QAA Podcast - Episode 200: JP Sears feat Dave Anthony & Gareth Reynolds

Episode Date: August 26, 2022

A "holistic life coach" turns youtube comedian skewering his new age community. Things get out of hand as he evolves into a steroid-pumped right wing sycophant and conspiracy theorist. To celebrate our 200th episode we have Gareth Reynolds and Dave Anthony from The Dollop podcast as guests. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to the full Trickle Down 10-part miniseries and all upcoming extra series: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Tickets to our tour: http://tour.qanonanonymous.com New Merch dropped! http://merch.qanonanonymous.com Listen to The Dollop podcast: https://www.dolloppodcast.com/ Follow Dave & Gareth: https://twitter.com/daveanthony / https://twitter.com/reynoldsgareth Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

What's up QAA listeners? The fun games have begun. I found a way to connect to the internet. I'm sorry, boy. Welcome listener to chapter 200 of the Q&Nan anonymous podcast, the J.P. Sears episode. As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatansky, Gareth Reynolds, Dave Anthony, Julian Fields, and Travis View. And Dave Anthony.

Dave, we got it. We already have it. Dave has already ruined our birthday party. Yes, you heard it here first. Today's a very special day listener because we are recording our 200th episode of QAA. Unless you count the premium episodes and trickle down and various bonus episodes, which actually puts us probably around 400, which is a demented amount of content. But I know that the Dallop Boys are used to having just very high numbers and just having this never-end.

Like a fucking shackle. Thank you. That's right. Tide your leg. Thank you. And your podcast is like that. It's like a shackle tied to my leg. The time I listen to it, drag you.

Glad it feels like that for those listening and not just those doing. So, yeah, if we've learned anything from numerology, it's that numbers you read count. So this is the 200th main episode. And to celebrate, we've got Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds of the Dallup podcast. I'm Dave Anthony. So welcome, boys. Nope, Dave, we got that. That's the third time now.

Dave, we have it. I think he might be doing it on purpose. I'm pretty sure. That's what happens. I'm going to go on record. I don't think that's the last time we heard that bit. No. I got a feeling we, I think we got a runner on our hands.

He figured out comedy. This is a callback. And Dave is going to be bringing it for all its worth. You'll find that it's going to not become funny at some point. and Dave will probably get it funny again. That's how many times you'll hear. Yeah, well, it is great to be here, so thank you very much for having us.

This certainly feels like, it's like your show's like our show, but today, and that's scary. That's right. It's like if they solve none of the problems you guys brought up, and they added new ones. Yeah.

That's right. You guys being comedians, I thought, hey, let's touch on the subject that I've been really trying to avoid for so long. the comedian known as J.P. Sears, and I think this will effectively end comedy forever today. I think we can put it to back to say, no more fucking jokes. Like after this, when the conservative comedians say, like, you can't say anything anymore, it's because literally we'll cut the tongues out of every comedian,

and we'll bury them with the pharaoh deep in an Egyptian tomb. Uh, bring it. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Hurry. Let's go. So this guy, his full name is Jonathan Patrick Sears.

He's also known, of course, by J.P. Sears. He started out as a life coach, became a self-help YouTube guru, then a comedian, gently skewering New Age rhetoric, and finally a bitter, angry right-wing hack. How do you start as a life coach? Well, there's a very short questionnaire that you can fill out online.

They'll send you your certification, and then you can charge people thousands of dollars an hour to tell them to be themselves. Yeah. It means right off the bat, you're like, I can tell everybody how to do this. I'm doing this so fucking good. You need to have a real ego to be like, not only do I have my shit together, I can help you get your shit. Like, there's, it really is the job of nobody.

There's nobody who has their shit together that much. Yeah, no, he basically studied with this guy called Paul Chek, who's like this bald, weird, just pure muscle kind of guy. And he's all about medicine balls. and he's also just has like a vaguely fascist vibe, lots of pseudoscience. Sure. Kind of holistic approach, supposedly. Mm-hmm.

So, yeah, sounds like you boys are doing good. And before we jump in, we have a couple of things to touch on. First, we've kicked off a new YouTube series called Messages from the Vortex about our various explorations in the field. The first episode is about my attendance of the Secret Space Conference in Grafton, Illinois, with the only person available, my wife. Both my colleagues were unable to attend or did not want to. Wow.

And the series is being directed and edited by Brad Abrahams, who made the fantastic documentary Love and Saucers and is our Inner Earth correspondent. You can find that at YouTube.cunanananonymous.com. It's already up. Secondly, we have a bunch more tour dates this year. You can get tickets to watch QAA live in Eugene, San Diego, Berkeley, Phoenix, Denver, Austin, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Chicago, and Minneapolis. all of those in 2022. That's at tour.cunonanonanonymous.com. And finally, before everybody falls asleep during the plugs, we've got, I am wheezing. I need to stop smoking cigarettes.

No, going harder. Going harder. No, that sounds, that was a good cough. Nice. Yeah, it sucks. You don't need to stop smoking, no way. That sounded great. Sounds so healthy over here.

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all of that for just five bucks a month, Patreon.com slash QAnonanonymous. All right, now that I've basically done my shilling and grifting, let's get into this Shill and Gryffner, J.P. Sears. So first off, I just wanted to start by showing both you boys a contemporary picture of him. So you can understand why some are calling him Ron Weasley on human growth hormones.

Oh, yeah. He is he's pretty jacked, yeah. Well, first of all, we can see his medicine balls, which I like. Are your, is your thigh is your thigh supposed to be that big out to the side? Absolutely, yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

Side thigh. This looks like if a centaur were allergic to jorts. This looks like there was a toy that I had in like the early 90s. It was a Terminator toy. And it was basically like a plastic endoskeleton, you know, the Terminator. And then you pumped this like liquid skin into this mold. And it would make the likeness. Yes.

Yeah, make the likeness of Arnold. Schwarzenegger, and then you could peel off pieces of this like fake, you know, this like fake skin and reveal the sort of like skeleton underneath. But it never worked great. There was always like really bad skin tags and like, you know, pieces that wouldn't slowly, you know, wouldn't form all the way. And this reminds me of that, this picture. I need to go to the dermatologist. I think the most disturbing aspect of this is that he managed to get his like pubic area vascular, like there's veins showing. Yeah. And he's also. also shaved them.

And he's wearing him low like Britney Spears. It looks very, it's one of those faces that looks photoshopped on a body. Yeah. I mean, imagine getting into that kind of shape and still no one will fuck you. Must have been such a shock for him. Well, I've got bad news. He has a child and a wife who, I think, just as demented as him and has taken this road to the right and into conspiracy theories.

like, along with him, it seems, she's still making videos with him, even though he's being really off the hook lately. Wow. I think he's got another one on the way at his quad. It looks like if you got a gremlin wet. Like, he's about to start popping, like, other JPs off of him.

Yes, this is like the early stage of the guy from Akira right before he explodes into, like, a new kind of flesh being. Oh, man, his wife's not ugly. Dave, what a sweet compliment. We're going to have to have. Look at him. It should be the equivalent in a lady, right?

That's not what happened. And you consider that he's seductive and that he speaks well and makes good eye contact, maybe a firm handshake? Those eyes are dead. Look at those eyes. They're fucking dead. There's nothing behind them. It's deadlifting eyes.

Yeah. So I wanted to also include a photo of JP from 2013 when he was still just a life coach. So, Gareth, you want to give us a take? And it is quite like, it's interesting because you would probably want to mock this look, but when you see the future, you're like, what a sweet little baby angel? It looks like if carrot top never touched a prop. He's pure, he's pure ginger. He looks happy.

He doesn't look dead in the eyes there. The eyes have more life to them. Again, as a fellow ginger beard subscriber, goatee, not our best look, but we'll overlook that. Yeah, it's not. Yeah, before you accused the podcast, we invited a ginger on just so we could make fun of J.P. Sears being one and still be covered by the general, you know? Yeah, he looks, he could have gotten, this guy could have gotten work as like Eric Stoltz's stand-in. Yeah, really? Yeah.

And Eric Stoltz would be kind of upset. Like, this guy looks pretty good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it would be slightly, yeah, yeah, it would be slightly insulting to Eric Stoltz. But he would go, all right, I guess, I guess. All right. We're going to see him from the back. He's my hide, I guess. So this episode is about why we should get rid of gingers.

Excuse me. I don't think you need to do the bottom winding. I think the word is exterminate. Just say your name again. Hey, I'm Dave Anthony. There you go. And we're back. So he's since taken down his website, but here is how he was describing himself

and his coaching practice. Through the offerings of inner awakenings, J.P. Sears invites others to discover their source of authentic healing and growth by awakening to the light and shadow elements of their own hearts. What the fuck? What the fuck is the shadow element of your heart? It's like a, it's Youngian for sure. He's like a huge Carl Young guy. Yeah, you got shadow elements in your heart like, well, I would say that on your podcast, the light element is definitely Gareth, and you are the shadow element.

What the fuck just happened? There you go. You, Dave Anthony. No, you guys haven't heard the podcast, have you? No, they've heard it. The workshops, teleclasses, and one-on-one coaching that are available here help guide individuals into the intimacy of their own self. Gross. So they may bring reconciliation to emotional, mental, and spiritual wounds that otherwise bind them to pain, repetitive patterns of sabotage and limited living.

We invite you to consider that the genesis of authentic healing and self-growth is found within the individual. Could your journey of moving beyond the limits of your own thinking, wounding, and hidden saboteur, hinge on awakening your source of inner wisdom? I mean, this shit is primed for QAnon already. I mean, oh, my God. Yeah, yeah, it really is. So much while saying so little. I think one of the funny parts is that he's like a lot less woo now.

I mean, what happens is he gets stripped of all this new. new age stuff as he becomes like a right wing guy and he's now he's now basically like what would happen if ben Shapiro took human growth hormones and started doing comedy well i don't even think it's necessarily i think like the right wing transformation isn't great but has he tried to consider that the genesis of his authentic healing and self-growth could be found within the individual i mean i think to me it's that his journey is moving beyond the limits of his own thinking and he's just got a hidden saboteur that's hinging on awakening

the source of his inner wisdom. Honestly, it is disturbing how much of his early stuff just applies directly to him 10 years later. Always with the projection. You know what I mean? It's like when the cult leader's like, we can't fuck each other

and he's fucking everybody. Yes. The programs, services, and information available via this site are intended to support your efforts to move beyond an inner and outer life, dictated by attachment to the comforts of familiarity as you awaken to a life of deeper meaning and genuine contentment.

See, this is what happens when you don't have any actual like counseling training or like a degree in any kind of. You end up saying shit like comforts of familiarity as you awaken to a life of deeper meaning and genuine content. This is what I hate about these life coach people is it's it all means nothing. It literally, it's just words. It's just words pasted together. Yeah, it's absolute garbage. Whether you are an individual looking to grow into new opportunities in your life, heal your suffering, or you're in a helping profession looking to acquire new skills to work

with clients in deeper ways, we hope you may find something on our site that will serve you well. See, that's his side thing is like he coaches other coaches. He's a life coach, coach. Yeah, a life coach, life coach. That's weird because I'm a life coach, coach, coach. We've been looking for you. J.P. needs one of those. Yeah, he needs a coach for him, the coach of the coaches.

So I'm having trouble coaching some of the life coaches. That's where I come in, J.P. I'm a life coach, coach, coach. So an article in the Charleston City paper kind of explains how Sears became a life coach in the first place. Born in Toledo, Ohio, and raised in Bowling Green, Ohio, the Internet sensation found the holistic lifestyle right after high school, and most people are finding. the holistic life stuff. After spending, quote, all of a few months, end quote, at Bowling Green State University, Sears decided school wasn't for him.

