00:01:50.880All right, here we are. This is episode three. For those of you who are maybe just tuning in,
00:02:00.180we spent our first episode of this five-part series talking about J.P. Sears and your personal
00:02:07.660evolution as a comedian, but really more just as a human being, and really focusing on the
00:02:14.460political side and the cultural side going from you were never really like a flaming lib but just
00:02:22.080kind of a normie moderate and then you became more conservative 2020 was a massive wake-up call so
00:02:27.520from you know poking fun at essential oils to then the you know poking fun at the branch
00:02:34.080covidians and then transgenderism and all these different things and so we talked about like your
00:02:39.540political and cultural evolution as a person. And then episode two, we talked about your religious
00:02:45.920evolution as a person becoming Christian. But now I want to kind of pan out and speak less personal
00:02:54.780and more just the overarching concept of comedy. Because, you know, obviously you've got quite a
00:03:03.300few haters these days, which I've always noticed for myself, your most profound haters are the
00:03:09.320people who once loved you yeah right because even if they're completely wrong they're still they're
00:03:15.760the ones who feel betrayed they feel betrayed they feel betrayed probably why i get all those
00:03:20.680negative comments from you on your burner accounts i didn't mean to betray you yeah it's like dude
00:03:28.180we were supposed to be talking about essential oils what happened and so that's what but that's
00:03:32.820where i'll and i see the comments for myself i'll see them for you you know and it's um uh it's not
00:03:38.540just like who's this random guy no it's like they all recognize you and and all your most hateful
00:03:43.900comments are um i it also it all every comment begins with i used to watch you in 2020 or i
00:03:51.320used to watch you all the way back in 2017 or uh you used to be funny right that's like how many
00:03:57.540times have you heard it like you used to be funny yeah um and so that's kind of what i want to talk
00:04:03.320about is um because i i think you're hilarious i think you're doing exactly what the comedian
00:04:10.100is supposed to do obviously there's plenty of your legacy fans who disagree profoundly
00:04:18.000um i'm i don't want to give too much away i want to let you get right to it but i don't think you
00:04:24.780changed i like that's you know i'll show my hand like that's the big idea is that i think you
00:04:31.860ironically are being, I think you're one of the most consistent influencers, comedic influencers
00:04:39.820on the internet, from essential oils to COVID to the LGBTQ LMNOP mafia to anti-Zionism. I see that0.64
00:04:52.820as like, this isn't all over the place. This is a very cohesive, singular thread woven perfectly
00:05:00.740through all these things with the common denominator being uh the the true comedian
00:05:08.300um actually transgresses whatever the given power structure of that moment is that's what i see you
00:05:18.260doing consistently can you talk about that what is comedy what's the nature of comedy what's the
00:05:24.100power of comedy and what guides you as you're thinking as a comedian what's my next skit what's
00:05:32.260my next message what who do i need to punch in the eye yeah you know what is comedy in its
00:05:40.120purest form uh comedy is truth telling yes and all i do is do my best to tell the truth
00:05:49.140through comedy, calling balls and strikes as I see it, not as I want it, but as I see it,
00:05:58.920my best discernment of what's true, and then using comedy to shine the light on lies, hypocrisy,
00:06:08.240and corruption that are trying to eclipse the light of that truth. And you get praised and
00:06:14.780criticized for the same thing you know you mentioned some of the hater comments which
00:06:21.280always welcome they help the algorithm uh the hater comments would be like what happened
00:06:27.620you've changed jb and then praising comments on that same video is
00:06:34.820thank you for staying on the side of truth right right which is the exact opposite of how some
00:06:42.720people perceive it like the haters like you're not you're not telling the truth anymore because
00:06:48.520you use use your comedy for four years to praise Trump right now you're using your comedy to
00:06:56.060criticize Trump well Trump isn't a principle in comedy but truth is a principle in comedy
00:07:04.080so using truth as the guiding light whoever gets in the way of truth whatever gets in the way of
00:07:12.700truth. It's now in the crosshairs of comedy. And if Trump is in the crosshairs of truth,
00:07:20.320sounds too assassination-y with this analogy, but then he needs to be criticized. And for a while,
00:07:29.260it seemed to me that Trump was pretty aligned with truth. So my comedy is not criticizing him,
00:07:36.900criticizing so much else the biden administration all the things so from my point of view
00:07:44.760yeah i haven't changed my comedy's changed but i haven't changed my goal has always been
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00:09:51.440People right now are, is interesting time in the American right, because now the American right
00:09:57.500has like this clear division, call it new MAGA and old MAGA, just to use some current terms.
