 What's up fam Anthony dream Johnson and today with special episode of the red man group episode 146 Here today on red man group in 20-minute studios today's special guest to the show is the one and only JP sears from Awaken with JP you probably know him from YouTube and his hysterical videos. He's seen over the many years Awaken with JP. He's got almost 2 million followers on YouTube millions more on Instagram and Facebook and stuff like that He's been called the most woke man on the internet with good reason. He's extremely woke woke as fuck To an incredible degree his videos have been personal fan of for a couple years and I would introduce him recently through Elliott I'll speak thanks to him for this So without further ado, please have a welcome to the show mr. JP sears. Hey, man, Anthony. I'm good I appreciate you asking and I'm happy to be on here with you brother and so appreciative of The movement that you're helping move so I'm grateful. Thanks be a part of that today Yeah, so you actually got to see the make them and great again movement. I got going last year I'll start off with that You know you saw the trailer for that some of the newsreels and the the commentary on that What was your first response to that your first reaction to make them great again? It's a great question. I don't remember watching it to be honest with you. Okay Please don't take that personally. I think my I see too much stuff and it's been a little bit of time Yeah So on that note, let's get in your channel a little bit. Actually, this is a big channel man I've been watching this for years and I did want to ask you because it wasn't always like the statire You're a comedian these days, but you started off as a more serious left coach Talk to me about that your transition your trans moment in life there with that. Yeah, so I'm trans serious I used to be serious now. I guess I'm I'm not but yeah, so I've been making comedy videos for Seven years give or take For that as you mentioned I was a life coach so working with people what I'm on and teaching workshops retreats things like that in a very sincere way and that transition it Back up a little bit right before the transition First I realized who I really am you know, I I was in a phase of self-betrayal where having a You know an active sense of humor, you know a well-developed sense of humor That's something that's always been there in my personal life, but in my professional life. I Was suppressing that I was constipating that I was not being true to myself. I wasn't Brave enough to just be an actual man and be all that I am. I made up a story in my head Drank my beta juice for the day back when I was a kid or whatever and the story I made up in my head that I believed is I need to be serious in order to be a life coach in order to be valuable To be successful and be Entrepreneur and all that. Yeah, absolutely So I'm worse than making up that story is I believe the story nobody did it to me I did it to myself, but then My transition period I kept having An idea come to me to make one comedy video and it was you know, trying to convey a very real concept Just through the language of humor. I'm like then I don't know how to make comedy videos But like you know if I did like making a comedy video the old discredit me as a life coach and probably wouldn't even be funny worse Even worse than that is maybe it would be funny man. I'd be discredited more But you know when you've got a force of nature coming through you you can resist it for a while But nature is gonna win and in I think part of nature is one's creativity. So I've been Constipating that for a long time, but just like if a woman's giving birth She can try not to for a while, but maybe it's coming. So my baby came I made the comedy video. I think all right Make one it probably won't be good for business, but I'll just make one And I made that and it woke something up inside of me Did it take off to did it go viral right away or no? Yeah, the the first one actually did Which is just like I mean what are the odds not very good It was on YouTube for about a week got a few hundred views, which actually to me that was viral at the time Yeah, but then it really went viral someone Literally stole it off my YouTube channel uploaded it all over Facebook and then various other pages Put it on their Facebook and there it was getting like millions of views but so that was external validation that that was meaningful to me at the time and More importantly as it woke something up inside of me, which was me waking up to like a part of me that Was ready to arrive and the blockage the constipation. Yeah, it's going away absolutely, and then Then just fast-forwarding I made that one video and then like three weeks later ahead. That's like amazing idea Maybe I could make another video and then with no plan where it's gonna go or no plan for it to become anything big or a business or like Let's really reach the world and help better the world through this mechanism I just kept going one step at a time no idea where I was gonna go But doing my best to follow my heart as I went along Yeah, it's worked out pretty well for you man looking at a gold YouTube button behind you there That's a very nice button. It's bigger than my button I'm surprised you noticed Anthony given that I centered that right on the screen. So yeah right on your shoulder Yeah, I'm kind of embarrassed that you saw what I was trying to I have my little silver one over here. I got two of them actually so, you know I only have one channel, but I told him I broke it because I dropped it one day It didn't break, but it almost digs. It's the old glass one. I was like I need to back up in case I do break it Yeah, I hid one of those old glass ones, too And man, I think you're you're better off now because I make them better now. Yeah. Yeah So you mentioned you're a constipated Let's back up here. Is this like an emotional constipation a spiritual constipation that you had like is I know you're kind of teasing But kind of not there's probably something behind that need to talk about that a little more. Yeah, you know I think both spiritual and emotional. So, you know, we know what Normal constipation is like you need to poop something needs to come out of you Something needs to be expressed through you, but it's not able to so And an emotional kind of spiritual constipation That is our true self wanting to express itself through us and nobody And to paid us that level other than us So like what constricts one's anal sphincter and I know for me It was the fear of losing approval. It was having this Fictitious idea about who I'm supposed to be in life Which had no correlation to who I actually am or who I'm meant to be but it was just an idea I had in my head So it's this weird scenario, you know, it takes hindsight to see it but in hindsight I can see like oh, yeah, I was Not letting myself be my true self. I was constipating myself in order to be Who I thought was supposed to be and I think a life lesson I've got I I don't think it applies to judge It's a bit universal but one of our biggest obstacles in life is Who we think we're supposed to be becomes a chief obstacle for us being something far greater than that which is who we really are And you're