Ben Keshaba
Appearances
KILL TONY
#693 - JEFF DYE + RICK GLASSMAN
All right, guys, my name's actually Ben Keshaba, or Khoshiba, if you say it in the original Aramaic dialect. In English, Keshaba just means Sunday. In Spanish, it's pronounced Dejo. My boys on the box team taught me that. They're always like, hey, Ben Dejo, hurry up. They're nice guys. One of them's like, hey, so you're not Mexican. Like, what are you? Where are you from? I'm like, I'm a Syrian.
KILL TONY
#693 - JEFF DYE + RICK GLASSMAN
He's like, oh, so from like Syria. I'm like, no, no, no, Syrians are from Syria. I'm a Syrian. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah. I'm a Mexican. Hey, but check it out, once I get married and the paperwork goes through, I'll be American. I know I'm doing a lot of Mexican jokes, but it's only because Mexican jokes are like Mexican people. They always work. Unlike my black jokes. The Arab jokes kill.
KILL TONY
#693 - JEFF DYE + RICK GLASSMAN
Some of the more extreme ones bomb. the World War II Japanese pilot jokes, Neverland. Pearl Harbor, he got it, hell yeah. So me and my girlfriend were arguing the other day, and she just kept going on and on. I'm like, baby, relax. I love you. We can negotiate. She's like, I don't negotiate with terrorists. Super fucking racist, but super fucking funny. I started laughing. Shh!
KILL TONY
#693 - JEFF DYE + RICK GLASSMAN
So good. I've been here like four times to try and get on here from California. You're my hero. I love you all. You guys are amazing. I love it. Thank you for saying that.
KILL TONY
#693 - JEFF DYE + RICK GLASSMAN
During COVID, and then after that, it was just kind of hard to get back. I mean, I'm still training all the time. Right.
KILL TONY
#693 - JEFF DYE + RICK GLASSMAN
I like, what was that? Say what was that again. What was that? Just a push, I'm sorry. I like to go out, drink, hang out with friends, go to the beach, still train, listen to Kill Tony, do stand-up, try to make the world a better place.
KILL TONY
#693 - JEFF DYE + RICK GLASSMAN
I didn't speak until I was almost three years old. Whoa. And my first words were at church, and I said, I want to be a priest. And then I hit puberty, and it all changed. Wow. You didn't say anything until you said a full sentence? A full sentence, yeah. 100 or nothing. No, so actually, what ended up I found out was I had like something with my ear, so I couldn't hear. And then I had surgery.
KILL TONY
#693 - JEFF DYE + RICK GLASSMAN
It was like three months later after the surgery is when I actually spoke. Okay, so you were deaf for a while. I was deaf for a while. Wow, Rick Glassman.
KILL TONY
#693 - JEFF DYE + RICK GLASSMAN
100%. What are your parents like? My mom's a sweetheart. Foreign lady from Iraq.
KILL TONY
#693 - JEFF DYE + RICK GLASSMAN
We're getting into it. My dad was a cool guy growing up. Wasn't always around.
KILL TONY
#693 - JEFF DYE + RICK GLASSMAN
Have you talked to him since? Yeah, so he was, I stopped talking to him about like 10 years ago. Why? He just wasn't a good dad to me and my sisters, so. Just because he wasn't around sometimes? My dad wasn't a good, I don't know. No, he just, he left. He... Where did he go? Again, I wish I could tell you. I think Bay Area, Arizona now. He's married to a Mexican lady. Rick Glassman.
KILL TONY
#693 - JEFF DYE + RICK GLASSMAN
That was the best hug I ever got from my dad, ever. Wow. Thank you, dad. I love you. That is amazing. There he goes. It's not my fault. Back there he goes.