JBP Update: Re-education, Moving to the US, Russian Funding, and Bill C-63

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they told me that there was a warrant out for my arrest I made sure I put my hands up on the dash and waited I said what for and they said we don't know which is not good right that's not good Trudeau came out under oath and said you were being funded by Russians yeah those Russians you know the problem with Russians is they promise you the moon and then they never pay you I think Trudeau got confused because that's his permanent state of being being Tucker Carlson Russian agents the answer is simple for the Canadians who are listening the colleges can do whatever they want so if you're the member of a Professional Organization you better bloody well remember that and they're going to make certain that you do remember it you're going to need the advice of a professional at some point in your life and they are mandated to lie to you now and so if that's the sort of service you want from your professionals then just stay asleep Adventure is Divine Comedy and the pathway to Divine Comedy is the truth and that's so what do you do when you discover that who knew that Miracles were ComEd world's a weird place man that's for sure and it's going to get stranger so strap on strap in oh yeah strap on strap it brilliant [Music] yeah Dad welcome to my podcast thanks for the invitation and welcome to moving to America formally I guess that's what happened isn't it it is uhoh is this the big announcement I mean why not might as well let the people know yeah how do you feel about it there are decided advantages to being here I like where I'm living a lot it's close to you we have lots of work to do um but the issue with the college is of psychologist is very annoying to say the least and the new legisl that Liberals are attempting to push through Bill C63 it'd be i' be living in a totalitarian hell hole if that legislation passes and it could well pass the tax situation is out of hand the government in Canada at the federal level is incompetent beyond belief um and it's become uncomfortable for me in my neighborhood in Toronto yeah so and you're here and it's sunny all the time and we have things to do yeah here which we're doing which are working so that's how it is at the moment so you're thrilled to be here it is what you're saying in other words yeah yeah yeah well there's sorrow in it too nah no no nah I feel like ever since I was little I was like why would I live somewhere where half the time it's dark and cold and wet yes well it is the it is very nice for to be somewhere where every single day is sunny that there's something to be said for that yes agreed well I do want to get into the college yeah but first not too much not too much just to touch on it to update people what's going on I guess we need to update them should should we talk about the 24,000 complaints they got about their own behavior and that like two dozen they got about mine or you could mention that yeah we will definitely mention that fact that they couldn't find anybody to re-educate me and looks like they had to go out of the country to find someone who probably doesn't know anything about what's going on and is going to be the sacrificial lamb or about the fact that they changed all the rules that they themselves created to continue pursuing me and made it impossible for me to do it except in person we'll talk about all that we'll talk about all that why did I decide to build an online university well there is a crisis now in higher education the president of Harvard University resigned today weeks calling for the genocide of Jews violate Pen's code of conduct we have a problem of affordability and cost spiraling student loans we have a group think emerging and that warps the entire academic Enterprise I experimented with putting my lectures online and found that I could teach far more people at very low cost than I could at the University and I thought well why not scale that what I'm hoping to do is to find the best lectures in the world and to bring them to as wide as possible an audience he came to me and he basically said I want you to do the best course that you've always wanted to do we want to bring you the highest quality education possible at the lowest possible price it's extremely high level content that anybody can use to educate themselves and it's available to everybody well that would be [Music] good I think it's funny CU I got cancelled at the University so I could try to return the favor after we did our last podcast which was about a year ago I remembered you told me a story about being arrested in Montreal and I don't think it's on the internet and I think he should tell people about the ticket situation in Montreal I because I'm probably still liable to be arrested there now come on it's funny oh well when I lived in Montreal in 1985 I had a car for about a year that I brought from western Canada kind of a Rattle Trap old thing and uh it was impossible to park in Montreal it's still impossible to park in Montreal it's the parking rules in Montreal are insane there's no way you can park in Montreal period but you certainly can't park and not get tickets anyways I was out one day at like 6:00 in the morning moving my car from one side of the street to the other because this is is what you have to do in Montreal and I was looking a lot for a parking spot and I went through a red light and someone clipped my rear end was my fault entirely and um apparently I got a ticket for that which isn't surprising but they never gave me the ticket then apparently they can mail you a ticket later I moved a lot in Montreal and I wasn't too concerned with forwarding addresses and that sort of thing at that time in my life and years later like seven years later I was it was the day I was going to hear from Harvard about whether or not I was going to get hired there and I was driving along the road with my roommate at the time in another Rattle Trap old car which I had just got it used to be my grandmother's and all of a sudden there was a cop behind me in a car and there was a cop in front of me in a car and there was a cop beside me and then I was being pulled over and this was just around a time when some poor son of a bitch had got shot um when he was pulled over for I don't know reaching beneath the seat too quickly or something so anyways I made sure I put my hands up on the dash and waited and they told me that there was a warrant out for my arrest and I thought I said what for and they said we don't know which is not good right that's not good because like maybe it's for a traffic ticket which is what I eventually found out I had no idea at that point I had no idea that I had an outstanding traffic ticket and anyways um they said they didn't know and they escorted me to the police station and said that I had a unpaid ticket and that I owed $350 which was a lot of money at this time this was like in 1992 I believe so it was literally 7 years later um and it turned out that my roommate there had all the rent money in cash and so anyways they took my they weren't going to let me go unless I paid this which was also weird in retrospect because like do you pay a ticket at the police station in cash maybe well French law is different than English law French civil law is different but anyways they took my shoelaces and all the other things I might use to hang myself with and we going to put me in a cell and I said that I had the money and I went I don't remember how they let me contact my roommate who was still sitting in the car wondering what the hell was going on and I paid it and they let me out and I thought they would just figure if I got a call from Harvard to let me know whether got I got my job there that I would be in jail and I wasn't sure how that would be explained anyways so that was annoying and comical and ridiculous and and dangerous and surprising and then like four years later I had moved down to Boston because I did get my job at Harvard which I was absolutely thrilled with because Harvard at one point instead of being a like woke Dei infested Rat Hole was actually arguably the world's best university and it was a very good place in the early 1990s and uh I was driving back to Montreal um to visit people in Montreal and I made an a leftand turn where I shouldn't because I was trying to get on a highway which is also very difficult in Downtown Montreal people have to understand Montreal is not like the rest of Canada parking is impossible they changed the laws so you have to move your car at like 5 or 6 in the morning because it's suddenly illegal to park on that side of the street and driving is impossible and nobody there drives properly it's a crazy place to drive it's like the craziest place to drive in and having said that apart from the riots because and we can thank Trudeau for that because Montreal when I lived there it was a wonderful City I loved it in every possible way except the winters were brutal the food was great it was peaceful and a joyest city really it it was a party outside all the time in Montreal I loved Montreal it was a great City and so it had these weird bureaucratic problems but it but that certainty didn't retract from the fact that it's just a great place and anyways I made an illegal left-hand turn and the cops pulled me over and um they said there's a warrant out for your arrest and I thought oh my God now I'm really in trouble you know because they they have to they basically have to take you in if there's a warrant and I said well I have no idea what's going on here like I don't live here I've been gone for like 3 years and they said well apparently you have a traffic t from like 1985 that wasn't paid and I thought yeah it was paid and I said I paid it at the police station and they said do you have a receipt and I thought yeah I have a receipt from everything I've bought in the last 30 years my trunk is full of all the receipts that I always carry around everywhere especially after I've moved out of the country I said well no I don't have the receipt like seriously you know and they said well we either have to arrest you or let you go and they let me go which was like okay well thank you I mean that's excellent I don't understand it but great you know I mean I had I think I had you with me in the car you know always coming in handy yeah I know I know B baby and I I think Tammy was with me and so you know we looked vaguely respectable and it was obvious that well even where I turned left illegally everyone turned left illegally there because it was the only way you could get on the highway without taking some idiot circuitous roof so anyways then I thought well what the hell am I going to do about this because I paid that ticket so I phoned the police station I said there's a warrant out for my arrest what should I do and they said I said should I come in and straighten this out they said no if you come in we have to arrest you and I thought well that doesn't sound like a very good deal so they didn't say come in right now so we can arrest you they said if you come in we have to arrest you and it was sort of like nudge nudge wink wink hint hint you know don't come in so I didn't and so probably there's still a warrant out for my arrest in Montreal it's like that would be like literally is that 20 years ago 25 years ago I don't know I probably owe $187,000 in accumulated fines now and like I'm facing a prison sentence of 15 years and if that happens then it's your fault Michaela for making this story public so anyways who knows hopefully I like that long forgotten cuz things could be forgotten before computers were everywhere and and nothing could ever be forgotten ever so yeah anyways Montreal is a great City let's except that now there are riots there all the time and that's Justin Trudeau's fault and that's because he's a scum rat and hopefully when Canadians wise up as they are rapidly next October because he'll last that long because Jag meet sing who is like the world's worst political weasel and that's a hard contest to win is propping him up because he's a coward he's a corrupt posturing narcissistic power mad posturing I said that already but he does posture a lot so it's okay to say it twice he's the most he's got all of Trudeau's faults and none of his virtues and given that Trudeau is like 85% fault and 15% virtue if that then Justin saying is is quite the catastrophic monster to think of him as a leader of the working class is something so Preposterous that it could only occur in today's political situation anyways Pier aolv who's one of the new conservatives in Canada with a spine like Danielle Smith