saying that the vibe I'm getting to is it like that is constructed by the people around you and culture society You know stuff like that even a family and friends to an extent, right? Yeah, so pressures that could mold you Yeah, for sure and I'm all about self-responsibility So, you know end of the day me and hopefully everybody else could say like that's my fault That's my perception of everybody's expectations around me. That's I'm the one that recorded it and and yeah, they might have been Strong expectations and pressures, but ultimately that's on us So because you accept it you accepted their per perception here, right? Yeah, absolutely And we're only human. I'm not gonna shame myself or anybody else. I mean, especially when we're young. We're so suggestible But absolutely that comes from Everybody around us who we're supposed to be and you know, one of the things that I so love about your work, which is You know, you're how I would encapsulate your work Anthony in a in a word is you teach people to be strong Yeah, and all senses of the term now, I Didn't have that like what I Like it is a teenager. I read in then early adulthood. I remember thinking like as a man I'm supposed to be sensitive and just through I don't know It was is it cultural Marxism or is it just reading too much spirituality and not Rolling in the mud enough not doing enough to Jiu Jitsu, but I had in my head like man Men that are like tough and like they can scream they can get pissed off They can be fierce. I did my head like that's toxic masculinity. I mean Your hat says it all. Yeah, I did in my head and I'm like, look, you know It's one who can be vulnerable who can be sensitive and yeah now I can look at that say a real man is one who can be vulnerable and sensitive and A real man is someone who can be fierce like a lion to a real man Isn't just one side of that polarity a real man has access to both of those resources Yeah, so as it as I had it with my Programming that I had about who I'm supposed to be I thought to be a real man Like I was running programming that was like encrypted with like here's how to not be a real man But that's what I thought I was supposed to be to be a real man Yeah, I would say a lot of its culture Marxism and feminism and stuff So she looks super super hyper radical feminism that's been around for the past 10 20 years Yeah, and it's just it's very confusing to men and women both, right? It teaches men tack like women women tack like men I do agree that you're saying that the many to be able to tap into both You should be this super strong as strong as you can be within yourself, right? But also you should be emotionally connected to like what you're feeling rather than just blocking all of it Like this huge constipation and some guys who struggle with that, right? They've been lean too far on this cartoonized toxic masculinity. I love it But I'm also not emotionally I try not to be emotionally constipated, you know Yeah, if I do I'm like you guys take a whole bottle of red pills, you know When I look at your channel, dude You have you have so many videos that are so savage and so many topics I'm like this dude didn't just take the red pill he took the whole bottle Like you just like thank you for the whole fucking thing. Yeah, I love that Yeah, well, I'm honored by that and you know, I'll Something I want to share about that If someone's been following my work for, you know over two years You know that about a year and a half ago my work took a massive shift I would I would call it an expansion where the mission completely changed Mission's always been about using comedy to help awaken people But you know when when we start realizing oh this pandemic Nothing to do with the virus Yeah, it's One of the layers of it is all about eroding human freedoms So when I start to realize that the mission of my work just changed It's like I've you know, I just learned my first son is on the way at that time and it just Like something woke up inside of me then just like I have to make the world a better place for my son I have to do everything in my power It might be just my small way But I have to do everything in my power not to mention wanting to make the world best place possible for me family and Everybody else that I know and people I don't know so it became all about Freedom freedom is my number. Oh you but I never had a problem with freedom My freedom has never been taken away and people I know like their freedoms were never taken away last year Got crazy. I mean it we've really I'm only 32. I've never and even a 32 never seen anything like that in my life You're 41 42. Yeah, I'm 40 40. Yeah, it's the last year is insane. Oh, yeah, and I love how you want to bat with it I mean you you risked your like Elliott, you know, Elliott went pro-trump couple years ago Amaga it basically got political and he pissed off a lot of his fans and Agree or disagree hit the balls to do it and you're the same way You have a big audience and a big channel and YouTube could nuke you whenever they want, but they haven't thank God In the meantime though, you have the courage and the balls to stand up for you believe in and I really respect that a lot Yeah, well, thank you brother it You know it to me. It's more painful to not stand up for what someone believes in It you we can think it's gonna be more painful to stand up for what we truly believe in But that's just bullshit. That's just kind of like the my fictitious Thought back before I started comedy like dude doing comedy would be bad Business. No, it's the fucking best thing ever for my business Yeah, and then same thing when it comes to speaking our truth standing up for what we know in our heart is right We can think well, that's gonna be like really scary real challenging It's like no motherfuckers way more challenging to not do that I'm not saying there's no fear involved, but you go through the fear and then it dissolves away And then you get fulfilled standing up for what you truly believe in so but yeah, I appreciate your recognition that's been a big shift and Yeah Share of an important little pebble that was cast in the pond before that shift That really helped fuel me so about six months five six months before the Pandemic hit and freedoms start being taken away. I was Just had the honor of being Tony Robbins guest at his date with destiny event in West Palm Beach, Florida and my wife and I were there They'll put front row literally the best seats in the 8,000 person arena. I just such a Yeah, so grateful for him extending that invite But my point being at that event I got in touch with a need that I had in order to up level not just as a man But as a human and the biggest need I walked away with knowing is I need to be more bold So I walked away just like I like let's call a spade a spade. I've been More beta than I should be I've been a little bit more Oriented towards approval Risk averse stuff like that hundred percent like you know, let's let's be afraid of conflict a little bit 38 year old I was more improved than it was than 25, but still like all right 38 I realized like I've outgrown this shit I've done a ton of dumb beta shit to like people don't understand this like you learn from making mistakes and trial and error That's