Hello, and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Frances Foster. I'm Constantine Kissen. And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

I'm delighted to say I'm brilliant guest today is the comedian Ryan Long. Ryan, welcome to Trigonometry.

Thank you for having me, guys.

Listen, man, it's great to have you on a lot of our audience have been clamoring for us to talk to you because you've been putting out some great stuff during the last year, the pandemic, etc.

Before we dive into all of that talk about comedy and more, tell everybody a little bit about who are you? How are you where you are? What has been your journey through life that lead you here?

Cool. I was, so when I was pretty young, I was in like a pretty successful band in Canada and then I kind of was doing all these DVDs, jackass kind of style stuff and Tom Green was huge for me. And then I took, I ended up doing a TV show in Canada, kind of based on that stuff when I was doing all these DVDs with the band and stuff.

In that time, I started doing comedy, so I would have been like 11 or 12 years ago. I started doing stand up and I was doing TV shows and sketch comedy and I did a series at the CBC. I built up the video department for the think a website called The Hard Times.

Then I moved to America about a year and a half ago, kind of right before the pandemic and started doing my own stuff here. And then now I'm just kind of doing my own YouTube channel and touring and stuff as a comment.

And you're crushing it. One of the things I find really interesting is a lot of your stuff at the moment is you people would say it's political. You talk about woke culture, some of the flaws with that way of thinking. You've talked about the restrictions around lockdowns and the pandemic. But actually you say you're someone who's not political in the sense you don't care who the president is, etc. Is that broadly accurate?

Yeah, I think I mean, there's a lot of people that are probably in a similar position in that I talk about culture and that's what I talk about. And I think most importantly, I talk about people and the psychology of people and stuff like that.

And politics has infiltrated every single facet of the world, right? I mean, especially during the Trump years, there wasn't anyone that wasn't talking about all that stuff.

Right? So it's impossible to separate the two. So it's not that I'm completely, you know, it's impossible to ignore. And I went through when I was in university, I went to school for economics and I went through my phase where I was in, you know, very and all that stuff and I had my perspective or whatever. And then it kind of it came back around now. But I think a lot of times there's there are some people that really are part of.

You know, we want our side to win. And I think that I'm usually talking about that stuff. But more importantly, I'm talking about the psychology of the people that are like that.

So even in my videos, like when you talk, if you mentioned that I mentioned, I talk about, you know, cancel culture, woke stuff or whatever. Let's say that's one of the things, right?

I'm generally talking about the type of person that does that, you know, and the psychology behind them and what they do. And I think that's kind of generally what I'm poking fun of.

One of the things that you just have kind of elaborate on that or whatever, but one of the things I think I was thinking about a lot this week is.

And this is why it's gotten like this is because there's probably, I don't know if you saw this, but Glenn Danzig, who is like the misfits guy, he's like a big punk guy.

He kind of came out and he said that, you know, his songs wouldn't be able to be made, but right now or punk wouldn't have happened because of, you know, woke bullshit is what he said.

And obviously the punk community flipped out and every what, you know, he's just old, you don't get it, whatever it is, right?

And it's kind of, and by the way, the lyrics of it were, you know, I'm going to rape your mom and stuff like that.

So it was, I don't even know why it would be, you know, they don't like the way he said that, but it's pretty obvious that yes, for sure that couldn't have happened right now.

Like none of them would been for it, but all those, a lot of those people like that band and I think that once you control people's identity, you kind of control everything about them.

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