Comedian JP Sears joins Jemele to discuss his new book, The Pandemic: How to Stand Up To Big Business and Stand Up For The Little Guy. JP also talks about why he thinks there's still hope in the world, and what it means to be a comedian in the 21st century. He also discusses why he's on Team Humanity, and why it's important to be part of a movement that fights for the little guy. And, of course, there's a little bit of Star Wars at the end of the episode. Thanks to JP for coming on the show, and for being willing to talk about the things that have happened to his life since the pandemic began. We hope you enjoy this episode, and that you'll find some silver lining in it. Thank you JP for being a part of Team Humanity and Team Humanity. Peace, Blessings, Cheers. -Jon Sorrentino and David Axelrod Music: "The Pandemic" by Zapsplat, "The Great Reset" by Ian Dorsch, "Goodbye Outer Space" by Fountains of Wayne, "Outer Space Warning" by Lenny Bruce, "Sonic the Hedgehog" by John Singleton, "Old Town Road" by David Bowie, "In Need of a Savior" by The Smiths, "Don't Know What I'm Gonna Do It" by Robert Fagles, "Noah" by Jim Caravaggio, "I Can't Get Over It" and "I Don't Know" by Jeff Perrin, "It's Notorious" by Jonestown" is out! and "The Little Guy" by Tom Connelly, "You Don't Have It" are available on Amazon Prime Video, and more! Join us on Anchor. Subscribe to our new podcast, Podulco Subscribe, Subscribe, Like, Share, and Share, Share and Subscribe to the Podulter Podcasts! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and become a Friend of the Force? Learn more about our Sponsorships? Subscribe & Review us on Podulters and more like this Podcasts? by becoming a Friend Of The Force? Send Us On Social Media? Subscribe to Our Insta-Friendship? "The Force Is Stronger Than You Will Find Us On The Podcasts And We'll See Us On A Podcasts & More!
00:00:23.000I think we have great reason for there to be hope.
00:00:27.000I mean, there's weirdos like you and I and all the wonderful people listening to this and many other warriors out there crusading for freedom and what's right.
00:00:39.000And this is my delusional perspective.
00:00:42.000Don't tell the tyrants this, but I think the tyrants are strengthening the side of the good guys because the muscle can only be as strong as the weight is heavy.
00:00:53.000We all know Luke Skywalker needs Darth Vader.
00:00:56.000So I think these guys are helping people like you and I and other people that are on Team Humanity, helping us realize strength we didn't know we had.
00:01:08.000It's inconvenient, but I think I have hope anyway.
00:02:09.000I was doing more like call out our egotistical nature as it shows up in the spiritual life, the health world, kind of that conscious living world, all the stuff I was in still important to me.
00:02:53.000In our world today, trying to do the Great Reset kind of garbage, I had no idea that was orchestrated.
00:03:01.000But then spring of 2020 hits, and the biggest thing that changed in my life was an internal realization that freedom is my number one value, and I can't take freedom for granted.
00:03:18.000And I've got to do something about freedom in my own small way.
00:03:24.000So my professional landscape completely changed where now almost entirely my comedy and my content is about calling out corruption and standing up for freedom and giving the little guy a voice.
00:03:51.000I've connected to like-minded, like-hearted people like you.
00:03:56.000It's kind of like we're in the foxhole together.
00:03:58.000So there's certainly been some positives.
00:04:00.000You know, I've never talked to you about this, but from the first time I saw you, you were a real kind of symbol of hope to me, because being a student of history, I know that rebellious movements throughout history, that the first time that they really have traction and they're taking hold...
00:04:21.000It is that artists and comedians and musicians begin to find inspiration in those struggles.
00:04:31.000And you were really the first comedian to come out and start doing the job of comedians throughout time with the most important job, which is, I mean, it's very important to make people laugh.
00:04:43.000But it's also political satire and ridiculing our leaders and accumulations of power is one of the duties of comedians.
