Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen when there was a young scamp coming to town.
Speaker 1: He had this little YouTube channel that was growing by
Speaker 1: leaps and bounds as he made fun of people doing
Speaker 1: yoga and eating vegan food, and I thought he was hilarious.
Speaker 2: Well I was right.
Speaker 1: America now knows that JP's ears is hilarious and he's
Speaker 1: back to go to comedy works Awaken with JP. Yes, Awaken,
Speaker 1: that's an awfully full of yourself sort of title to
Speaker 1: give your program, like.
Speaker 2: I'm here to open your eyes.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I maybe I'm a narcissist, and if so,
Speaker 3: it's a condition and I need people to cater to
Speaker 3: my condition. I'm a victim, even though narcissist victimize other people.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm pretty great, Mandy.
Speaker 1: I see that on your YouTube channel consistently. You're very
Speaker 1: consistent with your own greatness. Well, I want to ask
Speaker 1: you a question about how you evolved over time on
Speaker 1: YouTube because when you started, as I said, you would
Speaker 1: kind of pick a topic and a lot of times
Speaker 1: it was like the sensitive, snowflaky kind of thing. But
Speaker 1: you've really and you giving really sharp but very funny
Speaker 1: political commentary is part of what you do.
Speaker 2: How did that process happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a really a dramatic evolution and none
Speaker 3: of it was planned and basically it just happened. Like
Speaker 3: the shortest answer is what was most important to me
Speaker 3: was changing. So when I was doing like the New
Speaker 3: Age making fun of this spiritual stuff, you know, that's
Speaker 3: what my life was.
Speaker 4: I was very in that.
Speaker 3: I lived in southern California for a while, spent a
Speaker 3: fair bit of time in Boulder.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh.
Speaker 3: I was immersed in that kind of New Age life.
Speaker 3: And after a while I realized that there's a lot
Speaker 3: of b es in it. There's a lot of egotistical
Speaker 3: nature that hides behind these like better than Thou hiding spots.
Speaker 3: So even though I was getting a lot of value
Speaker 3: from that kind of community, I said, well, nobody's calling
Speaker 3: out this like shadows side, so I'm going to do
Speaker 3: I see the shadow side and me, I'm going to
Speaker 3: do that, and I.
Speaker 4: Want to make it funny.
Speaker 3: And then you know, a little time goes on and
Speaker 3: COVID happens, and I think a lot of people changed
Speaker 3: with COVID. We woke up to different things, and part
Speaker 3: of that was I woke up to what's most meaningful
Speaker 3: to me, and for the first time in my life,
Speaker 3: I realized, well, freedom is my number one value. I
Speaker 3: didn't know that before because I just always taken it
Speaker 3: for granted. That's part of the blessing and living such
Speaker 3: a beautiful country. But I was ignorant to it. And
Speaker 3: then with COVID, I'm like, I'm not taking this for
Speaker 3: granted anymore. And I had never been remotely interested in politics,
Speaker 3: but you know, freedom and so many other things, like
Speaker 3: literally everything became a political issue.
Speaker 4: So wanting to use my comedy.
Speaker 3: As a way to speak what I see as truth,
Speaker 3: it just so happened to be, well, the political arena
Speaker 3: is where that's at right now. So thus in twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: I kind of woke up and found myself, I guess
Speaker 3: I'm interested in poulolitics right now.
Speaker 1: You know, there's an old saying that even if you're
Speaker 1: not interested in politics, politics is interested in you, right
Speaker 1: So it's always funny when I especially young people, when
Speaker 1: I meet them and they're like, I just don't follow politics,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you know what, that's your prerogative, but
Speaker 1: know that someone right now, somewhere else is making decisions
Speaker 1: for your life that you don't get to participate in
Speaker 1: because you don't.
Speaker 2: Have time to follow politics.
Speaker 1: It's sad because it's such a kind of thing to
Speaker 1: have to follow, but it's so incredibly important.
