Pod Insights The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast 510. The Greatest Hits About this episode With the new year just around the corner, join Dr. Jordan B. Peterson as he revisits some of his most engaging and substantial moments from 2024.
This episode was filmed on December 14th, 2024
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0:22 Speaker 01 Hello, everybody. So, as you no doubt are aware, 2024, one of the most preposterous years possible is coming to a close. And it's been quite a trip, as I'm sure next year will be. And what we have for you today is a compilation of highlight clips from the last year. It'll be a trip down memory lane for all of us. And, you know, welcome to the reminiscences.
0:58 Speaker 02 Starting from the beginning, the College of Psychologists of Ontario, a regulatory board that was formed to monitor psychologists' relationships with their clients mainly, has been after you for, is it three years or is it longer than that?
1:14 Speaker 01 It depends on the waves, but for this issue, it's been three or four years, yeah.
1:21 Speaker 02 So, working professionals like doctors, lawyers, massage therapists even, are all overseen by regulatory boards? What regulatory boards are supposed to do is give clients who've been basically abused by working professionals a place to go to, to complain to. What happened to you is a bunch of people who weren't your clients, random people online from all over the world, complained about a number of your tweets, as well as comments you made on Joe Rogan. The "Sorry Not Beautiful" tweet in reference to an extremely obese swimsuit model, a tweet criticizing the government of Canada, a tweet saying that physicians removing women's breasts for being trans was criminal, and one, I thought, fairly entertaining tweet suggesting that...
2:05 Speaker 02 This is the tweet that people online are saying you were inciting suicide, which honestly, I think you'd have to have the IQ of a beetle in order to think that. But anyway, you responded to someone who thought the world's population was too high and suggested that he should include himself in the depopulation he was already suggesting. The gist of it is, it looks like your license is getting taken away.
2:26 Speaker 01 I think probably the most comical element of this absolute charade is that the college of psychologists and behavior analysts, because that's what they call themselves now in Ontario, convenient name change. They received perhaps, I don't know for sure, 15 complaints about me from people who, as Michaela pointed out, weren't my clients or even knew my clients or had anything to do with them, complaining about things that I said that were true and that needed to be said. So for example, with the Joe Rogan transcript, which was submitted in its totality as a complaint,
3:07 Speaker 01 I pointed out that stacking extremely unwieldy economic models, projecting out 100 years into the future on top of climate models that are in themselves unwieldy was not anything approximating settled and genuine science, which is absolutely 100% the truth. And you may have noticed, if you were paying attention, that the Democrats under Kamala Harris said nothing about climate in the last election. And so that narrative has turned. Anyways, they're still pursuing me. Hypothetically, they found someone who doesn't know what planet they live on to serve as my re-education agent, even though we're squabbling over the details of that.
3:51 Speaker 01 They don't want any of it made public, and that's not going to happen. They've received 25,000 complaints about their own behavior. And they admitted that. And they're actually bound by their own rules, which they never pay any attention to anyways, to investigate all those complaints and to find out if they're justified. And so it's just a complete bloody nightmare. And in principle, I am still scheduled to be re-educated by some social media expert, whatever the hell that is, so that I conduct myself more appropriately on social media. And so God only knows how that's going to turn out. It's annoying and blackly comical at the same time. So we'll keep you posted on that front.
4:39 Speaker 01 Okay, so how did we get from protecting vulnerable children from online sexual exploitation with a gigantic unnamed bureaucracy with indefinite rights and virtually no responsibility to whatever the hell hateful speech is? I mean, first of all, we might ask ourselves, and Konstantin, you can weigh in here too, is like the whole notion of hateful speech, that's troublesome one for me because there's a obvious element of subjective judgment in it, like a clearly obvious one.
5:16 Speaker 03 So part of the problem is the premise. And, and, and the premise is widely accepted because we accept this premise generally now in society because this is where we're at. But the premise is that the government is responsible for keeping people safe, including the children. And that's ignoring the best mechanism we already have to keep children safe, which is their parents.
5:41 Speaker 01 So that's all in reference to this absolutely and utterly insane bill in Canada, C63, which is grinding its way through the legislative process in Canada as we speak. As was alluded to in the clip, it purports to be a bill that does nothing but save the children from online predators, particularly, let's say, of the sexual type. And it's like, you know, it's pretty hard to mount an argument against that as an aim. But sandwiched in between the clauses that describe attempts to accomplish that end badly, I would say, because there's much more effective ways of doing it, is, are these insane clauses that deal with...
6:29 Speaker 01 Speech that would be hateful towards protected groups. Now, you have to understand, in Canada, since Bill C16, in Canada, since Bill C16, one of the protected classes, I don't even understand how this functions legally, is gender expression. And it's literally the case that gender expression is fashion. And so, I just can't believe that any of this is true. It's the case that criticizing someone's fashion choice in Canada could be construed as hate speech. Now, then you might ask, but what's the punishment for that? Well, this is where things get far past the worst nightmares of both Kafka and George Orwell.
7:12 Speaker 01 So, in this bill, there is a provision so that people who are afraid that someone they know might commit a hate crime can take that person in front of a provincial magistrate. And if the magistrate agrees that there is a possibility that this person's fear is warranted, whatever that means, I suppose that would be based on past behavior, perhaps. God only knows. Then that person can be fitted with an ankle bracelet and confined to their own quarters for periods of up to a year, which is completely insane, obviously, and be subject to the continual monitoring
7:55 Speaker 01 of their bodily fluids on a daily basis. I guess so that, what, they're not supposed to consume alcohol? That would be part of it. Or any other illicit drug, including the marijuana that the liberals themselves have made legal in a successful attempt to bribe the voters. So, and I, oh, that's one little section of this Bill C63. Now, it's a long ways through the legislative process in Canada already. And there's some real possibility that the head narcissist of Canada, and that's Justin Trudeau, and his band of minion supporters, that would be Jagmeet Singh, who is the worst possible leader for the working class that you could imagine with his...