00:04:54.000Lenny Bruce and a million other important comedians We've played such critical roles in changing the political dialogues in our country and other countries.
00:05:07.000Gradually, we've seen more and more musicians and artists migrating over and finding inspiration in this struggle, but I live in a world where I'm surrounded by comedians.
00:05:20.000And I have been for most of my adult life.
00:05:23.000Many of my friends are professional comedians.
00:05:32.000Kind of one of the noteworthy Dynamics or features of this dynamic is how slowly the major comedians have been to come around and how plugged into the orthodoxies they are.
00:05:49.000You know, people who were real social critics like Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah and all of these people who were Who were once dissidents themselves, and now have become, kind of embrace the orthodoxy.
00:06:07.000And I don't know Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, personally.
00:06:12.000Yet, looking at their work, it's very uninspiring lately.
00:06:17.000And I think any comedian needs to ask questions.
00:06:23.000Am I serving the people or am I serving something else?
00:06:27.000If we're serving the people, the number one principle of comedy is at play, and that's the truth principle.
00:06:34.000Any good joke will be rooted in truth.
00:06:38.000Now, oftentimes that's an unseen truth.
00:06:42.000So revealing it creates the movement of laughter.
00:06:46.000But if a comedian, maybe he's on the network like Stephen Colbert and he's looking at the check and says, whatever you think I should say, I'll go ahead and say that.
00:07:03.000And the narrative principle is not funny.
00:07:07.000So we look at some of these comedians and some of these Saturday Night Live shows that once upon a time were very funny because they served people with a truth principle.
00:07:18.000And we look at it and we're like, well, that's a comedy show, but where's the comedy?
00:07:22.000I see them shaming non-narrative believers, but there's...
00:07:30.000Bullying little people, and that's not what they're supposed to be doing, bullying powerless people, saying people should lose their jobs, people should be punished, from Howard Stern to Jimmy Fallon to, you know, all of them are kind of, they're not dissident forces anymore.
00:09:17.000We're seeing some people's true colors here.
00:09:21.000And some people, it's taken them a while to wake up, but now they're waking up to reclaim their truth, reclaim their courage, and they're taking the truth principle in comedy again.
00:10:17.000I mean, the things that are happening so much with the administration, the World Economic Forum, it's so exaggerated that it's almost not believable that it's reality.
00:10:32.000And part of comedy, it can be at times you're exaggerating things.
00:12:02.000I mean, these guys, they really are like Dr.
00:12:06.000Strangelove figures, even with the accents and the weird mannerisms and just the sinister kind of chuckles and the dog whistle signaling that they're doing to the elites and Where they just, they're admitting that, you know, we want to turn you all into robots.
00:13:04.000And, you know, Bobby, I look at some of the things that Klaus Schwab and people in his category say, and And it seems like they're leaving a trail of evidence.
00:13:17.000I mean, literally talking about people won't have free will anymore, they'll be plugged into the cloud, will have tracking chips in people.
00:13:28.000Obviously, two years ago, this was all conspiracy theory, but...
00:13:32.000I don't believe in reality anymore because it's just less accurate.
00:13:36.000But you look at all this and my first question is, why are they saying this out loud, especially in front of a camera?
00:13:46.000They're literally telling the world the nefarious things they're doing.
00:13:52.000Some people have shared the opinion with me.
00:13:55.000I can't validate this or not, but there's some theory going on out there that says these people, part of their code is they have to tell people what they're doing.
00:14:09.000Now they're kind of a piece here, a piece there, a piece there.
00:14:12.000So it's not one unified body of here's the plan, but they have to drop pieces of what they're doing in order for it to all be considered consensual.
00:14:26.000Now, manipulation and coercion, for me, that's not consensual, but Again, I can't confirm or deny this, but it's an explanation for why they would say the outrageous things that they're actually doing.
00:14:41.000To me, a sane person would say, well, if you're trying to get away with what you're doing, don't say any of it out loud.
00:15:34.000People could look back in 100 years and identify the coronavirus epidemic as the moment when a new regime of surveillance took over, especially surveillance under the skin.
