see you in Florida, dude.
	Absolutely.
	Have a good one.
	Peace, bro.
	Bye-bye.
	And now I'm gonna read the chats, which I saw building up here.
	Uh okay, here, hold on one second.
	No, no, no, not there, not here.
	And then I'm gonna start something quick over on uh locals because I this should have been on locals as well.
	Astro sweat, or that's Astro Sweat.
	Says you're not trying hard enough if you haven't pissed YouTube off.
	Uh I I thought like I fought tooth and nails when I um got what I think was unfair treatment on um on um commutude.
	808 Scotty, what's up with the ostriches viva?
	No news from the courts, ostrich, ostrich, Scotty, and uh no killing has started yet because they're still under they still have the interim stay until the Supreme Court decides whether or not to take it up.
	They're still building up the kill wall of that kill pen, and uh I'm still calling the RCMP Gustavo.
	Uh my my iPhone uh uh automatically converts Gestapo into Gustavo.
	I trust me, I never wanted to say the word Gustavo Siri.
	It's Gestapo.
	The Gestapo RCMP are reveling in what they're doing, and it's just uh and I was gonna talk about it on today.
	I'll talk about it over on locals, but uh, you know, the the boy that went missing, they've uh basically said there's no chance that he's alive right now, RCMP.
	Uh who knows what might have happened if they had used all I'll have to say it now because I'm talking about it.
	The uh a boy went missing, uh not far from the uh farm here.
	Breaking search called off for missing boy in crowns nest pass, Darius presumed dead.
	RCMP called off their search for a six-year-old boy.
	He went missing while on a walk with family members.
	He was last seen Sunday morning.
	There might be, I don't know what what more to the story there is here.
	The bottom line, the RCMP, which have been squandering, I don't know how many millions of dollars at this ostrich standoff with hundreds of officers, CFIA, whatever.
	Oh, no, no.
	If they had, if they had deployed every resource that they deployed to, you know, to slaughter these ostriches to find that boy, who knows what might have happened.
	But no, they're uh fucking gestapo agents.
	And uh now a little boy is presumed dead because I don't know how many research they're gonna say, well, we had enough resources.
	We didn't need any more, so they weren't actually taking anything away.
	Bullshit.
	You take everyone you had at the ostrich farm, look for that boy.
	Things might have been different.
	But you didn't, because you're good Gestapo agents, just following orders and doing what the government's telling you to do.
	King of Builtong says, it's not left versus right, it's woke versus base, King of Builton.
	I tend to agree.
	Ben actually got the modern left right thing pinned perfectly.
	Yeah, no, I think he's correct about that.
	Viva is a double massada.
	Quick, David, delete all those texts.
	Dude, you better delete the text, Ginger.
	Bada bing bada boo.
	I'm joking.
	Ginger is a member of our wonderful community, took me to a firing range.
	Um yeah, and Chet Chism is my man up in Canada.
	Chet, I'll I'm not even I I'm sending you something, Chet.
	Um, I was gonna show it to you, but it's nothing special, but it's it's funny.
	Uh he says, I know Jeremy personally, he's a good dude.
	I I believe so as well.
	I think you know Ben Ben, you know, maybe doesn't know um Jeremy.
	Ginger Ninja, 1776, pontificating out of ignorance.
	That's like saying Charlie Kirk thinks black women are unintelligent.
	It's all right, Ben.
	We like you anyways.
	King of Biltong in the house.
	Can you see it?
	You can see it over my head.
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	And ginger under my face.
	You can't see it.
	Says, is Viva just bringing on Kill Tony Comedians now?
	Who's next?
	Timmy No Breaks.
	We'll see.
	I don't mind dabbling my toe into the fighting community, the comedy community, and any lefty who has the cahomus to come on.
	So um that's that.
	Okay, I'm gonna end this quickly here so that I can go start this over on locals, and I it'll be maybe a 30-minute show because I gotta take my kids somewhere tonight.
	Um Rumble, I'll be live tomorrow.
	Tomorrow I've got Andrew Piscadlo coming on.
	We're gonna talk about the Charlie Kirk assassination, the audio, uh what's the acoustic evidence to substantiate the current leading theory slash narrative.
	I'll bring up the um Candace Owens uh uh commentary that I was gonna bring up for today, tomorrow, because Andrew Piscadlow was someone who was defamed by a couple of people uh being accused of being the shooter because he's got a prosthetic arm, which people didn't know what it was and thought it was a gun.
	So uh he he had a he uh there was some mean, defamatory and even dangerous tweets going around the day of because if someone thinks that that man actually had anything to do with the assassination, that is uh putting a target on him, and he had zero to do with it.
	He just happens to have a prosthetic arm and is a photographer who was there the day of, who people said uh was the shooter.
	Madness.
	So that's tomorrow, and then Friday is Friday.
	To quote the truism.
	Okay, so we're gonna end it here.
	Thank you very much, guys.
	Uh locals, sorry about that.
	I'm gonna go start this up on locals right now.
	Viva Barnes Law.
	It will not be behind a paywall.
	Dot locals.com.
	So come over for that.
	We're gonna, I got some links, we're gonna talk some stuff, okay?

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