8:40 Speaker 01 Bespoke suits and his Rolexes. Now, I have bespoke suits and a Rolex too, and you might think, well, that's pretty damn hypocritical. It's like, yeah, I'm not a socialist who's claiming to be a champion of the working class. So, uh, that's very different, uh, cup of tea, you might say. In any case, it's highly probable that Trudeau, before he disappears into the perdition that he so richly deserves, as his Liberal Party will be eliminated as a political entity in Canada in the next election because of the absolute catastrophe of his nine years of rule, during which Canada went from a country whose average, whose per capita gross domestic product approximated that of the United States, so a country as rich as the
9:25 Speaker 01 United States, to a country now whose, the inhabitants of whose richest province, per capita, that would be Ontario, are poorer than the inhabitants of the United States' poorest state, that would be Mississippi. That's Justin Trudeau for us. And so, I was discussing Bill C sixty-three with Bruce Partey, who's a remarkable and courageous professor of law, there's actually one of those that exists, a remarkable and courageous Canadian professor of law. That's Bruce Partey, and Konstantin Kissin. And we were discussing that in the broader context of these ridiculously authoritarian
10:07 Speaker 01 laws that are popping up, not only in Canada, because maybe it wouldn't be of all, all that interesting if it was only Canada, but particularly in the UK, under the new Labour Government, and also in Australia, which is a country that's gone just completely out of its mind. And so, we discussed all that in the context of broader threat to free speech that's emerging pretty much everywhere except the United States. So. We'll see how that goes. C sixty-three could easily be law in Canada. Now, I recently moved to the United States. Part of the reason for that was Bill C sixty-three, because the other thing it does is it enables informants of the same type, for example, who had a great the great thrill of turning me in to the College of Psychologists,
10:51 Speaker 01 to go over all the public utterances you've ever made on any social media platform to find anything that might be regarded as indicative of hate, defined in the broadest possible manner, so that they can turn you over to these new governmental agencies that can investigate you. And the punishments are extremely draconian. And you know, in the United, in the, in the UK, where similar legislation has already been implemented, there are thousands of people who are being prosecuted for, you know, Twitter crimes or Facebook crimes. The police are hell-bent on, what do they call them? Non-crime hate incidents in the UK. And they're not precisely criminal, although they would be
11:34 Speaker 01 much more criminal in Canada if this legislation passed. Dreadful, dreadful. And so, and Trudeau is going to be the Prime Minister of Canada in all likelihood till October of 2025. So he's got a whole year to wreak havoc on the country that's turned its back on him in the miserable fashion that, what would you say? Wounded narcissists are particularly expert at carrying out. So, you know, he believes that he's God's gift to Canada, that's for sure. And now that Canadians have turned their back on him, and justly so, he's going to have precisely the attitude of the wounded narcissist, who presumes that, wow, everyone in the country
12:17 Speaker 01 didn't deserve anyone as remarkable as him. And that's a great platform upon which you would develop vengeful legislative moves. So we're going to see a lot of that in Canada in the next, in the next nine months, before the Liberals disappear into the pit that they've dug for themselves.
12:57 Speaker 04 And so what you're talking about there is being able to live a life of dignity. So we, our values, our small c conservative values that we talk about with the children all the time, the idea of being able to take responsibility, not being a victim, somebody who has a sense of duty towards others. I don't disrupt my class, not just because I don't want to get a detention, but because I wouldn't want to disrupt the learning for my classmates. Being somebody who is able to sacrifice. So that position on prayer, for instance, you know, the Muslim children, well, they put up with not having a prayer room. They make that sacrifice for the betterment of the whole. The Jehovah Witness children, there's Macbeth that we teach as a set GCSE text. It has witches in it. They don't like
13:38 Speaker 04 the magic. We also teach a Christmas carol, Christmas in there. They don't like it because of Christmas, but they put up with it because they think about, they self-sacrifice for the betterment of the whole. The Hindu children who think, well, we want our separate plates at lunch because the eggs have touched the plates, so we don't like that. They too, self-sacrifice so that, for the betterment of the whole. Because the problem with multiculturalism is that if each group is vying for their rights, and it's always, I want this, I want that, and you're a racist, or you're an Islamophobe unless I get it, then we'll never be happy. We'll never be successful. And schools struggle with this because they are multicultural communities. And unfortunately, our whole culture encourages them to divide children
14:22 Speaker 04 according to race and religion and sexuality and so on. So you have your LGBT group over there, you have your Hindu group over there, the Muslim group over here, and so on.
14:30 Speaker 01 Any of you billionaires out there listening who have spare money is like you should give Catherine Berbelsing a call, because we could use about 100 of her. So that was Catherine Berbelsing that you just heard. She runs a school in the UK called the Michaela School, which, it was reported just recently, once again topped the charts in the UK for the educational achievement of her students. Now, you remember, in the UK, there are a multitude of very high-quality private, very expensive private schools. Now Catherine runs a state school, and she doesn't select her incoming students. So her school is in what you would
15:14 Speaker 01 Describe as working, inner-city, working-class London. It's a rough place, the neighborhood. And she has to take all comers. And she places more of her students, by percentage, in top universities in the UK when they graduate. She has a very high graduation rate, by the way, than any other school. And the left, the radical leftist utopians who love children, hate her. They hate her because she's, what does she describe herself as? "The UK's strictest headmistress", which is kind of a joke, and you know what I mean? It's, she's, it's a bit of self-parody. Tammy, my wife and I went to the Michaela School and watched her operation, and it was just, it'd bring a tear to your eye, man. It was so, it was something to see.
15:59 Speaker 01 All these kids, they're in their uniforms, they're disciplined. There's no talking in the hallways, for example. They're making a beeline to the next class. And then, when you walk into the class with your little group, none of the students even look at you when you walk in. They're so focused on the teacher that their attention isn't broken for a minute. Now, that's a, that's completely unprecedented. And the teachers too, they're just, and they're teaching those kids so fast that it's like, it's higher intensity teaching and receiving than I saw in the best graduate seminars that I've ever seen. It was something to see. And the kids, we talked to a lot of the kids, they love it there because a lot of them came from really rough schools where they were, especially if they had any pretensions to academic achievement.