Speaker 3: I agree, and I think, you know, you can see
Speaker 3: I have more gray here hairs on my beard than
Speaker 3: I used to. But even just five years ago, I
Speaker 3: would have thought the same thing, like a politics that
Speaker 3: doesn't affect me, right, you know, I don't see a
Speaker 3: different space on who's president, where the Senate's at, where
Speaker 3: the House is, and what's going on. And that's because
Speaker 3: I wasn't seeing the difference. I wasn't looking for it,
Speaker 3: but realizing, you know, the government's spending They don't spend
Speaker 3: their money because they don't have money, they're spending our money,
Speaker 3: and laws and regulations like a new one passed.
Speaker 4: You probably don't notice that, but.
Speaker 3: It moves things an inch in one direction or better
Speaker 3: or worse. So when that happens over and over and
Speaker 3: over again, you.
Speaker 4: Realize things have slid a mile. Yeah, and it's happened
Speaker 4: so slowly. I haven't paid attentions.
Speaker 3: So I do very much value the idea of whatever
Speaker 3: age you are.
Speaker 4: Don't lose yourself in politics. Don't take it too seriously.
Speaker 3: Correct, don't get self identity with being with one group,
Speaker 3: but pay attention and get involved in a way that
Speaker 3: you can sustainably do, because you know, we're we the
Speaker 3: people shape the course of this country.
Speaker 2: It must have been.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've lost some friends along the way as
Speaker 1: you were part of this sort of spiritual awakening, sort
Speaker 1: of holistic community.
Speaker 2: Have you lost friends over this?
Speaker 1: Have there been things that you've done where they just said,
Speaker 1: that's it, that's too far.
Speaker 4: I haven't in that shock, suh, that's it.
Speaker 2: That's fantastic though. That's good to hear.
Speaker 3: And there's you know, all of my close friends. What
Speaker 3: I got to realize during this weird divided Olympic cycle
Speaker 3: we went through since twenty twenty is all of my
Speaker 3: friends they were heart based relationships. They weren't based on
Speaker 3: this superficial we have to agree with each other to
Speaker 3: be in proximity with each other. But certainly what I
Speaker 3: did lose is like people on the periphery were you know,
Speaker 3: a friend'll say, hey, you know so and so they're
Speaker 3: saying bad things about you, and I'm like, I actually
Speaker 3: I don't care, and that's okay, And So are.
Speaker 1: You getting text messages in all caps JP, because that's
Speaker 1: really when you know you've you've driven someone absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1: What are some of the topics that you find just
Speaker 1: get incredible engagement, either positive or negative.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for a good.
Speaker 3: While, like men competing in women's got incredible engagement, you know,
Speaker 3: talking about the you know, the shots that everybody was
Speaker 3: trying to push on you.
Speaker 4: That was getting incredible engagement.
Speaker 3: And you know the unfortunately during the time over the
Speaker 3: summer when assassination attempts were coming at Trump, those were
Speaker 3: getting incredible engagement. And the common denominator I find with
Speaker 3: like any given topic that gets really good engagement is
Speaker 3: that's the topics that are most emotionally provoking for people.
Speaker 3: So you get you know, parents and they whether they
Speaker 3: have a daughter or not, they can imagine having a
Speaker 3: daughter because they know that parental feel an idea of
Speaker 3: a grown man changing in the locker room with them,
Speaker 3: let alone, potentially creating physical harm and at the very
Speaker 3: least taking away opportunity for them in the sporting world.
Speaker 3: Parents can relate to that and they get so a
Speaker 3: lot of emotion. And then you know, with assassination attempt
Speaker 3: I mean that is very emotionally provoking. You realize this
Speaker 3: is a man, a human being, a father, a grandfather.
Speaker 3: They just try to kill, let alone a president, let
Speaker 3: alone the front runner for the next presidency. So anything
Speaker 3: that really universally moves people. And then there's little things
Speaker 3: that interest me and I'm like, well, I want to
Speaker 3: do a video on this, or I stand up on this.
Speaker 3: It's not like the mega emotional provoking thing, but.