00:16:03.000You know, the whole idea that humans have, you know, they have this soul or spirit and they have free will and nobody knows what's happening inside me.
00:16:12.000So whatever I choose, whether in the election or whether in the supermarket, this is my free will, that's over.
00:16:22.000So, you know, you made the point before we played that tape that it's very strange to have these kind of sinister people...
00:16:32.000Actually telegraphing very, very clearly and precisely what they are going to do to us if we let them.
00:16:39.000And it's shocking to hear them say that and to see what they've actually gotten away with over the past two years in terms of putting their plan in place.
00:16:50.000And then Chris Shaw and a number of the doctors from the Catholic Doctors Association.
00:16:55.000Chris Shaw, he's a brilliant, brilliant professor in British Columbia.
00:17:01.000He went and did research and found that for 15 years the WHO had been Issuing grants to scientists to develop these tetanus-toxoid sterilization vaccines.
00:17:17.000They published dozens and dozens of studies, and he then did a peer-reviewed study outlining all the previous studies.
00:17:24.000It was something that you would assume they should have kept hidden, but they were doing it right out in front of us.
00:17:31.000And even the gain-of-function studies that were coming out of Wuhan, And we're funded by Tony Fauci.
00:17:37.000They were publishing these so anybody can go out and read them.
00:17:40.000And it's very hard for them to cover their tracks, but it's a weird impulse that they have to.
00:17:46.000It's either an impulse or signaling mechanisms when they're going to do something truly horrific.
00:17:55.000Yeah, and it's almost like they make an effort to reveal a little bit of it.
00:18:02.000And obviously not their intention of it, but a little bit of it.
00:18:05.000And I hear so many people bring up Bill Gates' TED Talk, where he says, we're going to use vaccines to reduce the world's population.
00:18:18.000Now, Bobby, I may not be a smart man, but I do believe a good vaccine is meant to improve people's health, which would presumably keep them alive rather than making them dead.
00:18:31.000But if you want to reduce the world's population with vaccines, how does that work?
00:18:40.000It seems like it's another piece of the same phenomenon.
00:18:44.000Here's the convoluted explanation Gates has retroactively made about that.
00:18:50.000He said that in poor countries, People have many, many babies because there's a high mortality rate in their children, and therefore they need to have more babies in order to make sure they are taken care of in their dotage.
00:19:05.000And if you give vaccines to children, it will preserve their life, and the parents will no longer feel that they need to make so many of them.
00:19:15.000So that is this convoluted and very, very dubious explanation about what he really meant.
00:19:23.000But at the same time, they made a big effort to get rid of all those.
00:19:27.000We actually grabbed that video and you can see it on CHD's website, but it's hard to find on Google these days.
00:19:37.000And it is very, very damning a mission, particularly given his long, long history.
00:19:42.000His father was the head of Planned Parenthood in the Pacific Northwest.
00:19:48.000He comes from a long line, as I show in my book, Eugenesis.
00:19:53.000And he has, throughout his lifetime, Talked about, alluded to eugenics as something that, you know, is important in population control.
00:20:03.000He's also funded huge programs throughout the world for Deprivero, which is a very, very dangerous drug that is meant to sterilize women.
00:20:15.000And he gives that to millions, at least temporarily, but often it does so permanently.
00:20:21.000It's given only to poor women and only to dark women around the world.
00:20:26.000Many of the European countries have outlawed its use, particularly since it was being used just to control Black populations.
00:20:36.000But he has, you know, the Gates Foundation has funded these programs like the Tetanus Program in the Philippines and Mexico and Nicaragua, all over the world.
00:20:46.000And it's clear from, he cannot conceal the fact that this has been his central preoccupation throughout his career and that supposedly poverty is another one.
00:20:58.000Also in my book, you know, I look at the actual performance of his vaccines and If you look and we go vaccine by vaccine, what the science says in almost every case, vaccines are causing more fatalities than they're averting.