16:44 Speaker 01 They're being pounded flat on a regular basis, you know? And it's, it's a terrible thing when you're a kid to go to a school that's dominated by bullies of the ideological type, which would be the teachers, and then of the physical type, which would be the bullies that the ideological teachers are too damn cowardly to regulate. And so those kids, they came from rough schools and they're so happy to be in this school where they were literally safe and being educated and where all the teachers, who were great, by the way, and I'm not saying that lightly, were really devoted to making, to offering the opportunity to these children to become everything they could be. And, verbalizing, students ace the standardized tests despite the fact that most of them are from, you know,
17:29 Speaker 01 oppressed minority backgrounds, to use the horrible progressive parlance.
17:35 Speaker 01 You know, we need like a hundred of her. A hundred Catherine Burblesings and the whole education system would be revolutionized. She is a force of nature and tough as a boot and the cancel mob has come for her like dozens of times and coming for Catherine Burblesing, that's a very bad idea. So she'll like chew you up and spit you out in no time flat. And it was a privilege to go to her school and more power to her. And again, she pulled off the same thing this year. So and and got almost no credit for it from the idiot Labour Party in the UK, despite the fact that she's actually doing what they promised to do. That's why they're so annoyed with her because she's actually showed that it's possible.
18:17 Speaker 01 And she can do it efficiently and inexpensively and in a manner that would scale. And of course, that's not happening because people would, especially the radical progressive types, they'd far rather moralize about a problem endlessly than actually solve it. So, yeah, Catherine Burblesing, two thumbs up for her. That's for sure. Check her out, the Michaela School in the UK. Man, if every school was like that, every kid would be a killer. So, and not in the, you know, terrible sense that street killer emerges. So out of the typical school.
18:59 Speaker 05 I've said, if you worry about consequence, you will never ever bring about change. You won't bring about change. I wouldn't walk out my front door if I want, I wouldn't come to Canada if I was worrying about consequence, getting torn down by a communist government. But if you worry about consequence, you won't bring about change.
19:12 Speaker 01 An incompetent communist government. Better precise.
19:16 Speaker 05 Yeah, yes.
19:17 Speaker 01 You should probably throw a bit of malevolence, wounded narcissism, malevolence in it too, you know, just for the icing.
19:23 Speaker 05 But so, so I, so I, so I, but when I come out of court that day with the injunction, I was scared, I was scared, in all honesty. Um, I've been in prison multiple times to do my work. Um, I spent a year, I've done a year of solitary confinement, which damaged me, which was totally damaged me. I went into prison, one person and come out another. Yeah. And I'm, so at that time, and it also damaged my family, so. At that time, I didn't play the film.
19:51 Speaker 05 Right.
19:54 Speaker 05 So this is interesting, I think. I should have played the film. These are adult, these are adult problems that haven't been dealt with because people aren't allowed to speak, and now children are at the brunt of it.
20:07 Speaker 01 My wife Tammy interviewed Tommy with me. Tommy is the most reviled man in the UK, I would say. That's, that's an honest assessment. He, he was a whistleblower with regard to the gangs in the UK. And if, if you want to investigate an ugly story, wander down that rabbit hole for a week or two. There were thousands of young women who were
20:34 Speaker 01 in the United Kingdom by organized gangs, and the authorities worked to, still worked to cover it up in many working class towns, many. And, uh, well, Tommy Robinson's cousin was one of the girls who, who got tangled up in that catastrophic mess. And Tommy has been reviled as a right wing provocateur, you know, next door to a Nazi. And he's paid a major league price for that. He's in prison right now in the UK for contempt of court. He had left the UK after our interviews and went to, I believe he was in Spain, but he came back to face the music.
21:16 Speaker 01 And they, they put him in prison and in a rough prison too, even though it was a civil charge. And even people I regard as sensible in the UK are ambivalent with regards to Tommy because he really is, he's from the streets, he's a working class guy, he's tough as a boot, and he's, he's not, he's got the background you'd expect from someone like that, like, but he's super smart and he's super dedicated and he's, he's amazingly intelligent. And he's unstoppable.
21:48 Speaker 01 Hopefully, this next prison bout isn't gonna do him in. Or, he isn't killed in prison, because that's a real possibility. And the UK is gonna have to, the, the, the leadership of the Conservatives and the Reform Party are gonna have to reconcile themselves with the people that Tommy represents, the genuine working class in Britain. Because, they deserve a voice and need one, and certainly Tommy is one of the few people who've provided that. And, Tommy isn't of the right class, you know, and that's a problem in the UK. And, but he's extremely brave, and the gang story in the UK is, the only thing, the only
22:30 Speaker 01 story I know that's indicative of the state of disrepair of the West, let's say, that's approximately horrific, as horrific as the gang story, is the surgery and mutilation story. And, you know, we should be ashamed of ourselves deeply for like five decades for both of those things. And yet, Tommy has been persecuted intensely and continually, and now, for being brave enough to point to the fact of these, of the existence of these gangs, and for his role in identifying the true, not only the true perpetrators, but also the cowards and liars
23:13 Speaker 01 and enablers who've covered this all up for, literally for decades. It's an ugly business. Now, you know, this was the most contentious podcast, riskiest podcast, maybe, that I ever did. And I did it in part at the insistence of my wife, who'd been following Tommy, as I have been for many, many years. And, he conducted himself extremely well. We got very little blowback for the podcast, we did two of them, which is really remarkable, because Tommy Robinson is a red hot, he's a, he's a, he's a red hot piece of iron that you grasp at your peril. But he comported himself extremely well.
23:54 Speaker 01 He was really, really nervous in the studio, you know, because he knew... Well, he knew what was at stake. And I certainly believe that the consequence of this was that he came out with his reputation much enhanced. Um, he's someone I admire. Tommy's a tough guy and you can't stop him. And he's paid a major price for it, him and his family. Like a price higher than I would say anyone else I know. Even maybe including Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who's another person the left detests, who's so brave and so upright, it's so honorable, but it's like it's a, it's a, it's painful to meet them.