What caused his transition from drifting kid in his late teens to new age master was his interest in fitness. Sears says that he loves sports and, ever since the age of 11, has tried to stay in shape, quote, I think that got me into the tip of the iceberg of the holistic lifestyle, which is fitness and nutrition,

he says. From there, the doors into the other dimensions a holistic lifestyle were just kind of natural to walk through. That's how you get into other dimensions? Yeah, everybody knows when you lift enough weight, a portal will open in front of you, and you can pass through into the fifth. It's the sixth.

There are other monsters there, but you can also gain a lot of knowledge as well. That would be amazing for someone to just break their squat, and then a, oh, finally! Goodbye, 24-hour fitness. Whoa! I'm going into the nether realm. Oh, I'm off.

At the age of 18, Sears began studying holistic cultures, but didn't begin his training as a life coach until 2003. He attended Ohio Life Coaching School Journeys of Wisdom, where he still occasionally does training to keep his skills as sharp as possible. Sears says that the reason he became a holistic coach was a simple desire to care for others. Uh-huh. Quote, The decision to be a life coach,

the idea of helping people help themselves grow, heal, find more meaning in their lives, and step into their personal power as I do the same really appealed to me, end quote, says Sears. He moved to San Diego in 2004 where he began working as a professional life. I got to go somewhere where people buy this absolute bullshit. I need to go near sand.

I'm full of shit. He specializes in like flatbrim cap dudes with sandal calluses. Yeah, and like Fox racing gear and Oakley's. Yeah. Anyone on a scooter? In 2013, still living on the West Coast, Sears began uploading videos to YouTube.

It was all serious content centered around the holistic and new age lifestyles. Sears walked viewers through his advice on topics such as anger management, the importance of being vulnerable and being good to yourself. So, yeah, speaking to what you were saying, Jake, just kind of like, just be nice, be kind,

believe in you. You have the power. You need to, see, I can do that, I can just make this shit up. Like, you need to awaken in the sleeping potential inside of your inner healing to authentically actualize the true soul beyond the outer shell of indifference and fear. You would last all of 10 minutes before you tried to sell someone a broken early access game with zombies in it. Yeah, that's my life,

coach. I try to buy, I try to get you to buy unfinished PC games off of Steam. Harmless, really. That would be, what a great, I'm sorry, what? You need to buy these PC games to really kind of tap into a lot of what I'm talking about. Yeah, no, they haven't integrated containers in it. The loot is just kind of on the container. Yeah, no, it's seven years into development. Sorry, I need to buy this in order to fulfill my personal... Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, so... And then we're going to play together, and you're still going to pay me for it. That's right. It's only seven gigs. It's only seven gigs. It won't take that long to download. Wait until night falls, dude. The lighting is amazing.

So he didn't start... He started life coaching when he was 23. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah, once you know everything. is going to go to a 23-year-old life coach. Imagine being older than 23 listening to a 23-year-old. I'd be like, yeah, yeah.

It is very funny that he had clients. He has a whole video that it didn't include where he has a bunch of different clients, you know, being like, he's so great, he helped me so much. Of course. So you just got to rock, man. Like, that's all it is. Like, it's just kind of about, like, being awesome

and, like, rocking, you know? Like, you got a rule, you know? You just got to, the world's your oyster. You know, everyone looks at you like you're young. No, I'm old. Oh. Hmm. It's like, you know that girl at the bar who told you not to keep talking to her?

Dude, dude, just go up to her and talk to her again, man. But this time, like, believe in yourself, you know? Just talk to her one more, two more times. You got to want to fuck you in order to get others to want to fuck you. That's right. Back in 2013, JP only made serious videos. There was no comedy at that point. Here's a sample of what he talked about, which would turn out to be a pretty apt description of himself in the next 10.

years. This is behind of the smile? Yep. Okay dokey. Sounds like an orthodontics training video. I'd like to ask you a question. Oh my God. What is the pain behind your smile? Oh, what? What do you mean? Don't our smiles always mean we're happy? The Zen people would ask us to consider what if nothing is as it appears. So, how? Have you ever considered what is your smile made of? Is your smile made of authentic joy? Or is your smile made of hollowness where your smile actually becomes a deflection to hide pain from other people, to hide pain from yourself?

My experience is a smile can be a very convincing front so that we don't have to look at our pain. We're going to put the bed over there. out of a smile. And once we get the bench in, over here we're going to put in the, yeah, that'll be the gazebo is. Am I good? Am I smiling and am I laughing so that I can convince other people that life is good? Maybe most lethally, am I smiling and laughing so that I can convince myself my life is good when in fact it's becoming a mechanism of denial where my smile and laughter become the very

sword I slaughter myself with. If our smile is used for self-medication, what if it means we're smiling on the outside while dying on the inside? That medication has some serious side effects. Because if it's what I use to hide my pain from myself, then the pain that needs my help to heal it and feel it and remedy it, rebalance it, reconcile it, I can't get to it if I hide it from from myself through my smile. It's like if my pain were a drowning man, there he is in the swimming pool, and I put the pool cover over the surface of the pool.

He can't get out. He can do nothing but drown. My life is like the Sims where I put my sims in a pool and then remove the ladder. There is almost too much to break down in that. Yeah. Yeah, first of all, it's like a guy. It's like listening to a guy give advice who got hit by a shovel when he was four.

Well, it's so clear that he's not doing well. And so he's like, how do you control yourself when you're not doing well? It's like, are you in the position to, like, it's like a drunk guy being like, here's how to get sober. There's a couple of middle-aged contractors followed by geese at one point in that video. The geese fucking is off the charts. I mean, there is like, he picked the worst spot in time. And then he puts up the thing that says, rain plus wind equals bad hair day. It's like, okay, so if you're this highly elevated thinker who isn't mired in the superficialities and you've sort of gotten yourself to this higher presence and mind, I don't think you would be talking about how your hair's frizzy.

No. Yeah, I think you'd be worried about like the buzzards circling over your head. that they're, like, waiting for you to pass away so they can pick you apart. Or the contractors. The contractors who are like, yeah, hopefully he gets out of here soon so we can start building this footpath.

This was during his visit to Sweden, too. So he's like in a foreign country and he goes to a park and he's like, I'm going to be the American guy filming myself in this park. It's just terrible. Everyone hates us for so many reasons, but among them that. I love people who are just clearly done.

but have been doing a lot of thinking and and they think they have a lot to say, but it just comes out dumb because they're fucking dumb. There's nothing going on here. There's no smarts. He's not capable of ever doing anything intelligent. To me, he comes off immediately as like unnerving, like passive aggressive, as if everything he's saying kind of applies perfectly to him. Like his smile is so pained and weird like he's wearing, I don't know, like a mask.

and it kind of fits with like what he said on his website or what he said in that article where he said like I wanted to learn to care for people. Like I wanted to learn to feel something in the presence of others because right now it's just a hollow pit. For me, there's like an insane loneliness to him that just kind of emanates through his eyes and his fix there. Yeah, it's like seeing like it is knowing where this goes as far as his body. This is the origin story and you're sort of like, oh, this is not.

gonna go grace yeah you know how like they say comedians are like all like kind of sad clowns inside well this is like the sad clown before he even tries to be funny yeah it's like i could actually just teach people about spirituality or whatever um and if like you're so locked in and have such command over your own emotions and stuff like why do you need like five edits in your video yeah you know like can't you do it can't you do it in one take my guy like you you are you are the wizard you I was swearing. I was shouting, shut the fuck up geese a lot. It'd be funny if that text came up, it'd be like, lots of geese shouting equals more edits, like, frowny-faced. Smiley face.

Sometimes you have to smile to hide the fact that you just killed the family of geese because you were trying to make a video. Swedish don't like me equal frowny face. So for about a year, J.P. only made videos like the one I just played, just fixing the camera, giving this kind of boilerplate pseudo-spiritual advice that he read out of books, probably like the week before. And he would talk about how to communicate authentically, handle negative thinking, heal a broken heart, lose weight, build self-confidence, become vulnerable, all this kind of stuff. And then, near the end of 2014, he turned to comedy. And this led to his first viral. video. Oh no. How to be ultra-spiritual, in parentheses, funny, with J.P. Sears. So he had to label it so that his followers would be like, oh, it's comedy. It's not really just him doing him. That's how it works. This video skewered the very stuff he had previously been promoting. The caption below the video tries to soften the blow for his audience who were all into what he's now criticizing. perhaps the ability to laugh at ourselves and not take ourselves too seriously is what increases

our spiritual growth. All right. Are you ready for some comedy? I don't think I am. I think we're all ready to laugh right now. I think that's, I can't wait. That guy being funny. I'm J.P. Sears. I'm ultra-spiritual. And I'm going to teach you how to be ultra-spiritual today. First, what you need to understand is being ultra-spiritual has nothing to do with actually being spiritual, because no one even knows what that actually is. Being ultra-spiritual means you look spiritual. So let's get started. Practice competitive spirituality. Silently slash passive-aggressively, you're going to want to compare how spiritual other people are to yourself. Judging other people to be less spiritual than you makes you a better person than them. And that's exactly what makes you more spiritual than them.

Hey, Kevin. Do you see how unconscious that guy is? Jerk. Claim to be using your intuition when you're actually thinking about things. In fact, you're going to want to announce this to people every chance you get because false intuition isn't true intuition until you get other people to believe that your false claims are actually true. Hey Deanna, my intuition just told me to give you a call. No, I didn't see that you had called me. Talk about energy. You're going to want to integrate this into all your conversations.

It'll seem meaningless to other people because it is. But don't let that stop you, though. I love energy. I love chi, I love prana, I love life force, I love oras, I love chakras. It's all vibration. I'm laughing. Lots of giggles. So it's like...

He's dead inside. Yeah, he's dead inside and like, yeah, he's skewering the exact stuff that he's selling. Like all the kind of schools of thoughts he's into and he's like, well, what if I criticized in like a really weird deadpan way, the exact stuff I do believe in, but I did it with like a funny little like chiffon bandana with some flowers in it. So people understood that this is an exaggerating. version of me. I think part of the comedy comes from at the beginning of my edits. You can see somebody move by the camera. It happens twice. Actually, the shoulder of my wife getting out of the way of my video is probably one of the funniest things I've ever seen. He loves to do that. It's my wife leaving me. He loves to like pretend to like not know he was about to film like,

hey, are you ready? Like, but it's all staged. It's fucking crazy. Well, I mean, I think we can all agree that he can act. Yeah. Funny guy playing all the roles. Yeah. I mean, maybe he's not the best writer, but the acting is off the charts.

Some people aren't meant for comedy, you know? They're just meant for straight stage drama. I think like, like, new age people just were craving, making fun of themselves, or being allowed to a little bit. That's why this did well? Yeah, like it went viral, like, profit. This went viral? See, that's that, so in reality, my, my beef is not with JP.

My beef is with everybody who watched it and shared it. They're the fucking, but you expect dog shit to get made. Just the people sharing the dog shit are really major problems. No, this is like the guy who does two minutes at the open mic every week. It's the same two minutes and you feel sorry for him and he never goes anywhere. But instead, this guy immediately had success on you. YouTube. He's doing the Tonight Show.

Yeah. Well, I'm not done. But, like, yeah, like, articles were written about this shit. And, like, he built a big-ass listenership. Oh, yeah. Jesus God. He's so fucking monotone and dead while doing it. And it's not like deadpan comedy.

