What is, is there intentional? Is that just authentic?

Yeah, you know, it's both.

So, you know, part of what I do with comedy is call out lies, hypocrisy, and corruption.

What? Yeah.

We're told there's none of that.

This is ridiculous.

I guess gaslighting, too.

Like I'm not out to offend anybody, but I'm also not here to entertain your nonsense.

Well, will you tell us about it?

Yeah.

Uh, Trump put out a, a very short Truth Social tweet, uh, uh, that says anybody who doesn't adopt the term superintelligence, they still use the term artificial intelligence, is the enemy.

And you can see it on your screen right now.

Is the enemy.

Now, uh, I'm a, I'm a huge fan of the First Amendment, Alex.

Um, now Trump's not necessarily saying he's going to threaten any kind of law fare, but he certainly has made a, a verbal, uh, threat or intimidation saying, "You're the enemy if you use words I don't like." And by the way, they're words, artificial intelligence, that people have been using for years.

Uh, JP Sears, your take on this.

Uh, JP Sears, your take on this.

And yeah, [clears throat] if you step into a, a very prominent public figure position, you are open for criticism.

You're also open for praise, but that comes with the territory.

And, you know, w- nobody's gonna fall for like, "Hey, she's a grieving ridow s- widow, so you can't criticize her." Well, we, we actually can.

She's voluntarily in a public position and doing things that I think are very deserving of criticism, where, you know, what she says and what she does can be incredibly out of alignment.

Now, I, I will say, you know, as you draw distinctions between yourself and Candace, me too, I, I love Candace doing all her investigations.

That doesn't mean I believe everything she says about Erika Kirk, Turning Point USA.

Here's a clip from JP Sears.

What will he be like in a year?

Man, it's kind of scary to think about that because how far he's gotten, because I agree with you, about four or five months into his presidency is when something changed.

Now, our values, what's important to us, that didn't change.

And the promises that were like, that's an amazing promise, that didn't change.

But then those promises being broken, Trump changing, turning his back on what we stand for.

Four or five months in, that seemed to change.

Now, about a year after that, we've come a long way.

So what happens? They're just going to continue to

Well, well, you tell us about it.

Yeah.

Uh, Trump put out a, a very short Truth Social tweet, uh, uh, that says anybody who doesn't adopt the term super intelligence, they still use the term artificial intelligence, is the enemy.

And you can see it on your screen right now, is the enemy.

Now, uh, I'm a, I'm a huge fan of the First Amendment, Alex.

Um, now Trump's not necessarily saying he's going to threaten any kind of law fare, but he certainly has made a, a verbal, uh, threat or intimidation saying you're the enemy if you use words I don't like.

And by the way, they're words, artificial intelligence, that people have been using for years.

What will he be like in a year?

But let's talk about the system and your fear that the system cannot be fixed by using the system.

Yeah, you know, so I think what really...

I knew this for a long time.

It's just basic human principles that, you know, people have to be involved.

Gandhi's old thing, be the change you wish to see in the world, not support that guy to be the change you wish to see in the world.

It's like, yeah, we want...

the best leaders elected yet we can't scapegoat responsibility our our country one of our biggest problems is we treat self-responsibility like it's an allergen people just it's not mine not mine totally so i think what really my final straw of like It's 100% on us was what happened with Thomas Massey.

I'm not even in DC.

Well, will you tell us about it?

Yeah.

Trump put out a, a very short Truth Social tweet, uh, uh, that says, "Anybody who doesn't adopt the term superintelligence, they still use the term artificial intelligence, is the enemy," and you can see it on your screen right now, "is the enemy." Now, uh, I'm a, I'm a huge fan of the First Amendment, Alex.

Um, now Trump's not necessarily saying he's going to threaten any kind of law fare, but he certainly has made a, a verbal, uh, threat or intimidation saying, "You're the enemy if you use words I don't like." And by the way, they're words, artificial intelligence, that people have been using for years.

And what this reminds me of is the compelled speech that happened up in Canada, I'm sure it's still happening, where if you don't use the, you know, 73rd gender pronoun that people are making up up, up there, uh, you, you face lawful consequences in Canada.

That's compelled speech.

That is not part of free speech.

Uh, JP Sears, your take on this.

Uh, JP Sears, your take on this.

Man, yeah.

If you step into a, a very prominent public figure position, you are open for criticism.

You're also open for praise, but that comes with the territory.

And, you know, w- nobody's gonna fall for like, "Hey, she's a grieving ridow s- widow, so you can't criticize her." Well, we, we actually can.