24:36 Speaker 01 You know, they're the sort of people you kind of feel shame in their presence because they're, they have the kind of courage you could have if you weren't such a bloody coward. So I hope Tommy manages to keep his head together, given what's facing him at the moment. I think they put him in prison for nine months for showing a movie about another scandal in the UK. For showing a movie after the court had told him that he wasn't allowed to show it. He regarded that as an extension of his activity as a journalist. And I believe Elon Musk shared the movie. Uh, even if Elon didn't, because I might be wrong about that, although I know Elon has shared some of Tommy's material.
25:20 Speaker 01 Uh, it was extremely widely disseminated on X.
25:31 Speaker 01 When I was, um, I don't know, about 11 or 12 years old, I, um, had somewhat of an existential crisis because it, I, there just doesn't, didn't seem to be any meaning in, in the world, like I had no meaning to life. And so I actually read, uh, tried to read all the religious texts. At that age? Yes. So I was a voracious reader as a kid. So I, you know, obviously read the Bible.
26:07 Speaker 01 I read the Quran, the Torah, you know, the various, but on the Hindu side, just trying to understand all these things. And obviously, as a 12-year-old, you're not really going to understand these things super well, but I've just. Well, you understood it well enough to have an existential crisis when you were 11 or 12. Yeah. Well, that's a start. Does anyone have an answer that makes sense? And then I started getting into the philosophy books and I read quite a bit of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, which is quite depressing to read as a kid. Yeah, you might say that.
26:46 Speaker 01 That's depressing as an adult, but and none of them really seemed to have, to me, answers that resonated, at least to me.
27:01 Speaker 01 And but then I read Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is really a book on philosophy disguised as humor. And what Douglas Adams, the point that Adams tries to make there is that we don't actually know all the answers, obviously. Yeah. In fact, we don't even know what the right questions are to ask. Yeah, so there was a couple of cardinal moments in that Elon Musk interview. I mean, the whole thing was a real privilege. We went out to his Cybertruck factory, which is just an absolutely amazing building. It's immense. It's like five airports big. It's and he built it in no time flat.
27:42 Speaker 01 And then he's making these preposterous, powerful electric vehicles that actually function despite government opposition, despite the fact that the government is pushing electric vehicles. So, you know, that's a small part of Elon Musk's story. And two things really happened in this interview that were worthy of note, I would say, especially given what's transpired in relationship to Elon and the new Trump administration. The first one was this clip here, because. See, Elon pointed to something very important in that discussion. He said that he had a profound existential crisis, questioning the meaning of life, you know,
28:25 Speaker 01 when he was, well, when he was a very young teenager. And it's not that rare for a really hyper-intelligent teenagers. And he said that the way he resolved that essentially was to start to envision his life as a quest, right? That he found deep meaning in pushing the limits. Well, you can see that, for example, in his ambitions to go to Mars, in the ambitions that drive all of his companies, to push the limits and to explore and to ask questions and to investigate. And that in that process of investigation and exploration and production, meaning itself is to be found. And that's, well, that was a sufficiently profound realization for Elon, that it did
29:11 Speaker 01 solve his, it did quell the storms of his existential crisis and put him on the pathway that he's been walking ever since, in this radically successful manner. And so that was very interesting to, to hear and to work through from a psychological perspective. But the other thing that happened in that interview was that Musk talked a little bit about his experiences as a father whose child fell prey to the ideological machinations of the butchers and their lying enablers, which at the moment includes virtually all psychologists and a large proportion of the medical establishment. Absolutely unforgivable, in my estimation.
29:55 Speaker 01 And in his, you know, it's clear to me that part of Elon's determination to be a formidable, be the most formidable of enemies. in relationship to the woke mob was in no little consequence of the fact that he had been brutally lied to when he was in serious trouble with one of his children who did in fact transition and who is alienated from him. You know, the typical physician, the typical psychologist, I say this to my own great shame, being a member of the profession of psychologists is to tell parents whose children are manifesting the kind of gender dysphoria, bodily
30:34 Speaker 01 dysmorphia, let's say, that's actually quite common in early adolescence, especially among women, to tell them that that has to be rectified with puberty blockers and the most barbaric of experimental surgery. It's so awful, that surgery, that you can't read it without it's like it's Silence of the Lambs bad. It's there's it's inexcusable what's being done. And part of the way that parents are talked into that is that the lying therapists tell them that if they don't participate in this stunningly brutal medical process, that their children will commit suicide.
31:17 Speaker 01 That is the biggest lie that I've ever heard members of my profession utter. There's absolutely no evidence whatsoever that that's true. There never has been any evidence of that sort. And anyone reasonably well-trained as a psychologist knows it. And silence on this front is inexcusable. And well, Musk, you might say, what could you say about Elon? He's decided not to be silent. Right. And so he's not I would, he's not the person that you would choose to go to war against if you had a choice. But that choice has already been made. And he's not the least bit happy that
31:58 Speaker 01 he lost one of his kids. And he revealed that in some real detail on the podcast. Really, it's awful. And I know other families who've been affected in the same way. It's, all of us should be deeply ashamed of the fact that we're complicit by our silence in this.
32:17 Speaker 01 Insane, devastating, deceitful, ideologically ridden, fetishistic, sexually hedonistic catastrophe. Thankfully, many places are waking up, even the Labour Party in the UK, with, of, a party of whom virtually nothing good can or should be said, had enough sense to extend the ban on puberty blockers to minors throughout the UK. So the Europeans are waking up, Americans not yet, although many states, many states at the state level, there has been increasing pushback. Thank God for that.
32:59 Speaker 01 Canada, of course, is still completely captured by the butchering woke ideologues and their, you know, Pied Piper leader Trudeau. So, yeah, the Musk interview was really something. I probably talked too much during it, and that's too bad, but it was a real privilege to talk to him and, you know, to see his mind in action. He's a remarkable person.
33:28 Speaker 01 You're gonna go back to the UK, you said, if I've got this right, near the end of October to face the music. That's the plan. And in the meantime, I presume your, your strategy so far has been certainly not to involve yourself in the demonstrations and so forth that have been occurring in the UK over the last few weeks, except you also said that you were correcting certain misapprehensions about what's been said about you and, and also the information that's been spread around. So you're gonna, your plan is to stay out of the, to let the events unfold as they will, but, but you're gonna go back to the UK and face the music? That's the, that's the plan?