Speaker 1: I call it my self indulgences. I have them on
Speaker 1: the show as well. I have been following Venezuela since
Speaker 1: two thousand and five on my radio programs all over
Speaker 1: the country because I knew we were gonna I knew
Speaker 1: what was coming, and we were gonna get to watch
Speaker 1: it play out in real time. And I'm not happy
Speaker 1: about what's happened to Venezuela, but I tell people all
Speaker 1: the time, I'm like, you want to see the end
Speaker 1: result of what some of the people in this country want.
Speaker 1: It just happened and people are eating zoo animals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's what you want, Like by your year long
Speaker 1: past to the zoo, because you're gonna need it to
Speaker 1: get into the monkey cage to get a snack.
Speaker 2: At some point, if you pursue this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3: You know, Venezuela wasn't on my map until a few
Speaker 3: years ago, but I love that because you had it
Speaker 3: on your map, and it is a preview. Is unfortunate
Speaker 3: what happens to those people, but it's a preview for
Speaker 3: what will happen if certain political ideologies in this country
Speaker 3: get extrapolated.
Speaker 2: So what are your what are your self indulgences?
Speaker 4: My self indulgences? Jeez?
Speaker 3: You know, most recently the Jake Paul like Tyson, Oh
Speaker 3: my god, Okay, nothing, there's no meaning in it, no purpose,
Speaker 3: but it was so fascinating.
Speaker 2: Okay. So, first of all, I love boxing.
Speaker 1: I have enjoyed it since I was a kid, when
Speaker 1: my parents used to watch the Muhammad Ali fights on, like,
Speaker 1: you know, Sunday Sunday while Sunday what is it?
Speaker 2: Wide world just wants on Sunday. Yeah. But and did
Speaker 2: you watch the undercards?
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 5: Those were fantastic. Those were two phenomenal fights. But the
Speaker 5: Jake Paul like Tyson thing, I just felt like I
Speaker 5: was watching somebody beat up somebody's grandpa and it was awful.
Speaker 2: It was it was like, oh.
Speaker 4: It was awful. It didn't surprise me.
Speaker 3: I was truly blown away by the undercard fights, especially
Speaker 3: the women's fight.
Speaker 2: Holy lower.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure about chick fighting, like because I saw
Speaker 1: enough of that in high school. I grew up in
Speaker 1: a redneck high school. A lot of chick fighting where
Speaker 1: I grew up.
Speaker 2: But they were They beat the crap out of each other.
Speaker 4: They did it.
Speaker 3: I mean, man, I'm sure the misogynists love it. They're like, well,
Speaker 3: they both deserve it. But it was a hell of
Speaker 3: a fight. And one of the things that fascinates me
Speaker 3: about the Mike Tyson Jake Paul matchup is just the
Speaker 3: mysterious thinking behind it. You know, they first of all
Speaker 3: masterful marketing. Yep, the numbers I hear.
Speaker 1: Sixty million is what Netflix reported right, Well, for the
Speaker 1: people that could actually watch it, yeah, it'd.
Speaker 4: See a lot of buffering.
Speaker 3: And apparently from what I hear, Jake Paul walked away
Speaker 3: with forty million, Mike Tyson twenty million. And good for them,
Speaker 3: they deserve it. This is a free market. Amazing for them,
Speaker 3: and I think it relied on unethical marketing because you know,
Speaker 3: it was hyped to be a certain thing.
Speaker 4: What was delivered was.
Speaker 3: From what it was hype to be. I don't think
Speaker 3: anybody on the inside would have thought that, yeah, we're
Speaker 3: going to deliver a real fight, having a twenty seven
Speaker 3: year old guy fight a fifty eight year old guy.
Speaker 4: There's an ethical question.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: It was consensual, it was good, but.
Speaker 1: That was like watching somebody beat up your grandpa, and
Speaker 1: it was it was just I. At one point I
Speaker 1: was texting with my husband. He was somewhere else. We
Speaker 1: were watching it together, far apart, and I was just like,
Speaker 1: I this hurts me to watch this, and.