who's giving true to hell and justly so Pier Po and his conservatives are going to demolish the LI liberals they might not even exist as a political party they're right now in third place after the DP are they really yeah yeah and they could fall forth with any luck there'll be no liberals left and I hope that I've had something to do with that because they richly deserve it they richly deserve it I mean Gilbo who's can Trudeau's minister of energy he's basically declared war on Alberta which has the third largest fossil fuel reserves in the world and could provide all of North America with stable energy forever stable clean dictator free energy forever Gilbo announced three weeks ago that he was a socialist it's like I don't know if you noticed Steve baby we have a Socialist Party in Canada that was called the NDP the Liberal Party were classic liberals the Socialists were to go in the NDP but the bloody progressives don't care about that they lie about everything all the time and if they have to infiltrate Canada's Centrist party and turn it radically left so radically left that the NDP actually have no reason to even exist they don't give a damn and then you have the Spectre of sing cozing up to the Liberals constantly supporting them even though he publicly proclaimed that he wouldn't or that he'd stopped only to guarantee his pension which is exactly what's happening so yeah he's despicable and seriously despicable and I I can say that now without having to be afraid of being reported to the Canadian College of psychologists um by a dozen people compared to the 30,000 complaints they got about their treatment of me all of which they're supposed to investigate and none of which I imagine they did so perhaps I'm free to say that now given that it's true like all the other things I said that I was complained about to the college this is why I'm glad you're now living in Scottdale and not in Toronto now it's no wonder do you know that Canadians are now poor per capita with regard to GDP than people who live in Mississippi Canada is poorer the richest province in Canada is poorer than the poorest state in the United States and that's all happened since Trudeau all of it Canada was basically at parody a decade decade ago and the Americans are basically 40% ahead you know and you can see why because what happens is that as soon as you're successful anywhere in the world if you have any sense you move to the United States because everything is way easier here and you don't get hassled this much I couldn't believe how much easier it was here when I moved everything like it's buying things is way easier like you can instantly get anything which is amazing you know it sounds like that's maybe over the like over the top over very it is over the top but it's very convenient it's e even easy to get a driver's license oh I know getting a driver's license is easy like everything's easy the the amount of red tape in Canada compared to here is insane you can't do anything it's crazy yeah well and the Americans are going to be working real hard at getting rid of some extra red tape so and they'll probably manage it that would be great well well we might as well cover oh before we cover College congratulations on hitting number one on the New York Times by thank you very much to the New York Times for um posting my book as number one on your list I'm sure you were absolutely thrilled to announce the fact that a book that I wrote that concentrates on religious tradition is now the number one bestselling book in the advice what is the category it was self-improvement and miscellaneous I believe yeah advice self-improvement miscellaneous something like that and is it a self-improvement book well sure why not everything you do kind of circles around that yeah well I am a psychologist and so far a clinical psychologist and I try to make everything I do have its practice iCal applications and so this book is a we who wrestle with God is what it's called I guess it's sitting right there it's perfectly angled it's perfectly angled there we go um we see the world through a story and the modern insistence is that that's a fragmented and meaningless story that's what makes you annihilist or that the only true story is one of momentary pleasure and that's the hedonistic fousy and or it's a story of power which is what the postmodern radicals push and the marxists and the tyrants and none of that's true the nihilistic story the henis story the story of power they're all self-devouring they can't sustain themselves across time socially and they lead to misery psychologically and the biblical insistence is that people live in relationship to the Divine and I believe that that's true or not because you don't have to but it's it's true that you can and should or else that's also true and it's paired with the insistence that the true and proper story of the your relationship with the Divine is one of voluntary sacrifice and that's true it's true and what I tried to do in the book or I think what I did in the book because it was more than try I made sure that all of the interpretations I offered for the biblical stories were scientifically valid and so that's fun that was a interesting challenge to manage both of those and I think we're at a point where that can be done and I also think we're at a point where we can understand what the biblical stories mean in the kind of detail that makes them conceptually coherent even self-evident and very very applicable to the manner in which you conduct your life the way you direct your attention the way you treat yourself the way you treat others I learned a lot writing this book there's a couple of things that went along with it I did a seminar on Exodus with the daily wire which was the the most popular offering the daily wire has ever produced except for Matt Walsh's movies and so that was a complete shock to everyone although to give the dailywire credit where it certainly do they were fully on board with that endeavor and they even funded it when it doubled in length and so good for them and I learned a lot from the Stellar people that were on that um on that series participated with me and we just released the gospel series on dailywire December it'll be released December 1st same crew couple of additions couple of subtractions you know we had to work with people's schedules and but I believe the gospel series will be everything that The Exodus series was and more and so that's really fun I have another book planned in this series which will deal with the story of job and the Passion of Christ and it's already written 80% or thereabouts and so I'll continue my analysis into the New Testament unbelievably interesting work and I think well we'll see the the public reviews are already in you know once you get about 150 reviews on Amazon the rating stabilizes most of the negative reviews are and there very few of them by the way are uh people who receive damaged books you know so that's bit of a flaw in the review system but people are responding to the book the same way they responded to 12 rules you know that it they're interested in conceptually and philosophically because it explains things but they're also able to apply what I've written to their own lives and hooray that's a great deal I'm thrilled about it and I'm I'm very happy with the success of the book um and as I said it's greatly comical that it hit number one of the New York Times bestseller I think that's ridic ridiculous Preposterous and extremely it's just about as funny as having J badera run the National Health Service or Elon Musk cleaning up the the American governments like what the hell we everything is turned into a what a right everything is turned into a right-wing comedy I know you know what the hell really satisfying it's so satisfying oh my gosh uh you did The Sermon on the Mount for Peterson Academy too yeah well that's the other forget about that yeah yeah well another thing that another sequence of very unlikely events when did we launch uh August August launch in a we kind of launched in July and then there was a pre-enrollment till till August L right so we launched Peterson Academy and its goal was to bring the highest possible quality education the kind of education that was reserved only for really for IV League Elites to everyone for the lowest possible cost and we did that I tell you when looked at the the the previews the trailers there's a lot of trailers at Peterson Academy so you can go look at them there if you're interested the trailers M what did Michael melis say about his trailer he said it made him cry yeah yeah well I felt this now that for me like I cry at the drop of a hat so it's not as big a deal but melis is an ordinary bastard so to bring him to tears is really something he did a course for us on the Soviet Union and totalitarianism and you guys did a bang up job of producing at the images are great every course has its own stylesheet the trailers are exciting the way a good movie trailer is exciting the courses look spectacular the professors are excellent the social media platform is really taken off um so why don't you talk a little bit about your experiences with that oh W it's a super positive place to to be which is fun like you go on Ax and I I mean I love what elon's done with a and and but it's very political which is fine we needed to push that still a rat hole of vipers oh yeah and then there's some dark areas on there wow that I just like recently found out existed it was like I don't know what that area is uh but they like the people at the platform are mostly talking about philosophical ideas self-improvement talking about how the watching the courses is applicable in their lives and how it's changing like how they get raises or what they're doing in relationships and it's just and it's it's interesting it's a little it's it's I've never seen a social media platform where people are boosting each other up like they are on Peterson Academy it's weird it's great well what we had hoped was that we'd establish a culture of communication on the social media side because we want to have a social life for the University and we're going to do or for the Academy we're going to do a lot more on the social life side and we wanted to ensure that there was highlevel civilized discourse that characterized the social media platform which has many of the same features as the standard common social media systems that everyone is familiar with now how many people did we kick off four we kicked off four out of 38,000 something like that yes we have 38,000 students so thank you very much to everyone who's participating we're thrilled about that and yeah yeah yeah and you've you've sketched out a great books curriculum with a more heavy science emphasis for the next for four years right and we have courses coming out now planned until July and we're going to have we're going to go from three courses a month which was a lot because they're eight hour courses each to four courses a month in January Y and lots of people have said you know that listening to the courses has replaced their YouTube podcasts on their drives and and and and well that's not surprising because we have we have the best professors they are the best professors from the best universities or from the remnants of the best universities let's put it that way and I really mean that I mean that specifically we've had professors who are working for us inquire about whether there's any possibility of them working full-time for us because these great once great universities are going to shed their great professors because they treat them abysmally and they're nasty administratively overrun Dei hellholes and so and we're going to fix that and we have and the price has been very well received we argued about price back and forth a lot and we tried to make it as low as possible without cheapening it without and while allowing us to be profitable and to have the capital at hand to ensure our survival and to grow as rapidly as we possibly can in all the directions we want to grow and we got that do you know how many people like from the support do you know how many people we've hired since August No 19 yep we just I just like we added them up the other day because we've added 19 people and that's in like development and production customer service like all those different areas 19 people s since August yeah now and you mentioned the courses so what courses have I got on Peterson Academy the course on N N's out first half of Beyond good and order so I still have to do the second half what else is beyond good and Beyond Beyond Good and Evil sorry Beyond Good and Evil that's good be order Beyond and