why I did a lot of it. Yeah It is when you find your beta shit, which by the way any man man watching this I'd ask you like what's the beta shit you're wearing that you're not aware of I think it's a question to ask and when we find it It's like looking down and say oh I've had I'm still wearing children's underpants like I've outgrown them. They're restricting me like I'm I need to Zippers down or something like something stupid like I fix this shit like let's go absolutely in zipper up A hundred percent and it just like Ram Dossel and said you can't get out of the jail Until you know you're in one. So what kind of beta jail are we in and unless someone thinks they're the ultimate well-developed human? By the way for those people, they're probably full of shit. That's your jail right there But unless you're truly that human we can all ask ourselves a question like where do I still have some beta energy? Where's my next level to outgrow? So I realized I need to be more bold and I really committed to that and Then I had no idea life was setting up like a cool and Not not just like the training ground to test your boldness, but all like the actual battlefield Yeah, your boldness didn't know that was coming but it was dude. I had the same thing last year I had the same kind of in my own industry in my community That's managed for a thing where my channel is a big thing at 21 studios 300,000 subs, you know 7.8 million, but it's pretty big for what it is a lot of content, right? Yeah, so it's the last year I started the make women great again convention That's what that is it's called the 22 convention But the tagline is make women great again Elliot was one of our top speakers his speech was make women wives again Mine was mine was motherhood first like America first motherhood first It was kind of you know fun stuff But it's a three-day event and the media when that's over it I remember watching that the clip the whole media class But that was the boldest thing I've done in my life and I had a lot of respect from that from friends Not really family so much, but they got they went under attack. They were in docs by these feminists and stuff Because of death threats I got I mean the media was after me and the speakers Nasty and but it was right before the two so it was January February right before the March and everything But nuts the whole one crazy So it's like all the attention was on us. It's like a hundred million people have reached But that was like the biggest bull's move of my life and I realized it was a ton of fun I was stressful like you know the the intensity of it at peak like peak woke mob But I loved it and I was like this is what I need to do right like, you know all the media and stuff That's gonna fit you know That'll fade eventually 15 minutes of fame But this is definitely like what I really believe in what I want to do even though it's tongue-in-cheek and really funny I mean that's that's part of people don't even know if it was real or not The number one Google term for it was like is 22 convention real because it couldn't believe it was a real thing Kind of like you would do right for something like this guy for real or what the fuck? Yeah, so and I'm I mean first off a man It takes a lot of boldness to do that. Thanks. Love that congratulations And what do you I'm curious just in your internal life or maybe external What do you think pushed you over the edge of like breaking the previous membrane so that you could enter that more expansive expression of your boldness Yeah, I would say we had there was some business fights ahead in 2019 So we had a we had a three-way companies You can imagine a newer company that I've earned my current business like 15 years But there's a newer company like most partnerships, of course everyone to tell you this like they blow up much here, right? So there's kind of like a blow up there a break up or blow up I bought one guy out another guy. We ended up kicking out of the company attorney and stuff anyway, that was 2019. That was a very tumultuous to much where that word is turmoil filled year and we did three events to which is unusual for us That's usually do one or two and it at three in 2019. We didn't one for fathers We did one in Poland, which is a European event and then one in Florida So it was a very is super busy year producing a shit ton of content these events Elliott came out for the first time third events in the spring for the father event so it's like a very big new year with a lot of stuff going on and in public and in private with the fights and I guess being just I was 31 points So like hit my 30s, you know hidden that stage in my life this new decade feeling like more of a man Even if this numerical and then the fights there was the most intense fights in my life People are really trying to hurt the business in like really serious ways and I had to fight them and win so that proceeded to make them a great again thing and I kind of just had the I Guess the trauma from that just up my game to the next level and then it's like what's next? Let's do this and I almost started that event 2019, but we did the fatherhood event for the first time So that was taken priority So yeah, I don't know if that answers your question, but yeah, yeah It does I mean what comes to my mind is the analogy like you getting in the ring with Mike Tyson You know back when he's in this prime you're sparring with him and There's intense fight probably gonna get beat up You're coming out with some bumps and bruises for sure. Yes, but are you gonna be a better boxer? Oh, yeah All right, so that encapsulates everything I just said in like two seconds. So yeah, exactly It was an intense fight that preceded That I basically won but came out with a bunch of bruises like a lot and but I felt like more more savage from it Because I was amped up the whole fucking year just like ready to fucking was rumbling the whole year about you know In public and private. Yeah, I say I was good stuff. I can relate when back in early January I mean it was maybe a day after the January 6 like Insurrection like Fucking capital gets stormed so she can you know run her script There was a really really intense focused woke mob out to can't name just everything they can do and It amazed me like a handful of people would have this much time on their hands just exquisitely fascinating and and they Like there there was some fear for sure and they're they got a couple sponsors to drop me They got my book publisher to drop me and behind doors. I'm talking with you know, the You know these couple companies Sponsors that drop me and they're like tape you we love your content so it's for you But fortunately these people are making our lives living hell and as a gap I don't like your decision, but I understand. Yeah, so I I was worried and But that was a fight like it was It was like I weathered it and I came out on the other side is oh woke mob. Guess what I Just became more of what you don't like Because of you they fed the monster. They fed the monster. Yeah, I'm Stronger and I'm so much so much more fearless like I I do have that Reality now like oh like I live through the threat of All that I have and have accumulated being taken away from me and like guess what it was