It's just there's nothing there. Dave, we already agreed he can act. So, you know, we all agreed his acting is good. His character work is fantastic. He reminds me of Robin Williams, like a ginger Robin Williams. Yes, yes. All the voices. Yeah, just the range.

The range, the humor, the charisma. The characters are incredible. I didn't see the time code on that, but that was 45 minutes, right? About five years later, after racking up millions of views and becoming a YouTube star, JP would reflect on his newfound comedy success. So here's him kind of looking back on the beginning. in that same Charleston City paper article. One of the most consistent questions thrown at viral video star and proud Charlestonian J.P. Sears is, quote, are you serious?

Please don't be. Known for his satirical, quote, How to Be Ultra Spiritual Series on YouTube and Facebook, Sears has accumulated millions of views with viral hits like How to Be gluten intolerant and if meat eaters acted like vegans. but it's not just his serious delivery of ludicrous content that confuses people. Sears is a satirist of New Age culture. Oh, no, they called him a satirist? Yeah, they did.

This is a satir. A devout believer in it and a holistic coach, even making a separate series of videos where he gives sincere holistic advice on everything from relationships to depression to meditation. The ultra-spiritual series seemingly lampoons the life that Sears lives and promotes, Confused yet? The YouTube star explains it a little better. I needed it for self-therapy because so much of the new-age culture and new-age practices

are a part of my life and a very beneficial part of my life, yet there's another side to the beneficial coin for everything, says Sears. The comedic ultra-spiritual videos are an example of public self-reflection, where Sears mocks his own self-righteous tendencies through laughter in the hopes of humbling himself. I was finding myself having egotistical agendas and judgments hiding within the new age and spiritual practices. The videos and the book, How to Be Ultra Spiritual, became a way for me to shine the light of awareness on the shadow side of me, he says. Oh, my God.

What the fuck? I'm boycotting the Charleston City paper. You know what sucks about these sessions I do with other people? The other people. I would like this to be all about me. Yeah, it sounds like what happened, really, is that he found himself in a situation in which he resented all his new friends,

he resented what he believed, he resented the community he found himself in, and so he decided to express this resentment through satire. And really, he just fucking hated everyone he surrounded himself with. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I totally think it's like an expression of his passive aggressive hatred for everything he stood for

and everyone around him, because the shift is so easy for him later on, like it goes so smoothly, even though it contradicts everything he's previously said, that that is kind of the only remaining explanation. Well, if you're trying to get other people to fill these kind of deep holes inside of themselves, and then you basically cure yours by having a successful YouTube channel, you're probably not the moral superior that people weren't pretending. Like, you know what I mean?

Like, if your whole thing is like, I need depth and I need to expand my, oh, I got millions of views? Oh, fuck that. I'll just do this. Yeah, this is not the guy I would want helping me with my depression. No. No, this is the guy you hired to be like, I want to be depressed. Through about 2019, J.P. alternated between these two modes, promoting New Age self-help and making fun of it.

He would indicate the comedy videos by wearing the chiffon bandana I mentioned with flowers coming out of it. And because he found viral success through the ultra-spiritual comedy schstick, he just started pumping out dozens of them. Here's one where he mocks the idea that gangster raps. is spiritual. So in this, he's shirtless. He has thug life written over his belly in a marker, which is a reference to Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996.

And his video was made 19 years later in 2015. He's similarly contemporary in the choice of rap he skewers, a 1988 track from NWA. Oh, my lord. So get ready for this. This is like, yeah, this one is just straight up boomer shit repackaged. Straight out of comic. Oh, God.

Easy as his name and the boys coming. Straight out of Compton is a brother that I'll smother your mouth up and make a sister... The greatest source of spiritual insight is found in the lyrical poetry of gangster rap. And I'm going to help you find it. Let's look at the doctrine Straight Out of Compton by N.W.A. Straight out of Compton and pray the motherfucking name, that's cute. In this great line, Ice Cube is using Compton to represent duality. duality, the illusional nature that is human existence.

Crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube. Ice Cube symbolizes frozen, stillness, the absolute. So what Mr. Cube is advocating we do is come straight out of duality into the stillness contentment that is our absolute reality, the non-duality, straight out of Compton. hauled off. I got a sawed off. Squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off. Squeeze the trigger. This is Ice Cube advocating you to open your third eye and bodies are hauled off. What Ice Cube

is telling us is when we open our third eye, we transcend the limitations of our body, the five sense limitations of our body and open to the new reality brought to you only through your third. oh my god it's so bad it's just so like it's so bad it's so bad it's so bad starting with a guy just trying to figure out how he can do a video where he doesn't have his clothes on so he can show of his body and then he clearly looked in a mirror and wrote thug life with a pen or worse he had one of his family members do it. It's so fucking bad. It's so bad.

It's so fucking dumb. Honey, I'm making a video. Would you take this Sharpie and write Thug Life? If you could make the eye look like a bullet, that would be really cool for the video. Oh, it's so bad. It's like, it's painful. It feels it's painful. It feels to me almost like he actually believes this.

Like he was listening to this and he was like, I wonder what like Cube is like really talking about. Maybe he's talking about getting out of the duality. And then he's like, I should make a video about that for my spirit. And he's like, could be made fun of better do it on my comedy, you know, on my comedy series instead, just to save face in case people don't get it. I think I could tell you the exact genesis of how this happened. He went to a party. He heard someone in his spiritual community, like show him some murals.

music. And they were like, yeah, I know that this isn't exactly like the kind of stuff that we talk about all the time in our fucking yoga classes. But I like it. And he's like, okay, what if, you know, gangster rap, but like, you know, explained with the dumb spiritual language sarcastically. So then he went home and he typed in gangster rap. And the first thing that popped up was the Tupac Shakur image. He got the fucking writing from there. And the first, like, track that came up was NWA straight out of Compton. And he was like this one. And that was probably the first time he ever listened to any rap is what I think. What is gangster rap?

I need to write satire. Yeah, I'll take a track that's like 25 years old. This is going to definitely be great. A good sell-in with the people who probably watch this, just like 55-year-old women. Yeah, right. Who are like, I've heard this song. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah. I mean, I think that in order to do like, you know, good, like parody or satire, you have to have at least a level of affection or interest or deep involvement in sort of the subject that you're satirizing. But he has contempt both for sort of spiritual language and gangster rap, as evidened by his sort of lack of familiarity with the way he's talking about.

Yeah, total lack of familiarity. Well, and I mean, I don't know, but if you watch the way that he kind of wraps along with the lyrics, it seems like he's pretty comfortable, though. I mean, he was, he was, that was like, I mean, just every part of that. Yeah, he probably did like a whole shoot with a song where he got to say, the N-word and then his wife's like, no, don't do it. He's like, but honey, the N-word's the funny part.

I'm white. I'm white. It's wrong. I am translucent. I am a see-through rapper. I'm actually not real at all. I'm being projected on a scrim. I'm the Tupac

hologram. So by 2018, he was doing comedy about people who want to become Instagram famous by wearing a bikini, which once again comes back to this obsession he has with his own body that we'll see throughout this. Now, by this point, his earnest self-help material was all but gone from his YouTube feed. The old J.P. Sears had become consumed by his sarcastic persona. So I hope you're ready for this. Another boomer-level

hack comedy video. Getting famous for the sake of being famous while having no talent and delivering zero value to the public is a goal that inspires millions of Instagrammers. This used to be a reality TV show luxury reserved for a few select trust fund children of people who have actually accomplished something with their lives. Luckily that's all a thing of the past. Now Instagram gives everyone who hasn't accomplished anything a chance to be famous. There's just seven key things you need to know to build a massive Instagram following so you too can become Instagram famous.

So listen carefully. Practice thong-based self-objectification. If you want to be Instagram famous, then approximately 100% of all photos you put on Instagram should be of you and a thong. No exceptions. Because you don't have anything helpful to say to give people a good reason to follow you. Just engage their primal sexual instinct by showing them as much of your body as you can get away with.

And now you'll have them as followers, thanks to your willingness to objectify yourself. Instagram stories to share behind the scenes footage of your made-up life. The purpose of Instagram stories is to chronicle your mundane life in a way that's exciting and accurately portrays the truth in a fictional enough way to make you seem more interesting than you actually are. Oh my gosh everyone, I just finished a photo shoot. Now I've got to feel up on these exciting greens. This helps people feel more connected to you and helps you grow your following faster than a cancerous tumor. Do owl-like poses. For photos, instead of standing like a normal human human being who's developed the motor controlled a stand in an anatomically correct posture,

you'll want to twist your body around like an owl. According to scholarly logic, torquing your back to an exciting degree of discomfort is clearly the most effective way for you to face the camera for a photo. Oh, fuck. I mean, it is... I have to watch hours of this. It's... I'm sorry.

We're all sorry. It's just... I have to watch the last thing. It's not... That's somehow... I mean, what I hate is this one, I'm like, I understand more why people, like, it hacks. It is the dumbest, but I can see people. This is the first one.

I'm like, oh, I could see people like sharing this. So he's like, and also, if that's his house, I'm starting to get fucking mad. If he's now, his wealth is getting to like, that yard is now like, all right, asshole. Like, this is like remodeled. he's clearly making money yeah and he is for the listener in a thong like the whole time showing his ass and all that stuff

and a bikini top backyard it's a beautiful backyard there's a pool thought you were going a different way with that it's a little ass it's a beautiful ass it's a beautiful ass I'm like what the fuck is this guy complaining about he's got a big pool

and like it looks like a nice barbecue pit and a little fire mantle. Like, what? The entire joke is just like your 45-year-old uncle being like, yeah, you know, the Kardashians, all they do is show their ass, and that's why they're famous, and they have no talent.

And that's it. That's the whole concept of his fucking video. Yeah, he thinks he's deconstructing Instagram, and it's like, no, you're saying the obvious fucking shit. Yes, and also trying to smuggle an objectification of himself into the content where he basically skewers objectifications. There are a lot of comics,

who will do that sort of stuff who on Instagram will be like I'm being funny without my shirt on it's like here's how it works if you have a big belly in your shirts off you're being funny if you have abs in your shirts off we're not laughing

we hate it's not funny there's nothing funny about working out all day and then being like wow this is ironic that I'm doing this oh people at the beach are like this J.P's constant use of sarcasm in every single video that we'll be watching is kind of ironic, considering he made this video about sarcasm in 2015. If you look at the word sarcasm, it comes from the Greek word sarcasmos. I don't know if I'm saying that right. I'm not Greek. I don't even know what I am.

I know. But sarcasmos, it means to tear flesh. So, of course, sarcasm is often painful on us because it's like we're getting our emotional flesh torn. The one expressing sarcasm, whether that's me or it's you, the one expressing the sarcasm is typically expressing it out of a place of pain. That's why when we watch people be sarcastic, even if they're not directing it towards us, it can feel, uncomfortable and kind of even painful for us to watch them because their sarcasm is actually an expression of their pain, how their flesh has been torn and how they feel wounded inside. Yet they're not sitting there saying, boy, I sure feel wounded right now and no, they're expressing

their torn flesh through sarcasm. So essentially sarcasm that we're witnessing is a symptom of a person's deep pain most of the time. So that can be why it feels uncomfortable watching someone be sarcastic. And of course, that explains why it's uncomfortable on us when we're the one receiving the sarcasm, because not only are we seeing them essentially symptomatically express their pain, but it's being projected onto us. Why would a person do that? And why do you and I do when we're sarcastic some of the time, if I can perpetrate you with my sarcasm, you know, my deep pain inside my torn flesh,

if I can project that on to you, inflict pain on you, then I get to own the illusion that I'm in the power of the perpetrator. I caused you pain. Yes, you did. So that was a sub-tweet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty much.