Speaker 2: It was Hopefully Jake Paul did hold up. He could
Speaker 2: have beaten the crap out of an old man.
Speaker 4: He really did, and it would have been awful.
Speaker 3: And the thing that fascinates me the most, like Jake
Speaker 3: Paul kind of universally got a lot of hate for that,
Speaker 3: I think, and that works for Jake Paul because now
Speaker 3: more people are interested. I want to see what he
Speaker 3: does next, so I get that's exactly.
Speaker 4: What Ja Paul was.
Speaker 2: He's the consummate villain.
Speaker 3: And the other thing that fascinates me is, you know,
Speaker 3: the world's showing love for Mike Tyson, just wanting him
Speaker 3: to do well and nobody remembers he's convicted of one
Speaker 3: of the most vile crimes imaginable he has had.
Speaker 1: He's one of those kind of tragic anti heroes almost
Speaker 1: in our culture.
Speaker 2: And his backstory.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people, you know, his backstory
Speaker 1: is just so sad. And the fact that he's pretty
Speaker 1: much been exploited as a brute since he was like
Speaker 1: fifteen years old.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a horrible time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think that.
Speaker 1: You know, in America, I think we want to forgive people,
Speaker 1: we want we want to see them do better, we
Speaker 1: want to see them kind of rise above. And I
Speaker 1: feel like there was a lot of that at Mike
Speaker 1: Tyson in that situation. What can people expect from the show,
Speaker 1: Like we're just chatting about the news, But what can
Speaker 1: people expect when they come to see you at Landmark
Speaker 1: Comedy Works this weekend?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, first off, Comedy Works the best club in the country.
Speaker 3: I always love being here. I think this is my
Speaker 3: fourth or fifth time Denver. The crowds are always the best.
Speaker 3: Denver's always treated me well.
Speaker 2: Because everybody's high.
Speaker 1: Every Yeah, everyone's high.
Speaker 2: That's all it is. Just make a pot joke and
Speaker 2: they're like, Okay, there you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they so you can expect one stupid pot joke,
Speaker 3: that's all.
Speaker 4: There you go, No excuse me.
Speaker 3: I'll be doing an hour long stand up performance, and
Speaker 3: there's there's comedy on some politicals topics naturally, and then
Speaker 3: you know, I'm a father.
Speaker 4: I've got a four year old boy, so there's.
Speaker 1: Some of that five is the best age for children,
Speaker 1: like if we can freeze them because they have no
Speaker 1: edit button, right, they just have no edit. But but
Speaker 1: they're also old enough to form their own independent thoughts
Speaker 1: for the first time. Loved that age for my daughter.
Speaker 1: So I'm jealous of you because you've just entered it
Speaker 1: four to five years.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: My little boy, what he's doing now that amuses me
Speaker 3: the most is saying the F word with no idea
Speaker 3: what it means. He's seeing it in the cutest, happiest way,
Speaker 3: and I'm doing my best to not like make a
Speaker 3: big deal of it, but not like feed in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I just.
Speaker 4: Say it's better to not use that word. Yeah, is there?
Speaker 4: I am a hypocrite? Like where do you learn that?
Speaker 1: Well, I because I'm on the radio, I have this
Speaker 1: ability to flip that switch to Curson switch. So I
Speaker 1: never cursed around my daughter. Ever, now she's fifteen, that
Speaker 1: has changed. Yeah, because now on occasion I will have
Speaker 1: to unfurnil the phrasing that gets her attention.
Speaker 2: Let me just say that.
Speaker 1: And the first time I actually cursed, she was like, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, and I was proud at that moment. My husband,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, doesn't have that switch. So we
Speaker 1: have those same situations. Well, we have freedom of speech,
Speaker 1: so I know, but I'm not the government, but I
Speaker 1: can shut you down in my house.
Speaker 2: So that's that's the rules, mom rules.
