448. Alternative Walk of Fame | Brett Cooper

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 34.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down in person with actor, podcaster, and host of “The Comments Section,” Brett Cooper. They discuss the adversity Cooper faced early on which prompted her to try out theater, the landscape of growing up as a child actor, her positive and negative experiences with Hollywood and university, the psychology of exploitation, why she joined The Daily Wire, her upcoming film and television projects, and her motivation to be a voice for young women who embrace their femininity. Brett Cooper is a viral internet personality, content creator, and actress. She’s best known as the charismatic host of “The Comments Section with Brett Cooper” on YouTube, captivating over 4 million subscribers with her irresistibly irreverent opinions on current news and cultural phenomena. Brett’s rise to digital fame was meteoric, amassing 1 million followers within just six months of launching her show and surpassing 4 million within two years. She moved from Tennessee to Los Angeles at the age of 10 to pursue acting. After years of balancing homeschooling and a professional acting career, Brett honed her art of storytelling while studying English at UCLA. At just 20 years old, Brett returned to Tennessee to launch “The Comments Section with Brett Cooper” at The Daily Wire. Following the show’s rapid success, the rising star is returning to acting in the forthcoming DailyWire+ animated sitcom “Mr. Birchum” and the historical fantasy series “The Pendragon Cycle.” In a debut role, Brett will star as Snow White in “Snow White and the Evil Queen” in the first feature-length production for Bentkey, The Daily Wire’s children’s entertainment platform. - Links - 2024 tour details can be found here https://jordanbpeterson.com/events Peterson Academy https://petersonacademy.com/ For Brett Cooper: Brett Cooper on X https://twitter.com/imbrettcooper?lang=en Brett Cooper on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/imbrettcooper/?hl=en The Comments Section With Brett Cooper on X https://twitter.com/CommentsSection The Comments Section With Brett Cooper on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@TheCommentsSection

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0:00.0	Hello everybody I'm talking today to Brett Cooper.
0:17.0	YouTube phenomenon, but in the prepared manner that many people who are
0:26.5	explosively successful are prepared, Brett started acting when she was very young.
0:33.0	She was very dedicated to her pursuit of her artistic career.
0:40.0	She was aided in that by the efforts of her mother and so she had that working for her, but by the time she was 10, she had a pretty decent CV on the acting side behind her.
0:51.0	She spent a fair bit of time in Hollywood, expanding her abilities,
0:57.8	protected from whatever toxicity that environment might offer by the aforementioned commitment of her mother.
1:05.0	And then she got a stellar opportunity, but also had set that up with Daily Wire.
1:11.0	She had worked with Dennis Prager and some other conservative organizations
1:15.4	making short form social media content and learning how to do that and that's a real skill in and of itself and got the opportunity to expand that into something of longer form with daily wire.
1:29.6	Was hesitant and afraid about that, felt at 19 because that's when the offer came in that perhaps that was
1:35.2	beyond her but took the plunge and has produced out of whole cloth, a spectacularly successful YouTube channel,
1:47.4	and with about four and a half million subscribers
1:49.8	that's been built up in the short span of a couple of years and also has a plethora of exciting
1:56.0	acting opportunities arrayed in front of her as a consequence of her partnership with the
2:01.2	Daily Wire and so join us for all that.
2:05.0	So you've made a big splash in recent years.
2:08.0	That's what I've been told.
2:10.0	Yeah.
2:11.0	Why?
2:12.0	Why do you think that is?
2:15.0	What are you doing that's working?
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