00:10:04.880new mega is very loyal what are they loyal to trump old mega people who are willing to
00:10:16.820criticize trump not fall for gaslighting just see reality not the way they want it to be but
00:10:22.700see reality they're loyal to truth that's well said now i think truth is far more important to
00:10:29.700be loyal to than any person. I think truth is ultimately that leads you to God. We want to be
00:10:36.220loyal to God, and God is truth, not falsehood. So that's why I choose, like, cool, my cause is truth.
00:10:43.360My cause isn't the Republican Party. It's not MAGA. It's not anything other than truth. And I
00:10:51.500will call balls and strikes as I see them accordingly. And therefore, because that's my
00:11:01.080goal with comedy, it's not for any agenda other than the agenda of truth,
00:11:08.400the nature of what I do comedy on changes. Because with the parlance of our times,
00:11:13.940what are the biggest lies being sold to the American people? That's what changes.
00:11:20.460yes so during covid it's like this is safe and effective and you better take it and if you dare
00:11:27.760question it you're a horrible person and we've had many iterations but now we're at a lie
00:11:34.780um that's being sold that says hey if you're not supporting israel at all costs0.96
00:11:40.560you're an anti-semite you are a terrible person and cool so calling things like israel out
00:11:49.180zionism out our involvement in the war because of israel calling that out calling out the0.55
00:11:56.120occupation of the u.s government calling that out calling out trump's betrayal of campaign promises
00:12:02.780no new wars um uh justice for the epstein victims calling that out to be fair he said no new wars
00:12:15.120plural this is only one yeah new war so he was right so we're on one he better not start another
00:12:21.740one or else he's lying and he's breaking his promise yeah so the nature of what i'm doing
00:12:26.440comedy on changes and that's very threatening to people that are loyal to what your comedy
00:12:32.040threatens if they're loyal to trump like yeah my comedy is calling out lies and gaslighting
00:12:38.140um, um, that Trump is doing. So I understand why some people would just, well, you used to be
00:12:45.240funny. They, uh, now they hate me and that's fine. It's far more important to me to be loyal to
00:12:51.940truth. And I'm not here to convince anybody I'm funny or not yet. What I will say is the number
00:13:00.360one most important principle in comedy, whether it's like a freedom fighter, like me or Dave
00:13:07.100Chappelle or Shane Gillis, people who like, don't care about politics. They're just world-class
00:13:13.620funny. What you'll see them using masterfully is the truth principle. Yes. They're telling you a
00:13:21.600truth. There's a reason why you can watch Saturday Night Live year after year. And you might've got
00:13:28.840like three chuckles out of yourself after watching Saturday Night Live for the past decade.
00:13:34.960why is that well they hire good comedians and then they handcuff them what they're not allowed
00:13:41.720to do is be loyal to the truth principle above all else saturday night live obviously it's very
00:13:49.600like shane gillis didn't he get fired from like best thing that happened to him right and and uh
00:13:54.880and he's yeah it's so clear he got fired because he's a good comedian yeah like like all of them
00:14:02.580are probably good in terms of raw talent maybe not all of them but but at least a few of them
00:14:08.400but um but shane said no i want to actually use my talent yeah and he is he's been able to
00:14:15.580be loyal to his truth principle unencumbered now the guy's selling out arenas he he makes more in
00:14:22.460one night than he would in three years being on saturday night live and those are like real
00:14:29.280numbers. Uh, and he's more popular. People love him. He's more relatable because he's telling
00:14:36.720the truth through his jokes. So I've always used comedy, not as the goal is to make people laugh.
00:14:44.480The goal is to tell the truth. Uh, humor is the language I'm using to communicate
00:14:50.020to people. And it's one thing to lecture to people. We need that, but we also like comedy
00:14:56.060exists for a reason. We all have a sense of humor. It's one of our five senses. It's what I would
00:15:02.300call our sixth sense. So comedy is a way to relate to people because we all have this sense just so
00:15:09.200happens to be the primary language I've been called to communicate my messages. And so long
00:15:17.340story short, I remember even during the height of the Biden corruption, just wide open borders,
00:15:24.860tearing down fence, literally tearing down border mechanisms with bulldozers.
00:15:32.040I remember talking about that and at times saying to my audience,
00:15:36.660I can't wait for the pendulum to swing to the other side.
00:15:40.320You know, when I'm criticizing the right, because evil is going to do that. Remember the
00:15:47.420W. Bush administration, weapons of mass destruction. Cool. That's where the deception was.