34:07 Speaker 05 My, my plan is, my documentary is currently on forty-four million views. By the time they get me in jail, it'll be on a hundred million. So by all means, send me to jail. You'll put more rise in that film than I could ever dream of. We, people need to realize the weaponization of the court system against the people. It's not right. It's not right. And people need to know what they're doing and how. Now they're silencing dissident voices across the West. They need to understand it. If we're gonna stop it, people need to understand it. If Donald Trump gets elected, he needs to break this. Okay, the weaponization of the courts, the unfair judiciary. Joe, I will watch what I say when I get into court before the judge. Have you watched the film, your honour? If you have watched the film and I'm still sat here facing prosecution, you're corrupt as well. Because that film categorically proves all I done was report the truth. In what sane, freedom-loving world are we standing in?
34:52 Speaker 05 Where someone faces two years for reporting the truth? Do we believe in the journalism or not? Do we believe in freedom of the press or not? The problem is, so many journalists don't believe in it. They believe in activism, they're activists, not journalists. They're total activists. So my intention is on the 28th and 29th of October to put the British judiciary on trial in the world's eyes.
35:14 Speaker 01 The film that Tommy Robinson is talking about is called "Silenced", in case you want to watch it. And Tommy did do exactly what he said he was gonna do. You know, he went back to face the judiciary in the UK. And he didn't have to. And he thought they'd put him in prison for two years. And the last time he was in prison, he was in solitary for a fair bit of that. Now, you have to understand that he's going to be, he was imprisoned after this interview for a civil matter. And they put him in a prison for very, very, very serious offenders. Despite the fact that that isn't how they treat civil offenders.
35:58 Speaker 01 And he did, he was imprisoned for showing this film when the court told him that he couldn't. And so, I hope he emerges well alive and also intact. We'll see what happens. You want to keep your eye on that story. Especially because the UK right now is a very unstable place. You know, Keir Starmer, the UK Labour leader, he came out like three weeks ago and said, "I couldn't believe this, I thought it was like an AI fake." He basically said that the immigration policy that has characterized the UK, let's say for the last 10 years, something like that, was planned. It was an open border plan,
36:44 Speaker 01 experiment to see what would happen if the UK opened its borders. Just like the right-wing conspiracy theorists had suggested. And that- When people pointed that out, they were gaslighted. They were told they were conspiracy theorists and liars. And that that was all a dreadful mistake for which Starmer is now apologizing. And I couldn't believe that when, when he said it. I mean, that was a Prime Minister of Britain said, the Prime Minister of Great Britain said that. And then the new leader of the Conservative Party, a lot of these policies came into play under the Conservatives, not the Labour Party. And so the Conservatives, so to speak. And the new leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, basically said the same thing
37:29 Speaker 01 the next day. And so, I don't know even what to say about the situation in the UK. It's dreadful. You know, they have electricity prices now, by the way, like Germany, that are five times higher than the, this is prices for the electricity that runs all of the industrial infrastructure of, say, the UK and Germany. It's five times as expensive in the UK as it is in, as it is in the United States. Like, how's that gonna work? It's obvious what the consequences that will be. There's no difference between cheap energy and a prospering economy. Those are the same thing. Cause energy is work. And when you make work expensive, well, you don't have to be a genius to figure out what
38:14 Speaker 01 that means. So the UK has a massive immigration problem. And no one has any idea what to do anything, what to do about it. Stop the immigration process would be the first thing. And their industrial infrastructure is collapsing and the country is extremely divided. Um, we'll see. We'll keep our eye on that very carefully. You know, and Tommy Robinson, when he emerges from prison, assuming that he does, which is not a foregone conclusion, it'd be very convenient for the authorities if he, if something hap- happened to happen to Tommy in prison. And he got, he got beat up really badly the last time he was in prison. Cause they put him in prison with people who were in prison, in the same prison for conspiring to kill him.
38:59 Speaker 01 That's the prison they put him in. So, and then he got beat up really, really badly when he was in prison, lost a few teeth and, so he could easily not come out. Anyways, we'll be following that and we'll keep you informed and that's part of what's coming up in the next year.
39:26 Speaker 01 You recently taught a course for Peterson Academy. And so, thank you very much for that. I thought I could update you a little bit about what's going on, just so you know, and so everybody else knows. We have about 30,000 students now. Wow. And so, yeah, it took off like mad. So, we've been, we did a pre-enrollment for three weeks. And so, that was the enrollment so far. So, we're thrilled about that. Now, people seem very happy with the course offerings. So, and you know, we've set up the social media platform on Peterson Academy to have a goal. Right? The goal is for people to be able to exchange information related to their self-improvement on the educational side. And so far, it's functioning that way.
40:11 Speaker 01 And the fact that people have to pay essentially $500 a year to join also keeps the trolls and the bots and the bad corporate actors pretty much down to zero. So, we launched Peterson Academy this year, a couple of months ago, and we now have about 40,000 students. So, and that's continuing to climb. We have, I'm really happy with the way it's gone, and so are the people who are on the Academy. So, it's already a very large educational institution, and there's no reason at all to assume that that's not just going to continue. By January of 2025, we'll be releasing four new eight-hour courses a month. We have all the professors lined up. Michaela, my daughter, who's been spearheading this along with her husband, Jordan Fuller.
40:56 Speaker 01 They have a full curriculum sketched out for the next four years. And we have the capital and the professors in place to, and the studio, everything is in place to make that a reality. So, that's definitely going to happen. We're in active negotiations about accreditation, so I think we'll crack that problem. And it looks like we can bring the best professors in the world, because we have them, to the widest possible audience that's available in multiple languages for a cost that all the people who have been participating regard as probably too low fundamentally. And if we're going to make a mistake, that's, that's a good side to err on. And so, I've taught.
41:42 Speaker 01 Four or five courses for Peterson Academy. They're not all released, but many of them are. One on the Gospels, one on personality, one on Nietzsche, one on Piaget, one on personal planning and self-development. That'll all be coming out. All the professors who are participating are thrilled. We've had offers from many of them to quit their jobs and work for us. And so, and that's going to happen with some of them, because we want to have some professors who are engaged in direct student-to-student contact. And so that's PetersonAcademy.com, and it's thriving. I made mention of the social media element of it. We took the best elements of the most popular social media platforms and integrated them into the app.