She's voluntarily in a public position and doing things that I think are very deserving of criticism, where, you know, what she says and what she does can be incredibly out of alignment.

Now, I, I, I will say, you know, as you draw distinctions between yourself and Candace, I mean, to...

Here's a clip from JP Sears.

Well, will you tell us about it?

Yeah.

Uh, Trump put out a, a very short Truth Social tweet, uh, uh, that says anybody who doesn't adopt the term super intelligence, they still use the term artificial intelligence, is the enemy.

And you can see it on your screen right now, is the enemy.

Now, uh, I'm a, I'm a huge fan of the First Amendment, Alex.

Um, now Trump's not necessarily saying he's going to threaten any kind of law fare.

But he certainly has made a, a verbal, uh, threat or intimidation, saying, "You're the enemy if you use words I don't like." And by the way, they're words, artificial intelligence, that people have been using for years.

What will he be like in a year?

Yeah, snoring.

Funny thing about that, they say the lethal injection poison juice, when it leaks out, it gives you burns.

Yeah.

so she's in this living hell absolutely suffering in the hospital where they're trying to save the life of someone who they were trying to put to death which is kind of fun but then you kind of think about it she brutally murdered someone and if you see how she murdered this person kept a piece of the skull as a souvenir you'd think well she kind of deserves to burn in hell and that's kind of what she's doing right now so she's getting a little taste she's getting a little tight little movie trailer preview yeah

doesn't probably something yeah a wooden door

no something sounds anti-semitic in there and you know how the cabin the cockpit door you can't get in yeah well i could get in so i went in there and i said there is anti-semitism going on in here and i do not approve stand down so there was an anti-semitic knifer knifing the semi and i said i'm not gonna stand for this so in a very heroic way I subdued the would-be terrorist attacker then we we land and uh what they said did you land the

Yeah

"... to walk my own legs.

Look, the wheelchair can do the walking for me." Cool.

What's happening to your legs? Weaker and weaker and weaker.

So if we're not challenging our minds, if we're just using not even a crutch, but the wheelchair of AI because we're seduced by easiness, uh, we will get very weak.

And what happens, like when you're a- at a, a, a point in your day where you have a, you have a fork in the road.

You can stay aligned with your values- ... it's gonna be a little hard.

Um, what, what, what is your hope for how we can continue to positively influence that next wave of men to be the strong men that we so desperately need in this country?

so one why like first like why do you want to have these complex conversations and these difficult conversations and then why do you use comedy

Why have the conversations? The truth matters.

It simply does.

Period.

If we don't have truth in our as the North Star in our sky, we we are not guided by we're not guided into a good direction.

We're just not.

So truth matters.

Do you think that those things are interconnected? Like, can you be a good father, a good husband when you're weak and fat?

You're criticizing her despite, yeah.

Yeah, and just like when the great Kobe Bryant died, like nobody's out like, let's criticize his widow now.

Right.

Nobody wants to do that, but she has volunteered voluntarily to, Days after his death, stepped into the position of CEO, running a nine-figure, incredibly influential organization that she doesn't have training, background, or experience to run.

Her background is in attention-seeking behavior, and I'm not, even in this moment, criticizing that, just pointing it out.

Beauty pageants, being on a reality dating show, auditioning for other shows, being a part of a CIA-linked video about EMP defenses.

There's a history of the human being Erica Kirk seeking attention and spotlight in different ways.

Like, I think Charlie said on multiple occasions that the primary place for a wife is at home raising her children as a mother.

So the point you're making is if I hear you correctly is Ben Shapiro has also been consistent all along.

He's being principled on Israel.

It's not a principle I agree with or that I think is accurate, but I will give him credit for that.

Like if he were to just sell out, he might've sold out in other ways.

I don't know.

But if he were to just sell out, he'd sit down in a meeting and be like, Hey, Ben, the more you talk about Israel, the more you're just losing viewers.

Look at all these numbers.

night could you imagine it'd be amazing success

end up making a handful of starts with the Padres down the stretch now that you're you know about a year removed from the trade and how do you reflect on the trade and sort of the new beginning with the Padres

yeah I think that you ask anybody that's been traded in season you know there's challenging parts of it right um you know I obviously didn't throw the ball you know exactly how I wanted to to when I got over here last year and um so yeah I think that just I think sometimes I've heard people say you know sometimes it takes nine months to a year to really get used to the system or get used to the guys or get used to, you know, not doing too much.

I think that the biggest thing here is that, um, you know, last year I just, you know, just trying to do too much as far as trying to get good results.