00:15:54.860Excuse me. Then we have, you know, the Obama time and then Trump, then the Biden time where
00:16:01.300the pendulum was swinging to the left. It got very extreme. Censorship, open borders,
00:16:10.660no voter ID. It was just nuts. So much corruption, corruption being the antithesis of truth.
00:16:19.560It wasn't lost on me. It's not because the left is inherently evil. It's because evil is inherently evil. The left happens to be where it's predominantly expressing itself right now. And it still expresses itself on the left, yet now it's gaining expression on the right.
00:16:40.240And I would call it the new mega consciousness is where this evil is expressing itself.
00:16:54.100I didn't know it would come this fast.
00:16:56.180But a few years ago, I predicted there will come a time where I am calling out the lies, hypocrisy, and corruption on the right.
00:17:04.060Because I knew I just need to tell the truth.
00:17:07.840and evil doesn't have a loyalty to one side or the other right nobody has a monopoly on evil
00:17:15.220yeah it wherever the path of least resistance is that's where the evil is going and on it's
00:17:21.820unfortunate yet on the right we have new expressions of evil lies manipulation gaslighting
00:17:32.240the public and i'm not going to just sit back and act like a coward and have that be the example
00:17:38.760that my sons see and say like oh that's the real man he'll he'll only speak his mind when it's
00:17:44.900convenient for him he'll only speak his mind when it supports his cause right instead of his cause
00:17:54.520being greater than all these little entities it's like oh i want my sons to be able to say
00:18:01.260dad's cause was the truth dad's cause was serving god the best way he could and he didn't let
00:18:09.620cowardice uh constrict his vocal cords well said um yeah i feel like comedy i've heard different
00:18:20.360guys say this so i didn't coin the phrase but i think it's true that comedy is inherently
00:18:26.080transgressive. So the comedian, other people, like the lecturer, the teacher, the presenter,
00:18:33.560you know, or even the pastor, in my case, presents the truth. But the comedian presents the truth by
00:18:43.000transgressing that which stands opposed to the truth. He's not just a presenter of what's right,
00:18:50.840he's the transgressor of what's wrong he sticks it to the man um and and so because comedy is
00:18:57.620inherently transgressive uh the comedian if he's consistent so it's not the lack of consistency
00:19:04.520ironically it is the sheer presence of true consistency uh what makes the comedian good
00:19:10.940at his job and consistent in his work is that he is going to consistently transgress
00:19:18.460um wherever falsehoods are found but not obscure falsehoods yeah not um the the true comedian
00:19:28.220um is is not a bully so he he's not the largest kid on the playground going around and picking
00:19:35.960on someone half his size the true comedian the jester is the one who in front of the king is the
00:19:43.400only one in the whole court who's willing to poke fun a little bit here a little bit there but then
00:19:49.380even at the king and say you know and say something and everyone's like i can't believe
00:19:55.920he said it like he actually said the emperor has no clothes like that's i feel like that's what
00:20:00.620the comedian does and so because politically in our country this isn't like this is not a timeless
00:20:05.540truth this is a timely truth so there's a verse in the bible that uh commends uh the sons of
00:20:12.260Issachar, for they knew the times and what Israel ought to do. Old Testament Israel, actual Israel,
00:20:18.800not a nation-state that popped up in 1948, you know, but that Israel. So it says that they knew
00:20:25.700the times, and they had not only the diagnosis of this is what time it is, and these are the current
00:20:32.200problems, not timeless problems, but timely problems, relevant. But they also had the
00:20:39.460the prescription the diagnosis but also the prescription they knew what israel ought to do
00:20:44.680and i see the comedian it's not necessarily his job to to point out exactly what what you're
00:20:51.780supposed to do but he's got to be he's got to have his fingers on the pulse with a high degree
00:20:57.680of accuracy at least in terms of the diagnosis he knows the problem and he's willing to point it out
00:21:03.560but it's not just obscure problems it's uh the problems um in in the courts of power
00:21:12.100so so it's like could you right now like could you uh point out problems uh in gaza probably
00:21:23.860you know like right now can you point out problems um in iran yeah you know like like the problem is
00:21:35.860that iran you know i heard that someone dug up you know uh artifacts from like 3 000 years ago
00:21:41.180and um and it said that you know that at that time iran was only two weeks away from
00:21:46.940so the problem with iran is that they've been two weeks away from nuclear for 3 000 years and they
00:21:52.360still can't do it so there's a lot of problems no but my my point is to say that ill intel might be
00:21:57.240a problem with israel by the way but so my point is like can you can you point out problems with
00:22:02.200muslims of course i i'm a christian i i'm not a fan of islam can you point out problems here there
00:22:08.820wherever yes but i think the comedian um he's not just the problem finder but he's the one who who
00:22:18.300actually is uh tasked with uh discerning and and shouting from the rooftop calling attention
00:22:28.260because it's one thing to discern and know like everybody knew that the emperor had no clothes
00:22:32.960but it's a little boy who's willing to say it yeah out loud the comedian is the one who's able
00:22:38.820to say out loud what the the populist consensus is all feeling but unwilling to say yeah but but
00:22:47.580not just say the problem that everyone feels but specifically to say out loud with courage and
00:22:54.180comedic value the problem that everyone feels that is located in the seats of power yeah so when it's
00:23:03.78020 20 through 2024 well what that looks like for the comedian is probably 90 of his jokes
00:23:12.560are going to be at the expense of the biden administration but it's not that the comedian
00:23:19.640changed jerseys or switched teams or or is now inconsistent or being a grifter the irony is it's
00:23:27.320the exact in my assessment it's the exact opposite it's the proof that he's not a grifter
00:23:32.000yeah that now um well i'm still going to stick it to biden biden's not in power
00:23:38.360Yeah. Amen to that. The problems that need to be pointed out, the comedian will point them out. Case in point, I forget what it was, might have been earlier this year, end of last year.