Speaker 1: JP is going to be at Comedy Works and Landmark
Speaker 1: all weekend long. You got shows Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I've got a link on the blog for people to
Speaker 1: buy tickets if you want to. Actually and this is
Speaker 1: one of those things where most of the time I
Speaker 1: would say, I don't want to speculate that, I'd say
Speaker 1: eighty five percent of comedians lean left and I will
Speaker 1: in a show and eventually there's that one joke that
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, that's that's my shot. You know you're
Speaker 1: gonna take it. It's nice to know that they are
Speaker 1: funny people out there that are making fun of everyone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's just nice to know that I'm probably not
Speaker 1: going to be viciously.
Speaker 2: Insulted when I come to your show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you'll be insulted.
Speaker 3: Because you know that's what you do, Aileen right as well.
Speaker 3: But if I can't make fun of myself from what
Speaker 3: I believe my side, then I'm a hypocrite. And so
Speaker 3: I think the self deprecating my own views. That's important too.
Speaker 3: And of course, uh, you know, plenty of punches thrown
Speaker 3: to the other side too.
Speaker 1: Are you talking at all about some of the cabinet
Speaker 1: picks that President Trump has made, because.
Speaker 2: Some of these have been I raising, eyebrow raising, you
Speaker 2: have to say they they're.
Speaker 4: Fascinating to me.
Speaker 3: And obviously the Matt Gates saga, that's all please out now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw he did pull himself
Speaker 1: out of contention, which I thought was going to happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I probably with a lot of people. Elon fascinates
Speaker 3: me the most because here's the guy A lot of
Speaker 3: us look at him like a savior. You know, we're
Speaker 3: living in a world where we're afraid of these globalists
Speaker 3: like taking too much control over people. So here comes Elon.
Speaker 3: He's done so much for free speech. And you know,
Speaker 3: he controls a major portion of the automobile industry with Tesla,
Speaker 3: major corner of free speech with Twitter, he controls space
Speaker 3: travel with SpaceX, human health with Neurlink, and now he's
Speaker 3: got a major position in the government, giving this man
Speaker 3: all that control. To save us from the people that
Speaker 3: just want to control us, we need to think about that.
Speaker 1: I have a massive non sexual crush on Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: like he is my dream interview because I just want
Speaker 1: to know what is it in him that makes him
Speaker 1: have no fear of failure, think about everything He's thrown
Speaker 1: against the wall like crazy. Some dude goes, you know what,
Speaker 1: I think we should have a private space company that
Speaker 1: uses reusable rockets. Elon Musk is the guy that goes,
Speaker 1: let's do it like rock and roll, you know. And
Speaker 1: I'm dying to interview him, to talk to him about
Speaker 1: that aspect of his personality, because if you can explain that,
Speaker 1: teach it or harness it alone, you'd be the richest
Speaker 1: person in the world, because that's what so many.
Speaker 2: Of us lack.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, And if you look at like an
Speaker 3: extreme sports guy like Travis Pastroana motocross guy doing flips
Speaker 3: on dirt bikes.
Speaker 2: Just that makes my son the card. I can't watch that.
Speaker 3: So they've looked at him, and apparently he lacks like
Speaker 3: the stimulation in the brain center that should feel fear.
Speaker 4: That's why he does all this crazy stuff. But I
Speaker 4: would speculate.
Speaker 3: Maybe Elon like has that disconnect too, Like the amount
Speaker 3: of risk he takes yep. And not only the failure
Speaker 3: that could happen, but the guy's gone through so many
Speaker 3: failures yep, which you hear about the successes.
Speaker 1: JP is going to be at comedy works this weekend
Speaker 1: at Landmark JP. Every at the end of every show,
Speaker 1: we play this really dumb game. Can I throw you
Speaker 1: on the spot and you play the game with us?
Speaker 4: I love dumb game. I'm a dumb guy. You're not
Speaker 4: gonna win.
Speaker 1: But nobody ever does on the first try. Okay, And
Speaker 1: I've been playing this for twenty years, and now it's
Speaker 1: time for the most siding segment on the radio of its.
Speaker 5: Guide, the Word of the day, all right.
Speaker 1: In this segment, we do a couple of things. First,
Speaker 1: we do dad joke of the Day, a rod which
Speaker 1: you don't have to.