stressful and I realized It's gonna be okay. Yeah, never take away from me. What really matters Yep, and when you're working with someone or looking at someone who's got nothing to lose They're dangerous. Yeah Well to your agenda obviously we're we like to feel ourselves as the good guys and I truly believe we are yeah Well, you're a villain today, and that's the good guy everything in clown world is upside down So the villains like you're you're this evil guy that has to be canceled in reality You're doing a lot of good in the world. Yeah, you're fighting like how to make the world a better place Yeah, look how evil he is. He only has one gender. He literally hates all other genders your assist gendered white heterosexual patriarchal male who like likes being a father So you must be destroyed and fatherhood is rooted in systemic racism. So fuck off. Oh, yeah See, you're not a Florida man like me though. I'm a Florida man. Which is like another additional Villainess term, right? That's what they were on Reddit It went viral that make women great again event because it was Florida man Like Florida man makes make women great again, which is real. I'm a third-generation of flirty and yeah, it's just convenient That's names Johnson to which is kind of nice. I feel there's one more like sign of a you know what do they call it The family the penis phallus word. Yeah, it's a penis reference. Yeah Just got a look at the draw Florida man Johnson throwing make women The last thing I'll add though is like you I started my business in my channel in 2007 2006 technically and It had nothing it was mostly just pick the part of stuff It was self-improvement for young men a little bit of fitness But mostly like this how to talk to girls right and then it evolved over all these years into being for men And then for fathers and then for women, but also during that time since 2006 2007. That was the Bush administration It's like ancient history now, right? But I've seen that I've seen the country get super hyper Polarized and hyper politicized and all this and that's really I'm unlike you Maybe I'm just tired of watching my country fall apart right on every level. It's not as politics It's like culture and masculinity and femininity and family and all these things and I'm sick and fucking tired of it And I don't we don't focus much on politics But it's really we'd focus hard on masculinity and not for women femininity common-sense masculinity common-sense femininity, right? Family stuff a lot of times at the father event So I guess I see I saw the opportunity to die more heavily into these areas more aggressively and Someone needed to write no one was doing a make-up a great again event But I noticed that when I put this this notice out to the world You know the news went nuts and the York Post and your times like no one seemed to approve of this Which made it a really good thing the fake news they hated it. So basically all that outlets that are there I say consistently poisoning and perverting our society with What Marxism they're bought and paid for agendas in New York Times just all them. It's like dude if you have their disapproval Okay, you're doing something really well. I I'm a Part of the black rifle coffee company. It just okay love these guys. Are you aware of them a little bit people are People are accusing me now. They're like, oh, you know, they're black rifle coffee I'm like wait what I had to look up what the fuck was going on and like oh my god So like grateful coffee if someone doesn't know they're a huge coffee company great coffee, but it started by Veterans and these guys they're real patriots. They love freedom and they're they're fun-loving guys They're just they're awesome They they've They've served in the military put their lives on the line for our freedom. So freedom is pretty damn important to these guys and that's what their company stands for and Whatever it was a week or two ago. The New York Times wrote a hit piece on black rifle coffee and like surprise surprise. They're not a woke corporation towing the line of the Marxist narrative that Some corporations like to do so it's not that I'm like, dude What a compliment the New York Times doesn't approve of who you are, which means who you are is Probably great. Yeah. Yeah, those people all just have terrible values and the organizations are just falling apart It's sad man. We were kids. It was different a little bit at least right and I think it's just gone off the rails past 10 15 20 years something like that. Yeah, it seems like it to me and whoever the powers that be are that are, you know feeding the CNN New York Times like where where those agendas come from and obviously they're very common agendas the Biden administration agendas so There's no coincidence. They're all preaching the same shit and like classifying misinformation is the same thing But who so whoever's behind it and by the way, I realized When when it comes to nefariousness People who derive power in those ways They're more powerful being in the shadows So we could look at like dude. No, Biden's the evil guy or is it Bill Gates? Oh, she's like, well, those are people in the light like I was like barely awake You gotta be kidding me see sleepy Joe for real they're doing weekend at Bernie's with him He probably died a year and a half ago for all we know. Yeah, so whoever's behind that like Just to your point Anthony the past Year and a half these people have been Pushing such a hard controlling anti-freedom pro-communist Marxist narrative so hard so fast that to me They are doing a great job of waking people up They're coming on so strong. So it's almost like they're playing poker and it's like oh Motherfuckers your cards are facing outward. We see what's in your hand I mean look at look at how me and you as youtubers like yours a lot bigger But we both have big channels and you know, you're 10 years ago I was not making content like this on my channel, you know a couple years ago You were not being as aggressive as you were now these issues Even you know, like you said you're in half ago. You really went into it Yeah, I mean we have access to you know, they haven't banned us yet So we've access to millions of people and yeah, people are waking the fuck up because they're pissed off They're sick of it. It's sick man. Check out this comment. By the way, someone dropped M. Egan Hey, JP. I lost two friends by forwarding your hilarious videos to them serious 30-year friendship Man I'm in one thank you for sharing that and I'm one part sorry for your loss But also another part I would suggest anytime You lose a friendship over Differing points of view is never a friendship in the first place. It was an acquaintance ship I have a one of my dear friends here in Austin Just to you know share what I think is a real friendship, you know He voted for Biden. I didn't vote for Biden I truly think that's the most destructive vote one votes counted but You know, we were sit around before the election discussing our votes and he shared I'm he's voting for Biden I shared cool. I'm voting for Trump. It's like but cool. Love you, brother. Like that's a friendship Yeah, if I if yeah, if we lose friendships over Any kind of what a political point of view? A point of view