00:21:15.000In some cases, dramatically more fatalities.
00:21:18.000I don't try to look into his head and I do not understand what How he thinks, how he views the world.
00:21:26.000I have some hints about it, but what I do is I detail his conduct and his choices, and consistently those choices are about controlling populations through these kind of sneaky programs that trick people into taking drugs that will prevent them from having children.
00:21:49.000Something I'm wondering about, I don't know if you have any speculation on this or not, I'd be curious if you do, but His why behind wanting to control the world's population, is it a smaller population is simply easier to dominate and control?
00:22:11.000Does he actually think, well, I'm helping save the globe by killing off a bunch of people?
00:22:19.000I'm curious if you have any speculation about his why.
00:22:23.000You know, I really make a point to not speculate, but if you look at, he has very, very strong ties from his youth to the Rockefeller Foundation.
00:22:34.000And for the Rockefeller Foundation, eugenics has been a preoccupation since its inception.
00:22:40.000And his father also had that preoccupation with birth control.
00:22:45.000As I said, he was the head of Planned Parenthood.
00:22:47.000So I think that Gates grew up in this milieu.
00:22:50.000You see, really, the consistency in almost all the things he's done, beginning with Microsoft, but also his food programs, which...
00:23:02.000All of the things he does, basically, he looks at a problem.
00:23:07.000He has a top-down technological solution, so he has a very, very strong face in technology.
00:23:16.000And I believe this almost kind of megalomaniacal belief that he is ordained by God to save the world, to solve this problem, which only he has the genius to solve.
00:23:50.000They're hurting my ability to help humanity.
00:23:56.000You know, if you look at his food program, which is called the Green Revolution, where he partnered with the Rockefeller Foundation, it's all about technology and then a partnership with large corporations.
00:24:08.000So he makes these big investments in McDonald's, in Kraft Foods, in Cargill, in Monsanto.
00:24:18.000And then he goes to Africa and he says, we're going to lift you out of poverty.
00:24:27.000You buy Monsanto's glyphosate and pesticides.
00:24:30.000We're going to give you, we're going to create supply chains for chemical fertilizer.
00:24:34.000You switch away from subsistence crops like barley, sorghum, cassavas, plantains that you and your ancestors have successfully survived on for 20,000 generations.
00:24:47.000And you grow GMO corn, and we're going to get McDonald's and Kraft to buy it, and we are going to lift you out of poverty.
00:25:15.000He invested in Sanofi, Merck, Pfizer, Gilead, all the major vaccine makers.
00:25:21.000WHO can control all the African governments because it's paying for their HIV programs and their health ministries.
00:25:28.000So WHO make these deals where he says, you have to give to 80% of your population, you have to give DTP vaccines and hepatitis B vaccines, which my companies are going to make.
00:25:41.000And until you show you've given them to 80% of your population, you are not going to get money for your health ministries, etc.
00:25:49.000So he leverages his control over WHO to impose these strictures.
00:25:55.000And he's moved WHO out of its traditional occupations with food, with patrician, with agriculture, with clean water, with hygiene, and, you know, building markets, economic development.
00:26:09.000He has these formulas where he invests in the company, he takes the technology, he imposes the technology to solve a problem, but there's never any accountability.
00:26:18.000He's never actually saying, are more people healthy?
00:27:20.000In a big picture kind of way seem like they're caused by over centralization, but decentralizing, getting more local rather than global seems to be a Fairly basic yet important direction for us to go, not the Gates direction.
00:27:43.000He is on stage looking like a heap of garbage, no judgment there.
00:27:50.000And someone was interviewing him and he starts to basically be condescending towards people for not wearing a mask, analogizing wearing a mask is like wearing pants.
00:28:00.000No, I didn't see that, but do describe it.
00:28:36.000So when did you know that you were funny?
00:28:39.000I still haven't figured it out, Bobby.
00:28:41.000Now, you know, I remember as a kid, I would even say first grade, having awareness of, I'm one of the funnier ones and I know how to do funny.