Speaker 2: Laugh if it's just bad. You can say it's bad. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what is our dad joke?
Speaker 4: Well, what did the earthquake say when it was done?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Sorry, my fault, all right, And that was not one
Speaker 1: of the better ones that we have on the show.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they're actually a little bit better than that. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm letting you know, what is our word of
Speaker 1: the day, and we.
Speaker 6: Guess the definition of adjective adjective eden tate e d
Speaker 6: e n t A t e wait.
Speaker 2: And d e and t a t.
Speaker 1: Not that that helped me out what adjective adjective edentate.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say that that is something blissfully wonderful.
Speaker 2: It's a kind of wrong.
Speaker 6: The opposite, Okay, what I think the opposite.
Speaker 3: I'm getting like crap energy from the Garden of Eden.
Speaker 4: Take That's where I was going. That's not an adjective though.
Speaker 6: You know, like the name of the dragon from How
Speaker 6: to Train Your Dragon, it means toothless or having only
Speaker 6: a few teeth.
Speaker 2: I'd rather just stay toothless. Now.
Speaker 1: In this section JP, we play Jeopardy okay with our
Speaker 1: fake Jeopardy music, so we can party a question.
Speaker 2: First, Oh trivia question, can hell I gotta have a
Speaker 2: calendar for this, all right.
Speaker 1: Today's trivia question is in eighteen eighty five, the American
Speaker 1: Kennel Club registered its first beagle.
Speaker 2: What was the beagles name? I'm gonna go Snoopy because
Speaker 2: why not?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you.
Speaker 2: Want to take a shot.
Speaker 4: I gotta go Sam.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, we're all wrong Blunder, which is kind of
Speaker 1: a good name for a dog. Beagles were first imported
Speaker 1: to the United States from Europe in the years after
Speaker 1: the Civil War.
Speaker 2: There you go, Okay, Now.
Speaker 1: In this you have to say your name if you
Speaker 1: want to answer the question, and then you answer the
Speaker 1: form of a question, just like in Jeopardy. But we
Speaker 1: don't wait till the end of the question.
Speaker 2: It's a plus.
Speaker 4: You have to because it's I will.
Speaker 1: I will wait till the end of the question, because
Speaker 1: you're a guest and I'm nice.
Speaker 6: All right, here we go. What is our category? Category
Speaker 6: is four letter friends? Four letter answer, four letters, four
Speaker 6: letters musically cool?
Speaker 4: Had one?
Speaker 2: Mandy?
Speaker 4: What's the gang correst?
Speaker 2: Now you're getting yeah, huh yeah.
Speaker 6: We love your best These also where flowers spring from?
Speaker 4: We love you? What is the garden?
Speaker 2: What's a four letter word? Mandy, what is JRK?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: What are buds?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: But Mandy, I thought was a four letter word.
Speaker 2: Well, you're doing great?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 2: Does that make you feel better?
Speaker 3: I identify as literate? Okay.
Speaker 6: Milwaukee's MLB team is sometimes referred to as the.
Speaker 2: Brew This, Mandy, what is the crew?
Speaker 4: Correct?
Speaker 6: Rest easy? Tunisia's on our side. In twenty fifteen, it
Speaker 6: was even designated as a major non NATO this.
Speaker 2: Non NATO JP ally correct. I don't give it you.
Speaker 1: Even though you did not say it in the form
Speaker 1: of a question.
Speaker 2: That's okay because you're a guest.
Speaker 4: No, you're what's what's your what's the score?
Speaker 2: It's one to zero right now?
Speaker 6: You go one zero, he's got he's not a chance
Speaker 6: right now. This word for a friend can also mean
Speaker 6: bait to attract sharks.
Speaker 4: Many correct, and that's.
Speaker 2: It, JP. It is such a pleasure. I'm you're you
Speaker 2: in person.
Speaker 1: I hope you have a fantastic weekend and we'll see
Speaker 1: you next time you come to dock.
Speaker 4: Thank you, man, You're amazing.