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Under The Skin with Russell Brand

#048 Freedom and Tyranny (with Jordan Peterson)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

4.815.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In this special edition of Under The Skin celebrating the paperback release of my book Recovery - clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson joins me again to discuss the nature of social hierarchies, where power lies and how to live in harmony. We also compare his 12 Rules for Life with the 12 Steps in my book Recovery.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this special edition of Under the Skin with me Russell Brand.

0:06.7

I'll be talking to Dr Professor Dr Jordan Peterson, I've spoken to him before, but this special

0:13.6

commemorative, wasn't really commemorative, chat, it's not a tea towel for the royal wedding

0:18.7

between Meghan Merkel and Prince Harry, it's to celebrate the release on paperback of my book

0:26.0

recovery, look at it now, on Amazon, it's £6.50, I think, might be £6.47. We talk about that book

0:32.4

recovery, we talk about the principles of recovery as a road to enlightenment, we talk about Dr

0:37.2

Peterson's book 12 Rules for Life. It's an interesting chat, talking about myth, we do of course

0:42.8

go through some of the mainstays of Professor Peterson's, what I heard, a canon of ideas that he

0:49.6

commonly talks about, but also I think we really get to the heart of it and discover some,

0:55.0

some people think there's an exclusion of warmth I think sometimes when talking about Peterson's

0:59.9

ideas and his insistent on individual culpability and responsibility, we get into that stuff quite

1:07.6

deeply, I think it's a great chat, those you don't know who Jordan Peterson is, yeah, where have

1:13.1

you been? Obviously not watching him at the Hammersmith Apollo with 5,000 others, so yeah,

1:19.8

we're talking to Jordan Peterson on under the skin, thanks for joining me and do check out my book

1:25.4

recovery on paperback, thank you.

1:42.9

Dr Jordan Peterson, thank you for coming on under the skin, it's lovely to see you again,

1:47.6

it's good to see you too, it's nice to meet in London. Yeah, it's different isn't it, we both

1:51.7

of us were exiled in Los Angeles in our last conversation, but I enjoyed it very much, I've got a lot

1:59.5

from it, I'm happy to talk to you, this is very much home turf for me now, we're in London, we're

2:04.7

in a publishing office, you've been promoting your book, I presume that's where you're here.

2:10.0

Oh yes, and doing a couple of public lectures. How do you find that now? How do you find,

2:15.6

well I thought in a way I've been comparing you to the British Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn

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