Right.

Um, it's a long game, every game, especially being a starting pitcher out there, you gotta go out there and make a lot of good pitches.

So my focus really this year and this last couple of days has really been like pitch by pitch, really just trying to focus on what I can control, not worry about the outcome, even though it matters a lot, just worrying about controlling that one pitch that I want to bat while I can.

And, um, I think that you ask a lot of starters that.

What was your mindset not making the club and having to go down to AAA, knowing that at some point you'd probably be needed up here in some capacity?

Against the Constitution

... yeah, yeah, unconstitutional stuff, 10% of the time, he's like, "No, I'll, I'll vote a, a different way." So Thomas Massie was crucified, uh, for just calling for justice for the Epstein victims.

Thomas Massie is the principal person.

There were only three members of Congress that were willing to stand for the Epstein files, and Thomas Massie spearheaded that.

So he got the Epstein Transparency Act passed into law.

That's how much it mattered to him, because it's the right thing to do.

By far, the right thing to do.

but this is another fucking, uh, dog and pony show going on.

But Shane said, no, I want to actually use my talent.

Yeah, and he is.

He's been able to be loyal to his truth principle unencumbered.

Now the guy's selling out arenas.

He makes more in one night than he would in three years being on Saturday Night Live.

And those are like real numbers.

And he's more popular.

you

So can you talk to us about that change?

Yeah, give you a little bit of context to frame the change.

I was raised, I like to say I was raised pretend Catholic.

So my mom's...

Many such cases.

Yeah.

My mom's whole side, you know, was very Catholic.

but you're it's so funny but it like you know we've been saying it for a while now but um it's just crazy that like uh wanting to release the epstein files wanting no new war like that that now is being against maga

COVID, all the restrictions of COVID ended the exact moment that the American people as a whole said, I think we're done.

Yeah, the joke has always been on us.

I think God's been up there laughing the whole time because we can be down here whining about the corrupt, powerful establishment.

Look at all their weapons, these propaganda outlets.

They're, you know, control our government, control militaries.

And God's up there laughing.

He's like, you people have had the power this whole time.

Like if you're going to be the man in the arena, you actually have to be the man.

No, I haven't watched the whole thing.

they're in the whole thing, it's nine or 10 minutes off a teleprompter, by the way.

So, you know, she's criticizing people who criticize her basically saying enough, you're dehumanizing me.

Yet my hypothesis would be what we're criticizing her is for dehumanizing herself.

Anything that is like disingenuine, it's fake, it's acting, That's not humanness expressed.

Genuineness is humanness expressed.

So we're literally calling out.

So what do you say about all of that?

Me

too.

Me too.

I just unfortunately imagine we haven't seen the darkest of it.

And I think the reason why that's happening, the reason why the Trump administration feels pressure to at least sort of go through the motions is we the people hold a lot of power.

And a big part of that is social media.

And a really big part of that, quite honestly, is Elon buying X a few years ago, being dedicated to free speech.

It feels like the fact that the Prince Andrew was arrested, that that somehow gave people hope that, look, if they can do it, why can't we?

So what was your, what was your interaction with that?

Yeah, I mean, obviously Sevy was the, you know, the leader of our staff there last year and, um, you know, seeing those struggles is hard to watch.

You know, just seeing the difference in the games at home and away and, um, i- it's kind of hard to have really too, too much of an excuse in my lo- in my eyes.

Um, and not, not a knock on Sevy, 'cause it really is a big difference from maybe where he had pitched the last couple years, and last six, seven years in the big league.

So, like, I can definitely see a big difference in some of those aspects.

But, you know, for me, it's just, I get out there, man, it's just hard to really ever get past the fact that, like, what my job is, it doesn't really matter where I'm at, doesn't really matter the team you're facing or the conditions or, or really the, the fan base or the stadium or any of the outside things.

It's like, you know, if I got beat that day, it was my fault, you know.

So what do you wanna see out of yourself for this year?

But otherwise, he's a hunt and pecker and he's, he's, uh, he's telling someone else what to tweet.

So I think, you know, it, it really surprised me what, a couple months ago when Trump came out hard trying to protect the Epstein files.

I mean, he got really vicious, really attacking his followers as well.

I'm, I'm surprised and pleasantly surprised that he's flipped in supporting this.

I don't think it's a good look that he flipped.

I think it's a much better look than if he like kept his heels dug in to like, "Hey, there's nothing to see with Epstein." Um, but to his credit, he flipped when he should've.

I don't think he ever should've had his heels dug in.

Mm-hmm.