00:28:56.000I know how to make people laugh when I want to.
00:29:01.000And then I remember during elementary school and certainly through junior high and high school, I was never really that interested in learning what they were teaching, but I wanted to entertain myself.
00:29:16.000So I would do this sort of Tightrope act of occasionally saying things out loud, you know, pattern interrupt, where the goal was I need to make the teacher laugh.
00:29:30.000Because if everybody else laughs, but the teacher does not laugh, then I get in trouble.
00:29:37.000If everybody laughs and the teacher laughs too, they're in a state of mind where they're not going to be angry at me.
00:29:59.000So I remember very deliberately practicing comedy as a way of trying to entertain myself going through school.
00:30:09.000I had dinner with Mike Binder the other night, who's a stand-up comedian, and he does a lot of the HBO specials, and he had just come from having dinner with Norman Lear, who I've known for many, many years, but They started talking about how Norman Lear is so healthy and so vibrant.
00:30:30.000I think he's 94 years old, very, very old, and still very active.
00:30:36.000And Norman Lear said, ask me why I live this long and why I'm so healthy.
00:30:41.000And Mike asked me, he said, it's because I laugh a lot.
00:31:44.000But to be balanced, I think humanity needs every instrument playing in the orchestra, from comedic to serious to long music, just all the things.
00:32:00.000When did you figure out that you could get amazingly rich doing comedy?
00:32:06.000By the way, if any networks are watching, I want you to know, give me a check big enough.
00:32:12.000I'm going to stop calling out the tyrants.
00:32:15.000I'd be happy to put me on after Stephen Colbert.
00:32:21.000You know, we live in a different age where I think it used to be...
00:32:25.000I know it used to be in comedy, probably most entertainment.
00:32:30.000You had to be discovered by someone else.
00:32:32.000You had to use the system to make money.
00:32:36.000But we live in, well, a much more decentralized time where now, assuming you're not completely kicked off all social media...
00:32:45.000A comedian can put themselves out there and basically take control of their own destiny.
00:32:50.000And if there's a little bit of an entrepreneurial spirit, the comedian, myself, you can form a business around what we do.
00:33:00.000You know, it's been, I think it was 2017, I let go of my coaching practice.
00:33:08.000I've been doing comedy professionally for about seven and a half years.
00:33:13.000But before that, I was a health coach, life coach.
00:33:17.000So a few years into comedy, as I accidentally started it, never had a plan, that's when I let go of my coaching practice and realized like, oh, I can, I'm not, I not only can make a living doing comedy, but I'm starting to make a better living than what I was doing before.
00:33:35.000And yeah, you know, the world has been really great for me.
00:33:39.000The, so many supportive people supporting me in my work, watching my videos, watching Supporting me through buying my merch, coming out to my comedy shows.
00:36:00.000One of the things I love about my parents is, I'm very blessed they're both still with us, they may not agree with everything I say, but they accept me.
00:36:12.000And I certainly don't agree with everything they say and do with regard to the whole pandemic.
00:37:33.000And I get suspicious about, all right, you want us to believe that.
00:37:39.000Well, maybe that's the one thing not true.
00:37:42.000Something that mattered to me, Bobby, Tulsi Gabbard put out a video talking about Ukraine President Zelensky, how he has locked his political rivals in prison.
00:38:39.000I mean, listen, if you say, they do the same tactics.
00:38:43.000If you say anything that is questioning of the orthodoxy, it means you're pro-Putin.
00:38:49.000And they did the same thing to me on vaccines.
00:38:52.000You know, if I didn't just completely buy the orthodoxy, I was pro-measles and pro-chicken pox and You know, pro-polio, right?
00:39:01.000And you can't have a nuanced conversation where you can say, you know, what was the US role in, you know, in the coup in 2014?
00:39:11.000And what has, where have we been with these, you know, with 14,000 ethnic Russians being killed, you know, in Donbass and Odessa and the Crimea over the past six years.