00:23:55.820i did a little channel update for my audience just a quick video uh you know i'm not touring
00:24:02.580next year just a couple little updates and one of them was hey i'm gonna do a lot less material on
00:24:09.280politics because things are pretty good and quite frankly a lot of the things i'm hearing is just
00:24:17.560noise there's nothing really meaningful going on right now and i said so i'll be doing a lot of
00:24:23.840comedy on other things. But, you know, when the time comes where something in the arena of politics
00:24:31.440is calling my attention that it needs to be addressed, cool, I'll be there. But just wanted
00:24:36.480to let you know, be doing a lot less on politics. Well, that lasted for about a month. Because then,
00:24:42.580you know, the covering up of the Epstein files, these things the Trump administration started
00:24:46.440doing that they weren't doing before, they were just like, cool, they're closing the border.0.57
00:24:50.400that is great they're deporting people that don't have a right to be here they're deporting
00:24:56.420criminals that's great there wasn't anything to skewer with comedy and now there is so not shy
00:25:05.900about that and something interesting the function of comedy pointing out problems through the
00:25:12.380language of playfulness it it has i'll share a couple things about the purpose of that one of
00:25:19.180the purposes of that is it predisposes the receiver person to have less defenses in their
00:25:30.420mind so that they have a better chance of using their own critical thinking to rethink whatever
00:25:40.160the topic is. For example, the opposite of that is just if I came at you and said, Israel is corrupt
00:25:50.580because they've been saying Iran has nuclear weapons for two years or 30 years. You know,
00:25:57.080if I'm just coming at you with that, the natural defense of being a human is a defensive posture.
00:26:06.440Just like if you were standing there and I came up and started pushing you physically, you're going to brace.
00:26:14.020Your body wants to maintain a center of gravity, and our minds want to maintain our center of gravity with what we believe to be true.
00:26:21.660So if I'm pushing on you with really straightforward information, the mind tends to get defensive.
00:26:29.500but if it's packaged through same message but through the language of playfulness humor
00:26:37.780well it doesn't look as threatening off the bat and and it can maybe get into the brain
00:26:46.380not to brainwash people but to give them a shot of rethinking their own thinking about the topic
00:26:54.800because as soon as someone gets defensive, we all know they're not considering anything I have to
00:27:01.440say. And by the way, who can blame them? I'm sitting here screaming at them. That's not going
00:27:06.080to convince anybody of anything. And the goal isn't to convince anybody of anything other than
00:27:11.100convince them to think for themselves and to rethink their beliefs. Second thing I'd say
00:27:18.640about the purpose of comedy and how it serves truth is from like an archetypal perspective
00:27:25.360you mentioned the court jester the court jester is oftentimes like the only one in the kingdom
00:27:31.820that can criticize the king right in the the specifically the king's ego that can lend the
00:27:40.280king to corruption and power for self. But the king, the ideal king, not tyrant king,
00:27:49.560the ideal king should be the greatest servant in the kingdom. He is there to serve the kingdom
00:27:57.340and to lead the kingdom, not to serve himself and use the kingdom to serve him. And the king
00:28:03.180wears the crown to remind him of that. I have a higher purpose here than myself.