42:27 Speaker 01 And the participants use it continually, and it's extremely positive. Troll-free, bot-free, very, very positive and productive. So, yeah, it's firing on all cylinders. And so, you know, if you want to educate yourself, there's no reason not to join the academy.
42:54 Speaker 01 Because one of the things you've done that I think is unprecedented, and that's become perhaps more part of the public discussion since you've teamed up with Trump, is to make public health a political issue. And so you talked about the public health crisis, and maybe you could lay out the dimensions of that crisis. I mean, I know there's an obesity epidemic, there's a diabetes epidemic. These are very, very serious problems. And so, but you've concentrated on that in a way that just isn't characteristic of anybody on the political landscape at all. And now it's become an issue that's front and center. And so I'd like to hear more about your thoughts. Why you think that's such a fundamental priority, you know, compared to, say, free speech and war and peace? Why health?
43:38 Speaker 01 And what you see? Lay out the landscape of the problem, and also the landscape of potential solution.
43:48 Speaker 05 We are now the sickest country in the world. We have the highest chronic diseases in the world. When my uncle was president, I was a, you know, 10-year-old boy. About 6% of Americans had chronic illness. And today, 60%. When my uncle was president, we spent zero in this country on chronic disease. Zero. And today, for many chronic diseases, first of all, there weren't even diagnoses, and there weren't drugs available. Today, we spend $4.3 trillion, so about 95% of our health budget.
44:29 Speaker 05 It's the biggest, and it's five times our military cost. It's the biggest item in our budget, and it is the fastest-growing. And not only that, so it's destroying our country economically, absolutely debilitating it. All of our other issues are small towards it. If you just measure its economic impact, it has other impacts. 77% of American children are no longer eligible for the military.
45:01 Speaker 01 Yeah, well, so one of the things that's really worth contemplating in retrospect is just how revolutionary this year has been. And it's really been something to watch personally, because so many of the people that I've interacted with on this podcast and personally now have key roles in the new American administration. And so, you know, I watch that with some trepidation, because there are many difficult jobs that need to be done to set things right. It's so remarkable watching Kennedy make public health a political issue, really, single-handedly. That's something that he accomplished. That's quite an accomplishment. Now, he's in a position, along with Mamad Oz, to do something about it.
45:45 Speaker 01 So now, you know, there's the opportunity to put your money where your mouth is, so to speak. And they have an unparalleled opportunity with Trump and the public goodwill that surrounds the new administration to make some real changes. It was interesting too to see what's transpired with regards to the Democrats. You know, when I first interviewed RFK in the interview that YouTube took down, which I thought was utterly reprehensible, interference with a presidential campaign. I asked him when the left went too far, because I always ask Democrats that question, and they never answer it, ever, and he didn't answer it. He said, "I'm not running that kind of divisive campaign."
46:30 Speaker 01 In this interview, I asked him the same question, and I think it's fair to say that in the aftermath of Kennedy's truncated run for presidency, he's never stopped talking about when the left goes too far. Right, and the Democrats are really gonna have to contend with that, because they made a large number of extremely large errors. And I'm hoping they have enough residual expertise in leadership, somewhere in the ranks of the party, to reconstitute themselves. Because happy as I am that this remarkable band of Avengers has assembled themselves around Trump,
47:12 Speaker 01 we know perfectly well from our long history in democratic countries that the good guys need an opposition too. Because if they don't have an opposition, they quickly turn into the bad guys. And it's highly probable that happens to everyone, because power is an extraordinarily tempting elixir, you might say. And so I'm hoping that the Democrats transform themselves back into a party that could serve as intelligent opposition to the Trump crowd. You know, the Democrats have been whining madly and publicly about the fact that the sneaky conservatives captured the new media, you know, and which I think is absolutely hilarious,
47:56 Speaker 01 because there was no capture, there were just people like Rogan and the other podcasters who sort of assembled in his wake, myself included.
48:10 Speaker 01 Who just started enterprises on a shoestring and said what we believe to be the truth and interviewed people without any tricks. And the Democrats could have had a part of that because a bunch of us, and I do believe that included Rogan at the time, but it certainly included many of the other major podcast figures. We invited all the Democrats to come and talk to us multiple times. We got to them all through channels that they were communicating with because I knew people who were integally situated within the Democrat hierarchy and we repeatedly offered to talk to them.
48:53 Speaker 01 And the offers are genuine and in some ways risk free. Like if you come on my podcast and you don't like the outcome, you can just scrap the podcast. Like no one's ever done that, but that is a genuine offer I make to my guests. And if they say something they regret, I also tell them, well, we're not here to play some gotcha game. If you say something, the day later you think it was stupid, tell us. And you know, if you want us to remove 40 things, it's like, that's not going to happen. We'll just scrap the podcast. But if it's one or two things that you, you know, misspoke about, well, then we'll take them out. Now, I believe only one person has taken us up on that offer about one thing they said, but it's a genuine offer. The Democrats would talk to me behind the scenes, the senators and the congressmen whom
49:36 Speaker 01 I've met, and that's many of them, but they'd never talk to me publicly. And so, you know, what I heard someone on CNN say, well, the Democrats, they said, we need our own Rogan. And I thought, you guys had Rogan, you dimwits. Like Joe Rogan is not your father's Republican. He interviewed Bernie Sanders like four years ago because he voted for Bernie. That's not a Republican thing to do in case you hadn't noticed. And both Rogan and Sanders himself got nothing but pilloried by the woke cancel mob for doing that. And so the Democrat failure on the new social media front is 100% their fault. Not only their fault, but their fault in the face of repeated offers and repeated warnings.
50:21 Speaker 01 And even now, you know, I have people scouring behind the scenes to find.
50:26 Speaker 05 Democratic leadership hopefuls who will come and talk and it's even now they're loathe to do it. They're loathe to do it. It's like, hey, have it your way. You know, your legacy media allies have radically done themselves in, as you noticed, and you have nowhere to turn except to your own media infrastructure, which doesn't exist, or to the podcast mob. But their invitation is open and you refuse it. So don't be whining about the fact that the new media is captured by the conservatives. Jesus, you handed it to them on a silver platter. So and you still haven't learned.