over what's hypocrisy? What's deviousness of food religion point of view? It's like man, they weren't it was an agreement based Equationship not a friendship based on accepting people for who and how they are. Yeah, I think I completely agree Yeah, I've I've lost unfortunately what I thought was a friend like that or two over the years It's pretty rare But every once in a while something that happens to me too last year I lost a friend over the BLM stuff I thought was a friend. Yeah, and we've been friends for 15 16 years and so half of our lives Was the first that you're like, oh, well, you're you're racist if you don't support the BLM organization Here's never I never got to that level. It just completely like he saw what I was posting He texts me about it. I could tell he was pissed and he just stopped responding And we haven't talked in over a year now and we used to talk all the time and we'd see each other and you know Florida So I don't get too far into it as personal But it was surprising and that's only the second time in my adult life I've seen something that happened because I'm pretty open about who I am and more so as years go by right as I get older and More masculine less beta. Yeah, let's say more alpha But but I agree with you. It's good when that happens because it shows you it's like alright that friendship wasn't as Durable or as deep as I thought it was and this is I don't care if someone likes BLM I hate BLM stuff. I think it's Marxist garbage Yeah But if you're gonna not you don't want to be my friend because of because I post anti-BLM memes on my Twitter get the fuck out of here Yeah And to me a real friend and I've had conversations like this with some of my friends. They'll see something I post and They'll say GPS how you posted this I'm curious why do you think that and you know with a friend. It's like cool I have time for dialogue with friend not yeah, sure thousand YouTube comments And I love that what they they get to hear my point of view and I get to understand better They're opposing point of view and sometimes one of us changes a little bit and other times is like all right cool Like that's what you think and I'm glad to know it and here's what I think. Thank you for respecting Yeah, which by We one of them Let's just get on the soap back at box Anthony and pretend like we're gonna solve the world's problems Okay, I think one of the world's problems is With it kind of the proverbial we somehow Expects everybody to unite into a common point of view and I think that's Absolutely fantasy land, you know like the left would be like you get on it's all need to like again Tear down the murder American flag just fly your pride flag and just do all this No, what does the left say now they want to they want to reconcile or they want to like forcibly like what is the word they use They want to like you know I'm talking about there with they want to like amend or like Biden's using it for a while I can't think of the word right now You don't talk about I don't Fuck I'll think of in a minute, but it's it's been a meme because it's so ridiculous like Oh, you know that they talk about, you know they want to the left wants to like fight and burn stuff down all this crap and then I I'll think of in a minute. It's slip slip of the tongue cool. Yeah. Well, let me know in my point Being like or the right is like no like everybody needs to think this way like I think it's so unrealistic to believe that Everybody will unite under a common point of view and by the way, I think that's really crappy I think we get balanced by having posing points of view and I think we all have one point of view chances are It's not the right point of view. So it would be like screwed in a really powerful way But I think the the path of world peace isn't when we all unite under a common point of view I think it's when we accept each other Knowing we have different points of view Yeah, it's like I I think for the most part all same people want the same thing they want happiness and You know love for them in their family And I probably want to be left alone a little bit. Yeah, hopefully they're not too far down the communist track. Yeah But but yeah, and but then how we get there That's where we can have it's like we agree on Actually, we agree on the most important things usually about how we get there as you like when we can really get disagreeing but yeah, I think having expectation like dude We're always going to have different points of view and it's actually okay if we can stop burning down businesses when Something happens that we don't like It'll probably be a good thing. I thought of the word now unity It's it's not united. It's not reconciled to unity the left one's unity. Oh for months there Biden was talking about this. They're all talking about this We're going to have unity now that biden one are going to have unity It's just creepy like we're going to have unity It's like no, man. I don't want to you. I was fucking weird and then they're That is just put this mask on dude. We're going to have unity. It's like yeah We'll divide human connection teaching human connections bad to help facilitate unity And we'll get critical race theory taught in schools so that you can start to judge people based on their skin color Rather than the content of a character By the way, we're going to implement the black national anthem than the regular national anthem before nfl games Because that segregation Is how we get unity. Well, dude a woman a woman, bro Rest my case You mentioned the fantasy land and I agree it's it's delusional the expectations That we have when you have hundreds of millions of people living in an area or billions if you look at like You know continent or you know throughout the world Of course, you have millions of people different opinions And then you're going to stick them in a geographic area and have them vote on something. It's like Yeah, not everyone's going to agree. It's delusional to expect that, you know Yeah, and I think we need to temper the two-year-old Yeah, I'll temper tantrums that come out and you know, I love to poke fun at the woke left and you know, the right does it too. It's just like It's kind of burning down buildings, but It's like we we need to be adult and Respect when other people have opposing points of view and be like cool like I'm gonna stand in my sovereignty and Review and I love and respect you as my neighbor Even if you paint your house a different color than what I want I feel like is it just me or if like all the all the adults in america just like left over the past 20 years Like they're just all gone Politics is an obvious one, but it's not just that You know celebrities like, you know, even celebrities used to be more respectable and like keep quiet about stuff Almost like a um Keanu Reeves type, you know, that's that's like really rare today. He keeps his opinions private about stuff I I think you're right and I wouldn't be surprised if social media is a part of that where 20 years ago a celebrity didn't have the chance to get on there and be a moron trying to virtue signal to like Stay in good standing with china who's funding their Fucking movie Or just to get virtue signaling points like hey guys, I just want you to know