00:39:26.000And how did it contribute to Putin's decision that we move We've violated our promise to not move NATO one inch to the east.
00:39:39.000And instead, we went in and signed up in countries who are all former Soviet satellites.
00:39:45.000And then, you know, so there's complexities.
00:39:50.000I always remember very, very clearly in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, And we almost, there were 11 of the 13 people in my uncle's XCOM committee, who were the chief panjarams of the military and the intelligence community, all said, we've got to invade, cash on, bomb him.
00:40:12.000And it was because the Russians put missiles in Cuba, which was only 1,100 miles from Washington.
00:40:21.000Now, we have missiles and bases, but in countries that are, many of them, a few miles from Putin's borders.
00:40:31.000So the reason that Khrushchev went along with putting the missiles into Cuba is because we had put Jupiter missiles in Turkey.
00:40:39.000And my uncle was able to make a deal with him where we would pull the missiles out of Turkey if he pulled the missiles out of Cuba.
00:41:16.000We're finally, after 20 years, getting out of Afghanistan, the longest war in our history.
00:41:22.000Why can't we even wait six months before we go into another war?
00:41:27.000And in Afghanistan or in Iraq, you had this wall of propaganda where Fox News and CNN and everybody was saying, we've got to get Saddam Hussein.
00:41:59.000And so I think, you know, in the newspapers, all of them had to apologize for their role in greasing the skids for this propaganda campaign.
00:42:09.000And I think we really need clarity before we pick another fight.
00:42:14.000We need to know what are our objectives.
00:42:16.000Is the objective to save human life in the Ukraine?
00:42:19.000Is it to establish U.S. hegemony over Europe?
00:42:23.000Is it to gain control of the energy supply in Europe?
00:42:28.000Is it to do regime change in Russia and get rid of Putin?
00:42:32.000Those are things we ought to understand from the outset and that we ought to have a debate about in front of Congress.
00:42:38.000We ought to have an open debate in front of the American people and that people who question the orthodoxy should not be silenced.
00:43:12.000We need to have a functional, level-headed debate.
00:43:17.000And the idea that we should invade a country preemptively just because there's a bad guy running it, I think America needs to get past that idea.
00:43:27.000We are not the policemen of the world.
00:43:29.000And we should not be having military bases in countries all over the world.
00:43:40.000And then we need to focus on growing our middle class, on building infrastructure in this country, on building schools and bridges and roads and on...
00:43:51.000Making America a template for the world so that we're not imposing democracy and our values at the end of a gun, but we're inspiring people to adopt them through our own example.
00:44:03.000And I think that's the kind of foreign policy that America should have, which is a really strong domestic economy.
00:44:11.000And, you know, we've hollowed out the middle class in this country in order to pay for the military over the past 30 years.
00:44:19.000And, you know, in America, it doesn't have the freedom or the prosperity it wants.
00:44:33.000I'm curious, real quick, when it comes to the narrative about Russia and Ukraine, the basic Russia bad, Putin bad, Ukraine's good, without your uncle's wisdom of put yourself in the other person's shoes to understand.
00:44:49.000I see some of the people just buying into the narrative hook, line, and sinker.
00:44:54.000They've just come off two years of having their eyes pretty open to the COVID narrative.
00:45:13.000Yeah, it's interesting because there were two polls that came out this week that showed that people who were unvaccinated were much more skeptical about the US going into the Ukraine.
00:45:31.000And, you know, the conventional narrative is that it's because they're all right-wing Trumpers.
00:45:38.000I think, you know, political parties have almost no meaning or relevance to this issue.
00:45:47.000I think those are people who have an ingrained skepticism toward government pronouncements and that they are with the vaccines and now with the Ukraine.
00:45:58.000They're sitting back and saying, wait a minute, I do not believe everything you're telling me.
00:46:22.000Listen, my friend, it's really good to talk to you again.
00:46:26.000You've been an inspiration to millions of people in this movement, and I want to thank you for pointing out the hypocrisy, for speaking truth to power.