Order always go together so yeah okay so you have Sermon on the Mount you have a personality course that looks amazing that's coming out in December yeah and then we have P that you filmed filmed a maps of meaning course like we have a bunch that you've already filmed yeah how to organize your life those are already filmed yeah so those are going to be coming out next year the personality one looks great yeah yeah the trailer for that should be done relatively soon eh yeah yeah I mean it's out it'll be out right away like December yeah and who are the more who are the most popular professors on the platform right at the moment do you think you know who people really like uh people really like James or's course well like James or is the archetypal Professor he's got the perfect English ACC British accent and yeah he does people people love that so he has ancient philosophy and that that's his recent course can I remember what the other cour is oh Play-Doh Y and so it it's funny like people really like those courses and then um if people ask like hey I just joined the platform what courses should I watch usually people have completely different answers which is nice oh that's good yeah so that's yeah well we don't have any unpopular courses I would say and all the professors we're going to we're going to maintain this level of quality we want all our courses to be outstanding and the production quality is unsurpassed I think we can safely say that these are the best university lectures that have ever been offered in terms of content and presentation and maybe by quite a lot we we have uh David Eagleman coming out right away which is going to be amazing and we have math I'm going to watch all the math ones I haven't seen all the courses like we've done editing and everything but I haven't watched them all the way through but the math courses look really good this like an intro to trigonometry um algebra there's one other one but we're going to cover all those which should be really fun yeah it it's been it's been so much fun yeah and we're working hard on the accreditation side in in so far as that's necessary and and it it's desirable and I believe we'll crack that problem in the next relatively short while we've got good lead and and even if that doesn't work out because the accreditation agencies are stuck you know in 20 years ago and are also ideologically corrupt in the same way that the university institutions are we're going to figure out ways to match our graduates with employers and I'm certain we'll be able to do that yeah so and hopefully offer people who do very well opportunities economic opportunities that's also part of the plan and it's a serious plan and it's a high probability outcome although most people I don't know the exact percentage but most people on the platform have jobs like like most people on the platform are interested in educating themselves further but have their job situation yeah do we know are we do we know off the top of your head do you know what percentage of people are taking the exams and compared to what percentage of people just want to take the courses I don't I need to I need to catch up with and about that it was an open question as far as we were concerned what percentage of people would want the formal education process which it would include examinations and accreditation and and what percentage of people would just that's not the right word would would be interested in the platform purely because they wanted to learn which is the best possible motivation everyone on the platform is who's teaching is there merely because they want to teach and we give all of our professors cart blanch like they're they're very carefully selected but we exercise no a prior editorial control over what they teach right and all we're looking for is people who are spectacularly knowledgeable and interesting and who love to teach and that's what we've got so far and so a lot of our people our students are there merely because they want to learn merely and that's the best possible kind of student and we should also point out that this isn't for 18 to 22 year olds it's fine if you're 18 to 22 and that's great and it'll be a great adjunct to your education even if you're already enrolled in University and but if you're like 15 and smart or 13 and smart then hey have outer and there's absolutely no reason for people who are well in the midst of their career or her mother's at home 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definitely not been and I'm less popular in my own neighborhood that I am anywhere else in the world literally and that's very annoying and my son Julian your brother as you know he um he lived on the street too which is part of the reason I lived there right because we and he also was in inclined to move away because it had become uncomfortable and that's I didn't never expect that to be something that happened in Canada but under Justin and the woke mob that's definitely something that's happened I didn't realize Julian moved out of the neighborhood cuz he was uncomfortable I mean I was certainly uncom there were other reasons but I don't think he would have moved like part of the reason was we weren't there as often as we had originally envisioned so there was less reason for him to be there and there was certainly no reason for him to be there if it was uncomfortable you know and I'm not very happy about that like we lived in that neighborhood for 20 years neither am I and I was very good to people in that neighborhood and so so was Tammy and well and you guys grew up there and so the fact that it had become politicized is it was educational put it that was educ it was that neighborhood was filled with people who would have called their neighbor on someone who had a party during covid or had their family members over during Co that it turns out that's where we lived that's I was like we want to yes Toronto was very bad during the lock very bad very bad and the Toronto District School Board is an absolute dis Grace it's probably the most woke institution in North America which is really saying something and the the city is basic run by the wife of the leader the last leader of the Socialist Party in Canada and so the goal in Toronto was to turn it into Portland OR San Francisco and that's happening you know there's tent cities and Street crime in Toronto and they've just left the traffic situation in Toronto degenerate completely because you can excuse your incon competence as a city administrator it turns out by pretending that you're a green utopian and working for the benefit of the planet while you fail to do your job and let the city degenerate into a snarled up Rat Hole so yeah anyways poies for all that but it what it has been see I didn't know how stressed I was in my neighborhood till I left and that's not pleasant it's not pleasant I know I could tell cuz I left left and I came back and it was just like heavy it's heavy people in Toronto are stressed hopefully in October things turn around and and things start to write themselves um but if you fly into to Toronto after you've been for a while it's stressful the problem is we're going to find out in Canada that things are a lot worse than we thought because I'm sure that Trudeau is so spectacularly incompetent that there's endless discoveries of corruption and idiocy to be un to be unveiled and I'm afraid for Pierre POV that he's going to be left with a terrible mess and will immediately be blamed by the remnants of the Legacy Media which he'll also help dispense with because I think the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is on The Chopping Block which it richly deserves $1.4 billion in direct subsidy a year 600 million doll in government advertising you go to the CBC YouTube channel and look at the last 50 things they posted and this includes whole shows like specials that they've made sitcoms Etc where they're posting them for free they all have under a hundred views each which means that the only people who watched them are the people who made them and probably not even then and of course they disallow comments because CBC is too clueless to understand that if you're going to be successful in the social media world you have to understand the ecosystems that you're trying to participate in and comments on YouTube are actually mandatory not not U optional and so anyways it's a sad scenario and I wish Danielle Smith plenty of luck in Alberta as she's trying to take on the federal government she's a tough cookie and a reliable person as far as I'm concerned and Pierre is he's got his rough edges he's got sharp teeth and someone like that is necessary but he's also maturing very rapidly into his role I really like his wife and he's got an actual family instead of the pretend family that our friend Justin had and it's not a facade or a lie like Justin's whole life and so with any luck next October Canada will flip hard and much harder than the United States House you know I mean obviously Trump won a spectacular Victory but it's still about a 5050 50 split in the United States whereas in Canada it's going to go 9010 I think you think I don't know oh it will in terms of um the election results oh I could I could see a situation easily where the Liberals lose their party status because you have to have a certain number of seats you have to win a certain number of writings constituencies to maintain your status as a party I could easily see that not the Liberals failing at that and actually not existing as a political party anymore that'll be Justin Trudeau's leg Legacy well they've moved so far left there isn't a political party there well there's certainly not a socialist political party left so yeah now the NDP the Socialist Party will pick up a fair number of the people who are too daff to know that the whole woke mob idiocy scene of idiocy is over and there's you know the NDP in Canada has picked up 20% of the population since like 1960 that's unlikely to change but the conservatives are going to win an overwhelming Victory and they're actually conservative God willing and so which means in American terms that they're basically classic liberals by the way because Canadian conservatives are centrists by any you know by the standards of any other country yeah so definitely anyways it's a painful thing to watch the country degenerate into fractious poverty as a consequence of nothing other than immaturity which is like the Hallmark of Trudeau he's so immature he looks like a 14-year-old it's no wonder he was like I I don't mean I mean I learned this when I was a therapist you know I learned to look at people to see how old they were psychologically like I could watch my clients while they were telling me stories especially stories about their past they would take on the facial expressions of children sometimes when they were talking about past experience especially traumatic experiences and I could I learned how to see how old people were and I swear this is not a personal slur Trudeau is somewhere between he's somewhere between 13 and 15 and that's not good when you're 50 you know he was at a Taylor Swift concert the other day non ironically handing out friendship bracelets while Montreal burned it's not acceptable and so he is the Pretty Boy of the Progressive Movement and he's going to get his comeuppance but I'm afraid as a wounded narcissist that he's going to do plenty of damage you know the country doesn't deserve a leader as spectacular as he is and he's certainly going to show that to everyone in this last year of his rule because he'll he'll take his revenge he will take his revenge he's going to do that with Bill C63 which is the most totalitarian Bill I've ever seen you think they'll actually pass that it's it's through first reading yes oh my gosh I think they'll pass it I think they'll pass it crazy okay thank goodness you move yeah well it's a bill that purports to protect children from online harm and that's the beginning of the bill and the end of the bill and the middle is literally the creation of a new extrajudicial system that isn't Bound by the rules of legal investigation or or guilt which has an unlimited range of expansion and all the powers of a court and more like more than any Court in Canada has ever had as far as I can see and can you can you tell people just briefly what the bill well here's one of the elements of the bill so you'll be able to take the complaining types so the informants 80% of the population no it's not that high it's about 30% I would say that's so scary yeah I know it's plenty um you you'll be able to take someone in front of a provincial magistrate because you're afraid that sometime