Yeah, he was talking to someone. Bring back the thong. That's what I say. Dave, do you consider just being sad instead of making sarcastic jokes? Because that would be much funnier and more honest in a way. God, damn.

Stop perpetrating people, Dave. Yeah, honestly. I mean, that was amazing that he kept it. Yeah. If I perpetrated onto you, uh-huh. I'm going to listen. Uh-huh. I believe the word you're looking for

is penetrate, but close enough. Close enough. He is so fucking boring, and the way he talks is so monotonous. You know, there are so many, like, people who you see who I'm like, oh, I find them annoying. But they're like, there's, like, energy and, like, they're, like, I, again, like, I'm not, like, there's tons of people. I'm like, oh, I hate watch what you do, but I do find, like, I understand why you're, you're fooling people into thinking that you're, funny. This is just like so, this is like, this should be like a high school librarian, uh, management video. Yeah. You know, it's, it's interesting watching him because it is just pure

pain and there is, like you said, there's like no personality kind of coming through it because all of it is like life coaching shit where metering your voice, talking calmly, staring in the eyes gives the illusion of, you know, this guy's got his stuff together. Yeah. For comedy, it's like horrible and he just, so all he does is go, well, what if I, I, I spoke this exact way, but I dressed weird, and it was sarcastic. Yeah. And it's like, damn. And it worked.

And it worked. Look at his yards. Somehow it fucking worked. Yeah. No, his house is nice and it keeps getting nicer. He also feels like he's been watching a lot of, oh God, Jordan Peterson. Oh, literally absolutely has. Very true.

He brings it up at some point. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, very painful to watch. And there's no pleasure in watching him. And he essentially, like, you can basically, he's one of those great, YouTube channels that folds on itself where you can just watch the beginning and the end and it's like it's talking they're talking to each other about a year after that video sears stopped life coaching entirely to dedicate himself fully to being an online content creator and comedian

and his content at that point basically was almost all comedy once in a while he'll still do one of these like earnest videos but he'll warn you and he still throughout this he still wants to say what he believes because he thinks it's so smart, but his new age stuff starts to get mixed up with reactionary takes. So he complains about political correctness and female empowerment while supporting stuff like Standing Rock

and criticizing masculinity and his comedy bits start to feel like thinly veiled complaints as well. So like here he is basically bitching that Facebook doesn't show his posts to all the people who like his page. As a creator, I've been in a long-term relationship with Facebook's

algorithm for many years. And you could say it's been a bit of a love-hate relationship with her. Let me tell you about her history together. All right, let's get at this Facebook. Hi, JP. I'll show your post to everyone who's a fan of your page. That makes sense. Pretty straightforward. What? Nobody's seen my stuff anymore! What the hell?

Do you want to include a picture with your post? with your post? I don't know. Do you want me to use pictures? I don't know. Can't you just tell me what you want? I shouldn't have to tell you. Fine, I'll use pictures.

Alright, that is what you wanted. Why isn't this working anymore? My organic reach sucks compared to what it was. I don't like pictures anymore. But you said you wanted pictures. If you loved me, you'd give me videos. I don't understand. stand you.

Pretty please. As you wish, dear. I love it. Lots of people are seeing my videos. Wait, why are you caring about my videos anymore? I decided I don't like external links, JP. Okay, I won't use external links. Geez, I'll upload videos natively.

Okay, things are working again. All my fans can see my videos. This is beautiful. This is all I ever really wanted. Thank you. Wait, now why aren't you show you? Now why aren't you showing my videos to anyone? I thought it was giving you what you wanted.

I changed my mind. You're manipulating me. I want you to do live videos now, JP. Why can't you make up your mind about what you want from me? Oh, my God. Wow. You know how bad it has to be for me to be like, I'm on Facebook side? It's insane how many right-wing reactionaries the Facebook algorithm has made,

just by being itself, just by having people create content, and then they go crazy looking at the numbers? Oh, my God. Again, it's like even, I mean, it just feels eight times longer than it is. Yeah, no, no, unbearable. Yeah, I've aged five years since we've started this episode. We're nowhere near a third through. I have a ginger goatee.

Oh, my God. The worst part, too, is that he's circling like his likes and views. Oh, it makes it just even, even worse to be, to be, Like, nobody, oh, 600 likes, oh, 25,000 likes, that's better, you know. Oh, God. What if my computer was an annoying woman made out of a fake candle? You know that candle voices in a bikini. I can't be the only guy who was just looking at his arms, though, right?

Amazing. No, no, you're like, it's very... It's just, yes, it's effective. He's just like, he's like a Venn diagram of all the bullshit it takes to get views. But it's not good. So if you guys were already annoyed with him, what if we added the concept that being your authentic weird self is actually going to help you, even though people aren't reacting well to your content, you know, there's a defensive mechanism being set up here. So he printed this T-shirt that he was selling. to people that just said weird A.F.

And he wants to make you understand just how weird he really is. No. No. No. This video title is... Wait, I'm fucking better. Don't start. You said before this started, we were allowed to pass on one video if we didn't like

how it's wrong. That was the rule. We're taking our pass. This is what we want our pass. Dave sounds like a man who is being like dragged to the like the execution chamber. going like, wait, no, stop. I'm sorry, Garrett.

I can't do that. No, no, that's what he weirded can't. We're going to watch all the videos. Oh, I'm tied up. Oh, this is like the clockwork orange. Show me what they showed him. The video title is, quote, getting dangerously weird on purpose.

And I can't describe how annoying this is. This makes cards for human or cards against humanity or whatever seem really cool and edgy comparatively. So he opens the video wearing a Pope hat, very weird, and he's baptizing his dog in a bowl of water on his kitchen sink. And of course the animal seems distressed by this. Oh no. Yeah. And then he pivots to plugging a webinar. Watch me abuse.

my pet, and that's sign up for my webinar. You like this concept? That is weird as fuck. Get my newsletter. Wally, you will not be a sinner anymore. Come on. Come on. Come on. There you go. There you go.

Yeah, good boy. Oh, hey there. I was just baptizing my dog, so he can go to heaven now. Don't shake all that off. That's holy water. Hey, I wanted to let you know. I think one of the biggest diseases that infects humankind is normalcy.

I gave a TED talk not too long ago, and then I said just that. I think normalcy is the biggest disease that infects humankind. But the real problem is what that disease does to us. Man, I think it holds us back. I think when we look at how we live our lives, most of us, It's like we're dedicated to the religion of being normal. And I think it doesn't serve us anymore. I think being normal, we do that because we think,

I need to be normal to kind of get ahead. Make people like me. Make people want to hire me. Make people. That noise. I don't think it works anymore. I think being normal is actually what limits us. It's what caps our potential.

It's what dims our light. And I think we live in a new time. I think 2019 is the year of the weird. I think letting our unique weirdness out. Used to be the enemy, but now I think it's what allows us to get ahead in life. I don't know about you, but I look at myself and the best things that have happened to me, meeting my wife, getting married, my comedy career taking off, the best things that have happened to me are a result of me breaking out of the shelf,

of normalcy and letting my unique weirdness out. And the world responds. My wife responds. And that hers, oh, yay. So I think weirdness is what helps us get ahead in life. But it's not that easy. A lot of us don't know how to let our weirdness out. We might not even know what it is, where to find it. So that's what I'm going to put on a free webinar for you. I want you to sign up if you want to be on it. I'm going to teach you my three-step process. for discovering, awakening, and applying your weirdness to your life. It's called How to Weaponize Your Weirdness to Get Out. So you can click the button on this video to join me.

Go fuck yourself. Dave, it's not live. You're not at the webinar. I'm going to fucking weaponize my weird. Go fuck yourself. You fucking idiot. You put on a fucking Popat, you bag of dicks. Jesus Christ.

You're not. trying to say, Dave's trying to ask how he got all that good stuff in just one day. How were there no cuts? What the fuck? What was he doing with his hands in the holy water? I don't know.

I have so many things to say. One, the back splash in his kitchen, very nice. It's clear he's got a kitchen island, which means you're rich. If you've got an island in your kitchen, you're doing all right. And three horrible merch. The font on the weird A-F, the color blue, the tail on the A going under the F makes it look like an E.

So the shirt actually looks like it's reading Weird A-E, which people might mistake for the arts and entertainment channel. It's an app. I completely agree with all of that. And the back splash. Unbelievable. It's the baby tiles. That's just not, that's labor-intensive work. This guy does not deserve a kitchen that nice.

I just, this content does not warrant that kind of, of, of, a set decoration, if you will. Sounds like you're a little too normal. He should be eating eggs from a bag in a car. Should not have a back splash. Yeah, yeah, hard-boiled eggs out of a point. plastic bag, everyone smells it, everyone hates you, and that's where you are. He should have a

pet rodent, not a nice dog. He was getting bigger and bigger. The dog's so cute and richer. Doesn't deserve to be there. Richer. By February 2019, Sears is opening a video by putting down a book he's

been reading called The Twelve Rules for Life, which was written by weepy right-wing pseudo-intellectual Jordan Peterson. God. God. God damn it. He's also promoting a new t-shirt for his fans that says, I'm offended. Oh, my God.

Here it is. Yummy turn. The yummy turn. Here we fucking go. He's been reading the comments on his fucking YouTube channel. And he's turning right. He's also starting to make fun of pronouns. Oh, man.

Gender stuff. And, of course, cancel culture. Oh, yeah. All three remain. staples for hack comedians to this day. That's why you can't put on a pop hat. Wait, wait a minute. So this is February, this is February of 2019.

And in the last video, he says, 2019 is the year of weirdness. So that must have been made in like early January because new year, new weird, new me. It's like around the same time. Wow. Yeah. He's like, I'm weird, but I'm also kind of angry now.

I need to clean up my room. Ah, this is exciting. You go through weird. Once you pass through weird, then you get to offended and angry. Well, he lifted some weights and then a portal opened and he went through weird and got to offend it. Yeah. With the outreach culture we live in, what's the one thing we need more of? That's right.

