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Today, back by popular demand, I have Jordan Peterson.

Jordan is a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto. He formerly taught

at Harvard University and he has published articles on drug abuse and alcoholism and aggression,

but he has made a special focus on tyranny. And of late, he has been fighting a pitched

battle against political correctness up in Canada, and he's attracted a lot of support and

criticism on that front. As I said last time around, he is far and away the most requested

guest I've ever had. And we did a podcast about four or so episodes back entitled What Is True,

podcast number 62, and that to the disappointment of everyone was a fairly brutal slog through

differing conceptions of epistemology. If ever the phrase bogged down, applied to a podcast,

applied there. Some people enjoyed it, but most of you didn't. But as I say in the conversation

today with Jordan, I did a poll online and 30,000 of you responded. And 81% wanted us to try again

because there was much more to talk about. And as it turns out, there was, we had a much better

conversation this time around. It was very collegial. And if you have anything to say about it,

feel free to reach out to Jordan and me on Twitter or make noise wherever you want.

And now I bring you Jordan Peterson.

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