in the next year they might commit a hate crime which is the sort of thing that people are being pursued for in the UK now although they call them non-crime hate incidents they're not actually crimes there although they're recorded and they come up if you do an employment search for someone and there's thousands of people being persecuted for non-crime hate incidents including journalists nonme hate incidents so so it's unbelievable anyways if I'm afraid that you might commit a hate crime on the basis of my fear if the magistrate agrees that my fear is warranted and God only knows how that is to be adjudicated it would certainly be warranted let's say in my situation because I'm a repeat offender as the college has so um what would you say morally pointed out I'm at high risk to reoffend with my appalling opinions like for example the opinion that it's a crime against humanity to slice the breasts of minor girls who are confused about their life for because they've had their brains addled by their appalling teachers and were not protected by their cowardly psychologists and their criminal butchers the criminal butchers who are masquerading as surgeons so let's see if we can generate another complaint or two for the college oh I can't believe it's so it's so fun let me finish okay let me finish the the crime so so I can be afraid that someone like me might utter some opinion that's hateful against some protected group gender expression by the way is protected in Canada gender expression literally is fashion literally it's literally fashion it's you know how you present yourself it says your hair your nails your clothing you know that's how you express yourself as a woman when you're a man anyways um if I'm if you're afraid that someone might commit a hate crime and the judge agrees then he can fit that person with an electronic surveillance bracelet and basically keep him in his house for a year no absolutely 100 read it yourself Bill C63 it's in the middle that's more than that what he that stop any communication on social media monitor all the social interactions in real life and force the person to submit their body fluids on a regular basis for analysis for I for reasons that just are not specified in the bill I suspect they got it from domestic abuse cases where you know if you are a domestic abuser if you're violent and you drink alcohol you're much more likely to be violent I mean alcohol makes people violent especially if they're already somewhat violent so I imagine they just lifted it from there hate crime domestic violence yeah it's beyond comprehension it's beyond comprehension I I still can't believe that's what that bill says you know and but I've stated it publicly several times and no one's come out and said you know Peterson doesn't know what the hell he's talking about and I think the reason for that is that I actually read the bill and I know what's in it and I know where it's headed just like I read bill c16 and told the senate in 2016 that if they went forward with their idiot legislation that they would cause an epidemic of gender dysphoria among young women right I got that right that's for sure and it wasn't like that was my hypothesis I thought I know how epidemics psychological epidemics start because I knew the literature and I know who's susceptible to them and how you create them just by by having that idiot legislation that Justin and his moralizers thought was freeing for the lgbtq plus two-spirited Community from whom I would say the rest of us have heard just about enough so wow wow well I hope that bill doesn't pass that's crazy so any conservative so any conservative who has anything controversial which has switched we were talking the other day about any socially conservative Viewpoint could be a hate crime yeah oh my go well and the thing is is that the bureaucracy is set up to serve informant essentially it'll just produce a class of informant they're incentivized by the legislation will'll just produce a class of informants who will do nothing but weaponize a new bureaucracy that has the power to expand indefinitely without the constraints of the of legal precedent which it says in the bill yeah it's beyond belief and that's all presented in the package of protecting children from online harm you know Canada could just move to shut down the porn sites if it actually cared about online harm to children he go after PornHub for example which is situated in Canada by the way and so if there was an iota of seriousness behind this which there isn't because there isn't an iote of seriousness in Trudeau in his cabinet there's many other things that could be done to protect children that would actually work without severely and permanently compromising civil liberties but Canadians you know most mostly they're still asleep so speaking of weaponized bureaucracy might as well do a college update yeah so what's happening okay so I'm supposed to contact my re-educates re educator but they redacted all the Conta on the contact information and the name so that wasn't helpful so my lawyers reached out and said well why don't you tell us who it is so that we can contact them since that's Our obligation and they wrote back and said well there's a delay and then we said yeah like what's the delay and they said well we can't find anyone because you've been so mean to everyone you scared them away that's why it was redacted cuz there just wasn't one no I I don't know why it was redacted to begin with um I think it might have been redacted to begin with I don't know why the hell it was redacted to protect them from my evil or something who knows you have to contact them yes I bet it's because they couldn't find so then they said okay well you can't contact them so then they found someone who I think is located in the UK so and I said and then they said you can't contact them and not only only can you not contact them even though the rule is that I have to contact them I can't contact them directly I have to meet him in a law office downtown some law office that isn't affiliated with the college so like what the hells up with that yeah in a law office right and it has to be in person now I knew they were going to do that because they know I Tour all the time and so their goal is to take my license right they never thought I'd go through with the reeducation they didn't plan that well because they can't think and they can't plan and so and they don't think and they don't plan and so I put them in an awkward position you might say by agreeing to their punishment so anyways hypothetically they found someone who has no clinical experience and who's never done anything like this before by the way and who I think is just stepping into a pit of snakes because I don't think he knows what is actually going on so that'll be interesting now they told me I had to do it in person right but I can't record it now I think I can record it because I have the right to record it and one way or another I'm going to record it so they said you can't record it it can't be public now the reason these things are done in private is to protect the person who's being investigated it's to protect you yeah it's to protect me but I told them explicitly I don't want the protection what I want for protection is that every single bloody bit of this made be made 100% public and that is going to happen that's going to happen so anyways I have to go to this Law Office downtown and they'll have a court reporter there to make a transcript but I don't get to have the transcript unless I agree not to make it public so we wrote them back and said you can't just change your own rules the rules are that I have to contact them and no like no who who's hiding something here not me cuz as far as I'm concerned every bit of this can be public who's hiding something well I guess it's you since you won't allow me to make the transcript public well we're protecting the re educator it's like no that's not how this works that's not how this works that wasn't the reason for the Privacy to begin with so no so wow now we have to hear from them okay and who knows what they'll do I mean I don't know what they'll do when is this bill 63 oh is that what is called Bill C63 it's creaking its way through the Parliamentary process now but it's already gone through first reading but this re-education is going to happen before that Bill's passed right because you're not going back into Canada to do that after that bill is passed yeah well that's a problem seriously don't trust these countries no no it's definitely the case that if Bill C6 three passed you'd be in so much trouble oh my life would be unlivable in Canada cuz like 50 activists would weaponize it instantly yeah o and so if Canadians want to live under a society governed by the worst of all possible snitches then yay man just don't pay any attention to Bill C63 and you'll get what you H for what what should people do like because wake up but but wake up and do what because people are already you know if you're in Canada you can't see certain news you can't see news like North Korea Style just like not available in your country ridiculous that's already happening I don't think people who live there like not everyone can pick up and move what are they supposed to do with this point just talk about it talk about it your neighbors and your friends well what people have to do is they have to take control over the political system again they have to they have to run for the school board for example and take the school boards back from the progressives all of these intermediary institutions they call it the Deep state in the United States and there's plenty of talk about the Deep state in the United States and not nearly enough talk about the Deep state in Canada I think Trudeau has increased the federal bureaucracy by 45% since he took office and so what does that mean number number people working yeah yeah what yeah yeah oh wow yeah well that's for sure that's for sure so so you think get invol get involved politically and talk invol don't stay quiet well all you yeah all of you young people out there in Canada who have developed a certain appreciation for classic liberal values and and maybe some more traditional conservative values you've got a responsibility it's like get out there and clean it up join a political party run for school board run for Town Council many of the Cities in Canada are hyper woke you know many of them are members of the C40 City Consortium they're a wonderful group so no one knows this either but you might as well know so 40 of the biggest cities in the world I know Edmonton is one of them even though Edmonton Alberta is probably not one of the biggest cities in the world 40 of the larger western western cities western civilization cities um have joined this C40 Consortium and so what are it schools 95% reduction in private automobile ownership that's one goal three articles of clothing per person per year new y y um one short Hall flight per person every three years and and a radical reduction in meat and dairy consumption so basically we're headed to to the ve vegan world now the vegans are thrilled about that well they shrivel up and get all sick sarop yeah yeah so so that's the C40 Consortium now why are what is that who WS that's the 15 minute it's a group of cities how did they get together who runs that Satan yeah yeah yeah basically I don't know probably clous Schwab's like something like that chauffeur or something I don't know who runs it it's it's a how does this just start just people from each City come together and they're like let's do something evil together yeah yeah yeah so the C40 Consortium they're they're a lot of fun yeah that's the 15-minute City people and that was so interesting too because the 15minute city movement was actually kind of an interesting architectural and City Planning movement to begin with the idea was we should return to something like towns where you know your community that could be your block of mcmansions let's say has like well a bar and a church kind of nice actually yeah yeah you want a downtown right you want a Down town a center of your town and the town arranged around it so that you don't have to drive everywhere and you can walk there you can walk there that's very very different than you have to walk there well it went from you can walk there do you have to walk there in about 15 seconds it's like people don't need cars people don't need to fly people don't need clothes people don't need to eat meat people don't need Dairy it's like um fuck you no I mean seriously you petty tyrants you would control control everything and you think about Europe you just think about this what