More people getting more offended more of the time. But did you know three out of four adults suffer from a condition known as offensive dysfunction disorder or OD, a condition that leaves them completely incapable of getting offended like a normal healthy adult. Now, I've never gotten my medical degree, but I identify as a doctor. So you can trust me when I say offended dysfunction disorder is just like erectile dysfunction, except more shameful. With OD, one or more of the following underlying conditions leaves the person incapable of getting offended. Conditions like being a nice person, minding your own business, having an open. mind. Inner peace, kindness, and self-responsibility. Gross. If you've been suffering from

OD, luckily now there's hope with my new I'm offended shirts. Treating your condition with my new limited edition I'm offended shirts will help you get past your embarrassing disease and help you start getting offended about literally anything. Oh, I... It's nice. It's real nice. So this is why stand-up comedy is good Because these kind of fucks go on stage for three years Don't get a laugh and then they go away They're not supposed to be doing this And now if they get to make videos

They can find a few dickheads out in the world Who Enjoy it Lowest common denominator Fucking terrible comedy Like just so the thing I'm offended by the obviousness And the fucking simplicity That comes out of this fucking dickhead's brain

and he thinks it's comedy. It's fucking atrocious. Dave, if I was there, I'd jack you off. That's how good that was. That is so exactly right. I mean, and, you know, it's like, I was talking about this earlier. Like, you know, you go with your online shit, you go where the heat is. So if you're seeing in your comments, as this guy clearly is doing, he's seeing people, like, complain about these things.

you know, talk about how, just fueling this fire. So it's one hand washing another, like the Holy Water Bowl, where it's like, because he's talking about this, this brings the people who are going to egg him on. And now you're just talking about it's just, he's going to keep going where that heat is and get more and more into like the, look, they're trying to take our freedoms away from us direction. Yeah, Dave brought up a point that I've been furious about for years now, which is the idea that um the internet has has uh taken away the the gatekeeper of content you're absolutely

right the solution uh to you know stopping this kind of comedy dead in its tracks is a live room filled with people yeah you know real real people that's that's what you know you used to have to be good you had to earn it but now everybody everybody can just upload their shit there's no, you know, person at the comedy store going, eh, you know what, not ready yet. Keep doing a couple, you know, open mics at this, you know, at the submarine sandwich shop on Hollywood Boulevard. Maybe one day you'll be ready. But now you can bypass all that and find any dickhead who's also lazy enough to not go out

and see real comedy. Yeah. Yep. It drives me nuts. This is age, too, like, yeah, 20 years easily. Yeah. Letting everybody have a shot to have their voice. voice heard. Turns out was a bad idea. This is like one of the only guys that I wish got the

Carlos Mencia treatment by Joe Rogan. Like he deserves to be bullied by a roided out comedian in a club. He does. Yeah. It's so true. I mean, it's like some of them are able to fully bypass it. But for the most part, a lot of times they have to go out there and they can just, you can't do it. It's just not how it works. I mean, as you can tell, he has no presence. Like, that'll get sniffed out like, it gets sniffed out like drugs at the airport. As the COVID-19 pandemic set in Sears started claiming

that most of the people who die from the illness are deficient in vitamin D. Oh, my God. That PCR tests shouldn't be used to diagnose COVID. Oh, yes. Masks are quote, face suffocators. This is so, this is so

good. Face suffocators. This is So, it's so, I mean, honestly, it's almost going to make COVID worth it. He also publicly endorsed Mickey Willis, the conspiracy theorist behind the Plandemic movies. Oh. The lowest of the low. Suddenly, his ire was no longer directed at New Age spiritualists and life coaches like himself.

He had found. a new target. People like Travis' view. What? What? What? As fact checkers, we know it's dangerous for people not to have their intellectual hands held by us as we walk them into what to think. Does anyone fact check the fact checkers? Yes, but we censor them. In my personal life, I'm constantly telling people whether they're wrong or right. People love being around me. False. Yes.

Incorrect. Wrong. We look forward to beginning to censor art as well, because it's not factual, so it has no place in our world. The diversity of ideas is bad for society. It's better if we all think the same way. Probably be better if we all look the same way too. You know, kind of like Hitler's philosophy, except we call it fact-checking.

Oh my, what kind of, what? What just happened at the end? He went from A to B to fucking seven. That was crazy. Really, you believe in an empirical reality, or then maybe you just want to kill all the Jews then? What kind of comedy video caps it with, you know, like Hitler. They call it fact check. Excuse me, I'm sorry.

This video was not working for me just on its own. And then your jocks are breaking in Naziism. But he's becoming more powerful. The sound quality is getting better. The shitty music in the background is like a little bit more mainstream. He's doing the zooms. The little zooms to punctuate. The editing is getting snappier.

He's knowing when to edit. This is horrifying. It's horrifying. And this is what we see this. This is what we see. like we were just talking about this on another episode recently but like Marjorie Taylor Green

she looked like a lost pet that had been you know drug in from the rain when she first posted this Facebook video talking about QAnon but embracing fascism has made her stronger more powerful now she sits on

Congress it's like I'm watching in real time he's getting better I'm sorry it's better the content is bad The content is bad, but he's getting better at making the bad content. Totally true. And he's, and he's also really, he's really good at costumes now. Yeah.

Well, yeah, he clearly is hired a costume person. I mean, obviously. Yeah. The fucking glasses with tape on it. Yeah, the tape on the glasses. That's like from fucking 60s comedy. It still works, asshole. Name something from the 60s that isn't funny anymore.

Uh, women? On his podcast, J.P. earnestly explained that the biggest conspiracy theory out there is that conspiracy theorists are conspiracy theorists at all, because they don't believe the mainstream narrative. So the conspiracy theory, the biggest lie of them all, is that these people are actually conspiracy theorists for believing all this stuff about, COVID. This was undoubtedly in reaction to people calling him a conspiracy theorist. Yes, of course. I mean, he's going where the heat is. Suddenly, Sears was inviting dudes like Brian Rose of London Real on his podcast and praising

his interviews with David Ike. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Wait, so he's going like full lizard people? I mean, or he's co-signing at least. Yes, he's saying like the conversation with David Ike were amazing. This guy, Rose did like

five interviews with David Ike and made a huge deal about it and got lots of views. I'm so sad. This is happening at warp speed. Yeah, it really is. But that's COVID, right? That's people. That's true. You know, some people

lost their minds from Trump. Other people lost their minds from COVID. Yeah. And this is it. Like, it happens really rapidly. And JP somehow kept his throughout the whole thing. It's like when they try to fit like, like, when they made Ray, like they try to fit Ray Charles's life into like two

hours. You're like, you just don't have time. You just got to give me the hits. But this is like really happening in a couple of years. Yeah. It's genuinely like a fast forward on a person's mind. Just deteriorating. Yeah. Yeah. So the mention of David Ike,

the praise of him was kind of weird because in 2017, he was mocking David Ike directly in a video skewering those who believe the Illuminati and Reptilians control everything. Oh. So here's him mocking what he's

basically endorsing just a few years later. I've done some research where I've analyzed pictures of Donald Trump under close scientific scrutiny. What did I find? He too has an eye. Then I overlaid a triangle on top of his eye. What did that show me?

He's always sporting the Illuminati all seeing eye. He's a crossbreed. He doesn't even know he's one of them. What's a crossbreed? Exactly. Once you take your blinders off and start learning about who the Illuminati are, guess what? You still don't know who they really are. There's more to them that meets the eye.

There's actually a reptilian race behind the Illuminati. David Ike has proven there's a reptilian race driving the Illuminati through the undisputable fact that he believes it. I'm surprised they haven't killed him yet. See, the reptilian's main purpose. is to enslave humankind because they feed off the power of having control over oppressed people. All the world leaders, Oscar-winning actors, Grammy-winning musicians are a part of it. They're all reptilian humanoids trying to enslave you.

Besides the content, he never looks at the camera. Yeah, he's looking at his script. That's a script. Yeah, he's looking at the script, but he never realizes he should put the script near the camera or look at the camera in between. Or burn the script or burn the script. He's in his bathtub with like a torn t-shirt. I guarantee you that bathtub got a lot better.

There's no way it still has that handle in that bag. No way. No, he got taken to West Elm, okay, and got some, got a fancy basket, a couple of baskets, some nice soaps. He's got the waterfall shower now. You know what I think, you know what I'm starting to get a picture of is that his content isn't good enough to make liberal people laugh. But it is, it is bad enough to make the content-starved conservatives who really have no comedians, really.

Nobody, all that good. They're looking for anybody, you know, to be like, oh, conservative and comedy. You got a YouTube channel. Oh, man, I'm in. I don't care if it's just you reading lines off of a computer paper for 20 minutes. Like, I'm in. In your bathtub. In your bathtub.

It's the Stephen Baldwin theory. Yeah Yeah When the pond When the pond gets too big Find a shittier smaller one When you suck so much Go find the small shit pot

By 2020 This version of J.P. Sears, which wasn't funny But at least he fell on the right side Of like the reptilian question Was completely gone Suddenly he was all about Freedom and self-responsibility

He had free thought his way into becoming a conservative and moved from California to Texas just a year later. Oh, wow. There we go. In an article about his upcoming comedy show in Spokane, Washington, the Spokesman Review published an article explaining, There's a dearth of comics who appeal to conservatives. For every Dennis Miller, there are a myriad of Bill Maher's J.P. Sears,

who will perform Friday through Sunday at Spokane Comedy Club, didn't intend to go that route, but his beliefs led him down that path. Sears, 40, will wax about vaccinations, politics, and marriage when he makes his spoken debut this weekend. Oh, God. It's so conservative comedy. It doesn't matter if it's funny or not. They want the dumb points to be made. Yeah.

Yeah, they just want you to wax about vaccinations. I mean, it's also like, the fact that, like, Dennis Miller is still your most. Relevant comedian? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, how are you not finding one other? Dave Rubin? I mean, Mave, like, it's like, how?

How are they still? Dennis Miller's going to be dead and they're going to be like, look, Dennis Miller. It's like English people waiting for a Wimbledon champion. In that article, Sears explains his new point. of view. I'm not smart enough for this to be a career move, but it's turned out to be great for my career. When COVID hit, I started realizing our freedoms are being taken away.

Things are not happening to protect people's health. Our freedom was being taken away. I didn't realize that freedom is my number one value. Pro freedom became a conservative movement. Giving up freedom became a movement on the left. I was never political before, but I'm insanely behind freedom. I have conservative values. During the spring of 2020, me being pro-freedom caused some backlash.

I realized if I spoke of my personal truth, I would possibly lose some of my audience, but I had to follow my heart and be true to myself. What happened is that my audience has grown exponentially since the majority of comics lean left. So a few comics are conservative, and I play to a niche audience. Nitch audience. He's such a fucking idiot. Yeah, I mean, I mean, the freedoms, it's like, I'm pro freedom. Oh, okay, what a unique attitude?

I don't hear enough of that. It's like niche audience, while the room gets filled with hooting and hollering chuds who throw their money. I didn't realize that freedom is my number one value. What a dumb asshole. It's just so dumb. It's so good. You know what also fucking pisses me off about this quote is the use of the word personal truths. Truths are not personal.

That's what's great about them. They are universal. You might not like it, but that's the truth. Anytime you get into the area of my truth versus your truth, you're just talking about opinions. Oh, that's so true. That's my truth. That's my truth. I think what's happening here is that this man is just being molded by the algorithm and being led around by the nose.

He doesn't even realize what's happening. He thinks he's just sort of evolving naturally his views and developing new perspectives because of this COVID. But it really was happening is that he's getting certain reactions when he says certain things and he's just doing more of that. Yeah, or he's just becoming smarter, you know. yeah no the light's definitely gone on for sure but that that is that is what that is like what happens like i've seen it with a few comedians i know where it's like if you're not succeeding in that you know you get scared you have to like you have to find your audience and if your audience is pulling you in this direction like he's saying my audience grew exponentially that's when he discovered

that freedom was his number one issue yeah because that's that is what is happening you You are freaking out. You want more. You have to keep getting more and more and growing and growing. And, I mean, where's the vacuum? Well, and the Dennis Miller-sized hole in conservative comedy. Yeah, and once you've waxed about vaccines, you've lost your liberal audience. There is no path back for you there.

