The Passion of the Jordan and the Wisdom of the Bret

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Feb 9, 2024

Checking in on old pals Bret Weinstein and Jordan Peterson, we find Jordan facing challenges with his clinical license while Bret cracks the code behind the Chinese evolutionary lineage. Topics discussed include contradictions in guru behavior, the impact of China's one-child policy on gender ratios, the discrepancy between ideas and delivery, internal struggle and resistance, creating opportunities in problems, and reflections on controversial traits of the guests.

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INSIGHT

Principled Outsider Rhetoric

Brett frames himself as a principled outsider confronting a vast, corrupt system to galvanize loyalty from followers.
That humble, burden-bearing rhetoric masks clear self-aggrandizement and positions him as a singular truth-teller.

INSIGHT

Making Fringe Figures Into A 'Dream Team'

Bret elevates anti-vax and fringe figures into a mythic "dream team," recasting marginal actors as courageous experts.
This reframing strengthens group identity while insulating the movement from external critique.

ANECDOTE

Border Encounter Sparks Evolutionary Tale

Bret recounts noticing Chinese migrants who wouldn't engage with him and builds an evolutionary narrative from that observation.
He links that field impression to an essay he wrote about China's sex ratio and the one-child policy as a possible lineage strategy.

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Sometimes it's important to check in on old friends, just to make sure they're doing okay. That's the theme for today's episode. We felt it was necessary to pay an unannounced house call to our old pals Bret Weinstein and Jordan Peterson. Rumor had it that Jordan was facing some challenges with his clinical license, while Bret had been brewing up revolutionary evolutionary theories that weren't getting the recognition they deserved.

Knowing Jordan's stoic nature and aversion to publicity, we anticipated he'd be reluctant to 'make a fuss.' So, we decided to drop by his podcast to see how he and his daughter, Mikhaila, were handling the news that another Canadian court had determined that the evil College of Psychologists of Ontario does indeed have the authority to reprimand him for rampaging on social media like a deranged badger. We were confident he would be taking it all in his stride, with his usual level of decorum and we were certainly not disappointed.

As for Bret, well, let's just say he's cracked the code behind the Chinese evolutionary LINEAGE and its motivation for instigating the one-child policy, with implications that shake the very foundations of our current world order. This is one for the history books and cements Bret's status as a world-class evolutionary thinker. When you start looking through Bret's evolutionary lens, suddenly everything starts to make sense.

So come join us to see how these two titans of the Guru-sphere are faring in 2024 and in the process learn exactly which of them is morphing into a Lord of the Rings character.

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