would happen to Europe if people only went on one short Hall flight every 3 years okay all the towns would die because they're all supported by tourists all those beautiful old places done all the coastal cities done the whole hotel industry done all the cafes over with all the street culture done yeah right well multiculturalism gone yeah yeah yeah well how that's not they don't have I don't understand what kind of power like this isn't going to happen though although I did hear I don't remember I was on X was some State talking about cars and taking away cars I don't know if you saw that well you know the Net Zero types are agitating so look the net Zer types agitate for electric vehicles but they know perfectly well that there isn't enough electricity to run Electric vehicle for everyone it isn't even close we don't have the grid for it and we don't have the technology to produce that much electricity with Renewables that's for sure because guess what the spot price of electricity spikes towards Infinity when it's nighttime and the wind isn't blowing and so that's a big problem but the solution to the fact that there's not enough electricity on the renewable front is just that people don't need cars so this idea that everybody will have an electric car and that's how we'll get green it's like that's not the plan folks the plan is you peasant you don't need a car nobody needs their own private transportation what does need mean we'll go to public transportation it's like no one takes public transportation if their time is worth more than minimum wage or they can afford not to well the reason is most of that's just a matter of pure efficiency it's like if your time is worth anything you don't waste it on public transportation and so public transportation especially the way that it's offered now is basically only accessible to a small minority of people in an efficient manner in a small number of urban centers New York London Paris and it was pretty helpful for like the reason I had that response by the way wasn't necessarily to look down on all public transportation because I used to use it to get to high school and to get to school and to get across Toronto which was sometimes faster than driv Montreal has a great subway system it's oh yeah yeah Montreal and New York but in Toronto anyway it's super sketchy now yeah it's like scary to get onto a bus and things I was on a bus in TW before I left in 2021 with Scarlet in a stroller and a homeless guy came up and yelled at me and no one did anything right and I yelled I was so mad yelled right back like how dare he was just like where's your husband like super creepy I was like how dare you like get away which was enough for him to like scut off or wherever he came from but Scuttle skitter you don't like Scutter well I guess that's I feel like that man's scuttered it's possible it's certainly possible yeah yeah yeah okay anyway that updates people that was enough about Canada how great is don't know what's going to happen I don't know what's going to happen with the college I mean something Ma I know what'll happen the the the most stupid oh I guess I I have one more thing to bitch about so anybody can complain to the college about anything that any college member does and the Supreme Court of Canada already agreed in my case by the way which is now law that the colleges can pretty much override the Charter of Rights so yeah so that's that's good so that's one in five Canadians because there are the ones that are covered by the professional colleges no basically no longer have free speech rights oh that's okay fundamentally so now the college is also bound to investigate every complaint now they can decide not to pursue a complaint which by the way is the standard they should have applied to the small handful of complaints from all around the world they received about me so I'm really curious and would like them to know or to to uh inform the public let's say I know because they told us that they've received somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 complaints about their treatment of me and the unprofessionalism that that constitutes and the violation of their own Professional Standards okay so do they have a little army of people going through those complaints or did they just put those in the what in the in the electronic trash bin and and think that you know the 20 complaints they've received about me or 15 or 13 or whatever the hell it is that counts but the 20,000 they received about themselves that's irrelevant well we know the answer to that the answer is simple for the Canadians who are listening the colleges can do whatever they want right so if you're the member of a Professional Organization you better bloody well remember that and they're going to make certain that you do remember it because if you get out of line in action or word you're going to regret it for the rest of your life because you'll be paying through your teeth legal bills and your reputation will be over and you'll probably lose your career and all of those things have been aimed at me with you know not a spectacular degree of success but I think they will eventually manage to take my license and they've already blackened my reputation because if they do take my license which is their plan then I'll be disgraced psychologist Jordan Peterson and so that's very annoying and I can see why the other psychologists cow into their corners and remain silent but I should also tell some people something else you're going to need the advice of a professional at some point in your life and they are mandated to lie to you now and if you're the least bit of wake you may have noticed that professionals are doing quite a bit of lying right now and so when you have your child who's in trouble at 13 because they've hit puberty and they're sort of dubious about their new body and you take them to a psychologist and the psychologist says oh puberty blockers are just the thing for your young woman and maybe we can move her on to the surgical track with a little bit of evaluation and very bloody little because the rule is if you have a 13-year-old girl and she comes to see a psychologist the psychologist better say anything you want dear including disfiguring and sterilizing surgery because if they don't then it's illegal right and so if that's the sort of service you want from your professionals then just stay asleep that's horrible oh we do have one more thing to talk about invol involving Canada uh I was going to make a reaction video to this about a month ago or month and a half ago Trudeau came out oh yeah under oath and said you were being funded by Russians and we haven't responded to that yet so I thought we should right well those Russians you know the problem with Russians is they promise you the moon and then they never pay you so I haven't got a scent or a Ruble from the bloody Russians and so anyways um let's take that apart okay so the first thing we'll point out is that the reason Trudeau did that is because he isn't very bright so the reason he might have got confused he did get confused so what happened was there was a bit of a scandal that emerged around what was the name of the media company Lauren Chen was running it right and Lauren apparently um entered into an agreement with a relatively Shady Russian agent I think that's fair to say who promised her a substantial amount of money to start a new to to expand her media presence into a new company which would be center right online and she involved some other people um they didn't know they no no they didn't know Lauren Lauren Southern and Dave Rubin um and Tim P were the main people who were implicated although there's been no investigation into them the evidence is quite clear that they had no idea where this money was coming from they never accepted any editorial control over their content and they were minimally involved in this new media Enterprise h I watched Lauren Southern testify in front of Parliament and one thing I would recommend to parliamentarians in relationship to Lauren Southern is you you better be sure that you're smarter and more charismatic than Lauren Southern if you're going to bother questioning her because otherwise she will slash you to death with her tongue which is exactly what she did do and it was quite something to see I mean that woman has been through hell and I wouldn't mess with her casually and they were messing with her casually and it was quite something spectacular to watch her respond it was is like watching a mongoose kill a snake and so you can go watch that it's worth it Lauren Southern and the Canadian Parliament I mean there's a mismatch yeah yeah yeah definitely it's like a jungle cat tearing apart a teddy bear one of those creepy teddy bears that you see in horror movies that sort of slink along the floor oh so ugly and horrible one eye hanging down yeah that's the one that's like Lauren what are you doing with the Russians you're an idiot and you're in competent and you're part of what's wrong with this country yeah she's quite the force of nature anyways I think Trudeau got confused because that's his permanent state of being and you know he's just the Prime Minister and the leader of a G7 country and it was just a parliamentary committee and so I have no legal recourse and so he could basically say whatever he wants and that is what he said me and Tucker Carlson Russian agents you know so we did we did contact lawyers about it like can we Sue no you can't sue not if there's nothing you can do so apparently this happens quite often because they're under oath so people trust it more cuz it's under oath and so what people say is say it when you're not under oath as soon as you say it when you're not under oath you're you're able to be sued yeah so yeah well I think you know I think with trudo it's always narcissism confusion with a leav of malevolence and I'm sure that was at work here I know he's no friend literally stupidity right-wing people like uh Tucker and Jordan Peterson yeah like it could have been that much thought yeah yes which is terrifying well that's for sure that's for sure so I'm afraid the the fortune in Rubles that is supposed to be coming my way has failed to make itself manifest and um that there isn't much else to be said about that except that it's exactly what you'd expect from him it's exactly the depth of analysis exactly the careless reputation SA ing it's exactly the narcissism it's precisely the lack of of depth in terms of analysis um it's everything you'd expect from Mr Mr Taylor Swifty and out there being a 14-year-old handing out friendship bracelets to do you know did this this actually happened even though I can't believe it it's like kir starmer admitting that the whole immigration scheme in the UK was an experiment that was run by elites on the Brits and they were all lied to he just came out and literally said that yesterday he literally said that it's like oh that's not an AI fake it's like well what sort of reality are we in apparently that one and so Trudeau was handing out friendship bracelets to this girl on who filmed it and put it on YouTube and she trolled him she she put up a video showing that he was at the coner and she wasn't very thrilled about that because she's 15 years old and she knew enough to know that the leader of the of the of a G7 Nation shouldn't be at a Taylor Swift contest with all these 15-year-old girl or Taylor Swift concert with all these 15-year-old girls handing out friendship bracelets and he came over to give her one it's something like that I may have the details wrong because I don't have the stomach to actually investigate this and shared a friendship bracelet with her and she was trolling him and that's exactly right is that we have a prime minister who has the media wisdom to be trolled by a 15-year-old at a Taylor Swift concert it's like it's no wonder the Canadians are now poorer than everybody who lives in Mississippi okay so we're done yeah man that most of the we had a lot to say about Canada this this episode yeah it hey hopefully it'll turn around it usually follows what America does like I've seen that girl like fashion is cool in America then the year after it's cool in Canada music is cool there then the year after it's cool there wokeism is cool in America and then Canada's like no we're the wokest and now it's like you know there's been such a comeback of conservativism and it's not even that it's so weird a to watch what's happened in the last month because it's like the the podcast host and guest World took over the United States it's so remarkable in like oh crazy I'm still not over it just switched it was like we've been walking