So all you can do is go deeper and deeper into the right. Right. Yeah. No, I mean it when I say Stephen Baldwin. Like, I don't think Stephen Baldwin believes in God. And yet, he's at. every fucking Christian event because he's a Baldwin. Like,

he has no choice. That's it. That's where he can make the fucking cheddar. You know, I had a strange revelation. They put season three of the mole on Netflix and Stephen Baldwin is on it. And throughout the entire show, he wears a gigantic silver cross the entire

time. It's like his mainstay. I had no idea. By the way, Stephen Baldwin loved being on the mole so much that he asked to be back and he's in the second celebrity mole season, season four of the show, also with the cross. I believe he also has a shirt that says

Jesus on it, so he was projecting pretty hard to that Christian audience. A little bit of a foreshadowing, I believe. Is the mole putting celebrities underground and making them dig their way out? Please say yes. Please say yes. No, unfortunately it was a show that was hosted

by Anderson Cooper that was like getting people to do like, you know, weird espionage stuff. one of the people is trying to, you know, sabotage the rest of the reality TV contestants. Anderson Cooper being like, uh, just pretend you have CIA ties, ha, ha, ha. Pretend you're a big of them. Fuck.

Sears was getting obsessed with media censorship, too, of course, which he expressed in a video since taken down by YouTube called what it's like to believe everything the media tells you. Oh, no. We're lucky. We're lucky that you have it. We're blessed. People are freaking out right now. Like, they're tired of having their constitutional rights taken away with a mandatory stay-at-home orders.

Cities are suing the California governors so their people can go back onto their beaches again. Idiots? Like, I'll stay at home for the rest of my life if they tell me to. Who knows how to make the best choices for my health and my life? definitely not me so I'm more than happy to put my blind trust and power-hungry politicians and definitely

uncorrupt groups like the World Health Organization I think they know what's best for me because like they know me better than I know me the last thing you want is people to have the freedom to make their own choices and then experience the consequences of their choices I think free will is a little bit of a sin

I don't think we should have it in the first place Like, you wouldn't give a razor blade to a three-year-old because it wouldn't be in their best interest. So you shouldn't give freedom to people either. All these Americans that want their freedoms are just ungrateful. I say if you don't like how things are going and you just want your freedom, then why don't you move to a free country? Like North Korea or Venezuela, you freaking heathens? Oh, I 100% buy into the narrative they tell me.

I think it's ludicrous. some people don't 100% believe the narrative like it's the absolute truth. Why wouldn't you? Think about it. If you were in charge of a giant powerful business that pretends it's a charity like the World Health Organization, you wouldn't spend your time carefully crafting your message to manufacture consent with the public to get them to go along with your mysterious agenda that's in your best interest that you tell them is in their best interests, you'd probably just get up to the podium and have a spontaneous

conversation and see what comes out of your mouth while you're riffing. I think that's what they're doing. I'm finally furious. He still doesn't look at camera, but also does you know what doctors are? Yeah, they're masquerading. It's insane. I mean, literally the first third of that, his, if you just read it, you'd be like, oh, yeah, he's right.

Like, his sarcastic tone is what, but everything he's saying, he's like, I believe people should listen to doctors instead of themselves. Yeah. I hate to take the side of the media, but in this case, it's like Gareth with Facebook, I'm going to be forced to choose the Anderson Cooper's of this world over this Diction. He's got like two Legos in front of him, like one red Lego and one blue Lego. Take a better peak.

Red pill, blue pill. Yeah, but he never uses them in the video. I'm pretty sure they're Legos, or it's a NyQuil and a Dayquil. And he never used them. They're mic an ice. Yeah, they're mic, they're mic, and nice. He's got the beautiful fucking sectional in the background. It's crazy.

It's crazy what's happening in the background. He's got the nice accent pillows, the fireplace. Yeah, a fireplace that matches the sectional. He needs to buy a set because he can afford it of a shitty house. It is so unrelated. Like, how are you watching this being like, yeah, this guy speaks for me. Yeah, he's an every man. Look at those tiles.

How do you make that much money on YouTube, still not look at the fucking camera, and not fix that fucking hair? Yeah, there's no more text that says bad hair day. No more text. Yeah. No more bad hair day text. Because he believes in himself now. Yeah, because he's got the two accent chairs.

And he's got the fucking, he's got the beautiful, the beautiful portrait of his family. The background is beautifully blurred now instead of. of just like looking at the barren inside of his shower tub. I mean, that fire play is aggravating. It sounds like, like, all he does is like read his like YouTube comments. They say things like, don't trust doctors or the CDC. And then he takes that. He says it sarcastically like, oh, I do everything doctors and the CDC tell me what to do.

And then he takes the revenue from that video, he buys himself a pool. Yeah. What's insane is like he's so much more, like, locked in in these videos. He didn't believe any of the self-help bullshit he was peddling when we first saw him in his career. Because the content was shitty, the delivery was stilted. You know, here he is firing on all cylinders, looking in the camera aside, you know, firing on all cylinders. Like, this is what he really is. Yeah.

And maybe what he always was. I think that the not looking at the camera is a choice. he makes because he wants it to feel like you're watching someone make a dumb argument, so it doesn't feel like it's him making just the inverse of a dumb argument, in his opinion. But he also, you'll notice his steroid use is starting to make his face red. He has veins popping out on his neck now. Uncomfortable to watch. And the vein on his arm is crazy.

Well, I mean, but you guys are listening to what the doctors say. Yeah. What his gut tells him to do is just keep juicing. By 2021, Sears was sounding like if Ben Shapiro attempted comedy while experiencing Roid rage. He started railing about woke men and cultural Marxism while wearing a blue and purple wig. Oh, good. He's going full Nazi? Great. What is going on? He was also starting to defend capitalism like a good libertarian. Oh, my God. Damn it. Oh, my God.

Oh, look, we're just watching a Nazi be born. It's so cute. It's amazing. It's hatching. Are you ready for this? I don't know. Capitalism is so corrupt. No.

Reward people based on how hard they work. Well, some people don't like working hard, so it's unfair. Communism looks like a beautiful way of life. I'm jealous of the Chinese. Cats are too masculine for me. Learning what it is to be a... man from men just perpetuates a patriarchy. It's gross. I think it makes more sense to learn how to be a man from women. I do watch the view. I no longer talk to my father or grandfather. I'm trying

to distance myself from the patriarchy. Cultural Marxism isn't real. It's just a far right extremist conspiracy theory. If you don't menstruate, you're completely infected with toxic masculinity. The nuclear family isn't that big of a deal. Being agreeable is what being a man is all about. Freedom is selfish. That's why I hate America. I was just reading the Communist Manifesto, and there's some pretty good points in there. I wish this country was more like Venezuela. I think I'm going to move to California. Oh, read about God.

Can you say misinformation? I feel like I'm really good at creating safe spaces. Getting married, starting a family, raising kids? No. Have you no idea what that would do to the planet? We're right in the middle of a climate crisis right now. I've been trying to keep my testosterone levels low enough, so even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to get a woman pregnant.

I've been trying to get pregnant, though, but I'm having trouble. I don't know what's wrong with me. Question, I thought you said you didn't want to bring children in this world. No, I don't. I just want to get pregnant so I can have an abortion. I really want an abortion. I think I'm going to have to take off. It's so cute to watch.

our little baby bird start to fly. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. He's lost it. He's like delivering this entire video while, like, leaning on a pile of opened Amazon boxes in a gigantic fucking garage.

That's his version of, like, a dirty communist hobo type. Yeah. You know, the shot that makes me the most angry, I think, is when he has the life jacket on, because it makes no sense. but he's doing so well that he probably was like,

this would be funny and someone's like, that's great. Because they're so dumb, these liberals, they're scared of drowning. They need safety so bad that they're going to wear all the safety stuff

even though it doesn't make sense. Yeah. So he now has someone shooting him and editing the videos. He's not doing any of that anymore. I wish someone was shooting him. He's tied up his shirt in this to reveal his

wonderfully toned midriff. Yeah. Once again, still obsessed with his body. Couldn't see the logo on the tires, but pretty sure that's a pristine BMW parked in the garage behind him. Yeah, yeah, that was a really nice car, which he was trying to hide behind his Amazon boxes because he's a hobo. There was also he was leaning on an opened box that said sensory shapes and something like,

what the fuck? I'm not sure why he did this, but I think he wanted a lollipop but didn't have one. So he took a French fry, like a pool French fry, and cut it, so it's just a segment of it and just put it on a stick and is just kind of twirling it around during it's just fucking incomprehensive. He's wearing a thong over like

boxers. I don't even It's so painful to watch. It's impossible. It is, it's, I mean, it's impossible. And it's getting more popular. Oh no, he's, this is, these videos are now like in the millions, like on all the videos

where he does this exact kind of stuff. stuff. Yeah, yeah. It's bigger and bigger. It's so... I want to just do it. I'm going to make the pivot. I'm just going to start doing it. Be like, man, I lived in the fucking liberal bubble for a while.

Let me tell you, this is better. We need trucks that make smoke, and we need to have a bunch of fucking kids. These liberals don't get it. I'm going to bite through this cow's torso. This video, guys, I just looked up this video on YouTube. What woke men are like? It has eight...

It has... It has 844,000. 4,000 views. It has 8,000, almost a million views. It has 63,000 likes, no dislikes. Oh, my God. There are no dislikes. Please just dislike it.

They took off the dislike. They don't show them anymore. Oh, wow. Well, I thought he believed in freedom. Well, no, he didn't take him off. YouTube eliminated them. It's absolutely fucking incredible that, you know, now that you live through it and you realize, oh, Nazis were just fucking dumb.

They're all just so fucking dumb. Like, that's, that's the, that's the root and the base of their beliefs is just being really not fucking smart. It's just dumb. Hitler nowadays would just be like, I'm going to do a video of like things that Jews say. Yeah. He would be this guy. Yeah.

Top comment on that video, by the way, says it has 633 likes. And the comment is, I asked a doctor when he thinks COVID will end. And he said, how should I know? I'm not a politician. All right. So I'm going to take office when I've seen you guys. Yeah.

All right, Dave. All right, Dave and I are out. Sorry it took me so long. Really. Really. Thank you guys. Really bad. Happy 200.

Happy 200. I think one of the... Yeah. No, it's been a nightmare. Welcome to the show. I think this is a particularly weird video because in the past, Sears has basically supported gay marriage,

women's right to choose. He's criticized various aspects of consumerism. And he's made fun of guys who were obsessed with coming across as masculine. And he's just the exact opposite now. So do we think that he originally believed that? Or do we think that he sort of stumbled into an audience and now these are his true beliefs?

These do feel like far more emotional content. And he's, yes. Yes. Yeah, so this is what he always was. Yeah, I think so. I think he's hiding stuff with his smile. I think that all the therapy and the coaching and all that shit, it's exactly that.

The smile was fake the whole time. The talk was just to look. good and nice. And what's really bubbling under the surface is deep resentment and rage for everything going around you while you're getting wealthy and successful. You are just so fucking bitter. A guy who should be every day wake up and go, God, this is awesome. I am fucking talentless and ugly and roided out. And I'm so fucking successful right now. It's crazy. And look at these tiles. Yeah, but Dave, you're wrong because Michaela comments, omg we have comedy back question mark exclamation point this this is gold i feel like i'm in

2009 again when people weren't offended by literally everything i'm going to start a new podcast and it's going to be called finding macaela but it's like a hit team but it's just it's me and those Swedish construction men finding macaela with attack geese yeah with geese the inability for people to not understand that they just now everybody has a voice and they hear it as opposed to you didn't hear it before you they just you just didn't hear everybody's voice so now you do and they're like it's cancel it way everybody's being offended those people have always fucking been there now you just hear them that's the whole fucking thing it's all it is so i'm just wondering at this point in his career like who the fuck would watch this and be like hey i'd

love for you to become my life coach. Jesus Christ. How could I end up dressing this way? Is that still happening? No, he quit it, but it's like, that's like supposed to be the foundation of his comedy is that he's a helpful, nice guy. And it's like, all you see is this bulbous rage monster. I mean, imagine if you hired him as your life coach. I think that's my life coach. Yeah, that's my life. That guy used to give me advice. That guy used to tell me how to smile. In his testimonial video, he has a blonde. young pregnant woman

talking about how nice and great he is and how he helped her turn her life around. Imagine her watching this now. I mean, just... Oh, Jesus. He's truly monstrous. By the way, we skimmed over the fact that he did a TED talk. We just let that go. We did.