i'm non-binary We got a question by the way from youtuber richard gran and he's a psychology guy. He's got about 300 000 followers awesome guy At least one of her speakers to give him a So a question for both of you. Do you think there's a spiritual component to this culture war? jp Yeah, well be curious your answer as well anthony. Um, I do I very much too I think luke skywalker needs darth vader. So I think at a spiritual level we look at Quite frankly the evil that's happening in the world. I think evil that's um flowing the culture war and We can look at that and say like dude, what a curse we're living with this evil and you know And that looks really powerful you get, you know really powerful nefarious people behind it They've got key people in positions of power and political influence That's a curse And from a spiritual perspective my belief is it's a blessing like what a What a powerful weight to lift I think the we all have Huge potential for strength within us at all levels physically, but just as a physical metaphor Your physical strength Will Not be expressed as greatly if you don't lift heavy weights, but when you lift heavy weights That gives your body a reason to Express strength and develop strength that you never knew before it's in your potential field. So at a spiritual level think our For us to realize our jedi-ness our true nature our connection to truth and willingness to serve it We need the dark vapor that's coming out in the cultural culture wars So like at a one level I can sit here and say like I'm grateful for it And at a different level I'll Not be grateful for it I'm just with you. Yeah But yeah, I'm curious Yeah, sure, I was gonna say we live in interesting times I mean it it's an amazing time to be alive for real You know in some ways it's it's amazing right all the technology and all the travel you can do around the world So easily never before right I mean, I just I just traveled on the u.s Recently I was in utah the other day I was in texas like all over it's so cheap and easy But then also we have all this weird stuff like we have the trans stuff and hyper radical feminism and marxism and communism These are things that the founding fathers even of american enough to deal with right or any you know humans before them so In exchange, we have toilet paper though cell phones internet, you know, we have nice things So yeah, it's a bit of both. It's a blessing and a curse right to be alive now Yeah, as far as spiritual component. Oh hell, yeah I was recently tweeting my savage tweets on my little twitter account It's funny the company has like a much bigger following and I have a personal following that kind of stems off of it So I'm just like even more just unfiltered let's say But I was tweeting Pretty tame for me. I was just saying that you know your your willpower is your soul power And I even see you you know being who you are and being more expressive and more bold and more authentic over time That's an example of that Like you really had to bring out your soul and who you wanted to become and what your potential was over time And that button behind you is an illustration of that you too might be controlled by communists and whatever the fuck right He's these big tech big corporate big gov losers But it's still cool that you have this following, you know shadow band throttled whatever the fuck And that's an illustration of that and I'm sure it's not the motivation what you do You're not like I want more subscribers today. You want to be you and build all this awesome stuff That's what I do. I love building things building conventions videos Working with speakers like you and ellie hulls to make even more videos right and get Get what's in your soul and your mind out to the world in your heart So yeah, there is a big spiritual component to the war 100 percent Absolutely, and and I think something you and I absolutely have in common When we're doing our work, whether I'm building videos Building stand-up comedy routines or on stage or you're building events. You're putting speakers together doing this show We are both serving A truth greater than ourselves. We're contributing to what our hearts 100 percent believe and are connected to Is a mission greater than ourselves? and And I think that is one of the most spiritual things we could ever do and You know, I think the old paradigm of spirituality is like we'll sit under a tree and meditate I think the new paradigm of spirituality is hey motherfuckers Practice time is over the most spiritual thing you can do is get in touch with your fucking purpose and then serve it And I think that's what we do Yeah, man 100 percent. Fuck. Yeah, I love it man. This you remind me of elliott a lot when I first met elliott I really didn't know what to make of him. He's into some weird stuff over the years, right? I just seen him on youtube But when I met him we went fishing actually shark fishing out in coca beach on these coast of florida And he was just so fucking like eye contact like just just having conversations. There's fishing and shit Just super fucking savage authentic and I'm like, this is awesome Like I I'd never seen anyone that intense in my life and this is fucking great This guy's just like like fucking bulldozer of truth just fucking going He's he's in a fucking great way. I love that. Yeah. Yeah, me too. Yeah, it's awesome It's so it's refreshing to be around, you know it is So we're running out of time. We've got about 13 14 minutes left something like that I do want to ask you a few more specific questions here So number one, have you been inspired by any comedians in particular person? I'm a fan of george carlin old school bill bur Do you have any favorites that inspired you for how you Uh, your skill set today to be a comedian Yeah, well, you know old school my biggest inspiration is a guy named bill hicks. Have you heard of him? I've heard of him. I think I think I've probably seen a little bit. So he was a George carlin esque. He died in 1993 hilarious comedian, you know, he was on letterman a bunch of times, but Aside from just being funny bill hicks brought a message he a lot of his comedy was about calling out corruption in the world and You know, it's certainly george carlin Did that so well? I just I got into bill hicks before george carlin That's why I bring bill up before george carlin So bill hicks really he was the first one. I saw Doing comedy for a purpose greater than just making people laugh And I love that. I Really inspired me it planted seeds. I mean, this is back in probably 2004 2005 I saw him long before he was doing comedy, but they're when it first saw his dvds but it planted a seed and Nothing wrong with just making people laugh for that world needs more laughter, but yeah, but the deeper mission is is just amazing um, and then, you know nowadays I love dave chappelle You know, it's he can get a little woke. It's like fucking dave. I love you anyway And at other times he's fucking anti woke, which is like dude the guy's so like I love it. I love his perspectives But he is first off like he's probably the person in the Culture of zeitgeist who is the least cancelable? Like he was the first one doing jokes about the The bs around identity politics like even back a few