around for like six or seven years longer than that oh my gosh longer than that eight years being like what's going on does anyone else see this this is crazy does does anyone else think this is crazy or is it just me and it turns out a lot of people think this is crazy and just like WP reality switched it's weird all those under undereducated workingclass slobs turn out to be pretty damn perspicacious when it comes to detecting reality unlike those who've benefited from the advanced education and women's studies for example courtesy of the IV leagues so yeah I know it's so weird I just I it's I know I said the other day I was like what are you what are you going to say on Twitter that's controversial now all the conspiracy theories are out they were all true it's done like what what's what's left to be like you know we can complain about Canada and what's going on in the UK like there's issues elsewhere but like what which one of your views even this college case that's pursuing you all these things you said it's taken so long to pursue you that like all of America agrees with everything you said yeah which is really convenient I got to say yeah yeah for sure yeah well I certainly don't regret any of the things I said the complaints you know I complained about Trudeau yeah and apparently that's not acceptable even though my comments about truder were dead on the money I complained about his some of the people that he had gathered around him who you know were the sort of people you should complain about and I complained about a city counselor who lied during the trucker Convoy that's looking pretty good I complained about the trans butchers I'm really happy about that I'll complain some more about them so because they certainly deserve it and I'm completely right about that um I mentioned to Joe Rogan because they somebody handed in the whole transcript of a Joe Rogan podcast that that he did with me as the complaint and I complained about the fact that idiot economists had stacked their idiot economic prognostications going out 100 years on idiot climate prognostications that go out 100 years and that that's just not the least bit acceptable no one can do that it's impossible and that's true and you notice the Democrats themselves didn't say a damn word about climate in this last election right no no not at all they just dropped it and the reason to that is it's a lie folks so just like so many things have turned out to be a lie and that's a big one and so like I don't regret any of the things I there was the swimsuit model oh yes that's right oh yes I also objected to the proposition that an extremely overweight swimsuit model is a beautiful and B athletic certainly not the intercept section between beautiful and athletic which is actually the criteria for being featured on the cover of swim or Sports Illustrated well it should be but apparently it's not yeah but then and then Maha is taken over which is weird too it's like now everyone's on board that oh chronic disease is actually a problem and obesity actually turns out not to be the best of all possible ideas people who are worried about non-toxic products aren't weird anymore suddenly in like a day yeah weird yeah oh that's for sure really relaxing though well what does Elon Musk keep tweeting we're in we're in the most Preposterous of all timelines and that's well he said for years and something I've thought as well I've always thought this with regards to dealing with bureaucracies the most idiotic and comical outcome is the most likely one and that's certainly what I've seen it's certainly the case with the College of psychologists it's like you know they changed their name e oh yeah they changed their name of psychologists and behavior analysts well why did you change your name it wouldn't be because the old name on Twitter was attracting like 25,000 negative complaints would it I'm sure it was just coincidence and the new name is so much more elegant are they on a still Yes under a new name yes College of psychologist Behavior analysists analysts see yeah yeah only a bureaucrat can come up with that name yeah yeah so to type in they're going to hope people are going to get confused I don't know what's going to happen with this re-education scheme like first of all they have to what I'm going to do by the way I might as well make this public because I'm making all of this public as soon as I get word about who the educator is and I kind of know but not certainly I'm going to contact him and I'm going to say because I think he's in the UK and hasn't got any experience in this sort of thing I'm going to say do you have any idea what Rat Hole you're stepping into this is how you want to spend the rest of your life is it you want to jump into this absolute bloody insane mess and be what the brunt of unpopular public opinion that's so intense you can hardly possibly imagine it for the next 10 years yeah well don't do it and people will say Peterson is threatening the re-educates nothing that I'm going to do except to make it public I'm I regard it as a humanitarian gesture and you know partly ironic about this and partly not it's like don't do it you have no idea what this is going to be like there's there's nothing in it for you unless you're narcissistic beyond belief or you're you've been hiding under a rock for the last eight years you have no idea what's going on I wouldn't get involved or you want to be a Mart or you want to be the person that brings me down or like if if you know what you're doing go ahead man yeah yeah and I'm glad you clarified that it's not a threat I I honestly like feel bad for I do feel bit bad on my worst enemy no no cuz like it's just such a obviously the tides are going to turn this is crazy objectively it's crazy they are they have to go through with it there it's too much of a bureaucracy to not go through with it they can't be like oh well maybe maybe we should that's actually not even true because I offered them a public deal when I I wrote a National Post article and I offered them a deal it was a very straightforward deal and they had a new registar like the head of the organization essentially the administrative head I said look there's a there's actually a problem here the problem is is that technological transformation has made complaints far too easy you can just go to the internally yeah internationally and so let's change a few rules let you guys admit that you hadn't updated your technology to take into account the dangers of ease of complaint and so now only citizens of Ontario or OCC or inhabitants of Ontario can complain and they can only complain if they're first or second party recipients of the service of a profession okay 80% of the problems go away right there you admit that and we and you change your policies and I say well I can understand that you got caught up in a technological Revolution and um I leave it be and you leave it be and 80% of the problem is solved and we're done so I offered that publicly so yeah there is a way out it's very simple it would require not even any real loss of face on their part because some of that is a a substantive amount of that is true like oh yeah process wasn't weaponized before the complaint system was transformed electronically because it was a pain you actually had to do some work to complaint instead of just going H click entire transcript of Joe Rogan podcast sent from Australia yeah yeah exactly exactly yeah which is what's happened essentially yeah yeah okay well anyway we've covered that okay well okay so oh we didn't talk about the tour yeah I'm on a tour again for we who wrestle with God and it's primarily an American tour although there are some Canadian dates um hopefully I won't get arrested like Tommy Robinson and so gosh um there are some Canadian dates the information on the tour is at jordanbpeterson.com the tour although it focuses on WE who wrestle with God and it is an IT presents a description of the rationale for a sequence of foundational stories I wouldn't say it's it's the same it has the same aim as the tours that I've gone out before I'm describing what I'm working on intellectually but it's it's all presented in a manner that's very very practical and it has that aim you know as a behavior therapist it's always my aim to take high level abstract conceptualization and explain them so that they're compelling and understandable but then to make them practically applicable and so this just continues that same process so I think we're in like 40 cities between now and April something like that maybe it's crazy tour again yeah yeah so I I would I would clarify though because I've had people reaching out on Instagram too that like is it just focused on Christians or something like that and I I've listened to your show and I think like what you get at the end of the show is a more organized world view and how to improve your life yeah you know it's pretty foundational right there's God in the title and you obviously talk about the biblical stories and things but what you're doing is laying a foundation for people I'm trying to help people clarify their structure of value like what is it that you're aiming at well the insistence in any gen genuine religious Endeavor worthy of its name is that you aim at what's best well how do you conceptualize what's best what do you how do you conceptualize what's highest and what relationship do you have to that abstractly and also practically and so it's a hard thing to do it's the only thing harder is to not do it right and that's actually easier Moment by moment but way harder in the medium to long run that's the thing about a properly oriented religious vision is that it makes everything in the medium to long run way easier way easier way more productive way more abundant way less racked with guilt and pain it takes discipline and careful attention in the moment so or you can reverse that you can have exactly what you want however you want it right now and pay tomorrow by living in hell right right that's that's not good solution so and I I'm trying to explain why I'm trying to explain why I am explaining why I'm not trying I am explaining why these stories are foundational and I'm also trying to point out to people that the stories in the biblical library because it is a library they're about you obviously like when you go see a Harry Potter movie it's about you like you don't notice that but if it wasn't about you you wouldn't Beed interested in it like if it didn't have any bearing on you I don't mean it's about you in a selfish way it's it's laying out some inescapable elements of The Human Condition and describing a manner of dealing with them why else would you go see a movie for example why would you read a work of fiction fiction is a weird genre it's like why do you care about things that never happened so yeah Stories We Live by Stories We Live by stories there's no way around it that's an indisputable scientific fact that's the revolution that's taken place in the last 50 years people across a variety of disciplines have come to understand that a description of the structure through which we see the world is a story that's indisputable crazy that's driving the culture war that argument but the empiricists and the rationalists they lost we do see the world through a story once you know that the only question is well what's the what's the what's the Greatest Story Ever Told right that's the only question how did you figure that out because you've been talking about this for a very long time so how did you switch from like let's say I mean a rationalist I don't even know if you were rationalist originally but I would say the probably more okay how did you switch from that so the difference between a rationalist and empiricist is an empiricist believes that we build our worldview bottom up from the facts and that there are self-evident there is a strata of sensory data that constitutes the self-evident fact and that all our knowledge emerges from that the rationalist believes that there has to be an structure that intermediates between the sense data and the psyche so that we impose order on the world we don't just order doesn't just emerge from the bottom up that we bring an order that's part of our cognitive apparatus to our view of the world oh okay the rationalists were closer to the truth than the empiricists although we do change our even our rational worldview as a consequence of empirical data but the rationalists believe that the basis for that imposition of order was rationality it's not it's narrative have they met anybody well yeah yeah I know I know who are you hanging out with cuz I haven't met them right right right no but that's