Dave, to be fair, we're getting a lot of balls thrown our way. He did a fucking TED talk. Yeah, I'm sorry. I can put the video back on the list if you want. No, it's no, I just... it's endless so also i took a look at his merch website now and i mean it's like stephen crowder kind of stuff but uh i thought we could uh go through the t-shirts and uh just read them out so go ahead you guys do you want to take turns oh jesus christ

okay uh well we start with legalized freedom can we can okay let's give him that let's actually finally legalized freedom in this country i would like that down that too Especially for white guys. Yeah. The most depressed group. Okay. So, of course, he's got, let's go, Brandon. But the next one...

By the way, on sale, not selling as many as they are. The next one is the one that... Oh, God, I'm looking at other ones. Legalized comedy. Legalized comedy is... Yeah. It's been illegal. I'm going to hunt this person down and you guys

everybody fucking knew where this was going to go when you invited beyond you knew that this guy would become my enemy and one of us has to live that's all this is ah yes yeah uh yes he's somehow the shadow self

of the shadow self legalized comedy yeah no those shadows are there fucking who has been who has been canceled who Louis CK was at the fucking improv two weeks ago Who the fuck is not doing? Chappelle gets fucking millions of fucking dollars.

Dave, Dave, Dave, that happened because he got this shirt out there, asshole. Louis's not at the improv without that shirt. This fucking cut is making millions of dollars and has millions of viewers and he's fucking complaining. He's terrible at comedy. He's complaining. Dave, he legalized it, you motherfucker. Did you remember when you couldn't do it five years ago? God, you fucking lefties.

The next shirt is the, uh, no smoking fouchy. Yeah. The, uh, no fouchy shirt. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, God, they really read it. Stop.

Read it. I don't want it. You will. Oh, in the Black Lives Matter font, we have fetal lives matter. God, damn it. God, fucking damn it. Oh, I can't even read this next. Oh, God.

I can't even read this next. Oh, my God. Pro-gun, anti- Idiot. For the girls. For the ladies, we got something special in the women's apparel. Pro-gun. Anti-Duty women. Oh.

Oh, God. Followed by Defund the Deep State. It's just, it's just, it's really, we're on tilt. One last shirt David This one's also for the women You get two ladies So it has two colors

It's socialist media Ist is in blue Everything else is in white So it's social media Socialist media It's really clever Yeah No those big corporations

That only care about the profit margin Socialist Yeah Yeah Yeah and especially Facebook All Facebook does is promote socialist Just propaganda. Yeah, they love it.

They love it. They love it when people unionize. They are so left wing. He hates Big Tech, the place that got him his yard and house. Insane. And sectional and chairs. And his sectionals and his kitchen aisles, yeah. meticulous, mirrored tiles.

Without YouTube, he couldn't baptize his dog in a pope helmet like a weird guy. It's true. Oh, yeah, he's not selling weird AF anymore. No, that's gone. Sorry, no more weirdness. Now it's just pure anger. Yeah, nothing weird about being a Nazi, Dave, okay? Nothing weird about that.

Not letting his freak flag fly on that. No, no. So, unsurprisingly, right-wing media outlets took notice of him now. And three days ago, the Federalist published an article entitled, COVID-pumped YouTuber J.P. Sears' career. and he hasn't peaked yet. Oh, we're all sad. I think, I think, Gareth, if you would read us this wonderful Federalist piece?

Oh, gosh. Well, to be fair, I've already read all the articles from the past few days, but I'll read this one out loud for you all. The title is A Gateway Drug to the Right. Yum. The Fishnet stockinged, well-endowed, Gen X Waitress, and the trigger warning on the club's background screen, forced the generally left leanings of even this non-coastal comedy venue.

But right-winger Sears filled the place to the fire marshal's limit multiple nights in a row with patrons who bought plenty of beer and hard sodas to pay its overhead. Sears brought them in from watching his videos alone on their phones to eyeballing each other and a new scene. The roughly even mix of boomers, gen Xers, and millennials laughed instead of cringed, as I did. at Sears R-rated sex jokes and were indistinguishable in appearance from the crowd

at a Donald Trump rally. Sorry, I'm gonna, let me take a barf break. The evening's vibes suggest Sears may be a gateway drug for the kind of people who get tattoos identifying with the political right in the same way as Trump,

lockdowns, and America's general emmerceration under unchecked democratic rule. Immerseration. It's clear, amissoration. That's fine. I'm good at this. It's clear from his stand. up videos, history, and a few interviews that, like many Americans under one-party rule, Sears is still working out what it means to identify with the political right. With the

Supreme Court returning abortion policy, you know it's funny. You're doing well in your comedy write-up when they talk about the Supreme Court's overturning it. With the Supreme Court returning abortion policy back to the states, for example, Sears released a non-satire video explaining that he used to support abortion, but he has moderated. into supporting limits after 15 weeks of gestation. It's a stance pretty well in line with Middle America's current views but not tolerated among the ruling class.

Holy shit. I know you've made it when they write about you in the Federalist as a comedian. Oh, my God. And just like the, to the fire marshal, like the fire marshals, they're like, all right, everyone, come on. I mean, like, what is peaking for them?

Is it just going up and earnestly talking about how great the free market economy is and how amazing God is and just sermonizing? Like, what is the peak if we're not there yet? Yeah, I just, I, like, it is amazing, like, I just can't imagine, I mean, I guess both sides have gripes, but for you to feel like the, to feel like proud of this country right now is so foreign to me, like, to be like, come on, this America, it's so bizarre. It's just very, it's, it's quite a time. Are you ready for the NFTs?

No. Oh, fuck off. No. Oh, it's not just NFTs. These are NFTs created by a right-wing pro-libertarian children's book and animated series called The Tuttle Twins, who he voiced a character for. Oh, my God. Oh, God. So in the conversation with the creators, J.P. Sears seems like he's probably.

properly converted to Christianity now, as he mentions God frequently, and some of his other beliefs have shifted, too. Once upon a time, J.P. Sears had mocked crypto, but here he was helping them shill their crappy NFTs based on a libertarian propaganda children's show. We love what you're doing, and thank you so much to all of you that have bought those. And it's really cool because those first, is it those that buy 10? Yeah, if you buy the 10-pack, you'll get those exclusive Derek NFTs. That are the J.P. Sears Edition. Yep. Yep. The other thing is, I mean, yeah, to my knowledge, there's no other company out there doing this.

This is totally, it's innovative. There's nobody selling frames of animation. Angel is building out right now a way for families to view it through the app. Or at any time you pause, you will see who owns that frame. So it's not only a way of like sponsoring the show, but also like, hey, Oh, man, I love this part of the episode. You pause. Oh, I'm going to contact this person.

And you can pick your username and your image and all that kind of stuff in case, you know, privacy is a concern at all. But yes, just exactly, as Johnny said, at any point, you can look and see who owns that portion of the show. Yeah. It's so cool. They can offer. Buy it from him. And they're asking when they can sell their NFTs.

Great question. So I think we'll end of March. A trading platform. So all the NFTs you have in your wallet, you can. You can, if you missed out on the grandma teet being Stalin, and you want that one, it's very pertinent, very relevant. Yes. Yeah, you can, you can trade for that, you can, and you can sell your NFTs. And we're going to be rolling out some cool features where if you can collect, let's say, across

episodes, different scenes with founding fathers, you can get a founding father exclusive NFT when you collect them all or Grandma Gabi or the Second Amendment, things like that. So there'll be some fun surprises that will be rolling out and developing with Angel as we go along. Wow, they're terrible at podcasting, and he's just a terrible thing. Of course, he got an NFTs. What the fuck did we think was going to happen? Like, it's just, I can't believe this guy is only, you're right, he's only getting started. He's just beginning, we're going to have to deal with him for a while.

All I will say, his shows this week at, The comedy club he's at in Texas, one, two, three, four, five, six shows not sold out yet. Oh, that's good. But it's a very big club. It's a very big club. What is it? Cap City. Oh, yeah.

Wow. Six shows. Wow. Six shows of Cap City. Gareth is really considering the shift now. Look, it's, I love Cap City. I mean, you know, it's a hard place to sell out. But it seems like, my favorite part of that clip is how he didn't talk.

And obviously, as we all. responded to. There's 250 NFTs left for sale, and the question is already being floated. How do I sell this shit? Hey, how do I unload mine? Can you make it 251? I thought this was an investment. Is this some sort of pyramid scheme?

I don't like this. Imagine, though, even, like, strip this of the right-wing bullshit. Imagine being a parent of a child, and you're buying NFTs for your child's TV show. It's crazy. Ah, my daughter and the explorer NFTs are doing great. I also like that you guys are now in darkness over there. Like, it's feeling like the darker the story guys,

the more that you guys have just sort of gone. Like, I don't know how I'm going to go back to my family after this. Like, it's going to be like, oh, Jake's had a bad day at work. Everybody just leave them alone for a couple hours, you know. I'm so sorry. I designed this to be an hour-long episode. It's already past two. two hours recording.

I apologize. I'm sorry. What do you expect? How can we can't shut the fuck up? The crazy thing is that gone are the days where you have to strike out in front of an open mic crew. You know, you have to work on your craft. You have to work on your set.

You have to figure out which bits work. That's gone. All you have to do is pander to a certain audience, get famous on YouTube, and now you're selling out, you know, or you're playing six nights at like a huge comedy club. Having never had to actually do stand-up comedy or learn what that is. Jake's been on the Kardashians coming up. No, I'm not. I'm not on that show.

I'm not on any of the shows. I just, it's like, I have so many friends, like, who are comedians who I've watched struggle and struggle and perfect their sets and strike out and then start to get a little bit better and then start to get good with audience interaction and just, you know, watch all the work and all the time that gets put into it. And now none of that means anything because it's like, oh, well, you could just develop a popular YouTube body. It's like, you know, basically parroting like, you know, neo-Nazi content. And you'll get, you'll get your fucking headliner.

You'll get the headliner. And the merch, oh, God, it's just like. In February of 2021, Sears spoke at the Health Freedom Summit, an anti-mask, anti-vax, pro homeschooling gathering. Sure, of course. In September of 2021, J.P. Sears was one of the speakers at Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw's Crenshaw Youth Summit, alongside Dave Rubin, Tony Robbins, Ben Shapiro, and Megan Kelly. T-shirts being sold there included one that said socialism distancing and another stating virginity rocks. Oh, my God.

Virginity rocks just mean that it's just endless anal. That's all that means. Yeah. The crowd was composed mainly of 14 to 24-year-olds. Oh, my God. The youth is loving it. The youth is loving it. And he's got a career forever.

In January of 2022, J.P. Sears was the emcee of an anti-vaccine rally in Washington, D.C., that included longtime anti-vax activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sears' comedy is steadily becoming indistinguishable from far-right GOP talking points and even, you know, further right than that. Less than a year ago, he put out a video asking, The Left is Normalizing Pedophiles? Good evening. God damn it. Is it insensitive to pacifes? Pedophiles to call them pedophiles?