00:28:09.220and the court jester's job is to shine the light of awareness onto the king's ego for the king to
00:28:18.340see bring to light what i have in my blind spots because i am blind to them and a good king won't
00:28:26.320cut the court jester's head off if he doesn't like the joke a good king will hear the joke
00:28:31.540and consider it and if he gets himself to laugh that's him psychologically digesting something
00:28:38.460and changing and shedding oh i didn't realize that's why when you you put the same information
00:28:47.520in the form of a joke do you hear they dug up artifacts from 3 000 years ago in iran
00:28:53.300and they found evidence iran was two weeks away from having any that lands much different than
00:28:59.500if i'm just screaming israel's been saying since 1996 that iran's two weeks away and we're still
00:29:05.680using lands very different so i'm not pretending i'm the best court jester i'm pretending or what
00:29:13.200i am saying is that's a role i play being the court jester to the king's ego uh not just the
00:29:21.760king the president but anything that presents itself as the king well now you're erica kirk
00:29:28.720anything is fair game and egotistical nature especially egotistical nature that that person
00:29:37.500doesn't acknowledge that person might actually deny it go even further that needs to be called
00:29:44.020out because otherwise they the king is violating the kingdom and using the kingdom to serve himself
00:29:53.500at the expense of the people of the kingdom yeah well said um it seems as though so for the for the
00:30:00.980king and this is really every form or position of leadership that we could possibly imagine
00:30:07.360one of the um one of the the clearest signs of maturity and just overall personal health just
00:30:16.680being a healthy person and not being a tyrant is the um the ability to laugh at yourself amen
00:30:23.820like um a serious person who's going to do good in the world needs to be able to take everything
00:30:32.740seriously except for himself you know and able to to laugh at yourself that is so vital self
00:30:40.820self-deprecation is such a sign of a trustworthy person it is and it can be taken to the extreme
00:30:49.300where someone's always like okay now you you're actually depressed i get that but someone who can
00:30:55.580self-deprecate and does so with some regularity man i find in my relationship with my lady
00:31:01.840she'll self-deprecate she'll make fun of herself laugh at herself she's always making a mess and1.00
00:31:08.740getting a vacuum out she always leaves the vacuum somewhere never puts it away but doesn't know she0.72
00:31:13.680does that she'll she'll laugh at that and i'll do the same or she'll point something out in me
00:31:19.720i'm like let's yeah i did that such a sign of trustworthiness if you can self-deprecate
00:31:27.380and not only self-deprecate yourself but self-deprecate what's important to you
00:31:34.340if you if you talk to um just take your pick a a mark levin type person like new mega someone who
00:31:45.940they seemingly believe 100 of what the trump administration does is perfect if you ask them
00:31:58.060is there anything you can criticize about it? Is there anything ridiculous? Is there anything0.86
00:32:04.420you're willing to laugh at? No. It's obviously a very closed off person, but you could take the
00:32:11.300most meaningful issues to you, who you support, what you support, what you do for yourself that
00:32:18.620works well, who's most important to you. And if you can deprecate those things and praise them as
00:32:26.260well. But if you can also be self-deprecating of them, you're going to be in a much better spot
00:32:33.200because your willingness to deceive yourself about those important things is going to be far less.
00:32:39.180And I would say your alignment with using those things and being in relationships
00:32:44.000for truth, it's going to be far greater and far purer. I think Oscar Wilde was the one that said,
00:32:52.800life is too important to take seriously and it's pretty seriously but life is a pretty serious
00:33:00.840thing but to take life only seriously i i i think then we're just living in a fear-based consciousness
00:33:09.280and people that are too afraid to with humor or otherwise criticize their sacred cows
00:33:19.620they're living in a fear-based consciousness yeah are you living in love or fear they'd probably say
00:33:26.240love but it's like well your actions are fear because you're literally afraid to criticize
00:33:30.680the thing you're probably afraid of being wrong if you found a one percent imperfection in that
00:33:38.720thing that person that administration let alone if you found out like well there's 43 percent of
00:33:45.920it is pretty impure and they're afraid of losing their identity because they've identified with
00:33:55.040that thing. It's Laura Loomer's probably the perfect example of that as far as someone who
00:34:01.400is so identified with Trump. I don't know if she actually has any sense of self, but that's quite
00:34:07.820a fear-based conscious or such a fear-based place of living. And it's displayed through her
00:34:14.860anger and vileness which are extensions of fear uh towards anybody that criticizes
00:34:24.000very obvious things about trump yeah well said it seems like some of the best comedians
00:34:30.140and not just comedians but pretty much any any public figure regardless of their vocation
00:34:36.360that has even a partial degree of trustworthiness has been canceled at least once.