exactly right you know that that was the flaw in the worldview of the of the really of the rationalists like let's say like Dawkins or even Michael shurmer for that matter both people I have respect for by the way we'll free oursel of our Superstition and we'll become scientists it's like a no we won't and B no we won't almost no scientists are scientists yeah we've seen that it's been loud and clear last per year that's for sure you know I mean I suddenly everyone was a scientist they're like oh nobody's a scientist well then that's true like it's really hard to be a scientist because you have to be willing to change what you think when you're wrong yeah you can't have any ego associated with you have to look for where you're wrong that's very annoying it's very annoying especially if you predicated your career on something you claimed to be true it's like you know that thing that got me the job and my reputation turns out it's wrong yeah you have to really want to find the truth yeah you have be I like and that's it that's it and then it doesn't matter if you're wrong because who cares the goal is to find the truth but that's well the thing is at that point you're not only a scientist you're also religious because you believe that the truth will set you free and you actually believe it and that's that's hard that's really hard like most first of all no there would be no real science without a bunch of false science so let's get that on like to do something right requires doing it badly aone so the fact that a lot of scientific studies aren't replicable it's like well you know some undergraduate did the study and it was his first one so you know should it have been published yes cuz you have to learn how to to write scientific papers most science is wrong but some of it isn't right you don't have to there doesn't have to be much that's real for things and like how much of it do we want to be real do we want things to move faster than they already are you know if we generate 3% new information a year and 97% of the what we're doing is rubbish it's 3% a year you know it's like means we're like twice as smart in 10 years that's plenty fast so uh in any case it turns out that it turns out that we do see the world through a story and the biblical insistence is that the story isn't one of power and it's not one of hedonistic self-gratification and it's not one of nihilism it's one of upward it's one of responsible upward seeking sacrifice and that's true it's true it's not merely a religious Proclamation although it is that it's inevitably the case it's the case by definition here's one way of understanding that attention is sacrificial why because when you attend to one thing there is an infinite number of other things that you are not attending to right when you do one thing there's an infinite number of other things that you're not doing you've sacrificed all those other possibilities to that one thing what is that one thing that you're sacrificing everything to is it your whim well that's not going to make you very popular with your tomorrow self or with anybody who might want to be around you yeah like what's the aim of the sacrifice okay there's more Community is based on sacrifice well why well when you're three and you learn to take turns what are you doing when you take turns you're sacrificing your turn why so that your friend can have a turn why so that you have a friend right and then maybe you have a bunch of friends now you have a community or a tribe are you better off yeah way better off you're not Lonesome you've got people around to help you you've got people around to take care of right that's a great deal and then your little tribe becomes a town or a city and then it becomes a nation and it's one nation under God and the god at the top of all that is the principle of it's the it's it's in part the princi principle of the sacrifice upon which Community is founded that's why Christ is Christ's life is the ultimate sacrifice right and that just happens to be true it just turns out that that's true it's the sacrifice upon which the community is founded well we even know that because look what we've done this is the structure of a European town right classic European town There's a church or a Cathedral at the center often the highest building in town by Design it's the center at the center of the churches is an altar at the center of the altar is a sacrifice why because the community is founded on sacrifice it's like oh and we were doing that we were acting that out no one knew it's like oh H turns out we knew what we were doing all along we act out things that we don't understand all the time and some of them are very profound things and that happens to be one of them so it's even at at the beginning of there's this weird idea in John right at the beginning of the of of the Gospel John that Christ is the word of God that's there at the beginning of time now the beginning of time is a weird idea in the biblical Corpus because the God who operates at the beginning of time is outside of time so it's not exactly the beginning it's the beginning and now and the future so God is Conjuring the world out of potential at the beginning of time now and forever okay so there's something happening there this wrestling with potential that is the way the world is engendered and human beings do that that's that's why we're considered made in the image of God okay what are we doing we're performing the sacrifices upon which the foundations of order are predicate with every glance we take with every with everything we attend to or don't attend to with every word we utter we're wrestling the world of potential into being that is what we're doing and what is it that confronts us is it the determinant material order in part because things are concretized but everything that's concretized is still rif with potential you know this is a book unless I pick it up and SWAT you with it in which case it's instantly a weapon it's like everything has its realm of potential around it right so we're surrounded by potential and that's what our Consciousness focuses on you ignore everything that's predictable you wrestle with the toou vaboh the potential that's there in front of you and we do that in the microcosm but it's the it's it's what it's the embodiment of the same principle of sacrifice that the word of God uses at the beginning of time to cast the world into order it's like yeah turns out that's true so no kidding no kidding it's like I have no idea what we're going to do when we realize that these stories are true because that's different than believing them right because that's been the Christ insistence forever you have to believe which you do like look you have to have faith and people might say well I only I'm only going to act in accordance with the evidence it's like okay so let's say you go out on a date and you fall in love with the girl you're out with and you decide to get married it's like what that's from the evidence is it that's why you're going to get married because of the evidence you have no idea what your marriage is going to be like you don't have the foggiest notion of who it is that you are now tangled up with you don't have a clue and so so why do you get married well because you it's an act of sacrifice all other women are off the table it's Act of Faith and the same thing happens when you move to a new city or when you take a new job the evidence is not there now that doesn't mean you you can make stupid decisions but all the time when we're pursuing the adventure of our life always always it's an Act of Faith it's not an adventure otherwise if you know with 100% certainty that your bet will pay off well first of all you're being an automaton in some ways and second there's no excitement in that it's ex it's so interesting that the Act of Faith is the Act of Faith this is by definition it's something I cover in detail in the book The Act of Faith is by definition the adventure of life I mean who would have ever guessed that what do you have faith so that weirdly exciting things can happen to you all the time so let something else I tried to detail in this book is the relationship between truth and adventure and that's such fun it's so fun to understand that so let's say you decide that you're just going to say what you think you know like not carelessly and not self-servingly but that's just your rule if someone asks you a question you just say what you believe to be true Okay so that's a sacrificial gesture why well because you don't get to decide what you want for the outcome you know because I could be sitting here thinking well I should tell Michaela what she wants to hear because you know maybe she'll make a business deal with me that it's like no you don't get to do that you get to say what you think and then You' have no idea what's going to happen no idea and that's ridiculously or or I suppose sometimes you do know what's going to happen if you say what you think which is why people avoid it right or they think they know no no you might know what will happen in the moment ah I see but you don't know how that's going to yeah exponentially expand okay so you know you've seen this so lots of the people that we know have been cancelled so I talked to Graham linahan for example this week podcast is coming out soon he was the UK's top comedy sitcom writer he won like a Lifetime Achievement Award for it he was like the number one guy and beloved by his audience and they just nailed him like five years ago he was cancelled no job no writing opportunities it blew his marriage into pieces because they went after his wife and she he said they never had any trouble before this then he lost his job and all hell broke out and they tortured her and he lost his marriage and like he just lost everything and he said he doesn't regret it and part of the reason he doesn't regret it is because he of all the people he met and we know all these weird people who've been counseled and they' all kind of aggregated together and you think those people are worth knowing it's like yeah they're really worth way more entertaining than the average person too they're like fun because they actually well and that's the thing about all those comedians that like Rogan's a good example of that or Theo vaugh it's like I'll just say what I think maybe it'll be funny it's like we'll see what happens and what happened with Rogan it's like Rogan became the most powerful journalist the world has ever seen so that's funny and it turns out that when Cala Harris decides not to go on Rogan's show that's really hard on Kamala Harris and not very hard on Joe Rogan yeah right right pretty funny oh man so like there's an object lesson there and and Trump went on Theo Von show it's so funny Theo I mean Theo's super bright and I think he's hilarious but he plays the the he plays workingclass hick perfectly partly because he was one even though he's a complete bloody genius and so and now Trump is the guy that's being interviewed by Theo vaugh during the weirdest presidency run ever it's like that's entertaining JD Vance talking about Theo talking about cocaine to JD Vance that might have been the F my favorite part of 2024 maybe yeah yeah and so that the thing that's part of I think Adventure is Divine Comedy and the pathway to Divine Comedy is the truth and that's so what do you do when you discover that it's like everything's a cosmic joke you know and just Preposterous things just happen continually you think and those are Miracles I suppose who knews knew that Miracles were comedic but you know hell is horror so why wouldn't Heaven be Divine Comedy and why wouldn't the pathway to that be Adventure I mean that's what all the quest movies are about little Hobbits you know going off to face the allseeing eye of Sauron which we're doing everything to create as fast as we possibly can M world's a weird place man and that's for sure and it's going to get stranger so strap on strap in strap on stra you can add that to the intro Scutter scuttering away and Brilliant yeah okay well I I think we should wrap it up then yeah that's for sure that was great I I'm going to link everything I'm going to link the book I'll link the tour uh I'll link I don't know whatever else we talked about I'll put them in the description so everybody I'll put Peterson Academy did we talk about everything we're supposed to the book The Tour the Peterson Academy the Russian thing the college the pesky Russians yeah yeah we can do this then we can do another podcast that doesn't cover any of that this is kind of an update podcast but we haven't done that the last time we talked was a year ago was right after George was born