Of course it is, because now the left is trying to normalize pedophilia. Welcome to our special report on Minor Attracted People. I literally want to throw up in my mouth right now. I have to act like it's normal to normalize pedophilia. My life. Do you know how much it is to buy your soul back once you sold it? Good fucking question, dude. Good question, James.

be really good question. I don't know. Maybe YouTube, maybe you've got enough money to buy your soul back from all of your ad clicks. Insane. His love for wearing women's swimsuits has also evolved into full transphobic videos. Oh, good. This is maybe one of his worst. I first learned how to swim when I was seven years old at Boy Scout camp. What might surprise you is, I was actually a really slow swimmer at first and stayed a really slow swimmer through the first couple years of my collegiate career. Then I turned 23 and all of a sudden. I'm the best swimmer in the women's division. And I can't track exactly what changed. I guess I'm just a late bloomer. Because swimming's been such a big part of my life for so long, it's where my happiness comes from.

You can't have happiness without penis. Hmm. I've never noticed that before. With being the best, it's something you always get haters. I don't understand what this controversy is all about. I guess people just don't like it when they see a woman, I compete in three different strokes. Freestyle, the butterfly, and the backstroke.

You gotta be in the pool for hours each day. It's the only way to become the best. I guess I must have drank a lot of water on that lap. Yeah, it's not all easy. Some of the other ladies don't feel comfortable being in the same locker room as me. I'm appalled. I just don't understand why. Is this because I identify as black?

I mean, this one, like, really, because I was joking earlier about him buying himself a pool with his horrendous content. Here he is, actually saying, just being really horrifying, and then swimming in this gorgeous pool, bought himself with his horrifying content. He also has a whole comedic beat where he hides his penis with his hands, because he's wearing a women's swimsuit, of course. and then reveals it and that's supposed to make you be like wow man point made well maybe you don't get comedy but that's like a really great

physical comedy bit because he's not I guess I have to explain this he's not a woman he's yeah that's right he has a penis yeah that's the big girl did you guys not get that it's like the happiness thing

his later stuff is kind of a little heady so I have a little bit I like the early stuff I like the early stuff he also did he have to I didn't catch it, but how did he spell happiness to get penis in... I don't know. It's just amazing.

Wouldn't it be Pinness? Yeah, it's not a good speller. He mixes up his words, no. It's funny because Lips can't spell. They can't spell. It's great. Do people not know that attacks on trans people was a part of Nazi Germany? That that's...

Yeah. Oh, of course. It's all just the same. Cultural Marxism comes from Judeo-Bolshevism, which was a fucking Nazi line. Yeah, no, it's all the same. crap over and over. This video has nearly 5 million views on YouTube. Oh my God, it's so fucking dumb. Even if you believe this shit, it's fucking bad, dumb comedy. It's dumb. It's bad.

J.P. Sears has about 2.7 million subscribers on YouTube. Holy shit. In the last few months, J.P. Sears' content has grown increasingly unhinged. He's been ranting a lot about the elites, people being sheep, and is now talking about satanic forces at work. What? Hi, I changed my mind about evil. I was wrong, and I'm going to tell you why. Oh, and this won't be a comedy video.

I'm sorry. But I think it's more important than that. I used to think evil was just some abstract concept, mostly an exaggerated word. but I changed my mind. Now I think evil is very real. I think the presence of Satan in our world acting through corrupt humans is clear as day. And I think the past two years have made that incredibly clear. In fact, with what's going on in our world, I firmly believe it's spiritual warfare. Now, as dark as the evil is, I think there's absolutely something you and I can both do

about it. And to be honest with you, I think that good has a much better shot at winning than evil does. And in this video, I'll tell you why I think that. And also share with you at the end of the video five things that you can do to ensure evil is defeated and that good wins. What the fuck? I mean, how, it's like now he's got five tips on how to stop evil. with like turquoise like font appearing on the screen like five five tips to get rid of a beazel bob after he uh you know sneaks through a portal in your backyard five ways to put the devil back to hell yeah he explains later in the video too that evil controls every level government the media all the cdc yes youtube yes he lists you know what this video has in common with all the others and i don't know why he had to say it it's It's not a comedy video.

Yeah, it's not funny. Well, then he cried. I'm thinking back to the very first video of him on the shitty park bench with, like, people wanting him to be out of the way so that they can plot, you know, their footpath. The editing sucks, and he's worried about how his hair looks, and now look at where he is now. His own gym. His own gym. Honestly, just do yourself a favor when you get a chance and scroll back to the skinny image

of him. It's amazing at the top of this doc. Yeah. This is wild. I'm so... I'm so... I'm so... He's become a monster.

Yeah, I was about to say, he's got Soros in the background. Yep. On that video. He's got the... What's that guy? They're obsessed with the World Economic Forum. And... Oh, yeah.

Yeah. It's all Alex Jones talking points, essentially. And this video is brought to you by a line of EMF blocking products that are sponsoring him. Oh. So he's basically Alex Jones at this point doing sketch comedy. And yeah, he has videos now where he'll just react to stuff. So he'll be like, this sucks to like CNN criticizing Ron DeSantis and Carrie Lake.

He has spoken twice at Carrie Lake's actual political rallies. He is bitching about the gender curriculum in schools. He is cheering on Tucker Carlson's latest epic rant against the Green New Deal. And he's basically making maga propaganda. about how the FBI won't come to your house if you have BLM signs, and if you just yell that January 6th was actually a bad thing. So he's fully on board with that. So two professional comedians here.

Final review of J.P. Sears comedic chops. Dave, Karen? I mean, I've been... If you go back and listen, I think I put a couple opinions in the episode. He's broken. There's two parts. One, obviously, he's horrible, he's not funny. There's no, like, he's not even, he's not remotely charismatic.

I mean, he's fucking annoying. He's just annoying. It's just like, like we've said in a couple different ways. He's their side, you know, so that's why, like, that's how you get Clint Eastwood speaking at the RNC to an empty chair. Like, he's, you know, that's, he's all they've got. So, but also, he's so popular. So it's like, God.

Damn it. It's dog shit, but so many more people are eating his dog shit. Yep. I'm going to have some wine tonight. Yeah, I'm going to ship blood, but it's just a beautiful example of how easy it is to grift the right. It is so fucking easy. I'm actually surprised more comedians who are struggling. haven't just gone, fuck it. I'll just do these kind of dumb-ass videos and make money.

Like, it's very surprising. And it's always been this way. The right just doesn't have funny people. I don't know what it is. Dennis Miller. Dennis Miller. There's been some comedians over the years who have been right leaning,

but they don't, they just talk about, you know, life stuff. They don't go into the politics of it. It's like when they just do politics and then it's like you don't even need to be funny. They just want to hear someone parrot their dumb fucking views. And because someone's making a crazy face or wearing a fucking tie with no shirt on, they're like, man, it's comedy.

It's not fucking comedy. There's nothing remotely comedy about this. It's just garbage. So that's a good review of our podcast. And that is a review of all 200 episodes until now. And I think this was a perfect, unrelenting barrage of psychic pain. from a man who went from New Age Grifter to full right-wing conspiracy theorist

in just a few years. Happy birthday, QAA, and here's to 200 more, Jake. I thought that, um... You guys are so going to get killed before then. I thought that, uh... I mean, yeah. I thought that our 200th episode was going to be fun.

And you were like... And you were like, you were like, oh man, we'll get the dollop guys, Gareth and Dave. Like, they're a man. Amazing. We like, it's going to be so much. Oh, it's going to be awesome. 200 celebrate. But I guess this is appropriate because inevitably, any time we set out to have any kind of good time on this show, it always ends. It always ends in just like soul-sucking, like happiness-crushing realization that we can do almost, almost nothing to stop this. No, right. Nothing. like we said it's like this guy

is just getting his start he's just fine you know what fucking he's gonna end up in Congress in two years like why the fuck not why not why not like this guy will run absolutely run for office he'll run he'll run

and he'll win and he'll win it sounds like you're fantasizing about hunting him and people will be like oh it's so amazing to have like a comedian in politics like this is what This is what politics, like, desperately needed, like, finally, a breath of fresh air. That's going to be his fucking slogan.

It's going to be, like, J.P. Sears, a breath of fresh air. Vote Sears Hitler, 2027. It's just, it's going to be. They've, they've, I guess, innovated having an election in an odd year. Yeah, why not? Why not? Why not? An election every year.

Election every year. has a podcast. He has Awaken with JP. Absolutely. Awaken with JP. Oh, he sure does. Oh, he sure does. Well, Gareth, I hope this was a great first time on our podcast.

And Dave, third and last time, I mean, you know, I'm sure it was good. Glad to have you guys with us. And thanks to the listener, obviously, for listening to another episode of our wonderful podcast. Guys, plug the dollop, plug any, you know, whatever you guys are doing. Maybe you have like a place that you go to with about 7, 800 people, like an amphitheater maybe where you're just kind of waxing about vaccines or something like that? Yeah, yeah. We call it wax and vax.

And we're doing that tour in the fall. We will be on tour in the fall playing venues that J.P. Dwarfs. We will be, you could go to dolloppodcast.com. That's in October. Columbus, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Grand Rapids, Royal Oak, Nashville, Louisville. St. Louis, Indianapolis, Kansas City. Oh, you are making us look like shit. That's like every city where people were like,

why the fuck aren't you showing up here? No, that's no. That's actually, we're doing it in response. But most of our tours are response to other people's tours. That's right. They're going on the Dollop's Fuck You Tour. And then we have a virtual show, September 8th with Moment House. You can go to, you can go to dolloppodcast.com, the website,

or you can go to Moment House. And then I personally am on the road doing stand-up. You can go to gareth Reynolds.com. September 20th, I'll be in Portland, 22nd, in Seattle, and the 23rd in Vancouver. And I'm recording all those shows to put out something, so I'm trying to get people there. But there are other shows, and that's gareth Reynolds.com. And thank you for having me. I'm going to go eat my throw-up.

And then I have another podcast called The West Wing Thing I do with Josh Olson, where we listen, watch the West Wing and then tear it apart for his dumb-ass fucking politics. Dave is now a fan of the West Wing just from having experienced this. He's like, you know what? The best wing. In comparison, that shit is amazing. Yeah, the next episode he's going to be like,

you know what? I'll tell you. At least that Sorkin knows how to spell happiness. Oh, man. Well, you can't spell Dave and Gareth without penis. Thank you. It's very true. Yeah, thanks so much, guys.

and big fan of the dollop. Definitely go check it out if you haven't already QA listeners. And I guess I will have Dave take us out with our final line. Hi, I'm Dave Anthony.

Thanks for listening to another episode of Q&O anonymous podcast. Last one and no more name. No more name. Dave and Gareth, time for your plugs. You have everything else. Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave.

Qanonymous.com. I'm not done. Listener, until next week, May the Deep Dish bless you and keep you. Hi, I'm Dave Anthony. It's not a conspiracy, it's fact. And now, today's auto-chew. What's up?

Freedom lovers. How are y'all doing? Hi, I'm J.P. Sears. I'm allergic to communism, censorship, tyrants, propaganda, and those are medical conditions. so please keep them all away from me I insist my friends I'm just gonna pull up the chat here and hey I reason why I'm here I just wanted to drop in and connect with you beautiful

freedom loving people because I haven't done a live here on YouTube for a little while so I am I just want to connect with you get to some of your questions questions, share, share a little. Where do you start in the world we live in?