Recoding Jordan Peterson: Think again, Sunshine!
Decoding the Gurus
Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2022
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Matt and Chris are back in the headspace of the Alchemical Lemon, Jordan Peterson, with what was supposed to be a shorter format decoding episode. You can judge for yourself how well that worked out!
Nevertheless, this is still a 'recoding' episode of a previously decoded guru. For those interested, Jordan was covered way back in Episode 3 and jointly with Bret Weinstein in Episode 18. It seemed about time to dip back into the ineffable well of the undisputed master of metaphors given that he seems to have revived his old Agenda Insight persona (minus the Fedora).
This time we find Jordan in a foul mood delivering some stern advice to the Christian Churches on how to attract and recruit young men. He's been on a bit of a roll recently (since joining the Daily Wire) and thus far has delivered unsolicited 'messages' to Christians, Muslims, and CEOs. The mind boggles at how much advice he will have provided and to how many groups before the year is out!
So join the decoders for a (theoretically) condensed decoding of a paradigmatic modern guru on the rampage. Think we are kidding? Think again sunshine. Listen... NOW! Do it, before it is too late.
Links
- Peterson's Message to Christian Churches
- Our original episodes on Peterson: Episode 3 & Episode 18
- Take down of Peterson's apologetic video on the war in Ukraine by Ukrainian Toronto Television
- An ex-fan's perspective on Jordan's trajectory from Rebel Wisdom
- Lex Fridman with Tim Kennedy in Ukraine (Instagram)
- Glenn Greenwald promoting Alex's War' Documentary
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And Oh, Hello and |
| 0:25.0 | welcome to Decoding the Guru's, the podcast where an anthropologist and a psychologist |
| 0:30.0 | Decode and sometimes Recode |
| 0:32.0 | some of the greatest minds the world has to offer. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Professor Matt Brown and with me |
| 0:38.0 | is the Pinocchio to my Jepetto Associate Professor, |
| 0:42.0 | Chris Kavanagh. Hello Chris. Associate Professor, Chris Kavanaugh. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello, Chris. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello, Matt. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm very impressed with your ability to think on the fly, add in that notice about |
| 0:52.0 | recoding as if it was just natural. |
| 0:55.6 | Water's off a duck's back. |
| 0:58.0 | That's... |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.0 | Water off a duck's back. That's how that expression is. Yeah, what are off the docks back at that? |
| 1:03.4 | That's how that expression is usually sad, but yes, |
| 1:06.9 | so what's this about recording, Mark? |
| 1:09.1 | What are you talking about? |
| 1:10.3 | Well, it's funny you should ask. |
| 1:12.0 | It's very funny, because it was you that just told me that we're going to call this a recoding episode. |
| 1:15.5 | So it's odd that you would ask me that, but I guess it's destroying the illusion, |
| 1:21.0 | allusion peeling back the podcasting curtain. |
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