this well one thing we could do that might be useful is to walk through the book walk through the book yeah yeah as a podcast at some point I could just tell you know I could just lay out the stories and their essential structure that's quite fun that's what I'm doing on the tour or two you know usually what I do for a lecture is I tell one of the stories you know and say this is what it's this is some of what it means this is the other thing that you know I I don't want to get too totalitarian in my claims there's no limit to the interpretation of these stories because they're linked together they're all linked together the Bible is a hyperlink text and so so there's a lot of pathways through it like maybe an indefinite number of Pathways like there's an indefinite number of chess games and some of the pathways are very well trodden you know and some of them are mysterious and unlikely and but it's bottomless and so I'm offering interpretations but they're not complete and you you couldn't offer complete interpretations no there's no way of offering the Bible yeah there's no that's right there's you could say that Western Civilization is one of the inter interpretations of the biblical text yeah right cool with all its permutations and variations right exactly exactly well and you know games are inexhaustible chess I think there's more potential chess games than there are subatomic particles in the observable universe no yes yes wow yeah right combinatorial explosion they call that right and so that's like the infinite possibility that's at hand in everything and it's there that's that infinite potential so you know the part of the injunction in the text is tell the truth why because all things considered it reveals the best possible future you may have to suffer for it you will suffer less for the truth than for anything else that's the promise and the rewards are in the rewards are as the rewards are as Limitless as hell is bottomless right that's worth thinking about so you have to throw yourself into the fry and you do that by well how about by not compromising your relationship with the truth like what's your hypothesis that you're going to get somewhere by what by failing to take into account the nature of reality that's your theory you're going to pull the wool over your eyes and everyone else's and go God's eyes and that's going to work who who believes that you wish it could be true in the moment now and then No One Believes it No One Believes that if you look at things through an empirical I guess or a rational lens then lying doesn't doesn't really matter well there is no matter there well it it doesn't I mean you could get away with it there's no moral law yeah and if our reality is purely empirical right or from the 's point of view then you could get away with lying well you I think I even think that's a misreading of the empirical really yeah because I don't think that that meaningless determinism is necessarily A Part and parcel of the scientific Endeavor because this is another thing that I try to lay out in the book and it's not what you say original to me this conception so imagine that P figured this out Johan P the developmental psychologist is this in your course it's in the P course yes definitely so he had a very different idea about the super ego so to speak than Freud Freud thought of the ID as all these like monstrous desires clambering up to be manifested and then the super ego being like the heavy-handed tyrannical allseeing ey of Sauron State going no and the poor ego being crushed in the middle that isn't how P viewed it at all he thought about these initial biological motivations that are present in 2-year-old as as micro games and they're micro games that initially are only playable by the isolated child because two-year-olds aren't social yet but then they get integrated into higher order games that other people can play so PJ's notion of the social was a a sophisticated game and there's no inhibition in a sophisticated game like if you and I are sitting down and playing Monopoly and we both want to play we're not inhibiting our id-like desires while we play we're fully on board we're integrating them you can think about aggression in that way it's like you go to a hockey game the aggression isn't inhibited it's integrated and everyone's on board right so I see yeah right higher levels of social organization are integration not inhibition now the idiot progressives don't understand this at all because they just think of power you have inhibit it's all about control it's either you controlling me or me controlling you it's like no we could play a game well that's a way better vision and the best game okay so now imagine this there's a very large Universe of ways that we could interact okay a small minority of those are games that we would both like to play okay and even smaller minority are games that we would like to play that improve as we play them and even smaller minority of those games are games that improve while we play them that more and more people could play okay now you're getting to the straight narrow path so the the pathway marked out by the Divine sacrifice is the pathway that characterizes the game that everyone can play that gets better as you play it right now you see that's an I would say that's an empirical fact right there's all these possible ways of interacting but if if they have to interact in a way that iterates across time that improves and that everyone will do voluntarily and even enthusiastically because enthusiasm means to be possessed by God you're down to a very F small fraction of possible patterns of interaction I think those are identifiable I think they're empirically real so yeah I I mean I I'm fully on board I can just I can just see how somebody with an empiricist or rational point of view would just but they're disregarding the fact that there's one way to do things that's right they're disregarding they're disregarding the fact that empirical patterns exist in the space of repeated interactions right well I'll give you an example so so when when people started looking at wrestling in rats and it's a funny thing to talk about but it it has to do with games they noted that that if you put two male rats together that were juveniles they'd wrestle right and if one rat was 10% bigger than the other rat he'd win and so the interpretation was the big rat dominated the little rat now the dominant structure is established and it's based on power that's not right because rats play repeatedly so if you pair rats together the big rat can dominate the little rat but if the big rat doesn't let the little rat win at least 30% of the time the little rat won't invite him to play anymore so Even Rats so that's an example of that empirical pattern it wasn't discovered until people remembered oh yeah rats don't live by themselves in a cage and play once they live in Rat families and they play repeatedly right so the patterns of play that repeat are way different and they have even rats have an ethos of reciprocity you have to let the little rat win now and then right rat morality and France toall showed the same thing in chimpanzees so I think we're at a point and I try to make the case in this book and we'll make it again in the next book that deals with job and the gospels that we're at a point where the sophisticated empirical and the narrative can dovetail and that should eradicate the distinction between science and religion now there's something else that's interesting p on Whose work I predicated many of my my observations his motivation for doing what he did which was to become the greatest developmental psychologist of the 20th century was to reconcile the division between science and religion really yes that's what he wanted to do no one's ever taught that because I didn't I didn't know that yeah yeah yeah that was his exp your course okay that's in the PSA course got to take this course yeah cool you know you know I've said this before but I had a intro to psych professor at Concordia that I had to Tre out Concordia sure become fun e Concordia wasn't fun in 2011 no and it's really not fun now this professor this is Professor is probably why I wanted to make Peterson Academy so maybe thanks to this professor but he he told the psych class that rats were solitary creatures because they lived in cages literally yeah and I didn't go to another class unhappy addiction prone frustrating stressed rats live by themselves just like antisocial criminals in solitary confinement oh yeah sad yeah yeah yeah yeah well you you you literally cannot get a rat addicted to cocaine if he lives in a rat like Society he has better things to do but if he's in a cage and you give him access to cocaine it's like bar Press Bar press you know no sex no food no water just cocaine well why because he's bored to death he has got no rat Adventure he's got no natural source of dopaminergic stimulation so he turns to the chemical same thing's true in life we we've known in the addiction treatment literature forever especially with regards to alcoholism that the best cure for alcoholism is religious transformation everyone's known that since like 1930 even the atheist investigators everyone knows this if they know the literature and the reason seems to be if you look at it for logically is that if you're addicted to alcohol you're likely getting a pretty good dopamine kick from it everyone doesn't by the way but people who like alcohol definitely do it's got a psychomotor stimulant effect and the best way out of that is to substitute or find the genuine article because alcohol is the substitute to find a more to find something better to do yeah well you get a dopamine kick if you see yourself moving towards a desirable goal okay so now imagine that you discovered the most desirable goal so that would be something like relationship with the Divine this is by definition it's like okay now every time you act in accordance with that you get a kick well you don't need that you don't need the alcohol in fact it starts to interfere with it yeah right interesting so that's why yeah yeah well addiction is a false Adventure just like any hedonistic Pursuit it's a false Adventure it depends on the reason for addiction sometimes it's to avoid pain like I had like sometimes it is I had a major I was young too but I like I drank a lot and as soon as I was off anti-depressants and healthier I bet you Rel bet you had two or three responses to alcohol cuz I did and it was partly from being depressed too it was from being depressed it facilitates social bonding yeah so you feel the bonds of relationship more intensely friendship more testing that's probably an opiate effect it's anxiolytic that was fantastic and it's got a dopaminergic kick effect and yes with alcohol it woke me up too the only time I was awake right that's the psychomotor stimulus effect that's the one that but that's the one really reliably addicts people that went away as soon as I got healthy yeah it always to like I remember when I shouldn't have been drinking with Julian when we were kids he'd be like yeah I'm tired like I'm finally alive like thank goodness and then I got healthy this was when I was like 23 and I was like oh it's a little sedating like this isn't nearly the same drug that I was taking you know before that isn't that interesting so like yeah I I don't get that anymore the like stimulant effect which was really fun but life was miserable so right you know I would trade it right right yeah all right kiddo yeah that was great thank you for the update I'm so glad that you guys are living here that's so fun yes yes it's it's it's good and and it's nice it's it's very nice to have a place to go to that's peaceful and stressfree and it's not the least bit good for you when you have to walk on eggshells um and that is what a totalitarian state is like now I'm not claiming that my neighborhood was a totalitarian state because it can get yeah it can get I'm not saying that's not a bottomless pit to hell but like little bit yeah too much too much any is too much M right well thank you for coming on yes well thank you for making it easy to move here you are very sneaky of you I know super sneaky yeah well it took a lot of work to be that sneaky so it's much appreciated and your mother feels the same way and you knocked it out of the park with Peterson Academy thank you seriously man it's I felt exactly like M A melis felt when I watch those trailers it's like yes that's how it should look we edited them until we got goosebumps we're like okay now we're at the right spot yeah right right right yeah yeah [Music] a

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