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51:32 Speaker 05 Look at it this way. So for example, in this conversation, you know this to be the case, like, there's various ways that this conversation could go sideways, right? Seriously, like, we could, but either of us could try to win, either of us could try to demonstrate our intellectual superiority, right? Each of us could misrepresent the other. Or we could both try, and I do think we are in fact trying that, and I think Alex is helping along with that just, just fine. We could try to follow the thread of the exploratory truth and see if we could get somewhere. Now, I don't think there is any difference between that, by the way, and what's expressed in the biblical texts as the spirit of the logos. That's why we have dialogue. I'm very interested in the possibility that...
52:18 Speaker 04 Truths emerge through evolving manuscripts. Now, that's a very interesting idea. And it's totally different from divine inspiration. And I want to pursue it because I don't believe in divine inspiration. But I would be prepared to believe in evolving manuscripts.
52:35 Speaker 01 Yeah, so, yeah, there was a lot of Cardinal conversations this year. And certainly, the one was with Dawkins was one of them. I talked, there were four main players in the so-called Four Horsemen, the Four Horsemen of the atheist movement, right? There was Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins. And I've talked to three of them publicly, Sam Harris, a number of times. I had a very good conversation with Daniel Dennett. And then, you know, I had a conversation a while back with Dawkins that was made public, audio only. And I was very much looking forward to this conversation, which I felt was very productive. By the end of the conversation,
53:17 Speaker 01 Dr. Dawkins was excited about the idea that genetic transformation could occur at the human level in consequence of the cultural transformation that the spread of memes might produce. And I would say those would include religious ideas. And so, we actually got somewhere scientifically on the hypothesis front. The conversation was, it had its stuttering moments. I think part of the problem, you see, is that there's a whole literature on the emergence of religious ideation that Dr. Dawkins and the atheist types, they just don't know. And that's a big problem because it's a deep and profound literature.
54:02 Speaker 01 The foremost exponent of that school was either Carl Jung or Mircea Eliade, who was the world's greatest historian of religions and a true genius. With ideas that are rich with biological implications. And that was part of what I wanted to discuss with Dawkins. Now, I think one of the things that's interesting in the broader cultural context is that the atheist movement that those four gentlemen spearheaded has really, the air has really gone out of it. And I think it's partly because it doesn't offer anything positive on the existential front. It's merely critical. And look, terrible things need to be criticized, but something has to arise to replace them.
54:45 Speaker 01 Now, even Dawkins can see that part of what's risen to replace these dreadful superstitions, once they collapsed, is superstitions, like, say, on the woke ideological side, that are far worse than anything dreamt of by the mere Christians. And that's had a devastating effect on not only the universities, but on the scientific enterprise. And there's no doubt that Dr. Dawkins is keenly aware of that. So that's a major problem for the atheist crowd. And it's also the case that there are elements of religious thinking that are much more sophisticated than
55:25 Speaker 01 the superstition that's parodied by the atheist thought leaders. I mean, even Harris, I mean, Harris has moved out of the public realm into the realm of the meditative. He's basically become a Buddhist. And that's a pretty strange landing point for someone who was, you know, a standard bearer for kind of militant atheism. Now, Harris might debate about whether or not he believes in God, so to speak. But the God of the Old Testament is ineffable, like the Buddhist. Like the divine that's represented in Buddhism.
56:07 Speaker 01 And so that's a semantic issue rather than a substantive issue. The truth of the matter still is that Sam found his home in the contemplative world. So, you know, and as I said, this team has gone out of the atheist movement. And many of the people who were associated with that movement, I wouldn't say peripherally, quite directly, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Neil Ferguson, Douglas Murray. They've come to radically rethink their stance. So, and that's going to continue. That's absolutely going to continue. That's something we'll keep an eye on in this podcast. The revitalization of the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of the West.
56:51 Speaker 05 Dawkins, at some point, said something like, "I don't care about these stories. I care about the kind of science and the kind of prediction that can help us land, you know, a spaceship on the moon."
57:01 Speaker 01 Yeah, I know, I missed an opportunity there.
57:03 Speaker 05 And I was like, "Oh, I care more about why the hell would we want to land a spaceship on the moon? Like, why would humans do that? That's more interesting to me, or more important than the fact that we're capable of doing it."
57:14 Speaker 01 Well, it's also, there's two things there that are interesting. The first is, well, we landed on the moon. And for Dawkins, the fact that that's remarkable is self-evident. Like, for a psychologist, it's like, "That's not self-evident, buddy. There's lots of things we could have done and had been doing for a very long period of time before we landed on the moon." So it's something like Star Trek, right? To boldly go where no one has gone before, right?
57:38 Speaker 05 It's the mariner's journey, it's the mariner's story. You know, you have all these stories, ancient stories, the story of Ulysses, or the story of Saint Brendan, who goes out into the ocean and, you know, goes in a land that nobody has been before. These are the stories that we care about, the idea of going out into-
57:54 Speaker 01 Oh, and they plant a flag.
57:55 Speaker 05 Yeah.
57:55 Speaker 01 Well, that's what we did on the moon. And the flag, that's the staff of Moses. It signifies the new center, right? The center of identity.
58:03 Speaker 05 It's the joining of something with identity. That's why we plant flags or crosses when the explorers would encounter new lands. They would plant a vertical pole to say, "This is an identity."
58:14 Speaker 01 This is the new center of the world. Yeah, so that was Jonathan Pagio. And everything Jonathan Pagio says is worth listening to. And that's something you can't say of most people. And deeply worth listening to. So Peugeot has done many projects with me now. He has his own podcast, The Symbolic World, and he's a very accomplished artist. He's worked with me on the documentary series on Western civilization that's on the Daily Wire. We journeyed through Jerusalem and went to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and walked the Via Dolorosa, right, the road of the 12-stop road of Christ's journey to the crucifixion.