years ago. I was like I was literally telling friends like no I I won't make jokes about that like us Oh, we're there. Yeah, it's gonna be a few years and now I do but dave was leading the way So I I think he is he's not a comedian anymore. He's a philosopher who does comedy and I say that as like dude, that's a That's a great thing. That's up level beyond just being a comedian So dude dave chappelle his show his show the chappelle shows That's actually a huge inspiration for how I make the hats that I make and the memes and stuff We make a lot of memes and shit and people wonder where I get the ideas from like old school dave chappelle Specifically the show that I've seen a little bit of a stand-up, but the show is fucking amazing growing up I love it. Best best comedy sketch show. Maybe a best comedy show period of all time. Yeah agreed agreed Yeah, genius genius man genius Okay, so bill hicks and dave chappelle. I'm a big fan. Yeah, I'm a big fan of chappelle and I'll look into bill hicks I know I've seen the name like a thousand times probably. Yeah, I I think if I think he's got a few of his specials on netflix And again But I highly recommend everybody check out bill hicks and just a reminder He died in 93 so a lot of his comedy that you'll be watching is either from the very early 90s or late 80s So just political references when he's talking about george bush. He's talking about george bush senior So next question What philosophers have influenced you like you obviously have a lot more to you than his comedy like you You're made really well as an entrepreneur You become a husband and father now like who what thinkers over time throughout your life have influenced you Yeah, man, the have you ever gotten into carl yung's work? Yeah, recently over the past year year and a half. I'd say not too deep, but it's been of interest to me Yeah, so a bit of his work has influenced me and And and I will just a footnote on that if anybody Uh gives a shit about the footnote I don't like to read yung's work directly His writing style from like the early 1900s. It's so academic It's like trying to digest a brick in order to get mineral nutrients or no So I love to read other authors Versions of carl yung's work. So there's a union psychologist named james hollis My favorite author. He's a beautiful writer yet brilliant thinker and you know brings his own thinking to the tables Not just trying to academically regurgitate yung, but he's a union psychologist. So You know, uh, I love his stuff and then, you know, honestly some of the classics like a cartole I mean it The power of being present is so powerful not as an end game But just like as one of our stages is of stages of development. So Yeah, I love him If we can call him a philosopher Yeah, sure. Yeah, for sure Uh, next question I'll ask you you mentioned that you became, uh, you know, a father not too long ago You have uh, you have a son one year old or something like that. Well, he had wilder He's seven months old Okay. Wow. I'm really happy for you man. That's awesome. Oh, thank you. Yep, honestly The best thing I've ever experienced and I've experienced some great shit Being a father it blows it all out of the water. I love So my question is how is becoming a father and husband changed you as a man and as an entrepreneur? How's it influenced you? Yeah, incredibly and powerfully How's it it's made me more of who I am it's made me um Bigger faster stronger If I could say that as an entrepreneur, I'm it's like I'm Yeah, it's like having a reason like providing for my family and also modeling for my dad Fulfilling his purpose and serving something greater than himself. I just I have way more voltage going to that in business and purpose I did before and I had a lot of voltage before so it's just been up and You know something about becoming a father for me is It's made me more whole. It's like there's there's resources in me That we're there. They're dormant. They're part of humankind part of being a man But we have a lot of resources that don't come online until we need them and becoming a father is Brought resources online that I I didn't know we're there because like I hadn't lived them. So having those resources come online. I feel Much more of a whole man Than I ever have before and part of that Is providing for my family which then extrapolates into my business like the past you feel do you feel more focused? I feel way more focused. I feel I mean the the past year my business has just Really boomed and Yeah, man, and and I don't know if that would have happened without becoming a father And by the way, old programming I used to fear becoming a father Kind of thinking like shit. It'll that will hurt my business. Like I won't have as much motivation Maybe I'll just always want to spend time with my kid and like I won't give a shit about business No, now I give a shit more about business and and yes, I want to spend time with my kid I've just got strong boundaries now when I'm working like not and so I can you know, it's all sacred gardens They need different gardener ships to it So yeah, it's fueled the fire Nice. Yeah, I noticed this right away talking to your assistant once we talked to Vanessa I think it's her name And I could just tell the way you were I just got the vibe the way you had spoken to me and then she had spoken to me I was like this dude is super fucking organized Which I love like I'm nowhere near that myself But I aspire to be more and more over time and that has been the course of my life Slowly right bit by bit. I started my business at 17 years old So I like to think I'm more I think I like to think more organized at 32 and 17 obviously, right? The same I'm a little bit more masculine a little bit wiser more experienced A little bit more beaten a little bruised up, you know over the years of living life doing wild shit like you a little bit Yeah, absolutely So talk to me a couple minutes left here your official mission. I think at this point is freedom Free speech and fun if that if that's correct Talk to me about we talked a little bit about freedom earlier in the show Talk to me about the fun element because that's I think my favorite part of that because it's so rare that you see that And for you it's obvious for the comedy but fun is more than just laughing and comedy like Was there meaning behind the fun part? Can you talk to me about that? Yeah, man, you know There's a quote I love by oscar wild Which is Life is too important to be taken seriously So I love it Just imagine a world where someone's serving their Their purpose they're bringing great good to the world May haven't any fucking fun doing it What if that person Just imagine this alternate world now What if that same person was serving that same purpose? Only Now they allowed themselves to have fun Doesn't mean they're having fun 24 seven But just like being a man you're sensitive at times you're crying at times and you're fucking bold and fierce at times So what if fun becomes a place where you can go to and what if you find out when you're having fun You actually become more effective at your purpose Yeah, it's like, you know, we we've all played sports whether it's like little league or whatever So whatever level of sport you got to You just imagine that kid Who didn't have fun during the games and maybe he was crying after the game if your team lost I was never that kid I I was competitive. I was usually one of the best athletes on the team But what counted for me was having fun I just did we win or lose like I guarantee I tried my best And I put in fucking effort and I guarantee I had fun. So I don't really care if we won or lost So what if we brought that to our purpose? Now, I don't know that everybody's purpose Would be helped if they have fun I think a lot would probably not everybody But I know mine is helped when I have fun And I think part of my purpose is helping spread the vibe of fun I think seriousness is a fear-based psychological posture So funny when we're serious about something we're serious because we want to be more effective But if we're more if we're coming from a more fear-based mindset, we're ain't going to be more effective And I think seriousness Is just a way It's a way we deceive ourselves into not admitting we're afraid So when we're serious about something if we can admit like I had some fear around this. Yeah, what is the fear? Get in touch with the fear. Maybe you'll still be serious, but you'll be less controlled by the fear So for me, that's one of the reasons why it's important to Be a conscious purveyor of fun. I think it is an expansive energy. I think it's a loving energy Not a serious fear-based energy I love it, man. Very well articulated Fought along. Yes, this is some real psychology stuff. You're dropping your man. This is good. That's real I'm just reading off the script you sent me Yeah Yeah, you know it it comes to mind I saw it in your mission and it reminded me a lot of trump because trump is one of the only politicians Perhaps the only politician i've ever seen including when he was in office. He would talk about fun He'd be something serious to be going on and then he'd go out on the white house lawn He'd be like, we're having a lot of fun here today And i'm like, holy like It made me realize like you that he actually value in his hierarchy of values fun is very hard to list And I don't think I don't know if you've noticed analyze that him and him as well But that's I heard this you say this multiple times. I'm like this dude has the launch coats of the nukes And he's like we're having fun and you're and your stupid nuk button doesn't work and mine's bigger and better And you're a loser I'm like this dude is legitimately having fun and I think it's making it more effective I think you're right in You know you look at Not to provide none there the bus, but I think he represents the opposite polarity like Obviously cognitive decline acknowledged You don't see him Exuding fun ever even if you look at old videos when he was with it like back when he was a senator He was having fun. So now you watch him try to read off a teleprompter And I he's using fear-based tactics. So like first on what the fuck is fun about that But but that's not a charismatic energy, but then you bring up trump like I I was watching trump's first rally back What was it? I think it was in Ohio a month or so ago and You know the he's outside you know full field and you know the He had this those kind of clear teleprompters politicians use They start blowing the wind. He just has fun with it He's like whoever set these teleprompters up as an idiot and like good. I don't like using teleprompters It's too easy with them. It's more fun about them yep Yeah, not that he can roof off the cuff and be even more authentic and more uh adlib. I guess yeah He's amazing at that stuff, man I saw him in texas at the c-pack like a couple weeks ago and the same thing I mean, he had the teleprompters, but you could tell you can tell when he goes off the teleprompter He starts just talking and that's the best part. That's when he's just like i'm gonna be fucking me and With secret service everywhere and I was a president like a few months ago. Yeah Absolutely, man. I know you got to bounce him in the last question. It's a very serious question What's it like being a dude with long hair? I've never asked any man this with long hair. So I like to know Plus your red head too. I mean, damn dude, that's rough A lot of diversity in that Being a man with long hair, it's A spider-man's uncle once said with great power comes great responsibility So I think his uncle was fucking wrong There's no responsibility with it, but you know for me actually It is fun It is fun. I grew my hair out started growing it out 10 years ago and and Yeah, this feels like a like psychology session. I don't think I've ever said this out loud before You know, my my hair was really short kept neat and controlled and you know, I was teaching for this Often suit, you know, I like coaching stuff and let's be serious so that people will give me credit or whatever and then it was You know a couple years before I started doing the comedy videos. I'm not gonna have to do that And I'm just like I want to grow my hair out it Now looking back I can realize This is a symbolic my hair is a symbolic representation of fun The short hair was a symbolic representation of seriousness Yeah, tight ass Yeah, exactly. So I think Seeing my hair and feeling it every day long That was a symbolic educational reminder Have more fun I kind of get some Goku vibes do some s s just some super sand vibes like your hair gets longer You get more badass. I don't know if you're familiar with that show We're not allowed to talk about that Anthony. Um, okay, okay been classified Yep, well, hey man, I really appreciate your time today has been fucking awesome Everyone make sure you check out awaken with jp.com link in the description Of course, his channel is also linked in the description as well. He has events coming up One here July 28th in Texas again in Texas, California after that And eventually gets out of Florida too. I think in October Arizona here I'll be in Naples and Amongst other nice Florida locations, but I love Florida Yeah, dude. I'm from Fort Myers. So Naples was our high school rival And they kicked our ass usually but would beat the shit out of them a senior Like murder them football was awesome Hopefully they're still scarred by it. Oh, yeah, for sure. Well, hey man, appreciate your time today I appreciate you everything that you do and kick an ass man Maybe I'll be back on the show sometime If not, uh, keep killing it with everything you do many events and the channel and all of it Thank you so much, Anthony. I Appreciate that and thank you for having me on and thank you for doing what you're doing in the world and everybody in the Movement that you're a part of thank you guys for caring enough about life and contributing to a greater world to Work on yourselves and influence the world around you. So such a pleasure to wrap with y'all today 100% man, I like the world that we live in, you know, I want to make it better and we live here. It's our home So let's just talk and do it All right jp. Thanks, man. Everyone else. Thanks for tuning in today special episode on a tuesday of the red man group I'll see you probably on the saturday 11am red man group Otherwise, uh, to tune in the channel anyway and check out jp sears man awaken the jp.com Peace out. See you guys next time