58:56 Speaker 01 And so that was absolutely remarkable. And then Peugeot was also, I would say, in many ways, the lead participant in the Exodus Seminar that the Daily Wire produced, which was about a 30-hour walk through the great story of Moses and the Israelites leaving the land of tyranny for the promised land across the desert of despair. And, you know, Peugeot's commentary on those stories was unbelievably illuminating. I would say it's really the case, I was just talking to Greg Hurwitz, friend of mine, who was also a participant in the Exodus Seminar and in the Gospel Seminar, which we just released on Daily Wire, beginning
59:38 Speaker 01 in December, all the episodes of that aren't even out yet. Greg participated, like Jonathan, in both the Exodus Seminar and the Gospel Seminar. And I asked him the other day, you know, what the consequence of that participation was. And he said very straightforwardly that it really transformed his life, you know. And Greg was already a very knowledgeable person, right, and who had many accomplishments under his belt and had thought many things through deeply. And I think that that was the effect of those seminars on all the participants, and they were all very accomplished men. And so, and then we had the great privilege of being able to bring them to a wide audience. And with the full support of Daily Wire,
1:00:18 Speaker 01 which was really quite remarkable, because it was a unlikely enterprise, right, to gather nine academics, reputable academics, around a table and have them do nothing but talk to one another as they walk through these, these fun foundational stories.
1:00:39 Speaker 01 I think it was thirty-four hours for the Exodus Seminar and something like twenty-five for the Gospels. And, well, we're going to continue with that endeavor as we move forward into the future. We're, we're planning a series on the Book of Revelation, which will be quite the trip, so to speak. And, uh, The Daily Wire has been an unbelievably good partner in these endeavors, these unlikely endeavors. And Jonathan, I learned so much from talking to him about these old stories. It's, uh, you know, it's like, you have, there are parts of you that are fragmented, they don't exactly have their place, and there are pieces of stories that have been broken. And if you encounter a great storyteller and interpreter like Pajot, then he brings
1:01:23 Speaker 01 all those things together and everything that you see transforms in consequence. And, uh, he's a magician in that regard. And, well, it was a privilege to talk to him about the Dawkins interview because the formulations that Jonathan is generating, along with John Vervake, for example, both of whom lecture for Peterson Academy, by the way, are, they're the future, as far as I can see. They're, they are the structure of interpretation that's going to replace, I would say, in some ways, the standard approach to these stories that has been promoted by, would I say, traditional Christianity?
1:02:05 Speaker 01 Depends on the tradition, because there are deep traditions in, in Christian interpretation. Populist Christianity, replace the interpretations of popular Christianity and supplant both the postmodern theoretical stance and the atheist-materialist-deterministic stance. And that's happening, and it's going to continue to unfold as the West comes to a more conscious understanding of its foundations. And hopefully, this podcast will play a role in that, and the work I'm doing with Daily Wire, the work that's being undertaken by Peterson Academy, the work of ARC, the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, this hybrid political philosophical organization that's
1:02:49 Speaker 01 being organized in London, we have our next conference in February, it's become the go-to place for classic liberals and conservatives from all across the West. And so, all of those enterprises are moving in the same direction. What we're hoping for is a revitalized, a revitalized understanding of the meaning of the foundational stories of the West. And an understanding that's deep enough to be practically applicable in the daily lives of the people who have developed that understanding. And I can see that unfolding, and it's a lovely thing to watch. It's the thing we're pursuing with the tour. Like, I'm on a pretty continual tour with my wife Tammy. We're touring all through the United States from January through April.
1:03:33 Speaker 01 You can find out about that at jordanbpeterson.com. And then through Europe, in May and June. And it's the same enterprise, right? The telling of these old stories. My new book, We Who Wrestle With God, is part of that enterprise. And so we'll have the opportunity over the next year to watch as that continues to unfold. So, and Pajjo, he's gonna play a key role in that.
1:03:59 Speaker 01 Do it for the lols. Don't talk about it, don't talk about it, don't talk about it. No, sorry, no. Mom, I don't wanna wear that. So what does that mean exactly? Babies look like they're always on psilocybin mushrooms because they're, they're like this. I don't really believe in lesbians, by the way. Exploding miniature penises. Zero is a very low number, okay? All right, I'm outta here. You know, when, when I watch something like that, the first thing that really strikes me as a miracle is that I still have a wife. So, because I don't know how anybody can actually put up with me that actually has to live with me. So, you know, I watched a bit of that compilation earlier
1:04:40 Speaker 01 and it made me turn red, and it's done exactly the same thing again, you know? I don't know, I don't believe in lesbians. I think that's a really funny, that's a really funny line. It's also, it's also mostly true, by the way. So, I, I apologize for all of those things that I said. I apologize, and for many of the other things that I said that are equally, I don't know what, unforgivable. I probably apologize for them too. So, but if you want more of it... You know which podcasts to go to and thank you all for your support over the last year. The YouTube channel continues to grow. We're gathering about 100,000 people a month.
1:05:23 Speaker 01 So that's, you know, major progress and we're on a kind of wave on the alternative social media side because even the legacy media has admitted that they've been supplanted, which is, you know, a remarkable thing to, to be part of. And the Instagram channel grows and Facebook channel grows and TikTok channel grows. It's zero subscribers on TikTok two years ago and there's two and a half million now. And I've got new book deal by the looks of things for the next two books. And one of them will be a continuation of this line of argumentation that I started with We Who Wrestle with God that'll focus on the story
1:06:04 Speaker 01 of Job and the Gospels, like the Gospel Seminar at Daily Wire. I also did a course on a sermon on the mount for Peterson Academy. So no doubt I'll continue to say like absurd and provocative things as we move forward into the future. And thanks again for putting up with it. It's as remarkable as all this has been, I suspect that there's greater things, more remarkable things, more adventurous things yet to come. And I would also like to say in closing, like thank you to my crew, to my producer, Joy, who's been unbelievably helpful, to the Daily Wire Enterprise altogether, to all the people around me, my, my logistics people and security
1:06:48 Speaker 01 people, to my wife and my family. It's a team endeavor, that's for sure. And I have a great team and that makes all this possible. And thank you to all who've been watching and listening. Your time and attention is much appreciated.
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